Cut porcelain carving 剪瓷雕 is prevalent in the Hokkien architecture of Fujian, Chaoshan, and Taiwan, and to a lesser extent Vietnamese architecture.
Traditionally, Hokkien porcelain artists would gather small colored porcelain artifacts (such as bowls and other utensils), cut and/or grind them into smaller fragments, and then paste these fragments onto sculptures attached to buildings for the purpose of decoration. The topic of these sculptures may vary - ranging from plants and animals to figures from Chinese mythology or Hokkien folktales
Since this blog is dedicated to my projects, it's about time I properly introduce myself and the books I'm writing/want to write.
About me:
I go by LuViKöe, which is short for my pen name, Lukas Vincent König (I also hope to make this my legal name some day). I'm a crossdressing transmasc from Berlin, Germany and I've been writing since I was about 12/13.
I'm the type of person that has a self-insert for nearly every piece of media they consume. I especially love creating characters and worldbuilding.
I loved reading as a child, but barely opened any books between 15 and 17. I'm 18 now and plan to change that, especially since my passion for writing is back.
I used to be a hellenic polytheist, though umfortunately, majority of my two year practice was religious psychosis. I "converted" to atheism for my own safety, and I do want to start worshipping again, I just don't know if I'm ready/stable enough yet.
My biggest struggle in writing is to actually write. I keep waiting to be "in the mood", which never happens, and I KNOW I should just open my damn ancient laptop and vomit words onto the page, I just don't do it. Task paralysis, I guess.
Now, onto the books:
Homiklothia - Son of Ares/War on the Island of Peace (Series)
Setting: 2060s-2070s
Humans poisoned the earth over centuries. Entire species went extinct, the air is hardly breathable and the ocean is treated as a giant trash can. Soon enough, "Mother Earth" had enough. Various old goddesses, personified as said force, awoke under the burden they had carried.
But humans weren't spiritual enough for deities to act directly. The solution?
Demideities. Melotokhen.
For the first time in thousands of years, deities of various ancient pantheons stepped into the mortal world to create children who could make a change. Children, mortal enough to act, and divine enough to have the abilities humans lacked. So, the Kantokhesie was created. The destiny of demideities to bring an end to capitalism, in any way they will find.
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I haven't really found a way to make a good summary of Homiklothia yet, but since it's my main project at the time, I will probably make an extra post about the worldbuilding, f.e. how human belief affects the divine, the multiverse, planes of existence, global supernatural energy, etc.
Some might be able to tell Homiklothia was inspired by Percy Jackson. If I remember correctly, some random day three years ago I got so upset at Rick Riordans portrayal of deities and minorities, I went down the rabbit hole of his "accidental" bigotry throughout all of his books and spontaneously decided I wanted to write something about demideities, but my way. This sounds egoistical as hell, and I've been called excessively prideful over it, but in my eyes, Hoklo developed from a PJO AU I made out of spite into a full-fledged passion project. I try my best to differentiate between the two and have Hoklo be its unique own thing, though the inspo is still obvious. I'm still not fond of Rick Riordan and some of his writing choices, but I abandon thoughts about him while writing.
Jekyll and Hyde - Legacy
As the name says, J&H Legacy follows the great-great-great-grandson of Dr Henry Jekyll, as he stumbles upon remains of his ancestors experiment to manifest the "evil" side of ones self into its own persona. It wouldn't be Jekyll and Hyde if James Jekyll wasn't a moron who followed 150 year old instructions and drank the potion he got from it, creating Nathan Hyde, an emotionally unstable, potentially homicidal drag queen.
I really want to turn this one into a murder mystery, where there's bodies showing up that aren't Hydes fault, and despite not really believing him, James and his friends (descendants of Utterson and Pools) go on a UK-wide chase to find the actual perpetrator. I'm also a Jekyde shipper, so readers can expect hella messy polyamorous tension. This will probanly be set somewhere between the 2010s and 2024.
GeneVault Delta
SCP-Foundation style monster romance. This one is severely underdeveloped, so there isn't much to say about it right now.
01-BA is a series of experiments, centered around the goal of bioengineering the perfect weapon for the military. Majority of the series failed. Only three living creatures remain; 01-032, 01-033 and 01-034. Unlike its two younger siblings, 01-032 wasn't chosen to assist in warfare. It was deemed "too intelligent" and "too emotional". In tests, it had shown to turn on the side it fought for, if the enemies gave it reason to think it was doing the wrong thing. 032 was locked away in the DeltaVault facility for decades, caretakers coming, going, dying. Due to its immense strength and brutality, scientists treated it as a cautionary tale.
Dr Henri Covali is assigned to be its newest caretaker, and oddly enough, the creature takes a liking to him.
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Other projects I've mostly scrapped but might pick up again:
The Lotus
Two men take "eat the rich" too serious, open a restaurant and accidentally become part of the rich by eating their concurrence.
Apocalypse Survivors
Zombie romance. Obvious, I know. This was the first book I ever considered writing, and while I now think it's kinda whack, I'm still quite fond of the characters. Elijah is a zombie who kept his mind in tact through the transformation and now looks after Lonnie, his transfem neighbour he's had a crush on for a while, but lost his chance to confess because now, anything he'd try could infect her. Later they join a group of survivors and Lonnie has to keep them from annihilating Elijah.
Since in modern paganism, deities often send spiders to their followers, regardless of whether they're really associated with spiders or not (most notably Hekate), deities in hoklo do the same to demideities.
Doesn't matter where you look. There are spiders on your ceiling, there are spiders in your closet, there are spiders in your shower, there are spiders in your cupboards, there are spiders in your car.
No one knows if the spiders were even sent by someone they're related to. Heck, no one knows if they were sent at all, maybe they're just drawn to divine energy.
They're not there to spy on the demideities or anything. They're just there. Everywhere.
Rice fields flourish in the mountains surrounding Taitung. They are a lush emerald-green! What miles and miles of beauty!The rich volcanic soil provides the perfect organic matter. Miles and miles of quiet rice fields thrive between the mountains and the ocean . The rice fields of the East Coast are magnificent. Here on the East Coast are quiet and…
