MDZS X The Magnus Archives… I Need It….

Waking up after a surprise body swap? Not very demure, not very mindful. (Au explanation if confused)

concept: a villain with adhd, and a hero with autism. They hate each other but also are very accommodating.

Shen Yuan who accidentally becomes Shang Qinghua's roommate after inviting him over so many times that he already has his toothbrush there.

His whole family thinks they are a couple.

His sis thinks that they are even in very advanced steps of their relationship, like, already engaged or something because of their level of intimacy and closeness.

His brothers think that Shang Qinghua is a vermin who takes advantage of their little Yuan-er's money, until they come across Shang Qinghua grocery shopping and notice all the care he takes in choosing products that won't harm Shen Yuan despite his own comments about love those spicy instant noodles so much (noodles that he don't add to his shopping cart. Everything there is healthy, nutritious and free of agrochemicals).

Eventually, his parents accept Shang Qinghua as well. Sometimes they start calling him "son" and so. As long as Shen Yuan is happy...

Shen Yuan doesn't understand why his family is so weird. He, in love with that pathetic author? What's wrong with them? They live together so that idiot doesn't have to pay rent and prostitute his novel!! Let him write a happy ending without the demands of a jerk-off audience for Luo Binghe!!!

Eventually, PIDW's comments also start to believe for some reason that Airplane and Peerless Cucumber have become boyfriends. Shen Yuan is resigned. Fuck you all.

Both Bingqiu and Moshang undoubtedly have toxic/questionable aspects to their relationship, but when looking at why I think Moshang works, and Bingqiu just doesn’t, I mainly point to how the “abuse” of their partners is handled.

When SQQ is abused by Binghe, Binghe plays the victim. Instead of being straightforward and serious, he cries and pleads, making HIMSELF the one in need of comfort, and causing SQQ to feel bad for being the ACTUAL victim. Moreover, Binghe is FULLY AWARE what he’s doing when he hurts or manipulates Qingqiu. There isn’t an excuse there.

Meanwhile, with MBJ and SQH, there’s a clear reason for their miscommunication: an issue of culture. While Binghe was raised in human society, Mobei-jun is very much attuned to demon culture - and has blind spots. But unlike Binghe, when he becomes aware of the harm he’s doing, and how it’s being perceived, he doesn’t play the victim:

He sincerely apologizes to Shang Qinghua

He offers a way of “correcting” it

He then tries to do what Shang Qinghua had told him would be better understood, showing that he cares more about Qinghua’s feelings than tradition.

Mobei-Jun isn’t mean, like I see a lot of fanworks imply. Mobei-Jun sincerely does NOT WANT to hurt Shang Qinghua, and when he realizes he is, he stops. Binghe hurts Shen Qingqiu knowingly, and when he does, he plays the victim or guilts Shen Qingqiu. This is why Moshang, in my eyes, just works.

Mermaid Huaisang… Nie Koisang… idek but HERE HE IS!

Mobei Jun picking up slang from Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua and using it like only the most jaded demon dad to ever demon.

Like bro thinks these words have wildly different meanings than they actually do.Shang Qinghua managed to assassinate another minor demon king, and Mobei Jun patted him on the head and told him he did a very pussyslay job. Shen Qingqiu was having a stressful time running his peak and Mobei Jun told him he was an aesthetic girlboss mood. Both of his wives live in fear of him trying to call them fam in bed meanwhile Mobei Jun thinks he's mastered their dialect and gotten an excellent grade in Husband.

Male bird core

I’ve said this before but you read tgcf and you are like aww Xie Lian saved baby Hong Hong’er and it’s so sweet Hua Cheng fell in love with him and searched for him and gets protective over him. He’s so chivalrous truly a knight in bells booted armour.

Until you read the rest of the books and you realise that Hua Cheng is in fact not acting out of chivalry and must have been going out of his mind for 800 years because every time he and Xie Lian interacted he saw Xie Lian being in a situation and his go to plan was to basically always push the self destruct button and for extra measure throw himself on the chopping block in literal seconds.

Like all his over protectiveness isn’t so much about making Xie Lian a damsel in distress as it is instead a parent taking away all choking hazards and baby proofing the locks except the baby knows martial arts and could kill a man just by twitching his elbow yet he continues to use himself as target practise.

Three times I drew Qinghua, three times he looks different

Pt 2 of the Cumplane “local trans girl falls for pathetic author man” comic. Link to pt 1!