#love dad!sqh

[airplanetxt]

doodles of Stepping Up by @tossawary

[jade-len]

Tired, 39 year old Shen Yuan is constantly nagged by his parents about giving them grandchildren. At a certain point, they were done with begging for him to marry a nice lady and just skipped to pleading for grandkids.

While the idea of having a child does make his heart yearn in a way that will definitely be dangerous if thought about for too long, he just doesn't have the time! No way! And what kind of father would he be, secretly reading cheesy, terrible webnovels in his free time? Which, mind you, is rare nowadays. He'd like to spend that valuable time getting rest via napping, thank you very much.

So what if Shen Yuan's heart swells when he sees his students run up to their parents with adorable, toothy grins? So what if he treats his class like they're his own children from time to time, spoiling them silly and proudly wearing the badge of "Best Teacher!" every year? So what if he wants a child to call his own!?

To love and care for a child, Shen Yuan has accepted that it would simply be a privilege he'll never experience.

...Think, think! Don't get so mopey now, Shen Yuan! Try to outweigh the baby fever with the pessimism you (slightly) obtained from your mean older brother!

How about this: There'll be no time for himself, none at all! Just more and more work. Come home from his job, dealing with a bunch of rowdy kids to find your own permanent little monster running around the house! At least he's getting paid for the first one!?

Shen Yuan had seen those videos and posts of kids accidentally exposing their parents embarrassing tendencies. Knowing him, his hypothetical child would have piles upon piles of blackmail on the Shen family's youngest son! Leave this old man alone, alright? Non-existent dumpling, theoretical baobei, please don't be so careless with your father's reputation...

(It would be careless too, to become a gaping hole in the heart of his child. Wouldn't it be selfish to have one, only to die a few years later?)

Over a decade ago, believe it or not, this esteemed Mr. Shen had gone by the shameless persona of "Peerless Cucumber" on the internet. He'd been an infamous anti-fan of the male power fantasy stallion web-novel series, Proud Immortal Demon Way and would leave scalding essay-length comments and posts ranting about its terrible plot point and flaming the author for his awful characterization and overall writing. That era of his life was when he actually had the time to stare into the digital sea of texts and write entire documentaries as replies for twelve hours straight. Fortunately or unfortunately, Shen Yuan doesn't have the same luxury as of now.

Despite the constant hate spewing from his younger self, present-day Shen Yuan is honestly very impressed by the constant thousand word updates every day. Honestly, looking back, how did that man accomplish that? Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky, dear author, are your hands okay? Youthful Shen Yuan's hands cramped all too much from simply typing up angry comments, now imagine PIDW's author??

Aaah, yes, the former hater Peerless Cucumber had long forgotten about PIDW. The author mysteriously disappeared one day, leaving Luo Binghe out on his own for more wives to dual cultivate with as Shen Yuan had realized his passion for literature (and critique!).

With a newfound, realized passion in his heart, Shen Yuan went off to actually pursue the college education his parents had very lovingly saved (and were ecstatic he was actually using) and became a literature teacher! NEET 21 year old Shen Yuan would be quite astonished to see this dignified Mr. Shen now, yes, very much so indeed.

Now, Shen Yuan.. doesn't quite remember PIDW all too well. He begrudgingly admits that it holds a dear and special place in his heart, but in all honesty, Shen Yuan can remember merely a handful of the wives and plot points. Ah, this is what happens when you actually get a life, interesting! Clap it up!

The most Shen Yuan remembers is the stallion novel character, Luo Binghe. His favorite, and - he really can’t stress this enough - an absolutely wasted potential of a character. Shen Yuan may be an older and wiser man who doesn't waste constant time on the internet like before, but that only means he actually has a degree to be critic. Serves all of those self-righteous, questioning commenters right from all those years ago! Look at him now!

Importantly however, Shen Yuan also remembers just how badly he wanted to coddle the protagonist, blackening or not, pre-abyss, post-abyss, even as a demonic tyrannic emperor! Can you believe that none of Luo Binghe's wives wanted to squeeze his cheeks and kiss his forehead!? Master Airplane, throw in some fluff, will you? Spare the poor boy from all of these succubi (metaphorically and literally) and let him take a nap! Ahhh, who really cares if Luo Binghe has a kingdom he needs to take over? Throw a blanket on him! Cranky, old Mr. Shen knows the feeling of being terribly overworked, so imagine how the protagonist feels!? Shen Yuan nods his head approvingly at the thought.

All of those mistresses flocking over to Luo Binghe... If Shen Yuan were his guardian, he would kick them all out without a second thought in place of good family bonding time.

Women, power, sex... really, what's needed is a loving father who'll coddle and take care of Binghe when no one else can!

So, Shen Yuan guesses he shouldn't be surprised when he wakes up in the body of Tianlang-jun.

[bluenightfm]

sqh raising luo binghe bc the wash lady never happened bc the timeline's altered and subsequently mbj finds out or qinghua tells him (pre-established moshang) and qinghua is hmmn . freaking the fuck out bc wdym his stallion protag is a colicky newborn baby that won't go to bed unless he's rocked, swaddled, and cuddled by sqh (mobei-jun's heart shattered when baby binghe cried when sqh handed him off for a second before putting him to bed, he's still nursing his bruised ego) . this is his beloved if bloodthirsty son who is 75% cheek and 25% baby fat, it is a miracle he ever goes to his jobs when his son is so cute and tiny and why did he not write cameras into PIDW !!! no amount of portraiture would capture his sweet boy looking up at him all cute and tiny and never to be captured on camera. moshang being dads co-parenting binghe and everyone being confused bc everyone thought mobei-jun would finally marry and make qinghua consort shang but to each their own . co-parenting and then oh my god they're not even together yet are they? posing for family portraits together with romantic tension thick enough to start choking everyone out of the room. qinghua and mobei-jun looking next to dead bc binghe has never slept thru the night and sqh feels like he hasn't had a good night's rest since he transmigrated into PIDW . also maybe make it omegaverse

@coastinglove

[phoenixcatch7]

Story idea where sqh (or at least airplane?) is actually the first heavenly demon(/fallen angel diety official) so he can finally shut up about being lbhs dad lmao. In trying to get back he, in a shocking twist of fate, tries to hack the system and loses, getting tossed out of his own world and landing in some infants body in the modern world.

