#cq is a genius

[thiccsys]

talk to urself idk

[apollos-boyfriend]

one of these days i’ll write my analysis on why lonely king is the perfect las nevadas song bc it fully encapsulates/highlights how well cpurpled and cquackity act as narrative foils

[pallisia]

brainstorming an adult sequel to cq where all the characters call each other stuff like "you ol' country sourdough batard" and everybody calls me a genius of worldbuilding about it

[minsarasarahair]

Its actually illegal to me that no one recommend Liu Yao when you love Mo Dao Zu Shi. Both stories highlight the blurry line between demonic cultivation and righteous cultivation. It also have sect siblings found family story (Yunmeng Shuangjie, Fuyao Sect) you'll cry for. Honestly, both of them have these bittersweet story that will linger around you. Sure, WangXian and MingQian ended up together but its not a flawless good ending especially for other characters.

In the beginning, you'll see Cheng Qian already questioning why people ended up using demonic cultivation to his master that reminds me of Wei Wuxian's scene with Lan Qiren suggesting his ghost cultivation idea.

The ML, Yan Zhengming is like a fusion of Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji. Instead of only mourning his dead childhood sweetheart and taking care of what he left behind, he also have the responsibility as the eldest sect brother to protect their Fuyao sect and later become the sect leader. He's literally a teenager when he took over. He might be annoying in the beginning because of his laziness and spoiled behavior but you'll love his character development. Whenever his ugly emotions resurfaces, its so good!! Such as him being scared not meeting other's expectations, strong self-hate, being a coward and narcissist at the same time, wishing to die but has responsibility as sect leader so he can't die yet so he's like a walking dead man etc. He's not a bad guy, okay? It just sometimes he's mentally unstable and his qi deviation because of the weight of his responsibility. Without Cheng Qian to calm him down who don't fear changes, he's alone shouldering his sect.

Han Yuan reminds me of Wei Wuxian. A former beggar child who find his home in Fuyao sect but ended up in unorthodox path just because he's not lucky enough. He's not a genius cultivator or good looking unlike Wei Wuxian but has low cultivation. He's not competitive and love cheering for his sect brothers achievements. He don't have that privilege to be a genius but he really care deeply about his Fuyao sect and blame himself for what happened.

As for romance, Liu Yao is closer to MDZS donghua s1 where the 1st half of story heavily focus in sect siblings than romance. Liu Yao took a while before romance but tbh what do you expect? We have two people occupied by responsibilities (one is a sect leader, other is obsessed in becoming stronger to protect the sect) so they only realized their feelings when one of them died but don't worry, he shall return after 100 years. Just imagine WangXian from WWX's perspective because he's occupied by Wen Remnants and Yunmeng Jiang sect so no time for romance with LWJ until his resurrection lol. That's MingQian. Unlike WangXian tho, you will not probably ship MingQian because they have romantic feelings for each other but because they are literally the pillar of their Fuyao sect. The mom and dad of their sect. They pull each other up because there's no adult to rely on so they have to be the adult. Like I can see the sect collapsing if something bad happened to these two. Even if they are not in romance stage yet, MingQian is aleady behaving like married couple. If LWJ's reaction to WWX's return is take him back to Gusu to protect him, YZM's reaction is he's blaming himself for being incompetent leader that he didn't do a better job protecting his sect siblings. YZM's obsession to CQ is like TGCF's Hua Cheng without worship but exchange it with regret of being not good enough for your husband where you'll see him drawing his beloved but destroy it when the face don't satisfy him lol. He's also as needy and babygirl as Luo Binghe. And yeah, both Lan Wangji and Yan Zhengming are beautiful-looking gong with white robes. Young MingQian has the special bond Young WangXian has in the flashback that I really love. Sparring, classroom-like antics, getting in trouble together, their teamwork in battle as they get closer etc. If that's what you love in MDZS, you'll love Liu Yao.

