baiwu-jinji
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danmei & Chinese culture metas Tumblr:
https://www.tumblr.com/baiwu-jinji
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Hey guys! I'm baiwu-jinji from Tumblr, I left the dumpster fire that is twitter and moved here, so I moved all my danmei/Chinese culture metas here too. Will use this as one of my main danmei blogs from now on🌸
about 2 months ago
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MXTX's early short stories: Hey guys! My friend Ari (alliumms on Tumblr) and I are excited to bring you translations of five short stories written by MXTX during her student days. These early stories are equal parts entertaining and thought-provoking... (1/3)
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WangXian Against ICE🔥Prompts in process
about 1 month ago
🔥CREATOR SIGN UPS FOR THE WANGXIAN GOTCHA AGAINST ICE ARE NOW OPEN🔥 ICE is kidnapping people, keeping them in inhumane conditions and horrifically abusing them. Let's channel our love of WangXian into fighting back!!
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추가
2 months ago
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From talking to people, looking at fandom discourse, and my experience of translating danmei so far, I gathered there's a bit of a translators vs fans situation where translators in general prefer more localisation and fans in general prefer less localisation -
about 1 month ago
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
Block instantly.
add a skeleton here at some point
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I think there's something to be said about Chinese drama's obsession with the Count of Monte Christo type of revenge tales, where the protagonist comes back from the dead, receives a total upgrade, executes a perfect revenge, and rides off into the sunset. I haven't watched enough cdramas to -
about 1 month ago
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away
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I've been translating My Little Prince for the past few months and it's a really fun experience! My Little Prince starts as a slapstick comedy with two boys constantly at each other's throats, but grows into a sensitive love story not without its poignant and vulnerable moments. (1/2)
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they)
about 2 months ago
I talked about the 冒烟小茶壶奶茶, contemporary to-go teas in China that come with a
#tea
pet in the shape of a tiny teapot (filled with dry ice so it swirls with smoke). They spread like wildfire across China. Now the Guangzhou teashop that created it, Tingtea, has just opened a branch in the U.S. 1/
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Mae Tang 董美妍
about 2 months ago
Many reasons given, including but not limited to: patriarchy sucks, misogyny sucks, there are two hot men getting it on, women want to see equal partnerships, “non-anxious masculinity – masculinity that doesn’t require women to constantly affirm it", accessing more masculine parts of self, etc, etc.
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Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?
The explosive popularity of the gay hockey TV drama reveals women’s desire for sex and romance without violence or hierarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/13/why-do-women-like-heated-rivalry
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Started reading Three Hundred Years of Longing 不见上仙三百年, 20 something chapters in and the first character that captured me is Yunhai, the biggest pick-me in the three realms with a spuriously platonic obsession with his shizun. To love selflessly is wanting peace and happiness for your beloved -
about 2 months ago
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Hey guys! I'm baiwu-jinji from Tumblr, I left the dumpster fire that is twitter and moved here, so I moved all my danmei/Chinese culture metas here too. Will use this as one of my main danmei blogs from now on🌸
about 2 months ago
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this is a conference talk on danmei censorship I gave, it's a bit long and boring but would love any feedback!🥹 (1/3)
about 2 months ago
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translation of a poem from 2ha, for Mo Ran's birthday🥳
#2ha
#MoRan
#二哈
about 2 months ago
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thoughts on TGCF audio drama episodes 12, 13, 17, 18
#TGCF
#HeavenOfficialsBlessing
about 2 months ago
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meta about danmei censorship
#danmei
about 2 months ago
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an example of the language of class struggle in communist propaganda being used for comedic effect (it's humorous because it's out of place in an ancient setting where people speak classical Chinese, whereas the communist lingo is what every Chinese kid grew up with)
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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this is a MDZS meta from the Chinese website douban I translated a few years ago, if I'm entirely honest I love this meta more than the novel itself, and I can only hope to do justice to the beauty of the original prose to some degree
#mdzs
part (1/3)
about 2 months ago
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received two asks about Chinese and English readers different perception of TGCF and here they are (1/2)
#TGCF
#XieLian
#HuaCheng
about 2 months ago
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#2ha
#ranwan
about 2 months ago
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academic Hualian shipping
#TGCF
about 2 months ago
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new batch of danmei academic excerpts coming your way (1/2)
about 2 months ago
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some excerpts from academic papers on danmei
#danmei
#TGCF
(1/2)
about 2 months ago
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been reading some academic papers on danmei and posting excerpts on Tumblr, here're some of the popular ones (1/2)
about 2 months ago
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been reading Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, and there's so much similarity with Xie Lian's experience, the same lessons learned from suffering and the absolute lowest point in their lives
#TGCF
#XieLian
about 2 months ago
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about ghosts in TGCF
#TGCF
#HeavenOfficialsBlessing
about 2 months ago
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about the significance of asceticism in xianxia&wuxia novels
#TGCF
#MDZS
#ThousandAutumns
about 2 months ago
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TGCF author's notes translation part 1/2
#TGCF
about 2 months ago
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random thoughts I wrote on TGCF chapter 34 when I was rerading the book last year
#TGCF
#XieLian
about 2 months ago
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got asked who my fav mxtx characters are on Tumblr and here's the post
#TGCF
#svsss
about 2 months ago
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So thrilled by the licensing of Wushuang in English because it's one of my fav danmei novels and so underrated! I wrote some thoughts on Wushuang after finishing the novel and here it is
#wushuang
#peerless
about 2 months ago
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did a poll on Tumblr, more people chose the first option than I expected which is sad to see
#danmei
#tgcf
#2ha
about 2 months ago
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about Hua Cheng's Star of Solitude
#TGCF
#HeavenOfficialsBlessing
#HuaCheng
about 2 months ago
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I finally started reading the revised version of TGCF. Initial impression is that the language is more literary where it used to be colloquial, and the tone is more sober where it used to be vivacious. MXTX's narration in the old TGCF has a bubbly, effervescent feeling, -
about 2 months ago
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about the narrative voice in MXTX's works
#mdzs
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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thoughts on Yuwu (1/2)
#yuwu
#RemnantsOfFilth
#ximang
about 2 months ago
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various asks I received about the haitang flower in 2ha (1/2)
#2ha
#ranwan
about 2 months ago
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post comparing Xue Yang and Yan Wushi (with some Hua Cheng in there)
#MDZS
#QianQiu
#TGCF
about 2 months ago
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meta I wrote on Binghe's eyes
#svsss
#LuoBinghe
about 2 months ago
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post I wrote on Wen Kexing when I was reading Faraway Wanderers
#wordofhonor
#wenkexing
#tianyake
about 2 months ago
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ask about Hua Cheng
#huacheng
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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about the Venerable of Empty Words
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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about loss and oblivion
#2ha
#yuwu
about 2 months ago
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snippet from an ask I answered, some thoughts on Hua Cheng
#huacheng
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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thoughts on Gu Mang
#yuwu
#gumang
about 2 months ago
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old post I wrote about Fengqing
#fengxin
#muqing
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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an ask about Jun Wu
#tgcf
about 2 months ago
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a really old post I wrote about Mu Qing👇
#TGCF
about 2 months ago
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been reading Qiang Jin Jiu hehe
#qiangjinjiu
#balladof
about 2 months ago
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#tgcf
#hualian
#HuaCheng
about 2 months ago
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