Shen Yuan | November Catch-All

[xiaoxiuya]

Who: Shen Yuan, CR group, People who actually want to talk to the weird metal faces . Maybe more to be added later, who knows!
What: Thread starters for people who want to get bogus relationship advice from Google translate; Shen Yuan Starts a Group Chat, TBD
When: Throughout November
Where: Deernet and beyond

Content Warnings: TBD

Comments

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

[er-ge looks very handsome in that photo, no, don't make it weird]

Thank you kindly for arranging this for us, shidi. And greetings, Mike-xiansheng.

text: un: tenskulls

[stayscared]

Greetings to you, too.

[is there a way to make a bow in text gestures? is there an emote for that? if there is he doesn't know it. is it /bows or like < small bow > ::bow:: ??? should he have put that in his introduction? no, it's fine. animal photos bridge gaps.]



[but have a ...is this a bow? he tried.]
┏○

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

[he is so charmed by the sheer effort put into that message that he's almost mad about it! not really, he isn't mad at all, but he is laughing a little, and that hurts, ow.]

Mike-xiansheng should take pity on the pigeon and free her from her restraints.

[stayscared]

[the pigeon has been freed, this one is bold and has taken bread from his hands before - and has also shat on his shoe but that's more the exception than the rule.]

She's eaten them already. These pigeons eat better than the rest of us do.

That one's a she? How can you tell?

[he can't tell. was that a general assumed she or is jin just familiar with birds?]

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

The shape of the head and eyes. A female pigeon will have a smaller and flatter head shape than a male.

A-Sang has also shared that one can determine sex by holding a pigeon by its wings and examining how its tail feathers move.

[allegedly, anyway.]

This one is pleased that xiansheng finds his companions agreeable. Zewu-jun is the one who instructed this one in playing the guqin.

[you know, during their time together in draugr hell.]

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

Please forgive my rudeness. A-Sang is an affectionate name that Zewu-jun and I share for Nie Huaisang.

He has a fondness for birds.

[like obviously.]

[xiaoxiuya]

I am going to make a cheat sheet with everyone's names, titles, and honorifics, for the benefit of our foreigner friends. Jin-ge, please don't let me forget to do that.

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

Shidi is so obliging and considerate of others, this one has no doubt that a reminder is unnecessary.

[he doesn't do heart emojis but, you know. if he did. there'd definitely be one there.]

[xiaoxiuya]

[He might not do heart emojis, but Shen Yuan definitely does. Watch:]

(つ≧▽≦)つ💕

[You know, platonically!]

[poorlittlesange]

[what. what is this. what is he even looking at.]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

Shidi, I don't understand this.

[xiaoxiuya]

It's a blushing face! With a heart! You know, because...

[Man, why the fuck did he post that. What was going on in his head there, he was just talking to Jin Guangyao, and Jin-ge said something about how nice he is, and it made Shen Yuan feel...

Feel...]

Eh, it's nothing! Just ignore it, it's been so nostalgic talking to my friends on the network like this that I got carried away.

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

I think I understand. Please accept my apologies for embarrassing you. I only meant to pay you a compliment for your thoughtfulness.

[xiaoxiuya]

[hfdjksfk]

Jin-ge did nothing wrong! This Shen Yuan was the one who typed without thinking. Maybe I should take a break from the internet for a few hours, in my homeworld they always said too much screentime could be bad for you.

[And they were probably right! Technically, it helped kill him!]

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

Do you often feel unwell after spending time on the internet?

[the narrator: jin guangyao has no fucking idea. but he's concerned.]

[xiaoxiuya]

...

Too much time spent looking at a brightly-lit screen can strain the eyes. It was once recommended to me to spend no more than two hours at a time on such activities, but who can say whether that matters here?

But I'm fine, ge. Apologies for worrying you.

[Shen Yuan is just going to curl up and die in real life, now. Why is he so cringe??]

[not here]

[stayscared]

[oh thank god. he cannot trust himself to not fuck up. he was already starting to make so many notes.]

[stayscared]

Rudeness: undetected. What I do see is some helpfulness re: pigeon info, though I don't know if these birds like me enough to let me hold them, let alone touch their wings.

It's a goal, I guess.

Well, then I suppose I owe Zewu-jun [can he. use the title? is this allowed? welp, if he's messed it up, he's messed it up. he's got more bird pics he can use as apologies.] a beer or two. A rice wine. Half my memories. ;)

He must be a regular virtuoso then.

I can see that. You guys have a lot of names.

[it's not that weird, he's sure most friend groups have assorted names (maybe not so formal) for each other - and it's maybe not even that they're formal, or affectionate, but just unfamiliar. he laughs to himself, because so are friend groups now. (he's had them before several lifetimes ago.)]

[poorlittlesange]

USER ID: WHENINLANLING (JIN GUANGYAO)

He is the most gifted musician I have ever known.

[ok calm down, Jin Guangyao, don't make it weird, your er-ge can absolutely see this conversation,]

Some of us have more names than others, for different reasons. Zewu-jun is Lan Xichen's title. I received my title of Lianfang-zun when Zewu-jun and I

[god. okay. just write it down, writing it down won't summon Nie Mingjue into Trench, that's not how sacrifice rituals work,]

swore brotherhood to each other with Nie Mingjue, whose title was Chifeng-zun. He is our eldest sworn brother--our "da-ge," or first brother. Zewu-jun is "er-ge," or second brother. As the youngest in our sworn brotherhood, I am "san-ge," or third brother, but only Huaisang calls me that.

Huaisang is Nie Mingjue's younger brother by blood. We are all very fond of him.

[did you follow all that? there won't be a quiz later, don't worry.]

[stayscared]

[it's not that weird. jin guangyao is a formal kind of guy, so it tracks that he would speak ...just like he's speaking. and praise is praise, most people like it - especially creative types. (musicians supporting other musicians. it's a whole vibe.) yeah, there's magic involved but still.

and again it makes sense as he mulls it over, the titles. it's just different names for different sorts of bonds - (he'll never remember them all so thank shen yuan for that cheat sheet.) and they're only harder because he doesn't speak the language. he'll figure it out.

please do not let there be a quiz.]