#god they cared so much about the villains

[mihai-florescu]

Putting a message i sent earlier under a read more, it has some thoughts ive expressed before tho. ES, of course

My thoughts as an EichiP... i view ! and !! as different stories in the way they're approached tbh, what i fell in love with enstars for was the character driven storytelling of one event seen through different perspectives, where you see the antagonist in one perspective become a protagonist in another story and can empathize with the entire cast like this. I fell in love with eichi's story of second chances, getting what you want and regretting your actions in the process, redemption, desperation, overcoming fate and asserting one's self into the story, saving a school in a dying industry that saved your life by giving you a dream; i consider it an arc fulfilling to the reader at the end of ! era. But we still had to continue... and it's not like we didnt get inklings of eichi's dreams of idol utopia, the idol soldier idea goes back to main story 1, but !! loses the charm of the original series through expanding the worldbuilding so much and shifting to a plot driven story that opens 10 cans of worms instead of offering resolutions. There's not really room to breathe if the stakes just keep getting higher and higher...

As for the colonisation plotline, it's been here since the beginning of ES2. The SS arc makes it obvious, but i remember even before, the talks about ES taking over from local businesses, trying to be seen as the standard, it was always the direction ensemble square as an institution would take. But the "antagonist in one story, protagonist in another" approach doesnt work anymore with such subjects. The guys responsible for this are your coworkers you share dorms with. I read the stories but cant empathize anymore, so i've been feeling disconnected from eichi for a while. I see enstars with eichi at its core but i didnt care for his center event, i read it, didnt like the ending, and overall felt off. Eichi becoming the villain of ! to attone for the war kind of loses significance if a year later he is a cartoon villain idol colonialist you can't even sympathize with anymore because of the magnitude of events. However i do think !! has done good things for some characters pushing them further or developing them in a way ! didnt. But for others...

I also have my issues with sci fi elements becoming the norm, even taken metaphorically or as hyperboles, when one of the central themes i love about enstars is humanity. Then again, i am a war era fan that relied on manipulating human desires and perceptions, and the fact that there were no monsters or gods, just humans framed as such, playing on people's fears and beliefs, it's a bit jarring to me to have them introduce AIs forming from escaped comatose brains (im minimizing the switch climax rn, i didnt even hate it as a whole, just this resolution im unhappy with)

It also feels like we've lost some of the meta aspects of the writing i liked, a certain awareness of being characters in a story and there being an audience. But im still struggling to word my thoughts on this matter. I felt it present in main story 2, even if it annoyed me at parts in its obviousness ("good thing we're not protagonists, no one would want to read about us" youre right aira you are not interesting to me. And yet i'll read your story to try and empathize nevertheless. I have other thoughts on aira too, perhaps for another time). I wish we explored a bit more what it means to no longer be the central protagonist, from trickstar's perspective...and brought back the successors topic. But i havent read every ts story yet so i'd be foolish to complain before really making sure i've checked everything. To me ! ended satisfyingly with room left for elaborations and imagination, but i dont feel like !!'s ending is really ending anything at all. Not necessarily bad since it's not like the game is shutting down, but overwhelming worldbuilding wise while underwhelming character wise...

Let's see... im not sure how to end this. Just a bit of a stream of consciousness as a ! fan who still loves enstars despite my critiques. Mainly, well, no one's gonna take away the stories that already exist that i do love and impacted my life greatly. And i do think !! had some really good things too it brought, or at least stories i hold dear too. Change is scary and i don't think it's always for the best, but it's also fun to see where it goes next...

#enstars

[hmsmilkbone]

literal years of my life loving nanami and higuruma, and for what.

#higuruma hiromi #nanami kento #jjk spoilers #jjk 247 #i dont care! #im done! #ive had enough! #im playing in my space and i do NOT care about what happens from this point like my god. #miwa maki and utahime are completely ignored #yuji is suffering because...... idk. #its not building his character any further im not sure what the point is #not really interested in a story where the villain wins #theres so much lost in throwing away nanami and higuruma #and as much as I hate to say it #gojo should still be alive and completely unable to use cursed energy #or he should have had a moment of verbally passing the baton #nobara was wasted #I assume megumi will die too #i have really lost interest #i will still have fun with the characters but a story where you cannot follow the point or motivations when its almost over #and the villain is still an underdeveloped indestructible foe is not particularly creative #kind of difficult to get invested in a story that feels actively hostile to the reader #:/ #i assume every character will die but sukuna who may kill himself out of boredom in the end #not readinf anymkre ive had enough #if i find out maki came back just to channel toji or something it really will be the most depressing end to a story full of potential

