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Lan Xichen ([info]zewujun) wrote in [info]valloic,
@ 2023-01-22 09:45:00

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Entry tags:!: network post, the untamed: lan xichen, ₴ inactive: angrboda, ₴ inactive: eddie munson, ₴ inactive: katou yue, ₴ inactive: prompto argentum (2), ₴ inactive: william laurence 2

I have thought much of how I wish to approach the New Year, and a good, forward-looking idea came to me. Upon investigation of circumstances and much discussion with others who work here, I am pleased to make this auspicious announcement:

The Art of Expression will be moving into the larger facility of Cloud Recesses.

This move will afford us more classroom, event, practice, and studio space. It will also enable us to establish an Artist In Residence program, to give a new artist each year an opportunity to focus exclusively on their art, without the pressures of maintaining a household. From a purely selfish perspective, it will also breathe new life into my family home, which was never meant to stand empty and in service to nothing.

The grand move will take place on the first day of February. Any who wish to volunteer to help carry items and arrange them in their new places will be compensated, as I am told is traditional, with pizza and beer.

For those who may be curious, our old building will still be in use. We plan to convert it to use for more high-tech art, to make a dedicated space for those whose artistic vision is more focused on digital art, photography, videography, and recording. This is as yet a dream in progress, of course. Please look forward to many fundraisers to make it a reality.

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I had thought that, in the absence of my family, I might not be in a celebratory mood despite the New Year beginning at the turn of the clocks tonight. I find, however, that I do wish to celebrate with all of you. I have found a restaurant from which I may still order some traditional foods for this evening (including some with meat for the rest of you).

Miss Emily, as you have not been here for one of these celebrations before: my people celebrate the New Year based on a lunar calendar, rather than a solar calendar like the one your people use. As such, tonight is our equivalent of New Year's Eve. It is traditionally a holiday on which one brings all the family together to eat traditional foods that promote good luck and long life in the coming year.

Thus, if we might all gather for dinner this evening, I would be most pleased. I would also accept help in hanging the red lanterns this afternoon.
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[info]messofhangups
2023-01-22 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Closer to the end of this month, we'll have some details for the Valentine's Day fundraiser for the new site and old building to get them the TLC they need! Support us while we try to get a bigger and better darkroom, as well as a computer art lab.

Donations always welcomed!

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-23 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for mentioning that, Prompto. :)

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-22 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Cloud Recesses is a lovely name. I look forward to seeing it. Hopefully you still have plenty of space that is just for you and your loved ones that is off-limits?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-23 02:25 pm UTC (link)
My family have all departed this world, I fear. As I now live at Loch Laggen, it seems wasteful to preserve much space there for private use. I will keep the Jingshi, my brother's residence, as it was, however. I cannot bring myself to give up all hope that he and his husband may yet return.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-23 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. It's good that some of it will remain protected from art materials though. I made a regular mess of my painting area at home.

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 12:56 pm UTC (link)
It is an unfortunate fact of life in Vallo. For all its many blessings, it yet may give us good friends and family only to snatch them away without warning. I strive to accept the good and the bad both with equanimity.

But one of the good things about moving the Art of Expression to the Lan estate is that all the surfaces are protected from anything that might mar its beauty, much like our clothes. Paint will no more stick permanently to our tables than to my sleeves.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-24 05:43 pm UTC (link)
That's the only way to do it without driving yourself crazy, I think.

Oh! That's impressive and I'm completely riddled with envy now. Can I ask how you managed it?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 05:46 pm UTC (link)
I can show you how the protections are woven onto fabric. The work on Cloud Recesses was done centuries before my birth, but I can probably find the right place in the archives for you to read of it if you wish.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-24 06:11 pm UTC (link)
I would love that! If it's not weird to have a stranger digging through your archives? I've never even seen an archive so I don't know if there are social rules for this kind of thing.

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 06:15 pm UTC (link)
While portions of the Lan Clan's archives are secret, others are merely a library. We are more free with our knowledge here than we were in my home world. Would you have tea with me? Then we will not be strangers, and bringing you to this portion of the archive will not be strange at all.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-24 06:38 pm UTC (link)
I'd like that very much. Were things more strict for a reason at home? Or was that just normal? I mean, my people were very secretive because they were marked by prophecy to help bring about the end of a powerful god, so I understand secrecy.

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 07:25 pm UTC (link)
The reasons are somewhat similar, then. At home, each of the cultivation sects have their own traditions which are only passed down to members of the sect. Certain skills and abilities are dangerous in the hands of those who would misuse them, so we take care to ensure, to the best of our ability, that they are only given to those who will use them for the betterment of all. Things are different here because there are no longer any in Vallo besides myself who would be able to make use of the most powerful cultivation techniques; they are particular to our sort of magic, so even if you were to read of the Song of Strife, you would not be able to recreate it and use it to drive a man to madness.

