despite the widespread use of necromancy we aren't any closer to knowing what happens after death because every reanimated spirit without exception lives in absolute terror of violating something they call "hell's taboo" and refuse to elaborate no matter what means of coercion are employed
I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.
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He said to Lan Wangji, “looks like this good brother was dismemberd by five horses, eh. Not only was the body divided, but the limbs were thrown everywhere - one here, one there. What measure of hatred could have prompted this? Let’s pray he’s not cut into too many pieces.’ (MDZS, p. 184, 7S translation)
Further on in the book, it is said that Nie Mingjue - who’s body this is about - demanded that the punishment if any member of 3zun were ever to break their oath is being dismemberd by five horses. That Wei Wuxian refers to his body looking as such cannot be a coincidence stylistically speaking - I think it is both meant as foreshadowing and to say something about Nie Mingjue’s behaviour while he was still alive and a member of 3zun. Nie Mingjue was cut into pieces by Jin Guangyao, and Jin Guangyao’s reason for killing Nie Mingjue was that Nie Mingjue threw him down the stairs, which cán be seen as Nie Mingjue breaking his oath.
lol peak hilarity is when people put lwj's grief and jc's grief anywhere on the same level. i know amanormativity has a death grip on society but losing your gradeschool crush who youve barely spoken to at all is nowhere near comparable to losing your entire family
Everyone always forgets that Yunmeng Jiang was specifically known as the one sect that was open to the public. Normal people spent time on the grounds, hawkers sold items and food on the water at Lotus Pier. Townspeople brought their kids there to watch the cultivators. When the Wens came for the Jiang, do you think they discriminated? Picked and chose who to kill? Spared the civillians, the new disciples not even in tailored purple yet? The grounds staff? The cooks and labourers and elders and babies? They slaughtered not just a sect but a community, and Jiang Cheng was dragged back days after the bodies were left piled there, and tortured by the same man who killed his parents. Then he had to come back and clear the bodies and bury them and scrub the blood from the wood and pray and perform exorcisms until the resentful departed could leave for the afterlife. How many bodies do you think they never managed to dredge from the lotus roots in the lake?
#that and the fact that wwx was obsessed with saving the wens#yes they didnt participate in the fighting but wen qing and wen ning were literally occupying the jiang territory after the genocide#not to be political but that sounds and awful lot like being complicit#“but they saved jc!!” yeah that's held over his head the rest of the story#that and the last time that we see jc is when wn is spitting in his face how “marvelous wei-gongzi gave him his golden core”#motherfucker its because of YOUR FAMILY that jc had to sacrifice himself to save wwx#mdzs is SO UNFAIR to jc and the fandom gives him no chances#and the babygirlification of wn annoys me#also that and lwj simps being like “omg i love when he shuts down jc” girl lwj had an easy time compared to jc#hes not that much of a badass#jc suffers so much throughout the time wwx is alive and even MORE when he's dead and yet he cant find peace in post canon#like wangxian go riding off into the sunset getting married after barely knowing each other#and the man that was constantly pushed around by the story is yet again pushed down
I cannot imagine that the author is unaware how unappealing of a man LWJ is as-written. Like - is she? Wangxian is such a nothing couple, the only thing they share is physical attraction, predisposition to rough sex and inability to express their emotions?
Even trying to compare situations between JC and LWJ is laughable. I am not sure the author knew until the mid-novel who the male lead was going to be, becuase all LWJ does is a pale shadow of what JC did before him (well, excepting the rape fantasies, I guess).
Trying to protect WWX? JC did it first, more than once. Trying to help the Wen siblings? JC actually made an effort, I don't know what LWJ was doing (LWJ very obviously gave no fucks about the Wens either way). Trying to get WWX stop with his Yiling Laozu thing when the sects got onto him? One of them came up with actual emotions, arguments and reasoning, LWJ kept repeating the same line that didn't work the first 3 times...
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obsessed with the concept of sandu shengshou being known as the fastest flier in the jianghu, breaking the sound barrier in an emergency, the thunderous boom heralding the oncoming lightning as zidian illuminates the sky
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Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere
So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.
So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.
And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)
#i was sceptical for a minute cause these illustrations don't match the plants in every case#(rounded dandelion leaves serrated willow leaves same leaves on crocus and aloe etc)#but these are the section headers NOT illustrations/representations of individual flowers#anyways. found a link. gorgeous book.
Are they like fish (female carlessly drops her eggs, male accidentally inseminates them; neither have any relation with whatever offspring might come of this)?
Did the little mermaid desperately want to become human so she could fuck?
🙄
Or are they mammals (like whales, dolphins, centaurs)?
If so, where are their repruductive organs placed?
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This remarkable engraving of a sorceress mid-conjure is the work of Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver Jan van de Velde the younger. In Van de Velde's energetic and artfully arranged scene we see a young sorceress at work above a fire and, cavorting in its windswept flames, a motley crew of various demonic “familiars”. Amid the talons, wings, and characterful faces, there are pipes-a-plenty, with two notably placed up a demon's bum and streaming with powders in elegant arcs. The Latin at the base of the print gives a clue as to the meaning of the print, which seems to be a commentary on the perils of temptation:
“What evils Desire commands, in the small secluded place; who, by sweet incantation, overcomes the minds of the purest mortals, induces frenzy in everyone! But how quickly it slips by; Death overtakes brief life, brief delights. Laughing for a moment, in eternity suffering regret.” (Translation by Ross Caldwell.) The sentiment seems to be backed up by the presence of dice and cards in the foreground, symbols of the vice of gambling and fleeting pleasure.
While this image may meet our eyes today in a positive and almost joyful manner, behind there lies a much darker history. Between the years 1560–1630 Europe suffered its most intense and violent period of witch-trials. The Little Ice Age decimated crops and the impoverished found their scapegoat in the figure of the witch. The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) added still more devastation and chaos into the mix. The year of this print's creation, 1626, saw the birth of some of the worst and most deadly witch-trials to occur in Europe — in Bamberg and Würzburg, and elsewhere in central Germany — which together led to the torture and murder of more than 1000 people (mostly women).
