Below is the link to the stories, hope you guys enjoy! (3/3)
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and contain many incipient themes that can later be found in her novels. So far we have translated two stories: "A Three-Day Chronicle" and "The Seer." We have posted the stories on AO3 and will be updating our translation of the other three stories in the near future. (2/3)
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)
🔥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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- I think both sides make valid points so I have conflicted feelings about this topic and will keep my big mouth shut
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 -
Block instantly.
He's Hamlet without the sentimentality or hesitation so he suceeded, but guess what? He still couldn't escape his father's fate. He lost his Ophelia all the same.
A bit off-topic but this is why 东宫(Goodbye My Princess) left a lasting impression on me - as a revenge story, it's not so much a wish-fulfilling fantasy as a cautionary tale. The protagonist became a willing puppet of the power he seized in order to carry out his revenge. -
- Where the justice system no longer cares, fantasies of vigilantism thrives. It's for the same reason that wuxia literature became popular toward the end of the Tang Dynasty, because the crumbling and corrupt empire could no longer offer legal protection to its citizens.
- comment on how and when this contemporary trend started, but it defintely has something to do with the unignorable Chinese social reality of common people finding it harder and harder to address personal and social injustices by seeking legal recourse. -
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
It's about the challenges of young love - how to face your insecurities and flaws in a relationship, and how to grow up together without growing apart. (2/2)
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.
- he was spared a gruesome death as a child because his existence caught his shizun's attention, so his mind has been telling him ever since: I might as well be dead if shizun doesn't notice me; I don't exist if shizun doesn't remember me.
I will be remembered as my shizun's one and only by traumatising him so much that I'll be the one and only guy to inflict so much horror on him.
Poor guy never outgrew his childhood trauma -
- even when the price for that is your existence being wiped from their memory along with the knowledge of how much you loved them. Yunhai says no thanks, it's not love if it's not ultimately about me -
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 -
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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🌸
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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)
translation of a poem from 2ha, for Mo Ran's birthday🥳 #2ha #MoRan #二哈
