#青色羽翼

[tls123]

new new post so that the other one doesn't get too long! as always here are the links:

novel updates, carrd, raws, translation <3

last update: 01/09/24

testimonial by: @annagrzinskys find it here !

from now on i will simply update the main image (counter) and only do so for those who have finished the novel. the latest testimonial from the most recent satisfied customer will be either linked (for sent-in messages) or added as a screenshot (for tags) just above the read more and then moved under the cut with the rest.

older testimonials:

update #1

update #2

update #3

update #4

update #5 — the first from this post!

extra testimonial

update #6 -> @/shizunfuckers sent it in as a message, find and read it here

update #7 -> @/kimdokjas also sent in a message, here's a link

update #8 -> @/waterlilyvioletfog 's sent something, find it here !

[isolatedcorner]

Kudos to Gao Neng Er Wei Ma for establishing a solid M/F friendship lol, strong female characters (that aren’t villainised) are so hard to find in unlimited flow danmei novels

[sephirthoughts]

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE FUCKING BOOKS EVER

just

i can't explain how good it is

Book of the Week: Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Author: Cyan Wings/Qing Se Yu Yi (青色羽翼)

Genre: cultivation, ancient setting, danmei

Rating: T

My Synopsis: When a book detailing future events falls from the sky and lands into his hands, Devil Venerable Wenren È becomes curious about how his life could possibly become so entangled with some random female cultivator with terrible, terrible taste in men that he would give his life for her. Yin Hanjiang, his totally-not-in-love-with-shizun disciple, would also like to know.

My Actual Review: If "girl, stand up!" were a novel, this would be it. A great deal of it is humor from Wenren È tryna psychoanalyze why Baili Qingmiao has such terrible taste in men—because all the other women around him are also like “we don’t know wtf is wrong with her either” 😭 Wenren È also has a personality that reminds me a little of Tianlang-jun from svsss (minus the deadbeat dad part). Moments of angst do show up, but they are mostly around character backstory, so be prepared for that when we get flashbacks. I feel like this book has a similar payoff style to 2ha, in that certain details of some characters' backstories are presented early on in a very matter-of-fact way, only to have those details turned on their heads later in the story with the addition of some withheld information. Easily one of my favorite narrative structure styles.

Yes there is an age gap in this romance. No it is not grooming. Wenren È picks the child Yin Hanjiang up out of a corpse pile and drops him off at a waterfall for ten years to basically raise himself lmao. They don't get together until they are both adults. For real content warnings, because the plot of this story is the revision of a stallion, male power fantasy novel, all the scum behaviors of the (previous) male protagonist are shown to be addressed, so yeah.

Translation: complete

[kimdokjas]

tag games! 💌

i'm so late and i'm 100% sure i missed several of these because tumblr only keeps notifications for the last ??? who knows how many months. so sorry for the delay! i promise i wasn't ignoring them i genuinely just forgot 😭

edit: i had this drafted since january 18 and i forgot to post it. again 💀 i'm leaving it exactly as it was as a capsule in time for myself though

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tagged by @orviposition @karura @misakarose @hansooyung @milaghoul - thank you for the tag mira, may, tay, roy, and mila! 💕💕 these were actually three separate tag games but since they were really similar i decided to combine them!

tag someone you want to know AND/OR some of your besties

favorite color: blue!

3 ships: yoohankim (orv), llojavi (tged), shiguang (sgdr)

first ship ever: merthur (? genuinely can't remember sorry my liege)

last song: IS - sue

currently listening to: dizzy bezerko album by unlike pluto (nothing but bangers it's insane)

last movie: children who chase lost voices (2011)

currently watching: sabikui bisco, a sign of affection, cherry magic, mr. villain's day off, solo leveling, 7th time loop, dungeon meshi

other stuff I watched this last year: my main obsessions were buddy daddies, trigun stampede, moriarty the patriot

shows I dropped this last year/didn't finish: i rarely drop shows but i had to pause to your eternity bc it was making me cry too hard lmaoo

currently reading: the greatest estate developer, sabikui bisco, lord of the mysteries, thriller trainee, and a bunch of manhwa/manhua

currently consuming: coffee (decaf bc caffeine is now poison to me)

currently craving: idk i think a cinnamon roll could fix me actually

currently working on: crocheting a snoopy-themed gift for my mom's bday!

current obsession: tged brainrot babeyyy

sweet/spicy/savory? savory!

relationship status: happily single amen

last thing I googled: ranjatai

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tagged by @aomitois thank you tem! 💞

Which feeling that has no name are you?

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tagged by @userfrieren thank you sm for tagging me jenna! 💖

alias/name: gaby

birthday: sep 3

zodiac: virgo

height: too tall

hobbies: reading novels, playing video games, making gifs

favourite colour: blue

favourite book: omniscient reader's viewpoint !!!!! it changed my life please read it i am on my knees

last song: 云与海 - 阿YueYue

last movie/show: the middle

recent read: i think the last thing i finished was mdzs (i say this when i haven't even managed to finish the extras lol)

inspiration: finding something that hits like orv is what keeps me going ngl

story behind url: idc if i have a kim dokja url i WILL beat the kdj kinnie allegations 💪

fun fact: i know at least the basics of 11 languages!

what’s the colour palette of your name?

(duplicated image for sizing) i actually love this! these are all colors that i would normally wear bc i'm a big fan of subdued shades with a slight touch of earth tones!

