xuesemeigui529.lofter.com — just a couple d/k works, but active recently.

Inanimate Object part 1 of 4, in progress, Danitz finds ZMR post-canon

lizijiu42798.lofter.com — several d/k oneshots, recently active

Mistletoe extremely sweet holiday fic

moon574629.lofter.com — handful of d/k fics

Let my heart part 1 of 2, Gehrman is injured and dying, Danitz doesn’t know he’ll resurrect, sad but happy ending

haixiudechayehe.lofter.com — actually it’s just this and two leoklein fics

Dogshit! Is this Gehrman?! technically part 2 of 2, but can be read alone. De-aged child Gehrman, good caretaker Danitz, very tender.

lengmochenxin.lofter.com — just a few fics but very good, recently active

Artificial Sleepwalking part 1 of 6, Klein and Danitz are both cursed, identity reveal through dreamsharing. The complete version including smut scenes is now on ao3 here! and the follow-up oneshot here.

update: this author now has an ao3 account with all their works!

Lofter tips:

First make a WeChat or Weibo account (must make the account in the apps), then use that to log on to Lofter (on your computer). When searching for lotm content, I refer to this list of chinese tags. Some users tag both the characters and the ship, some just tag the ship. 达克 [DaKe] implies Danitz tops but is also the more general tag (from what I’ve seen), 克尼 [KeNi] implies Klein tops — but there’s no actual smut on Lofter. Authors will sometimes post instructions to find the smutty parts of their fics on other platforms, the easiest is when you can just search the title (in chinese!) on ao3.

In order to translate fics, I just use google chrome (rip) and its built-in translator and I find the results are pretty good. You can use whatever method you prefer, but if you’re planning to copy the text into an mtl, know that you can’t highlight text in most blog posts, however you can highlight it if you’re viewing the post directly from the search results instead of on the op’s blog. If you’re on mobile, I have no idea. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Blog layout is similar to tumblr, every blog has a search bar, a ‘private message’ button, and an ‘archive’ button. I mostly use the archive to find fics, most users will put the ship name first in the title of the post. You can also click on the tags at the bottom of a post like on tumblr, but blogs with the default layout don’t automatically collapse long posts so this can involve a lot of scrolling.

A few more notes:

达克 DaKe will often be translated as ‘Dark,’ 克尼 KeNi is Kni or Kenny, etc., the translator doesn’t know how to handle ship names or non-chinese character names since they aren’t actual words. The name Gehrman (格尔曼) is another a major victim of this issue, I’ve seen the translator spell it a dozen different ways.

‘CP’ means ship (character pairing)

PA = AU (I forget what it stands for)

Translators will often get pronouns wrong! Especially in intimate scenes!! I believe this is because the original sentence in Chinese lacks pronouns, so when the translator adds them in to make a grammatically correct English statement, it will ‘assume’ the gender based on context.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to help if I can!

Ao3 recs:

Chinese authors tend to use ao3 as a place to post explicit content that would get taken down on Chinese platforms — so the fics are almost all smut. It can be hard to tell what a fic is about from the brief descriptions and minimal tags, you kinda have to click to find out if it’s good. However sorting by either kudos or word count can help bring the best stuff to the top of the pile.

I haven’t really been keeping track of fics that I like on ao3, so this is just a short list of a few that I remember. Most if not all of these authors are also on Lofter, but since they have ao3 accounts (instead of posting anonymously), I’m listing them separately from the Lofter recs.

Yuelaine — 6 d/k fics by this author

[达克]虚实狭间 The void between reality and illusion, longfic, aftermath of SA set in canon-divergent Vol. 3, most popular d/k fic on ao3

[达克] 恋如雨止 Love like after rain, longfic, Danitz falls for Klein Moretti

RandomForest, 18 d/k fics, explicit, some AUs.

I like this author but I have no idea what to recommend, it depends what you’re into. There’s abo, modern AUs, kinky smut, a sci-fi AU…

BERTHA_C, 10 d/k fics, explicit, mostly dubcon

【海上组】心安即是归处 Peace of mind is home, d/k/a, Klein goes to Danitz and Anderson after the end of Vol. 4

Melusine_MysteriousStory, 11 d/k fics

【达克】情感数值 Emotional Values, long oneshot, Danitz acquires a system that shows him Gehrman’s favorability and mood stats

【达克】Room No.9 by longlivelines (this d/k fic and a one d/k/a fic)

my favorite of the d/k ‘room 9’ fics (room you cannot leave unless you have sex), they can earn their freedom with sex, or by hurting each other, or...?

If you prefer a much kinkier Room 9 fic, there’s also 「克尼」驯化 Domestication by Yixiaozhu

Alright there we have it, happy reading! When you're done, come tell me which ones you liked and send me more recs!!