Lantern Tide v0.2.0 — Breathe, and settle

A new door opens on the island street: the Stillroom, the warmest room of all, and the one that turns the site's quiet thesis into something you do — "distil the weight of the deep into a flicker of steady light." You sit down by the fire, and you breathe.

This is a Vibe Code project — made to let a passing idea keep breathing, not to be a flawless codebase. Treat its words as a small light drifting in on the tide, not a source to rely on. The Stillroom is a place to ease the mind, not medical care.

Also available in: Traditional Chinese

The Stillroom

Sit, and breathe with the lantern furnace. A soft circle of light swells as you breathe in and settles as you breathe out; the room warms with every out-breath, and a little steady light is distilled into the core and kept. Come back another day and the lamp has dimmed a little while you were out in the tide — so you breathe it back up.

The room leads, and you follow — it is never a test. Instead of asking you to perform, it meets you at an easy pace and, over the first minute, draws the breath gently longer, toward something calm with an unhurried out-breath. When a pace feels right, tap once to keep it. If you would rather not choose at all, just follow the fire down. No holding a button, no counting, no getting it wrong.

And if you already know the breath that suits you, a quiet little menu sits to one side — five paces, from a light, easy breath to a slow, deep one. Move between them and nothing lurches: the circle eases back to rest, waits with you a calm moment, and only then begins again.

Choose your own calm

A small "detailed / simple" switch now travels with you through every room, and it remembers your choice — turn the motion down to a hush once and it stays that way, or keep the full, living version. Either way the Stillroom still breathes with you; under the gentler setting it simply breathes smaller, and stiller.

A note under the lamp

This is still an early light, lit on a passing thought and kept burning only while it glows. Nothing here is a promise — rooms, words, and small details may still shift from one visit to the next. Take what helps you, and let the rest drift on with the tide.

Links

• Live site: https://fishalchemist.github.io/lantern-tide/
• Source: https://github.com/FishAlchemist/lantern-tide
• Versioning policy: https://github.com/FishAlchemist/lantern-tide/blob/v0.2.0/docs/versioning.md
• License: MIT