So fucked up for Nirvana in Fire to mostly be a show about people sitting around and just talking while simultaneously being one of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, complex, character-driven shows to ever exist. Fucked up. They're just sitting or standing and talking about policies and rituals half the time. Why is every single character fully fleshed out. There's like fifty of them. Genius
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⬆️ DO NOT INVITE THIS MAN TO YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY. HE WILL RUIN YOUR SPECIAL DAY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.
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Happy Pride! I’m thinking some Nirvana on Fire for me
Yujin wishes she’d been born a boy.
If she was a boy, maybe her father would pay more attention to her. If she was a boy, people wouldn’t give her so much grief for spending all her time with Jingrui.
If she was a boy, she wouldn’t be engaged to Lin Shu.
“He’s mean,” she complains, because it’s true. She’s thirteen and has had quite enough of all the other noble daughters telling her what an excellent match her father has made for her.
Lin Xie won her hand for his son in a card game before she was even born. Her father put as much effort into that as he did for anything else involving her.
Jingrui pats her on the back sympathetically. “Maybe he’ll be less mean when he’s older.”
“Men get meaner as they age,” she tells him, because that’s what Aunt Yan had told her. “It’s a good thing you’re a crybaby – that means in twenty years you might still be nice enough to get a decent wife.”
He puts her in a headlock, even though she’s taller than him, because he’s a son of both a political and a martial family and he has the muscles to prove it.
Lin Shu is going off to war tomorrow. She thinks of going to say goodbye, but figures that it’s a waste of breath. Maybe he’ll get some niceness beaten into him on the battlefield, like Lin Xie had.
At least her in laws are nice. She should probably go to keep Xiao Jinyang company, since she’ll be lonely with her husband and son gone, and Yujin’s future is likely dependant on how much her future mother in law likes her.
Yujin already knows that Lin Shu will be no help at all once she’s married to him.
She hopes they only have girls. It would serve him right.
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I have been in a love/hate relationship with this video for 2 years, making sure it was perfect, but I'm so happy and proud of how it turned out. This is my first Nirvana In Fire video, and hopefully, I will be making more.
This video is dedicated to @not-saying-revolution-but after she made me a gifset from Guardian.
Drama: Nirvana In Fire (琅琊榜)
Song: This is War
Artist: Thirty Seconds to Mars
Edit: imsorryandthankyou
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Number Tournament: [the number of responses to the pre-tournament google form] vs THIRTY-SIX
2277 (the number of responses to the form I posted where people could nominate their favorite numbers to compete in this tournament)
seed: 29 (18 nominations)
class: meta
definition: a meta joke that was probably funnier when the form to suggest numbers for this tournament was still open
36 (thirty-six / nif)
seed: 36 (14 submissions)
class: highly composite number
definition: six times six, written as 100 in seximal (base six).
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