Introductions

[douqi]

Comment on this post to tell us a little about yourself! What got you interested in baihe/GL media in the first place, which works or what kinds of media you're most interested in, and your fanfic, fan art, fanvids and fan translations!

Comments

[meikuree]

I recently found this community and am glad it exists! Thanks for your hard work with translations too. watched bits of Legend of Yunze via 云起志’s channel and would love to dip my toes into Nv Er Hong sometime and other webnovels.

I don’t remember a clear moment I got into 百合 media, but I started watching/reading yuri at an impressionable age, so baihe felt like a natural jump due to occasional fandom overlaps. That aside I’ve enjoyed Qiu Miaojin/邱妙津’s books (I own the original Chinese text for Notes of A Crocodile) and have done occasional Chinese -> English translations, largely for fic. I’d love to do more, I’m unfortunately just kneecapped by time and Life.

My tastes tend towards “dark”, edgier femslash, including stuff that falls under the dirtybadwrong umbrella, but I’m also very omnivorous. 90% of the fic I write is f/f, haha. I’m very intrigued by your review of Dynasty of Beasts!

[douqi]

Hello and welcome to the community! Fic translations are very cool and valuable (and I think often overlooked by the community). There's definitely a subgenre of baihe authors who specialise in the dark stuff. If you'd like to post a review here of any baihe you've read, please feel absolutely free to do so. Dynasty of Beasts was... an interesting experience. Would recommend if you'd like to just wallow in depravity and amorality and angst.

I'd also at some point be interested in knowing what you think are the overlaps between yuri and baihe, as a watcher/reader of both. I've had very little exposure to yuri personally, but I have a definite sense that the two genres are in conversation with each other to some degree, so it would be great to learn more.