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Update: you can’t do that.

There is no good way to translate a knit-purl pattern and a knit cable to Tunisian straight off a chart or pattern. I made ugly messes that wasted a ton of yarn bc I snapped it when I was frogging all the damn time.

So

I guess this blog has crochet stuff full-tilt now because I have decided to attempt to figure out how to make knit cable charts with Tunisian crochet, which has a knit and purl stitch that look identical to knit and just aren’t as stretchy.

IN THEORY if you just keep doing the rows starting from the same side of the chart each time, it would work since you have a return pass. I have a project I want to do in the future that needs cables and I HATE knitting with a passion and LOVE Tunisian and it doesn’t need to stretch a ton so it works out.

I will keep y’all updated on how this goes, and maybe post tutorials here and link them to my ravelry.

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Okay.

Its up.

Don’t kill me abt the whumping and shit, it’s gonna get way better in the long run. I’m already working on getting past that initial painful bit. Made a few course corrections to the OG version and it’s waaaaaaaay better imo.

Currently 31.4K words and 5 chapter, kinda average for me.

Mind the tags, mainly the warning ones. I do not joke around with warning tags, like AT ALL. If there is so much as a single mention of something I feel should be warned of, it goes up there. I also added a warning in the chapter that was the most heavy about the main problem bit in both the notes and the chapter summary.

Mind. The. Warnings.

Also, the song cover the name is from:

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Made a cosplay help blog if anyone wants to check that out.

@costumesexplained

I make rough patterns and break down how stuff is made, why it’s made that way, and how it reflects the character if possible.

I did this because by the gods no one listens to my infodumos about costumes and clothes and stuff if I try it IRL, or at least they understand NONE of it.

Aside from maybe “oh so that’s why you added that to this character” and “oh that explains why the stuff you design for original works is like that” type of stuff when I’m talking with my freelance buddies.

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I hope you didn’t think I was trying to discourage you from writing your story! You seem to have some really cool ideas, but it’s always tricky writing for cultures you’re not super familiar with. You seem really passionate about this, but do try and remember it’s not a race and that you can take as much time as you want to refine your ideas. I’m kind of interested in seeing the story when you post it. Keep it up!

Yeah I get that, I’m actually starting to rework a novel I’ve had going for almost a year now because I realized I was making big mistakes and the setting had become more aesthetics than anything since I was trying to write it set in Meiji Japan but it wasn’t like normal run of the mill historical fiction…

I’m trying to be more aware, hence the poll. Get a second opinion from people who know the setting better than my usual go-to guy for that since neither of us are very familiar with the religious and social aspects of settings like Xianxia/wuxia. I’m the first to make the jump from anime and Japanese media into Korean and Chinese, and I wanted to write something like a major fix it using an oc (which I do a lot even if they don’t get posted like 90% of my fics), but that means figuring out the balance and how to approach it without pulling a “dances with wolves” or “that-one-movie-with-Clint-Eastwood-as-a-samurai” thing.

Seriously, THANK YOU for that feedback. Made me realize what was sending off warning bells, even if I’m still working on course correcting . I was literally just writing what came to mind off my ass on pain meds post-surgery, no notes or plot in mind at all, so I was probably gonna do the rework anyways.

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I am currently doing edits and reworks on the stuff I had already because of points in the comments. Notable edits are:

- less emphasis on cultural “exchange” and more “clash”, making the cultivators/locals not exactly welcoming once they find out just how… extreme the gap is between the cultures

- slimming down oc count to just main OC guy, altering more stuff to make it closer to other fics I’ve read in terms of how certain characters are portrayed with the added “you are TOO different, therefore you must be a demon or something and have lied about who you are” stuff

- decided to highlight additional major clashes between the cultures and clarify in-text why the main OC guy knows all he does far earlier

- further made clear in-text the witches/druids in this fic are more like foreign demons/ghosts/fairies/etc and that they have a WILDLY different culture and lifestyle than literally anyone else where they were born. Think feral kids meet primitive societies meet complete isolation in the middle of no where unless the person decided to be weird and leave. This includes mention of how some major religions will “get rid of” the local cultures and stuff, historically speaking, along with western-style exorcism shit.

