#xiaoshuo

[dem-khuya]

a list of urgent campaigns (1/?)

i've received a large influx of requests to support campaigns that require so much more attention than they have received. i've tried to support as many as i can, but combined with my monthly expenses i can't afford to send anymore and it's absolutely heartbreaking.

please send anything that you can to the following people who have reached out to me personally in tumblr's messaging system. these are a few among the very many that require assistance and aid in the midst of the horrifying conditions wrought by the occupation.

all of them have been vetted i believe if you check their tumblr you will see it

CLOSE TO THEIR GOALS

@falstine-yousef88 GFM (linked) is $38,826 / $40,000. please help him afford winter clothes for his young son.

@abood-gaza9 GFM (linked) is $36,673 / $40,000. please help as he is newly married and wants to escape the war with his wife.

VERY FAR FROM GOALS

@ibrahimhussiin2 GFM (linked) paypal (linked) is $50,948 / $100,000. please help him afford winter necessities for his family including his daughter with down syndrome.

@monisfamily2 GFM (linked) is $8,413 / $41,300, please help this family afford cancer treatment. @hanangaza8 GFM (linked) is $14,630 / $100,000, please help this family evacuate their three young children (all less than 10 y/o).

[sam4samina-blog]

Other Fantasy Subgenres:

Anthropomorphic Fantasy: anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, languages, behaviors, and motivations to an entity other than human. This something may be an inanimate object, natural phenomenon, or (and this is most often the case) animals.Watership Down

Arabian Fantasy:  It is an old and traditional sub-genre that has seen a resurgence in the modern era. It is a sub-genre steeped in history and if not always mythic, then at least fable-like—which makes it an incredibly rich sub-genre. There are often stories within stories. Jinns, ghouls, sorcerers, real people and geography mixed with the legendary and fictional.Throne of the Crescent Moon

Bangsian Fantasy: Bangsian Fantasy is a sub-genre primarily concerned with the afterlife and specifically with the exploration of the afterlife. The sub-genre gets its name from author John Kendrick Bangs. Bangs wrote stories about the afterlife and the supernatural, but with a humorous style. Bangs is not the first writer, nor the last, who wrote stories like these, but his work gave the sub-genre shape. A common feature of Bangsian Fantasy is the inclusion of dead famous people and mythological characters. These stories tend (though not always) to have a genial tone. There are three main categories that Bangsian stories fall into: ghosts stuck in the living world, living people stuck in the world of the dead, and people who have died in a Heaven (or Hell). Heroes in Hell

Christian Fantasy: It is a sub-genre that utilizes and/or explores Christian ideas and themes. The religious elements can be deliberate and overt, but they can also be sub-textual and even allegorical.The Chronicles of Narnia

Celtic Fantasy: Celtic Fantasy encompasses all fantasy stories that drawn on Celtic legends and lore. The setting of most Celtic Fantasy is a medieval or ancient world. Some common elements: pagan religions, druids, matriarchal societies, romance, tragedy, strong ties to the natural world. Celtic Fantasy has a bit of a bad rap with strong literary and historic types because of its fictionalizing of real legends, cultures, societies, and peoples. Some even describe the sub-genre as escapist.The Little Country

Dragon Fantasy: 🐉Temeraire

Fantastique: Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with science fiction, horror, and fantasy. The Fantastique is defined in large part by its peculiar ambiance. There is tension both within the narrative and within the reader. It is a literature that does not offer resolution but instead unsettles the reader. At its core is the supernatural (or the unknown, or the impossible) and its intrusion upon the natural (reality, or what has been accepted as reality). The Magic Skin

Futuristic Fantasy: Futuristic Fantasy does seem a bit oxymoronic. But, as the genre has grown and evolved the future no longer belongs to just the Sci Fi writers.The Sword of Shannara

Military Fantasy: The Military Fantasy sub-genre has a descriptive name, but that does not mean all Fantasy stories with military elements are part of this sub-genre. Military Fantasy is specifically about military life and may focus on a solider or a group who is part of a military.Chronicles of the Black Company

