[danmeiarchive]

Silent Reading / Mo Du by Priest -- a brief review (no spoilers)

Novel length: 180 chapters + 5 extras

My Rating: ★★★★★ / 5

This series has to be one of my top fave books / series of all time. I legitimately think I could and would enjoy writing a lengthy thesis about it. It's a series that I enjoyed so much that I put off reading the last volume for MONTHS because I didn't want the series to end.

Check for content warnings under the cut.

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What kind of story is Silent Reading?

First and foremost this is a detective story. It involves police and politics, corruption and manipulation, wealthy overpowering the poor, and the list of potential trigger warnings for it is quite lengthy. There are some genuinely gruesome and upsetting content in the cases though most of it is seen afterwards and not experienced by the reader-- for example there's a scene where a girl encounters a killer but we don't see what happens and only find out about the aftermath as you read on.

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This is also a story about love, friendship, trust, family, and relationships. The special investigation squad really feels like a found family and it is lovely to see them all working so hard to protect each other especially in the last volume when shit really hits the fan. There's positive and negative relationships of just about every kind. Some characters are close to their family and have a loving relationship while others despise or have trauma with theirs.

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Finally it is a story covered and intertwined with theming and allusions. One of my favorite things about this series is how each book / volume is named after and related to another work of literature. I have not personally read all of them before but I admit I am curious to do so and return to Silent Reading and see how that changes my impression of things. Real quick here's a list of the novels in case you would like to look into them before starting Silent Reading;

The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1871)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

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Who are the main characters?

Without going into details here's a little bit about our main squad:

Fei Du - a rich young man with a traumatic past who is interested in psychology and has a keen analytical mind. He is incredibly intelligent and determined to figure everything out (from the cases to his repressed memories) with all he has even if it hurts himself in the process. He acts cold and calculating and is determined not to trust or let others too close.

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Luo Wenzhou - the head of the special investigation squad, he appears carefree and lighthearted but cares so deeply. He wants to protect his little family of investigators no matter what. (He also has a cat named Luo Yiguo who is hilarious every time he shows up).

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Tao Ran - deputy captain of the squad, he has strong big brother vibes. He's serious and kind and a good foil to the flippant and brash Luo Wenzhou. He's constantly shaking his head and hoping everyone can get along (at least for a little while).

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Lang Qiao - part of the special investigation squad, she may not be as quick on analyzing the clues but she makes up for it by being decisive and taking action. (I really appreciated her not being fridged or a damsel -- in fact she often would rush into action and saved Xiao Haiyang a few times).

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Xiao Haiyang -he starts out in another unit but gets transferred into the special investigation squad in the second book after having worked with them closely during the first book. He's new and has a lot to learn but his incredible memory helps him pick up on some clues that others have missed. His sense of righteousness is strong but his self preservation is weak.

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What is the plot of Silent Reading?

Each volume revolves around a certain case that the special investigation squad and Fei Du find themselves wrapped up in. The characters and cases that they work on are complicated and nuanced, I felt a little like a detective myself as I would take notes while reading and try to piece together clues. This includes not only the current case but the little tidbits we would get about the main character's dark past and puzzling how it has affected him into who he is today as well as hints at a large scale conspiracy manipulated by some shadowy force that was directing the characters around to their whim. After reading each volume I would have a list of questions that I had generated that still remained and I hoped I would get more clues to in the next volume.

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I also appreciated that the cases seemed to become more complicated and tangled as the series continued. Suspects and victims were not mutually exclusive, What seemed simple at first glance would be revealed to be a cover-up and the characters would pursue the loose strings and uncover what really happened.

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Adaptations

Also there is a live action adaptation of the series called Justice in the Dark which is sadly caught up in legal issues. The first 8 episodes were aired and you can most likely find somewhere to watch them online just beware of malware when you search. The adaptation was actually the reason why I started reading the novels! I highly enjoyed the episodes that were released and while there are some differences between it and the source material it was honestly pretty minimal. I really liked the actors portrayals in particular that of Fei Du, Luo Wenzhou, and Tao Ran (even if the characters names were changed slightly).