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tagged by @sugaaz and @hansooyung to do this picrew! thank you moon and roy 💕

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tagged by @koushuwu to do this picrew! tysm mica this was so cool! 💖

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tagged by @sawaisanna to post a wip - thank you malina! 💞

i don't have any edits in the works atm, but here's a wip from a fic i'll likely never post.

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top six reads of 2023

tagged by @tls123 - tysm francesca! 💖

global examination by 木苏里 *

devil venerable also wants to know by 青色羽翼

thriller trainee by 妄鸦 *

the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa

mist unlimited by 微风几许

camera lucida by roland barthes

(*) haven't finished these yet

first things first can i just point out how fucking funny it looks to list danmei and philosophical books together bc it's sending me 😭

i read relatively "few" books in 2023 but that's only because i spent the most time reading two monstrous books that unfortunately didn't make it to my top 6 :/ (iykyk)

it seems like 2023 was the year of narratives that break out of their confines, self-awareness, and deconstructing paradigms <3

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💫 preference 💫

tagged by @aomitois - tysm tem!

ancient or modern

bitter or sweet

chocolate or vanilla

coffee or tea

create or destroy

day or night

early bird or night owl

freckles or dimples

gold or silver

greek mythology or egyptian mythology

macarons or eclairs

hot or cold

thunder or lightning

typewritten or handwritten

secret garden or secret library

spicy or mild

dark magic or light magic

virtue or vice

ocean or desert

moon or stars

rough or smooth

mermaids or sirens

known or unknown

rain or snow

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tagging for any of these: (no pressure!) @icythot-bakubitch @ruanbaijie @feitanporter @itoshisae @dokjaism

@mudanonaito @himawaari @aroacehirano @mauxanhduong @apparently-artless

@72g @miyamiwu @focryst @justapieceintheirgames @smol-ackerman + anyone else who wants to join!

[endless-season]

Danmei Rec Meme!

How long have you been into danmei, how did you get into it / what was your first danmei?

I read MDZS in 2018 if that counts? But otherwise I saw Global Examination randomly mentioned in around September last year and thought it looked interesting. Read the manhua, enjoyed it, continued with the novel and have been randomly reading stuff since. (English Vol 1 is open for preorders btw!)

Favourite danmei?

Global Examination by Mu Su Li

Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin by Qi Jing Nan Qu

Favourite couples / characters?

Don't have a particular answer so I'll go with the two MCs from my first two faves above :D You Huo and Chi XiaoChi. Competant, badass, rebellious, q_q puts themselves at risk to help others. JiuHuo and LouChi are both very soft and adorable and wholesome ships that fight their way to be together q_q.

Most recently read danmei?

I'm currently reading After The Tyrant Differentiated into an Omega?

Any favourite authors?

Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat 肉包不吃肉 Her writing is just so intense! So much drama, so much angst, so many tears. For mature audiences only! If you've haven't read any of her stuff see content warnings beforehand.

Other authors I’ve eyed: Cyan Wings 青色羽翼, A Lifetime of Beautiful Clothes 一世华裳

Any popular danmei you aren't particularly a fan of?

Hmm. I haven't been able to get into any of Priest's works. Might be the writing style, I managed to finish Mo Du which was nice but somehow just don't feel satisfied :X

Also I liked MDZS and TGCF but didn't particularly enjoy SVSSS.

Anything you've been meaning to read but still haven't?

Ballad of Sword and Wine / Qiang Jin Jiu - tried a few times but finding it hard to get through the narration / heavy world building. Will try again at some point.

The Earth Is Online - struggling to keep interested in the beginning chapters

Choose a random (the weirder and baitier, the better) memorable scene/danmei to describe!

MC has a dream where ML is tied up. Has no idea why. Dreams materialise. Wakes up and finds Dream!ML tied up. ML also wakes up, and sees his Dream!MC glaring at them. *Awkward silence* Dream!ML starts flirting with MC. Everyone is horrified.

Are there any particular genres / tropes you enjoy / don't enjoy? Aka - any useful info for people to send you recs ;D?

I am a sucker for amnesia tropes and hidden identity tropes. Also tend to appreciate light hearted narration / comedic undertones. Which probably explains my two faves lmao. Mystery and angst keep me going.

Any recommendations to give? Badly describe them in 2 sentences. (Or however you like, your choice.)

Trying to avoid popular ones so here goes!!!

Global Examination - Infinite flow. 2 madmen on opposite sides bond over their mutual fondness for setting things on fire. They both have amnesia from a few years ago? How suspicious...

Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin - My favourite Quick Transmigration. MC and his system break up toxic relationships in other worlds whilst MC still processing the grief of losing his belated childhood crush who passed away over 10 years ago and left him traumatised.

Any of Meatbun's novels (2ha/The Husky and his White Cat Shizun, Yu Wu/Remnants of Filth, bab/Case File Compendium) - Too much angst and too many plot twists.

Record of the Missing Sect Master - Fun shameless schemeing MC gets revenge by pissing off all the antagonists and uncovering conspiracies while ML fondly indulges him.

Mr Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life - Overpowered but retired MC who is hiding his superpowered identity wants to live a peaceful life, but ML who is also hiding his superpowered identity keeps getting forced to go to work (work = saving the world). In an attempt to get ML to work less, MC hires suspicious people to start a money laundering business.

Breaking Through the Clouds - More realistic/serious tone compared to others on this list. Modern urban crime solving.

