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Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?

not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:

wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.

xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.

chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah

cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well. like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah

TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia

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I can help but giggle at the idea of Zhongli being like. Hmm yes I can teach the young ones something, I’ll start simple and it’s like. Way overpowered or more complicated than what they’re used to here. And so he’s just. Casually teaching a high level technique calling it simple and they’re all O_O

pretty much yeah hahah

zhongli: well if we look at it as though i'm lvl 100 and you all are lvl 20, then a lvl 19 technique should be easy pickings, right? the kids, lvl 1: uh-

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I’m aware this is probably a bit too early but what’s one of your favorite things about your new fic so far? There’s so much fun in the start of a new story, especially with all you’re setting up. What’s something you’re looking forwards to that isn’t gonna be spoilers?

zhongli trying to pretend like he knows wtf is going on 100% of the time and not just winging most of everything outside of exorcism stuff lmao

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Thank you! I follow some fics that update between 1-3 months, so this is actually very exciting for me! You write such nice stories and nice long chapters, I kinda expected there to be more than that. I hope you have fun with this one, and thanks for answering my question

always happy to answer questions! and yeah, i do also follow fics that take their sweet time updating. and like- as an author i completely understand why it takes so long to make a chapter, but as a reader i cannot help but wish they were faster hahaha in the end i just appreciate that they continue their stories at all, so long as the next chapter comes i can wait for actual literal years. it's happened before.

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I’m mega excited for your new fic and just. Andjfkkfkfkf a god who’s got years of cultivation and exorcism knowledge under his belt is gonna be so fucking overpowered. Let me casually feel out the tectonic plates. I can’t wait to see what techniques he passes on and how this goes! I’m not very familiar with Wuxia, but I’ve seen some fun analysis from Ashikai that touches on the topic so I’m not completely lost here. I’m just !!!! Excited!!!!

wuxia and xianxia are confusing at first but i think it's mostly bc of the foreign terminology. so if you make a wuxia and adapt it to more western-ish terminology like how genshin functions, then it becomes a whole lot less daunting for outside audiences. so that's more or less what i'm going for! i am aware that there's some terms i won't be able to avoid using bc they're so awkward to use translated, but i'll just add them to the notes. i mean who knows, after this maybe people will get into their first proper wuxia/xianxia hahah

anyway,

thank you!! i'm so excited to keep writing this story, so i'm very happy people are excited to read it!

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Hello. I’d like to preface this by saying this is absolutely no rush and I’m not trying to demand chapters, I’d just like to ask if you have any anticipated timeline on updates. Some authors upload on a set schedule, and other times it’s a welcome surprise because I have no idea. I adore your works, but I was only introduced to them after they’d been finished, so I’m asking because I have genuinely no idea. Again, no rush, you’re amazing and it’s lovely that you share such gems with us to begin with.

no worries, perfectly valid question! i must admit that i have no set schedule, as in, no updates every specific amount of time? but i do usually stick to updating once or twice every two weeks. like once every week plus a couple of days.

so i guess your takeaway can be that no, i don't take an entire month to update (not that i think there's anything wrong with that) but i also rarely update in less than a week. it depends. the second chapter of every fic always comes out so much quicker bc i'm riding the inspiration wave of freshly posted fic and the need to give you guys a little bit more than just one chapter to go off on hahah

so yeah, sorry it's not a specific answer! but it is what it is

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Holy shit I’m so excited new fic!!!! I can’t wait to see how this goes. It looks so cool already

v happy of the reception jg is getting

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Fox OC anon reminded me I named my own Snezhnayan fox oc after CN- namely, I named him Morozko Zvezdochoty (I had him way before you published CN- timeline wise I think he's been in my notes since right before the beginning of ITYSG(AINLY)? so a While. He's a blizzard spirit!)

