should I actually watch empress ki... i feel like i'm gonna end up grinding my teeth to dust from sheer frustration but i wanna see ji chang wook as toghon temur...
i'm always puzzled when foreigners act surprised upon seeing genghis khan everywhere in mongolia, as if there's anything odd about a nation plastering their founding father everywhere to prove their legitimacy and the continuation of their state, literally politics 101
i heard that oljei khutugh (empress gi) is considered a national traitor by some in sk 馃槶 funnily enough, queen noguk (budashri) was a yuan princess who betrayed her homeland at the same time... i think we can do an exchange
the dynamic between goryeo king and their yuan mongol queen is hilarious because bluntly his wife is the extension of the yuan emperor overlord, but some of them genuinely loved their wives... though it's not like they had much choice anyway 馃槶
the level of mental gymnastics ilkhanate patroned persian writers and artists had to make sure the grandfather of their islam-converted khans was portrayed in good light 馃槶馃槶馃槶 propoganda used to be art...
why's jdgr hulegu perpetually a toddler... very interesting design choice, aside from the obvious it's pretty funny to depict the most bloody conqueror of the mongol empire as uwu (literally) baby 馃槶
i knew i was a soft city dwelling chud when i tried riding a horse this summer and I couldn't even mount and dismount it properly, it was so embarrassing i'm sorry horse
wanna censor country names to avoid the algorithm from spreading it around but at the same time when you actually try censoring it, it just looks like you have something against that country... the dilemma
there seems to quite few serialized dramas about genghis khan, but almost all of them are chinese adapted so i know it's probably propaganda slop











