no no no!! it's way more interesting than that. just having someone die on you, even a blood brother, isn't enough to make you a villain. shen jiu & his qi-ge suffered, but they suffered together! they promised they would find a way out of their miserable lives! so one day, qi-ge tells his little bro that he's going to try and join a cultivation sect so he can become powerful enough to rescue xiao jiu. really heartwarming, right? only, after that day, qi-ge never came back, so shen jiu had to get himself out of his predicament in his own way. those details, i'm still kind of fuzzy on, i rewrote that part of the outline several times so i can't really remember what i ultimately landed on, before losing it all...............
Huh, OK, so he betrayed him? That IS more interesting... or at least it would be if you'd actually written it. Is that it? Did you have any plans to resolve this or were you just going to leave it hanging like every other dangling plot thread?
oh shen jiu thinks he was betrayed for SURE. but i did actually have plans to resolve it, at a moment of critical emotion...or i would have if i'd remembered this part. because shen jiu wasn't actually betrayed, because the name of his brother was....
bro can't we move past that? aren't you just repeating yourself dozens of times by now? its not my fault i lost the outline and i'm only one man, lets just accept the circumstances and imagine what it could have been! you wouldn't have seen that coming! it would have been totally gut wrenching!! admit it!!!!
Maybe if you also remembered how to write affecting prose 🙄
So, okay. Let me get this straight. Yue Qi, Yue Qingyuan, was supposed to come back for him and then he didn't? How is that not betraying him? So what if he feels bad and wants to be bros again afterwards, isn't it a bit late for him to change his mind about it?
oh, forgetting implies i knew it in the first place. cucumber-bro, you really know how to give a compliment
and, ok, this is one of the parts i don't remember as well, but it wasn't actually supposed to be a betrayal! there was a reason yue qingyuan didn't go back for him. some kind of circumstances that prevented him from going, or cultivating took too much time, something like that...and by then, resentment had already taken root in shen jiu's heart! the tragedy of shen jiu never acknowledging yue qingyuan as his old qi-ge, even after they finally reunited, was supposed to be part of the gut-wrenching effect!
Well, my gut would probably be feeling more wrenched if you were less vague about it.
[ He is actually feeling SOMETHING about it, but it's kind of an annoyed-guilty-frustrated combo that he doesn't feel any inclination to examine in detail right now, let alone to talk about it with Shang Qinghua of all people. ]
OK. This would have been more useful to know back in PIDW but I guess it explains some things. How was everything back there anyway? What happened since I left?
uhhhh...... you mean since your soul yeeted itself from your body in bing-ge's arms for the second time? everythings been super chill & totally uneventful, no one is losing their shit or anything, no one's definitely received an extra beating because his boss was frustrated by how batshit his boss is acting
It was that stupid plot device you wrote into the Holy Mausoleum, do you remember that? That can bring people back to life? Tianlang-Jun stole the other body you freaks have been preserving for five fucking years and brought that back to life :/ I guess to try to lure Binghe in there, I don't know, I wasn't there for very long before I wound up here instead, thank fuck.
Just one extra beating though huh... has he calmed down then? Don't get me wrong I'm glad to be out of there but I've been kind of worried Luo Binghe might be razing the sects to the ground about it or whatever :///
ok first of all, my luo binghe never canoodled a corpse for 5 years, so that one's on you cucumber-bro. also, it was not "just one beating"! have you ever had the shit kicked out of you by mobei jun? just once a day is bad enough X(
second of all, who are you really worried about here? you sound way more concerned about luo binghe's state of mind than the lives of all our fellow cultivators. i thought you were straight?
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but you're right about one thing: thank fuck, its not our problem anymore, now we can enjoy our retirement
Oh fuck you, what about that sounded like I wasn't worried about all of the people he'd be slaughtering?? Anyway it's been a few weeks so I figured if this was an ongoing crisis then it would have been more than one time with the way you always complain about it!
Ugh whatever, it ISN'T my problem, it would just be nice to know he's OK and not murdering everyone we know :/
> it would just be nice to know he's OK and not murdering everyone we know :/ yeah idk bro just seems like bing-ge is the focus here. i mean i know you stan, but still
also WHAT few weeks?? that's how long you've been here???
bro i already know you stan, your comment count speaks for you
hmmmm ok you've been here a few weeks, but you got yeeted to the holy mausoleum yesterday? actually..... i guess considering baby shen jiu is here, that's totally reasonable?
