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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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Wandavision is hitting me in the feels because being stuck inside trying to be happy and "normal" whilst the world falls apart and trying to process loss through fiction has
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This is the thing that fascinates me when people look to existing texts to guide the structure of their own work. The ability to fit even quite simple stories into
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If that's how you use your fanfic writing, "as practice", I'm 100% supportive and dear lord am I hyperaware of my internal critic. So do what you gotta do? But
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Interviewer: so do you think this disrespects Chinese culture?Me: I'm not sure I believe in the concept of respecting Chinese culture, so..... It's been days and I'm still thinking about
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I've been reading 紅樓夢 (Dream of Red Mansion, aka Story of the Stone) and on a whim have translated the poems Daiyu writes in chapter 64. Here is a thread
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This started with my being aesthetically offended by these tiles and their maker's "not your grandma's mahjong" attitude.But what's more interesting is the rabbit hole I fell down about mahjong's
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I've no particular desire to defend the classics but I do think the emerging dichotomy between toxic harmful classics and wholesome unproblematic diverse modern books is deeply reductive and unhelpful
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Thinking of this and taking a step sideways, it's often how we (including me) end up experiencing art written by Asian ppl, expecting a recreation of their culture rather than
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I can't stop thinking about the ways in which 1984, a book all about how language can shape your ability to resist, to rebel, has given us the language to
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Very often these conversations about mythic mashups and authenticity get mired in basically people trying to feel out rules for how to do it themselves. "What makes Wakanda/Tolkien/Example okay but
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a pilgrimage to see Ai Weiwei's Iron Tree, cast from found wood out of iron and bolted together; a visceral beauty of something new and whole, different but carrying the
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Language Choice, aka art of making making familiar things alien, making beautiful things ugly, making lovely things creepy: a thread(Illustrated here with an article from LA weekly describing tang yuan
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