Now that we know JDM is in The Boys, as well as Jensen, I'm just waiting for JDM to be Soldier Boy's dad. And then I will need an SB/Captain America parallel where SB has a special friend prior to the army (but it's Misha Collins) and the reason that daddy was disappointed was... you can guess from there
i am gonna go to war analyzing the goldfinch this time around like i will think up things that never crossed donna tartts mind and that frankly would offend her in their far fetchedness. hell yeah
I just finished She Who Became the Sun and I’m crying. Dying. Dead. Deceased. Thank you for jumpstarting the ripping out, stepping on, roasting, and eating of my heart that has just transpired.
Aside from the obvious Zhu and Ouyang, what’s your favorite character parallel in the first book?
HIII thank you THANK YOU im so happy the propaganda got you too <33 and HMM much to think about!! I will say that it's been a couple of years (I think?) since I read swbts so the details are fuzzy but one of my fave parallels are between Ouyang and Baoxiang, especially for how strong they become in hwdtw too. They are both seen as lesser and not conforming to the "male" mongol ideal, ouyang because he's a eunuch, wbx because he's not a warrior. They both go against their roles in a very explicit and performative way: ouyang by becoming a war machine and truly embodying the masculinity of a mongol warrior despite his inability to truly ever being considered one bc of his mutilation, wbx by refusing to become a warrior and acting super feminine (genuinely don't remember how much of it is genuine and how much is out of sheer spite but id say at some point the lines got blurred for him too. the guy has Problems.) Something something "femininity" being forced on someone vs being choosen and its Consequences. They hate each other. they're scheming together. they're scheming against each other. they loved Esen. they had to kill him. being gay is a curse. being gay is a game and i am winning. they fucked each other in a parallel reality. and most importantly they're twinks. this does not even begin to cover how insane their dynamic truly is.
very strong image in my mind of how when lawrence goes back to practicing medicine sometimes he’ll be in the middle of surgery with his hands inside someone all covered in their blood and when he blinks, instead of whatever nameless patient it is this time lying on the table, it’s adam. sometimes this is horrifying and upsetting. sometimes it’s deeply erotic and horny. sometimes it’s both. it depends