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Part 2? Who fell first and who fell harder? Leo certainly fell first, and Baxter is struggling the second time around! Part 3???

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One of the thing I really appreciate about Jinshi's story is that usually, when we have a reluctant future ruler in fiction, their story is about accepting the responsibility of the throne but Jinshi's story is very much about avoiding the throne itself because he is already too responsible and putting him as an emperor would crush him because he takes on too much of it already.

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adding polls to tumblr was genuinely the best thing they done in the past decade or so like. bitches do love clicking on buttons. any time a poll is on my dash no matter what it is or even if i know nothin bout it i am clicking that thing.

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This scene is so funny because the answer to their question is laughably obvious.

Maomao would rather die than acknowledge it, but THIS is the type of person the girls were imagining:

These ladies have never met Lakan—they don’t know him either by face or character—yet his personality was what they had been expecting when they were told they were getting to meet the man who raised Maomao.

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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Character concept: A widely adored socialite who is so well-liked because she evidently just adores everyone right back. Not just social peers, those that outrank her and those beneath her, but everyone. She'll call every person she meets pet names, everyone is a "sweetheart" and "darling" to her, being just as interested in finding out what's troubling the heart of a random maid passing her in someone's mansion hallway as she is of the happiness and wellbeing of her own nieces.

The thing is, she's face blind as hell and also bad with names. So when she greets someone as "darling" and asks how they're doing like she's embracing a lifelong friend, there's like a 60% chance that she has no fucking clue who the hell this is and if she even knows this person at all.

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my favourite part of the apothecary diaries is jinshi freaking out over maomao's impulsive freaky tendencies (but he's lowkey into that)

jinmao in a nutshell:

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one of my favorite parts of apothecary diaries is how every one of gyokuyou's ladies in waiting immediately goes, "this is our maomao. we found her in a back alley, that's why she's so scraggly and weird. isn't she gross? what an angel. we would kill and die for her. she's such a little freak. insult her and we'll eat your family :)".not kidding it's actually almost instantanous.

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maomao is my favorite "not like other girls" style protagonist bc for one shes a girls girl through and through. to the bone. and two she's just a weird little freak. absolute lunatic. they have the whole "omg she's actually beautiful and everyone falls for her when she's all made up" trope but the punchline is that she does not fucking want to look like that. she actively puts dirt on her face every day bc she does not want to be perceived as attractive (mostly out of fear of being used for sex work though at the same time she has the utmost respect for women who do sex work like she grew up in a brothel those are her sisters). she's Sherlock level smart and solves every mystery so fast but goes "well thats none of my business. anyway back to testing poisons on myself" she has the 2nd most powerful guy in the nation head over heels in love with her and is like "man this guy is weird around me what's his deal. I guess he's fine though because he gives me rare medicines and has no dick" fucking ICON i love her. also she once slapped someone so hard they fell on the floor. 10/10

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I made a follow up comic to this post

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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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Modern AU Jinshi x Maomao fancomic! I like to think Gyo loves teasing Jinshi about his feelings for Maomao, but Jinshi keeps denying it (tsundere Jinshi!)… until Maomao overhears them one day.

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me and who😔🥀

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tried out apothecary diaries the other day, got inspired to do a study, redrew jinmao as Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss", died

ive been sick for a while so excuse the messiness

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Maomao sketches

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Imagine if Maomao became the Empress and wasn't allowed to be her own poison taster. She'd be so mad. She'd be staring at the food a little too excitedly and the poor poison taster, without even tasting or smelling or looking at the food, would be like "... It's poison!"

There'd probably be a dedicated attendant whose sole job is to pin Empress Maomao down to keep her from lunging at poisoned meals

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God I love Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is like a dog with a mouth full of Lego bricks to me. Babygirl don’t eat that