Status Updates From Beauty and the West Chamber...

continues to wreck me in all the best ways—i cannot believe no one knows this novel, can't believe it hasn't been properly translated, can't believe we have to get the censored panels from winslow's WEIBO, by someone named "jojo" who by their own admission can't read either CN or EN. the scanlation is an dog's breakfast, the art is incandescently gorgeous, the locations & operas HAVE FOOTNOTES bc yaoi is educational!

sad to report the republican era continues to interrupt the makeouts

i can only look at manhua right now bc mom talks to me 24/7 in an unceasing uninterrupted stream about cows and cats and chickens, so i read the same sentence over and over and over and over and feel like i'm going to lose my mind, unless i'm looking at a manhua which has pictures so i can still take in information visually even while i'm agreeing numbly with whatever it is she's talking about now

ngl there's something unsettlingly hot about a 190 cm gong in full dan role makeup? if you have the right opera kinks i guess. which i certainly do not.

YAO QINGSHAN NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO oh we're all gonna die now

still outraged by how beautiful this is and how much beijing opera and republican-era history i'm accidentally acquiring

blonde bitchy ML: [appears] hello i have a horrifying backstory which has left me convinced that i am a monster incapable of love. also at any given time i am carrying 18 grenades, a kukri, and possibly a kalashnikov

me [deadpan voice]: oh. you again.

oh this is upsettingly good even with an absolutely garbage scanlation, i was not expecting winter begonia x farewell my concubine?????

Reallyy interesting original manhua and stellar art but my god the official eng translation is in bad need of proofreading

"But what do the dead think? Does she really want me to act subservient, to be so unlike her? Does she really want me to pray for her with her bullies?"

Damn, Qiming ☹

"Diana, Anatoly... life is filled with suffering and torment. If you're defeated by them, you would've suffered for nothing. But if you overcome them, you can use them to change your life for the better. For the happiness waiting for us in the future, we must live on."

La mamá 💔