Status Updates From Strange Tales from Liaozhai...

way too early for me to read something this violently homophobic

And the reason Pu condemns only the earth god and his wife and Not the adulterous husband is?

"Singing" frogs and performing mice😄

So now the remark is at the start....great.

How often does the Editor want to tell us what xuicai and hu mean? And why does this have so many fox stories anyway?

Is IT something spezial that He is in the White lotus society? And damn is He violent.

Of course there had to be a Story thAT is too long.

A concubine with weapons skills... this Story is Not from Pu.

What happened to the dragon's eyes?

The son became a cricket? When? Where? What makes Pu think that? His remarks are Not only annoying but often without connection to the stories.

His remarks are annoying. The stories are fine though. This one here is the First with a witch.

No idea what is weirder about this story, the woman being pregnant with a dragon that goes back into the womb when the others see it or that after incense burning and magic by an old neighbour the born girl comes out after alot of big scales and has "flesh as sparkling and clear as crystal, so you could actually count all of her internal organs."

This story of Qingmei and Xi is really an outlyer here. No other female led story was so long or had so much estrogen in it, Men are secondary here and it is mostly about Qingmei and Xi.I wonder whether it has something to say that Qingmei is the daughter of a fox.
The next story however, called The Rakshas's sea market confirms my suspiciaon that this story is racist against Indians. I knew it already.

You are giving away not only something from the palace of the dragon King but also is an ingredient for an immortality substance? That is stupid.

His remark is longer than the story about the mysterious black beast itself. In fact, his remark has not much to do with the story itself and sounds rather like he wanted to proselytize.

Gosh, these longer stories are annoying. And boring.

So she was a fox... how can a human die and become a fox without reincarnation in this system? This must be one of the odd balls here.
Also, funny how these supernatural women can do and say things that no mundane woman would be allowed in these stories.

These shorter stories are more memorable. Also I wonder whether in that one story the fox truly transformed into a dog or supposedly just was confused with one. And in this story here I wonder whether the girl is a ghost resurrected by foxes or a fox herself. She states she was human once and the story refers to her as a fox concubine.

I am sure that the only thing that I'll remember from this story is that the fox transformed into a pig to try and hide. That is literally the first time I have ever come across this. So far I have never seen chinese foxes transform into anything but humans. Japanese ones are usually more likely to take non-human forms.
Also, does the original book title really say "strange tales"? Several so far are really ordinary.

What is it with the author and these long ass tales now? They are so damn long and blend together now, I will never be able to remember them. Stories about hibernating dragons, sea monsters and magical girls are way more memorable than these stories about the millionth family drama.

At least he didn't make some sexist remarks in regard to Xiao'er. And Disney should have adapted her story instead of Mulan's. There is so much magic, romance and marriage, plus family drama and slight daddy issues in this that it should fit them perfectly.

Leave it to the author to be both sexist (by saying that if Sanguan was an assassin her brothers must be even more manly) and classist (by questioning how a low social rank family like Yu Jiang's could have produced such an "excellent, brave boy").

With that last story the number of stories with names female protagonists goes up to two. Not that I will remember this story next week. The shorter ones are simply more memorable on average.

The story called The Yaksha Kingdom was better than the one before, even though it was also long. However, most of the long stories in this collection tend to be very boring for me.

That one story with the woman being a daughter to a doctor was surprising because the beautiful woman was not supernatural for once, well maybe, it was still odd to see how lightly she moved and how quickly disappeared. Also the next story has a ghost girl again and somehow this time they have sex with ghosts allegedly shortening your lifespan.

The editor tries to justify this story by referring to the inability of homosexual sex to produce children and possibility of shitting during anal sex. But gay sex is described as definitely lethal here, they even use that (after He has married a fox girl [so the fax nature is not the lethal part]) to kill someone and in prior stories Pu had used sex/rape to kill, so neither can claim it’s all about procreation now.

This is getting worse. Huang sleeps with He because he wants medicine for his mother, tells him that he will find a girl more pretty than him for He, when Huang doesn't return earlier He "said many reproachful things" to him, Huang says that it all can only lead to disaster, they have sex every night and the doctor says that He has a "ghost pulse" and He died. And Huang did not cry because he loved He romantically.