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such a lovely vulnerable idea to have mulan be able to come out to shang on her own terms AND HOW CRUEL OF HIM TO REFUSE HER STILL GOSSHHHHHH
i actually gasped when she told him she was a woman i was so surprised. SHANGGGGGGGG

ohhhhh holy moly that fight with the old lady was crazy

this is so good!!!!! it feels like an idea that was too ambitious for the original movie, and I love how it was expanded upon and breathed into life here. poor mulan's identity crisis is going insane, "she was always inspired by the men in her father's stories and wished she could do that as a girl" and I am eating it up

i freaking love the mulan movie and so far this book reads JUST like it, great tone and nice, vivid prose. i am so worried about shang!!!!!!! love all the reflection/identity imagery too like yesss they understood the assignment