krystlemakeup: Backstage before the #ltlivestream 🙂 Lots of smiles all round to be back loving what we do! Very chuffed to be part of the team. Didnt realise how much i missed you all! It looked and sounded incredible! Don’t you all agree? 😝
his character really is more of a prince by sheer default then nearly any actual disney prince out there and you may all fight me on this - he excudes that decent slavic sadness™
centrified all the way
I saw the question on MDZS’s era and decided to present the result of my researches and calculations on the subject. According to tvtropes, in the Analysis page, it should take place before Tang dynasty (618-907AD). Gusu is today a district created in 2012, but Gusu was once the ancient name of Suzhou before being officialised as the latter in 589AD. The term “cut-sleeve” had been created around 4BC-1AD (from the year Emperor Ai of Han met Dong Xian to the year of former’s death). (1/4)
for the anon-y who asked!! let’s all thank new anon for taking the time for us!! hehe <3
“An ahistorical melange nominally set somewhere in the 5th or 6th century” why YES that sounds lovely, I’ll have three.
I could and will take that to mean that a) they’re just coming off a warring states period (which is probably where all those missing grandparents went) and the cultivation world still isn’t used to having any strong centralized civil authorities around, and b) there are only two centralized civil authorities now, but they’re both kind of messy and also the border between them is unstable and tends to cut right through the middle of the region where canon takes place.
Which explains. A lot.
#“the emperor wants jianghu to stop having an entire-ass war please and also pay some taxes” #“lol which one? and who’s gonna make us??”
Taxes? Bruh, we have Magic. Bite me.
Literally cultivators pulling a Lyanna Mormont and be like “We know no Emperor but the Chief Cultivator whose name is…well it was Wen now it’s Jin I guess.”
Ohohoh!! All this analysis is brilliant??? My god the amount of digging based on the different inventions and fashion and religion that appeared in the show… And the two periods that @lyratalus brought up are actually outright mentioned in the official photobook as being references (although they’re not pinpointed as the precise periods during which the show took place), some quick translations below:
The terrain during this period is similar to that of during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386AD-589AD). To the east is the vast ocean; the north is bordered by the Yin Mountains (an actual mountain range in the north of China stretching about 1000km) and Gobi Desert (a desert in the north of China that crosses over into the south of Mongolia); in the northwest lies the expansive desert; in the west are the Hengduan Mountains (a group of mountain ranges and grasslands that run from the Tibetan Plateau to the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau); and in the south are the endless tens and thousands of great mountains and untouched, ancient forests filled with miasma. People mainly live in the North China Plain, and a few also live in the lakes and hills in the south.
(map below)
Cultural Environment
As a whole, the cultural background emulates that of the Wei-Jin period (220AD-420AD, which covers the Three Kingdoms 220AD-280AD all the way to the end of the Jin Dynasty 266AD-420AD which is marked by the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304AD-439AD during which Northern China was fractured into a lot of individual short-lived states, very messy).
On one hand, various philosophies and cultivation sects arose at the same time, bringing academic and cultural diversity.
On the other hand, there was also a lot of development in the literature and arts. It was popular to pursue such refined activities: poetry, music, dance, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, and even garden architecture - all of these changed tremendously during this period.
Anyway all this to prove that YOU GUYS your analyses are scarily spot on
For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”
The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis
