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

[halfcactus]

Ah, I was just wondering how your webnovels were doing so I'm pleased to see updates haha. Yike at the comment section, that sounds tense.

A friend screencapped the BBC article for me and yeah, unsurprised with how they wrote it. (Ty for the archive link for the NYT one!)

[dayadhvam_triad]

<3! I haven't been reading as much (put aside 穿越成宋徽宗公主 before catching up in one go), and most of what I've tried hasn't been memorably good or bad... XD; sigh yeah with stories like these they get comments about class vs. gender intersectionality that COULD be promising but easily devolve into simplistic What Matters More /o\

ngl I snorted when the BBC article said readers should think of danmei as "a gay version of Fifty Shades of Grey" come ON pls writer you can do better than that

[llonkrebboj]

Why would Jin-Song history trigger the chapter lock though? There is that be cautious with 'historical nihilism' guideline. But like you said, that only applies to 20th century stuff. 🤷‍♀️

+1 re: snorted 🤣 They could have said explicit novels if they were worried the normie readers wouldn't understand and left it at that.

[dayadhvam_triad]

The story's set during the Jin-Song wars, but this particular arc was focused on a local peasant/soldier uprising which led to discussion about readers' sympathies with them, counterarguments that no this is clearly a case of Animal Farm!, then a few commenters started going "stop STOP don't talk about this anymore I'm afraid it will lead to consequences" and others pushed back with "we are clearly just talking about history wayyyyy in the past, stop trying to draw a link here!" ^^;

[halfcactus]

Laughing bc that part was in your screencap