#golyn

[speerlyswhore]

Rin: "Why are your tongues purple?"

Altan: "We had slushies. I had a blue one. "

Chagan: "I had a red one. "

Rin: "oh "

Rin:

Rin:

( she never gets it actually)

#this girl saw chaltan during khurdalain seige and golyn niis and spent all this time with chaghan on tdr absolutely CLUELESS #her gay radar isnt broken she just aint got one #the rest of the cike (including ramsa) get it and are unfazed #chaltan #fang runin #altan trengsin #chaghan suren #the poppy war #incorrect tpw quotes

[squichky]

My favourite part of tpw was when chaghan takes rin to the divinatory, reads her hexagram and doesn't tell her anything. I too would hold back information from a small angry girl capable of summoning the god of fire just out of spite

#yes they find out about golyn niis from it but what about the rest of the lines #i need explanations #chaghan is so chaotic gay #i get him #but i was so confused during that part #tpw #chagan #rin #fang runin #the poppy war series #yin nezha #chen kitay

[two-ndborne]

i need help

#spoilers for poppy war in tags #shiva if u ever see this post dont look at me #yall. the part in the poppy war.. #whtere altan is interrogating the federation prisoner #and he is literally torturing him #and then the prisoner spills the plans of the federation at golyn niis #and then altan pats his head and says good boy. #after deadass threatening to burn his dick off #😐 #😐😐😐😐😐😐😐 #anywya. #ANYWAY. #two talks #UGH LISTEN THERE ARE NUANCES TO ALTAN #I HATE HIM BUT IM ALSO OBSESSED WITH HIS FUCKED UP CHARACTERIZATION MAYBE #the poppy war #altan trengsin

[kefnut-the-gweilologist]

apparently there’s supposed to be a tv adaptation of the poppy war series and im kinda dreading it

#like i wish I could trust show producers and network ppl to do this story justice but I don’t #like i just know that they’ll either remove the horror from golyn niis or depict that horror in an almost pornographic way #and they’ll cast a pale actress to play rin and like no #like far too much of the story is directly tied up in the fact that rin’s dark + from a majority poor + dark skinned province #and the world she’s in is SUPER classist and colorist #and like because it parallels the actual history of china during the 20th century #I doubt any studio will be able to handle the motivations behind the characters and political events with the care needed

[paawoy-awoy]

i kinda want the tpw show to be chinese—the language, the actors yk idk i feel like id feel it more

#though idk chinese #so ill need subs #also i wonder if #they can give me #THE EMOTIONS🤌 #i had when i read #the golyn niis part #i feel like #it's one of the most challenging parts to #put into perspective as in the tv show #the poppy war #fang runin #yin nezha #the burning god #the dragon republic #rf kuang

[sun-archeron]

dont mind me, im just thinking about how even after all the shit she saw in golyn niis, rin still had some hope that she would be able to deal with it and move on bc altan had done so after speer, and she went looking for him, bc if he could just tell her that she would be okay then she would keep trying, but then she found him getting high bc he in fact had not been able to deal with it, and thats when she finally lost all hope, finding out that altan was an addict was the thing that finally destroyed her heart, bc he was the strongest person she knew, he was her hero and commander, even after he was an asshole to her she still admired and respected his strength,and if the guy she looked up to had lost hope, had never been who she thought he was, than what chances did she have?

#the poppy war #fang runin #altan trengsin #SPOILERS #the way she just accepted defeat and sat and smoked with him #and later bc she had already accepted defeat she just went along with his stupid plan #and maybe if she hadnt followed him if she hadnt put so much faith in him then maybe she wouldnt have had the end she had

[dcvina-claires]

do you ever think about how kitay had a photographic memory which means that every detail of golyn niis was literally frozen in his brain for the rest of his life haha

#me vs adding ‘haha’ to the end of incredibly depressing posts #he actually deserved so much better though :( #chen kitay #the poppy war #tpw #the dragon republic #tdr #the burning god #tbg

[lifblogs]

Anytime Rin is being studied and/or experimented on all I can think is, “Nazis!”

