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I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

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I read further and I'm still not even 200 pages in admittedly, but tbh if this is a 'partial retelling' that leaves out Wu I'm gonna do something that'll land me on the news. Dunno what yet though. I mean, t's LITERALLY in the title. THREE Kingdoms. Not TWO.

In Iron Widow I ultimately decided that I was happy the author didn't include a Wu strategist alongside Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi since they were heading up the whole 'using mostly teenage girls as very slightly glorified cannon fodder' effort and just hoped that someone from Wu would pop up in the next book unattached to them. Personally I would prefer Lu Xun or Zhou Yu, but only Zhou Yu if he isn't made out to be a jealous loser to make Zhuge Liang look cooler, but I'd be happy with any of the major strategists really. Including Zhuge Jin, but only if they do something similar to how Dynasty Warriors handled their cousin Zhuge Dan where he's allowed to do his own thing and Zhuge Liang hardly ever comes up.

I've been reading Heavenly Tyrant and enjoying it a lot so far. According to the author it's going to be a partial Three Kingdoms retelling. Aside from Sima Yi being present I can't say I've picked up on that so far, but I'm not even 1/3 of the way through so there's plenty of time to work it in. Well, actually there's also a mention of the divine form of Guan Yu, which is absolutely fascinating to me since he's apparently a god meanwhile Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang seem to be regular mortals.

Oh also there's Hua Tuo, which ties in nicely to the 3k thing. I consider him as being an honorary affiliate of Wu since that's where he first shows up in the novel but like... Pwease let me see someone from Wu?... Maybe even my blorbo Lady Sun?...

But the context of Hua Tuo showing up is that someone gets really sick and he treats them but can't fix the underlying problem. Like DAMN, my bud Hua Tuo can't fix them? The guy who successfully performed brain surgery on Cao Cao in 3rd century China and now has access to medical knowledge and equipment that are advanced even beyond our modern day standards? HE can't fix this??? Oof, tough luck.

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surely no one in academia cares at this point

You must understand that historians are not allowed to cum unless they're calling someone a crackpot fraud.

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Sun Quan: You lost track of your period and it came earlier then you were expecting it, so you're just... Gonna lay in bed? And not do anything else? Don't you have a lot to get done?

Sun Ce: A-Quan if you don't shut up right now I swear-

Also Zhou Tai has very heavy periods and cramps but she never complains about them, the only reason anyone knows is that one time she nearly passed out from it.

Fem Cao Cao would be so fucking dramatic about being on her period I just KNOW it

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It's incredible how well this lines up with my interests because I have actually already considered this with Sun Ce and Zhou Yu for a project I've had in early stage for too long, and I also have the idea that their periods would sync up.

But I also just looked up the whole period synchrony thing and apparently there isn't really any good scientific evidence for it, so bummer for me, guess I'm going to have to rework this concept. Anyway just this once let's consider a world where period synchrony is a thing, or at least let's consider a world where their periods are so close together that it would be easy to draw a connection even when there is none. Zhou Yu's is fairly regular in this scenario and usually comes within a few days before Sun Ce's, and that's the only way Sun Ce knows she's about to have her period before the cramps set in. She does not keep track of this herself, she is dependent on Zhou Yu in this regard. Whenever Zhou Yu has to be away for more then a couple of weeks it's a minor disaster.

Fem Cao Cao would be so fucking dramatic about being on her period I just KNOW it

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@zhoudadudugongjin and I went crazy with three kingdoms yuri + period posting, so I had to draw this :'D

combined with that one yahoo answers video

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I've been reading Heavenly Tyrant and enjoying it a lot so far. According to the author it's going to be a partial Three Kingdoms retelling. Aside from Sima Yi being present I can't say I've picked up on that so far, but I'm not even 1/3 of the way through so there's plenty of time to work it in. Well, actually there's also a mention of the divine form of Guan Yu, which is absolutely fascinating to me since he's apparently a god meanwhile Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang seem to be regular mortals.

Oh also there's Hua Tuo, which ties in nicely to the 3k thing. I consider him as being an honorary affiliate of Wu since that's where he first shows up in the novel but like... Pwease let me see someone from Wu?... Maybe even my blorbo Lady Sun?...

But the context of Hua Tuo showing up is that someone gets really sick and he treats them but can't fix the underlying problem. Like DAMN, my bud Hua Tuo can't fix them? The guy who successfully performed brain surgery on Cao Cao in 3rd century China and now has access to medical knowledge and equipment that are advanced even beyond our modern day standards? HE can't fix this??? Oof, tough luck.

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one thing you have to consider about using a lance is you wont have full control over yourself anymore. the lance compels you to start running people through just for the fun of it

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evil advisor indeed.com

glassdoor evil advisor

evil advisor careers

entry level evil advisor position

evil advisor work from home

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modern media, especially modern western media, loves the idea of qin shi huang’s terracotta army coming to life and obeying his every command. but really that isn’t a very pretty ending for a man who burned the heavens in effigy and heaped the ashes into an artificial divine title and artificial pills of immortality. it would be more fitting, i think, for his ghost to still be running around his mausoleum, shaking his clay soldiers by the shoulders, shaking his own corpse, unable to understand why they won’t wake up

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"They're going to bury you three feet deep, because you've only ever been half a man" sounds like a raw ass line from Shakespeare or something buts actually from me yelling at my cat for stealing my sandwich while I was getting a drink.

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listened to most of The Art of War while hanging clothes at my job earlier and I'm going to just distill down the real advice for y'all without the twenty thousand similes and metaphors and such

Wars are expensive have them really fast

Don't kill your soldiers they need food and stuff

But sometimes put your soldiers into inescapable life or death situations because that's how you really get them to be workin' hard instead of hardly workin', y'know

Have more guys than the enemy and be smarter. The best way to win a war is to have every single favorable condition for winning a war. Hope that helps

DO NOT fight in a salt marsh

If your boss gives you a stupid order, don't follow that order

Be 15 min early to the battlefield

Attack the enemy's weak points. But also they might be faking weaknesses so don't attack if they seem weak. But attack their weak points. But also-

For the love of god don't let anyone read omens

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ZENG LI 曾黎 | Weibo Night 2024

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big fan of the way chinese eunuchs run the gamete from "decent, upstanding guy", "complex and unfairly maligned by their society" and "trying their damnest to win Negative Stereotype Bingo"

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Walking into a room full of friends and going "Hey guys I was thinking about succumbing to nostalgia and building my politics around a mythologized idyllic past filled with heroic martyrs who die for their Wifes" and they all tackle me to the ground like I just brought a lit cigarette to an oil rig

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so embarrassing when you're infodumping about a random topic and slowly realize the person you're talking to has also listened to the specific podcast episode where you got the information