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if i would reverse outline these i might actually learn something useful

all my notes atp are just DAMEN YOU HIMBO over and over again bc the unreliable narration is fully off the chain. "laurent had an expression on his face damen could not read" "laurent laughed but he didn't know why" "laurent did Inexplicable Thing #397 which damen could not explicc" look i understand that he barely survived a violent coup/enslavement and is going through it but does he need glasses or maybe ADHD meds

laugh-out-loud funny while also a tantric cross between stein and nietzsche. he refers to it as "a protologue" to clouds of magellan yet it's way more demented than those aphorisms, palpably their successor. i still miss him but this is very much like walking into his insane shrine of an apartment and being greeted by a) the cat and b) some surrealist oneiric pronouncement. all while absolutely dragging maurice ravel

my god damen you stupid himbo i'm on my way to vere to slap you myself

mxtx doing Traditional Danmei Thing where you're all: i'm sorry is the shou even having a good time bc i can't quite tell? and like i just want to talk to danmei authors about this, what is it ABOUT. bc if it's hetero-female-reader-self-insert it does not make sense to me. the point seems to be the shou likes him SO MUCH he will Endure even this too. so what is going on with this meatbun and mxtx i am asking you both

bilbo voice: after all why shouldn’t i

however this time im going to track 1) every reaction shot and 2) every fei du paralllel

oh we've reached the knives now. i see, i see how it is. mxtx is done making elaborate societal chengyu now and is just coming for shen qingqiu's limbs.

this danmei is fine IT'S FINE but it's not sha po lang and i need to stop being disgruntled bc mxtx isn't priest she's doing a whole other thing and i get that. but i still miss gu yun.

peak lord shen qingqiu i am begging you. would you just. could you possibly. at this point, at this very late stage in the game. admit some things. to yourself at least. if not to binghe. just even TO YOURSELF OKAY—

“Suddenly, the System chirped with a congratulatory notice:

【 *★，°*:.☆\\(￣▽￣)/$:*.°★*。Congratulations~~ Satisfaction points +500! 】

Shen Qingqiu was utterly speechless.”

sure why not i'm insane anyway

okay shizun have u realized u will not be put in a pickle pot

“All the women followed up with incessant sighs and sobs, some already beginning to shed tears of emotion. Shen Qingqiu buried his head deep into his hands.” PLS these brothel workers all fujoing out over the tragic bingqiu love story BYEEEEEEEE

binghe this is some heathcliff ass behavior

every anglophone fiction writer should have to read "we never go anywhere" to understand what prose is capable of doing

the way every single person in this novel fails to recognize its genre

this is the best thing to happen in my year so far, mxtx can we talk about what the extremely online metaphors really are about here, and the difference between being an unreliable narrator vs just being a dumbass

MXTX YOU MOTHERFUCKER THE GASP I JUST GASPED

the way jing beiyuan seems like a character and more like a precursor

i wish like four bottlenecking things at once: 1) that mxtx hadn't been arrested and imprisoned literally while on the NYT bestseller list 2) that PEN Intl gave even one fuck about danmei authors 3) that she'd always had this much fun writing 4) that the world would ever get to see her fourth danmei

i love to think about what kind of teeth-grinding experiences mxtx had on jjwxc that forced her to come up with shen yuan as a way to survive them. the guy is dumb as a bag of hammers and she knows that but this is clearly someone who has paid through the nose for a shitty 900-chapter danmei so now she's gonna get her money/time/qi energy back if she has to transmigrate into an idiot to do it

the shadow larry levis

sit down everyone a man is doing math

photons depict human species story of determination hope and platonic ideal of universal love question? prose style inadequacy weird weird weird

“the fault is mine alone.”

“The cure for Chang Geng’s wu’ergu still depended on Chen Qingxu. He couldn’t afford to divert her attention now.” the way both these idiots act like there is only one doctor in all of the great liang. who lets them govern

i really don’t know why i persist with this when it is so completely depressing. everyone is dying from non lethal things. 1895 seems like yesterday to me but you could still die from getting a needle in your hand.

i appreciate that she’s using texts as sources but she’s still confabulating, does the fact that it’s creatively wrung from a nursery book or a contemporary londoner’s letter somehow make that more legitimate?

marshall gu stop passing out and coughing up blood challenge! can he make it through the whole volume??? LETS FIND OUT