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reading list 2021, ~ danmei edition ~
Mar. 19th, 2021 05:18 pmMaybe 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 )
( Currently Reading )( On the List )
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 )
( Currently Reading )( On the List )
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.)
