#my tpw reread

[fangruninsimp]

I love him your honour

#tpw #the poppy war #jiang ziya #my tpw reread

[koiwynn]

VENKA DIED SAVING RIN’S LIFE??? SHE JUMPED TO PUSH RIN OUT OF DANGER ONLY FOR THE ARROW TO HIT HER INSTEAD… HELLO?? how the hell did i forget about that. i thought she just got assassinated in front of them.

gnawing at the bars of my cage, i’m gonna have a rinvenka induced crying session i can’t do this. i did not need this reminder, rf kuang you will pay for my tears

#rereading venka’s death for my fic and how come it never occurred to me that venka sacrificed her life for rin #in the middle of an argument yet still looking out for rin :( #screaming crying throwing up #VENKA. #sring venka #the poppy war #the burning god #the burning god spoilers #tpw trilogy #tpw spoilers #tbg spoilers #tbg #tpw #tpw ​‧₊˚✩彡 #˖ ࣪⭑ mine

[270anahita]

out of nowhere but on the tpw Disco Horse i think while YES tpw is absolutely not a romance it's wrong to say there's NO romance. like if we're defining anything that's romantic love as romance, yes, there is romantic love but the point as nezha literally says himself in tdf is that there was love and it didn't matter one single bit. rinezha basically serves to help hammer in the central tragedy of the story (and reel in the booktok girlies lmao), how war ravages and desensitizes and destroys-- it's only part of the horror

also it's not like a romeo and juliet type tragedy, it's fucked all on its own -- it can't really exist without the war and devastation and insanity, even though that's what damns it. rin and nezha's romance develops as they're fighting a war. their first kiss is under the murui mid-battle to resuscitate rin. nezha finds rin so compelling precisely because she's a crazy insane fucko who would kill him, the only person who can, and part of why rin likes him because he's a) sexy b) a reminder of her days at sinegard where things were so good in comparison to the war.

the first real snippet of anything but hostility between them is when they're, again, fighting a war back to back. and when it becomes hostility again, it's because both chose their duty and principles over each other. and hate coexists with that love, anyway-- rin hates nezha because he's one of the most privileged people in the country, because he took advantage of her trust to betray her for the fucking HESPERIANS, and nezha hates rin because she's, you know, a genocidal drug-addled peasant warlord who can only thrive off of conflict and doesn't value human life, because she's leading a war against everything he stands for, etc.

there was love and it didn't matter. on with the bloodshed, folks!

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ok. well. it probably doesn't count as a "romance" what with it being so intertwined with the war, but saying there's no romance is just not true

#tpw #the poppy war #rinezha #fang runin #yin nezha #rf kuang #idk i was going through all my kindle snippets and like half of it was tpw #and then i reread tdf to microdose the series and i was having Thoughts #meta #don't assume i don't like rinezha btw. this is Why i like rinezha

[wetratianthe]

i know “right where you left me” is nezha’s song (if I think too hard about it I start crying) but I’m rereading the entire trilogy (bc I hate myself), I’m currently almost halfway through tdr and I just think this song fits this moment perfectly (someone has probably already pointed it out but I’m new to this fandom so bear with me)

#chen kitay #tpw #the poppy war #the poppy war trilogy #the dragon republic #the burning god #fang runin #rinkitay #I love kitay so much I’m gonna cry #rf kuang #rereading this trilogy was a bad idea #someone put me out of my misery

[asexualnezha]

why is this basically rin in a nutshell—

#im currently rereading tpw lol #and yeah i know her character is much more complicated and nuanced but shhh let me have this #also im back!!! hii!!!! #the poppy war #fang runin #my post

[literaturebf]

too many books to read

#let me finish winners. then ill try and tackle mi and greywaren #not confident in my abilities but whatever i need to be included in everything!! #i also want to reread tpw SORRY. i borrowed on the road from the library as well x #julian.txt

