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hongluboobs · 11 months

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hongsang becomes more insane to me the more i read red chamber bc i keep noticing little things that make me want to explode. did you know mirrors are a pretty heavy motif in red chamber? Bao-yu flat out has a mirrored self in the text (i’m not there yet but i know that)

I don’t know if it’s even in a ship way but i keep noticing connections. They’ve both got a lot about being controlled/trapped and false contentment with that situation in their stories (this will find its way to canto 8. please) and the fact that it was THESE TWO to get the dimension shredder egos makes me want to explode

the more i look into these characters the more things i see that are paralleled and similar. The pretty art also helps lmao but i need to know their issues

#pachiposting #what reading dream of the red chamber did to a mf #i probably forgot some too there’s SOOOOOO many things #i have to write some kinda red chamber post at some point now that i’m almost done w volume 1 of the hawkes tl #shocking amount of queer content in that book considering the time and premise #numerous papers on the queerness of bao-yu it’s awesome. and completely not reaching at all it’s lovely to see #oh also i haven’t read the wings yet BUT my friend has and went insane on me #i’ll get around to it but dream of the red chamber is a full time job #btw you should all read red chamber (grinning)(smiling)(it is 2800 pgs and i don’t know how much will even come up in canto 8!#hong lu makes me start tearing at paper in my mind i have to dissect him

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