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Needed to do some spring cleaning and clear out some extra/old danmei and stage goods. Items for sale are listed below the cut. Open PDF for more information on prices, shipping, pictures and condition of items.
I don’t normally post about danmei on tumblr because I have a danmei twitter, but this is important. Spoilers for 2ha ahead.
Meatbun has announced that she will be taking a social media hiatus on the recommendations of her doctor (link: https://twitter.com/wenbuxing/status/1287045740426964992?s=19)
She has been receiving a barrage of hate over the last 2 years for her novels, culminating in physical illness and hospitalizations. Here is a translation of her explanation on Weibo: https://twitter.com/dreamvvalker/status/1287146553459855362?s=20
(I had to post the links like that because tumblr doesn’t allow posts with external links to show up in its main tags, unfortunately).
You may ask: well, I’m not a CN fan, so what does this have to do with me?
For us non-CN speaking/Western fans, it’s just as important.
The hate that Meatbun has gotten on weibo sounds VERY similar to the hate Meatbun receives from fandom puritans and entitled fandom brats in EN-speaking fandom. And Meatbun isn’t the first danmei author to go through this: notably, MXTX (author of SVSSS, MDZS, and TGCF) has, and other authors have as well, such as Tang Jiuqing (author of Nan Chan and Qiang Jin Jiu). Women and queer people, especially women and queer people from nonwestern countries, who create indie content for smaller audiences are constantly being raked over the coals and scrutinized.
So I wanted to touch upon some common talking points that a lot of you hold against her, because these are many of the things antis on weibo have been accusing her of, which has driven her off social media. Criticism is one thing, but if you go to the lengths that antis do, you’re a disgusting person.
1. “She’s a fujoshi/mlm fetishist”. I don’t know why you read a danmei novel then? Danmei and BL have many similarities but they aren’t interchangeable, as one is Chinese and the other is Japanese. And many, many people by now have talked about how “fujoshi” has been misappropriated from Japanese pop culture to describe something that it’s not, which is rooted in both orientalism and misogyny. Moreover, there are plenty of gay male danmei authors (such as Fei Tian Ye Xiang, author of Dinghai Fusheng Records, Tian Bao Fu Yao Lu, Seizing Dreams, Luan Shi Wei Wang, and more), and none of them have said things like “my works aren’t for female readers”. Anyway, we could sit here and have a back and forth about what does and does not count as “mlm fetishization”. My point is this: if you think women writing and consuming sexual m/m content counts as fetishization, why are you reading a danmei novel? Why would you venture into a genre if it makes you uncomfortable? Moreover, the translators provided plenty of warning about the heavy themes and sexual content of the novel. Rynn has those warnings on every chapter’s doc and has them bolded in red. That was on you for reading the novel regardless of your discomfort. Instead of taking that discomfort out on Meatbun, either keep it to yourself, stop reading, or vent your feelings in a diary or a private social media account. Don’t harass Meatbun about it.
2. “I’m LGBT and I don’t approve of this novel”. Go cry about it to your mother then. The idea that this novel is specifically meant to cater to Western LGBT fans and to Western LGBT identity politics and conventions is xenophobic and ethnocentric. This is, first and foremost, a Chinese work written by a Chinese woman about Chinese authors for a Chinese audience. We as Westerners are not the target demographic of this work, and so the publishing of this work does not and should not hinge upon our validation or approval. Assuming that the cultural products of nonwestern nations should be screened through a western gaze, no matter how “progressive”, is incredibly orientalist. And you’re not immune to being racist or orientalist just because you’re a white/western gay, I can promise you that.
You may also think this kind of sexual m/m content is “homophobic” and “fetishistic” but you ignore the cultural context. LGBT content is heavily censored and policed in China. Why do you think all of these authors have to write under a penname? Why do you think many of these authors have either only written implied sexual content or have locked their chapters? Meatbun could get arrested for writing this content if her name was exposed. We as Westerners can sit in the comfort of our homes knowing that the western LGBT works we consume won’t lead to the author getting arrested, but that’s not true of Meatbun and all the other danmei authors. For that reason, if you claim that HYX will be better than 2ha because it’ll remove the sexual content in the same way dumbasses claimed CQL is better than MDZS, you’re a homophobe and you’re an ethnocentrist and no amount of woke posturing and flinging around of gay identity politics will change that.
