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

[swoown]

Hi! I have been lurking around on this site for a little while now and am so amazed by the vast amounts of information and activity going around.

I have for many years been in the general BL sphere (Thai, Korean, Japanese) and Danmei, but after reading some snippets of Baihe novels I decided to try and fully get into the waters of the genre:) I am personally a big hurt/comfort person, but have a equally big love of slice-of-life and mystery/adventure stories. As long as there is good character development and an intriguing relationship to invest myself in, I'm mostly open to anything (although I have a very very difficult relationship with tragedies and sad endings...)

Besides my personal interest in the genre, I am at the moment about to start writing my BA project, which will be about Baihe novels. I am not Chinese (I'm from the cold, sad Scandinavia), but I'm a 6. semester Chinastudies student, and recently realised that it is incredibly difficult to find literature about the genre, so I hope to learn more about the genre, its "canon" works and the general themes before fully starting the work:) Of course I don't mean to bring in unrelated topics to this community, but simply to learn from other fans and enjoy the works! Any recommendations or advice on "starter" works is greatly welcomed, and I hope to be able to appreciate the genre even more soon!

[douqi]

Hello and welcome to the comm! You could check out the baihe novels resource post here for an introduction to the genre, and my best stab at what I think are key works and authors (not authoritative, of course). We're also doing a read-along of Ning Yuan's ongoing historical cyberpunk novel (starting here), which may hit some of your hurt/comfort buttons). And of course feel free to look around and post any thoughts, reviews or meta you may have!