#lady ding

[zl181]

Comprehensive Biography of Cao Ang

Cao Ang (曹昂字子脩; d. Spring 197) was a noble during the Late Han dynasty. He was the eldest son of Cao Cao, and would sacrifice his life for him after Zhang Xiu ambushed them.

Life

Cao Ang was born to Lady Liu, the eldest of Cao Cao's sons. He had a full sister, the Princess of Qinghe, and a full brother, Cao Shuo.[1][2] However, Lady Liu died young, so Cao Cao's main wife, Lady Ding, raised Cao Ang as if he were her own son.[1]

He was nominated as Filial and Incorrupt.[2] Around Spring 197, Cao Cao was tricked by Zhang Xiu at Wan, in an ambush. His steed, Absolute Shadow, was hit in the legs and cheek, rendering it incapable of running. Cao Ang saw this and knowing he himself could not ride horses well, gave his own horse to Cao Cao in order for him to escape. Cao Ang died, probably from the barrage of arrows.[3]

Postmortem events

When Cao Cao was seriously ill and bed-ridden, he allegedly sighed and said,

"I have always followed my intentions, and my heart never felt troubled. But supposing that I died and became a spirit, if Zixiu asks, 'Where is my mother,' what would I reply with?"[1]

After Cao Pi succeeded Cao Cao and became Emperor shortly after, he was recorded saying,

"My Filial and Incorrupt elder brother would certainly have his share [of land if he was still here]."

Around 202, Cao Pi would later posthumously promote Cao Ang to the rank of Duke of Feng, and in 203, had the Duke of Fan; Cao Jun's son, Wan, adopted into Cao Ang's line, as Cao Ang had no sons, and enfeoffed him as a duke.[4] Around 205, Cao Ang was later posthumously promoted to Prince of Feng.[5]

Family

Cao Ang had no sons of his own. Cao Wan was adopted into his line.[4]

Personal info

Name: Cao Ang

Style name: Zixiu[4]

Death date: Spring 197 (1st lunar month)[3]

References

[1] - 【（《魏略》曰：太祖始有丁夫人，又劉夫人生子脩及清河長公主。劉早終，丁養子脩。子脩亡於穰，丁常言：「將我兒殺之，都不復念！」遂哭泣無節。...後太祖病困，自慮不起，歎曰：「我前後行意，於心未曾有所負也。假令死而有靈，子脩若問『我母所在』，我將何辭以荅！」）】《三國志注•卷五》

[2] - 【劉夫人生豐愍王昂、相殤王鑠，】《三國志注•卷二十》

[3] - 【二年春正月，公到宛。張繡降，旣而悔之，復反。公與戰，軍敗，為流矢所中，長子昂、弟子安民遇害。（《魏書》曰：公所乘馬名絕影，為流矢所中，傷頰及足，并中公右臂。《世語》曰：昂不能騎，進馬於公，公故免，而昂遇害。）】《三國志注•卷一》

[4] - 【豐愍王昂字子脩。弱冠舉孝廉。隨太祖南征，為張繡所害。無子。黃初二年追封，謚曰豐悼公。三年，以樊安公均子琬奉昂後，封中都公。其年徙封長子公。五年，追加昂號曰豐悼王。太和三年改昂謚曰愍王。嘉平六年，以琬襲昂爵為豐王。正元、景元中，累增邑，并前二千七百戶。琬薨，謚曰恭王。子廉嗣。】《三國志注•卷二十》

[5] - 【《魏略》曰：文帝常言：「家兄孝廉，自其分也。若使倉舒在，我亦無天下。」】《三國志注•卷二十》

#cao ang #cao cao #lady ding

[ttoca]

Cao Miaoji, Zhang Chunhua and Ding Lushi Character Design

Cao Miaoji is Cao Cao's younger sister and the youngest child of Cao Song. Far more quiet and gentle than her older sister, Boshi, Miaoji is someone all her siblings band together to protect when the time comes. For as she matures, she presents a prospect to the family and her father's eyes turn to the power of the consort clans and in Miaoji he sees an opportunity to attach his household as directly to the Imperial family as will allow, a position that comes with endless privileges...and just as many risks.

