KILACHU ART

“I don’t like this song because I can’t relate to it” skill issue. I’m mad at my husband I love my girlfriend I’m a lone cowboy I’m growing old I’m growing up I’m depressed I love my friends I’m perpetually horny I’m drunk at the club I love my husband again

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

i do think i’m better than people for not shopping on shein or temu

what a beautiful day to not be in high school

This is the like those “remember to be grateful you don’t have a sore throat right now” posts. It IS a beautiful day to not be in high school! Thank you!

growing up by the coast means that instead of crows on your roof you get seagulls and it honestly feels much more threatening

Maomao may be the main character of Apothecary Diaries but she wouldn’t be who she is without Jinshi. People who wanna be mad at fans for liking his character, enjoying the romance between him and Maomao and what their dynamic brings to the novels and anime don’t get that this series likely wouldn’t be what it is without his character. Maomao would still be an emotionally stunted apothecary with absolutely no power, stuck in a no-nothing existence in the pleasure district having changed nothing and no one’s lives at all without Jinshi’s influence and help. He does matter to the story as a whole and growth of Maomao as a character. So let’s not disparage people who like his plotline and don’t see Apothecary Diaries as just a single woman’s mystery novel series because that’s being too reductionist.

Oh no…not internalized misogyny 😂 honestly though to come on someone’s post where they actually said don’t disparage fans and then say that, I swear. Anywho, my only question would be without Jinshi telling Gyokuyou who saved her daughter with the note on the flower, would we even have a story? This wasn’t a post about mutual growth, I’ve done plenty of those. This was about how Maomao wouldn’t be who she is without Jinshi, which narratively is true. Her accomplishments from start to finish at the rear palace were possible because of his access and her taking advantage of it. Her growth emotionally, opening up to greater challenges, learning to communicate better, all in part to Jinshi pushing her. He’s invaluable to the narrative, as I said, she may be the main character but he helps drive the story in a way that’s become central. Maomao is not this “strong woman who don’t need no man” archetype. She’s intelligent and uses the resources around her to the best of her abilities but she more than anyone knows that women are just as dangerous, cunning and powerful as men. She appreciates the help of men and doesn’t disparage their contributions so maybe we as readers and viewers shouldn’t either. We don’t need to devalue men to uplift women. Fictional characters or no, not everything is about “the patriarchy”.