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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

@KitRedgrave was it everything you hoped

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

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