[paragonrobits]

concept for a running gag, PB making a potentially off putting or extremely wacky concept and someone assumes its a metaphor and she says 'It's not a metaphor~!" in exactly the same way as Candy Queen saying that in Fionna And Cake, and always with the same kind of 'oh my what an escalation' as CQ revealing a giant spiked blender

bonus points if it is actually Simon who keeps saying this and its not terribly clear if he's actually aware of it or so insistent that she is the greatest genius of all time (which is probably true) that he assumes she is constantly talking in creative metaphors (which she rarely does, she's perfectly honest about her demented weirdo intentions and mad science schemes)

[web-novel-polls]

Smartest WN Character Submissions

Last Checked: October 31st, 2024 - Please check the original post for updates

Submissions End: TBD

Rules:

One character per response. Submit as many responses as you want, but please don’t submit the same character more than once unless you forgot something important (can also be fixed via asks).

Must be from a web novel or similar media (Ex: manhwa/manhua) with a web novel adaptation/source. 

“Smartest” can be based on anything from studies to martial arts to strategy to emotional intelligence. If you think they’re smart in any way, they’ll qualify & compete

Tournament Tag: #smartest WN character tournament

Major Spoilers for TYK/WOH, SVSSS, MDZS

Submissions

No Propaganda

Cui Buqu from Peerless: Wushuang

He Xuan from Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF

Jing Beiyuan from Lord Seventh / Qi Ye

Jin Guangyao from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / MDZS

You Huo from Global Examination / QQGK

Fei Du from Mo Du / Silent Reading

Submission: idk what to say without spoiling the whole novel

Carrd Link

Gu Mang from Yu Wu / Remnants of Filth

Submission: He is intelligent and clever enough to rise from a slave to a general and then become a high-profile spy in the enemy's camp. His intelligence is only compromised by his idealism and its resulting naivete. Even so, he's a genius. 

Ji Yushi from Mist [Unlimited]

Submission: He is somehow able to figure out and understand all the super complicated things that go on in the novel. Incredibly intelligent (and not just because of his hyperthymesia).  

Klein Moretti from Lord of Mysteries

Submission:

i'm not done with the novel yet but he's literally so smart!!

the way he can process information and make connections so quickly, the way he's always great at adapting his way of thinking and doesn't hesitate to change his conclusions when new information comes to light,,, (and the way he can use that to make others believe he knows everything when he's literally hearing about stuff for the first time and doesn't know shit? incredible)

i'm just so impressed by him all the time, i love him sm

Lloyd Frontera / Kim Suho from The Greatest Estate Developer / TGED

Submission: Excels in both long-term and immediate planning, if the standard for excelling is 'how to get the absolute most benefit out of the situation'. WILL use methods no regular person could ever think of.

Nie Huaisang from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)

Submission 1: He delicately wove a ten year revenge plot, manipulating people and evidence behind the scenes so deftly that even after having pulled his plan off, only a few people ever even learned of his involvement. 

Submission 2: Bro was several steps ahead years ahead all to get justice for his brother. bro was a lazy student in childhood, faced incredible loss, and decided fuck this im gonna plot my way to vengence. he did this all while not fighting people's assumption he was dumb from his school days, let them think the worst of me, it will only benefit me.

Qiyan Agula from Clear and Muddy Loss of Love / JWQS

Submission: She's an excellent schemer and manipulator, and is even able to easily adapt her carefully calculated plans when faced with major setbacks. Also able to rank first in very difficult scholarly exams among numerous other candidates. Incredibly clever and cunning.

Wiki Link

Shang Qinghua from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System / SVSSS

Submission: 

Hear me out: he created the world he transmigrated to and managed to not get caught for spying on his sect. He worked for MBJ and CQ (at the same time) becoming the most trusted advisor of one and a peak lord in the other. While he didn't remember EVERYTHING from his novel, it was a literal life time before. He's a mental swiss army knife, jack of all trades. He's not the best at anything, SJ and SY are definitely smarter, LBH is for sure super clever, but SQH is able to keep up with them. (And not get murdered! Way to go Airplane!) 

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System

Submission:

He literally learned how to be a peak lord of the scholarly peak within months, even though his loveable unreliable narrator self makes it unclear how much knowledge he got from the original goods (cultivation and muscle memory are in tact to some degree, at least)

Textual evidence: “ As Shen Qingqiu had, since his arrival, been furiously reviewing various manuals, he had also recently seen a description of it.”(ch1) where he recalls a specific technique and uses it in the moment. “Shen Qingqiu had no say in any of it. As such, he had diligently trained for numerous days, single-mindedly seeking to make his abilities second nature…” (ch 1) yeah so this goes into the having to relearn everything category.

