2024 updated summary of fan translation projects. Access will require proof of purchase, either on the raw site (helpful guide, not mine: ) or of the physical novel.
JJWXC links below.
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Cover reveal! ✨ GUARDIAN: ZHEN HUN (NOVEL) Vol. 3 by bestselling author priest w/ art by
@Fern_arts
, the finale of the beloved modern fantasy
#danmei
series!
#SevenSeasDanmei
#Guardian
#ZhenHun
The book will have 2 editions out in August!
Pre-order now:
I read this, so yall have to too 🫠
(translation)
lately taiwan be like-
philippine plate: eurasian plate, after holding back for so long, im gonna let u have it all 😈
eurasian plate: no, philippine plate, stop! stop thrusting against me, ahhhh
philippine plate: turn over.
Sci-fi crime thriller danmei rec: 置换凶途 by 猫茶海狸 @
(AD @ )
-detectives investigating e/o's deaths in parallel worlds
-389k words
-multiple cases but 1 main case
-cold shou x warmer gong, 强强
-ongoing spin-off: 镜像拼图
some people really underestimate how long saye is. Almost 900k characters, yall.
Some novels for comparison:
Golden Terrace, 290k
Little Mushroom, 314k
Hope You've Been Well, 396k
Stars of Chaos, 611k
Modu, 801k
TGCF, 1,093k
btw these are labelled "korean wife-chase" and "japanese wife-chase" respectively (they're not referring to all bl lol)
my friend and sometime proofreader dani calls "wife-chase" novels "grovel novels" but I can't think of anything half as clever for comics 🤷
as teens
gu yun: hey kid call me daddy
chang geng: 😒🙄
as adults
cg: daddy...🥺
gy: honey this is not my kink
cg: hit me daddy 🥺
gy: this really REALLY isnt my kink
帅哥你假发掉了 (Hey Handsome, You Dropped Your Wig) by Wuzhe
Drunken nights drag the apathetic An He into a strange relationship with a handsome but dangerously unstable young man.
-sex friends to lovers, nianxia, HE
-306k words
(redoing my recommendation bc it deserves better)
(context is that my friend is reading an official danmei novel translation where a character calls the other "bro" in an "intimate and lovey-dovey" way 🫠 yes it's 哥 in the original)
for technical reasons, ADs including fake slackers, saye, moumou, xiaozhang, I like your pheromones, modu, poyun, pinang, paper planes, my little poplar and chunxiao have been taken down.
those who have already purchased these can still access them
the 穿 (chuan) in transmigration and q.t. (穿越 chuanyue/快穿 kuaichuan) does not mean "to wear/put on [clothing]". not even in the "literal" sense. this has been a PSA
rec for super cute manhua -《���了东西的狼》
- slice-of-life about a tough wolf/boss and a clingy puppy/child he picks up
- title means "Wolf that picked up a thing"
- it starts with wolf/puppy form, later human
- it's all free on tencent (qq)
- ongoing
some JJWXC licences recently sold to European/American pubs:
1. 一级律师 First Class Lawyer (musuli 木苏里)
2. 某某 A Certain Someone (musuli)
3. 帝王攻略 The Emperor’s Strategy (yuxiaolanshan 语笑阑珊)
4. 魔尊也想知道 Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (cyan wings 青色羽��)
wuzhe's new novel 桃花源 - taohuayuan (literally spring of peach blossoms, metaphorically utopia). link in alt text
- futuristic fantasy, sci-fi, apocalyptic.
- MC: Qiu Shi.
- updating 7.40pm, daily updates for a while before alternating days.
- no proper category (yet).
a bl novel that:
- is an all time favourite
- is underrated (not rly, it's just relatively new)
- everyone likes but you dislike
- you recently love (what is that cover omg that guy needs to be ____ed down)
a bl novel that:
- is an all time favorite
(my comfort novel)
- is underrated
(in the english speaking fandom)
- everyone likes but you dislike
(the plot seemed to have repetitive parts but i love the characters)
- you recently love
(i waited 3 years for this novel ofc i love it)
and with that, our 2-year-long translation of 陈年烈狗 is complete!! to those who stuck with us through the JJ stuff and those who joined in later too, thanks for being with us 🥰
Most of all, thanks to my translation partner
@amy_translation
for being wonderful and competent!
