#the romance of the three kingdoms

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Diaochan (Romance of The Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors)

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Guys look at the babies I made 🫠

[opalandwoof]

Sangokushi! Liu Bei pride icons part 2

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[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

This is by far the strangest thing I have ever read and I had to reread it to make sure I read it right? It's from the book The Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

"Sun Quan slew my brother. Furthermore, Fu Shiren, Mi Fang, Pan Zhang, and Ma Zhong are on his side, all of whom I hate so much that I could eat their flesh with gusto and devour their relatives,"

So do you hate anyone so much that you could eat their flesh with gusto and devour their relatives?

[mademoiselle-red]

It’s such a shame that there isn’t a more recent tv adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms because I have a feeling that fujoshis will go feral over it (as they have over every adaptation) because you can find pretty much every archetypal king / advisor and king / general danmei couple type in this saga

Impoverished, embattled, stubborn but kind and righteous royal whose fortunes turn after he meets a genius advisor whose strategic brilliance helps him outsmart all his rivals and win a kingdom? Liu Bei x Zhuge Liang

Bonus points if the king dies and leaves everything to his advisor

Bonus points if advisor gets sick but continues to work himself to death trying to fulfill he and his king’s shared dreams by going on military campaign after military campaign

Extra bonus points if they describe their relationship using marriage metaphors

Man who reaches unparalleled heights in power and prestige but remains desperate for the approval of the one man who loves him but would rather commit suicide than submit to him? Cao Cao x Xun Yu

Young king defends his kingdom with his devoted and brilliant childhood friend who becomes his most important general? Sun Ce x Zhou Yu or Sun Quan x Zhou Yu

Bonus points if one of them dies young and tragically

[its-not-a-pen]

[餘知傳] The 2nd Century Warlord (Part 1)

based on the story by @romanceyourdemons

art by @its-not-a-pen

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

second day as a second century warlord i bribe a bunch of kids to start singing a nursery rhyme i carefully crafted to spread misinformation and further my strategic ends but they change the lyrics to be about poop and the enemy isn’t misdirected at all

third day as a second century warlord i lure my enemy into a narrow valley and send a team of archers to shoot them from the high ground but there was a feral hog napping on the trail up to the overlook and they couldn’t decide whether to try and shoot it or just go around and by the time the hog woke up and left on its own the enemy had already passed safely below

fourth day as a second century warlord we attempt to join a battle on the side of the guy we want to ally with but he and the guy he’s fighting have really similar names and it’s finally dusty and i misread the standards and attack the wrong guy. so now we’re stuck with this total loser of a liege lord, because how the fuck do you explain that after a battle?

fifth day as a second century warlord and some sort of wizard wanders into camp, my loser liege lord wants to execute him for being a wizard but i convince him to let the wizard stay, because i want to do more weather-based strategies and i’m pretty sure having a camp wizard can help with that. after the welcome to the team banquet the wizard steals half the treasury and my liege lord’s wife and leaves

sixth day as a second century warlord my loser liege lord sends me to reinforce a city he’s taken, but in the confusion of leaving i forgot to take the token that would have gotten us into the city, so my men have to wait outside the city walls for like eight hours while i ride back to get it

seventh day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord finally joins me in the city, it turns out he’s actually a pretty cool guy, and he isn’t even that mad at me for letting the wizard steal his wife. i decide to shoot my shot but i’m really nervous and keep on stalling because what if i mess up our relationship and by extension jeopardize the security of my men, and eventually he just says goodnight and goes back to his room, where an assassin is in the process of setting up to kill him

eighth day as a second century warlord and my loser liege lord tells me to fake defect to his rival warlord, the one i originally wanted to ally with, to find out if he was the one who sent the assassin and why. but my whole way over to the rival warlord i’m worried that this has something to do with the wizard thing or how awkward i made it last night

End of Part 1

part 2

This comic was made independently from the creator, I'm just a fan and these are my own interpretations.

Notes under the cut:

the title 餘知傳 [the Story of Yu Zhi], is the styled name of the Second Century Warlord. I translated 餘知 as [plentiful knowledge] since he's defined by a surplus of knowledge but a deficit in luck. It's also great for fish-based puns since it's a homophone. As a nice parallel, Loser Liege Lord's banner is a carp ;))). the art style was inspired by vintage Chinese comics.

The story is set during the Three Kingdoms period, (220 to 280 AD) natural disasters, infighting and civil unrest had dissolved the previous Han Dynasty, leading to a violent free-for-all. I based the clothes on the previous Eastern Han styles, mainly because there just weren't a lot of contemporary references from the 3K period (and it only lasted like, 60 years). I always strive for historical accuracy, however, the Han Dynasty was over 400 years long and some sources don't do a great job separating out the different fashions, so I apologise for any mistakes that occur.

2. there aren't a ton of drawings on what Han children looked like, but in general ancient kids hairstyles are pretty consistent. 9-15 yo boys had shaved heads with two little top knots, girls had natural hair in braids/buns.

3. the crossbow (back left) makes a cameo, it was associated with Zhuge Liang, famous real-life strategist from the 3K era.

4. the LLL and his wife thank the Warlord, (a noblewoman on a battlefield??? scandalous!). it shows the LLL enjoys the unconventional and the wife is not as timid as she appears. I thought it would be funny to make them look as Background Character (tm) as possible.

