#青色羽翼

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new new post so that the other one doesn't get too long! as always here are the links:

novel updates, carrd, raws, translation <3

last update: 13/02/24

testimonial by: @kimdokjas find it here!

tiny explanation (for the post, not the story) under the cut

from now on i will simply update the main image (counter) and only do so for those who have finished the novel. the latest testimonial from the most recent satisfied customer will be either linked (for sent in messages) or added as a screenshot (for tags) just above the read more and then moved under the cut with the rest.

older testimonials:

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update #5 — the first from this post!

extra testimonial

update #6 -> @/shizunfuckers sent it in as a message, find and read it here

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Kudos to Gao Neng Er Wei Ma for establishing a solid M/F friendship lol, strong female characters (that aren’t villainised) are so hard to find in unlimited flow danmei novels

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Book of the Week: Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Author: Cyan Wings/Qing Se Yu Yi (青色羽翼)

Genre: cultivation, ancient setting, danmei

Rating: T

My Synopsis: When a book detailing future events falls from the sky and lands into his hands, Devil Venerable Wenren È becomes curious about how his life could possibly become so entangled with some random female cultivator with terrible, terrible taste in men that he would give his life for her. Yin Hanjiang, his totally-not-in-love-with-shizun disciple, would also like to know.

My Actual Review: If "girl, stand up!" were a novel, this would be it. A great deal of it is humor from Wenren È tryna psychoanalyze why Baili Qingmiao has such terrible taste in men—because all the other women around him are also like “we don’t know wtf is wrong with her either” 😭 Wenren È also has a personality that reminds me a little of Tianlang-jun from svsss (minus the deadbeat dad part). Moments of angst do show up, but they are mostly around character backstory, so be prepared for that when we get flashbacks. I feel like this book has a similar payoff style to 2ha, in that certain details of some characters' backstories are presented early on in a very matter-of-fact way, only to have those details turned on their heads later in the story with the addition of some withheld information. Easily one of my favorite narrative structure styles.

Yes there is an age gap in this romance. No it is not grooming. Wenren È picks the child Yin Hanjiang up out of a corpse pile and drops him off at a waterfall for ten years to basically raise himself lmao. They don't get together until they are both adults. For real content warnings, because the plot of this story is the revision of a stallion, male power fantasy novel, all the scum behaviors of the (previous) male protagonist are shown to be addressed, so yeah.

Translation: complete

[fanghuas]

giggling and kicking my feet: they're sooooo insane about each other < 3

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wenren E/Yin Hanjiang Characters: Wenren E (Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know), Yin Hanjiang Additional Tags: Switching, Bottom Wenren E/Top Yin Hanjiang, Top Wenren E/Bottom Yin Hanjiang, well wre doesn't top in this but usually he does, Anal Sex, mild praise kink (again), yhj go fuck that old man, wre being the king of consent and communication as per usual Summary:

„Say, has Hanjiang ever considered being the one on top?“

Yin Hanjiang: „...“ _____________________

Or, just as advertised in the title, Wenren E is the one to bottom for once.

Hii, I wrote more! This time a little more niche, but I hope some people out there will still enjoy it 

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Reading Corner 2023:

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (魔尊也想知道) by Cyan Wings (Qing Se Yu Yi / 青色羽翼)

Devil Venerable Wenren E receives a romance novel set in the world he lived in and features him as a fan-favorite character. Left with a mandate to fix the plot and a lot of questions, he sets off to pull the lead female off her doomed path and keep his loyal subordinate, Yin Hanjiang, from going mad at Wenren E's possible future death.

It's quite good, with both genuinely horrifying and genuinely funny moments and characters. It goes into the power-leveling that a lot of cultivation novels get bogged down in (who is at what stage of what level, who is stronger, leveling up at critical fight scenes, that sort of thing), but it devotes just as much, if not more, time on the more philosophical aspects of cultivation. Wenren E points out multiple times that cultivation means hording and stealing energy, and a major plot point involves causing a minor disaster to hold off an apocalyptic one, and how the mortal world flourished while the cultivators fought and culled themselves.

I love it when a story has something to say.

Oh, and the danmei romance is good, too.

(I read mourningcrow's fan translation and recommend it.)

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Danmei Tournament Bracket & Competitors

Round 1

Short Story of Shaowang vs. Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals? [WINNER: Where is Our Agreement to Be Arch-Rivals?]

Green Plum Island vs. You've Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale [WINNER: You've Got Mail]

Round 2

Lie Huo Jiao Chou vs. Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals?

Mist vs. the Earth is Online

Golden Stage vs. Nan Chan

Everyday I Get Up to See the Villain Stealing the Show vs. Little Mushroom

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual vs. Let's Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me

Copper Coins vs. Mistakenly Saving the Villain

Liu Yao: the Revitalization of Fuyao Sect vs. After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine

You've Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale vs. Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Round 2 ends Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023, at noon CST. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the descriptions and content warnings!

