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This is genius, I need to grab some needles & buy fabric......

It continues.

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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 :)

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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

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Do you think that Drifter might start acting weird when Wally begins to take over Duviri? Drifter is Duviri so what if there's some signs like Drifter just having extreme emotional reactions to even the smallest of things? And that's what clues them in as to what's going on. Just a shower thought I had just now.

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Can we find a sun god or diety from every timezone and make a map of them all?

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You ever think the Drifter evolved somehow? They were fighting every second of their lives for centuries. The Void must've thought it'd be real funny to switch their body up.

Sharper teeth (give your drifters fangs PLEASE), tougher nails, higher stamina, tougher skin, being able to see in the dark via glowy eyes, better hearing, sharper sense of smell, heightened alertness, tougher muscles, better recovery, being able to survive lo ger without sustance, etc. They already have crazy recovery via void nonsense.

Ya know? Like. They must've. How else would they be able to survive suddenly being tossed into the origin system? In the midst of a war nonetheless. They even say they aren't exactly "human" anymore. By technicality, they don't even have a real physical body and just wonder around in the space between existence and non-existence! That's literally what the voidwalk ability is!

I think about it a lot.

Give your drifters fangs. Please. Void-y fangs. Please please.

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Damn, this long in here? Welp.

Doesn't make me younger, I was 16 when I created this blog, now I'm 28 😂

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Aside from giving a long life, what else does eating immortality peach give? Does it also make you become immortal like drink elixir and eat pill of immortality or it just give long life?

Also, are there difference between types of immortality that cultivating and eat elixir of immortality give?

As a rule of thumb: when you see "immortality" in Chinese lit, it usually just means "You won't age and die anymore" and doesn't say anything about whether you can still be killed.

In JTTW itself, QMoW's peaches, depending on how long it takes for them to ripen, seem to be able to 1) make you into a cultivated Daoist immortal with healthy & light body, 2) make you ascend into the skies and become unaging, and 3) make your lifespan as long as Heaven and Earth + Sun and Moon.

有三千六百株：前面一千二百株，花微果小，三千年一熟，人吃了成仙了道，體健身輕；中間一千二百株，層花甘實，六千年一熟，人吃了霞舉飛昇，長生不老；後面一千二百株，紫紋緗核，九千年一熟，人吃了與天地齊壽，日月同庚。」

In JTTS, it's also able to cure Huaguang's demonic mother of her craving for human flesh.

As for your second question: that has a lot to do with the external/internal alchemy divide.

The medieval institutional Daoist schools are mostly "external alchemists" in the sense that their pursuit of immortality is done by creating literal elixirs and pills in a furnace with minerals, thus when you read sth like Ge Hong's writings, his ranking and framing of immortality is done through that lens.

However, the idea that you attain immortality by absorbing Qi and meditating also exists in the Pre-Qin literature, and by the Tang-Song period, internal alchemy is starting to become more mainstream (maybe bc it's safer and doesn't come with as much heavy metal poisoning risks).

Instead of using literal furnaces and chemicals, it's about using your body as a furnace, and your Spiritual Mind & Vital Qi as the chemical and flames to create an "inner pill".

The vernacular Shenmo novels all lean more towards internal alchemy and see it as the superior path, with external alchemy either relegated to a supporting position or heavily satirized.

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Characters who were raised by wolves but somehow still learn how to speak and act human despite of having spent the key developing years without human contact are both unrealistic and frankly kind of boring and overdone by now. Imagine a character team where one of them is a (somewhat) realistic raised-by-wildlife grown feral child, and the other one is essentially a glorified handler, who manages all the people-business for both of them.

And the companion is the only other human person that the feral one trusts in any way at all. Better yet, make them clearly be romantically involved with each other. Like

"Wait, she's your wife? ...Uh, with all due respect, but can she like... Can she even consent?" "Look lad. I respect you being worried for her welfare and for being direct about that instead of circlin' around so I'm gonna be straight about it right back at you: She's bigger than me, stronger than me, and frankly, I don't think she spent much time wondering whether I'm consenting."

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Stories should have in-universe clichés and stereotypes. A teenage dragon rider who gets a dragon who will be his steed for life and is a solid inky black and immediately names her Midnight. He then immediately encounters someone who sees his steed who goes "lmao please don't tell me you're one of those young riders who gets a dark-colour dragon and immediately names it Darkness or Midnight or something, and starts acting like being dark and broody has been their whole thing their whole life."

And he immediately scrambles back like "oh no of course not that's cringe, her name is - uh - Daisy."

Meanwhile the Morbid Broody Dark Gothy One is bonded with a bright dandelion yellow dragon, naming her steed Sulfur and then revamps her whole aesthetic into a black-and-yellow Toxins, Poisons And Venoms -theme.

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No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."

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lizzie gijinka for fuuuun

i like to think the guitar riffs still play when she talks and flare is like "how are you doing that 😦"

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The Hex taking pictures of the Drifter but they ALWAYS look like analog horror photos of Bigfoot photos and there's zero in between.

None of them have an actual picture of Drifter.

The civvies ask what the blurry photos are and they just say "Oh yeah! That's our weird void cryptic that lives in the wall of an abandoned clothes store."

And they're completely serious.

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Lotus blossoms

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My Warframe art submission for the #Tennocon2025

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Drifter sits down and clears out each hex member with a flawless record when playing Komi. So obviously they ask, wow how'd you learn?

Now, Drifter is stuck in the moral dilemma of saying just luck or telling them they have a winning score of 50-1000 against a rabbit. The rabbit is winning.