Shenmo: Gods and demons fiction is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that revolves around the deities, immortals, and monsters of Chinese mythology. The term shenmo xiaoshuo, which was coined in the early 20th century by the writer and literary historian Lu Xun, literally means "fiction of gods and demons".The Journey to the West

Swashbuckling Fantasy: Swashbuckling Fantasy is most easily described as a fantastical adventure. With plenty of energy and witty retorts, this sub-genre is meant to entertain. There are action sequences, witty dialogue, camaraderie, the chance for glory, and some romance thrown in. On Stranger Tides

Vampire Fantasy: Vampire Fantasy is known for its strong supernatural elements and undertones of blood, sex, and death. However, as the sub-genre has developed even these characteristics have changed.The Historian

[mejomonster]

I'm reading a research paper on 同志文学 and it was written around 2010. I'm really curious how the literature landscape has changed. The paper makes no mention so far of 耽美, so I am wondering if perhaps it was less big back then? But also I know there's fairly old danmei stories online.

Tongzhi stories specifically seem to be majority written by queer writers, and read by queer readers (when this paper was written about 30% of readers were straight and referred to as zhi tongzhi straight comrades, or 腐女 which I'm pretty sure nowadays is used similar to fujioshi - a term to describe or insult danmei/BL readers). Danmei in contrast seems to have a majority straight readership, in the sense that it's more widely popular generally (queer people read and many straight people widespread read it). So I'm wondering if when danmei got an upswing in popularity, which it did by the time we got multiple danmei show/donghua/manhua/audio drama adaptations in recent years, did tongzhi novels become more niche? Becoming more of a separate section of the online literature landscape, more closed off and read by primarily queer people staying out of the limelight of public popularity (compared to danmei)? Or did tongzhi literature partly get taken by wider audiences as similar? Because when I looked up the difference between tongzhi xiaoshuo and danmei I'm apparently far from the only person who Google that lol (I got a lot of chinese results I'm about to read through). And when I looked up tongzhi xiaoshuo on its own, I didn't see sites that specifically were posting tongzhi fiction, instead I saw a lot of tongzhi/danmei combined rec lists and sites that include tongzhi within their wider collection of stuff. (Though this research paper lists sites at the end so I'll be able to go find them eventually - I couldn't find BoySky 阳光地带 though which is what the research paper listed by name). So far based on the paper, tongzhi literature seems more like realistic setting queer literature in America (so maybe Heartstopper, maybe Call Me By Your Name, not so much Sarah Waters novels since she goes more multi genre with both queer romance and thriller historical). I'm curious if there is thriller historical tongzhi literature. I'm also curious how to find the lesbian tongzhi stories, because they are mentioned as existing in this paper, but when searching tongzhi xiaoshuo like I mentioned mostly danmei-related stories are coming up which are men/men.

Then there's baihei, which I'm not sure was as popular for the Last 20 years as danmei was, if it's like other parts of the world and GL just generally being less widespread. Baihei also has kicked up in popularity as of Very Recently - we saw Couple of Mirrors this past year, baihe webnovels so popular English donghua reviewers mention them and hope to see them adapted as much as people were hype about mdzs, more short form Baihei web shows, inside and outside of China more GL shows are getting started period. So like... danmei has some historical context. I'm not sure when baihe popped up, and I'd love to find out (I'm going to Google it) but so far history of queer women in Europe, America, or China I've struggled to ever find any fucking info (except victorian women marriages that's about all I've found). So I worry there will be little research on baihe and when it started and how it evolved. I'm curious if it's connected to tongzhi wenxue, since tongzhi wenxue includes lesbian fiction. Or if it it's a completely separate genre (in the sense that like.. danmei with its focus on beauty and that it does not strictly need to include queer realism makes it a separate entity from tongzhi literature, although some danmei does cross the line into feeling a bit like both danmei genre specific qualities and very queer literature general qualities... sort of like how Manner of Death and Not Me thai dramas both contain BL tropes but also just feel generally like thrillers with queer romance in them). So yeah, I'm curious when baihe started online and what got it growing. (I would guess to some degree it grew as danmei grew, since both bring in straight audiences along with queer audiences so it's a bigger general audience of readers, and as danmei gets bigger people expect more care given to baihe, which in some way has been happening in most countries that start with queer men stories in media then gradually more queer women stories start getting produced).