Also, let’s be honest. You did not pay to read 2ha. Most of us haven’t purchased the chapters on JJWXC. Some of you don’t know what JJWXC is. Some of you don’t know how to navigate it. Others haven’t purchased it. Which is fine, but Meatbun is not a big name Western author like George R.R. Martin or J.K. Rowling. 2ha is not a large franchise like Game of Thrones or Star Wars or Marvel. 2ha is a Chinese web-novel. So Meatbun doesn’t owe you anything because you didn’t purchase her novel and compensate her for her labor, despite the enjoyment you derived from it and despite how you’re using it as a source of LGBT representation and self-projection regardless. Then, there is the fact that the translators are the ones who purchased the novels, painstakingly translated them, and then uploaded them onto digital platforms for FREE. So you not only get to access chapters without paying for them, but you get an entire translation for FREE! Have you thanked Rynn (the main translator) lately? Given them a ko-fi? Go do so if you haven’t, because Rynn and other translators deal with a lot of online hate as well.
3. “This has very heavy and triggering themes and fiction affects reality”. Again, we could get into a debate about whether fiction affects reality or not. The point is that this is an ADULT work for ADULT readers. If you don’t have the maturity, reading comprehension, or psychological ability to differentiate between fiction and reality, don’t read material like 2ha. Moreover, Meatbun is writing a redemption narrative. This isn’t a Disney movie or a CW show. These characters are all nuanced, morally gray, and complicated. We get a gorgeous character arc for Mo Ran but in order to get one he had to do some truly terrible things to begin his character journey. Don’t like villains? Don’t like redemption narratives? Fine, but don’t read novels like 2ha then. You were repeatedly warned. Instead of making assumptions about Meatbun’s character, personality, or morality, go do something concrete for the world if you want to be a good person or an activist or a hero. Hating on a Chinese female author on social media isn’t activism, I can promise you that. You could read this novel and reflect on it and process how it shatters your previously held notions about morality and compassion and humanity (as I did), or you could close the tab and forget about it forever. Choose the healthy and rational option.
4. “It’s too smutty which makes the plot suck”. Look, if you have some fair criticisms of 2ha that’s one thing. But a lot of you say openly vile things about Meatbun. Why? Because she had one plot point you didn’t like? Because you wanted her to expand on the side characters, minor characters, or female characters? Because there’s smut and kink? Just shut the fuck up, honestly. How entitled can you people be? You sit on the internet with NO work and ZERO credibility and act like kings. Meatbun wrote a 311 chapter novel, a beautiful narrative with a very intriguing world and amazing characters and a gorgeous romance. And yes, it includes smut. But honestly, if this novel didn’t have dynamic characters and a suspenseful, gripping, poignant, and thought-provoking plot, then not even smut would’ve been enough to carry it. I’ve read novels that are purely smutty and have no substance and trust me, 2ha is far from that. 2ha hooks so many of us because of the characters and their nuances, because of how relatable and multidimensional they are, because of how fascinating the world they live in is, because Ranwan’s romance is so compelling and tragic and aching and passionate. You can come back with all your criticisms when you’ve put yourself out there and written a 311 chapter novel. Some light criticism is one thing, but I’ve seen people ON TUMBLR say things like “Meatbun gets too much praise” and worse things from people who don’t have fics up or anything, so it’s getting ridiculous. Meatbun owes you nothing, especially if you have nothing to back up your own vaunted literary criticism and in particular because you did not pay Meatbun for her labor.
If you didn’t like how Meatbun handled Taxian-Jun, Hua Binan, and the flower of hatred, if you wanted her to give Rong Jiu or Song Qiutong a happier ending, if you wanted a less bittersweet ending for Shi Mei 2.0, if you didn’t want Taxian-Jun to appear post-canon, and if you think the plots in book 3 were confusing, that’s fine. That’s your opinion. However, the English translation has only reached chapter 131. You all are basing those opinions on the MTL. MTL =/= A PROPER TRANSLATION. As it is, the beauty of the original novel will never fully be translated because there are things English cannot convey due to linguistic constraints. But even so, we aren’t going to fully understand how these plots worked based solely on the MTL! So at least reserve your judgments about how Meatbun executed the ending plot until Rynn gets to the last arc! And regardless, again, I’d like to see you write a novel with this kind of plot and how you’d execute it from that high horse.
