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Hi, darling. Unfortunately, there is no official translation for any of MXTX’s novels. 

TGCF was translated by @yummysuika on Twitter & her friends as well as Sakhyulations. We owe them everything for bringing us the story. 

You can read from chapter 1 to chapter 20 here.Then you can find chapters 21 to chapter 244, as well as links to the extra here. 

(As requested by both an anon and @my-words-are-light​)

One of the hardest parts of writing speculative fiction is presenting readers with a world that’s interesting and different from our own in a way that’s both immersive and understandable at the same time. 

Thankfully, there are a few techniques that can help you present worldbuilding information to your readers in a natural way, as well as many tricks to tweaking the presentation until it’s just right.

Four basic techniques:

1. The ignorant character. 

By introducing a character who doesn’t know about the aspects of the world building you’re trying to convey, you can let the ignorant character voice the questions the reader naturally wants to ask. Traditionally, this is seen when the protagonist or (another character) is brought into a new world, society, organization. In cases where that’s the natural outcome of the plot, and the character has a purpose in the story outside of simply asking questions, it can be pulled off just fine. But there’s another aspect to this which writers don’t often consider: 

Every character is your ignorant character. 

In a realistic world, no person knows everything. Someone will be behind on the news. Someone won’t know all the facts. Many, many someones won’t have studied a common part of their society simply because they aren’t large part of that fraction or don’t have the time for it.

Instead of inserting an ignorant character and creating a stiff and annoying piece of expository dialogue, find the character already existing in the story who doesn’t know about the thing being learned.

2. Conflicting opinions.

A fantastic way to convey detailed world building concepts is to have characters with conflicting viewpoints discuss or argue about them. Unless you’re working with a brainwashed society, every character should hold their own set of religious, political, and social beliefs. 

Examples of this kind of dialogue:

UPDATED VERSION 10/3/19

Please be aware that NSFW is out there & Please send me a message if I missed anything, I’ll try to update the post! :D

MO DAO ZU SHI - GRANDMASTER OF DEMONIC CULTIVATION - THE FOUNDER OF DIABOLISM

Novel: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation/

Novel, Ch 79 Onwards: https://boat-full-of-lotus-pods.tumblr.com 

Ch. 5-19, Older version: https://qinghe-nie.tumblr.com/Translations 

Ch. 79 to 116:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V44qlY0RpU4SI_21BCGPJHH3tS_mv6UJ

Manhua: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/the-grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation/

Also some Manhua: http://discluded.tumblr.com/post/182120732921/mdzs-masterlist

The Audio Drama and its extras, & Wangxian duet: https://kittykat2010.tumblr.com/mdzsaudio

More Audio Drama translations, S2: https://sakurahimemtl.wordpress.com

Ch. 94: https://weibuyaolian.tumblr.com/post/178441401686/chapter-94-to-want-all-the-time

Ch. 95 (NSFW): https://weibuyaolian.tumblr.com/post/178900269036/chapter-95-to-want-all-the-time

Another version, Ch 95 (Still, NSFW, duh): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/178487720226/nsfw-spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-revised

Ch. 100 (Confession): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/178249552381/spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-revised-edition

Ch. 111 (No NSFW): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/177241813621/spoiler-魔道祖师-mo-dao-zu-shi-the-grandmaster

Ch. 111 (NSFW): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/177285752291/nsfw-spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-original

Ch. 112: https://pizziccato.tumblr.com/post/182219943701/mo-dao-zu-shi-chapter-112

Family Feast and Yunmengjiang Extras: https://bigbadredpanda.tumblr.com/translations

Metal Hook Extra: https://manhua-assistant.tumblr.com/post/178508057495/mo-dao-zu-shi-side-story-metal-hook-part-12 and

https://manhua-assistant.tumblr.com/post/179890934100/mo-dao-zu-shi-side-story-metal-hook-part-22

Incense Burner Extra (Partial) :

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1207.html,

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1328.html, and

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1863.html

SCUM VILLAIN’S SELF SAVING SYSTEM

Novel and some extras: http://bcnovels.com/the-scum-villains-self-saving-system/

More extras!: https://pizziccato.tumblr.com/post/180786497951/translation-masterpost

Fighting with Master Liu extra: http://faelicy.tumblr.com/post/180154270882/a-memory-fighting-succubi-with-master-liu

Partial extra, Honeymoon Daybook: http://faelicy.tumblr.com/post/180396507912/excerpt-from-honeymoon-daybook-a-follow-up

TIAN GUAN CI FU - HEAVEN OFFICIAL’S BLESSING

Novel up to Ch. 15: https://www.sakhyulations.com/novel/heaven-officials-blessing/

Novel Ch. 12 Onwards:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oXnp5Y2OD70i78utu4BcQ3xgAlygypd0

Demon King’s Bed Time Story extra:

http://erushi.tumblr.com/post/181043463415/translation-tgcf-extra-chapter-250-the-demon