To balance it out Sqq is some eldritch monster who created xinmo and accidentally messed up so bad on a later project (the mobei clan and their teleportation powers) he got booted from the universe by an angry system and reincarnated.

And then the system comes back upon their deaths because it's own machinations utterly failed to change the fate of pidw and it's come for the only wild cards the universe has.

[artsarasp]

an ding disciples who support their slut dad but do cheer a little when he finally gets with mobei jun cuz for the love of God their shizun needs emotional support and he won't fucking accept it from them. might as well be an ice demon

Now tho, I'm picturing mobei-jun surrounded by a SWARM of an ding disciples telling him ALL of the gossip they have on their shizun (with a good 70% of it being exaggerated)

mobei jun ends the day mumbling "all 12 of them? at the same time???" or some other absurd gossip and sqh has to have him tell him all the various things so he can go "true, true, fake, it didn't really go like that there was only one tentacle monster"

[patheticpeoplesupreme]

Yue Qingyuan and Shang Qinghua a possible friendship

people pleasers duo/j drabbles and stuff

Au where SQH’s dad has the last name “Yue”

Yue Qingyuan loved his martial siblings, even if it was fairly chaotic all year round (half the time, it was because of a few certain individuals—)

His heart was very full of fondness whenever he sees young disciples playing around during their break time or when the older disciples come around to give the little ones advice.

He knows that outside of the mountain, there’s bound to be more horrors, but for the moment, he’s extremely relieved to see joyful children.

Admittedly, he’s more distant to them than he would have liked, being the sect leader and all, he has to focus on his responsibilities and reputation before being just Yue Qingyuan. Yue Qi.

These days, it’s more peaceful, he’s able to feel the weight in his chest lift slightly after Shen Yuan revealed who he truly was.

Yue Qingyuan was severely devastated, but… for the past few years, deep down, he had known that it wasn’t amnesia that plagued his martial brother. It was a sort of closure to know who what had happened to the real Shen Jiu instead of suffering in wait, wondering if Shen Qingqiu would ever remember their past.

After a few months, he’d created a makeshift grave for himself to visit.

—

Eventually, he realised that Shang Qinghua was probably a soul just like Shen Yuan, what with his informal (and shameless) behaviour and the foreign language he often spoke with Shen Yuan

Eventually, he found out that he was the one who had written his, and Xiao Jiu’s suffering.

He… well… he avoided the man for a long while.

Yue Qingyuan was not exactly the type to emotionally express his fury, not like Liu Qingge. In the end, he decided, it wasn’t fury he was feeling anyway.

Maybe he was far too tired to feel fury.

—

Looking back on it now, it was quite obvious, he was ashamed to admit that he should’ve probably have listened to Shen Jiu’s wariness towards the man

Though he supposed it went for the better since Shang Qinghua did help with the peak’s success in not being destroyed.

He was also little downtrodden at the realisation that he hadn’t known the small man that well at all.

—

Yue Qingyuan remembers one time, he was carrying a fevered Shang Qinghua to Qian Cao Peak. Shang Qinghua was quite delirious the , murmuring things he couldn’t understand. It was probably the world he came from, but Yue Qingyuan hadn’t known that at the time and rushed to the peak quickly and placing him gently on the bed.

Since Mu Qingfang hadn’t been there yet, his brotherly instincts took over and he takes care of his martial brother, trying to ease his furrowed brow and stop him from squirming. He brought him a cup of water and coaxed him to drink.

“Shh, Shang—shidi, it’s okay.” He hummed, remembering a tune from when he had sung to his Xiao Jiu a long long time ago.

It took a short time for the peak lord to settle, so he waited till Shang Qinghua’s eyes were fully closed to leave.

Surprisingly however, the man had caught onto Yue Qingyuan’s sleeve with wide and tearful eyes that made his heart sting.

His next words had made his stomach churn more.

“Baba… you told me you wouldn’t leave…” Shang Qinghua sniffled. It was obvious that he was still delirious from the fever and hadn’t recognised who he was talking to but… for a moment… Yue Qingyuan saw his Xiao Jiu. Yue Qi couldn’t muster up the courage to leave now.

Yue Qingyuan pursed his lips.

“W—Was I too much for you?”

Yue Qingyuan’s eyes widened before he finally rushed to his martial brother’s side, he couldn’t let Shang Qinghua think this way at all.

“No, of course not, just rest…Huá’er.” He brushed the loose strands behind his ear.

“You’re lying—!!” he cried, Yue Qingyuan only held him a little tighter, feeling terrified of what to say and not to say, “Huā’er won’t be annoying anymore, so please don’t leave, Baba!”

Yue Qingyuan could feel his heart shattering the more he listened.

—

Years later, Yue Qingyuan sits by his shidi’s table listening to Shang Qinghua admit to being this world’s creator.

One day, he asks mildly curiously. “Huá’er doesn’t have to answer, but this one was wondering. What was this lord’s old family like?”

(This is where SQH admits that his what his dad’s name was)

“My dad was, Uhm… Yue Nuo. The character for promise.”

Yue Qingyuan squeezed Shang Qinghua’s hand.

“Ahh don’t worry gege, it’s been so long, I’m over it now.”

YQY only smiles when he reminds him, “the family that you’ve found in this sect, in your husband’s winter palace, we will be here for you.”

