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The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

Like of course, the teachers at his school, remembered it was his birthday and brought him a cupcake, they do that for everyone.

Or of course, the Hail Mary crew invited him out for drinks, they were probably just inviting everyone and happened to remember him because he was right there. Just ignore the fact that it was only the crew who ended up going to the bar.

The eridians are just grateful for the astrophage and Rocky, that’s why his dome is so nice.

Exactly one week later, Thursday at 3:13 PM, the next one looks up, blank-faced, and uses a car key to scratch the word ‘CAMEL’ into the side of their car. There are memes. 

The week after that, in the middle of an interview, the third victim turns to the camera and says ‘THROUGH.’ He drops dead. 

The man who writes “EYE” is in a private underground bunker. Enough radiation shielding to survive a direct nuclear strike. There are fifteen guards posted at the door- surveillance confirms not one of them left their post. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

The sound of summer

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

I put "brain damage" in quotations for a reason, I believe it's fear mongering nonsense and am well aware screens don't cause tissue damage. I am repeating the words the video I mentioned used, which is that the young girl sustained brain damage from an iPad, those are NOT my words and I made this post in the first place because it's a load of nonsense that's commonly repeated. I don't know how to make that more clear. What people are mistaking for tissue damage is just the outcome of child neglect, like I stated multiple times already. I repeat, I do not believe and am literally arguing against the notion that screens rot children's brains, I am well aware it's repackaged "TV rots your brain" rhetoric. I am, however, stating the obvious fact that parents neglecting their kids does cause impairments (note how I didn't say brain damage) and sometimes they use screens to perpetrate that neglect.

Yes there are parents in very shitty strained circumstances because of capitalism. However, I am very very sick of people expecting me to comfort and prioritize parents in discussions about abused and neglected children. I already reblogged another version of this before acknowledging parents in these difficult situations.

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

Imagine, after decades of your world becoming colder and colder, you are saved. A single Eridian, the only one of twenty three to survive, arrives in an alien ship, accompanied by a creature you can barely conceive.

Everything about the alien is so loud, hinges formed from tissue thumping and stretching in constant movement, even while unconscious. Completely organic, reliant of oxygen and hydrogen. Instead of a protective carapace, it regrows its damaged tissues. It has senses you do not, and technology so unlike your own, both able to utilise a force you have never heard of. The same force that killed almost your entire mission team. Highly adaptable, able to teach itself how to fly its ship in under a week, able to become fluent in the engineer's dialect in less than four years.

And if Erid's best engineer is correct (and there's no reason it wouldn't be), this creature not only managed to breed a predator of the warmth-taker to survive in various atmospheres, including Threeworld's, but also turned around to provide aid when it discovered that the predator could escape xenonite.

And you think: Surely, this creature which protects itself without a carapace, which sleeps so lightly and knows so much and learns so quickly, which saved two planets at the cost of ever returning to its thrum, surely, a creature so extraordinary must have a name to match

And you think: Perhaps it is strength, Mountain-Base or Lonsdaleite-Carapace. Perhaps it is intellect, Diamond-Claw or Lockpick-Mind. Perhaps it is courage, Song-Through-Silence or Path-Carver

And you think: None of these names hold the true weight of what this creature is to them. How do you describe something like that, which aids without expectation of anything in return, which risks its own life for the sake of a species it cannot touch, which performs miracles simply because it was asked.

The first thing that would happen would be that SY would declare that since MQF is not doomed by the plot/is only an NPC, he therefore doesn't have to make any changes and indeed shouldn't get involved with matters of import at all since he's only a minor background character. He can just kick back and relax in his new xianxia life, and get a front row seat to Luo Binghe's rise to power and conquest.

That would last approximately two days.

