#week 153

This week we are excited to feature the talented @diminuel I hope you enjoy all the amazing art and fics we have for you this week!

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Here is week 153.

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!

Float Your Boat - hutchabelle aka @hutchhitched

The Bet - amelia_day aka @awhiskeyriver

Here It's Safe - lesbianophelia aka @mendontprotectyou

Promises - flyingmockingjay56

Unconfessed - xerxia aka @xerxia31

Quicksilver - gamemakers 

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

LAN LOVE POEM. Miao Ying (苗颖). GIF. 2014-2015.

Miao Ying is a self described “resident of the internet” originating from Shanghai, China. Their work has been known for their engagement with internet culture and in particular internet censorship in China - drawing on new media and online-only exhibits as a fundamental part of their practice. Their work pushes on traditional discourses surrounding censorship, as Ying describes how the  “traumatic bonding” of censorship becomes “so powerful that you gradually fall in love with [it].”

In LAN LOVE POEM, Ying engages with the rise of anti-aesthetics and “Internet Ugly” through a series of gifs. Each gif juxtaposes a blocked website with lurid background images and poorly translated “online poems”, the work depicts the specific mode of the Chinese internet-scape for many who inhabit it.

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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!

Selection from Where the Sea Stands Still (大海停止之处) by Yang Lian (杨炼). 1995. Translated by Brian Holton. 

Yang Lian (杨炼) is a Chinese poet. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing. Yang first begun writing poetry in the 1970s when he was sent to the countryside in China, and upon returning to Beijing he became involved with the Misty Poets (朦胧诗人), a group that rose out of dissent, responding at large to the disillusionment caused by the Cultural Revolution. 

Yang was one of five Misty Poets to be exiled after the Tiananmen Square events of 1989. Where the Sea Stands Still was written during his first period of exile in Australia and New Zealand, challenging himself to continuously push his writing towards new depths despite being in a different linguistic environment.

The Floating Dreams no.1 (浮生若夢之一). Cheuk Ka-wai (桌家慧). Ink and color on silk. 2016.

Cheuk Ka-wai, also known as Cherie, is an artist from Hong Kong. She received both Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her artwork is primarily in the Gongbi (工笔画) style, a realistic, meticulous form of Chinese painting, as opposed to the more freely expressive Xieyi style (写意画).

The Floating Dreams series is inspired by a poem by Li Bai that highlights the fleeting nature of life, comparing Heaven and Earth to a guest house, time to a traveller among hundreds of generations, and life to a dream. 

If My Nights Are Your Days (我的夜晚是不是你的白天）by Limi. 2019.

Limi is a pop duo formed by singer Li and producer Mi. Originating from Taiwan, the duo mixes lo-fi beats with ethereal female vocals. In doing so, they create dance songs which evoke a sense of magic girl anime, 80s electronic synth pop and vaporwave aesthetics. 

If My Nights Are Your Days is a depiction of love which remains dissatisfying in the inability for two people to connect. Evoking images of missed calls and missed figures in dreams, the song characterises the loneliness of modern relationships and the melancholia it entails.