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planning a dinner date in a 1920s au

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i dunno if ive said this before, (heads up obvious spoiler!) but i have a headcanon that nezha never cleaned the knife. he keeps it stored away rusting with her blood

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HANELAII

With two different lightings because I love you Hanelai fans (if there is any that isn't just my alter ego)

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pretending they weren’t doomed by the narrative 🥲

fang runin & yin nezha - the poppy war trilogy

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almost forgot to post this here !

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emo rin and her nerd boyfriend!!!

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happy autism day to chen kitay

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rin!

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When people speak of Rin’s oppression in the poppy war their immediate reaction seems to be “oh, female rage!!” Which I think really waters down her character, Rin, above all else, is a product of her environment. If she had grown up somewhere safe, somewhere where she knew she was loved, in a place where the colour of her skin did not ostracise her, in a place where she had been treated kindly, her story would’ve been wildly different. Rin’s story is one of oppression, of wealth disparity and the destruction of war, of the descent into madness from lack of care from the people who were supposed to CARE and PROTECT you.

Making Rin out to be some ‘crazy woman’ is stripping her of the reasons she becomes this way and disregarding every important aspect of her character.

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oh yea for sure! the mugenese violence against the nikara was fulled by racism!! i really love how everything in tpw is intersectional because it just makes the whole story much more nuanced and compelling!!

ahh thank youuuu i’m gonna have so much fun reading this

See I wouldn't say Rins story is about "female rage" tbh I have thought a lot about her relationship with gender and sex but ultimately I don't think that her rage is solely about the injustice that women face in society, her rage comes from the intersection of gender, class, and most of all race. All her worst/most brutal actions are a response to racial discrimination and racialized abuse

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oh ABSOLUTELY!! it’s just so reductive to both the idea of “female rage” and to rin. because let’s say we want to use “female rage” as a literary tool for analysis, then we need to define it, and logically it would be a female character experiencing rage because of gender based discrimination of any kind! because if “female rage” is just woman angry it feels unnecessary… i mean we don’t categorise male characters with “male rage”. and using this definition, rin does not fit it. the discrimination rin faces is very specific due to her intersecting identities, which like you said, kuang does not hide!! imo the female-rage-interpretation of rin feels very much like trying to squeeze her into a box of “strong fmc” and engaging with the idea of a strong fmc, rather than the actual character

and speaking of venka, she is a female character that goes through gender based violence and discrimination, and then expresses rage because of it. venka is an aristocratic woman whose identity doesn’t intersect as much as rin’s does, which, to the reader, presents her as a character whose biggest struggle in life all stems from being a woman. venka is rich and therefore doesn’t struggle with poverty, rin struggles with poverty. venka has pale skin, rin does not. like, venka is an example of “female rage”.

See I wouldn't say Rins story is about "female rage" tbh I have thought a lot about her relationship with gender and sex but ultimately I don't think that her rage is solely about the injustice that women face in society, her rage comes from the intersection of gender, class, and most of all race. All her worst/most brutal actions are a response to racial discrimination and racialized abuse

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THISSSSS LITERALLY

like yes, gender impacts her and we see her being treated differently because she’s a woman e.g. almost being married off at 14, being, in a sense, encouraged to destroy her uterus instead of sinegard accommodating her, but the core of her rage is rooted in the discrimination she faces because of her skin colour and ethnicity!! and everyone around her sees her as speerly first, not woman first, so of course that’s what she’s affected by the most

See I wouldn't say Rins story is about "female rage" tbh I have thought a lot about her relationship with gender and sex but ultimately I don't think that her rage is solely about the injustice that women face in society, her rage comes from the intersection of gender, class, and most of all race. All her worst/most brutal actions are a response to racial discrimination and racialized abuse

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Rin from The Poppy War triology

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for whoever asked for chaltan, i’m finally done with them

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youre so right actually and i would eat every single one of them up

if a tpw tv adaptation was a thing best believe there would be 239843 tiktok edits of rin and nezha with the arcane timebomb dancing song

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happy valentine’s day! i’ve finally started the chaltan drawing