I am that merry wanderer of the night. Sort of.

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Yue Qingyuan Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Yue Qingyuan Additional Tags: Time Travel, Peggy Sue, Post PIDW, SJ is delulu, but that’s a good thing, Child Abuse Summary:

“Yue Qingyuan?” He hasn’t spoken in years, but despite it, his voice sounds clear.

And young, far too young.

The face in front of him is too young too. Round but hollowed by hunger, red and smeared in dirt as he cries.

It’s Yue Qi.

The stupid child who could never muster up any tears when they needed to beg in the streets was now shaking and sobbing.

What a strange sight, what a strange dream.

Because what else could it be, if not a dream?

Or; Shen Qingqiu has a lovely dream.

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Probably started by bringing her injured animals to doctor on as a kid. Later on, not necessarily a lot later, he started dragging in bullied disciples to patch up and hide from Wen Xu or somebody, and then probably he'd just kind of...fold a lot of them into his canonical personal retinue of loyal subordinates, however that worked exactly.

Wet kitten Wen Ning constantly dragging smaller wetter kittens back to his big sister to protect. She has tried all the arguments already. She knows there's no budging him.

Also lmaoooo hang on, Wen Ning had Wen Qing outnumbered a lot of the time, didn't he. She didn't have personal minions she could trust like that. These people just extracted a high-status prisoner from the custody of an erratic and violent superior pursuing a personal grudge without blinking, for their Wen-gongzi.

and i was like hmmn what did i say??

#they were supposed to watch his back! #and keep him busy! #and take a sword for him if the opportunity arose probably; wen ning wouldn't want that but wen qing would

#these unnamed subordinates with no lines are rapidly becoming my favorite mdzs supporting cast #like what did they think about the plot #wen ning got pressganged by jin zixun in the company of his subordinates #so some of them probably lasted all the way to the Siege

#there might have been a guy who personally carried jiang cheng out of the charnel house of lotus pier #or retrieved his parents' bodies from the corpse heap #and roughly four to ten years later#watched jiang cheng come to kill him #and had his corpse dumped in the blood pool #and knew for a fact that jiang wanyin did not even know he existed and wouldn't care if he did

#it all goes in circles and some of us get ground up in the gears

Wen Sect Leader Wen Ning lives rent free in my mind. Saves everyone from Wen Ruohan. Frees Wen Qing up to do her medical research to her little mad scientist heart's content. Makes Wen Yuan his heir. Depending on where it falls in the timeline, he can two-birds-one-stone reconciliation with the Jiang sect and getting rid of his own rivals by handing the likes of Wen Chao to them, or just prevent a bunch of tragedies altogether. Time traveling fix-it fic Wen Ning going hmm I wonder if I still have some corpse powers and then punching through his uncle's ribcage to test it.

like. you could not tell he was the kind of guy who would quietly and unapologetically rescue his sect's enemies out of moral conviction, but he was. people contain multitudes. so same way, in this scenario the political world is rocked by this mediocre, sweet-tempered, unassuming teenage Wen cousin purging the upper ranks of his family and usurping the sect by force.

Wen Qing's reputation before the war (at least the part Wei Wuxian bothered to recall) notably consisted of one part 'medical genius' and one part 'only normal person in the Wen leadership.' Wen Ning turning out to be the most insane murderer in his family would be accepted as narratively coherent, despite being a shocking twist.

bets would be on about whether he and Wen Qing would go on to kill each other off. i feel like they'd lose a lot of vassal sects and guest disciples on account of the sect doesn't seem as stable or powerful suddenly.

diplomatic relations would not normalize for a while, unless he managed to do this during the war so all the other sects felt it was a favor to them, because killing family members for power tends to be frowned upon. nie mingjue in particular i think would be of the opinion that Sect Leader Wen Qionglin was a mad dog.

Happy Monday, everybody! Today's fish of the day is the gummy shark! 

The gummy shark, also known as the Australian smooth hound, smooth dog shark, sweet William, or scientific name Mustelus antarcticus, are a common catshark around Australia. Found in and around the Southern seas, along the shallow continental shelf, from the depths of 80-350 meters along the sea bed. Although female shark groups spend their days in deeper waters than male shark groups. These sharks are named due to the pavement shaped teeth, made up of many flat plate-like teeth that make them appear toothless, and the more regional name of sweet William coming from the rank smell these sharks emit once removed from water. However, recent research surrounding these sharks shows they may be a subpopulation of the nearby Eastern spotted gummy shark (Mustelus walkeri).

The flat teeth of these sharks are perfectly adapted to grab and crush shelled and unshelled prey, such as cephalopods, crustaceans, and bony fish. This prey allows these sharks to get as large as 176cm (70in) in females, and 157cm (62) in males! However, this size allows predation from other sharks, particularly broadnose and sevengill sharks. To evade predation, these sharks are colored to blend into the sandy sea bed, and travel close to the shore to eat at night, spending the day hidden in caves, or under sand. 

These sharks aggregate into groups based on sex and size, where female shark groups are found further to the West and Southwestern coast of Australia in prime breeding and feeding areas. Males will remain in the Southeastern territories, migrating west for the summer breeding season. After successful breeding occurs, female sharks can incubate litters of anywhere from 14-57 pups at a time, which they will gestate 11-12 months before birth, as the gummy shark is ovoviviparous. These pups will then be cared for by the female sharks, using the Southwestern slope of Australia as a nursery, where the male pups will depart only at sexual maturity in 4-5 years. After this, these sharks will live upwards of 16 years, with female sharks going their entire lives, where amle sharks stop gaining length at around 10 years of age. These sharks are currently facing very minimal threats, and have healthy populations, being considered a least concern animal to conservation. 

That's the gummy shark everybody! I hope everyone enjoyed learning about today's fish, and be ready for more soon! 

Sources:

“Mustelus Antarcticus.” Fishes of Australia, fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3260.

“Gummy Shark.” Gummy Shark | Australian Fisheries Management Authority, www.afma.gov.au/species/gummy-shark#referenced-section-1.

“Mustelus Antarcticus.” Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, 6 Feb. 2023, rodneyfox.com.au/mustelus-antarcticus/.

P.S. The voice actor is doing the audiobook