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dimpledlianfang · 2 years

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I have seen a lot of stuff on the A-Yao or Jiang Cheng harem. So I decided to write a little piece of my own little scenario.

This is an A-Yao harem🌟

Yao: *sitting and fanning himself while scanning his harem members* such a surprise to see you all. *closes fan*

mingjue: didn't you not just call us here?! How is it a surprise?!

Yao: I have only called you, dage. The rest came because they miss me.

Xichen: of course I miss you!

Su she: missed you like crazy, Dianxia! How was your trip?

Yao: hectic. But successful. The array is done.

Su she: great.

Xue yang: *grinning* Jiggy.

Huaisang: I just came for some help, San ge.

Yao: *chuckles* what kind of help, headshaker?

Huaisang: *hides his blushing face with his fan*

Xuanyu: crouches and grabs his sleeves* Oh Yao gege! I'm here.

Yao: how sweet.

Jiang cheng: *entering*

Yao: ahh. Sect leader Jiang.

Jiang cheng: I'm only doing this for A-ling.

Yao: are you sure. Or is it something else?

Jiang cheng: meaning?

Yao: A-ling doesn't know what a harem is.

Jiang cheng: but we should have healthy relations right.

Yao: fine. *sighs* use that to cover up the truth.

I know that you can't do without me, even after our divorce.

Xichen: Wanyin? You're here too?!

Jiang cheng: Zewu Jun? Well I'm not surprised.

Xue yang: oho. Xicheng is here!!! I like this ship.

Yao: *glares at xue yang* shut up.

Jiang cheng: Zewu Jun and are also divorced. Because he said something about, he can't get this Yao off of his mind.

Yao: *laughing* how sweet of my er ge. But you two have so much in common.

You can't get over me.

Yao: now shall we start? Your lianfang zun is tired.

Xichen: aww. Oh no A-Yao.

Su she: you need some tea.

Yao: excellent idea. Oh sect leader Jiang!

Jiang cheng: I'm right here *rolls eyes*

Yao; get me some tea.

Jiang cheng: fine.

Yao: delightful.

Lxc and SmS: now can we kiss your dimples?!

Xue yang: it's proven to relax you! Jiggybun.

Su she: Zonghu, I deserve to kiss you first.

Xichen: I knew A-Yao before you.

Mingjue: let's just get this over with.

Xue yang: *licking lips* Jiggybun.

Su she: *pulls out sword*

Xichen: *pulls out sword* stay away from A-Yao. You two!

Su she: how dare you!!

Xichen: come at me. You Lan traitor!

Huaisang: *crying* Dage, San ge. I'm scared.

Mingjue: you all are giving me a headache!

Xue yang: do you want me to chop it off?!

Mingjue: *unsheathing baxia* stay away from me!

Yao: *grinning in amusement*

Xuanyu: Yao gege. *grabbing his sleeve* can you stop them from fighting.

Yao: *pats head* sure, my little Xuanyu.

Yao: that's enough. now single file everyone.

Mingjue: why should I line up to kiss you?!

Not that I want to.

Yao: there must be order, dage. But don't worry. You'll get your turn.

Xue yang: and what is that cake face simp doing next to you?!

Yao: Xuanyu? He's very shy, Yangyang. Hence he's always holding on to my sleeve.

Xuanyu: Yao gege.

Yao: ah. I'm here *strokes head*

Jiang cheng: here's your stupid tea.

Yao: splendid. Thank you sect leader Jiang.

Do you want any tea, A-Yu?

Xuanyu: mn. If gege insists.

Yao: now join the line.

Jiang cheng: for?

Yao: what do you think. *laughing*

Er ge, darling. You're first.

Su she: how?!

Yao: patience.

Xue yang: obviously he would want the real Lan first.

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web-novel-polls · 6 months

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MXTX Side Characters Lower Bracket

LBH’s Harem from SVSSS

Submission: Binghe's harem the whole collection all of them together an amalgamation of all the wives

Known Members: Little Palace Mistress, Liu Mingyan, Ning Yingying, Qin Wanrong, Qin Wanyue, Qiu Haitang, Sha Hualing

Su Minshan / Su She from from MDZS

Submission 1: Idk I just kinda like him

Submission 2: Look at him having his own life and grudges and friendships and priorities completely unrelated to the main characters! He was so right to curse Jin Zixun

Additional Propaganda

["Anti-Propaganda" that attacks other characters is NOT allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

