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after you read the poem “the woman dies” a lot of media makes you mad

3. Be perpetually haunted by "omg you people can't do anything"

the christian veneration of the lamb has always been terrifying to me in ways i can’t explain

here’s this figure that is vulnerable and easily abused and what’s admirable about it is that it doesn’t fight back and it doesn’t try to defend itself and it’s suffering is noble because it just sits there and takes it. pain is beautiful when you surrender to pain, suffering is godly when you don’t question or try to protect yourself and survival is ugly… like it is just me or is anybody else’s fucking skin crawling rn!!

I will never fully be able to hate Fang Runin. Like R.F Kuang had said at a panel, every terrible thing Rin had done was for a reason. Every dreadful act was exactly what anybody would do had they been put into her shoes. I think she is so interesting and it’s infuriating watching her character be diluted down to “teenage girl who gets powers and murders people” because she is so much more. Rin is stronger than she can comprehend. Rin has murdered thousands in the name of liberating her people. Rin has reduced innocent people she’s killed to vermin just to make genocide more palatable. Rin commits war crimes. Rin also murders a rapist. Rin also loves her friends so fiercely and would and has defended them with all that she can. Rin speaks for the oppressed and wants to give them a voice and hope. Rin grieves like any mourner would. Rin is both so human and yet so inhumane. She uses soldiers like they are nothing but pawns on a chess board. Shes the product of war, she shows exactly what young people are turned into by the brutality of war and oppression. She is a coin of the cruelty and sympathy of all sides of war looks like.