Random question of the day is: what's your favorite adaption of Water Margin / 水浒传 ? Preferably as a movie or short-ish TV show? (animation also welcome)

I'd like to know more about it before reading the queer retelling "The Water Outlaws" by S. L. Huang but I'm not sure where to start...

#WaterMargin #ChineseLiterature

I’m 92% of the way through Outlaws of the Marsh. This part is loosely based on actual history, Song Jiang was one of the commanders sent to fight Fang La’s rebellion.

I can tell I’m getting close to the end. Some of the Chieftains have died. Being a Heavenly Spirit or an Earthly Fiend only means they make it to the oath in chapter 72, each has a destiny awaiting them.

#Reading #ChineseClassics #SongJiang #WaterMargin #OutlawsOfTheMarsh #AllMenAreBrothers #History #ChineseHistory

Sometimes Outlaws of the Marsh feels long and a bit repetitive, certain patterns repeat. But then you come across a unique section that’s incredible.

Chapter 56, Shi Qian the Flea on a Drum’s theft of Xu Ning’s ancestral armor is fantastic and really should be a scene in a movie or anime.

#Reading #Literature #ChineseClassics #OutlawsOfTheMarsh #WaterMargin #AllMenAreBrothers #FleaOnADrum #ShiQian #Heist #MissionImpossible

Are there any Forged in the Dark games that have contributed open content? I love that the core SRD is CC-BY, but are there any hacks that have opened their additions to further hacking?

I’m seriously thinking about making Blades in the Marsh, but I’m curious what else I can build from in a licensed way.

#TTRPG #OpenGaming #SRD #FitD #ForgedInTheDark #BitD #BladesInTheDark

#OutlawsOfTheMarsh #WaterMargin #AllMenAreBrothers

Is it weird that reading Outlaws of the Marsh makes me want to run a Pendragon campaign? Or something like it. Having the adventurers collect heroes for the round table is pretty similar.

#Pendragon #TTRPG #OutlawsOfTheMarsh #WaterMargin #Suikoden

TIL there’s a queer genderbent retelling of Outlaws of the Marsh. The Water Outlaws by S L Huang. Looks fun, I’ll probably read it next.

Finished volume 1 of Water Margin.

#Literature #ChineseClsssics #Genderbent #Queer #LGBTA #WaterOutlaws #OutlawsOfTheMarsh #WaterMargin #AllMenAreBrothers #AllWomenAreSisters #FanFic #Lesbian #Sapphic

“Song Jiang was a chivalrous man whose main interest was skill with weapons. Sex had only a moderate appeal.”

“In the lamplight Song Jiang noted with pleasure what a fine figure of a man Wu Song was”

Okay, I know it’s a translation and medieval Chinese culture is something I have no understanding of at all, but I know homosexual subtext when I see it.

#Literature #Subtext #BestFriends #Gay #Queer #OutlawsOfTheMarsh #WaterMargin #AllMenAreBrothers #ChineseClassics #BrokeBackMarsh

Finished Suikoden with all 108 stars of destiny. Probably over leveled for the final fight, I was at max money by the end.

The evil empire was defeated, and a new republic is born.

#Suikoden #StarsOfDestiny #AllMenAreBrothers #WaterMargin #OutlawsOfTheMarsh