This is a great moment for a canon divergence where Jiang Yanli wakes up to find she's been deposited on a random monk and hijacks him for the roadtrip of her choice.

This is a great opportunity to experiment with wigs.

Person who has only played Dishonored 2: getting a real Dishonored 2 vibe from this Mediterranean city.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert, Dune

Catholic church calls for a global AI regulatory framework as the Pope pontificates against the technology arms race, calling for the 'audacity of disarmament' Wants AI to create a "more authentically just and human global society", but not impressed with what he's seen so far.

Butlerian Jihad imminent?

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The Celery Stalks At Midnight!

No kings, no dames, no scrubs, no gods, no masters, no dads, no boyfriends!

Also at one point Poirot used a blowpipe cunningly disguised as a cigarette. Truly, she was a pioneer of dodgy spy yarns.

There was one Chinese guy who spoke excellent English. He had lavishly embroidered robes and long fingernails and say about in a richly scented silken opium den as he smilingly spoke of the elaborate tortures his master enjoyed devising.

It's like Christie can grasp the theory that Chinese people are people, but she cannot practise it in her writing.

It's also kind of darkly amusing that the criminal mastermind, one of the greatest brains in the world, is a Chinese guy, but he doesn't appear on-page and just about every Chinese person who does is a crashing stereotype speaking broken English.

I cannot help but wonder if the regular namechecking of Marie Curie is to remind everyone that a brilliant female scientist is totally realistic, actually.

Diversity win! The evil genius scientist constructing death rays is a woman.

You know I'm reading The Big Four and it's astonishingly like a Bond novel only instead of a suave spy it's a fussy Belgian detective. Straight up hollowed out mountain base for the secret society intent on dominating the world with atomic power and an honest to god death ray.

Scrolled too fast on Tumblr and thought a passionate "you may think it's wrong to compare this pain to the transatlantic slave trade but -" was in reply to a post expressing solidarity amongst fat girls crying in dressing rooms.

He was in that wild fantasy China movie with Pedro Pascal, right? It wasnt very good but it was quite fun.

Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel A total of 94 hostages, taken captive after the 7 October attacks, still remain unaccounted for.

Bring them home. Let them go.

It seems like the war against Xue Chonghai was very much like the Sunshot campaign - Xue Chonghai even made the comparison himself, to Wen Mao.

It's possible, but as I recall the Xue only had one known generation of demonic cultivation - Xue Chonghai several hundred years before the series. And Xue Chonghai did appear to have declined by his end.

He's a pretty equal opportunity hater, I think. The only female character he really interacts with is A-Qing, and he seemed to like her. He also murdered her, but that's how he rolls.

After all, Xue Yang in novel canon was Jin Guangyao's particular protegee, key to his rise in Jin Guangshan's esteem. If Xue Yang was being sexually inappropriate, it would definitely be held to JGY's discredit - and his mother's career would no doubt be brought up.

Anyway, I think Jin Guangyao probably had the grim task of explaining to Xue Yang the exact social gradations of women he was at liberty to harass or sexually assault, and how to avoid any undesirable results.
Xue Yang: murder?
Jin Guangyao: well yes technically but let's explore all options

Xue Yang's brothel crimes: heckling Jin Guangyao and swiping some food. If he registers the presence of attractive women, he doesn't show it.

This may seem far fetched but in a novel extra, Jin Guangyao takes Xue Yang along to a brothel to keep him out of trouble, which I don't think he would have done if Xue Yang was an unknown quantity in that respect.

I figure as a street kid Xue Yang probably has a decent apprehension of most bodily functions, and I also think one of the daunting duties Jin Guangyao would have faced during Xue Yang's induction into Jinlintai was, more or less, sex education and sensitivity training.

I think there's a high chance that Xue Yang knows about periods, but Xiao Xingchen, I give even odds. Trying to explain why A-Qing is non-seriously bleeding will be mortifying for two out of three of them.

Xue Yang: I am probably going to have to say something or Xiao Xingchen might draw entirely the wrong conclusion about who's spilling blood around here.

Xue Yang is the only person in the household capable of and willing to admit to seeing that she's bleeding through her clothes and maybe he will and maybe he won't. Agonising!

I'm going to assume some vague knowledge about what periods are because it's not like she's sheltered. But that just means she's bleeding and not sure how best to dealt with it, Xiao Xingchen is sniffing the air and looking confused, and she's pretending to be blind so she can't go "oh no! blood!"