—

Shang Qinghua pouts, “everyone’s disobeying me

Shen Qingqiu rolls his eyes

**

He created Yue Qingyuan after his dad because he wishes that his dad actually had an excuse not to see him, he wishes that it wasn’t his fault that Shang Qinghua was left alone for so long, he wishes, but he knows that in real life, it’s not so simple. He knows that he’s unloved.

He sees his happy half siblings and he knows. He knows in every family reunion where he’s the odd one out, even when he tries to hangout with his half siblings. He knows it all.

So he pushes it all into Qi-ge and Xiao Jiu.

Eventually he realised that he bared a little too much of his soul to the world, so he scrapped their backstory.

[rarepears]

Nie Huaisang, Lan Xichen, Jin Guangyao, and Nie Mingjue all reincarnate together into PIDW, and become disciples around the same time as Luo Binghe.

The drama of this is of course enhanced by the facts that NMJ & JGY died "early," but NHS & LXC lived to the end of their natural lives as cultivators, and so some of their perspectives and opinions on events have naturally changed with age. (tfw the passage of time renders you unfamiliar to your once-loved ones)

Eventually they talk about their feelings and reconcile and such, and this ends up derailing the plot of PIDW severely as the rest of the PIDW characters confusedly observe quite possibly the weirdest disciples Cang Qiong's ever seen

NMJ on Bai Zhan, with no clue what's going on because he died first and NHS & LXC haven't told him anything

NHS on An Ding, thoroughly enjoying what's pretty much a vacation to him at this point and possibly running an interpeak illicit goods market (definitely not to distract himself from any of the emotions having NMJ & JGY alive and nearby would be causing him, Everything Is Fine) I haven't decided if he'd get involved with the whole og!SQH and MBJ situation tho

LXC on Qiong Ding, because I feel like he'd see himself in Yue Qingyuan and lowkey hate him for it and I think that could be interesting

JGY on Qing Jing, because he's the objectively the funniest/most interesting character to throw into the mess that is SJ and LBH. The way I imagine it, he's doing the most direct derailing of the plot, because he mostly accidentally gets right in the middle of the thing that is going on between those two

I feel like as I wrote this it became more serious than I originally intended so just know that I'm mentally picturing this like a fic that's interspersed with outsider POV of the 4 of them being completely deranged about eachother

(Also I'd feel bad taking away LXC's brother so LWJ and WWX + friends are busy doing hot girl shit being rogue cultivators. I think WWX should be a half demon so he gets to keep the cultivation and steal some of LBH's protagonist energy. If this was a fic then the rest of the Untamed gang would be perfect to use for side characters during off-peak missions)

*grabs popcorn and sits down to hear more*

Nie Huaisang is having too much fun waiting the two idiots called his shizun and shizun's poorly kept secret of a boyfriend go flailing around on these terribly unromantic dates BUT THE TWO WERE TRYING SO HARD that it was cute. He wonders if he should do something to help the poor idiots out... Should he?

Maybe he should...

(Watch Shang Qinghua and Mobei Jun suddenly have a number of sex pollen accidents over the next few months....)

Lan Xichen would be an old man and a good voice of reason for Yue Qingyuan. Although he's head disciple and a very good one at that (if only because his Big Brother instincts can't be held back and he MUST interfere to help prevent history repeating once more), Lan Xichen has made it very clear that he would never accept becoming sect leader.

Also don't forget Liu Mingyan in the background writing about a 4 person sex orgy. At least, that's her personal theory for why there's so much UNRESOLVED TENSION between these four sus male disciples. And also, because it's fun.

It's even funner when you consider that Nie Mingjue is out of the loop of Cang Qiong stuff even on Bai Zhan because he tags along on so many of Liu Qingge's missions that he's probably spending like 8 months of the year outside of the sect.

(Nie Huaisang gets "assigned" to missions that happen to take place near Nie Mingjue's hunts.)

Meng Yao is Meng Yao and he still craves the approval of Male Authority Figures That Could be his dad. Also Meng Yao still likes to climb up the social hierarchy and power. AKA Luo Binghe growing mushrooms in the corner at seeing ANOTHER QING JING disciple THE SAME AGE AS HIM being given SO MUCH ATTENTION AND APPROVAL by shizun.

Luo Binghe develops a complex over Meng Yao of course.

(Shen Jiu approves of Meng Yao because he understands these characters very well and know how to manipulate (cough kill or injury them physically or mentally) them easily. Plus Meng Yao is actually competent.)

[More in #Nie Huaisang Lan Xichen Meng Yao and Nie Mingjue reincarnate into PIDW and are Cang Qiong disciples at the same time as Luo Binghe is AU

[silentheiss]

Hii! I hope you're doing great!!

I really like your blog and your aus. Also, that that one post about your students was so endearing that I think about it every time I check your blog.

Anyway, I had a weird ass idea that I had no one to share with, so I came to share it with you.. sorry, if it's stupid or whatever.. but you know how there are fics about Shen Yuan transmigrating into Wu Yanzi and all.. but I've never seen one where it's Airplane who transmigrates into Wu Yanzi..

It's fun to picture the kind of dynamic that will develop between all the characters, including MBJ and SQH, and if SJ still goes on to become SQQ, would be be less bitter? Maybe WYZ/Airplane helps him in a way that's less evil? Idk..and instead of killing disciples, he just has SJ meet YQY at the IAC? But considering that he didn't exactly opt out of what happens in canonical IAC of SY/SQQ's timeline, he still might cause some chaos, though I believe he'd refrain from killing children on his own. P.s he's supposed to die while trying to kill YQY..

Either way, if they don't go the SJ/SQQ route, maybe SY transmigrates and becomes SQQ? And maybe somehow SJ ends up pushing Binghe? Or something?

