#40 palaces

[fashionbooksmilano]

Moroccan Interiors

Lisa Lovatt-Smith, edited by Angelika Muthesius

Photographic co-ordination by Sophie Bausdrand

Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Köln 1998, 320 pages, 24,5x33,8cm, ISBN 3-8228-7656-9 Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

euro 40,00

email if you want to buy : [email protected]

From the Sahara to Tangier on the Mediterranean coast, this book sets out to explore the world of contemporary 'Moroccan Interiors'.

Exploring contemporary interiors in the sun-soaked African nation of Morocco, this breathtaking volume takes readers into the restored palaces in the medinas of Marrakesh as well as humble fishermen's homes at Sisi Moussa d'Aglou.

Cette vue d'ensemble des intérieurs du Maroc nous subjugue comme une visite dans un des nombreux palais de ce pays. Chacune des quarante habitations reproduites ici possède son ambiance individuelle, c'est comme si l'on entrait chaque fois dans une autre pièce : nous passons ainsi des maisons en pisé des villages du sud à l'architecture hispano-moresque des villes impériales, des palais restaurés de la médina de Marrakech aux humbles maisons troglodytes des pêcheurs de Sidi Moussa d'Aglou.

08/10/23

#Moroccan Interiors #Lisa Lovatt-Smith #40 palaces #interior design books #fashionbooksmilano

[semioticapocalypse]

Weegee. Lovers at the movies (Infrared photograph). Palace Theatre. New York. 1945

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Weegee #Lovers #movies #cinema #Infrared #Palace Theatre #New York #1945 #1940s #40s #Couples #カップル #Paare #Casais

[chiptrillino]

How the hell do you find every accurate representative culture fashion for the avatar gang? Like it pains me the hell how people this good and hardworking can find these gorgeous cultural clothes and accessories and draw them so well and detailed like you- TELL ME YOUR SECRETS (Please)

idk about accurate. at the end it is still a fantasy world inspired by real life cultures contrasting or soothed out to fit a charakter personality and traits. listen if i spot an option to have a older fire lord zuko with his titts chest out i will go for it and nothing can stop me not even accuracy i say this as if i didn't already do it in private with seethrough material hahah

there is not much secrets behind it though, sorry its research, fact checking. often even the most random things. at least that is my method. you go to google and type in what you need and would like to know. read the wikipedia article for some general understanding on the topic but them go to the source part and check these out. or like double check these. if reading is not your thing there are lots of dedicated youtubers or ticktockers that love to share and explain parts of their culture or tradtions (clothing included. depends on what you research.) contemporary to that or after that you build up your visual library by collecting images on pinterest, or google or websites covering the topic you are researching. make your own folders or pin boards.

an amazing blog for atla real life culture sources is of course or beloved: @atlaculture blog!

https://www.tumblr.com/atlaculture who recently began to dedicate some post in flashing out more water tribe and air normad cusine, also instruments. its a delight to read through.

of course you have an easier time with some research than with other. some things are clear others a contradicting some are barley documented. it is also necessary to have an occasional reality check. like reread your sources see if there is something new. replace what you misunderstood before. don't always go for what looks pretty and aesthetically good to you. there is a reason why things looked like they did. was it the material, was it protection, was it culture.

a part looking at contemporary photography i personally preffere to look at how people liked to depict themself at that time. Statues, wall painting, illustration, old fotos from that time and compare them to current pictures to see how they used to stylize this element or to see what was essential to them. thats probably my old art-history phase flaring up again though hahah. at the end it is also how you Interpret and headcanon the atla world for yourself. before i were able to redesign jet i had to figure out how i want to draw fire nation armor. because to me jet repuporses a lot of the armor from the enemy. a shin guard will be used as an arm protection. the red shirt he wears is fire nation, a shoulder guard that fits will just be used as it is. i just assume that FN armor is better in being fire resistent than earth kingdoms ones.

but fire nation armor is a chellenge on its own again. because is it tang dynasty? is it song? but the collar protector is a typical thai armor element. how do i combine that? is there a history behind it?

speaking about armor what would be the southern water tribe one? if it is lamellar ivory armor, how and why does it look so different by season 3 at the day of the black sun? did the southern water fleet separated form their home begin to adopt EK styles. switching out kuspuk and parkas in for sleeveless wrap shirts and armor with inside plating like they have in ba sing se? because that what was aviable to them?

