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So Microsoft just released Microsoft 3d movie maker opensource… how cool!!! I’m so excited to see all the weird shit folks make with it… I think this’ll be the next source filmmaker.

Source: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1521698902579159040

SY being transmigrated MBJ half sibling or distant cousin, most likely result of affair or even maybe half human. So not in line of succession at all, and also very sickly so never targeted be anyone as would be waste of resources. (Also most of the family agrees they love SY, we will kill each other but if anyone touches a hair on SY head we kill them all)

When alliance happens MBJ ok with SY marrying because it'll keep them safe from fmaily conflict, also LBH is going to love them who wouldn't?

MBJ has no idea that LBH has never spent time with SY. He sees SY running everything and is like 'yes he's treating them as an empress as he should' when he finds out after he is ready to murder everything. His uncle finds out and both are suddenly on same side.

OG wife SY is was very early on in plot but literally treated as throwaway line for alliance no Papapa scene just forgotten. Their entry on PIDW wiki is tiny, there isn't even a description. She's so forgotten she's the reason people get wife numbers messed up with used to piss SY off and there's many comments of peerless cucumber reminding people of correct wife numbers.

SY started running things because MBJ and LBH left on campaign right after wedding...and LBH took major wives for fight (the papapa in the OG chapter was between all of them and then new wife LBH finds)

SY sees things are chaotic, Binghe must not have had time to sort out things before leaving so he decides a good wife would sort this out so he does... only turns out a lot of essential things aren't being done so well he just helps out a little here and there.

(he's running everything within a week the servants and advisors are crying tears of joy things are finally working, someone is running things and just killing and fucking everything...there is a shrine to SY within the first month)

MBJ so furious with LBH when he sees him again

MBJ: You want to see a-yuan?

LGJ: Never! kill him nephew

MBJ: Fine.

MBJ: if you can describe A-yuan and you can see them... one thing about them.

LBH:...

LBH: ummm

LGJ:Nephew kill him now

Bingge finding out about SY second hand from everyone, disbelieving that someone did all this for years without trying to grab power or even do anything for their own means just helping him without any thanks.

When LBH finally sees SY after managing to break into Northern palace... well he was looking for kind shziun in long black hair and greens like bamboo but the he sees white hair and blue robes the smell of frost and just... realizes 'oh'

Bonus

Yue Qi finds little baby Shen Jiu and like no one can tell he's a plant baby it's not really something people can tell without going through cultivation techniques

So Shen Jiu's father yeah? It's Shen Yuan, a peak lord of Cang Qiong Mountian Sect, of the beast peak to be exact. Shen Yuan had absolutely no idea that he had at one point bled on a child bearing flower and made a child.

So imagine what would happen when Yue Qi gets to the sect. And he sees Shen Yuan.

Imagine Yue Qi absolutely hating him, because this is the man that abandoned his son for the wolves. But Yue Qi keeps being denied a sword and permission to leave the mountian. And he needs to get Shen Jiu out. So he goes to the beast peak and seeks out its lord.

Yue Qi finds Shen Yuan, and tells him he knows he abandoned his son once but to please, rescue his friend- To please help the son he abandoned, just once.

And Shen Yuan is so confused. Like, kiddo? I don't have a son?

But Yue Qi argues back that Shen Jiu looks just like Shen Yuan, down to every detail. And he's so sopping wet pathetic that Shen Yuan can't help but want to help this kid and his friend, so he agrees and swoops Yue Qi up in his arms onto his sword to fly off and use him as his compass.

Yue Qi is incredibly startled, being held kind of like a bewildered cat gets held by a small child, legs dangling "Can you put me down on the sword?" "And risk you falling off and your Shizun killing me? Not a chance, kiddo. Uppies."

They get to Qiu manor, and Qiu Jianluo is so incredibly fascinated by the man at his door that looks like his favorite toy. And even more so when he realizes he's a cultivator, so he brings him inside. Not because he's stupid, no. Because if this man is Xiao-Jiu's father, then he'd clearly sold him into slavery. Maybe he'd even like to see how well behaved a slave the brat became.

