Also the 3K ragamuffins keep killing the messenger. This annoyed me when Fu Chai did it in Woxin. The practice is no more agreeable in the Three Kingdoms. And they *all* do it. Never expected my cultural sticking point to be the proper treatment of ambassadors, or rather, hapless underlings, but it is ( Read more... )

I'm considering this Woxin AU fic I've been poking at sporadically for over a year now, and why I drag my feet now that it approaches its ending. It only approaches its ending because I have decreed it shall, on the grounds that stories must have climaxes not stopping points or else they aren't doing their job. ( Cut for half-assed litcrit thorts )

Because limelight-shunning qwerty never makes new posts to showcase the awesome drabbles and ficlets and artwork she does on request, one must make posts for her.

So here she was asking for icons to fic about, and I responded with the one up there, and she responded with: ( what's under the cut )

Henh. So Gou Jian and Fu Chai approach the Moment of Truth. Will they fall upon each other in a paroxysm of fury and lust and overwhelming need to possess? Five years ago they might have. Right now I can't even imagine how that mindset works. No, they'll probably have a passionate discussion about the strategy needed to bring the northern states to ( Read more... )

Ahh, this thing goes slowly. This was supposed to be merely the first part of the next chapter. Maybe tomorrow.

Title: Catch the Wind
Day/Theme: April 14. 'you were born to be betrayed'
Series: Woxinchangdan
Character/Pairing: Gou Jian, Ya Yu
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Title: By a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney
Day/Theme: April 5. 'trying to build a tower out of custard'
Series: Woxinchangdan
Character/Pairing: Fu Chai, Fan Li, various ministers
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Speaking to History, Cohen ( Read more... )

Interrupting Later Ch3, 1990s Taiwanese Versions of Gou Jian Most of Which Come From PRC In The First Place, we have ( the following )

Or, a possible reason why Xi Shi is about to off herself at the end of Woxin Changdan. It's because she's referencing 1950's Taiwanese popular literature. And she doesn't do it in the end because she's referencing some earlier, or possibly later, tradition; and Woxin is having its cake and eating it too.
( For reals )