The author is super sus, their youtube videos like to include drive-by anti-china quips, like bringing up China is genociding Muslims, or covered up the pandemic to save face, in sections completely unrelated to those topics. I also felt a weird attitude to Asian men in Iron Widow, so I checked around and saw Asian guys were saying the same thing, and that their work more broadly disregards them.
If you want queer English Chinese fantasy, the Radiant Emperor Duology is very good.
The author is super sus, their youtube videos like to include drive-by anti-china quips, like bringing up China is genociding Muslims, or covered up the pandemic to save face, in sections completely unrelated to those topics. I also felt a weird attitude to Asian men in Iron Widow, so I checked around and saw Asian guys were saying the same thing, and that their work more broadly disregards them.
If you want queer English Chinese fantasy, the Radiant Emperor Duology is very good.