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

[yueliangist]

hi all! i'm ada or yueliangist, and i'm rolling in from the baihe media comm (though i'm still learning how dw works so forgive me lol)

i've been learning chinese for 4 years now, though my abilities are...in any case, i was instantly hooked after watching the Zhen Hun liveaction and my initial goal for learning chinese was being able to read priest! i only started reading native stuff this year (2024) so i don't have a lot of stuff under my belt, even though i've read a few translations over the past few years

1. What are you currently reading?
currently i am reading 撒野 by 巫哲 and 一世清欢 by 无心谈笑 (though that last one not really actively)

2. What is your favourite cnovel?
i don't have one yet, as i feel i haven't read enough to really decide, but i really liked reading the TL for I Can Do It

3. Do you have a favourite author?
same as question 2, i have not read enough to decide ;w;

4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
i love all types of arts and textile crafts such as weaving and spinning yarn. other interests are baihe (as is obvious) and translation: i hope to help open up the baihe world more to others by learning to translate videos/audiodramas/webnovels (preferably webnovels). it has been my wish to learn to translate for ages, but i have been way too intimidated due to my skill level sighs,,

5. What do you hope to see from this community?
i hope to get translation resources and possibly cnovel recs!

[geraineon]

Hi, Ada! It's nice to have you here and on dw (if you have questions about dw, feel free to reach out too! I've been here for a while now).

It's really cool that you're able to read in Chinese now! And hm, I don't think you need to have read a lot to have a favourite (I feel like I am constantly collecting more and more favourites, haha). I love I Can Do It too (if you enjoy audio dramas, I really enjoyed the audio drama for that novel as well!).

There are a few translators at different levels of proficiency in the comm, so if you ever have translation questions or discussion topics you want to raise, all welcome~ I can either help you post the questions, or if you want, you can post them. I think it'll be nice to have more baihe translations overall.

c-novel recs is very common here, haha. I feel like every other discussion topic has some recs here and there. My TBR is already crazy long... what are your favourite settings/themes?

[yueliangist]

in general my favourite settings/themes are school/college life and fantasy! i really want to get into reading historicals and wuxia/xianxia this year

i also only read romance because it's my favourite of all time! i'm also curious about gaming novels!

my tbr is also crazy long HAHA i'll already be glad if i can finish my current read because i'm a really slow reader huhu

[geraineon]

Gaming novels are lots of fun! And there's no end to wuxia/xianxia setting novels. Plenty to choose from!

Jiayou!