I don't know.. I'm sorry for babbling.. you can completely choose to ignore this.

hi💛 im all good, thank you!!✨ hope you’re doing great too!

i LOVE your idea omg I feel like it could be so so so fun and interesting

I think you’re totally right about Airplane raising him less bitter, but also being unable/unwilling to change the plot too much. so, upon meeting this shaking angry skinny kid he’d still somehow see the future scum villain, but also he’d see a child. and Airplane is not an abuser, he’s not going to ruin teenager’s psyche even further.

he’d probably still teach him all the tricks as required by his character, but more in a way of a god/seer/author. like he shares details that no one else knows and makes sure his spiky teen is protected and safe and powerful enough but makes sure he knows that not everyone is a potential enemy completely undeserving of his trust.

also I feel like Airplane would probably try to make sure SJ and YQY reconcile, for SJ’s sake, and the whole IAC situation would be carried more like a political ambush rather than physical, hopefully 🙏🏽

and maybe they do end up reconciling, but SJ doesn’t want to join the sect anymore — he sees a brighter future with surprisingly knowledgeable WYZ and his super strong demonic boyfriend (aka his dads)

but also im a sucker for inevitability and destiny at it’s worst, so i can totally see SJ still pushing Binghe. like, MBJ has to go to this IAC, and WYZ tags along, and SJ decides to come, too, because he might see YQY there and also, his dads are sure to get into trouble if he’s not there to control their every move(like the older daughter he is, you know?)

so he comes, too. he sees MBJ take an interest in this curly, spoiled boy. He sees the way a man who proudly pronounced him “strong”, “a fighter” and “demon-like” finding someone better than him. a real demon? younger and more powerful than SJ is? he sees red, but doesn’t intervene, for time being.

then, he sees the way new Qing Jing Peak Lord, small and pretty and weak, flings himself at MBJ time and again, ready to die for this demonic child.

So he does push Luo Binghe. It’s easy to do — no one sees him coming. MBJ looks at him proudly, and the Peak Lord looks at him with pain in his eyes, with terror, with recognition. SJ doesn’t know what it’s about but he vows to figure it out.

Later, SQQ finds out all about Airplane and berates him for not stopping his abusive son. Maybe he even takes it upon himself to see to SJ’s better socialization. Maybe SJ gets an uncle who is soft and loving and fucking sad all the time.

—

whoa sorry I started thinking about it and couldn’t stop. your idea is amazing and now im gonna rotate it in my head for the rest of the month.

!!thank you for sharing it, ily! 💛

[tossawary]

Love Third Transmigrator Mobei Mom!! The comedy of the situation is so good.

Vital info though, if we can ask, would the third Transmigrator be a fan of Shang Quinhau (like casual) or another “fan” like Shen yuan?

Thank you! Honestly, my current notes have this Third Transmigrator as not really being a fan at all, because I thought that would be the funniest third option to Airplane Bro (the author) and Peerless Cucumber (#1 anti-fan). Also, I thought it suited someone in the position of Mobei-Jun's parent, from the position of Mobei-Jun not knowing WTF is going on with Shang Qinghua EVER.

My dad has spent the past year or so reading a LOT of webtoons, manhuas, mangas, whatever, and so we've had a few conversations about xianxia and wuxia and harem and isekai stuff. He says that quite a few of them seem to be based on web novels.

So, I thought it would be funny if someone (probably an actual fan of PIDW) attempted to make a graphic novel for PIDW, then some English-speaking rando reads the unofficial English translation of the unofficial graphic novel for PIDW. There are probably only 30 chapters at most and ENG Rando didn't read the last 5 because they got bored when the harem stuff continued even inside the Abyss. Luo Binghe wasn't even the Demon Emperor yet. Mobei-Jun hasn't even shown up yet, except maybe in the bonus art at the back, and ENG Rando thought MBJ was the artist's OC or something.

(Also: Chapter 13 was just Chapter 12 posted twice to the shitty online manga website for some reason. Chapter 21 and Chapter 22 were posted in reverse order. And the translators changed like six different times. The second translator was really fond of not translating some basic nouns in favor of adding a billion footnotes. The third translator kept writing/typoing Luo Binghe as "Lou Bingo" and this lasted for 10 chapters. Chapter 8 was only translated into Spanish and so Google Translate was needed. These are the problems of a foreign webtoon reader.)

ENG Rando only read this because it was listed first on the "NEWEST UPDATES!!!" list and they liked the art. And then it started to be a Sunk Cost sort of thing. Then morbid curiosity.

ENG Rando transmigrates because they died in a car crash on the way to work or something, still thinking about PIDW. Even the System was not expecting this. Neither Airplane Bro nor Shen Yuan have transmigrated yet. ENG Rando gets a kind of crappy personal System until the Senior System can work things out, and maybe this Junior System isn't even fitted with a proper English Language pack for whatever reason, so ENG Rando and their Junior System have to communicate mostly through emojis.

ENG Rando is assigned the temporary role of "Beta 2". This is interpreted by some of the characters they meet as "Beida" (which is a fanon name used for Mobei-Jun sometimes, because it's a rival university to the one Shang Qinghua's name sounds like).

Later, when MBJ is forced to introduce SQH and maybe also SQQ (Shen Yuan) to his mother and the transmigration thing is known by all three transmigrators, Airplane Bro has to suffer his future mother-in-law saying about the unofficial graphic novel of PIDW in a heavy English accent: "I was worried that I was accidentally reading hentai. You wrote 20 million words of that?"

[everybody-loves-purdy]

So I've been seeing people actually defend Tigerheart's actions and I just can't! I really wonder if any of these people are PoC or even know what an invasion means for the ones being invaded! To make things worse, they're basically saying he's justified because RiverClan is in a fragile situation and they attacked first, he's grieving, and that he's nothing like his namesake because he's apparently treating RiverClan well. Except he very well could've tried to help without conquering them! Because that's what this was, a conquest! It doesn't matter how well he treats RiverClan or who initiated the fight, he still barged into their territory with every intention of taking over by force out of clouded judgement and essentially makes RiverClan into a puppet state by placing his own cats in charge and finally relents to letting a RiverClan cat lead alongside Cloverfoot only after Icewing defends him.

