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My biggest tips if you're learning Chinese and starting to read Chinese webnovels (this list is not all inclusive, I'm sure there's things I forgot to mention):

Download Pleco app and use the free Clipboard Reader to copy/paste in text to read (or purchase the Pleco Reader tool which is what I did). Pleco has click translations (and great dictionaries), a Dictate Text text to speech button (good for listening to pronunciation while reading), a Google translate whole-section button (good for if you understand individual words but not the overall sentences/paragraphs), and it's just very Reader friendly. Pleco also has many graded readers to purchase if you'd like to first read 100, 300, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000 unique character graded readers Before trying webnovels. Alternatively: download the app Readibu. You can open webnovel url links in Readibu, and the app has click translations and can give you pronunciation of individual words. The app also has a Statistics button that tells you what percentage of words in a given chapter is in what HSK level. This can help you determine if a novel is your reading level. For example if you are reading level HSK 4, and open a novel with 90% words in HSK 4 or below? Good choice to read. If you open a novel and rhe app says it's 80% words HSK 4, 15% HSK 5, 3% HSK 6 and the rest above HSK? Then that novel may be a more difficult reading choice. Readibu lets you explore their app to find some webnovels, but you can also simply paste in a url of any novels you've found online. The paid version of readibu has additional tools like full-sentence machine translation.

Google/search the following terms when looking for novels: the Chinese version of the novel name, and xiaoshuozaixian 小说在线. So for example to find Guardian by priest, I might go to novelupdates.com Guardian page and find the Chinese name listed there for it Zhen hun 镇魂. Then I would go to google/duckduckgo/searx.space and search "镇魂小说在线" I may also include the author name "priest" if needed. One of the first results is likely to be jjwxc site where priest published it. There should also be additional results, if you're looking for say a chapter that got locked on its original publishing site etc or need a site that is more compatible with whatever Reader app you're using (Pleco, Readibu, other). Qidian and Jjwxc are major webnovel sites.

For that matter, do you want to listen to the audiobook as you read? Go to a search site again like Google, and type the book name in chinese along with 有声读物 youshengduwu or 有声在线 yousheng zaixian or 有声书 youshengshu. You could also search using those terms in youtube or bilibili. Ximalaya and Himalaya apps also have a lot of audiobooks, but I've noticed this year a lot of region blocks on stuff in ximalaya. So I usually listen to audiobooks on bilibili.com now.

If you are reasonably comfortable in your Chinese reading skills and are able to understand what you read even if word-translations are only right 80% of the time? Then you can expand what applications you read in. ANY ebook Reader app is likely to have click-translate features, you may need to download additional language dictionaries (Kindle app requires this) or you may just need Google Translate/DeepL/some translation app installed on your phone. Then you can open up any Reader app of your choice (I like Moon+ Reader personally) and you'll have click translate, sentence machine translate (using the translation app installed), and Text To Speech for the passages. The translation quality is likely to be worse than Pleco and Readibu, and will probably be roughly as good as Google Translate quality. But it is usable if you are upper beginner or above and know enough to recognize when a translation looks suspiciously wrong. Idiom app also has this level of translation quality (free), and Lingq has this translation quality for chinese (I don't use lingq because it's a paid subscription but the Chinese word translation quality is as poor as Google translate so I'd just rather use free tools that use Google translate at that point). You can also simply read IN your web browser in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. In all of those, if you have Google Translate/DeepL/any translation app installed, then you can hold down and click words for the option to click translate. You can also highlight whole sections of text to machine translate the sections. Microsoft Edge actually has one positive in this regard: Edge has the feature Read Aloud that uses text to speech to read a web page. And Edge's text to speech sounds WAY better than any other tts service I've used. In addition, if you read using Edge on the computer, their Read Aloud TTS has multiple voice options on computer version of Microsoft Edge and in Microsoft Word. If you plan to heavily utilize TTS tools, I think Edge's tts sounds the best by far.

