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fwoopersongs · 2 years

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The State has a city, hey! The city is boxed. The city has a Lord, hey! Benevolent he was. The ministers are capable, hey! Pillars of the state. The Lord has an Empress, hey! She was just.

Sons, they died young; the succession fell from this line. Daughter, beloved and headstrong, fearful to the last. But the People too, were the Lord’s daughters and sons; in the streets, peace, stability - all were hale and well.

My wish is only one, to one day be myself; to follow my heart, be rightly filial, with no more ceaseless restraint for propriety, as a husband, free to shower affection on my wife, as a father, free to love and dote on my every child, to know my dearest as I did before, with no distance between us.

Our wish is only one, to limit Our desires as best We can, and both Lord and father need no longer worry for the morrow’. Prudence for a Lord is the most important virtue; the People are the very foundation of all under heaven. For the peace and stability of all the land, how dare We be willful?

Sons, they died young; the succession fell from this line. Daughter, beloved and headstrong, fearful to the last. But the People too, were the Lord’s daughters and sons; in the streets, peace, stability - all were hale and well.

My wish is only one, to one day be myself; to follow my heart, be rightly filial, with no more ceaseless restraint for propriety, as a husband, free to shower affection on my wife, as a father, free to love and dote on my every child, to know my dearest as I did before, with no distance between us.

Our wish is only one, to limit Our desires as best We can, and both Lord and father need no longer worry for the morrow’. Prudence for a Lord is the most important virtue; the People are the very foundation of all under heaven. For the peace and stability of all the land, how dare We be willful?

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Serenade of Peaceful Joy came up in conversation with friends, and I thought to check it out on a whim.

Because the opening song starts with the little child singing in words easily parsed, it’s easy to be lulled into a state where you just sit back and enjoy the beautiful art in the drama’s opening. Even when the light male voice takes over at the second verse. But at the end of that verse, 百姓康↑ (i.e. the people are doing very well) sort of reeled me in again because the volume went up, but also - I did not detect any joy in that.

And then I suddenly heard 惟愿我能一日为己 // My wish is only one, to one day be myself, and right onscreen was the puppet Emperor. So I came to the correct conclusion, that this line was in his voice and from his POV.

Then the camera zoomed out and seeing this scene of the people watching the stage reminded me of the child singing. I think when children sing songs that praise the goodness of their times, there is a shade more reliability. They aren’t stupid, and they can be startlingly observant.

Anyway, depictions of the imperial family amongst the cheerful commoners, contrasted with the most powerful man in the state tired of the constraints on his life imposed by his duty. That was just - uhg.

The next line I heard clearly was 亦君亦父勿忧旦夕 // and both Lord and father need no longer worry for the morrow’ - which touched me more than it hurt? But it was an achy sort of moving.

Very innocently, I thought it was about the hard work and pressures that went into doing well as an Emperor for his people.

(But you translate poetry, yj. You should know better!)

I wasn’t entirely off the mark ok.

So imagine my absolute shock when I actually pulled up the lyrics and saw the entire 2nd verse????

子皆寿短储落旁 Sons, they died young; the succession fell from this line. 女亦娇拗终惶惶 Daughter, beloved and headstrong, fearful to the last. 然民亦皆君子女 But the People too, were the Lord’s daughters and sons; 市井平宁百姓康 in the streets, peace, stability - all were hale and well.

The first line is already shocking. It also feels like something that would happen near the end of an Emperor’s rule. The choosing of a crown prince from a branch of the family, that is. You normally wouldn’t be doing that unless there is no other viable choice. But more importantly, his sons all died young?! Truly tragic.

But his daughter (daughters? It feels like one though.), very treasured and headstrong, but passed fearful and uneasy? What happened here?

The second two lines feels like a consolation but also a ringing slap to the face. Like hey! Your personal life is a wreck, but at least you’ve done your job swimmingly. Perhaps it was at the cost of his family?

Next verse is the true wish! He uses ‘I’. This is a wish he makes as his personal self, just a normal man, wanting to be filial, wanting to be a good husband to his wife, a good father to his children, wanting to be himself and not have to suppress his nature and refrain from these things for propriety.

The next verse shatters that wish into a million pieces. Here he uses 吾 as a self reference which I approximated with the royal We. For the rest of this life, he can never be just a normal man. He has to be a good emperor, prudent and dedicated, a father to his people. For peace and stability to be maintained, he cannot just do as he wishes. And the good news? In the narrative of this song, he succeeded!

So we have Verse 1 - Commoner’s pride and praise of their State, city, benevolent emperor, capable ministers and fair empress. (The result, the surface) Verse 2 - May be the state of the country at the end of his rule. (The cost and the good done.) Verse 3 - A pipe dream. Maybe at the beginning before he fully mentally accepted the responsibility. (Start) Verse 4 - He’s accepted that he can’t have a normal life like that, and is now fully committed to the kingdom. (Turning point, go to Verse 2)

国有城兮城四方城有君兮仁以长臣忠能兮为栋梁君有后兮持正方

子皆寿短储落旁女亦娇拗终惶惶然民亦皆君子女市井平宁百姓康

惟愿我能一日为己从心从孝勿思复礼为夫恣情于内为父舐犊于膝识卿于初无疏离

但愿吾能尽节其欲亦君亦父勿忧旦夕慎乃君德之首民为天下根基为四海平宁何敢恣意

子皆寿短储落旁女亦娇拗终惶惶然民亦皆君子女市井平宁百姓康

惟愿我能一日为己从心从孝勿思复礼为夫恣情于内为父舐犊于膝识卿于初无疏离

但愿吾能尽节其欲亦君亦父勿忧旦夕慎乃��德之首民为天下根基为四海平宁何敢恣意

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nouverx · 3 months

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Louise never heard about puppy love, cause they don't know that term in France 💔

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Lyrics are from Louise by TV Girl ! I was listening to it yesterday and that specific line on the second page screamed Alastor I just had to draw something about it

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captainsaltypear · 26 days

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for legal reasons caine needs to give pomni her own marketable gummipoo plushie. as a treat.

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vacueye · 2 months

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looking through old tf2 stuff again + felt like reuploading some of my favorite (mostly spy) art throughout the years

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soracities · 9 months

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we NEED more cleaners and bricklayers and scaffolders and delivery drivers in MFA poetry programs. like. immediately.

#the art of the novel is being radically transformed in the shape of a convo between two cleaning ladies in an office after hours.#a mechanic somewhere is dropping the most astonishing lines linking the landscape of wires & tubes to the tendons on their gfathers hands #when they taught them their first oil change or something but its happening entirely internally while theyre on their back under a hopeless #honda civic and thin lizzie is blaring on their boss' radio and they're going to forget about it this time tomorrow.......#or have another equally beautiful thought #@oliverisms and i just know this WE KNOW IT IN OUR BONES #p #idir lúibíní

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vorestarr · 5 months

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so today i was playing and opened a book and got this comment from Astarion:

and i was like oh, interesting. i wonder what the book says? so i opened it again to read it and...

There is a light in every living thing. It's crawling t'wards the surface to survive. And in its wake, it tramples everything. We'll kill the rest, so that the one can thrive.

yeah, of course you liked that. isn't hard to guess why.

so i picked up the book and put it in his inventory. and saw the book is called "Evil's Ascent."

#astarion #astarion ancunin #i'm sure someone else has found this but it's my first time hearing that line from him on any of my games #i lost it tbh

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youngsamberg · 1 year

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