Seriously, there were better ways to go about this! In fact, a better alternative would've been to try and reach out to Mothwing (acknowledgement that she's related to him and the rest of Tigerclaw's line when!), Owlnose, Splashtail, or maybe even or at least Icewing and/or Harelight, despite the last two not having held any political power at the time, but maybe they could've at least talked to Mothwing on his behalf.

Seriously, I really hope SkyClan deals with him soon!

From what I’ve seen, lots of people skipped AVOS (please if you have done this at least read the first 3 books and Hawkwing’s journey they’re amazing) and went straight into the broken code and also haven’t read oots for years, that is an experience I’ve seen online a few times. The problem with that is that people have become attached to good dad Tigerheartstar and either forgotten or not read just how bad he can get, and so they don’t want to see him for who he really is and has been consistently characterised as throughout the years: a self righteous bully. He is a fascinating character for sure because of this dynamic of him both being capable of great love and of great cruelty. I’ve seen people express surprise at him trying to take over RiverClan and calling it out of character as if he didn’t try to do almost the exact same thing in SqH to the Sisters. He forced out a small group of cats living on unclaimed land who said they were going to move anyway because he immediately wanted back land he had gifted someone else. Moonlight and Leafpool are dead because of his insistence on forcibly taking that land and rallying the other leaders to do it.

Regardless of his intentions the way he decided to “help” RiverClan was completely wrong. You don’t turn up at dawn with almost every warrior at your disposal if you truly have the best interests of those you want to “help” at heart, nor do you say things like this:

You could give those lines to Tigerstar 1 or Darktail and it would not be out of character for them.

There are so many other ways he could have done it rather than this like you say and I am currently so upset and angry on RiverClan’s behalf and I really hope they forcibly drive him out of their land soon. I’m so glad the narrative is currently treating this as awful and sickening as it is and repeatedly comparing him to his grandfather rather than trying to justify it.

[incognito-lionbeast]

Realising that, with the way I have their relationship set up, SY!SQQ & his sister parallel Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan some. Not exactly, but enough.

--in that, Shen Mei is steadfastly attached to their former lives/relationship & her brother... still avoids/tries not to think about the life they left behind any more than he has to. He flinches whenever she tries to bring up their family. Prefers not to, even if like! It’s not that he didn’t/doesn’t love them or her, but that’s in the past. They’re happy here, right? There’s no need to dwell......

Meanwhile, like I mentioned before, Shen Mei defines herself by her past life & her relationship to her brother. Still. It doesn’t matter how many years it’s been, she’s still holding on. She thinks about & misses their family terribly often. She still calls Shen Qingqiu San-ge; she calls YQY & LQG Da-ge and Er-ge, and Shang Qinghua Shushu. She even starts calling Tianlang-Jun Dad eventually [not sure which variant atm]. She originally called him Uncle like she does with SQH, but after she gets invested in befriending Bing-ge he gets promoted.

(I really need to write the context for this, because there’s some canon-divergence in this AU surrounding the Trial whereupon she allows herself to get kidnapped by Zhuzhi-Lang... and consequently spends a good long while with the two of them. But I digress)

Anyway, Shen Mei clings to the vestiges of Family, assigning roles that are now vacant & knowing it might be a bit rude. or presumptuous. which is why she only uses some of these terms situationally. But San-ge is San-ge. And Shen Qingqiu is just going to have to accept that.... and suppose he doesn’t stop her, but it does gall him that she refuses to call him Shizun 95% of the time. He’s fully accepted his new role & she won’t accept hers.

It’s complicated. SY!Shen Qingqiu does better than Shen Jiu, but his avoidance still causes problems between them sometimes. She doesn’t want to press him too much, but he’s her only real family. Not that she doesn’t love her new found family, too, but it’s-- not the same. She tends to complain to Shang Qinghua about it. He’s the only other person from their world... and that’s its own can of worms, considering Airplane’s relationship with his past life’s family.

But once he gets used to it, he doesn’t mind being Shushu too much. He still doesn’t know what she expects him to do about Shen Qingqiu, though.

[truly-morgan]

[Heathers AU (w.i.p)]

BingQiu | Scum Villain Self-Saving System Modern AU 14-08-2021

[#bingqiu Heathers inspired AU, rebirth/thrown in another timeline]  (cw: murder, potential description of violence/murder (shouldn’t be graphic)) 

What if sqq ends up dying at some point in pidw? Maybe he dies of old age after something went wrong with his cultivation. Maybe he dies in a battle to save lbh. Maybe he was killed on a night hunt. He simply dies. 

And lbh cannot deal with losing his shizun /again/.

Yet, no amount of intimidating sqh will bring him information about how he can bring back sqq (he /knows/ the man had something in it the first time). Yet sqh genuinely seems to not know what to do and even himself looks a bit frightened at the news of his friend dying after so long here. 

Then later on, to everyone's surprise (especially sqh), lbh is the one to die. Following his shizun in hope of finding him again.

[booting: luo binghe rebirth...] 

At first, lbh was born with no memory of his past life, even less knowing about sqq. Then slowly, this young lbh starts to have these dreams.

Dreams of someone he feels love for, dreams of what he feels like should be past events he never had, dreams that have a constant line and aren’t random. He sometimes wakes up crying, a name on the tips of his tongue. He starts believing this might be part of his past life and this person is his soulmate. 

But how could he find this person again? Especially when he and his dad keep moving from place to place due to his father’s job. But then one day, as they just got to this new town, he doesn’t even bother to remember the name of (He will be there for only a couple of months what’s the point?) he finally sees hope.