[gay-artificer]

I've seen people be like downpour ruined how people see five pebbles and im gonna be honest if you were here for any number of years pre-downpour the fandom was always god-awful with the nuance in his character. thats not a downpour thing thats a fandom thing

#niche comparison but if any of you know angela from lobotomy corporation/library of ruina #in the years prior to LOR angela was probably one of the most demonized characters ive ever seen in my goddamn LIFE #NO ONE was going to bat for this girl as anything other than a absolute villain and bitch #i was and im sure some others were too but the vast vast majority fucking hated her #because she spends most of the game being mean to you and then betrays you at the end #and you had to read between the lines to get to “wait a minute whats happening to her is kinda immensely fucked up” #and this is someone betraying you at the end of a very /very/ hard game to 100% and beat proper #then LOR came out and fully explored the depths of her trauma and anger at the situation she was put into #how desperate she was too take something for herself and how little she cared about how the effected others because she was not given that #and suddenly it clicked for everyone! #suddenly she wasnt a heartless bitch anymore! but of course now you had the #'literal infant' crowd because it also explored some ideas of parental trauma/lack of experience with the world #but god it was way more refreshing to see people actually move on from 'theyre an evil bitch' even if it came with 'so shes like a kid?' #and i feel that way about pebbles tbh #i dont get super super into the iterator lore so i cant speak much for the quality across downpour #and its higher focus on them and their stuff #im sure it carries plenty of issues as many things will #but god people sucking at reading the room on the iterators is not new lmao #actually five pebbles and angela are shockingly similar.... #huh?

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Look I'mma be honest every time twd kills off a long-beloved character at this point I'm just

#what's the point even #every time y'all kill off a character I just lose a reason to care #I'm just here for Carol and Daryl and Michonne's family #I dont rly care for Magna and Yumiko #Luke is fine #I like Connie but. that might just be because she's friends with Daryl idk #I'm still mad at Eugene #I don't care for Rosita #Gabriel and Aaron are cool I guess #Ezekiel's dying of cancer so. bye. #I like Jerry but we don't spend much time with him and I don't rly care #I'mma blast through the rest of this and tune back in for wenever Rick comes back lmao #christ god they used to have so many characters. so many actual good characters. #I'd say they didn't need to do us like that but a lot of those deaths were significant plot points #but then the show just kept going #and also a lot of those deaths were lame and stupid #like Tyreese. And Carl. T-Dog's death was so pointless it made me forget about him. #what was ever the point of Noah #they didn't have to do Enid like that #also! Alpha sucks. she's not a fun villain I just don't like her she makes my skin crawl #the govenor pissed me off more than anything but at least he was somewhat compelling #Alpha's just a child-beater and she whispers all cartoony fake-southern directly into my ears and I can't #I'm still enjoying the show but lol yeah I get it now #twd liveblog #the walking dead spoilers

[dayables]

Honest to god think about Sydney Clarke and the way her relationshio with Victor and throw up.

#OJSNDZJSN IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THEN #god. #i need to reread vengeful BADLY but my friend is a slow reader 😔 #but god. its complex nature. #Victor doesn't care for Sydney like a daughter but he cares for her so much. #Sydney is a tool. Sydney is his responsibility. Sydney saved his life and he can never repay her. Sydney can kill him if she wants #SYDNEY CAN KILL HIM IF SHE WANTS *slams hands on table* #AND SHE COULDNT!!!! #i need to eat them #vicious #victor vale #villains trilogy #sydney clarke

[mustangs-flames]

At first "Gabriel" wanted to destroy humanity just to get God's attention, but what made them straight up hate it?

Over time, humanity just became a reminder of everything he lost - his home, his brother, his Father. It wasn't until the loss of his brother that Lucifer (alt!Gabriel) went completely off the deep end and resolved to wipe out all humans, no longer trying to see anything good in them. Very much a "if God won't listen to me then I will destroy everything he loves the same way he destroyed what I loved" type deal.