After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine

Author: Liu Gou Hua (刘狗花)

Other Names: After I Married the Disabled War God As My Concubine, Sau khi chiến thần tàn tật gả cho ta làm thiếp, 残疾战神嫁我为妾后

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 123 Chapters + 13 Extras

Main Pairing: Jiang Suizhou x Huo Wujiu

CW: ableism, violence, poisoning, death, war + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by SleepyTranslations

Description: [Jiang Suizhou] is a history lecturer transmigrated into a cutsleeve prince fated to be publicly beheaded by his new concubine Huo Wujiu, a captured legendary God of War given to JSZ in marriage to humiliate him by his brother the Emperor Jiang Shunheng.

“Aren’t you afraid of regretting this one day?” / “For him, never in this life.” - Ch.123

Copper Coins

Author: Mu Su Li (木苏里)

Other Names: Tong Qian Kan Shi, TQKS, Đồng tiền kham thế, เหรียญทองแดงปราบพิภพ, 铜钱龛世, 동전감세

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 102 Chapters + 1 Extra (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Xue Xian (薛闲) x Xuanmin (玄悯)

CW: death, amnesia, ghosts, illness, murder + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation/Introduction (Easier to sort via Novel Updates)

Description: “It's about the disembodied soul of a dragon who's looking for his lost body, as well as the people who were responsible for maiming him; he meets a mysterious demon-slaying monk with amnesia who only knows that he's looking for someone; maybe they fall in love idk. It's set in 11th century China and the magic is based on geomancy (feng shui).” - English Translation Introduction

“No Regrets. You have to hang out with me for hundreds or thousands of years, probably long. Even if you get tired of me, you can’t undo it.” / “It’s all I could ever wish for.”

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Author: Cyan Wings / Qing Se Yu Yi / 青色羽翼

Other Names: Mozun ye xiang zhidao, 魔尊也想知道, DVAWTK

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Wenren È x Yin Hanjiang - “Yinren”

CW: master-servant relationship*, death, suicide attempt, rape as a plot point (mentioned only, not main characters), body horror/gore, bus (gu parasites) - (Carrd), age difference, graphic violence, psychosis/hallucinations

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: The Devil Venerable, the Lord of Demon, Head of Xuanyuan Sect, Wenren È, discovers a book called &lt;Abusive Romance: You Are the Unchanging One in My Heart>, which details the painful romance of two disciples of Shangqing Sect - Baili Qingmiao and He Wenzhao. In the novel, Wenren È is the devoted second male lead who sacrificed himself for Baili Qingmiao, which led to Yin Hanjiang, his subordinate and the fourth male lead, attempting to kill the female lead. Present-day Wenren È is now tasked with fixing the readers’ many complaints regarding the novel. 

*While technically a master-servant relationship, especially at the beginning, the novel makes a point to show and explicitly state their progression to friends, not a servant and his master

**Wenren È is also sometimes referred to as Wen Renhe 

Very aro-spec/ace-spec MCs, Yin Hanjiang is stupid and in love (and has rabies), side lesbians 

Everyday I Get Up to See the Villain Stealing the Show  

Author: Zhong Xiaosheng (钟晓生)

Other Names: EVSS, 每天起床都看到反派在抢戏

Media Type: Web Novel 

Main Pairing: Han Changsheng x Huangfu Fengxuan Xichen / An Yuan

Chapters: 110 (Completely Translated)

CW: death, acceptance of death/suicidal idealation (HCS plans to die to An Yuan) + more unknown

Links: English Translation, Novel Updates

Description: Han Changsheng, the Head of the Tianning Cult, kills Lord An Yuan, a descended Immortal fated to eliminate the Tianning Demonic Cult. Confronted by an angry immortal and threatened with a new life surrounded by ugly men, Han Changsheng is sent back in time to fulfill his role: be killed by Lord An Yuan. 

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual

Author: Feng Ge Qie Xing / 风歌且行

Other Names: FDCM, 狐妖修炼指南

Media Type: Web novel

Main Pairing: Song Ci x Rong Bai (Rongsong)

Chapters: 101 Chapters + 1 Extra (Completely Translated)

CW: abuse (to a main character & a side character), graphic violence, bigotry, minor character death, torture, shaming of appearance, suicidal idealation + more unknown

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates, English Translation by Lianyin

Description: Song Ci “mistakenly consumed the blood of the Demon King, causing himself to become a demon too. Since then, he hated the Demon King and wanted to take revenge” (Carrd). He ends up meeting Rong Bai without realizing he’s the aforementioned Demon King. Hijinks ensue.

