Days pass, and all goes as it should. Shen Yuan drinks her tea in the morning and the evening, humming with approval and licking her lips to chase the taste once she’s done. As oblivious and unsuspecting as a deer in the sights of a hunter, trustingly drinking whatever is handed to her. Ridiculous. She is fortunate that Shen Qingqiu wishes her no ill will.
He quietly stops bothering to pour a cup for himself, something which is barely noted upon.
“It is too sweet,” is all he says upon questioning, before he adds, “I still have some left over, however. I will continue to brew it for you.”
“Ah, would you?” Shen Yuan asks, brightening up a little. Pleased to be doted on. “Sorry if that’s inconvenient, but honestly that’s some of the best tea you’ve gotten your hands on yet. What’s it called?”
It is an idle, incurious question. Shen Qingqiu deals with it appropriately.
“I do not recall,” is what he says and, “I will look into it.”
Shen Yuan hums an affirmative, and that is that. She does not remember to ask again.
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Shen Qingqiu decides to make some alterations to his lovely assistant; Shen Yuan is entirely oblivious until it is too late for him.
Plucking a ripe peach by @primtheamazing and @aryashi
Headcanon that Shang Qinghua is actually terrifying and only a few people really know it, not including Shang Qinghua.
I like to imagine that when you don't fill out your paperwork they wake up in the middle of the night to a disheveled looking peek lord sitting in a chair that he may or may not have brought himself nursing a teacup filled with his own homebrewed energy drink and straring into there soul with big black eyes.
This has earned more than a few screams that Shang Qinghua has been too tired to process the sound as terror; he just asks why they haven't completed their paperwork.
He's even done this to Liu Qingge, much to the wargods' confusion, as he was miles away from the sect at the time.
I also like to think that there are a few demon clans that are more than a little afraid of him, because of his allegiance to Mobei Jun and because they've gotten in the way of his logistics and created more work for him.
Now there's a very angry peek lord who knows political and physical weaknesses, seemingly with the ability to be in two places at once thanks to Mobei Jun.
btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:
Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!
especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)
So um.. designs for a floating concept of an au i like to call: the demonic cultivators stravaganza...
Rambles below cause it's too big...
So in this au MXY is not thrown out of the Jin Sect as he ends up knowing a bit more about demonic cultivation and JGY thinks he's useful.
The story is set about 6-7 years after WWX's death, so Jin Ling is about 7 (turning 8), MXY is about 20ish, XY is also in his early 20s. JGS is already dead, and so is NMJ. Madam Jin is still kicking tho.
XY was a guest disciple (under a fake identity) at Carp Tower, together with MXY they both secretly learned demonic cultivation, thus growing somewhat close (MXY might or not have developed a crush on him). MXY was in the dark about the reasons for studying demonic cultivation, he never really put in pratice just passed his notes on to JGY. XY, of course was in much more deeply. And although he quite enjoyed the job and his position he and JGY started disagreeing quite often on how to do things. So one day XY decides he's had enough, he makes a really frightening proposition to MXY, as he's the closest thing XY has to a friend, but MXY doesn't agree and has the gall to look frightened?! XY makes a mess then leaves.
He goes to Yi city and there it develops much the same, except he doesn't have time to kill A-Qing because JGY is on his ass. (JGY basically decided XY was too much of a liability if not working for him.) Unluckly for everyone had managed to pocket part of the Yin Toger amulet so he makes a run for it and disappears for a few years.
Filled with rage, A-Qing swears revenge on XY. Xue Yang didn't manage to get to her so she still has her sight and speech (the last one maybe a bit affected after the tragedy). A-Qing doesn't know how to cultivate so she pockets Xue Yang's notes and learns demonic cultivation. She manages to get some conscience into Song Lan while trying to learn to control him. They become a bit of a master student duo, SL teaches A-Qing fighting and the basics of cultivation (she's very very bad at it) and tries to steer her to a less murderous/revenge filled path. They argue a bit because A-Qing says she can never forgive XY and won't give up on her Gege (Xiao Xingchen's souls fragments they try to collect)
Going back a bit, the reason MXY is better at cultivation is this au is because of...Jin Ling? Ok so I decided this au was not messy enough and decided to merge it with ghost WWX au.
Basically WWX becomes a ghost, he does not know how (JL accidentally summoned him) and he know the right thing to do would be to just leave as to not cause more unecessary trouble but...he just can't. He misses his family guys. A lot. He starts kinda haunting Lotus Pier, makes his demonic energy intentionally very low wich makes him quite weak and barely visible even to cultivators (if it was his normal levels it would be instantly noticeable who he was, it's that strong). He's constantly on the piers, hiding, sometimes he visits Shijie's and the previous leaders graves(?tombstones? forgot the word in english) asking why him. Nobody notices him, and then well, Jin Ling does.
He's about 5 and everyone kinda dismisses him as having a ghost living in a cultivation sect is almost a joke and nobody thinks it too possible. And even when they check WWX just evades them making Jin Ling angrier. So he gathers all his courage he goes to confront this ghost. He can deal with this ghost, he's the heir to the Jin Sect after all. Plus defeating a ghost will definitely make JiuJiu proud. WWX does not in fact want to engage him. So it starts their cat and mouse game.