Hualian Confession Scene:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p4pXJ5yxTWQVnYjV8QwmxbFffYr79IFZ5nmlnqlcyU0/edit

Ch. 95 (partial?) 1st(?) kiss: https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/182175962147/okay-so-i-heard-chap-95-of-hob-is-funny-can-i-have

2nd Kiss (Partial Ch.): https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/182257063422/oho-now-i-want-to-know-what-happened-lel-if-its

Ch.108 (partial?): https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/181214476152/tgcf-chapter-108-this-scene-was-way-too-great-but

Ch. 245 extra: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuSoGjR0d8zbG73XYN4f5vkD-sQEHvcgzdK7LOjLokA/edit

Ch. 246 (amnesia extra):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HljSkZRLqGwi9TA5KSYqB7P5G8l3IGF9OGL3adyeln8/edit

Ch. 252 extra:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKJfmg2W1s_abFlub1BAh499XfzQoWA81fFVUSVN8yM/edit

OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST

Scum villain discord: https://discord.gg/dVjM69 (Expiring link, permanent link can be found on MXTX general discord’s partner’s section)

MDZS discord: https://discord.gg/4RpCkxF

HOB discord: https://discord.gg/ecgG9hm

MXTX general discord: https://discord.gg/GUj6PHd

Mo Dao Zu Shi Wiki: http://modao-zushi.wikia.com/wiki/Grandmaster_of_Demonic_Cultivation_-_Founder_of_Diabolism_Wiki

Scum Villain Wiki: http://svs-ss.wikia.com/wiki/The_Scum_Villain%27s_Self-Saving_System_Wiki

HOB Wiki: http://heaven-officials-blessing.wikia.com/wiki/Heaven_Officials_Blessing_Wiki

Hob List of Characters: https://chocolatemix.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/list-of-天官赐福-characters/

MDZS Fancomics: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/fancomic-translations-for-the-founder-of-diabolism.59559/

Please send me a message if I missed anything, I’ll try to update the post! :D

My Wen Ruohan/Jiang Fengmian illustration based on Allure by @lansizhuis​!

Huff, that surely took a while. I SWEAR this was supposed to be a cute stripe but all the wangxian feels came and and this two little horny, dumb cultivators just won’t let me hahaha

Bonus: 

The drama itself was heavily modified, which made it fresh. But surprisingly it’s super gay. It’s so intense at times I can’t. And I love the heavy engagement of the team with audience with constant feed of BTS videos that happened on set.

On the other hand, I kind of dug deeper into NovelUpdates features to figure out my latest question if it’s possible to link my list etc. and indeed it is. So:

NovelUpdates reading list (pity you can’t see my notes, which are like draft thoughts) and link to Reviews (which includes titles which are not in my list).

Have you had a chance to watch it? Are live-action adaptations something you’re into?

So let me begin this by saying, no I have not watched the live-action adaption of one of my favourite stories. The novel? Amazing. The donghua (animation)? Beautiful. The audio drama? Perfect. The live action? I am still on the fence about. 

Now let me put a big personal disclaimer before I make any recommendations: I get disappointed when adaptations don’t loyally follow source material to some degree. I am currently reading through The Fellowship of the Ring, and while I LOVE the movie adaptations and watched those first, I find the novel to be slow. I find myself expecting something familiar between the two different interpretations of the story, but am failing to find it. And this leaves me missing what is familiar. 

The drama adaptation of MDZS, The Untamed, changes a lot of the source material that I have become familiar with. So I already feels a disconnect with it because I know a large part of the story has been changed. And for this reason, I have not started it. 

HOWEVER, I still see potential for me enjoying this story. 

Especially in the characters!

Xiao Zhan plays an amazing Wei Wuxian. I don’t think they could have casted a better person honestly. He has all of Wei Wuxian’s cuteness and mischievousness. I mean, just look at him!

Wang Yibo as Lan Wangji is pretty good as well. Not the most perfect Lan Wangji, but I think he does a pretty good job at portraying the character nonetheless. 

The characters and the world was what really engaged me in the story in the first place. And I can ensure you that the cool ancient chinese supernatural world is still there with the same characters we have come to love. 

It’s really just the change in story that is holding me back. From the perspectives of friends who are as equally invested in this story as me, they can’t get into it as much as the other adaptions that have come out. And I guess this may be because it changes the story we have all become so familiar with quite drastically. 

But just because it is not my cup of tea doesn’t mean that it is a bad series. In fact, I see so many people enjoying their time with it! 

I mean I am half tempted to pick it up just to watch Xiao Zhan’s beautiful face and enjoy my time seeing local murder boy Xue Yang tied up. 

But if this adaptation of the story is the most appealing adaptation to anyone, I would recommend to watch it. I don’t care which story adaptation or form engages any particular person; I care far more that people are enjoying the same characters and the story (or at least some of the story) that I enjoy too. 

So for anyone who is hesitant to start the show but like how it looks, feel free to do so! 

You can find the first episode with English subs below! Give it a try and see if you enjoy it! 

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Me, always looking tired as heck

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