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!)
#ChineseLiterature#ChinesePoetry folk, has anyone got a recommendation for books/articles about the #Shijing? I’m back reading the Waley translation and greatly enjoying it, but I’d love some more context, both on the history and on the commentaries that have informed the translation choices.
📚 start working on fanbinding of girlfriend's favourite disappeared-from-the-internet Weiss Kreuz fanfic
📚 boyfriend shyly asks if I could bind a book for him
📚 I agree, of course
📚 boyfriend finally goes through his old hard drives and assembles the 'lost' original short stories I didn't have access to, and therefore couldn't bind as a surprise
📚 I start typesetting book
📚 boyfriend is newly excited about writing and gets fresh inspiration!
“Do you have a problem, Chengmei?” Jin Guangyao asked.
Xue Yang slammed down his stirring rod. The gritty substance on it sprayed across the cluttered bench. “Yes, I have a problem!” he snapped. “There’s no fucking point following the formula if I don’t have pure enough ingredients. What the hell is this cinnabar cut with? Your father’s dead, no one’s checking your account book any more!”
Jin Guangyao only gave a faint smile, leaning back on the bier that held the body of Xiao Xingchen. “True, my father is dead,” he said. “That means I don’t have to support your work here; it’s a personal favour. Think on that, perhaps.”
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. 🧜♂️
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!
#MLCWatchParty I watched the first 1.5 episodes on the train on Thursday night and really enjoyed them. Love an epic battle on a ship! I feel like there are more ship battles in wuxia than we usually talk about. 🤔
Boys will say “reinforcements are coming” and then their dog will show up with a wholeass martial escort agency, a public prosecutor, and one of the heads of the justice bureau you keep pretending to be a member of. Awkward.
🧱 Xue Yang has questions
🧱 Xiao Xingchen doesn't want to answer them
🧱 Xue Yang starts to find out anyway
🧱 domesticity, violent thoughts, identity porn, #justYiCityThings
🌾 #ALeagueOfNobleman#fanfic, gen, 325 words
🌾 what to do when you’ve been plagiarised and IP law is in its infancy?
🌾 the only fic on AO3 with the tag Woodblock Printing
🌾 I know this emoji is a sheaf of rice but there isn’t a good orchid emoji
🪶 #MDZS#fanfic, #genfic, 7.6k words
🪶 space AU with clan politics
🪶 Nie Huaisang plots his revenge for ten years
🪶 how to lead a clan when you never expected to be in charge?
🪶 what if you could ask your dead brother? Do you really think that would help?