Prequel: Your Ninth Royal Highness, Please Change Your Clothes

Sequel: The Demon Lord is Fleeing for HIs Life Again Today

Golden Stage 

Author: Cang Wu Bin Bai (苍梧宾白)

Other Names: Golden Terrace, Hoàng Kim Đài/Đài Hoàng Kim, Huáng Jīn Tái, 黄金台

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Chapters: 79 Chapters + 4 Extras (Fully Translated)

Main Pairing: Fu Shen x Yan Xiaohan aka “Yanfu”

CW: ableism, slavery, death, violence, murder, animal death, fantasy drug use, implied sex (none depicted) - (Carrd)

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates, Character Guide, Official English Translation

Description: Returning to the capital after an assassination attempt, Fu Shen is ordered by a suspicious Emperor to marry Yan Xiaohan, the Emperor’s subordinate and Fu Shen’s rival, to weaken his growing power. “Enemies” → lovers

“I hope that you will hate me all your life.”

“Call me that again, and I may just give up the darkness and turn towards the light for you.”

Arranged political marriage, enemies in public but lovers in private, fluff, bickering/flirting, communication, doting/devoted

“From head to toe, where I’ve touched, and where I haven’t - I like all of it.”

Green Plum Island

Author: Hui Nan Que (回南雀)

Other Names: Qing Mei Yu, 青梅屿, 青梅嶼

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 53 Chapters + 5 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Yu Mian x Yan Kongshan

CW: age difference (9 years; 18 & 27 at first meeting) + more unknown

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation

Description: After falling from a tree in his youth, Yu Mian can see people’s emotions via numbers and colors. When he meets his neighbor Yan Kongshan, he develops a crush. While he hopes Yan Kongshan will turn pink for love, he ends up turning yellow for desire without changing expression. 

“Green Plum Island is well, your grandpa is well, Qiuqiu is well, the two cats are well. Only I’m not well…I miss you too much…I will be missing you when you read this letter.”

“‘But I can’t control who I like, so I’m going to keep on liking you.’ I think for a minute, then make a ridiculous statement: ‘I’ll like you until the day I don’t.’”

Let’s Talk About That Guy Who Transmigrated to Pursue Me 

Author: Mo Xiao Xian (莫晓贤)

Other Names: 谈谈那个穿进书里来追我的家伙

Media Type: Web Novel

Chapters: 82 (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Wen Xuan x Jian Yi

CW: murder, fantasy racism + more 

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation

Description: Wen Xuan is the Head Disciple of the Water Cloud Sect and the villain of an unnamed novel. Jian Yi is a new, talented shidi (younger fellow disciple) of the same sect who has transmigrated to support him and change his ending.

What is it about yearning characters with the surname Chu? Anyway, Chu Lian infests my brain like a dying rat. You will never be free of him <2

Lie Huo Jiao Chou 

Author: Priest

Other Names: Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, LHJC, 烈火浇愁, Liehuo, 烈火澆愁, 열화요수

Media Type: Web novel, Donghua/Anime, Audio Drama, Manhua

Main Pairing: Xuan Ji x Sheng Lingyuan

Chapters: 137 Chapters + 8 Extras

CW: violence, gore, suicide mention, horror, war, murder, cannibalism, child torture, self-inflicted injuries, discrimination, slavery, genocide (via Carrd), claustrophobia, ableism, drug addiction, non-consentual (“sleeping beauty”) kisses between the main CP (Translation), death, demons, amnesia

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: Xuan Ji is the newest member of the Reparations Department of the Deviant Control Office, which is tasked with dealing with the aftermath of deviant cases. He encounters the deceased Emperor Sheng Lingyuan who has been awakened after a thousand years and ends up pretending to be Xuan Ji’s sword.

“Because he craved, he longed fanatically for a certain person. Since ancient times, this concealed longing had been a blade hung above the heart, and falling short would certainly be heartbreaking.”

Little Mushroom

Author: Yi Shi Si Zhou (一十四洲)

Other Names: Cây nấm nhỏ, Xiao Mogu / 小蘑菇

Media Type: Novel (printed & ebook), Drama CD, Manhua 

Main Pairing: An Zhe x Lu Feng aka “LuZhe”

CW: gore, violence, death, non-graphic sexual assault (Carrd)

Links: Buy the Novel Here, Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: An Zhe is a mutated mushroom whose spore has been harvested by humans. Being discovered by the Judges, humans tasked with eliminating xenogenics like him, means certain death. Lu Feng is one such Judge with a 100% accuracy rate in identifying infected humans. 

Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect

Author: Priest

Other Names: Lục hào, ลิ่วเหยา, 六爻, 육효, Liu Yao: the Six Hexagrams

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Chapters: 109 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Yan Zhengming x Cheng Qian

CW: violence, death, major character death, gore, swearing + more

Links: Novel Updates, Chichi's Dives' English Translation

Description: “A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a narcissist, troublemaker, meanie, idiot, and wimpy kid.” - Novel Updates

Found family/childhood friends, fantastic character growth, interesting characters

“My master’s way of cultivation is ‘follow one’s heart,’ ‘be unrestrained’ - Senior, pardon this junior’s insolence, but I’ve been wondering for a long time: Does suffering in solitude for the sake of longevity count as following one’s heart?” - Ch.46

“When he thought of Cheng Qian, he suddenly felt like there was nothing else that he desired in this life.” - Yan Zhengming, ch.56

