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CONFESSIONS ★ WEEK 83: @scandinavian-punk

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Week 83 Happy Fathers Day! ^v^

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This week we have the opportunity to feature the works of @fluffiestlou, @kalesrebellion and @dickspeightjrs

I hope you enjoy the writing and gifs of all these amazing creators and join us in celebration them! As a side note, don’t forget to tag your creations with the tag #spncreatorsdaily if you want them featured on the blog on Saturdays!

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常勇趴在地上开始抽泣，那只罐头瓶像只多余的骨节一样妖冶地长在她两手中间，好像她无论怎样使劲都不能把它从她的骨骼中剔除，它就那么坚硬地茂密地在她两手中间越长越大，长成了一片浩大的湖泊，而她则成了浸泡在湖泊里的尸骸。她终于被尿憋得忍不住了，一边抽泣一边站了起来，她在月光下分辨着爷爷的方向，然后背对着他褪掉了短裤，她站在月光下光着屁股叉开双腿开始对着那只罐头瓶撒尿，淅淅沥沥地一尿完，裤子都没有提她就开始蹲在地上大声呜咽，她边哭便喊，我就不是男的，我就是个女的，我本来就是个女的。 Chang Yong laid prone on the ground and began to sob. Like an extra joint bewitchingly sprouted from between her hands, the jar couldn’t be detached from her skeleton, no matter how hard she tried. Hard and lush, it continued to grow larger and larger between her two hands, until it turned into a massive lake, whereas she turned into the skeletal remains immersed in the water. Ultimately, she could no longer hold in her pee. She continued sobbing as she stood up. Distinguishing Grandpa’s direction under the moonlight, she turned her back to him and took off her shorts, standing there butt-naked in the moonlight. She spread her two legs and began to pee into the jar, making a pattering sound until she finished. Then, without even pulling her shorts back up, she crouched down on the ground and began to whimper, tears falling from her face as she shouted: “I’m NOT a boy! I’m a girl, I’ve always been a girl!"

The Sciomantic Medium (乩身) by Sun Pin (孙频). 2017. Translated by Chelsea Shieh.

Sun Pin is a young, up-and-coming Chinese female writer. Born in 1983, Sun graduated from Lanzhou University’s Chinese Language Department, and is currently studying creative writing at Renmin University in Beijing. She began writing short stories in 2008, and her works have widely been published in magazines, as well as in her short story collections Salt (盐) and Pain (疼), among others. Her works are known for exploring heavy topics, and are often set in rural mountain villages, featuring characters that have little to no way out of their troubled lives.

Sun’s short story “乩身”, which approximately translates to “The Sciomantic Medium”, is about a blind girl named Chang Yong, who is abandoned by her parents as an infant, and taken in by an old man who raises her as a boy in order to protect her from the evils of society. The story explores the themes of societal alienation, disability, gender performance, and trauma.

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Eternal Summer (盛夏光年). dir. Leste Chen (陳正道). 2006.

Eternal Summer is a Taiwanese coming-of-age film directed by Leste Chen, starring Joseph Chang (張孝全), Ray Chang (張家振) and Kate Yeung (楊淇).

Set in the seaside in southern Taiwan, the intimate film centres on three high students and their experiences with the rewards and consequences of love, friendship and yearning. Studious and reserved Jonathan (Ray Chang) befriends his rebellious and charismatic classmate Shane (Joseph Chang) as a request from his elementary school teacher. They eventually become close friends, and enter high school ten years later. Jonathan and Shane’s budding friendship becomes complicated when Carrie (Kate Yeung) befriends Jonathan. Her observations lead her to suspect that Jonathan is in fact in love with his best friend Shane. As Carrie becomes closer to Shane, Jonathan faces a sexual identity crisis and their relationships are changed with newfound sensitivity and passion. Despite hiding their emerging feelings, the three are eventually forced to confront the truth. 

 The three characters have underlying poetic meaning based on the astrological significance of their names. Shane (守恒) represents the Sun/Star (恒星). Jonathan (正行) represents the planet Earth (行星). Carrie (慧嘉) represents the Comet (彗星). Heavily influencing the plot, the poetic subtext is as follows: 

The Sun is always shining.

