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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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 -

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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 -

i had eight hours of sleep and stayed off twitter and my depression went away

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)

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/

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.

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 -

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🌸

this is a conference talk on danmei censorship I gave, it's a bit long and boring but would love any feedback!🥹 (1/3)

translation of a poem from 2ha, for Mo Ran's birthday🥳 #2ha #MoRan #二哈

thoughts on TGCF audio drama episodes 12, 13, 17, 18 #TGCF #HeavenOfficialsBlessing

meta about danmei censorship #danmei

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

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)

received two asks about Chinese and English readers different perception of TGCF and here they are (1/2) #TGCF #XieLian #HuaCheng

#2ha #ranwan

academic Hualian shipping #TGCF

new batch of danmei academic excerpts coming your way (1/2)

some excerpts from academic papers on danmei #danmei #TGCF (1/2)

been reading some academic papers on danmei and posting excerpts on Tumblr, here're some of the popular ones (1/2)

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 ghosts in TGCF #TGCF #HeavenOfficialsBlessing

about the significance of asceticism in xianxia&wuxia novels #TGCF #MDZS #ThousandAutumns

TGCF author's notes translation part 1/2 #TGCF

random thoughts I wrote on TGCF chapter 34 when I was rerading the book last year #TGCF #XieLian

got asked who my fav mxtx characters are on Tumblr and here's the post #TGCF #svsss

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

did a poll on Tumblr, more people chose the first option than I expected which is sad to see #danmei #tgcf #2ha

about Hua Cheng's Star of Solitude #TGCF #HeavenOfficialsBlessing #HuaCheng

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 the narrative voice in MXTX's works #mdzs #tgcf

thoughts on Yuwu (1/2) #yuwu #RemnantsOfFilth #ximang

various asks I received about the haitang flower in 2ha (1/2) #2ha #ranwan

post comparing Xue Yang and Yan Wushi (with some Hua Cheng in there) #MDZS #QianQiu #TGCF

meta I wrote on Binghe's eyes #svsss #LuoBinghe

post I wrote on Wen Kexing when I was reading Faraway Wanderers #wordofhonor #wenkexing #tianyake

ask about Hua Cheng #huacheng #tgcf

about the Venerable of Empty Words #tgcf

about loss and oblivion #2ha #yuwu

snippet from an ask I answered, some thoughts on Hua Cheng #huacheng #tgcf

thoughts on Gu Mang #yuwu #gumang

old post I wrote about Fengqing #fengxin #muqing #tgcf

an ask about Jun Wu #tgcf

a really old post I wrote about Mu Qing👇 #TGCF

been reading Qiang Jin Jiu hehe #qiangjinjiu #balladof

#tgcf #hualian #HuaCheng