- making it clear that people are generally completely confused about the OC and later on his kids because “seriously what are you, are you actually doing anything other than fucking around in the woods, where are you actually from, why do you hang around the most dangerous beings in the world, why are you all only not naked by a technicality” and so on and so on… if not in kill the witch mode as rumors get spread around.

I’m trying to figure out the full plot before I actually commit, so this is going to be a while before it probably goes live. The kids will be fine, they’re fairly normal compared to the OC (COMPARATIVELY), but the OC is stubborn and fairly traumatized and the trauma keeps getting brought back up and made fresher and even worse again and again.

Basically now it’s “dad tries to save the kids but the kids save the dad” kind of thing, i guess.

Idk, I started writing this right after I had surgery a week ago so I’m kinda just all over the place

Is it weird for me to be worried about my latest hyperfixation/plot bunny?

Below the cut is an explaination.

Tl/dr: added a bunch of like pagan themes and my version of “western fantasy” and found family tropes and species bending to a Xianxia/Wuxia setting (MXTX triple fusion) and I’m worried people will find it problematic if I post it. All pagan stuff is also “weird” bc it’s my flavor of it and I add more bits when I write it for stories of any kind. Main guy mostly just acts as a dad and is always running around trying to avoid people who he doesn’t want to find him unless he needs to trade for certain things like fabric because everyone is suspicious of him and it gets worse when they learn he’s an “alternate type of cultivator” and actually foreign and stuff. Like, it’s HIM being assimilated and not the other way around even if he’s sharing like a couple crafts, what he grew up speaking and writing, some recipes and stuff you’d learn if you lived in the wilds and had an arborist-holistic doctor-type for a mom figure.

Edits: added more clarification, main concern is white savior and I’m doing as much as I can to avoid that bullshit but I’m still worried as fuck bc I don’t want to seem like an asshole or something.

Like, I tend to have phases for fandoms, sure, but I also have them for tropes/concepts I like to write.

So I’m in a MXTX/Danmei phase fandom wise, and I’m in a general “fix it before the shit can go south” phase, and now I’m layering on my paganism-in-everything phase once again and writing a “what if all MXTX novels are in the same world… and a very powerful druid-witch dude happens to stumble onto our favorite red-and-black boys and a (good number of) handful(s) of other fucked over kids… which activates his horrible, horrible dad instincts and he adopts every last one of them” thing.

It’s 3 chapters deep, has a bunch of random shit ranging from discussion of languages and their quirks, basic Irish lessons (bc teaching myself off and on for YEARS), pagan/wiccan shit (obviously), handicrafts, hunting, practical foraging and ultra-sustainable farming practices, how major religions stamp out smaller or “bad” ones…

It’s basically just what I write for my Og stuff but I’m not holding back at ALL and it’s MXTX. Main plot is MDZS but Binghe and Hua Cheng are the frustratingly ridiculous older brothers of the family that the dad-character is just sick and tired of listening to them pine and suspicious as hell about who they’re going after despite not wanting to even THINK about his boys being in romantic relationships with ANYONE.

Just… goofy happy but dramatic family shit and cute kids and teens bringing a shitload of foreign mythology and pagan culture and a hefty dash of my personal style of fantasy into the Xianxia/Wuxia world.

I just worry I might get flack for like destroying the culture and setting with… what I write about for the most part outside of like the vast majority of my fics.

Am I going nuts, or is this okay?

Edit for a clarification: I’m worried, as someone mentioned, of a white savior trope problem. I’m mainly trying to get out of that corner I seem to have driven myself in, but generally how it’s going so far is:

- cultivators are suspicious of foreign guy who’s apparently not just some weird merchant, this causes issues

- OC is more just trying to keep the kids he ends up running around with from doing stupid shit like pulling stupid stunts to be with people they declare their soul mates after like one brief interaction (and he fails a lot and gets all “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed. Now eat your dinner and go take a bath, you stink and are too thin again.”)