Protecting garments and tables from paint and soy sauce, however, is a technique I am willing to share with others. :) I do not know if you will be able to make this magic work with yours, but I am glad to give you what you would need to try.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-24 08:20 pm UTC (link)
That makes sense. I'll do my best to respect your family's knowledge and magic. Even if it doesn't work, I'm always curious to learn about other types of magic anyway!

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps you will also tell me more of your painting over tea? I have been fascinated to learn of the many artistic techniques and media people of Vallo use.

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[info]paintedfuture
2023-01-24 09:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah of course! My next class will be about making paints so I'd love to run some of my, what was it called...my lesson plan by you.

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Loch Laggan
[info]lungtienxiang
2023-01-22 11:17 pm UTC (link)
I am very happy to come to dinner (and also to help you carry things!)

We had a New Year's celebration once on the Allegiance. I remember the food was very good.

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Loch Laggan
[info]zewujun
2023-01-23 02:26 pm UTC (link)
New Year food is always good. Our first year here, Wen Qing teased me mercilessly for how many sticky rice balls I ate.

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Loch Laggan
[info]withallmyheart
2023-01-22 11:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad, very glad, that you're up for celebrating this year. I will, of course, be happy to join you, and I would be delighted to hang some lanterns and other decorations.

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Loch Laggan
[info]zewujun
2023-01-23 02:27 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, my heart. You are a treasure.

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Loch Laggan
[info]withallmyheart
2023-01-23 02:39 pm UTC (link)
A treasure only has what value might be found by he who possesses it.


It's the year of the rabbit, is it not? Would you like to spend some time with the rabbits at Cloud Recesses this afternoon?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-23 02:44 pm UTC (link)
That is a very fine idea. I will buy strawberries so they may have a New Year treat as well.

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Loch Laggan
[info]withallmyheart
2023-01-23 04:07 pm UTC (link)
That seems a fine idea.

We might bring Temeraire and Mr. Roland as well, I think they'd both enjoy the opportunity to meet them properly too, now that Temeraire's at a size to properly interact with them.

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Loch Laggen
[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 07:44 pm UTC (link)
I will be most pleased to have them along if they wish to join us.

Will:
I must ask you to forgive me if this question sounds rude or ignorant: is Emily Roland a young man, a young woman, or neither?

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Will | Lan Huan
[info]withallmyheart
2023-01-24 08:54 pm UTC (link)
Mr. Rola Emil Roland is a young woman. I call her Mr. Roland not as any indicator of her gender, so much as as an indication that she is a subordinate on Temeraire's crew.

I suppose as we've not much of a crew here, it's a habit I should break.

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Will | Lan Huan
[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 08:57 pm UTC (link)
As I am not a member of the crew, I will have to ask her how she would prefer that I address her. The system of titles here is most confusing.

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Will | Lan Huan
[info]withallmyheart
2023-01-24 09:27 pm UTC (link)
I much prefer the simplicity of home, but asking her her preference is likely the correct course of action.

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[info]realnicemonster
2023-01-23 04:05 pm UTC (link)
I ain't gonna have to do a buncha walking to get to this new place, am I?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 12:49 pm UTC (link)
Prompto put in our application for a waypoint with the city council this week. It should actually be less walking than anyone has to do now, once that application is approved and the waypoint installed.

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[info]realnicemonster
2023-01-24 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Guess that ain't so bad then.

Is it gonna be weird for you, having a buncha people wandering around your old place?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 07:41 pm UTC (link)
It was stranger having so few people wandering about Cloud Recesses. In my own world, it was home not just to my clan but the entire sect, and it served as a center of learning for all the cultivation world. This is more a return to its original purpose.

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[info]realnicemonster
2023-01-24 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah, guess in that case having it all empty and shit would give you the heebie jeebies.

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[info]innocentexile
2023-01-23 04:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm never one to pass down free pizza and beer. Sign me up, boss.

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 12:50 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, Eddie! Your aid will be most appreciated. Tell Prompto your preferred types of pizza and beer, and we can probably arrange for those to be present.

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[info]innocentexile
2023-01-24 07:35 pm UTC (link)
I've never met a pizza or a beer that I didn't like, but I'll make sure to let him know.

You need anything else?

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 07:42 pm UTC (link)
No, to have your assistance in the move will be quite enough. Is all well with you?

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[info]innocentexile
2023-01-24 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Oh yeah, can't complain. Weird mushroom attacks aside, Vallo's been pretty good to me. How were your holidays?

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[info]messofhangups
2023-01-23 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Of course! And make sure you take time for yourself today! Enjoy those sticky rice balls I dropped off!

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[info]zewujun
2023-01-24 12:52 pm UTC (link)
I have already enjoyed two. They are very good, and I once again bless the ancestors for guiding me with their wisdom on the day I hired you.

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Loch Laggen
[info]idealises
2023-01-26 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Mr Lan, I would be honoured to explore your traditions and celebrate with you tonight.

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