Xing Fei and her studio share new hanfu photoshoot
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it’s two in the morning and i’m awake thinking about how when fang duobing wanted to get into baichuan court, he needed an alias, so he was like quick, what’s a good fake name? yuan jiankang. this likely gets lost in translation but 方多病 (fang duobing) literally means “prone to many illnesses”. fang duobing's made up name? 袁建康 (yuan jiankang) - the surname 袁 (yuan) being a homonym of 远 meaning “always / forever” and 建康 (jiankang) meaning “healthy”. FOREVER HEALTHY. he just… picked the literal opposite of his name.
fast forward however many episodes to when li lianhua is teaching fang duobing yangzhouman, but then fang duobing starts asking questions about this wondrous technique, so li lianhua’s like quick, what’s a good fake name? suzhoukuai. to recap: 杨洲慢 (yangzhouman) - 扬州 (yangzhou) being a city, and 慢 (man) meaning “slow”. li lianhua’s made up name? 苏州快 (suzhoukuai) - 苏州 (suzhou) being… a different city, and 快 (kuai) meaning… “fast”. it’s literally just… the opposite.
i. i just. they share a single brain cell and it is constantly working overtime.
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WIP Wednesday
Tagged by @socially-awkward-skeleton and @cassietrn (thank you bbys 💕💕)
Today I will bring a small excerpt of chapter 3 that I am working on. Red, Fei and Falk will appear among it, Red is @graveyard-party666 OC/self insert (it's a different timeline here, I want to clarify 💕. You should go to read her story everyone) and Fei and Falk are @kikiharinezumi ocs. I hope you can appreciate💚
"Eden I know but if you go on like this I have to keep you monitored."
"I know."
She knew and hated this, knew that her psychiatrist as well as friend was worried. Everyone actually was, she hated making others worry. She was more the type who helped people.
I am a strong girl, my traumas should not affect others
"Promise me you'll go home now, get into bed with Orange and have a good night's sleep. Take a day for yourself," Red suggested to her, despite being her psychiatrist now she was acting first and foremost as a friend.
"I'll try, we'll actually both have to take a day off Reddie. Are you still dating that professor?"
"Eden" the redhead rolled her eyes, it was done on purpose. He was trying as hard as he could to avoid talking about her.
"Come on Red, you, the professor. Some good red wine.”
The Ukrainian girl's cheeks might envy her name, maybe she could take a break from work and just be a normal girl.
"I'll think about it."
She had said she would think about it when the young psychiatrist made the famous phone call to the professor immediately after the session as they left her office together.
A simple coffee, that was what the man had offered her former student, just enough for Red, who had gone from being a perfectionist in her role to an ordinary woman with an infatuation.
As Eden had said
“Look at me carefully now, no nervousness in your voice” Eden corrected the collar of Red's jacket, “and stand your ground like you always have, understand?” the raven-haired woman instructed her friend, who nodded.
She always had a special fondness for helping, but she didn't help herself. Ironic.
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I love that this place is genuinely horrific.
But also compare her reaction - terror and acceptance:
And his:
Geng's indignation and attempt to fight as compared to the rest of slaves' acceptance, is not (just) because he's a hero. It's because the rest of them are already long-term slaves or just peasants or w/e - they are used to the world being brutal and unfair, they are used to being ordered about and mistreated, and just taking it. Yes, the gradation is different - this is apparently the worst place in the kingdom - but the nature of their lives is not. But Geng is a prince!!! Yes, ALL humans are slaves for the Gods but except for messenger coming once a year to collect bloodstones, he doesn't see them. His parents loved him and he was at the top of social pyramid. So he sees the indignity and horror of it as utterly fresh. There is a reason he thinks of his parents.
But it's pretty telling that his attempt to both rabble rouse and to literally fight is hopeless (at this point in time) and it ends up with is his being branded in the freaking neck. The rest of the slaves can at least hide their by their sleeves, but his is always visible.
The way the head slave boasts he's the head slave!!!! (It's actually, if you think about it, parallel of the roles Geng and his father the King had too - the head slaves above all the humans in their kingdom; it's the gradation. But of course Geng and his father rebelled. This man, like the King of Bai and his gross side, are happy to have people to lord it over, and don't care they aren't free themselves.)
And yup, his noble act and all, she still got branded too, look at her rubbing her arm.
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