Introductions

[geraineon]

Welcome! You can use this post to share a little bit of yourself! Feel free to also just post an introduction to the community instead of replying to this post! You don't have to follow any format, but here are some prompts:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What is your favourite cnovel?
3. Do you have a favourite author?
4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
5. What do you hope to see from this community?

Comments

[alterkrmn]

Hi, all.

I'm Carm and I'm basically a newbie. But let's answe the questions.


1. What are you currently reading?
Nothing yet. I finished Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know a couple of weeks ago but then I have a lot of things on my plate and I'm waiting until I have more free time before deciding what to read next. The options are: Thousand Autumns, Evil As Humans, Married Thrice to Salted Fish, Global Examination, Peach Blossom Debt or Imperial Uncle. I ran a poll on fedi and the winner was Thousand Autumns but we'll see :P

2. What is your favourite cnovel?
I only have read three so it feels a bit premature to say I have A favorite but I suppose I can rank them: 1st place Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know, 2nd Qi Ye and 3rd Mo Dao Zu Shi. But I was tempted to put DVAWTK and Qi Ye on the first place.

3. Do you have a favourite author?
Not yet. I need to read more to be able to answer this question. But that's precisely the point of being here.

4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
I have a lot of interests and hobbies. I love reading, I also enjoy watching shows of different kinds. Now I am mostly trying to make up for the time I hadn't watched any asian dramas and I'm trying to watch from different countries.

Learning languages is also a passion of mine, I'm learning japanese formally, but I also want to learn Mandarin, Thai and Korean, among others... I just wish I had more time and energy to do it.

Another thing I love is making things with my hands: sometimes I do embroidery and I've also learned pottery.Music is my eternal companion, the days I don't listen to music are very rare. I also practice karate but health and schedule sometimes interfere with it :(

I also write fic occasionally so I never call myself a writer, but I like doing it when it happens.


5. What do you hope to see from this community?
Oh, I like the idea of a place where I can read more about different authors and novels. I'm definitely here for the recommendations, but also having a place to talk about the things I read and being able to see other's opinions and perspectives about them is also something I'm looking forward to, specially as someone with very few experience.


I'm also very new to dw.

And that's it.

[anne]

Xie Wei burned stuff.

I don't remember what You Fangyin said because I was so mad about how she said it, if you follow me

[anne]

Oh too bad, it would have been hilarious

[gekidasa]

No, I don't 😂
I've watched the drama and while I know some stuff, I'm only at the beginning, Jiang Xuening is just about to become a study body

[halfcactus]

I’m so glad you decided to go with a general cnovel comm 😭😭😭

[nemainofthewater]

I'm currently on the second case and I really am enjoying it! I think Tao Ran is my favourite, and I am lowkey terrified of something bad happening to him....

[neuxue]

Yeah I'm not usually into audio media but this one came very highly recommended so I thought I'd give it a try as a way to catch back up to where I left off reading a while ago and remember what happened... and it's so good!

I'm only on S2 so the only song so far has been 以沫 but yeah it floored me the first time I heard it, and the way they incorporate it into some of the scenes is always an emotional gut-punch. Can't wait to see what else is coming!

[anne]

Highlight for spoilers! *I was really upset that she was dying, so I don't remember at all what she said.*

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome! Sha Po Lang and Mo Du are great (highly rec the audio dramas too)

I do use novelupdates to add books to tbr: https://www.novelupdates.com/user/393433/geraineon/

But I'm generally quite bad at keeping lists haha.

[geraineon]

Yes! I love how she picks a genre and then does something different/meta

And she can clearly write amazing women characters who are also central to the plot (I read a lot of stories with very little expectations for this)

[geraineon]

Glad to have you here!

Excited to see you experience all the novels you listed~ and you can always have multiple most favorite novels. I can't decide what is my absolute favorite either...

I hope you enjoy your time here!

[larryhammer]

Current reading: A Will Eternal (一念永恒) by Er Gen (耳根) -- which, yes, took me a long time to get to. I tend to jump back and forth between xianxia and historical romance. My favorite cnovel is, um, I dunno, I'll name two: Way of Choices (择天记) by Mao Ni (猫腻) and Eight Treasures Trousseau (八宝妆) by Yue Xia Die Ying (月下蝶影).

In addition to reading cnovels (usually in translation), I translate classic Chinese poetry -- usually Tang Dynasty, but sometimes ranging back to Han and up to Song. Drafts of most of what I've done are here.

Mostly I'm looking for recommendations of what to read next.

[umadoshi]

Hi! I'm Ysa. ^_^

I don't currently have a cnovel on the go. The last ones I read were Guardian and Evil as Humans, and Evil as Humans is so long that it took me...um...quite a while to read, so lately I've been catching up more on my English-language TBR.

I kinda have two favorite cnovels, both by priest. Guardian hits me hard because I'm fannish about the drama and really love both iterations of the characters. (The drama was my gateway into c-media of any kind.) I also enjoyed the hell out of Mo Du/Silent Reading.

As an extension of the above, I guess priest is my current favorite Chinese-language writer! I think she's the only author I've read more than one book by so far. (In addition to the two above, I've read Faraway Wanderers.)

Other interests...well, I like reading and watching various things, although I have no hope of ever doing more than denting my terrifying media-to-consume lists. I don't game very much at all, but when I do get hooked on one, I pretty much fall into it. I have a special soft spot for manga, although I work (freelance) in the industry, so it hasn't been a hobby for a long time. I slowly write fanfic when my brain is cooperative about it. (Four years and counting since it basically cut out. >.<)

And for my hopes for this shiny new comm, mostly I'd just be very happy to see it thrive. I'm a chronic lurker, but I'll be around. ^_^

[gekidasa]

Part of why I'm confused about this conversation (sorry haha) is I'm not sure if you're talking about the novel or the drama...

[anne]

I haven't read the novel

[snowynight]

Agreed! She's great with female characters.

[gekidasa]

Ah ok, now I'm on sure footing!

I don't remember Xie Wei lighting a bonfire, so much happens in this story XD

And yes, it is what You Fangyin says in the moment you're talking about. It references an aspect of her character that is only in the novel.

[snowynight]

Your poem translation project is impressive!

[lunarriviera]

we ALL love Tao Ran so much! i'm literally the Rosa Diaz meme about him:

[lunarriviera]

i'm so hipped about both ADs—already bought mo du on maoer FM and just haven't gotten around to it yet (also i heard it's the censored version, which makes me sad, and i can't find the uncensored one). at least SPL is on youtube, and it's translated too!

[lunarriviera]

[waves hi at you!] [and also tends to lurk, but bursts out like the koolaid man when anyone mentions mo du]

[larryhammer]

Thankee.

[geraineon]

Mo Du is definitely a popular one on this comm it seems! I really need to get back to Guardian.

Welcome and glad to have you~!

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome!

Love that you're translating poems, will definitely check them out~

I love the diversity of the novels named so far. The only one I know from your list is Eight Treasures Trousseau (八宝妆), haha

Hope you enjoy your time here!

[larryhammer]

The other two are quite definitely xianxia, adventure stories with escalating martial-arts-doaist power-ups that come with the genre. Way of Choices has more than just that, but A Will Immortal is definitely bog-standard for the genre if better written than most.

I have a habit, when I take on a new language, of using poetry for practice texts. My previous language was Japanese, and I got a couple books out of that. I'm getting a manuscript of Chinese poems ready for submission, hopefully over the summer.