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #htb lucifer #htb gabriel #htb god #unsurprisingly the villain in the au with parental trauma has the original parental trauma /lh #but parts of the real lucifer come through every now and then #like how much he cares about dave #that friendship is so sad because it's so genuine #to lucifer dave is everything good potential-wise in humans and he's let himself get attached by mistake #so it's only going to hurt more when he has to remove dave from the playing board #it doesn't help that dave is just exactly like his brother too

[themyscirah]

I think that comic creators should be forced to read the entirety of Ostrander & Yale's Suicide Squad run before they even THINK of using Amanda Waller in anything actually

#its like oh my god. read that book #i swear to god she is complex and has so much going on ans just like you NEED to read that book if you want the slightest CHANCE of doing #suicide squad justice #but then ofc ppl just care abt having a mean boss character they dont actually care about HER #i said comic creators bc its the writing and the art both #bc they dont do her character justice with the writing but then they also dont draw her anything like she looks like #like she is called 'the wall' for a reason guys she is NOT skinny as a twig like cmon #and shes not young either the woman is middle aged shes like 40s/50s #anyways. forcing ppl at gunpoint to read good suicide squad comics. instead of just slapping harley quinn on a team with some random #villains and calling it a day #also the suicide squad is supposed to be a MIX of heroes and villains!!! theres supposed to be varying moralities there! and waller isnt #evil guys istg- shes ambitious and kind of mean and p much ALWAYS stuck between a rock and a hard place but shes not evil!!!! #like cmon guys. its a book about heroes and villains on a team together doing off the books missions. its gonna have nuance esp in the #central kind of figure #godddddd ive been wanting to reread suicide squad SO bad these past 2 days #ever since plastique and waller showed up in nu52 jla im just like ahfiahdsuehdvdjc SUICIDE SQUAD #but i must stop myself. bc whenever i start reading multiple things at once THATS when shit hits the fan #and i go into a slump where i don't read comics for like 8 months and never finish the books im reading #so we're not going to do that but man am i tempted #maybe what i should do is watch the suicide squad movie. the james gunn one. maybe that would fix me actually #viola davis amanda waller goes sooooooo hard actually. casting choice of the century imo #and also they had rick flagg leading the team there which i respect. hes no ben turner but its something #especially since nu52 jla tried to turn steve trevor into a bargain bin rick flagg jr which was... certainly a choice #anyways <3333 #also rip my stats this is a loss for feminism geoff johns just knocked kim yale out of my no 5 comic author spot on the tracker app 😔😔😔 #im so sorry kim i didn’t mean to do you dirty like that ma'am #blah #suicide squad #dc comics #amanda waller

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Every time the topic of Vegetta and marriage comes up I am forced to see misinformation or even flat out lies about Vegetta's past wedding experience and his relationship with Rubius and I just

#i talk #qsmp talk #IM TIREDDDDDDDDDDDD #For the love of god can you talk about this subject without doing the worst character analysis I've ever seen #Was his past wedding experience bad? yes #Does that somehow mean Rubius was abusive and they hate each other? NO #People don't need to villainize Rubius just to justify their ship dear GOD #I really don't care about fandom opinions usually but this one drives me up the frickin wall #Listen man I love Rubius and Vegetta to death and seeing people purposefully misinterpret them #and their past relationship for the sake of a ship #is just so exhausting #I don't care about people talking about the potential for marriage or how disastrous the last ones were #it's SOLELY when the interpretations are based on second or third hand information #or the intentionally is intentionally made in bad-faith #that I get :/// #A few Spanish mutuals on Twitter wrote some very long threads with helpful information detailing events from past weddings #because they were also tired of people not knowing the details #and they got SO much hate for it from people who were specifically spreading the bad information to new fans #Like. why is a block game ship a hill you're willing to die on #It's so silly when you take a step back and think about it but also I'm so tired

[aceredshirt13]

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Downey films), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences 

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply 

Relationships: Sebastian Moran/James Moriarty 

Characters: James Moriarty, Sebastian Moran 

Additional Tags: First Meetings, Partners in Crime, in a light sense. this is mostly their days off, Teasing, Murder, (but it's offscreen), Pigeons, Operas, i really based this whole fic off like four lines in the second movie huh, Feelings Realization, this fic is almost certainly too silly 

Summary:

Moran has a bit of a crush on the man he works for.

To Moriarty, this is convenient, amusing, and… unexpectedly pleasant.

~

i can’t believe (pastiche redacted for spoilers) got me into moraniarty but boy howdy am i glad it did. they’re insane and i adore them

#red writing #rdj holmes #james moriarty #sebastian moran #moraniarty #god this was so much fun to write #villains who care about each other? *chef's kiss* delicious

[hauntingblue]

NAMI NEEDS TO GO UP THERE AND FIGHT BIG MOM I AM SO SERIOUS!!! THIS IS A BATTLE FOR THE ROMANCE DOWN TRIO!! SANJI DO NOT DARE TAKE HER SPOT!!!