Zhang Chunhua, the daughter of a Magistrate in Weijun, finds herself thrust into the chaos of the Yellow Scarf Rebellion when her father's seat is surrounded and swarmed. With a cadre of her father's finest guards, she's sent to the Imperial Task Force garrison in the capital region where she fast proves a young spitfire, declaring her father gave her the authority to act as Weijun's voice and any who can't muster the spirit and forces necessary to save her father's hold from the rebellion has no right calling himself an officer or even a human being. Her abrasive and somewhat pompous personality grates on others and not even Cao Cao is safe from her dressing down and dreaded 'pointy-finger'. Young Sima Yi, however, shows unusual shyness and inelegance around the young lady, a fact that goes unnoticed by her but not, by any means, by his fellows.

Ding Lushi, daughter of Ding Gong, brother of Ding Chong and child of the second most influential clan in Pei, finds herself married to the already infamous Cao Cao in order to unite their previously warring clans. This arrangement pleases neither husband nor wife. Around Cao Cao, she is cold, aloof and will point out his shortcomings as often as she can. Cao Cao in response will call her out in turn. Yet somehow, they seem more at home insulting each other behind closed doors than feigning affection in public. While the two would never admit to loving each other, there emerges, to some extent, a certain respect the two have for each other's wit and sense of endurance in each other's company. Despite how much he loathes living with her, Cao Cao would never call Ding Lushi a hateful woman. She is simply how she's been raised, largely neglected by her father and taught to hate the Cao who always plotted against the Ding clan. Never having been taught social skills beyond female etiquette, she finds it impossible to make friends in Pei, particularly among Cao Cao's laid-back colleagues. The only one she gets along with in the Cao household is Cao Cao's first wife, married to him on the same day as Ding Lushi was, Lady Liu Kuaihe.

With Miaoji and Lushi, I hope to examine how cutthroat and materialist marriage culture was at the time.

With Zhang Chunhua, I just hope to make everyone laugh as she yells at anyone and everyone. I’m taking heavy inspiration from Veronica from Dragon Quest XI.

#Cao Cao #Cao Family #lady ding #zhang chunhua #Sima yi #Three Kingdoms #Romance of the Three Kingdoms #sangoku #sanguo #ancient china #Han Dynasty #historical fiction #webcomic #ttoca

[thedreamerstoryteller]

#someone had to do it #it's amazing #Think about it #Mulan's songs are perfect to describe this drama #Li Bing like Mulan he can't recognize himself after the transformation #His reflection is different from the one he used to see in the mirror #Li Bing “trains” the men of Mingji Hall like Li Shang #Or better like Mulan Li Bing teaches them how to see things in a different way #He see their potential and push them to express it #Consider Wang Qi's temporary suspension from work #“I bet the Ladies love a man in armor” the soldiers sings during “A Girl worth fighting for” #Did you see General Qiu? #Fascinating with and without the armor #Don't tell me you didn't think about Yao Ling and Chien Po dressed as women when you saw Cui Bei and Wang Qi dressed as two maids #Chen Shi is Mushu who cooks for Li Bing as the little dragon does #General Qiu is apparently like Li Shang thoughtful serious and commanding #I would like to see more about him Li Bing and their relationship but luckily there are fanfictions for this #chinese drama #cdrama #disney #mulan 1998 #disney mulan #mulan #white cat legend #miles wei #ryan ding #qiu qingzhi #li bing

[terrainofheartfelt]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Gossip Girl (TV 2007) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dan Humphrey/Blair Waldorf Characters: Blair Waldorf, Dan Humphrey Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Valentine's Day, Smut, Season/Series 04, Episode: s04e15 The Night Moves, dair - Freeform Summary:

au of 4x15. What if Dair hooked up in that darkened hiding place?

  “This is nothing. Nothing,” she repeats, trying for conviction, but somehow only ends up staring at Dan’s mouth. She knows what he feels like now, tastes like. That’s new.

