#this reminded me i need a mobile navigation thingy

[folkbreeze]

Hi! I’m on mobile! Do you have a link to your legacy in chronological order? Thanks so much!

Hi!! Here's a link for ending breeze in chronological order (which is how I decided to call the gen 2 posts, aka Lazza's life), it starts with her as a child.

Now if you're looking for the very beginning, here's the link (it's a little messy i think)

And here if you want to see EVERY post related to the fin's (even AU posts)

[unforth]

So, English-Speaking Danmei Fandom... (Part 2!)

...you saw my post yesterday and you’re like, “okay, I made a JJWXC account and now I know how much the thing I want to support costs, how do I do the actual money thing?”

Here, I’m figuring it out right now, let’s do it together. I AM STILL RELYING ON THE GUIDE BY SHOKO TRANSLATES. YOU SHOULD USE IT TOO. I have only the most basic idea wtf I’m talking about, and I only have that much because of this guide. That said, it seems to focus more on mobile, and I’m using desktop, so if you’re also on desktop my thing here might help you?

One, go to the payments page. Fortunately, they’ve made it pretty easy to find...

...by making it the one on that list that’s in RED. Handy, right? No, I don’t know what it actually says. Again, I don’t speak a lick of Chinese. I have some Japanese so sometimes I recognize characters but that doesn’t get me far, ha.

Once you click that (you have to be logged in, of course!) it’ll open up a new screen, with a list of payment options on the right. As far as I can tell, this is what the choices are:

I’m gonna take a stab at international credit card, since that’s...the only one of these I have??? I tried to figure out what the “shenzhouxing” prepaid card is but basically got no where.The Shoko Translates guide does NOT have instructions on this part, at least not for desktop? And the pages look pretty differently on desktop. Anyway. Here goes nothing...I’m mostly relying on C&P and Google translate. *sweatdrop*

So, there are two tabs, but I can’t C&P them and I have no idea what they say. However, the one on the right doesn’t have any boxes for entering stuff?? So I’m gonna stick with the left...OH. It’s a page for doing security questions. Oh god, um.

Alright. So. Put your password in the top box. For the security questions, what they say is basically irrelevant, except it’s worth noting that the default option is apparently not a question - it’s just “select one.” If, like me, you don’t know Chinese...just pick whichever questions, and put in answers you’ll remember. It doesn’t give a damn if your answers are correlated (though, the first one on the list has something to do with dad, and the second on the list has something to do with mom, I recognize those characters, ha. It doesn’t let you pick the same questions twice...and there are two near the bottom that I THINK might be “father’s birthday” and “mother’s birthday.” And one about elementary school. Sorry, I’m distractable. The point is, the questions don’t matter as long as they accept your answers! Yes, it accepts English ones, and no it doesn’t have anyway of knowing if your answers correlate to the questions at all. TAKE A SCREENCAP OF YOUR CHOSEN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND SAVE IT BECAUSE YOU’LL NEED THEM AGAIN!!! Do your pattern match thingy, then click the green button, and there’s another page which looks like it’s asking me to re-enter the same answers.

Click the green button on that second page, and there’s a new page with a single line of Chinese text:

“恭喜你，密保设置成功，点击此处跳转到用户基本信息页面”

which, according to google translate, is

“Congratulations, the secret security setting is successful, click here to jump to the user basic information page.”

Guess I’ll click the thing.

ALRIGHT. So, after doing all that, it takes me back to a home page? Awesome. Whatever. As long as it worked. Click on that red one in the navigation bar again, and NOW when you go to the “international credit card payment” one...

AHA THIS IS VERY PROMISING, lol. So, based on Shoko Translate’s guide, that place drop down menu with “17″ written says “USD” after it, and that it’ll get me 10,000 points. It looks like it processes payments through Paypal; based on my experience with Paypal, that means you may not need an actual Paypal account? But I’m honestly not sure, and I’ve had a Paypal account for 20 years, so I’m just gonna, ya know, use that.

A little window pops up that I’m assuming (blind guessing) is a “this will take you to another page/open a new window, is that a thing you want?” and I clicked the option on the right, and yep, it opened my Paypal. I’ve got a card on file, so...I’m just doing that. (I’d...better make sure I actually have $17 in my account... *another sweat drop*...okay yes I have like $80, wooo...oh, crap, I accidentally paid from my business account, sigh...well, there was def money in there but I’d better pay myself back...ANYWAY.)

