reading list 2021, ~ danmei edition ~
Mar. 19th, 2021 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynleafMaybe I compartmentalise my reading a little bit too much--there is reading for work (scholarly), reading for work (nonfiction) and reading for work (fiction); then there is the chaos that is my free time reading, mostly taken up by webnovels of varying lengths and genres interspersed with fic and published fiction for flavour. But I do like having work-reading and free time-reading separated. Insert meme about some ADHD people being overcompensating compartmentalisers. (Yes, my desk is cluttered by a million different organisers and my paper journal is colour coded. No, I still can't seem to be able to get anything actually done. Shut up.)
I started methodically and purposefuly reading danmei firstly because I enjoy BL fantasy literature, broadly; and secondly because I wanted to build up enough (danmei) genre literacy to be able to have well-founded Thoughts (tm) on the entire business. Clearly I'm not allowed to even consider thinking about 2HA and its commentary on class and culpabilty without having read basically everything else vaguely related that I can get my hands on right? ...right...?
(CLEARLY academia is already rotting my brain dfhgjf. Chill out, Fru. This is not a grant application.
At the same time how am I supposed to write the sequel to the meatbun/priest rpf fic if I don't have a better idea about how exactly priest would pick apart meatbun worldbuilding her political landscapes? ANYWAY--)
--without any further word vomits allowed, let me dump the danmei readings of 2021 here for 1) my own reference (please god I need to stop putting these on post it notes, my memory is so bad) and 2) possibly for others' enjoyment (???).
(Note: I read English translations, so if you're looking for recs here and wondering if any of these are available to read and finished, they are unless I mark them otherwise.)
Finished Reading(in order of favourites)
Currently Reading
I expect all this will keep me occupied for a while. In the meantime, I might as well get some work done while I'm waiting for some of the translations to finish.
This post was brought to you by my newly discovered blogging energy, and the desire to END my "oh I want to read that!!" post-it generator lifestyle. (Save me. And the trees.)
I started methodically and purposefuly reading danmei firstly because I enjoy BL fantasy literature, broadly; and secondly because I wanted to build up enough (danmei) genre literacy to be able to have well-founded Thoughts (tm) on the entire business. Clearly I'm not allowed to even consider thinking about 2HA and its commentary on class and culpabilty without having read basically everything else vaguely related that I can get my hands on right? ...right...?
(CLEARLY academia is already rotting my brain dfhgjf. Chill out, Fru. This is not a grant application.
At the same time how am I supposed to write the sequel to the meatbun/priest rpf fic if I don't have a better idea about how exactly priest would pick apart meatbun worldbuilding her political landscapes? ANYWAY--)
--without any further word vomits allowed, let me dump the danmei readings of 2021 here for 1) my own reference (please god I need to stop putting these on post it notes, my memory is so bad) and 2) possibly for others' enjoyment (???).
(Note: I read English translations, so if you're looking for recs here and wondering if any of these are available to read and finished, they are unless I mark them otherwise.)
Finished Reading(in order of favourites)
- Mo Du/Silent Reading (priest) - [180 Chapters]
- They All Say I've Met a Ghost (Cyan Wings/青色羽翼) - [42 Chapters]
- Sha Po Lang (priest) - [128 Chapters]
- Guardian (priest) - [106 Chapters]
- Those Years in Quest of Honor Mine (Man Man He Qi Duo/漫漫何其多) - [103 Chapters]
- Fox Demon Cultivation Manual/FDCM (Feng Ge Qie Xing) - [101 Chapters]
- The Wrong Way to a Demon Sect Leader (Yi Zhi Dayan) - [82 Chapters]
- Faraway Wanderers/Tian Ya Ke (priest)
- Qi Ye (Lord Seventh) (priest)
- The Ultimate Blue Seal (priest)
Currently Reading
- Peerless/Wushuang (Meng Xi Shi/梦溪石) - [187 Chapters]
- Thousand Autumns/Qian Qiu (Meng Xi Shi/梦溪石) - [incomplete translation] [69/128 CH]
- I Ship My Adversary x Me (PEPA) - [incomplete translation] [37/47 CH]
- Little Mushroom (Yi Shi Si Zhou/一十四洲)
- Nirvana in Fire/Langya Bang (Hai Yan/海宴)
- Golden Stage (Cang Wu Bin Bai/苍梧宾白)
- Clear and Muddy Loss of Love (F/F) (请君莫笑)
- Female General and Eldest Princess (F/F) (请君莫笑)
- Imperfections (priest) [incomplete translation] (186/197)
- Lie Huo Jiao Chou (priest) [incomplete translation] (38/137)
- Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect (priest) [incomplete translation] (67/109)
- Qiang Jin Jiu (Tang Jiuqing/唐酒卿) [incomplete translation] (109/282)
- The Wife is First (Lu Ye Qian He/绿野千鹤) [incomplete translation] (80/105)
I expect all this will keep me occupied for a while. In the meantime, I might as well get some work done while I'm waiting for some of the translations to finish.
This post was brought to you by my newly discovered blogging energy, and the desire to END my "oh I want to read that!!" post-it generator lifestyle. (Save me. And the trees.)