Married Thrice to a Salted Fish

Devil Vernerable Also Wants To Know

Transmigration into the Heartthrob's cannon fodder childhood friend / Everyone Loves The Cannon Fodder - modern school life

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish

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Tag with #danmeirecmeme for posterity! @ anyone you'd like to see answer this~

Tagging:

@incineraryperiphery @qserasera @unforth @izumisays @stuffedtoytiger

[owlmaya]

posted a new devil venerable fic on ao3 (it’s abo)

warm-blooded by Owlmaya - 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings https://archiveofourown.org/works/59010076 prostřednictvím @ao3org

[yuanzhous]

giggling and kicking my feet: they're sooooo insane about each other < 3

[mintychocochips]

Prompt: Baili Qingmao x Shu Yanyan x Qiu Congxue polycule being failgirls together.

For @gaywarcriminals for @danmei-action

[inkubuzzz]

The next chapter of Ouroboros is out!!!

Ouroboros - Chapter 2 - inkubuzz - 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings [Archive of Our Own]

[kennak]

河野太郎が、「年末調整を廃止して全納税者が確定申告する税制にする」とXで宣言して炎上や賛同やらされている問題。これはずっと以前から理想的な税制として語られてきたもので、別に太郎が急に閃いた事ではない。 https://x.com/konotarogomame/status/1830737429361504665/photo/1 https://nordot.app/1203999108206085074 　 シャウプ勧告 元々はGHQが戦前の日本の旧弊で反民主的な税制を是正せんとした税制改造（シャウプ勧告）に端を発する。つまりは民主的税制案である。 戦前の日本では納税単位がイエ単位であったり、戦時増税として物品税が多く設定されている為に市場じゃなくて個人売買した方がお得とか、税務署自体もやたら威張っているなどの問題があった。イエ単位の納税は個人がイエに縛られている事を前提とするので反自由、反民主的であり、会社員世帯が税額の面で不利になる。戦前は資本主義が未発達で会社員は限られたエリート的な身分だったが、これが大衆化して給与も下がったら不公平は看過しえないものになる。また地方自治体の税収源が少なすぎる為にを国家中央が握る地方交付金に依存しすぎているのがファシズムの浸透の原因にもなった。 　 こうい��判断でアメリカ型の税制の更に理想的な形を日本で施行して、根幹から民主的資本主義国家の骨格を持たせようとした。 それで導入されたのが、法人税、青色申告と複式簿記、固定資産税などだ。戦前では土地の税金は地租、家屋の税金は家屋税で、共に国税であった。これを廃止して地方税の固定資産税として納税先は自治体となった。 　 で、問題の源泉徴収、年末調整だが、これも廃止して個人の確定申告にする事がシャウプ勧告に入っていた。だが困難という事で見送りされてしまったのである。 それはまず取りっぱぐれの問題。税務署も会社を押さえておけば効率的に所得税は見逃しなく徴税出来るが、社員個人の確定申告のみとしたらバックれる奴が出てくるに決まってるし確認作業も大変だ。 もう一つは社員が確定申告に来るのが大変だという問題。確定申告の為には一日休まなきゃならない。そして税務署で延々並んで…というのをやらないといけない。当時産業が殆ど吹っ飛んでしまって生きるのも大変な時期に金を払う為に一日休めるか、会社も社員がごっそり来ないという状態を是認できるか。 こういう反対意見に押し切���れて天引きの源泉徴収と年末調整のままになってしまった。 　 総確定申告の理想性 シャウプ勧告には有ったのに見送られてしまった総確定申告制だが、その後も理想的税制として導入を訴える声はあった。 それはまず、太郎も言っているが税の仕組みが判るようになり、使われ方にも分解能が上がるだろうという事。 ブクマページなどでは「この機会に簡素化して控除も無くそう」みたいな事言ってる人がいるが、逆だよ逆。どういう行動の支出に控除があるのか、自分はどの控除が掛かっているのかという事を知る事が出来る。「控除も無くそう」というのは天引き以外の納税を知らない意見だ。「所得税」の欄の数字が所得額から単純に出てると思ってる。だがこの数字は会社が控除額を計算して算出しているのだ。 控除がどこに掛かるかを知れば、現在の国が不公平を是正する為に会社員のどこの負担を認めて差っ引いているかが判るようになる。 もう一つは利害の誘導。国がどのような行動をして欲しいか、というのが控除に現れる。マイホームを買ってローンを組んで欲しいか（見かけ上通貨流通量の増加→インフレ）、子供を産み育てて欲しいかなどだ。これは法人税や青色申告だともっと鮮明に意図が見える。 　 納税者意識は確実に高まるしその使われ方にも興味が行き易い。 今までは確定申告の為に一日休んで税務署に行くというのが負担だった。年度��で転職したのに確定申告に行かない（行けば取り過ぎ分還付されるのに）人も多かった。 でも電子納税なら夜でも出来るし時間も掛からない。税務署で並ぶ必要もない。負担にならないのだ。テック万歳である。 　 という事は増田は太郎の意見に賛同していると思うじゃん？残念だが反対なのだ。 　 ネオリベラリズム残滓の問題 太郎の意見ではこの施策が 所得情報を迅速に把握できるので、必要な人にピンポイントでプッシュ型支援を行うことができる としている。だが「所得情報を迅速に把握」と「ピンポイントでプッシュ型支援」は繋がるのだろうか？ この二つは別の問題じゃないのか？ 更に現在でも源泉徴収の為に社員のマイナンバーは必須となっている。総確定申告化で何か変化があるのか？何もない。 因みに自治体によっては低所得者向けに交通チケットや給付金、買い物券などの支援をやっている。現在でも納税額を見てプッシュ型でそれら申込書を送ったりしている。「ピンポイントでプッシュ型支援」されているのだ。 但し地方自治体が所得額を把握するには、国税が所得税確定→それを基に自治体が住民税確定と段階を踏むので、時期は6月辺りになる。太郎はそれを前提に「所得情報を迅速に把握」としたのだろうが、白色申告時期の3月から3か月程度でしかない。この文章を読んで「たった3か月じゃん」と思えないのはダメである。 　 だが問題は何故こういう力点と作用点が違う事象を言っているのに通ってしまうかという事である。 それは2000年代前半の日本でネオリベが流行した為なのだ。 　 日本でのネオリベ流行には特徴があり、支持者に経済音痴が大変多い。商取引での慣行や法制度、更には経済事件は非破廉恥罪で社会の善悪感情と異なるという常識すらない者が多い。 また「メンバーシップ型会社から自由な」個人を謳っているくせに経済事象を給与所得者の延長で考える事が多い。多いというか専らだ。つまりはB層の問題だ。 賛同する政策というのは何かを壊す（入力）というものが多く、その結果は任意の好ましいものになる（出力）という根拠がないものだ。 例えば郵便局を株式会社化して上場させるという入力に、サービス向上という出力が発生すると素朴に考える。だが普通に考えれば配当が欲しい株主が離島や過疎地でのユニバーサルサービス継続に賛成する筈がないよなぁ。 また、賃貸の家賃を安くする（出力）為に土地建物の相続を廃止（入力）して不動産会社が取得すべきという意見も見られた。これは既得権益者の地主などにも諭されていたが、物件取得費を家賃で回収する必要があるから安い物件なんて無くなるわなぁ。 太郎が今言ってる解雇自由化（入力）で雇用流動性という出力が得られる論も同じで、入力と出力が結びついていない。それを結びつけるのにはどうするか？という設問が出ない言論空間をアテにしているのだな。 　 こういうややこしい社会制度を解体したら望ましく自分が得する結果になる筈！というのは90年代まではリベラルがやっていた。自分が抑圧されているのは社会のせいだ、と。また海外出羽守も同じことを言っていた。 2000年以後になるとリベラルは退潮し、代わりにネオリベが流行した。これは市場を喰われたって事である。 だが実際に導入されてみるとこんな考えだったB層達は解放されず、勝者はノウハウを集積出来る法人であった。 また単に市場をシュリンクさせ余剰を無くして全体の賃金を縮小させデフレを進行させただけだった。日本からはGAFAMは現れず、Ankerも現れず、3Dプリンタなどの新しい技術を売る会社に日本企業の名はない。成長してLGサムソンになる会社もいなかった。 これらが出来なくなる基盤だけを提供したのである。日本のネオリベと米韓のそれは性質が違うのだ。 　 ところがそんな入力と出力の間を繋げる努力も無しに任意の入力すれば任意の出力が得られると言って憚らない連中は残存している。彼らが持つ社会へのルサンチマンが入力と出力の必然性を彼等の中で担保しているのである。 そんな連中に向けた言葉を語っているのが太郎なのだ。 今回の太郎の表明に「複雑な税制が無くなって控除が廃止される事」を望んでいる意見が寄せられているのがその証拠である。天引きサラリーマンから見たら控除の必要性なんて判らない。それでそれを敷延して判り易い世界が来る事を期待してしまうのだ。もうこういう支持のされ方をする政治家は落とした方がいいだろう。 　 太郎のアカンみ 太郎はかなり面白い来歴の人物だ。Wikipediaにもあるがアメリカの大学で政治学を学んでいるしその途中でポーランドに留学している。その間に後に初代ポーランド大統領になったワレサ「連帯」議長を訪ねている。当時はまだゴルバチョフのペレストロイアの前で、連帯は反体制運動と見做されていて太郎も公安警察にしょっ引かれている。 連帯は自由主義寄りだったユーゴスラビアの自主労組のような組織で、共産党独裁が前提のソ連勢力圏では「修正主義」と見なされて弾圧されていた。だが後の東欧の自由化の先陣を切った運動であった。 その連帯のワレサ議長に、ゴルバチョフ以前に会いに行くというのはすごい行動力だ。筋金入りのリベラルといっていい。 　 だがこういうリベラルが保守側に転向した際に最悪となるエピソードというのは多い。一番判り易いのがアメリカのネオコンサバティブで、その中心人物はスターリンに左翼偏向と詰られたトロツキストだった。 『国益』誌でソ連崩壊をアメリカ的民主体制の勝利（歴史の終わり）とする一派を押しのけて軍拡競争の為と総括した連中が911の衝撃に乗じて共和党内の穏健派を追い出し、宗教右派と手を組んで共和党ジャックしてしまった。その結果イラク戦争を起こし、イラク国内を平定出来ずにISISの活動を許し、中東を戦乱の渦に巻き込んでしまった。責任を問われて失脚し、穏健派をパージしていたので今の共和党は宗教右派と陰謀論のトランピアンに乗っ取られた、アメリカの覇権の内なる脅威みたいなもんになっている。 太郎の場合も実効性や結果のフィードバックを取り込んで行動していない。設計→実行→修正の行政組織の行動葎を取り込まずに、設計しっぱなしなのだ。イージス・アショア配備で断念する旨の報道が出たのに「自分は知らないから誤報」と言って後で泣き言言っていたのを覚えているだろうか？防衛省内の報連相サイクルからパージされていたという事だ。 ワクチン担当でも残数ショートで産業医接種を突然停止させ、その余波で通常の大規模接種も長く停止してしまったのに、それは外部の問題だと言って憚らなかった。自分の行動が及ぼす影響を考えず、自分の設計は正しいと言うだけだった。 どうも安倍菅時代に初入閣してそれが通ると覚えたようである。 　 Xのブロック問題も初めは「変なネトウヨ」（本人談）をブロックしていただけだった。紅の傭兵の息子だから中国のスパイだろお前は、的なものを相手にする必要はない。だが入閣後は自分の行為を評価している人全てブロックになって、マスコミの質問もブロック、となるとただ設計があるだけで、それが適切な出力となって社会に作用するか？という事を問われる環境に居た事が無い。 　 そうすると源泉徴収年末調整廃止と総確定申告化が如何にシャウプ勧告に基づき、ずっと議論されてきた理がある方策だとしても反対するしかない。 しかもこれが「ピンポイントのプッシュ型支援に繋がる」と、入力とまるで関係がない出力が得られる、と言っていれば猶更だ。これは20年遅れのB層に設計しっぱなしの政治家が語っているというだけの下らん話である。それは騙しがデフォルトのコミュニケーションをしているだけに過ぎないのである。

