Baoyu is treated as a fallen piece of sky but really Xiangling 香菱 has a better claim
26.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
Historical Chinese literature, poetry, and philosophy. Co-host Rereading the Stone podcast https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social book reviews & discussion of Ming-Qing literature, science fiction, etc. https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
Baoyu is treated as a fallen piece of sky but really Xiangling 香菱 has a better claim
26.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0two women meme guy: female heroine from a Ming-Qing novel woman 1: overcoming your problems through perseverance and ingenuity woman 2: jumping into a literal well 井 夢蘭哭道:「我本深閨弱質,不幸父母俱喪,飄泊異鄉,為強暴所逐,流到此處,卻又投奔親戚不著,如此命蹇,量無道理,不如早早死休。」說罷,便望著井亭中那口大井要投將下去。 合錦回文傳 -> 第五卷梁秀才改妝窺淑女 桑小姐乘夜走扁舟
it's happening again
#井
sure hope all your doomsaying about yet another scam AI app isn't actually just giving them free PR, exactly as they planned
25.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0sure hope all your doomsaying about yet another scam AI app isn't actually just giving them free PR, exactly as they planned
25.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0these scenarios involve near-fatal diarrhea far more often than you were likely expecting
also, most scenes are on riverboats, inexplicably?
Five characters from Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 that have likely read 5 or more books:
1. Jia Zheng
2. Daiyu
3. Baoyu?
4. Shi Xiangyun
5. Jia Yucun
every book is called some shit like The Husband’s Wife
24.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 271 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 0forgot about "sadists" and "masochists," who are also responsible for all the ills of society
24.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0there's a lot to critique in Freud but there is also a way of dismissing Freud that makes you look like an intellectual lightweight and sort of a joke
24.02.2026 05:08 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"perverts, fetishists, weirdos" as a good or bad thing
24.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0oh something terrible is happening in the world, surely it's the perverts, fetishists, weirdos, and submissives (?) who are responsible
24.02.2026 04:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1this post, but in blog form
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...
maybe I'm over-interpreting, but I'm reading that wang 望 as our protagonist's gazing *longingly* at that well
so it's perfect for two women meme
Still, though, no matter what, that part of you, teachers, that cares about cheating regardless of circumstance and context?
That's your fascism kicking in; it's basically a light form of "intrusive thought" and you shouldn't be proud of it, per se
maybe I'm over-interpreting, but I'm reading that wang 望 as our protagonist's gazing *longingly* at that well
so it's perfect for two women meme
two women meme
guy: female heroine from a Ming-Qing novel
woman 1: overcoming your problems through perseverance and ingenuity
woman 2: jumping into a literal well 井
exactly
23.02.2026 04:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wait, you want to talk about Alysa Liu?
What's her surname, again?
two women meme guy: female heroine from a Ming-Qing novel woman 1: overcoming your problems through perseverance and ingenuity woman 2: jumping into a literal well 井 夢蘭哭道:「我本深閨弱質,不幸父母俱喪,飄泊異鄉,為強暴所逐,流到此處,卻又投奔親戚不著,如此命蹇,量無道理,不如早早死休。」說罷,便望著井亭中那口大井要投將下去。 合錦回文傳 -> 第五卷梁秀才改妝窺淑女 桑小姐乘夜走扁舟
it's happening again
#井
nah it's fine
23.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love kitty cats, but I don't need celebrity kitty cats in my life, so I have muted Uni, the overrated Japanese kitty cat
thank you for your attention in this matter
I am still pro-Fishtopher
but he doesn't like the snow
he's not a snow pervert, he's anti-snow
#alysaliu
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MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
this post, but in blog form
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...
Flowers in the Mirror 鏡花緣 (19th. C.) is a great historical novel. Is it feminist, though, or just casting shadows?
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...
Flowers in the Mirror 鏡花緣 (19th. C.) is a great historical novel. Is it feminist, though, or just casting shadows?
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...
through mirrors, flowery
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...
sorry, but surrealism is sparkling water that thinks it's champagne
20.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Flowers in the Mirror 鏡花緣 (19th C.) is great. Is it feminist, though, or just casting shadows? 🌸🪞
www.patreon.com/posts/flower...