- major difference for whole setting is just some one off things here and there being introduced and made more common in a warped timeline (mostly just like fiber arts and some recipes and minor things that aren’t as obvious right off the bat like how ginkgo trees are in the same family as poison Ivy and stuff like that)

Generally the entire fic is just very done dad yelling at stupid teenagers for being stupid teenagers and having to dodge people who don’t like the weird wild man and judging him for not being able to read Chinese well and stuff.

Yet I’m still worried about white savior issues… because they’re an issue.

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Is it weird for me to be worried about my latest hyperfixation/plot bunny?

Below the cut is an explaination.

Tl/dr: added a bunch of like pagan themes and my version of “western fantasy” and found family tropes and species bending to a Xianxia/Wuxia setting (MXTX triple fusion) and I’m worried people will find it problematic if I post it. All pagan stuff is also “weird” bc it’s my flavor of it and I add more bits when I write it for stories of any kind. Main guy mostly just acts as a dad and is always running around trying to avoid people who he doesn’t want to find him unless he needs to trade for certain things like fabric because everyone is suspicious of him and it gets worse when they learn he’s an “alternate type of cultivator” and actually foreign and stuff. Like, it’s HIM being assimilated and not the other way around even if he’s sharing like a couple crafts, what he grew up speaking and writing, some recipes and stuff you’d learn if you lived in the wilds and had an arborist-holistic doctor-type for a mom figure.

Edits: added more clarification, main concern is white savior and I’m doing as much as I can to avoid that bullshit but I’m still worried as fuck bc I don’t want to seem like an asshole or something.

Like, I tend to have phases for fandoms, sure, but I also have them for tropes/concepts I like to write.

So I’m in a MXTX/Danmei phase fandom wise, and I’m in a general “fix it before the shit can go south” phase, and now I’m layering on my paganism-in-everything phase once again and writing a “what if all MXTX novels are in the same world… and a very powerful druid-witch dude happens to stumble onto our favorite red-and-black boys and a (good number of) handful(s) of other fucked over kids… which activates his horrible, horrible dad instincts and he adopts every last one of them” thing.

It’s 3 chapters deep, has a bunch of random shit ranging from discussion of languages and their quirks, basic Irish lessons (bc teaching myself off and on for YEARS), pagan/wiccan shit (obviously), handicrafts, hunting, practical foraging and ultra-sustainable farming practices, how major religions stamp out smaller or “bad” ones…

It’s basically just what I write for my Og stuff but I’m not holding back at ALL and it’s MXTX. Main plot is MDZS but Binghe and Hua Cheng are the frustratingly ridiculous older brothers of the family that the dad-character is just sick and tired of listening to them pine and suspicious as hell about who they’re going after despite not wanting to even THINK about his boys being in romantic relationships with ANYONE.

Just… goofy happy but dramatic family shit and cute kids and teens bringing a shitload of foreign mythology and pagan culture and a hefty dash of my personal style of fantasy into the Xianxia/Wuxia world.

I just worry I might get flack for like destroying the culture and setting with… what I write about for the most part outside of like the vast majority of my fics.

Am I going nuts, or is this okay?

Edit for a clarification: I’m worried, as someone mentioned, of a white savior trope problem. I’m mainly trying to get out of that corner I seem to have driven myself in, but generally how it’s going so far is:

- cultivators are suspicious of foreign guy who’s apparently not just some weird merchant, this causes issues

- OC is more just trying to keep the kids he ends up running around with from doing stupid shit like pulling stupid stunts to be with people they declare their soul mates after like one brief interaction (and he fails a lot and gets all “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed. Now eat your dinner and go take a bath, you stink and are too thin again.”)

