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Maomao and Shisui 🥰

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It hurts to be something It's worse to be nothing with you

[arianwells]

You’ll wish you’d stayed.

[obroechlins]

maomao’s dedication to ignoring jinshi’s real identity is truly inspiring. the woman who has solved multiple murders based on minor clues in the environment keeps looking at every sign pointing to jinshi being royalty and going “damn, this could add up to something. good thing I can’t do math!”

[attxlia]

The Apothecary Diaries is such a breath of fresh air because this is a story that genuinely seems to love women. From the sex workers of the Verdigris House to the seemingly antagonistic women of the palace (like Suirei and Loulan), the Apothecary Diaries declares that every single one of them deserves grace and dignity even if (or especially if) they come into conflict with its protagonist or societal respectability

[taki118]

Yes this but also it avoids the "Not like other girls" tropes because it makes it apparent over time that Mao Mao is not special her circumstances are.

Mao Mao is not inherently more intelligent than other women her situation just allowed her the kind of freedom and education that others were not offered. Throughout the series Mao Mao is shown to be wrong, that her point of view causes her to make incorrect judgements and she is often taught things by other women things she had not considered or known about that help to piece things together.

Time and time again we are shown women who could be like Mao Mao if they were allowed to be. The best example being Loulan not only was just a weird as Mao Mao she walked circles around her in intelligence and strategy. Because Loulan knew how this world worked she used it to pull the wool over everyone's eyes including Mao Mao's, who at the end still couldn't fully understand her. The series over and over shows that these women are all living with deep complexities, inteligence and passions but they are not able to embrace them because of circumstance.

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

The Silt Verses chapter 27: So I'll Bear It Trembling Onwards // Our Wars Have Ended episode 2: More Than A Man

[greatwyrmgold]

Translation: "I can't ask you to come find me when this is all over, but I want to see you again."

Translation: "If you give that pin to me, you'll probably never see it again."

Translation: "That's fine, as long as you're alive."

Translation: Hey did Maomao ever figure out what people giving her hairpins at the garden party meant?

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Tamamo

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doomed yuri

[sapphic-suchoripterus]

she is the saddest wettest cat ever, hold her

[cordia1ly]

If the lord ever got attached to a toy, he would never be able to let it go

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Reunited

[wyvern-tales]

Thinking about Suirei again…. She’s literally so iconic.

She took Medicine That Kills You For Ten Minutes and walked it off like a champ. She kidnapped Maomao and gave her a stack of medical textbooks to distract her, like a parent giving their toddler cocomelon. She’s so androgynous everyone thinks she’s a dude when she wears men’s clothes. She keeps wearing men’s clothes even after going into hiding. She’s deathly afraid of snakes because her shitty stepmother threw her into a pit of them for probably no reason. She has no friends. She is one of three people in the entire series who were able to outsmart Maomao. She makes one attempt at a joke and when it doesn’t work never tries again. Maomao is *very* interested in her intelligence and medical knowledge, which weirds her out. She got locked in a closet during one of her stepmother’s orgies. Her half-sister loved her so much she took her original birth name as a fake name while spying. She loves said sister more than anything else.

She tried to assassinate Jinshi. She’s so pretty, when she shows up disguised as a eunuch she ends up becoming legitimate competition to Jinshi’s beauty. She’s Jinshi’s cousin. Did I mention she’s hot as fuck.

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suirei and ah duo

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the most beautiful girl in the world

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[interestingmistakes]

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