Want want want. Fox and monk, must have.

Beginning of a new reading challenge year is wacky cause I want to race through being finished with everything already instead of pacing and accepting I have the entire year ahead.

Winter Burrow it is. It's so cute and reminiscent of Mouse Guard's art.

While part of me wants to race into my reading pile and get a head start on challenges, another part wants to just take a break and work through my gaming pile (like Winter Burrow, Never Alone, Where Winds Meet, Okami, Threefold Recital, Chants of Sennaar...) that I still haven't started either.

December 2025 Storygraph Wrap-up. Ended year with a danmei one day shy. Boyfriends is my new "wish I lived in their world" read, Fox & Little Tanuki new fanboy obsession (esp Tachibana & Mikumo the dog-wolf pair).

7 days until Hong Kong!

It is Storygraph October Wrap-up Day. Better than September at least, getting time management skills back.

You can always tell when a danmei novel release has been delayed or pushed back when you go on social media and no one has posted pics of their shiny new copies or ahhhh so excited posts.

Finally have my copy of the final volume of Peerless! Too bad I still haven't started #2 🤣

My only excuse is adjusting to going back to class and flailing alot. But Copper Coins was great!

Should read library book due Monday. Should finish reading challenge books. Should start buddy read book. Should finish 3 other danmei series I have going. Really should be studying for class!! Nope, I'm reading Copper Coins instead. I'm getting Wangxian vibes and I'm here for that.

We know Copper Coins just came out when the feeds are suddenly flooded with art for it 🤣. I'm actually curious if it has any other similarities to NanChan given the monk & dragon characters.

It's here! 7 weeks, shortest time to get a Rosmei order ever for me. Picture can't do justice to how sparkly this cover is. New danmei to read!

First week of classes: survived. Amount of vocab forgotten: too much. Summer break rest is nice but not keeping up with practice is pretty much the should-be-expected setback.

Animal crossing x Svsss #shenyuan #shenqingqiu #svsss #svsssxanimalcrossing

Teach queer history in schools if only to stop queer teens from incorrectly correcting me about events I was part of that happened before they were born.

August Storygraph Wrap-Up Day!

I kinda want to start reading Coins of Destiny while playing the Immortal Life game. They feel like they would go together. But another part actually wants to read NanChan. And why on Earth did Rosmei not translate the title of NanChan unlike every other danmei book they translated to English?

Going back to school feels like Autumn. So much so that I'm breaking out the pumpkin spice scones and Black Leaf's Chaider tea (which apple bits in it and reminds me so much of mulled apple cider) to wind down with today.

Finally the weekend starts, mad hell week part 1 is over. Three day weekend to get ready for part 2 and the start of class. Hoping to also clear the currently reading queue (4 books go!).

So. Exhausted. Pre-start-of-semester work hits hard.

One week to go until class starts! Hoping I haven't forgotten everything I need for it.

Brush test #svsss #sairusb liushen

- bughe must have the kindest, best shrimpzun in the three realms - even though they’re both luo bughe… for what reason has this one been able to meet *that* sort of shen shrimpqiu, while he had only met a rotten crustacean—vindictive, petty, & jealous to the core for what reason?!

I feel so invested in the boys of Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory. I want to see them all happy in the end.

I think what I love about Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory is that it's the first danmei I've read where I felt I could actually connect to the characters as a mlm guy. I think it's the ourownvoices difference.

#svsss #q

While part of me is holding out for a 6 guy polycule Riverbay Road feels like it's doing its hardest to keep you guessing about who (except the mc and the guy he's already dating) will end up with who.

Tried getting my Hua Cheng on this morning doing hanzi copybook pages with my old fountain pens. Discovered both old platinum preppys I own have somehow cracked. Too bad, they were really nice smooth affordable gateway pens. Replaced a broken nib on my noodler's ahab but now it's so scratchy.

Low energy, lots of hugging. Sounds about right.

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Only partway through my first book by this author but I think Fei Tian Ye Xiang aka Arise Zhang aka Chicken Gege aka too many names is my new favorite danmei author. Or in other words, I'm loving Rivebay Road so so much.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78160541

I think I need to overhaul my to-read pile though. I've put alot of depressing or traumatic stuff on there, mainly because that's what Queer lit is allowed to be. It's expected. I want to make that pile more funny and cozy. Life is traumatic enough, I need my fiction more uplifting right now.

Starting Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory this morning. Heard this danmei is funny which I need after the last couple trauma and horror books I've been reading.

Determined to finish tonight, even if I have to close out the cafe. Which is actually in less than an hour 😅

Lately...

My take on the discourse of the day is that male performance peaked here:

Here moots, enjoy yourself with this danmei bingo 🔥 And remember to tag me, I want to see yours!! #danmei #mxtx

It's been a little over a month since I finished my last intensive Chinese class and it feels like I've rested enough. Last night it really hit home that my next class starts in less than a month. The drive to study and panic-prep has begun.

Totally forgot about Storygraph wrap-up for July. Read alot of manga (mostly BL), a couple danmei novels, even really interesting non-fic. It really set the mood, reading Shirokuma Cafe while listening to its anime ost in the background. I want to someday re-read it in the original Japanese.

#svsss #人渣反派自救系统 cat AU pt. 2: liu shidi is very helpful at helping clear meridians.

swimmy

if youre like me, yaoi day is every day

Okay, 6 books, 1906 pages left to go in reading challenge due by November. 4/6 of the titles are lgbtqia+ Then it'll be one long gay danmei/BL winter.

🫳🦊 #TGCF

Avoiding reading books I should be by reading other books. 🤷‍♂️ Instead of finishing the reading challenge I need to do (of which the categories no longer fit any danmei) I went to my absurd danmei stack. Was going to start Yu Wu and get the trauma over with but avoided by starting Sha Po Lang.

The Rabbit God (兔兒神) of Fujian is a rare divine figure in Chinese folklore: a guardian of male-male love. Once a mortal named Hu Tianbao, also called Butterfly Bao, he fell for a Qing-era inspector—silently watching him from afar, shadowing his travels, and once, peeking at him alone. 1/2

Looks right to me 😁📖🐇 Going to go finish reading danmei. Specifically, Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating v1.

if you see this post a character with white hair! Lu Guang!