#LBH's harem #su she #svsss #mdzs #mxtx #polls #mxtx side characters lower round 1 #mxtx side characters lower round 1 side B #mxtx side characters lower bracket #mxtx side characters side B #queue

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mostlikelytofangirl · 29 days

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Pet!LXC is such A Source of brainrot, it's amazing!!! I imagine WRH seeing how attatched/smitten with LXC MY is, and instead of getting jealous, he goes "Threeway time :)" cue LXC bearing witness to the dadson rp with them IN BED and imagine if he tentatively takes part in it bc MY seems so happy/comforted by it :')

Right?! MY is so into his new toy, WRH would be remiss if he didn't do his due diligence and figured out what it is about the Lan boy that's so good 😌

I mean, why be jealous when he can have not one, but two pretty boys in his bed :'D. And a pair that is already so into each other, on top of that lol.

I imagine LXC would already be aware of the dad-son rp, but yeah, it would be a whole other thing to have it play right in front of his salad, and expecting him to partake too. BUT! He... can't really just turn around a leave, now can he XD. Also, A-Yao seems to be enjoying himself so much, LXC wouldn't want to disappoint or ruin the experience for him.

#replies #mdzs #lan xichen #wen ruohan #meng yao #xiyao #ruoyao #...is there even a name for lxc/wrh??#I'm very aware that this is crackship territory tho #but pls consider that I think wrh should be allowed to have a harem of malewives #the same way a-yao should have one of husbands #lxc was so lucky he had an uncle tho #bc his dad would give anyone issues too

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qourmet · 2 years

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(Late) welcome to the fandom!

thaNKs im having a lot of fun realizing im Down Bad for the babygirl

#it's a wip thats postponed til next year cos i was late to his bday #mdzs #asks #anon #or a piece for lwj birthday #custom lwj harem #wip

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kimboo-york · 1 year

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WIP Wednesday!

Untitled fic, but basically a continuation of the "Cultivators Custody Battle" arc of what is turning into a long, long story. Eventual XiCheng but, uh, obviously not yet:

#WIP Wednesday #XiCheng #Jiang Cheng #Lan XiChen #Jiang Cheng and his many lesbian wives #original characters #Is there such a thing as a battle harem?#Because these ladies are MAD at Gusu Lan for withholding their nephew #Untamed #CQL #MDZS #XIChen is there because LWJ would have just started another sect war

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a-yaos-little-murder-beans · 2 years

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Thinking about LXC and his harem of clan leaders.

For the fact, that I don't actively ship 3zun, this actually did escalate quite a bit in a completely different direction.

#I can't warm up with NMJ #I accept the existence of 3zun and I do like the fanart #but I don't ship 3zun #I also accept its existence in fanfics when it's well written #anyway #lxc needs a harem #he's just out there collecting the leaders of the other clans #jiggy being the main husband #and then comes the rest #jiggy killing nmj to become the first husband #mdzs #cql #lxc #lan xichen #akikos shitpost #late night shitposting #lxc harem

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astralmaenad · 2 months

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Writing Patterns (tag game)

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern

Tagged kindly by @virahaus *kisses u*

Let's see! I'm definitely not cognizant of any pattern, and these fics are mostly posted a long time away from each other, so it might be interesting to see...

Once the spring festival came upon them, every year without fail, central Nanjiang would flood with people of every tribe and corner. (The Great Shaman's Revered Wife, XiYuan)

Xie'er realized one morning that he had somehow completely missed his rain season approaching. (A palace within our dreams, WenZhouXie)

It began with Zhou Zishu tossing him the wooden bowl he was holding. It rolled, and came to clatter on the stone floor. (A hundred jewels between teeth, WenZhouXie)

Zhou Zishu propped his head on his hand and just, stared. A little. It was probably alright. (The hounds will stay in chains, WenZhouXie)

He had wanted to scream, the words catching and clawing at his throat. Run! Hanguang-jun! Take A-Yuan with you! (North Star, WangNingXian)

The moment they stepped into the dream, it was dark. (The desert skies will cry for us, WangNingXian)

Lan Xichen didn't make it a habit to roam the Cloud Recesses at night. (The hand you want to hold is a weapon, WangNingXian)

Seto irrately swiped his room card for the third time, finally hearing the shrill beep of the door unlocking. (A moment in the light, Seto/Mahaad, bg Jaspershipping ot5)

He did not allow his body to register the trembling, or the chills racking up and down his spine or the spinning in his head until in the safety of his own rooms. (We Are, Atem/Mahaad/Seth, bg Jaspershipping ot5)

Mahaad dragged his hands down Seth's back, following the dip of each tense muscle, felt Seth twitch as he pushed his thumbs against the base of his spine. (Too much (I'm falling), Seto/Mahaad-centric, entire Jaspershipping ot5)

Well! We can safely conclude that a.I like to set the scene and b.I do not tend to open with dialogue. But I think the even clearer patterns, although unintended by the game were the polyships and the song lyric titles. Lmao this was fun!

