the mere sight of a man's midriff is enough to drive one to madness

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

Happy Birthday Xiao! Read L → R Tried out screentones in CSP for this one, and it's fun!

More modernAU

I love this palette so much~

They're on their way home from the gym

XiaoAether commission Client wanted them snoozing in a field with flowers blooming around Aether because of his newly acquired dendro element

A moment of peace Birthday gift for the lovely @beelzebaey<3

Welcome home~

"Xiaos favorite food is almond tofu, its the only thing he'll eat"

jokes on you, I'd eat crystalflies all the fucking time, way more than Tofu, I'd go out of my way to eat those lil buggers. They were like hard candies! Loved them. good texture. y u m. Almond tofu was only cause Morax refused to let me live off Liyues crystalfly population. (Dad plz Im a bird, birds eat bugs its toooooootaalyy fine I swear)

And because I know ppl will ask: They didnt have much of a flavor. Crystalflies rly do work like their core stack in game- Once theyre dead they loose most elemental traces, so there wasnt alot to taste.

At best they had very subtle flavors of their original elements. and none of those are rly comparable to direct real world flavors to my memory. Cryo ones would do the cool mint thing, but very subtle and not actually tasting like mint, pyro ones were a bit warm (like actual temperature, not heat in flavor), geo, dendro, and anemo ones were earthy in slightly different ways (yes dendro was grassy. Subtle but distinct Grass flavor(tm)). And do I even need to say the hydro ones just. Tasted like water. If you could even notice it? They were overall sweet ofc, again like candy. But I cannot pinpoint any specific real world flavor.

I use hard caramels w/ a really good apple creme filling to fill them in irl tho. That was primarily because hard candies are apparently really hard to find in my area for some reason, but they make the brain go hella brr, absolute perfect texture tbh. I'd honestly say the sweetness of caramel is neutral enough to be a stand in for the Main Flavor(tm) of crystalflies, everything else previously mentioned were SUPER subtle flavors, things hard to notice unless you've eaten hundreds of them as I had in this tl.

I dunno why mortals didnt eat them honestly. Maybe they just never thought of it. I do think I convinced the traveler and Tartaglia to at least try them at some point. Not that I remember what they thought of it.

Tartaglia would just echo Morax's food lectures any time I was eating them.. Not because he didnt want me eating them but because Morax basically told him to do exactly that if I tried to "dodge proper meals with those damned crystal cores"

I'm gonna go eat some candies now.

~Xiao 🕯♟

hi sorry for ghosting you im being tormented by psychic horrors beyond your wildest comprehensions

wow what a momentous milestone /s

bold of you to assume i am thanking you /lh

on a daily basis i perpetuate the voiceline that goes “you think i sleep? you have no respect for the adepti” by staying up until i am forced to go to bed by my friends

i am definitely the most healthy alter in our system. yes siree i am very good at caring for the body. /s

on a daily basis i perpetuate the voiceline that goes “you think i sleep? you have no respect for the adepti” by staying up until i am forced to go to bed by my friends

i am definitely the most healthy alter in our system. yes siree i am very good at caring for the body. /s

this aged wonderfully, considering i did not sleep last night

ship dynamic

mmm no

i will not sleep actually

ship dynamic

Xiao: My life is an endless cycle of pain and loss

Traveler: Uh... You okay?

Xiao: I had almond tofu in the fridge but the fridge wasn't plugged in and my almond tofu went bad and now I have no almond tofu