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

[dayadhvam_triad]

Haha hello! (officially at last, after my random drop-ins here & there XD)

I hesitate to suggest this because I don't know how much conversation it could even garner, but I am curious about recently popular and untranslated cnovels totally not a thinly veiled attempt to learn the details of more cnovels—such as I Got Crowned GOAT Writing BL Novels on Livestream (which yjtc mentioned, if I'm guessing its CN title right), and 穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位/After Entering the Cyberpunk Game, I Killed the BOSS and Successfully Took Over (which a relative[!] in China recced to me as a runaway hit). Maybe it could be folded into a more general topic about what kinds of stories/genres get exposure via translation in English-language fandom.

Have you also read the TKA novel?

[geraineon]

I do plan on reading TKA! But I just got started with ORV so ... it'll be a while before I can get to TKA XD it's such a long novel!

And I think there are some who are definitely reading untranslated novels so it might spark some conversation. Otherwise, I think that can be expanded to "talk about novels you think are underrated/more people should read, regardless of whether it's currently available in English" so those who are reading translations can participate too, and those who read in original CN can talk about the untranslated novels. My wish is for this space to be accommodating for all novel readers~

[dayadhvam_triad]

Ahahaha ORV is already so long (and so delightful, I really like ORV too!)—take your time, TKA isn't going anywhere. :P I do find TKA's prose quite straightforward and clear to read, so the story passes pretty quickly. Such great development through the characters' gameplay :')

I like that more! I wouldn't want the discussion to inadvertently exclude through its framing.

[geraineon]

I'm definitely taking my time with ORV. XD Just finished the second scenario.

Alright, I'll have the underrated novels topic up for discussion this Friday~!

[llonkrebboj]

👀 You've probably guessed the CN title but here it is :D 直播写纯爱文的我在虫族封神 by MRA, which I'm delighted to announce has been completed as of 01 September!!!!

There seems to be an English translation that's ongoing at Chrysanthemum Garden up to Chapter 25, under the title 'Becoming a God in the Zerg World by Livestreaming BL Novels'. And I'm honstly not sure if I should be more surprised at there being an English translation, or that it has basically zero social media attention.

[dayadhvam_triad]

Yes, that's the one!—the title made me stop and do a double take when I was browsing JJWXC. XD \o/ for its completion!

I also realized 穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位 has an ongoing translation too, up to Ch. 15, so I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions based on the fact I've seen zero mention of it in English-language fandom. But zero mention... /o\