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I saw someone on Booktok (not gonna name who) talking about how The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang didn’t work for them, for multiple reasons.

Most of his reasons are up to interpretation and taste but there was one thing that was said in the video that irked me

“Rin’s female rage just didn’t work for me.”

I couldn’t stop thinking about that particular statement because Rin doesn’t really experience female rage throughout this story?

Feminine rage is, by definition, rage felt due to sexism, gender based discrimination, or injustices levied on women. But Rin doesn’t experience any of this. This is not the source of her rage.

Rin’s rage is a result of classism, colorism, and racism that she experiences in her own society, and then later by foreigners trying to colonize her country. Her rage comes from deep rooted cyclical injustices that affected her and her people. Her rage comes from atrocities and war. Her rage comes from abuse.

This is not to say gender plays no role in TPW, the catalyst for this story is Rin desperately attempting to run away from an arranged marriage her adoptive family is trying to force her into. But this is not the source of her rage, this is not what drives Rin throughout the story.

I think it is important to make the distinction between what is and is not feminine rage. Because to label all rage experienced by women “feminine” rage the term loses its meaning and becomes a new way to belittle women’s feelings.

Feminine rage is important.

Women experiencing rage is important.

We need to remember the distinction.

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STOP making me think about rinezha. i can't do it anymore. enemies to enemies slow burn. enemies to begrudging allies to friends to *almost* lovers. then betrayal, and then they're just enemies who used to be in love. and they both *know* that they were in love, and maybe they are still in love, but they stand on opposite sides of a war because they've both made their decisions and cannot come back from them. there can never be reconciliation for the things they've done to each other, but god, they're still in love. i am literally eating drywall over them

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Rin and Venka hii 🤲🏼🫠

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messed around with some colour grading

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more rin doodles

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Night in Arlong😭

remember when they were drunk and happy for like 5 minutes??? yeahhh

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‘I have become something wonderful, she thought.

I have become something terrible.

Was she now a goddess or a monster?

Perhaps neither. Perhaps both’

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what murdaaaaaa

posting this Rin here bc a kind soul in my asks reminded me I hadn't :)

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Part 14 of Scene VII

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Regrets

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Conceptual drawings (I guess?) of a scene where Leia opens up and tells Rey about what broke their little family apart and why.

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"You were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry."

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The power of water is its ability to take any shape

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Furina: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

Focalors: *pretends to think about it* Probably Neuvillette.

Furina: What do you mean, "probably!?"

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My favorite flavor of romantic NeuviFuri is always Neuvillette being soft and reverent towards Furina. But I like adding some Top Furina/Bottom Neuvillette to the mix and making Furina just as smitten to Neuvillette as he is for her.

I imagine once she gains more confidence, Furina starts to take the lead in their intimate moments. Her dearest Iudex is beautiful, afterall. She loves admiring Neuvillette's body, kissing and touching every part of him, leaving marks across his body. Neuvillette is left breathless and completely pliant under her. He's not used to all the praise and attention Furina is giving him.

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kinda ooc but I want to doodle something silly for neuv's birthday lol

og comic from Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

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Neuvilette bday art!!! Okay but i seriously need to see all fontainian having a ball where everyone dress gorgeously and dance 💃 🕺