河野太郎の国民総確定申告制は昔から理想的な税制とされてきた

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new post so that the other one doesn't get too long, here are the links again: novel updates, carrd, raws, translation <3

from now on i'll only update the number for those who have at least gotten halfway through, if not finished the full novel (sorry, chapter one doesn't cut it anymore 🙇‍♀️)

under the cut the updates from the previous post:

update #1

update #2

update #3 (which is the post you're currently on!)

thanks again to tumblr users @shimamitsu @zemoe and @fanfictiongreenirises — the first three to allow me to have a non-zero number on this post! hope you will all enjoy the novel as much as i have <3

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Reading Corner 2023:

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (魔尊也想知道) by Cyan Wings (Qing Se Yu Yi / 青色羽翼)

Devil Venerable Wenren E receives a romance novel set in the world he lived in and features him as a fan-favorite character. Left with a mandate to fix the plot and a lot of questions, he sets off to pull the lead female off her doomed path and keep his loyal subordinate, Yin Hanjiang, from going mad at Wenren E's possible future death.

It's quite good, with both genuinely horrifying and genuinely funny moments and characters. It goes into the power-leveling that a lot of cultivation novels get bogged down in (who is at what stage of what level, who is stronger, leveling up at critical fight scenes, that sort of thing), but it devotes just as much, if not more, time on the more philosophical aspects of cultivation. Wenren E points out multiple times that cultivation means hording and stealing energy, and a major plot point involves causing a minor disaster to hold off an apocalyptic one, and how the mortal world flourished while the cultivators fought and culled themselves.

I love it when a story has something to say.

Oh, and the danmei romance is good, too.

(I read mourningcrow's fan translation and recommend it.)

[scin-tillates]

A DVAWTK fic featuring jealous Yin Hanjiang, written for @/WXMSfan on twt for @danmei-action! Donation period is still open, here's the event's carrd!

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10月6日（日）open 12-18

『かるがものクッカ』原画展2日目始まっています！ 今日は14時頃まで、かんちくさんと川嶋さんが在廊予定ですよ🦆🐥 早速お二人の解説に胸いっぱいになってお帰りになった方がいらっしゃいました。 かんちくさんの書いたお話しを、かんちくさんの柔らかな優しい声で聞くと本当に胸がいっぱいになるんですよ。 是非皆さまもお出かけください。 会期中、お二人は毎日曜日には在廊をしてくださるそう！ 最終末26日（土）はお話し会、この日はもちろん箕輪さんもいらっしゃいます！ またお話し会のお申し込み詳細も後ほどお知らせいたしますね。

カルガモの羽毛の中に、ひときわ目立つ色が見えたことがありますか？ 風切羽の青や緑のこの部分は翼鏡（よくきょう）という���前がついています。 箕輪さんの素晴らしい画力でとても美しく描かれていますが、実物の羽も箕輪さんがご用意してくだいました。 羽が生え変わり落ちる事で、こんな風に私たちも真近で見ることが出来るんですよね。 （カモさんからむしったわけではありませんよ） 私たちの暮らしと身近なカルガモ。 どんな風に生まれ、育て、生きているのか。 絵本を通してたくさんの方に知っていただける機会となりますように。

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Danmei Tournament Bracket & Competitors

Round 1

Short Story of Shaowang vs. Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals? [WINNER: Where is Our Agreement to Be Arch-Rivals?]

Green Plum Island vs. You've Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale [WINNER: You've Got Mail]

Round 2

Lie Huo Jiao Chou vs. Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals?

Mist vs. the Earth is Online

Golden Stage vs. Nan Chan

Everyday I Get Up to See the Villain Stealing the Show vs. Little Mushroom

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual vs. Let's Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me

Copper Coins vs. Mistakenly Saving the Villain

Liu Yao: the Revitalization of Fuyao Sect vs. After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine

You've Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale vs. Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Round 2 ends Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023, at noon CST. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the descriptions and content warnings!

