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sol 》it/he 》22 》🔞 》occasional fic writer 》big into svsss 》 ao3: archiveofourown.org/works/54718621

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pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Charnel Hallway
⤷ 1.9k words, Mature
⤷ EPIC: the musical, antimachuzls / sharpwolf
⤷ toxic, intimidation, menace, canon-divergence open ending (currently)
⤷ #sharpwolf #antimachus

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/62671663

screenshot of the title, tags and summary of the fanfic described and linked in the post.
the summary reads:
Antinous’ sharp teeth glinted, drawing Telemachus' eye once more as he loomed, resting one arm heavy on the young prince’s shoulder and leaning closer. His hot breath grazed Telemachus’ skin as he spoke.

“Why of course I would, little wolf.” Those dark, piercing eyes stab into his, freeze him on the spot. “How could I refuse such an ardent appeal for my help?”

When one of the would-be suitors of Queen Penelope of Ithaca approaches her son with news of a grave threat, Telemachus knows his motives go deeper than he tries to portray.

and the tags read:
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Antinous/Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical), Telemachus (EPIC: The Musical), Antinous (EPIC: The Musical), Antinous is His Own Warning (EPIC: The Musical), Intimidation, Manipulation, Tension, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, set shortly before the wisdom saga in terms of timeline, Telemachus Needs A Hug (EPIC: The Musical), Ambiguous/Open Ending, (as of yet), fair warning if i do continue this, i plan to try and make it as dark as i can stomach writing

February 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

chapter 3 of Finding Pyrite (Knowing You), my role reversal bingqiu (kindof) time travel fic is now up!!

(link in reply)

screenshot of the top of chapter 3 of the linked fic. the chapter 3 summary reads:
Jumping back briefly, Luo Binghe wakes, attends the peak lords' meeting and has a shock. Shen Yuan finds his footing and sets his sights on a new goal for his new life in this strange, nearly identical world.

December 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

fic writers qrt with your most underrated fic of 2024 (ao3 > stats > 2024 > flat view)

this one is one of my favourites tbh, i am such a liker of shizun!binghe. next chapter is in the works!!

link: archiveofourown.org/works/60465286/chapters/154353145

screenshot of an svsss bingqiu fanfiction on ao3 titled 'Finding Pyrite (Knowing You)' by pensiveAbstraction. it is 9.9 thousand words long, with two of seven chapters published.
the summary reads:
“It’s an heirloom, destined to be used by the one who claims Xin Mo from the Abyss … which refers to Lord Luo of course. They had only just heard that Lord Luo wields it.”

Luo Binghe sighed. He furrowed his brow - Shang Qinghua squeaked. “Why should I care?”

For a moment, Mobei's fool stared gormlessly. Then he winced and said: “Ah, this servant knows its use might … interest you; supposedly, if you use it and play a certain song, time will reverse itself … in a way.”

Something goes wrong, Shen Qingqiu’s mushroom body plan falls through and an unexpected plotline is triggered.

and the tags read:
No Archive Warnings Apply, Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Role Reversal, Time Travel, Kind Of, Time Travel Fix-It, again kind of, Resurrection, Mistaken Identity, Identity Porn, Light Angst, Shizun Luo Binghe, Disciple Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, BingQiu Week

November 29, 2024 at 10:18 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

seen a cpuple ppl doing this so thought i might as well see abt it

QUESTIONS FOR FANFICTION WRITERS
1 Like = 1 Answer

1. Favorite genre(s) to write
2. Preferred tense & POV
3. Tag you've used most
4. What inspires you to write
5. 1 line from a current WIP
6. Trope you want to write
7. Favorite character to write
8. How you choose your titles
9. Describe your writing style
10. A comment you treasure
11. Favorite scene you've written
12. Fic that best represents you
13. A fun fact about a fic you wrote
14. How you handle writer's block
15. Hardest thing for you to write
16. Dialogue you loved writing
17. Your planning process
18. Your editing process
19. Your favorite writing tip
20. Your current writing goals

November 23, 2024 at 11:04 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

chapter 2 of Finding Pyrite (Knowing You), my bingqiu role-reversal (shizun binghe hehe) and (kind of) time travel fic is up!!

archiveofourown.org/works/60465286/chapters/155247139

screenshot of chapter two of the fic mentioned and linked. the chapter summary reads:
Luo Binghe wakes up in a familiar yet different setting. Shen Yuan, who is completely fine, throws himself into this strange, new life he's been thrust into - again!

