Lady @Lady@cat.family

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

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

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. »

« “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.” »

« 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

« 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

@KitRedgrave anyway, heaven or earth, these are things which can only be analysed through the lens of history

a ruler may appear terrible but remain in power; perhaps the jade emperor saw reason to grant him favour

a ruler may appear just, but fail to sustain power; perhaps the jade emperor found him weak

after the fact, we can often look back and enumerate reasons why such‐and‐such did or did not lose control, but we can never look forward and say whether they will maintain it

@KitRedgrave communist party of china doesn’t have the mandate of heaven, they have the mandate of the people

whether they meet that mandate is open to debate

@alyssa in fanfiction taking a phrase and putting the second half of it in parentheses is an incredibly cliché trope for fanfic titles

the quote above is a well-known line from a sappho poem; formatting it like a clichéd fanfiction title (and i did get this from a title of a fanfic) is really, uh, how do i put it…

1) unnecessary, because the line was perfectly fine the way it was before, and they could have just used that as the title directly

2) anachronistic, which would be acceptable if this was a fanfiction ABOUT sappho, maybe as a teenage girl in a modern setting (but it was not)

3) aggravating, because it doesn't even fit the format well (the second half is way longer than the first, causing the whole thing to feel unbalanced) which distracts from the poetry of the original line (which did not depend on that kind of symmetry)

although a fair bit of my aggravation comes from the fact that this is SUCH a common and overused title trope; if it weren’t, there would be no reason for the author to have made this choice; the impression is that they liked this line (understandable) and liked that title format (i disagree but whatever) and just mashed the two together without ever stopping to think about whether that actually worked

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