It's You!

“I am aware that this request is fundamentally selfish. I can offer no justification for it, no argument in its favor. It is simply the outcome I desire to see the most.”

[twirling strand of hair] so there’s this fictional alien guy-

An old wip :-) I really loved the Pesterquest art from Roxy’s route.

sorry yeah we queer coded your boyfriend. he’s arguing with his brash and emotionally reserved rival over something trivial for comedic effect. they have a special, vaguely suggestive bond that sets them apart. hm? oh uhh. yes they are blue and red

that other post about how miserable the OG Luo Binghe truly is got me thinking (again) about how incredible it is that the Bingge vs. Bingmei extra is actually part of the canon. like! that is SUCH a classic fanfic setup, and the author just went ahead and included it! and that is WILD to me because –

Now that the original Luo Binghe has been made aware of the existence of SVSSS, of the alternate universe where he is happy and loved –  he canonically knows this and cannot unknow it! And that means there is no good outcome for OG Luo Binghe after this.

Luo Binghe has an obsessive enough personality that he won’t be able to just… let it go. That’s not in his nature. He’s had his face shoved in the fact that his current life doesn’t make him happy, that he has no one who truly loves him the way his alternate self is loved. And even if he has Xin Mo and a thousand realities open to him, there’s just no winning combination for him.

The original Shen Jiu, even if he’s still alive or could be revived, could never be a loving husband to him, for so many reasons.

The original Shen Yuan, even if he could be located in another world, would never be able to fulfill the same role because he hasn’t gone through the same journey as a person.

And the only person in which these two halves are combined - the actual, Shen Qingqiu Who Was Shen Yuan, can never be a loving husband to him because he’s already happily married, and because OG LBH is too frightening/traumatic for him. There’s no good options!

He’s doomed to live out his whole life knowing that there’s another him that is loved and happy, and he will never be loved and happy in that way, and there’s nothing he can do to change that. It’s a situation which is set up to just not have any possibility for a happy ending, a lot like the Yue Qingyuan/Shen Jiu situation, and man, MXTX is just so good at those.

And it’s canon.

im late but happy vday everybody

beware of bears

based on friend’s story

Bai Yu photos with novel!Zhao Yunlan energy I’ve been collecting these for awhile, so I’m finally releasing them as a birthday picspam for Lin, since she’s a huge Zhenhun novel fan!  Happy Birthday Lin!  <3

strong urge to continue this post