Based but nuanced book, nice SciFi-Fantasy without the liberal bullshit but actual materialist and progressive (as in non-bourgeois feminism and queerness) socialism. It's far from a literary masterpiece, but it was quite an enjoyable read.
The Acknowledgement section is great too; to quote a part of it (also the first time I saw a b/w printed emoji in a book like ever):
To Qiu Jin, Alexandra Kollontai, Rosa Luxemburg, Angela Davis, Thomas Sankara, Kristen Ghodsee, Paul Cockshott, and Allin Cottrel, whose speeches and writings were a huge source of the inspiration for this book
hello? based department? I'd like to nominate a novel
+ said douchebag emperor gets pegged by the Empress (MC), LIKE CANONICALLY. There even was a "Peggy Amendment" by the author to make it more clear like aocjwbfooskefn
(I only regret one thing with my experience with the novel: …
Based but nuanced book, nice SciFi-Fantasy without the liberal bullshit but actual materialist and progressive (as in non-bourgeois feminism and queerness) socialism. It's far from a literary masterpiece, but it was quite an enjoyable read.
The Acknowledgement section is great too; to quote a part of it (also the first time I saw a b/w printed emoji in a book like ever):
To Qiu Jin, Alexandra Kollontai, Rosa Luxemburg, Angela Davis, Thomas Sankara, Kristen Ghodsee, Paul Cockshott, and Allin Cottrel, whose speeches and writings were a huge source of the inspiration for this book
hello? based department? I'd like to nominate a novel
+ said douchebag emperor gets pegged by the Empress (MC), LIKE CANONICALLY. There even was a "Peggy Amendment" by the author to make it more clear like aocjwbfooskefn
(I only regret one thing with my experience with the novel: I mutilated my hard cover edition by scribbling the "Peggy amendment" in my horrendous handwriting using ballpoint pen, thanks to a sleep-deprived excitedness...
I should have just printed out the amendment as the later tutorials instructed 😔)
So Wu Zeitian stabs Qi Zheng in the hearts because she knows that he thinks of her as property to be discarded....
This happens after said fight
If she refuses to see reason, he shall do it for her. He has been fat too lenient with her, too tolerant of her insolence. [...] Sentiment weakened him.
For the first time in his life, he understands the logic behind binding the feet of a woman.
[...]
He calls for a staffer to summon [...] her (MCs) precious lady friends . So long as he holds their lives in his hands, she is bound to return to him. She'll come home, even if he has to break her legs and drag her. After all, his son cannot grow up without a mother.
Yoooo wtf. This dude is fucked up so much, kinda sad howtgis walking contradiction is leading the revolution...
"The White Lotus army and Zhuge Liang
Are trying to restore the Sage council,
But from Chang'an to the Han province sea
The Yellow Dragon is the strongest of all!"
So we have the whites forming a counter revolutionary army. I wonder if we get to see the white terror and it's proto-fascism like irl
(I also know that the song came two years after Alexander Kolchak's coup, who Zhuge Liang and this insurrection is probably closest to)
