video | what this library needs is a book club

[weifinder]

( 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! ]

Comments

[weifinder]

No, it says they're journeying, and this other page said the death worms were chasing them.

( He's pantomiming flipping open a book to different pages. )

A number of books here helpfully have little summaries on the sides or the back? It's all new to me, never seen anything like it before.

( Because for some reason I'm saying this library keeps ALL DUST COVERS AND BOOK JACKETS )

[xiaoxiaojiu]

Summaries?

[It's hard to miss the fact that these books aren't in scroll format, but--]

So somebody wrote on the back of every book in this place? I wonder if they got paid any for that.

[Staring at the shelves...he doesn't pull any books out though, it's not like there'd be any point.]

[weifinder]

I hope they did, or else they were obsessed with a concept and couldn't leave well enough alone... but ah, it looks like the same script that the books are written in. However they're duplicating books, some kind of press...

( He's already sidetracked, then shaking his head. Hah! Book after book, he finds the one that has the summary he'd been looking for, tugging it off shelf. )

Ah! Here we are. Want to head to one of the comfortable seats for me to start reading?

[xiaoxiaojiu]

[Being too young and poor to have any idea what a printing press is, Shen Jiu decides to graciously skip over this question in favor of comfy seats.]

Sure, okay. We can sit anywhere, right? No rules or anything?

[Already looking back out towards the end of the shelves. Maybe he can find something with cushions on it, just imagine that extravagance!]