Don't know if anyone does here. But figured there's enough drama fans to worth an ask.

Trying to find raw, but the sites that I find are all pay walled. Like, they seriously paywall their long fics. You get 50 chapters free! But pay to read the next 100.

Forget getting published for money like Twilight. You can earn money directly for fanfics.

So looking for help to try and find long fics I can throw through translators that aren't paywalled.

hmmm I can ask my friend who writes 'em in mandarin if she posts elsewhere

kikibug13: Ohhhhhh that would be awesome. I have heard of faloo and jxx something something, but I think both are paywalled. Qidian... Maybe?

I know someone has asked me if they may tl my fic to mandarin on lofter

Lofter and weibo, but that's like Tumblr and I was hoping something more organized like AO3

but that was a while back

(I wrote to her earlier with amused reaction on joy of life s2 and when she answers, I'll poke)

Yeah, lofter are individual like Tumblr, so searching that would be a pain for someone who isn't fluent.

Ohhhhh, reminds me I need to rewatch 1 and finally watch 2.

Been thinking about that, but still in a Shao Nian Ge Xing feels so didn't want to switch shows yet

joy of life so goooood

Does 2 leave on a cliff too?

I'm not there yet, I'm at ep 5 or 6 still

Oh... Thought you're done

nup the boy and I watch an ep with dinner so it's taking our time

Ohhh, then yeah. If you're not bingeing, that'll be a while.

it's worth savoring

I just want to know if it ends as bad a cliff as last time so I'll be prepared. Lol

I mean.... it depends on how much of the story it covers. If there wil be a s3, probably

Yeah, pretty sure they already announced season 3 back even when they were doing season 2

kikibug13: did your friend end up answering?

not yet, she might be busy, her roommate had covid last

Oh noes!

we were in Tibet together when the roommate got it (back in sgp) so she should be on the mend but

and she just got back to me
it's not organized and there is a lot of censorship

(which is probably why it's not organized)

Yeah, I heard about that, the censorship. People are taking pictures of their story then flipping the png upside down in order to get past it, I heard.

Makes it hopeless for translations

yeah

Though I'm not looking for saucy fics, just not paywalled large gen fics.

they may still be subject to censorship thanks to social criticism

Which is sad because there's some really good writers in their language and it's not the same at all compared to AO3

yeah

So where does your friend look for fics?

she didn't say but I'll guess the same places you do

Ah wells. Thanks.