(I believe there is also an audio drama and there was talk of a donghua in the works but I have not experienced either of them at this time.)

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Click 'keep reading' to see trigger warnings.

content warnings: please note that all of these warnings ALSO APPLY TOWARDS MINORS AND CHILDREN: sexual abuse and assault, brutal violence and physical abuse, mental and psychological abuse, animal abuse, death, murder, drug use, torture, dismemberment, neglect, human trafficking, cult-like brainwashing, manipulation, conspiracy, corruption, police, politics, trauma, cycle of abuse, social standing as an excuse to treat people as lesser (rich targeting the poor, strong targeting the weak, men targeting women, women targeting children, etc.)

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I'm not fully sure if this falls under trigger warnings but I'm going to put it here anyway. There's a few times where FD acts cheekily towards LWZ and LWZ alludes to 'punishing' FD with sex. I believe both characters are aware that this is meant as a form of teasing and play between them and if FD did not consent LWZ would not continue. They both know if FD teases LWZ to this extent that he's egging LWZ on purposefully and is consenting (sometimes this is an attempt to distract LWZ from asking FD questions that FD does not want to answer). Ultimately we know that LWZ wouldn't harm FD but I felt it was worth a mention.

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This series also unfortunately falls into the trope of one male character always tops and the other always bottoms -- to the extent that when the bottom complains or suggests switching roles the top acts offended or like he doesn't hear the other. It's like some bullshit pride thing that pops up from time to time in gay media that the bottom is less masculine because he's on the receiving end. Personally I think LWZ would thoroughly enjoy any type of act with FD as long as FD was doing it with him. And that's not to say a person can't have preferences-- I just get frustrated when the tops act insulted at the mere thought or implication of being the one on the receiving end.

[danmeiarchive]

I hoped so hard that we would get an English license but I didn't think it would happen before Seven Seas (another north american publisher) published Faraway Wanderers or Tai Sui!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I went through like ... The opposite of the five stages of grief when I saw the announcement a couple hours ago while at work. I was shocked, stunned, near shaking and near tears in disbelief and hope. I'm so EXCITED and cannot WAIT to see the art and to have these bad boys in my hands!!!

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[marsh-mallow-adopts]

WHAT?!

[triona-tribblescore]

I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3

[citrusandsalt]

I agree completely about PBTA, but what I fixated on was that you have a swashbuckling rogue character.

::In the manner of someone asking to pet the shop cat they glimpsed through a window::

Will you tell us about this rogue?

Ohhhh Amethyst, my sweet baby. She was an NPC I adopted in Jordan's Saltmarsh campaign and she was already a disaster lesbian when I got her. She was a half-orc rogue who was being blackmailed by the duke she'd been honeypotted into cuckolding, she was a 20-some baby who had been raised on a self-sustaining polyamorous ship-commune that she couldn't get back to, her girlfriend was a fish-princess barbarian (@ilaalexei) and the group couldn't stop worshipping all the wrong gods (one of whom kept possessing her best friend but he insisted it was fine). The party couldn't stop setting things on fire, including not one but two plot points. She threw pistachios as a sign of affection. She once fought hand-to-hand with a squid monster and more or less won. She bullied the child the party adopted. She kept breaking laws mostly because she didn't understand them, and was pretty sure that apologizing would fix everything.

I love her and she was perfect.

[ilaalexei]

I have more sketches on my tablet at home I can share later but here's Amethyst and Zmrukht ("Rook") once they finally allowed themselves to admit a little bit of their feelings for each other.

Truly playing the saltmarsh game feels like precursor to Three of Hearts and I have so many fond feelings for that game and the characters involved.

[danmeiarchive]

Which webnovel should I read (and review) next?

Married Thrice to Salted Fish by Bikabi

Mistakenly Saving the Villain by Feng Yu Nie

Voting ended onMar 4, 2024

NovelUpdates links;

Married Thrice to Salted Fish

Mistakenly Saving the Villain

[ilaalexei]

These are both novels I've been recommended before, so help me choose!

