#webnovel update

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

WHAT THE FUCK "it's enchanting, the way your eyes turn golden when you look at me" IS A CANON LINE?!?!?!?!???

[entropywritez]

CHAPTER THREE of An Unwanted Inheritance: Speculation and Prediction.

~ 1k words. Armani goes to the library, peoplewatches, and talks a little to the reader about his mother.

Libraries are living things. Not in the poetic sense humans referred to them long before properly interacting with faeries, but quite literally alive. Faren rushes through their walls. They get angry when their insides grow stagnant. It’s for this reason, among many, that it only costs thirty cents for a library card, and late fees are only five cents. The libraries need to be entertained. 

Despite how easy it is to describe them as looming, gloomy affairs, the library was also the best place to be if it was summer, you hated the heat, and had friends who at the very least wanted to check out the periodical section.

Alex and I sighed with relief as we entered through the airlock, allowing the cool, paper-scented air to wash over us. We stood just like that in the lobby for a moment, before going about our business. 

I returned the books I’d already finished to the re-shelving cart. Alex approached the librarian at the counter to check on a book he had on hold. He and I both looked at the summer recommended reading display in the middle of the lobby. We dragged each other to look at the nonfiction section for each of our separate interests. We flipped through an encyclopedia of fungi together, gawking at mushrooms and mold and close-ups of spores. Alex checked the flyers section for a fiber arts competition he’d heard about at the post office once and never again. I checked the flyers section for a doll exhibition I wanted to visit. We checked the physical media section for music we could copy onto our computers and move to our phones. We checked out our books. We found a cozy spot to sit, right between the reference and romance sections. We read.

Peace is easy to disturb, when it is found in a place everyone else has access to. 

After the first ten pages of a terrible novel I picked up, someone sat at one of the worktables parallel to ours. 

I looked up briefly. 

Behind Alex’s head and the remarkably large, square book he was reading, I caught sight of overstyled blonde hair. 

I promptly looked back down at the novel in my hands and hoped the stranger from Dad’s shop hadn’t seen me. 

Alex lowered his book just enough to look at me. “What is it?” He whispered. We were already whispering, it was a library after all, but this was a whisper for secrets instead of a whisper for volume. 

“Guy I met at the shop. Horrible. Don’t need to talk to him.”

He didn’t need to talk to me, either. I watched him check something out at the counter, talking just too loud with the librarian. He left promptly, leaving behind the smell of manly-scented products. 

Alex and I made eye contact. “Suppose he just recently moved in?” He asked.

“I hope not. I barely said ten words to him, and he managed to be rude throughout that whole conversation.”

“Impressive. Maybe he’s a tourist.”

“Maybe.”

Dad clapped a hand on my shoulder to greet me. I jumped, slapping my book shut. “Saav’est. Thanks for bringing me lunch, ‘Maa’ni.”

I looked up at him, shrugged. “No problem. I was going to stop by the shop anyway.”

“I thought you were going to hang out with Alex today?”

“I was. He had to go home to do more post office work.”

“He’s a busy kid.” 

Dad sat down next to me on the couch I’d migrated to—an old leather thing someone donated. “Watcha got to read?”

I held up the cover to show him. He examined it, nodded. “Seems interesting enough.”

I shrugged. “Keeps me entertained.”

He nodded again, offering no response. He didn’t need to.

I didn’t know what to do with my hands. I didn’t know what to do with my eyes. I stared straight ahead and squeezed one hand between the book’s pages. 

“It’s been a year,” I said.

I wanted him to respond. I wanted him to offer something fatherly and warm. 

Dad inhaled deeply. “The wounds will heal, but they will leave scars,” he recited. Scroll seven, chapter three: The Crow and her Chicks. 

I nodded. My vision grew foggy and wet. It didn’t feel like I’d done much healing at all, really. Every time I opened my web-mail to learn that the police had done nothing to find my mom, my mom, I was scratching the scabs on my knees.

He sat up straighter and pulled me into a one-armed hug. “We love her still.”

I nodded again.

I was seven years old. I watched my mom kiss a man I’d been reluctant to call dad in a kitchen that wasn’t familiar to me as he stirred a pot of something I had never tasted. I couldn’t remember any other kitchen, or any more familiar food. My mom smiled at me. What a wonderful man we’ve found ourselves, my ‘Maa’ni. When you cut the first syllable off my name, it meant priest-ruler in Faelic. She wasn’t religious, but she said the name suited me.

Dad clapped my shoulder again and stood. “Curry for dinner?”

“Sure. Sounds tasty.”

I was fifteen now, sitting in the same kitchen, watching the same man cook the same dish. The room felt too large without her.

My dad and I knelt in front of the stone idol we’d erected in her name behind the house. The Fae and the cicadas and the crickets sung all around us. We left an offering of a few beads, a few pieces of soap, and a bowl of curry. Dad prayed aloud for the both of us, his voice echoing into the warm, sticky night. 

I stood in a field, the same Star I’d always known reclining before me in his throne of gold and iron. The wind whipped my hair left and right, little droplets of water stinging my eyes. 

The Star grinned, took a draw from his long, thin pipe. “Your luck will come in due time, Maa’nin’en.”

I jolted awake in bed, squeezing my stuffed wolf. I groaned and rolled over to go back to sleep. Stars were so… You know. Starrish. All cryptic.

