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soc_puppetOops, stuck in hyperfocus hell again. I want to say that it's not quite as bad as a few weeks ago, but uh.
Uhhhhhhh...
Listen, I didn't mean to stay up all night on Wednesday and only go to sleep again on Thursday afternoon because I was too busy reading a fic, it just kinda happened!
Honestly, the only thing that's really "better" about this right now is that I don't have many other demands on my attention/major stressors. Mostly.
On a "Brains are weird" note, I have trouble admitting to myself that I'm in a new fandom when I haven't technically consumed any canon material for said fandom yet. But that's where I currently am with Scum Villain's Self Saving System, so. Working on that from both angles with my brain currently, we'll see how it goes.
Uhhhhhhh...
Listen, I didn't mean to stay up all night on Wednesday and only go to sleep again on Thursday afternoon because I was too busy reading a fic, it just kinda happened!
Honestly, the only thing that's really "better" about this right now is that I don't have many other demands on my attention/major stressors. Mostly.
On a "Brains are weird" note, I have trouble admitting to myself that I'm in a new fandom when I haven't technically consumed any canon material for said fandom yet. But that's where I currently am with Scum Villain's Self Saving System, so. Working on that from both angles with my brain currently, we'll see how it goes.
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Date: 2024-10-12 03:46 am (UTC)I do know for sure I'm in the fandom, though: I'm getting fic ideas
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Date: 2024-10-12 04:12 am (UTC)Well. It was only a matter of time.
I now have all four books in ebook format, and am planning to put the paperbacks on my birthday/Xmas wishlist. I'm planning to watch the animated version, if only so I can drill correct name pronunciation into my head (another brain quirk: I must be mentally pronouncing all the names correctly, Or Else!), and then. IDK. I've been mainlining fanfic for a few weeks now, so.
Anyway, I'm not quite at the "getting fanfic ideas" stage myself; I need to know the layout of fandom itself a bit better first, like what storylines are popular and what AUs have been explored and such (in addition to having a better idea of canon in general), but. Well. My brain has hit me with a couple of terrible gags already, so I'm definitely in that headspace at least.
Anyway, headcanon Shen Yuan absolutely had at least two anime girl titty mousepads of Luo Binghe in his old life, one of which was strictly for storage/being a completionist, the other of which he actually used with the excuse that it was genuinely good wrist support, and definitely no other reason. (And then later gets to mentally compare its squishiness to the real thing.)
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Date: 2024-10-12 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-12 08:52 pm (UTC)Oh, hmm; that's useful to know 👀 I took a class on Eastern religion once, but it's been over ten years, and I don't know if I can remember enough of it. Maybe I still have some notes from it...
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Date: 2024-10-13 02:04 am (UTC)Tell me all your fic thoughts!
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Date: 2024-10-13 04:15 am (UTC)My fic thoughts are mostly incoherent and also teeny-tiny bits and pieces so far. Like, I've got two niggling Abyss Fix-It thoughts that I'm waiting to find someone else having already written, and then I could probably turn that little boob-mousepad headcanon above into a ficlet, as well as one other terrible gag I've come up with. Otherwise, I feel like I've still barely dipped my toe into fandom so far! There's a lot of very interesting long fic in the bookmarks I've been browsing, and reading 300k of a single fic (in a series) eats up a lot of time that could have hypothetically gone to reading other, somewhat shorter fics, and getting to better know the atmosphere of fandom in general 😂 Still, the discovery phase can be quite fun, too!
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Date: 2024-10-14 11:17 pm (UTC)the one I've got so far is, due to slightly different circumstances at the conference, Shen Yuan is distracted from the idea of needing to throw Binghe into the Abyss for long enough for currently unspecified third parties to notice Binghe is a demon and attack. and he doesn't think any more than he did when he got poisoned. and then he's convinced he's dying regardless, so he tries to tell Binghe to take Xiu Ya and run, and somehow this ends with Shen Yuan falling into the Abyss. which naturally Binghe tries to prevent, but the rift closes before he catches Shen Yuan.
(it's a fix-it bc they both survive without being convinced either hates and/or fears the other)
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Date: 2024-10-15 12:05 am (UTC)Option two: SY rules lawyers the System about his excuse to Binghe for pushing him into the Abyss. "I just have to get him into the Abyss, it doesn't matter how or what I tell him, right?" So he tells LBH that, because of his heritage, the rest of the sect would assume he'd helped set up the attack; but, because LBH is a Heavenly Demon, he's sure to survive if he goes into the Abyss, so go hide out there and Shizun will work the political angle from his side, so it'll be safe when Binghe gets back (extra emphasis on the "when he gets back" part, so LBH will be certain that SQQ believes he's up to the task and will make it back safely, etc).
Both of these may already exist as written by someone else, and I would be Okay with that.
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Date: 2024-10-15 08:22 pm (UTC)anyway *grabbyhands*
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Date: 2024-10-15 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-15 10:07 pm (UTC)the animated, meanwhile, technically gets as far as showing Mobei-jun (for like one second at the very end) and the Abyss yeet (a couple seconds in the end credits), but anything else after partway through the Immortal Alliance Conference is material for a later season that has yet to materialize
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Date: 2024-10-16 04:51 am (UTC)Speaking of being distracted by fanfic...
What's this? A bullshit time paradox plunny with a steel chair??!
We open to the familiar scene of Shen Yuan having transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu. It's still new to him, but he seems less anxious now? Or different anxious somehow? Maybe more precisely, his motivations for helping Luo Binghe seem to have shifted just a tiny bit. He's still doing everything he can to make sure that LBH has a better life now, but there's not really any worry about LBH offing him, just for LBH's safety, etc.
Fast forward to: Immortal Alliance Conference. The Abyss opens, SQQ pushes LBH in... but managed to sneak a whole bunch of supplies into his robes and such, and was also like. Suuuuuuper fucking cryptic over it instead of just being a System-designated asshole. Like, what the fuck is this "Xin Mo" thing and how exactly is LBH supposed to use it to find whoever this "Shen Yuan" character is? And what the hell does he mean about Shizun's birth name, and he'll see him again in [specific amount of time]? (Or something along those lines.)
Fast-forward through the Abyss: LBH finally finds Xin Mo, and decides he has nothing to lose by at least trying to follow SQQ's advice, since he's confident he can kill his way out of wherever he finds himself if worse comes to worst.
Only... what he finds is some kid? Well, not really a kid, probably a few years older than LBH, actually, but overall pretty soft and fragile seeming and wears glasses and also kinda cute and somehow familiar???
That's right: It's pre-transmigration Shen Yuan! The one who will eventually transmigrate into the SQQ from the beginning of the story! Which is how he knows (roughly) how long LBH will take to find Xin Mo and also why he's not worried about LBH killing him. What the two of them now have to worry about is how to get LBH back home properly, with LBH having a secret secondary mission of making Shen Yuan fall for him.
Haven't quite figured out the answer of how he gets back, but possibly there's not enough ambient qi around in SY's home world and Xin Mo needs to be charged up with dual cultivation, which Shen Yuan will need some working up to.
Anyway, that's currently outpacing any prior plunnies, how has your night been.