Mist 

Author: Wei Feng Ji Xu (微风几许)

Other Names: Bowu, Bạc vụ, 薄雾［无限］, Mist [Unlimited], Mist: Unlimited Flow

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Chapters: 103 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Ji Yushi x Song Qinglan aka “Qingyu” (晴雨 )

CW: cannibalism, discrimination, homophobia, death, gore, zombies, suicide, graphic violence + possibly more

Links: Tumblr Review (Spoilers Warning; Re-Read Review), Carrd (CW: glitch effect, flashing lights), English Translation, Why You Should Read It

Description: Ji Yushi is a beautiful genius with a perfect memory who is openly gay. He’s transferred to Song Qinlang’s team, who is known as a homophobe. Idk how to describe it, but there’s very interesting and complex time travel and parallel worlds; you’re just gonna have to take a gamble. 

Mistakenly Saving the Villain

Other Names: Bàn về kết cục việc cứu lầm nhân vật phản diện, MISVIL, The Conclusion to When I Mistakenly Saved the Villain, ว่าด้วยจุดจบของการไปช่วยตัวร้าย, 論救錯反派的下場, 论救错反派的下场

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Song Qingshi (宋清时) x Yue Wuhuan (越无欢)

Novel Translations (Carrd): English, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Burmese

CW: abuse to a main character, rape/sexual assault as a plot point (YWH was a sex slave), torture, suicide, depression, child abuse, PTSD, slavery/human trafficking

Description: Song Qingshi is a medical student who transmigrates into , an “angsty danmei novel” (submitter), to save the tragic protagonist. However, he mistakes the cannon fodder villain Yue Wuhuan for the protagonist and saves him instead.  

Nan Chan

Author: Tang Jiuqing / 唐酒卿

Other Names: Nam Thiền, Nán Chán, หนานฉาน, 南禅

Media Type: Web noel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Cang Ji x Jing Lin 

Chapters: 126 Chapters + 3 Extras (Completely Translated)

CW: age difference, death, amnesia, child abuse, demons, date-rape/noncon between the MC and love interests, torture of a main character and side characters, ghosts, death, explicit sexual content (ch.111 + implied sex), child/sex trafficking, sexual abuse, implied pedophilia

Links: Carrd, Novel Updates

Description: Cang Ji is a brocade carp taken care of by Jing Lin, an exiled and amnesiac Immortal who killed his adoptive father, the Emperor of Heaven. When Jing Lin loses his copper bell, he and Cang Ji leave their mountain to find it, encountering the Eight Sufferings and learning more about their past.

“There’s a man I love. In the clouds. In the sea. In my heart.”

“Have you ever wondered? If the one to be devoured in the end would be you or me?” / “It doesn’t matter if I”m the one. As long as I’m together with you.”

The Earth is Online

Author: Mo Chen Huan (莫晨欢)

Other Names: 地球上线, Dìqiú shàngxiàn, EO, TEIO, Địa Cầu Online

ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ, 地球上線

Media Type: Web Novel, Drama CD

Main Pairing: Tang Mo x Fu Wendou

Links: Carrd (CW: glitch effect, flashing lights), Novel Updates, English Translation on Tea Novel

CW: death, child/infant death, gore + more unknown

Description: Six months after black towers appear around cities, a voice announces, “Ding dong! November 15th, 2017. The earth is online.” Players are encouraged to “attack the tower” during “game time”. Once pulled into a game, it must be completed, and the losing party seems to die. 

“the Joongdok of danmei”

Short Story of Shaowang

Other Names: Shh! My Dear Alpha, 少汪几句

Media Type: Web novel, Drama CD, Manhua

Author: Little Ice Cube / 冰块儿

Chapters: 58 Chapters + 12 Extras (Completely Translated)

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by Tailor’s MTL

CW: rape/noncon between the MC and love interest (later discussion about consent), graphic sexual content, omegaverse, mpreg + more unknown

Description: Jiang ShaoYan is the school tyrant and also an omega. While his heat is approaching, an underclassman suddenly confesses to him. 

Sequel: Pay Attention to Me

You’ve Got Mail: A Cautionary Tale

Author: Hei Dan Bai / 黑蛋白

Other Names: YGMCT, คบสหายผ่านพิราบต้องพึงระวัง, 飛鴿交友須謹慎, 飞鸽交友须谨慎

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 106 Chapters

CW: age difference, rape/noncon between MC and love interest, graphic sexual content, suicidal idealisation + more unknown 

Links: Novel Updates

Description: A 39-year-old gay bachelor in the Great Xia Dynasty, feeling his life is hopeless, resolves to get laid before committing suicide on his fortieth birthday. To do so, Wu Xingzi joins the Peng Society for Gentlemen, a secret organization for gay men to meet other gay men. (Based on Novel Updates Summary)

Where is Our Agreement to be Arch-Rivals?

