crispychris

[bdxpelik]

Hmmm...

Kim Yoo Jung would be perfect as Maomao if Apothecary Diaries was a Kdrama methinks mhmm. Besides there's this scene in Moonlight Drawn by Clouds that goes like:

Remind you of something? That's right, the (pre-)frog scene.

Oh and the Prince being mesmerized by the mainden's dance? Both series has it.

There are more similarities, these are just at the top of my head. I don't really have a point. Just letting my anime/Kdrama brain rot go brrrr.

[crispychriss]

If we ever get a live action of apothecary diaries im hoping that it will look like one of those historical kdramas like this one 😆😆

[kasslookingglass]

[ellsey]

jinshi you useless little slut you're breasting boobily around the place moping about telling your crush your identity all the while getting heat stroke literally no one is doing it like you i love you so much

[astruma2]

[moodyseal]

Maomao's attitude towards Jinshi in the light novel is so much funnier than the anime made it out to be like as soon as he's anywhere within a 5 mile radius from her she's immediately like "Oh the nymph is back... look at that shameless eunuch... tempting everyone like that... such a waste of a pretty face... what a weirdo... he should cover his face it'll cause a war..." and she's like this for nearly an entire page every time he appears

[friedwizardwhispers]

[lithth]

gotta love this intimidating side of maomao

[burnt-venus]

My Maomao x Shisui heart shakes and falls to the ground

[bdxpelik]

Light novel 5 is so densely packed with a crazy range of great (and cringy) interactions between Maomao and Jinshi.

My favorite scene is in chapter 9. Like what the hell is this domestic fluff??

Waddaya mean Jinshi lied down on Maomao's bed and she just casually stroked his hair???? For no reason at all??? Waddaya mean she put his makeup on her own face and pulled silly faces at him until his stomach hurts from laughing too much??? Waddaya mean she kept thinking about how nice he smells and how lovely his voice is??? Oh wait, she does that all the time. Waddaya he relaxed as she cleaned his face because it was warm and comforting???

They were joking around! Having casual conversations! Playing together! Resting on the same bed! Having gentle physical contact! And yet Maomao keeps on insisting their social gap is an issue?? She doesn't realize that he's easily her friend and something more intimate than that? When she interacts with him like THIS without a second thought??

Then this happened:

And I was done. K.O. Finished. This scene is so precious to me, you have to understand. I'm a sucker for domestic fluff when the characters involved aren't even dating urgh.

[shishuri]

Gurl, no one would blame you for cursing that shitbag. In fact, curse him more, he deserves it.

Him and his mother ruined so many lives.. dance on their graves even..

[maomaospoison]

THEM IN THE LIGHT NOVELS IS EVERYTHING TO ME

[neo--queen--serenity]

It’s incredibly important to me that the anime decided to include this scene that wasn’t in the manga. In the manga, Maomao does pass out in Jinshi’s lap after saving him from what was obviously an assassination attempt.

HOWEVER, the manga cuts off at this point, keeping strictly in Maomao’s perspective, and cuts straight to when she regains consciousness in bed after being treated for her injuries. The manga doesn’t show how she got back. They SAY how, and she briefly mentions, “wow that must have been embarrassing; he carried me back,” but we don’t SEE it. We don’t get to feel the true impact of what that means. But the anime DID show us, and holy shit.

They SHOW us how taboo this is. They show Jinshi carrying her out of the temple, after a public attempt on his life.

They show us the shock and horror on Lakan’s face as Jinshi silently walks past him. Horror at the state his daughter is in, horror at another man—a man with a status he could never dare to question—staking such a public claim over his child, horror at the fact that he could never have this level of closeness with her (as Maomao would never allow it).

Everyone hides their gazes, as is their custom when someone of his rank passes by, but the air is different this time. Jinshi is furious, he’s terrified, and he could not give a single shit about how inappropriate it looks to these palace officials.

The shot that slowly follows her trail of blood—even though it’s a small detail—that in particular leaves such a intense impression of how poignant this is for him.

Maomao talked about this scene in the manga like it was nothing to her. She did what she set out to do: she saved the person who was targeted by the attack. She didn’t even know the target would be someone she knew. But she has no idea that this happened afterwards as a result of her bravery. To her, it likely wasn’t even an act of bravery at all. She acted on impulse; she did what she knew was the right thing to do.

The anime didn’t need to include this, because the manga didn’t show it. But damn, I’m so glad they did.

[midiport]

[snowywarmthkuya]

[midiport]

[snowywarmthkuya]

[ana-hyperfixates-on-tgcf]

I recently told an ao3 writer that I keep going back to their 260k word unfinished slowburn checking for updates for the last 2 years. They said I'm like that puppy that waits for his dead owner at the train station every day.

That's the realest thing anyone's told me online, I ain't even mad.

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

Spy x family is very very good because there's a bit where a far right terrorist group says that they want to start a war and a main character responds by saying to them "have any of you ever killed anyone before? Have you ever been killed before? Have you ever had a limb torn off by an artillery shell? Have you ever heard the sound of bones shattering? Have you ever smelled the reek of rotting flesh? Have you ever found the crushed bodies of your parents and siblings in a pile of rubble that used to be your home? Have you ever discovered a blown-off piece of your lover stuck to a wall? Have you ever been so hungry that you tried to eat tree bark? Or stewed a pot of human flesh? Have you ever convinced yourself that your enemy was subhuman so you could...slaughter them like animals? Have you ever been so haunted by shame and regret afterwards that you cried until you vomited? Have you ever had friends who did the same, and then took their own lives? Did you learn nothing about war at your university?!"

and that's the same volume where they adopt a dog that can see into the future

[nebraskashouse-deactivated20251]

no matter how fucking sad I am, any AO3 email never fails to makes my day a little brighter

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?