#week 115

A very happy congragulations to our week 115 creators: @jenniferb-art & @risencas ! We are execited to share these wonderful creations from very talented people. 

Please kindly remember to follow our tracked tag #spncreatorsdaily for announcements and the blog to keep up with fantastic original content.

Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的). dir. Chih-Yen Hsu & Mag Hsu. 2018.

Directed by Mag Hsu together with Hsu Chih-Yen, the award-winning Taiwanese film Dear Ex tells a heartwarming story through the eyes of a teenager who witnesses a bitter feud between his willful mom and a free-spirited man, who's the lover and insurance beneficiary of his recently deceased dad.

Dear Ex embraces bravely the discussions on taboos, traditions and family issues characteristical in modern Taiwanese households that are undergoing drastic changes: How should queerness be negotiated with one’s original family while the family structure itself is deeply inculcated under the moral standards set out by the long-running Confucian traditions. It is a story about reunification, understanding and reconciliation that tries to evoke people’s belief in the various forms of love that exist among individuals. 

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Here is week 115, 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!

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

Wilderness Log - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Fifty Year's Worth - juststella aka @justajjfan

Random Reality Shifts - @wakebytheriver

Good Boy - Bad Girl - diana_flynn aka @dianaflynn22

A BREAK - BellaGracie

What Lies in Between - demona424 aka @drivebyanon

Friends - @javistg

100th Hunger Games - wildcatpacer

Champion - redheadedflame

Pieces That Fall Into Place - everlarklover1960

What an amazing week showcasing @jenniferb-art and @risencas‘ works this past week! Please give them a follow if you enjoyed their work and want to keep seeing it in the future.

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Narrow Distance by Ka-Man Tse (謝嘉敏). Photography. 2004-2018.

Born in Hong Kong and immigrated to America with her family at a young age, Ka-Man Tse is now a photographer, video artist and educator based in New York. Her works are strongly influenced by her identity as an Asian-American lesbian and deal with the multiple and diasporic identities of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and LGBTQ communities.

This year, Tse published her first photography book Narrow Distance, in which Tse recasts the queer social landscape in Hong Kong through a series of portraits centering on members of the city’s underground queer community. “Who can claim ownership, who can love or belong”, Tse asks. For more than 10 years, she tried to seek an answer, to look for points of connection, until one day her quest itself became an answer.

Sanitation Like So (如此卫生) from The Adventures of San Mao the Orphan (三毛流浪记). Zhang Leping (张乐平). Comic book. 1935.

The popular Chinese cartoon character San Mao was created in 1935 by Zhang Leping, an artist and founder of the Comic Book Anti-Japanese Propaganda Team. Zhang aimed to depict the hardships of life under Japanese aggression through San Mao, a homeless, orphaned boy roaming around Shanghai. This character later came to inspire Taiwanese writer and translator San Mao or Echo Chan’s pseudonym.

In this scene San Mao is swarmed by flies- so many that they cover the ironic sign saying “pay attention to sanitation”. Despite Shanghai’s regard as a modern, cosmopolitan city at the time, it still faced many of the same issues as less prominent areas, and this scene serves to bring to attention the less appealing parts of the large city.