He’s also a walking monster/PIDW encyclopedia. I think his most impressive memory feat [spoiler] is navigating the Holy Mausoleum’s traps better than Tianlang-Jun. note that at this point it’s been years since he read the original book, the Mausoleum is very large, and yet he’s familiar with all the main rooms he encounters, and it’s been years since he read PIDW (the source book). He uses this knowledge to escape/outsmart Tianlang-jun.

Any intelligence he has is made up for by his loss of IQ points around the protagonist, though. And his general obliviousness to those around him.

Shen Zechuan from Qiang Jin Jiu / QJJ

Submission: He is the schemer of all time. Schemes within schemes within schemes. Incredibly clever and an excellent manipulator. He is everything. 

Song Qingshi from Mistakenly Saving the Villain

Submission: The scholar tyrant himself! He knows everything there is to know about medicines and poisons. A very well-read pebble. 

Wei Wuxian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation / MDZS

Submission: He is a genius and a visionary. He's invented numerous things that make it easier for the cultivation world to do their jobs. He also figured out how to control resentful energy.

Mod Propaganda: He grandmastered that Demonic Cultivation, man

Wen Kexing from Faraway Wanderers / TYK

Submission: 

Saw that someone submitted him without propaganda so here I am with propaganda! Wen Kexing is pretty much responsible for all of the plot stuff happening in Tian Ya Ke. At the same time, he does absolutely Nothing for the duration of the novel for his massive-scale revenge scheme to work out. And that's because he set it up so brilliantly that he didn't need to lift a finger for his enemies to deliver themselves up on a silver platter.  It was genuinely a domino fall: he only created the inciting incident, and then the pieces slowly but surely fell into place. Except the pieces were people, and if any SINGLE one of them decided they didn't want the Lapis Armor - the treasure Wen Kexing baited them with - then Wen Kexing's scheme would just fizzle out on its own. BUT. None of them could give up the pursuit of power. None of them could be satisfied with what they already had. And Wen Kexing perfectly understood those people's psychology and built his scheme based on that.  He really created this poetic justice situation where his enemies walked themselves to their deaths on their own, and only because they wouldn't stop doing the things that he wanted to take revenge for in the first place. Moreover, he set it up in such a way that he didn't need to commit attrocities while in 'the human world', and instead let his enemies expose themselves by 'not conducting themselves like human beings'. Wen Kexing only started killing when his enemies entered his world, the Ghost Valley. So it was not just poetic, it was also theater-level dramatic! Moreover, his scheme worked so perfectly that when Wen Kexing left partway through the final battle, one of his enemies actually finished up everyone else FOR HIM. And while Wen Kexing baited everyone with Lapis Armor, he also ensured that his father's promise to 'not let it fall into wrong hands' is kept - by destroying the key to it prior to kicking off his scheme. So ultimately, even if Wen Kexing died, his revenge would still be completed, AND the last man standing would receive a big fat Nothing for all the murder and plotting they did. And this is just about his revenge plot. He also sussed out a literal spymaster's true identity within like 11 chapters! Not to mention the whole, 'tricked a bunch of crazy murderers into thinking he was even more insane than them', which he did at age 9 (NINE!). Oh, he also staged a perfect coup within three years or less, somewhere between ages 18-21. And ruled over the Ghost Valley for 8 years when no other Valley Master before him lasted longer than 3.  Tl;dr: A LITERAL EVIL MASTERMIND! AND WE LOVE HIM FOR THAT! 

Rejected

Ballister Blackheart from Nimona

Reason: Not from a web novel

[curio-queries]

Run BTS: 036 | Kimchi Wars

Original Air Date: 16 JAN 2018 Episode Length: 25:51 Total Parts: 1 YouTube English Subtitles: Yes Title Song: Blood Sweat & Tears

Synopsis: Divided into 2 teams to cook assigned dishes with the kimchi from last episode

Production: There's never really much innovation needed with basic cooking shows, the format is almost formulaic but it's well-executed and edited

Endearment: The Namjoon/Jin duo was killing it this episode. All of the guys were clearly more comfortable and confident. Definitely a standard of how this kind of content should be.

Winner: JN, YG, RM, V

Loser: JH, JM, JK

Best Cheater: none

Member Moments:

RM: RM's battle with the onion. is it peeled? i didn't tell you to mince it!

JN: Jin's face when he spilled the sesame seeds. and then how he whined when RM accused him of ruining it.

YG: Oh yoongi, telling Tae to double batter them and then actually wanting the single-battered ones.

JH: Hobi is such a great reactor when he tastes something he likes. he always seems so surprised !

JM: Jimin's teamwork in this episode is really quite exemplary

V: The insert about plate selection. he knows he's got to surpass his genius of the squirrel from the last time in this kitchen.

JK: Our trusty meme JK pulling the salt bae continuously

Bonus Content:  uh... I didn't leave any notes on this, and I don't remember it now. Lol, I need to get caught back up so I'm posting closer to when I watched it.

CQ Rank: 4

Check out this post for my Masterlist of all episodes and descriptions of how I'm evaluating these.

(CQ Eval Date: 19 DEC 2023)

Previous Episode: 035

Next Episode: 037

[emblemxeno]

Thinking of making a “FE lords competency” tier list, putting Sigurd in the “reckless and idiotic simp that never gets a single relevant W anywhere in his game and whose biggest contribution to the story is creating Seliph and leaving him to fix all his fuck-ups for him, along with jobbing to Arvis” and Edelgard in the “racist imperialist warmonger who, despite vastly outnumbering her enemies, having the element of surprise on her side and receiving help from the secret rulers of the world, is stuck on a stalemate because she's too depressed over the death of some random teacher (who she knew for a few months at most) to properly lead her army, ending with her either losing her war and dying due to her childish obsession with Byleth or winning, but only due to stumbling across Byleth again by accident and having the setting's equivalent of Jesus win her war for her” tiers, posting it to the main FE subreddit, and watching the fireworks.

Just for spiciness's sake, i might also hypeman CQ! Corrin by putting them at the top of the list with “strategic genius who conquers Hoshido by soloing all of it's royalty and it's main strategist, all of whom were in well-defended positions where they always had the upper hand against Corrin, doing most of the heavy lifting for Nohr despite receiving next to no support from it's military and relying on a tiny group to win grueling battles, who then proceeds to ALSO stomp the majority of the Nohrian army with their superior strength and intellect because they didn't like how it was treating Hoshidan citizens and P.O.Ws, and ends the game by killing a Takumi who was being given most of Anankos' power, along with beating back Valla's best soldiers despite being ambushed, outnumbered and fatigued from the back-to-back fighting they've done; only protag in FE with the distinction of beating three extremely well-trained countries, along with the vessel of a god, with next to no outside help, also being one of the smartest by default”.

Now that's going to lead to some fun reactions, i tell ya.

I wish you luck for the shitstorm that'll inevitably follow that kind of list lol

[ctntduoarchive]

ok wait i just had a genius idea. ctntduo fanfic but all of cqs lines are from the bot. idk I think it could be funny. like an improv sketch

HELPP THAT WOULD BE GENIUS

[blissfali]

i should put ghostbur cwilbur and cq in an apocalypse au. ima genius

[zeemczed]

Ooh, let me!

Hiveworks ( https://www.hiveworkscomics.com/ ) is a collective of a bunch of great webcomics!

Do you want queer shonen silliness? El Goonish Shive has been going for 20 years, and has become my favorite in that time.

Do you want ADVENTURE, ROMANCE, AND MAD SCIENCE? Kaja and Phil Foglio's Girl Genius is AMAZING.

Do you want sci fi silliness? Check out Cassiopeia Quinn.

There is a TON of awesome stuff there. Read it all.

(Also yes all three of these have good romance subplots though it's still latent in CQ)

Hey Unpretty!

I have a serious resource question. I want to read GOOD webcomics, but i don't know where to find them. I was reading Lore Olympus and i loved it and now I'm searching for other comics like it, to no avail. And then i remembered how deep you've got your tentacles into the fanweb, and I thought if anybody would know about good webcomics, it'd be you.

