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geraineon

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she/her; 30+, aroace, fujo

I'm into #anime (recent: Gundam: The Witch from Mercury), #danmei (recent: Panguan; A Sword of Frost), #games (current: Honkai Star Rails; Genshin Impact), SFF books (recent: The Traitor Baru Cormorant; Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang)

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modulux, to books EN

Just finished The Tyrant Baru Cormoran. So some thoughts, no spoilers:

It is as good as I was hoping. The structure involves a lot of jumping back and forth, but though it may not seem so at first, it is done for good reasons and not just to confuse the reader.
The book is a part of a series, and satisfying in that regard, solving a lot of loose threads, but leaving the ending open.
There is a lot of violence done to bodies, some of it disturbingly described. This is not a book for squeamish people.
Overall, while Traitor and Monster saw Baru confident and then lost, I'd argue Tyrant is about her finding herself again.
Very strongly recommend it.

geraineon,
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@modulux excited to get started on them so I can share some thoughts too! Good to read that they are satisfying reads for you

geraineon, to random
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It'll be nice to watch Haikyuu movie with a friend but I guess I'll just have to make my housemate go with me or watch it alone (I am fine watching it alone but... it'll be nice! To watch with a Haikyuu fan friend!)

geraineon, (edited ) to random
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Idk what kinda timing this is ๐Ÿ˜†

Anyway, from the author of one of the meta I boosted yesterday: a tldr about the genre unlimited flow

https://reactormag.com/unlimited-flow-beyond-the-horizons-of-genre/

It has two danmei recs and one Korean webnovel rec too, for the unlimited flow genre

(Kaleidoscope of Death is unlimited flow btw)

edited: corrected the post to two danmei, one KR webnovel

geraineon,
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@villainousfriend indeed! And this, I did read and yes I agree xD

agasramirez, to magASEAN
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๐Ÿ“ Port Barton, Palawan

Not to be dramatic, but this is the best #MakanApaToday I've ever had. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐ŸŒด

geraineon,
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@agasramirez I just woke up and now I'm hungry

geraineon, to random
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Boosting this with caveats because I am personally a little uncomfortable with most discussion/meta about zhiji/zhiyin but other people might enjoy this

(This is on me, because I didn't specify and didn't know I was this uncomfortable until now)

RE: https://fandom.ink/users/thalassa/statuses/112526027579591334

geraineon,
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I don't know how to get explain other than it can feel rather exotifying sometimes and now I'm just overly sensitized to it

geraineon, to random
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Testing WuWa on controller and I hate it

Back to KB+mouse I go

geraineon, to random
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Hanae playing Lingyang (CV: Hanae) in WuWa, with guest OnoKen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezzoOQS_CLg

hisashibu haven't watched any of Hanae's streams, haha

(but it's late, so I sleep. cont tomorrow)

#WuWa #WutheringWaves #HanaeNatsuki #OnoKensho

geraineon, to random
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Okay that's it!

I said I'll go Linux the moment my windows tells me to upgrade again after I declined it twice and guess what? Today, the notification popped up again so this weekend I am fucking switching

geraineon,
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I said no goddamn it!! Twice!!!

geraineon,
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My friends on here who use Linux, be prepared for extremely noob questions from me

geraineon,
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@umadoshi thank you!

The fedi to Linux pipeline is real haha. So many people come out to offer their help

rakyat, to random
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I donโ€™t take the โ€œChinese people will eat everythingโ€ stereotype seriously until I saw this Reddit discussion and realized that Iโ€™m fine with most things mentioned here. (Though Iโ€™ve not tried balut, sago worms, fermented shark or roasted rat and not sure if I can take it)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/PWG8ErCHUS

geraineon,
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@rakyat I've not tried fermented shark, sago worms, guinea pig but I'd eat them, yeah

... The rest of the stuff in that reddit are mostly incredibly tame imo

geraineon,
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@rakyat there are many items on there I'm confused about. So many common things! Just eat it a different way la

geraineon, to random
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Recommending I Can Do It! (Now on the correct visibility setting)

I really enjoyed it this e-sports danmei novel (as you can probably see by how I finished 134 chapters, 11 extras in about five days ahaha)

Short summary of the novel

This is an e-sports story, with the romance happening between this streamer, Soft, who excels in flaming every single player in the League of Legends e-sports circuit (and every player he plays with) except for his idol, Road, with his idol, Road. Soft is an extremely talented player who basically spends all his time playing LoL, watching LoL and streaming for money. Due to circumstances, he joined Road's e-sports team as the new mid-laner (a position in LoL).