If you would really like to study with a parallel text translation? I recommend the app I'm currently using daily: Parallel translations of books by Kursx. It is free. It has click translation, TTS for individual words and per sentence, it has parallel translation per sentence (resulting in some of the most easy to read machine translations I've seen, and it helps if you know individual words but can't parse the grammar). It has a unique word count statistics for the book, as well as total word count, list of words by frequency (if you want to pre study vocabulary), percentage of book read, estimate of time remaining to read (I love seeing this number go down), how often you're looking up words (useful to notice if a book is more or less difficult for you). You can import txt or epub files to read. I personally suggest looking up novel names in chinese plus 小说 xiaoshuo (novel) plus "txt" to find text downloads, or copy pasting text from a website into a txt file to then read in this app. Or go to a site with epub downloads and search for the book you wish to read. The parallel text translation and Dictate Text tts functions are my favorite parts about this app. But the statistics page for the books I also find highly motivating.

A tip about reading: when reading any machine translations to help you, be aware of the following common mtl mistakes. First, mtl may struggle to notice if a Chinese name/place is a name or an item. Examples would be Li Lianhua potentially being translated by a mtl as Li Lotus, instead of the mtl recognizing it as a name and leaving it as Li Lianhua. Mtl are likely to struggle a lot with names and sometimes switching them to object/verb word translations so it may be a good idea to read after checking the names of people in the novel, or if you see a word translated weird then be mindful it might actually be someone's name. (Guo Changcheng's name often gets translated to Guo Great Wall by mtl). Second, mtl often mixes up gender of pronouns 他她它. Please go into Chinese reading already aware of which ta is he, she, or it. So that when you run into this mtl error, you can check for yourself which pronoun the ta was meant to be. Third is also pronoun related: English sometimes needs a pronoun in a sentence when Chinese does not. In those cases, mtl will often just make up one and use he/she/it/you/me/they when no word is present in the Chinese. In some cases this is fine and the meaning is the same. In other cases it wildly changes the meaning of the sentence. In these cases, look to the previous Chinese sentence to determine what noun the following sentence is about. Then you can determine which noun would have Actually been used in a correct English translation. Then you will know if the mtl translation is right or wrong. Fourth, like the last issue mentioned, mtl will struggle with sentences in chinese that require less words than the English equivalent. In any cases like this, be aware the mtl will add English words without those necessarily have anything to do with the actual meaning of the sentence. It may change the sentence meaning significantly. In these cases also, it's good to look at the last few sentences and then determine the most likely meaning of the current sentence, to judge if the mtl is roughly correct or Very Wrong. Fifth thing to be aware of: some machine translation tools will simplify translations. By this I mean they will turn long imagery lines or idioms into shorter single words sometimes. It greatly depends on which mtl you use, and if the mtl is trying to preserve detail (which would mean preserving the long line of imagery) or sacrificing detail for a more roughly correct translation. By this I mean that it's easy for an mtl to mess up a line as complicated as "He was stiff as a coffin" with so many words to incorrectly translate and implications, so some mtl will change to "He was stiff" and leave out some words. When I used to use Baidu translate it had a habit of doing this a LOT. Where if I looked up each word/phrase individually I would get a lot of detail, but if I put in a whole paragraph then many lines like chengyu and imagery of "hairs standing up from head to tail" would translate to MUCH shorter one word or short phrases like "scared" and so much detail was lost. Google translate and DeepL ALSO seem to do some deletion of details with longer passages. I have been using the KursX app for machine translation lately because since it translates each sentence individually, it tends to preserve most details. Whereas I've seen many mtl tools start deleting or summarizing details if you put a longer passage into them. So if you use any machine translation for phrases, sentences, or paragraphs, and you notice words you individually translated are NO longer in the machine translated output? It's possible the mtl is deleting details or summarizing details. If this is the case, a way to find the original details again is to either shorten the input into the mtl (to very short phrases bit by bit in the sentence), or by looking up each individual word in a sentence.

Bilibili Comics app is great if you like reading manhua. You can read comics in Chinese (just click the Chinese language option), and then go read the English translations if you need clarification of something. The app gives you icon dress up rewards for reading, which kind of let's you gamify your studying into fun little decorative rewards if you push yourself to keep reading.

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No idea where to submit a fanfic prompt, so I’m just gonna post it here and pray to DianXia that it will be seen and written!

MDZS x TGCF crossover (truer to CQL/Untamed than to other adaptations): what if the final battle in Nightless City was his trial, and he ascends right as he falls off the cliff? If this were novel-verse I guess it would be during the backlash but I think in the drama he has more clarity of mind just before he falls off the cliff.

