#its just awful that so many sv 'fans' just straight up hate lbh

[danmeireader]

long winded wank

i think the whole *gestures around me* situation is making me more irritated about this than i should be, but i'm just looking for some comfort fics and it sucks that i just exited out of 5 different ones.

i love all mxtx novels, but sv does hold a special place. and for the whole /three/ first years that i've been in the fandom, everything was FINE. it was great. people wrote whatever they liked and i could read fics about characters from sv. you know. the novel i love.

but somewhere during 2022, a few very popular authors came up with their own oc, and they also called him 'luo binghe', and he was a personalityless doormat (who of course yearned to bottom... maybe because of this mentioned doormat status? or because he's the student? who knows, theyre being ~progressive~)

and the whole fandom collectively adopted this oc so i cant avoid him no matter what i filter out. it legit made me have the thought 'i wish ao3 had a dislike button', like i'm some sort of villain lmao (so sticking to this rant is better)

not to mention sy lol. every time i try in good faith to read a fic where he doms, i just cant take it seriously. a fic tried to pull a 'he unreliable-narrated himself into domming accidentally' and even that was painful to read. you know that post, 'a good author can awaken things that were otherwise hard nos?' well turns out, no they cant! poor sy.

and one last rant:

a fic had something to the effect of 'oh silly shizun and his silly conceptions around sex' (about wanting lbh to top. this feels. just a tiiiiny bit infantilizing.)

and like. actually, why are they silly? i get that he /is/ repressed and reading the core novel gave him certain expectations before all his assumptions were turned on their head at the end of canon.

but it just reminds me of when i pitched sv to my sister which went:

-> me: so MC reads a novel about an undefeatable hero with a harem, then dies and /transmigrates/ into that novel as the villain! -> her: so he decides to become top dog, defeat the hero using all his knowledge, and seduce all his women to gloat? -> me: no????????????

sy could've done a million things differently but chose this route.

and sy could've originally formed any fantasies, he read so much, and it was strongly implied that he read BL. if he fantasized about being an alpha top, we'd know. he wouldn't have even entertained the thought of being fucked even as a poison cure. he would've thought about idk, giving binghe a sex-changing flower so it'd work, or w/e

i wish there were more fics exploring sy's actual possible repressed fantasies, than going the complete opposite of his character. the only ones i know of are modern au cumplane iirc (and a couple where sy's cosplay makes it possible for him to roleplay what he wants)

if people want to read power imbalance top!teacher/bottom!student then to each their own. but that's fanon. that's specifically not the novel. which is the whole reason i read and enjoyed sv. this sucks.