So Shen Jiu is brought out to serve tea, and he sees Yue Qi first, white as a sheet and terrified next to Shen Yuan. Then his gaze turns to Shen Yuan, and he drops the tray he'd been holding. Because it's like looking into a more mature reflection. He feels like his heart is going to stop.

And Qiu Jianluo makes a mistake. He decides he can punish Shen Jiu for breaking the tea set here, in front of Shen Yuan. He gets as far as getting his hand on his whip when Shen Yuan speaks.

"... I have a son.. You. Have my son. Why is my son a slave." Shen Yuan demands, his gaze turning both cold as frost, and hot with rage as he rises up and rests his hand on the hilt of his blade.

Qiu Jianluo doesn't live to see the next day. According to Shen Yuan, he was possessed and tried to kill him and his shijie's disciple. Yue Qi echos the same story if asked.

Shen Jiu is astounded- Qi-ge came back! He really came back-! He'd been giving up hope, and now he's here!

And.. His father... Is also here? He has one of those? His father just killed that monster unprovoked. His father was talking to him kindly, and offering him spare robes, and a meal, and-

"A home-? You- You want me to go to your home with you?"

"Of course I do-! I just found out I have a son, I missed enough of your life already yeah?" And it takes a bit more convincing than that but honestly Qi-ge is also at the sect so he can probably see what kind of man his father is... Though he's distrustful.

Eventually they have a kind of awkward father son thing going, and Shen Jiu goes to the official disciple selections, and is kidnapped by the Qing Jing peak lord. Shen Yuan is displeased by this, but his son seems intrigued so... Fine, fine, go go have fun.

Shen Yuan glares DAGGERS at his Qing Jing Shixiong during the next Peak Lord meeting after he takes his baby bun as a disciple because this is cutting into his Father-Son Make-Up Time (and he's got more than a DECADE to make up for! That's not much to a centuries' old immortal but Shen Yuan still knows that it's a Big Ass Deal to his son because that's all the time he's ever lived). Qing Jing Shixiong is, of course, completely unapologetic because he could tell immediately that Shen Jiu had the makings of a peerless scholar in him (just like his baba, Qing Jing Shixiong thinks bitterly) and was not about to let a Shen slip through Qing Jing's fingers a second time.

Normally Shen Yuan has a good and close relationship with his Qing Jing Shixiong as Shen Yuan is very scholarly minded despite being more invested in beasts than the Four Arts. Shen Yuan's Qing Jing Shibo had tried to poach him from the Beast Peak numerous times as a disciple (Shen Yuan is, of course, oblivious to this) but not only was Shen Yuan's Shizun (the previous Beast Peak Lord) wholly unwilling to lose out on his future head disciple, but Shen Yuan was solidly in love with the Beast Peak and became an unskippable cutscene whenever his hyperfixation was triggered. Still, Shen Yuan spent a decent amount of time on Qing Jing with his shixiong, who was strangely insistent on practicing alongside Shen Yuan, leading him to be at least passable (by Shen Yuan's standards) through osmosis.

(This is a long way of me justifying Shen Yuan still knowing how to play the guqin solely so he can play modern songs for Shen Jiu on it)

Shen Jiu, meanwhile, ends up in a quasi-split custody agreement between his Baba and his Shizun. And for his part, Shen Jiu thrives on Qing Jing without any harassment from his rich-kid shixiongs. There were attempts at first, spawning from jealousy over how much attention Shen Jiu got from two separate Peak Lords (namely Shizun) and how Shen Jiu took to the Four Arts and cultivation as a whole like a fish to water, outstripping his shixiongs in skill and power with blinding speed. Buuuttt they learn VERY quickly that bullying Shen Jiu will trigger Mama Bear Shen Yuan to swoop down on them like death from above, and for all his kindness and gentle hand towards discipline (compared to his martial siblings), Shen Yuan is ruthless when it's his precious son being harmed. Needless to say, any bullying of Shen Jiu is put to a swift and brutal end, and Shen Jiu's would-be bullies are forced to sit and stew in their jealousy, or worse, actually work to improve themselves.

