#week 148

This week we are excited to feature the talented @nickelkeep I hope you enjoy all the amazing fanfics we have for you this week!

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The Flight into Egypt (逃往埃及). Ren Yifang (任懿芳). Ink and color on silk. Early 20th century.

On display as part of the Palace Museum’s recent collaborative exhibition with the Vatican, Beauty Unites Us, The Flight into Egypt depicts the Biblical narrative recounted in the Gospel of Matthew, in which Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus flee from Jerusalem into Egypt, escaping Herod the Great’s massacre. The painting depicts a mix of Eastern and Western styles in both its rendering and its subject matter, emblematic of much of the Catholic art that flourished during the Qing Dynasty.

The writing on the bottom right of the painting reads: “任懿芳 恭绘,” or “Respectfully made by Ren Yifang.” In the upper left corner, the red seal reads: “天主圣母，为我等祈,” or “Holy Mother, pray for me.” 

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This is week 148, 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!

The Contractor - @butrfac14

My Brother’s Bride- AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

Endgame - redheadedflame

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

HALF-SOMETHING - BellaGracie

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

Game Night. Christopher K. Ho. Glass. 2016.

Christopher K. Ho is a Hong Kong artist and curator who currently lives and works in New York. He has a M.F.A. in architecture from Cornell University, and a M.Phil in art history from Columbia University. His works range in style, from outdoor installations, to sculptures, to lecture-performances, to the glasswork seen in Game Night. Many of his works explore topics such as identity and class. 

Game Night consists of 88 3-inch, laser-etched glass cubes and two glass balls. Taken apart, they transform into four games, a 3D puzzle, a domino-like game, a chess-like game, and a game that uses two round die. 

Photo courtesy of Christopher K. Ho. 

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (姜峯楠). 2019.

Emerging in the public eye after the success of the 2016 blockbuster sci-fi hit Arrival, based on his 1998 short story “Story of Your Life,” author Ted Chiang published Exhalation: Stories on May 7th, 2019, a new collection of short stories exploring the nature of humanity and reality. 

Known for both the ingenuity of his worldbuilding and the precision of his storytelling, Chiang weaves moving narratives exploring ethics and morals even in cold, futuristic worlds reminiscent of Netflix’s Black Mirror. As China Miéville writes for The Guardian: “In Chiang’s universe, humanism is inextricable from rationalism. Far from being counterposed as ‘cold’ to emotion’s ‘warmth’, it is the rationalism of the characters – and the writer – that makes them emotional and human.”