(appart everything the talk of armor is in general really curious because... what do you wear when you go in to fight against fire??? in the poles you can argure that it is not a concern. if you burn you roll in the snow but in the EK... hm.. they dont have fancy heat resistand clothing like fire fighters have now.... armor is ment to cushion off impact and or slicing. our standard armors conzept can work well against earth-, water- and air bending (to some degree) but fire burns what do you idealy do against that? leather helps to some degree)

while the southern water tribe is clearly circumpolar people inspired (although lacking lots of world-building which you can kind of excusing it with... the war destroyed everything but also... uh.... its a nearly 20 year old show.... ) the northern water tribe shows korean or even mongolian elements. so what do you want to focus on? i personally like to make things connect because these characters live in one world togheter and trade and exchange happens. (yes even during a 100 year war or at least there had to have been a time of influence and the lack of exchange froze(*snorts*) this culture in time) you know... migration? and transition of style and life through out history.

maybe i overthink things to much for just drawing some clothes... -srugs-

#chip!ask #chip!talks #atla #atla worldbuilding #honestly i probably ended up rambeling here to much... #but yeha reasearch is just.... the key? #like for everything? #sorry #tbh don't ask me stuff because i still don't know things.... i know things but i am in this you know.... #i know what i don't know - mode #and i don't know a lot and i am just drawing fanarts with a 40+ hours job on the side #i know some! #i guess #which makes me wonder world building kind of stuff... #like how is the EK palace layouted form the inside #whathappend to the AN aerias after the got whiped out #what consequences does the lack of airbender have to the world in sense of conection and exchange #were there really only bending airbenders? #are there still people out that belive in airbender philosophy #like the bending form died but people that lived near by still have similar dress food traditons and belives like the AN did? #is FN stuck in time too? because the royal clothing is tang and song styled but EK in BSS the fashion progressed into qing style #did kyoshi trade blue dye or blue fabric with the southern water tribe regularly before war? #trading pelt for fabric? #just... migration patterns??? #yes? no? uhm.... okay i shut up now...

[evilwriter37]

Y’all, The Shadow of Kyoshi is getting so good!!! The political intrigue and the fighting are spectacular!

#the shadow of kyoshi #atla #I’m about 40% through #just got past Yun’s attack on the palace

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Opal Palace

Artist: Logan Feliciano TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #logan feliciano #opal palace #warhammer 40 000 commander #land

[toasteaa]

Enough sweet and sappy posting, it is now time for angst where I take all of the things that made my blorbo happy (the reader) and KILL them

#toast talks #Dain losing his lover when the heavenly principles laid siege to the palace first instead of the battlefield? #Realizing his catastrophic mistake when he told them that the palace would be the safest place for them since it would be spared? #Cyno having tried his hardest to keep knowledge of his relationship from reaching the masses but then he hears of a matra's kidnapping #and takes the investigation into his own hands - praying to any god that will listen that they're still alive after 40 days in the desert #The Fatui finding out the true identity of the dark knight hero and stealing his beloved in the midsts of his missions #and Diluc can only curse and blame his name for what they have done to them while he swears revenge once again #giggling twirling my hair and kicking my feet

[lilis-palace]

Hi ! Could you do smt like titanic set ? furniture, doors, and windows from this ship look pretty . You are do awesome stuff, so this set from you will be useful

Hey! I've already created (and haven't relasaed yet) some furniture that can be considered as the furnishing of Titanic, but they actually prettier than those mass-produced ones.