Thank you for your contribution to solving an oc creator's name struggles, it was much appreciated

oh! that's so cute, i'm so happy i helped that way also! boy if i know naming characters can be a huge pain sometimes

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….. it honestly could’ve been hilarious if Venti was the one who had to try to explain it to Raiden and Zhongli. Like no please you gotta believe me and they’re both just looking at him like press X to doubt

oh yeah, they were lucky it was those two and not archons who do have a history of sometimes being unserious even in serious situations

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Read the first chapter of jadite and just yes. Good very very good i can't wait for MOAR jismtngdzkseebnedhdbndydddhndhygte

good, glad to see people are enjoying it!!

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Heyyy, sooo... I've been thinking about cyanide narwhal (again) and um... I couldn't get it out of my head and I had an idea for a book cover and so... umm... yeah. here are two that i just... whipped up for no other reason just to get it out of my head. so yeah...

wait these are actually very cool??

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It is a very wild story. Time travel, one of the descendants of the arc ending up ascending to celestia, beating them up to prevent the archon war, and then going back to beat celestia again and kill Asmoday. Like. There is this one dude out there running on survival out of sheer spite, and he decided yeah I’m gonna fight god and beat the system in under a week total.

basically yeah

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I’m rereading a bunch of your works and like. I gotta say you absolutely nailed Childe in a way that makes it hard for me to read some of the other fics involving him because like. The specific brand of insecurity, the need to be useful, the way honing yourself into a weapon to survive and seeing yourself as a monster affects you like. Ooooooh my god. That’s the best. It’s amazing and I wish it was easier to find more stuff like it

thank you,,,,,,,,

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I’m rereading cyanide narwhal and I’m curious (sorry if this has been asked before) like. What do the original timeline gods make of everything when Celestia, Beelzebul and Rex Lapis return?

i don't think it's been asked before, no worries

i think- like in any other scenario i'd tell you rex lapis and raiden sit everyone down and then tell them all that happened? and then it's a sort of... have you seen those tiktoks where they have 'no me diga' as the music and they film themselves telling their friends some absolute horrendous tea and only record the reactions of complete and utter shock but no actual audio? like that. so rex lapis and raiden give them a rundown and everyone else is like ????????????? WHAT???????

but like.

by the time they come back, literally the only god there to do that with is nahida, and she sort of collapses as soon as irminsul reconnects with the abyss. they do tell her and she does have an ?????????? reaction when they do (after she's recovered). as for the others, though, they decide to wait for everyone to reappear at first? and for a long-ass while it's only venti, and he manages to bully the info out of them at some point bc furina/neuvillette and natlan's god are taking forever to show up.

basically it's what i first mentioned but not all at once. first is nahida. then it's venti, and he like- turns to look at naida like are they fr????? and she just gives him a dead tired look like yeah. yeah they fr.

and then the exact same thing happens whenever furina and neuvillette show up. except neuvillette is like WHAT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S ALL IT TOOK TO GET RID OF THEM???????????? (furina: do you like... still want to put the others on trial or.. neuvillette: give me like a century to sleep this one off. what the fuck)

and then i'd wager natlan's archon(s?) would also have their own ??????? reaction.

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Fox anon because I forgot to add this to the other one- the idea of a duo of con artists using that unknown cryptid status to go around is so funny to me? Like. Yeah sure he’s totally an adeptus/yokai, here to try your things before retreating back to the mountains to do some religious stuff. Yep.

yeah absolutely. nothing weird to see here. nah don't ask guuji about it please she'll ground him. yeah he did an oopsie and now she's mad at him and he can't have sweets. i know right? how could you do that to this face?

hilarious. cartographer adventurer realizes they're becoming a conman halfway through the journey on sheer accident and just by trying to play along and not cause trouble and they have a bit of a crisis about it at some point

foxboy: but you're not actually conning anyone? we're not doing something bad cartographer adventurer: that's not the problem!!!

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You pretty much got it, just make them dumbass teenagers who are a bit less likely when it comes to weaponizing confusing cryptid status. Fox boy is just happy to be there and is very excited to get to try new things (especially sweets).

teyvat lucky this boy only goes with the confusion for the shits and giggles and not to exploit people lmao