#week 143

This week we are so excited to feature @deancrowleycas / @lamiasage!

Please join us in this celebration by rebloging anything you enjoy.

Banner was made by the talented @everlarkingjoshifer

For some reason my scheduled post didn’t post last night. My apologies.

This is week 143, 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!

Cavedweller - jennajuicebox aka @awkwardeverlark

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

Fifty Year's Worth - juststella aka @justajjfan

A Bump On The Head - @mtk4fun

A New Path - @butrfac14​

Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback​

Endgame - redheadedflame

Lover Boy - panskiss123

It’s a Heaven Over There. Samson Young. Installation. 2019.

It’s a heaven over there marks celebrated Hong Kong artist Samson Young’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Held in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Young searches for utopia in this exhibit staging his vision of global retrotopianism and diasporic imagination. Originating from his archival research on Won Alexander Cumyow, the first Chinese person born in Canada, this  multimedia installation consists of works on paper, archival materials and animated music videos on the shifting modern cosmopolitan nation-state. 

Samson Young is a Hong Kong based composer and sound and media artist. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University and has collaborated with multiple bands and orchestras worldwide. Having received cross-cultural training in music composition, Young combines image and sound to form symphonic artworks of identity, war and literature. He has showcased his works in various group and solo exhibitions, participated in multiple music festivals and was the recipient of several awards.

Photos courtesy of Samson Young

We want to give a huge shout-out to @lamiasage for letting us share his beautiful creations this week! If you enjoyed it as much as we did, please consider giving @lamiasage a follow so you can continue to support his work in the future!

And please feel free to tag #spncreatorsdaily in anything you want rebloged to this blog on the weekends.

Museum of Anagapesis by Nicholas Wong (黃裕邦). 2012.

Writing in English, his second language, Hong Kong poet Nicholas Wong has made a name for himself publishing poetry as well as translating poems from Chinese to English. Wong’s work often tackles issues of race, sexuality, and gender, and his 2015 collection, Crevasse, won the Lamda Literary Award in 2016, an award granted to emerging LGBTI voices worldwide. 

River Snow (江雪) by Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元). Tang Dynasty. 

Liu Zongyuan is a prominent Chinese poet and writer who lived during the Tang Dynasty. He is recognized for his prose writing as one of the Eight Masters of the Tang and Song (唐宋八大家). Along with writer Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement, in which he advocated for a clear and precise writing style. 

Liu Zongyuan was sent into exile during his civil service career, during which he was able to focus on growing his writing. It was then, in Yongzhou, that he wrote River Snow. The poem paints a scene of winter, as well as themes of isolation and perseverance. When read in Middle Chinese, the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme.