Author spotlight/Themed weeks planning

[geraineon]

Hi all,

I'd love to get some stuff going in August, so I'd like to ask you all if anyone wants to help out with this!

Author's Spotlight

What: A post, or collection of posts (depending on your energy/time) on one specific author and their works. Ideally it will include links to the works, available translations if any, some thoughts of your thoughts on some of their works. Feel free to include your favourite fanworks too or other reviews!
When: An author every month

Please reply to claim an author and month!

List of authors and months (will be updated as we go):

August: geraineon (Jiang Zi Bei)
September: momijizukamori (priest) + requesting for help
October: geraineon (Musuli) [note: if you want to do this, let me know!] We will have a themed novel spotlight instead! (thanks hazevi)
November:
December: douqi (Ning Yuan)
January: hazevi (Yi Zhan Ye Deng)

Themed weeks

What: During the themed weeks, recommend anything related to the theme or create fanworks/request for fanworks related to the theme (e.g., Thousand Autumns, but make it e-sports). Or discuss them however! (We can even do read-alongs, I think?).
When: Every month, for two weeks (tentatively, testing it out the week of August 4th)

This is what I'm having more trouble trying to think about what to do and duration. I have a list of suggested themes and genres compiled through past posts (thank you!). I suppose we can try it first? Any and all comments/suggestions appreciated on how to do this! (if you have examples from other communities/other spaces, that'd be great!)

List of suggested themes/genres

Sci-Fi
Detective stories
Esports/Entertainment industry
Female Protagonists
Quick Transmigration
Infinite Flow/Unlimited Flow
Modern Day
Xianxia
Wuxia
No Romance
Short stories/Novellas
Short Novels (max of 50 chapters)
Really Long Novels (500+ chapters)

Comments

[hazevi]

Oh no it's definitely not discourse, I just happened to see something that annoyed me very personally-

I saw that a tl of one of the author's novels had appeared on NU and immediately realized that it was probably mtl. (I won't say 100% because I don't have any solid statement, but plugging the Chinese title through google translate myself and getting the same (imo REALLY BAD) English title seems relatively damning).

Maybe I wouldn't have had such a big reaction otherwise, but the novel in question has many easter egg mentions in the novel I translated so I do have a bit of emotional closeness with it already. Secondly, I realized that this tl was started the day I finished the book I translated. It might be a total coincidence, but since I already have a terrible taste in my mouth from the mtl thing, I get the feeling that... they are trying to catch my wave. Which I admit is a self-centered take but pessimism has been worming in lately.

Sorry for the rant. On another note, I think I might make duplicate posts in the baihe comm and over here because of the topic, is that okay?

[geraineon]

No worries! And your feelings are totally understandable, given the context (tbh even without the context, I can understand having complicated feelings about works of fav author/author we like being translated badly, which in this case it certainly will be). I look forward to reading about Yi Zhan Ye Deng!

and no worries about cross-posting!