୨୧݂ ݂۫ Shifting summer expedition ➝ day 001. postcards , genshin dr (Great Minds Think Alike!)

Dear Mr Kreideprinz,

If you received this, you would have already arrived at Nod Krai alongside Durin and what'shisname? The Indigo haired fellow with a perpetual scowl.

You would've also known by now that I'm planning on publishing a book which provides a chronicled overview on my journey across Teyvat and I would like you to provide the illustrations for the cover and several pages (as in 1-3). I believe that this endeavor would align with your current goals to a certain extent. Moreover, the grand master and madame mage are also involved with this project, just to provide a little bit of incentive for you to join ya'know.

Of course you don't have to take up my offer but if you do, I'll pay you through Alice. Yes that's the message so if you have time to make more money, you'll know where to find me.

Sincerely,

G.

Whimsical and Joyous taglist (comment to be added or removed) ; @rumitome , @easyboyrecliner , @kuunio , @deepinthegroves , @sh0dor1 , @irregularrr7 , @ohsolottie , @yasimm , @delicatelullaby , @unidentified-divinity , @littlsoleil , @sireneptune , @softsolipsist , @ysketball , @jellyfish-enthousiast , @gremlinsallaroundme

Babe I'd still wanna be a vampire, nepo baby, zombie hunter, dragon owner, time traveler, live in my own fiction, saturn dweller, whimsical astrologist, immortal, script predatory billionaires out from existence and end global warming even if I had the best life possible here

today i bought a cake to celebrate multiple occasions:

to celebrate my one year in shiftblr

to celebrate 888 followers

and lastly, celebrating my twentieth birthday!!

₊ ˚ ʚ 𝐅𝐀𝐖𝐍'𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ⸝⸝୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ

the gentle summer breeze carries a curious envelope ─ one decorated with far too many stamps ─ onto your doorstep . after tearing the seal , you find both a floral scented postcard and short letter inside which detail the following . . . ★ ‧ ₊ ˚ ⋆

⌜ do you currently feel bored in your shifting journey ? do you wish you could " restart " your shifting journey ? have you thought of participating in an ongoing shifting event for a sense of community with other shifters ? if you answered yes to any of those questions , look no further because this shifting summer expedition is a two week long voyage meant to rekindle the excitement you had when you first discovered shifting and remind you of what shifting truly is about : whimsy , awe , curiosity && carefree fun ! ⌟

fawn welcomes you , dear adventurer , to throw away any and all preconceived notions , past experiences , etc. etc. for the allocated two weeks , && rediscover the wonder and starry-eyed view you had of shifting in the start of your journey this summer as she graciously hosts shiftblr's very first summer shifting expedition ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ ⋆ ₊˚ ⋅

            ✿　.　˚　.

» 𝑳𝑬𝑵𝑮𝑻𝑯 𝑶𝑭 𝑽𝑶𝒀𝑨𝑮𝑬 : july nineteenth through august second

⌯⌲ 𝑷𝑶𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑮𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑴𝑷 : use the event tag 𓊆ྀི #shiftingsummerexpedition 𓊇ྀི to easily sort through various mailed postcards from fellow adventurers , as well as to post your own too c: !

⌯⌲ 𝑬𝑿𝑷𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑫 𝑫𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬𝑹𝒀 : @withluvvenus › @therealeverettyeager › @awatchfulgaze › @reveriesinterlude › @chyasrealm › @laylasverse › @chwrrystwr › @yasimm

» 𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑳𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑪𝑨𝑹𝑬 : it's imperative to remember that there's absolutely no pressure to do all the prompts / methods , nor push yourself to complete them if you no longer feel up to it . if you also just want to do the methods / affs without posting abt ur drs , you are more than welcome to <33 ;;; && on the other hand , if you're up for it you could totally talk abt multiple drs for a single prompt if it piques your interest (っ˶ ˘ ᵕ˘)ˆᵕ ˆ˶ς)

if you are all that is, and if you create your reality, it means you can choose how your manifestations come into fruition. take a look at the identity you hold when it comes to manifestation, do you believe that you need to wait a few days for your manifestation to come into your 3D? or is it that you believe that you can assume the identity of the you who has green eyes and the next time you open your camera or look in the mirror they will be green? That’s literally it. your 3D is always showing you a reflection of you, and nobody outside of you. you can literally assume that there is no process, there isn’t any type of unfolding or structure for your manifestation to follow, it can just appear as is.

