Sha Po Lang 杀破狼 (Stars of Chaos) ch 12,
in which poor Shen Yi expresses how he really feels about working with Gu Yun:
他心道:“打从我上了姓顾的贼船那天开始,就没摊上过好事。”
He said in his heart / he thought: “Ever since the day I got on board that Gu’s pirate ship, nothing good has happened to me.”
(No, Gu Yun is not a pirate. He’s commander in chief of all the military forces in the nation. But Shen Yi consistently considers him to be a stinky pirate.)
I love how in Chinese there’s this construction, 姓顾的 “surnamed Gu,” which is wonderfully specific and concise and terribly derogatory. “That person is so terrible that it’s not even worth it to say his full name, much less any honorifics.”
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So, a rant and a request for advice before I begin my dreadfully important hunt/research:
I’ve been loving the WeComics app, originally for reading Mo Dao Zu Shi in English (before I improved and trusted my Chinese), then for a bunch of other Chinese and translated-from-Chinese manhua. I’ve barely been on tumblr recently because I’ve been head-over-heels in love with 化龙记.
And then I noticed that 化龙记 is also in English on the app as “Tale of Dragon Morph”, so I open it up and, Lo and Behold, there is more/new chapter-header art! And so many more panels that help explain the flow of the plot — it makes sense now!
But as I read the English version, I notice that it’s Missing Scenes. Useful, important scenes that help with Character Development and Logical Flow.
What’s up with these manhua? Why are there different missing scenes in each language? Is it just WeComics?
Is there a manhua app out there that is Complete?!?!?
Help!!!
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Grumpy follow-up: WeComics is being taken over by WebNovel, which doesn’t appear to have Any manhua at All 😠.
And KuaiKanManHua is typically censored. No cute images of one character washing another’s back, no super-useful panels showing how the protagonist escapes his lecherous captor’s bedroom. Nope.
Sigh. I will keep searching.
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if only priest wrote fanfic, i would totally eat it up 🥹
the 7s translators for spl and guardian have mentioned pipi editing the manuscript for physical eng publication before tho! this would explain why there's so much discrepancy between the online pirated version you're reading and the official eng print
https://x[.]com/lily_ocho/status/1560892610570379270
https://x[.]com/yuka_cchii/status/1696468355836764257
AH! Thank you!! That makes sense.
I rather prefer the online pirated version, probably since I lived in that book for, like, ❤️a year❤️, but I guess that makes sense.
I'll slow the complaining in my annotations, I guess. Sigh. Priest, this is all your fault. 🥰
(Is "pipi" = Priest?)
every day people tell me that the untamed is good, i’ve seen the first episode, stop gaslighting me
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I love this so much, thank you!😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The story is progressing!!!
“muttered into... ear" in Chinese here is 咬耳朵道, "bite ear said." Totally lets you know where Gu Yun is when he's talking to Tan Hongfei, yah?
Chinese for the entire 长庚 quote: 可惜没有长花容月貌,掷果盈车的大帅不肯要。
花容月貌 - flower appearance moon appearance (it sounds good in Chinese, trust me)
掷果盈车 - throw fruit fill carriage. There was this famously beautiful man name 潘安 Pan An (247-300 AD) who was so famously beautiful that when women saw his carriage coming, they would link hands and slow it down just to get a peak at him, and then they would throw flowers and fruit at him in appreciation, so that by the time he got home, his carriage was full of fruit and flowers. Famous Chinese Beauties <3
启明 Qiming -- Pleco: "Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn"
混账. Pleco: Noun. Vulgar. "scoundrel; bastard; son of a bitch"
But you can't say the latter two to Chang Geng, and I don't want to talk about body parts like that between Gu Yun and Chang Geng, so I think we should all read this as "Unreasonable Impudent Scoundrel."
And that's it! I hope you enjoyed learning about heel ropes and pills of immortality and historically significant hotness with me. I learn huge amounts of (Chinese and) Chinese culture every time I pick up a Priest book, and I hope you all can enjoy it as much as I do.
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More little clarifications and one little rant.
(Lan Wangji wouldn’t use that many words if he could help it :)
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Hold on. I appreciate the beautiful illustration, but you’re illustrating to me that Wen Qing, a trained doctor fully prepared to do a 30+ hour surgery, decided to just lay her patient out on the ground in the open? No tent, no table, no water? No reliable light source?
And where in the world is Jiang Cheng!?!?