I was upset about surprise hospital bill
(I am fine, this is from last year)
but now I am not anymore! ZL!!! He's so... beautiful
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 13:48:02 JST Neon (fandom)
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 13:48:01 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon Oh noes, I hope you're better now! Ok who's ZL
PS: Starting to reading Untamed as per your rec, and Heaven's Official Blessings. Ok I still don't get what's going on in the Untamed hahah
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 13:54:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon Oh no here I go with mixing names again! Sorry I always think of you when it comes to this for some reason. I've been trying to get to the bottom of the Untamed's popularity and this unknown person insisted that I should read the novel as it's is better so I'm giving it a try. I have a feeling it'll remain a mystery. PS: Detested the Cdrama with every fibre of my being.
About your hospital stay, yeah I feel this too. Had to deal with my parents' med bills and it's scary to get them.
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 13:54:01 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io I did not rec the Untamed... haha, I didn't rec TGCF (Heaven's Official Blessings). I did not actually like The Untamed cdrama. Didn't finish TGCF either. But danmei fandom generally likes those two a lot, so idk. stick with it a bit and see if it clicks? if it doesn't no biggie.
and yeah, I'm much better. it's just... -_- i hate surprise bills and i think this is a scam. ZL is Zhongli, from Genshin Impact, a game I play -
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 14:01:56 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon Haha interesting titles. TBH I'm not much of a Danmei person. I don't mind reading them, but I definitely gravitate more towards general fiction wuxia stuff like by Gu Long and Jin Yong. Thinking of ordering the books by the author who wrote the novels Wonderland of Love is based on too. In Chinese! To encourage myself to read faster lol
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 14:01:57 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io if it's danmei books that are currently available in English, what I like in no particular order from Seven Seas are:
1. Thousand Autumns
2. Scum Villain's Self Saving System
3. Stars of Chaos/Sha Po Lang (idk how good the official translation is though) -
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 14:04:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon Don't know how to right now, but heading to the Kino store to see if they have some and if they allow me to order. Navigating Chinese bookstores a tad too much for me. I'm also wondering if they have those Seven Seas novels you mention. I'll check them out nevertheless.
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 14:04:02 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io fair. then go ahead and order, why not?
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 15:23:20 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon I still want to untangle the mystery that is Untamed but perhaps our brains are made different...
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 15:23:21 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io they should have them, but no need to force self XD it's fine
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 16:20:53 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@geraineon yea we take this all for granted. Curiously a lot of people with the same viewpoint as me when it comes to The Untamed tend to be Asian folks who have watched cdramas for a long time. Could be something.
Also maybe cos I have read the BL genre decades ago and it's honestly not a novelty to me anymore. -
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 16:20:54 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io it's not a drama with a good budget, and the acting is not very polished, especially the first few episodes. But the themes, structure, types of characters are very new to people who haven't experienced cdrama
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Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 16:20:55 JST Neon (fandom)
@liztai@hachyderm.io I think it's partly timing, partly internet hype machine making it much easier for everyone to get into it at once
the timing was good. 2019. Guess what happened in 2020? It coincides with the donghua, and the novel translation (one version of it or several, I forgot) was also complete. There were marketing for the donghua, cdrama, etc.
So, for many, it's their gateway cdrama, and that can be a very special experience
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