i’l use appearance change as an example;

exhibit a,

Alessandra wants to manifest height change, she would like to be 5ft7, but is currently 5ft1. however her current assumptions surrounding manifestation are that it usually unfolds for her slowly. over the course of a year she grows to 5’4 gradually, and in her 3rd year she finally reaches her goal of 5’7. she received her manifestation finally after years of hustling because that’s what she assumed to be true, and so her 3D reflected that back to her. 

exhibit b,

Lana wants blue eyes. She has brown eyes. she assumes she has blue eyes and on a random Tuesday she wakes up and notices oh wait my eyes are blue! this is because she doesn’t subscribe to the hustle of i need to affirm hard, constantly, all day everyday to receive my manifestation. i can decide and it'll come. she also identifies with the idea that her manifestations to do with appearance change do not have to happen on a cellular level gradually, she can just decide and they can appear. if the law is that whatever she assumes to be true is reflected back to her, why would she suddenly have to bow down to logic? That's only a rule if she decides it is.

exhibit c,

I also wanted to use a revision perspective. Mary had blonde hair as a kid, and since then she’s been constantly dying it blonde to hide her dark roots because as she got older her hair darkened. she decided okay my hair has always been blonde, it’s naturally this colour, I’ve never dyed it. the next day she was looking at family photos with her mom who tells her 'you're so lucky your hair stayed blonde. mine darkened so much that I've spent years bleaching it.'

this is because Mary understands that all she has to do is decide, and it's done. she doesn't believe reality has to slowly rearrange itself before reflecting her assumption. she doesn't believe there needs to be a bridge she consciously experiences. she simply accepts that her reality reflects who she is now.

the only thing separating 'instant' manifestations from 'gradual' manifestations is the meaning you assign to them.

if you assume appearance changes take years, your reality can reflect years.

if you assume they can happen overnight, your reality can reflect overnight.

if you assume there is a process, you'll experience a process.

if you assume there isn't one, there doesn't have to be one.

⠀ magical things I've scripted

﹙♡﹚earrings give true compliments ( aquamarine insp )

﹙♡﹚stars occasionally fall to earth and grant wishes

﹙♡﹚everyone has a small power or trait that’s entirely unique to them

﹙♡﹚I’m able to communicate with the ocean by sending letters and it sends shells that have specific meanings to them

﹙♡﹚fantasy books are actual stories from long ago

﹙♡﹚certain people have magic “familiars” (i.e disabled people to help them with their daily lives)

﹙♡﹚every season has it’s own magical twist to it

﹙♡﹚magical creatures do exist but they’re not captured by humans and only show up when they want to

﹙♡﹚there’s fairies that help refresh everyones garden and they take what they need back to their homes

﹙♡﹚unicorns come down to earth every year and give advice to teens who might be struggling

﹙♡﹚every year the world resets and people are able to choose when they stop aging ( not as a teen but when they’re fully grown )

﹙♡﹚there's a unicorn riding academy in the bridge of reality and fantasy & the unicorns themselves pick students

﹙♡﹚magic shows are very common and usually a show of someone's unique ability! they're never with malicious intent

﹙♡﹚dolls can come alive and play with kids ( not in a creepy horror movie way more like a magical barbie way )

— y’all are into massive age gaps where it’s adjacent to a young woman in her early 20’s who looks like a child & a geriatric man in his 60’s (esp. white). had to unmoot someone bc they reposted bs. fuck that pedophilic shit. legal ≠ morally right. like how child marriages & incest were legal back then (& still now in some places). & they’re fucking disgusting. gtfo

— you romanticizes lolita / want to be her. fuck you

— you make epstein jokes and/or are friends with people who make epstein jokes. another unmooted one.

— you support infantilization to cater to men, e.g. sabrina carpenter supporters

A little something

ODRI PEVETS... THE NOT-SO WIDOW

01... NON-CONSENTING CONSENSUAL SEXUAL LAW

❝ My friend Olivia, or you might as well know her as Timebomb, has appointed me to her good friend Billy Butcher. It's the first case of The Unluckys, a dead-raped wife, or might as well say disappeared. I didn't know her, nor did I ever know her, but that's the reason of— you know the drill "The Unluckys". I talk like a Noir detective, despite hating the Justice Department, I could solve cases or not… Or I could beat up the government, but not much as an assassin since assassins have a system, cause I am the "Beautiful Russian Spy who shows her tits on screen". I would've been dead or fucked with a chainsaw as a toy with three kids on the way with my serial killer husband. Name's Odri… Odri Pevets, get that shitty James Bond Impression? Butcher didn't want me for this case, but I am the only one with a schedule… Not Full. Ain't that a kick in the head? ❞

Not even hear real name. the first member to join the unluckys. night witch. anarcho-communist. professional nazi hunter. detective and drug deals as a side hustle. Patay Kubo's bartender. had compound v out of fucking Gunpowder back in the day. alcoholic. coolest unluckys member. looks younger than she really is. former member of a drug cartel. the unlucky's detective. olivia's "best friend" apparently. named herself after audrey hepburn and the word singer as a fake name... We don't know her real name.

