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time travel recommendations for link clickers!

Good time travel stories are inherent to the genre of science fiction as a whole. I also find that in Chinese/Chinese-American sci-fi, time travel appears significantly. I think perhaps because so much Asian storytelling muses on the loss of tradition/past to an unfamiliar modernity, or overwhelming history being unresolved to this day. Other times I think simply put, time travel is about love and family and what artist doesn’t like to ponder that? Anyway, some Chinese/Chinese-American stories about time travel that I would love to recommend…

The Man Who Ended History by Ken Liu

This story is not for the faint hearted. It deals heavily with Japanese war crimes against the Chinese during WWII, but it does remind me a little of Cheng Xiaoshi’s abilities because the story muses on a hypothetical technology that can enable people to intimately experience historical events only once, to devastating effect. Truly, this story is haunting (the kind that leaves you in a funk), but feels eerily reminiscent of Cheng Xiaoshi's timehopping potential. It is also serving as some inspiration for a potential CXS-centric fic idea I have brewing so if that does come to life I gotta give credit where it’s due.

What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu

This isn’t strictly speaking time travel as it is a speculative and unconventional travel through time, which in some ways imagines China’s modern history to have happened backwards. If you’re familiar with Chinese modern history, it is honestly pretty devastating to read, especially because in some ways one can see how it is reflecting reality despite being somewhat opposite of history. While I can’t find a copy of it online, it’s available in English in the anthology of Chinese sci-fi Broken Stars.

Memories of my Mother by Ken Liu

okay this post is low key a Ken Liu works appreciation post in disguise but if anyone has read my fic spinning silk , this is the short story whose pages imagine in which Cheng Xiaoshi would keep his mother’s photograph. if you know of any more that you would recommend please share!!

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"you are handsome" i would look handsomer with your legs on my shoulders

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The kid will cherish this for their whole life. If they remember it.

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i’m the dude at the factory who glues all the salt to the potato chips 

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— HOGWARTS SEEKERS

#harry potter #cedric diggory #cho chang #draco malfoy

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@hogwartsonline yearbook event | neville longbottom

You can’t go out, you’ll be caught again. Gryffindor will be in even more trouble… I won’t let you do it. I’ll — I’ll fight you!

#neville longbottom

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miles “who’s morales” morales’s biggest weakness is the cover story

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Can you reproach a girl of being too smart? No. The answer is no.

Hermione Granger for @cottagelore​

#hermione granger #queue

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Celebrating the women of Harry Potter → lily evans ❁

Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead…Please… have mercy… have mercy… Not Harry! Not Harry! Please — I’ll do anything…

#lily evans

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@hogwartsonline may quidditch | headcanons - black hermione granger

“Hermione had lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.“

#hermione granger

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“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!” (for @hermicnegrvnger )

#hermione granger

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Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. “No,” she said, her voice quivering with anger, “but I will write to your mother.

#hermione granger #queue

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@dailyreading / / event #01 ··· character(s) you relate to

— ron weasley, from harry potter by j.k. rowling.

from now on, i don’t care if my tea leaves spell, ‘die, ron, die,’ i’m chucking them in the bin where they belong.

#ron weasley #queue

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marauders posters [¾]  → remus lupin

“Did you like question ten, Moony?“ asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. “Loved it,” said Lupin briskly. “Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question.”

#marauders era #remus lupin

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instagram au » cho x cedric (late birthday present for @chvchang)

#cedric diggory #cho chang

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@hogwartshousesnet​ april event | @hogwartsonline​ quidditch | order of the phoenix

  not my d a u g h t e r, you b i t c h!

#molly weasley

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Harry James Potter 🌫

—“this is the end.”

#harry potter