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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room

@forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me
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30+, they/any, genderfluid. 华裔 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇳🇺🇲 ❤+🔁 heavy. 🔞 | DT (7.56) spoiler warning! was @forgivenrevelry on twitter pfp: @lllfated.bsky.social

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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 02/10/2026
my baby shroomling… pudgy lil guy… ilu sm
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 21/09/2026
PROMPT #18: REASON ellipsus.com/read/1fHosJH... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #18: REASON

You slay gods and their children, then you put down would-be revolutionaries and dissidents.

You profess to fight for the peace and betterment of all, but your actions best serve power.

You disclaim the motives of all whom you battle and reserve the right to violence for yourself.

How do you measure the righteousness of your cause and prove the justice of your deeds?

What overwhelming purpose is yours, that all others must be found wanting upon the scales?
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 21/09/2026
PROMPT #17: FRET ellipsus.com/read/7SnmXO0... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #17: FRET

A martyred elder, a legacy in the balance.

A host of wrathful gods, a land in disarray.

A recovering enemy, a newly crowned emperor.

A thousand unsolved problems, a fragile alliance.

Hurry young master, don't mind the sword above your head.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 20/09/2026
oh. what if i decided to have this also affect yumei's family. hmm.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 20/09/2026
oh alphinaud...........
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 20/09/2026
yugiri why do you keep trying to recruit yumei to train with you 👀
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 19/09/2026
i explode
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 19/09/2026
PLUM BLOSSOMS ? FOR MY YUMEI ???
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 19/09/2026
wow. who's this.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 19/09/2026
one plum tall... little sproutling yumei
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 17/09/2026
girl traumatized by archon bread
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 17/09/2026
ah. oopsie
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 17/09/2026
PROMPT #16: STEEL ellipsus.com/read/3WTLQcg... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #16: STEEL

The warriors dance a whirlwind before their ritual altars, blades flashing as lightning upon the hilltops.

The kings in golden finery bow before their ancient gods, followed by a hundred kneeling courtiers.

The officials command the mines and quarries, each stripped bare with the labor of a thousand men.

The people prosper within cities of stone, their walls guarded by men with coats of gleaming scales.

But prosperity begets greed, and greed begets strife, and the scars of strife beget the wrath of the land.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 17/09/2026
mushroom friend... why do you follow...
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 16/09/2026
hey hey hey wait a minute excuse me what
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 16/09/2026
PROMPT #15: PRODIGY ellipsus.com/read/4OWIMeB... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #15: PRODIGY

"The world has no shortage of prodigies—gifted in instincts, taken easily to their arts of choice." Yumei's mother carefully drew shape after shape on the board as she spoke. "In that, you are hardly unique. Though rare perhaps in the specificity of how each person's gifts manifest, as a whole, there are many like you with various affinities. Yet those blessings alone are not enough to reach greatness. If you cannot understand them, hone them, and master them, they may as well be squandered."

Yumei tried to keep her gaze on the arcane geometries taking form through her mother's deliberate brushtrokes. Yet they may as well have been the churning foam atop roiling waters for all she could decipher of them. "Do I really need to memorize these forms if I'm going to have them prepared in a tome all the same?"

"And if your tome is destroyed, far from home, who will you rely upon to redraw those forms for you? You may have an aptitude for using magic, but if you lack a firm...

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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 16/09/2026
PROMPT #14: AGAINST THE GRAIN ellipsus.com/read/4d3ftnI... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #14: AGAINST THE GRAIN

Ever have other forces in your life sought to pull you into their wake.

You could follow the path someone else has charted, live your life by their rules without question.

Perhaps not what you love, but at least it would be a living in a world where having any is worth a fortune.

But who would you be if you simply went with the currents?

If it is the way of our time to abandon our less fortunate fellows, to justify willful transgressions under the guise of survival, to pillage the land in the name of industry, will you allow yourself to be swept up in such a tide?

Or will you reject that course and brace yourself against the unrelenting waves to do what you believe to be right, even if the world should spurn you for it?
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 15/09/2026
FUCK. THERES MORE.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 15/09/2026
Wait a fucking minute I wrote this nearly 2 years ago Some things are meant to happen
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 15/09/2026
What do we think about..her…….
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 15/09/2026
just girls being girls... thinking of combat...
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 14/09/2026
hmm.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 13/09/2026
Yumei. After making far too many XIV characters, she's the one that has given me a new reason to stay at a time I'd felt myself growing more detached from the game. She's no self-insert, but out of all my characters, I see the most of myself in her and find myself thinking about her story the most.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 13/09/2026
PROMPT #12: FUSION ellipsus.com/read/4UyBAGp... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #12: FUSION

One soul, three homes, four journeys.

Life is the cauldron, I am the elixir.

I am the amalgamation of knowledge.

I am the coalescence of experience.

I am the intersection of hopes.

The bonds of friendship I have forged.

The threads of fate I have woven.

The works of skill I have wrought.

