SVSSS Read Along

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excaliburedpan and I both happen to be reading this danmei book at the moment, so I thought I'd throw up a post for any comments if anyone wants to read along now or later, and shove my locked-twitter read-along thoughts somewhere more accessible. I'm going to break it up by blocks of chapters, then do an Overall Thoughts subsection. Assume spoilers. 

There are 81 novel chapters, then Extras. 

Comments

Chapters 6-10

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出师不利 【Unfavorable Beginning】
一坑男主 【Backstabbing the Male Lead, No. 1】
坑完给糖 【Giving Sweets After Backstabbing】
百战峰主 【Bai Zhan Peak Lord】
魔女挑衅 【Demon Girl’s Provocation】

Re: Chapters 6-10

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- ‘He didn’t even want to pretend to meditate, and lay on the bed just pretending to be dead.’ Mood (Chapter 6)

- There's s blink and miss it line that could read transphobic in this chapter, which raises an ethical question. Should a translator just cut or gentle such things and provide an explanatory footnote? For my money if it's not SIGNIFICANT&can be easily cut&glossed for full disclosure, there's no reason not to.

- Skinner demons are yet more 'fake bodies that disguise and enable' (here, along gender lines, as well as in terms of predation): every MXTX novel is like 12 of those in a sack

- 'if this were a novel, and not padded like that of “Great Master” Airplane’s, the writing would have been finished in one chapter'

Lmao MXTX girl fuck you

- We get more instances of enabling-performance with SY!SQQ saying over-confident shit to the kids to make them rally&feel safe