I'm zooming down the nearest hill

Pursuit of Jade is actually really good at making you understand that for a normal person (reading not a noble) getting entangled in matter of states and standing up for themselves is a real threat for their safety and the safety of the people around them. Changyu’s village and the town next to it were attacked and their people massacred because Changyu ‘dared’ to counter the plan of one guy and caught his eyes while he noticed she had a connection to the Marquis of Wu’an (something she doesn’t even know!!!!). And it is also good at reminding you that normal civilians that are collateral damages in the nobles plans/quarrels are people with hopes and dreams who did not ask for this!!!!

this is like basic foundational misogyny 101 but the fact that it's almost unconsciously ingrained to consider trousers a more "practical" alternative to skirts across the majority of human cultures does make me feel a little kicked in the head. this isn't even anything against pants, or denying that sometimes they are the best suited garment for purpose, it's just that skirts are nearly always unfairly compared as the a frivolous option, even though they're functionally not dissimilar at all. they're comfortable, capable of being tailored to suit a variety of purposes both aesthetic and functional, and simply what some people prefer. and yet, because they're so strongly tied to women and femininity, they're derided. a long skirt is an impediment; shortening a skirt is a sexual act. throughout history humans of all demographics have worn skirts and skirt-like clothing for a variety of purposes, but to wear a skirt in our enlightened modern age is a heavily gendered and politically loaded notion. and we just tolerate living like this. fucking unreal.

Chinese hanfu.

the show will not give it to us but I want so much more of ming yi and her teenage boy hero years. she's a boy for 7 years and wins every battle for her realm since she was 13 years old. nobody except a few people know! and when it's time for her to strike out on her own and use her original self as a type of deception, she is comfortable and wields the guile of frivolous feminity easily. she knows how people disregard it, and skilfully turns it into a weapon. this transformation between ming yi's two personas has me so fascinated. like please ming xian, prince of your realm, tell me all your thoughts on gender. and how many girls you apparently flirted with in your hero days

“you are the morning sun that never sets” ji bozai ripping my own skin off would hurt less you romantic fuck