[the-official-account]

I Have Commissions!

Artist is Black + Queer/trans + Plural and so excited about your OCs of all funky genders and species.

Will not draw Mecha, Furry, NSFW art (Not that I don't love y'all!) Will draw nonsexual nudity (nipples are gender nuetral)

[ilaalexei]

Get yourself a commission!!

[danmeiarchive]

The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish by Xue Shan Fei Hu -- a brief review (VAGUE spoilers under the cut)

156 chapters

My Rating: ♥♥♥♥½ / 5

This novel is a fun silly romp with plenty of face-slapping and courtroom drama. Overall, this is a fun one and while I enjoyed it very much it is perhaps not one for everyone. Our main character is pretty OP and seemingly able to overcome any and all trials with his powers of being a CUTE MAGIC FISH. At the end of the review under the cut there will be some VAGUE SPOILERS in regard to the disability and representation. I will also include content warnings under the cut.

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What kind of story is The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish?

DTPPF is a transmigration story. So anticipate all sorts of transmigration shenanigans and tropes. It's also a story that is clearly meant for fun and not to be taken seriously. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have heart -- there were a few times I teared up and cried as I got hit right in the feels. This is also a story with mpreg -- something that I hadn't anticipated just from the title and synopsis. (If you are worried about the mpreg just know that it is vaguely referenced and kinda handwaved in a 'it just works' way. The novel does not go into the how or physiology. It just happens.)

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What about the disability? The tyrant is mute -- and there are some genuine moments of how he struggles with it. There's even a couple moments when he sort of uses his muteness to his advantage. It is an integral part of his character as it has changed how others treat and perceive him. It also affects his life in the imperial palace and his right of inheritance as one of the emperor's sons. It does not feel like an afterthought. That being said please check below the cut to see some more of my thoughts on this matter.

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Overall while this story does have a good amount of courtroom intrigue, drama, and backstabbing I'm still left feeling that it's a fairly lighthearted and fluffy story. I think this is mostly due to how seemingly easily and consistently our main character and his love interest are able to solve the problems they run into. It was also terribly endearing as the reader to see the tyrant falling desperately in love and just wanting to tell the main character that he is loved and that he accepts him no matter what kind of creature he is.

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Who are the main characters?

Without going into details here's a little bit about our main squad:

Li Yu aka Xiao Yu - the main character of our tale, he is a modern young man transmigrated into a webnovel he had been reading... but as the protagonist's fish! He is tasked with helping the tyrant but how can he help when he is but a small fish? He gets creative and gains some special abilities that allow him to help cause chaos and help the tyrant before eventually he is able to regain his human form for a certain amount of time. (He is referred to as "Xiao Yu" at first by the tyrant as he is a "small fish" (xiao = small, yu = fish.))

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Mu Tianchi aka Jing Wang - the protagonist of the novel Li Yu had been reading. His name is Mu Tianchi but is often referred to by his title "Jing Wang" especially at the beginning of the novel. He is said to have been born mute and as such he is not considered as a viable heir to the throne. This does keep him out of some courtroom drama but certainly not all of it. As the other brothers are fighting, scheming, and taking each other out Mu Tianchi does continue to prove to be very capable and difficult to manipulate. He also goes above and beyond when it comes to spoiling both "Xiao Yu" (the fish) and Li Yu (his human form).

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Wang Xi - protagonist's eunuch / advisor / assistant / caretaker. He's incredible and deserves so many props. He would do anything to help Mu Tianchi and Li Yu. I don't have much to say about him other than I don't know what Mu Tianchi and Li Yu would have done if Wang Xi had turned against them.

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Chu Yanyu - the original love interest of the tyrant in the novel. I won't spoil things but I will say I wanted to yeet this character every time he showed up. Just when you think you've seen the last of him he. keeps. showing. up.

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What is the plot of The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish?

