fanfic recs!

It's been slightly over a year since I started translating To Embers We Return, so I thought it might be a good time to take stock of my progress.

( douqi rambles about stats )

And finally, to anyone thinking of checking out the translation but not wanting to be stuck on too much of a cliffhanger, Chapter 36 (which is coming up soon) is something of a natural stopping point for what I've started thinking of as 'volume one' of the novel. It's been surprisingly tricky to identify stopping points because Ning Yuan is a very good serial writer and therefore puts little hooks in at the end of each chapter to compel you to come back to the next one, but I think this more-or-less works. By chapter count, it's also about 20% of the main text of the novel (19.78% if you add the extras) so I feel that's a nice chunk of book, and you'll get the next chunk about this time next year, kind of like traditional series publishing (that's the hope, anyway).

Was looking through the Yuletide and Festivids 2025 collections earlier and came across two baihe-related entries:

• A Deadly Thread, a Legend of Yunze fic by sephstone
  
• Vigor & Valor, a Couple of Mirrors vid by comm member extrapenguin

Let me know if I've missed anything from this or other festive exchanges!