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@Betty @coreo @soph_sol oh noooo

@greyor@weirder.earth @twistylittlepassages putting it on the walkway would probably work fine!

@twistylittlepassages @greyor@weirder.earth unsolicited advice but if you want a low effort outdoor woodfire, solo stoves are unfortunately expensive but quite good for it — we mostly use ours on a patio but we’ve also dropped it straight onto the grass several times for various reasons and been able to pick it back up after without any sign it was there

@soph_sol @Betty and she does enjoy the little political games she plays with the other wives so she’s not spending all her time pining. But watching her son act poorly even by *sigh* community theatre standards definitely twists the knife a bit

@Betty @soph_sol yeah i think he expects her to be able to drop everything at a moments notice to attend various charity functions and other fancy rich people events and thats just not compatible with being a professional actress who has a show pretty much every friday/saturday night for long stretches of time

she resisted it at first but she took a long maternity leave and it was just difficult to break back in to the caliber of roles she was accustomed to afterwards

@soph_sol @Betty oh absolutely not

his mom is maybe actually a talented actress but who retired into being a socialite after she got entangled with bixia and spends every show using all those skills to keep herself from visibly cringing

@soph_sol @Betty he’s got staff for that! they can stand back stage and cue him on opening night, its fiiiine (its not fine)

@Betty @soph_sol part of why the crown prince is bad is because sometimes he *does* skip to go party instead, or show up totally hungover. not as much as he’d like obv but

@soph_sol @Betty yeah all much more plausible things for him to keep himself (not) busy with! And yes have been pondering if the princes act, and if so if they’re any good lmao

@Betty It’s Charles Xavier / Erik Lehnsherr —Sebastian Shaw is the rich asshole with a vanity project — but you can def just read it without context if you’d like: https://archiveofourown.org/works/594482

@soph_sol @Betty my favorite theatre AU involves the theatres founding artistic director putting on an absolutely horrible vanity project post apocalyptic adaptation of Hamlet which may be influencing my takes here somewhat lmao (fortunately I am not sure Bixia is dedicated enough to write a ~200 page script lmao so we’ll save Jingyi that fate at least)

@soph_sol @Betty he has really questionable taste in plays but nonetheless his requests always get run

@soph_sol @Betty ….now that you say this i need it *immediately*

Bixia owns the theatre?

@pixouls makes sense! my parents have a native goldenrod in their backyard which i know hasnt been sprayed etc so i may experiment with drying some if its still blooming next time i’m home then