I'm going to tag @unknown-lifeform, @fictionalsadist and @cadriona BUT if you read this and you think, 'dang, I wish someone tagged me', please consider yourself tagged and use my @ on your post. I want to see!!

#tag game #anna writes #wangningxian #wenzhouxie #xiyuan #qiye #tyk #mdzs #ygo #jaspershipping #ot5 pharaoh's harem #please excuse me forgetting all the individual ygo ship names 😭 it's too hard it's been yearsss #yugioh #woh #fic rec

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piosplayhouse · 1 year

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Shen Yuan watching MDZS: Why did they kill off all of Wei Wuxian's harem???? First his shijie love interest gets stolen by Jin Zixuan, then dies, then the tsundere wife Wen Qing dies, and throwaway wife Mianmian is still throwaway OTL.. is this shitty author into necrophilia or something ?!?! I'm beginning to think Wei-gege is going to die a virgin!!!!

#sorry. i know this is true in my heart

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stgroversfire · 2 months

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when i was first getting into mxtx i got all the characters and books mixed up so i went into mdzs thinking that wei wuxian had luo binghe's harem

so i'm seeing mianmian and wen qing and going "ok when do they join the harem" like can you fucking imagine? wen qing would beat wwx into the ground if he even dared to ask

#.text #mdzs #wei wuxian #wen qing #luo qingyang #svsss #mxtx

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sun-and-moon-mushroom · 2 months

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(MDZS/SVSSS crossover)

Xiao Xingchen has gotten odd dreams, nightmares really, his entire life. At first they were normal — just more of what his life was like as a child. Then they got worse, after he began training as a cultivator. It was only as an adult that he started being afraid, not because of what happened to him in those dreams, but because of what that version of him did. He killed, conquered, tortured, and built a harem of a hundred women. His master tells him that they may be memories of a past life, one so strong that it’s leaking over to his next incarnation. He tries not to think about the dreams after that — doesn’t it mean this life is a chance to make up for the bad karma of his first, to become a righteous cultivator and help people? He manages to ignore them for a while — until he meets Xue Yang who looks at him with eyes that are all too familiar from his dreams of torture and a prison cell surrounded by falling acid.

(or: Bingge reincarnates as Xiao Xingchen, Shen Jiu as Xue Yang)

#svsss #svsss au #shen jiu #luo bingge #original luo binghe #original shen qingqiu #mdzs #mdzs au #svsss X mdzs #mdzs X svsss #svsss mdzs crossover #mdzs crossover #svsss crossover #xiao xingchen #xue yang

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dimpledlianfang · 2 years

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The whole Yao Harem is here😛💯🌟🌟🌟🌟

I know 3 others are missing but😄😄😄.

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And jiggy looks so smug about it🤭🙄

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web-novel-polls · 5 months

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MXTX Side Characters Lower Bracket

A-Qing from MDZS

Propaganda: She's so smart. She tricked so many people into thinking she was blind for so long. Also, she was really kind and considerate. Like she didn't have to save all of those people from Xue Yang. Oh and she's an excellent judge of character and super brave. Really hope she wins, she's such a fun little genius girl

LBH’s Harem from SVSSS

Submission: Binghe's harem the whole collection all of them together an amalgamation of all the wives

Known Members: Little Palace Mistress, Liu Mingyan, Ning Yingying, Qin Wanrong, Qin Wanyue, Qiu Haitang, Sha Hualing

["Anti-Propaganda" that attacks other characters is NOT allowed. Please only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

#a qing #mdzs #lbh's harem #svsss #mxtx #polls #mxtx side characters tournament #mxtx side characters lower bracket #mxtx side characters lower round 2 #mxtx side characters lower round 2 side B #mxtx side characters side B #queue

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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mostlikelytofangirl · 22 days