I know the Mugenese are based off of Imperialist Japan and that Golyn Niis was the Rape of Nanking, and I understand the Hesperians are Catholics, but yeah, all I can think about are Nazis and the Holocaust. I suppose I’d have to do more digging to see if the Japanese experimented on/studied people like this during any of the World Wars. As for the Hesperians, colonizing crusading Catholics? Bleh.

#the poppy war #the dragon republic #r. f. kuang

[cryingagainlol]

reading the poppy war rn and thinking about the fact that kitay has a photographic memory so he’s always going to perfectly remember the things he saw in golyn niis🥲

#assuming he doesn’t die #idk im only on the first book #chapter 21 was so brutal holy shit #idk what i was expecting but it wasn’t that #the poppy war #chen kitay #the poppy war trilogy

[takemetobogman]

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WARN ME ABOUT GOLYN NIIS??????

#The poppy war #R f Kuang

[i-dont-even-know-by-this-point]

I just finished reading ‘The Poppy War’, and… christ.

I was having fun in the first half the book. I was enjoying myself.

(Spoilers UTC and me just rambling incoherently about the book)

I can’t say I expected Rin to go ahead with genocide, because usually in this fantasy genre the protagonist is generally quite morally upright and even if they make mistakes and bad choices, they ultimately choose against them, but I really liked the subversion of expectations in that regard and how she started losing it slightly near the end; trying to justify it to herself and all that. It’s refreshing to see a protagonist who makes the wrong choices and refuses to admit they’re in the wrong, especially when it’s out of fear. It makes Rin seem very messed-up, and feel very human in that regard.

On the note of trying to justify it, Kitay is the best. I love how he’s not having any of it and pointing out Rin’s hypocrisy and hatefulness. I hope to god he doesn’t die in the other books.

Also… I stumbled across some spoilers in fanart and NEZHA LIVES. I called it. Because the last we saw of him was him getting dragged away by Federation soldiers, not lying dead on the floor, so I was holding out a string of hope that he was alive. I’m assuming that foreshadowing/ plot point being brought up earlier that he might be shaman because he healed his spine and whatnot so quickly has something to do with his survival: if he has some sort of healing ability/ connection to some god of healing or medicine, it would make sense that he survived the gas.

I was also hoping he’d survive because it would be really interesting to see such a visually attractive character have his looks taken from him by the gas — something which will happen, judging by the fanart I saw. He hasn’t been established as particularly vain before in regards to physical appearance alone, but it’ll be interesting to see if he struggles with self-worth or acceptance somewhat because of his looks being taken from him. I don’t know if that will happen, but it would be interesting to see; and I also wonder how Rin will react, because her perspective hasn’t exactly been subtle about how attractive she finds him.

Also, Jiang is a legend. Love that guy. I suspected he might be the Gatekeeper, and honestly, I expect no less of him.

I like how dark the story got in the second half, even if it was disturbing. The narrator didn’t shy from making the war really feel like hell, especially during the discovery of the massacre in Golyn Niis and Venka’s experiences during the war. It was gut-wrenching, and I say that as somebody who isn’t squeamish or easily put off by graphic descriptions. Just… god, it made my skin crawl.

I wonder whether Rin will keep going down the dark path she’s kind of set herself on. I find it really interesting how there seems to be an established cycle of violence going on, and hypocrisy and dehumanisation on both sides, and again, the fact that the protagonist didn’t try to end the cycle of violence but rather perpetuated it further is a very interesting route to take the story. It would be interesting if Rin pulled an Eren and became the antagonist of the series, but I don’t know if it’ll go that far.

Anyway. Good book. I need the second one.

#the poppy war #i love jiang man #i hope he doesn’t die #i feel like he might die #kitay as well #please have mercy on my poor little morally decent fellows

[koiwynn]

new chapter out! wc: 3.4k

please be mindful of the content warnings going into this chapter since it will be tackling venka’s trauma of golyn niis, not in graphic detail but it’s referenced and heavily implied. despite being a rinvenka fic, venka’s trauma with SA is the overwhelming focus of the chapter.

