Attempting writing. Absolutely failing.

FIRST:

The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:

It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).

Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).

Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:

No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).

The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.

Bonus:

Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)

Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)

BUT the most egregious claim of all about shen jiu that i've seen is that he was somehow abusive to yue qingyuan? and i've been a yue qingyuan defender since 2018! i've been in the trenches for this guy! qijiu is THE sv ship for me! i have a lot of sympathy for yqy and understanding of his trauma, and i understand how much shen jiu seeming to hate him must have hurt him. he's a blorbo to me. BUT it's not abusive to not want to be around someone or to avoid them, i'm sorry. shen jiu was hurt first, by his belief that yue qingyuan abandoned him to be abused or even killed, and as a result of that he stopped wanting to be around or talk to yqy unless he had to, and when he has to, as they're coworkers, he's very frostily polite and taciturn. he's not even mean to him!!! because he understands the dynamics of the sect and that yqy is the leader!!! he's just cold. even as disciples the only 'mean' things he says are that he doesn't want yqy to talk to him unless he gives him an explanation, and that he doesn't want to be called "xiao jiu" ever again. it might be harsh, but at the end of the day it's literally just him asserting his own boundaries, and yqy gets this bc as much as it may hurt him to hear it, he respects them! HE understands that if he's allowed to keep the boundary of not telling sj why he didn't come back, sj is also allowed to keep boundaries that keep yqy from interacting with him in an intimate or casual manner. somehow to the "remember shen jiu is to blame for all his own pain" people, this is cruel on sj's part, but sj being led to believe the one person who loved him actually never did and would happily leave him to rot as an abused slave is not cruel.

some years pass, years where liu qingge is going through a fantastical knightly enemies to ??? where he slowly learns he may have initially misjudged this man who may not be the paragon of virtue but is nonetheless a person worthy of respect with a possible sordid past that resulted in a difficult disposition and now has to kneel down and admit then make up to his failures, as shen jiu is like "what kind of fucking scheme is he trying to pull", which results in like a weird strained kind of coworkers who Don't Talk About It type relationship. the immortal alliance conference still happens, everything proceeds as in canon, except- when bingge comes back from his 5-year internship in tartarus and does his pidw-canon-typical "destroy shen jiu's reputation and lock him up in the water prison" shenanigans, it turns out that liu qingge Can and Will try to break shen jiu out -not because he really likes the guy all that much, necessarily, but he has a life debt to pay back and also has already dragged his one (1) braincell through the grinder in order to realise his assumed-evil coworker is probably not actually one-dimensionally evil, so he feels complicated enough about it to try and get some actual answers in here - and if that involves kicking demon ass that's just a fun bonus. normally, all this would not be an issue for demon emperor luo binghe who has recently basically come into nigh full power if you discount xin mo being grumpy, because, as established he would not hesitate to kill his former shishu! in fact, he'd be very glad to do that! however, for item out of designated boundary reasons, liu qingge Will Not Fucking Die.

...cue clown music.

liu qingge has already sacrificed his last braincell to trying to comprehend his shattered worldview of shen jiu as a person and therefore he does not examine why he is Actually so determined to break him out, and also doesn't have enough brainpower to feel torn by the fact that duelling luo binghe every week is actually kind of fun (and also why he kind of has a boner about it). shen jiu has a moral crisis about the fact that the man who he's first hated then avoided for like over a decade is now the one guy who keeps trying to legitimately come back for him and is willing to risk death over and over in order to do that, and also that somehow this pisses the beast off enough to distract him from the whole revenge/ripping off limbs thing- except now he's for some reason coming down to the water prison to rant about it? luo binghe, for his part, does not know why he's ranting about it to shen jiu of all people (it started as taunting! then it became some kind of weird routine because that one guy just cannot cease being alive and what is UP with that) and while he does have enough braincells to question why fighting liu qingge every week feels more stable than any other relationship he's had in his life since his mother died, he absolutely refuses to examine it. none of them are making it out of this normal. the clown music gets louder every time they're in one location. huan hua keeps having to dish out more and more repair funds for the bai zhan war god's going ham most destructive. the three clowns are locked in a mario/peach/bowser dynamic stalemate none of them actually want to be in, but it's what fate has dealt, and some god is probably laughing at their miseries.

However, their behavior doesn't change whatsoever. They still scream at each other during peak lord meetings, still get in random fights, still diss the fuck out of each other. They're just also dating. (Bc any ship with SJ is just automatically toxic yaoi sorry thems the rules)

They quite enjoy the dynamic. It's enrichment for them. Shen Jiu gets to take out his rage on someone consequence free, and Liu Qingge gets all the fights he could ask for, plus they both get less awkward aphrodisiac relief.

They both think they're quite obvious about it, but not a single other person has picked up on it. Except maybe Luo Binghe.

Yue Qingyuan keeps trying to get SQQ to stop aggravating LQG and SQQ is Horrified and Disgusted that YQY keeps trying to, what, interfere in his sex life? Kink shame him? What is this??

He, of course, responds with fan beatings and incoherent screeching rather than anything that would clue YQY in.

Everything goes great for LiuJiu, until, that is, the Lingxi caves.

Where Shen Qingqiu still fails to save Liu Qingge.

Naturally, SQQ is miserable, despondent, and rages at anyone who dares to even reference Liu Qingge. The rest of the peak lords think he's being defensive because he killed LQG, and especially Liu Mingyan and Qi Qingqi.