She watches Dan’s tongue touch his lips, then his lips shape words that she can feel at the base of her spine.

“I don’t believe you.”

Yeah. She wouldn’t either.

#DING DONG AVON LADY #gossip girl #dair #happy valentine's day #dan x blair #blair x dan #liz's ficz

[dudefrommywesterns]

look at this

#typewriter dings #i wish this lady all the luck in the world

[auncyen]

voted in my local elections today but instead of an "i voted" sticker I got wet socks and a new dent in my car

#lady you were stopped WHY did you go forward as I was continuing to pass you #neither of us were hurt though so like after we both asked if each other was okay and assessed the new dings it was just 'EH' #the weather today is crappy

[crown-ov-horns]

I said I have 4 storylines of Good Omens fanfiction (including the Crossover with Legion). Had I said that today, I would've lied. There's five.

["Diary entry" under the cut, so there's no litany on an unwilling scroller's feed]

NOTE: I haven't seen S2 of GO, not do I intendt to, so beware of canon divergence

Well... The 5th one is less a coherent storyline, more a concept. I was playing Gardenscapes, and suddenly thought "What if F!Crowley were my Antichrist's mother?"

You know, maybe Crowley owed Satan a new Antichrist, or something. I guess, she'd have screwed up this one, too... Well, she'll gladly take over the world, she just won't destroy it.

The conversation (between myself and myself) went about like this:

Me: ...

Also me: what if?..

Me: for fuck's sake, not again

Also me: Lady Crowley...

Me: please stop

Also me: Was Maxine's mother?

Me: whyever would she be her mother?

Also me: because she owed Satan for the ruined Apocalypse, and had to carry the next Antichrist

Me: Maxine doesn't want the Apocalypse, she's a sane politician

Also me: works for Crowley

Me: she also has black hair and blue eyes

Also me: Satan has black hair and blue eyes, Benedict's not his faceclaim, anyway

Me: fine, why would her last name be Frost?

Also me: Satan goes by Lucian Frost on Earth

Me: why would he ever go by the surname Frost?

Also me: a not to Dante's Inferno

Me: I hate you

Also me: 🤪

Me: you're killing me

Also me: with pleasure 😊

[End dialogue.]

Now, like I always do with any new idea, I of course collapsed down into the daydreaming pit, which often turns fanfiction, and original stories alike, into Tolkien-level complex universes you'd need a lifetime to fully explore.

I thought, it could be funny. When Max meets Anathema and Newt's daughter Agnes in Oxford, they can bond over their unhinged families.

"You'll probably think my parents are weird as fuck, they have a pet raccoon they dye black, and pretend is a cat."

"Honey, no, I get you. My mother mentally abuses her house plants, and wears sunglasses at midnight."

Rich people things, I guess. I mean, they're both nepo babies, who would ask questions about why their families are weird. Who would ask questions about why a rising star politician's mother mentally abuses her house plants.

There's a lot of potential for comedy. Crowley's issues with her sister-in-law, for example. Satan and Michael... They have a strange dynamic. The last time they spoke to each other is mentioned in the Book of Jude. But, they both have the familia ante omnia, blood is everything mentality. They support each other's political aim. They would kill for each other. And, Michael feels very protective (possessive, even) over her niece (the family mediator, why do you think she's a perfect diplomat). It would annoy the Hell (Heaven?) out of Crowley. Still, in the end, she and Michael would probably kill for each other, also.

I'd imagine Satan forbidding any contact with his disowned son... I don't know. In my fanfictions (where he is a thing), Maxine and Adam usually do have eventual contact, and consider themselves siblings (do keep in mind, though, Max would always choose her father over her brother). Satan doesn't mind her not wanting the Apocalypse, as long as she's loyal to him. He sees good points in her arguments against. He never really cared for it, anyway, it was mostly the armies.

