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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.

screenshot from game Winter Burrow, a mouse in knit clothes inside a tree stump house with furniture and a fireplace warming it, menu boxes in corners

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

Thanks! 😊

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.

Aka: why no There's Something Wrong with the Chief posts and whatever happened to How to Survive as a Villian 3 pre-order posts.

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.

Cover of book 5 of series Peerless.

Pic of a buckwheat milk tea from Ten One Teahouse with their logo on it.

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

Drowning Sorrows 2 and Peerless!

Storygraph monthly wrap up September 2025, 1 book, 695 pages.

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.

Picture of Rosmei English edition of The Defectives by Priest book 1.

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?

Curious to hear what kind of cozy places you like to read danmei in!

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 and shrimpzun moon viewing in the courtyard

luo bugge appears with xin mo!

- 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.