danmei is not more geared to adults than general fiction is. danmei is just chinese gay fics. it's not inherently more "adult" or "smutty" than, say, english language LGBTQ fiction
I know when ppl see other novels licensed for eng pub, they get desperate for their fave to be signed too... but personally I'd only be happy if it's to a good publisher 👀 once the rights get sold, it's hard to sell to someone better, so if they end up with a crap one... 🫠
I ordered a regular cold brew from a hip coffee shop and they handed me this. I think it’s biodegradable which is great but there has to be a better way to prevent plastic waste than making people perform public humiliation rituals sipping an IV bag of coffee
Helppp this author is like "marriage and having children are very serious matters, which is why, even tho im a BG romance writer, I am resolutely single. Friends and money and freedom are good enough for me"
sorry all, but the online translations for Hope You've Been Well (别来无恙) are now locked. If you possess any saved/offline versions of them, please do NOT circulate them.
More details here:
I'm not even of the "always keep everything in pinyin and footnote" school of thought—it's a novel for light reading by ppl who don't know the source language, not a literary text for academic study. but here "ge" just *does not mean "bro"*, unless it's a diff variant of english?
why are people comparing prices for censored chinese physical books with the uncensored translations. I wouldnt pay even 50% of the price for censored versions lol
"I read it for the plot" well I read it in spite of the plot. I read it for the feelings and the relationships and the romance. everything else is auxiliary
hey guys yall should read priest's guardian. a novel so good that it's locked on JJ! it features a mystery, a wonderfully deranged couple and lots of chinese mythology. also yuka's translation is almost done
if you have the time for it, I highly recommend reading multiple tls for an author's writing if you want to tell whether it's the author's prose that you like, or just that translator's interpretation of it! esp with cn, there's a LOT of room for style interpretation
mtl editors should really tell people that they're using mtl if they're not proficient in cn 😶🌫️ I've seen some footnotes that look impressive unless you understand the raws and know they're completely wrong. could really mislead readers
I don't think I'm ever going to agree w most of danmeitwt about the "right age" for complex topics tho... imo kids should have a balanced reading diet so they learn to think for themselves. ppl don't magically develop critical thinking skills & well-reasoned opinions at 16/18/21
danmei is not more geared to adults than general fiction is. danmei is just chinese gay fics. it's not inherently more "adult" or "smutty" than, say, english language LGBTQ fiction
decided to pick "Hey, Where's My Knife" up
- 1-line summary: MC dumps cheating husband, gets with husband's lover's ex
- Li Weidu (single-minded gong) x Ji Kai (buff, mature shou)
- silly, lighthearted & fluffy, but with hard-hitting truths about romance too
Art from AD
random reminder that JJWXC chapters cost about USD0.03 each, depending on length. Please do buy them and support your fave authors! THREE CENTS. It's a frickin' steal! (1 JJ coin per 250 words, RMB1.00 = 100 JJ coins = USD0.15) Here's the guide:
Brand-new license announcement! RUN WILD: SA YE by Wu Zhe. This popular modern-day
#danmei
novel series–which inspired multimedia adaptations–will be getting a Seven Seas English release with exclusive new art!
#SevenSeasDanmei
#SaYe
More details at
the 穿 (chuan) in transmigration and q.t. (穿越 chuanyue/快穿 kuaichuan) does not mean "to wear/put on [clothing]". not even in the "literal" sense. this has been a PSA
thing abt saye is that it's not your typical high school romance novel where they think "this is forever" and by some miracle it is.
it's "we'll see where it goes" and doubt and pain and effort and going through it all together. it's trusting because you have no one else. 1/2
Picking up 陈年烈苟 because I liked Tattoo and this looks up my alley :D won't update as frequently as 别来无恙 (hybw) though, I've committed to a schedule for that
@amy_translation
and I are back to work 💪 with Bu Wen San Jiu's short and fluffy novel Before His Eyes (眼前), a spin-off from Ferocious Dog of Old!