Also... Maxine rides horses, ever since she was a child. Crowley doesn't get along with animals, everyone knows that. But. She's the nightmare equestrian mom (think soccer mom, only worse - much worse). How does she get along with Max's animals?.. Well, Titan (the hellhound) actually likes her. Ulysses (the horse) tolerates her. Horus (the falcon - yes, Max's so posh she's in the falconry hobby)... I have no idea. He'd probably sit on her shoulder, sometimes. But, Crowley's anxious around him, since snakes aren't usually friends with raptors.

At first, I thought about conflict between Crowley and Maxine. For example, her refusing to ride in the Bentley, because she (every author must place pieces of them in their characters) despises Queen. But... I don't like writing that. I like writing loving, healthy relationships between mothers and daughters. So, it's more "What do you mean you're bad at being a demon? You caused the Fall of Humankind. None of them can compare to you", and"You'll be the perfect Secretary-General of the United Nations, honey". We love mothers and daughters supporting each other here. ❤

I even thought of cute scenarios, like Crowley coiling in Max's crib, because she's anxious, and wants to protect her baby.

Max is fiercely protective of Crowley. That's why she'd be in conflict with Beelzebub - funny enough, for a similar season to the other stories (Beelzebub causes the death of her adoptive mother, after she realizes she's raising the Antichrist). Beelzebub hates Crowley, and the Beast of Rev. will show her very sharp teeth, should someone threaten her mom. Satan's on his family's side, don't worry.

Actually... You know why this story is cool? Horrific things happen to Crowley in my other fics. Not this one. Actually, she's doing great. She's the Queen of Hell. Damn... She'd outrank Beelzebub. She could terrorize... Her? Like I said, I haven't seen S2, Ι don't know the pronouns, and I don't care, you can get them right if it matters to you (I just know in S2 an actress from Bridgerton played her (?)).

As for Satan/Crowley... As long at Crowley's female, I don't mind it. I like it. Good for you, you little serpent tempter. Because, you know I always romanticise the Devil.

Have I any ideas for smut? You bet I do. I even have crack ideas... You know that picture of a female wolf protecting a male wolf's throat? Think that, but Crowley's coiled around Satan in her snake form, and snaps at anyone who wanders close.

So, I let this out into the web. Now I'll have to actually do it. Wish me luck. 😑

#diary pages #writing journal #fanfiction ideas #good omens #good omens fandom #good omens fanfcition #writer problems #fanfiction writer #crowley #lady crowley #female!crowley #satan #the antichrist #maxine frost #crowley x satan #crowley is maxine's mother #this is like an actual diary entry #when i think about crowley and satan... hell it's actually hot #satan knows how to make br**ding kink work alright and I intend to show it #crowley could rub so much salt in beelzebub's wounds - she's the queen of hell she outranks (?) #seriously i don't care about this characters canon pronouns and I will use whatever pronouns I wish #the thing that matters is crowley's the big b*tch in the yard now and Satan will always take his wife's side #seriously i can think of so many cute scenarios but also funny but also... the smut okay #the serpent and the dragon #lucian frost is such a great name though it's very aesthetic very dark academia old money #maxine's opinions on beelzebub and gabriel reflect my own #seriously i need to put in an equestrian mom crowley scene into whatever i make of this that would be hilarious #also I'm pretty sure Crowley calls Satan Lux and he calls her Vixen #why do i feel Crowley and Max's bond here is going to be everything #i have so many wips i'll need a lot of whiskey i guess i better start plotting and better start writing not killing time on here

[lazinesswrites]

Did I really wake up early and go all the way to the university library, in the rain, in order to motivate my self to actually work on my thesis instead of staying home and doing nothing, only to give up at lunch and write The Bad Batch fanfic instead?

Yes. Yes I did.

These clones are gonna be the end of me, clearly.

