#or leave it implicit

[avariantflaire]

i completely agree.

this entire thing that you point out, about jinshi’s beauty being the source of unwanted attention, and the sinister implications behind that—especially considering we have jinshi himself lament his deliberate positioning to catch unloyal consorts—it all seems perfectly and tragically aligned with knh’s themes.

of beauty being a cage.

of beauty having a cost.

and of beauty being judged not by you, but by the external world.

one does not choose one’s beauty beyond the cosmetics one lathers on; but where maomao can still choose to make herself look undesirable, jinshi is in no such position. it is not only his beauty that cages him, but also his position, his nobility. it explains his immediate fixation with maomao, who scoffs at him so, who sees him beyond his looks and reacts to his personality rather than his charm. but it also explains his utter despair at maomao’s reminder of the gap between them.

at this point, is jinshi any better than the high-ranking concubines? has the emperor not taken advantage of his beauty as well, by using it to catch unloyals? is his position not keeping him far, far away from someone he may perhaps love, just as fuyou was, that she had to trick the system to be together with the one she chose?

the rear palace is a cage, and jinshi is the prisoner in its ninth circle.

By reading the light novel, I've come to realize some other stuff about Jinshi's character that I think are pretty interesting.

For example, how his beauty, the one that he constantly takes advantage of, is the main source to all this unwanted attention. Be it people who fawn at him from afar or those who directly catcall him—the only think that he deems worth something from himself is the same that affects him the most.

I might be going in circles with this, I could also be explaining myself like utter shit (don't mind my melting brain, I'm dying of heat), but I just find his character to be just so... interesting. Don't think the anime has touched upon Jinshi in such a way just yet? Hopefully they'll get to it in the second cour.

[chaotic-carnifex]

No hold on I'm gonna make an extra post about this:

I wouldn't choose to be alloromantic

If I were given the choice to either remain aro or become alloro again, I would choose aromanticism.

And I think a lot of people need to hear that.

[frankiebirds]

[fusionsprunt]

Sniff sniff

Good art sniff sniff

Food

Sniff

Sniff

*bites b2 and hunter*

Nom

Awesome characters

Nom nom

Aw mah teef broke

Dafs okay doe

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[geoffrard]

idk if i’m ever gonna write the mcr fatphobia post bc i keep getting all in my head about it & feel like most ppl have such a rudimentary understanding of even the most basic vocabulary of fat acceptance.

but whatever the spark notes of it is that the grunt of the fatphobia in this fandom comes from the total lack of acknowledgment of gerard way’s fatness. like it impacts their music, their public image, and their gender presentation as much as anything else. which rly just means that ppl say whatever about his body. or like rely upon the shape of their body to make some kind of claim about their general state of mind. and that just drives me bonkers insane

[henrybelly]

🎤 so true. erins say more about why the majority of your crossclan relationships hinge on the female partner leaving her friends and family to join her husband's clan

[laniidae-passerine]

was just overtaken by a desire to see a queer staged performance of much ado featuring masc Beatrice and femme Benedict bi4bi mayhem

[anomalocariscanadensis]

striking feature of the discourse on personal goodwill vs institutional compulsion is how many people (some on both sides, even!) talk as if there's some natural population of pharmacists that spring forth from goose barnacles or whatever. first noticed this in the post that was espousing anarcho-syndicalism but it's most glaring coming from the institutional compulsion side, like are you relying on the goodwill of people to choose to become pharmacists or are you compelling them to do that too? & if the latter, why bother with communism when we've already got perfectly effective ways to compel people to work without even needing individual compulsors? just tweak the price mechanism or something

[followmykpopsideblog]

So I finally defeated the monster horde at Fort Hateno (how many times did I die? Hahaha not relevant...) clearing up the road so I could FINALLY go visit Hateno

First thing I did was check to make sure my house was still there ofc! And.....

Zelda's journal??? 👀👀👀👀👀

Oh my God..... they were roommates...

[gloriousmonsters]

read camp dama.scus. enjoyed some stuff, really wish i didn't have the experience so often reading a book that's Good and Progressive and about Queer Affirmation etc of feeling like i'm side-eying the author like 'and you know that delineating the people that oppose you as pure evil that therefore deserves torture or death or being eliminated from society entirely is bad, right? you know that, right??'

[scorchedhearth]

ok i have another: would you write something that focuses heavily on world building? (sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, dystopia?) can be au or oc.

i would, as in conditional i am interested in that but idk if i could, or at least can at the moment. i have ideas for bigger, wider worlds, ive had a specific one for years actually, but everytime i try to write it i hurt a wall that i can't get past: how to weave this massive amount of data and ideas and world-building in a way that is both cohesive and understandable. also, i have a vital lack of interest in exposition and explaining world-building through the explicit text and im struggling with passing those elements along without them turning into info dumps, it's something i have to work on in my writing.

it's in fact one of the bigger reason why i've been struggling with starting the western au for good, there's a lot of exposition i have to do in order to have this au/world make sense to the readers and im having a hard time with that

would u ever write…

[doctapuella]

i am apparently spending my morning raging about the lazy aew instagram creators

[noxianwilled]

-> [ katgirl ]: never doubted ya on that -> [ katgirl ]: love ya too even when i say ur a bitch -> [ katgirl ]: dunno if its a good idea to tell everybody -> [ katgirl ]: but if abol is worse than eve can be -> [ katgirl ]: then were fucked -> [ katgirl ]: so thats between them

— @axewhirl

→ [ mr. yunalai ]: i know bestie

→ [ mr. yunalai ]: did evelynn do something to you?

→ [ mr. yunalai ]: i don't care for whatever she's got going with this abel

→ [ mr. yunalai ]: that's her business

→ [ mr. yunalai ]: but if she did something to you...

[zannies-joestar-hut]

how the hell did a book about comics as artform explain Requiem via the idea of “closure” and object permanence better than any fucking youtube theorist I’ve seen (or the anime…)

[shroom-ish]

Bi - original flavor

one gender <attracted to> two (+) genders

Bi - spicy flavor

“two” (+) genders <attracted to> one (+) gender

capiche?

[hotdemonladyluna]

ALSO DEATH OF THE AUTHOR IS A THING??

he would not fucking say that moments in fan interpretations is frustrating but at least you can ignore it. when the source itself makes him fucking say that that's when you're fucked.