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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

sj trying to get lqg to leave him alone and accidently revealing that his shizun on qing jing sexually abused him bc he thought lqg knew already, thought almost everyone knew and that's part of why people didnt like him.

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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

shen jiu as the sickly little brother between him and sy

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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

yqy affected by an aphrodisiac poison while on a mission with sj. hard against sj's ass murmuring adoring nonsense into sj's ear and sj IS having some sort of trauma response about it.

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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

wanted to draw tonight but i feel a bit rusty so i don't think i'll be able to draw what i want to but here is a half dressed shen jiu. i HAVE been oiling him up in my head recently. demolishing that twink in my minds eye.

a sketch of shen jiu in a transparent robe putting his hair up

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Posted a new fic. It's going to be Mon-Wed-Fri updates for the next month. We're talking heavy Shen Jiu angst and some very messy relationships. archiveofourown.org/works/801456...

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This fic is done now btw and it’s 30k words. Will be posting soon.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Xiu Ya being able to tell the difference instantly because Shen Jiu has really high support needs and relies on his sword for qi regulation and to stop spiraling thoughts while Shen Yuan is just normal.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Meanwhile Shen Jiu doesn’t fully understand that something is wrong in his relationship. It’s better than what he’s had before. Why is Liu Qingge trying to take it away?

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

He totally would. Moving up in the sect only hurt him in the future and didn’t satisfy the emptiness he has inside like he thought it would.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Then you’re a fool,” says Shen Jiu. “Maybe I am,” Mu Qingfang answers. “There are much worse things to be in this world than a fool.” Shen Jiu watches him leave in silence and then steps out into the night alone. It’s cold and clear and the stars look close enough to touch, if only he tries.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Mu Qingfang stands and looks out into the courtyard beyond the window. The sun is almost set and long shadows reach towards the two of them. Shen Jiu asks one final question. “Do you believe me?” “Yes,” Mu Qingfang says. “I believe every word.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Why?” The question doesn’t surprise Mu Qingfang. “I would be a cruel man if I thought less of you because you lived through a nightmare.” Shen Jiu peers over the top of his fan, suspicion gleaming in his eyes. “All men are cruel.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Do you pity me?” Shen Jiu asks. He’s not sure which answer he wants to hear. Maybe he does want pity. “I feel bad for you.” Mu Qingfang’s words are carefully measured. “Anyone would after hearing what you told me. But I don’t see you as less than me.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Cat breeding and turn-based strategy combat mostly.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

But that’s not telling the whole truth. Shen Jiu doesn’t feel better but it all feels a bit less suffocating, like he’s gone from the bottom of a lake to just below the surface. Like something better is within reach, even if he will never have the strength to reach it.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

He doesn’t cry, he doesn’t break down, he just talks in a calm and quiet voice. When he finishes, it’s getting dark outside. “You lied,” Shen Jiu says. “I don’t feel any better.” Mu Qingfang takes a beat to answer. “To be entirely honest, I didn’t think it would be this bad.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Reminder that you can ask for basically anything to be purchased at the public library and there’s like a 90% chance it will actually be bought. We love buying things for patrons. Please ask for more yaoi.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

So he tells. It’s a jumbled mess, stopping and starting at dissonant points, riddled with holes, at times too horrible to put into words, but all there. He talks for a very long time and Mu Qingfang sits in silence and listens.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“I’ll kill you if you betray me,” Shen Jiu warns. “I know.” Mu Qingfang’s voice never wavers, perfectly calm. “I know what you’re capable of, shixiong. I would never dare.” “Will it truly help? “I think so.” Mu Qingfang sounds more certain than Shen Jiu has ever felt in his life.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Shen Jiu wants to believe him. Mu Qingfang already holds a few of his secrets after all, the weakness of his cultivation and the scars on his body. He’s never told and he’s never asked what made those scars. Maybe he will listen. Maybe it will help.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“I have no secrets to tell.” He’s made of secrets and if he starts talking, he will unravel until there’s nothing of him left. “I don’t think that’s true,” Mu Qingfang says. “I won’t force you. I’m just here to listen.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

He jumps when he hears the door open once again, his mind flooded with thoughts of Qiu Jianluo, but it’s just Mu Qingfang. Shen Jiu says nothing as the man sits across from him. “I keep a great many secrets, Shen-shixiong. You can tell me yours if you like. It might help.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The meeting ends there, in that awkward silence, and the others leave the room and Shen Jiu stays. He’s never told anyone before, not even the women he pays to hold him at night. But he doesn’t have to tell them, they can read it in his eyes and his scars.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

He’s perfectly fine and doesn’t even think about it anymore. And if he does think about it, it doesn’t bother him. And if it does bother him, that’s because he’s pathetic and weak. It was a lifetime ago. He’s a different person now. He’s Shen Qingqiu.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Mu Qingfang looks at him with the sort of gentle expression that Shen Jiu knows will never be genuinely meant for him and says, “Do you think that maybe what happened to you in the past is affecting how you see things now?” “No,” Shen Jiu says. “It was nothing. Nothing happened to me.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Shen Yuan transmigrating into a world with Shen Jiu still in it (as an NPC Peak Lord or something) and figuring that something isn’t quite right with him. Shen Jiu isn’t just an asshole, he’s hard to get along with on purpose. He’s hiding something.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is your most powerful idea yet. yqy unable to do his head disciple duties because sj needs him to be close enough to hug at all times. He has to carry sj around and can’t figure out why all his ambition is just gone.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

