#Da Princes and Me's

[unforth]

@esper-aroon has enabled me, so here let me scream at y'all about The Imperial Uncle.

Okay, so I recently read The Imperial Uncle (Huang Shu) by Da Feng Gua Guo from Peach Flower House and I really loved it??? It's first person pov, mlm, about the Emperor's uncle Jing Chengjun, who is mistrusted by everyone simply because of who his parents were and his position, and so he's basically given up on trying to convince people that he's actually a nice, decent person without ulterior motives. He's super trapped by his position, and there's so much he can't say and do, and he's also a hopeless romantic, like, from his own mouth all he really wants is to sleep beside and wake up next to someone who actually gives a shit about him, and even that is basically out of reach in his life. Like, the book starts with his wife (who he has never once had sex with) storming into a meeting he's having and announcing he's a cuckold and she's pregnant.

But also, this poor bastard really thinks he knows what's going on and his very smart. Very unreliable narrator. He's actually kinda a hilarious, impulsive himbo. But the TL:DR is that his loneliness and isolation and the extent to which he's politically trapped routinely lead him to make absolutely terrible decisions.

E. Danglar's translation is absolutely gorgeous, too, and... idk, if you love political plots, melodramatic idiot main characters, a dose of pining, and a slow burn that eventually pays off, come take a look??? (some people think it's a love triangle??? idk, I never really got that vibe, I never felt it was really in doubt which of the two potential dudes he'd end up with, but maybe I only feel that way because I got it right, lmao).

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about how these two idiots end up finally finding each other and getting together, and I have an entire AU in my head (a modern corporate one) and part of another (canon divergent from like a decade before the book starts), and I just want people to love this book as much as I did and scream with me about it.

[bjorkshire-pudding]

Collecting all my birthday messages… because of the time difference, I missed Nokto's 😭

[fannyyann]

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that time brady called matthew “the prince of wales” when answering who their parents secretly root for when they play 

[sluckythewizard]

thought o this a million yrs ago but now im haunted by it AGAIN!!! is there a shipname for shiloh and gabe yet. u gotta answer quicj before this bomb in my neck goes off

[lunatic-fandom-space]

I literally could not care less about franz joseph he is so unspeakably boring to me, but i wont lie sometimes i do think about him and der tod. like, imagine being that guy, you have a symbolic nightmare about your stupid empire collapsing in on itself where a weird gnc af man yells at you that you suck and that your wife is gonna get stabbed and then she does and then when youre finally dying said weird gnc af man comes up to you and kisses youon the lips. and you cant even properly react to it cause youre just fully dead after that

actually no wait, its worse than that. we know from the prologue that he ends up as a ghost and like, obviously the ghosts are symbolic of clinging to a romanticized ideal of the austria empire and by extension elisabeth and youre not supposed to look at the ghostland literally, howeverrr I am going to do exactly that. do you guys think der tod hangs out with the ghosts. just sometimes since i imagine hes pretty busy. Do you guys think when he comes down fj tries to talk him. honestly, i think he does, i think hes still mad at him and willing to argue with him did you see how feisty he was during am deck der sinkenden welt

[collegeoflore]

fat rook fat rook fat rook

[sorryaboutthelean]

taking a break from crime to be gay

[prince-everhard]

if they released a legendary edition of the first three dragon ages like they did with mass effect, I would sink an unholy amount of time into the trilogy again

[jays-supersonic-dynamo]

here’s the super secret post-credits scene (REAL) tommy doesn’t want you knowing about

[sunshades]

what about me. who has been hamlet many times. inside my head.

[breadedsinner]

Pushing my Sebastian is Bisexual, Actually Agenda may be a constant uphill battle but you'll take Sebastian Vael is the Ultimate Wife Guy Agenda from my cold dead hands.

[eobard-thawne]

great way to learn that i failed to recruit leliana at the right time and it cannot be undone. and here i was wondering just when the heck i was gonna get to meet her asfghsf

[theoutc-ast]

I've never been that horny attracted to so many chaotic blonde white depressed man before.

[lunatic-fandom-space]

since ive been really obsessed with elisabeth: das musical and I found out that a bunch of different guys from that musical made one about rudolf as well, ive been thinking about watching it but i was never really in the mood because im not much of a Frank Wildhorn girlie ngl, like his music is fine, its not bad at all it just always leaves me thinking "eh, couldve been better" and as far as I was concerned i already HAD better so why bother. BUT for some reason I was like "I dont wanna just go to bed early on sylvester like ive done these past few years because thats super lame" and I decided that I would stay up until 22:00 and then watch this rudolf musical as the new year comes in. which is only slightly less lame than what i usually do

Anyway, i did that, I dont have any strong feelings about it, the only reason im telling you all that is that I need to share a with you the moment during my watching experience where my thoughts and the musical managed to achieve perfect synthesis by complete coincidence

so ive talked before about how i would really like to read and write elisabeth fanfics but I cant bring myself to because its technically rpf and my brain simply prevents me from doing that. Well, fortunately for me my weird brain doesnt prevent me from reading fanfics about den tod, which is to say fanfics where people just plop elisabeth!death into some other fandom for the purposes of having their blorbos engage in some philosophical and/or romantic interactions with that gnc af man. And theres this one fanfic that i read, i believe it was a les mis fic (the les mis fandom loves den tod btw more than other fandoms for some reason) where this guy who always has Death sortof hangin out in his periphery for some reason thinks to himself something like "oh, hes quite beautiful, i bet it would be fun to have a little death with death ;)" and I really like that fic Im very surprised that that was the only time ive encountered a joke like that. Maybe theres more of those in the actual elisabeth fanfics idk

back to the other musical, i just got through the first act and it was fine but Im getting pretty tired because Im usually in bed by 18:30 but now its like 23 pm, so I start to zone out a little and I start thinking about that fanfic I just described to you like damn, you would think i wouldve encountered the idea of connecting literal death with the metaphorical little death before but I guess not.maybe i just need to read more idk. And just as Im thinking that, we get to a scene in the musical where Rudolf is at like a brothel or smth hangin out with a bunch of women and shitty guys and they start singing this song about sex but its also obviously a song about suicide and I am immediately at attention again babeyyyy these historical musicals know just how to reel me in

[don-dake]

Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist (2006)