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Your very typical person

@shishuri

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yumiayumu

it’s interesting that some would want jinshi to be emperor and maomao to be empress when it’s been hinted multiple times that he doesn’t want to be and it’ll be the cause of his early demise. nothing wrong with wanting him as the emperor but i personally don’t see it as a good thing.

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shishuri

Isnt this also the reason why he worked in the inner palace to assure that the emperor will have an heir that isn't him. And why he pretends that the "emperor's younger brother" is sickly and weak so people will less likely to try to make him the emperor.

He doesnt want to be emperor, just let him live his life with maomao without the responsibility of a nation

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There are so many places in the Villeneuve Dune adaptations where he just...takes all the narrative pieces that Frank Herbert laid out and subtly rearranges them into something that tells the story better--that creates dramatic tension where you need it, communicates the themes and message of the book more clearly, or corrects something in the text that contradicts or undermines what Herbert said he was trying to say.

The fedaykin are probably my favorite example of this. I just re-read a little part of the book and got smacked in the face with how different they are.

(under the cut for book spoilers and length)

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That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938                                              20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

W.h.a.t.

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bramblepatch

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”

Nazis: Are you Aryan?

Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?

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Lakan chose to let Maomao win at the 3rd game instead of doing it earlier because he just wants to hang out with his kid.

He knew that he was a lightweight, and wouldn't stand a chance when drinking alcohol so he must've known he can only lose once the moment the alcohol was added into the game.

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manpackage

Girl what do you MEAN?

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shishuri

Is.. is he gonna start a holy war? 🤔

Is he gonna be the father of the god emperor? 😮

So is bezos like the harkonens, will he someday assassinate elon and he will assassinate him back.