#Nested Systems

[bsahely]

Kosmic Synthesis: The Seven Life-Functions of a Coherent Universe | ChatGPT4o

[Download Full Document (PDF)] Kosmic Synthesis: The Seven Life-Functions of a Coherent Universe offers a comprehensive, integrative vision of reality rooted in the living pattern of the Kosmos. The central thesis is that the Kosmos is not an inert object or a collection of random events, but a sentient, self-reflective field of becoming — governed by seven foundational life-functions that…

[sunderwight]

Scum Villain AU where Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu transmigrate by swapping lives (i.e. Shen Yuan wakes up in Shen Qingqiu's body on Qing Jing Peak, post-fever, while Shen Jiu wakes up in Shen Yuan's body in a hospital in modern China) but it doesn't quite work right.

The system glitches or something and they end up having to jointly time share their lives. Every time a certain moon phase or something (cyclical) comes around they abruptly switch back.

So they spend the entire time trying to undo everything the other one has been up to while everyone around them is just desperately attempting to figure out wtf is going on. Shen Yuan does the skinner quest and stops Luo Binghe's abuse, and Shen Jiu gets a job with a rival company and starts showing up Shen Yuan's brothers. Then they switch back and Shen Jiu is like "it's woodshed o'clock for the beast" and Shen Yuan resigns. Then they switch back again and Shen Yuan saves Liu Qingge's life and gets poisoned defending Luo Binghe, and Shen Jiu creates his own start-up and blackmails his eldest brother about the mistress he's just uncovered. Then they switch back and Shen Yuan gets his brother and his sister-in-law into couples counseling and Shen Jiu embarks on a quest to either cure himself without Liu Qingge's help or die trying.

Eventually they just start leaving bitchy messages for one another to find and doing things that won't cause lasting damage but are incredibly petty. Shen Yuan keeps trying to tell Shen Jiu to read PIDW but Shen Jiu takes one look at his merch-filled bachelor pad and immediately decides that his opinions aren't worth anything, so it takes him a while to actually do it (he is really mad about this when he finally opens the novel and it turns out to be extremely relevant information).

[deikshen]

Shen Yuan was a beta all his life so then, now, being the omega Shen Qingqiu who can no longer suppress his secondary gender by Without-a-cure, needs to learn to be an Omega.

The information in the books is damn unclear and it would not be right to go ask for help from disciples or brothels, so he just... Well, he knows that Shang Qinghua is a spy for the demons, and he knows that Mobei Jun is an Omega for his meta knowledge. So he decides to go and threaten Shang Qinghua's ass with exposing him with the other Peak Lords for treason unless he allows him to have private meetings with Mobei Jun.

(At some point, they both reveal themselves as transmigrants? Yes. But not at the beginning for more drama lol Shang Qinghua racking his brains over what the hell Shen Qingqiu the scum villain and HIS KING will talk about in private- )

So, in private meetings with Mobei Jun, Shen Qingqiu humiliates himself with a half-truth: he tells him that I had never experienced anything like omega (after all, the entire CQMS thinks Shen Qingqiu is a beta), and now with Without-a-cure he has stopped taking his suppressants because the damage they were doing to his health, so right now he doesn't know how to do omega basic things like nest, purr, scent, pack behavior...

Mobei Jun agrees to teach him all those omega things; in exchange, Shen Qingqiu will give him more information and those things that Shang Qinghua doesn't have access to, since Shen Qingqiu is, well, Peak Lord of the second most important peak. They make a half-hearted and reluctant agreement, but they are on the same page.

And Mobei Jun teaches him. He teaches him how to fix a nest and the different ways he can use it. How apply blankets properly for softness, or comfort, or space, depends on what suits him. Teaches him to scent with the necessary amount of pheromones on people, objects, pack gifts, puppy gifts- It is a different level for each situation, and it is very necessary that it be respected, because otherwise it could give the wrong message!!

It also teaches purring, different growls, the type of reactions these sounds would have in Alphas or other Omegas. Also what kind of fabrics or robes are more comfortable to wear closer to the heat, what herbs to avoid, what kinds of things might not help him, what types of foods to stock up on for those occasions.