Maybe cultivators notice the ascension, and start asking themselves how can someone so evil ascend - not quite sure how to reverse their impression of WWX at this point but I would love for some of the more important characters (LXC, JC, maybe NMJ or LQR) to realize they were wrong and had essentially massacred/sentenced innocents to death, and the subsequent angst-filled guilt fest.

Maybe in all the confusion of war, the ascension wasn’t noticed, and with the missing body, they assume WWX died as per canon > the separation years continue as per canon.

Either way, WWX at some point realizes leaving his demonic cultivation notes out in the open was not a good idea, so some Heavenly Officials whom he’s befriended head down to the mortal’s realm to pack them away and hide them, but by that time everything has been ransacked, and the notes are all missing. This sets the Heaven realm on alert for possible evil deeds done with demonic cultivation, idk - maybe they notice when XY and MXY start playing around with it and remove the notes from them before they start getting anywhere with demonic cultivation?

13/16 years later, MXY does not have the expertise to bring back WY but people eager to imitate demonic cultivation build shrines to the Yiling Patriarch and pray to him, so he can hear what’s going on in the world. Also, maybe some people see his shrines and don’t realize it’s the Yiling Patriarch (the demonic cultivators have to disguise his shrine/statue quite thoroughly to make sure they’re not caught), so they start praying to him too, and that’s how he gains another famous name? Either way, this is how he starts noticing something not right when he hears MXY’s prayers, which seems to know some details of his personal life (from the bits he read on his notes/diary?).

So he descends and disguises himself (because in TGCF, they’re not supposed to show themselves to people they know) and canon proceeds from there but with actual WY in disguise and MXY gets to live!

Yi City arc - while XY figured out parts of demonic cultivation on his own, he didn’t have WWX’s notes on the Stygian Tiger Seal and therefore had less power. Up to the author if he still does the whole XXC thing or if he will be less murder-y.

Timeline: This will probably start before TGCF canon, which will happen during the 13/16 years - maybe soon after WY’s ascension as he’s had a pretty bad mind break and needed time in seclusion to help him heal, and so doesn’t know what’s going on with Jun Wu until the Heavenly realm starts falling apart just before TGCF’s final battle? All this of course makes him really busy so that he’s not so tempted to watch over the humans he knows, but of course he still makes time to watch over Lan Zhan and his son when he can (does he realize SiZhui is A Yuan? Or does he only start watching over them later and doesn’t realize it?). Watching JC and JL is too painful, so he just sets up alerts in case they ever get into serious trouble :(

Post-TGCF canon, all his friends including DianXia and HuaCheng can help him through his guilt and trauma, and maybe realize his own feelings towards Lan Zhan.

I have no idea how to write how the others will take the discovery that he’s back - but there will be no punishment meted out for the humans discovering by the time canon happens since the no-meeting-people-you-know law was something strictly enforced by Jun Wu, and with his downfall, the other gods are a lot more lax on it while still rebuilding the heavenly realms.

In a world where none of the righteous cultivators noticed his ascension, I would absolutely love to see their reactions upon realizing WWX has ascended and is now a heavenly official 😂

So many extra bonus points if you can write a good WWX & HC friendship! Maybe even brotherhood, not that WWX would ever acknowledge it as such cos he’s still hurting over JC and JYL. Self blame is very powerful.

Okay I’ve exhausted most of my ideas for this particular crossover. If more come to mind, I will continue!!

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Hi! In the last photo (blue hanfu and flower shaped fan, with two locks of hair tied together with something red), I sometimes see a hair accessory like a metal clasp that replaces the red ties. May I ask what this hair accessory is called? I have been trying to search for them online for purchase but don’t know what terms to use. Thank you!

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I don’t have any access to Amazon or BBC to watch Good Omens 😭 But I want to so badly!!

Good Omens cured my Endgame Depression

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เมษายน 2562: ไมโกะ Kikusana (โอกิยะ Hanafusa), ไมโกะ Kimishou, เกโกะ Kimiaya, และเกโกะ Kiminao (โอกิยะ Honjo) จากเขต Miyagawacho ในจังหวัด Kyoto

Source: mykyotophoto on Instagram

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Hey guy friends - can you please stop telling your wives things like “I wish you’d dress just like she does” or “why can’t you make homemade bread like she does” or “her cooking is so good, why can’t you learn how to do that at home”?