[duncantashi]

my 2023 in books

tagged by: lindsay @permanentreverie and sara @ohwarnette i love you both so much for tagging me <33

honourable mentions (almost favourites + rereads): - rereads: the hunger games trilogy, tweet cute, rwrb, beach read, little women - if you could see the sun - ophelia after all - the dragon republic & the drowning faith (tpw trilogy caused me so much pain, so ofc it's a favourite) - heartless - i'll give you the sun

tagging: @deadpoets @sunflowervol6 @mayclair @singularities @moirainesedai @camiladune @dlndjarin @acotars @newyearsyet @tbosas @dallaswinstons @daisysjones

#november wasn't that good but overall it was good year wrt reading #tag games

[rrylies]

how's your tdr fic going 👀

omg hi skies !! my tdr fic is. going slowly it's a ?? pre-canon divergent / au fic of what would happen if the cike were all assigned with the mission of assassinating emperor ryohai pre-third war !! iirc in canon i think feylen and one or two others attempted to kill ryohai under daji's orders but they failed and went mad rereading tdr to better flesh out chaghan and qara's characters and trying to figure out what it is that chaghan can do other than predict the future and be cryptic and so far all its done is bring me misery anyways !! how's the tpw reread going :D

[meepertmee]

I liked tpw series sm I bought all the books after just borrowing the ebook bc ik my ass Will be rereading… fuuuck being chinese american is my downfall

#the poppy war #thoughts

[exy101]

9 books I plan to read in 2024

this has been in drafts for so long idk who tagged me and idk who to tag :(

slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut (subway’s been reccing this book and this author for AGES..maybe this years the time i listen)

phantoms in the brain by v.s. ramachandran (been wanting to read sum non fiction maybe psychological shit will be fun??)

atalanta by jennifer saint (wanna read more greek myths outside of rick riordan and this was on a website i looked at!)

house of hollow by krystal sutherland (idk why i havent read this already tbh)

rest of TPW series (probably after i reread the first book i know ill like it but i didnt commit last time and ended up forgetting most of it)

these violent delights by micah nemerever

rest of alice oseman’s books (i love everything ive read of hers so why havent i read more??)

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon (its time for me to get back into my lesbian era PLSSS)

the ballad of songbirds and snakes (i think abt THG 10 times a day so why havent i read this??)

#stargazing. #maybe ill drop an edit td too 🫣 #probably on imminences instead of here thoo

[fangruninsimp]

The poppy war is a comedy actually

#tpw #the poppy war #jiang ziya #jun loran #my tpw reread #I'm sick and this is healing me

[orionhong]

RIN i’m reading foul lady fortune <3 also i started dragon republic and . wow if i thought tpw could be hard to get through. God. so i’m reading foul lady fortune too now 😼😼😼

SO TRUEEEEE WE ARE TWINNING ACTUALLY !!!! i was reading dragon republic until my libby loan expired (SAD) and then yesterday i reread foul lady fortune :))) anyway FUN TIMES AHEAD uh yeah just wait until the burning god……. i love it when books make me want to eat drywall 😊 but foul lady fortune is so funnnnnn

#asks #answered #shamsi #raedas

[foolishmortal]

I saw a post about you being the author of the professor’s wife pop up on my dash, and I wanted to say I just reread it and it is so beautiful and lush and just…wow. I love it, thank you for sharing it with the world.

aw, thank you! I do love the holic fandom very much. I'm currently working on the next chapter of a WIP I've literally had in my drafts since 2012, if you want more holic goodness ^_^ (Employee of the Month on Ao3) or you know, maybe badness because I haven't written anything in five years, and I haven't written anything for holic fandom since TPW

#xxxholic #fumu replies #fandom #fanfiction

[dukethomas]

#crys speaks

[folkdances]

ok i have made up my mind once i finish tpw im rereading soc i think i sort of need to because this book makes me feel like i'm being stoned

#txt

[aylinaliens]

whenever i’m in a bad place mentally i reread the poppy war trilogy by r.f. kuang. does it help? no. it actually makes it worse :)

#rereading tpw is my unhealthy coping mechanism #it could be worse ya know #told my irl best friend that i was reading tpw and he genuinely asked if i was doing okay #the answer is no <3 #the poppy wars #r.f. kuang