#tbb #the bad batch #fic writing #I guess? #Laz complains #to be fair today is also just a bad day for sounds #in that every single sound around me that’s not my music (tbb theme on loop…) or people quietly studying #is just SUPER annoying and making me want to rip someone’s spine out #or possibly my own ears off #honestly even just people calmly talking about whatever they’re working on is almost too much #but the most annoying things are: people walking and talking loudly; people stomping down the stairs; a microwave dinging somewhere #the cleaning lady with her… hand-pushed Zamboni for floors; the other cleaning lady on her phone; something that sounds like a shower??? #someone playing music although I think that was for their project too and it didn’t last long #several people talking on their phones actually #do people not know about the ‘phone booths’ upstairs literally for the purpose of talking on your phone #without disturbing anyone else/being overheard? (one guy was talking to a doctor about either a sick child or a sick pet I’m not sure) #(he said a number that could be a social security number)

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[Extract: morality is in the eye of the beholder]

Cao Cao sits in prison and considers his options...

This was the first time he had been able to sit down and think. How long had he been on the run? Eight days? Ten? Time had blurred together during his mad flight and he had only been concerned with his own safety. Now his thoughts turned to his family, back at his hometown of Chenliu. Things should be relatively stable at the moment,  Pei County was fairly remote and the people had no loyalty for Dong Zhuo. His wife and children would be protected by his cousins, but for how long? Dong Zhuo was no doubt preparing to launch an retaliatory attack on his clan, it was not a matter of if but when. Their only choice would be to meet him in the open field. His Lady Wife could hold the fort for now, rallying his cousins and loyalists, but she was just a woman and they would never follow her into battle. His eldest son was still a boy. His cousin, Cao Ren, was reliable but lacked foresight. His Lord Father had plenty of gold but no backbone. If Cao Cao perished, everything would fall apart. His family would be slaughtered and his entire clan exterminated. 

For the first time since his mad dash from Luoyang, Cao Cao began to fully comprehend the avalanche he had set in motion. There would be war. Not isolated rebellions and skirmishes. Open war. State against state. Brother against brother. Fields would burn, cities would crumble, after nearly four hundred years of peace, the face of the Han Empire was about to change forever. It wasn’t just his own life on the line, it was his clan, the family name, everything his forefathers had worked for. 

The weight of such responsibility might have crushed lesser men, but it lit a fire inside him. If his mind had been a dark forest before, now he saw a clear, blazing trail. Every doubt and petty fear melted away into mist in the brilliance of that single, beautiful, unwavering line. Cao Cao felt calm. The obliterating, all-consuming nothingness you feel when you leap off a cliff towards a narrow ledge. You either made it or you didn’t. You either died or you didn’t. Once you were in mid-air, with nothing but heaven above and rocks below, there was no room for anything else. Cao Mengde would not fail because he could not afford to fail. He was going to get back home. He was going to drag his body to his doorstep, bleeding and broken, if it was the last thing he did. 

notes under the cut:

Wife < Guy: I wanted explore the attitude men (especially warlords) had for their families. This weird mixture of self-absorbed patriarchal values + a general confucian belief that he has a strong duty to protect his dependants. His main priority is for the primary wife and male heirs, (concubines and daughters are basically accessories.) His affection for them is strongly rooted in their usefulness in relation to him. It's might be love, but I didn't want to go too far and make it y'know, sentimental, but he is a human being and he is not as callous as he pretends to be.

Wife Guy: This was semi-inspired by historical events. Lady Bian (a 25 ish yr old concubine at the time) managed to rally his supporters and keep them together when Cao Cao was on the run from Dong Zhuo and presumed dead. Cao Cao was so impressed by her conduct he made her the main wife after Lady Ding divorced him (for getting her son killed). Han Women were allowed to own property and advise their husbands in politics/strategy albeit in limited ways. Lady Ding was very respected by Cao Cao and she even allegedly convinced him to vegan at some point.

#san guo #my writing #yknow. am i making sense. #i don't like it when people give modern morals and values to people from VASTLY different time periods + life histories #but i also don't like it when they be like “oh ppl back there were just ruthless monsters empathy wasn't invented until 2005” #on all levels except physical the ladies ding and bian are my bffs

[popquizhot-shot]

WHY THE FUCK DID MODI SAY THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO MOURN FOR THAT DIRTBAG?