I'm currently experimenting with a boiserie set that gives a little more thickness to these cardboard walls.

But feel free to send me inspo, and thanks for your message <3

#WHAT IS THE BEST CAFÉ OR RESTAURANT IN VIENNA???? #if you're reading this and know Vienna well SEND ME SOME REALLY NICE PLACES TO VISIT. Not the most touristy places but cozy stuff #Gonna see Schönbrunn palace #40 rooms oh yeah #totally make an inspo post about it #last time I was there I couldn't finish the Kunsthistsdhvvcsfve museum

[scarletmeer]

She devil on my cry till I last judgement draweth nigh

#devil may cry #devil may cry 5 #this is about losing to Artemis in stage 40 of the bloody palace as Nero btw

[monpalace]

I wanna say older reader because I see so many younger reader age gap fics

reader would def still be significantly younger than time (he's well into his hundreds for the fic), but you're so right?

#the palace answers #when i said younger i meant 20s x 100yo or 30s-40s x 100yo #but yh i def need more fics where reader is the one with the experience #def need more where they arent teetering on creepy/groomer-ish iykwim #need more milf/dilf readers w/ their younger gfs/bfs immediately #just gave myself an idea. #its abt to be everyones problem

[griffinsmith]

one thing i really like abt barkingham is that in the rooftop section of the dungeon, all the (main) enemies you face have spells that are opposite schools from another. Like margherita is myth but her main cheat, the triton, is storm, and poole and utterson are fire and ice respectively, and of course jackall starts off as ice and transforms to fire when he's hound. I really like how with each battle in the rooftop, the whole 'duality' thing becomes more prominent (wow its almost like the boss's main thing is about duality) .. thank you barkingham for being silly like that

#i kinda wish the second rooftop battle was life and death so the rooftop would have all the opposite schools in battles but #chief whip is already life and with how tricky the rooftop can be for wizards around level 40 its understandable that they went with #fire and ice for the second battle .. and that also is a little taster for the jackall battle lol #barkingham posting #sawyer rambles #love fartingham palace i love being normal girl about it

[orcelito]

Honestly I might skip ahead and start working on that 4th scene tonight bc it'll a: be easier, and b: it has CONSUMED my mind

The promise of instant gratification of a simple scene that means so much is so much more alluring than the 2 and 3 that are going to be So difficult to write, actually

#speculation nation #discacc shit #TECHNICALLY i kinda split the first part of 2 into its own thing so we have a 1.5 thats what im calling it. #since it relates directly to stuff in scene 1 and is separate in both time and content from the rest of scene 2 #so i didnt originally mean it to be its own thing but it's gonna be. scene 1.5. aka akira's thoughts on scene 1 basically lol #scene 2 is necessary group scene bc they gotta touch base lol & figure out what theyre doing next #scene 3 will be Fun but also SO hard to write. as these things often are. #finally gonna be consulting that Goro Skills document i made back at the start of discacc and only really used for a few chapters #bc theres not been much reason to see goro in the metaverse since then. it's just him doing as him does #but i went through all the skills he can learn with both robin hood and loki. AND his skills in his boss fight #to create a concrete compilation of skills for his personas to reasonably know #tho im gonna follow the logic of robin hood being weaker than loki due to disuse. aka why robin hood starts out around the same level #as the pts. with sae's palace. #which you COULD argue was him holding back but also futaba fuckin has tabs on all that shit. she KNOWS what level he is. #so discacc goro has loki at level. uhh. idk 70 maybe? #start of sae's palace i think is level like 50?? tho level wise the pts are only a bit into okumura's palace #so like. level 40 or 45 ish maybe. i'll have to double check what i said for end of futaba's palace. #man it's been a WHILE since ive had to think about the party's relative strengths #it's not like im quantifying it for actual gameplay. im gonna fudge as much as i want to do what i need to. narratively. #but it's good to have an idea of how strong they are to know how they would stand up against certain challenges. stuff like that. #which yes metaverse is relevant. but no one's surprised bc i mentioned pt training with the last Next Time thing so lol #but yea i have Thoughts. and i will. do them... #but FIRST. i will be doing the 4th scene. bc i need to stress akira out even more apparently.

