Worldbuilding is my greatest passion

[extrapenguin]

I canon reviewed The Untamed for my Baoshan Sanren/Lan Yi, and look, if the Yin Iron was forged by Xue Chonghai 100 years ago, how come Lan Yi is discovering it as if it were an old and ancient and forgotten thing also 100 years ago? And why is Lan Wangji calling her Ancestor instead of (great-)grandmother or something? She was the sect leader, he's the sect leader's little brother, he should know the actual relation! I understand that censorship happened, but surely at least the Xue Chonghai bits could've been over 100 years ago? 300, maybe? And Lan Yi and Baoshan Sanren over 100 years ago – or have Lan Wangji call her Aunty or something.

Somewhat relatedly, I wonder about the menstrual supplies of Dixing. Do they all use rags, or some cave moss, or is there a flourishing trade in smuggled pads and tampons? Did Zhu Jiu finance his operation by selling Tampax?

Unrelatedly, 音阙诗听's songs have been a good source of inspiration. In addition to 立春/start of spring inspiring Welcome, Spring (Guardian) last week, 芒种/grain in ear inspired Falling Flowers Reflected on the River (CQL) and 霜降/frost descends inspired today's Still on My Heart (MDZS). They'll release another one on the 19th, which I'll probably draw inspiration from, and there are a few other nice ones to lean on should inspiration run low.

Comments

[jo_lasalle]

I find the 100 years a bad choice too. Mostly because I find it too short a time frame for people to not remember what happened to the Yin metal pieces. 100 years is way too little time (even without taking into account potentially different ageing of cultivators?) for this much to get lost, certainly if you have a society that writes books...

[ratbones]

Dixing obviously has textiles, so they could make pads and tampons from whatever fiber they're using for clothes, I assume. No idea what fiber that is, though. But a lot of our menstrual products have a plastic component; do we know if Dixing has plastics? Oh hell, I have just remembered that condoms are a thing. What's the Dixing birth control and safer sex situation? I'm betting it isn't great, even if they have latex. Sorry no answers just more questions :P

[china_shop]

Somewhat relatedly, I wonder about the menstrual supplies of Dixing. Do they all use rags, or some cave moss, or is there a flourishing trade in smuggled pads and tampons? Did Zhu Jiu finance his operation by selling Tampax?

See, this is the kind of question that inevitably leads me down a rabbit hole of wondering about the whole monetary/economic system of Dixing. Is it feudal? Because didn't feudalism work by the peasants feeding themselves off the land and paying taxes to the lords? From what we see, arable land is in pretty short supply (though who knows what underground botany is like?! maybe plants live off dark energy instead of sunlight!)... is that why some of the random passersby in the Dixing streets are carrying pickaxes or ropes? Is mining the new farming?

Or is there industry, and that's where all the clothes come from? What else do they produce? Is there currency? Banking? How do unemployed people live?

Or is it something else entirely?

(Also, now I vaguely want to write half a dozen stories about menstrual supplies in my post-canon school 'verse. /o\)

[ehyde]

Timeline issues aside, I just thought it was such a missed opportunity to have an ancient villain with ties to Baoshan Sanren and not use Yanling Daoren. He's pretty much free real estate!

[thawrecka]

The greater details on The Untamed make less sense the more I think of them, but now I'm wondering about the menstrual supplies situation, too. That's a potential research rabbit hole it would be easy to go down.

[tinny]

It's fun, you keep getting inspired by music, and I am always inspired by images. :D Different muses ftw!