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i love kuwei yul bo, not despite him being a little piece of shit, but BECAUSE he's a little piece of shit. he's really out here casually defying all the asian stereotypes. you want a nerdy, socially-awkward, boy-genius asian scientist? well, turns out he's actually a bitchy little manwhore who wants to steal your boyfriend. in fact, he will pretend to be you and "accidentally" trick your boyfriend into kissing him. he knew what he was doing. that little hoe. i love him.

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ok maybe he kinda sucks but he can still common property me anytime ;)

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IRON WIDOW BOOK 3 WILL HAVE MULTIPLE POVS??? INCLUDING TAIPING AND SHIMIN????? I'M NOT OK RN THIS IS NOT A WANT IT'S A NEED

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ok i just went through the entire tpw series and 37 IMPORTANT CHARACTERS DIED. OUT OF 42. (btw, i'm only counting characters who were significant enough to actually have their names mentioned at some point in the series. bc the actual full death count is def in the thousands. prob more ngl.)

meaning that only about 10% of R.F. Kuang's important characters didn't die in her series. and we can't even be sure about any of them actually being alive except one; it just never explicitly mentioned their deaths so i didn't count them. maybe they were actually killed but rin just didn't get to see them die explicitly. we'll never know.

i'm not ok. REBECCA WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO US.

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i feel like we collectively as a society have not talked about Zetian pegging Qin Zheng enough. like no way we just glossed over that??

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Iron Widow Book 3 Theories

Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant Spoilers!

apparently xiran posted that they will be tackling pink imperialism and rainbow imperialism in book 3 so i'm excited to see how that will play out! i wonder who will be the "imperialists"? melians maybe? or other countries on orichaea besides huaxia?

based on the ending of heavenly tyrant i think qin zheng will be the main antagonist/villain of book 3. (kinda unfortunate tho bc i actually really liked his character development and the whole dynamic with zetian in HT. any chance he will be redeemed and added to the polycule? not impossible, but unlikely)

qin zheng will probably die in the end, most likely killed by zetian or su*cide, but there will definitely be some resolution in this aspect. in HT qin zheng mentioned to zetian that he couldn't live long in this world bc it wasn't right for him (smth about the consequences of sleeping over two centuries) and that he wanted to die as a martyr while his death could still be meaningful to aid the revolution, so maybe that

OR alternatively he might drink mercury thinking it will make him immortal and accidentally kill himself, just like his historical counterpart qin shi huang lmao

shimin's spirit was absorbed by the vermilion bird at the end of HT and he has become a hundun-like being

zetian and co. will team up with the hunduns to defeat qin zheng and/or melians - this is constantly foreshadowed by zetian's continued unwillingness to kill hunduns bc she believes she can communicate with them + that one meaningful moment in the water during the battle where she found temporary peace with the hunduns when she felt like they could understand her. i don't think xiran would include this randomly for no reason

i feel like helan will play a bigger role idk

i really hope no one in our beloved iron triangle dies (again)

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i finally opened my first independent HS bank account this week! yay!! the first thing i did with my newfound financial freedom was immediately order hardcover book copies of both Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant by @xiranjayzhao. i have zero regrets to end 2024 :D

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When the themes in your book accidentally match up to real world events months after the text was finalized

A very December 2024 parody, by @zakurarain

Pose ref under cut

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my favorite dynamic is "fuck you" "please do"