Feel free to ignore. If anyone has links to development of tongzhi wenxue, danmei and baihe, I'd be very curious. Articles can be in chinese. I'm looking for these discussions right now but I'm not particularly good at searching for information in chinese.

[dem-khuya]

gym, work, read, study, gym, work, read, study, gym, work, read, study... trying to fish out empty spaces of time so spend with my baby brother that's adjusting to middle school, making a stronger effort to hang out w my mom, looking for local organizations / book clubs that i can contribute to once time allows and already planning where i'll pour my efforts once i'm finished with grad school...

i blank out when i look at my computer screen nowadays and i feel so disconnected from the ppl i used to know online, all the friends i made and i used to be so close to.

idk what this feeling is, if it's good, if it's bad, if it's just a phase, or if i'm just growing! i don't like how callous i feel like i'm being. it's so hard for me to feel at home in online communities anymore and it's so strange to say and think this when just 6 months ago i was very much an active part of one

[sadgirlluyin]

diary of li shi

spring rain is nonstop today—just the endless sound of dripping. outside my window the sky is serene and dull and the winds blow mournfully by my ears. i’m sitting quietly with the dark, my thoughts drifting in waves, and i’m dissatisfied and i’m unhappy. 

it was on this day last year that my friend li shi left, and spring is already back, with the same cold rain and bitter winds, but who knows what’s become of her dimples. they were like two wan pear blossoms.

the doctor said that li shi died from heart failure. i think she did die because of her heart, and not her body. she left a diary, it proves i'm right, and i guess i’ll share from it now—

[rigelmejo]

I’ve been mentioning HeavenlyPath, its a wonderful site that has a great FAQ for learning to read chinese and how to go about the process here: https://heavenlypath.notion.site/Reading-Tools-Tips-and-FAQ-b4d287ad630c439fb8978d33b06c1b00

Within the article it mentions some things I’d like to point out:

Reading apps that work well for learning chinese are Pleco’s reading tool section (probably the best single app for reading/looking up chinese words), and Readibu (links to a lot of webnovels for easier browsing). There’s also more free options listed, including ones for computers instead of phones/tablets. I’ll add that Mandarinspot.com has a good free copy/paste Annotation Tool which can include pinyin for beginners (and can be bookmarked to use on any site by going to the site then clicking the bookmark), the app Idiom is free and works as well as LingQ, zhongwen extension is a good quick click dictionary for browsers, and in a pinch you can just use Google Translate on phones or computers by highlighting a word/sentence and clicking ‘translate’. MTLnovel.com has traditional chinese text raws it can show directly under Machine Translated novel text if you make a free login, and that’s the quickest way to make a rough parallel text if you want to have a rough ‘english translation’ already made and handy. bearlang.app is a new site that popped up that can generate line by line translations (it’s using deepl or google translate based on MTL quality) and is also a quick way to make a rough parallel text translation ahead of time.

If you don’t know what to read: go to HeavenlyPath’s site book lists and browse by genre and difficulty then follow their links to read the novels, go to qidian.com, jjwxc.com, or go to novelupdates.com (where people link to novel translations) and find novels of shows you’ve seen and liked/linked similar novels/people’s rec lists they’ve made and copy the chinese name then paste into a search engine with “小说在线” xiaoshuo(novel) zaixian(online). You’ll quickly find a site hosting the novel you’d like to read (which is often just qidian or jjwxc). You can then use your reading click-definition extension, google translate, mandarinspot.com, Pleco etc to read. To read in something like Readibu, copy the url of the novel then click the + sign for “New Bookmark” in Readibu and paste into there to read in the Readibu app. 