⸺ ꉹ ֪݃. ❝ мιяяσя мιяяσя ση тнє ωαℓℓ , ωнσ'ѕ

݂ ݂۫ ੭੭. 𝄞

. тнє ναιηєѕт ƒαιяєѕт σƒ тнєм αℓℓ? ❞

parts included ݂ ݂۫ ੭੭ details , story i and ii

SEREN ݂ ݂۫ Details ✿ ݂ ݂۫

Seren Zhao is an apprentice archivist and navigator, to a certain extent. Quiet and unassuming, she spends most of her time in her room or sorting through the Astral Expresses collection of records from bygone systems and galaxies alike.

She hails from Hemera ix, a flying ship who's inhabitants has sworn fealty to Idrila, the aeon of beauty and was rescued by the express a week after it's untimely destruction by the antimatter legion.

֯໒ ͚. ི⸺ 𓎢𓎠𓎟 𓎠𓎡 story i.

To even maintain the most banal of courtsies from the citizens of H̶̨̪̣̪̜̗͍͒̄̀̉̅̕ē̶͔̠m̸̢̞̙͍̱̬̹͓̄̒̈͌͐͛ȩ̴̧͎̬̬̰̙̼̻̾̐r̵͍̰̮͔̖̼̣͐͋̅ͅa̷̦̤̲̲̠̥͔̗͇̋ ̴̭̍̑̐̀̽͐̒i̷̡̭̳̘̦͓̙̭͇̒́̋̀̽̓̎x̴͈͉͍̞̞̳͍̠̹̦͂̂̄͌͘, one has to surrender themselves to the pursuit of beauty, beauty being the shallow endeavor to aquire a prettiness that does not transcend beneath the boundaries of flesh and bone.

Seren herself has of course never faced this problem. How could she when she was once the poster girl of the constant adverts for fuller lips, starkissed eyes and lustrous hair that wasn't even her own to begin with. How could she when the resentful faces of the "fallen" gaze upon her, a reminder of the hope that was cruelly stripped away from them by the hands of the echelons of Grimhilde.

Beauty was both a blessing and a curse. For every admiring gaze, melancholy borne from the hatred and jealousy of hundreds would always follow. And even if she was to reach the epitome of beauty, the faces in the portraits shall always morph, encasing her in this neverending cycle of pining after a perfection that would never remain. The system depended on it after all. The beautiful are venerated and the hideous are cast aside.

This is what Idrila wants, the mother supreme claims as she casts a pious gaze upwards towards the sun. THEY know what's best. For the aeon's creed is their saving grace and defying that would be sanctimonious at best, damning at worst.

Seren disagreed. Beauty cannot shield one's soul from destruction or moreso, the hordes of monsters brought forth by it, breaking mosaics blessed with rosewater. The ship crumbles fragment by fragment until the only thing remaining is a yacht filled with escapee's, Seren being one of them.

Some died, Some were intercepted by the Luofu and joined it ranks from there. Only she remained, clinging onto what was left of a home she has never learnt to love.

When Seren was found by the astral express, Himeko saw not a pinnacle of bygone magnificence but a girl who reeked of vulnerability she tried so hard to conceal.

֯໒ ͚. ི⸺ 𓎢𓎠𓎟 𓎠𓎡 story ii.

࿐ ‧₊˚ ⋅⏾ days fade into a watercolour blur ⚜

◞ ╋━━ ১ TEATIME BENEATH THE GAZE OF A LOTUS MOON

🀥 - The sun rises again and the birds chirp to herald a new day. Though this begs the question; will novelty's embrace erase the scars caused by an archaic age? Nevermind. Cast away the old and surrender yourself to newness for once you step into this endless garden, there is naught a care nor misery that you'll remember!

赵小晴 also known as Seren Zhao is a member of the Astral Express and an apprentice archivist who is currently pursuing her studies under the unrelenting tutelage of Dan Heng. Prior to joining the astral express, Seren was not affiliated with any factions and roamed across the cosmos as a wanderer before being taken in by Himeko a few days after her 20th birthday. Her path corresponds with that of XIPE (Harmony) and her element is wind.