The Earth is always following the route around the Sun at a distance, but cannot approach it.

The Comet is a surprise to the solar system.

It cannot be complete if one of them is missing.

Eternal Summer was nominated for four awards at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards in 2006. Ray Chang won Best New Performer, Joseph Chang was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best New Performer, and Eternal Summer (盛夏光年) by Mayday (五月天) was nominated for Best Original Song.

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人活一辈子，不图啥，就为个说得着的人。有的人从前说不着，过些年却说得着了；有的人从前说得着，说着说着却忽然说不着了。有些人这一辈子也说不得着。找一个能说得着的人过一辈子是福分，不管是爱人、朋友还是亲人。 Throughout a lifetime, one doesn't expect much, only someone to talk to. Some people begin unable to understand each other, but years later are able to; others begin with the ability, but lose it by and by. Some people spend this whole life unable to communicate. Finding someone to talk to is a blessing, be they a lover, friend, or family.

One Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words (一句顶一万句) by Liu Zhenyun (刘震云). 2009. 

Recipient of the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize and considered the Chinese version of One Hundred Years of Solitude, One Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words is a bilateral exploration of loneliness in company, the meaning of family, and complications arising from the intertwining of past and present. The first part of the novel depicts embittered protagonist Wu Moxi’s desperate search for his abducted adopted daughter, Cao Qing’e, the only person he could confide in. The second narrative describes Cao’s son Niu Aiguo’s spiritual return to his hometown, also seeking someone to talk to. 

Liu focuses on the experiences of ordinary folks and members of lower social echelons in his writing, centering this novel in his hometown province, Henan. In One Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words, he ascribes a universal “Chinese loneliness” to a lack of organized religion in China. "The biggest difference between a religious society and an atheist society is not that people have a god to worship, but that they have something to talk to. People in a religious society can talk anytime and anywhere, for God is omnipresent," Liu explained. The imaginative spiritual themes and plain, stylized language of One Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words have rendered it a bestselling work and characteristic of Liu’s oeuvre. 

In 2016, the novel was adapted into a film entitled Someone to Talk To by Liu’s daughter, Liu Yulin. 

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You Are Not Truly Happy (你不是真正的快樂) by Mayday (五月天). 2008.

This song appears in Mayday’s seventh studio album, Poetry of the Day After (後青春期的詩) released in 2008. You Are Not Truly Happy is a song about healing: facing guilt and sorrow, letting go of regret, putting down the protective mask, having the courage to find true happiness in the hardships of love and life.

Poetry of the Day After was the fourth bestselling album in Taiwan in 2009. Suddenly Missing You (你不是真正的快樂), a tender, rock-ballad on heart-ache, was the top track of the album, placing in the 2009 Hit FM Top 10 Songs of the Year. Several of the album’s chart toppers also received nominations for year-end awards, including You Are Not Truly Happy (你不是真正的快樂), Like Smoke (如煙) and Breakthrough Day (出頭天). You Are Not Truly Happy and Poetry of the Day After (後青春期的詩) were nominated for Best Song at the 20th Golden Melody Awards. Mayday also received Best Band at the 20th Golden Melody Awards and Hit FM Awards.

Mayday (五月天) is a Taiwanese rock band formed in the 1990s and is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of rock in Taiwan. The band consists of five members, Monster (leader, guitar), Ashin (vocal), Stone (rhythm guitar), Masa (bass) and Guan You (drums). Their songs are recorded in Mandarin as well as Taiwanese Hokkien. Having roots as a student band, their raw musical style captures the passionate vigor of Taiwanese youth. Mayday’s songs are characterized by teenage angst, growth, coming of age and the journey of life, often drawing influences from cultural icons such as the Beatles, Sun Wu-Kong, Mickey Mouse, Neil Armstrong, Superman, Che Guevara and Haruki Murakami. Being one of the most influential Asian bands in the 2000s and breaking concert records, Mayday is dubbed “The Chinese Beatles” and the “Kings of Concerts” in Asia. They also won the Golden Melody Award for Best Musical Group in 2001, 2004, 2009 and 2012.

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