[ur-mag]

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[silvcrignis]

Since she's 5'1, what would she theoretically do if someone were to use the top of her head as an armrest. How much of them might be left

Ask Random Questions About These Shiteheads || FOREVER & A DAY ACCEPTING || Also hey @markedbytheuniverse ur lil OC’s mentioned here 🥰

Oh. Oh Greyface 💕. It depends on who does it. Claude & Sevina do that shit or just flat out hold onto her head to her alllll the time & Keira loves it, gets this bigass grin on her face while her arms loop around the one on her head, if she really likes or trusts someone they are allowed to touch her head/hair anytime she gets really happy. Sirens & Siren bloods are very receptive to physical touch & VERY protective of their hair because vanity is very much a thing for them so they fold™️ when someone they favour touches them anywhere, even their soft & pretty™️ hair.

Now… If she doesn’t like you. She’s doing the same thing Claude did to Alistair Triton back when the two had beef (they’ve made up since this fight, dude finally came around & stopped calling Amadis & Alaine gross abominations & shit, finally started being a GOOD grandfather to them)

But yeah you touch her head & Keira doesn’t know you know you or L ike that you might indeed die of blood loss or from the sheer BRUTALITY of being beaten to a bloody pulp by your own appendage. Beelzebub learned this the HARD way once but unfortunately he did survive the arm slappening. *sigh*

#x: Answered #Greyface #x: Creature Feature (Headcanon) #re: Sirens #c: Sevina #c: Claude #c: Alistair #c: Victor #c: Flounder #re: Babey Gurl (Arna Crane) #c: Beelzebub #Also yeah if you’re older than 55/immortal & older than Claude he’s callin yo as a boomer #He’s literally a bratty snippy socially stunted teenager #Physically he’s 38 overall time in Hell only makes him around 450 (I did the math 😭) he’s REALLY young compared to a lot of the other vi #& they count him as 38 bc he doesn’t even /remember/ his entire duration in Chernabog’s palace #HES ACTUALLY THE GROUP BABY SO FFS ALL OF U STOP CALLIN G HIM OLD HDHFHFJF #VI C TOR IS LITERALLY /OLDER/ THAN HIM #Sorry I had a lil conniption about Claude bc I’m t I r e d of Tumblrites not READING the fucking character bios then calling him an old man #When he does shit like this && he isn’t even /40/?!

[thefantasticone21]

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

How Google’s trial secrecy lets it control the coverage

I'm coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

"Corporate crime" is practically an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the single most consequential and profligate theft in America is wage theft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:

https://newrepublic.com/post/175343/wage-theft-versus-shoplifting-crime

Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare's Shield Of Boringness, cloaked in euphemisms like "risk and compliance" or that old favorite, "white collar crime":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition

And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern. Which is wild, because corporate crimes occur on a scale that other crimes – even those committed by organized crime – can't hope to match:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

But anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. After decades of official tolerance (and even encouragement), corporate criminals are finally in the crosshairs of federal enforcers. Take National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's ruling in Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a union election, the consequence is now automatic recognition of the union:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

That's a huge deal. Before, a boss could fire union organizers and intimidate workers, scuttle the union election, and then, months or years later, pay a fine and some back-wages…and the union would be smashed.

The scale of corporate crime is directly proportional to the scale of corporations themselves. Big companies aren't (necessarily) led by worse people, but even small sins committed by the very largest companies can affect millions of lives.

That's why antitrust is so key to fighting corporate crime. To make corporate crimes less harmful, we must keep companies from attaining harmful scale. Big companies aren't just too big to fail and too big to jail – they're also too big for peaceful coexistence with a society of laws.