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Oh also! NMJ head fuckery where part of it is being forced to watch WRH and MY interacting as dadson and lovers! If past nieyao, NMJ being kind of jealous/pissy that he never got MY to THAT level of like vulnerability/openness/comfort and then he learns LXC is partaking and his head explodes

Hey! Sorry I took this long, life can (and will) be a bitch :')

Ooohhh, you are making think of CQL canon where the nieyao divorce was extra nasty so less reason for MY to save NMJ once he got captured and thus his head is now a thropy in sect leader Wen's quarters xD

The rp woud be quite the revelation, and I can see how it would feel like one more betrayal to see MY not only becoming the queen of the Wen empire so easily, but fully opening up to WRH of all ppl like he never did with NMJ after all the trust he showed the little seductress!

And THEN you add LXC there and it's just a very pissed off head emanating all the resentful/betrayed/jealous energy a head can, and it's a good thing they have him silenced or they would never hear the end of it :'D

#replies #mdzs #ruoyao #xiyao #nieyao #I'm sorry da-ge I swear I love you :')#but tbh my mind would go full wen harem and keep nmj alive to be properly tamed like the stud he is #(I fully believe in his daddy potential too lol)#(also sorry not sorry wrh-killed-his-dad-so-he-can-be-his-new-one-now I mean what)

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joys-of-everyday · 10 months

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MXTX's women

Let's do ✨discourse™✨

Addendum: I checked out twitter (x now?) for the first time in ages and... um... maybe this isn't a good time for discourse. But hey, I love mxtx so I'm just going to do a Shen Yuan and pretend absolutely everything is fine.

I feel like a lot of the discourse around MXTX and sexism don't hit the mark? Things like 'there are few female characters', 'the female characters die', 'the female characters don't hold positions of power' are not indications as to whether a piece of work standing on its own is sexist. For example, you could write an entire novel about a sexless robot (which miserably fails the Bechdel test because there is only one character) and that says nothing about whether the work itself is sexist. This is an caricature of an example and of course, overall trends give a very different picture to individual works, so its not to take such works off the hook either. Similarly, including sexist troupes isn't inherently sexist, but equally arguing something is a 'critique' isn't a shield against criticism. Critique can be done badly, critique can become outdated, critique itself can be critiqued.

But equally the counterargument to this can't entirely be 'but look at x, y, and z - aren't they great female characters?'. Look, I love mxtx's women. I can write essays (plural) about mxtx's women. Many people already have. Then again, Eowyn from lotr is arguably a pretty deep character, but I would have problems if lotr was the best example of female representation we could come up with. The point being, the existence (or lack thereof) of strong female characters isn't (entirely) the point, even though it's often made out to be. Don't get me wrong, good female representation without strong female characters is... erm... hard. But if it was the crux of the argument, the discourse could be killed in three tumblr posts.

The bigger question(s) (possibly) is: What is its intent? How is that intent received?

SVSSS, MDZS, and TGCF are all extremely different pieces of work. SVSSS in particular stands out, because at its heart, it is satire. While debates around what kind of comedy is and isn't good exist independently of SVSSS, needless to say, judging satire in the same way you would say a murder mystery or a romantic fantasy is not advisable. Sha Hualing is a sexy demon lady whose clothes rip off in the middle of a battle. Why? Because that's saying something about a particular trope of a particular genre.

(Side note: I have opinions on how we shove different BLs together when they really shouldn't be under the same umbrella and how this muddies the discourse unnecessarily. I'm talking about Killing Stalking btw)

For SVSSS, if you get it, you get it (it's impossible to read without understanding this). While some loose threads exist about how female characters could have been more developed... man, do you know how much development my boy Mu Qingfang got? You're not sexist if you punch everyone (only half ironic here). (In terms of character development I also think this might be a fandom thing as well as a SVSSS thing.) But I think more relevantly, SVSSS tells you something about the way MXTX writes critique.

If you didn't notice, SVSSS is critique on two levels. First is the blatant critique of the harem genre, and the second is more subtle critique on BL, on fandoms, on webnovels, on literature. But while we get Shen Qingqiu's commentary guiding us through the first bit, this drops during the second bit. It takes Shen Qingqiu so long to realise that what he's living through is a crazy mishmash of BL tropes that the only narration you get on this is Pure Confusion. To realise Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu's early interactions is commentary on the 'dark and obsessive love' trope, you need to immediately realise that Shen Qingqiu telling you Luo Binghe is trying to kill him is just... Wrong. So (possibly, ofc I've no idea what's going on in the author's head) the intent is critique. But intent is meaningless without it being conveyed to the reader. So how are we meant to 'realise' what is going on?

