幸せはきっと私の手の中に

Currently amusing myself with the notion of a System Failure AU, in which Shen Yuan still gets transmigrated into SQQ as usual, and has access to and can argue with the System, but someone else also has access to his System logs, and they're the one that gets to call the shots.

So it'd be a closer experience to a video game or visual novel for the other person, just that SY!SQQ has a bit more agency when it comes to getting the System to do what he wants than a player character might have.

Amusing options for which character gets control:

Ning Yingying; she gets a wakeup call about her own social fuckups, especially regarding Luo Binghe, but also gets an insight into what happened to SJ!SQQ, what he was doing to and planning for LBH, etc

Shang Qinghua; he hates dealing with his own System, and now he has a second one to contend with?! And it's somehow nicer than his own?! WTF is this bullshit! (Early Airplane reveal for extra shenanigans)

Liu Qingge; just for the sheer WTF factor involved. He would have no idea what was going on, and figuring it out, as well as everything else involved, would be... very interesting, IMO.

Yue Qingyuan; there would have to be some way of rigging it so he'd get Shen Jiu back if he managed to "help" Shen Yuan "fix" PIDW, or he'd probably find a way to be self-destructive about it and/or kill SY!SQQ or something

Luo Binghe; honestly, probably the least interesting option of the ones I listed so far. He would be better with just System chat log access, not decision making access, IMO. Still, he is an option!

Ming Fan, probably; I've already got NYY on the list, so why not? He can start learning about the consequences of bullying LBH and maybe start thinking about what it means to be a righteous cultivator

Gongyi Xiao; I mean, if I put Ming Fan on there, I may as well. He has no idea what's going on for most of this, except for a passing familiarity with the Xiu Ya sword, and is now going to get an inside look at how dysfunctional all the cultivation sects are, HHP included

Of these, I think that NYY and/or YQY are the two I'm most likely to actually write (GYX is tempting, but I've got the start of a fix-it AU thing already kinda planned for Sot69), but even then I can't imagine doing more than an outline at the moment. Still, very amusing to think about!

Ack, how long has it been since I posted here last? Eight days? Yikes!

Okay, uh. I'm keeping up with school! Grades are so far good in both Intro to Philosophy and Speech, and I'm doing my best to keep them that way. Philosophy will end in two or three weeks, at which point I'll start Intro to Sociology, but Speech runs through the rest of summer.

Speech is a lot of material. I feel like there could be at least another hour or two's worth of class per week for it, but it's not up to me, so I'll just keep soldiering on. Got 100% on the written part of my first of three official speeches for the class, and I think I'll find out how I did on the actual speech-giving part of it in class tomorrow.

I'm pretty well nailing Philosophy; I got 100% on the first exam, and the second one is coming up. I'm feeling pretty optimistic, especially since the online version of the test is open book.

I'm about four chapters from the end of MDZS; I'm currently listening to the first part of the last chapter of the fourth book, with the fifth book queued up and ready to go. So that's about eight hours or so, not counting extras. Normally I'd be lining TGCF up to listen to next, but Audible just listed a shit ton of light novels as "free for members", and any time they've done that recently, it's been for a limited time only. So I'll probably lean into those first. Still, it's pretty exciting to be so close to finishing this series! It's been a lot of fun to listen to, though I can't say it's giving me as many fandom feelings as SVSSS.

I think that's it for now; I've got some laundry that just finished in the dryer I need to get to.