Other Names: Did We Agree To Be Rivals?, Nói tốt trở thành lẫn nhau túc địch đâu [Xuyên thư], The Modified Script is Killing Me, 說好成為彼此的宿敵呢[穿書], 说好成为彼此的宿敌呢[穿书]

Media Type: Web novel

Chapters: 120 Chapters + 2 Extras (Completely Translated)

Main Pairing: Su Yang x Gu Feidi

Links: Novel Updates, English Translation by Peach Blossom Codex

CW: child abuse (the original Su Yang is implied to have had sex with/been interested in minors), sexual abuse, suicidal idealisation/attempts, violence, illness + more

Description: “The web celebrity, Chen Suyang, transmigrated into a film adaptation he’d just finished rolling the death scene. Now he has to play the villain—the Evil Sect’s young master, Su Yang. To return to his own world, he faithfully acted according to the script and solemnly recited his lines—waiting for the day he’d die under the protagonist’s sword. But… why were the scenes getting farther and farther from the script?” (Novel Updates)

[cum-villain]

Read Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know.

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【ライヴレポート】MUCC、＜鵬翼・極彩＞再現ツアー日比谷野音公演に「時の流れ、長い年月を感じながら」

MUCCが5月6日、日比谷野外大音楽堂にて＜MUCC 25th Anniversary TOUR「Timeless」〜鵬翼・極彩〜＞のファイナル公演を開催した。過去アルバム『鵬翼』『極彩』再現ツアーの最終公演にして、25周年イヤー締めくくりの公演を12月28日に東京国際フォーラムにて開催することも発表となった同ファイナルのオフィシャルレポートをお届けしたい。

◆MUCC 画像

2022年に結成25年周年を迎えたロックバンドMUCCが、過去のアルバムを再構築したセットリストで廻るツアーを開催中だ。第一弾は2022年10月～12月に行なった＜MUCC 25th Anniversary TOUR 「Timeless」～是空・朽木の灯～＞で、彼らが2003年に発表した『是空』、さらに2004年に発表した『朽木の灯』をコンセプトにしていた。そして第二弾として行なったのが、2023年3月から始まった＜MUCC 25th Anniversary TOUR 「Timeless」～鵬翼・極彩～＞である。そのファイナル公演となったのが、5月6日に開催された日比谷野外大音楽堂でのライヴだ。

この日、関東地方には朝から強風が吹き荒れていたが、野音は公園の木々のおかげか、強風の影響はそれほどでもない。初夏を告げる暑い日差しが降り注ぎ、むしろ風が心地いいぐらいだ。そんな野音にSEとして『極彩』の1曲目「レイブサーカス」が鳴り響いたのは17時35分のこと。トライバルなリズムに合わせ、オーディエンスはハンドクラップしながら期待を高めるばかり。紫色や黄色など様々なスポットライトが点滅し、まさに極彩色となったステージ。そこに主役のMUCCが登場すると、でかい歓声と拍手が湧き上がる。鮮やかな振袖の着物をジャケット代わりに羽織った逹瑯(Vo)は、オーディエンスを煽るようにマイクスタンドを高く上げた。

アルバム『極彩』の流れを汲むように、「極彩」へ突入。興奮を煽りたてるヘヴィサウンドが炸裂し、客席を埋め尽くしたオーディエンスも激しいヘドバンを繰り返し、開演から数分も経たずして一体化。ミヤ(G)とYUKKE(B)は立ち位置を入れ替わりながらプレイし、逹瑯は宣戦布告するように歌をとどろかせていく。

「いい天気だな、日比谷！」──ミヤの喜びの声から続いたのは「嘆きの鐘」。ヘヴィな面もありながら、レゲエのリズムやフレーズも飛び交うナンバーだ。曲の途中でブレイクして、「いこうか！」と笑顔も見せる逹瑯。また「ガーベラ」のイントロでは「日比谷、飛べんの？　全員で飛べー！」と焚きつける。とはいえ、ジャンプしながら楽しめるのはイントロ部分ぐらい。なにしろ切ないメロディやメロウな展開も顔を出す曲で、一筋縄ではいかないアレンジが「ガーベラ」の特徴でもある。それでも曲に見事に食らいついていくオーディエンス。バンドとひとつになり、さらに曲とも呼吸をしていく様は、さすが、MUCCの熱心なファンである夢烏(ムッカー／ファンの呼称)たちだ。それに曲そのものも、リリース当時とは違う顔つきを見せている。

アルバム『極彩』をリリースした2006年当時、逹瑯はミヤの書くメロディに応えながら、シンガーとしての殻を破り始めた時期だったと思う。絶望感やネガティビティを背負ってもがいているような唱法が初期だったとしたら、暗闇や密室にいた自身を自ら解放したのが『極彩』に取り組んでいた時期だった。その結果、重苦しさばかりではなく軽やかさなども唱法に備わり、同時に幅広いメロディも積極的に歌い始めていった。そこからさらに約16年経ち、シンガーとして大きく成長した今、逹瑯は当時に思い描いた理想の歌を野音で具現化していく。細部まで気持ちを入れながら、しかし感情過多になりすぎることもなく、言葉のひとつずつがしっかり聴き取れる。早い話、伝わる歌だ。それが曲の新たな顔つきにもなっている。

