Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

no. I mean romanticize whatever you want. my stance has always been “write whatever you want, however you want.”

not to mention that you can’t always tell if something romanticizes bad things. two people can read the same fic, one can say “this romanticizes non-con”, the other can say, “no, this doesn’t romanticize anything.” it’s all about each person’s interpretation. it’s all subjective.

that said, if someone wants to romanticize bad things in fiction, then go ahead. it’s their rights and their freedom to create whatever they want, however they want. no censorship means nothing is censored, doesn’t matter how it was written/created.

and if these taboo fantasies are someone’s fetish, then as long as they’re not harming anyone in real life, what turns them on is literally none of your business.

incest and cnc kinks have always been one of the most popular kinks, and most people who are into them can separate fiction from reality.

(and if some of them can’t, their inability to separate fiction, kinks and fantasies from reality is not other people’s problem or responsibility.)

fanfiction is not an act of activism. someone’s kink and what they do in bed with their consenting partner is not an act of activism. kill the moral cop in your head. fanfiction and kinks don’t have to be “morally correct”. it can be whatever turns a person on, however turns a person on, and as long as no one in real life is harmed, what they do and how they do it is no one’s business.

Shizun had told him why they were down here, as much as he could anyway. He was here to get stronger and find the sword Xin Mo, which would allow him to escape the Abyss.

That's what the System wanted. Shizun hadn't told him that name, he'd just remembered Shizun using it. He's never called it it's name out loud except once.

Shizun had clamped a hand over his mouth and begged him not to say it again. Binghe had complied, though the next time they slept he hadn't been able to find Shizun in their dreams. When he woke up Shizun had already been awake and looked ill. He wouldn't tell Luo Binghe what had happened.

Binghe had questions. But he can't ask them just anywhere. It's a long time before they find a safe spot to rest in for more than a few hours.

They'd killed the creature living in this cave and taken it as their own, Shizun has warded the entrance against anything that might happen by... This was as safe as they could currently be.

"Shizun?" he asked. He had- quite sneakily he thought- corralled Shizun in to back corner of the cave.

"Yes Binghe?"

"What if I don't get Xin Mo? There's natural rifts in the Abyss right? We could find one of those instead."

"That could take years," Shizun said. ",The other rifts aren't regular and are often unstable so they don't last long."

It's a perfectly sensible answer and if Binghe couldn't hear the buzzing of the thing that controlled Shizun he might have taken it at face value.

"That might be safer than trusting some sword." A sword that Shizun had been subtly warning him against when the buzzing isn't there.

Shizun looked scared for a heartbeat- Binghe hated that expression, he'll rip System apart one day just for all the times it's made Binghe see it-and then it happened again. Shizun goes still and his eyes turn a strange glowing blue.

He thought for a moment the thing inside his Shizun would speak, but it just stared at him.

"System," he said. The thing had been buzzing at an earsplitting volume already - but it pitched up as Binghe spoke. "What if I don't get Xin Mo?"

He's expecting the way the thing reached for Shizun's sword, his hand grabbed Shizun's off the hilt- but then Shizun's other hand drew a small dagger from an inside pocket and turned the blade on himself.

Binghe grabbed the blade of the knife as it sank into Shizun's neck. Shizun doesn't flinch despite the immediate stream of blood down his neck. He also doesn't stop trying to stabbing himself, the knife still cutting into Binghe's palm.

He could likely overpower Shizun this one time, but if System didn't stop...

"I understand." he said, unable to make it sound like he wasn't drinking a whole barrel of vinegar. " This one will find Xin Mo."

System smiled at him with Shizun's face.

The knife clattered to the ground.

"Your hand!" Shizun said. His dark eyes full of worry.

Binghe relaxed and pressed his bleeding hand firmly to the wound on Shizun's neck, more blood mites wouldn't hurt.

"Shizun first." Binghe said firmly even as Shizun fussed over him.

He didn't start healing the cut on his hand until Shizun's injury was healed fully and he left a scar behind when he did, to remind himself to do better. He couldn't let Shizun be hurt because of him again.

Shizun's face was blank again but this was the familiar blank he did when he didn't want to show anyone what he was feeling. Binghe thought he could guess though.

He pulled Shizun in for a hug and was pleased at how tightly Shizun gripped him back.

"I'm going to save you Shizun." he promised.

"You shouldn't bother with-"

"I will."

Shizun sighed and rested his head on Binghe's shoulder.

Meng Mo pointed to that as proof of his demonic heritage but Luo Binghe was still holding on to the hope that he was just special in some other, non-demonic, way.

The weirdest thing about his enhanced hearing was the buzzing. It wasn't always there, and he only ever heard it in the Bamboo House. Shizun didn't hear it, he'd asked. It was weirdly faint and...it was almost like he felt it more than heard it? It was like a buzzing beehive but...higher?

No one else could hear it either though maybe that was because Binghe was garbage at describing it.

It isn't until he hears it on a night hunt that Luo Binghe realizes. He doesn't hear it only in the Bamboo House. He only hears it around Shizun.

That revelation allows him to narrow it down. Whenever he hears the noise Shizun will be staring into space, looking sad or upset. When Binghe interrupts him in these moments the sound will end and Shizun is the same as ever.

Sometimes when Binghe is busy in the kitchen or in his room late at night he'll hear Shizun muttering to himself. He doesn't mean to eavesdrop but with his advanced hearing it can't be helped.

"How many points do I have?"

"...no I don't need that."

"I don't understand how you get your scores for these things."

One night Luo Binghe dozes off in his room early, he'd been busy all day and had just laid down to read. He wakes up to Shizun entering his room some time later. He keeps his eyes closed. The buzzing is here too.

Shizun extinguishes Binghe's lamp and gently takes the book from Binghe's chest.

"System? Is the Abyss event unavoidable?" Shizun whispers.

Binghe cracks his eyes open just a sliver. In the dark Shizun's face is unreadable but there's... Something reflecting in his eyes, something blue.

Shizun sighs deeply and waves a hand dismissively. The buzzing stops, and Shizun leaves.

____

The Abyss buzzes. Like the invisible thing that follows Shizun. He can still hear that thing buzzing now, even over the noise of the Abyss. Shizun has his sword out, pointed at Binghe- but his eyes keep sliding off to the side.

"What are you looking at?" Binghe demands. "What's the buzzing thing that follows you around? Why do you listen to it??"

For the first time since his seal broke Shizun looks straight at him. He looks terrified.

"I'm not- There's nothing-" Shizun lies.

When Binghe moves towards him he moves his sword away, Shizun doesn't actually want to hurt him, Binghe is sure. The buzzing thing is a different story. He can see it again when he sets close enough to grab Shizun's wrist, the blue sheen in his eyes.

"I'm so sorry Binghe," Shizun says. "I-"

Shizun stops, going utterly still. His face goes blank, and his eyes are suddenly a vivid unearthly blue. The buzzing is so loud it hurts Binghe's ears.

"Shizun?"

Shizun slips out of his grip and before he realizes what's happening. A heartbeat later Shizun is at the edge of the Abyss. He jumps before Binghe can stop him.

Episode 6: Beach

Hello, hello! @lmeg9 and I took a little bit longer this time since we both were busy/tired last week but we're back with the next part of the Kaishin OSWY collab!

This time our boys go to the beach and end up with a liiiittle bit of a curse 🤭 check out the full fic here, Magnetic Attraction!

Bonus Sketches Below :3

I finally can draw KaiShin again... 🥲🥲🥲

IT'S IN THE SONG PAY ATTENTION!!!

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