@villainousfriend also, i can’t believe none of the graverobbing shows/movies have been like “we’re following in the illustrious footsteps of Cao Cao”
@oceaniceternity @xieliansbignaturals @Badmonk tempting! but i’m going to need to see some femdom inkfic before i can be swayed by this propaganda 😆
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@Lady do we have any evidence he’s wrong
@bright_helpings I assumed we just took “Bruxelles” and then bodged it to be more pronounceable in English. but now I’m curious! *goes to see if wiktionary has an etymology*
@foxes_in_love an absolute mood
@nomad @RussSharek i’m glad you’re getting rid of it then!
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@kit its the one i went with! the card you get if you pick it is cute
@villainousfriend @Forestofglory inns arent supposed to work like this! he thought he was safe!!!
@villainousfriend @Forestofglory I also feel like we’re due for a slight trope inversion—imagine WWX traveling with LWJ and babbling awkwardly when he realizes Lan money means they’re NOT going to be sleeping with six other strangers who can safely diffuse the sexual tension
@villainousfriend @lirazel @Forestofglory Song Lan probably has a lot of practice navigating those kinds of situations! But yeah probably the meaner characters to pick on with historical accuracy 😂
@villainousfriend @Forestofglory ha! i do think its reasonable for characters to have feelings about it, even when its something normalized by the culture they’re in—they’ll just be more hmm like how you might write someone overthinking getting to sit next to their crush you know? “I’m getting a lot more out of this proximity than is socially expected and I’m not sure the other person realizes, or if I even WANT them to realize” rather than “ohhh no beds, the most intrinsically horny place that I cannot help but think about fucking in”
@Forestofglory they’re not two to a room being horny, they’re an awkward pile of college boy elbows and knees!
@Forestofglory curse of learning too much history is someone tries to only one bed trope Les Mis and I’m like “no no the *real* question here is why any of these characters were expecting to get their own room at the inn in the first place”
@Forestofglory i’m always kinda fascinated by the way bedsharing (or even just roomsharing) has become *so* intimate in modern western culture that we project only one bed trope assumptions into cultures / pasts where bed-sharing happened in all kinds of relationships
@kate the fact that they cant even get the back slit to hang nicely in the product photos is…
@naye ohhh thats so lovely!
@soph_sol i really should actually post about my cooking more often instead of just thinking i will later
@MicroSFF did you mean 2024 awards or did i miss a big announcement about a redo?
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