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May. 24th, 2019 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pengwernModerate to high panicked beeping over the jjwxc ban/purge preemptive movements - not that I haven't seen those posts about fandom history but this is a) one I'm experiencing firsthand and b) tied to .....generally not good trends over there, and certainly in response to Taiwan's recent ruling (which, on its own, *\o/*). There was the BL author jailed for publishing her works last year, several previous purges getting rid of explicit scenes, incest, polyamory, all those censor boxes nibbling at the texts uploaded to the site - a long, long history of literary inquisitions --- ANYWAY I need to look up and save all the novels I care about, especially those under the umbrella of m/m Eastern Fantasy/Generic Historicals, which is ....not an insignificant amount.....
So over the past year I've been smushing myself into CN webnovels as a proto-bog mummy sinks into the peat! Most of what I've read is published on Jin Jiang, a fic platform with majority female audience/authors, in contrast to places like Qidian which appeals to the straight boys, which I'm sure has nothing to do with this ban. Although I can't claim to have a panoramic understanding of the current State of the Webnovel in the sinosphere (???) because I mostly care about the fantasy or generic historical genres, I am more familiar with it than I was two years ago. Enough to be glad I have the ability to access them, and enough to mourn the stifled works that would have been. But also, what a good thing I didn't find these until recently because I would have read my eyes blind even earlier.
Actually, never mind: it's extremely serious. The amount of topics permitted is...low. I need to find a way to download texts/open up text files without the characters coming out as gibberish. ...I was hoping for motivation to kickstart my accumulated Notes On Chinese Webnovels but not.....I had so many favorites! There are tons of excellent fic.
So over the past year I've been smushing myself into CN webnovels as a proto-bog mummy sinks into the peat! Most of what I've read is published on Jin Jiang, a fic platform with majority female audience/authors, in contrast to places like Qidian which appeals to the straight boys, which I'm sure has nothing to do with this ban. Although I can't claim to have a panoramic understanding of the current State of the Webnovel in the sinosphere (???) because I mostly care about the fantasy or generic historical genres, I am more familiar with it than I was two years ago. Enough to be glad I have the ability to access them, and enough to mourn the stifled works that would have been. But also, what a good thing I didn't find these until recently because I would have read my eyes blind even earlier.
Actually, never mind: it's extremely serious. The amount of topics permitted is...low. I need to find a way to download texts/open up text files without the characters coming out as gibberish. ...I was hoping for motivation to kickstart my accumulated Notes On Chinese Webnovels but not.....I had so many favorites! There are tons of excellent fic.
