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Cang Qiong Mountain Sect Disciple Jade Token Merch Concept --Scum Villain's Self Saving System--

This was originally designed for the Cang Qiong Archive Disciples Era Zine. Sadly it wasn't chosen as competition was fierce and the Scum Villain fandom is blessed by many truly talented artists. While my design wasn't picked, the artists on the project are really amazing so I'm very excited to see the zine and the merch when it eventually comes out.

However I still really love my concept and I wanted to share it. If anyone is interested I might consider doing my own small run of the item. If no one is interested, I might just make one for myself. So let me know in the comments if this is something you would conceivably want to buy. The design isnt fully finished and will probably have a few revisions.

--THE DESIGN --

My concept for this piece of merch was to make a jade token Yaopei (waist ornament) in the Jinbu style that is seen in Cultivation stories. I wanted something that could be both hung on a bag or a wall or even considered part of a cosplay. I love merch that bridges that gap between something cool to collect and something characters in the world could have owned. Its why I like prop-replicas.

While Scum Villain does not actually mention jade tokens specifically, they are used in MXTX's other work MDZS so their inclusion makes sense from a world building perspective. Jade tokens were often used to show someone's authority or right to be in a place so it would make sense that different disciples or members of different sects in scum villain would have their own type of token. I went with a round token design over a tablet as I thought it mimicked the ornaments seen in the belt designs from the official art.

My in-universe idea is that this would have been an item either given to senior disciples or head disciples to show their authority. So Shen Jiu, Liu Qingge, Mu Qingfang, etc would have had one before they became peak lords. When fans own it, it would mark everyone as part of the Cang Qiong disciple family, like all the fans belonging to the same sect kind of thing. It gives that sort of "community family" whomesome feel.

I looked at real jade token designs while coming up with the design, as seen under References, and went with a cloud theme as Cang Qiong translates as "Heavenly Dome". I looked at how clouds were drawn and carved in Ancient China and tried to create something that would fit. I did use the Calligraphy art of whoever made the Cang Qiong Archive logo, as my ability to do calligraphy of traditional chinese characters is exactly..... zero. If I did end up making this for sale I would want to reach out to them to get their permission as calligraphy is an artform and all artists deserve credit for their work. If I couldn't reach them I would probably find a different calligraphy artist willing to work with me to do their version of the characters and then use that. The characters are traditonal Hanzi, which I went with over modern Hanzi since it felt more fitting for the era and the calligraphy I referenced was already in traditional.

Materials wise I was considering acrylic, which while it wouldn't be super great for say a cosplay, would be hardy enough as a keychain and allow for a double sided design. I also considered enamel to make the charm metal, but it would come down to size and price and I believe acrylic is more affordable.

I went with a whiter "jade" color than the images referenced because whiter jade feels more "heavenly dome" than greener jades, which feel more "earthly".

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“Trump Card”

From:

Noun : a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage. (Oxford)

To:

I legit had this dream but someone might find it inspiring for a fic, so feel free to take the idea and run like the cops are chasing you. (Just link it to me later)

So last night I had this dream that was like if Chobits and SVSSS got mashed together.

Basically I found Shen Jiu, who was a robot like Chi, all wrapped up and chucked out in the trash of the Qiu estate, like Chi at the beginning of Chobits.

Anyway I took him home and started fixing him up. Unlike Chi his “on” button was his navel. He was in a very bad state. He was very broken and sad and dying. Obviously he’d been horrifically abused by Qiu Jianluo and I had to replace lots of parts. He was partially awake for some of it and wondered why I was saving him and wanted me to just let him shut down forever. But Jiumei deserves everything so I was committed to my task!!

I don’t remember all of the dream but I remember that he was scared that if Qiu Jianluo saw him back in working order he’d try and claim “ownership” and take him back and i was like “we’ve had to replace so many of your inner parts, if it reaches at least 40% then you would count as a different robot/cyborg/ai whatever and I have all the receipts for the parts we had to buy so you will never go back to that abusive fuck”

For some reason my brain was sure of this 40% rule which was a law in dream land but I think is a misremembering about some vague copyright rule about original vs derivative works from reality. But dream logic, it was a law in dream logic persicom robot land.

Feel free to take it

Cumberplane Sugar Daddy AU

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Shen Yuan is so dismayed by how his favorite novel is devolving into useless papapa scenes, and horror of horrors it looks like it might even be headed towards being a stallion Novel!?!? What is a rich third son supposed to do other than hire the author?

Shang Qinghua just needs to make enough money to put food on his busted ass table. Sex sells and his novel has been pulling more money in recently…. Only one of his big OG fans is upset…. And willing to pay him to write it the way he originally intended??

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Basically Shen Yuan had enough money to sugar daddy Shang Qinghua into writing the novel right the first time. The fic could alternate between the new novel and the real world or just be a cute get-together fic about a writer and his biggest (anti?) fan falling into a relationship. Could absolutely include some hilarious cosplay attempts and fandom shit. Could also include sections with online comments of Qinghua’s latest chapters.