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video | what this library needs is a book club

( This is a video message brought to you by Wei Wuxian, who just learned about video in the last week or so, and definitely knows nothing about making a video well. So congratulations, he's holding his recording tablet in one hand, in selfie mode, and grinning at the camera. He tips his head toward it, since bowing... won't work with him holding his tablet, and begins. )

This whole moving images film-creating concept is fantastic! Wei Ying, courtesy name Wei Wuxian, greeting all the others swept into this library and out of their proper homes with a simple suggestion for the sake of entertainment: a reading group. I even have a starting novel for the adult audience!

( He looks offscreen to pick up a novel and showcase its simple bound red front with lovely golden writing visible: Resentment of Chunshan. This is porn. It is very raunchy, very fantasy-not-reality gay porn written by a woman from ancient fantasy China. It is also, hopefully, an amusing read? )

This one promises to be absolutely scandalous! Then for the people who are more inclined toward having a sense of any other taste, well, I have recommendations. I've leafed through many, many books this last week and then some, if it's been a week, or any, or who knows? Time here is rather... stagnant. Either way, speak up here, or find me in person, I'm hanging around the third level with all the lounging space.

( ... then the tablet shakes as he tucks the book under an arm and taps at the screen to end the video. )

[ ooc note: novel found with permission from Shen Qingqiu's player! ]

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[ Shen Qingqiu stops walking, looking at Wei Wuxian in alarm. Honestly, he's much more worried about PIDW than he is about the RPF, and the idea of it being impossible to keep that off the shelves does not bear thinking about. Still -- hearing this about the Resentment of Chunshan is also not great, even if the only thing at stake is his humiliation rather than... Well. ]

A series...

[ He pinches the bridge of his nose, and mutters: ]

What kind of people were reading this trash?

( Wei Wuxian lifts his hands and then shoulders in an expansive sort of shrug, only stopping when he's fully caught up with Shen Qingqiu. )

Do I really need to explain?

( He doesn't think he needs to, at least, but hey. Who's he to say. )

No you do not. I just thought people in... Well.

[ He thought people in bullshit half assed xianxia land would be less shameless! But he can't say that out loud, and really now he thinks about it, there's no reason he should have thought that when the setting was for what it's for anyway, so the idiot here is him.

He lets out a frustrated sigh, and starts walking again. Less hurried this time, though. ]

Well I'm still going to put it away. Nobody needs to just stumble across that.

It's not illustrated.

( He adds, ever the helpful one, staying in step with Shen Qingqiu as he heads onward again. )

Your disciple isn't presently literate.

( Shen Jiu is also the youngest person he's run into here at the library. Why worry about the ones already hitting puberty? Like they don't read these things? Pfft. He's not handing it to them, but he's not ignorant, either. )

[ Shen Qingqiu gives him an exasperated look. ]

Why do you think someone needs to be underage to have -- standards??

Underage of what, majority?

( Lifting an eyebrow at that concept. )

I'm still trying to decide why you believe anyone needs someone to act as standard control. Is that a precept of some kind in your sect?

[ Ah, ha ha, that's right... it's harder to keep modern concepts out of your stupid mouth when you're talking about books in a modern library, who'd have thought...

Shen Qingqiu frowns. ]

I'm just trying to be considerate, alright? I wouldn't want to just find that lying around!

Oh? But you've clearly read it, so it's more you only want to see what you go looking for, and not be surprised by such writings?

( Does he look too amused by this? Yes. Yes he does. They're stuck in a freaking library. BOOKS ARE LITERALLY THEIR ENTERTAINMENT. )

Does that mean you take recommendations? Live readings? Anything not stumbled upon simply in surprise in a moment outside of your expectation?

[ Increasingly vexed: ] I haven't read it! I've heard the song! Against my will! Repeatedly! Nobody wants surprise awful porn!

[ Shen Qingqiu prefers to consume his awful porn of his own free will, thank you very much! ]

Oh, awful's a strong word, it wasn't the worst I've seen...

( At this point, Shen Qingqiu's the best entertainment he's had in a while. Sorry not sorry, Shen Qingqiu... )

Obviously I've seen worse, but everything I heard was still pretty terrible, it's not like something has to be the most intolerable thing you've ever read to be called 'awful'!

Then it's really about your name being in this and... what, people believing any of it might be true? It's fairly obvious fiction, I thought. The whole concept starts with the absurd and goes even more so.

Just because it's not plausible doesn't mean it's not humiliating.

[ He wants to say 'how would you like it if it was you', but just looking at Wei Wuxian he feels like he'd probably be fine with it........ ]

( Wei Wuxian would absolutely read his own RPF and laugh over it before sharing it, as it were, but that's a mixture of shamelessness and amusement of anyone being so bold as to go where no human (or otherwise) has gone before.

Into the depths of his virgin sexuality. 8) )

Think more how wonderfully strange that in all the thousands of novels here, one familiar like this was found!

Hmph. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just easier to find books connected to the worlds of people who are here already...

[ He frowns, looking up at the library building ahead of them. ]

Have you tried looking for books from your world, or have you just been indiscriminately browsing for smut?

Oh, I looked for some discriminate smut, as you call it, from my world. Found one familiar book! Then found two novels related to clan histories which shared names and no events to anything I recognised.

( Cheerily offered: he's damn well been reading everything, thanks. Smut's what he turns to when he's bored and brain fried. It's great! Can recommend! Requires no thinking at all!

Alas, he also sighs. )

I also tried looking for a book about one of those moving paintings in that room with the comfortable moving chairs. Couldn't find it yet, because I found three hundred titles by the same name.

[ Unfortunately Shen Qingqiu has never turned his brain off while reading smut once in his miserable life, he is fully engaged and complaining every time he perceives words with his eyes and that's why he'll never be happy

He raises an eyebrow at that last part. ]

What was the title...?

Shadows.

( Here, he sighs. A long, deep, emotional sigh. )

Just that one word. Shadows.

Ah... Hm. That's not very specific.

[ He pauses a moment, trying to decide if he wants to try to talk about cinema as if he doesn't know what it is for the sake of Helping... ]

Usually... at the end of the, um, moving pictures, there's... a list of all the people who made it, and if it's based on a book, then it will mention the name of the author...

You have to sit through all the words at the end? Because those don't all play, it kind of just...

( He makes an expansive gesture with his hands. )

Goes to the next one after a short time of names.

[ Shen Qingqiu makes a pinched little disapproving face. ]

Well that's not very useful, in a library.

Forgive me for presuming, but has anything here been useful to us versus whatever runs this building? Maybe it is the building...

( He muses, tapping his chin and looking upward, like there's some answer waiting to be seen. )

Hmm. I don't think we know enough about its motivations to make a judgement on that, but -- if it doesn't want the books to be accessible why have a catalogue in the first place?

[ Hmm the angle he is espousing here definitely bodes poorly for his sleeve full of stallion trash, ]

Who knows? It's not like all the books are even complete.

( Here he shrugs, lifting his hands and laughing; a what can you do sort of motion. )

Which surprised me, but you see it after looking at enough of these things.

Really?

[ Shen Qingqiu has been a little preoccupied, so far, with more specific searches... His brow creases slightly. ]

Incomplete manuscripts...?

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