/lit/ - Literature

>>23026654
the only solution is to switch to danmei xanxia

>>22503146

>>21747957
I never meant to, but I developed an unhealthy obsession with xianxia danmei. I have always hated romance, so now I am deeply confused and shaken in my faith in myself.

>>21617706

>>21481715
I hated romance until I read danmei xianxia. now I'm hooked on the bullshit. I hate that I love it.

>hate romance novels my whole life
>some anon mentions Heaven Official's Blessing
>be bored so check it out
>get hooked on danmei xianxia
>blush when I think of how romantic the characters are together
>coo when I see cute fanart of characters together
>it's not going away

Damn you, anon, damn you to hell.

>>21301490
only danmei, but the translations are always so goddamn awkward

>>21248359
>depends on what you want. I got recs for a lot of shit, but it better be gay. The last one I read was "Better Things to Do with a Flute in Wartime" which was 300k+ words of hardcore gay xianxia sex. Very good.
Unironically wanted to branch into gay shit out of interest if romance and sex scenes are better written than in self-pub harems and erotica books. Thanks for the rec, anon. Will welcome more stuff, even gay stuff (Fantasy/Sci-fi setting prefered). Preferably written by men, not women.
By the way, how big is the reader base for gay smut? It appears to be abysmaly small from what I've seen.

>>20861394
>how is it that nearly every chinese webnovel mc by in large do not know the principle of enlightened self-interest and often upon being transmigrated, will immediately abandon any form of morality and inflict upon a foreign world the terrors of Chinese negotiation. i don’t know how to describe it, but the dickish way these protagonists act is uniquely Chinese, as in if you saw a person acting like them in real life, 9/10 it would be a chinaman.
>is China’s sense of morality and culture that alien to someone raised in the West?
China is - quite literally - dog eat dog country. People can't even help each other if someone gets hurt in a road accident because people tend to sue you for helping in a wrong way, so people just don't help. Communism fuckem them hard and did what it often does - turns the human's paradigm onto materialism, thus making people looking down on spiritualism and morality. Of course, the local traditions and attitude has a lot of influence how the consequences play out, Russia today is not that much different mentally than 200 years ago, just without its spiritual balance.

Not to mention the counterculture is always made up of artists, and its artists that create art. And what's the mainstream in China? National capitalism controlled bu an authoritharian regime. No wonder Chinese artists slander communal ideas, authority and venerate individualism, even extreme one. Stuff like this influenced Ayan Rand's Atlas Shrugged - she wanted to write anti-thesis to what she experienced in USSR. In that way Reverend Insanity and Atlas Shrugged share its purpose in spirit, both were written from the same attitude and experiences.

Cultivations is at its core extremely individualistic, and as most writers copy world-building 1:1, having to steal from others to become greater themselves due to resource scarcity and zero-sum game is a constant theme in the genre.

>>20301032