I am all that, and I will be more.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 12/09/2026
PROMPT #11: OBLIVION ellipsus.com/read/7Sig2go... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #11: OBLIVION

To mourn is to remember. To remember is to know. To know is to love.

I walk this earth in the memory of those who came before. I make new memories with those who walk alongside me and honor them as they pass. I commit to guiding those who will walk after us, that our memory may light the way as they forge their own.

All the joys, all the sorrows, and all the idle moments in between—these are the glistening gemstones, the well-worn weapons, and the stale silence that fill our tombs and treasuries.

I will not abandon the trust of knowing in the name of a thrall-like comfort.

If I will only know joy, will I not become numb to it? If I will know no loss, how will I treasure what I have? If our memories are such a burden, why preserve any knowledge at all?

I reject the promise of such sterile innocence. I will remember for us all.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 12/09/2026
goes into the burn for explorer mode to gpose looks up to the sky to see this once again thinking about life in the burn and what it takes to survive, and what scattered oases might exist for some groups to even thrive
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 11/09/2026
PROMPT #10: UPBRAIDING ellipsus.com/read/4YJnVIV... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #10: UPBRAIDING

"Again."

The order was firm—an entire speech's worth of judgement carried by a single word. Yumei clenched a fist behind her back and restarted her recitation from the beginning. Sweat beaded her palms and crowned her temples  as she tried to recall the precise wording, meter, and intonation of a two thousand year-old Yanxian treatise on advanced geomantic principles.

Several verses in, she stumbled again and a sharp slap echoed throughout the room as her father struck the closed end of a folding fan against the table. Yumei flinched and bit her lips together immediately in silence.

"How long have you been assigned this text?"

"Three months," she quietly replied.

Her father pursed his lips and shook his head, his gaze barely passing over her as he directed his attention to Yumei's mother seated nearby.

"Look at your daughter. Three months and she still struggles with Sun Lifang's Yishuibailinzhuan. Her brother could recite it flawlessly within a month, and you...

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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 11/09/2026
meanwhile, yumei's ass with horns, tail, and scales out for the whole world to see...
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 10/09/2026
I don’t remember why I made this
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 10/09/2026
PROMPT #9: BOUSTROPHEDON ellipsus.com/read/3WXx4qk... ##ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #9: BOUSTROPHEDON

Where will journey's end find you, traveler?

    ?dne ylurt yenruoj yna seoD

From east to west to east, to the ends of the universe and back—have you no hearth to call your own?

.dlrow eht evas ot naht redrah si esuoh a yub oT

If not a house, what of a home?

?evol yeht esoht fo streah eht ni ton fi emoh llac rerednaw a dlouw erehW

And is there such a place for you after all this time?

.semoc yllanif dne eht nehw wonk ll'ew esoppus I…

One should hope to have a firmer accounting of one's own worth than that.

.noinapmoc ydaets  a ,wollef tnetsisrep a si tbuod ,tey dnA.

Unfounded, one would think, if the bonds of love and trust are true.

.dewotseb tsurt eht fo trohs llaf thgim eno taht—tsrow eht sreaf eno ,llits dna …spahreP

It would seem your journey still has a long way to go.

?dne ylurt yenruoj yna seoD :erofeb deksa I sA
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 10/09/2026
Some examples of past works I've gotten from them!!
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 09/09/2026
#gpose | #wol:yumei | #au_ra
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 09/09/2026
PROMPT #8: STRAIN ellipsus.com/read/21AVf6P... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #8: STRAIN

Does your heart not swell to bursting with love for the souls that dwell upon this star? Does your body not ache with the scars of a thousand battles fought in their name? Does your will not fray with the overwhelming burden of resolve?

Though you lash your fate to that of the star, remember, you are not the only bulwark against the storm.

As you find yourself battered by the roaring tempests of our time, know you are not alone.

A single branch alone bends until it breaks, but bound with others, they might all hold firm.

So it is the weight you carry must be shared. Trust in the bonds you have forged. Brace together and stand fast, that together, you may weather the trials yet to come.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 09/09/2026
yumei 7.56 glam hehe (yay for plogons letting me play through patch as her on my main)
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #7: IGNORANCE IS BLISS ellipsus.com/read/3RFivh2... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #7: IGNORANCE IS BLISS

Oh, how difficult it is to live a life of comfort in Eorzea!

Bury your head in Thanalan's sands and your arse will be scorched by Ifrit's flames.

Hide in a mountain cave and the roof falls in beneath Titan's footstomps.

Sojourn through Coerthas' snowy hills and you'll be caught in Garuda's windstorm.

Sail out to sea and you'll be swallowed by the swirling tides of Leviathan's watery wrath.

Wander too deep into the Sylvan woods and you'll be thunderstruck by Ramuh's bolts.

Where, oh where, can one find a moment of peace?!

And if you're cursed enough to be blessed by light, all the world has its eye on you!

