Arthena, take two

This is part of a little exchange I did with @restmycase who wrote me a beautiful fic in exchange for art!

The prompt I chose was Shang Qinghua with his head asleep on Shen Qingqiu's lap, a bottle of wine on a low table, cheeks flushed, Shen Qingqiu seems fond.

It’s kinda hard to tell, but the potted plant on the table is a cucumber plant! I just thought it’d be cute if Shang Qinghua gave it to him as a joke and instead of handing it over to someone else, Shen Qingqiu keeps it in his room and takes care of it himself.

Here’s the summary for the fic! I highly recommend giving it a read as it’s such a heart-warming read 💕

Summary: After Luo Binghe falls into the Endless Abyss, Shang Qinghua tries to keep his distance from Shen Qingqiu, painfully aware of his own part in the Protagonist’s fate.

Then he notices that Qing Jing Peak has gone quiet, Shen Qingqiu is not dealing well with grief, and every meal his disciples bring him returns untouched.

Naturally, this is none of Shang Qinghua’s business.

Naturally, he gets involved anyway.

Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.

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Transcript Under the Cut

Billy doesn’t even mind Constantine, personally, and he knows Constantine’d be totally fine to handle most of the magic shit with or without anybody else around anyway. He knows the League does mind Constantine, though, and knows the League definitely doesn’t wanna deal with Constantine for literally every single magic problem that comes up. He especially knows the League doesn't wanna deal with Constantine for literally every single magic problem that comes up for the next six years.

And, like, Zatanna has a job and tour dates and an actual career involving actual time-sensitive commitments and probably an actual credit score to maintain and stuff. So yeah, it’d definitely have to be Constantine.

. . . though honestly if the League is gonna keep trying to trick him into agreeing to stay in somebody's seventeenth bedroom, they definitely deserve it being Constantine. They definitely, definitely deserve it being Constantine.

Actually, they deserve it being Circe or Black Adam, but Billy's not gonna be that petty.

Probably.

Maybe.

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My baby Kitty who I am calling my baby despite the fact he’s 15 which the vet keeps reminding us is “super senior”

He is on his way out, he was diagnosed with leukemia not too long ago. We want to be able to put him down when it gets bad. And we need 160$ for that. Then to take care of his body it’s another 350$ if we want to get his ashes back and we really do. I am tired of begging but this is my baby.

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Okay see the most dangerous think about Shang qinghua being shen yuans friend is that binghe doesn't understand the appeal. With mu qingfang he's always worried mqf will abuse his authority as a doctor to feel up shen yuans body, or he sees shen yuan praising Liu qingges fighting skills and nearly goes crazy.

But Shang qinghua is the only person shen yuan will be outwardly rude with. They share secret letters. They're from the same hometown, and sometimes talk in its unintelligible dialect. They say they've known each other for years. The way they're so obviously close but don't feign politeness makes binghe SO envious. That should be HIM and shen yuan bickering like an old married couple. He hates it.

Binghe: Shang qinghua is one of your spies isn't he

Mobei jun: yes

Binghe: interrogate him. Torture him if you must. We need to find out what "memes" are and why they make shen yuan laugh so easily-

Mobei: they're jokes

Binghe: YOU ALREADY KNOW!?

Them at qian Cao listening to the peak lord explain what curse shen yuan must have been hit with but neither of them can focus because shen yuan keeps trying to escape binghes hold and touch the medicine bottles

Unlike his adult disciple, baby shen yuan smiles wide without hiding behind a fan, tells binghe what he wants to eat instead of saying he's fine with anything, holds out his arms for hugs and cuddles 24/7... its heaven until shen yuan asks where his family is

Binghe: you... never mentioned your family

Shen yuan: oh I have a mom and a dad and da-ge and er-ge and meimei !! Meimei is only one year old and she just learned how to call me ge :D

Binghe: aww :) okay, your friend Shang qinghua is from your hometown I'll ask him where your family is :)

Shang qinghua: Okay so the thing is........... um.....

Shen Yuan sobbing uncontrollably all night because his family isn't "in this world." No amount of hugs or snacks will make him calm down. Binghe wondering how he didn't know something like that about his favourite disciple.

Binghe who let shen yuan out of his sight for 4 seconds: a-yuan what is that...

A victim literally escaped Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment naked with a hole drilled in his head and unable to speak but police let Dahmer take him back to his apartment like everything was ok!

And I guess he doesn’t count as a serial killer but Eric Harris had already been making threats and harrassing students to an extreme degree before Columbine- police literally had a search warrant but they just never acted on it. If they had, they would have found the guns and pipe bombs and the shooting could have been easily prevented. They even tried to cover this up afterwards.

I’m okay

I love you

Thank you

It’s alright

I’m not hurt

I’m not hurt too badly

You’re lovely/wonderful/kind

I enjoyed it

It was worth it

Take your time

Do you need anything?

Do you want a cuddle?

Do you want me to get dressed/take the collar off/put the crop away?

Do you want to talk about it?

I’m here

You’re not a bad person

Top drop/dom drop usually comes from shock, guilt or insecurity about the way you have just treated someone whose well-being you care about very much. Like sub drop, it is usually accompanied by a fall in endorphins and general energy levels. Especially for aces (who I find have a greater need to be in the right mindset/’zone’ for play and intimacy), a ‘snap’ moment where you break out of play mode can throw you emotionally, and the end of play causes a similar reassessment or double-take at what happened during the scene.