Whenever it's Shen Yuan's turn to have Shen Jiu on his peak (Shen Yuan and his Qing Jing shixiong have something of a 50-50 custody agreement), he tells Shen Jiu of his uncles, his aunt, his grandparents, and of Shen Yuan's own childhood. Since I'm an adherent of Chronically Ill In a Past Life!Shen Yuan and Shen Yuan only ever talks about his family in the past tense (to say nothing of the small memorial altar in one of the back rooms of Shen Yuan's house, crowded with no less than five carefully carved tablets that Shen Jiu found when snooping one day), Shen Jiu concludes that Shen Yuan's parents--his grandparents, Shen Jiu thinks with no small amount of awe--sent his Baba away to Cang Qiong in order to cultivate to save his life. Baba may have tried to minimize and gloss over the severity and extent of his childhood illness, but Shen Jiu is no fool and by now knows that his idiot Baba does not show himself the same care he shows to others (despite his Baba regularly claiming that he's lazy while being the most hard-working man Shen Jiu has ever met). And naturally, his Baba flourished and became an immortal cultivator who stood above the rest. However, the family that had loved his Baba enough to send him away remained mortal and lived and died as mortals do long, long ago.

And in a way, Shen Jiu is correct. There's just no way he could have ever known that Shen Yuan is from a world far removed and alien to the one Shen Jiu was born in.

Even as a disciple, Shen Yuan had been tight-lipped about his origins, only ever speaking vaguely or deflecting any questions completely. Mostly this is because Shen Yuan's origins in this world were unclear even to him. After reincarnating, he found himself in a child's body in the midst of a smoldering ruin. No bodies had remained untouched by the long gone flames save for his own and the ruins were damaged so severely Shen Yuan couldn't decipher anything of use from them. Left with no other option, Shen Yuan had walked away into the wilderness, discovered what world he'd been reborn into, agonized over whether or not to join Cang Qiong before concluding it was the safest option for an apparently orphaned child in PIDW after a near miss with slavers, making it to the disciple selections and being picked by the Beast Peak Lord of the time (after a dead-heat race to claim Shen Yuan between most of the present Peak Lords), and then promptly cursing out the universe for placing him well before PIDW's canon once he realized he recognized NONE of these Peak Lords.

Yeah, Shen Yuan kept his past--both from this world and his previous one--close to his chest. But that just made any crumb of lore he let slip so much more valuable. Because Shen Yuan wouldn't be Shen Yuan if he didn't wife-beam nearly everyone he ever interacted with. Unbeknownst to Shen Yuan, he has a line of admires long enough to circle the whole of Cang Qiong several times. Nearly all of them are men, which goes a long way to reinforce his obliviousness of their affections (Shen Yuan's Qing Jing Shixiong is one such instance and he is a source of fierce jealousy among Shen Yuan's numerous suitors because he gets to live out a familial fantasy through the split-custody arrangement over Shen Jiu).

Shen Jiu doesn't mean to let his Baba's Lore disseminate to the wider world, but he admits he may have been careless when talking about it with Qi-ge. Some nosy busy-body overheard and Shen Yuan's suitors were fed well.

The news that Shen Yuan had a son definitely caused a stir, and naturally Shen Yuan never mentioned that Shen Jiu came from an unexpected encounter with a Spring Day Heart Lotus aside from his martial siblings (who could largely be trusted to keep their mouths shut). This coupled with the Lore Drops overheard from Shen Jiu spawn a number of heart-wrenching tragedies of a third son from a middlingly rich family that suffered from an incurable illness but was kind and loved (and beautiful beyond compare). And because he was so loved, this tragic beauty was tearfully sent away to a cultivation sect in the hopes that cultivation would be the key to saving his life. And it does. Too well, in fact. Because the tragic beauty out lives his beloved family by many many years, leading him to close off his heart in his filial grief. At least until he discovers he does still have family left. A son he never knew he had who was alone in the cruel world and suffering terribly at the hands of a monster (Qiu Jianluo is often cast as Secretly A Demon because the wealthy human sponsors of these works don't want to confront the idea that One Of Them could do something like That to Shen Yuan's precious son--to say nothing of the thousand and one casual cruelties they inflict on people they see as Lesser every day that would make Shen Yuan despise them--so the perpetrator MUST have been secretly a monstrous demon all along. The motive in this take for Qiu Jianluo's cruelty is often covetous and ruinous lust for Shen Yuan taken out on his son).

