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« A little later, they met back at the old woman's place. She asked them, "Where'd you go?" Yingning replied that they'd been in the garden, talking together. The old
woman said, "The meal's been ready for a long time—you spoke to each other for so long, there must have been plenty to cover."

Yingning said, "Elder brother wants to sleep with me." »

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« Yingning bowed her head and thought about this for a very long time before remarking, "I'm not accustomed to sleeping with strangers." »

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« "It's no big deal," Yingning said. "For a relative, what price is too great to pay? When the time comes for you to go, I'll call on an old servant to pick a big bunch of flowers from the garden so you can take them with you."

"Are you crazy?" Wang demanded.

She asked, "What's crazy about that?"

Wang explained, "It's not the flowers I care about, but the person who was holding them."

"Naturally, since relatives love each other," said Yingning.

Wang said, "I'm not talking about the love between relatives, but between a husband and wife."

"There's a difference?" Yingning wondered.

"At night, they sleep together," he explained. »

@KitRedgrave oh i meant moral in a literary sense like “underlying message of the story” not “means of determining right and wrong”

i've been reading a lot of pre-modern chinese short fiction

@KitRedgrave it's okay it'd be kind of sad if the thing which finally carried you to deep spiritual enlightenment was the registration process for a social media software

@KitRedgrave feels like there is a buddhist moral buried in here somewhere

respect for the kids and utter disgust for the platforms they use

anyway if hylians view sex in a positive light and sex with supernatural beings in particular as a way to gain magical powers and increased vitality rather than a draining of one’s vital energies then that’s a whole genre which just doesn’t work in that setting

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the ladies who are constantly weirdly sexual and scantily clothed? yeah those are the fairies they heal all your health, they are unambiguously good and helpful

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one very weird thing about zelda is all the temptresses are good

« (As you give the last line, pounce on one of your friends.) »

« He called out to the girl, “I’m very sick and I’m afraid I’m about to fall into the great abyss, so I’ve been persuaded not to get close to any women.”

The girl answered, “Those who are destined to have long lives can still live a long time even when they’re involved with women; those who are doomed to die at a young age will die all the same, even if they avoid women.” She sat there making fun of him and laughing. »

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« “I was involved with your neighbor. I was faithful to him as his lover, never suspecting that he’d get involved with some fox and die. That kind of evil spirit can easily be angered—scholars in particular should be cautious and guard against them.” »

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« He was deliriously happy. He figured he’d have some naughty fun, and explored the lower part of her body further, only to find a long, fuzzy tail there. »

« The collector of these strange tales remarks, “How foolish some people are! What are obviously demons they take for beauties. How deluded such fools are! » my thoughts exactly, master pu

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« then he considered that since she was obviously such a beauty, she couldn’t possibly be an evil spirit » wang my man i have some news for you regarding evil spirits

« “An escapee,” she said, “alas, has no certain destination.” »

people who write their G’s like this: g

ȝ is way easier

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