- major difference for whole setting is just some one off things here and there being introduced and made more common in a warped timeline (mostly just like fiber arts and some recipes and minor things that aren’t as obvious right off the bat like how ginkgo trees are in the same family as poison Ivy and stuff like that)

Generally the entire fic is just very done dad yelling at stupid teenagers for being stupid teenagers and having to dodge people who don’t like the weird wild man and judging him for not being able to read Chinese well and stuff.

Yet I’m still worried about white savior issues… because they’re an issue.

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Yeah I looked it up it very much isn’t what you first think of when you read “whisk” so it makes a lot of sense.

It’s almost like a really weirdly proportioned mop or something, idk.

It might be a “lost in translation” thing, honestly. Like, it’s not something anyone not super into daoist stuff outside of places where those specific monks are would know the name of even if they’re in dramas they watch.

The fact that they had to clarify this

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So basically a SQH accidentally turns LBH into a Disney princess (if I’m reading this right)…

I would read this, is sounds like comedy gold.

Heck, I’d PAY to o read this as long as I had the canon context bc otherwise it would be as funny. You have 2 layers of separation here:

- PIDW “fuck or die half the time” stallion novel

- SVSSS Danmei spin off of that novel but it’s also focused on SQQ and kinda middle of the road comedic by comparison to-

- - SQH turns his son into a Disney princess on accident bc he got drunk one time and things kinda snowballed from there

Stress baking = plot divergence

SQH visits Qing Jing Peak shrotly after Binghe arrives. Sees his "son" getting the stuffing beaten out of him.

Goes home. Drinks. Stress bakes while drunk.

Decides to put the nicest food in a basket and deliver it to the Qing Jing woodshed.

Get more caught than realised at the time when emptied basket with thank you note from the Bingboy is delivered to his leisure house in the middle of the night.

Accidentally befriend-penpal-mentors the protag. Spills details of what Shen Jiu's fucking problem is during secret meetups at the woodshed.

Teaches the Bingbing how to get out of knots. Secretly builds a little appartment under the woodshed that's super cosy.

Watches in fascinated horror over mooncakes as the protagonist sets himself and his halo to the task of fixing Shen Jiu because he now feels bad for his teacher and also wants a good one.

Watches in confused terror as the protagonist, who cannot fail what he sets his mind to and has already made QiuJiu a thing, also sets himself to the task of setting his friend/mentor/shishu/baking buddy up with his frosty prince charming.

Watches in befuddlement as Binghe defeats monster after monster by winning them over with his cooking and making animal friends of them.

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I have now begun to post my art on this blog. Have a random witch-druid-elf thing with my chronically shitteir hair drawing skills. No name, just a doodle.

There will be a mix of digital and “I was bored and had space in my notes” type stuff for my personal art.

Yes I know it’s shit but I like to doodle, and I’m good with designs at least. I pay a better artist to clean up my sketches for like actual original works that need good art for them.

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So somehow the BNHA MXTX salt-factory has been shoved to the side like a LOT of the other fics I need to update and my personal OG stuff for…

Wei Wuxian raised by an immortal Druidic witch from like 190 ad Ireland that is a revamped version of my “fuck canon and fuck you, I’m shoving a borderline self insert into this shit to dad everything better” character.

Anyways his name is Herne Gallagher and he’s a huge goofy buff transmasc gay dad type of elf dude who just likes to vibe with his kids (adopted, “liberated” and otherwise) and make cool stuff and explore and hunt and crap.

I am not ashamed of projecting my “dream look” onto my fucking self insert, not am I ashamed of making almost every damn kid that guy “yoinks” gay or trans or autistic or some other random thing that would give him an excuse to take them away from shitty situations…

Or adding historical guns and shit to a Xianxia/Wuxia setting.

Jiang Yanli and Nie Huasang are gonna shot some mother fuckers and no one is gonna bat an eye even with the loud ass noise and it being blatantly obvious… among other characters doing some open and blatant murder in creative ways with their new power sets and weapons and poison and shit.

My fix it’s have a lot of murder for making things better, it seems.

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Not to be a stereotypical “dying Ao3 author”, but…

If I post anything to my Ao3 in the next couple months that’s… particularly unhinged, it’s probably bc I was high on pain meds.

