#week 97

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Here is week 97, Everlark lovers! As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

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!

Cutting Room Floor - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

In Any Universe - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

Spellbound - @katnissdoesnotfollowback​

Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback​

The Lines That Blur. - IGetLostinBooks_2506 aka @iwriteabitoffanfiction

The Coin Laws - redheadedflame

Damaged, Broken, and Unhinged - rosefyre aka @rosefyrefyre & fanficallergy

The P.A.N.E.M. Initiative - katemiller aka @everlarkrealornot

Mama Rainbow by Fan Popo. 2012.

Fan Popo is a queer Chinese filmmaker, writer and activist. He is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and author of the book Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films (2007, Beifang Wenyi Press). Fan, who has produced several queer-themed, China-based documentaries, cautions that the positivity expressed in his films is “often the exception rather than the rule”. 

Mama Rainbow is a documentary primarily featuring six mothers from across China. The women speak freely about their acceptance of their gay or lesbian children, as well as their experiences with the queer community. Although Mama Rainbow initially passed Chinese censors, and was uploaded on various Chinese streaming site, the film disappeared without explanation, leading to Fan’s decision to sue the state administration. He believes that mainstream Chinese society is showing increasing acceptance of LGBTQ community, but cannot say the same thing of the government.

Monstress, Volume 1 by Marjorie Liu. Drawn by Sana Takeda. 2015. Comic.

At 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, Marjorie Liu won the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress, making her the first woman to ever win the comic industry’s highest honor for writers. Liu is also the best-selling author of over 19 novels and has worked closely with Marvel for both comics and animated films, earning the GLAAD Media Award nomination for “outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community” for her work with the X-Men franchise. Liu currently teaches comic book writing at MIT and is a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley.

Monstress is Liu’s series co-created with Japanese artist Sana Takeda and published by Image Comics. The story is set in a dark fantasy world that imagines an alternate world inspired by 20th century Asia that is matriarchal in nature. Monstress’ heroine, Maika, is a hybrid between human and creature that must find her way through a world torn by a race war. The series explores themes of race, womanhood, humanity, and empowerment. 

Small Pleasures by Karin Lee. 2012.

Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Karin Lee is a filmmaker who focuses on the stories of women and Chinese-Canadians. Lee has received multiple awards for her work, including a Canadian Screen Award and a Spotlight Award from Vancouver Women in Film and Video Society. Recurring themes of trans-Pacific migration, gender, identity and intercultural contact surface in her oeuvre.

Set in the late 1800's in Barkerville, Canada, Small Pleasures depicts a Chinese woman with bound feet explaining the custom to a white woman and a First Nations woman. The three women try to convey complex ideas about feminist resistance to ear other through a common language - Chinook Jargon - an intercultural trade language used throughout the Pacific Coast until the early 1900s. The film explores how marginalized women in late nineteenth century rural Canada create individual identities in a world prescribed to fit the needs of men. Heavily influenced by Lee’s family history, Small Pleasures is inspired by Lee’s great-grandmother Tsang Ho Shee, who herself had bound feet when she arrived in Barkerville in 1901.

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