WAKE UP Y'ALL SCUM VILLAIN IS ALIVE

hi, i’m qiu, my pronouns are he/she/they, and 他/她 in mandarin. i speak both english and mandarin. the queer cnovel brainrot hit me like a ton of bricks and the bird app is going to shit, so here we are, screaming it into the abyss.

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

i’ve never actually published a fic, but recently i thought of the idea of calamity!ywh and physician god!sqs and it’s been keeping me awake at night,, does anyone think writing this would be a good idea 😭😭

mutual 1: i’m soooo sleepy i’m such a #tiredgirl

mutual 2: heads up i found black mold in my bedroom yesterday so posting frequency may decrease

mutual 3: who up for the witching hour

mutual 4: wyd in this situation 🤣🤣 [photo of actively burning building, reverse image search: no results]

mutual 5: the moment you die will feel exactly the same as this one

mutual 6: i need to quit my job

mutual 7: THE WORLD IS ALWAYS ENDING

mutual 8: should i eat pork chops for dinner yes/no

mutual 9: just drove 150 miles for something i bought on facebook marketplace

mutual 10: day 177 since he ghosted me

mutual 11: buy my new album for pay what you want on bandcamp

mutual 12: just got my risperadone refilled 👍🏻

mutual 13: i need to look like [attractive male celebrity] i wonder if i could steal his skin

mutual 14: nothing matters in the world i hope i fall off a building tomorrow

mutual 15: me and who [saw bathroom screenshot]

Disclaimer that by saying this I by no means mean to insult or exclude non-writers, but: Scum Villain really is a story for storytellers, huh

It's so incredibly meta - so much of it is about the way stories are told, the structures of plot and narrative logic, the way that plot drives character and character drives plot, examination of story devices that make sense in-world and how strange they look when divorced from narrative context, exploring the limits of the suspension of disbelief and the backlash when readers hit those limits and recoil, even without getting into the meditation on external pressures and the warping effect of deadlines and money on a storyteller's craft.

in scum villain the story tools (tropes, framing, character arcs, licensing) are the plot, and the plot is a tool in the story, and the author's problems are Airplane's problems and his problems are the author's problems and the main character is the reader and he brings the reader's eye into the story and his meta-knowledge becomes his greatest asset and also his greatest blindness, just the way that a self-aware reader can get more out of a story but can also by their very cynical meta-awareness block themselves from unabashed enjoyment of it

I think it's not a coincidence that so many people who have spent years writing get so hung up on this series.

Russian scum villain book 2 is here \o/

Posting chibis here and full-page art in a reblog ^^

Heavenly Tyrant ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) are now up on Netgalley and Edelweiss! If you don't know what those are then don't worry about it. You'll be able to read it upon the official release, which WILL be on Dec 24 this year! So, a little more than 3 months to go. I'm freaking out because I have no idea if you'll like the book; it's very diffrent from Iron Widow in a lot of ways...but here is what to expect!

Preorder links

As an apology for the literal years of delays, beneath the cut is also the entire prologue of HT. Feel free to read it while blasting Bring Me to Life by Evanescence like you're still watching anime in 3 parts on YouTube.

Day 13 : Past for mxtxtober23

*clown song is playing in background*

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

More assorted tgcf scratches over the months