Wow. People have bought my books from Smashwords. Thank you. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n
You don’t understand the spell I’m under to these Chinese novels. (It’s some kind of obsessive disorder \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f. Once I start something, I’ve got<\/em> to finish, even if it completely derails everything else.)<\/p>\n The thing about the Chinese novels is that I’m enjoying them through a (somewhat shady) machine translation site one chapter at a time. For like 1200+ times -_-; for some stories.<\/p>\n So I’ve got to constantly go to the next page and restart my read-to-me function. It’s a bit inconvenient.<\/p>\n And also, I keep emphasizing "Chinese novels" because the settings relate to Chinese culture, whether past, present, or alternate universe. And I don’t speak or read the Chinese language, so the novels are machine translated, which means there’s usually (a lot) of Engrishu happening.<\/p>\n And it’s fine. I’m not angry. I’m enjoying Chinese novels and there’s a price of convenience to be paid. It’s just that I’m having to listen to them at 1x speed rather that my usual 4x. And it’s because the language issues means I have to concentrate more on absorbing content…<\/p>\n I find Chinese novels to be more understandable than Japanese novels(, and manga are the most easy to understand. And then animes show the most<\/em> understandable content.). There’s a bigger gap in culture?<\/p>\n Like, nobody<\/em> is cutting off my fingers. Or any other part of my body.<\/p>\n For reals: Why would you work for a boss that would permanently disable you? Like, you’ve watched the dude murder-death-kill dozens of people (some your own men!) and while you never want to think that you’ll fuck up like that… events transpire.<\/p>\n Plus, in a lot of movies, it turns out to be their own kid or their coworker’s kid starting a series of events that the person is then drawn into. Stuff they get punished for not stopping happen.<\/p>\n Like, when your boss has a history of brutally punishing people to protect their (usually adult-)child: Why would you work for that person?<\/p>\n That is a person lacking in social conscience.<\/p>\n Which means they’ll maybe feel a little remorse 50 years later… While in the moment they’ll make "the hard" decision. That’s a kind of person you don’t want to work for.<\/p>\n I mean, that kind of person is bad enough in everyday life. Having that person as your boss? In some way in charge of your access to money? Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"