*Sherlock and William are dating*
Mycroft: What did you two do last night?
Sherlock: Examined a murder scene.
Mycroft: You're supposed to be dating, not detecting!
Sherlock: We are. It's a detective date.
"All those empty rooms
We could have been anywhere, anywhere else
Instead, I made a bed with apathy
My heart knew the weight
Ten years worth of dust and neglect
We made our peace with weariness and let it be..."
(Song: The Moon will Sing by the Crane Wives)
Yin Yu and Shen Qingqiu are alike, not only because of their whole bonking with a shovel/jumping out of windows shidi/disciple avoidance schtick. But because they're kindergarten teacher shaped, and because they think their Shidi/Disciple they're terrified of is actually PERFECT and think this is a fact, a law of nature, and not their very biased opinion
Ftm Yin Yu ftm Yin Yu
Scum villain fandom is so wonderful because every artist in it is a perverted freak. Like living in a reverse world where foot fetish is normal and missionary is weird
For all of my American followers, a quick piece:
Bonus:
Qijiu mermaids??
Night hunt went a lil sideways, so now YQY has to deal with a grumpy shark-jiu until the effects wear off
NEVER ask a peak lord about that one codependent homoerotic friendship from their teenage years
[ID: scum villain fanart of yue qingyuan and shen jiu as peak lords. yue qingyuan is colored blue, a sad expression on his face, while shen jiu is green and glares back at him. a flatlining heartbeat stretches between them, colored red. end ID]
One thing that kinda frustrates me about Shen Jiu fics is that they so often try to sanitize him. Make him nicer/more misunderstood than he actually is.
Like, he was definitely very misunderstood in source material, but he also was straight up a terrible person too, y'know? Both things can be true at once.
The biggest thing is his treatment of Luo Binghe, playing on the idea that it wasn't *as* bad as the characters thought it was. Now, this is just plain wrong cause we know from the extras that SJ gave Binghe the fake cultivation manual with the intent that it would literally explode him. He really wanted to murder that kid, yall. Loony toonz ass villain. Keep this man away from children
And he was definitely a total asshole to all his coworkers, even during disciple days. The other Peak Lords are under no expectation to like him nor tolerate his behavior, especially since they (except Yue Qingyuan) don't know about his backstory (very intentional on SJs part)! SJ very deliberately ostracized himself. His nasty reputation didn't just spring up out of nowhere. He has agency even in other people's opinions of him.
This is particularly notable in his interactions with Liu Qingge. It wasn't "LQG bullies poor SJ and spreads nasty rumors about him." It was a rivalry, a give and take between the both of them. They were both assholes to each other, but clearly, despite the animosity, there was some deeper feeling (SJ being so affected after LQG's murder accusations and then later death). Again, agency is key here.
He's also completely unrepentant until the very end! He will never apologize ever, so no sudden "oh god, what have I done?" heel-turns for him, buddy. If it was that easy, then he wouldn't have gotten human sticked in the first place.
SJ is tragic and sympathetic. SJ is also an awful person and a complete asshole. He's allowed to be both, and both of these sides of him are what makes him an interesting and engaging character.
Edit: holy shit stop interacting with this post everytime I open my notifications I think Iβm getting reactions to my more recent shit and instead itβs just this bs. Anyways thanks for 1k notes
[|π| scrawling around tumblr, does nothing to help the community]Shen Jiu defender and apologist, also a 79 enthusiastMultishipper and Multifandom, just awfully invested in svsss rn
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