So... I'm very shy about this, but I made an art for @monkiebois of their Tangled Star/A Woven Song AU Nezha a while ago 'cause they were having a Sad. Hopefully I did him justice-
SUPER COOL SNEAK PEAKS OF THE CROSSOVER CHAPTER FOR MY FIC! This scene takes place in @monkiebois ‘s Tangled Star au!
Here we go!
1. “Hey there! Have you seen a black monkey? He’s this tall, clearly emo but we haven’t had the talk yet. His name is Macaque and also known as Liu’er Mihou for some odd reason.” Bei Da asked as the baby monkey stared at her in confusion.
The brown monkey began hissing at her, so in response the black haired girl hissed back. They were hissing at each other for a solid five minutes before a familiar voice was heard.
2. “How did you get in Ghonzhu’s garden?” He asked as he picked up Xiaohua.
“How did I get in who’s garden?” She asked back, not knowing who this ‘Ghonzhu’ was.
“Ghonzhu! Tieshan Ghonzhu? Are those ringing any bells for you?” The lotus prince questioned with an annoyed expression.
“Nope!” The child replied.
“Ugh… Princess Iron Fan?”
“PRINCESS IRON FAN?! THIS GARDEN BELONGS TO RED BITCH’S MOM?!” Bei Da loudly exclaimed in shock.
3. “You’re not Macaque. Where’s the real Macaque? Where’s my Macaque?” Bei Da asked as she glared at the monkey.
“Wha…I am Macaque! Who else is Macaque?!” The other version of Macaque exclaimed.
“ME, BITCH!”
Here’s a bonus sneak peak! Since my AU uses songs like there’s no tomorrow, here’s a parody of FNAF The Musical Night 4!
Macaque: Is it true? Are they here? Am I going mad?
TS! Macaque: One mistake's all it takes, and this may go bad!
Macaque: No one's there!
TS! Macaque: No one's there!
Macaque: No one's-
Nezha: Is somebody there?
TS! Macaque: Few more hours left for me to stall!
Bei Da: Why's that nerd sneaking down the hall?
TS! Macaque: No one's there!
Macaque: Someone's there!
TS! Macaque, Bei Da, & Macaque: Wish I could say, no one's/Someone's there!
Tang: Hey there!
Macaque & Bei Da: *scream*
Tang: Ok, good talk…
TS! Macaque: I'll fill the void with noise...just focus on me!
Macaque: Something's breathing out beyond the door!
Ghonzhu: Hey it's me, I swear we've met before!
Macaque: I don't care!
TS! Macaque: No one's there!
Nezha: Where'd Xiaohua go?
Tang: She’s in there!
TS! Macaque: Hurry guys, I think I'm losing ground!
Bei Da: Why's that closet making monkey sounds?!
Xiaohua jumps out of the closet as Macaque and Bei Da scream.
Ghonzhu: Please come help us!
Tang: Hat Kid has gone insane!
Xiaohua: *unintelligible baby monkey sounds*
Nezha: Does this help explain?
That’s all the sneak peaks I have for now! Kay byeeee!
"Conrad's view has always kind of moved out - to think of bigger things and other people, to think of larger places. And in moving away, sometimes the things that up close are huge and horrifying, get just a little bit smaller, a little bit more right-sized, a little bit easier to manage."
i just caught up with a breach of trust and I don't even know WHAT to say. thank you? jesus christ? oh my god? my husband and friends all hate me bc I won't shut up about it? I've never read a fanfic that could hold a candle? a match even? I've been reading in all my spare time. I've had dreams bc it's the last thing I'm thinking about at night. then I read more over breakfast. WOW? wowowowow? thank you again?
Thank you for being as brain-rotted as I am over this Utter Behemoth of a fic!! It's woven into the fabric of my being at this point.
I've poured my heart and soul into it and it means so so much to me, so hearing that OTHER people are like, bothering the people in their OWN lives about it? Wow. I'm very happy over the notion that there are strangers who know vaguely of ABoT because their loved one wanted to tell them all about it.
I've really loved building it up from an empty Word document. I'm really happy and lucky other people have come along for that. Thank you!!
IT'S FINALLY FINISHED!!! ALL OF THE SWEAT, TEARS, AND ABSOLUTE FRUSTRATION IS FINALLY OVER AND I AM HAPPY TO SAY I FINISHED THIS BEFORE MIDNIGHT WHERE I LIVE!!!
Here ya go @stellawolfe30 aka @monkiebois
My first out of many MANY Several Fanarts pieces for the amazing "A Woven Song" Fanfic (I've linked it so many times before but I'll link it once again so that you may all read it BECAUSE IT'S SOO GOOD!)
Here's the speedpaint that I lightly mentioned before:
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Here's the link to the amazing fanfic:
And have the kitten of bleps because it is now my signature:
Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week
NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER
Continuing on our trek through what remains of March, I offer you another Indigenous woman writer, Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (1927-2017), a Tlingit writer from Juneau, Alaska. Born in Juneau, Dauenhauer grew up there as well as in Hoonah, Alaska with a father who was a fisherman and carver, and a mother who was a beader. Dauenhauer lived at times with her parents on a fishing boat and in seasonal camps. Being a member of the Tlingit tribe, her first language was Łingít, and she did not learn English until she was eight.
Following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, she was a member of the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation, of the Yakutat Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan, of the Shaka Hít or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River. She was chosen as clan co-leader of Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) in 1986 and as trustee of the Raven House and other clan property. She was then given the title Naa Tláa (Clan Mother) in 2010, becoming the ceremonial leader of the clan.
Dauenhauer earned a BA in anthropology from Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage. In the early 1970s, she married poet and Tlingit scholar Richard Dauenhauer and together they made significant contributions to preserve the Tlingit oral traditions in their Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature book series. Nora Dauenhauer became a Tlingit language researcher for the Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks from 1972-1973, and then became the principal researcher in language and cultural studies at the Sealaska Heritage Foundation in Juneau from 1983-1997.
On the subject of preserving the Tlingit oral tradition and its importance, Dauenhaur said:
People are now beginning to take action for language and cultural survival, and my work is to help provide inspiration and tools for this through my writing.
Dauenhauer had several accomplishments, including being named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum. Together, the Dauenhauers were awarded the Alaska Governor’s Award for the Arts, two American Book Awards, and a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. In 2005, Nora Dauenhauer was the recipient of the Community Spirit Award from the First People’s Fund.
As a poet, Nora Dauenhauer published two collections, one of which we hold in Special Collections, Life Woven With Song, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000 (the other is The Droning Shaman, Black Current Press, 1989). This book recreates the oral tradition of the Tlingit people through written language in a variety of literary forms, and records memories of Dauenhauer’s heritage from old relatives and Tlingit elders, to trolling for salmon and preparing food in the dryfish camps and making a living by working in canneries.
Author Photo is by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern
Me: "Wait, a week??? You mean A Woven Song is in the timespan of a WEEK????"
Stella: *math noises* "Almost a week-and-a-half, yeah."
Me: *Confusion Noises* "You've got, like, 30 chapters; how is that only a week???? Peach Blossom Jade has been months now and I'm not even on Chapter 20-"
Stella: "Wait, MONTHS???"
Me: "Yeah, it was 3 weeks between Mac's hospital visit and The Flare-Up alone-"
Stella: "OH-"
Time is a thing that doesn't bother with this Gremlin-