After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine

Author: Liu Gou Hua (刘狗花)

Other Names: After I Married the Disabled War God As My Concubine, Sau khi chiến thần tàn tật gả cho ta làm thiếp, 残疾战神嫁我为妾后

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 123 Chapters + 13 Extras

Main Pairing: Jiang Suizhou x Huo Wujiu

CW: ableism, violence, poisoning, death, war + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by SleepyTranslations

Description: [Jiang Suizhou] is a history lecturer transmigrated into a cutsleeve prince fated to be publicly beheaded by his new concubine Huo Wujiu, a captured legendary God of War given to JSZ in marriage to humiliate him by his brother the Emperor Jiang Shunheng.

“Aren’t you afraid of regretting this one day?” / “For him, never in this life.” - Ch.123

Copper Coins

Author: Mu Su Li (木苏里)

Other Names: Tong Qian Kan Shi, TQKS, Đồng tiền kham thế, เหรียญทองแดงปราบพิภพ, 铜钱龛世, 동전감세

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 102 Chapters + 1 Extra (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Xue Xian (薛闲) x Xuanmin (玄悯)

CW: death, amnesia, ghosts, illness, murder + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation/Introduction (Easier to sort via Novel Updates)

Description: “It's about the disembodied soul of a dragon who's looking for his lost body, as well as the people who were responsible for maiming him; he meets a mysterious demon-slaying monk with amnesia who only knows that he's looking for someone; maybe they fall in love idk. It's set in 11th century China and the magic is based on geomancy (feng shui).” - English Translation Introduction

“No Regrets. You have to hang out with me for hundreds or thousands of years, probably long. Even if you get tired of me, you can’t undo it.” / “It’s all I could ever wish for.”

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Author: Cyan Wings / Qing Se Yu Yi / 青色羽翼

Other Names: Mozun ye xiang zhidao, 魔尊也想知道, DVAWTK

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Wenren È x Yin Hanjiang - “Yinren”

CW: master-servant relationship*, death, suicide attempt, rape as a plot point (mentioned only, not main characters), body horror/gore, bus (gu parasites) - (Carrd), age difference, graphic violence, psychosis/hallucinations

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: The Devil Venerable, the Lord of Demon, Head of Xuanyuan Sect, Wenren È, discovers a book called &lt;Abusive Romance: You Are the Unchanging One in My Heart>, which details the painful romance of two disciples of Shangqing Sect - Baili Qingmiao and He Wenzhao. In the novel, Wenren È is the devoted second male lead who sacrificed himself for Baili Qingmiao, which led to Yin Hanjiang, his subordinate and the fourth male lead, attempting to kill the female lead. Present-day Wenren È is now tasked with fixing the readers’ many complaints regarding the novel. 

*While technically a master-servant relationship, especially at the beginning, the novel makes a point to show and explicitly state their progression to friends, not a servant and his master

**Wenren È is also sometimes referred to as Wen Renhe 

Very aro-spec/ace-spec MCs, Yin Hanjiang is stupid and in love (and has rabies), side lesbians 

Everyday I Get Up to See the Villain Stealing the Show  

Author: Zhong Xiaosheng (钟晓生)

Other Names: EVSS, 每天起床都看到反派在抢戏

Media Type: Web Novel 

Main Pairing: Han Changsheng x Huangfu Fengxuan Xichen / An Yuan

Chapters: 110 (Completely Translated)

CW: death, acceptance of death/suicidal idealation (HCS plans to die to An Yuan) + more unknown

Links: English Translation, Novel Updates

Description: Han Changsheng, the Head of the Tianning Cult, kills Lord An Yuan, a descended Immortal fated to eliminate the Tianning Demonic Cult. Confronted by an angry immortal and threatened with a new life surrounded by ugly men, Han Changsheng is sent back in time to fulfill his role: be killed by Lord An Yuan. 

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual

Author: Feng Ge Qie Xing / 风歌且行

Other Names: FDCM, 狐妖修炼指南

Media Type: Web novel

Main Pairing: Song Ci x Rong Bai (Rongsong)

Chapters: 101 Chapters + 1 Extra (Completely Translated)

CW: abuse (to a main character & a side character), graphic violence, bigotry, minor character death, torture, shaming of appearance, suicidal idealation + more unknown

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates, English Translation by Lianyin

Description: Song Ci “mistakenly consumed the blood of the Demon King, causing himself to become a demon too. Since then, he hated the Demon King and wanted to take revenge” (Carrd). He ends up meeting Rong Bai without realizing he’s the aforementioned Demon King. Hijinks ensue.

Prequel: Your Ninth Royal Highness, Please Change Your Clothes

Sequel: The Demon Lord is Fleeing for HIs Life Again Today

Golden Stage 

Author: Cang Wu Bin Bai (苍梧宾白)

Other Names: Golden Terrace, Hoàng Kim Đài/Đài Hoàng Kim, Huáng Jīn Tái, 黄金台

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Chapters: 79 Chapters + 4 Extras (Fully Translated)

Main Pairing: Fu Shen x Yan Xiaohan aka “Yanfu”

CW: ableism, slavery, death, violence, murder, animal death, fantasy drug use, implied sex (none depicted) - (Carrd)

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates, Character Guide, Official English Translation

Description: Returning to the capital after an assassination attempt, Fu Shen is ordered by a suspicious Emperor to marry Yan Xiaohan, the Emperor’s subordinate and Fu Shen’s rival, to weaken his growing power. “Enemies” → lovers

“I hope that you will hate me all your life.”

“Call me that again, and I may just give up the darkness and turn towards the light for you.”

Arranged political marriage, enemies in public but lovers in private, fluff, bickering/flirting, communication, doting/devoted

“From head to toe, where I’ve touched, and where I haven’t - I like all of it.”

Green Plum Island

Author: Hui Nan Que (回南雀)

Other Names: Qing Mei Yu, 青梅屿, 青梅嶼

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 53 Chapters + 5 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Yu Mian x Yan Kongshan

CW: age difference (9 years; 18 & 27 at first meeting) + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation

Description: After falling from a tree in his youth, Yu Mian can see people’s emotions via numbers and colors. When he meets his neighbor Yan Kongshan, he develops a crush. While he hopes Yan Kongshan will turn pink for love, he ends up turning yellow for desire without changing expression. 

“Green Plum Island is well, your grandpa is well, Qiuqiu is well, the two cats are well. Only I’m not well…I miss you too much…I will be missing you when you read this letter.”

“‘But I can’t control who I like, so I’m going to keep on liking you.’ I think for a minute, then make a ridiculous statement: ‘I’ll like you until the day I don’t.’”

Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me 

Author: Mo Xiao Xian (莫晓贤)

Other Names: 谈谈那个穿进书里来追我的家伙

Media Type: Web Novel

Chapters: 82 (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Wen Xuan x Jian Yi

CW: murder, fantasy racism + more 

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation

Description: Wen Xuan is the Head Disciple of the Water Cloud Sect and the villain of an unnamed novel. Jian Yi is a new, talented shidi (younger fellow disciple) of the same sect who has transmigrated to support him and change his ending.

What is it about yearning characters with the surname Chu? Anyway, Chu Lian infests my brain like a dying rat. You will never be free of him <2

Lie Huo Jiao Chou 

Author: Priest

Other Names: Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, LHJC, 烈火浇愁, Liehuo, 烈火澆愁, 열화요수

Media Type: Web novel, Donghua/Anime, Audio Drama, Manhua

Main Pairing: Xuan Ji x Sheng Lingyuan

Chapters: 137 Chapters + 8 Extras

CW: violence, gore, suicide mention, horror, war, murder, cannibalism, child torture, self-inflicted injuries, discrimination, slavery, genocide (via Carrd), claustrophobia, ableism, drug addiction, non-consentual (“sleeping beauty”) kisses between the main CP (Translation), death, demons, amnesia

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: Xuan Ji is the newest member of the Reparations Department of the Deviant Control Office, which is tasked with dealing with the aftermath of deviant cases. He encounters the deceased Emperor Sheng Lingyuan who has been awakened after a thousand years and ends up pretending to be Xuan Ji’s sword.

“Because he craved, he longed fanatically for a certain person. Since ancient times, this concealed longing had been a blade hung above the heart, and falling short would certainly be heartbreaking.”

Little Mushroom

Author: Yi Shi Si Zhou (一十四洲)

Other Names: Cây nấm nhỏ, Xiao Mogu / 小蘑菇

Media Type: Novel (printed & ebook), Drama CD, Manhua 

Main Pairing: An Zhe x Lu Feng aka “LuZhe”

CW: gore, violence, death, non-graphic sexual assault (Carrd)

Links: Buy the Novel Here, Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: An Zhe is a mutated mushroom whose spore has been harvested by humans. Being discovered by the Judges, humans tasked with eliminating xenogenics like him, means certain death. Lu Feng is one such Judge with a 100% accuracy rate in identifying infected humans. 

Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect

Author: Priest

Other Names: Lục hào, ลิ่วเหยา, 六爻, 육효, Liu Yao: the Six Hexagrams

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Chapters: 109 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Yan Zhengming x Cheng Qian

CW: violence, death, major character death, gore, swearing + more

Links: Novel Updates, Chichi's Dives' English Translation

Description: “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.” - Novel Updates

Found family/childhood friends, fantastic character growth, interesting characters

“My master’s way of cultivation is ‘follow one’s heart,’ ‘be unrestrained’ - Senior, pardon this junior’s insolence, but I’ve been wondering for a long time: Does suffering in solitude for the sake of longevity count as following one’s heart?” - Ch.46

“When he thought of Cheng Qian, he suddenly felt like there was nothing else that he desired in this life.” - Yan Zhengming, ch.56

Mist 

Author: Wei Feng Ji Xu (微风几许)

Other Names: Bowu, Bạc vụ, 薄雾［无限］, Mist [Unlimited], Mist: Unlimited Flow

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 103 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Ji Yushi x Song Qinglan aka “Qingyu” (晴雨 )

CW: cannibalism, discrimination, homophobia, death, gore, zombies, suicide, graphic violence + possibly more

Links: Tumblr Review (Spoilers Warning; Re-Read Review), Carrd (CW: glitch effect, flashing lights), English Translation, Why You Should Read It

Description: Ji Yushi is a beautiful genius with a perfect memory who is openly gay. He’s transferred to Song Qinlang’s team, who is known as a homophobe. Idk how to describe it, but there’s very interesting and complex time travel and parallel worlds; you’re just gonna have to take a gamble. 

Mistakenly Saving the Villain

Other Names: Bàn về kết cục việc cứu lầm nhân vật phản diện, MISVIL, The Conclusion to When I Mistakenly Saved the Villain, ว่าด้วยจุดจบของการไปช่วยตัวร้าย, 論救錯反派的下場, 论救错反派的下场

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Song Qingshi (宋清时) x Yue Wuhuan (越无欢)

Novel Translations (Carrd): English, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Burmese

CW: abuse to a main character, rape/sexual assault as a plot point (YWH was a sex slave), torture, suicide, depression, child abuse, PTSD, slavery/human trafficking

Description: Song Qingshi is a medical student who transmigrates into , an “angsty danmei novel” (submitter), to save the tragic protagonist. However, he mistakes the cannon fodder villain Yue Wuhuan for the protagonist and saves him instead.  