November 23, 2024 at 6:13 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

fic author starter pack

what are 4 fics (or fewer) that you'd tell people to read if they want to get to know you as a fic author? ignore hits, ignore kudos—simply vibe

if there's one thing to know about me, it's that i love unreliable narration/dramatic irony. probably why svsss appeals to me sm!

screenshot of a 5.2 thousand word tgcf hualian fanfiction on ao3, called 'paved with blood and starlight' by pensiveAbstraction.
the tags read:
No Archive Warnings Apply, Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Original Characters, Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu), For Want of a Nail, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Coffin Rescue, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Gossip, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Xie Lian Needs a Hug (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Hua Cheng is a Panicked Gay (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Blood and Injury

and the summary reads:
In another world, he bled and screamed and died in that darkness for one hundred years; who would question the murderous madman staying to haunt the world as a malicious spirit?

In this world, a young ghost - dead only twenty years - is too busy drinking to notice somebody listening in as she swaps gossip about the far too compassionate man under that silver mask that none of her friends will believe a word of.

It feels disrespectful to even consider, but the ghost king has no other leads, and the mere 'what if' of the situation drives a spear through his gut.

(Or Hua Cheng overhears a single person speaking kindly of the nearly two decades buried Fang Xin Guoshi and clinging to that fragment of hope is a good idea for a change.)

screenshot of a 23 thousand word svsss bingqiu fic from ao3, called 'no plan survives first contact' by pensiveAbstraction.
the tags read:
No Archive Warnings Apply, Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Kidnapping, Rescue, Reconciliation, Crying, Light Angst, Fluff, Feelings, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Fuck Or Die, Non-Explicit Sex, no jinlan city au

and the summary reads:
Waking up, he felt worse than he had after dying. Shen Qingqiu was laying on a cold floor. The slightest draft blew over him, adding to the chill. Opening his eyes revealed he was in the corner of a dark cave. He sat up quickly, warily glanced at the other person…

So his eyes weren’t playing a trick before. What on earth had Luo Binghe been doing in that forest? Hell, why was he out of the Endless Abyss at all? It was two and a half years too early for this!

Luo Binghe, newly reigning demon lord, overhears the ridiculous story of a woman forgiving her scorned lover when he rescues her from a foul beast’s attack. It’s absurd, nothing like that would work for him in real life … right?

screenshot of an 8.3 thousand word svsss bingqiu fanfic from ao3, called 'curtains all torn up' by pensiveAbstraction.
the tags read:
No Archive Warnings Apply, Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghex Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Sickfic, Kind Of, Fluff, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, heavenly demons are like lobsters, Blood Drinking, (not sexual), Vomiting, literally puking one's guts out, Body Horror, like it's not wholly framed that way but, it's there, sqq has closet creature/monsterfucker moments, Bathing/Washing, Explicit Sexual Content, Hand Jobs, Slight Feminisation, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Biting, Anal Sex, i think i'm making it sound raunchier than it is, pls don't be too disappointed, Bottom Luo Binghe, Top Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Roleplay, cringey roleplay, it's bingqiu what else did you expect, BingQiu Week, Breeding

and the summary reads:
Eventually, he pushed another door open and the sight that met him was hair-raising.

“Binghe?!”

“Shizun,” Luo Binghe mumbled, sounding both pained and put-out.

Shen Qingqiu isn’t clingy. It’s simply his right as a married man, to be concerned when Luo Binghe is away and alone in the Demon Realm for longer than usual.

November 23, 2024 at 2:59 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

quote this with your most kudos-ed fic on ao3

wow my first posted svsss fic. i did nott expect it to get this many kudos, goddamn the sv fandom rly doesn't play

a screenshot of a fic on ao3. it is called once upon a dream, written by pensiveAbstraction for the novel The Scum Villain's Self-Sacing System.
The tags read:
No Archive Warnings Apply, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu and Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu are Not the Same Person, Transmigrator Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Demon Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Dream Demon Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, First Meetings, Attempt at Humor, Oblivious Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Pre-Relationship, meng yuan’s mental comphet barrier, graciously allowing him to stay unaware that hes definitely scaredhorny, sqq definitely got a great deal, buy one artifact get one free atticwife safely stowed in your mind, only now realising how often i recreate moshanglike situations for diff ships, guess im a sucker for magic fantasy lord x also magic guy who became his minion, Jiuyuan Week 2024.

And the summary reads:
Meng Yuan - reincarnated millenial and amateur dream demon, born way before the plot he knew so well began - managed to get himself trapped and frozen for who knows how long! When he finally awakened, he was less than thrilled to find himself face-to-face with a righteous cultivator! No less, an immortal master!! How on earth can he talk his way out of this one?!?!

