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because I read less wild stuff too
Sep. 8th, 2019 09:33 pmI'll never manage to make a single post here if I wait for full reviews to appear, so some cn webnovels from jjwxc that I'm currently following:
The adorable Changan Bistro (no translation :<) is finished, scatter flowers \o/ A Tang dynasty gourmet novel where the MC makes her way out of being a palace attendant and sets up her own restaurant business. Belongs to the 市井生活 genre, lit. life in the city markets, or fic about running businesses (pretty much the coffee shop genre, just historical). There's more focus on her franchise and delicious food than in coffee shop aus, but the cute customer to slowburn flirt with and the found family that MC gathers, those CAN be found here! along with a slight assassination plot and the redeeming of her father's name.
I'm really very charmed by the author's style + grasp of classic texts, and of course the loving food descriptions. The pining (on ML's end) and mostly lighthearted banter on MC's end was excellent! Benefits of dating confucian scholars is flirting via philosophy ;> An example: they used that sensual quote from Zhuangzi where "It's better for two fish to forget one another in the rivers and lakes than to depend on each other for survival by wetting their companion with foam in dried springs," and MC points out that to part in freedom they'd have to...have done the other part first ;> ;> ;>
C Language Cultivation: SCREEEEE T_____T the forty meters long knives is dropping on us today. Even a cute meta nod at hello world was not enough to distract me from the part where MC is deciding to ( spoilers )
Palace Intrigue Counterattack Livestream: this fic never fails to hang the reader off a cliff. Their plots tend to go haywire later on, as the secret identities turn into a twenty car pileup, but the beginnings are always fun and we have a while to go yet!
There was another fic I subscribed to but it's not a great time to read about an emperor grooming one of his officials to accept his romantic advances, especially when it's the notoriously paranoid, bloody handed Yongle. Their Yinzhen x strategist one was better but :\ Like I was following this one because......of the author....It's the nature of the romance genre, obviously, to present some relationships that makes the reader queasy, but -- I could have a whole post on 君臣 (sovereign x official) relationships because it's a loyalty kink that's not common in western media. I'd also have to plaster huge warnings over a good half or more over the stuff I've seen, some of which is terrible from miles away in orbit and other which...require the protracted ignoring of stuff that made me as a reader uncomfortable because it's probably going to end up in a happy end, surely? :\
After the late emperor passed: by the author who wrote my beloved [Lu Xiluan's seven ex/con bfs and one she didn't arrest] updating randomly still ;-; The beginning was so full of hijinks and hilarity! Then we hit the past and the plot has been heavy serious defend the nation against invaders without and treasonous officials within, with a huge body count. This has a lovely sovereign x minister in the emperor and her childhood best friend/high noble/general too, which I could love more if not for how I've forgotten everything that happened earlier.
I'm starting to get why the Qidian novels can go on for thousands of chapters of dreck (sorry dudes but it's the majority) now that I have daily updating fic in my reading list. What the daily reader wants is have a dose of these characters and setting on the regular, whereas plot progression results in much wailing and gnashing of teeth when a cliffhanger happens (like Vlad I generalise from myself and adhd brain wants everything now now NOW). I can't compare this to any experience of reading fanfiction since (besides the free vs paid thing) it's rare to find fanfic of this novel sized length that updates in similarly sized chunks, also I avoid wips -- I should probably be thinking of Dickens, if anything.
The adorable Changan Bistro (no translation :<) is finished, scatter flowers \o/ A Tang dynasty gourmet novel where the MC makes her way out of being a palace attendant and sets up her own restaurant business. Belongs to the 市井生活 genre, lit. life in the city markets, or fic about running businesses (pretty much the coffee shop genre, just historical). There's more focus on her franchise and delicious food than in coffee shop aus, but the cute customer to slowburn flirt with and the found family that MC gathers, those CAN be found here! along with a slight assassination plot and the redeeming of her father's name.
I'm really very charmed by the author's style + grasp of classic texts, and of course the loving food descriptions. The pining (on ML's end) and mostly lighthearted banter on MC's end was excellent! Benefits of dating confucian scholars is flirting via philosophy ;> An example: they used that sensual quote from Zhuangzi where "It's better for two fish to forget one another in the rivers and lakes than to depend on each other for survival by wetting their companion with foam in dried springs," and MC points out that to part in freedom they'd have to...have done the other part first ;> ;> ;>
C Language Cultivation: SCREEEEE T_____T the forty meters long knives is dropping on us today. Even a cute meta nod at hello world was not enough to distract me from the part where MC is deciding to ( spoilers )
Palace Intrigue Counterattack Livestream: this fic never fails to hang the reader off a cliff. Their plots tend to go haywire later on, as the secret identities turn into a twenty car pileup, but the beginnings are always fun and we have a while to go yet!
There was another fic I subscribed to but it's not a great time to read about an emperor grooming one of his officials to accept his romantic advances, especially when it's the notoriously paranoid, bloody handed Yongle. Their Yinzhen x strategist one was better but :\ Like I was following this one because......of the author....It's the nature of the romance genre, obviously, to present some relationships that makes the reader queasy, but -- I could have a whole post on 君臣 (sovereign x official) relationships because it's a loyalty kink that's not common in western media. I'd also have to plaster huge warnings over a good half or more over the stuff I've seen, some of which is terrible from miles away in orbit and other which...require the protracted ignoring of stuff that made me as a reader uncomfortable because it's probably going to end up in a happy end, surely? :\
After the late emperor passed: by the author who wrote my beloved [Lu Xiluan's seven ex/con bfs and one she didn't arrest] updating randomly still ;-; The beginning was so full of hijinks and hilarity! Then we hit the past and the plot has been heavy serious defend the nation against invaders without and treasonous officials within, with a huge body count. This has a lovely sovereign x minister in the emperor and her childhood best friend/high noble/general too, which I could love more if not for how I've forgotten everything that happened earlier.
I'm starting to get why the Qidian novels can go on for thousands of chapters of dreck (sorry dudes but it's the majority) now that I have daily updating fic in my reading list. What the daily reader wants is have a dose of these characters and setting on the regular, whereas plot progression results in much wailing and gnashing of teeth when a cliffhanger happens (like Vlad I generalise from myself and adhd brain wants everything now now NOW). I can't compare this to any experience of reading fanfiction since (besides the free vs paid thing) it's rare to find fanfic of this novel sized length that updates in similarly sized chunks, also I avoid wips -- I should probably be thinking of Dickens, if anything.