#BeforeHisEyesBWSJ
hot take from me is that professional translators can also be fan translators and have pseudonyms for different kinds/genres of tl work they do (or for whatever other reason) and that is valid
REC: 装相 by 蕉三根
1-line pitch: the story of a chinese film star and a british fashion magazine editor who clash, kiss, and come clean to each other
it's a classic romcom! it's a psychological drama! it's funny and exciting and epic and frustrating feminist commentary!
if the trauma of shen san hadn't destroyed shen wei they would have loved in every lifetime I know it
idk how but shen wei looks at zhao yunlan like he's the only thing he can see, and zhao yunlan looks at shen wei like he's the only thing he ever wants to see
LRT 2 english TLs of danmei open for pre-order in Dec:
- I've liked your boyfriend for a long time (eng title Limerence) by jiang zi bei - announcement 27 Nov, PO 3 Dec
- renshe (eng title Rose & Renaissance) by zhi chu - announcement 25 Dec, PO 31 Dec
(both under Via Lactea)
Has there ever been a novel where the cover was so misleadingly cheerful and ridiculous? Yes, but we're not talking about them today.
Despite the signature banter, I Just Came to Ask For a Light (我就是来借个火, or jiehuo for short) is one of Wuzhe's most sombre novels. 🧵1/6
LRT the English fan translation for Wu Zhe's Wildhood Friends (zmlm) is now complete! Read if you love SOL, funny families, cute kids, adopted brother romance struggles, and love that endures beyond death
recent read I really liked!!! modern SOL
从万米高空降临 by 塞纳左岸
[pilot x air traffic controller]
-realistic adult r/ship
-healing, character dev
-lots of communication (lol)
-love the 暧昧 but also the romance after they're tgt!
-(detailed sex scenes)
please stop sharing epubs of my Hope You've Been Well novel translation. aside from the usual reasons, it contains embarrassing mistakes and I don't want it out there.
thanks.
the most disturbing form of edited mtl I see is the kind that is so bizarrely edited in both meaning and style, you can barely link it to the source text. it's not even fanfiction at that point because it's too OOC.
a lot of "translations" on NU are like this.
wish some people would be more upfront about a translation being edited mtl or retl-ed from another language—at least readers would know what they were getting into
"Bears are so popular, how could men win? thats not fair at all!!
"if you were stuck in a car in the middle of the night, but not alone—a living creature has the misfortune to be stuck in there with you, would you choose a flying cockroach or a man?"
73% cockroach
27% man
recent read I really liked!!! modern SOL
从万米高空降临 by 塞纳左岸
[pilot x air traffic controller]
-realistic adult r/ship
-healing, character dev
-lots of communication (lol)
-love the 暧昧 but also the romance after they're tgt!
-(detailed sex scenes)
Since the novel is free on JJWXC, here is a guide on how else to support the author (it's also in the intro page of the translation)
Links in alt text!
@amy_translation
and I are back to work 💪 with Bu Wen San Jiu's short and fluffy novel Before His Eyes (眼前), a spin-off from Ferocious Dog of Old!
#BeforeHisEyesBWSJ
lrt they'll be blocking mainland IP addresses, so locked chapters might be allowed on intl app (sorry mainlanders)
...yeah that's the only upside im seeing so far tbh but we'll see I guess
you can learn how to pronounce chinese character names by pasting them into google translate and pressing 🔊
for MXTX's MC names, they're available on the 7s online glossary. you can even slow down the audio if it helps!
I wanted to share my old review of fdoo but all it said was "This is the most painful but also my favourite bwsj you can't change my mind"
anw, summary: man with blind kid brother takes in abused boy of similar age. the kids grow up and become dependent on each other, until...?
Picking up 陈年烈苟 because I liked Tattoo and this looks up my alley :D won't update as frequently as 别来无恙 (hybw) though, I've committed to a schedule for that
reading a novel and reviewing it based on whether the characters were right or wrong is like eating at a restaurant and reviewing it based on your meal's nutritional content
there are many things machines can do well even with minimal supervision, like vacuum the floor of a tidy house or wash and dry dishes arranged in a tidy rack.
CN-EN translation is not one of them
some people newer to this might not be aware, so here is a reminder not to make and/or spread epubs/mobis/pdfs/offline copies of fan translations without permission from the translators! please respect the wishes of fan translators when it comes to their labour 🙏
2023 updated summary of fan translation projects. Access will require proof-of-purchase, either on the raw site (helpful guide, not mine: ) or of the physical novel.
JJWXC links below.
Do not DM!
Discord:
cr: fluffy sports novel
《我不可能喜欢他》 lit. no way I like him @
print v. 《盛夏光年》
- high-jump athlete x coach
- 271.5k words
- nianxia, 7y age gap
no novel tl, but manhua official eng tl @ under the name "Impossible Love"