November 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Infernal Little Heart (It Beats for You)
⤷ 30.0k words, Mature
⤷ Binghe’s POV, soulmarks, telepathic bond, canon-divergence
⤷ bq week day 7 (prompt: soulmates)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60525796

screenshot of a fic on ao3 titled 'Infernal Little Heart (It Beats for You)' by pensiveAbstraction.
the summary reads:
There, on the right thigh. A large blemish across his skin. Raised, knotted flesh forming many vague, large blotches collected together. Flushed pink and illegible, still like a newly healed wound. But only one type of wound could create an injury like that.

It’s said that when somebody with a soulmate dies, when their soul departs the body, their tying mark, whatever shape or form it takes, is torn away with it. Usually, this leads to a corpse with an otherwise unexplainable open wound, too late and too dead to ever start healing. Luo Binghe had to put in a lot of careful, delicate work to reshape the skin there. It won’t heal any more past this point, whether he wants it to or not.

As he keeps pushing qi across, he examines the blemish. Wondering what it was. What it will be once again when he succeeds.

In a certain world, on a certain occasion, Luo Binghe - fourteen year old disciple strung up in a shed - is blessed with the gift of a soulmate. It doesn’t change perhaps as many things as it should.

screenshot of the tags for the fic. they read:
Relationship:

Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Characters:

Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu,The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Ensemble

Additional Tags:

Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Telepathic Bond, eventually, canon rewrite until it isn't, POV Luo Binghe, Character Study, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Temporary Character Death, Cannibalism, Kind Of, Torture, ish, Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, those previous 2 are very brief, like blink-and-you-miss-it implication, no beta we die like sqq (a lot), (pls if u see typos help i did nawwt have time or energy to proofread this fully)

November 13, 2024 at 2:30 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

No Plan Survives First Contact
⤷ 23.0k words, Mature
⤷ Canon-divergence, rescue, reconciliation
⤷ bq week day 5 (prompt: revival/reversal)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60500290

screenshot of a fic on ao3 titled 'No Plan Survives First Contact' by pensiveAbstraction. the summary reads:
Waking up, he felt worse than he had after dying. Shen Qingqiu was laying on a cold floor. The slightest draft blew over him, adding to the chill. Opening his eyes revealed he was in the corner of a dark cave. He sat up quickly, warily glanced at the other person…

So his eyes weren’t playing a trick before. What on earth had Luo Binghe been doing in that forest? Hell, why was he out of the Endless Abyss at all? It was two and a half years too early for this!

Luo Binghe, newly reigning demon lord, overhears the ridiculous story of a woman forgiving her scorned lover when he rescues her from a foul beast’s attack. It’s absurd, nothing like that would work for him in real life … right?

screenshot of the tags for the fic. they read:
Relationship:

Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Characters:

Luo Binghe,Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Kidnapping, Rescue, Reconciliation, Crying, Light Angst, Fluff, Feelings, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Fuck Or Die, Non-Explicit Sex

November 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Finding Pyrite (Knowing You)
⤷ 4.8k words, Chapter 1/6, Teen
⤷ Role reversal, time travel (kind of), canon-divergence
⤷ bq week day 5 (prompt: revival/reversal)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #shenyuan #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60465286/chapters/154353145

a screenshot of a work on ao3. it is titled "Finding Pyrite (Knowing You)" and the author is pensiveAbstraction.

the summary reads:
“It’s an heirloom, destined to be used by the one who claims Xin Mo from the Abyss … which refers to Lord Luo of course. They had only just heard that Lord Luo wields it.”

Luo Binghe sighed. He furrowed his brow - Shang Qinghua squeaked. “Why should I care?”

For a moment, Mobei's fool stared gormlessly. Then he winced and said: “Ah, this servant knows its use might … interest you; supposedly, if you use it and play a certain song, time will reverse itself … in a way.”

Something goes wrong, Shen Qingqiu’s mushroom body plan falls through and an unexpected plotline is triggered.

a screenshot of the tags for the fic.
they read:
Relationship:

Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Characters:

Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Role Reversal, Time Travel, Kind Of, Time Travel Fix-It, again kind of, Resurrection, Mistaken Identity, Identity Porn, Light Angst, Shizun Luo Binghe, Disciple Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

November 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Curtains All Torn Up
⤷ 8.3k words, Explicit
⤷ Post-canon, sickfic (kind of), hurt/comfort, lowkey body-horror, bottom binghe
⤷ bq week day 4 (prompt: decay/growth)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60435139

screenshot of a fanfic from ao3, titled 'Curtains All Torn Up'by pensiveAbstraction. the summary reads:
Eventually, he pushed another door open and the sight that met him was hair-raising.

“Binghe?!”

“Shizun,” Luo Binghe mumbled, sounding both pained and put-out.