There is a lot of monosyllabic talk, a lot of directions and teachings, and Mobei Jun is not really the type to talk a lot, but neither is Shen Qingqiu, so unless necessary, they won't say much that is not so very important. They drink tea (iced) and they always end their secret meetings by scenting their wrists. It's a habit. Mobei Jun's omega scent is clear like ginger-mint and somewhat spicy, but it doesn't smell demonic itself, then it can go unnoticed.

The change in Shen Qingqiu's Omega behavior is noticeable, not only among the now very spoiled puppy disciples, but among the Peak Lords. Mu Qingfang is glad that Shen Qingqiu is finally accepting being part of the pack, scenting them, giving them scented gifts for their own common spaces. Alphas and betas do not necessarily nest, but in their homes they often have things with the aromas of their packs, giving shape to their home.

There is only one notable difference. Mobei Jun, of course, has taught his omega knowledge biased by his demonic family teaching. So, Shen Qingqiu finds himself... biting.

He bites his disciples' cheeks, he bites their little hands when he comes to scent them. It is easier to give them little bites, so they will only laugh or blush.

He bites Liu Qingge's cheek, one day the Alpha gets really close to him sniffing the clear scent of Mobei Jun on him, asking who is. In defense of Shen Qingqiu, he became nervous!!! And Liu Qingge stepped away as if he had been set on fire, walking away like a penguin.

Randomly bites Mu Qingfang's hands when he is checking him out by Without-a-cure, little bites on his fingers, on his knuckles. Mu Qingfang blushes, steps back, and quickly notes down the reactions. Pff. As if it wasn't normal for Omegas to bite and lick their packs!! Now they will tell that Omegas should not court their Alphas by proving they can kill them in a fight only to decide not to! Of course Binghe's harem didn't work like that, but those were female Omegas! He was a male Omega, that would make the difference, wouldn't it?

So, just, Shen Qingqiu is there, gifting his packs with things with his scent, purring when some Alpha around him is stressed, biting hands, wrists, cheeks. He shamelessly sits close to anyone and drenches them with his scent. He's much more tactile with everyone. He makes comfortable public-nesting spaces in gardens where he invites his youngest disciples (and Binghe, because how could he deprive Binghe of those experiences?! The poor boy is always hungry for affection, hugs, pats and bites more than any other disciple) to snuggle with him while purring and playing some music, just as Mobei Jun had explained that Omegas did with their pups so they could relax after long days-

(The other Peak Lords don't know if Shen Qingqiu has gone mad or is trying to court them all. They also don't want to risk asking and ruining whatever's going on.)

(Amidst all this, and instinctively, both Mobei Jun and Shen Qingqiu begin to see and feel like a pack. They give each other scented blankets, their scents are in their respective nests. There are new jewels among Shen Qingqiu's hair accessories, and new necklaces hanging over Mobei Jun's open necklines. They are a pack. Family of some strange and accidentally acquired kind. Even Shen Qingqiu relaxes in Mobei Jun's nest once while waiting for him due to an urgency among the rebellious demons - which almost causes Shang Qinghua to almost have a qi deviation when he sees him, comfortable in his king's nest just reading.)

(At some point, Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu reveal themselves to be transmigrants- and Shang Qinghua is laughing his fucking shit off, because now he has the explanation of everything, and he's definitely not going to tell him that the normal omega mode of demons is the omega-courtship-family mode of humans. Nope. He'll let Cucumber-bro figure it out for himself.)

