According to @demiace-wen-ning‘s iconic post, every MXTX novel has:
A red/black, morally ambiguous, all-powerful bastard man
A fan wielder who is much more than meets the eye
And a fucking Jiang Cheng
Now we, as a collective fandom, have decided with our communal braincell that in SVSSS, the “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ character is Liu Qingge. And on the surface, this seems Right and Good:
HOWEVER! I posit that these aspects are only the most superficial and external aspects of the vast and multi-layered Dagwood sandwich that is fundamental “fucking Jiang Cheng”™yness. “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ has LAYERS. And for all that I love Liu Qingge, I love him in the same way I love the Sonic franchise’s Knuckles the Echidna:
This is emphatically NOT how I love Jiang Cheng. Furthermore, this is demonstrably NOT the sort of character that a fandom becomes viciously divisive about. This is the sort of character you either like or dislike and move on with your life because he is not deep and complex enough to Die On This Hill for defending. (This is a Feng Xin or Nie Mingjue sort of character.)
So what makes for a “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ character? What are the quintessential “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ characteristics that result in a complex and divisive character? I propose:
ambiguous/unexplained actions
refusal to explain motives
canon selfless actions missed or negatively interpreted
socially over-conscious while still socially detested
harsh and contemptuous outward behavior
honestly, naturally is an asshole, but holds back just enough to get away with it
hard-working but overshadowed by upstart prodigy
childhood trauma that fundamentally affected behavioral patterns
aggressively focused on their cultivation and consequent social status
secretly heartbroken about a perceived betrayal regarding the protagonist
yay, war crimes!
These attributes all describe Jiang Cheng. All but the last one describe Mu Qing, with the second-to-last applying in a way where HE is perceived as the betrayer. None of these attributes describe Liu Qingge. But you know who they DO describe in SVSSS?
Shen Jiu.
The ORIGINAL Shen Qingqiu.
An undeniable asshole who nevertheless gets punished for every good deed he ever did, who clawed and scraped his way to the top of the cultivation world and ensured he stayed there no matter how many bridges he had to burn or enemies he had to make along the way, who acts like a bitter tsundere to the person who matters most to him because said person broke their promise and never explained why, whose childhood was a never-ending parade of trauma and abuse that molded him into a harsh and suspicious individual, who (though we don’t find out until the extras) shows no sexual interest in anyone, whose own path to cultivation was so difficult and traumatic that they could not stop themselves from jealously lashing out at the heaven-blessed prodigy standing right next to them.
Shen Jiu is the TRUE “fucking Jiang Cheng”™ of SVSSS, and I cordially invite any haters to bring it on because this is My Hill and I am ready to fight for it.
Rejoice! After months and months of waiting, we finally have a preview for Episode 1 of GSNK’s upcoming Chinese drama “The Comic Bang” (Chinese title: 开画!少女漫 Kai Hua! Shao Nu Man)! We got hold of this exclusive footage thanks to mod shire (with help of mods @grolia and @zeldass), who absolutely did not tamper with this video whatsoever!! What a great way to start April <3
In this footage we see Sakura (aka Zuo Qian Dai) and Nozaki (aka Lu Ye Qi) in the iconic confession scene! We’re even getting a dual Japanese dub, how spoilt we are!!! A great way to start April, indeed!!!!!
Was having a Sims 4 glitch where I could no longer change traits of my sims (in cas.fulleditmode) without the game freezing 90% of the button functions after... which is bad because I have poses downloaded to show up under certain traits - so it prevented me from posing my sims in CAS when clicking traits
Thought it was some shitty cc I downloaded, turns out it was a new glitch that occurs alongside the "Growing Together" expansion pack which makes it so that if you accept any changes in your sims personality during the gameplay (you get popups that allow your sim to change their own personality traits with this pack) you can no longer change their personality in CAS without the game freezing a lot of buttons until you leave cas or exit the game 😭😭
So now I've deleted my current save and entered the last working save file from my last backup before I accepted new personality traits during the session..... which was over a week ago.... goodbye progress </3
At the beginning of the story, Shen Qingqiu's system's "OOC" function only pertains to interactions with the protagonist...
...because otherwise there is no way in HELL that he would not have maxed out all of his hit points while interacting with Yue Qingyuan immediately upon waking up after being transmigrated.
To a lesser extent, Mu Qingfang too. But seriously, even a near-fatal qi deviation would not have explained/justified his not spitting venom at a nervously fussing Qi-ge. The only possible explanation is that the OOC function only applies to interactions with or regarding Luo Binghe.
Shen Jiu: *half a shichen after having an insecurity meltdown, going off on yqy, and running away to sulk* I am off of my bullshit now and would like to be loved again.