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These "In the apocalypse with my super invincible RV or bunker with unlimited resources" type stories are so cozy, they're like a literary comfy blanket
So we assign males with the 5 measurements: Pan, Lv, Deng, Xiao, Xian
"Pan": Pan An, as in aesthetics
"Lv": 驴, donkey, as in sexual ability
"Deng": Deng Tong, as in wealth
"Xiao": 小, noticing and remembering the small details
"Xian": 闲, free time to provide companionship
Hi sorry to be a bother but I was wondering if I can get approval for my account, I joined like 2-3 days ago but there's a story I really want to read got me all jittery.
"长歌问月" (Ballad Seeking Moon) is the martial arts skill embodied by Homelander jerking it to the moon. "猴子偷桃" (Monkey Steals Peach) is a crotch crush attack. "龙从天降,愤怒狰狞" (Raging Dragon's Descent) is the martial arts skill where you take your poop and fling it at your enemy.
In Jin Yong's wuxia, and most wuxia, your internal essence is your own, when you cultivate it and someone steals it, it will rampage in their body. In Naruto, chakra has a few owners by order of priority, Kaguya, then Hagoromo, then etc. ninjas. In DC's Lucifer, each particle is carved with the name of Yahweh first, then other almighties come after.
One theory speculates that as Sun Wukong is Bodhidharma's last or eighth generation disciple, the previous generations of disciples are all well-connected, which is why he doesn't suffer actual consequences for actions. In a certain cosmology, Taibai Jinxin, Ziwei, Haotian, etc. are all previous generation disciples, so despite being just a monkey, his background is everyone who matters
it seems like modern readers can't stand Jin Yong wuxia novels' tendency to pair up characters; with the historical background of the times, modern readers would label that as "giving away your potential lovers to others", or basically Chinese styled NTR, which Jin Yong seems very skilled at
They call unsavory or unappealing or repulsive aspects of a story or otherwise plot holes "毒点", poison points, and your ability to read a shitty story despite it being shitty, "poison resistance".
I was reading this one simultaneous story and the world was at the naruto setting, and the MC was getting lectured by sarutobi, and the author, when it came to sarutobi to talk about the will of fire, he didn't even write out what the will of fire was about, the dialogue in the quotation marks was literally just "something something, leaves, blah blah blah, something something, yadda yadda yadda, fire"
One allegory lost in translation of Journey to the West is the location where the Monkey King studied his taoist skills first from Puti Zushi (Bodhidharma), 斜月三星洞 which is translated as "Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave", but a slated stroke and three dots is how you write 心 (The Heart), so in seeking immortality, he is actually searching his heart for the answers and direction to life.

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