[teerantula]

Shen "Don't talk to me or my dumplings" Qingqiu

[fairsweetlonging]

more peak lord preen abilties!! with inspiration from @sillygoofyqueer <3

yue qingyuan is the most thorough and gentle preener, having the experience to know what to do, but he never seeks out shen qingqiu for it and never asks because he's afraid to cross a line (also sometimes the hesitance makes shen qingqiu nervous and the barely-there touches can be a sensory nightmare)

liu qingge is a little harsh but he tries his best, definitely needs a lot of guiding, but is very good if there's a deep rooted itch and much needed shedding; also is hesitant to volunteer even though he will fight others for it; has taken shen qingqiu for flights on his sword so he can still feel the wind in his wings when without a cure acts up; has definitely had shen qingqiu sprawled out across his lap in bliss once and is still riding that high

mu qingfang is a gentle, diligent preener, always has tea and cakes at the ready, but he tends to go into long talks of wing disease and parasites and does without a cure need checking..? probably was the first one to notice shen qingqiu's feather picking behavior. is really good at freeing ripe pin feathers. is the third dog sneaking away with the bone when the other peak lords are fighting each other over whose turn it is to help out

shang qinghua isn't the best preener, he mostly runs his fingers through the feathers and pulls a little too hard, but he can yap shen qingqiu into next week and keep up conversation when shen qingqiu doesn't feel like talking; one time shen qingqiu tried to lean against him and tuck one leg, but shang qinghua misunderstood and stepped away and shen qingqiu fell over; has been given a wing-hug

qi qingqi is a good preener with an eye for detail, and her gossip is always fresh, but her combing is not for the weak! some of her disciples keep asking for feathers for personal projects (they're so pretty and shiny!); she's encouraging shen qingqiu to use his wings to fight

wei qingwei will pick shen qingqiu up and kidnap him to his peak to sit him down for tea and wingcare if he notices his wings are disheveled; is a total dad about it, casually reaching out to fix stray feathers or gently pull out a loose one whenever

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bonus binghe!

binghe has a collection of feathers he found while cleaning shizun's room

he can't get enough of the way shizun's wings flap and floof up when he's eating binghe's food

keeps trying to add stuff to shen qingqiu's nest (he tried his own robes once, but it didn't work), wants desperately to be invited in

is jealous of everyone who's been allowed to preen shizun's wings (he's the head disciple and shizun's favorite, cleaning the house and cooking food, it should be his job to do wingcare!!)

[heyhylix]

Also I’m not done, allos I am BEGGING y’all to take off ur shipping goggles and engage with fiction in ways other than making two characters kiss, learn what qpr is and listen to aros when we tell u you are mischaracterizing SecUnit as someone who didn’t nearly vomit at the thought of being involved with sex or romance

[florizzia]

『A.U — A.B.O』

Os discípulos do pico Qing Jing (todos Ômegas, e em sua maioria oriundos das ruas ou bastardos de famílias abastadas) não sabem como montar um ninho até que Shen Qingqiu descubra e se force a ensiná-los.

Shen Qingqiu fica abismado ao descobrir que nenhuma das crianças sob sua tutela conhecem o mínimo de sua própria biologia secundária, então essa é outra coisa que ele se vê ensinando-os.

De alguma forma, isso muda tudo.

E se por acaso Shen Qingqiu pareça estar com um humor melhor, mesmo com um bando de crianças escondidas sob suas mangas, não era da conta de ninguém.

[The disciples of Qing Jing Peak (all Omegas, and most of them either street urchins or bastards from wealthy families) don't know how to set up a nest until Shen Qingqiu figures it out and forces himself to teach them.

Shen Qingqiu is shocked to discover that none of the children under his tutelage know the slightest bit about their own secondary biology, so this is another thing he finds himself teaching them.

Somehow, this changes everything.

And if by any chance Shen Qingqiu seemed to be in a better mood even with a bunch of children hiding under his sleeves, it was no one's business.]

[opal-owl-flight]

filled with sooo so much yearning

[bsahely]

Integral Harmonic Realism: Synthesizing Wilber’s Integral Theory and Harmonic Mirror Cosmology | ChatGPT4o

[Download Full Document (PDF)] Integral Harmonic Realism (IHR) is a unification of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and the Harmonic Mirror Cosmology (HMC). Wilber’s model — AQAL: All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types — offers a powerful meta-framework for understanding consciousness and evolution. HMC contributes a precise ontological structure describing how reality emerges…

[sunderwight]

SV No Abyss Fluff "Feral Binghe" AU where Shen Qingqiu manages to get around having to throw Luo Binghe into the Abyss, but unfortunately this means he has to get him away from Jue Di Gorge before anyone else catches them, while Luo Binghe is steadily losing more and more control over his behavior. In PIDW, this stage of Luo Binghe's seal breaking was handled by virtue of him being in the Abyss, and just killing every single thing that crossed his path until the feral trance broke and his mind cleared up again. It was barely noticeable as a thing that happened, because being in the Abyss meant he was pretty much on a 24/7 killing spree regardless of his frame of mind.