5. “Meatbun hates women”. For god’s sake, MXTX got this same criticism and now Meatbun. THIS IS DANMEI. DANMEI FOCUSES ON M/M RELATIONSHIPS. You want to read about women? Go read f/f or m/f novels! Go read FGEP and JWQS, two lesbian novels by a lesbian author who has other works as well! Don’t read from an m/m-focused genre if you’re one of those “women!!1!!!!!” types of fandom “activists”. I love female characters (my blog is literally dedicated to one), but acting like Meatbun is a misogynist because 2ha is male dominated is so pathetic. Most danmei novels are male dominated. If you think that makes danmei misogynistic, fine, but don’t read danmei works. Or choose the danmei works that have strong supporting female characters. Moreover, many of the Western gay novels a lot of you read lack female characters as well. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is one of my favorite Western LGBT novels, and yet most of the female characters in it are incredibly minor. Meatbun has given us interesting female characters like Ye Wangsi and Madam Wang. I do wish they’d get more screentime, but I also wish Briseis had gotten more screentime in TSOA as well. Yet I don’t see anyone calling Madeline Miller a misogynist? Which I would hope they don’t because Madeline Miller is an amazing author and she wrote Circe, which focuses entirely on a female character. Anyway, point being, if you want to read a feminist work or a female-focused work, there are plenty to choose from. We’re not living in an era in which only books about men exist. Yes, all danmei can benefit from more female characters, but that’s a criticism of literature as a whole, across the globe, and so to randomly hold that against Meatbun, MXTX, or other danmei authors is ridiculous, especially considering that most of them are female creators and you lot are using this as an excuse to be violently misogynistic.
Anyway, I am heartbroken that Meatbun has dealt with this onslaught of hate for so long. I hope that she takes care of herself, and that she takes as long as she needs. If she ends up locking her novels or removing them from JJWXC, I’d completely understand that, because the fandoms don’t deserve her or her writing. Stop acting like entitled, misogynistic, and ethnocentric brats because it’s not cute and it’s not woke, it’s ugly as hell and has real consequences on a living, breathing person.
lol I am in such a stressed-out blind rage today from insurance bullshit that I wrote up a glossary of health insurance terms (things like deductibles, premiums, and copays) because all the free guides online are unnecessarily complicated and the only way you can squeeze a dime out of these bullshit companies is to understand their overly-complicated policies. give em hell
This is a GREAT guide folks - it’s simple, straightforward, and deals well with the overly complicated alphabet soup of medical insurance. Knowing this stuff can prove REALLY helpful, and the examples used are a great resource.
Know who often can’t even DARE to disclose their whole ass identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities, mental health status, minority religion, et cetera, et cetera? People who actually have to work for a living, if it’s anything but the most progressive-optics employers, and maybe not even then. Demanding this kind of disclosure from creators, amounts to gatekeeping regular people out of the public sphere.
This is my whole problem with the #ownvoices push (which is especially prevalent in the literary YA space but is also kind of everywhere now).
I’ve seen so many creepy stories about agents not only directly asking authors about their sexuality/gender identity/race etc. but now stories about agents doing digging on their own to find out these things about the author and then rejecting them on the basis of not being “queer enough” to tell a particular story (i.e. a bisexual author wrote a romance about two girls and was rejected because the agent found out she was married to a man). I hear about it more and more…and that’s just the agents who admit to it. I have to imagine there are many, many more who reject on that basis but send a more general “didn’t connect with the material” rejection to avoid any drama or fuss.
There’s a culture of turning authors themselves (particularly marginalized authors) into a commodity and marketing their identity in the name of authenticity, rather than it being about the author’s work. It’s weird and invasive and I don’t like it.
And how many authors *still face life- or livelihood-threatening discrimination* against being in those categories. Used to be that you could just write under a pen name and be done with it
yeah like, i’m a trans man and i’m vocal about it online–but irl i work in manufacturing. in the midwest. i’m not out at work because that would fucking suck, at best, and be actively dangerous at worst. i have to keep my online and irl identities REALLY separate, which is increasingly difficult! i can’t use facebook, because i don’t know how many old highschool friends might recognize and then out me. i don’t follow my coworkers on twitter or even admit to having a twitter, because i don’t want them to see my online friends where we all talk about being queer.
and i want to pursue traditional publishing, once i get some of my longer stories finished– but i can’t afford to be publicized as a trans man. if a publisher wants to market me as a trans man, that’s one more border i have to watch to keep myself safe in my day job, the one that pays my mortgage. and even if the publishers accept at face value that i’m just a regular guy, no bells and whistles necessary, no Own Voices trumpeting required… what do i do about bios, blurbs, interviews?
like, a successful writing career is going to be dangerous for me. chasing my dreams is going to be dangerous for me. accomplishing a goal i’ve had since i was thirteen is going to be dangerous for me, because there’s a huge gap between ‘successful enough that people want to interview me’ and ‘successful enough that i don’t have to walk into a building full of conservative old men armed with power tools six days a week’, and i don’t know what’s in that gap and i’m genuinely scared to find out.
i don’t have any conclusion here, just…. don’t interrogate writers’ identities so hard. anyone could be marginalized behind a deliberately adopted mask, and even if they aren’t, so what? read their stories, support their work, respect their privacy.