#arey that chaiwalla #ding dong the witch is dead #desiblr #desi problems #wtf man #i aint mourning for that lady

[r3d1ke]

HOE

HOW DO U START A STORY.

How

HOWW

#snatche spams #snatche!ramps #snatche!rampy #I NEED THUS FOR MY QU ANS I XANT START WRITIBH ITS BEEN 4 MONTHS IN PLANNING #LIKR GIRL HELP I DING NEED A BETW READER I NEED A HELPING WEITER HAND/HJ #EMP COMPLEX LORE.. CAVUM AND BK AND HK AND LADY PUELLA AND SUBCON ..UHHSHJSGJS UGGHHH #IN MY MIND I REACHED THE END IN MY ACTUAL PROJECTS I DIDNG EVEN START

[proserpine-in-phases]

So where I work they have an employer sponsored health screening every January, and now that it's my second January I have results from last year to compare this year to, and even tho it doesnt feel like it apparently my health has improved? Also comparing results is really interesting, ALMOST kinda makes me want to survive until next January to see how things trend again

#crap #i just love graphs 😑 #i wonder how the way i fasted affects things #last year i was on days so i could just sleep through it but this year i was on nights and worked the whole night #no eating for 12 hours went way better than i thought it would i didnt get hangry at all #all my white blood cells are up 🤔 #my tryglycerides are down by over 60 points! #just need to keep trending those down and my hdl up and ill be green almost across the board #i still get dinged for weight and waist circumference but ehhhhhhhhhhh #also the lady who took my blood pressure called it weird lmao #the lady who took my blood had to take it out of my hand because she couldnt find a vein and that was kinda funny #well not the part where she was kinda digging around in there looking for one #it didnt hurt for the most part but it also wasnt comfortable either lmao

[chicorysaints]

when the rock climbing gym near my dorm finally opens, i'm going to be soooo annoying about it. i think rock climbing will fix all of my problems

#it's been dinging around in my brain for the last like 3 weeks. i don't know why but my primal urge to Climb has been awoken #and it's making me crazy. i feel like the lady from 'the yellow wallpaper.' i'm scurrying i'm running in circles i'm bouncing off the walls #chatter

[terrainofheartfelt]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Dan Humphrey/Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald & Serena van der Woodsen, Nate Archibald & Dan Humphrey, Nate Archibald & Blair Waldorf Characters: Blair Waldorf, Dan Humphrey, Nate Archibald, Serena van der Woodsen, Rufus Humphrey Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Inspired by Grey's Anatomy, Secret dating, secret dating gone awry, romcom featuring serena's complicated relationship with Change, but its most dair shenanagins, stupid horny sweethearts, randy menaces the both of them, canon divergence of s5 

Series: Part 5 of oh, suppose you'll never know Summary:

“We’ve got to go public with this thing. I can’t keep track of where and when I’m allowed to touch you.”

#ding dong ao3 lady #gossip girl fic #dair #dan x blair #liz's ficz

[dudefrommywesterns]

i'm sure everybody remembers mouse dean by now

but please. look him as georgie porgie. oh my god.

#deranged ass show #typewriter dings #he looked better as the old lady in the driving skit. #hold on.

[jlf23tumble]

My main complaint about DWD (besides some loose ends) is: WHY was Harry and Florence’s kissing so bad and awkward? They were mostly breathing into each other’s mouths the whole time, so much open-mouthedness 😩

It's givin' a lot of this--but also, maybe that's some meta, like, when you REALLY think about it??? I loved all the twists and turns, tbh, and I'm willing to give this one some extra thought (but for real, my bff and I saw these movies back to back, and the kissing comp wasn't even close)

#incel harry #irl is jobless and waits around for his lady to cook for him #and in the sim he has a job and she does #but to make that happen #he has to get a shitty job and make his own dinner #so this makes me laff and laff even more tbh #makes u think #before that dumb bad faith reader comes back #let me spell it out for you because you are a king ding dong #the patrick/tom kissing was way hotter/more quote unquote believable as lust than jack/alice #you're welcome! king ding dong!