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you go inactive for a few months, and everyone decides you’re a missing person

Summary:

A brief glimpse into r/ProudImmortalDemonWay following the disappearance of its author and most devoted hater, featuring conspiracy theories, RPF, and what happens when you leave a fandom unsupervised during a hiatus.

Notes:

this was inspired by a prompt from my dear friend Birb! they haven't even read svsss, but they've been indulging me as I talk about how hilarious I find cumplane, and when I asked for prompts, they suggested I write about the Reddit conspiracy theories that would've followed their disappearance

I put an ungodly amount of work into this for something that's under 2k. I learned how to use a workskin. I grappled with html despite an instinctive fear of anything to do with coding. I even came up with usernames for fake Reddit users, which was a whole challenge in itself. sheesh. hopefully this silly little fic was worth it!

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r/ProudImmortalDemonWay • Posted by u/Loyal_Disciple3944 5 months ago

Airplane disappeared???

I might be overreacting, but is anyone else wondering where the hell Airplane went?? I’ve been following PIDW since the Cave of Carnal Pleasures Arc, and he’s never missed an update! I know PIDW is over now, but he said he’d be posting bonus chapters, right? It’s been weeks… where are they…

PiercingArrow 5 months ago
Right?? His social media’s gone dead too. It’s eerie!

whets_your_stone 5 months ago
He never confirmed that was his account though

PiercingArrow 5 months ago
No, but everyone knows it’s him anyway! I mean, the posts read just like his author notes, and it always seemed to line up with what we saw on his official account! The fact that it hasn’t posted since Airplane stopped posting chapters… definitely suspicious!

BeatsLord 5 months ago
rip i relied on that account for terrible instant noodle hacks... truly the greatest loss here

PlotHoleNewWorld 5 months ago
Relax, he could just be sick or something. Life happens, even to web novel authors with no lives. If you’re worried about it, just cancel your subscription until a new chapter drops, that way you’re not losing money. Might incentivize him into posting sooner anyway

r/ProudImmortalDemonWay • Posted by u/An_Ding_Struggler 5 months ago

Suspicious lack of cucumber

So that post about Airplane not posting in a while got me thinking… has anyone heard from Peerless Cucumber lately? He was the real reason I was reading PIDW at a certain point lol I’ve never seen a guy leave such long hate comments on something they’re paying for! I could suffer through any poorly written chapter just to read his takedown of it. But I haven’t seen him around lately! Not even responding to other people's comments. Anyone know where he’s gone?

PlotHoleNewWorld 5 months ago
I mean, it’s not like he has a new chapter to rant about. Maybe he finally got a life! Or got laid. He desperately needs one of those two.

much_room_for_mushroom 5 months ago
Someone posted Binghe hate in one of the forums recently, which usually works like a charm for Peerless Cucumber bait, but nothing! That’s honestly more concerning than anything else. I swear that guy had an alert set for any time someone posted anything about Binghe

GongyiXiaoFunnyMomentsComp 5 months ago
Legend has it, if you say “Luo Binghe sucks” three times in a mirror, Peerless Cucumber will show up to rant at you…

r/ProudImmortalDemonWay • Posted by u/redstrings 3 months ago

I’ve connected the dots

everyone's coming up with so many good conspiracy theories about Airplane's disappearance, so I’m jumping on the theory bandwagon! It's been months, and we haven't heard anything from Airplane OR Peerless Cucumber. I've never seen EITHER of them go on a hiatus that lasted longer than a few days, much less two months. Which got me thinking, why would they both disappear at the same time? One of them going inactive is one thing, but both of them at the same time? It's gotta be connected. There’s only one logical conclusion: the last chapter of PIDW pissed Cucumber off so badly that he finally snapped and hunted down Airplane and killed him. It’s the only thing that makes sense. Definitely more realistic than both of them deciding to have a life offline.

jwlxww 3 months ago
You didn’t connect shit

redstrings 3 months ago
I’ve connected them

HuanHuaHero 3 months ago
They lived in the same province, right? I feel like i remember Cucumber complaining about some local reference Airplane made once. I guess it’s not outside the realm of possibility

toomanybooksinaday 3 months ago
That would explain Airplane’s disappearance, but why would Cucumber disappear too?? Did he get caught or something? Seems sloppy and suspicious to disappear at the same time

redstrings 3 months ago
Idk maybe he’s faked his death or something

toomanybooksinaday 3 months ago
You know what that is some bullshit he’d do

PiercingArrow 3 months ago
Idk im sticking by my transmigration theory. I mean, who better to throw into a novel than its author and/or biggest fan?

whets_your_stone 3 months ago
You read too many webnovels.

Liukingforlove 3 months ago
What if they did meet up and now they’re kissing about it

whets_your_stone 3 months ago
You read too much fanfiction.

r/ProudImmortalDemonWay • Posted by u/Liukingforlove 1 month ago

Enemies-to-lovers Peerless Cucumber/Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky RPF 18+ don’t like don’t read!

Well, I’ve finally cracked. I had three exams this week and ended up in the hospital a few days ago (im fine, don’t worry about it) but the whims of fanfiction wait for no one! I was inspired by that post a couple months ago theorizing that the reason they’d both disappeared was because Cucumber lost it and tracked Airplane down. Kicking his ass over PIDW is all well and good but… what if they kissed about it. And then did more. I initially said it as a joke, but that's always the first mistake because after that the idea just wouldn't leave my head... Here is the result of me being absolutely haunted by the idea. Now everyone else has to suffer with me ❤ This is RPF so if you don’t like it, kindly go elsewhere!! Go reread your favorite vanilla sex in PIDW or something. You will find no vanilla here >:) [Link]

whets_your_stone 1 month ago
I see we’ve reached this part of a fandom hiatus, huh…

jwlxww 1 month ago
You’re insane.

