(No, I haven't read it yet. I was looking for something else and found this, but given the popularity of MDZS, maybe other ppl will be interested, also this serves as a bookmark for myself)
@geraineon I had that instinctive flinch at MDZS, danmei, xianxia etc. being discussed in a more 'mainstream' publication, but this actually looks pretty interesting, thanks!
@geraineon@Forestofglory I did already feel better when I clicked through and recognised their page. :) Wasn’t it also Strange Horizons that had a wuxia and xianxia themed issue a little while ago?
Hm, I should see if they have a patreon or similar and throw something in.
There’s a manhua stand at Fantasy Basel and they had #DesharowMerman vol 1 in German! Has anyone read that yet? I tried reading the fan translation a while ago and couldn’t get through it, so I’m happy to find a different version. 🧜♂️
Urgent #translation job: potentially looking for someone who can translate ~200 words of Steam page copy from English into #Chinese, before 15:00 CEST on Thursday 9th May. Paid at a good rate, obviously.
(We will know by tomorrow if we need this for certain!)
Has anyone read Death Notice by Zhou Haohui? I picked it up on impulse at the weekend and I’m nearly halfway through so far. To be honest, I’m still waiting to be gripped. It seems like a fairly standard crime thriller—but maybe I’m just out of practice at reading the genre. Or perhaps it’s just about to get good!
Also: please ‘enjoy’ some of the most egregious #menWritingWomen I’ve seen in a long while. (Sorry, no alt text, because a page is too many characters.) Mu Jianyun also likes to opine that men are scum whenever she feels no one has noticed her gender enough lately, sigh.
I hope she’s the murderer—that would be the only redeeming plot development for this crumminess.
Finished #DeathNotice over lunch just now! The second half was indeed more fun than the first, and there’s a good twist at the end, though I do feel a bit:
person who constantly reads xianxia, wuxia and SFF: I just think these modern crime thrillers take too much suspension of disbelief
Fave character from the back half of the book: Brother Hua. We love a villain’s hypercompetent right-hand-man who owes a life debt to said villain and would die for him, oh yes we do. (Did I mentally cast him as
Feng Mingjing? Obviously.)
It felt so weird to be reading a printed book set in China where I couldn’t just look up the hanzi for characters’ names!!
Update: yesterday in Chinese class, she gave me a wangxian keychain she got at a comics fair, because they should go to someone who appreciates them. 😂
I also gave her back volume one of Thousand Autumns, so next week she'll lend me volume two, woo!