I had this huge (read: grapefruit sized) cyst that had to be taken out emergently, and now I am suffering. On the one hand, I don’t feel as crappy as before and I got a free hysterectomy out of it bc it was a legit medically necessary thing so my trans guy ass won’t have to worry about any of that stuff again.

On the other hand, I am very loopy and sore and generally feel like shit.

Again, sorry for any unhinged crap.

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Rebloging bc this is also a great way to find stuff that’s not available “above board” bc companies are assholes

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

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I have a confession to make

The idea of Roronoa Zoro , fresh out of a huge fuck off kill-or-be-killed battle with a ton of people at once and completely alone and hopped up on an insane level of adrenaline, just sitting in the middle of the carnage and shredding it on a Shamisen with insanity in his eyes is freaking hot to me and idk where it came from.

Like, add in long ass hair that’s all over the place and ripped up Wano clothes (maybe darker overall versions, like his kimono/yu kata isn’t mostly white) and it’s just-

Perfection.

May actually attempt to draw a comic with this specific scene in mind tbh… would be dope even if I can’t draw too well.

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Modified A/B/O master post: Ac3’s version that is more “realistic” so to speak.

AKA: FERAL MAN AU

GENERAL STUFF

- I refer to all heats/ruts as “drops” generally speaking. It’s used as more of a slang term/colloquialism that goes both ways, and heat/rut are like medical terms. You “drop” out of society for like a week tops when it goes down, after all.

- suppressants and birth control vary on setting and time period, but generally speaking are like any other hormone regulator.

- no scent blockers, period. At least not not on the black market. People in my version get weirded out when they can’t smell what the people around them have going on…

- … which leads into the fact that all scents gain a “spoiled” or “burning” smell when the individual in question is distressed. Scents will be explained better in the next section.

- “packs” are usually a few couples, maybe more, or a polycule that live together and hep raise one another’s kids. Generally speaking, even if it’s a poly thing they each have their own “default” partner. Siblings/cousins may be in the same pack but never any other familial relationship besides their own kids.

- houses/apartments/etc are called “dens” and bedrooms are called “nests”. Each pack has a “den” and a “nest” for each couple, with a selection of others for the kids. Babies under 5 sleep with the parents, which is usually when they start to give off a scent other than baby powder (aka they’ve matured enough to start developing little by little. It’s like losing a tooth, it means you’re not a baby-baby anymore).

- what kids are called varies on the person and “base” (explained next section), but it’s usually Cub, Pup, Kit, Hatchling or Spawn. The real difference in what’s used is solely cultural, even if there are no eggs involved in certain terms.

- primary gender (what the person presents as in terms of like classical gender stuff) is more or less irrelevant and the only effect the “base” they start with has on them is how big their tits and hips are gonna get and what type of them, plus the general vibes you get off their faces and to an extent builds.

ANATOMY/PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL STUFF

- depending on setting (or even “subspecies”) different groups have different animal bases. In the same world/fic you could have the classic wolves alongside sea life (sirens/mermaids), snakes (nagas), birds (harpies), bats (vampires), really any combination of animal and human you can think of. You don’t even need to make it alternate monsters if you don’t want to, I just came up with that bc it’s fun to explore a new form of “race” layered on like how there’s 2 “sex” things you get in A/B/O stuff. This impacts physical characteristics, certain social elements, how they have kids (eggs v no eggs), and other minor details that are totally optional.

- betas are mostly normal folks except they have a fairly neutral earthy smell (think stones, dust, mud, etc.) and are a bit stronger than a standard human. They make up half the population. Betas have a 2-1-1 chance of a beta, alpha or omega kid of either primary gender.

- Alphas are a bit taller on average compared to Betas, prettier than them in a sort of elven way, and have sharper features. Generally lithe, built like runners or gymnasts. Pretty social, usually the ones who do negotiations and trade and the like. You’ll usually see these guys as teachers at schools or running shops. Definitly the most friendly of the bunch, but there are exceptions and when stressed or on edge they become pretty curt and quick to lash out. Middle of the road (physical) strength and speed wise. Better than betas, not as good as omegas. Scents are usually nature ones, like rivers, storms, plants and the like.