In other words, I think it's totally fine if you want to play around with ideas or cultural references or whatever that don't technically fit in the world of SVSSS or other danmei. If you want to write a Christmas fic, write a Christmas fic. Write for yourself and your audience first.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Araki isn't stupid. He does a ton of research for JJBA and will eagerly tell the reader all about it. He knows that $50 million in 1890 is like the GDP of the entire US. But it was more important to him that primarily Japanese readers intuitively understood why the race is such a big deal.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It reminds me of how in Steel Ball Run, Araki wrote the prize money for the titular race as if it were Japanese yen. So it's like $50 million. In 1890. That's an absurd amount of money. But his readers are used to amounts expressed in yen and he wanted to convey a vibe rather than a real number.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I actually did a lot of research on Chinese traditional architecture for that fic too, but I still didn't catch a mistake in the title. And that's okay. I've accepted that I'm going to make historical and cultural mistakes for a history and culture I'm not immersed in.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Why? In part, because I figured changing the title of a published fic would be confusing to readers. But also I was like "You know what? This is a fic written in English and in the Anglophone world, diamonds are the most precious gemstone. It's fine."

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A few days after I published Of Diamonds and Glass, I was hit with the realization that historically jade was considered more precious than diamonds in China and in fact, that's the precious stone I should have referenced thematically. But I decided not to change it.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Btw this isn't a knock on people who always use li or shichen, and certainly isn't a knock on people, Chinese or otherwise, who write more culturally literate danmei fic. It's purely about my writing choices.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is why I often use miles or hours in my fics, because they're written for a majority non-Chinese audience. I've just accepted that I'm not Chinese and don't have the Chinese cultural and media immersion to write as if I were, so I don't try to be something I'm not.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It's funny writing fic about a Chinese series written in Chinese set entirely in fantasy China as a non-Chinese American because like, the characters are speaking Chinese but also they aren't. They are familiar with the Chinese cultural landscape but also I'm an American writing for Anglophones.

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starsnores🔞 @starsnores.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Time travel au where sj wakes up in the past with his memories from pidw but he's a disciple and Extra traumatized and starts clinging to yqy 24/7

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

He's only saying this because Yue Qingyuan isn't here, the one person who would understand why it happened when he was twelve, who would know it wasn't something he wanted and would see that it was a result of his weakness. Yue Qingyuan is off visiting another sect.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I don’t talk about it much online but I’m a massive Binding of Isaac fan and have been for like 10 years.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m attempting to Mewgenics-pill the server. So far no takers, perhaps because it’s called Mewgenics and I look insane talking about it.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The silence is almost as bad as the clamor. Shen Jiu covers his face with his fan again. “I don’t see why it matters how old I was. I knew what I was doing. Unlike the rest of you, I wasn’t still clinging to my mother at that age.”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Mu Qingfang is the only one who isn’t staring at him in horror and has the presence of mind to speak. “Shen-shixiong, which man did that to you?” “It doesn’t matter,” Shen Jiu says. “He’s long dead.” Dead by Shen Jiu’s own hand. He can still smell the ash when he thinks about that night.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Shen Jiu doesn’t know why they all look so shocked. Twelve is basically fourteen which is basically sixteen, a perfectly normal age to enter adulthood. Sure, it was a little early, but he wasn’t really a child at that point anyway. Everybody grows up fast on the street.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

All Shen Jiu wants is for this to end. He snaps his fan closed suddenly and looks directly at Mu Qingfang, desperate for this to work. “If you absolutely must know,” he says, his voice full of venom and barely contained at a normal volume. “I was twelve.” The room goes silent.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It feels like the room is closing in around him. He doesn’t understand why the others are angry at him and these sort of accusations make him feel sick. He’s nothing like Qiu Jianluo even if he hears the other man’s voice in his own sometimes when he’s punishing his disciples.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“It would save your reputation if you told everyone how old you were.” Mu Qingfang gives him a knowing look that Shen Jiu finds infuriating. “My reputation is fine!” Shen Jiu snaps. The words Liu Qingge calls him next tell a different story.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Love that the way to tell Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan apart is which one looks fucking miserable.

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“Shen-shixiong,” Mu Qingfang says, his calm voice cutting across the din despite, or perhaps because of, its low volume. “How old were you when you had your first time?” Shen Jiu glares at him, bristling at the improper question. “That’s none of your business!”

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Library Squid @plaguesquid.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Shen Jiu can instantly tell that he’s made a mistake but all he knows is digging himself in deeper, so he argues that everyone starts young and it’s not really that bad and the meeting descends into loud accusations.

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