Oh, it's not hard unless you don't actually believe that about us...so. We know now what she believes.

& we *will* reach a point where the mark of quality is human again. We apparently just have to live through this exhausting shite first. You ARE a great journalist & writer and you WILL find somewhere that that matters & is recognised. Grit teeth, engage spite-based survival mode. 💪

FRIEND working in publishing rn is fucking BLEAK, the CEOs are so in thrall to this dystopian bullshit & I'm tired, tired, TIRED. My condolences for this entire shitty process. Keep your courage up by whatever fucking means necessary, this IS a stupid bubble

Happy birthday!!! Have a lovely trip 🫶🫶🫶

STUNNING.

4/4

Here is Lu Zhixing laoshi with Xiao Zhan back in 2020 🥹❤️

#XiaoZhan肖战
#TheUntamed/ #CQL
#cdrama

Thank you so much! I'd managed to see up to 10 at the time, but now have 11&12 too. Very grateful 🙏🙏

I mean I'm just an editor but if working for publishing companies (none of those mentioned in this thread, different sector) for 15 years has taught me anything, it's that if publishers can pull some embarrassingly cheap and/or exploitative bullshit, they will.

Amnesty? Not sure what they'd actually *do* to help tho :/
Also, probably stupid/paranoid on my part, but if 7S etc publicly state that they *have* remunerated authors properly (hmm...), could that provide 'proof' for arrests on espionage/foreign collusion charges for those authors/translators? :s

motivated for organisations like PEN to take up? Argh :/

the majority of danmei writers have been arrested on charges related to taking money for their writing? (Not saying that's the *real* concern motivating the arrests ofc.) And clearly they did the depressingly familiar tax trick on MXTX. Suspect this may make the cases less clear-cut as politically

Looking at PEN's open cases for China, the charges for the imprisoned writers are "seditious publications", "colluding with foreign forces", "espionage", "inviting subversion of state power", "inciting secession", "separatism", "endangering state security". I'm probably wrong but I think I read that

Ah yep I see, totally fair. It'd be good to know.