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tonyglowheart · 4 years ago

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The thought of CQL-centric media or spaces gives me hives these days thanks directly to the toxic parts of fandom and also CQL-onlies who ignore the novel for favor of spinning off their own theories based on ?? and how that tended VERY highly to be anti-mxtx and anti-"fujo" crowd, but like... I don't necessarily like NOT wish for that CQL scholarship endeavor to fail? bc I think it could be good for M/M or specifically danmei scholarship, potentially. But also I *highly* hope they pay due acknowledgement to MDZS and MXTX lmao, esp if they're trying to widen their scope to danmei scholarship and not just mainstreamized-adapatations-of-BL-properties-which-large-corps-capitalize-off-of-while-danmei-still-remains-kind-of-a-tightrope-of-acceptibility-by-censors-and-the-govt

#roz speaks #if someone has been looking at it or knows more and can reassure me... I would love that #bc I feel like I've mostly been burned by CQL-centric spaces/ppl/stuff recently #where they've been ironically the respectability politics ppl who would personally benefit off queer labor all while disparaging & disowning #actual queerness. like ironically imo all of the cql onlies who decry mdzs as 'for the filthy fujos' & 'fetishizing' are actually themselves #practicing a form of appropriation as well as fetishizing of queer subtext as some kind of pedestal-worthy High Romance #all while decrying other forms of media as and #which now doesn't THAT sound rather familiar...#also like.. ignoring the space that BL and danmei has within the queer community in Asia esp under places with anti-lgbt laws and censorship #hell and I say this a lot but it also ignores a lot of lived realities in the U.S. too like it's not a 'we progressive West are beyond this #which the degenerate and backwards East prevails themselves to'. which also is. like do I need to say that's also Harmful & Colonialist af?#anyway like.... I'm tired of CQL acting like they Invented something and revolutionized the world like okay yes they DID #BUT** they were hardly the first step MDZS was popular WAY before that too #and actually mdzs was already popular to hate before that #I think cql rly propelled danmei onto a more int'l stage and that's fascinating #but like... mdzs hardly owes its popularity to cql the way some other book series mighy #and actually.... mxtx may NOT be benefitting materially from cql actually #despite how cql continues to market and generate merch etc #bc of how jj contracts worked and especially for danmei but also other webnovel authors on other platforms #like for all that cql has become a massive franchise in its own right I'm...not rly sure how much mxtx is able to benefit materially off it #it might be jj who is benefitting more #and maybe neither are benefitting off future cql licensing stuff depending on how the rights were negotiated #like even tho cql has made it so big it HAS separated itself as a franchise from mdzs #like okay modao is still doing fairly good for itself like the audio drama and donghua etc #but... no print copies are being made and it hasn't rly gotten any official EN or European lang translations...#hell the simplified copy only has 1 vol and I don't know if it's still printed #like because it's explicitly queer it's gotten locked down so it can't even make jj sales #so... idk I just... want mdzs to get its due

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