My friend and I just watched '17 jttw tonight. We'd heard about this fic and I was eager to start reading it! I gotta say I love how you capture their dynamics. <3
I'm also really enjoying all the inspirations drawn from the original story! I'm nearly done reading through jttw myself, so it was really fun reading the scene where the group is tested on their devotion and Pigsy absolutely failed LOL. Also a very clever way to tie in an introduction to the horse.. and then that horse getting eaten by Ao Lie. ;3 Super enjoyable.
I will also have to keep an eye out for little notes like on this chapter. I'm not sure which version of jttw I read, I believe it was a translation in the 50's? But I do specifically remember the bit about his collar bone. Fascinating bit of translation facts and information on what that meant! Thanks for sharing.
I'm really excited to keep reading! Thank you for all your hard work!
Hi there! Thank you so much for checking out this fic and leaving your thoughts on every chapter! I really appreciate it :D And I'll slowly (but surely) reply to everything- thanks so much for all the great comments!
Glad you enjoyed the group dynamics here ;) LOL Yep, of course Bajie would fail- and his 17!incarnation is somehow even more of an asshole than his usual self! I had a lot of fun spinning elements from the original story (like Ao Lie and the horse, etc.), so glad to know that you're having fun with it too!
The translation about the collar bone was interesting to me too! I don't think any Eng. translations ever actually describe the full extent of that pipa bone scene (maybe they didn't want the sentence to be too long?), but it's significant to the fic so I thought it'd be nice to put a little footnote there! Then I decided to keep going with the little notes every chapter haha- have to put all this random jttw knowledge to use somewhere. Thank *you* so much for reading and stopping to comment!
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