Thank you in advance ❤️

based on lore olympus, you might also like:

Barbarous

Phantomarine

Ingress Adventuring Company

Tiger, Tiger

this is barely scratching the surface but these feel to me like good 'beginner' webcomics to get you started branching out from the webtoon format, but i'm sure followers will have other suggestions as well

[incorrect-web-novels]

Cheng Qian: I just read an article on sour-grape syndrome in last month's Journal of Scientific Psychology. Have you heard of it?

Yan Zhengming: ...I've heard of grapes.

[shatteredfears-arch]

this is your casual reminder that its official canon that even when bruce is with talia or vicki, all his fucking passwords are some form of selina kyle’s name bc hes a huge sap.

[cabinetduo]

Dsmp fic recs list!!!!!!!

The Snow King - so it's like, it's a fae/snow queen au where Tommy's kidnapped by the winter court and Tubbo quests to save him, when I tell u I have read this fic 3 times, it's 100k and it reads like a fucking novel it's so good. Incredible characterization, incredible use of the entire ensemble don't ask me abt this fic I can/will write entire essays on it

devil town - I read this fic over the course of like 2 days at home and at school in public and I cried several times. It will leave you sobbing and hollowed out only using 3 words. It's sbi centric w techno-tubbo-quackity pov, alll w mind blowing characterization. The author is amazing and has awesome stuff (LITERALLYTHE CEO OF CABINETDUO) so read all it it'll wreck u but this one in particular ffwwww as a certified pussy who can't watch horror movies this fic unsettled me so deeply that I hid under my blankets and didn't even feel safe

Elegy in Eleven Bars - enough abt aus, let's talk abt the most underrated Tubbo fic ever. This fic is life changing, I felt like I was seeing ctubbo all over again for the first time. It's post cranboo death and it'll squeeze u of every emotion you've ever had in your life THIS FIC WILL KILL YOU read it now if u like ctubbo read it now

Francis Forever - this fic is amazing. That is not the point. If u ever have any free time and feel like u wnna have the very fabric of the universe ripped from under u do what I did and binge all of Tony thatweirdguyinthebushes's fics or whatever ones catch ur interest. I'm not going to go too much into detail other than that he crafts the most beautiful sentences and that his world building is insane but if u guys r gnna trust me on anything, trust me on this I promise ur life will be changed

Sea Salt and Roses - puffychu royalty au I don't need 2 say n e thing else

Sweet and Sour - read all of ren's stuff but if ur gnna read n e thing read this it's gut wrenching and poetic, the characters are so spot on its scary and its clingyduo and it made me cry also check out Ren if u like crimeboys shout out 2 crimeboys enjoyers

apologies from the intercom - I love all of Nina's stuff but this one..if ur a tubbo enjoyer read this fic read it read it it will grab u by the shoulders and shake u until u sob. Nina's understanding of ctubbo and genius writing is just crazy, it's insane and I read it on the train and almost fell on the train it's crazy read it

And here's just a list of authors that I adore

meridies - if u like sbi and crying

Goldenrayofsunshine - if u like pretty much anything fuck golden is incredible read all her stuff esp the ctubbo stuff

Angeloncewas - very good stuff check them out

ElectricBoomerang - SHOWSTOPPING INCREDIBLE GOLDSTAR

Egopocalypse - my favorite csam enjoyer mwah mwah read all of it its so worth it

afrid - cniki & lmanburg fics check em out :)

Doodlebloo - I'm not going to explain if ur not a doodlebloo stan atp ur at fault here/j

CasinoRoyale - rlly good cq

probablynotcas - cbeeduo GOAT

honeyblock - awesome stuff incredible writing stuff

[cquackity]

@las-nevadas-corporate BASED!!!!!!!!!! ALL BASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

c!ranboo: nightwing

c!phil: skywing

c!tommy & c!tubbo: mudwings in a sibling tribe they formed together

c!quackity: rainwing

[mourninglamby]

i think my cq and cwilbur playlists are officially finished for good. cdream and ctommy still up in the air maybe idk but those and dsmp of all time are done so take a look if u want ^__^ the song i just added to my cq one makes me feel like a fuckin genius i love music