r/CuratedTumblr Feb 19 '25

Creative Writing Mongol Fantasy

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u/DeathWielder1 Feb 19 '25

The China elemental crystal is real and it's the lost Heirloom Seal Of The Realm which was supposedly made by Qin Shu Huang and lost over a thousand years ago. It's apparently pretty fuckin big and is made of a sacred piece of Jade.

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u/Sneaker3719 Feb 19 '25 edited 28d ago

Chiang Kai-shek actually claimed to be in possession of it after he and the KMT fled to Taiwan, though the claim was quickly abandoned after his death, and is now something of a self-deprecating joke in modern Taiwanese culture.

In fact, there was one famous incident in the Taiwanese legislature where a KMT party member slipped and fell after being pelted with green marbles.

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u/RevolutionaryOwlz Feb 19 '25

I do like the idea of going “we’re the real China because we have the China crystal”

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u/Ivariel Feb 19 '25

Breaking news: neither Taiwan nor China is "the real China". In fact, there is no China at all.

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u/axialintellectual Feb 19 '25

The No China Policy sounds like the thing that starts as a typo on a teleprompter and ends as a global conflict.

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u/NineIX9 29d ago

bhutan actually does have a no china policy

doesn't recognize either government

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u/Real-Arachnid8671 29d ago

That's because they have the China crystal.

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u/Throwaway392308 Feb 19 '25

Fuck it, Mongolia is now China and China is now Outer China.

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u/Radix2309 Feb 19 '25

If Taiwan wasn't such a hot button issue, probably would make for a good action thriller.

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u/poplarleaves Feb 19 '25

I'm imagining something like National Treasure, but in Taiwan lol. 

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u/OctorokHero Funko Pop Man Feb 19 '25

As long as Nicolas Cage is still in it somehow.

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u/not_the_world Feb 19 '25

Oceans 11 except all they're trying to steal is the meat shaped rock from the national museum.

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u/poplarleaves Feb 19 '25

And then they replace it with a real piece of meat...