Hmm. OK. That makes sense actually, I just assumed since you weren't an old man or a literal infant or something you'd be from the same time as me but I guess time here really doesn't have anything to do with what's happening back there...
[ Look, yes, he DID say that, and he DID say he wanted a peaceful retirement, but while he IS glad he doesn't have to personally deal with however batshit Luo Binghe has apparently been acting, getting told about that has made him kind of... Well... He feels kind of bad! They parted on kind of a sour note! Sure he had been basically kidnapped and imprisoned in Binghe's demon palace and then Binghe had kind of, uh, tried to force himself on him a little bit, but... Shen Qingqiu still kind of wishes he could have told him...
OK, he doesn't know what he would have ideally wanted to tell him, because apparently he can't tell Luo Binghe fucking anything without being taken the wrong way or making him upset, but... something...
Wow it's a really good thing this conversation is over text so he can't be Perceived about this. ]
Yeah. I guess it's not like we can do anything about whatever happens without us anyway.
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Are you fucking kidding me! You expect me to applaud this plot twist when you just admitted yourself that you forgot to put it in??
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Date: 2021-01-02 01:24 am (UTC)So, okay. Let me get this straight. Yue Qi, Yue Qingyuan, was supposed to come back for him and then he didn't? How is that not betraying him? So what if he feels bad and wants to be bros again afterwards, isn't it a bit late for him to change his mind about it?
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Date: 2021-01-02 02:18 am (UTC)and, ok, this is one of the parts i don't remember as well, but it wasn't actually supposed to be a betrayal! there was a reason yue qingyuan didn't go back for him. some kind of circumstances that prevented him from going, or cultivating took too much time, something like that...and by then, resentment had already taken root in shen jiu's heart! the tragedy of shen jiu never acknowledging yue qingyuan as his old qi-ge, even after they finally reunited, was supposed to be part of the gut-wrenching effect!
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Date: 2021-01-02 03:43 am (UTC)[ He is actually feeling SOMETHING about it, but it's kind of an annoyed-guilty-frustrated combo that he doesn't feel any inclination to examine in detail right now, let alone to talk about it with Shang Qinghua of all people. ]
OK. This would have been more useful to know back in PIDW but I guess it explains some things. How was everything back there anyway? What happened since I left?
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Date: 2021-01-02 04:33 am (UTC)what the fuck happened???
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Date: 2021-01-02 04:51 am (UTC)It was that stupid plot device you wrote into the Holy Mausoleum, do you remember that? That can bring people back to life? Tianlang-Jun stole the other body you freaks have been preserving for five fucking years and brought that back to life :/ I guess to try to lure Binghe in there, I don't know, I wasn't there for very long before I wound up here instead, thank fuck.
Just one extra beating though huh... has he calmed down then? Don't get me wrong I'm glad to be out of there but I've been kind of worried Luo Binghe might be razing the sects to the ground about it or whatever :///
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Date: 2021-01-02 05:08 am (UTC)second of all, who are you really worried about here? you sound way more concerned about luo binghe's state of mind than the lives of all our fellow cultivators. i thought you were straight?
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but you're right about one thing: thank fuck, its not our problem anymore, now we can enjoy our retirement
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Date: 2021-01-02 05:32 am (UTC)Ugh whatever, it ISN'T my problem, it would just be nice to know he's OK and not murdering everyone we know :/
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Date: 2021-01-02 05:40 am (UTC)yeah idk bro just seems like bing-ge is the focus here. i mean i know you stan, but still
also WHAT few weeks?? that's how long you've been here???
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Date: 2021-01-02 05:49 am (UTC)hmmmm ok you've been here a few weeks, but you got yeeted to the holy mausoleum yesterday? actually..... i guess considering baby shen jiu is here, that's totally reasonable?
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Date: 2021-01-02 06:00 am (UTC)I don't know if that's reassuring or not :/
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Date: 2021-01-02 06:18 am (UTC)OK, he doesn't know what he would have ideally wanted to tell him, because apparently he can't tell Luo Binghe fucking anything without being taken the wrong way or making him upset, but... something...
Wow it's a really good thing this conversation is over text so he can't be Perceived about this. ]
Yeah. I guess it's not like we can do anything about whatever happens without us anyway.
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