At some point Jin Ling tires WWX enough he gives up and asks him what he wants.
JL: As the future leader of the Lanling Jin Sect and Yunmeng Jiang's Sect Leader's nephew I command you to leave! You evil ghost!
WWX: Hmmm, no. I don't wanna.
JL: YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!
So Jin Ling starts hanging out with this ghost, to totally find a way to exorcise him and not because he couldn't make any friends his age and Jijiu is too busy for him and he's lonely. WWX does not tell him who he really is, but starts kinda mentoring Jin Ling or just being supportive and trying to get him to loosen up a bit and have fun. He ends up having to use a bit of demonic cultivation to save Jin Ling a few times (the child is a menace). He teaches Jin Ling the basics but nothing like controlling corpses, just stuff thats somewhat accepted by the wider cultivation world. Somehow his notes end up getting to MXY, by virtue of Jin Ling who decides MXY can help him learn if WWX won't teach him. MXY translates the notes and is a bit worried about how Jin Ling got them and also only teaches him the BORING and bare minimum stuff.
I've been writing so much, the whole thing's probably too convoluted. But basically the plot of this au would start with MXY having to protect Jin Ling as someone is trying to kill him, JGY does not in fact want to have another nephewbaby with his sisterwife so he wants Jin Ling to stay the heir. Jin Ling finds out about a mystery he wants to investigate to prove himself to jiujiu, and MXY is tasked to follow him so he doesn't get harmed and to do WHATEVER IS NECESSARY to protect him. In their way they run into A-Qing and Xue Yang (maybe Lan Zhan at somepoint) and the first climax of the story would be the trhee of them fighting each other: -Xue Yang wants to JL for blackmail reasons and to kill A-Qing
-A-Qing wants to kill XY for revenge, doesn't care about the kid, would use as bait
-Mo Xuanyu does NOT want anyone to die. Most of all he wants to protect Jin Ling but also can't get himself to kill XY
In the end the three of them get stopped by the grand master of demonic cultivation himself, who decides to intervene and kidnaps all of them since before they all get kinda get killed by Jin forces. Yes this was in fact a plan of JGY, he does not want to kill his nephew but doesn't mind causing him trauma. Basically he wants to kill three birds in one stone, getting rid of XY and grabbing the talisman, using that to send MXY away and then probably kill A-Qing and SL so nobody will know.
Also lil thoughts about Jiang Cheng, he does find out WWX is a ghost a little after JL. WWX avoids him like the plague, and while JC wants to say so much to him he decides to ignore it in hopes WWX will stay. That a little bit of his family will still be with him. He has a lot of conflicting thoughts and definitely resents WWX for not coming to him first.
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ways to block ads and tracking in browsers, mobile or otherwise, do not work for apps, and the pro-con analysis of the people who build apps (or have apps built for them) says that's a point in favor of the app
And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.
in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda
Part of the reason Luke is instantly Yoda's darling is that Yoda has been dreaming about him for years. Luke's eyes light up at the sight of him and Yoda suddenly knows Luke will be the most important person in the universe to him one day. But this Yoda isn't meeting an impatient little shit who looks like his father who destroyed the Jedi order, he's meeting Luke as a chilled-out towering presence in the Force, who plows through every limitation a Jedi should have like it's not even there.
How they act towards each other is the freakiest thing anyone has ever seen. Luke treats Yoda like a beloved lunatic uncle. He will casually swipe food off Yoda's plate like a five year old poking around for gum in mom's purse. When he starts bringing Yoda frogs to swap for sweets is the first time anyone in the Jedi Order realizes Yoda fucking loves eating frogs. Luke keeps offering to give Yoda a ride on his back. The first time Yoda says yes Obi-wan trips and falls on his face.
I have one correction to suggest to the description of Future!Luke's relationship with Yoda in the temple.
He does not offer Yoda a ride on his back. The first time Yoda announces that the two of them have to go someplace, together (instead of, like, Luke being called before the council and then leaving after while they stay to deliberate), he just gives a sigh of "Yes, Master Yoda" and hefts him one handed like you'd scoop up a cat to toss him up onto his shoulders.
Yoda absolutely sticks the landing, of course, and his hover chair thingy suffers a mysterious and catastrophic break down the next day.
HC: it's not as if SQH isn't strong, it's just he doesn't apply himself. He is an immortal cultivator after all. A peak lord. From An Ding. The peak that does a lot of physical labour.
But in the end, it's still a skinny twig who was on his computer all day in a cultivators body. Hamster piloting a tiger body, he's not sure what to do with it.
Okay for those of you living in pitiful ignorance, take a raw ear of corn with the husk on and cut all the way around the base (as pictured: above the point where the husk meets the cob, so that the entire husk is severed but still wrapped around the corn. Do not cut through the cob.) Then, with the husk still on, microwave it for 5-7 minutes. It'll basically steam it inside the husk. Remove from microwave --it will be hot, so use a mitt or a towel--and firmly pull the top of the husk/silk, which should come off easily in one piece, unsheathing a flawless corn on the cob. If it doesn't, you probably need to cut a little higher around the base, so all the leaves are severed. No picking off silk!
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