Firstly, MXTX tells you. Shen Qingqiu goes: 'damn Luo Binghe isn't acting like in those weird danmei novels' and you're meant to go 'oh weird danmei novels I know about those'. Second is her very obvious use of tropes (even flagged!). 'Clothes rip/disappear in the middle of a serious situation, isn't this weird? Where have we seen that before?'. And thirdly, by introducing a sense of absurdity. Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu's relationship is presented in such an unconventional way (the master-disciple pair which generated a famous porno!) that it forces you to engage with it critically.

Okay, so what does that have to do with sexism? Take MDZS. We have a set of very tropey characters - 'the older sister', 'the scary mother', 'the strong independent woman', 'the damsel in distress'. We have explorations and subversions that go beyond tropes: Jiang Yanli's character shaped by her experiences in an abuse household, Yu Ziyuan's pride and loyalty, Wen Qing's well... everything, and Mianmian needs no explanation. We have flags to tell us we are meant to care about these issues: most obviously Mianmian experiencing gendered harassment for speaking up. All the women die! Yeah, isn't that a problem. Because it's the women sacrificing themselves, women silently taking on burdens, women chained by the circumstances of the world around them and still making choices about what is important to them (and it's often not themselves). The women aren't in positions of power/aren't shown to be as competent as the men! They're literally put down when they speak up, and don't the wives have a great time with their husbands. MDZS is critique of society. MDZS's women too are a critique of the society they (we) live in.

But not all critique is good critique! The first way that critique can fail is if it just isn't registered as critique by the reader. And this isn't always on the reader. If the author isn't clear enough on this, then they have failed to execute the intent of their work. And to this extent, I've heard enough people say that MDZS is maybe sexist as a first reaction (myself included) to think that yeah, maybe this wasn't well done. The flags are scarce. The subversions of tropes are subtle enough to be missed in it's entirety. Then again, MDZS often ends up as people's gateway piece into danmei, when it is probably better understood with more context - for me, coming back to MDZS after a big BL reading spree was exceptionally enlightening. As to whether it could have been better done in the bounds of the genre, without detracting from the banging story it was... I honestly don't know.

One way to go about it is, well... TGCF. Here everything is laid out to you to an almost bizarre degree. 'Look, isn't this a Hard Question' the narrative stops to tell you at multiple points, from Bai Wuxiang and Xie Lian's back and forths, to 'I don't know if what I did was right' speeches on a regular basis (maybe not regular but it was enough to notice). The troupes are still there but their twists are far more obvious. Xuan Ji is the 'deranged woman' who is (we are told multiple times) surprisingly normal and competent when she isn't around Pei Ming. Yushi Huang and Banyue are just obviously strong, competent, and in positions of power. Shi Qingxuan shines in all of her wonder, kindness, and unfortune. The flags are more glaring as well: Just Pei Ming's Existence, Ling Wen's whole backstory, Jian Lan's tragedy... And it probably worked? Since people seem to complain significantly less about any supposed sexism of TGCF.

Do I like it? I like elements of it. Ling Wen is honestly great.

But I love the subtlety with which MDZS weaves its themes and tbh I think some of the magic was lost there. (I love TGCF to bits for different reasons but yeah)

Does MXTX's writing of women merit discussion? Of course, everything merits discussion. Particularly MXTX's works which rely so heavily on genre tropes to craft themes. Is MXTX's work sexist? Idk, I would say no, but these things are Hard Questions.

But my feeling? My true feeling? At the very least, it is So. Much. Better. than a huge amount of work that tries to be feminist and pitifully fails.

My current pet peeve is the 'strong independent woman'. Depicting a sexist society then including a 'strong independent women' with no true appreciation of the realistic struggles she would face, as if the only barriers that we face within these societies is to stop being a loser... is worse in my books than not including any women at all. Or 'strong independent women' who turn out to be utterly pathetic and in constant need of saving. Or 'strong independent women' who have no other personality than being the 'strong independent woman'. The intent here is to come across as feminist and progressive without critically engaging in anything. It's paper thin.

Ultimately, the core theme of MDZS and TGCF isn't about women's experiences (whereas SVSSS is, I would argue, right into the nooks and crannies). Do these works explore such themes to the extent it explore privilege, conflict, and oppression? Not really. But you can't do everything - the role of an author is inherently about choosing what to prioritise. And given what it does do, I think it does some pretty neat things.

