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𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐄 𝓃𝑒𝓉𝒻𝓁𝒾𝓍 𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓉𝓈

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𝓂𝑜𝑜𝒹𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈

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yinmei zhang; blood gets in your eye
“the night was splendid, with its warm, pink breath, like blood spilling out of a vein opened sweetly over the street.” –carmen laforet, nada

she managed to integrate herself into the powerful vampire circles within china, even with the rise and fall of multiple dynasties, and a century later, she - along with some of her newfound allies - hunted down jinyang, drove a pike through his heart, and cut him to pieces, burning what was left. yinmei went on to reign over her old hometown (at least until the armies of the han emperor decided to investigate the bloodbath the normally peaceful town had turned into), resolving to forget everything from her human life.

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𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝒹𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈

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Magnolias

“If you pick up a male rabbit, he kicks and struggles,
while a female rabbit is bleary-eyed and still.
Set them both on the ground and let them run-
who can tell if I am female or male?”

-From “The Ballad of Mulan” (木兰辞), a classical Chinese poem

During the war my comrades saw my short hair and
armor and said I was a
mighty warrior. I knew that this was the story
of the men and their running
rabbits.

After fighting for twelve years I went
home and replaced my
armor with silk sashes and gossamer gowns. My swirling
skirts were long enough to conceal blades of silver
steel.

I returned to my loom and saw swords in
the sewing needles. I
wanted to tell my comrades that my strength
does not depend on the length of my
hair.

We feasted but I noticed the way
they glanced at the yellow
flowers adorning my forehead. They forget that my mother
named me for a flower both resplendent and
resilient.

Magnolias have endured mountains bursting
out of the earth and
glaciers freezing the land. But have you
ever laid eyes upon blossoms more
beautiful?

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐘𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝓅𝓇𝑒-𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒶

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EXCLUSIVE: WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING IN LUSITANIA?! CROWN PRINCE’S CHILDREN FOOL THE ENTIRE EMPIRE, PARENT TRAP-STYLE

 
In a shocking turn of events, the crown prince of Lusitania’s children have pulled a Parent Trap switch that has gotten the 2,000-year-old empire’s panties all in a twist. Not all of the details have been revealed to us yet, since Lusitania is the Greco-Roman equivalent of, you know, the middle of bumfuck nowhere - but here’s what we know so far:

 
#1 Sixteen-year-old Domitia Viriatus is the daughter of the crown prince. Her twin brother, Titus Viriatus, was murdered a few days ago, apparently by his husband-to-be. How did a boy end up betrothed to some random rich white guy in a country known for being more backwards than all of the Deep South, you ask? Well…

 
#2 …Apparently, Domitia and Titus Viriatus pulled a Parent Trap-style switch a couple years back, so that Domitia could attend the military academy, which Titus apparently didn’t feel like going to (and I don’t blame him, y’know. Military buzzcuts are hideous). If you’ve seen pics, you’ll know that the twins look very much alike, so it would not have been hard to pull the switch.

 
#3 And now? After ‘Domitia’ was murdered, everyone realized that ‘Domitia’ was actually Titus, and the ‘Titus’ off at military school was actually Domitia. Now, here in Aciras, we don’t give as much of a shit about a girl in military school, but across the pond in Lusitania, it’s a huge deal. Remember, folks: Lusitania is a couple centuries behind the rest of the world. They (probably) still marry their siblings, over there.

 
The entirety of the Roman farm hick kingdom has been thrown into chaos, following the news of the twins’ deception. And now, anonymous sources are spilling even more tea: the emperor of Lusitania has issued an imperial summons for his wayward granddaughter. Is it a court martial, or a marriage proposal, or something in between? No one knows.

 
Personally, I think that the twins had some guts, but I want to hear what you think. To join the conversation, check out @thelynstondaily on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.

𝒹𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 & 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓉-𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒶

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PRINCE ALEJANDRO CONFIRMED AS GAY (AND NO ONE IS SURPRISED)

 
(written by Christina Li)

 
Although it’s pretty much an open secret that Prince Alejandro of Castilya has no interest whatsoever in the fairer sex, the pic that blew up all over social media last night is the first time we’ve gotten actual proof of this widely-held belief (and for those of you who haven’t logged into Twitter or Instagram yet, you can check out all the highlights on our website, thelynstondaily.com). The Castilyan prince himself has never publicly commented on whether or not he’d rather sleep with guys or girls (despite all the subtle clues littering his social media accounts), but one of his close friends - Prince Chris of Hellenica - came out publicly about three years ago.

 
So are we really surprised that the two of them have hooked up???

 
It started with a blurry photo posted by an anonymous celeb fan account on Twitter. The original pic looks like it was taken with a shitty Android Snapchat camera, but after some dedicated fans ran it through Photoshop, they realized that the tattoo on the faceless man’s chest spelled out “My Honor”. As in, the second half of Prince Chris’ tattoo in the same place, “On My Honor”.

 
After that, it was just connecting point A to point B. We all know that Chris doesn’t sleep with girls, and which of his guy friends has long blond hair and was spotted with him in Portaya for the Spring/Summer 15 shows? That’s right: Alejandro.

 
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

 
Now this begs the question: are Chris and Alejandro an item? Have they been an item for all these years without anyone noticing? The pic is dated from 2014, before Chris even came out: does that mean that they’ve been together all this time? Or are they just friends with benefits? Is this affair of theirs still going on? And what’s going to happen when their parents marry them off to some duchess or princess or the other?

 
No one knows, just yet - neither Chris nor Alejandro (nor their respective parents) have commented. But follow @thelynstondaily on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat to get all of the latest updates as soon as they come out!

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