[heardofit]

Read Chapter 14 of I've Heard of It

[liangyulian]

Question for fellow translators and reader of fan translated novels, manga/manhua etc.:

Recently I've been working on translating Chinese webnovels, I haven't posted anything yet but it's been a lot of fun and I look forward to sharing stories I really enjoy with others out there. My question is for both translators and readers I suppose.

When it comes to translating and reading how much of the original format, wording, sentence patterns etc. do you use?

I enjoy adding in footnotes and diving into cultural things like idioms and metaphors, and in general I think it's always better to stay true to those to try and keep the authors original ideas and wording. I think it gives a unique opportunity for readers to learn about another culture and language.

But there is a big difference between basically MTL cleaned up to be readable and really going through and editing. Like, if it were a gradient scale and on one side is MTL and the other is fully revamped and Anglicized how do you find your comfortable middle point? Both for the reader, and for yourself, a translator who wants to stay true to the author and story but also deliver a smooth reading experience?

Am I making sense? Does anyone else have this problem??? Have I completely gone insane???

[rosabienfuerte]

[auraboo]

14: A night of three moons

Destiny, writ in flames. Love, forged with blood.

Genre: high fantasy, romance, LGBT/queer Keywords: enemies to lovers, slowburn, m/m, drama, adventure Rating: for mature audiences (+18) Release schedule: every other Wednesday

Ren’i smiled, ignoring his tone. The music flowed through him; he felt the beat of the drums and the accordions in his blood like the beating of a second heart. It seemed to whisper its encouragement right in his ear.

”Why are you cooped up over here all by yourself? Isn’t this supposed to be a joyful occasion?” Ren’i spread his arms. ”You ought to be dancing just like everyone else.”

”I don’t dance.”

”That’s what I said, too, but your cousin decided otherwise.” His grin widened. ”Or don’t you know how? I think I’ve got it figured out now. I could teach you.”

Hawk had just taken a sip from his half-empty tankard and felt himself choking on the drink.

”Are you trying to suggest that…” He saw the answer in Ren’i’s eyes. Hells be damned, he was completely sincere. ”You’re not serious. Me? With you?”

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[veliseraptor]

Lise's (New) Incomplete Webnovel Reading List (In No Particular Order)

Liu Huo Jian Chou/Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire (in progress, 73/137+extras) by priest

Yuwu/Remnants of Filth by Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat (in progress, 97/214+extras)

Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script by Teng Luo Wei Zhi (107/131+extras)

Mo Du/Silent Reading by priest (111/180+extras)

Jing Wei Qing Shang/A Clear and Muddy Loss of Love by Please Don’t Laugh (reread)

Men Ren Jian/The Beauty’s Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu

Married Thrice to Salted Fish by Bikabi

How to Survive as a Villain by Yi Yi Yi Yi

[danmeichael]

What type of BL did SY read in his past life

pidw fanfic.

[wishhalcyon]

Please read my book it's called halcyon and its free!

To convince you to read my book im now going to make its name dumb and stupid

hal cyan

Haley crumpet

hoogleCyanide

HunkhunkCrunkle

Hahaclaynay

heenklebinkle

hehescrinkle

its about pathetic dirty rabbit superheroine and the supervillain prettyboy who will sob lie and bribe and murder if it means she keeps going to therapy, while his friends and loved ones insist she is mostly a feral animal that is going to kill him with knives

also if you want it in like differnet format just ask (like pdf or like, book ..file things for e readers)

[gerbiefarted]

ATTENTION GOOBERS!!!!!! LEFTOVER CHAPTER ONE IS COMPLETE!!!!!!!! READ NOW:

[mycorrhizastar]

Earthshine has updated!

There's always a bigger fish.

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

okay since my ability to focus is shot to hell ill just make a list of chapters i want to jump straight to when the webnovel drops ✌️ in order of priority

Ch 58: the duo visit tesilid in detention/prison/whatever during tutorial period.

i need to see with my own eyes if hestio's lines were retconned by irinbi later on or something. and then put a comment in the comic version telling people to visit this novel chapter.

Ch 53: convo w cartelyena.

i need to know what verb they used to describe tesilid's reaction.

Ch 28-29: The duo's banter in toy mansion.

please i need to know how to capture their voice PSPSPSPSPSPSPS

wait this just turned into "i'm just going to update my vatican trio line spreadsheet" LOL. tbf those are the parts i'm more concerned about in the tutorial era. unfortunately i think the release day chapters will probably only reach around chapter 50+ max, which would just be the end of season 1 😔 it won't even cover the top 2 chaps i want to check out orz.

[heardofit]

Read Chapter 15 of I've Heard of It

[noblesvacation]

A Gentle Noble's Manga Update

IT'S HEEEEERREEE THE OTHER ARC I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Last chapter ended with a shadowy preview of this time's major player, and this chapter we finally got a peek at my favorite Guy You Haven't Met Yet! Only a peek, though! He's not even all the way on screen!

Lizel and co. made it to the noble's banquet part of the festival, escorted by Viscount Ray! What will happen on the brand new battle stage of aristocracy?! It's not new to Lizel!

[ge]

rotmhs shouldve been a danmei/baihe cuz if it were we'd never have to worry about these types of comments brah.. biga why have you forsaken us..

[townofslumber]

Just some rope and a lid is all you really need.

Partly Cloudy

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