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lunarriviera

well, my danmei friends, there’s good news and there's bad news. the good news is now there's a licensed English translation of 默读 Mo Du / SIlent Reading! you can touch it and hold it and carry it around with you and show it to your loved ones and strangers! the less great news is, it's clearly based on a censored version of the novel—and not just a few words or sentences, but whole paragraphs are missing.

I hate saying this, and don't want to be a buzzkill. but to me, part of the purpose of translation is archival. I'll share several more examples tomorrow but here is a section from chapter 12 with an important phrase missing: 祖国的未来还是得靠你们这些直人去努力, "the future of our nation still depends on the efforts of you straight people."

my own copy of the raws is older, so what I don't know right now is whether the 7S translation is based on the (somewhat) censored simplified Chinese print edition, or if, like other danmei on JJWXC ca. 2021, Priest had to censor it and reupload a revised version, and they used that one. I'll get back to you with more info—in the meantime, please don't stop supporting the novel, its translators, or p大 <3

lunarriviera

…and, i can't sleep. so here are two more examples, using the e.danglars fan translation, which is of course exquisite (pls forgive me if you can eugénie 🥺 i love your work so much), just bc i think more of us are probably more familiar with it than the chinese, so you can see what's been bowdlerized. 7S translation first, then the e.danglars:

also, a kind friend who owns the censored simplified chinese print version says these passages match that edition exactly, so that probably answers that question. i guess not only has luo wenzhou been demoted to sergeant, he's also not out of the closet anymore.

there are other assorted differences, and even what seem like insertions, so i'm still looking up sections. sorry for being weirder than usual but by now we know i'm just like this; i will add more later.

sienkievicz

caught one more example (i guess): in this scene, lwz and tao ran are talking about relationships and marriage. in both versions they mention lwz’s previous partner and that *he* went to italy to study chinese, but when it comes to the reason why lwz won’t get married, the quite obvious "i have niche interests" from the fan tl gets replaced with "i’m too handsome" in the 7s version

#mo du #silent reading #默读