If you want to read a print novel you already have or bought: open Google Translate (then use Camera and aim at physical book page or Import from a picture you took of a page) or Google Lens app (and click Translate in the lower left then aim at physical book page), or use Pleco’s OCR reader. Google Translate/Lens will work in a pinch but not be super great translations, Pleco’s OCR will work better but be more sensitive to needing a decent image. If the book is not too much higher than your reading level, try to type the hanzi by guessed-pinyin or use the ‘write’ option on your phone’s chinese keyboard or Google Translate’s ‘write’ input option to get the hanzi for the unknown words on your phone. Then you can copy/paste and look up the words in the place you find easiest. Another alternative is to find an existing english translation of what you are reading (either an official print translation or someone’s translations linked on novelupdates.com) and just compare to the translation as you read the chinese when you get lost.

HeavenlyPath’s FAQ gives example reading samples for each of it’s difficulty levels it uses to rate novels. I highly recommend reading through this section to figure out where you’re current extensive reading level, intensive reading level, and reading pain level would be. The FAQ also mentions that if you’ve been reading a while your vocabulary may no longer line up to their ratings and to HSK levels (which I found to be true for me), so to gauge each new text based on amount of unique characters and how many unknown words you’re running into after that first couple chapters of new-story-introduction. 

Again, HeavenlyPath’s novel links list can be found here: https://heavenlypath.notion.site/Webnovels-Books-29ee006777bd4d9fbbd0ea5eb29ec514

For myself, I find I am mostly reading at their Upper Intermediate Level, some novels at that level are easy for me to extensively read and others would give me a decent amount of new words but not more than probably 10 a chapter. For the Intermediate level, some are easy for me and some are hard and it depends on genre because where my vocabulary is weak my reading level for that genre is bad lol (so its still useful to read some Intermediate stuff). And it looks like for me, pushing into Advanced novels would put me into ‘intensive reading’ where I run into a lot more unknown words (and some would put me into reading pain). Which matches my experience: I can read a few ‘advanced’ level novels that I’ve already learned a lot of words from (which i guess dmbj would be maybe and zhenhun definitely is), but new novels like 破云 I can only follow maybe the main idea of what’s going on and everything else is a pain for me to parse unless I’m using a dictionary. 

[moonwaif]

Came across this undergraduate honor's thesis written by Rachel Leng of Duke University, publicly available on the Penn State digital database, CiteSeerX. I haven't finished reading the whole thing yet but so far, it's pretty interesting:

Abstract

This thesis considers Comrade Literature (同志文 学 tongzhi wenxue), a genre of contemporary Chinese homosexual (tongzhi) fiction, as it has emerged on the internet in Mainland China. Although Comrade Literature first emerged in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1980s, it was only after the mid-1990s with the advent of the internet that these gay-themed fiction were disseminated online in Mainland China. There are now hundreds and thousands of stories designated as “Comrade Novels ” (同志小 说 tongzhi xiaoshuo) archived on various Chinese websites. This thesis contends that online Comrade stories are not simply an expression of an underground Chinese gay culture; they are complex cultural texts with deeper meanings as a site of queer resistance facilitating the intersection of homosexual and heterosexual subjectivities. In addition to providing a catalyst for the local tongzhi subculture, Comrade fiction in Mainland China capitalizes on new media platforms to present same-sex desire to the broader public. A close analysis of four online Comrade stories focuses on the representation of male same-sex relations, turning a critical eye to the logics of these texts as tongzhi write out of a heteronormative milieu. The three chapters in this thesis will each examine distinct aspects of . . .

[dem-khuya]

see column 225 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser spreadsheet

last donation was 10 days ago. please match my 25$ CAD. if everyone who has reblogged donated 25$, they'd almost be halfway to their goal right now.

PLEASE HELP My Family ,My son Hamza with multiple food allergies .. survive in Gaza

My name is Abdulrahman Al-Abadla. I live in the southern part of Gaza City. I'm trying to raise funds to survive these difficult times. Like many others, my house was bombed. My family of 3 members : Hamza has multiple food allergies ,struggles to eat, needs constant monitoring and hospitalization My wife and I. I plead to you .. PLEASE DONATE Every Dollar can help us out of our misery ! vetted by @nabulsi

The situation is extremely tough, especially with the high cost of living for me, my wife, and my sick son. He needs special food and if found it is very expensive . I've been working as a Graphic Designer for 13 years, but due to the war, I can't work and lack the necessary resources (electricity, internet, suitable workspace). I lost all of my life savings,my hopes,our home to this war My wife created the gofundme .. we haven't had any donations at all !