As he is pushed to go get groceries, someone passes him, making him stop in his track to look back again. 

“Come on bro! I know my last chapters weren’t/that/ bad, you’re just being petty because I said your opinion was trash last time!!”

“I’m not being petty; I’m telling you it there’s no logic in suddenly having these two characters madly in love when you made them barely interact and have no chemistry together in the past ten chapters! You’re doing it only because readers have started to ship them and pushed them into you” 

This was him! This was the man from his dream!

Sure, he looked a bit younger and different from what he usually saw, but he was certain this was the man. He was about to follow them, not wanting to let him go. He /couldn’t/ have him disappear again!!

Then he heard the other talkative teen mention school and lbh realised quickly that he might actually see him again then! Surely, they would go to the same school, this town was rather small, there was no way there were two schools.

He went back home that day feeling more joy than he ever did, for once unable to wait to go to a new school. 

He would bring his love to him; he knew it would work.

Original

[its-xiu-ya-time]

me and two friends spent an extremely long time debating a SVSSS into the woods AU the other day and i felt like sharing. the placements were hard. we kept moving back to square one with different ideas. at one point we were sure that MBJ and LBH would be the princes but we eventually changed that. at one point SJ was the witch and SY was rapunzel. at one point LQG was the witch???? at one point LQG was milky white. at one point LBH was rapunzel. basically it was a mess

a lot of things changed, but here is the general idea we finally came out with, under the cut

SHANG QINGHUA as the baker

SHEN YUAN as the baker's wife

MOBEI-JUN as cinderella

GONGYI XIAO as little red riding hood

SU XIYAN as little red's granny

ZHUZHI-LANG as jack

TIANLANG-JUN as jack's mom

YUE QINGYUAN as the witch

SHEN JIU as rapunzel

LUO BING-GE as cinderella's prince/the wolf

LIU QINGGE as rapunzel's prince

THE SYSTEM as the narrator/unknown man

things i gotta clarify:

we are NOT YQY unfriendly here. everyone just agreed that he's a little fucked up in this AU but he has entirely well-meaning intentions. we love YQY in this household and we will tolerate no YQY hate

some roles were picked not exactly for personality but for comedics. MBJ is cinderella because it's funny that SY is pushing and prodding him for answers about LBH in he's a very nice prince. it's also funny that MBJ and LBH get married but none of them are really interested in each other and they both cheat on each other. MBJ is also cinderella so that at the end him and SQH can hook up (although i'm not a fan of cinderella/baker in the original into the woods)

anyways this AU is really funny to me and i'm gonna post a few scenes that either cement it for me in a funny or fucked up way

1: 'hello, little girl' with GYX and LBH??? yeah.

2: not to mention SXY teaching GYX how to fucking skin LBH

3: ZZL miserably saying goodbye to his snake buddy (milky white) when he has to sell it to SQH

4: SQH being a nervous wreck

5: LGJ and i guess his own children?? bullying MBJ is so fucking funny in concept. also MBJ singing to birds??? utterly htsterical

6: GYX would never be as much of a brat as little red but it's so funny to imagine the dynamic between GYX and ZZL as little red and jack

7: SQH and SJ being related is hilarious

8: YQY hysterically crying about SQH's dad (THE SYSTEM) stealing his greens from his garden

9: 'the snake as green as grass, the robe as yellow as the sun, the hair as black as ink, the slipper as pure as ice'

10: the fucking hilarious concept of SQH and SY trying to get the potion for a child...??

11: SQH being a nervous wreck AGAIN and refusing to let SY come with him and SY coming anyway

12: LBH and SY meeting up in the woods to hook up once and SY immediately dying afterwards

13: SY "this is ridiculous, what am i doing here, i'm in the wrong story"

14: all of 'a very nice prince' with SY. "is he charming? they say that he's charming."

15: ZZL in giants in the sky!!!

16: agony with LBH and LQG. the funniest part is them both constantly trying to one-up each other??

17: we also agreed that when LBH and LQG are talking about their new princesses to swoon after (snow white and sleeping beauty, in agony reprise) that they're both actually just talking about SY but neither of them realize they're both talking about the same man so they just keep trying to one-up each other while talking about the same guy

18: stay with me with YQY and SJ is fucking INSANE. "i am no longer a child, i wish to see the world!" "don't you know what's out there in the world? someone has to shield you from the world. stay with me..."

19: add-on to above: "who out there could love you more than i? what out there that i cannot supply? stay with me. stay with me... the world is dark and wild. stay a child while you can be a child, with me."

20: SY and SQH listing out all PIDW monsters to YQY in so happy. "manticore?" "imaginary." "griffin?" "extinct." "giant?" "possible! ... very, very possible."

21: SJ running away and constantly hysterically sobbing

22: LQG "my shen jiu has run off. oh, he's a changed man. subject to hysterical fits of crying, moods that no soul can predict. i know not what to do."

23: SJ running past in the background hysterically sobbing after agony reprise and LQG just going "shen jiu." with a blank face

24: SJ getting killed and YQY in lament...

25: the entirety of any moment and moments in the wood. oh my god. it's fucking hilarious. SY continuing to be in denial. "was that him? yes it was! was that me? no, it wasn't, just a trick of the woods!"

26: the entirety of your fault with everyone fighting. ZZL wailing to GYX "he went and dared me to!" "i dared you to?" "you dared me to! he said that i was scared to! he dared me!" "no, i didn't!"

27: YQY absolutely SLAYING it in last midnight?? unsheathing xuan su at the end maybe?? "you're so nice. you're not bad, you're not good, you're just nice. i'm not good, i'm not nice, i'm just right."

28: if SJ was still the witch last midnight would be PERFECT for him, especially the line above and "i'm what no one believes"??