Thoughts

It's very fluffy, very sweet. The ML totally dotes on the MC, and does it so obviously too. The MC is basically a hissy cat who will claw and scratch everyone except ML (and ML's family...). Their poor manager has his hands full trying to manage this tea (him praying every night probably, "please, Soft, don't reply to trolls and don't flame back, please"). 10/10 would recommend if you are in the mood for fluff, comedy, sweet/healing, soft. Would probably not recommend if you do not game AND do not know league of legends at all. If you game but don't watch or play LoL, I think you'll be fine (lots of footnotes)

Some caveats

The KR-CN e-sports rivalry might get uncomfortable to read (some insults/comments are on accent, for example); also expect some of the usual beauty standards stuff in webnovels in description of how people look; main character is slightly less than 18 at the start of the novel (but the relationship doesn't start till he's 18)

The translation is here: https://tinysalttranslations.com/novels/completed/icdi/

#Danmei #ICanDoIt

geraineon,
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@Sollenbum Hope you enjoy when you get to it!

geraineon,
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@Sollenbum that's great! always happy when recs land โ€‹:genshin_venti_yay:โ€‹

so far it's thousand autumns... ? i forgot what else

geraineon,
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@Sollenbum oh right! looking forward to reading your thoughts on them~

geraineon, to random
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I read 42 danmei novels

I think that might be why my reading of any other novels have been so bad these past few years

geraineon,
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That's not counting those I dropped, e.g., 2ha, High Energy QR Code, TGCF

geraineon, to ErgoProxy
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Ergo proxy weekend:

We are skipping the Rei and Vincent show -_-

(Sorry but they have zero chemistry).

#ErgoProxy

geraineon,
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I wish there's a 1.5x speed button on crunchyroll because eps 16-18 were painful to watch (a slog due to our lack of investment in the rei-vincent romance)

i think this series could be shortened into 12 episodes or idk 16 eps, and it'll be fine.

more next week. I think we are now back in business about the non-romance parts

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geraineon,
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Not done thinking about this novel but more in a sense of why this worked for me. It's a story that's primarily about the MC and ML and e-sports. But the supporting characters are all fun and great too (though the Korean team at the end was kinda one dimensional mean) and I enjoyed reading all their interactions. It really helped that I liked the main character immediately, and the relationship was slow burn rather than Fall Madly in Love/Lust At First Glance (I hate that). It's a lot of little things, and I think ML was first intrigued because of MC's talent and ... unique personality (ahaha).

So, slow burn relationship that builds up, characters who I care about (more than just MC and ML), respect and care (I love terrible, awful, toxic, but i contain multitudes, i also love sweet, respectful, doting), adults who are caring (that nice scallion noodles uncle who only one had one line but warmed my heart! ML's parents!), and waves hands it felt like watching a soft, sweet iyashikei anime, and I do really like that genre!

And now I probably should read a non-webnovel before I reach for the next on my TBR (if I even stick to my TBR)

villainousfriend, to random
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Back to reading . ๐Ÿฅฐ This โ€˜ghost marketโ€™ reminds me of the market overt concept in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_overt

On the outskirts of the capital, there is a ghost market. It was originally a place where the children of some wealthy families took out their belongings and sold them, but they couldn't bear to lose face, so they set up stalls in the market late at night, with only one oil lamp lighting the stalls. It was bright, and people buying things couldn't see who was selling them. Later, this kind of market gradually became a climate and turned into a specific black market. Generally, the market opens on the third or fourth day and closes at dawn on the fifth day. Yushitai got wind that this black market had become a specific place for certain officials to sell bribes, and there was a force behind it. Liu Yuan, together with two officials from Yushitai and Dali Temple, disguised themselves as common people and went to the ghost market to get a feel for it. In order to disguise themselves, the three officials randomly bought some worthless things from the stalls. Liu Yuan bought this pen holder casually.

geraineon,
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@villainousfriend Zhang Ping's actual job is very rude for not being "solving cases"

geraineon, to random
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This description of Global Examination is perfect:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DanmeiNovels/s/K9MMcB9VnH

geraineon,
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This is also a good and accurate description of Kaleidoscope of Death:

Kaleidoscope of death [Are you or a loved one terminally ill? Perhaps you're about to be on death's door, but you don't have to walk through it! At the low-low price of probably-dying-anyway, you can complete 12 doors by finding the keys and then you can properly live the rest of your life! (P.s crossdressing is not required.)

Source: same reddit reply

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