However, SQQ is not willing to let LQG go so easily. Using demonic cultivation he learned in his past with Wu Yanzi, he seals LQGs soul in one of his fans, effectively forcing his dead boyfriend to haunt him, and goes into a research deep dive to try and figure out how to bring LQG back, the ghost of said man bopping around beside him, supremely annoyed at his new incorporeality.

This culminates in him finding a way, while his martial siblings are rallied to prosecute and imprison him for the murder of LQG despite YQYs protests.

This results in SQQ committing corpse theft, Luo Binghe style, and also kidnapping said Luo Binghe after figuring out about his heavenly demon blood, and going on a cross country road trip with an unwilling disciple, a pissed off ghost, and a corpse trying to find various PIDW plot devices to fuel his LQG-Resurrecting demonic cultivation, while the rest of the peak lords hunt him down looney toons style, trying to get the corpse back and capture SQQ.

It, of course, culminates with a dramatic evil looking ritual done by SQQ, being attacked by 9 peak lords.

However, when the ritual finishes, instead of LQG rising as some kind of evil mind controlled killing machine controlled by SQQ, it's just Liu Qingge.

Who immediately makes out with SQQ sloppy style.

Read -> that way

Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! You are no longer a slave, no longer worth less than dirt. Congratulations! But you will never forget the way they looked at you, will you.

And; “A’Luo, A’Luo!” She calls, the girl with the ponytail and the sweet smile. In certain light, you can never quite recognize her. In certain light, you can never quite recognize yourself either. Or the little slave in the woodshed. The little monster in the woodshed.

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Is the girl Ning YingYing, is the girl Qiu Haitang ? Who knows, not me that’s for sure.

I’m really happy to be able to work with you on this, so thank you very much!!

Not to say that each of the stories describes only one single kind of love language; they are, after all, all novels that focus on Found Family, with many different types of relationships between characters that express their love for each other in as many different ways.

Yet, I’ve noticed how at the core of each of these three stories there is one specific act of love that recurs more than others, and that becomes the true Theme each novel revolves around.

In Lout of the Count’s Family, the main love language is providing food and a home.

“Home” is such an important concept in LCF that Cale collects houses like they were pokemon cards. The source of his trauma when he was a child as Kim Roksu was that he was not given sufficient food, and that where he lived was not truly a shelter where he could feel safe, just a place he was trapped in.

And I don’t think there are ever more than 2 chapters in a row without a character offering food to others, or asking if they’re hungry, if they’ve eaten, why haven’t you eaten, here have some apple pie!!

Cale uses his newfound money and power to make sure his loved ones are provided for. That’s how he adopts bonds with most of his new family.

The first thing Raon does after he’s freed from the prison he’s been trapped in all his life, is to leave food for this hopelessly weak human.

Choi Han, who has lived alone in a dangerous forest for decades, would do anything to protect his home.

The Crown Prince, who has been isolated and untrusting of everyone ever since his mother died, makes sure to always have cookies in his bedroom in case guests “break in” for a visit at any time of the day or the night.

I love you, you’ll never be hungry again. I love you, my home is your home.

In The S-Classes That I Raised, the main love language is words.

Yoojin’s powers are literally activated by telling people “I love you”. Because all he ever wanted was to say “I love you” to his brother one last time.

Because the tragedy that starts the story happens because Yoohyun loved and protected his hyung in secret for years. Silence creates misunderstandings, it creates distance, it leads to loss.

Loving someone isn’t enough, tell them! Reassure them. Remember what they say, because their words are important!!

Ever since the regression, Yoojin always let people know when he loves them and appreciates them. “You’re perfect, you’re cute, you’re so talented, you’re so handsome, you are loved.”

And as the novel progresses, whenever Yoojin is in pain, or doesn’t know what to do, he turns to Sung Hyunje because he needs to be reassured, he needs to know he did well, he needs to hear he is still important to the people he loves.

I love you, please know that I love you! I love you, please tell me you love me back.

And finally, in Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, the main love language is time.

Time is one of the greatest sources of horrors in ORV. Eternities upon eternities of suffering, being trapped for ages in the same, hopeless loop, wishing for everything to just stop.

And yet, time is also the greatest gift characters give to each other.

Because the wounds Dokja suffered as a child, and then again and again through his whole life…. They need time to heal. They need so much time. They will probably take forever.

So let them take forever.

Despite how much pain and worry he causes his companions by giving up on himself over and over again, his companions never give up on him. And he doesn’t understand why!! He doesn’t think he’s worth it. But it’s not his choice, it’s theirs. And they will go through as many tries, as much pain, as much time as it takes, before they can finally save him.

Guys, where does this notion that Conan is a freeloader come from???

Yukiko (under the guise of Edogawa Fumiyo) paid the Mouri family 10 million yen in child-rearing expenses! That's "fuck you" money!! The Mouri are essentially hired to take care of Conan!!! He's not their charity case, they are his nanny!!!!!

Stop saying he's freeloading oh my god????

Guys, where does this notion that Conan is a freeloader come from???

Yukiko (under the guise of Edogawa Fumiyo) paid the Mouri family 10 million yen in child-rearing expenses! That's "fuck you" money!! The Mouri are essentially hired to take care of Conan!!! He's not their charity case, they are his nanny!!!!!

Stop saying he's freeloading oh my god????

I'm not going to lie, I think about this a lot and I've wanted to make a post dissecting the whole thing for a while. It's one of those details within two characters' relationship that says a lot about their overall dynamic, in my opinion.

I felt kind of guilty for not doing anything for Choi Han and Choi Jung Soo on the eighth so I made this little comic as a compensation present for both of them. First time making a comic, pls go easy on me!

And what are you saying? Choi Jung Gun who?

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