I’m happy to receive compliments but not when they come at the expense of someone else, especially not your wives (who are also my friends btw), to whom you said marriage vows to love and cherish as they are. Not only are you crushing their self-confidence and sense of worth, you are also taking away part of their emotional support by distancing them from the people you’re comparing them to.

Please don’t turn a person into an icon of your wrecked marriage when all they’re doing is just living their own lives.

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I used to be like this but was forced to learn how to talk to people for my career. It was a shock to realize I've become one of them because inside, I still struggle with the actual talking part 😅

sometimes I get so jealous of other people’s social skills. like damn. they can talk to people?? and people like them?? look at all those people who like them. wtf. illegal

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Bleach x xxxHolic fanfic prompt

Soooooo what if, after Ichigo loses his shinigami powers after the whole Aizen thing, he meets Yuuko and slowly starts developing shopkeeper-related powers instead?

I'd especially love to read about when the shinigami try to return his powers and find out about this new thing!

Bonus points: the shinigami are unaware there are other dimensions besides the Living (for humans), Soul Society and Hueco Mundo.

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Reblog if you have read fan fiction better than some published books

Help me prove a point

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Yep went to binge read those fics right after watching that trailer

So who else misses 2012 and the “they all live in the tower and tony made them separate floors” fanfics after seeing that shit fire angsty trailer

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Relevant to some of y’all’s interests – here is a YouTube series that tells stories of famous women and recreates meals involved in said stories… then the hosts eat them. 

This includes a concoction brewed up by a 17th-century witch. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of gross.

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irondad and spiderson fic recs

so I have been reading a lot of irondad and spiderson fics lately and here are some of my favorites

* = incomplete

out of darkness series * by StarryKnight09 

in loco parentis series * by DeductionIsKey

you stand by my side series by SaraHudson112

lights to guide you home series * by JolinarJackson

what you were then I am today series by madasthesea

and you’ll blow us all away series * by losingmymindtonight

we’re gonna have to do this together series * by edibna 

call you home series * by Madelinedear

listen up, kid series * by itsallAvengers

Someday I’ll Make it Out of Here series * by YellowDistress

5 times it wasn’t a hug and the 1 time it was by parkrstark

5 times tony forgot peter was just a kid by parkrstark

accepting the tides by Emma_Anacortes

human shield by wolfypuppypiles

i’m the satellite (and you’re the sky) by CamelotQueen

erratum by itsjennasaisquoi     

he’s my… intern? * by losingmymindtonight

5 Times Peter Made Tony Laugh Out Loud by grilledcheesing

honorary parker by parkrstark

three things at a time * by inabroomcloset

12.15.17 by parkrstark

danger or trouble, i’m there on the double by parkrstark

who saves the hero by CamelotQueen

5 times peter clung to tony * by parkrstark

Because I said so: Adventures in Parenting (with commentary by Peter Parker) * by  Nickygp

Then How do YOU explain Peter? by asphodelia 

5 times peter is stuck with tony by iron_spider

twelve days of peter parker by grilledcheesing

You are my Dad, you’re my dad, boogiewoogiewoogie by Hittinmiss

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Fish yukata by セオα (complete with sunfish and whale!), worn here kimono style

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Breathtaking koi pond themed vintage outfit (seen on), the obi is especially a great choice as its maple leaves over ripples motif precisely echoes the kimono pattern

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小千谷縮に対馬麻の帯。薔薇の柄。#japan #tokyo #setagaya #kimono #obi #ojiya #chijimi #tsushima #hemp #rose #着物 #帯 #小千谷縮 #対馬麻 #薔薇 #きもの

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title:travel TENRYU-HAMANAKO line with Konami Sano model:佐野小波(Konami Sano) twitter: @sano214konami

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Harry Potter/Avengers AU

The Avengers are a team of Witches and Wizards fighting against the Dark Lord Thanos. 

Tony is the mad Wizarding inventor who is a genius with a wand. Bruce is a part-time healer, full-time shape-shifting werewolf. Clint and Natasha are Unspeakables. Thor is a Quidditch beater. And Auror Steve has one hell of a shield charm. 

(Oh, and Loki is a Death Eater, which no one is surprised about)