“But nobody looked at the Venka, hardened by horrors the simple mind could not comprehend, and saw a fighter.”

“Why should Venka concern herself with the fact that Rin was merely reshaping the shattered fragments of Venka for her own ends? At least Rin, unlike everyone else, recognized something valuable in Venka worth giving a purpose.”

#sorry for posting so late during the day #i was gonna do it when i got home but i just passed out in my bed #mb y’all #anyways this was a tough chapter to write #really made me ill writing it #hope i portrayed her trauma well #rinvenka #rinvenka fic #sring venka #fang runin #the poppy war #the poppy war fanfic #tpw fic #tpw fics #tpw fic recs #tpw trilogy #tpw #the dragon republic #tdr spoilers #tdr #tpw spoilers #fanfiction #fic recs #lesbian fics #f/f fanfic #ao3 link #ao3 recs #ao3 fanfic #ao3 writer #˖ ࣪⭑ mine

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

so im nearing the end of the poppy war and a lot has happened since i last updated on here so im just gonna make a list honestly.

1. okay so jiang is i assume dead now

2. rin is assumed to be a speerly but i don’t know if she actually is one so there is that

3. i dont like altan, i am sympathetic to his struggles but i dont like his character personally

4. nezha and rin were kinda cute together especially when they made up but then nezha got captured by the federation soldiers during the attack on Khuldarain (i can’t remember how to spell it forgive me)

5. kitay is alive so yayyy but Golyn Niis is decimated and reading that part was dreadful

6. poor venka omg reading her part was nauseating to its core and i felt sick

7. chagan i feel a little sorry for actually the way altan isn’t listening to him who probably knows this plan wont work out

8. anyway altan and rin are on the way to raise the army currently where im at so we will see how that goes

#reading: the poppy war #im nearing the end of the book and i am curious to see how everything will turn out

[fagdykefriendship]

something something how rin and kitay at sinegard show the difference between the privileged and the downtrodden, even amongst outcasts. but also how culture plays into that with kitay in the empress’s parade and rin on the sidelines, an outsider. how rin’s homeland and people and culture were decimated before her birth and killed off when she was just a baby. how her only connection to that speerly heritage is her destructive power. how kitay fights for nikara because he’s lived such a good life there, had the privilege of tutors for the exam and the food, wealth, etc to live comfortably and how rin fights for nikara because it’s her only option. how war, and golyn niis, and his father’s death, bring kitay to the desperation rin had. how war and golyn niis and altan’s death and the phoenix bring rin to somewhere worse. yeah

#tpw

[shipperqueen93]

Me reading The Poppy War: People said this book was dark? Nothing but a normal War has happened so far.

Me reading the desecration of Golyn Niis: .................................oh.

#the poppy war #im uncomfy with all the descriptions #there dark and them theres this shit #bookblr

[belle-keys]

Hi, I'm reading tpw. Currently rin and the rest have reached Golyn Niis, and I suppose the 'scenery' (idk another word, Spanish is my native tongue, and while I'm quite proficient in English I sometimes don't know how to describe stuff) depicted is the rape/massacre of Nanking. I'm usually not bothered by gore *at all*, but it rfk has a way with describing it that just feels sickening. Obviously, knowing that it's based on a real event in history helps enhance that by tenfold.

I've no idea what the point of this ask is (I don't want to bother you so I won't ask you a lot of stuff-- tell me you don't want any asks and I'll cease with them lol), but... Yeah, it's just sunk in how dark the trilogy actually is, how dark the history it's based off is.

First of all, never worry about sending me asks! My box is always open, and especially when it comes to literature and history.

But to get to the gist of your ask, yeah, the Golyn Niis scene was exceptional. Like Rebecca really knows how to bring out history and culture in her writing, and the detailed descriptions of battle, military, and massacre really show this. And yeah, you're right, the trilogy is dark because 20th Century Chinese history is dark as hell and even worse, it's very much less talked about than 20th Century European and American history.

#ask #tpw #the poppy war #rf kuang #chinese history