#week 140

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This is week 140, folks!

I am looking for authors or new stories to read. If you know an author or story that I’m not reading, please let me know!

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!

Proving Them Wrong Outtakes -  @butrfac14

Some Walks You Can’t Take Alone - merciki aka @thegirlfromoverthepond

The Nightingtale and the Dying Man - merciki aka @thegirlfromoverthepond

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

Stop the Train - Rannonsolo7

Revolutionary - shiningcity aka @shining-city

Scout - @adreamofadandelioninthespring

We’re All Different, Yet the Same (不一樣又怎樣) by Jolin Tsai (蔡依林). 2014.

Released on Tsai’s thirteenth studio album, Play, the music video of “We’re All Different, Yet the Same” is based on the true story of a lesbian couple — in the music video, one half of the couple is hospitalized for surgery, her wife unable to sign surgical consent forms due to their marriage not being recognized by law. The delay ultimately leads to her death, highlighting legal barriers faced by LGBT couples all over the world. 

Jolin Tsai’s music video faced widespread controversy when it was first unveiled in 2014, even being banned in Singapore. Since then, Tsai has continued to express vocal support for LGBT rights both in and out of her native country of Taiwan, campaigning for Taiwan’s government to pass the Marriage Equality Act and speaking out in 2016 during her Play World Tour to raise awareness of youth suicide among gay and transgender teenagers. 

Tsai has been recognized as one of the premier voices of modern C-pop, having been awarded four Golden Melody Awards and an MTV Video Music Award.

Ne Zha by Ng Yi-sheng (黄毅圣). 2006.

Ng Yi-sheng is a Singapore author, poet, and playwright. His works often revolve around LGBT activism, notably including SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century, a collection of coming-out stories aiming to highlight the barriers faced by the Singapore LGBT community.

Ne Zha is one poem from Ng Yi-sheng’s 2006 collection last boy, for which Ng won the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in 2008.

Selected works. Liu Ye (劉野). Oil on canvas. 2002. 

" Seeking beauty is the last chance for human beings. It is like shooting at the goal; it arouses an emotion that is wild with joy."

Liu Ye is a contemporary Chinese painter born and based in Beijing. He was part of the generation of artists who grew up during the Cultural Revolution; however, contrary to acclaimed Chinese contemporary art, his work has little political meaning and threat against the Communist Regime. Liu Ye’s paintings are renowned for their bright, comfortable hues of childlike female figures and Miffy the bunny (his favourite cartoon and a reflection of himself) and pairings with Piet Mondrian symbols. He has extensively exhibited his works throughout China, United States and Europe. 

Liu Ye’s father was a children’s book author who worked under Mao Zedong’s Down to the Countryside Movement. His father’s hidden collection of banned picture books, which included Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, stories by Alexander Pushkin, Anna Karenina, The Water Margin, War and Peace and Journey to the West inspired Liu Ye’s interest in art from a young age. He received his undergraduate degree and MFA at the Berlin University of Arts in 1994. Due to his studies and interest in Western art, his work moves away from Chinese origin and focuses instead on simple universal themes, such as emotions, hope and the pursuit of perfection in beauty, usually depicted by mildly child-like fairytale characters and female figures engaging in simple acts. He also often portrayed in his paintings figures he had interest in, such as Eileen Chang, Ruan Lingyu and the Little Mermaid. 

Images courtesy of Artlinkart

We Bare Bears dir. Daniel Chong. 2015.

We Bare Bears is an animated series shown on Cartoon Network, based off of creator Daniel Chong’s webcomic, The Three Bare Bears. The series focuses on the three bears, Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear, and their various adventures as they interact with the human world. The series has aired for four seasons.

On May 30, 2019, it was announced that the series will be getting a movie and a spinoff, both with Chong as executive producer. We Bare Bears the Movie is currently in production and will premiere in 2020. While the movie will be focusing on adventures of the adult bears, there will be a spinoff about the Baby Bears, expanding upon the few flashback Baby Bear episodes incorporated in each season of the series. Chong stated that with the Baby Bears, “we can put them in more ridiculous situations” and “can almost push their adventures a little bit more outlandish.” 

Daniel Chong was born in North Dakota, U.S.A., to Singaporean Chinese immigrants. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts.