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*BIG EVENT happens in the novel that affects the entire nation, involves conspiracies and death*

Jinshi, at the end of the novel: Fuck this ginormous stack of paperwork.

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Jeankasa Week 2025 ♡ Day 7: PARTNERS IN CRIME

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Modern AU setup

Jean: It's late, maybe I can walk you home?

Mikasa [enjoying the attention but trying not to make it too obvious]: I have a black belt in Karate

Jean: Then maybe you can walk me home?

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I have so much love for all JK artists and writers because you all are so good at what you do and you would no doubt be getting way more appreciation and attention if you were drawing/writing for a bigger fandom, but instead you choose JK which is shipped by like twenty people. Like that is pure love and I thank you for it.

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I love this lil scene between them

Drift compatibility right there

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mikasa can't handle allat lemme step up unc😭✌️

ts lowkey looks like aizen but wdgaf🙏

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"this story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way" vs "this story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way" final boss

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Maomao: If I had a nickel for every beautiful noble with purple hair, surprisingly attractive bodies, eccentric personalities and deep parental issues, who are pretending to be someone way below their class, who gave me hair ties and are deeply in love with me I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it is weird that it happened twice.

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Spoiler

I just remembered that the first time Loulan/Shisui meets Maomao, it’s when she’s giving the consorts the sex talk. That’s one hell of a first impression

I mean it could have been one of her doubles, but I’m pretty sure it’s really her by how unbothered and aloof she was during the lesson. Plus, the small scene where Loulan was intensely staring at Maomao

I bet Suirei would have warned her beforehand on how cunning Maomao is. So being summoned for a private lesson with her only for that lesson to be a 101 sex education seminar. What was Shisui thinking during that scene?

Loulan: Damn she weird af fr, i kinda fuck with it tho

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I had an idea for a whole essay on why Maomao is quicker to accept affection from Loulan/Shisui than from Jinshi and how that's a reflection of her being raised in the pleasure district by courtesans and thus viewing affection from women as a given and natural thing to receive and give but at the same time viewing affection between men and women as transactional and something men have to pay to get and women offer as a product but I prefer to just enjoy the doom yuri while it lasts instead

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the love language of hairpins 💔

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i am sad. this recent episode made me sad. but omg maomaos wives are having a diva off

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Skip forward centuries into the future when people have internet, and Maomao is probably one of the most memed people in her country's history

She treated poison like an essential food group

She taught the consorts how to bounce on it crazy style

She helped increased the literacy rate of the palace just so she had a larger audience to sell porn to

That audience including the actual fucking Emperor

And she found time to do all that while also moonlighting as a one woman mystery gang

She's the exact kind of historical figure prone to get into Situations that the internet loves to talk about

"This would kill Maomao the Apothecary" would be a line used to describe a food or drink so absurdly dangerous it kills through vibes alone, and every time it was used someone would show up revealing that she'd once sampled something three times as deadly

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I too want to give Maomao a kiss on the cheek

EDIT: I made a follow up comic

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maomao’s dedication to ignoring jinshi’s real identity is truly inspiring. the woman who has solved multiple murders based on minor clues in the environment keeps looking at every sign pointing to jinshi being royalty and going “damn, this could add up to something. good thing I can’t do math!”