PiercingArrow 1 month ago
I’ll admit, I wasn’t convinced when I clicked that link… but you’ve totally gotten me shipping them omg!!! You captured their voices so well wow I feel like I could practically hear Cucumber’s voice shining through in those rants. Who knew you could turn it into sex talk!!!

Liukingforlove 1 month ago
His extremely long comments gave me a lot of material to work with. The guy has a distinct voice, I’ll give him that. I’m glad you liked it :)

toomanybooksinaday 1 month ago
The foot fetish. My god.

Liukingforlove 1 month ago
Airplane was pretty obvious about what kinks he was writing for the fans and what he was writing just for him. That gratuitous foot washing scene in the conference arc was blatant, he can’t just include that and expect me to walk away thinking he DOESN’T have a foot fetish

r/ProudImmortalDemonWay • Posted by u/Airplane_Shooting_Towards_The_Sky 8 days ago

Airplane has finally landed

Wow, you go inactive for a few months, and everyone decides you’re a missing person. I’m touched by everyone’s concern, really. It’s been very entertaining returning to this subreddit after so long away! I’m pleased to see everything has gone completely off the rails in my absence.

I’d love to offer an explanation for why I was gone, but I’m afraid I can’t! It’s too personal and frankly too absurd to try and explain. I’ll just say some of your theories were completely incorrect, and some of them got very close to the truth. I won’t say which though ;)

Accuracy aside, my favorite theory might be that RPF fic that was posted a while back. That was hilarious, and it made Cucumber-bro shriek some very creative expletives when I showed it to him. His reaction made it even better! Dear fanfiction author, thank you for your fine work. I’m sure Cucumber-bro will be leaving a comment that’s half the length of the fic itself in your inbox soon. I’m tempted to print it out and keep it, but I’m worried Cucumber-bro’s husband might kill me if he finds out about it, so maybe not.

Now, as for PIDW business: I know I promised bonus chapters. I see a lot of you unsubscribed because you didn’t receive them! Ruthless! My poor bank account is weeping. I really did have several bonus chapters drafted. Bing-ge was going to fight more monsters, deflower more maidens, have more elaborate sex with his more neglected wives! But posting those just doesn’t feel right anymore. I know it’s been months for you guys, but let this writer tell you, it’s felt like much longer to me! Instead, I have something else for you all. I can’t exactly claim to have written this one all by myself. Cucumber-bro had more to do with the plot than I did. Maybe he’d be generous enough to list me as a co-author? Regardless, he gave me reluctant permission to share his hard work! Or rather, he finally caved after I bothered him about it for several hours, and he said “fuck it, it won’t matter once we’re home again,” which I’m going to count as permission. I’ll link the PDF at the bottom of this post.

With that, I have one last piece of big news: this is the last thing I’m going to post. Probably ever. Some pretty major things have changed in my life. Impossible things! It’s very scary! It’s also better than I could’ve imagined. Maybe I’ve turned sappy in my old age. Gross. Regardless, life as webnovel author Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky has to be put behind me. I’ll miss a lot of things about this life, but relying on all you horny bastards to pay rent is not one of them. Ah, well. On to better things!
[Scum-Villain’s-Self-Saving-System.pdf]

Liukingforlove 8 days ago
Glad my fic has the author’s seal of approval o7 Cucumber did in fact leave me a long as hell comment, which has given me ideas for more things to write…

An_Ding_Struggler 8 days ago
Sorry, Cucumber-bro’s HUSBAND??

redstrings 4 days ago
Dude read the pdf he linked it gets crazier

An_Ding_Struggler 7 minutes ago
HE’S FUCKING WHO????

PiercingArrow 6 days ago
does anyone remember that iconic Cucumber comment where he was raving about Luo Binghe... and someone replied "dude, Luo Binghe isn't going to fuck you"... and Cucumber responded with a rant that was several thousand words long and became a copypasta for a while... no? just me?

GongyiXiaoFunnyMomentsComp 6 days ago
My god the madman actually did it

BinghesFavoriteWife8309 6 hours ago
LUO BINGHE WOULD NOT FUCK SHEN QINGQIU!!!! First of all he is STRAIGHT (do his wives mean NOTHING to you?????) and second of all he HATES shen qingqiu!!!! He canonically tore him apart, AS HE DESERVED!!!!! He would NEVER fall in love with his teacher, especially not as a TEENAGER, and you are sick in the head for suggesting he would!!

much_room_for_mushroom 6 hours ago
You want to be Peerless Cucumber so bad it makes you look stupid

PlotHoleNewWorld 5 hours ago
Peerless Cucumber’s comments were at least well-written. This is just sad.

HuanHuaHero 9 minutes ago
Either Airplane has just posted his own novel length BL RPF transmigration fanfiction featuring his biggest hater having bad sex with his protagonist… or this is his way of explaining where the hell they both actually went. I’m not sure which option is crazier. Well played, Airplane. Well played.

Notes:

let's pretend that the system gave the transmigrators the option to temporarily return to their world a few months after they left it, just so they could wrap up some loose ends! don't think about it too hard. I just wanted airplane to find the cumplane fanfiction and find it hysterical

if you enjoyed this, come say hi on tumblr ! I think about cumplane too much for something with as stupid of a name as that.