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Read-in-Progress Wednesday
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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The other day I read the short story Jianghu by L Si X Xi Y and the novella Who Moved My Ashes by Si Jing Qu. I really enjoyed both of them!
Dragon Subjugation Incantation by Shi Wei Yue Shang continues to be so good imho! As of chapter 67 Highlight for spoilers! *Luo Qingci is still being a bit slow on the uptake re: Ruan Li's feelings towards her, despite the system basically spelling it out. I'm really enjoying the action scenes and can't wait to see Ruan Li face the ancient dragon (I really like how the action stuff is written/translated).*
I've started reading Pale Mirror's translation of Reading the Remnants by Qi Xiao Huang Shu (I'm currently on chapter 24). I'm really enjoying the adventures so far and I particularly like Li Shiyi and A Yin! Highlight for spoilers! *I'm a bit spoiled on an endgame pairing (Li Shiyi/Song Shijiu), and am curious how the romance will strike me as it develops.*
I've also started rereading JWQS and it's neat to pick up on some stuff I missed the first time around. Highlight for spoilers! *Like, I didn't pay much attention on my first read to the stuff about the emperor prior to Nangong Rang in chapter 2, but in retrospect it definitely impacts a lot of things.*
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(This is in chapter 31 for anyone else who might be reading. Douqi warned me in an earlier post and I appreciated the warning).
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A fan edit to create a whole movie for Wen Guan! It's amazing!
I didn't realize there's so many more chapters translated (when I checked, it was chapters 1-10 only). I guess that's what I'll be reading next then.
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Last I checked this one only had a few chapters and earless tls' was at chapter 9, so this was a nice surprise (I'm inhaled 78 chapters of it as of now).
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Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle!
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I also used birthday money to buy 17 (!!!) books from Via Lactea. I'll be getting Lip and Sword (3 vols) by Jin Shisi Chai, Dawning (3 volumes) by Ice, Soul Vibration (3 volumes) by Dr. Solo, To Rule in a Turbulent World vols 1 and 2 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang (writing as Gu Xue Rou), and I preordered I Can't and I Won't (3 vols) by Yan Gui Kang and Painting Against the Natural Grain (3 vols) by Qing Lv. Cheers to a favorable Canadian Dollar to US Dollar exchange rate, lmao.
Guess that's all my reading for 2025 planned, lmao.
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In fairness, I think it's genre-atypical for the time period. I only remember one other canonically queer character in a wuxia novel from the period, and that's a secondary character who is the worst caricature of a mean-spirited gay man.
The mainland adaptations do NOT know what to do with Dongfang Bubai. The 2013 one makes her a cis woman, and the 2018 makes her, as far as I can tell, a cis man (and seems to make Yang Lianting a cis woman). The adaptations that interrogate gender, gender identity and identity perhaps the most are Tsui Hark's Swordsman trilogy, especially the second and third films.
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The Delaney-isms sounds charming tbh! Added to my tbr - the summary sounds like something I might enjoy.
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I keep forgetting about Via Lactea when it comes to books.
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