Blasted primals, would that I'd never heard of you!!
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #5: PRESERVATION ellipsus.com/read/455EH0w... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #5: PRESERVATION

Minds may fray, memories may fade, and monuments may fall.

Yet histories survive, untethered from the truth as they may become. Mosaics of countless shards, pieced together by the imaginations of those who come after. Fleeting silhouettes of those who came before, dancing across firelit screens for fussing children on winter nights. Odes to nigh-mythical figures from ages past, drunkenly belted out for a few coins in a racous tavern.

And through all of this, though we may grow distant from the shadow of the ancient past, something of it should still linger to guide us through the present fog toward a brighter future.

So long as their tales are told, their portraits are painted, and songs of their deeds are sung through the long march of time, those who have passed live on.

Their triumphs, their failures, and the mundane minutes between—they are all proof of their time upon this star.

Keep them in your hearts, speak of them by your hearths, and remember that they once lived.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #4: SURGE ellipsus.com/read/2ZjQ70R... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
PROMPT #4: SURGE

Thundering waves crash upon bone white sands as the heavens flash with veins of furious lightning.

A fleet founders beneath the rage of a lord called forth by the clamouring pleas of his children.

Crimson waters speckled with driftwood account for those poor souls now consigned to the sea.

The Lord of the Worl's roars herald the coming of a watery doom for all who remain in his path.

A rising tide will lift his children's futures while their enemies meet their fates in inky depths.

Two sisters lashed together as one sail forth into the eye of the storm in defiance of all odds.

Will the protection of light stem the coming flood of destruction and bless us with another dawn?

Or will this be the final wave in the relentless onslaught of darkness that at last breaks our resistance?
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #3: ECHELON ellipsus.com/read/4c5TRwV... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #3: ECHELON

A haze of perpetual gloom blanketed Northern Thanalan as Yumei arrived at the Ceruleum Processing Plant to rendezvous with the Flames who would be joining the next phase of Operation Archon. The oppressive atmosphere over the land itself did little to lift one's spirits and from all she could gather of the situation amongst the assembled forces, morale was flagging in the face of the peril promised by their looming mobilization. From the highest to the lowest ranks of the garrison, the soldiers' nerves were plain in their restless movements and the harried looks they wore.

Working her way through the staging ground, Yumei tried to greet each group of Flames she saw with an encouraging smile and some rallying words. The exercise was as much for herself as it was for them. While she had been fortunate thus far and carried the protection of Hydaelyn, she had no inkling of how much that luck could stretch and the limits of Her blessing. She needed something more real to trust in and so did the anxious troops. Barring the sudden manifestation of one of the Twelve, they would have to settle for one another for now. If her presence and reputation could offer the soldiers the security of mind to stand firm in battle, that was all she could ask.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #2: REGISTER ellipsus.com/read/6Sbo0f0... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #2: REGISTER

We sign the pages presented to us as fledgling adventurers for our names to be bound to our deeds, that the glory we might one day earn should lay a path to ever greater fortunes. But some names are shackles, tying us to the fortunes of others who would best remain untroubled by tales of derring-do. Better to remain unfettered by such bonds, even should it mean one's renown is merely a shroud. So let each signature tell a lie. Let every proclamation forge that lie into reality. Let all credit be given to one who never was, that no trace might lead back to those who should remain untarnished by these triumphs.
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
PROMPT #1: KEY ellipsus.com/read/rU1s8aS... #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026 | #wol:yumei
PROMPT #1: KEY

How many thousand malms now sit between her and the cradle of her earliest days?

Do the doors of that house still remain locked and barred, waiting for familiar footsteps to return?

Are the stones of the courtyard now covered in crackling leaves, swept only by the wind?

Will wards of blood still recognize their own, or have they been broken by other means?

Do the halls now host other life? What unwelcome guests might stir within those walls?

Should this unending journey find her upon that Yanxian threshold once more, could she still call home the place that so long ago echoed with her first cries?
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 08/09/2026
jinwu's ffxivwrite thread (2026) #ffxivwrite | #ffxivwrite2026
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 07/09/2026
stares at her
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 06/09/2026
this is so cute ??
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 06/09/2026
in which yumei has a noticeable anime character vein twitch and starts plotting how to get back at "the young master" at the next available opportunity
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 05/09/2026
to absolutely no one's surprise mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 04/09/2026
I use these open-style Bose earbuds when I’m at work or outside, there are similar options for cheaper from other brands as well! Anything in-ear tends to be uncomfortable for me, meanwhile these are very lightweight and just clip behind the ear to sit outside the ear canal which is rly nice
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 03/09/2026
do you really want to find out
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 03/09/2026
I am not immune to doing what everyone else is doing 🟣
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 27/08/2026
cold weather yumei maybe (im finally in coerthas... but still in ARR)
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jinwu 金乌 ☀️❄️ evercold waiting room @forgivenrevelry.jinwuyou.me · 26/08/2026
going through ARR MSQ on Yumei and every time i see Y'shtola im just like this is what they took from us...
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