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Qi-Deviation Detected! Posting Schedule Adjustment! (Sect Transmission, October 22, 2025)
🕑 Added 2025-10-23 01:59:01 +0000 UTCSeniors,
This Junior confesses with great humility that there has been Qi Deviation affecting both myself and the Scripture. With apology, chapter servings will be adjusted to 2x a week (Mondays and Thursdays) until the next Seclusion Week, when I can recalibrate and get things back on track. This applies to both public and advanced chapters—which counterintuitively means that Sect members will now be even further ahead of the public chapters. Immortal Recipe Elders will now be 3.5 weeks ahead, Inner Kitchen Spirit Chefs will be 2.5 weeks ahead, and Kitchen Disciples will be 1.5 weeks ahead.
To explain more fully: the wok cracked. There was serious cultivation backlash after one too many all-nighters. I'm juggling quite a lot at the moment on top of some health issues, but because I'm neurotic I can't let the quality of the Scripture slip. I owe you, my Sect Patrons, something that is worthy of your support. Some of the upcoming chapters need more reworking until the taste is to my satisfaction. I drafted them months ago but still ... there are some bits I need to keep tweaking.
So I went thirty-six hours without sleep at one point last week, packing in a bunch of adjacent work plus writing and editing and losing my mind. It culminated in me sending Senior Brother Editor an email where I forgot to say "thank you." This is a big deal to me, okay.
I tried to fix it by WhatsApping him my gratitude, but instead of saying that I didn't want to "clutter the email thread,” I typed “clutter the email THREAT.” This all sounds kind of funny when I put it this way. But there've just been a lot of compounding factors and the damn wok cracked.
My messages are never coherent because all my brain goes to my actual writing. There's no brain left for outside.So before I set the entire Kitchen on fire, Seniors, please accept my sincere apologies as I adjust the serving schedule to 2x a week. I hope to mend the wok during the next Seclusion Week. I also hope to survive until then. Yesterday, I was so non-functional that I rolled my ankle while walking up the stairs with a cup of coffee. Heaven has no eyes. My sanity is but a blade of grass for it to trample.
Thank you all for your patience and support. I've been a working writer for years now, but Dim Sum Dao gives me anxiety (and joy) like no other. This story, for various reasons, matters a lot to me. But those reasons are a story for another time.
There’s a bonus recipe for all Sect members coming up this weekend as an extra thank you, along with the third October recipe for Immortal Recipe Elders. I appreciate you all immensely, Seniors. One day I will explain more fully what your support means to me.
— Xiao Tao 笑涛
Junior Disciple, Dim Sum Dao Sect
Fragrant Bowl City
PS: If you aren’t on the Discord already, please come! Senior Sister Aleks made Qingmei Pastries (with some accidental folding variations😂) last weekend and posted a picture! It’s pinned in the Food Ahem Channel!
Comments
Tao
I actually loled. May Mudan bless me with physical and mental fortitude.
Tao
This Junior thanks you for your support and kindness!
Dumplingsafe
The broken wok, in a Dim Sum Dao context, brought my mind immediately to kintsugi. May it be mended artfully before Mudan, the prettiest fairy in the Heavenly Court, rainbow-teleports down from the clouds and zaps it so it’s mammoth enough to have a terribly comfortable bed made in it for you to sleep for a very long time, with your ankle healing and no worldly concerns except “On what should I nom now?” enter in.
Léannah Carer
Sounds hectic! Please take care, I appreciate all the time and energy put into this. I'll patiently wait to read on 😌