5. I based the wizard's design on sages from mythology. (Hey, he's not a total fraud, he invented gunpowder 800 years before the Tang dynasty!) Nice little character moment for the LLL who is shielding his wife.

6. What do soldiers do while they're waiting for 8 hours? (<-from the right) playing knucklebones with pebbles, whittling a little horse, feeding sparrows, gossiping with neighbour, drinking from his gourd, napping. A minor warlord can't afford to keep a professional army so they're most likely conscripted farmers who've had to buy their own weapons and armour, hence why they look so unimpressive.

7. LLL offers the Warlord a bitten peach. Inspired by the legend of Mizi Xia who bit into a delicious peach and gave it to the Emperor so he could taste it was well. "Bitten peach" was a byword for homosexuality in ancient China. I thought it would be SO funny if the LLL was actually smooth af and the Warlord was a like a teenaged girl crushing for the first time. He's desperate to taste that peach but is too timid to reach out >;))) man has zero game. negative game, even. truely the PS4 of homosexuals. RIP to the assassin in the back corner who was forced to watch the most awkward, cringe-fail attempt at flirting in the history of china play out.

8. this is what zero peach does to a mf. UnU

[zhoudadudugongjin]

he's making up for all the sleep he won't be getting in 20 years

[hunny-pp]

NO. ?? - DIAOCHAN (romance of the three kingdoms) Particulars: Prone to hysteria, deep-seated rage, [???], Confused About Self

We screen our Sinners to the best of our abilities to accommodate to your primary mission as the Executive Manager. However this Sinner has proven to be quite elusive in our analysis. On the surface, this Sinner is level-headed, charming and talented in skills that require physical and dexterous proficiency. However she finds herself constantly confused about her own being for reasons we have yet to identify, so do not be alarmed if she asks you off-putting inquiries. Please beware of her tendency to extreme anger and violence, as it will prove impossible to resolve without intervention through tranquilization or even execution.

[WARNING]: Any tasks or assignments that pertain to her physical appearance or seduction will risk in violent outbursts.

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By all accounts, a charming young woman who is reliable and capable of any tasks especially combat. The main thing to consider about her is she says strange comments about her own identity, and may be caught in freudian slips such as "I could have reached that in my original height...", "She's laying dormant for now..." and "Huh, so my marksmanship remained even in this body..."

She has a state of almost berserker like rage, and is proven to be difficult to break out of, with Diaochan stating after such incidents that "she's calm now. Sorry about that."

While known for her dancing talents from her previous reputation, she is physically unable to perform, her body freezing up until she relents. She also cannot deliver statements that could be seen as flirtatious without her mouth physically sealing itself.

(this is my girlie i love her, if you figure out the whole twist abt her i'll give you a cookie)

[cnovelartreblogs]

tracking #cnovelartreblogs

do you make art for a smaller Chinese fandom - danmei, baihe, non-queer book, cdrama based on a book, or even cdrama NOT based on a book?

do you wish more people who are interested in smaller Chinese fandoms could see your work?

tag #cnovelartreblogs when you post, and I'll see it and be able to queue it to reblog to this blog, which currently has about 500 followers specifically interested in all kinds of less-popular-in-English-speaking-spaces Chinese fandoms! while I focus on danmei, I absolutely will reblog all the categories listed above - any type of ship, from books or shows, as long as the fandom's source material is from China!

if you're not sure what qualifies, I encourage you to visit the blog and get a general idea from the massively out of date but still basically accurate aside from the old part pinned post!

I politely request that artworks for mxtx fandoms NOT be tagged with cnovelartreblogs! I check the main tags for those fandoms every day, as long as you use those tags I should see your work. #cnovelartreblogs is intended to help me find works from smaller fandoms that are often difficult to collect. I will block people who abuse the tag and make my life more difficult, so if you put things there that don't belong, your work won't get reblogged at all, so please respect my request and don't waste my time.

thanks advance, everyone! I look forward to seeing all the things you've made!

-unforth

PLEASE REBLOG TO SPREAD THE WORD! People in small fandoms can be hard to find and I'd like to cast a wide net. <3

[andwhatnot1]

Just Zilong being a cool uncle to Ah Dou

He could easily win the Father of the Year Award as well, at this point

This is what started it, then I just kept going with the drawings

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[boggart01]

Well done, Yuan. An excellent display 🥵

Dada Yuan is very underrated 😠

[opalandwoof]

Sangokushi! Liu Bei pride icons part 1

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[trisshawkeye]

I got Total War: Three Kingdoms from @liobi for Christmas, so I've started playing as Gongsun Zan, just to be contrary, and so I can start off with Zhao Yun from the get-go lol

I'm gonna kick EVERYBODY'S ass

[mademoiselle-red]

One of my favorite scenes from the 1994 TV adaptation of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the one in which Zhuge Liang shows up at Zhou Yu’s funeral with the 3rd century equivalent of a slide deck and proceeds to give a power point presentation about the highlights of Zhou Yu’s career to a stunned audience comprised of Xiao Qiao (Zhou Yu’s wife), Zhou Yu’s children, Sun Yuan, and rest of the Wu court.

As a someone who gives power point presentations for a living, I must say this is definitely the right way to honor your rival at his funeral.