Yue Qingyuan Is A Master Of Reframing. Unfortunately For The Rest Of CQM, He Is Both Their Leader And

my svsss comic about sqq and his little personality split (what if)

I think about this part all the time he is so fucking funny

*drinks deeply of my red wine, reclining on a chaise lounge in a green velvet robe* Another long night of breaking and torturing that old man *sip* Ah, a find vintage! *rings my little faggot bell* Manfred! Bring me the Qijiu fluff! Be quick about it doll, I want to feel alive!

my eyes my back my fingers my thighs my neck my ears my whole body were sacrificied for this piece. never will i ever do something like this again!!! surely!!!!!!! also watch me sneak in a pomegranate in each drawing i do XD

Phos's relationship with Cinnabar is really just *Shows up once a month* *Info dumps newly acquired trauma* *Asks Cinnabar out* *Gets rejected* *Leaves* *Shows up next month with another body part replaced*

Peak romance, I love them for it

Thinking about how both Shen Qingqius are cat-coded when their love interests are absolute dogs.

The Lord is testing me.

LMFAOOOO I’M CRYING

unfortunately this is literally bingqiu

Shen Jiu's obvious motivation in telling Yue Qi that his legs are broken are to get YQ to fucking leave already before he gets caught, idiot, but I think it also has a parallels to an interesting behavior in children: when a kid is hurt in a way that they don't understand, find hard to articulate, or they know isn't seen as "bad enough" to cause this level of distress, they will sometimes lie and say that something more obvious and readily pitiable has happened to them to get someone else, usually an adult, to care/understand/sympathize. It's a plea for someone to acknowledge that they're suffering. 

I feel like part of the reason SJ told YQ that is because he needed some way to convey how much he was suffering. On a surface level, SJ is "just" badly beaten and bruised, something that has probably happened to both SJ and YQ before. But ofc that's not all there is to it: QJL dehumanizes SJ and takes obvious joy in his suffering, treating him like a plaything. It's frightening and disquieting in a way that SJ himself probably minimizes or feels weak for being affected by, so how could he possibly tell Yue Qi? How could he explain how bad his life was going to be under QJL's boot? Just telling YQ he was beaten couldn't convey how hurt and scared he was. 

Can't you see he’s in pain, Qi-ge? You can't forget that. You have to hurry.