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sometimes, i'd like to think that Luomen is quite lucky bc he's the father of this cutiepatootie then i remember, this cutie is also a gremlin and has probably caused Luomen so many sleepless nights and had him resort to burning precious medical books (he did it so she wouldnt read them)

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He's got his money and she's got her drugs, so they're both happy.

I see plenty of people celebrating Lahan anime day - I hope this contributes a tad bit to that too.

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A fascinated thing about Maomao is how she's not immune to Jinshi’s beauty, and yet it feels like it! Because that's what Jinshi believes!

And so, collectively, the fandom treats it as such (reading some posts and fics), but it's really not true. Maomao is not immune to his beauty, has never been even from the very first novel, and the examples are right there!

The descriptions when he's in the room (or not!), the comparisons with other beauties, the "can topple a nation" commentary, the nymph that should hardly be a real walking human but is. Fascinating.

What she's immune to is his facade. She's the first to acknowledge, unbeknownst to Jinshi, that he wanted to and does use his beauty to seduce and even manipulate people (and her) for his benefit, and it's what doesn't work on her. She's seen that same notion in the brothels. She doesn't care for it.

It's why they work better when he's real with her.

It's him and it's her, it has to be.

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If Maomao lived in the modern era, she would not be a pharmacist making people's half-insured prescriptions at the drugstore near your home. Her ass would be running your local drug cartel instead, and her face would be on the news every day.

And Jinshi? He'd be the detective (from a family with generational wealth) investigating the drug cases.

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Thinking about a world where, because Merlin is magic itself, he does magic all the time, but like unconsciously and at a very high level/power, so to speak, and maybe it's even painful to him.

So his mother writes to Gaius, and they somehow come up with the idea of giving Merlin iron cuffs to wear. To not draw too much suspicion, they get ones that are thin, to look more like bracelets rather than cuffs, and possibly get them engraved too.

I've read fics where Merlin's put in cold iron cuffs and because he's magic in a physical form, and it's essentially like cutting off his airways, so all the built up magic ends up breaking the cuffs; but I thought it'd be interesting if because Merlin is magic and basically a god in human form, the iron doesn't really effect him, or in this case, it grounds him and allows him better control over his magic. So, truly, no one ever suspects Merlin of having magic, because whenever asked about the bracelets, he'll answer and say that they were gifts from his mother (maybe they go with a story that it was one of the few things Merlin’s father left for Hunith).

And maybe just to add some Merthur elements, when he starts to try to court Merlin (whether merlin recognizes it as courting or not), he gets him silver jewelry, only to notice how the colors of the metals kinda clash and then learns that they're actually iron. He's confused by it, but brushes the strangeness way with a, "well it wouldn't really make sense if Merlin had silver," and just saves this information somewhere in his brain, where it resurfaces when someone accuses Merlin of being a sorcerer (bc I'm headcanoning that any magic user would be in pain if they come in contact with cold iron, except of course Merlin, bc his magic just flows through the iron like it's any other element of the earth)

I might just be projecting my own desires and interests for jewelry.

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I saw a post a while ago that joked about how fanfic writers love to give characters non-specific paperwork when they need the characters to be bored or tired from a long day. They speculated it’s because a lot of fanfic writers are either very young, or typically not very familiar with the jobs they’re writing about. And now that I’m back into reading merlin fanfiction I’m obsessed with how the equivalence of this for Arthur is shit to do with wheat and grain. Merlin wants to know where Arthur is? Oh he’s probably in a boring council meeting about wheat yields. Why has Arthur had a long day? Well he was spending all day surveying the grain storage for the upcoming winter. Arthur’s been arguing with other nobles? Probably because they all want more of the grain grown on their own land. This man is micro managing every single stalk grown in the kingdom of camelot no wonder he never noticed merlin’s magic

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the guttural screams’ team cheer being just a scream is genuinely such a good bit i can’t believe it just happened and everyone moved on

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“apothecary diaries is a romance” “apothecary diaries is a court drama” wrong. jinshi’s apothecary diaries is a first love romance and maomao’s is a workplace drama. her biggest problem is being fired via execution and his is falling behind on work worrying she’s taking the wrong man home

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Modern au 💕

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maomao and her dedication to never discovering anything about jinshi's personal life

fake idgafer final boss

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Jinshi finally realizing his future wife is a cat. We are so back!!

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most annoying man vs. world's strongest idgafker!! who will win!!

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Love these two 💕

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The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

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I need non-Canadians to know that everything in this thread is true

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English added by me :)