#big mom just giving birth here on the battlefield..... #do i comment on the incestuous relationship between clouds made of the same soul??? no?? okay... #oh jesus.... goodbye kid and killer.... nami needs to get up there and take control of zeus and i am so serious #HER SKILL IS SO POWERFUL AND SO PERFECT FOR THIS FIGHT AGAINST BIG MOM BUT BECAUSE SHE IS NOT PART OF THE STRONG TRIO SHE GETS STUCK WITH #THE B LIST VILLAINS!!!! LKKE WHY DOES SHE NEED TO FIGHT ULTI?? OKAY THAT WAS MEANINGFUL BUT THAT COULD END THERE!!!! #SANJI GO FIGHT PAGE ONE!!! SOMEONE TAKE CARE OF ULTI AND LET LUFFY ZORO AND NAMI TAKE CARE OF KAIDO AND BIG MOM!!! I AM SERIOUS!!! #big mom is inside the castle.... maybe i will get my wish granted (kinda...) #kid and nami against big mom.... maybe sanji can join... i can see it so clearly.... come on now..... #if namo knew armor haki she would have gone up there and taken zeus and dealt with prometheus and his sister wife. let the others w/ big mom #fucking hawkins... end him killer.... calling him domesticated lmao... end his pathetic ass #using conqueror's haki on the weapons..... also zoro having it too.... the flower petals symbolism..... OHHHHHHHHH #nani indeed...... BREAK THAT MACE!!!! YEAAHHH!!!! law is completely baffled #KAIDO GOT SENT BACK!!!! LETSGOOOOO AND THE OG INTRO MUSIC QUICKS IN!!!! law just saw god again.... #he said fuck off i got this.... omg.... he is either gonna nearly die and doesn't want them to follow or doesn't want to worry about them #while he fights and they try to defend him.... no other explaination (apart for 4 the plot reasons) #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1028 #luffy king of everything that was such a slay #they changed luffy chiquito's design.... #i was gonna say luffy swimming...... but he can't yet akdhajsj #yasopp taking care of everyones children but his own...... i see how it is.... #WHY WOULD SHANKS STAY IN GOA IF NOT TO TALK WITH GARP WHO LIVES THERE!!! I AM TELLING YOU SHANKS IS IN KAHOOTS WITH THE MARINES!!!! #i was thinking about shanks scar... and thought it might be from buggy with his three knives in between his fingers you know #but it is too small... like the knives would take more space.... but maybei might be reaching and it is from buggy and not like a little paw #or little hand.... however much distrubing you want to paint it.... #shanks is testing little luffy's intelligence... he knows his weak spot already akdhjasj #uta calling herself a diva.... ajshaksn might this be the reason luffy was so inclined to having a musician since the start??? #episode 1029 #that was like a perfectly realistic relationship between an older smartass girl and a younger boy lmao it was spot on

[rogersstevie]

the only thing i'm not looking forward to is all the new ways people will use this new album to villainize joe, like unfollowing a few blogs helped but it's not 100 percent gonna get me away from that shit

#it's like six years of being up his ass with no real reason except your speculation #and now entirely hating him with no real reason except your speculation #and really and truly no matter how you look at it whether the relationship was real or not dude put up with so much FOR SIX YEARS #i think with a lot of dudes i just didn't really care ofc at the time of the first four album releases i didn't know who they were about #or knew and still thought at that point that those relationships were real and assumed anything said about them was deserved #then haylor happened and at least the original didn't really do much to villainize him though 1d fans took it that way #but some of the vault tracks did and like i never had a problem with how swifties talked about him bc most of them liked haylor #but after the tv release i saw some shit i really did not like and it's like omg this was a decade ago y'all #it's just like. idk talk shit about the ones who are clearly assholes outside of their relationships with taylor #otherwise stop assuming the worst bc of a few fucking song lyrics my god

[tathrin]

wtf how is my silvergifting/gwaith-i-mirdain playlist already twice the length of my gimleaf one when I only started it like a week ago?

(I guess I just know more songs that suit that dynamic, which should perhaps be slightly concerning...except that I’ve always loved a good villain song the best, so. Far too late to be concerned about that now!)