The plot of The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish follows Li Yu's journey on regaining his human form, helping prevent certain events he knows about from the novel, uncovering the conspiracies and mysteries from Mu Tianchi's past, and securing Mu Tianchi's place as crown prince. Meanwhile Mu Tianchi and Li Yu fall in love with each other of course.

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Small critiques

I've only read this title once (so far) but unlike Silent Reading and Heaven Official's Blessing, I feel like DTPPF doesn't really have clear arcs in terms of where one book would end and the next would start -- I will be curious to see how Seven Seas splits this one up into volumes.

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There are some characters that never get names. This is not the only webnovel I've read where this happens but every time it happens I'm a little disappointed. Like, on one hand it can be hard to keep track of a ton of characters and their names but... it also is just so weird to me whenever a character continues to show up but is only referred to as "the scarred man" or in the case of this novel "the princess of JinJue." She's a pretty great character but she never got a name!

I do hope that when Seven Seas releases their translation that they will include a character list like they have in other books to help keep track of everyone. Because when the emperor's sons are mentioned sometimes it's by their birth order or title and sometimes it's by name. And of course they all have similar names (they even share a generation name -- Mu TianZhao, Mu TianMing, Mu TianChi, Mu TianXiao, etc).

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Click 'keep reading' to see more on the disability (VAGUE SPOILERS) and trigger warnings.

Disability representation in the novel

Without going into the HOW and WHY I feel it is important to mention that Mu Tianchi's disability is CURED pretty late in the novel. While I did find the outcome touching (when the main character hears the tyrant's first words and how the tyrant feels upon finally being able to speak) I think that this could be a touchy subject. I think that the novel could have not had the tyrant be cured and I would have enjoyed it just as much. And I imagine that if you're a person with a disability and or chronic illness that is reading a story where a main character struggles with his own -- only to end up magically and conveniently cured of his disability -- that it could be frustrating.

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There is also discrimination against Mu Tianchi for his disability -- he isn't considered a viable heir for the throne because he is mute, even if he is the best choice. Also since he has this disability the other characters (and the tyrant himself) worry that his children would also be disabled.

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tw -- there's several times when jokes are made about bestiality (and a couple characters assume that Mu Tianchi's feelings towards his fish are not strictly platonic).

There is also various attempts of harm towards young children that might inherit the throne including poison, kidnapping, and threat of physical harm. Similarly, there are attempts at drugging (with aphrodisiacs, getting someone overly drunk, etc) and dubious consent situations -- (however this does not occur between our main couple). This is done in hopes of earning someone's favor, forcing them to take responsibility, and or moving up in rank and society.

There is also a character that was taken as a concubine (against her will) after her kingdom was defeated in war. All of this seems fairly standard to courtroom drama stories but I figured it would be good to mention. If you've also read this novel and think I've left some cw out let me know and I'll add them to this list.

[ilaalexei]

New review! Thank you to everyone who voted and I'll work on reviews for the other options in the meantime! 😊

[danmeiarchive]

Silent Reading / Mo Du by Priest -- a brief review (no spoilers)

180 chapters + 5 extras (5 volumes + epilogue)

This series has to be one of my top fave books / series of all time. I legitimately think I could and would enjoy writing a lengthy thesis about it. It's a series that I enjoyed so much that I put off reading the last volume for MONTHS because I didn't want the series to end.

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What kind of story is Silent Reading?

First and foremost this is a detective story. It involves police and politics, corruption and manipulation, wealthy overpowering the poor, and the list of potential trigger warnings for it is quite lengthy. There are some genuinely gruesome and upsetting content in the cases though most of it is seen afterwards and not experienced by the reader-- for example there's a scene where a girl encounters a killer but we don't see what happens and only find out about the aftermath as you read on. Included under the cut are the trigger warnings I could think of without going into detail, if you have read Silent Reading and noticed I missed something lmk and I'll update my list.

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This is also a story about love, friendship, trust, family, and relationships. The special investigation squad really feels like a found family and it is lovely to see them all working so hard to protect each other especially in the last volume when shit really hits the fan. There's positive and negative relationships of just about every kind. Some characters are close to their family and have a loving relationship while others despise or have trauma with theirs.

