#and corpses

[ms-basketcase]

We ranchin', fellars!!

This character may actually live longer than a month!!

[teotheratking]

Y'all aren't canibalistic enough, I need Harry to eat Jean. What then?

[absolutebl]

In Which ABL reads MDZS

IRL Responses as I read:

I did not anticipate the newspaper headline/town cryers opening narrative device. Interesting.

I am enjoying the translator notes.

I am not interested in someone else’s life. Why back story of a host body? Fun opening premise tho.

Ooo, head hopping from our omniscient narrator. Now THAT I did expect. Been a while since I read this style last (Dickens maybe?)

So far I am finding the translation legible but not pretty or enjoyable to read. Just kinda there. A bit brutal... or something?

Also I’m glad i watched some of The Untamed its much easier to follow this story having watched bits of that one. 

The use of American colloquialisms from like the 1980s, “flipping out” for example, is both amusing and highly distracting.

Too many names and sects. (But I knew that going in.) 

I admit it as soon as the romance element hits and our leads are on page together I’m interested. But there isn’t enough of that. 

Ooo the whip marks bathing scene!

Chapter 13 and now the history of the relationship?

I’m really not interested in dismembered bodies, zombies, ghost hunting, ghost raising, exorcism, bodies inside walls, ancestral tombs, or anything along these lines. And I am really really not interested in any parts of the story where the two leads are not together. So I’m skipping a lot.

This book is what 600k, I suspect I am moving rather rapidly through about 500k of that. 

I love the bit in the city where WuXian is just all “well he can take care of himself I’m going to look after the kids.” And WangJi makes his instrument do a non-verbal murmur of acknowledgment. Very funny.

The dark humor is funnier than I expected too. A lot of dismemberment bits remind me of...

I find the side stories of other people’s lives extremely boring and distracting. Like I am being forced to read a short story in the middle of a novel. 

Honestly this book is like having a conversation with a drunk person. NO it’s like having a conversation with a STONED person. Ramble ramble ramble, eats something bad, says soemthing insightful, recites something poetic, talks about past lives, parents, history, rambles some more. Except there’s all the blood and gore. So maybe it’s like having a conversations with stoned Hannibal. Either Hannibal. 

Coul we just STAY ON TARGET. (The Target being WangJi “manly member” inside WuXian.) 

I love the way WuXian’s magic adores WangJi even as he refuses to notice his own affection for the boy.

Look they don’t need to kill the walking dead, just make them try to follow the fucking names in this book. 

I am finding the homeric jumping about on the timeline absolutely maddening.  At least use the different names at different times. Give me some kind of clue. I wonder of the official translation into English will have some kind of time stamping/framing device. 

Still, if marketed properly, I can actually see this being hugely successful in the North American market.

Oh great another chunk of backstory for a character who is already dead or about to be.

80% into this and it’s the infamous bath scene at last. I heard about this. 

It’s an interesting first sex scene. Not well written. Not as bad as I was expecting either.

Wow a full on confession scene. I was really not expecting that. I also wasn’t expecting how public they are about everything. 

I did enjoy the culmination sex scene. Quite kinky. And I like that it’s consistently WuXian who always starts everything. Was in worth 570k to get here? 

Eh... no?

Good ending. Much better than the series. 

And that’s it. 

Thoughts? 

Look it read like fanfic, and I don’t really go for that style (I struggle to ID the narrative structure, story arc, or authorial intent). The romance was very much standard beats, tropes, and pretty unsophisticated. It’s fine I don’t mind that actually. Romance should be somewhat predictable, that’s why it’s comforting. I liked the characters fine, the plot was complex to the point of confusion (but that’s probubly my fault) and the horror was... well there was a lot of slashy slashy body body dead DEAD, wasn’t there? 

I’m glad I read it because of this corner of fandom I exist in, but I’m not sure I would necessarily recommend it as a book. Don’t listen to me, though, I intensely dislike most epic fantasy (Game of Thrones can bite my arse) and always have, this may be very Chinese and very cultivation but it’s still also very much epic. I also strongly dislike horror too so, yay now, naught but the gay bits were really for me. 

Honestly making me suffer through 500,000 words and 500,000 corpses for those few moments of gay feels very Chinese BL of it. 

Final summation: 

I liked it when they were kissing but there were too many non-kissing people wafting about, not to mention non-sexy body parts piling up. 

Sorry I can’t share your love @renafire and @percida18​ but my taste in literature is very much as questionable as my taste in television. 

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[dylanisdazed]

Happy birthday Dylie! I already sent ya a message elsewhere but just wanted to say it again here. Keep on being you and let no one take your beautiful, goofy self away from you. You have a vibrant and lovable personality and I would hate for anyone to trash that or make you feel less of a person because of it. We love you!

😭😭🥰🥰💚💚 thank u so much dooood! it's so so so much easier to spread love and give kindness that i'll never understand why people choose to have hate in their heart/spread hate to others.

(that being said don't EVER go digging in my backyard...)

[charteredlibertine]

I'm in a "reckless oversharing" kind of mood, so, who here wants to read 1,800 words of a thing I wrote when I was 18 and haven't edited since??

[edensix]

dragon age inquisition location-related codex entry:

report from a scout:

uhhh we found this shrine here covered in bones and stuff?? idk where it’s from or any real information about it but it made me feel creepy idkidkidk stay away from it ??

- a scout’s report

[xbratprincex]

I always get so paranoid reading in public in case someone looks over my shoulder. It's even worse reading graphic novels >_>