Ah ... right. Shows how much attention I paid. Maybe I should get some glasses myself ...

And I just ordered new glasses the other day. Guess I'd better break that bad habit of hiding them under a paper or they might get crushed. ...Wait, I never did that. Though when I was a child I did hide them in a clothes hamper once as a prank... then forgot about it the next morning, couldn't find them, and had to go to school without them. (I couldn't see without glasses then either.)

There used to be (back when most men and women wore hats) a superstiition that it was unlucky to put a hat on a bed. There was actually a practical reason for not putting your hat on the bed--it's much more likely that someone will accidentally sit on it than if you put it on a table (or a hatrack).

"Don't put your glasses on your school desk--and certainly don't cover them up with anything" isn't an official saying. But maybe it should be.

Also cases are a thing, Tattletale!

Actually I'm surprised he didn't have a case.

I'd actually forgotten, but he -does-. He took them out so he could look at them. Then he covered them with a napkin, both preventing him from being able to look at them, failing to protect them, and also hiding them from Mr Stack-of-books.

What gets me is, if they were going to have a hissy fit about a confession, just what exactly did they think they were publishing in the first place?

I wonder if it's a case of publishers being sensitive to government regulation - or fear of what may soon be government regulations - and trying to mitigate risk in that sense. Given that recently we've seen a crackdown on suggestive character designs in online games, they may be a bit gunshy about stuff like this.

The chilling effect goes well beyond the actual limits of government interference, and companies will often self-censor even further than the actual censorship is designed to cover, just in case.

I could be wrong but i believe the new law about representation of LGBT+ in Chinese media may have come into affect after a publishing deal was already made?

According to Tan Jiu, the second volume entered publication, but publication was halted due to the earlier ban. Later, her publisher came to her and said that publication would resume if she censored the confession scene -- the publisher saying that at the very least, Tan Jiu could make some money off of her work. I would assume that the publisher was pressured not to publish the work, and offered Tan Jiu the only option they could. If the publisher was against LGBT content, they wouldn't have published the first volume and started publication on the second volume. The publisher isn't throwing a "hissy fit", this is a reaction to a government ban that carries the possibility of severe repercussions if not followed.

As to the first comment in the quote, I'm certain that they were quite aware of what was to be published hence the decision not to publish Their Story without censorship.

The original ban was only meant to cover online visual/audio media, and I doubt the government included grandfather clauses which wouldn't have mattered anyway as publication of the second volume began after the ban. What I find interesting is that the ban itself is not well enforced as Weibo continues to allow the postings of LGBT content. When Weibo refused at first, their stocks dropped, and so they capitulated. But they seem to be just fine now.

Knowing how these governments work, and how easy it is to twist bans of this kind to extend them, it's quite likely that since Their Story has an online version, the entire product can be considered online visual/audio media, thus physical publication can be, and has been, impacted by the ban.

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No "daily life" tag.

Yes... YES YES we jumped like 400 chapters

Sun Jing looks nice with the medium length hair. Much better than the early images of her with short hair.

Confused but okay. It's back to lighthearted comedy.

Every once in a while, we get the reminder that there are less free countries... The US is ruled by a group of mostly old conservative men, but even they dare not mess with our freedom very much. Most of Europe is similar.

China seemed like it was just like the western world because it became rich, but a crackdown like this shows the truth - it's not a free country. I hope this doesn't get worse.

While China is not a free country, I think you're a bit overoptimistic about the US. Freedom of speech isn't messed with very much. Freedom of assembly is seriously limited, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure is pretty much gone, as is simple freedom from being arbitrarily thrown in jail, particularly if you're not white--although so far the dominant way this is applied is random rather than political. And, of course, if you're black they can just shoot you down like a dog because they feel like it. So really, most of the components of your Pinochet Chile style state are there, except you're allowed to complain about it.
Actually, if you're black, the US is a far more oppressive police state than China--the US' massive incarceration rate, as skewed to over-represent blacks, becomes a serious daily risk factor. I mean, the incarceration rate is far higher in the US than China for everyone, but for most people that still doesn't represent something likely enough to feel like a major constraint on freedom. But for blacks the chance of a negative interaction with legal authorities becomes so high and its nature so arbitrary that it really seems to be experienced as a significant level of oppression at a practical level.

Freedom-wise, what's changed in the US lately is that LGBTetc got to at least partly leave the stepped-on crowd; blacks and the poor and to some extent Latinos are still there and Muslims recently got put in.

Sun Jing looks nice with the medium length hair. Much better than the early images of her with short hair.

Buh buh

I love my tomboys with short hair. D:

So when is the plot coming back?

Oh time skip.

For a moment, I thought I was reading Magan&Danai.

What I love is how helplessly in love Sun Jing is. It renders her powerless.

The adrenaline rush, I so love it.

Poor glasses. :(

Every once in a while, we get the reminder that there are less free countries... The US is ruled by a group of mostly old conservative men, but even they dare not mess with our freedom very much. Most of Europe is similar.

China seemed like it was just like the western world because it became rich, but a crackdown like this shows the truth - it's not a free country. I hope this doesn't get worse.

While China is not a free country, I think you're a bit overoptimistic about the US. Freedom of speech isn't messed with very much. Freedom of assembly is seriously limited, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure is pretty much gone, as is simple freedom from being arbitrarily thrown in jail, particularly if you're not white--although so far the dominant way this is applied is random rather than political. And, of course, if you're black they can just shoot you down like a dog because they feel like it. So really, most of the components of your Pinochet Chile style state are there, except you're allowed to complain about it.
Actually, if you're black, the US is a far more oppressive police state than China--the US' massive incarceration rate, as skewed to over-represent blacks, becomes a serious daily risk factor. I mean, the incarceration rate is far higher in the US than China for everyone, but for most people that still doesn't represent something likely enough to feel like a major constraint on freedom. But for blacks the chance of a negative interaction with legal authorities becomes so high and its nature so arbitrary that it really seems to be experienced as a significant level of oppression at a practical level.

Freedom-wise, what's changed in the US lately is that LGBTetc got to at least partly leave the stepped-on crowd; blacks and the poor and to some extent Latinos are still there and Muslims recently got put in.

be ready to people calling you communist or stuff like that, last time I only replied a guy by saying not every non-US citizen in the world wishes to go there (actually most people I know dont want to go there '-') and the first reply I've got was "that's some commie talk"...

Usually the Commie accusations are sarcastic. Usually.
That being said, I don't think this is the appropriate website for this kind of discussion.

Hmm mm more heart healing stuff, I love it.

Poor SJ, I strongly relate abt delivery feels ;-;

pre-ordering games

Please don't do that.

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The author seems determined not to show me what happened with the fangirl. At this rate it will take like, 20 chapters. It even utilised a time-skip just to avoid the issue. All that dramatic buildup, and now this. Aftermath, glasses, time-skip, and now pre-ordering games. I mean, do not get me wrong, these are all cute and I like them, plus, it seems obvious those who predicted the drama period would be short were in the right, but I still very much want to see it. This pacing is actually pretty horrible, since the drama angle was consistently being built up for like, three or four chapters.

And that is why, despite me originally hating digital distribution, I've come to appreciate the advantages of not having to wait for a package.

Although I miss the free mushrooms.

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azns ffs

I can somehow relate to that.

I don't appreciate this kind of trolling to be honest