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Summary: Shang Qinghua is in a meeting with Mu Qingfang about the innovative new peak first aid centers when they're interrupted by a disciple from the beast peak: Shen Yuan, an otherwise ordinary young man, has discovered yet another treatment for sex pollen that involves neither sex nor involvement with heavenly demons.
Mirrors: AO3 link
Wordcount: ~1900 words
Ships: None
Notes: Inspired by this post on Tumblr:

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ceramicrambles:

Medical mystery Shen Yuan who literally every checkup has a new thing that should have killed him and Mu Qingfang is incredibly concerned

MQF: Shixiong, why is your blood purple?

SY: Oh right! it’s okay I was hit with the misty eyed-transfusion-curse-of-papapa pollen but I took the antidote so now I sprout a daisy every time I pee. It’s basically the closest thing to a cure haha and the only other treatment is heavenly demon blood so what are you gonna do, amirite?

MQF: what.

mikkeneko: mind you. I'm not saying Mu Qingfang is NOT concerned. But I also think that Known Mad Scientist Mu Qingfang would see an absolute golden opportunity in just following SQQ around with a notebook at this point

Thanks to

ceramicrambles for both the inspiration and beta reading!
Fic: ( There's No Hippocratic Oath in Xianxia China )

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marycatelli posting in

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My volume 21 arrived in the mail! They are coming!

tyger

Rather than throw out all that pancake mix, I did a research, and it turns out there's stuff you can add to make things less overwhelmingly bicarb soda-y! Mainly acidic stuff, which in my case means lemon juice (since I have that on hand). Also cocoa, which isn't something that I'd've thought was acidic? Must be just very slightly. And I was thinking of adding cocoa to a pancake ANYWAY, so of course I did that.

First pancake results are: still terrible soda aftertaste, but MUCH more manageable. I could actually eat it! :D So, clearly, next time I just needa add more lemon! Alternatively, add more flour and a little bit of sugar to the actual mix. Might try both, next time! Even with the acid neutralising the flavour, the pancake came out a bit spongy, which is... not the right texture for a pancake. That is a cake-cake texture!

Still, I'm happy I was able to make it palatable! :3 Less waste yessss. (Chooks very happily gobbled up the inedible one, too. And hey, they deserved a treat after their big scare, so it's basically not at all wasted! Ish.)

Need to shower tomorrow and go and get milk again orz orz orz. I am probably drinking too much milk but also. Milk is delicious. Might go to the little supermarket, which is by the asian grocery, and get dumplings and stuff this time. Haven't had dumplings for a few weeks, and they sound really good...

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Spare Room

malurette

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tyger

Sooo I was SUPPOSED to have my stupid appointment today but did I??? No. Because they didn't call me. >/ Same thing happened to Sibling, so that's something but ARGH. (I did in fact call them to let them know, but the auto-responder said they had too many calls and hung up on me. Which is just. FFS. Will try again Monday.)

I also tried making pancake mix! Alas, while it did the whole turn into pancake thing just fine, it tasted overwhelmingly of baking soda and so was pmuch inedible. :/ :/ :/ Soooo that's a whole lot of flour (and stuff) that's going in the compost tomorrow! But at least it's stuff we had laying around already?? Clearing out the cupboard if nothing else...

Chooks are fine, and the cats are cute, though so nothing's too bad! :D Gonna nap now, yessss.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Spare Room

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Hurry!

malurette

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Current Mood: hot

tyger

When I went out this morning, the red chook was there! :D :D :D She's fine, despite all the feathers everywhere!

I didn't see the black chook all day, which was worrying, but when I went to put them to bed...

Three chooks in a coop!

No idea where she was hiding, but she's safe and that's the important thing. :D

Other than that, Sibling did come over and did a couple of things. Pointed out a few bits where I need to keep touching things up on the skirting boards, but they're definitely close to done (yay!). Won't be back until next week, so got quite a while to go out there and give various bits extra coats (there are a few bits where I had to sand back, and while MOST of the board is fine...). So I'm feeling somewhat better about that.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Location: Spare Room

malurette

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And the overenthusiastic biographer is overenthusiastic.

Current Music: JT Bruce :: The Artist, The Sage, and The Jester

tyger

( Content Warning: Possible Animal Death (nothing confirmed as yet) )

Other than that... slept stupid late, which was annoying, but I DID manage to get down to the optometrist before they closed. Alas, they can't do anything about the coating, the lenses just need to be replaced. :/ Soooo that's even higher up on my to-do list. Just gotta wait for, you know, money. Ugh. Might even be worth taking cash out of my savings for it, buuuut I'd rather not.

