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

[duckprintspress]

lol I noticed that too, I was a bit surprised by how many fellow "my favorite is Mo Du" people there were here!

[duckprintspress]

ooo just saying hi, I'm excited that someone this knowledgeable on baihe is joining the group, I haven't read any baihe yet and I really really want to change that. <3

[douqi]

Amazing! I'll make some time to tidy up the posts and put them on here.

And the comment from halfcactus below has all the links to the Rosmei/baihe debacle.

[douqi]

I'd really recommend 'read English profic, a lot' to any translator. I also find it helpful to read across different genres of profic, it's good to have a lot of styles and literary strategies to choose from.

[douqi]

*waves* Hello! I was going to say feel free to ask me for recommendations, but the sad state of baihe fan translation means that a lot of cool stuff sadly isn't readily accessible, alas. I'm wrapping up one project and gearing up to start another, but I'm aware that's a tiny drop in a vast ocean.

[duckprintspress]

My Chinese isn't good enough yet to read things in the original, but it's definitely #goals, so maybe in a couple years, I can get some recs anyway! (I've been studying for a little over 2.5 years, and I'm guessing it'll take around 5 years at the rate I'm going before I'll really feel confident reading a book...)

And thank you for your efforts as a fantranslator. It's so so so so appreciated. <3

[nemainofthewater]

hai!!!!! Thank you for voting in them, they've been so fun. In the spirit of this community, I have been doing my part to add cnovel characters! I hope you stick around for the other polls that i'll be running <3

[geraineon]

Thank you!

Sigh, that really puts a sour taste on this. I hope the actual product will be good... but it seems clear they don't really care about baihe novels (then why do it??!)

[geraineon]

<3 looking forward to it!

and sigh... I hope the final product will be at least decent, but it's clear Rosmei doesn't seem to care about baihe novel.

[geraineon]

*sneaks into this conversation thread*

Not sure what polls these are, but feel free to do them here too!

[geraineon]

The translation quality for Thousand Autumns is decent, which is also a good thing (translation quality varies so much, and I dearly wish publishes will actually care more about doing right instead of doing what's quick).

Oh nooo, I'm here to say, don't start. It will consume your soul, and then three or four years later, you'll still be playing while saying, "gdi, I need to play a different game."

[geraineon]

+1 I totally didn't know about this either!

"gen, no romance, and wholly dominated by female characters" <- this sounds amazing!

I tried looking, and I couldn't find any... Hopefully it gets picked up for translation by someone someday.

[nemainofthewater]

Over the past three months I’ve been running a series of Best Character with [X] surname polls on tumblr. The last results for them are tomorrow, but going forward I’ll be doing weekly themed polls that I’m happy to link to here!

[katzenfabrik]

Hi! Just wanted to say that I really appreciate your translations and subtitling projects, and I'm excited to learn that there's a baihe community here!

[larryhammer]

谢谢!

[larryhammer]

Thankee!

[dancing_serpent]

*snicker* Maybe that what I'll be saying about Immortal Life in a year or two, because I'm already thinking about doing the whole thing from the start again with a third character. *g*

[douqi]

Thank you! I see you've joined the baihe comm — welcome!

[ehyde]

I finished it! (except for the extras, which it looks like aren't translated)

Wow, that was amazing. To be honest I was feeling kind of meh about the romance for a long time (possessive MLs can be a bit of a turnoff for me) but then, after things were put in context? I legit cried, I love them so much.

[snowynight]

Yeah. The reveal is spectacular.

[snowynight]

C Language Cultivation is quite different from Little Mushroom, so you may enjoy this but not Little Mushroom (or vice versa.)

It's really best reading unspoiled, but I would say the way MC cultivates with programming language is ingenious. (Hence the title)

[snowynight]

Hi! Thanks for your effort and I love the com! I really appreciate the recs for baihe media.

I love Jin Yong wuxia, and am looking forward to the posts.

[douqi]

Thank you!

[grayswandir]

Hello! I'll probably be mostly quiet here, but thought I'd post an intro anyway. :) So far I've only read three Chinese webnovels, one in English translation (the first book of the Grave-Robber's Chronicles), one in Cantonese (Sai Ying Pun [西營盤]), and one in a mix of Cantonese and standard Chinese/Mandarin (So My Kitchen Boss Is a Part-Time Exorcist). I've also read Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron in English translation, plus a few chapters of it in Chinese, and I'm about halfway through a Cantonese audiobook recording of it, going very slowly.

Most of my Chinese media consumption is at least partly for language immersion (for learning Cantonese), so whenever I get back to reading more webnovels it will probably not be popular cnovels but just random Hong Kong webnovels nobody else has heard of. ;D I'm also planning to read more Jin Yong -- I keep hoping eventually I'll be able to read his novels in Chinese, but I'm definitely nowhere near there yet. And I'm trying to get around to reading translations of some classics like Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Anyway, I'm mostly here to lurk, but looking forward to hearing about what everyone else is reading!

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome!

Feel free to share reviews and thoughts about any books you read/listen to anyway~ maybe you'll get some people interested in them!

I speak Cantonese, so I'll be interested in audiobook recommendations haha (I can't read but I grew up speaking it)