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He went back to his first morning in Oxford: climbing a sunny hill with Ramy, picnic basket in hand. Elderflower cordial. Warm brioche, sharp cheese, a chocolate tart for dessert. The air that day smelled like a promise, all of Oxford shone like an illumination, and he was falling in love.
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soulmates that cannot live in a world where their most beloved is dead. one was platonic, the other was romantic. both broke me beyond repair
#fang runin#chen kitay#robin swift#ramiz rafi mirza#i just love them so much#and i will cry now#the poppy war trilogy#babel an arcane history#rf kuang
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Kitay is Rin's soulmate.
They always had an inexplicable bond, something that only they understood at the same time that not even they understood.
They were opposites, very different, but their differences, no matter how much they fought, complemented each other as well. And that's why they always worked so well, because they were the sum of each other.
They kill and die for each other, Kitay lived and died for Rin and Rin lived and died for Kitay. Both dreamed of the same world, both dreamed of the peace of a free and sovereign Nikara.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard they fought, they could only sacrifice themselves and could never see the world they loved flourish again.
I hope their sacrifice was worth it, I believe Nezha didn't let them down this time.
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i just finished the poppy war trilogy and the thing that just made me sick was that every last speer died on their island. henelai, atlan, rin, all of them. every single one. no matter they made it alive scrambling to the shores or not. they all ended up dead. on the island of speer.
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in tpw the person who wished for death the most is the only one who survived vs in babel the person who wants to cling to life the most is the only one who lives
#yin nezha#victoire desgraves#i can't stop thinking about them#it hurts so much#the poppy war trilogy#babel an arcane history#rf kuang#babel rf kuang#the poppy war#the burning god#the dragon republic#the poppy war trilogy spoilers#babel spoilers#ignoring letty ofc
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thinking about how nezha laments “oh. but history moves in such cruel circles” right before stabbing rin in the back at the end of the dragon republic and she later answers with “oh, but history moved in such vicious circles” before forcing nezha to stab her in the heart at the end of the burning god
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i’m finally reading the poppy war trilogy and while i’ve got a lot of thoughts and opinions and all that. but. the whole “me, my military academy fwb (frenemy with benefits) situationship, his dilf of a dad who i have a psychosexual relationship with and the spirit of the one that got away who’s haunting us” thing in the dragon republic is killing me
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if only he knew :(
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zhu has killed so many people, only for her to go "i can't kill you if i want to create a new world" and at first i was like lame but then zhu saw how ouyang, madam zhang, wang baoxiang were just like her. they all killed so many people and did everything they can to get what they want. and at the end, everyone got what they want. but none of it was worth it for any of them. and that is why zhu said enough was enough
okay but shelley parker-chan might be the only person to make the "i'm not going to kill you, it's not worth it, said by the person who already killed so many other people" trope make sense
#radiant emperor#she who became the sun#he who drowned the world#shelley parker chan#zhu yuanzhang#wang baoxiang#general ouyang#madam zhang
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okay but shelley parker-chan might be the only person to make the "i'm not going to kill you, it's not worth it, said by the person who already killed so many other people" trope make sense
#radiant emperor#she who became the sun#he who drowned the world#shelley parker chan#zhu yuanzhang#wang baoxiang#general ouyang
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fang “i want it more than anything. but i can’t ask you to do this for me” runin and chen “then you don’t have to ask” kitay
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something about rin being betrayed by everyone in her life and in her final moments turning against the only person who would never betray her because that’s all she’s ever known (they make me go insane)
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‘I have become something wonderful, she thought.
I have become something terrible.
Was she now a goddess or a monster?
Perhaps neither. Perhaps both’
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when hyperfixation on a book slaps so hard you gotta lock in and start making fanart
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last one! I built venka's house in the sims 4
I went with a simpler and more modern style for venka's because time and again she chose to go against her family's wishes and carve her own path, from going to sinegard until she completely left them to do what she thinks is right. so I wanted it to be a complete contrast to nezha's house that is more traditional and fancy. I also chose pink and cream because venka always embraced her feminity
her living room has a large sectional couch. despite looking fancy, all of the items in her house are actually pretty cheap in the game, to kinda show how she really went out on her own without her family's support and she looks for items that are stylish but affordable. maybe she also bought many of them secondhand
she also has a couple of built in bookcases by the front door that are definitely not secret doors and definitely do not hide anything
here's her kitchen and dining area. she doesn't have a formal dining room because I think an island is more modern, and not because I couldn't make a table fit
her bedroom, that also contains a study area, with a board for style influencers in the game. I feel venka would enjoy being a stylist
I also gave her a walk in closet. there is no archery in the game, so I just layered a few rugs on top of each other to kind of represent that.
of course she has her own training area with a relaxation space. the red and blue punching bags kind of represent how it was never confirmed where her loyalties actually lie between rin and nezha (though I never doubted her for a second!)
and that's venka's house in the sims 4!
It's been a year since I read tpw and it's still stuck in my head so I made a house for rin in the sims 4
I took some inspiration from modern Chinese architecture. The color scheme is mostly red and dark brown. I tried to keep it rustic and simple. The landscaping is also unkempt, and she definitely does not care.
Also, there's this window in the sims 4 that's the only window in the game that a sim can get through. So I put a lot of those all over the house. I feel rin would appreciate the multiple escape routes just in case something happens.
I also intentionally avoided wood for the house structure so rin can't burn the whole place down.
This is the living room, nice and cozy. I think rin would not be trusting of modern technology, so I didn't give her any television or computer. The most modern thing she has is probably the light bulbs and the bubble machine, which changes a sim's emotions. That's the closest thing to that in the game.
Not much art around the place, except for the map of course. I did scatter around things I thought could be used as a weapon, because there isn't much weapon items in the game. So there's a lot of baseball bats around the place, some fire pokers, and knives.
A small kitchen and dining area. There are a bunch of coals lying around too. I like to think of them as things rin accidentally or intentionally burnt. Every window is almost covered by a curtain because rin would not want people outside to be able to see what she's doing. Also, every single plant in the house was put there by kitay to "liven up the place".
This is the bedroom with a desk. More of the easy escape windows. Rin managed to fill her desk and an entire wall for her strategy planning about something. I'm planning to give nezha a house across from her, so maybe she's suspicious of nezha and trying to work out a plan to foil his plans. She might be obsessed.
The bedroom is also lofted so rin can see almost the entire house from wherever she is. No hiding places for anyone trying to get to her. There are also mushrooms randomly placed around the house to represent stuff.
There's also a bathroom but it's just an ordinary bathroom.
This is her yard with planter boxes where she can plant things, workout equipment, and a large space for training.
So that's rin's house I made in the sims 4
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