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best ship dynamic is when they go from "you fool" (derogatory) to "you fool" (desperate)
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[images are a series of edited gifs from The Emperor’s New Groove. They show Kronk saying, “Oh right, this fic. The fic I love. My favourite fic. The fic you wrote.” The last gif also shows Yzma rolling her eyes.]
trying to write a comment on an awesome fic is really hard
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this reddit post is so good.
a trans guy who is also a butch who dates both men and women-- I aspire to be like this. oh, to play 5d chess with gender.
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Hi! A follow up to your Wen Zhuliu and the assassins' biographies and 知己 posts (which were great!) - It got me thinking about the relationship between Yu Ziyuan and her maid/assassins Yinzhu and Jinzhu, especially the line about how they had never served anyone else and were no ordinary servants. No question here, but your post made me think about them a little more, and wonder whether that might apply to them. It is a fun headcanon, at least, given that we really know so little!
(follow-up to this post about Wen Zhuliu and assassin literature)
oh! it’s funny you should mention that, because I remember watching episode 15 and, when I saw Jinzhu and Yinzhu in action, I was a little shook because I got mad 聂隐娘 vibes from them
so who do I have to pay for an all-ladies encore of CQL
聂隐娘 Nie Yinniang is a peculiar but evocative Tang Dynasty 传奇 chuanqi story (often translated as ‘legend’ or ‘tale of the marvelous’), found in the 《太平广记》Taipingguangji. There’s a lot of plot and political machinations packed into the 1400 characters of her legend, but the tl;dr is that Nie Yinniang is the daughter of a general who gets kidnapped by a nun. Said nun spirits Nie Yinniang away to an unknown but vaguely mystical place, where she is trained in the brutal art of assassination, and five years later, gets dropped her off at like nothing had happened. Her father simultaneously dotes on her and is terrified by her because, hello, assassin. A random mirror-grinding youth walks by one day, and she takes one look at him and says “oh I could marry that one” and what’s her father going to do? Deny his half-feral assassin daughter?
They get married. Anyway. Her story’s wild, and that’s just the beginning. 侯孝贤 Hou Hsiao-hsien made a movie about her, 刺客聂隐娘, which I stg I tried to watch but noped out of because I couldn’t understand the dialogue (which was simultaneously speedy and 文言 and I was just like... please... some mercy here...). Living legend Ken Liu also borrows heavily from the Nie Yinniang mythos in his short story “The Hidden Girl,” which, incidentally, is the name of his newest short story collection!
Oh goodness I’m getting distracted. WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY is that there are two other badass lady assassins in the Nie Yinniang story, 空空儿 Kongkong-er and 精精儿 Jingjing-er (for those of you more familiar with the source story, I’m choosing to read 空空儿 and 精精儿 as the two girls in the line “已有二女，亦各十歲，皆聰明婉麗不食。能於峭壁上飛走，若捷猱登木，無有蹶失” because... narrative Occam’s Razor?). Nie Yinniang ends up going toe-to-toe with the two of them in order to protect an official she decided she liked better than her former employer, and the whole fight between Nie Yinniang and her former assassin-sisters is blanketed in a great deal of mystery and magic. After Nie Yinniang fends off Jingjing-er (by... dissolving her into water? unclear), she says:
隱娘曰: 後夜當使妙手空空兒繼至。空空兒之神術，人莫能窺其用，鬼莫得躡其蹤。能從空虛之入冥，善無形而滅影...
Yinniang said, “Later in the night, [he] will of course send dextrous Kongkong-er to continue [the assassination] to its finish. As for the magical skills of Kongkong-er, its use cannot be seen by people, its footsteps cannot be trodden by ghosts. She can descend into darkness from emptiness and hollowness, excels at formlessness and exterminating shadows...”
(five minute translation, text pulled from ctext)
Which, considered in context of Jinzhu and Yinzhu’s fight scene in episode 15?
on one hand I’m mad because I can’t see the choreography because they’re blurring, but on the other hand... well played, CQL production team, well played
definitely resonates a lot with Kongkong-er and Jingjing-er from the Nie Yinniang story.
I can’t speak to whether this was a deliberate allusion made by the CQL team (since it feels a lot like the fun 福禄寿 Fu Lu Shou resonances in that other meta), but it’s certainly fun to think about!
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the tragedy of loyalty: Wen Zhuliu and the tradition of assassin literature
all righty so I’ve had this post kicking around in my drafts ever since I wrote the 知己 zhiji/soulmate post (so…good god, two months?), and I’m still not sure if I’m satisfied with what I’ve got, but there are asks burning literal holes through my inbox that I’ve been putting off for so long while I try to cobble together my thoughts on Wen Zhuliu
because he’s a fascinating and frustratingly opaque character, and the more I think about him, the more his character seems to be intimately tied to the morals and messages and major themes of CQL
Anyways, this post is very much a spiritual successor to the 知己 zhiji post, and delves deeper into Wen Zhuliu, the relationship of knowing between patron and minister, as well as the “Biographies of the Assassin-Retainers.” If any of those sound interesting to you, read on!
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i want someone to make me gojocat latte art 😩
satosugu coffee shop au
a bit of context:
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