#my emperor

[ssuminshan-official]

I just love how he's treated like the emperor he is for his birthday 🌟💗💗💗👑

(Saw this on Rednote)

[djoseph-quinn]

“I want to fuck him” isn’t enough. I want to live inside his skin.

[aecholapis]

[itsjustjake13]

I'm sorry if someone has already made this joke; however, Calus in Lightfall looks like how a Pokêmon would evolve if you traded it to another player over one of those GameBoy connect cables back in the day.

[0ynes]

Paul is just in a goofy mood, don't worry about it

[aecholapis]

HA

made my own version of blorbo bingo :3

[everchased]

THAT one's goin on the list too now!

[notsohappynotsosad]

Have you reconsidered embracing ceremorphosis?

[romanceyourdemons]

historical fiction is such a funny genre like dammit i spoiled the ending of les mis for myself by reading the wikipedia page for the paris uprising of 1832

[djoseph-quinn]

Yes master

Geta, Geta, Geta….

[levshany]

The Last Judgment

[bogkeep]

ok so i think that my favourite fantasy subgenre is The Inherent Tragedy Of Being Born Into Royalty. which mostly means that i like to read about gay princes but with some nuance

[emil1863]

It's been a while since I've doodled a comic.

[aecholapis]

[ahsokalegend]

One of my favorite choices the Apothecary Diaries made was making the Emperor a “normal guy” (as far as I know as an anime-only). He’s not evil. He’s not hindering Mao Mao’s journey. He respects the concubines.

If anything his lack of autonomy and presence as the most powerful person in the country further enhances the show’s themes of working within the confines of class and gender inequality.

The previous emperor was a horrible, horrible pervert. Okay, then this emperor only weds women of age… Until he’s forced to take his father’s precious wife due to politics. The current emperor reasonably avoids her.

Eunuchs exist? Bam! now the surgery is outlawed, but this will create a reduction in male labor around the palace.

The emperor clearly favors few women. Well, now he must recognize a concubine with a powerful politician father playing the system.

He supports Mao Mao toeing the line of social expectations for women, but hasn’t removed the law against women preparing medicine. It makes one think, if he wanted to, could he make the change at all? For every two steps forward, he’s forced to take one step back.

In this universe even the Emperor is limited by social pressure and the expectations of his station. His life and that of his children is out of his control, and if that isn’t such a compelling piece of world building I don’t know what is.

If that’s how the author twists the narrative of the Emperor you better believe her female characters dealing with women’s issues in this society are even better written.

[shoukohime]

babygirl the way you forsake your happiness on your relentless quest to vengeance, your complicated relationship with gender and the way you're covered in blood have bewitched me body and soul