Good job on another enjoyable read! Thanks a great deal. However, regarding the earliest/most popular Neiyu RPS, I beg to differ. No one knew PDA better than the Bo-Bo (井柏然 and 付辛博）at the time and geez they had a massive CPFan base, and some of their heartbreaks and dramas even sustained into 2023 in their implicit competition(?) on being casted in 耽改 web series.
Nice! Btw, the NiF fandom has a ton of amazing fics on ao3, some of them ginormously long, a lot of them in Chinese. One is apparently so well known that someone is currently translating it! (倾国 https://archiveofourown.org/works/35125336)
I loved this article! I'm a foreign danmei fan who discovered danmei through the release of CQL on Netflix, and since my Chinese is still not goid enough to get into the fandom, it's really awesome to see that you're writing about it in English. Thank you so much!
Moreover, I remembered there were vaguely some years before the term 同人 acquired its popularity, RPS and fictional male-male ships shortly borrowed the word 王道 as a label during mid 00s. Maybe you can look into it if feeling archaeological sometime.
Sorry for ranting in the comment section. I just really enjoyed your writings for that I think it’s exactly what this time needs but rarely talked about.
Good job on another enjoyable read! Thanks a great deal. However, regarding the earliest/most popular Neiyu RPS, I beg to differ. No one knew PDA better than the Bo-Bo (井柏然 and 付辛博）at the time and geez they had a massive CPFan base, and some of their heartbreaks and dramas even sustained into 2023 in their implicit competition(?) on being casted in 耽改 web series.
Nice! Btw, the NiF fandom has a ton of amazing fics on ao3, some of them ginormously long, a lot of them in Chinese. One is apparently so well known that someone is currently translating it! (倾国 https://archiveofourown.org/works/35125336)
I loved this article! I'm a foreign danmei fan who discovered danmei through the release of CQL on Netflix, and since my Chinese is still not goid enough to get into the fandom, it's really awesome to see that you're writing about it in English. Thank you so much!
Moreover, I remembered there were vaguely some years before the term 同人 acquired its popularity, RPS and fictional male-male ships shortly borrowed the word 王道 as a label during mid 00s. Maybe you can look into it if feeling archaeological sometime.
Sorry for ranting in the comment section. I just really enjoyed your writings for that I think it’s exactly what this time needs but rarely talked about.