「晴れたね。雨の野音も嫌いじゃないけど、やっぱ晴れって気持ちいいね。この自然の光も合わせてMUCCを楽しんでいってください。時の流れ、長い年月を感じながら、最後までよろしく」──逹瑯

逹瑯のそんな言葉をはさんで、曲はライヴ会場限定発売シングルの2曲へ。「想-so-」ではバイオリンとチェロ奏者も加わり、優しく切ない歌とバンドサウンドでオーディエンスを包み込む。しかしライヴはここから急展開。ミヤのエッジの尖ったリフに、逹瑯が気のふれたような狂った歌いっぷりが絡み合いながら「リスキードライヴ」で攻め立てる。その勢いのままコーラスやフェイクでコール＆レスポンスも起こし始めた。逹瑯ばかりでなく、メンバー名を叫ばせるコール＆レスポンスで楽しむのはYUKKE。さらにミヤもムチャなハイトーンすぎるフェイクでコール＆レスポンスを楽しみながら、自分も笑ってしまうミヤ。一体感と熱気と楽しさのカオス状態だ。

「たくさんの人がMUCCに真剣に向き合ってくれて、そんな人たちに囲まれてとても幸せだと思います」──逹瑯

バンドを代表して逹瑯が感謝しながら曲は「パノラマ」へと続く。青空が徐々に夕刻へと表情を変えていく中で披露されたこのバラードは、自然の美も野音ならではの演出効果となり、スケール感ある曲となってどこまでも響き渡っていく。

ところが美しさにずっと浸らせないのが、『鵬翼』や『極彩』をリリースした時期のMUCCと言うべきか。憎しみと怒りもこもったレゲエテイスト強めの「メディアの銃声」を叩きつけたと思えば、そこから続くのは「25時の憂鬱」。YUKKEのアップライトベースでドゥーミーな香り漂うベースリフに、ミヤがサイケデリックで荒々しいギターを絡ませる。逹瑯は、怪しくけだるい歌を恍惚とした表情も浮かべながら聴かせていく。照明の色使いもひたすらドラッギーだ。美しき夕刻だったはずが、おかしな世界へ精神を誘い込む世界へ変貌。

こうしてライヴは何度もの急展開を見せながら突き進む。恐らくメンバー自身、このツアーのセットリストを考えるのに相当、頭を悩ませたはず。なぜなら曲それぞれが、あまりにも異なる色を持っているからだ。

特に『極彩』を作った2006年当時のMUCCは、“デビリッシュ・イヤー”と名づけ、国内ツアーはもちろん、フェスや海外ツアーなど、怒涛のラ���ヴ活動を行なっている。その過程で刺激も触発もされただろう。新たな曲につながるヒントを掴むこともあったかもしれない。だがMUCCは、自分たちにしかできないことを常に探し求めた。その結果、自由にわがままに音楽を作り始めたのがその時期だったと思う。そのためアルバムは、ひとつの方向性を持ったものではなく、まるでオムニバスアルバムのように違った色合いの曲たちで構成された。だから付けたタイトルが『極彩』でもある。

リリースしたときは初期からのあまりの変化に驚き、ふるい落とされそうになったファンも少なくなかった。しかし、あれから約16年。MUCCの持つ多彩さや多面ぶりも楽しみながら、それぞれの曲に改めてハマり込むオーディエンスの姿が野音に広がっていた。

ライヴ後半、強烈なスラッシュメタル調の「G.M.C」で激しいヘドバンで狂った直後のことだ。逹瑯も、あまりの曲順に自分でも思わず笑いつつ、「優しい歌」へと続いた。MUCCからの温かさと優しさが広がっていく中、オーディエンスはそれを受け止めるように両手を広げ、左右に揺らし、自分たちもMUCCと共に歌う。客席からの歌声を心地よく浴びながら逹瑯が「オマエらのライヴを聴いてんだよ、俺は」と言うと、さらに歌声は大きくなり、大合唱になって夜空に響いていった。そしてステージにレーザーの流れ星が幾つも流れる中、「流星」で感動的にライヴ本編を締めくくった。

アンコールでは、12月28日に東京・国際フォーラム ホールAで結成25周年イヤーのグランドファイナル開催も発表。その前には第三弾ツアーも、第四弾ツアーもある。逹瑯の「最後まで一緒に、盛大に駆け抜けようじゃないか！」という言葉に、野音からでっかい歓声も巻き起こる。

アンコールラスト「WORLD」は、イントロからMUCCとオーディエンスの大合唱から始まった。レコーディングでもファンのみんなからコーラスを送ってもらい、1000トラック以上のコーラスで構成したナンバーだ。声出しも解禁になった今、MUCCと共に新たな世界の始まりを誓うように、1000どころか約3000人のファンが歌う。喜びと幸せに満ちた第二弾ツアーのファイナルとなった。

