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I picked this up as I wanted to contine my reading of Asian-themed books after The Water Outlaws, but wanted something short. Getting talked to by my supe for reading on the job is the main reason I didn't finish this sooner.

Its casually queer, has a rich world, and an interesting story telling method of following Cleric Chih ("Cheech"?) inspecting the items of the place, their own observations, and the Flashbacks from Rabbit gave the whole book a good feel.

Well worth a read.

Now there's a raw quote.

...As far as I can tell. I watch a lot of kung fu movies, but I know little about actual Chinese history/lore. Still, worth the read and I found it easier to get through than the Legends of the Condor Heroes.

Really enjoyed it. Would have been finished sooner had I not been yelled at by my supe for reading on the job. Not like I could point to near literally everyone else for doing the same.

@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe I read a thing on Mastodon a bit ago that said minimum wage should be tied to average rental costs. Make the bosses and landlords fight each other.

TOTALLY not something the antagonist would say.

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.

#TheWaterOutlaws #SLHuang #Wuxia #Math

"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.

#SixteenWinds #WaterOutlaws #SLHuang #Transgender

Hm. Reading this, I'm getting heavy vibes in parallel to Final Fantasy XVI. How people are marked, where they're living, etc.

Liangshan and Cid's Hideaway...

I feel even more that there are tropes and references in these games that I as a westerner, do not get.

Yeah, that's what kind of character archetype Lu Da is. Though she's more self aware than most.