Shen Jiu's exact origins as a Plant Baby aren't really known outside of Cang Qiong (Shen Yuan's admirers amongst the mountain don't want to give the competition Ideas on how to baby trap him), so these stories often include a Generic Female Lead to act as Shen Jiu's mother. Characterizations of the supposed mother vary from story to story. Sometimes she's a scheming vixen who takes advantage of the tragic beauty's kindness and cruelly abandons both the beauty and the child they begot together when it no longer serves her. Sometimes she's the tragic beauty's First True Love who tragically perishes after giving birth but before she could tell him of his child's existence (somewhere, somewhen across the universe and sealed beneath a mountain, Tianlang-Jun sneezes). Sometimes she's the author or sponsor's blatant self-insert (often genderbent) who becomes the tragic beauty's True Love and wife and mother of his child who is cruelly stolen away by a covetous and cruel demon (Qiu Jianluo, who is spinning in his shallow grave). The last one is often something of a retcon as after the Tragic Beauty Male Lead discovers and reunites with his long lost son (usually thanks to cosmic chance or divine revelation. One or two include a Childhood Friend of the lost son making the reveal, but that's very rare), the stories veer off into dogblood dramas and blatant wish fulfillment that caters to one or more of Shen Yuan's many many suitors.

Shen Jiu discovers one of these stories years later and is furious that people are lusting after his Baba and writing such garbage about him that they share with the wider world rather than keep to their rotten selves. When Shen Jiu tries to tell his Baba about these affronts to his honor, not only does Shen Jiu find out that his Baba knows about these stories, but his Baba has been an avid follower of a number of the worst, verbally shredding these terrible stories as he resurrects his inner Peerless Cucumber while also being blissfully unaware that these dogblood garbage stories are all about him and written by and for his many suitors.

Part of Shen Jiu wishes his Baba would ascend with his martial siblings if only to hopefully get him away from his many depraved suitors, but the more selfish part of Shen Jiu wants his Baba to stay with him. He's quite pleased to find out his Baba feels the same, holding off on ascension to stay by Shen Jiu's side (which totally has nothing to do with Shen Yuan being confronted with the knowledge that his precious bun of a son is supposed to be the Scum Villain and the fate Shen Qingqiu suffered in PIDW doesn't look as vindicating as it did now that he knows it would happen to his son, whom he loves).

Unfortunately, Shen Yuan doesn't stop attracting flies after retiring as a Peak Lord when his son's generation ascends to the post.

Shen Yuan's backstory is kind of up in the air for me. What I wrote is what came to mind for a Mysterious Backstory that isn't too generic. The scattered thoughts in my head that lead to it is "cultists," "dragon cult," "ritual went wrong and all the cultists died in the backlash," "shen yuan's reincarnated body is fire proof," "he's maybe a sealed dragon or was infused with Dragon Qi and it gives him Dragon Powers," "the og character was supposed to be a guardian over the ruins Shen Yuan woke up in and the surrounding areas because Plot and also MacGuffin but Shen Yuan promptly fucked off into the undergrowth blissfully unaware of any of his potential plot relevance."

The PIDW Beast Peak Lord is Shen Yuan's beloved shidi. They had a friendly rivalry for the head disciple spot but were cordial with each other when Shen Yuan emerged the victor.

In true Shen Yuan fashion, he is a much stronger cultivator than he assumes he is. His notion of power-scaling is hilariously skewed and he could easily pancake most of his shixiongjie but assumes that because he's a No-Name Background Character and the Lowest Ranked Peak Lord that it somehow means he's weak.