If we're still assuming that SY was a NEET or (even worse) a business major in his first life, then he would have no relevant medical expertise whatsoever. While I do think having a vague understanding of human anatomy and modern sanitary practices would help him, in the same way having a vague understanding of modern education helped him as SQQ, that is really not a substitute for the level of expertise Mu Qingfang is supposed to have. The first time he gets confronted with a severely wounded patient he doesn't know how to save, he goes into a panic and has to beg the System for a skill patch/easy mode/universal cheat elixir to pull them through.

After this, he starts to take his position as Medical Peak Lord more seriously and goes into a major skill grind/level up montage. He emerges from it with enough of an understanding of the applicable medical theory, plus whatever he knows from the modern world, plus what he remembers about flora and fauna and bullshit magical elixirs from the novel, plus his own problem solving skills, that he can at least get by as Mu Qingfang without putting patients in danger.

(Honestly he probably could stop there, but will he? No! Mu Qingfang is not just a decent doctor, he is the best doctor! Never mind that MQF was only brought up in the book in order to show himself useless against the power of Luo Binghe's miracle blood slash healing D. No, he absolutely must be The Best Doctor In The World or else he will not get a good grade in transmigrating, a thing both possible to achieve and normal to want.)

At any rate, SY eventually emerges from a study-fueled haze after a period of months or years to realize that Oh Shit, He's Invested Now. How is he supposed to live up to his self-assigned achievement not letting any of his patients die if Luo Binghe razes the mountain?! He's got to intervene now.

Fortunately, SY knows exactly what he needs to do. He's gotten to know Cang Qiong enough to know that it's pretty decent, actually, it's really not the corrupt institution that justified burning it down in the book, it's full of ordinary people just doing their best. There's really just one little tweak that needs to be made, one little alteration, one minor edit is all that stands in the way of Luo Binghe having a happy life and career as a Cang Qiong cultivator.

He just needs to kill Shen Qingqiu.

No, the problem is going to be opportunity. Shen Qingqiu doesn't come to Qian Cao for medical treatment for his qi deviations. Shen Qingqiu doesn't come to Qian Cao for medical treatment for anything. He's a reclusive, antisocial jerk with paranoid tendencies which only coincidentally in this case happen to be warranted, but either way: Presents a problem for our newly determined Mu Qing-yuan.

So he starts on the campaign to win Shen Qingqiu's trust. Teach him to rely on others sometimes, to come to him when he needs help. Small things at first, with the intent of building up that trust over time. Peeling back the spiky carapace of the prickliest Peak Lord of their generation is tedious, often aggravating work, but Mu Qingyuan is patient and determined. He can make house calls, if Shen Qingqiu doesn't want to leave his Peak. He can mix medicines for headaches and nightmares and insomnia. He can talk for hours about this or that book that one of them borrowed from the other.

Slowly, bit by bit, he begins to form something approaching a friendship with Shen Qingqiu. All to plan.

The only problem is -- he begins to form something approaching a friendship with Shen Qingqiu.

And the more he gets to know the bastard, the more fond he's starting to become.

In a funny, exasperating, adopting-a-feral-tomcat sort of way, he's coming to like Shen Qingqiu.

At this point, a sensible person would abandon the murder-Shen-Qingqiu plan entirely. But reader, we are not talking about a sensible man.

Mu Qingyuan is still determined to kill Shen Qingqiu. He still thinks it's the best way to not only protect Luo Binghe from Shen Qingqiu, but to protect Shen Qingqiu (and Cang Qiong) from Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu's death is a hard-coded part of the narrative, after all! An inescapable part of the world! It's just that now he's determined to find a way to kill him before all the abuse and torture and tragedy stuff happens, and bring him back to life afterwards once the plot is safely past. Simple!

SY will continue to blithely wifebeam everyone his peer group regardless of status, and

SY will have zero awareness either that he is doing so, or that any of said peers have anything more than a friendly platonic regard for him.

