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@teamushiten (a slightly late) ushiten week 2026 day 2: royalty AU!
more under the cut, it's a long one!
Oh my fucking god, they're too precious
If I were to give a general estimation as to when i think Maomao gained romantic feelings for Jinshi, it would have been at the end of LN4
Jinshi saves Maomao from her kidnapping, and she returns to working as the Verdigris House's Apothecary. With Jinshi's true status revealed, Maomao assumes she's never going to see him again
She thinks about this a lot, about how she's too low born for someone of his status to ever see her, and how he doesn't even need her help with his injury anyway, because Luoman is at the rear palace now. There's no logical reason for them to ever see each other again. And it itches at her
And so she starts her experiments again, harming herself. There doesn't seem to be a purpose for the concoctions she's making either, as if she's trying to treat something with no obvious cause. Something too deep for the failed medicines to reach
So she goes to cut off her finger. Specifically, her left pinky finger.
Again, there doesn't seem to be a purpose for this behavior at all- until you remember that her mother cut off the tip of her left pinky, out of anguish and rage at Lakan for abandoning her. Fengxian's love for Lakan is the reason her mother harmed her.
Maomao relates that particular finger of her's to romantic love, because of her parent's tragic love story and the trauma it caused her
Maomao knows how stupid love can make even the most intelligent of people, and has consciously and subconsciously avoided it, because she doesn't want to experience that same sort of attachment and hurt. She's heard her parent's story, heard stories of those seeking love at the Verdigris House, how courtesan's speak about love in hushed tones, and how it always ended in pain for everyone involved
But when she thinks she's never going to see Jinshi again, she goes to cut off her left pinky finger, as if on instinct. The finger she associates with romantic love. The same action Fengxian did, when she thought she'd been abandoned by Lakan.
Maomao is doing the exact same thing as her mother, for the exact same reasons.
It's only when Jinshi walks in through the door that Maomao unties her pinky and puts away the knife, and returns to her normal self.
It's one of those things where - I don't think even Maomao understands the reasons behind her actions here. Something was bothering her, something deep, and she went to the only solution she could think of to fix it- cutting off the piece of her that she associates with romantic love- but she stops feeling that subconscious itch as soon as Jinshi comes to see her. As soon as he's back in her life, things are right again, and she stops hurting herself
it's a moment i think about a lot, and it's one of my favorites in the series, because of what it represents for Maomao specifically. it says a lot about her character and how she feels about Jinshi, even if it takes years for those feelings to fully bloom
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Collecting those rn
"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.
Dj sepsis playing the deep cuts that get under your skin
"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.
I did ONE single doodle of Shang Qinghua as a cat - cuz if I like you, you get turned into a cat at least once - and bem I got an idea and there it is...
When does it happen in the timeline of the story ? Idk and Idc I just wanted my fav guy SQH as a cat and then Mobei-Jun decided to manifest himself. Typical.(︶^︶)
Theres this auction thing going on in the lunch room at work where people are selling off their collectibles. Someone put up 10th doctor, BBC Sherlock, and Castiel figures still sealed in the boxes for sale. All from the same person. I fucking know what you are 🫵
This person has since added a collectors figure of the serenity ship from Firefly. This guy is on this site somewhere where in the goddamn are you. I'll find you
Ive placed a bid on the Firefly model because its actually sick and I want it and on the little bidding sheet I named myself as "I like your shoelaces, Mr. President." If you think you can escape your past by selling it off youre dead wrong
it's funny because my job involves a lot of using a box cutter, so you'd think that's the thing I'd accidentally hurt myself with the most
but nooo no no no. the box cutter is my colleague, my ally, my friend. you know what is truly bloodthirsty in a print & signage shop? literally Anything Else that's able to cut but not supposed to. cardboard, sheets of plastic, the humble paper of course, corrugated polypropylene, aluminum composite sheets - i nicked myself on a sheet of magnetic material today?? it bled. kinda profusely.
basically:
box cutter: a trusty companion, might hurt you if you handle it wrong, but that's understandable
stuff you use the box cutter on: they know you as their enemy. they know the rules of this life: kill, or be killed. they know what they have to do.
I love being a nobody. No special destiny for me, no sirree. No secret magical bloodlines, no prophecies, no omened stars or pure souls here. Just an ordinary person living my ordinary struggles. No dragons to kill, no soulmates to rescue, no journeys to any underworld of any sort. I just get to live my life setting reasonable goals and feeling elated and disappointed at my successes and failures that don't impact the world at large. God this shit rules.
hey can you hold this mysterious sword for me real quick?
Nope! My hands are full with my mundane, everyday life! No room for anything else, especially not mysterious swords!
now, pecker means penis. and wood means boner. so of course you would make assumptions about the term woodpecker. but no. the bird
I LOVE hearing that other languages have so many beautifully unique ways to construct dick jokes
Mobei Jun: Does Shang Qinghua desire children?
Shang Qinghua: don't i already have enough fucking kids-- Haha, not really, my king...
Mobei Jun, in his head, deeply shocked: Shang Qinghua has children... Other people have been with Shang Qinghua and had children? DESPAIR! Despair for 10 thousand years!
Mobei Jun: As Qinghua wishes.