I have no idea whats going on

Yue Qingyuan: So it's true, his soul made its way to the afterlife

Shen Qingqiu: No, I meant Shanghai China

Yue Qingyuan: What?

Shen Qingqiu: Specifically in the body of a rich young man with a family that loves him (and access to the best therapists in the country)

Yue Qingyuan: Oh, I guess that is a better place

Shen Qingqiu: Yeah, definitely better than a damp prison with no limbs

@redrobin-detective it is in fact a really great subversion of the “teenage protagonist successfully has the Adult Institution scrambling and fumbling, due to his cunning teenage wiles.” Ed DOES fancy himself cunning, but he’s literally only getting away with this because Bradley Is Letting Him. For the first several seasons they’re just letting him.

My pieces for the @uchibigbang!

Since Ghost Yuan doesn't really have a described design, I wanted to make one myself ^-^ (based on @particle90272's svsss x tgcf fic That Time I Transmigrated As A God).

I added a satchel because of how he liked collecting plants and other things, made his robes more earth-toned so he could blend in better, + a dagger in case he can't use his magic bow. #BIGHATSUPREMACY I don't think NEARLY enough fics give Shen Yuan a giant mysterious hat sighhh

Here's some more doodles hehe

"Thanks to my new sword," said the student.

The swordmaster studied the blade and frowned. "This is enchanted?"

"You know about cursed swords that whisper that you should kill?"

"Yes?"

"This tells me I'm loved and valid."

The problem is that, due also to being a professional hater, whenever he encounters something he doesn't understand, he has a tendency to simply immediately denounce it as 'absurd' or 'stupid', or simply 'incomprehensible', without updating his mental model or trying to figure out if there's something he's missing.

He's the guy who thinks he already knows better than anyone else - the one who doesn't hesitate for a second to call a character's actions 'OOC' even when the author himself says otherwise. Who doesn't hesitate to declare that he understands a character better than even the author does. And he's not entirely wrong (at least, when it comes to Luo Binghe and PIDW as a whole), but he's also unbelievably stubborn and has shut off his brain to any possibility of new development. He's also the guy who says that a character is acting 'OOC' after an extended period of thematic improvement and growth, because he doesn't like the fact that the story has gone in this direction but only knows how to express his opinions as objective fact.

He's intelligent, and loves to learn when it comes to certain subjects of interest (mainly monsters), but when it comes to other people, he's destructively incurious. If someone acts in a way he didn't expect from them - such as Luo Binghe openly flirting with him, or Liu Qingge acting protective, or either expressing anger when he gets too close to the other - he picks up on it immediately, and remarks on in inwardly, and then... immediately dismisses it. It's just 'strange behaviour', that's all. People behaving 'against their interests'. It's all just part of this ridiculous world Shen Yuan has been unceremoniously shoved into, and he can't possibly be expected to understand it all, right? It was all merely badly-written lowest-common-denominator porn, anyway. It is simply Not That Deep.

(And well: obviously this is all also a very good way to avoid confronting anything he might ever not wish to acknowledge. In the broad sense, that thing is 'I might sometimes be wrong about PIDW'. But more specifically... it is much easier simply to complain that Luo Binghe is messing things up for no reason than to acknowledge that he might be a little less straight than Shen Yuan believes him to be, or that Shen Yuan might not entirely mind when he makes these 'mistakes'.)

yess exactly, I think Shen Yuan’s biggest issue is that he is actually very smart (particularly with lateral/creative thinking, but analytically too!) and can be very good at reading people! but as soon as the reading has anything to do with himself those skills fall apart. Because this is a deeply closeted man who spent years in parts of the internet where being a real human being and not Ideal Man is cause to be mocked if not outright kicked out. So Shen Yuan, a notoriously adaptable person, has adapted so well to that environment that he becomes allergic to showing or admitting any vulnerability or emotion.

But Shen Yuan is good at reading people! He can tell when Luo Binghe is being manipulative and lying, but often flounders when it’s directed at him because he can’t admit to being weak to the spots Luo Binghe pokes at. He figures out Tianlang-jun almost immediately, and continues to suspect that Tianlang-jun is just heartbroken over Su Xiyan even while Tianlang-jun gives him a pretty good runaround of pretending not to care. He’s able to call out red flags in people’s stories—Qiu Haitang and Wu Chen, specifically—as being suspicious. He even knows almost immediately on meeting Yue Qingyuan that there is something deeper behind his relationship with Shen Jiu that never made it onto the page.