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This person clearly doesn’t belong here. From Ask Historians on Reddit.

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Adulthood isn’t bad, it’s just the labor of maintaining your existence under capitalism in isolation that sucks

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Knives! Get your Knives here for no particular reason!

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Get em while they're cold, get em while they're sharp!

Special discount if your name is Brutus for no reason in particular!

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Heavy stuff in this week's Apothecary, and the culmination of a few background details that are gaining prominence now that the series is exploring Jinshi's origins

When Maomao breaks down the balance of power within the inner palace, she notes that Lihua and the Emperor are cousins from his maternal line (almost all of his paternal i.e. the imperial line was wiped out in a pandemic). This makes her Empress Dowager Anshi's niece or second cousin, or maybe something even more screwed up given her family's practices grooming concubines for the emperor.

The Apothecary Diaries talks a lot about power through the language of patronage, and it frequently draws parallels between Maomao's upbringing in a brothel and the inner palace where ladies are gathered for the emperor's harem. She's outright stated that a respectable brothel won't allow customers to retain one of the apprentices until she's later in her teens, noting this is for her longevity/health. Despite that, Maomao knows that child trafficking happens, and when the pedophile is the emperor himself, the systems will warp to suit his preferences so they can continue to enjoy that patronage, just as Shishou has now sent his daughter because the current emperor doesn't like him as much as the previous one did. This kind of practice can't come without some kind of ramifications down the line, like-

actually to avoid spoilers I'm going to cut off these thoughts and be grateful that Maomao enjoys a much gentler form of patronage than we've seen through the series, though she didn't always

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Most anti phone advice is so inane and regurgitated to me but one thing I’ve been thinking about for days is “social media is okay, but the real danger comes in when you think your phone should be your go to during your limited pockets of leisure” like that’s literally the truest thing ever

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Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

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i love them a lot is all

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hey does anyone wanna do the funniest thing ever

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I love being fucking evil in my writing. Nothing more of a power trip than forcing a character to acknowledge how their actions hurt the people around them.

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Me, adding a single sentence (1) to each of my wips like a grandma watering her flowerbed: grow, grow, my lovelies

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Food for thought

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when i decide im not going

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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everyone assuming that the miya twins are children of a single mom with a deadbeat dad is so funny to me

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Fem! SakuAtsu au🦊🖤