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[nocannobb]

oh man, it's been so long since i could post! this rules. it'd be cool if we could access more than just the message boards and the catalogue though

hey, so, speaking of which, if a book is in the catalogue, that means its supposed to be here, right? the book i'm looking for isn't on the shelves where it's supposed to be, so idk if maybe someone checked it out? it's called "Proud Immortal Demon Way", author's name Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky. it's preeetty long (multiple volumes) so it'd be hard to miss on the shelves

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[nocannobb]

yeah! you know, dedicated readers who also possess impeccable artistic talent. they're the lifeblood of every writer, you know!

[weifinder]

I had absolutely no idea, though I can start to see how it might work. You're a "fan" of this writer?

[nocannobb]

[ it would be totally suspicious & weird to say he wasn't so -- ]

oh yeah. i mean, how many writers can knock out 10k words of total gratification in a single day? for years at a time, even!

[youcanyouup]

Hmm. That sounds like quite a feat. I can't imagine the quality wouldn't suffer as a result.

[nocannobb]

[ get fucked shen qingqiu ]

subscriber numbers don't lie :)

[youcanyouup]

:/

[nocannobb]

don't like, don't read ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[weifinder]

I have no real concept of what that means. This writer only wrote? Sounds like a luxury! How much ink did they go through?

[nocannobb]

hahahaa well not really a luxury in his case i don't think! pretty sure it was his only job and it didn't pay as much as you'd think. the arts really are undervalued you know? anyway who pays attention to details like how much ink he went through or how many revisions, the important thing is that he was prolific, and that is an achievement in itself!

[weifinder]

I have no idea how the book industry goes, but your ardent appreciation of this writer is noted? Prolificness seems more like it'd be important for rabbits than writers, but ah, as I said, who knows the industry?

[nocannobb]

when you're a serialized writer, your output is everything. no writing, no readers, no money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  so goes the story of the endless hustle

and ok i wouldnt say like, ARDENT, but i do think some of his critics are too harsh. some people have way too much time on their hands, you know?

[weifinder]

In this situation everyone sounds like they have way too much time on their hands. What's a serialized writer? Where's he hearing back from critics, are they out crying in the town centres?

[nocannobb]

they might as well be 🙄 do people not put out ongoing stories where you're from? or are you just really not a books kind of guy?

[weifinder]

Ongoing? Not really, though some authors write multiple novels, of course. As for having time to read, or the money, that's more recent, I suppose. More like being stuck in a place with nothing to do but read or dream particularly vivid dreams.

[nocannobb]

[ huh, so maybe there aren't pipa players singing torrid gossip in all cultivator universes, then. awww, maybe his is special. ]

oh yeah? so what do you do? i mean, did, before you got zapped here to take up daydreaming full-time

[weifinder]

( more like they had a lot more gossip going on, and stories rated second, and one guy was too poor or too often not at the right torrid gossip spots at wine houses (or tea houses, when he must) but this question is rude!!! )

What do rogue cultivators do? Wander roads and solve the sorts of little situations they run into, experience the local foods and, more importantly, the local wines!

( THIS IS HIS ANSWER AND HE'S STICKING TO IT )

[nocannobb]

ohoho a rogue cultivator you say? how'd the rogue part come about?

[ shang qinghua loves this answer. it smacks of bullshit, but that just makes him more interested. yes, he can say this for sure already: wei wuxian is bound to be an interesting guy! ]

so what sorts of little situations huh?