I heard that this platform helped a friend of mine a lot ! PLEASE HELP US !! THANK YOU SO MUCH Behance: here. Socials: here.

[dem-khuya]

first time i heard hippo campus was before the pandemic in philly while jobless and recovering from abusive situations both in uni and at home and the first time i heard them live was this yr. i drove to durham in the afternoon. i wasn't planning to get a ticket into the stadium--i was planning to sit in the balcony of my company office because it overlooked the stadium they were gonna perform at, so i figured i could save 70$ by not purchasing a ticket. but apparently the view of the venue wasn't good, so i was indecisive.

i got to durham early so i wouldn't have to deal with parking chaos, so i had like 4 hours to burn. i went to a peruvian restaurant, and then i went to a local bookstore, then i just wandered east durham a little before i decided i'd look for a stationery store near the performing arts center, so i did. and once i crossed the railroad tracks and started down the sidewalk next to the stadium i heard the band rehearsing an hour before the performance. they were playing 'everything at once' and the speakers were so loud that i could hear them perfectly clearly beyond the stadium walls, echoing all around like a dream. 'everything at once' is mostly just vocals against an acoustic and electric guitar, very sparse kind of production but there is a warmth to the song and in that moment i could feel it in my heart and spreading out through my body like it was traveling through my nerves.

there wasn't very many people on the sidewalks and so for a little bit, their song sounded like the only thing that existed in the entire world, like the city stopped for a moment just to let them play. i kept walking and looking up and around, expecting to catch a sign that they were physically there--maybe a laugh or a comment on the microphone! maybe they'd suddenly stop and play again since it's a rehearsal, maybe idk there'd be sound people going in and out of the stadium, but i didn't see anything, and while i was looking around and up at the sky it sort of felt like listening to angels sing, or something like that, and i was convinced that this was more than a coincidence, that this was some kind of sign from the universe, or a sign from my future self, saying: buy the fucking ticket! just buy it! you will regret your ENTIRE life if you don't buy the GODDAMN TICKET and see them live you motherfucker!

so i did. and i went to their live performance and it was obviously amazing and i loved every minute. their new album came out yesterday. while i listened i was driving to the gym, thinking: please!!! i want to see them live again! i have to!

[xianxia-novels]

Taoists practice in this life, and Buddhism practice in the afterlife! The Tao is on this shore, the Buddha is on the other shore, and the man is in the middle! The spirit boat is not on this shore, not on the other shore, not in the middle! …https://a.pineapplenovel.com/

[danishmiilk]

FUCKING HELL CHINESE ONLINE XIAOSHUO WRITERS YALL HAVE POSSESSED ME IM WRITING LIKE IM ONE OF YOU <//3

“那个——”

青年停下了脚步，疑惑地看了看她：“叫我吗？”

不叫你叫谁。

[dem-khuya]

please please donate to this. the last donation was 27 days ago. if everyone who has reblogged so far had donated 25 euros each dima would have met her goal by now. can anyone match me?

edit: this has already been vetted on the gaza evacuation fundraiser list see line 190.

🚨🚨 Urgent!

This is Dima Nabahin, l'am 25 years old. I have no brothers nor sisters. I was living alone in gaza after I lost my father when he was injured in 2014 war on gaza. I was living with my mother till 2019, when she passed away, so from that time I am living alone in gaza.

I started to overcome what happened in the past, but my life completely destroyed since 7th of October

2023. I faced unimaginable challenges due to the ongoing war in the Gaza. unfortunately I lost My home that I was living in in northern Gaza, and also My parents home that I was living in with them in my childhood until they passed away. I was displaced from day one of this genocide. My life now is miserable.

Unfortunately, this plight is shared by many other Palestinian families living in the same area, but in my case l have no one that can help me, Throughout the months of relentless genocide, I suffered from constant fear and repeated, exhausting displacement that you cannot imagine without having experienced it.

Every donation will help me to survive.

