#meanwhile the cold springs have a section reserved for trans ladies and nb people

[stiltonbasket]

Hi! I just read your fics and I love them! In the Qin Su!WWX au I believe you mentioned in a few places that WWX can no longer use cold springs bc it would be harmful (ig?) for hin in Qin Su's body?? I feel like I'm missing some lore here... How would it be bad for him? Is it like a gender thing or a cultivation type thing? And how do cultivation types differ based on gender/sex of a person?

In canon, women don't use the cold spring, so I ran with the idea that meditating in cold water is healthful for male cultivators (with excess yang energy), while meditating in hot water is healthful for female cultivators (with excess yin energy).

It's not harmful to go to the opposite gender's bathing area, but doing it too often might hamper one's cultivation. For trans and nonbinary disciples, they choose a bathing area depending on whether they've completed a cultivation-based physical transition. Wei Wuxian doesn't experience gender dysphoria in Qin Su's body, so he either a) goes to Lan Xichen's hot spring, which was originally built for Lan Yi or b) visits the women's hot spring/steaming rooms at a specific time designated for trans/nb folks.