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Finally it is a story covered and intertwined with theming and allusions. One of my favorite things about this series is how each book / volume is named after and related to another work of literature. I have not personally read all of them before but I admit I am curious to do so and return to Silent Reading and see how that changes my impression of things. Real quick here's a list of the novels in case you would like to look into them before starting Silent Reading;

The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1871)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

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Who are the main characters?

Without going into details here's a little bit about our main squad:

Fei Du - a rich young man with a traumatic past who is interested in psychology and has a keen analytical mind. He is incredibly intelligent and determined to figure everything out (from the cases to his repressed memories) with all he has even if it hurts himself in the process. He acts cold and calculating and is determined not to trust or let others too close.

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Luo Wenzhou - the head of the special investigation squad, he appears carefree and lighthearted but cares so deeply. He wants to protect his little family of investigators no matter what. (He also has a cat named Luo Yiguo who is hilarious every time he shows up).

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Tao Ran - deputy captain of the squad, he has strong big brother vibes. He's serious and kind and a good foil to the flippant and brash Luo Wenzhou. He's constantly shaking his head and hoping everyone can get along (at least for a little while).

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Lang Qiao - part of the special investigation squad, she may not be as quick on analyzing the clues but she makes up for it by being decisive and taking action. (I really appreciated her not being fridged or a damsel -- in fact she often would rush into action and saved Xiao Haiyang a few times).

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Xiao Haiyang -he starts out in another unit but gets transferred into the special investigation squad in the second book after having worked with them closely during the first book. He's new and has a lot to learn but his incredible memory helps him pick up on some clues that others have missed. His sense of righteousness is strong but his self preservation is weak.

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What is the plot of Silent Reading?

Each volume revolves around a certain case that the special investigation squad and Fei Du find themselves wrapped up in. The characters and cases that they work on are complicated and nuanced, I felt a little like a detective myself as I would take notes while reading and try to piece together clues. This includes not only the current case but the little tidbits we would get about the main character's dark past and puzzling how it has affected him into who he is today as well as hints at a large scale conspiracy manipulated by some shadowy force that was directing the characters around to their whim. After reading each volume I would have a list of questions that I had generated that still remained and I hoped I would get more clues to in the next volume.

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I also appreciated that the cases seemed to become more complicated and tangled as the series continued. Suspects and victims were not mutually exclusive, What seemed simple at first glance would be revealed to be a cover-up and the characters would pursue the loose strings and uncover what really happened.

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Adaptations

Also there is a live action adaptation of the series called Justice in the Dark which is sadly caught up in legal issues. The first 8 episodes were aired and you can most likely find somewhere to watch them online just beware of malware when you search. The adaptation was actually the reason why I started reading the novels! I highly enjoyed the episodes that were released and while there are some differences between it and the source material it was honestly pretty minimal. I really liked the actors portrayals in particular that of Fei Du, Luo Wenzhou, and Tao Ran (even if the characters names were changed slightly).

(I believe there is also an audio drama and there was talk of a donghua in the works but I have not experienced either of them at this time.)

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Click 'keep reading' to see trigger warnings.

tw -- please note that all of these warnings ALSO APPLY TOWARDS MINORS AND CHILDREN: sexual abuse and assult, brutual violence and phsyical abuse, mental and psychological abuse, animal abuse, death, murder, drug use, torture, dismemberment, neglect, human trafficking, cult-like brainwashing, manipulation, conspiracy, corruption, police, politics, trauma, cycle of abuse, social standing as an excuse to treat people as lesser (rich targeting the poor, strong targeting the weak, men targeting women, women targeting children, etc.)

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I'm not fully sure if this falls under trigger warnings but I'm going to put it here anyway. There's a few times where FD acts cheekily towards LWZ and LWZ alludes to 'punishing' FD with sex. I believe both characters are aware that this is meant as a form of teasing and play between them and if FD did not consent LWZ would not continue. They both know if FD teases LWZ to this extent that he's egging LWZ on purposefully and is consenting (sometimes this is an attempt to distract LWZ from asking FD questions that FD does not want to answer). Ultimately we know that LWZ wouldn't harm FD but I felt it was worth a mention.

