new teaser! looks like a bodyswap + rebirth situation (which is very mini-drama-coded). should be airing some time in may

that would be so CUTE 😍

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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omg the WHO THE HELL IS WU XIE mug

awh she wants to draw too!

i feel like this could be a really top quality BE

i was going to shout 'read 时光' with me but that is definitely not lighthearted, whimsical or fun

every baihe crime thriller since 2019 lives in the shadow of miss forensics

SADLY the current entry for this novel on novelupdates links to a 'translation' by a grifting MTL/AI mill that can't even get the title translation right

Promotional art for the audio drama adaptation of Miss Profiler. Zhao Yu, in a police uniform, and Liu Huisheng, in a suit, stand side by side looking out at the viewer

Promotional art for the audio drama adaptation of Miss Profiler. Zhao Yu and Liu Huisheng stand under a wishing tree with red ribbons hanging from its branches. Liu Huisheng is kissing Zhao Yu's forehead

New (afaict, human) baihe fan translation currently serialising! This is crime thriller Miss Profiler (侧写师小姐) by Wu Man Qing Shan (雾漫青山), being translated by Berps

🔗 read here: hurpdurpburpstranslations.wordpress.com/tl-directory...

Cover image for Calming the Wind and the Waves (JJWXC version)

Review: Calming the Wind and the Waves (定风波) by Yu Huan (于欢), billed as a serious historical baihe novel with political themes which, for me, was a letdown

🔗 review here: baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/82479.html (spoilers, obvs)

Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return.

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Then Shen Ni doubled over, clutching at her stomach. ‘My lady wife!’ she wailed in the most heart-wrenching tones. That wail had been rather too convincing. For a moment, Bian Jin found herself wondering whether Shen Ni was genuinely in pain. ‘What’s the matter?’ she asked, striding forward to hold Shen Ni steady. The maids in the courtyard looked over at them quizzically. Shen Ni, still pressing one hand to her stomach, reached up with her fother hand and gripped hold of Bian Jin’s arm. She sagged against Bian Jin, as if her strength had suddenly given out. Her face was deathly pale, her lips clamped tightly together. ‘My stomach, it hurts so much…’ she murmured.

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Bian Jin put her arms around Shen Ni, allowing Shen Ni to cling to her. ‘You haven’t been poisoned, have you?’ Shen Ni lifted her head in dismay. ‘Poisoned?’ she gasped. My lord marquess, Bian Jin wanted to tell her, don’t you think you’re taking your performance just a little too far?

Chapter 37 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(Shen Ni fucks around some more, Bian Jin indulges her)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/04/10/t...

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Li Si had dropped into a sitting position beside Dou Xuanji, one of her hands braced palm-down on the ground. Whether by accident or by design, she’d placed it in exactly the right spot for Dou Xuanji’s to rest on. Her other hand was balanced across her bent knees. ‘You blind fool,’ she called out to Han Fu. When she heard that insult, Fang Pan’s breath froze in her chest. She barely dared to draw another one. Han Fu turned her face slightly in Li Si’s direction. Li Si had produced a black revolver from somewhere on her person and was spinning it round and round in a practised manner with her free hand. ‘You blind fool,’ she repeated. ‘Don’t you know how many lives she saved today, all by herself? If not for her, there’s no telling how many soldiers and townsfolk from the Eastern Market would have been lost. And yet you call her a weakling? Is your mind as blind as your eyes?’

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Dou Xuanji had recovered enough strength to sit up on her own. In a weak, halting voice she said, ‘I gave my life to the Lijing Bureau — to the Director — a long time ago. There’s no need for you to interfere.’ Li Si, who’d won every bit of her fame and renown through her own efforts, had never known what unquestioning obedience meant. When she realised the full depth of Dou Xuanji’s submission to a woman who did not care a single whit for her, a faint ache stirred in her chest, and the harsh lines of her face softened. ‘You poor little puppy,’ she said.

Li Si and Dou Xuanji have an Interaction

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Now she was even less inclined to attend court. All she wanted was to curl up at home with her shijie. She glanced at her watch again. The notification wasn’t for an online assembly — Li Ruoyuan was requiring her ministers to attend in person. That meant she had to dress in her court robes, make her way to the throne room, and waste her time putting on a show of collegiality for that flock of whitebeards. And what was more — Prince Wei, whose home had been so unceremoniously destroyed in yesterday’s attack, was bound to be spoiling for a fight with her. Shen Ni wondered how many different shades of purple his arrogant, vulgar face would turn if she didn’t show up.

shen ni: what do you MEAN i have to come into the office? i thought it was a wfh day!

Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We Return.

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Then Shen Ni doubled over, clutching at her stomach. ‘My lady wife!’ she wailed in the most heart-wrenching tones. That wail had been rather too convincing. For a moment, Bian Jin found herself wondering whether Shen Ni was genuinely in pain. ‘What’s the matter?’ she asked, striding forward to hold Shen Ni steady. The maids in the courtyard looked over at them quizzically. Shen Ni, still pressing one hand to her stomach, reached up with her fother hand and gripped hold of Bian Jin’s arm. She sagged against Bian Jin, as if her strength had suddenly given out. Her face was deathly pale, her lips clamped tightly together. ‘My stomach, it hurts so much…’ she murmured.

Extract from Chapter 37 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: Bian Jin put her arms around Shen Ni, allowing Shen Ni to cling to her. ‘You haven’t been poisoned, have you?’ Shen Ni lifted her head in dismay. ‘Poisoned?’ she gasped. My lord marquess, Bian Jin wanted to tell her, don’t you think you’re taking your performance just a little too far?

Chapter 37 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up!

(Shen Ni fucks around some more, Bian Jin indulges her)

🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/04/10/t...

Our Kickstarter for ‘Orlando’ by @julesscheele.bsky.social just went live! We’re so excited about this stunning adaption of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel.
Order your copy of the book, and see what excellent kickstarter exclusives are on offer too!

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happy birthday niq!! this is such a fun idea! and hope you have a wonderful day ❤️🎂

Flyer with a painting by guoldu of a goat and trees. text reads: April 9th until May 9th @ Midnight PST. Guoldu's Birthday ART RAFFLE. 100% of all funds raised donated to Black Food Sovereignty Coalition.

It's my birthday & I'm hosting an Art Raffle starting now, it'll go until May 9th! I'd love to have you join in! 😍

100% of what we raise will be sent to Black Food Sovereignty Coalition, a non-profit org doing amazing work here in Portland OR.

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A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

so happy for you!! hope recovery goes well

oh god i really hope it's a rumour too 🙏

they what

From the DanmeiNovels community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the DanmeiNovels community

the latest round of danmei translation discourse! specifically, whether a character's name should be spelled with a space between the two syllables or not. it has... escalated. here's an overview: www.reddit.com/r/DanmeiNove...

so STOKED for one of the things i've realised i'll be able to do for this

current events rapidly proving my hypothetical strategy right

holding up my 'pls don't make me have to defend 7seas' sign

'whatever yuer's mom says' is probably the most authoritative option atp

two people in robes, one partially see through laying on each other in a gigantic field of fallen petals.

Red
Part 2 of the Spooky birthday celebration!

#lyf #guolduart #Xiaoyao #Cangxuan

150 SGD???

also if your route to settlement is tied to 10, 15 years or more: ain't nobody guaranteeing you a job that long. in the current job market people are going to have to factor in at least one, maybe two layoffs and a new job scramble into their "how do i do this" plans. the government is a clown car