取材・文◎長谷川幸信 撮影◎冨田味我

■＜MUCC 25th Anniversary TOUR 「Timeless」～鵬翼・極彩～＞2023年5年6日(土)＠日比谷野外大音楽堂 SETLIST SE. レイブサーカス

極彩

嘆きの鐘

ガーベラ

月光

心色

耀-yo-

想-so- [w/ 後藤泰観(Vn)　吉田弦(Vc)]

リスキードライブ

パノラマ

メディアの銃声

25時の憂鬱

ホリゾント

最終列車

謡声

G.M.C

優しい歌

流星 encore en1. 雨のオーケストラ [w/ 後藤泰観(Vn)　吉田弦(Vc)　キラーズオーケストラ] en2. 蘭鋳 en3. TONIGHT en4. WORLD

2023.05.10 quelle: barks.jp

[crushzonebl]

Mr. Melancholy wants to live a peaceful life - 忧郁先生想过平静生活 (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/306759781-mr-melancholy-wants-to-live-a-peaceful-life?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=ZoneCrushBL Autor:Cyan Wings - qīngsè yǔyì - 青色羽翼/// Status: 122 Capítulos + 3 Extras // Yu Hua perde o emprego e o peso da casa cai sobre os ombros de seu parceiro, You Zhengping. Seu marido é funcionário temporário do escritório do subdistrito, com um salário mensal de apenas 2.500; isso incomoda muito Yu Hua. You Zhengping está secretamente engajado no trabalho de proteger o mundo dos Destruidores, com um subsídio bastante liberal. Você Zhengping passa o dia todo se preocupando: como ele pode dizer a Yu Hua que ele tem alguns milhões em economias privadas sem entregar nada? Até o dia em que You Zhengping recebe um aviso de que um poder grande o suficiente para destruir o mundo apareceu em sua casa. Preocupado que algo aconteça com Yu Hua, uma pessoa comum, You Zhengping corre para casa com sua equipe. Uma vez pela porta, ele vê uma casa pacífica, Yu Hua vestindo um avental, uma frigideira levantada na mão e um peixe, dourado dos dois lados e seu aroma flutuando, fritando na panela. Vendo You Zhengping, Yu Hua coloca a frigideira no fogão elétrico desligado e enxuga as mãos no avental. "Queria economizar na conta de luz." Você Zhengping: ... O Destruidor mais incrível do mundo inteiro é seu marido.

[tls123]

new post so that the other one doesn't get too long, here are the links again: novel updates, carrd, raws, translation <3

from now on i'll only update the number for those who have at least gotten halfway through, if not finished the full novel (sorry, chapter one doesn't cut it anymore 🙇‍♀️)

under the cut the updates from the previous post:

update #1

update #2

update #3 (which is the post you're currently on!)

thanks again to tumblr users @shimamitsu @zemoe and @fanfictiongreenirises — the first three to allow me to have a non-zero number on this post! hope you will all enjoy the novel as much as i have <3

[athina39]

hi, I wanted to ask since I saw you have read a lot of novel and some Danmei can you rec some to me with mutual possessiveness and pining like in your fanfiction?

i wouldn't say that it's like my fic, but here are my fave danmei authors that, in my opinion, write mutual possessiveness/pining really well!!

(my preferred genre is mystery/action/thriller/survival games, so all of my recs below have violence, action, character deaths, possible trigger warnings, etc. all of them are 1v1 happy ending though!)

+ Nian Zhong (年终). Her works are unofficially translated to English by this translator. All of the works I've read from her have mutually unhinged/in-love MC/ML; it's especially pronounced in "Happy Doomsday" & "Evil as Humans". highly, highly rec!

+ Musuli (木苏里). I love, love, love all of her works! Global University Entrance Examination is my #1 favorite danmei of all time <3

+ "The NPC was once again frightened by me" / NPC怎么又被我吓裂了[无限流] by Su Xing Chuan (宿星川). Mutually unhinged, mutually possessive. One of my all-time faves too!

+ Cyan Wings (青色羽翼) has a lot of works with different genres! I haven't read all of her works, but "My Ideal Town" & "Mr. Melancholy Just Wants to Live a Peaceful Life" are also very mutually unhinged/mutually possessive. Plus points in her works because the MC at first seems Very Calm and Very Normal, but eventually you'll see that they're also very... not.

[tentative-wanderer]

hey sorry to bother but i literally searched for days for this danmei and couldn’t find it! do you know where i can read the eng translation?

👋 It’s no bother at all, I like knowing that people are going through my rec list, it’s so rare for me to hear from readers! Sad to say, I think that book doesn’t have an English translation yet, but if you’re looking for a xianxia novel with some humour and plot and an English translation, I recommend:

• 魔尊也想知道 The Demon Lord Would Like To Know Too (title translated by me)/Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (title translation on Novel Updates). Author: 青色羽翼 Green Wings/Cyan Wings. This one has a high rating on Novel Updates.

