#week 151

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Week 151

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This is week 151, 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!

A Bump On The Head - @mtk4fun

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

The Pack - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Katniss, Is That You? - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Epiphany - @sfcbruce

Revolutionary - shiningcity aka @shining-city

A New Path - @butrfac14

Three of Hearts - misshoneywell aka @badnovels

Stay With Me - @ambpersand

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不以物喜，不以己悲。居庙堂之高则忧其民，处江湖之远则忧其君。是进亦忧，退亦忧。然则何时而乐耶？其必曰：先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐乎！ They do not find happiness in things, nor do they find sadness in their own gains or losses. When holding high positions in court, they worry for the common people, when they are roaming in faraway areas they then worry for their lords. In court they indeed worry, when retiring outside of court they also worry. Now then, when are they happy? They will say: Before anyone in this world worries they will worry, and only after everyone in this world is happy will they be happy!

Excerpt from Memorial to Yueyang Tower (岳阳楼记) by Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹). Northern Song Dynasty. Translated by Emily Hou.

Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹) was a poet, philosopher, and military strategist of the Song Dynasty. While serving as an official, he proposed many reforms including that of the civil service examination system, which he believed should test for ability rather than elegance and style. 

Memorial to Yueyang Tower was written at the invitation of Fan’s good friend, Teng Zijing. The poem was inspired by the sights of the Yueyang Tower in modern day Hunan Province, but its discussion of human feeling and thought can be applied to much more.

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What do I smell        but the perfume of   transience Crushed calyxes         rotting phloems Let’s write     pretty poems        pretty poems      pretty poems Masque stale pogroms    with a sweet whiff of oblivion

From Beautiful Boyfriend by Marilyn Chin (陈美玲). 2012.

Marilyn Chin is a poet, novelist, anthologist, translator and professor, currently based in San Diego, USA. Chin has won numerous awards - including the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, multiple Pushcart Prizes, a Fullbright fellowship amongst many others. In 2018, Chin was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Chin’s work is known for their interest in her experiences as an Asian American and feminist - “noted for its direct and often confrontational attitude”.

Beautiful Boyfriend is a poem dedicated to Chin’s past boyfriend, who died of an aneurysm during Thanksgiving week, 2011. Part of the work are tributes to her beloved, whilst others celebrate “boyfriendness” - figured here in a mode different to “husbandness”.

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Human Machine Reverse Motion Capture Project by Lu Yang (陸揚). Installation. 2019.

Lu Yang is a multi-media artist based in Shanghai, China. Her work is deeply invested in the subcultures of anime, video games and science-fiction, which is reflected in her practice with video game-like installations in their use of holograms, virtual reality and other forms of interactive manipulation. Their works often involve creating fantasies which highlight the fragility of humankind - with the artifice technology which is prominent in their work serving as the stark point of contrast.

In Human Machine Reverse Motion Capture Project, Lu Yang considers how the human body can be trained to overcome its physical limitations. Looking at traditional and contemporary dances in Indonesia, India and Japan, the project seeks to record the intricacies of the dancers’ gestures (including facial, finger- and eye-movement capture techniques) and mimics these using robotic technologies. 

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Selected works from Corner Stories of Hobart. Shanshan Ai. 2017.

Artist Shanshan Ai worked as art editor and reporter for the Beijing Evening News, before deciding to quit and move to Tasmania to pursue art. Ai is largely inspired by her father, who, an artist himself, passed away when she was young. Ai graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Master of Fine Art and Design.

Corner Stories of Hobart is a collection of artwork inspired by both the natural and built landscapes of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, where Ai resided.

Photo credit to The Henry Jones.

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Thank you all for always supporting the creators in our fandom, & we wish everyone a relaxing weekend!