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Return of the Coal

Three Fics for the Mod-kings under the sky, Seven for the Shipfic-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Genfic (Wo)Men(/Folx) doomed to die, One for the Coalcube Lord on their dark throne in the Land of Coaltide where the Tag-shaking lie. One Fic to rule them all, One Fic to find them, One Fic to bring them all and in the wanky darkness bind them.

In the Land of Coaltide where the Tag-shaking lie.

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I’m predicting here that Guardian is going the most popular fandom in the collection this year. I wish I was into it, but I’m not...

I'm not sure about that. The fandom was at its height last Yuletide, and it still wasn't the biggest one then.

I'm personally placing bets on The Untamed or Gideon of the Ninth this year.

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I'm also betting on The Untamed - especially since Guardian was kind of a gateway fandom and a lot of the people who got into it last year are now into Cnovels and their adaptations in general, and anything connected to MXTX is king there.

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On this note, I feel a little ridiculous for asking, since clearly they are all the rage in fandom right now, but apparently I wasn't paying attention when it happened and Google has turned out to be completely 100% useless: What exactly is a Cnovel? The closest I have come to determining the definition is "Chinese romance novel" or "Chinese web novel" but maybe I am completely off?

Anyone willing to take mercy on a clueless coalie?

Chinese web novel, yes. The ones popular on the exchange circuit/in fandom in general are the M/M romance ones. (Likewise, cdrama is Chinese drama.)

It's just a chinese online novel, generally referring to the ones posted to various Chinese forums online--some examples of this would be Guardian, written by priest, or The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System or Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.

Yes, Chinese web novels. The most popular one in English-speaking fandom spaces is Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, which is danmei, the Chinese equivalent of BL, and what The Untamed is based on. (The Untamed is not BL, because of censorship laws.). Guardian was also based on a BL novel.

All translations of the novels are fanmade and thus vary widely in quality, but there are a lot being translated.

Thanks, all. That's very helpful.

I hope people write some good fic for that nasty boy Xue Yang.

+1, his very good expressions need a lot of fic.

Guardian's grown a lot since last Yuletide, but I'm still betting on MDZS being bigger.

Me too, especially since Guardian show/novel fandom is still pretty distinct, but GDC people seem to be treating all four versions as one, so I bet there's going to be a lot of basically bookfic under The Untamed. Also GDC is a much bigger fandom in general. If a Chinese fandom takes it, it'll be The Untamed.

I am irrationally irritated by this and will clearly have to just learn to deal, but Yuletide separates out adaptations for a reason! They are not all the same! Especially CQL and MDZS, and the fact that all of the versions are being conflated is a constant thorn under my skin. There are some requests I'd like to treat, but I'm going to have to get over this first.

Depressingly I think you're right.

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