Elsewhere AU - End (to Be Continued)

What book would you defend like this:

NOOOOOO WHYYYYY

The Locked Tomb Series Summary:

The “Lesbian Necromancers in Space” book series

Clear and Muddy Loss of Love Summary:

A natural moat called the Luo river split the great land into two. Jing of the north, and Wei of the south.

One was the Prince of the grass plains who had no worries nor sorrow. One was a lawful Princess who received exclusive favour of the Emperor.

A war turned the Prince of the grass plains into an orphan, she who had laid dormant for ten years had originally planned to become a sycophantic official, to manipulate the enemy kingdom into chaos, but was appointed as Fuma at the Chionglin banquet.

Wait and see, how this debt of grudge from a fallen kingdom and devastated home will be settled.

holy shit i left tumblr for like 3 days whats up with the jiang cheng discourse on my page

More assorted tgcf scratches over the months

happy halloween shixiong, trick or treat :DD

WWX made tanghulu (which may or may not be dusted with chili powder) and is sharing with the class! Is this a trick or a treat? Depends on if you like spicy things 😂

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Disclaimer that by saying this I by no means mean to insult or exclude non-writers, but: Scum Villain really is a story for storytellers, huh

It's so incredibly meta - so much of it is about the way stories are told, the structures of plot and narrative logic, the way that plot drives character and character drives plot, examination of story devices that make sense in-world and how strange they look when divorced from narrative context, exploring the limits of the suspension of disbelief and the backlash when readers hit those limits and recoil, even without getting into the meditation on external pressures and the warping effect of deadlines and money on a storyteller's craft.

in scum villain the story tools (tropes, framing, character arcs, licensing) are the plot, and the plot is a tool in the story, and the author's problems are Airplane's problems and his problems are the author's problems and the main character is the reader and he brings the reader's eye into the story and his meta-knowledge becomes his greatest asset and also his greatest blindness, just the way that a self-aware reader can get more out of a story but can also by their very cynical meta-awareness block themselves from unabashed enjoyment of it

I think it's not a coincidence that so many people who have spent years writing get so hung up on this series.

*inhales*

It’s Luo Binghe, not Lou Binghe.

It’s Shen Qingqiu, not Shen Qingqui

And please, please, please stop calling them “Luo” and “Shen”

'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.