Chapter 4 of Beast Peak AU is up! Featuring Luo Binghe having a normal one, Evil Sword being the worst wingman, and Shen Yuan doing a bad job of parsing the new plot, like usual. ~7.8k words

(This is the same AU that @othersharkss' art is for!)

i just have this persistent feeling of “i’m not doing enough” combined with “i don’t have the energy to do anything” and it just really fucking sucks

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

Telegraphing his movements like Shen Qingqiu is some—some spooked animal, Liu Qingge slowly approaches. Shen Qingqiu doesn’t move. Tension chords through his muscles, making him stiff and knotted.

Liu Qingge sits down next to him, and then reaches out a slow hand. Shen Qingqiu watches, helpless, as Liu Qingge folds a larger hand over Shen Qingqiu’s. A tremor runs through Shen Qingqiu’s arm.

[…]

All too quickly, Shen Qingqiu unfurls his fingers. Liu Qingge’s eases the stick out of his palm, brushing flakes of bark off the mounds and lines. His touch is so careful, so slow, that it makes Shen Qingqiu’s arm shake again.

Liu Qingge puts the stick on the ground.

“You won’t treat her poorly if she goes to Qing Jing, will you?” Liu Qingge asks, drawing back to fold his hands in his lap. He looks at Shen Qingqiu, unwavering. “Shen Qingqiu?”

He asks. He’s asking this of Shen Qingqiu. The question is no overture to a threat. Liu Qingge could threaten him. He’s stronger than Shen Qingqiu. The better cultivator.

Yet Liu Qingge is baring his neck, utterly aware of Shen Qingqiu’s cruel bite, and asking him to be kind.

Liu Qingge thinks Shen Qingqiu can be kind.

I don’t know how! Shen Qingqiu doesn’t cry. Don’t ask this of me! I don’t know kindness!

But despite the pulp of hate grown over Shen Qingqiu’s heart—

He doesn’t want to willingly break Liu Qingge’s belief. Not yet. It may be inevitable one day, but for now…

“No, I won’t,” Shen Qingqiu says, voice cracking. He looks away, feeling terribly weak, feeling brilliantly powerful, feeling utterly seen. “Your sister would do too well to bother me anyway.”

- A Cat Beneath the Wintersweet Bush by redketchup Chapter 3

Some Liujiu for @redketchup for their wonderful fic— go read!! Thank you so much for commissioning me!

This fic is soooo good it’s like in my top Liujiu fics

Misc from bluesky! Some folks were nice enough to give me cat references, haha

The Turtle Sage - Krist0ff_Mar10

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me finishing the most middest, time wasting art known to human kind but I lowkey fw it:

"Qige will come back... he promised."

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Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 (Here)

Behind the scenes info under the read more!

Bronze age ship discovered

look inside

made of wood

it's made of wood because all the bronze was used to make the age, not the ships. obviously

🪷 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🪷

MXTX Rarepair Zine is excited to announce our next writer: @primtheamazing !

Prim the Amazing's favorite rarepair is Shang Qinghua/Shen Qingqiu, aka cumplane!

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Please welcome @artsarasp to the Cāng Qióng Archives as one of our amazing page artists! ✨

Through her art, memories of the Disciple Era can be traced in each line of ink 🖋️ ✒️

Role: Page Artist

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