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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-06-26 08:56 am

Poll: Survival Strategies and Revenue Streams (drama)






Poll #33289 Temperature and revenue
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


What else could Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng and Ye Huo have tried to keep warm in the zero-degree lab?

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cover the vent
6 (50.0%)

jam the giant fan
4 (33.3%)

check the shelves for materials to make a tent
5 (41.7%)

ransack the room for materials to burn
1 (8.3%)

put their hoodies' hoods up
9 (75.0%)

closer huddling (all three)...
8 (66.7%)

...on one of the bed things instead of the floor
3 (25.0%)

take selfies with the camera (won't keep them warm, but will pass the time)
0 (0.0%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to rip the control panel off the wall
5 (41.7%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to pull the door off its hinges or the linings off the walls (like he broke into the Hanga caves)
8 (66.7%)

like, NOT close the cover on the OFF switch (Changcheng, ILU)
6 (50.0%)

other
4 (33.3%)

What are Shen Wei's revenue streams?

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stipend from Dixing
10 (83.3%)

pay from the university
12 (100.0%)

investments from when he first came to Haixing
2 (16.7%)

investments in a lollipop factory, specifically
4 (33.3%)

an alchemical/Midas power
2 (16.7%)

a trust set up by his fellow soldiers from the ancient war that has been held in his name for ten thousand years in the belief that he will return one day
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a fashion model
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a restaurant chef
0 (0.0%)

secretly a best-selling author of epic historical novels
0 (0.0%)

he's actually a man of fairly modest means
6 (50.0%)

other (please specify in comments)
0 (0.0%)

facethestrange: (guardian: shen wei: smile)

[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-06-27 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think my internalised SW is a Very Private Person and doesn't need or particularly want to share his inner self with the general public. Hmm... maybe I should think about that some more. :-)"

Ftr, my scenario in this case was a sort of a fic-concept interpretation, and not a canon Shen Wei analysis, since we're already in the AU where he writes historical novels. :D I think yours is a lot closer to canon! I can just fit a lot of mutually exclusive character interpretations in different fics and headcanons. :D (Oh, and if his books are fiction, then only he would know if he's sharing his inner self or not, the readers would have no idea. :D)
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-06-28 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"And since he's already the Envoy and a respected academic, he will no doubt take being a celebrated author in stride, too. :D"

Hee. :D :D It's not a secret anymore because his students conducted an investigation and found out? xD (I'm always a fan of his students doing stuff like that. :D :D)

"Yeah, but he would know. And would he want random people out there having ~opinions~ about things he holds dear?"

Now I'm wondering if he would even realize that there are any opinions he could see. :D Since the internet is probably not something he gives much thought to. I definitely don't think he would actively like the concept of people having opinions on it, but also maybe privacy goes both ways - it's their private thoughts (or so he thinks, lol) and he has more interesting things to think about? But in the end that's still an AU Shen Wei - I don't think the canon one would have much interest in writing fiction at all, let alone getting it published. :D
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[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-06-28 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesssss. :D :D Jiajia discovering something about Shen Wei is one of my absolute favorite genre of fic, lol, it doesn't even matter what she discovers - Envoy stuff, Dixingren stuff, dating/being married to the hot detective guy, fanon/headcanon/crack things, everything is awesome. :D :D
facethestrange: (guardian: xiao wei lollipop)

[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-07-01 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
OMGGGGGG this was DELIGHTFUL. :D :D :D ♡♡♡ I'll leave my long-ass comment for when it's on ao3, but DAMN, they're the softest, and just, so much YOHE-adjacent goodness with implications to read first thing in the morning?? :D YES PLS, thank you for sharing!! :D :D

(Also yay for this comm inspiring new fanworks! :D :D)