Do the payment thing!

It redirects back to JJWXC!

It says something in big bold letters and I have absolutely no idea what! But then it loads, and it’s all the Chinese that I now recognize as my personal account page, and when I scroll to the bottom and...

...well I have no idea what any of that says but it sure as hell LOOKS like victory. Now to see if I can actually, ya know, buy a thing! I can’t afford to get everything I’d like to at once - I’m pretty broke - so I’m going to start with Tian Guan Ci Fu. It’s my favorite danmei novel, and one of my favorite books of all time, AND it’s by MXTX so even though I can’t buy MDZS on here, I can still support her. I linked to it yesterday in my previous post (which, again, is here).

Author: 墨香铜臭 

Title: 天官赐福

Direct Link:

https://href.li/?http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=3200611

Now...

1. scroll down to the chapter list and click on the first one that says [VIP] next to it. Click the chapter title.

2. the circled button is “select all”

3. a pop up checks if you actually meant to do that. click the one on the left to confirm.

4. scroll to the bottom, and...

5. ignore those two check boxes, you might think they’re a ToS confirmation or a “are you sure” but they’re actually about subscribing to the book (which is pointless, since it’s finished) at least according to google.

6. ...uh...shit...now I have to figure out which of these buttons actually does the thing...um...oh thank God, it’s in the Shoko Translates Guide. So, there are five buttons right below the line saying how many points I have. The first is “confirm purchase” so, ya know, just ignore the other ones and click it.

7. A dialog box popped up! It says how many I spent and how many I have left and a bunch of Chinese and two mystery buttons...thank God, again, for Shoko translates, apparently they’re “read now” on the left and “read later” on the right. I’m gonna “read now” just to see if it worked...

8. Well...it sure looks like a book??? I have the PDF translations (a copy from before it was removed, and no, I won’t share it), and, um...okay, so the first unlocked chapter is 21...oh hey, I see San Lang (三郎)! That’s, like, the only thing on this whole page I can read! lmao. Anyway, comparing, like, pagination, and the placement of the exactly one thing I can read, YES, this definitely worked!

SO.

This has been your second installment of “disaster dumb white person who speaks no Chinese liveblogs their way through figuring out how the HELL to buy danmei on JJWXC.” If this has been helpful to you, please REBLOG, SIGNAL BOOST, and more importantly, SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE DANMEI AUTHORS!!!!!!

(I own TGCF. I’m so happy omfg. 😭 😭 😭 😭 )

(and as a reminder: I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. If you have a question that requires that someone know what they’re doing, DON’T ASK ME. Instead, try the Shoko Translates guide I linked at the beginning!!! Here, I’ll even link it again. USE IT. DO THE THING.)

[todo-ho-ki]

Hello! I’m putting up part 6 of my story finally but I fucking love song based fic(though I don’t think you’re supposed to use the whole song like I did...) and I kind of like this one? I don’t love it but I DO love thinkin bout my mans Dabi, so have this little ficlet thingy that’s not that bad but not that great?

No warnings! No read more though, I’m on mobile.

Pairing: DabiXReader(kind of...)

Word Count: 1,175

Song: Orbit-Nao

3 Minutes 50 Seconds

His eyes darted to the stage when you walked up.

Most of these assholes had nothing special. But you? You owned the stage, walking up as the song started, donning a little red number that had his heart racing.

It’s just you

It’s just me

I lost you in dreams now I’m falling

The second you opened your mouth he was in a trance. His dark corner of the club lit up endlessly.

Your voice was like caramel, thick and sweet, permeating his thoughts. It was like it was really just you and him.

Please don’t catch

Let me break

into pieces of hate

Still I’m soaring

His heart thumped out of his chest like you had a hold on it. Your closed eyes, leaning softly into the sway of the song, leagues above everyone else who walked on stage, had him floating in his seat.

Kinda sad but you remind me

You remind of a love that I once knew

Kinda sad but you remind me

You remind of a love who outgrew me too

The way you sauntered across the stage, an ache he didn’t know could come across in a song filling up the room, made his head swirl. He was suddenly much drunker than he was a moment before.

