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The three volumes of the My Ghost Girlfriend trilogy, arranged in a row

Baihe book mail: the My Ghost Girlfriend Trilogy by Taiwanese author Zui Liuli (醉琉璃)

Print edition of volume two of Last Night at the PTA Conference/I Wish I Knew How to Quit You/There Are Always Teachers Who Want to Ask Out Parents, surrounded by merch

Baihe book mail: volume two of Last Night at the PTA Conference/I Wish I Knew How to Quit You/There Are Always Teachers Who Want to Ask Out Parents (总有老师要请家长) by Jing Wu (璟梧)

Print copy of Dual Channel, surrounded by merch

Baihe book mail: Dual Channel (双声道) by Yi Zhi Mao Bu Yu (一只猫不语)

当我尝试男装明制汉服👀 - 小红书 3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书

🔗 source: xhslink.com/o/2a9Qbbcxkhi

Four pictures of Chinese actress Li Yuan. She is dressed in men's Ming Dynasty robes (red) with a black hat.

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Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return

Extract from Chapter 30 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: ‘Shijie, did my parents not want me?’ she asked Bian Jin one day. ‘Why did they leave me?’ Bian Jin had never been particularly good at offering comfort, and this incident provided ample proof of it. She racked her brains for a good long while, trying to work out a response to Shen Ni’s question. Finally she said, ‘Perhaps it’s not that they didn’t want you. Perhaps they’re dead, just like my parents.’ ‘Oh,’ said Shen Ni. None of the gloom lifted from her mood. For the next two days, no trace of a smile crossed her pretty little face. Bian Jin allowed her to skip her usual helping of spinach at dinner, but even that did nothing to cheer her up.

Chapter 30 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which we learn that Bian Jin is Bad at the art of comforting the afflicted)

🔗read here: douqi.blog/2025/11/24/t...

also the thing she says to the poor kid's poor mother at the end. helppppp

content note: violent child death

Extract from Chapter 30 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: ‘Who said you could go?’ snarled Li Si, her sharp eyes glinting with a lethal edge. Her grip tightened so forcefully around Dou Xuanji’s wrist that the latter found it impossible to break free. The sound of Dou Xuanji’s bones breaking echoed around them with shocking clarity. The very next moment, however, Dou Xuanji had a dagger in her hand and was pointing it straight at Li Si’s throat. With the finely-honed instincts of a warrior who spent her days walking the cliff-edge between life and death, she’d whipped it out of its sheath even before Li Si had laid a hand on her. The sharp tip of the dagger pressed against Li Si’s skin; with just a little more force, Dou Xuanji would be able to split her throat open from ear to ear. ‘Do I need to ask your permission to stay or go?’ said Dou Xuanji, turning her head slightly so that she could stare Li Si right in the eye. Her own gaze was cold and unyielding.

Dou Xuanji's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day continues

Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return

Extract from Chapter 30 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: ‘Shijie, did my parents not want me?’ she asked Bian Jin one day. ‘Why did they leave me?’ Bian Jin had never been particularly good at offering comfort, and this incident provided ample proof of it. She racked her brains for a good long while, trying to work out a response to Shen Ni’s question. Finally she said, ‘Perhaps it’s not that they didn’t want you. Perhaps they’re dead, just like my parents.’ ‘Oh,’ said Shen Ni. None of the gloom lifted from her mood. For the next two days, no trace of a smile crossed her pretty little face. Bian Jin allowed her to skip her usual helping of spinach at dinner, but even that did nothing to cheer her up.

Chapter 30 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(in which we learn that Bian Jin is Bad at the art of comforting the afflicted)

🔗read here: douqi.blog/2025/11/24/t...

very much enjoying the glass AND the mush AND the Creatures

trailer

Poster for 犟骨, starring Peng Yaqi as Jiang Jinghua and Zhi Chun He as Zheng Xingxing

this mini-drama starts airing on monday and i will be watching closely for signs of gay

i remember writing a review about it way back when i read it (the gist: people probably read this for the sex scenes) but now i can't find it for some reason

i vote for the alpaca one. and then the mi nao nao so you can tell me what it's like and i can be spared the experience

a man standing next to a car with the trunk open and #raydonovan #showtime written on the bottom ALT: a man standing next to a car with the trunk open and #raydonovan #showtime written on the bottom

Woop! I have been "selected to participate in Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)'s Kindle Translate beta" which is Amazon's new AI-powered translation service, and apparently they'd "love to hear" what I think about this!

Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

i have looked at some of the english translation previews of other Thai GL books and gone ...

i read the taiwanese edition of gap which was pretty readable! it was pretty much how i'd expect a not-that-deep romance novel written in chinese to be like haha

Volume one of the Taiwanese edition of Thai GL novel The Loyal Pin

Volume two of the Taiwanese edition of Thai GL novel The Loyal Pin

Cover designs for the Taiwanese edition of The Loyal Pin by Monmaw

Volume one of the Taiwanese edition of Us by Chaoplanoy

Volume two of the Taiwanese edition of Us by Chaoplanoy

Came across some Taiwanese editions of Thai GL novels recently while trawling for (even more) stuff to buy. Here's the cover design for the Taiwanese edition of Us by Chaoplanoy

Cover of the And Other Stories edition of the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue

LRT: it's also coming out from British indie press And Other Stories (not to be confused with the clothing brand And Other Stories)

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

i'm also curious. i need to know if i should be slamming on the hints harder in the translation or leaving it more subtle

so apropos of absolutely nothing, i have two questions for anyone who's been following this so far:

(1) how old do you think li ruoyuan is?
(2) how old do you think li ruoyuan looks?

they all want their daughters to be Kickass Mighty Girls because they know what awaits Hot ones and Mothers

cannot wait!!! (but will wait patiently)

Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.

oooh YES