~Hot: ahhhhh MDZS! I enjoyed the novel quite a bit. Unfortunately it blew up way too much and the Chinese fandom got really problematic and scary... Which kinda put a damper on the franchise for me D:
The story itself is a very good one though!

~Deb: honestly at this point I'm pretty sure I'm aro (at least to a degree). I just can't seem to value romance the way others do.
Like you said, it's the strawberry on the cake, I can totally do without it, and to me the off chance of getting a nice strawberry isn't worth the trouble of trying bleh strawberries XD

Ain't nothing wrong with being aromantic. Or asexual for that matter.
The world takes all kinds of people.

I am not either of those. I'm like the opposite. I am very romantic and sexual. lol. Sometimes I wish I wasn't quite so much because it really does take up a lot of time and energy.


I don't know what MDZS is.

MDZS stands for Mo Dao Zu Shi, which translates to "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation". It's a really famous online BL novel in China. It got adapted to an anime and even live-action in recent years!

If you're into fantasy/drama/mystery/romance, I'd highly recommend it :) The anime is easy to get into, the novel has good free translations online too, the live action has mixed reviews though

Interesting. I do like me some BL. Especially fantasy!

I thought that the censorship was super bad in China? Like don't they censor any gayness?

Oh yeah they do, they very much do.

Online novels get away with it because it's not officially published, so it kind of gets away from the government control.

However the anime and live action which are both officially broadcasted both got the romance cut off lol... BUT screenwriters have gotten very good at doing Subtext and hints to slither the gay in

Censorship annoys me so much. I hate it.

I like trigger and content warnings, but anything more than that is awful. It makes me so mad hearing about things people wanted to make and then seeing what actually happened. Ugh.

China is very f***ed up, ngl

I'm honestly so so so grateful and glad that I was able to leave at a young age to not grow up brainwashed.


Not long ago mainland China did this media/celebrity purge and I think now they're not allowed to make anymore BL live action adaptations at all D:

Lots of places are super fucked up.

I'm glad you were able to get out too!
Is that why your parents moved? Because of the government?

Like they literally made people leave? That's super intense.

Not really? Mostly it was for me to have a better future. The education competition in China is insane. You can work until you puke and still not get anywhere because everything is corrupt one way or another.

From what I know of the recent media thing, a lot of celebrities got blacklisted for things like "disrespecting the country" and BL adaptations got stopped for being "problematic"? It's a really really complicated thing, because the entertainment industry in China got crazy warped in recent years too... so this isn't completely just due to government censorship //sighs

Off topic: What eyes are you wearing?


That's nice. I always love hearing about families working hard to make sure their kid has a better future.
Oh, I think that I have heard about that!

Weird. I wonder what they're supposed to do now if they're not allowed to act.