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This series also unfortuneately falls into the trope of one male character always tops and the other always bottoms -- to the extent that when the bottom complains or suggests switching roles the top acts offended or like he doesn't hear the other. It's like some bullshit pride thing that pops up from time to time in gay media that the bottom is less masculine because he's on the receiving end. Personally I think LWZ would thoroughly enjoy any type of act with FD as long as FD was doing it with him. And that's not to say a person can't have preferences-- I just get frustrated when the tops act insulted at the mere thought or implication of being the one on the receiving end.

[ilaalexei]

Here’s my first short review! Please follow my sideblog if you enjoyed this review and let me know what you think! I’ve not really done reviews before and would appreciate feedback. 

[danmeiarchive]

Materpost of Recs

Completed Reading Recs

★★★★★ Carrying a Hoe to Cultivate - Little Baldy

★★★★★ Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Capture Me - Qing Duan

★★★★★ His Little Deer Wife is Very Fierce - Little Baldy

★★★★★ How to Survive As a Villain - Yi Yi Yi Yi

★★★★★ Silent Reading - Priest

★★★★★ The General’s Vampire Omega - Little Baldy

★★★★★ The Last Dragon in the Cultivation World - Marshmallow Bunny

★★★★★ The Virtuous Omega Disguised as the Vicious Colonel - Little Baldy

★★★★★ Where is Our Agreement to be Each Other’s Arch-Rivals? - Poplar Breeze

★★★★½ Non-Human Sub-district Office - Drunk Long Song

★★★★½ Peerless Immortal Surrounded by Demonic Disciples - Dao Xuan

★★★★½ Record of the Missing Sect Master - A Lifetime Of Beautiful Clothes

★★★★½ The Whole World Is My Crematorium - 比卡比

★★★★½ They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost - Cyan Wings

★★★★ A Real Man Isn’t Afraid of a Little Demon - Little Baldy

★★★★ My Junior Still Hasn’t Killed Me - Zi Lu

★★★★ Something's Not Right - Cyan Wings

★★★★ Today Prime Minister Also Wants to Bang His Head on the Pillar - Bazaodashe

★★★½ It’s Not Easy Being a Master - Jin Xi Gu Nian

★★★½ The Omega Can’t Pretend to Be a Beta After Accidentally Witnessing the Major General’s Susceptible Period - Fei Tang

★★★½ Worship Me, I Can Make You Rich - 向远飞

★★★ The General Loves to Collect Little Red Flowers - Kun Cheng Xiong Mao

More Completed Reading Recs (but these ones are more fluff than plot)

♥♥♥♥♥ A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy - Jue Jue

♥♥♥♥♥ Transmigrated As a Villain, I Rely on Sand Sculpture to Survive - Ma Hu Zi Jun

♥♥♥♥ After Being Turned Into a Dog, I Conned My Way Into Freeloading at My Rival’s Place - Zi Jin

♥♥♥♥ Number One Lazy Merchant of the Beast World - Shuishan

♥♥♥♥ The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish - Fat Snow Mountain Fox

♥♥♥♥ Transmigrated as the Villain’s Cat - Xishan Fish

♥♥♥½ Do You Want to Touch My Fish Tail? - 系辭上

♥♥♥½ Live Broadcasting Raising Dragons in the Interstellar - Yu Zhi Shui

♥♥♥½ My Vampire Faints at Blood - Three Thousand Big Dreams To Narrate One's Life

♥♥♥½ The Film Emperor’s Daily Live Cooking Broadcast - 砚楚

Currently Reading

After Entering a Book, He Just Wants to be a Flower Vase - Poplar Breeze (ongoing translation)

Dinghai Fusheng Records - Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Mistakenly Saving the Villain - Feng Yu Nie

Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Sing Shong

The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

This Omega is Fierce and Wild - Poplar Breeze (ongoing translation)

Want to Read (cause I watched the adaptation)

Faraway Wanderers - Priest

Guardian - Priest

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Heaven Official’s Blessing - Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi

Tianbao Fuyao Lu - Fei Tian Ye Xiang

(and so so so many more!)