The revival of antitrust enforcement is such a breath of fresh air, but it's also fighting headwinds. For one thing, there's 40 years of bad precedent from the nightmare years of pro-monopoly Reaganomics to overturn:

https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator

It's not just precedents in the outcomes of trials, either. Trial procedure has also been remade to favor corporations, with judges helping companies stack the deck in their own favor. The biggest factor here is secrecy: blocking recording devices from courts, refusing to livestream the proceedings, allowing accused corporate criminals to clear the courtroom when their executives take the stand, and redacting or suppressing the exhibits:

https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-27-redacted-case-against-amazon/

When a corporation can hide evidence and testimony from the public and the press, it gains broad latitude to dispute critics, including government enforcers, based on evidence that no one is allowed to see, or, in many cases, even describe. Take Project Nessie, the program that the FTC claims Amazon used to compel third-party sellers to hike prices across many categories of goods:

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706

Amazon told the press that the FTC has "grossly mischaracterize[d]" Project Nessie. The DoJ disagrees, but it can't say why, because the Project Nessie files it based its accusations on have been redacted, at Amazon's insistence. Rather than rebutting Amazon's claim, FTC spokesman Douglas Farrar could only say "We once again call on Amazon to move swiftly to remove the redactions and allow the American public to see the full scope of what we allege are their illegal monopolistic practices."

It's quite a devastating gambit: when critics and prosecutors make specific allegations about corporate crimes, the corporation gets to tell journalists, "No, that's wrong, but you're not allowed to see the reason we say it's wrong."

It's a way to work the refs, to get journalists – or their editors – to wreathe bold claims in endless hedging language, or to avoid reporting on the most shocking allegations altogether. This, in turn, keeps corporate trials out of the public eye, which reassures judges that they can defer to further corporate demands for opacity without facing an outcry.

That's a tactic that serves Google well. When the company was dragged into court by the DoJ Antitrust Division, it demanded – and received – a veil of secrecy that is especially ironic given the company's promise "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful":

https://usvgoogle.org/trial-update-9-22

While this veil has parted somewhat, it is still intact enough to allow the company to work the refs and kill disfavorable reporting from the trial. Last week, Megan Gray – ex-FTC, ex-DuckDuckGo – published an editorial in Wired reporting on her impression of an explosive moment in the Google trial:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

According to Gray, Google had run a program to mess with the "semantic matching" on queries, silently appending terms to users' searches that caused them to return more ads – and worse results. This generated more revenue for Google, at the expense of advertisers who got billed to serve ads that didn't even match user queries.

Google forcefully disputed this claim:

https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297

They contacted Gray's editors at Wired, but declined to release all the exhibits and testimony that Gray used to form her conclusions about Google's conduct; instead, they provided a subset of the relevant materials, which cast doubt on Gray's accusations.

Wired removed Gray's piece, with an unsigned notice that "WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed":

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

But Gray stands by her piece. She admits that she might have gotten some of the fine details wrong, but that these were not material to the overall point of her story, that Google manipulated search queries to serve more ads at the expense of the quality of the results:

https://twitter.com/megangrA/status/1711035354134794529

She says that the piece could and should have been amended to reflect these fine-grained corrections, but that in the absence of a full record of the testimony and exhibits, it was impossible for her to prove to her editors that her piece was substantively correct.

I reviewed the limited evidence that Google permitted to be released and I find her defense compelling. Perhaps you don't. But the only way we can factually resolve this dispute is for Google to release the materials that they claim will exonerate them. And they won't, though this is fully within their power.

I've seen this playbook before. During the early months of the pandemic, a billionaire who owned a notorious cyberwarfare company used UK libel threats to erase this fact from the internet – including my own reporting – on the grounds that the underlying research made small, non-material errors in characterizing a hellishly complex financial Rube Goldberg machine that was, in my opinion, deliberately designed to confuse investigators.