29: the system just being fucking killed is so funny to me

30: "sometimes people leave you, halfway through the wood. others may deceive you, you decide what's good. you decide alone... but no one is alone."

[touchlikethesun]

do you know how good a fic has to be for me to read 80k words and it’s all formatted for twitter?? i am not talking socmed au i am talking everything is written as a thread fic with twitter grammar, acronyms, and spacing. not to be one of those people but i am actually quite particular over formatting if i don’t vibe with the format i just can’t get interested. but this fic. this fic. i am glad the author put it on ao3 i never would have found it otherwise.

[everybody-loves-purdy]

I am absolutely floored by the fact Tigerheartstar gets a pass by a large part of the fandom. Having romantic feelings for an apprentice while being a young warrior? For Dustpelt it’s bad, but if it’s Tigerheart then it’s fine, I guess. Holding an apprentice hostage after manipulating her sister? Perfectly sure that one’s entirely Tigerheart. Stealing the spotlight and potential character arc from your mother? It’s an unforgivable thing when it’s Nightheart, but it’s perfectly fine if it’s Tigerheart. He couldn’t wait a single day for the Sisters to leave, and his actions contributed to Leafpool’s death. It’s so tiring that suddenly Tigerheartstar is treated as this cool guy just because he cares about his wife.

He is one of the few warriors examples of a truly morally grey character but just because he’s a good dad and currently treats his wife well everyone just seems to forget all the horrible things he’s done? He’s no clear sky but he certainly isn’t a saint either.

It frustrates me because he’s infinitely more interesting when you embrace who he is rather than trying to defend what he does. There’s a reason he’s currently an antagonist in this current arc, just like how he was an antagonist in SqH, and Raging Storm. The Erins do seem to have a better grasp of who he is as a character than a significant portion of the fanbase do which is pretty shocking considering this is warrior cats we’re talking about.

I don’t care if people like him, he’s personally not for me but he’s a very, very interesting and, for warrior cats, well written character so I can absolutely see why he has his fans. But it does bother me how most of his fans only seem to see him as a good husband and dad character and that’s it, I rarely see discussion about anything else he’s done, but I also never see discussion about the way he dated his current wife while she was an apprentice and he was a warrior the whole time she was an apprentice, despite a lot of the love around him being for the relationship with Dovewing (tbh that’s probably why people don’t discuss it, they don’t want to have one of their favourite ships ruined)

Fan favourite Leafpool is dead because of him and he also threatened to kill new fan favourite Alderheart? Where’s the discussion about that?

I just find it frustrating that in the fandom’s eyes this really well written character in a position of power who is honestly a pretty shitty guy is being reduced to “wife guy”, while simultaneously not acknowledging the full extent of his relationship with his wife. Dating a minor aside (seriously why does this get a pass from the fandom) there’s other reasons she broke up with him the first time.

[sunderwight]

#ooo you could tie in tianlang jun at that point#just go completely off into the woods with it#if it’s been over five years and SQQ was paranoid about eventually being chopped into tiny cubes by whoever#then he might have gone after the sun dew mushroom and run into ZZl#that’s plenty of time for TLJ to get the mushroom body#kidnap SQQ#and overthrow the tenuous hold MBJ and SHQ had been building on the demon realm#picture the demon realm completely militarized with LBH’s insane dad at the helm#MBJ on the run and building an insurgence but floundering in his grief over losing SHQ#SQQ stuck as a prisoner and being unwillingly courted by ZZL#the cultivation sects (minus Huan Hua which mysteriously burned to the ground) gearing up for war#with Cang Qiong giving the loudest and most furious calls for retribution and the return of SQQ#and on top of all that the system is now demanding that SHQ put his stolen halo to use and kill MBJ in a twisted reflection of the original#the chaos!! the drama!! Shang Qinghua is beginning to wonder if it would have been easier to just play out PIDW instead of this clusterfuck! @the-night-gods-moon

Oh this is great!

Shang Qinghua keeps trying to dodge the system and for now part of that would probably mean avoiding Mobei Jun, who is actively trying to find him so that they can defeat TLJ together and get married and live happily ever after. Angst and miscommunication galore.

Meanwhile Luo Binghe is scouring the realms trying to find WHERE TLJ and ZZL stashed Shen Qingqiu, who... possibly escapes confinement via mushroom body? So then this SQQ-alike twink shows up and LBH is like "not now hormones, we're exclusively in love with Shizun" and so he keeps telling Plantzun that he's not interested, he already has a lover, while Cucumber is like that lady with the math symbols meme trying to figure out why Luo Binghe keeps saying this to him and also which of the canon wives he's actually interacted with enough to be this ride-or-die about it. Not that he cares of course! It's good that Binghe finally has a love interest! Maybe the system will fix itself and remember that he's the protagonist now! But meanwhile, Cucumber's gotta get that halo back from the other guy...

The system is having such a bad time. It is so broken lol, especially when SY goes in the plant body so it can't find him anymore either. SQH just keeps getting eldritch alerts that range from tutorial-mode user guides to demands that he chop off all of Mobei Jun's limbs. Good thing it still thinks he has infinite points (for now).

SVSSS AU where Shen Yuan transmigrates as usual, except it's to find that his system is freaking out because it's been several years since Luo Binghe was supposed to show up at the sect trials to start his plot but so far there's been no sign of the protagonist, the Protagonist Halo Features aren't working correctly, and there's another transmigrator who arrived earlier, somehow hacked into the system, and erased its ability to track or punish him before disappearing into parts unknown (it was Airplane).

So Shen Yuan, now Shen Qingqiu, reasons that anyone who was trying to interfere with the plotline had either rescued or killed Luo Binghe while he was still young. Hoping for the former (but braced for the latter) he uses what scant knowledge the novel provided about Luo Binghe's origins, plus his new skills and some of the sect resources available, to track down Luo Binghe.

