Mild Rant

[cashew]

Lofter's censorship is immensely brainless. Apparently, pointing out that being "emotionally hurt" by an athlete who could not play due to injury and seeing this as some kind of personal slight against the fan is immensely stupid behavior is considered "too confrontational".

WTF even? I'm suddenly reminded of why I went off of Lofter. This is getting to be Tumblr's level of stupid "discourse".

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In other news, second day of New Year's is definitely less cool. Also, do not feel like I've had a holiday when I worked through most of it. I would facepalm, but I did this to myself, so...

Comments

[cashew]

Crashing and burning in the business sense. Flaming garbage fire of fandom wankery was just the default state, I think. Of course, it doesn't help that peddling conspiracy theories a huge thing on the platform. And yes, Douyin's straight up illiterate. I guess the semi-illiterate prefers to lecture to the illiterate to feel like they're big wigs or something.

China's intranet is just one giant mess. This is why I VPN onto the actual internet.

I couldn't get much use out of jjwxc. I tried looking for stuff there, but the fandoms I was looking into are really poorly represented and I literally find more Chinese stuff on Ao3 than I can on jjwxc. I really don't understand how Chinese web novels took off when it's censored so heavily and thus everything is just bland paste all the time. Your descriptions do not improve my impression. 😂 It's a shame things are the way they are, but I'll shut up for now in case the VPN is being hacked or something.

[tanithryudo]

AO3 is more for fanfic. I go there for all the R and NC-17 rated Star Rail fics. >.>

jjwxc I go more for original fiction works. But its search function is horrible and has no decent internal rec function. The way I find fics there is that I see stories recommended on other places like douban or weibo, or in the author notes / comments section of other stories I liked, and then look for good stories that way. It's a pain, but there's really no better way to navigate the place.

[cashew]

I shouldn't be surprised that there's Star Rail fic and yet...

Yeah, trying to use the jjwxc search was pretty much impossible. I guess you just have to know the right places to look to find stuff, much like how back in the days of LJ or webrings, when everyone made giant fic rec lists because the fic have been scattered across personal journals and communities. Makes me appreciate Ao3 even more.

(Suddenly flashing back to us reading HP fic at your place during uni. What were we even doing? LOL.)