Like the corporate crimes revealed in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the gambit is complicated, but it's not sophisticated:

Make everything as complicated as possible;

Make everything as secret as possible;

Dismiss any accusations by claiming errors in the account of the deliberately complex arrangements, which can't be rectified because the relevant materials are a secret.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/09/working-the-refs/#but-id-have-to-kill-you

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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[rarepears]

A nearby country just had a new monarch ascend the throne. Cang Qiong, as was the norm, was invited to pay their respects to the new monarch, reaffirm the standing alliance between cultivators and mortals (which pretty much boiled down to cultivators kill evil things, mortals stay out of cultivation affairs plus some trade agreements), and ensure that the previous monarch's soul wasn't still lurking around the palace as a ghost. You know, the standard stuff.

So Yue Qingyuan didn't think much when he sent the usual delegation of Shen Qingqiu (to handle the political negotiation and come back with observations of the new Emperor), Shang Qinghua (trade agreements), and Qi Qingqi (to talk with the court ladies and government official wives for the gossip).

The last thing he expected was for the new Emperor to recognize Shen Jiu as the little brother who went missing when the previous Emperor - the new Emperor's paternal uncle, from what Yue Qingyuan understood - undertook a military coup to secure the throne.

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When Shen Yuan finally killed his super fucking evil tyrant uncle who had been sending a million assassins after Shen Yuan and his (unfortunately now dead) brothers, he got saddled with the throne. He knew that was going to happen! It was something he wasn't asking for, but it was either regain the throne or let his uncle finally succeed in killing him, the rightful Emperor, off. It was pretty shitty that his first month in this new world involved surviving a military coup in the palace where his new dad was murdered by his new uncle for the throne. If Shen Yuan thought being transmigrated into a body that drowned in the pond because of some harem politics for the crown prince position was bad, well, his life got a whole lot fucking worse.

But things were over. He was crowned emperor, had a million super tight best friends all high up in his government backing him, and even the cultivators were recognizing his reign as the legit one, so he was all fine.

Right??

NO! Because why the fuck was he just realizing now that his second life was actually taking place in PIDW and why the fuck was that Shen Qingqiu and the Cang Qiong delegation??? Like, he was busy living on the streets and plotting to retake the throne, sure, but how could he had missed that Cang Qiong was that Cang Qiong!?

Fuck, fuck, fuck. Where in the PIDW plot line was he in now? How far along is Shen Qingqiu busy torturing the protagonist and how much longer does Shen Yuan even have to rule his country before the protagonist comes to conquer? How the fuck is he going to stop the plot from continuing - how is he going to remove Shen Qingqiu from the plot?

Shen Yuan isn't proud to admit it, but he rolls with the first shitty idea that pops into his head.

He claims that Shen Qingqiu is his missing younger brother - he had like three dozen of them to be honest, his second life's dad was one horny motherfucker - and tries to keep Shen Qingqiu from going back to Cang Qiong under all sorts of familial pretenses.

Shen Yuan is sure that Cang Qiong is merely humoring his insanity by letting Shen Qingqiu go along with it all, having "family dinners" and making small talk while being careful to skirt around any true political talk, but his plan hasn't backfired on him yet.

YET.

He's sitting on this ticking timebomb and Shen Yuan might be in his 40s but he still feels like the same stupid 20 something year old writing 5k word diss reviews on PIDW chapters some days. If only he had a system to help guide him out of his own mess.

(Meanwhile Shen Jiu: I HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER WHO LOVES ME???? but I'm still sus about his motives. I will reluctantly allow him to shower me in presents and praises and spend time with him to investigate more.)

#svsss #svsss au #svsss ideas #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #mxtx #shen yuan #scum villain's self saving system #shen yuan is emperor and claims that shen qingqiu is his missing younger imperial brother AU