As I was writing this, I initially wanted to make Shen Yuan very Yang Aligned, but was struck with the brilliant idea that the character Shen Yuan was reborn as was supposed to be a wife character. But because Shen Yuan is a Man and dragons are OP as fuck, his body just made itself as he wanted it to be. He is wholly unaware of the precisely five seconds he had boobs before he instinctively Transed His Gender (as are his suitors, thankfully, because a number of them would undoubtedly go rabid if they figured out Shen Yuan can shapeshift). So Shen Yuan is oddly Yin Aligned for a man, which leads to Shen Jiu--his biological son--to be as well because I adore the "Shen Qingqiu (Jiu) is Yin Aligned" fanon. This adds to Shen Yuan's...appeal to others.

Since Shen Jiu was born from a magic plant, he has the natural aptitudes of a dragon and a few of their abilities (like fire immunity, which would have been handy if he burned the Qiu Manor to the ground after all) but he's technically not a dragon in the same way Shen Yuan is. Shen Jiu doesn't have a dragon form like Shen Yuan (though Shen Yuan is wholly unaware of it) but he's got the peerless aptitude for cultivation, qi reserves, and natural resistances that dragons have.

I'm not too attached to this backstory so do with it as you will.

Shen Jiu actually grows up fairly well adjusted all things considered. He still has some general instinctive fear of men but it's not as intense as the original verse but he's not as wildly insecure and self-destructive. Having Shen Yuan as a father did a lot to help Shen Jiu learn to love himself and gave him a refuge whenever insecurities rear their heads (he's a bit shameless in taking advantage at first, just to reassure himself that his Baba's love for him is genuine. If he had a lot of nightmares for several years after Shen Yuan brought him home that pushed him to seek out his father for comfort, well...Shen Jiu had good reason for that after all he'd been put through). He's still petty and sharp-tongued, maybe even moreso than he was originally because he had Shen "Peerless Cucumber" Yuan as inspiration, but there's a steady confidence to him that the original Shen Jiu never managed.

(Shen Jiu's relationship with Yue Qi is also leagues better than it was in canon since the broken promise thing never happened. The two are closer than ever, which their shizuns are pleased about with them being the sect's future leader and second in command)

Shen Jiu and Liu Qingge do still have some friction but it's mostly because Shen Jiu finds it entertaining to mess with Liu Qingge, who rises to take the bait every time. It's nowhere near as bad as it was in the original story. It's more like pigtail pulling than actual rivalry.

I bring this up because I have the image of Shen Yuan plucking a tiny disciple Liu Qingge out of the air as he tries to start a fight with Shen Jiu and scolding them both for the mutual antagonism regardless of if it was genuine or not. Liu Qingge just dangles, despite his best efforts to free himself, from Shen Yuan's unyielding iron grip and has a few realizations about himself.

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HAPPY MIHAWK DAY!!! 🥃🦅❤️

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happy holidays, @rinnights! this is my secret santa piece for you! i hope u enjoy it :D

i actually really like shanks. a lot more than mihawk (and u can probably tell lol). i wasn't a big mishanks fan before this, so i had to do a LOT of research. followed so many mishanks artists on twt and saved so many mishanks pins on pinterest.. and ngl they rlly grew on me xd

if u look at mihawk's newspaper, u will find some fun details! i put in sooo much effort into making sure that newspaper was canon timeline accurate

A Treasured Treasury of Beloved Characters (2024).

Wool felt, cotton lawn, strawboard, embroidery & poly cotton thread, recycled PET stuffing, armature wire, plastic eyes.

Here is a collection of characters I met when I was small, all of whom have stayed with me every day since. They are housed, stitched and squished in this felt book, akin to their arrangement in my brain.

This thing has been out of print for like, 26 years and some of us want to make chubby classic pikachu so uh... I figure it's okay to share bc it's kinda hard to get your hands on the remaining physical copies.

Bonus points: Aelith made some embroidery/applique files for it too

This is FREE, please don't pay for the pattern.

Only the EMBROIDERY is paid.