#mxtx meta #svsss #mdzs #tgcf

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a-yaos-little-murder-beans · 7 months

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On one side, I want LXC to be fucked by every other clan leader, but on the other side I am like: ONLY A-YAO GETS TO PUT HIS HANDS ON LXC. Only him. 👀🔪

#i want lxc to have his harem okay?#but i am also like... can't do that to A-Yao???🥺🥺🥺#it's complicated #lxc #lan xichen #mdzs lan xichen #cql lan xichen #mdzs #cq #akikos shitpost #late night shitposting

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any-n-everything · 8 months

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something about bingqiu/bingyuan

i read mdzs first, followed by svsss, and then tgcf

i like all of them but there was always something that bothered me about svsss and that was the main cp, bingqiu/bingyuan

because, when i read mdzs and tgcf, i could more or less understand why wangxian and hualian were couples. because despite their vastly different personalities, their core values more or less aligned with one another. and i think that's neat and i love them for it.

but bingqiu/bingyuan always confused me because i couldn't make sense of their core values/why were they attracted to each other. i mean. i guess we can take the "shallow reading" route and say that it's because shen yuan has always adored binghe-the-white-lotus-protagonist and luo binghe loved shen yuan because he consistently chose him(?). their relationship is complicated and kind of a mess but like it's theirs so im not gonna bother too much about it.

but maybe because i like over-analysing, i still want to confirm to myself if they have a shared "core value" like the other two mxtx couples.

which leads me to my theory that their core value is their shared sense of self-preservation.

it makes sense to me because, from the moment shen yuan woke up as "scum villain shen qingqiu", he was predominantly motivated by his desire to keep living. many of his actions can be explained by this. which makes shen yuan's decision to NOT push binghe into the abyss very much an act of love, because he was essentially sacrificing what he holds dear (his own life) for his disciple. this was all ruined by the system, of course, and shen yuan was forced to push binghe into the abyss. he then became a grieving widow master.

so shen yuan's following actions were very interesting because he was very much expecting luo binghe to come kill him, but also, he kind of didn't want to die? but luo binghe kind of also has a right to murder his traitorous self? so he concocted the mushroom body plan. this way, binghe can get his closure by murdering his scum master, and shen yuan can continue to live! win-win amirite?

SQH: why are you like this cucumber-bro

and we all know how well that plan went

anyways, i went off on a tangent, BUT BASICALLY. shen yuan has very strong self-preservation instincts, but specifically when luo binghe is out of the picture. around LBH he just has the self-preservation of a lemming.

now binghe is harder to analyse (for me) because the novel is mostly in shen yuan's pov and he's an Unreliable Narrator so i'll be mostly focusing on binghe's life events and actions.

which are basically:

he survived the cold waters of the luo river as a baby

he survived a poor childhood when his adoptive mother didn't

he survived until he reached cang qiong mountain sect

he survived shen qingqiu (version shen jiu) and the bullying of his martial siblings

he survived being pushed down into the abyss

basically, binghe is a survivor. no matter what happens, he has a very strong desire to survive and is, more often than not, willing to pay any cost. the cost he isn't willing to pay, however, is shen yuan.

off the top of my head an example would be how bingge (he-with-no-shen-yuan) took a harem of beauties so he could control xin mo but bingmei (he-with-shen-yuan) decided to just... cripple people's cultivation. they're kind of both equally bad (let us never forget that bingge is a rapist) but it seemed that bingmei did not want to be intimate with anyone because he had shen yuan in his heart. i dunno if this makes sense but what i'm getting at is that binghe was willing to pay other people's lives just so he didn't have to be intimate with anyone except shen yuan.

so there's something poetic about how shen yuan would pay his life for binghe and binghe would pay literally anything else except shen yuan (and i guess the things/people he cares about and are related to him).

and im really not here to discuss morality or anything but looking at bingqiu/bingyuan, i still get the feeling that, if shen yuan hadn't been born with "modern standards" and "modern sensibilities", he would be a little more callous and uncaring of other people's lives. because, at his core, he would prioritise his own life over other people's. like, you know, his husband.

that's not the shen yuan we got tho so oh well

#svsss #svsss meta #scum villain self saving system #bingqiu #bingyuan #something something two sides of the same coin #word vomit express #shen yuan #shen qingqiu #luo binghe

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