• 每天起床都看到反派在抢戏 Every Day I Wake Up and See the Villain Stealing My Show (title translated by me)/Everyday I Get Up To See The Villain Stealing The Show (title translation on Novel Updates). Author: 钟晓生 Zhong Xiao Sheng. This one has a focus on humour.

More pros and cons about these two are in my rec list. If you’ve already read these two and would like to know more about other books you’ve spotted, or if you’d like to know anything else, don’t hesitate to ask ☺️

[ruiconteur]

tag someone you want to know better

tagged by @extraordinarilyextreme, thank you～

favourite colour: pink maybe? i like softer shades/colours in general

last song: 天下 all under heaven by 成毅，曾舜曦，肖顺尧 liansanjiao

last movie: blade runner: the director’s cut

currently watching:

异人之下 i am nobody (2023) [thanks susu for the rec lmao]

莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook (2023) [rewatch for subbing]

你好星期六 hello saturday [my comfort 综艺节目 <3 very behind on this though]

the matrix [i forgot which version i downloaded]

to be watched: [for my own tracking purposes too lol]

说英雄谁是英雄 heroes (2022)

少年歌行 the blood of youth (2022)

琉璃 love and redemption (2020)

长月烬明 till the end of the moon (2022)

關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 marry my dead body (2023)

苍兰诀 love between fairy and devil (2022) [hate that title. anyway i dropped this but maybe i’ll pick it back up. who knows]

lupin (2021-) [i need to actually start practising my french for class]

currently reading: [oh god here we go. if you tried to guess which of these i’m reading for class you would probably be dead wrong lmao]

various short stories by ted chiang but currently on “story of your life,” “the truth of fact, the truth of feeling,” and “the lifecycle of software objects”

hexwood by diana wynne jones

a memory called empire by arkady martine

bēowulf tr. maria dahvana headley

eros the bittersweet by anne carson [this has been on hold for so long lmfao]

huis clos by jean-paul sartre [also on hold for almost as long]

他们都说我遇到了未知生物 they all say i met an unknown lifeform by 青色羽翼 [i may have put this on hold]

魔道祖师 mdzs by 墨香铜臭 [this was also put on hold]

天涯客 tyk by priest [on hold. yes again]

multiple academic articles, but the ones i’m most interested in currently are “be of knightly countenance”: masculine violence and managing affect in late medieval alliterative poetry and batman: under the red hood and ‘subtitling’s a carnival’: new practices in cyberspace

a whole bunch of lhl fics (mostly in chinese)

currently listening to: [added because i wanted a space for my audio dramas]

魔道祖师 第二季 the second season of mdzs [on hold]

天官赐福 第一季 the first season of tgcf [陈张太康老师.............. you have my entire heart and i haven’t even heard you as hua cheng yet]

师弟还不杀我灭口 my shidi still hasn’t killed/permanently silenced me [also put on hold........ you may be noticing a certain pattern here]

currently working on:

莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook fansub and assorted translations related to that

lots of academic things because i’m very behind oh god [thank you procrastination]

perhaps...... a difang 清明节/tomb-sweeping fic 👀 we’ll see

current obsession: do i even need to say it. translation + 莲花楼 mysterious lotus casebook

tagging @bat1lau4can4 and anyone else who wants to join! i’m not sure who’s not done it yet lol

[ao3feed-fengqing]

The phenomenon of unrequited love

by Your_Shijie A collection of fanfiction about Unrequited Love in different fandoms. Words: 2928, Chapters: 5/?, Language: English Fandoms: 화산귀환 | Return of the Blossoming Blade (Webcomic), 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Multi Relationships: Baek Cheon | Jin Dongryong/Cheong Myeong, Lee Songbaek/Jin Geumryong, Zhongli Qian/Shu Yanyan, Wenren E/Yin Hanjiang, Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (Tiān Guān Cì Fú) Additional Tags: Unrequited Love via https://ift.tt/BER9XaL

[owlmaya]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wenren E/Yin Hanjiang Characters: Wenren E (Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know), Yin Hanjiang Additional Tags: Top Wenren E/Bottom Yin Hanjiang, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Praise Kink, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, honorifics used for horny purposes, not really power bottom Yin Hanjiang, but kind of (if you squint) because I believe in power bottom yhj, Riding, Shu Yanyan mention, she is the mvp of this fic actually Summary:

„This Lord wishes to show his Venerable what he’s learned from that useless subordinate of ours.”

„Then my Lord can do with this Venerable as he pleases.”

(Yin Hanjiang rides Wenren È's fingers and then him. That's it, that's the fic.)

—>btw I am NOT a writer (obviously, I do art), but I’m soo brain rotted by wenrenjiang right now, that I actually wrote a fic, because of how few there are… so even if it may not be very good, at least it shows my dedication? possibly?? go say something nice about it or i’ll cry