Shen Qingqiu isn’t clingy. It’s simply his right as a married man, to be concerned when Luo Binghe is away and alone in the Demon Realm for longer than usual.

screenshot of the tags for the fic.
it reads:
Relationship:
Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Characters:
Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Additional Tags:
Sickfic, Kind Of, Fluff, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Established Relationship, heavenly demons are like lobsters, Blood Drinking, (not sexual), Vomiting, literally puking one's guts out, Body Horror, like it's not wholly framed that way but, it's there, sqq has closet creature/monsterfucker moments, Bathing/Washing, Explicit Sexual Content, Hand Jobs, Slight Feminisation Anal Fingering, Rimming, Biting, Anal Sex, i think i'm making it sound raunchier than it is, pls don't be too disappointed, Bottom Luo Binghe, Top Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Roleplay, cringey roleplay, it's bingqiu what else did you expect

November 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Accidental Spark In the Dark
⤷ 7.4k words, Chapter 1/2, Teen
⤷ Plantzun, truth spell, canon-divergence
⤷ bq week day 3 (prompt: pen/sword)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60418804

screenshot of a fic on ao3 titled 'Accidental Spark In the Dark' by pensiveAbstraction. the summary reads:
Shen Qingqiu watched as Luo Binghe stopped, kneeling, with his hands to the covered body he treated like hair-thin glass once more. “... Will Shizun still find me unworthy?” He murmured, voice small, tainted with injury. It was a rhetorical question, but more important, it was the sort of tragic scene one couldn’t intrude on without feeling a heartless animal. The wretched arteftact’s compulsion didn’t care.

“Binghe’s shizun could never find him unworthy,” and for half a moment Luo Binghe turned towards him with an awestruck look, before it twisted into thorny, hostile briars.

Shen Qingqiu wakes up in his Sun-Moon Dew Mushroom body and stumbles on some seriously OP loot! Ordinarily he might be tempted to leave it, but weaponless as he is, it doesn’t make sense not to take it!!

… Maybe he shouldn’t have let the insanely rare find blind him to the risk of carrying around what amounts to an instant truth curse.

a screenshot of the tags for the fic, reading:
Relationship:
Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Characters:
Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Truth Spells, Plant Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Identity Reveal, Crying, Reconciliation, chapter 2 preview:, how long will it take sqq to realise binghe's gay for him, without just being lipsed near immediately

November 9, 2024 at 2:47 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Good Times for a Change (When Is It My Turn)
⤷ 12.1k words, General
⤷ Bingge’s POV on Bingqiu, post Bingge V Bingmei (+implied Binggeyuan)
⤷ bq week day 2 (prompt: dreams/memories)
⤷ #luobingge #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #bingyuan #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60395923

screenshot of a fic title and summary from ao3. The title is 'Good Times for a Change (When Is It My Turn)' and the author is pensiveAbstraction (yours truly)

The summary reads:

Once more, he finds himself contemplating. The struggles he overcame, the gilded empire he had built himself. The saccharine, soft flesh, the priceless treasures, the vast armies and hulking citadels. He'd amassed so much, become so great. Emperor of all the world with nothing out of his reach.
Then one day - after a short little time flung elsewhere - he came back to find not one person was ever concerned with what had happened to him. Triumph, victory, invulnerability - the shape he’d savagely carved this wretched world into for himself.

In the end, none of it made any difference. Luo Binghe was still as alone as that little beggar boy sleeping out on the streets.

~~~
A lone boatman (and ex-emperor) catches fancy lobsters by day and contemplates the couple who ruined his life by night. In the unlikeliest place, he meets somebody.

a screenshot of the tags for the fic being posted. the image reads: Relationships:

Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (mentioned), Implied Future Original Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu

Characters:

Original Luo Binghe, Mentioned Luò Bīnghé - Character, mentioned Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū - Character, Shen Yuan

Additional Tags:

Post-Canon, Post-Bingge vs. Bingmei Extra, POV Original Luo Binghe, Dreamscapes, Memories, Jealousy, Unreliable Narrator, Character Study, Pre-Relationship, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Bingge Manpain, yk how sometimes when things go awful a kid's solution is to just run away, and how bingge's maturity is stunted in some ways, his running away is just a lot more successfully executed, Lobster Fisherman Original Luo Binghe, Hehehe, BingQiu Week

November 8, 2024 at 2:33 PM

pensiveAbstraction

@pensiveabstraction.bsky.social

Bound to Have a Good Time
⤷ 5.2k words, Explicit
⤷ Bingqiu,
⤷ post-canon, immortal binding cables, pwp
⤷ bq week day 1 (prompt: tears)
⤷ #luobinghe #shenqingqiu #bingqiu #svsss #BingQiuweek2024

⁍ archiveofourown.org/works/60372433