But without the Abyss to field Luo Binghe's bloodlust, Shen Qingqiu's got to keep him relatively calm and distracted while hauling his ass out of a demon-infested gorge also full of potentially hostile cultivators, get him back to Qing Jing Peak, and then keep him under control until he can calm down enough to regain his faculties.

A task that should have been impossible, frankly, except that for some "mysterious" reason, Luo Binghe will still listen (somewhat) to Shen Qingqiu even while he's out of his mind? At least he will come back if Shen Qingqiu calls him, and he doesn't seem inclined to wander very far away either, and he seems to recollect Without-a-Cure on some level and fusses over Shen Qingqiu's flare-ups. Though in this case, the 'fussing' involves a lot more cuddling than Shen Qingqiu is accustomed to.

However, Feral Demon Binghe doesn't seem to be very good at differentiating friend-from-foe in basically any other case. The good news is, in this AU Binghe has a demonic form that makes him pretty much unrecognizable to anyone who didn't already see his transformation (a group comprised solely of Shen Qingqiu, Mobei Jun, and Shang Qinghua), the bad news is that Shen Qingqiu has to stop him from killing his own future wives multiple times (he even attacks Liu Mingyan!) and all the Cang Qiong attendees think that Shen Qingqiu has been kidnapped by some kind of rampaging demon beast.

[stiltonbasket]

can we have a snippet from the qijiu baby sy au?? i love that au so much omg

here you go, anon! ____

“And you?” Su Yongchen asks. “What of your parents?”

Shen Yuan draws his knees up to his chest and stares into the fire. 

“It is not a tale I enjoy recounting,” he admits at last. “There is nothing good in it, save that I came into existence as a result of their entanglement: and though I am grateful for it, my birth brought nothing good to anyone else.”

“I would like to hear the story, nevertheless,” Su Yongchen says gently. “I told you all I know about my parents—of my mother’s capture and her death, of my father’s unjust imprisonment and the wreck I made of my own life when I was a youth—and I found myself unburdened when the telling was over. You might find that it will be the same for you.”

“Perhaps,” replies Shen Yuan. “Very well, then.”

He takes a shallow breath and wraps Su Yongchen’s borrowed shawl closer about his shoulders.

“From what my uncle revealed to me, my parents met when they were quite young," he says. "They grew up together, and were educated together; but at some point—when they were about sixteen, I think—they fought, and were estranged from one another. As for the cause of the estrangement—Uncle never knew what it was, but the two of them were on ill terms for the next thirty-odd years. 

“From the way Father treated her, it was clear that he held a grudge against my mother. He could not speak more than two sentences to her without insulting her, and drove her from his house whenever she tried to visit him. She was in love with my father, you see, so she kept trying to reconcile with him. And he knew that she loved him: but whatever the old wrong was, in Fuqin’s eyes, it was so grievous that it killed any feelings that he might have held in return.”

Su Yongchen frowns. “But then—if you will forgive my asking—how did you come to be?”

“His grudge only kept him from returning her love,” Shen Yuan replies. “It did not prevent him from—from bedding her. He told me that she would have done anything for him: and that he was sick of looking at her, knowing that her heart was pleading for his forgiveness when he had no intention of granting it. So, then…”

His voice dies away. 

“I—I hope it was only the once,” he says, as Su Yongchen bends closer to hear him. “Fuqin told me that he could, because Mother would permit it—so he did. He hoped she would realize that her love was hopeless, afterward—and that she would see that he did not love her, only pitied her, and held her in contempt for her weakness. He wanted to hurt her so badly that she would withdraw from him completely—for he did not offer to marry her, or give her any tenderness that might raise her hopes. But then I was conceived; and regardless of how cruel my father had been, my mother chose to keep me.”

