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    关于刘备的另一种叙事 by

    Fandoms: Chinese History RPF, 三国  

    27 May 2020

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    2020年汉昭烈皇帝忌日小论文系列，剖析有关刘备的种种细节，建构有关他的新的叙事。

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    29 Jul 2024

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    [Reading 早安！三国打工人 sent me down the 3K rabbit hole... which led me to this quality meta on Liu Bei the historical figure vs. the character in ROT3K & popular perception, v. worth the read A+]

    我零星看过的讲三国的节目，几乎无一不是如此——讲到曹魏东吴历史梗满地走，讲到刘备马上又成了演义宇宙观，仿佛这是个什么可以随时切换模式的游戏，他们不会玩刘备的历史线，只能赶快切回演义不然会彻底死机。

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    演义如此深入人心，如果不是有意自我纠正是根本不可能改掉的。而且这些细节，都构成了演义的叙事逻辑的一部分。具体我后面再说。当然对于普罗大众，纠正不纠正并无所谓，历史到底如何也其实不那么重要，但是作为历史爱好者和历史同人圈，尤其是对人物的原本形象感兴趣的人，自然要对这些细节孜孜以求。这也是我写这篇东西的初衷。

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    Monkey pays for Hot Cake by for Doire

    Fandoms: Xi You Ji | Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en  

    25 Dec 2010

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    A small piece of the journey.

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    23 Jul 2013

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    [EVEN IF IT'S MADE OUT OF HAIR]

    You see? Even people out of legends are people, just like you or me.

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    5 Ways To Rewrite Zhuangzi by for js_thrill

    Fandoms: 莊子 - 莊周 | Zhuāngzǐ - Zhuāng Zhōu  

    18 Dec 2021

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    The Way, transmitted1.

     

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    12 Jan 2022

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    [bless this translation/linguistic/philosophical sacrilege—may we all dream as butterfrees!]

    He did not know if he had been dreaming he was a butterfree, or if a butterfree was now dreaming it was a man. Butterfrees and men surely count as two distinct beings! The world under the tree and Rocket Town surely count as two different realities!

    Yet it is impossible to distinguish one from another. The penumbra said to the shadow, 'First you were fictional, then you were meta-fictional, then you were breaking the fourth wall. Why can't you decide on a state of reality?'

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    Time v.3.0 by

    Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005)  

    31 Jul 2012

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    It has been suggested that after his eighth regeneration, the Doctor begins lying about his age. The official story is that he has simply lost track. This is a third possible explanation for the discrepancy between his ages in the new and old series.

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    22 Aug 2013

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    [a treatise on the nature of the Time War, or: the universe, rewritten. because the phrase "time travel" is such a simplification of this mind-bogglingly amazing concept.]

    "Everyone on Earth, in every nation, in every time-period – even before you lot went out to the stars. And on all the other planets, too, every species, every culture, through all of history. Everywhere I went, I couldn't get away from it. It was the news travellers brought. Priests lamented it. Prophets saw it. On so many worlds, it was the beginning of their creation myth." Oh, how he remembers that, how the name of his lost homeworld had stalked him through the universe, how he'd fled before it. "'Gallifrey,' they'd say. 'Gallifrey has burned.'"

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    As Long as Everybody Pays Their Share by

    Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan  

    03 Aug 2013

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    The cold and the snow weren't always the worst part of winter survival training. One year the members of the 104th training squad had to deal with a local legend and a very human monster, too.

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    17 Oct 2013

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    [For the Mikasa-Reiner interaction alone, this story would be pure gold, but it goes above and beyond to play with the underlying themes in this canon—payment and debt, fairness or lack thereof, the choice to put faith in others and/or in yourself, the fine line between truth and lies. The parallel between the tax collector and Armin (with respect to the evolution of his later mindset) is spot-on; plus, all the foreshadowing is delightful and basically a Easter egg hunt. ♥!]

    "So are you going to trust me again, or what?"

    Mikasa took another long sip of her beer. "Yes," she finally said. "I trust you as far as I can throw you. And really? That should mean something to you. Because I can throw you pretty far."

    Reiner laughed so hard that he almost spewed beer out his nose.