a year after i started translating to embers we return, wrote up some thoughts: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/79522.html

Chapter 34 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (Shen Ni: I construct intricate mathematical models which allow me to touch the skin of other women, i.e. my wife) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/02/11/t...

Chapter 34 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (Shen Ni: I construct intricate mathematical models which allow me to touch the skin of other women, i.e. my wife) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/02/11/t...

for anyone who might want to check it out who are in chinese media fandom specifically, there are multiple active comms including: c-ent.dreamwidth.org baihe-media.dreamwidth.org cnovels.dreamwidth.org

I just made a Dreamwidth account! ruby6661.dreamwidth.org I'm hoping I'll use it consistently because I like its format a lot in theory

in the event i end up translating baihe (or really anything) professionally/for pay, it will be under a different name and i will not be promoting it under my fandom persona

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

Begging people who love discord servers to consider dreamwidth comms. I know it’s a big ask to go back to some unintuitive tech for fandom or any kind of social interaction, but I think it’s not a bad idea.

If you ever lose me on any site (bsky, discord, steam lol whereever)- you can always find me on my personal website guoldu.com where ill update other places to find me, plus ofc my email. If mutuals have personal websites put em in the comments! I love to make a bookmark 😌❤️‍🔥

Reviews: The Rose in the Abyss (深渊的玫瑰) by Wu Liao Dao Di (无聊到底) and Salieri and Mozart (萨列里与莫扎特) by Z Lu (Z鹿), both very enjoyable reads 🔗 review here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/79349.html

Just remembered a photoshop I had a little fun with.

screaming trust li yuan to bring the gay genderfuckery

Baihe book mail: 桃李不言 by Yi Zhan Ye Deng

Baihe book mail: As She Wished (如愿) by Qin Si (秦寺)

Baihe book mail: Greed (贪心) by Jing Wu (璟梧)

Baihe book mail: If I Could Mail You a Book by Yi Zhan Ye Deng (with author's signature + handwritten quote)

will be watching closely for signs of gay

Promotional art for the audio drama adaptation of Bowing Down (折腰), based on the novel by Qingtang Shuan Xiangcai

It is cover reveal time! The next book from Dancing Star Press is The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed. The cover was designed by the incredibly talented @guoldu.bsky.social, who was absolutely fabulous to work with and whose commissions are currently open!

just started jue ge's 凤凰花 and am kinda impressed that the 'downtrodden employee' in a ceo romance written all the way back in 2009 actually has a personality beyond 'plucky long-suffering candy girl'

Promotional art for the Piaopiao audio drama, based on the novel of the same title by Qi Xiao Huang Shu

once again over-engineering my baihe tbr pile for the next while. judge my reading choices here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/78736.html

may the year of the fire horse bring you resilience, forward momentum and the strength in community to enact change 🎇❤️‍🔥 (a few weeks early🤫) #马年 #万马奔腾 #guolduart

if any baihe comm members would be interested in a read-along of the beauty's blade, please comment here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/78534.html

every discussion about genAI "translations" that involves people justifying/normalising the use of it makes me so fucking mad. i have spent four hours editing ONE PAGE of a novella. 🫠🫠🫠

Chapter 33 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Li Si gets to shoot a really really big gun) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/01/21/t...

i would commit quite a lot of minor crimes to have art of this scene

Chapter 33 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Li Si gets to shoot a really really big gun) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/01/21/t...

Pre-orders now open for volume three of the manhua adaptation of Her Mountain, Her Sea

The indie Filipino short film "The Lovers" (Studio Heartbreak) is now complete, and will be released this summer on Youtube. In the meantime, here's a nice official poster illustrated by Ami Thompson. www.studioheartbreak.com www.catsuka.com/news/2023-05...

Pre-orders now open for The Guest (嘉宾, published in print as 别时茫茫) by Yu Shuang (鱼霜)

Promotional art for both seasons of the audio drama adaptation of Shrine, based on the novel by Qi Xiao Huang Shu

update: there are now NINE of these things

you're all gonna have to be more neutral (or positive even! but at least neutral) towards people you perceive as men if you want butches, mascs and trans people to trust you

i finished writing my "books i read in 2025" post yuerstruly.dreamwidth.org/6018.html

i'd have the same question tbh if i were a guest at this wedding

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Review: Memories of a Shanghai Summer (沪夏往事) by Shi Ci (是辞), Republican Era tragedy which did not quite work for me 🔗 read here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/77548.html

minguo's your wangxian (doodle for @francowitch.bsky.social who won the pact challenge for fall :)) #mdzs

Chapter 32 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Bian Jin continues to find herself extremely turned on despite even more blood and even more eldritch horrors) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2025/12/27/t...

how are there SIX mini-dramas on the theme of 'two sisters get engaged to two brothers for vague corporate dynastic reasons and end up fucking the wrong guy on their wedding night'

suddenly reminded of the time i was earnestly explaining the appeal of the takarazuka revue to a very proper, very elderly british lady and she stops me and says sweetly, 'i know, dear. i went to a girls' school'

My 2026 commission waitlist is officially open! This will remain open on a rolling basis unless I get really overwhelmed by responses 😂 so save the link! Pricing Guide, including sliding scale definitions: guoldu.com/pricing-guide Commission Form: guoldu.fillout.com/commission #commissionsopen

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

Review: Home for the Funeral (奔丧) by Nan Hu Tang (南胡唐), folk horror which (at least for me) did not quite live up to the hype around its author 🔗 review here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/77284.html

first up is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6I...

am i the only person in international 焚情 fandom (i.e. about five other people) whose favoured if 线 revolves around bian jin rather than shen ni

okay done for now! i'll add a spot for some other things once i'm ready to release them >:D

i've given myself three days off for christmas so time to watch questionable HK action flicks with surprise lesbians i guess

Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)