Your delicate hands grabbed the mic and pulled it off the stand.

He released me into orbit

Still I found a way to navigate to you

He released me into orbit

Still I found a way to gravitate to you

Your eyes opened to reveal the softest brown eyes he’d ever seen and they were staring right at him. His mouth fell open in the wake of your swelling voice.

He had to know you. He had to see you again. There was no question in his faded mind that if he never did anything else, he would hold you in his arms.

Your head dipped back, your hand ran across your chest as you began again. A shock straight to his groin. He was on fire for you, nerves tingling as you walked toward the end of the stage. He’d never felt so alive.

Yeah

he told me

Here we are close to midnight

But somethin don’t feel right

Where’d you go? Where’d you go?

On your rocket ship

Take care you don’t slip to a new realm

You slipped back down the stairs, not a hint of breathlessness in you. Walking around the room hauntingly, hand putting on a show of its own. You were almost exhausting to look at, your beauty taking up every inch of space available.

I’ll wait for ya

by the hotel

Please pay my bills before you lose your

Head over heels

I don’t care about this dog and you know I can’t afford it

You were getting closer. It was like the room was folding in half just to bring you to him. The spotlight followed you down the aisles like it should have everywhere else.

Don’t wanna get bigger

Gravity will hold me down like a sticker yeah

I release I release you

I don’t need I don’t need

If I lose you I lose you

Stars were swirling above him. And you. You finally turned down the aisle he was in. Would you make it all the way over here? Would you see him like he saw you?

You can give me the voodoo

Like D’Angelo said

How does it how does it feel?

He knew how it how it would feel when he released me into orbit

Your body turned and your eyes met his.

Still I found a way to navigate to you

He released me into orbit

Still I found a way to gravitate to you oh no

You didn’t look away. Was this what fate felt like? The moment you know you’re supposed to love someone?

Please don’t say you’re desertin,oh

Don’t leave me revolving

I’m nearly dissolving it’s true

Please don’t lie like the last time

Left me barely holding on

Won’t do this again

Cause I’ll spin into infinite moons

His eyes locked with yours for an eternity or two as your decrescendo approached. He didn’t have much time left, he knew that.

Kinda sad but you remind me

You remind me of a love that I once knew

Kind sad but you remind me

You remind me of a love who outgrew me too

His heart dropped. Your brown eyes and red dress would be gone forever. He would be drowning in a sea of grey again. And you would be fine.

He released me into orbit

Still I found a way to gravitate to you

He released me into orbit

Still I found a navigate to you

Your runs had him soaring, your body was invgniting every nerve in him,clenching his fists in the haze of the smoke. Not much longer. He would run up on stage if he had to.

I gravitate to you

I gravitate to you

I gravitate to you

I gravitate to you, oh

There was no time left. It was now or never. He nearly jumped out of his seat as you walked back to the stage.

“Miss? What’s your name?” Your soft frame turned to his lanky one. Your were even more beautiful up close.

“Mitsuki.”

“That was amazing, doll. What do I gotta do to hear you sing again?”

Maybe it was his crooked smile that didn’t seem to match his stoic features. Maybe it was his bright blue eyes taking in your every movement. Maybe it was his messy black hair and tinged cheeks. He was even more beautiful up close, despite his clearly scarred skin, seemingly held together delicately.

But it didn’t matter. There was no mistaking it.

He did indeed remind you of a love that you once knew. And you had a feeling there was a reason.

“I’ll be here tomorrow night too,” you smiled.

“You should be here every night.” His fingertips felt numb as he shoved hands in his pockets. Your smile was covering every inch of him in goosebumps. You were so soft and gentle. He bit his tongue just to keep from saying something too rough. He didn’t need you breaking apart at the seams.

He wasn’t sure he was soft enough to match. The inside of him matched the outside. He was too wretched to be standing in the light with you. But if he could just put his hands somewhere on you where you wouldn’t feel the scars, he could get away with it. If he could just manage to say the right things for a little bit longer, he’d have you. He’d have his name rolling off your tongue, as soft as the skin on your exposed chest.

“I look forward to it.”

And with that you were gone, dark corners filling with grey instead of red.

You were turned but you could feel his eyes attached to you,digging into you like claws intent on dragging you back. But you just smiled. He didn’t have to drag you back. You were going to come running.