#on a binge watch lol

[destiny-in-the-universe]

I’m this close to finishing Word Girl S2! I have a lot of thoughts in general about the series - both in the cracky canon the show displays and a more serious angle (because I am an eldritch being and want to view things if the show were a little less kid friendly)

Might be able to start season three today too!

I will not be discussing episodes I haven’t seen or simply don’t remember! Not until I watch them at least-

Also I am frothing at the mouth over one of my verses I’ve apparently already created for Word Girl, and I just have so many headcanons!

I’ll be making a headcanon post soon lol- and answering to the lovely ask I received! Literally just this show is lovely and amazing and wholesome (until it isn’t and I will talk about it)

[cardo-de-comer]

smiling friends! ...well at least one of them is smiling

also some process

[nebulaeyedfish]

My Mother said I never should / play with faeries in the wood

Watched Gem's s9 the other day. Etho is washed up pass it on.

Tags: @imflyingfish @raise-me-up-take-me-up @swanofstorie

See pinned for commissions

[aipurjopa]

TTHEMM,,,,

[anakindoodles]

Sliding into the black sails fandom 10 years late

[novicedraws]

The DRAMAAAA

[choconoru]

LU doodles I forgot to include in the last post 😭 (And It's just Wind––)

LU belongs to @//linkeduniverse

[skrunksthatwunk]

skwisgaar punished arc

[lucabyte]

@samhainian and I were talking about how cute of an idea it is to do Treehouse-of-horror-style little AUs for OCs but then we just got really hung up on that one from season 6 where nothing supernatural happens at all it's literally just cannibalism. What was up with that. Anyway.

Bonus:

[fagbearentertainment]

Just found my favorite fnaf drawing of all time /serious

I am obsessed with this withered Bonnie I need to draw him asap

[galehowl]

some Digimon doodles for the soul

[hayaku14]

gymnast kaito x sharpshooter shinichi meet-cute in the olympics au

[insomnious-illustrations]

Finally finished Steven Universe Future!

[maalidoesart]

something about these two…

[remnri]

oh i get it genshin impact like second impa-

[dyed-indigo]

How many wives did Luo Bingge have?

I see quite a lot of debate over this within the fandom, and this excerpt has been passed around quite a bit:

But I felt like I remembered Bingge being mentioned as having more wives within the text, so I decided to skim the books (CTRL + F on the Internet Archive PDFs worked wonders) to find as many references to Bingge's wife count as I could.

I was right that he was mentioned as having more wives (hundreds to be exact), on the back of the very first book in the series even. However, the backs of books are the domain of the publisher rather than the author, so this isn't really trustworthy info to go off of for canon purposes. Still, it made me curious to see if more wives were mentioned somewhere else within the series.

He is mentioned as theoretically marrying at least 100 women at once here, however this was purely speculation on what would have happened in Proud Immortal Demon Way if Luo Binghe truly aspired for marriage. He did marry many women in PIDW, however it's never made clear whether these marriages were out of love or were political (and for horny reasons, the stallion protagonist can never escape his libido).

613 is also mentioned as a number of wives, and seems oddly specific unless there's some Chinese number symbolism I'm missing here, however this is just an example of something that Madame Meiyin could predict with her fortune telling abilities. Her fortunes are mentioned to typically be about romance, so this could be Shen Qingqiu remembering an actual prediction she made in canon, however even if that were the case (which there doesn't seem to be evidence to support) it could simply be that Luo Binghe never got those wives within the novel, and was just implied to get them afterwards (cue Peerless Cucumber rant about Airplane's lazy writing).

There's mentioned to be dozens of women "barely glimpsed" within the harem, presumably in addition to wives like Ning Yingying and Liu Mingyan who were more significant, but that still doesn't give us an exact count. If the initial harem count is accurate, it does imply that most of the women within it were just written to fluff the numbers a bit.

Bingge is mentioned to have "never refused" any requests to join his harem. RIP Bingge's understanding of boundaries, but, again, we have no clue how many women even asked to join. Demon Emperors are powerful, but also scary, and Shen Qingqiu is... perhaps an unreliable narrator when it comes to any version of Luo Binghe's appeal factor.

Bingge is mentioned multiple times to have had sex with hundreds of women, however, not all of the bedded were wedded. Madame Meiyin, for example, is mentioned as someone that Bingge slept with but never married, and there's no evidence that i could find that she was the sole exception in a sea of wives.

In conclusion, while manwhore Bingge is real, his count of actual wives is more than likely less than 100, as originally specified. (Though I wouldn't blame you if you thought otherwise, the emphasis on the harem size being "innumerable" and "uncountable" in the narration is quite a lot, and historically many Chinese emperors had a larger harem than Bingge.)

At least, he had less than 100 wives in the novel. In the donghua, on the other hand...

Well. That's a fairly definite amount.