It takes a Luo Binghe level of blatancy and persistence to get past this guy's shields, and none of the Qing Generation have anything like that kind of shamelessness. So there's that. On Mu Qingyuan's part I think in this setup the wifebeam comes in because Mu Qingyuan has managed to replicate most of MQF's expertise, but has not managed the accompanying level of professional medical distance or coolness, so he's just Florence Nightengale'ing over everybody's sensibilities.

I couldn't decide at first whether it was better for Shen Qingqiu to fall in love with Mu Qingyuan or to (correctly) think he's trying to kill him, so I eventually decided on both in succession. SQQ actually twigs fairly early on to Mu Qingyuan's homicidal intent! He's quite sensitive to this type of vibes! But he doesn't tell anyone else because he can't prove anything (and he's not sure it's not his own paranoia.) And as time goes on and Mu Qingyuan continues to be nothing but friendly and helpful, Shen Qingqiu becomes less and less sure of his true intentions. I think in this setup SQQ sort of takes over Liu Qingge's role -- initially being the only one to suspect that something is not quite right with the newly transmigrated peak lord, only to over time fall under his sway and let his guard down.

If SQQ is falling in love with Mu Qingyuan, one might think that Yue Qingyuan would become jealous. Not so, if you're familiar with my particular headcanons about QiJiu they're coming into play again here. Yue Qingyuan is just so grateful for Shen Qingqiu to have another advocate, that someone other than himself is actually trying to help SQQ and that SQQ is letting them, that Mu Qingyuan immediately becomes his second favorite peak lord, and he will empower Mu Qingyuan for anything that doesn't involve blatantly crossing SQQ. So Mu Qingyuan gets all the budget and authorization he wants for extrajudicial night hunts searching for "cures."

Liu Qingge mostly gets dragged into Mu Qingyuan's orbit because he is the primary guy that Mu Qingyuan taps as bodyguard-slash-transport when he wants to go on missions to search out a rare beast or plant or enchanted item that Mu Qingyuan thinks will help him on his kill-SQQ scheme. (MQF in canon is more of a fetch-quest-giver, but Mu Qingyuan is a hands-on control freak kinda guy, so he goes himself.) Liu Qingge in this setup is I think kind of in Mobei-jun's role towards Shang Qinghua: he absolutely thinks they're courting and also thinks Mu Qingyuan is aware that they're courting and is just being coy about it. He is not.

Shang Qinghua has not noticed that anything has changed. Well, he has noticed a few discrepancies and gone 'huh' about them, but he's not doing anything about it.

All of this goes on for years and years (at least eight, maybe up to ten) in the liminal time period after the Qing generation moves up but before Luo Binghe arrives, until finally the disciple selection day arrives. Mu Qingyuan freaks out and panics because the canon is happening and he hasn't managed to kill Shen Qingqiu yet, and when SQQ demands Luo Binghe for his peak, Mu Qingyuan hastily inserts himself into the conversation.

MQY: Shen-shixiong, I highly recommend against taking this particular pupil onto your peak. His birth chart is uhhhh something something fire dragon and yours is IDK if you touch him your meridians will definitely explode.

SQQ: Stay out of this, nobody asked you, it's not like I care about your opinion! >:((

YQY: *also inserting himself into the conversation* Shen-shidi, if Mu-shidi has a concern about your health I think we should definitely listen to him. You can get other disciples!

SQQ, who didn't really want Luo Binghe in the first place: Oh very well. Take the brat and make yet another brute out of him, see if I care.

MQY: ....(Holy shit. Was that. Was that really all it took? All those years running around trying to game the system and that was all I had to do??)

And so Luo Binghe goes to Bai Zhan peak, but only for now, because you can bet your booties that Mu Qingyuan will not be able to keep his distance from THE BABY PROTAGONIST! OMG!!! for long, and will spend enough time hanging around BZ peak or whisking Luo Binghe off to Qian Cao to treat his training injuries that he is not going to stay off Luo Binghe's radar for long.

Would you love me more if I killed someone for you?