Free-For-All Friday

[geraineon]

Time for free for all Friday, a day for random chit-chat!

Do you want to talk about the other novels you are reading or find a read-along partner? Practice your Chinese? Request for fics? Ask for beta readers? Just talk about your day?

Go right ahead!

Comments

[anne]

I beta for this guy: https://fireflies1918.wordpress.com and he just sent me the next chapter, so I'm pretty stoked. Historical mlm with tragic endings you can see coming from a mile off. I love them to pieces.

Meanwhile I'm still on Smiling Proud Wanderer! Vol 2, now. The Six Peach Guys are something else! It's my ereader-at-night book, so I'm not zipping through it. Daytime reading got put on hold because I got sucked into You Are My Glory and Be My Princess. XD

[geraineon]

Oh nice! Bookmarking to read <3

Hahaha, glad you're continuing to have fun with Smiling Proud Wanderer! Maybe after everything we can watch an adaptation together or something (there are more recent adaptations which I think will have eng subs)

[anne]

That would be fun! I think it would be the first time I read the book before watching the drama.

[douqi]

Slightly cryptic but: remember when I was doubting Ning Yuan's promise that she would try to finish the historical cyberpunk baihe novel by the end of the month?

I should not have doubted. In her latest chapter, she does a callback all the way to Chapter 9, about a thing that I was pretty sure she'd forgotten about. I should just accept that she knows what she's doing.

[geraineon]

Yay! I remember reading your apprehension about the ending of this cyberpunk baihe novel. It's great when you can trust your fav authors!

[halfcactus]

I need to climb out of the shoujosei manga + light novel hole I got trapped in... My Chinese has degraded over the last months of avoiding c-language things but apparently it still comes in handy when I accidentally read an ongoing manga and the Chinese translation is ahead of the English lol. On the flip side it's been interesting, reading different kinds of translations.

Incidentally it looks like 7S is gonna start releasing English translations of Twelve Kingdoms in July 2025, which seems appropriately shoujosei-adjacent enough for future!me.

[geraineon]

Twelve Kingdoms soon?! Omg yes! (but also, ... worry... that 7S might screw with it)

[halfcactus]

Yeah I was surprised to hear the announcement! But at least there are other translations in existence haha

[neigette]

Some thoughts after listening to recent podcasts that Anton Hur guested on:

1. https://bsky.app/profile/antonhur.com/post/3lbokjpwsms2o I'd love to see more cnovels pitched to other publishers, although it does sounds like a fair amount of work for the translator.

2. https://bsky.app/profile/antonhur.com/post/3lbubg5jpkk26 Lol, they talked about translating Korean webnovels at the end and he said they're not paid enough for it, but also that there's less of them (~10?) at the calibre required. Which is in stark contrast to the Chinese (and Japanese?) translated webnovel scene. Still curious about the pay gap, although I'm not expecting answers.

[geraineon]

Ah, I can't see the posts because it's logged in only and I don't have bluesky. It'll definitely be nice if cnovels are pitched to more publishers though! Diversity is good. And hopefully the Korean webnovel translation situation will improve. Publishers really do shortchange translators a lot... *sigh*

[neigette]

ahh didn't realize that! here's the direct links: https://www.youtube.com/live/ggBVCvvVIpw?si=d5zz67FL4C2cK1Py https://geeklyinc.com/off-the-books-sung-il-kim-and-anton-hur/

[geraineon]

Thank you for the direct links!

Would it be okay for me to make a main post with the youtube link? (or if you prefer, please do so!) I think some community members might be interested in it (i judge this cnovel adjacent~! relevant enough!)

[neigette]

Sure, go ahead!

[geraineon]

<3 thank you!