its important to me as a detrans woman to be vocal about it. its important to me as a detrans woman who initially only had radfems to talk to about detransition, because i couldnt find a single trans inclusive detrans person for over a year, to make sure other people know they have options.
radfems arent your aly if you're questioning your gender. they dont have your best interest at heart. they dont care about helping you explore who you are, theyre only interested in sucking you in to be another transmisogynistic pawn for their violent ideology.
if you're trans/nonbinary now, but are wondering if it isnt right for you, know that you have options. you can talk to me. there are people who have not done a 180 into bigotry who are here to support you.
please reblog, do not just like, this post.
i dont have a large platform. i want this to get spread. i want to remove terfs from the forefront of detrans/reidentification awareness & support. they cannot continue to be the first contact for questioning people.
i am begging you, yes you personally, to please reblog this, and comment or reply in the tags if you're a safe, trans-inclusive detransitioned or reidentified person to approach.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with giving something a try and deciding “ah, this isn’t right for me after all.”
Humans are messy and complicated, it’s fine.
Sick sick sick of possibility of being fucking recorded every waking second by tiktok obsessed quasi celebs. Video titled something like "Caught him thinking he's the main character" but it was just a kid wearing headphones, looking out the bus window. Of course it was posted without his knowledge. Stop recording strangers and everything you see, nobody gives a shit and not everyone is happy to be on tiktok or youtube because of a moron with no braincells and an account. What could be a forgettable awkward moment is now permanently there for the victim of lackabrainis infested idiot to get anxious about forever.
Okay, this seems like a relevant thing to share today: I've been in this position. Back in college while on that student lifestyle, I somehow ended up with a pretty bad iron deficiency. How bad? I was not only sleeping too much, I was falling asleep everywhere -- in class, in the library, in cafes five minutes after drinking coffee. It was terrible. Anyway, during a class I enjoyed, I was sat at a table with a few classmates, and I started falling asleep while taking notes; nodding off, dropping my pen, startling awake and falling asleep again, until my head was on the table. No one seemed to mind, we were all going through it I guess, and my lecturer was nice enough not to make a big deal out of it.
Cut to the next day and I was in the Students Union, when a friend came up to me and told me how funny that video was of me falling asleep in class was. What? I asked her about it, what did she mean, who made the video, and she realised I literally had no clue about it. Kindly, she told me who to talk to and I thanked her. I was already upset, but I knew it wasn't the messenger's fault. So, I took to Facebook and messaged the girl who made the video -- a girl on my table in the class from before. I asked her about it, and she admitted it right away -- she took the video on her phone during class and posted it to her snapchat. That's how the other girl saw it, not to mention countless others.
Sorting this out was an absolute toil. I felt betrayed and violated that someone would do that while I was obviously not in a position to have any say about it. I lost friendships with the people who took the girl's side, as if it was no big deal or "funny". I had to tell the lecturer about it, because let's face it, that's a shit thing to allow to happen during class itself, the department moved to be more alert and proactive about restricting phone use in class, and all that girl had to do was give a half-hearted apology. The next semester, she was still openly using her phone in another class we had.
For a long time, I couldn't trust anyone who held their phone up around me, as if to take photos or video. It would make me so anxious and put me on edge. I never did speak to the people who cosigned her behaviour, who acted like it wasn't their problem that their bff video-recorded a person in class over their health condition without their consent.
I did eventually grow out of my anxiety around phones, and I resisted the urge to break that girl's phone, but, I will absolutely bring back that energy if I see someone record a stranger in public without their consent. Take it from someone who's been that target -- if you think it's okay, you deserve to get your shit wrecked.
I just want to add, in case anyone reads this and isn't sure -- yes, it is absolutely fine to reblog this, and in fact I encourage you to. If testimony from a former target of this behaviour is the one thing that makes it click for anyone thinking of doing it, if it makes them reconsider before potentially ruining a stranger's life, then my experience will be worth it for me.
Don't record strangers and put that shit on the Internet or social media without their consent.
