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Madam Yu time travel fixit - plus she time travels after having been dead and observing her descendants for a century, so she knows how things like Sunshot and WWX’s death and resurrection went down.

Featuring YZY/JFM/CSR/WCZ polycule, sect heir JYL (literally the first thing YZY changes when she wakes up alive and pregnant), Meng Yao Gets A Happy Childhood, and the reproductive rights agenda. Be sure to read the tags; detailed warnings are available on each chapter. @porcupine-girl

Back To The River (So Learn To Swim)

by kalany

M, WIP, 55k, Wangxian & JFM/YZY/WCZ/CSSR

Summary: Yu Ziyuan has been dead for over a hundred years, so it's a bit of a surprise when she dies. One minute she's watching the youngest Lan daughter bow to her ancestors—it still baffles her that Wei Wuxian counts her as an ancestor, and that he's filial enough to have had a plaque made for her, but here they are—and the next she's choking on blood, her eyesight dimming. Wei Wuxian, she thinks furiously, what have you done now? Then she wakes up. Because her bladder is full. Yu Ziyuan finds herself back in Lotus Pier, before any of her children have been born, and decides that things would go better if Jiang Yanli is the heir, not Jiang Cheng. One change leads to another, and another, and another. And is Cangse Sanren flirting with her? Things do not always go smoothly, but sometimes the family you find is the one you should have had all along. It's a pretty light Mature that could probably have been okay as a heavy Teen. Fully written and beta-read; 73k of raising children, standing up for what one values, and falling in love.

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Is this a cultural thing or is it a lot uglier in person? Because I googled it and I rather like it.

It might be cultural, though I also think that it does look uglier in person. I don’t think I’d consider it so gloriously hideous if it weren’t for the size of the thing. Most photos don’t really do justice to its sheer size, so when you arrive in person and with the plinth it’s taller than you are, it has a certain impact. 

Wait how does it work, using it as collateral? If you can’t sell it how does that even work?

It essentially takes on a value of its own, becoming like a form of currency. It is valued at X and even though you’re relatively aware that nobody could sell it, it still holds that value of X (usually X is much lower than its real value). So you could say like, I paid a kilo of coke for this painting, I’ll give it to you in exchange for a kilo and I’ll come buy it back from you after I sell the coke. A lot of criminal activity is contingency based -- you’re waiting on something to get fenced, or on your dealers to sell your supply, before you can pay someone for the work they did.

In a pinch you can also negotiate your way out of charges (or out of prison early) by saying “I know where Storm On The Sea Of Galilee is and if you lower this charge to a misdemeanor I’ll take you to it.”

There’s an old joke that sort of explains this well, because it’s a kind of madness of humans that we assign value to something disproportionate to its actual material worth.

There’s a guy who has a can of beans, and he sells it for a dollar to another guy, who sells it to a friend for two dollars, who sells it to a friend for three dollars, who sells it to someone for five dollars.

Now that someone who bought the can of beans for five dollars opens the can and eats it, and it turns out they’re terrible -- they spoiled long ago. So he goes back to the guy he bought the beans from and says, “I ate these beans and they were terrible! Why did it cost five dollars?”

The guy who sold him the beans looks shocked, and replies, “You fool! Those beans are for selling, not for eating!”

We affix value to things even when we know they don’t really have that value -- with paper/coin money, we’re confident, because we know the money is backed by the force of our government and our banks. With art, in the underworld, the value of the painting is assumed; it’s not backed by much, but in crime you take what you can get.

I've found that people with no exposure to nb pronouns adapt really well to e (I think they're called Spivak?) there's a few different versions but they're all pretty self explanatory and don't require pronouncing "X"

That said, I use se/er/ers/erself in my private life and I'd adore it if someone were to use them in a fic

Which one is which?

Could you please clarify what you mean by gatekeeping asks? (Autistic, genuinely don't understand what you are referring to)

Yes, I can do that!

That post was specifically in response to an ask that we received, presumably in response to this ask that I answered earlier. It was attempting to define which aces are allowed to be LGBT+ and which aces are not. Asks like that, which attempt to gatekeep the LGBT+ community and decide which aces are acceptable and which ones are not, will not be published on this blog, because this blog affirms that every single asexual person is a part of the LGBT+ community.