#i fell in love with javert when i was ten what do you want from me #and let's not even talk about scarlet pimpernell and jekyll & hyde oh my gods #also lion king and hunchback came out around the same time and their villain songs are THE BEST so. yeah. no surprises here #also i think i'm probably much pickier for legolas and gimli because they deserve a playlist selected with great care #whereas for annatar and celebrimbanner i'm more like ''ooh this is unpleasant! yes perfect'' #''ooh this one references dying horribly! ooh this one is betrayal and broken hearts!'' neat done put it on the list! #although i only have two songs that are there largely because of the gallows humor factor of referencing ribcages and so on #so clearly there's room for more on their list too #me #music #gimleaf #silvergifting

[alexwlwesker]

Not to be unnormal about RE villains per usual but I like to think of Alex sitting in her secluded tower after most of the island has died off obsessing over her red queen simulator like she's playing the Sims

#she stays up till 3am making the girls kiss #i feel like this incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't played RE rev2 but oh well #i have many Thoughts and hcs about Alex but not developed enough to share with anyone who doesn't care #i love re rev2 raid mode so much though #Alex Wesker #re needs to introduce more female villains for me to pair with Alex. Annette is married and dead #god I should still write that out someday though..

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

Shen Qingqiu - the scum villain

Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System volumes 1-3 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu / Never Love An Anchor by The Crane Wives (6) / What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo (10) / Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (14) / Dogfish by Mary Oliver (21) / The First Bad Man by Miranda July (26) / The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (29)

Text descriptions for each photo: 1- from here on out,” Shen Qingqiu said at last, "but you must always remember what I've told you here today. In this world, there is nothing intolerable to the heavens. This is true for all races, as it's true for humans." 2- In that instant, Shen Qingqiu completely forgot about Luo Binghe's plot armor. At the moment of truth, subconsciously, he once again moved to protect his student. 3- An in-book image from Scum Villain volume 1, page 99, depicting Shen Qingqiu taking a hit for Luo Binghe 4- When their palms connected, blood churned in Shen Qingqiu’s chest as if someone had punched him there. The spiritual energy in his body surged like it was boiling over. Though he had already formed a core and his cultivation wasn't low, what was a golden core against the right hand of the future demon lord, Luo Binghe? But he had to go all out and try. 5- Luo Binghe had been paying keen attention to Shen Qingqiu's condition. He noticed something was off and asked, "Shizun?" "It's nothing," Shen Qingqiu rushed to say. "Focus on yourself." 6- I am selfish, I am broken, I am cruel I am all the things they might have said to you 7- to protect himself. What if there was an unexpected accident? This was really too concerning. How could he not do his part to watch over them? 8- Liu Qingge instantly assumed that Shen Qingqiu intended him harm, but he was helpless to avoid the touch. Only after the palm connected did he feel a clear steady stream of spiritual energy enter and flow through his body, smoothing his circulation. 9- Anyways, this sequence of events had unfolded in the original work. Shen Qingqiu had thought he could avoid it before, but he hadn't expected things would still circle back to this set plot arc. Why force Cang Qiong Mountain and Huan Hua Palace to have a falling out as well? 10- I AM VOLATILE VIOLATED MY BODY WAS NOT ALWAYS MY OWN

