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Leia quoted The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

S. L. Huang: The Water Outlaws (2023, Tor.com)

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

Lin Chong is …

Content warning Minor sporilers for the Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang ~ 40%

It's not us at fault, though—not us, and not her. It's everything. The whole hierarchy. The marshals and the nepotism and the magistrates, the bribes, pettiness, favoritism ... we're not to blame for Commander Yang being here. That was Gao Qiu—again—again—he put her in this place, disgraced her and banished her to this mountain where we now meet...

— The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

...I don't think this is a commentary on just the Northern Song dynasty.

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Leia commented on The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

Lin Chong is …

Lu Da's staff weights "60 jin". A Jin is a little more than a US pound, so it's about 54.5 pounds. Which seems heavy as fuck for a staff.

A modern Chinese Gun (Staff) is six feet long and an unspecified on Wikipedia thickness. At an inch thick, a six foot oak staff would be like, 2 pounds. Even an inch thick staff of pure lead (the most common "really heavy, yet fashionable" thing I can think of,) would only be 23 pounds.

Now, given this is wuxia, so fantasy, and I don't know what kinds of metals were available during the Song dynasty, it could be something fantastic rather than real, but were it real, it might be an inch and a half lead core with a quarter inch of iron around that for support.

That is fucking big.

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Leia commented on The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

Lin Chong is …

"Sixteen winds" is a fun term for transgender, though I suspect it is in reference to something. My western upbringing has no idea what that is though.

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