Nan Chan

Author: Tang Jiuqing / 唐酒卿

Other Names: Nam Thiền, Nán Chán, หนานฉาน, 南禅

Media Type: Web noel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Cang Ji x Jing Lin 

Chapters: 126 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

CW: age difference, death, amnesia, child abuse, demons, date-rape/noncon between the MC and love interests, torture of a main character and side characters, ghosts, death, explicit sexual content (ch.111 + implied sex), child/sex trafficking, sexual abuse, implied pedophilia

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: Cang Ji is a brocade carp taken care of by Jing Lin, an exiled and amnesiac Immortal who killed his adoptive father, the Emperor of Heaven. When Jing Lin loses his copper bell, he and Cang Ji leave their mountain to find it, encountering the Eight Sufferings and learning more about their past.

“There’s a man I love. In the clouds. In the sea. In my heart.”

“Have you ever wondered? If the one to be devoured in the end would be you or me?” / “It doesn’t matter if I”m the one. As long as I’m together with you.”

The Earth is Online

Author: Mo Chen Huan (莫晨欢)

Other Names: 地球上线, Dìqiú shàngxiàn, EO, TEIO, Địa Cầu Online

ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ, 地球上線

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Tang Mo x Fu Wendou

Links: Carrd (CW: glitch effect, flashing lights), Novel Updates, English Translation on Tea Novel

CW: death, child/infant death, gore + more unknown

Description: Six months after black towers appear around cities, a voice announces, “Ding dong! November 15th, 2017. The earth is online.” Players are encouraged to “attack the tower” during “game time”. Once pulled into a game, it must be completed, and the losing party seems to die. 

“the Joongdok of danmei”

Short Story of Shaowang

Other Names: Shh! My Dear Alpha, 少汪几句

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Author: Little Ice Cube / 冰块儿

Chapters: 58 Chapters + 12 Extras (Completely Translated)

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by Tailor’s MTL

CW: rape/noncon between the MC and love interest (later discussion about consent), graphic sexual content, omegaverse, mpreg + more unknown

Description: Jiang ShaoYan is the school tyrant and also an omega. While his heat is approaching, an underclassman suddenly confesses to him. 

Sequel: Pay Attention to Me

You’ve Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale

Author: Hei Dan Bai / 黑蛋白

Other Names: YGMCT, คบสหายผ่านพิราบต้องพึงระวัง, 飛鴿交友須謹慎, 飞鸽交友须谨慎

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 106 Chapters

CW: age difference, rape/noncon between MC and love interest, graphic sexual content, suicidal idealisation + more unknown 

Links: Novel Updates

Description: A 39-year-old gay bachelor in the Great Xia Dynasty, feeling his life is hopeless, resolves to get laid before committing suicide on his fortieth birthday. To do so, Wu Xingzi joins the Peng Society for Gentlemen, a secret organization for gay men to meet other gay men. (Based on Novel Updates Summary)

Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals?

Other Names: Did We Agree To Be Rivals?, Nói tốt trở thành lẫn nhau túc địch đâu [Xuyên thư], The Modified Script is Killing Me, 說好成為彼此的宿敵呢[穿書], 说好成为彼此的宿敌呢[穿书]

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 120 Chapters + 2 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Su Yang x Gu Feidi

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by Peach Blossom Codex

CW: child abuse (the original Su Yang is implied to have had sex with/been interested in minors), sexual abuse, suicidal idealisation/attempts, violence, illness + more

Description: “The web celebrity, Chen Suyang, transmigrated into a film adaptation he’d just finished rolling the death scene. Now he has to play the villain—the Evil Sect’s young master, Su Yang. To return to his own world, he faithfully acted according to the script and solemnly recited his lines—waiting for the day he’d die under the protagonist’s sword. But… why were the scenes getting farther and farther from the script?” (Novel Updates)

[athina39]

hi, I wanted to ask since I saw you have read a lot of novel and some Danmei can you rec some to me with mutual possessiveness and pining like in your fanfiction?

i wouldn't say that it's like my fic, but here are my fave danmei authors that, in my opinion, write mutual possessiveness/pining really well!!

(my preferred genre is mystery/action/thriller/survival games, so all of my recs below have violence, action, character deaths, possible trigger warnings, etc. all of them are 1v1 happy ending though!)

+ Nian Zhong (年终). Her works are unofficially translated to English by this translator. All of the works I've read from her have mutually unhinged/in-love MC/ML; it's especially pronounced in "Happy Doomsday" & "Evil as Humans". highly, highly rec!

+ Musuli (木苏里). I love, love, love all of her works! Global University Entrance Examination is my #1 favorite danmei of all time <3

+ "The NPC was once again frightened by me" / NPC怎么又被我吓裂了[无限流] by Su Xing Chuan (宿星川). Mutually unhinged, mutually possessive. One of my all-time faves too!

+ Cyan Wings (青色羽翼) has a lot of works with different genres! I haven't read all of her works, but "My Ideal Town" & "Mr. Melancholy Just Wants to Live a Peaceful Life" are also very mutually unhinged/mutually possessive. Plus points in her works because the MC at first seems Very Calm and Very Normal, but eventually you'll see that they're also very... not.