Also did another coat of paint on all the skirting boards! Will see how they look tomorrow, I'm hoping that the small ones are really done this time, but they had a few mysteriously appearing rough bits I had to sand back today, so that might. Also happen. Again. :|

Dunno if Sibling is gonna be over tomorrow, but if so will get a second opinion on stuff. Answer may well be 'jfc how are you SO BAD at this???', but at least then I'll know.

And now to bed! >: Or. Soon. There is a cat on my lap and I don't really want to annoy her...

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Location: Spare Room

malurette

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It seems today's comic has not posted yet, not even on the sneaky gate!

malurette

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tyger

So the coating is flaking off the back of one of my lenses in a MAJOR way, it's extremely annoying. Given what I can see peering through the bits where it's gone it's also been exacerbating the flare from my astigmatism, which is... not great, and also explains a lot. I'm gonna go down to the optometrist and see if they can remove it tomorrow, I think! And ask them what that particular coating is for; I think it was for glare reduction? Which um. Maybe that one is not for me...

Other than that... finally did the stupid application for unemployment support. Which I definitely SHOULD have done as soon as I got made redundant, but I did not. Bleh.

Didn't do any painting today, mostly because it was cold and raining. But also just brain shit. Sibling DID come over and do another coat on the floor, though! Should just be one more to go, but I guess we'll see how it is.

Also managed to actually make myself have a shower, so I can go to the shops tomorrow without fear of stinking people out, heh.

Anyway, going to bed now! Maybe I'll be able to sleep easily tonight! Sure as fuck couldn't last night, uuuugh...

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: Spare Room

malurette

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tyger

Paid my taxes today. UGH, it was indeed ~3K ;; So much money to be surprised with!!! :( Still, done now!

Sibling did come over, and did the first coat of the floor, yay! The floor sealant takes long enough to dry it's gonna be a day for each coat, basically. Which is fine! Just means more driving time for Sibling, which is less fun :/

Had to sand back some of the skirting boards again - just a little bit, but Sibling pointed out it was kinda rough in a couple of places, so... yeah. Annoying! But I did a third coat on all the small ones, and a second coat on like... one and a half of the big ones. Will see what Sibling says about them tomorrow! >:

Not much other than that. Found a shiny dodonzo in pokemon! It was in a mass outbreak I was doing for exp, but not even the later parts with the best shiny chance, just. Turned up, pretty early! XD It's a yellow one, too, which is always fun. :3 :3 :3 Love shinies with serious differences to the original colouration! :D

Anyway now is time for sleeps, yes. >:

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Spare Room

marycatelli posting in

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NOTHING!

One can not help but notice that he can't do anything clever to rescue them. . . .

soc_puppet

I've been playing this game for just over a week now, and already the difficulty scaling is past where I find the rewards worth it. Most of the puzzles are around difficulty level 4 to 6 now, and I'm just not figuring enough of them out in the time limit I'm given. I'll still get some yarn when I finish the designated three puzzle set, but if I fail any of the puzzles, it's the lower quality yarn—even though the point total from all the puzzles, failures included, is higher than when I was playing the games on their lowest difficulty.

If I were getting more yarn per try, it might be worth it to me to keep playing. If the timers were more generous, it might be worth it to me. If I could choose which puzzles to play and which yarn to work towards, or if the difficulty scaling were a bit slower, it might be worth it to me. But at this point, I'll probably just play a few more days out of sunk cost fallacy driven hope, and then try to forget I even bought the damn game. Which is a shame, because I'd really love to have some sort of apartment-decorating game with the mechanics from the main room that I loved so much.

Honestly, I'd originally bought this game with the hopes of playing some of the puzzles with my niblings, but with how the game's set up, I'm not sure I'd even be able to reach all of the games, let alone be able to play in a way that didn't leave all of us frustrated in the end.

This disappointment aside, if Nintendo ever decided to put out a simple version of Voltorb Flip that works the same way as it does in HGSS, maybe for $2 or so, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. (They won't, they'd want to microtransaction and dark pattern the hell out of it, but that doesn't stop me from wanting it!)

Current Mood: disappointed

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Life and Times of Teh Asuka

Mwahahahaha.

Fic: There's No Hippocratic Oath in Xianxia China

It arrives!

Improvement!!!

[film] L'attachement

Not the world's most successful day, honestly. :(

Friday's comic

[BD] Algues vertes

More Speculative Biology: Lamia for SVSSS

Chooks Safe!

[livre] Intérieur nuit ~Nicolas Demorand

Wednesday's comic: grumoy Franz is grumpy

Chook Attack :( :( :(

[film] Enzo

8/13 late?

[book] El terror del sexto B ~Yolanda Reyes

Glasses. Why.

[BD] Lebensborn

Taxes: paid!

Monday's Comic

Pokémon Friends again: Well, that didn't last long

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