-Omegas…

Built like brick shit houses and they usually look 3 seconds from turning everyone around them into a smear on the ground. Aggressive, territorial, blunt, and the most feral of the bunch. If there are alternate forms involved in the thing I’m writing, these suckers tend to be SCARY as hell but in a pretty way. Overall they fully embody the “angry mama bear” trope… 24/7. They are like this because they are the ones who need to rear and guard the kids even if the alpha is gone for some reason or another. They do the hunting, the set up of dens, the kid wrangling, that kinda thing. They smell like “treats” and warm drinks, generally spiced and/or sweet things. Coffee, breads, pies, apple cider, tea, that kinda thing. Most also have a milky undertone somewhere in their scent if they are able to have kids. Once they hit menopause the milky scent is changed to a bit of a fruity chalk- like one, like crushed smarties.

Omegas are very much “yes murder” and the betas and alphas keep them in check with “no murder” and “some murder is okay but not now honey we need this guy to get that nice herbed goat cheese you love so much”. Omegas and alphas have a 1-2-2 ratio of having a beta, alpha or omega kid if they get with a beta. If it’s an alpha and an omega, it becomes 1-3-3.

A lot of social stuff is more or less determined by micro expressions, scents, simple noises and body language. Some people literally only talk in the local language maybe once every couple weeks when they go get groceries or something. Omegas are the worst about it, but also able to make the widest range of sounds and most proficient in the “language”. Betas have the hardest time with the more “feral” side of things, obviously, and make up about half the population. Betas typically live in towns and cities while the other half of society lives out in the wilds or countryside and either have a solid territory or wander around as nomads.

In short, more accurate to the animal kingdom A/B/O set up with a dash of “wouldn’t it be funny if the “mom” role was filled by a brick shithouse man who looks like he’s gonna murder you if you breathe wrong 5 houses over and the “big scary alpha” was a pretty boy who’s shorter than the “wife” and kinda the one you’d think was the “mom”?” Because I’m weird.

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Adding to this, given that MoShang are arguably more “drama-worthy” (bc everyone loves court dramas and MBJ has been a well known ruler LONGER than LBH) there may actually be MORE of them.

Think about it. This scrawny, twink-looking dorky nerd (if you go off the English novel art and the general perception of An Ding) is just following around this huge scary dangerous ice/shadow demon king, doing paperwork and talking about the kingdom and stuff and proving he’s pretty smart. Normally this kind of stuff would probably make MBJ annoyed at best, but he’s fairly chill for demon standards (and even flirting if some of the headcanon/fanfic stuff I’ve seen is actually book-world-accurate) and not murdering the human who’s bugging him.

MBJ could probably crush SQH with one hand, but he’s just letting him do his thing.

Odd behavior from a notoriously aggressive demon king, cross species romance, size difference, actual legit court drama excuses, human who can get by alright in the demon realm and isn’t trying to erradicate them, I could go on.

The issue isn’t IF there’s MoShang smut novels in SVSSS…

It’s who’s writing them (prob. Sha hualing tbh) and how… questionable they get bc these ain’t humans these are demons writing smut for primarily demons.

If Bingqiu gets their own little stories, then I'm sure people would also start writing about the cold and powerful Demon King of the North and his most trusted advisor

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is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

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I am make Bing-pup.

Loop stitch is a godteir plushie skill and stupid easy.

Him is gonna be shmol.

And yes, I’m starting a running public Google doc (only I can edit edition) with all my crochet patterns for MXTX stuff. Currently focusing on SVSSS. This will include explanations and links to good tutorials for all skills needed, standardized supplies (all same yarn weight/hook sizes staying p close to one another), and guides on how to read a written pattern. Aim is for it to be slightly advanced beginner level.