#also Huang Yaoshi is my og blorbo and the most insane wuxia dilf known to man

[tavina-writes]

SO! Since there's interest in LOCH/XAJH etc! @inappropriatewenning

I would say that my rec list (having seen every single LOCH tv show that's come out from 1983 onwards) and @autumnslantern can back me up on this bc we watched ALL OF THEM TOGETHER and apart this past fall/winter. (It was a REAL LOCH journey tbh) I would say that the best entry point to LOCH (and Jin Yong works as a whole) would be to try LOCH 2017 (which has eng subs on youtube and IQIYI with the IQIYI subs being better but youtube is free).

I would not recommend the official LOCH translation since it inconsistently translates character names (some characters get their names literally translated to English, others don't with no rhyme or reason lol) and from what I've heard from Jin Yong fandom friends, the official LOCH translation is also...okay so the readability of it is high, but it uhh iirc creates some scenes wholesale and changes others. It's a very inaccurate translation despite its prettiness and I would not suggest it.

I have fantranslation copies of most of the major Jin Yong novels (including LOCH and XAJH) and some Gu Long novels! If anyone is interested, feel free to hmu!

As I've also mentioned in the replies, I've been doing an editing pass of the LOCH fantranslation that I have for grammar, readability and consistency in translations of places/moves/etc since last autumn, though work on that has been kind of slow!

(XAJH is also my very favorite Jin Yong work it's such a very book.)

idk strictly if I can actually essay this in any way that makes entire sense but this bit of the recent mxtx interview sticks out to me bc I've been talking about how both cql (in many ways) and mdzs the book itself has in ways echoed Jin Yong novels (for me I primarily see the influences of XAJH and LOCH in MDZS) AND how the world of mdzs and its jianghu is so specifically and purposefully different than the typical jianghu you'd find in a wuxia (taking its primary influences from Jin Yong and Gu Long) that it has to be a purposeful departure against genre convention (I have a meta post about this somewhere in me that I have half written and I want to scream about it later when I have more braincells) and it's just!!!

it's so validating to know that THIS IS TRUE.

idk!!! idk!!! I'm just so excited!!!