[Announcement]『ヒプノシスマイク -Division Rap Battle-』Rule the Stage -Rep LIVE-」side F.P (hypnosis mic -division rap battle- rule the stage -rep live-) side f.p
the live will running from July 23rd, 2022 (Hokkaido) @ Zepp Sapporo July 29th, 2022 to July 31st, 2022 (Tokyo) @ Zepp Haneda August 2nd, 2022 and August 3rd, 2022 (Aichi) @ Zepp Nagoya
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[Announcement] 舞台「愛をなくした男」(butai ai wo nakushita otoko)
the show will be running from May 18th, 2022 to May 22nd, 2022 (Kanagawa) @ すみだパークシアター倉 (Sumida Park Theater-SO)
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[Announcement] 青山オペレッタ THE STAGE (aoyama operetta the stage)
you will be able to watch it @ 日テレプラス on April 17th, 2022 (18:30)
[Announcement]『バクマン。』THE STAGE (bakuman. the stage)
you will be able to watch it @ 日テレプラス on May 28th, 2022 (21:00)
[Announcement]『笑ゥせぇるすまん』THE STAGE (warau salesman the stage)
now available @ dmm archive (~ December 31st, 2022)
price: ￥998
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you will be able to watch it @ 衛星劇場 on May 15th, 2022 (16:30)
[Announcement] 舞台「炎炎ノ消防隊」-破壊ノ華、創造ノ音- (butai enen no shouboutai -hakai no hana, souzou no oto-)
now available @ dmm archive (~ April 30th, 2022)
price: ￥3.700
[NEWS UPDATE] Fire Force: The “Enn Enn no Shouboutai Stage -Hakai no Hana, Souzou no Oto-” is Now Available on Archive
The online stream for the “Enn Enn no Shouboutai Stage -Hakai no Hana, Souzou no Oto-” has been made available to watch online for a limited time!
STORY DESCRIPTION
250 years ago, The Great Disaster engulfed the world in flames and destroyed most nations, rendering the world mostly uninhabitable. The survivors took refuge in the Tokyo Empire. In the Year 198, special fire brigades called the Special Fire Force are in a fight against Infernals, which are human beings that are turned into living infernos through spontaneous combustion.
“Enn Enn no Shouboutai”, also known in English as “Fire Force”, follows the story of Kusakabe Shinra as he joins Company 8 of the Special Fire Force.
This stageplay covers the Asakusa Arc and Vulcan’s Workshop Arc. To watch a preview of the play, please refer to this link: HERE
CAST
Makishima Hikaru as Kusakabe Shinra
Yokota Ryugi as Arthur Boyle
Kimisawa Yuki as Akitaru Obi
Baba Ryoma as Takehisa Hinawa
Sena as Maki Oze
Isobe Karin as Iris
Saotome Yuu as Tamaki Kotatsu
Tanaka Ryousei as Viktor Licht
TAKA as Vulcan Joseph
Iikubo Haruna as Risa
Miyazaki Yuu as Yu
Ukai Mondo as Dr. Giovanni
Kawaharada Takuya as Yona
Sakura Karen as Arrow
Izumi Shuhei as Joker
Goumoto Naoya as Sagamiya Konro
Sato Ryuji as Shinmon Benimaru
ONLINE STREAM ARCHIVE INFORMATION
Archive Period: Now to 23.59 (Japan time) on April 30, 2022
To watch the performance, please refer to this link: HERE
NOTE:
[1] Due to the cancellation of its final performance because of COVID-19, the footage has been taken from the opening performance of the stage.
[2] VPN might be required to access it.
BLU-RAY/DVD AND GOODS INFORMATION
To pre-order the Blu-ray/DVD, please refer to this link: HERE
To purchase the stage goods, please refer to this link: HERE
NOTE: For more information about proxy services available for Japan, please refer to this link: HERE
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[Update] 舞台「文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER」(butai bungou stray dogs storm bringer)
the show will be running from June 24th, 2022 to June 27th, 2022 (Tokyo) @ 日本青年館ホール (Nippon Seinenkan Hall) & July 2nd, 2021 and July 3rd, 2021 (Osaka) @ 東大阪市文化創造館 Dream House (Higashiosaka-shi Bunka Souzou-kan Dream House)
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[Announcement] MANKAI STAGE『A3!』ACT2! ～SPRING 2022～
you will be able to watch 2 shows @ dmm & Streaming+ [notice: you might need to use a VPN to watch/get access the show^^]
price: ￥3.700 (each) [+ fees]
◎ 東京 千秋楽 (Tokyo senshuuraku) [April 27th, 2022 ~ 18:00]
◎ 東京 凱旋公演 千秋楽 (Tokyo gaisen kouen senshuuraku) [May 30th, 2022 ~ 14:00]
[Announcement] ミュージカル『マギ』-迷宮組曲- (musical magi -meikyuu kumikyoku-)
the show will be running from June 3rd, 2022 to June 12th, 2022 (Tokyo) @ 天王洲 銀河劇場 (The Galaxy Theatre) & June 18th, 2022 and June 19th, 2022 (Osaka) @ 森ノ宮ピロティホール (Morinomiya Piloti Hall)
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