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My lil boy Miaomiao nicely kidnapping his An-ge to make him take a day off at the hot springs :)

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Some Taoist stuff

Another thing I noticed going through old Taoist writings is lessons to rulers that are basically "don't fuck with people's lives." Like, you know, they work, they pay taxes, they join your army, leave 'em alone.

Some of that advice goes further in noting that you do this because you DON'T understand their lives, you DON'T get how things run, you WILL piss them off, and at some point you'll screw up so much you'll get overthrown, probably in a colorfully historical way.

[dukeofriven]

Okay, so, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, arguably-the-hero Liu Bei is on the run from his enemies and he takes shelter with a hunter who is so awed at having such an important guest that he goes out to hunt some game to serve him. He can’t find any, so he comes back to his house, kills his wife, and serves her up to Liu Bei saying that it is wolf. Next morning as Liu Bei is about to leave he discovers the body of the dead woman, works-out what happened, and cries. Because it is such an amazingly noble thing to do. So he thanks the guy for the wife-meal and goes on his way, This is a throwaway anecdote that barely takes up a paragraph. I would not describe it as a plot point because it is entirely incidental. It should be stressed that Liu Bei was not starving: the text explicitly notes that everywhere he goes people fall over themselves to give him anything he might need. I really hate overly-applying modern morality to old works of literature because I often find that’s a great way to distort and misunderstand what authors of the period though and desired, and it’s especially dicey to apply my standards of 21st century Western morality to a classic tale from a linguistic and culture group far, far, far away from my own... ... but I’m going to take particular exception here and say this scene is deeply fucked-up and I would hope that readers in 14th century imperial China would agree with me.

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Memories of the lonely library cat

A drawing I'm probably never going to finish of older Miaomiao after all his friends and family have passed away.

Short lore dump under the cut:

Miaomiao is a half cat-demon and demons in our RP setting (which is derived from the mo dao zu shi novel's canon and Chinese mythology) live for hundreds and even thousands of years, so at some point Miaomiao will probably outlive everyone he loves :') he will try to sabotage his long lifespan at some point, but we have some post story RP planned for him meeting his family again after they all reincarnate, which would change his mind.

Something I forgot to add in the drawing is that after they all die he'll start wearing white mourning clothes.

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Some old RP shenanigans from when our group had a hot spring episode. The drawings are Miaomiao drinking from the forbidden big soup (the hot spring), his dads snuggling (at this point they hadn't confessed their feelings yet lol, one was drunk) and finally Miaomiao headpatting his An-ge.

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AU where my boy Miaomiao has to take care of baby Library Squad and he got white hair

(all the babies are my friend’s dnd characters)

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Comprehensive Reflections to Aid in Governance(Part 137): The Hazard of Campaigns against Yue

Comprehensive Reflections to Aid in Governance By Sima Guang Translated By Yiming Yang   Annals of Han Book 9 Volume 17 (continued) The Prince of Huainan, Liu An’s Book, Huainanzi The 6th year of the Emperor Wu’s Jianyuan Era (135 B.C.) On February 3 of the spring, a fire occurred at the Shrine of Emperor Gaozu in Liáodōng commandery, causing damage. On April 21 of the summer, a fire broke…

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