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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      So I'm watching The Sword and the Brocade, a show I figured I'd try bc some friends had recommended it, but I honestly wasn't expecting to get hooked; I was more thinking I'd give it a go, get bored, and cross it off my list of c-dramas. And instead, I am INVESTED.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      The setup: concubine's daughter marries a marquis bc her elder (legitimate) sister, his first wife, who knew she was dying, made him promise to marry her sister so that her son would continue to be looked after in the family. Cue Big Drama with his three other concubines.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      This is not a premise I thought I'd go for, bc as much as I love soft power narratives, a lot of the family dynamics hinge on women covertly (and not so covertly) battling each other for their husband and MIL's favor in the household. AND YET:

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      What's become super compelling is how the show takes the supposedly insular, "domestic" politics of the household and consistently shows how much they matter to the "masculine," external politics of the marquis and the nobility - because the two are fundamentally the same thing.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      The bit I'm up to right now involves a plot around a charity kitchen feeding refugees. The most powerful concubine was in charge of it for the family, but bad rice was used thanks to schemes from the marquis's rival, and now they have to think their way out of it.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      The characterisation is awesome and I love how complicated the interpersonal dynamics are, but the political stuff is *so goddamn good,* bc unlike so much western historical (or fantasy for that matter) media, centering the wives *acknowledges that women are the supply chain*.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

      It's a functional inversion of the kinds of western historicals where we see all the tough manly stuff in courts and on the battlefield and only remember the women when they're giving birth or being conveniently sexy: it shows the same trajectories from the inside out.

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          All the big political events are still happening, but our primary lens for them is the women in the household and the women in their extended families. We see how sexism & custom constrain them, but also how goddamn *vital* their actions & responsibilities are regardless.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          Just. I am forever thumping the drum of The Personal Is Political And The Political Personal bc that's literally what it is, but so many stories fool us into thinking that actually, politics is Serious Man Stuff, or at least Very Removed From Domestic Stuff, and it's NOT.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          And like!! The two most antagonistic women, Lianfang & Erniang? Are actually getting a really shitty deal in a lot of ways, as we see on screen! And they're also awful, manipulative people! The tension is in the fact that none of the consequences they live with fit the offenses!

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          Erniang is selfish and scheming, but she still doesn't deserve to be married to a domestically abusive asshat! Lianfang is manipulative, arrogant and callous, but she's stuck in what is often a genuinely pitiable situation! And it's just such good storytelling -

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          - that we're allowed to dislike them, but also feel for them; to understand them, but not always condone them. Bc the real culprit here is a system that denies them diginity and autonomy outside of very strict parameters. The personal stakes are *so high* for the women.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows May 15

          Anyway! I wrote this because the rice plot is making me Anxious and I needed a break but this show is really good, actually! Even though I lowkey resent it for making me find Wa-ge attractive in any way! (He's very sweet but foremost he's my dorky SDC3 uncle, NOT a hot guy.)

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