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Welcome to Nirvana in Fire: We Have Nuanced Women

Part one can be found here

^This is Mu Nihuang, Princess of Yunnan, a vassal state of Da Liang. She lost her fiancé Lin Shu at just 15. She leads her country in war after her father’s death when she’s just 17 (as regent while her baby brother grows up but whatever). She commands an army of 100,000 who would follow her anywhere. She’s a lady and a warrior and a good friend and older sister to all who know her.

^This is Qin Banruo, Strategist to Prince Yu. She’s running a sizeable information network, and has many secretive plots to further her goals. Which are not necessarily Prince Yu’s goals but shhh! His Highness doesn’t need to know that right now, after all men are just silly creatures, aren’t they? She probably draws on her red eyeliner with a knife.

^This is Xia Dong. She’s an executive officer of the Intelligence Bureau that reports directly to the king. She’s one massively scary badass, 110% down to beat up and torture a guy for information. She’s trained the princes and officers in martial arts for years and commands great respect. Her husband’s a yeti, but she’s surprisingly okay with that.

^This is Grand Princes Liyang, sister of the Emporor. Her own mother orchestrated her assault and subsequent marriage to the Marquis of Ning, which is enough to make you want to go apesh*t on her behalf, even without everything else that happens. With insane amounts of dignity and grace and quiet inner strength she makes the best of her life, fighting for the literal lives of her children (and wins).

^This is Consort Jing, mother of Xiao Jingyan. She’s a talented doctor and a plotter maybe even more talented than Mei Changsu (I said what I said). She will bake her son cookies on one hand while keeping the Emporor’s mind right where she wants it with the other. She deserves an Oscar for the stuff she puts up with in the inner palace with a straight face.

^This is Miss Gong Yu. She’s well known as a Master Musician of Miaoyin Court, drawing crowds from all over to hear her play. But she’s also a spy for the Jiangzuo Alliance, gathering intel to help further their plans. She’s kind and thoughtful and steadily loyal - not asking for much in return, as in her own words “if (people she cares about) are well, that is enough”

TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition's doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition's doctor.

What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, "hold my vodka," and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.

this picture has such "i lived bitch" energy

yknow what im just leaving this whole tag thread out here

sometimes plushies make me cry because it’s like. they’re little guys made to be loved. their only purpose is to be held and hugged and loved. we made them because we love making things and we love loving things. and they’re so cute

Years back, I was working at a specialty store, and we got this HUGE crate of plushy toys. They were all insanely cute and squishy. I knew kids would go nuts for them, as it was the first week of December, so parents and grandparents often had kids with them while shopping for furniture, lamps, cooking equipment, lights, etc.

One night, I was working my last hour of my shift covering the Customer Service desk, which meant when I wasn't busy, I was supposed to help clean up around the cash registers, including taking back items people changed their minds about at the checkout. Earlier, I had witnessed a kid carrying thos cute plushy toy. It was a brown and white hedgehog. The kid, at the checkout, saw a remote control car and he told his dad he qanted it. The dad told him, "The plushy or the car- you can't have both" (by the way, I respect boundaries with kids and parents sticking to their guns about it), and the kid picked the car.

So, I'm cleaning up, have less than an hour left of my shift, and I see the little plushy hedgehog. Somehow, he never got put back nor had anyone else seen him and decided to buy him. He was just sitting there, slumped to the side, unattended.

It's Christmas and I'm a sentimental old sap at heart. My brain starts replaying the scene from RUDOLPH where he's on the Island of Misfot Toys, and is told a toy is never truly happy until it is loved. I picked him up and quickly took him back to the bin with the plushies but... It was empty. He was literally the last plushy toy and my boss was about to wheel the bin out. We weren't getting any more toys till November, so that meant any toys left at this point needed to sell or they'd be sent to the dump.

I brought the little hedgehog to the front, figuring someone would see him with the candy, candles, & Christmas brick-a-brack, and fall in love with him. When I finished my shift, I went to ask my manager a question and as I passed the Christmas candle display - there he sat, the sad little slumped over hedgehog plushy. No one had bought him, or even moved him.

My manager, Phillip, saw me and the hedgehog. He asked how the hedgehog got there. I told him how I'd put him there when the bin got sent back, and he was the only plushy left. Philip had kids, I figured he'd probably get sentimental and buy it for his kids. Nope. He shrugged and said he'd send it back to be disposed of.

That night, I came home with a plushy hedgehog in my passenger seat. My mom saw him and just thought he was the cutest little hedgehog and asked what I wanted to do with him. I told her the story, then added I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with him.

My mom is a child psychiatrist, specializing in children with PTSD and brain damage that results in learning problems/issues with processing their emotions. She asked if she could have the plushy hedgehog (even offered to pay me for him, she didn't expect me to just give him over), so kids could hug him when they were upset in session.

Murphy, the plushy hedgehog that still slumps a little to the left when seated, has been hugged by hundreds of kids. Little girls have held him tight while explaining about bullies, little boys have held him tight while crying over their panic attacks, younger siblings have held him to whisper secrets while elder siblings and parents talk about self-soothing techniques, teenagers have hugged Murphy while talking about the worst day of their lives. Murphy has also been hugged by kids excitedly chatting about a new friend at school, a teen girl excited to be called by her name instead of her dead-name, little kids proudly saying they've mastered their ABCs, and even staff members who just need to come chat over a case they are having trouble with.

Every now and then, my mom brings Murphy home for a weekend. He gets washed (she calls it a Spa Weekend, to her coworkers, all of them laughing), dried, and sits outside with my mom in the sunshine to get aired out, then on Monday, they are back to work. Some kids even just ask to hold Murphy while they talk, no matter their mood or what they want to talk about. They just want to hug Murphy.

So yes. Plushies are made for one purpose. To be hugged and loved. To be a comfort.

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Explain your answer-you can add a little story if you want.

Don't be rude.

Enjoy.

A-cheng I love you.

But A-fei is bodying your ass.

They should not kiss sloppy style.

They should kiss every type of style actually. They should do the "trying different types of kissing challenge with my gym bro".

The only sloppy wet cat Di Feisheng should be kissing in Li Lianhua and the only angry boy Jiang Cheng should be kissing is Lan Wangji.

The only gym bro like guys who should do that are Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen.

Di Feisheng is multi-talented lol. He can kiss Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing and still have space to kiss Jiang Cheng.

NMJ and LXC are kissing without the challenge. If not then I bet they have both kisses JGY at least once and that means they have kissed each other. It counts because.... Ummm Science. Yes. Science.

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li lianhua. i will shake you til you barf

Look, this is correct. But Fang Duobing, with modern computer skills (or even just with his ridiculously anachronistic canonical engineering skills), would absolutely make himself a little app just like it for his own personal use, and I am amusing myself with mental images of him doing that. Just sitting there pressing a button to shake a little virtual Li Lianhua whenever he gets too frustrated.

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