Completed Reading (Not Rec'd)

Delicious Food Got Me Famous Across the Galaxy - Wa Lun Ding

He Lifted My Red Veil - Zi Jin

Let Me Tease You - Qing Duan

Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me - Mo Xiao Xian

Peach Blossom Debt - Da Feng Gua Guo

Dropped

The People Who’re Supposed To Kill Me Fell For Me Instead - Jiu Yi

You’ve Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale - Hei Dan Bai

((this post will be updated as I continue reading and if I write any reviews about specific series I'll link them here too))

[ilaalexei]

I started a sideblog to scream about the webnovels I have read and loved! I’m still considering the name so it may change ^^;; 

Mostly I want to share some of the ones I don’t see talked about and why I love them. 

[kelenia]

Fashion police of the demon realm

[taffywabbit]

cats are literally just so sleepy tired most of the time and there's not a soul on this earth who can ultimately prevent them from getting what they want (a cozy lil nap) whenever they want it (several times per day). when does it end. who will stop this madness. when do I get a cozy lil nap huh

[yea-baiyi]

i keep thinking about the odyssey i am THINKING about wei wuxian as odysseus. you were dead. its been years since you’ve seen your family. the child you left behind is almost a man. you wear a face they don’t recognise, you sneak in through the back door. the dog gives your identity away. the world knows it’s you when you draw your weapon. the person you love recognises you by the original symbol of your love—a secret that no one else in the world knows about, still, because they kept it safe for all these years. you get the chance to go back and despite everything, you found home waiting for you; he kept your place and raised your son and he was still there waiting for you when you got back. tell me o muse, about a complicated man i am extremely not okay

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[hiveswap]

Bleeding out all by yourself, handsome?

[citrusandsalt]

This is how Spar meets his partners

[ilaalexei]

This goes double for Vellum and Spar bc sometimes it's Vellum who's bleeding out

[zhanyings]

THE UNTAMED: Longing in Gay Edition               (4/?)

[citrusandsalt]

@ilaalexei VelSpar are in their “trapped in a cave taking turns being grievously injured and staring longingly at each other (the quiet one is composing a song for the loud one; the loud one is already trying to die for the quiet one and do it smiling)” phase

[ilaalexei]

HRRNNNHHHHHH ESSAY. I CRI. BABE. HOW DARE YOU.

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

😭😭😭😭😭😭

I love our gay detectives

[valtsv]

microdosing on catharsis by watching a fictional character or persona i relate to have an emotional breakdown until my chest starts to ache from the amount i've repressed

[valtsv]

[the-official-account]

@ilaalexei in a positive way!!!

[ilaalexei]

Awww I'm so glad!! I really strive to feel what the character is feeling and hope it comes through when I give them voice.

One of my future goals is to have character voices too but we'll see how that goes 😅

[misscrazyfangirl321]

When the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger and the mask slips, it's great.

But when the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger, and the mask DOESN'T slip.

Because they understand they need to be calm and unflappable now more than ever; if it protects them, it will certainly protect the person they care about. So their voice doesn't waver, their hands don't shake. They don't panic. From the outside looking in, they're as calm as could be. They handle it.

But after it's over-when the person they care about is safe, and the unflappable character is alone-they completely shatter. Gasping breaths, sobs, barely holding it together because someone they love almost DIED, and it was far, far too close for comfort.

(Optional: Character that they care about finds them in this state and comforts them.)

[theghoulfieri-deactivated202602]

there is something very special about radios in media. they are machines that pluck voices out of still air. They amplify echoes of the dead and the dying. They are a means of communication as well as community. They shorten the distance between lovers as well as enemies. they allow us to broadcast our thoughts into a vast silence. is someone listening? They give us no way of knowing either way.