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I finished Mo Du over the weekend. BOOK 5 WAS SO GOOD OH MY GOD. I always want a lot of half the ship gets whumped/the other have goes feral and it's not been a super common trope in the danmei I've read, much to my surprise. However, Mo Du was very satisfying in this regard (even though I wouldn't say Luo Wenzhou goes feral each time Fei Du gets whumped so much as Luo Wenzhou goes so soft and caring that it breaks my heart. He's such a bad ass with a 'tude 99% of the time and the other 1% is when Fei Du gets hurt and LWZ spontaneously becomes the saddest cinnamon roll.

I also watched the first episode of the live action last night, mostly cause I could. It was also quite good, and looked like it was sticking fairly close to the plot of the book (though Luo Wenzhou knowing about the animal thing is definitely different). It looks like Youku freaked out after posting 8 episodes and stopped adding more? Which is a pity. But I can at least watch a few.

Anyway, as for what's next:
1. I must read the book my dad wrote. I started it yesterday but I was too exhausted to really focus on it, but I'll try to make progress anyway. I'd love to finish it before he visits (theoretically at the end of the week, though it's always up in the air since his visiting depends on my step-mom's mood on any given day, and her Alzheimer's means her moods are very erratic). It's entitled "The Book of Jim" so it'll be my bingo entry for "Person's Name in the Title."

2. I then decided that my next danmei would be Dinghai Fusheng Records (I've read a mess of the manhua like 70+ chapters, and I've also read all the Legend of Exorcism manhua and seen a few episodes of the donghua, so I'm familiar with the verse and characters and stuff but I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS OKAY), but to get access to it, I need to get verified in the Chickengege Discord server, and so I submitted everything for that yesterday...but it looks like they're lagging about 6 weeks on verifying people. As in, last week they were verifying people from late February. Which is all well and nice, I'm willing to wait and I support translators protecting their work. But if I'm not gonna get access to mid-May that doesn't make a great choice for "next." I'll probably use Dinghai Fusheng Records as my "free" space since I'm trying not to use "historical fantasy" for my historical box.

3. But someone was digging through my old Tumblr posts and they hit "like" on a couple things I put up about Global Examination and was like ??!! I COULD READ QQGK! So that's what I'm doing, I'm already about 100 pages in. I've read about 70 chapters of that manhua too, so where I'm at in the book is still solidly in what I've read in the manhua, and as far as I can remember thus far the manhua has followed the novel plot pretty much 1-for-1 so I'm not even really getting anything new, but that's okay. There have been a couple interesting things, especially as regards to Yu Yao's pregnancy, and the fact that Qin Jiu's name is front-and-center. Like, as far as I can recall, through where I was in the manhua we STILL don't know Qin Jiu's name, he's still 001. (I can't remember for sure though, he might have said his name during the fire in the fucked-up village arc? It's been a while since I read it, oops). I'll use it for the sci-fi/fantasy box.

Anyway at some point I should actually sit down with my list of things I want to read and organize it in some way, cause I keep starting things and then going OH NO BUT WHAT ABOUT X I REALLY WANT TO READ IT about like 9 other titles so.

Actually...no time like now, I guess, I'm out of it and distractable so...
Danmei I know I want to read, like, high priority (there's loads of others I know I want to read, to be clear, but these are the ones I look at my list and go OH YEAH THAT ONE):
1. Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (Cyan Wings)
2. Dinghai Fusheng Records (Fei Tian Ye Xiang)
3. Legend of Exorcism (Fei Tian Ye Xiang)
4. Fox Demon Cultivation Manual (Feng Ren Zuo Shu)
5. Those Years I Opened a Zoo (Marshmallow Bunny) (this one is tempered by the fact that I don't think there's a full translations available)
6. Yuwu (Meatbun) (which I'll read when the English comes out)
7. Peerless (Meng Xi Shi)
8. Copper Coins (Mu Su Li)
9. I Ship My Rival x Me (PEPA) (also not fully translated)
10. Lie Huo Jiao Chou (priest)
11. Sha Po Lang (priest) (which I'll read when the English comes out)
12. Liu Yao (priest)
13. Antidote (Wu Zhe)
14. A Sword of Frost (Yu Xiao Lanshen) (also also not fully translated)
15. How to Survive as a Villain (Yi Yi Yi Yi)
16. BONUS, they're baihe not danmei but, Jing Wei Qing Shan and Female General and Eldest Princess (both by Please Don't Laugh)

Did I say there were only 9? lmaoooo. And that doesn't even include my "secondary level" of "I want to read this but not quite as badly," for Married Thrice to Salted Fish, Po Yun, Mistakenly Saving the Villain, The Wife is First, and more...

So. Many. Good. Books. and so little time.