#week 105

This coming week we have the honor of featuring two amazing creators in our fandom: @celestialjack & @shelikestv! We hope you will enjoy their lovely gifs & fanfics. So, please join in the celebration by reblogging & supporting their work!

And a friendly reminder, please feel free to use our #spncreatorsdaily tracking tag if you’d like us to share your original creations every Saturday.

Banner was made by the talented @everlarkingjoshifer

Here is week 105, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love!If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

The Christmas You Never Knew You Always Wanted - @mtk4fun

One Victor - @javistg

Before and After the In-Between - @notanislander

"...but I'd still love you."  - katemiller aka @everlarkrealornot

I have been here before - florence68 aka @florence68blog

Forever My Always - everlarklover1960

Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Damaged, Broken, and Unhinged - rosefyre aka @rosefyrefyre & fanficallergy

Wilderness Log - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Inevitability - xerxia aka @xerxia31

Selected Works by Fang Kuai A Shou ( 方块阿兽) a.k.a. Diamonster. 

Fang Kuai A Shou is a freelance illustrator from Beijing, who is currently based in Shanghai. Her style inclines towards graphic surrealism, and she works withh a wide range of imagery, frequently suffusing the morbid with the fantastical. Common themes across her body of work include mental illness - autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety - which she explores in addition to the ideas of personal emptiness, isolation and fragmentation. 

Our most heartfelt appreciation goes out to @celestialjack & @shelikestv for giving us the opportunity to share their amazing work with all of you! Please consider giving them a follow &/or keeping tabs on their creation tags:

@celestialjack​‘s edit tag

@shelikestv‘s writing tag & ao3

The Southland by Jo Yeh ( 葉盈). Illustration. 2013.

Jo Yeh is a New York based illustrator from Taipei, Taiwan. Growing up in remote, rural Taiwan, she had a stress free childhood and was able to spend time drawing instead of going to cram schools. She especially enjoyed drawing storyboards and writing scripts. After she graduated from college, she decided to pursue a career as a narrative illustrator. She takes most of her inspiration from daily life, often from daily conversations, word snippets, social media posts, interesting people on the subway, and random occurrences on the street. Since Taiwan is greatly affected by Japanese culture, she also cites Japanese comics, stories and art as being major influences in her works. Jo Yeh’s illustrations are poetic as they are quirky, and visualize the subtle relationships among people.

The Southland was her submission to the 6 Degrees Exhibition of the Light Grey Art Lab. The background elements of window frames, swallows and bougainvillea are common everyday objects she often saw on the street as a child. This piece represents her blurry childhood memory and her typical image of Taiwan, which has become a rare sight after she moved to the city. The woman in the piece is her grandmother who passed away when Jo Yeh was very young. Her only memory of her grandmother was that she always used chopsticks to pin up her long hair.

Image courtesy of Jo Yeh.

Starry Starry Night (星空). dir. Tom Lin. 2011.

Starry Starry Night is a Taiwanese fantasy drama film based on an illustrated novel by Jimmy Liao. The story centres on the friendship between 13-year-old Xiao Mei (Xu Jiao) and her classmate, Xiao Jie (Eric Lin Hui-min). Xiao Mei, who used to live with her grandparents in the mountains, now lives with her parents in the city. She finds the city cold and distant, and is constantly troubled by her parents’ (Harlem Yu and Rene Liu) frequent fights caused by work stress and marriage problems. She socially withdraws herself from reality into a fictional world and becomes drawn to Xiao Jie, her new neighbour and classmate. Xiao Jie is awkward and distant because his mother frequently moves and he cannot stay at one school long enough to make friends. He is often bullied by his classmates because of his distant and “aloof” attitude. Their friendship blossoms one day when Xiao Mei saves him from the bullies and their bond continues to strengthen as they discover that they share many similar interests. When Xiao Mei’s parents announce their divorce, her world begins to fall apart, and she decides to escape with Xiao Jie.

Director Tom Lin made his directorial debut with Winds of September in 2008 and wanted to create film based on one of his favourite illustrated novels, Starry Starry Night by Jimmy Liao. The soundtrack of the film was produced by World’s End Girlfriend and Mayday (五月天). Starry Starry Night was described by critics as a charming visual feast and a tender, heartfelt picture of childhood innocence and discovery.

Duilian. Wu Tsang. HD color video with sound, installation view. 2016.

Recently announced as one of the 2018 MacArthur Fellows, Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and performance artist who creates works that deal with issues of gender, sexuality, and hybridity. Tsang is widely recognized for “creating new conceptual and visual vocabularies for exploring hidden histories and marginalized narratives in works that collapse the boundaries between documentary and fiction.”

Duilian is a film inspired by the historial figure and late 19th-century revolutionary poet and feminist Qiu Jin (秋瑾). Tsang reinterprets tales of Qiu Jin and her alleged lover, calligrapher Wu Zhiying in modern day Hong Kong in a film amalgamation of documentary and kung fu genre. The work’s title refers to both traditional couplet poetry and a dueling category in wushu martial arts. According to Arthub, “Duilian decodes and deliberately ‘mistranslates’ official narratives about Qiu Jin, as a way to question the role that language and storytelling play in the construction of history.”

Congratulations to Tsang on her achievement with the MacArthur Foundation!