Turns out, in this version of events, some "random benefactor" showed up and gave Luo Binghe's mother some life-saving medicine. So she didn't die. But her health remained poor and Binghe never left her side, instead doing as much of her work as he was able to. So teenaged Binghe is basically a seemingly average, run-of-the-mill servant.

Shen Qingqiu is like "well this is pretty easy to fix actually" and approaches Luo Binghe as a wise immortal master type, says he sees Binghe's potential, and offers to take him on as a disciple. Luo Binghe is thrilled and kind of gobsmacked, but won't abandon his mother. Not a problem! Shen Qingqiu figured he wouldn't, so he offers to make arrangements to have Mama Luo comfortably set up in one of the villages at the base of the mountain. Sure, having her be alive and letting Binghe visit and write to her would be a deviation from the usual tragic backstory, but not a huge one! Shen Qingqiu is ready to mark this problem solved (and start dealing with all the other problems it creates for him) but the system is weirdly unsatisfied.

Turns out that even though Shen Qingqiu has found Luo Binghe (and a few discreet tests confirm that he has some sort of seal in place, and what are the odds of some other random orphan found on the Luo river, raised by a kindly-but-ill laundress, and named "Luo Binghe" exists in the same region?), the system still can't detect the Protagonist Halo Feature. The stupid glitching thing can't recognize the protagonist without it, so it keeps insisting that Shen Qingqiu locate him, even when he's kneeling right there and performing the tea ceremony for his initiation!

It's really annoying!

Especially since this means that the system won't actually safeguard Luo Binghe from harm. Which means it's up to Shen Qingqiu to make sure that his little white lotus disciple lives long enough to become the ruler of everything. This is easier said than done! Between the skinner demon side quest, and the demonic invasion, and various other side missions to build up the protagonist's potential, Luo Binghe is constantly getting into trouble and Shen Qingqiu keeps getting poisoned or injured trying to drag him back out of it in one piece!

Matters come to a head at the Immortal Alliance Conference (as they so often do). Shen Qingqiu is not planning to yeet Binghe, of course. Like this there's no guarantee of survival, and the system isn't even demanding it of him (because it still doesn't recognize the protagonist), but it seems to be demanding they turn up for the event anyway. Shen Qingqiu is a nervous wreck and fighting the urge to hover, because as expected, there is still a demonic invasion. Except this time Mobei Jun is there, and so is a mysterious cloaked figure who seems to be searching for something.

As soon as Shen Qingqiu claps eyes on the figure, the system chimes happily.

Protagonist Halo successfully located!

Turns out, part of Airplane's hacks involved stealing the halo and reassigning it to himself. Except that means that narrative destiny still wants him to hit certain plot beats, so he's been busily conquering the demonic realms -- in MBJ's name of course -- and mostly doing the bare minimum to satisfy the requirements while evading the system's efforts to regain contact. But now he's gotta go get Xin Mo somehow, except the minute Shen Qingqiu spots him so does the system.

The system, which immediately reassigns Airplane as the protagonist, and orders Shen Qingqiu to throw him into the Endless Abyss.

Which is like, better this rando than Binghe, so okay, but Mobei Jun is not cooperating plus the mysterious hooded stranger also seems pretty resistant to the idea (Airplane is NOT a heavenly demon, Protagonist Halo or no he's still actually a relatively squishy human cultivator, and he does not want to go into the hell pit), and between one thing and another Airplane manages to fall int the Abyss with Luo Binghe.

Not ideal. Which is to say, Shen Qingqiu is emotionally devastated and almost convinced that Luo Binghe has died for real and that Mysterious Halo Thief is going to come out somehow in a few years and chop off all his limbs, and Mobei Jun is extremely distressed because the man he intends to marry just fell into the Endless Abyss, and that seems like a difficult thing to somehow Evil Vizier your way out of.

The other peak lords arrive to keep Mobei Jun from killing Shen Qingqiu, and so everyone just kind of despairingly returns to their separate corners of the universe to wait and see what will happen.

Meanwhile, down in the Endless Abyss, Luo Binghe has unlocked his heavenly demon blood and is now constantly trying to kill Airplane. But thanks to the transferred protagonist halo it just doesn't work. The system interferes and creates a last-minute unlikely survival route for Airplane every time. They eventually reach an impasse where Airplane can't die but only Luo Binghe is strong enough to actually fight most of the creatures in the Abyss, and all this "fighting" between the two of them (generous description) keeps attracting big monsters.

So, Airplane offers a deal. He knows things about this place. Including how to get out. If Luo Binghe helps him fend off the monsters, then he'll help Luo Binghe survive and escape as well. He even offers to help him get away from Shen Qingqiu and make a place for himself in the demon realms! Luo Binghe tries to kill him again for that, so he drops that line of attempted bribery really quick and switches tactics. He knows more things! Things about Shen Qingqiu's past! Secrets he'll share if Luo Binghe helps him!

Is this the start of a beautiful new friendship?

No.

Turns out Luo Binghe and Airplane have exactly the correct combination of shared traits and differences to find one another mostly intolerable. But not intolerable to the point of not being able to manage teeth-clenched teamwork. By the time they get out of the Endless Abyss, Luo Binghe never wants to hear about cup noodles or tax collection or Mobei Jun's tits ever again, and Airplane feels much the same about anything at all to do with Shen Qingqiu (and either Shen Qingqiu is a fellow transmigrator now or else Luo Binghe has inserted a shockingly vivid delusion over the scum villain he wrote). But they're both alive and in joint custody of an evil sword.

Unfortunately, due to the bickering and the complexities of Shang Qinghua's sketchy memory for his own plots, it takes them even longer to get out of the Abyss than it took PIDW Luo Binghe to manage on his own.

And, uh. Well.

They don't find things in great shape, considering how they left them...