[noveltw-blog]

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[sadgirlluyin]

dec 21

half a year has already passed since i last wrote anything here. i just feel like life at school is so monotonous. i eat, sleep, go to class like a zombie. the instructors put on a mask of morality, prance around and blather on like clowns, and we watch and listen like imbeciles, and it’s all so fucking boring. 

the library is crammed with orderly rows of books written by the ancients. i flipped open qu yuan’s “sorrow of parting,” read a few pages, and secretly thought he was hella dumb.......... he's so devoted, but does the king of huai even deserve it??

went home in the afternoon, even more depressed and lonely; at this point my mood was so darkly ineffable i couldn’t really make sense of it... recently i’ve been determined to use all my self-control to keep negativity from seizing my spirit, so i’ve thrown myself into the stacks of magazines on my desk preaching ~positive thinking~.

after dinner, i got a letter from guisheng in shanghai. it was only a couple lines long, but he really poured his heart out. he's been self-harming because he can’t find someone to call home. he’ll drink an entire bottle of brandy by himself in two days. he said the only time he can forget about shit is when he’s totally wasted.

sigh. poor kid! but tripping and falling into Feelings like this??? ok so he's set on this one true red light lighting his path, but it's also a target for thousands of arrows that are pointed right at it, and who can say for sure they’ll be the winner? 

like, i guess what i mean is that there are actually tons of girls like hailan in the world. but guisheng's never gonna get that. 

it was so hard to write a reply tonight. i racked my mind but still couldn’t find a single appropriate phrase to comfort him... really, when someone has hit this kind of low, it’s not like a few sentences will help much anyway

[windy2skyline]

网赚小说项目介绍，快速了解市场

巨大多数的对于互联网赚项目都有着自己的一些特定要求，做了这么长时间的项目实操，发现大家在选择项目的时候最��重的就是“要不要成本”“要不要技术”这两个问题。

不要成本的项目确实是有，但不要技术这一点就不太好说了。任何东西熟能生巧都是一个过程，当你足够熟练之后，比起他人来说这也是技术，但相对的你就需要付出一些时间成本了。

那么今天我们就来再谈谈不需要太多成本也不太需要技术的小说分销项目，看看现在的小说分销又玩出了哪些新花样？

1. 什么是小说分销？

小说分销是怎么操作的呢？很简单：

①搭建一个属于自己的分销系统，浩森草莓CDMS小说分销系统。

②在浩森草莓CDMS小说分销系统后台提取推广链接，文案 以及二维码：

③ 让其他人看到推广文案并对小说产生兴趣，点击链接完成付费

其实小说分销一直都是众多互联网赚钱项目中比较好操作的，首先它不需要什么技术，在自己的小说平台就可以操作。其次这个项目能不能赚钱，全看自己的推广面够不够。

要是你的推广面足够的大，一篇小说推广文案得到了长期的曝光，那后续每一天都会产生用户的购买，对你来说这就是只花了一次劳动力获得的躺赚收益。所以即使是牟信生态内不断打压，小说分销依旧还有很多人在操作，并且月入上万在这个项目中并不算什么高收入。感兴趣的可以私聊或者评论。

大家知道在用户人数和流量粘性上来说，丝毫不输给牟信的平台是什么吗？没错，就是牟博！

并且比起牟信的密闭式社交，牟博的开放性那自然是不必多说的。牟信朋友圈只有朋友能看到，群消息也只有群里的人能看到，就算是公众号的消息，在没有人他人转发的情况下也只有关注了帐号的人才能看到。但牟博就不同了，“推荐”栏的存在可以让你的内容得到快速的曝光，加上“话题”“热门”这两个可以给你带来高流量的功能，牟博+小说看起来似乎相得益彰。当然为了保证小说分销的覆盖面，你也得准备好一个有很多人关注的牟博帐号，自己打造或是购买甚至是把自己的小说投放到他人号上都是可以的。由于很多小说中可能会有那么些词过不了审核，所以生成图片推广文案或者背景图文案是牟博上常用的方法。

之后加上一些话题热点蹭蹭流量覆盖面就上来了。而且你还可以做付费推广，让更多的真实用户看到你发出的小说文案，从成本投入到与其收入上来说，性价比还是很高的。每个月赚个几万块，并不难。

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