I ONLY LOOK INTO THE MIRROR TO SEE THE WHITES OF MY EYES 11- The reason Yue Qingyuan had ordered Liu Qingge to step down was so he could step up to fight himself?! Unbelievable! Reportedly, ever since the Cang Qiong Mountain Sect’s Peak Lord of Qiong Ding, Yue Qingyuan, had succeeded his position, he’d only drawn his sword twice: once during his succession ceremony and once when he’d 12- Tianlang-Jun nodded. “So that’s how it is. No wonder his bladework and spiritual power are so superb. But why would the Bai Zhan Peak Lord suddenly grace the southern border with his presence?” Liu Qingge leaned to the side slightly, and Cheng Luan flew back into his hand. He flicked away the beads of blood gathered upon the blade tip and said coldly, “Is Shen Qingqiu here?” Shen Qingqiu was overwhelmed by this show of favor. What, was Great Master Liu here to save him? 13- If Liu Qingge had done such a thing... Surely he isn’t taking revenge for my sake, is he? 14- Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. 15- Cheng Luan flared, its sword glare sweeping past Luo Binghe’s cheek and whipping up his hair. Luo Binghe put his hand on the sword hung at his waist, returning bite for bite. “You overestimate yourself.” In the end, however, the two swords failed to cross again. Shen Qingqiu stood between them. 16- After all, she was one of Luo Binghe’s harem. She was the one who was supposed to be clawing at the ground, wailing to the heavens- but instead she’d come to comfort her master. Had his instruction actually had some effect? 17- Butterfly effect - noun - (in chaos theory) the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere. 18- “I’m no longer a child,” said Ning Yingying. “I don’t need to be taken care of! It’s always Shizun taking on everything himself, whether it was that time with the demon woman or against Huan Hua Palace at Jin Lan City. So this time, why must it be you again? Why is it always Shizun who needs to suffer each and every time?” 19- [Ning Yingying: Subverted the trope of a female character being a brainless martyr for love. B-Points +100.] [Ming Fan: Subverted the trope of a side character being an illogical idiot. B-Points +50.] [Liu Mingyan: Subverted the trope of a female character being a nonsensical martyr for love. B-Points +150.] 20- “Then that means this creature has never done anything malicious. There’s no need to exterminate it. Moreover, all it’s ever done has been to drink the dew water in this cave. We were the ones who intruded and disturbed it.” 21- Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason. 22- The young man stood by the table and smiled. “Humans have a saying: a drop of kindness should be repaid by a flood. Moreover, the kindness from Immortal Master Shen far exceeded a drop.” 23- “Who’s there?” Liu Qingge asked quietly. Shen Qingqiu didn’t answer and instead sent more force through his hand. The two peerlessly powerful streams of spiritual energy merged into one. 24- Yue Qingyuan and Liu Qingge sent a message with their actions: Go ahead and fight, but under no circumstances may you strike the Qing Jing Peak Lord! 25- “You fear becoming a burden to Cang Qiong Mountain,” Liu Qingge said, “but Cang Qiong Mountain fears not your burden.” 26- up without bothering to hang up. Finally, in a low whisper, he said, “I think I might be a terrible person.” For a split second I believed him- I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. 27- When the sower threw itself toward a Qing Jing Peak disciple, Shen Qingqiu flashed between them and planted a foot in the sower’s chest, sending it flying through two tables and spewing fresh blood everywhere. He turned his head to yell at the group. “Hurry up and leave!” 28- The Old Palace Master said leisurely, “I’ll ask again: Will you step aside or not?” Shen Qingqiu lowered his arm. The blood that had slowed its steady flow from his palm began to drip once more. “The Old Palace Master himself said that he’s my darling disciple,” he said in an even tone as he lifted his head, “Tell me, do you think I’d step aside?” There was nothing for it; now was not the same as then. No matter what, Shen Qingqiu couldn’t convince himself to use the protagonist’s plot armor, to coldly stand aside and let someone else hack at Luo Binghe, to bet on whether he would live or die. 29- who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person? 30- What he said was, “For all that has passed, I repay you today.” Think of it as me doing one good thing at the end. Then he toppled backward and off the building.

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #web weaving #alright everyone enjoy my super self-indulgent and only half sensical yet way too long svsss webweaving #inspired by the fact that every day Ever Day i am thinking about sqq who will single-handedly change an entire story and countless #narratives for good and yet still consider himself 'the scum villain' every time someone shows they care about him #not even in a self-dep way!! he's so flat-out seemingly genuine with thinking he's an asshole and not caring #when he's actually stupidly selfless to a fault to the extent that rivals of the original flavour would kill for him (lookin at you lqg) #and ik this is long but you would not Believe how much got cut for this #gods im rotating shen qingqiu around in my head like a washing machine on full tilt

[wheatstar]

why is shadow so hard to get through i want to be done with it so bad... really really not looking forward to thunder

#rot.txt #thank god my hold on thunder is taking forever. hopefully i can push through shadow in five weeks #im also rereading forest of secrets to cleanse my pallet while staying on wc and its so much better... #i forgot how much i like tigerclaw. my friend tigerclaw (he would hate me) #and also brokentail being bullied by kittens. AND YELLOWFANG i miss when she wasnt horrible.. #this has been said before but the old cats are all so much more interesting than the new ones #its like i said before its not for lack of good ideas (though there are a lot of bad ideas too) its just a lot of bad execution #sooo many cool ideas in asc of a murder mystery or calling back to old arcs. but theyre not doing it very well #really i just wish nightheart and sunbeam werent pov characters. i care about whats happening with frostpaw so much more #im kind of rushing through the nightheart and sunbeam chapters so i can get back to riverclan #but even in riverclan im not safe.... splashtail is there. i dont want him to be there #and not in a “the villain is mean so i dont like him!” way i just dont think hes very interesting #i really like a lot of wc villains its disappointing when theyre boring #honestly it could just be the prose that ticks me off. hold on i can make other post about that