Name: Eternities Still Unsaid Till You Love Me #欲言难止 #BoundlessUtterance #danmei #bl #omegaverse #novel #haitang #alphaxalpha
Art for the AD of Eternities Still Unsaid Till You Love Me #endlessechoes #欲言难止 #BoundlessUtterance #danmei #bl #omegaverse #novel #haitang #alphaxalpha
Another kind of #Pride parade: diaspora activists protesting against the crackdown of #haitang/ BL writers in China. Queering authoritarianism transnationally
the BBC picked up the #Haitang #海棠文学 story, redacting early reports of 200+ arrests down to about 30 authors at least some still in custody: "A lawyer offering free legal advice said more than 150 requested consultations…[they] had not been charged yet" but already afraid www.bbc.com/news/article...
#China is cracking down on young women who write #danmei & #haitang
« They’ve flourished as uniquely female spaces, though they centre male protagonists.
In a culture where female sexual desire is routinely policed, danmei became a creative outlet - a space where women can write about female […]
On Chinese social media, people have accused police of "offshore fishing" — a phrase that refers to local police who have allegedly summoned suspects from other parts of the country for questioning for financial gain. The phrase "offshore fishing" was censored last week on social media platforms in China, including Weibo and WeChat.
[Censorship, danmei authors’ arrests]
Of course it was. 😫
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/police-i... via @wayofcloudbrain.bsky.social
#Haitang #FreeWritersOfHaitang #danmei #ChineseLiterature
Name: Eternities Still Unsaid Till You Love Me #欲言难止 #BoundlessUtterance #danmei #bl #omegaverse #novel #haitang #alphaxalpha
A long and good article about the most recent sweep of Haitang danmei authors: freewriters-haitang.github.io/english/posts/000030-liy...
Information page in English, Chinese and Japanese, with many writers’ accounts of arrest and interrogation […]
Haitang Literature is a Chinese-language website specializing in explicit yaoi fiction, with some of the contents restricted for paying readers. Since June 2024, many authors on the site have stopped updating and gone missing. Due to the opacity of the police system and the absence of media coverage, the public only became aware of the situation after the authors and their families came forward with their statement of what happened to them. It was then revealed that over fifty authors had been detained by the Anhui provincial police, under the pretense “compose and spread obscene materials illegally”. In the end, some of them were even sentenced to one to five years in prison. This appalling news only attracted brief attention on Chinese social media. Although BBC China and a few independent outlets reported on the issue, no in-depth investigations were conducted. Most of the authors pleaded guilty and paid fines in hopes of receiving lighter sentences. On June 1, 2025, news broke that a second wave of so-called “deep-sea fishing” (a trans-regional policing campaign) was initiated by Lanzhou Police. This time, the crackdown extended beyond profit-making adult-content authors to include non-profit writers and even those who had never published explicit material. Police summoned readers based on their payment records from the site, then used their reading histories to trace IP addresses and identify the writers for further interrogation. This constitutes a grave violation of freedom of expression and personal privacy, and is a blatant breach of procedural justice. It was also revealed that those young women were sexually harassed during the questioning, which caused severe secondary trauma to them.
Mainland China is home to many brilliant content creators. If we fail to protect their freedom to create — and their freedom from fear — it will be a profound loss to our community. If we cannot grant the freedom to write, then we cannot grant the freedom to think, to act according to our will, or to love whomever we choose. It is a human right to create and share explicit erotic fiction. And it is the calling of our time to allow the desires of women—and of people across the spectrum of sexualities—to be written, expressed, and seen. Please, acknowledge this injustice. Stand with our creators. Protect their voices. To stay informed, follow us on Fediverse/Mastodon: @Phoenix093@mastodon.social Instagram: @freewritersofhaitang Website: https://freewriters-haitang.github.io If you wish to join our campaign, you could also send an E-mail to: p.fictionishumanright@gmail.com
while its information about mxtx is still controversial/debated, this new site is useful abt the #Haitang #海棠文学 arrests with several articles/ways to stay informed—makes me wonder if it isn't possible to try to get @peninternational.bsky.social involved? surely they would care about 200-300 arrests?
Name: Eternities Still Unsaid Till You Love Me #欲言难止 #BoundlessUtterance #danmei #bl #omegaverse #novel #haitang #alphaxalpha
This week, @lolalandscape.bsky.social celebrates the opening of #Haitang River Eco-Park #Sanya. This ambitious project transforms 10 kilometers riverfront into a flourishing tropical #ecologicalcorridor. #parkdesign
Read more: www.lola.land/2025/04/18/opening-haitang-river-eco-park
Client: CR Land
Name: Eternities Still Unsaid Till You Love Me #欲言难止 #BoundlessUtterance #danmei #bl #omegaverse #novel #haitang #alphaxalpha