#week 142

This week we are excited to feature the amazing @chevrolangels I hope you enjoy all the amazing fanfics this week!

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This is week 142, 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!

Body Slam - @78bathsheba

Rent Control - jlala aka @jlalafics

A New Path - heilb aka @butrfac14

Epiphany - @sfcbruce

Endgame - redheadedflame

Quicksilver - gamemakers aka @finnicko-loves-anniec

Taiwan Street Food Map. Liv Wan. Illustration. 2015.

Liv Wan is an illustrator from Taipei, Taiwan and has has been living in the UK since 2007. Before pursuing a full time freelance career, she was a professionally trained chef and published her cookbook, Homestyle Taiwanese Cooking. Wan describes her illustration style as bold, fun and colourful. She often incorporates good humour into her work as she wishes to bring happiness to the viewers. Her work has been commissioned by various international companies and she has received awards from Adobe Design Achievement and 3x3 International Illustration Magazine. 

Taiwan Street Food Map is an illustration commissioned for a Taiwanese souvenir company to be printed onto postcards. Inspired by Taiwan being a country famous for its cheap and delicious street foods, the map illustrates the major areas and its local street food specialty.

Image courtesy of Liv Wan 

We want to express our appreciation to @chevrolangels for all the amazing fics we got to share this week!

Consider giving them a follow and check out their amazing content!

Thank you for keeping up with us and supporting our amazing creators and see you next week. Have an amazing weekend and stay well!

Journey to the Dark II (夜游记二) by Yang Yongliang (杨泳梁). Video. 2019.

Part of MGM China’s new multimedia art exhibition as part of Art Macao, Journey to the Dark II reinterprets traditional Chinese ink paintings in the form of an immersive video that takes the viewer through famous Hong Kong and Macau landmarks in MGM Theater, accompanied by an original soundtrack. Yang’s work bridges the gap between past and present, connecting the traditional and the contemporary with uniquely modern takes on ancient aesthetics.

Before I Die by Candy Chang. Public art. 2011-2019.

Before I Die is a participatory art project in which a blank chalkboard wall is put up for the public to share something they want to do before they die. After grieving the death of a friend and realizing how much society avoided discussion of death, Chang wanted to start a conversation. The project offers a space for people to reflect upon their mortality with others in their community. Over 4,000 Before I Die walls have been created in over 70 countries. 

Artist Candy Chang has degrees in urban planning, architecture, and graphic design, and seamlessly combines them to explore ideas such as isolation vs. community, society vs. the psyche, etc., through participatory public art. Another one of Chang’s projects, Confessions, will be featured at the San Diego Wonderspaces art show in July 2019. 

from Summer Song (夏歌) by Chen Li (陳黎). 2013. Translated by Elaine Wong (2017).

Chen Li is a poet, essayist and translator based in Hualien, Taiwan. Regarded as one of the best representatives of contemporary Chinese poetry in Taiwan, Chen has published fourteen books of poetry and has been recognised with accolades such as the Taiwan National Award for Literature and the Arts and the Taiwan Literature Award amongst others.

Chen is a prolific translator of poetry, and has translated over 20 volumes of poetry into Chinese with his wife Chang Fen-ling. With a focus on contemporary poetry- particularly Latin American poetry- Chen Li is known for bringing non-mainstream poets into the Chinese-speaking world. Poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Yosano Akiko and Octavio Paz are amongst the many he has translated in his works, often for the first time.

Chen’s work is interested in the boundary between word and thing and the play across such boundaries. Translator Elaine Wong describes his relation with words as a case in which “instead of being summoned by things, word deploy things by forming creative constellations”. Rather, the signifiers and signified are engaged in a reciprocal relationship in which both are stimulated by the other.