Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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Comments

[douqi]

I've caught up on a bunch of the newly-released chapters for To Embers We Return, which continues to be excellent. There's an amped-up action section with body horror followed by an absolutely hilarious one where they have to Highlight for spoilers! *pretend for the benefit of the emperor's spies that they've been having a lot of loving conjugal sex, and the sex toy box makes a return.*

I also read a bit more of I, Qinghuan which is moving towards a standard 'young disciple in training' arc now, which I'm hoping won't be too long. Highlight for spoilers! *It also annoys me slightly that most of the major sects are all depicted as either evil or evil-with-a-veneer-of-righteousness. It was a subversion with Jin Yong wrote it, and even then he was a lot more subtle about the whole thing (not all sects are evil, some sects have bad people in them but also good, like life), but now it's just a tired trope. Someone needs to do a subversion of the subversion, stat.*

[geraineon]

How often does To Embers We Return update? lmao the sex toy box.

Re: I, Qinghuan spoiler text
Highlight for spoilers!*Yeah, tell me about it. I kinda feel like it just gets recycled so much now my immediate assumption when I see "orthodox/good" sect is "yep, they are gonna do Bad Shit later". Would love a subversion so I can be pleasantly surprised, instead of guessing plots from a mile away*

[douqi]

It updates daily, I'm pretty sure the author has written a big chunk of it and is just releasing them day by day. I'm kind of letting them build up a bit before binging a string of chapters in one go.

[geraineon]

A good idea, in case of cliffhangers!