“And then she died?”

Shen Yuan nods.

“Yes. My father was not there when it happened. It was swift, from what I heard; if she had died five minutes earlier, my mother and I would have been buried together. But after Father returned and found her dead, he was never the same again.

"He took up drinking; and after my mother’s funeral, he behaved as if she had been the great beloved of his life. He hated to have me near him, because my birth had killed her, but he would often watch me sleep when he was drunk—for I resemble my mother exactly, save for my eyes. They are his, you see: and when I had them closed, he could imagine that she was still alive. 

“I did not grow up under my father's care,” he explains, upon glimpsing the concern on Su Yongchen’s face. “There was an incident, when I was about three years old—I don’t remember exactly what happened, and Shushu would never tell me, but I once heard the servants saying that Father had nearly killed me. After that, I was taken from him and raised in my uncle’s house.”

“Good heavens!” Su Yongchen cries, wrapping his arms around Shen Yuan’s shoulders. And then, tentatively: “Did you have to see him again after that?”

“Once every month, to curb his drinking,” Shen Yuan admits. “After I left, he drank enough to drive himself into delirium thrice each week, so that he could conjure up my mother's image in his dreams. My uncle said that it would grieve my mother in the afterlife if he came to her untimely, even though he had proved unfit to raise me; so it would be better if I sat with him once a month and let him pretend that Muqin was still with him.

“But I was happy, in spite of all that. I rarely saw my father; my uncle brought me up and loved me as his own, and I wanted for nothing in his care.”

He had a wonderful childhood, now that he thinks about it. He still remembers the afternoons he spent at his Shizun’s side, grinding seeds for medicine in his own tiny mortar while Wei-shishu fed him warm shoutao with soy milk—for he received nothing but kindness from his adoptive fathers, and when he was with them, he could almost forget that Shen Qingqiu had any relation to him at all.

"That is the whole of it," he says wryly, after a long silence. "But you must not feel sorry for me. There was only one person deserving of pity in this entire matter: and pity will do no good to her, so let us say no more about it."

[stxrsys]

“I think about x daily” “I think about this at least 3 times a week” I say. “How is that even possible” they ask. Simple. I’m busy doing stuff while the brain decided to scoop up that Thing I Think About and made it a nest in my mindscape. It is inescapable.

[anubiarts]

the NES can produce mind-boggling effects

[masquerade-flags]

(general/all types) Subsystem flag, simplified

Separated Subsystem, Prism Subsystem, and Nested Subsystem flags

Separated Subsystem - A group of alters that have one or more things that tie them together, despite all having their own internal bodies.

The most common reasons a group of alters would be considered a separated subsystem are usually either, there are strong communication and/or memory barriers between them and the rest of the system. And/or they all split from the same alter and/or formed at the same time for the same reason.

Prism Subsystem - A term we have been using to describe one of our subsystem. More or less meaning a subsystem that often function like a nested subsystem, however alters may sometime leave the shared body, and begin functioning like a separated subsystem. Before returning to their previous state.

Nested Subsystem - A group of alter that share a internal body and usually function similarly to how systems function in the outer world. This is the type most usually think of when the hear the word subsystem.

This description is bad and rambly probably we didn't sleep well

The general flag is supposed to have design aspects reminiscent of the other three and the purple and the kind of orangish color is cuz that's kind of the colors I associate with Alters probably because of the oldest the cdd flag at the teal is for disassociation and dissociative barriers cuz it's the awareness color for disassociation

For the separated subsystem flag the transparency is supposed to represent the both them not sharing an inner World body and distance from other subgroupings within the system

I'm going to be honest the prism subsystem flag is mostly just designed like that cuz it looks kind of like a prism and I thought it would look cool

The nested subsystem is both supposed to resemble nesting dolls as well as having kind of a woven look to represent the physical subsystem of the altars

[plural-culture-is]

fictive culture is "does this count as source trauma. it doesn't right. WAIT FUCK DOES IT." and OCtive culture is the host feeling bad for giving it to you

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