Qiulangjun - 秋霖 🍉

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.

signups have slowed down for the tgcf gotcha for congo!! the moderators are super cool, and the deadline for finished products isn't until january!! if you're going to create fan content between now and then anyway, why not do it for a good cause?

The 11th emoji in your history is now your cutie mark 👁️

Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???

He's hungry, starving, dying

“I’m fine, I’m not getting corrupted by this power! I can control it!” -guy who is 100% getting corrupted by this power

tianlang-jun is the complete polar opposite of the usual trope of a homophobic parent to the extent he's disappointed in everything about his son except the gay love affair. like my son kind of sucks but the gay porn written about him absolutely slaps.

They’re on their seventh divorce