#julia chiang

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Julia Chiang (American, 1978), Barely Felt It, 2021. Acrylic on wood panel, 66 x 48 in.

#julia chiang #american art #f

[luckyacid]

Julia Chiang She's Just Like a Butterfly, 2023 Acrylic on wood panel 30 x 22 in

#Julia Chiang #art

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Julia Chiang

#Julia Chiang #art

[topcat77]

Julia Chiang

#julia chiang

[oldsardens]

Julia Chiang - Open And Shut Them

#Julia Chiang

[cinemgc]

Turning Red (2022, US)

 • Dirección: Domee Shi  

 • Guion: Julia Cho, Domee Shi

 • Cinematografía: Mahyar Abousaeedi, Jonathan Pytko  

 • Cast: Rosalie Chiang, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ava Morse, Hyein Park

#Película #Animación #Red #Domee Shi #Julia Cho #Mahyar Abousaeedi #Jonathan Pytko #Rosalie Chiang #Maitreyi Ramakrishnan #Ava Morse #Hyein Park #Film #Pixar #Turning Red #Animation Movie #Mei Lee #Priya Mangal #Miriam Mendelsohn #Abby Park #Meilin Lee #2022 #20s

[thedestinysunknown]

Turning Red (2022):

“ A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. “

PERSONAL RATING:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

This is such a cute movie about a girl and her “panda side”. It has some fun jokes, gorgeous visuals and a lot of personality. I really like it.

#turning red #2022 #gifs #disney #pixar #animation #adventure #comedy #Domee Shi #Julia Cho #Sarah Streicher #Rosalie Chiang #Sandra Oh #Ava Morse #Hyein Park #Orion Lee #Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

[movie-titlecards]

Turning Red (2022)

My rating: 7/10

Man, they were not subtle with their metaphor, I can see why the weird prudes got upset. I thought it was very fun, though, and it seems to be hitting a special chord with a lot of people.

#Turning Red #Domee Shi #Julia Cho #Sarah Streicher #Rosalie Chiang #Sandra Oh #Ava Morse #Youtube

[infinitemovielist]

#Turning Red #movie poster #Domee Shi #Julia Cho #Rosalie Chiang #Sandra Oh #Ava Morse #Maitreyi Ramakrishnan #Hyein Park #Orion Lee #Wai Ching Ho #Tristan Allerick Chen #I didn't expect I'd love it/enjoy it as much as I did #It's SO GOOD #Abby and Miriam are THE BEST #The animation is great #I appreciate what Finneas did with the *4Town songs (especially the use of Jordan Fisher) #I think one of the things I enjoyed most is how well it captures both being a teenage girl and that early 00s life #(Especially how exhilirating life can feel and how important friends can be) #Not merely because I can relate to it but by how accurate it is and how it really gives the story more narrative weight and texture #Good stuff

[firstfullmoon]

hello any short stories rec that challenge the preceding notion of how short stories should be written something like her bodies and other parties??

hi ! I don’t think I’m well-read enough in short stories to recommend some that are subversive to the genre but I will redirect you to resident short story enthusiast @mossyshadows & her substack

I still want to share with you short stories I have loved though so here you go :

Julia Armfield’s short story collection salt slow is one of my favourite books and some short stories are available online: “The Great Awake” “Formerly Feral” “The Collectables” “Mantis” “Smack” (the first two are my favourites out of these but my most favourite “Cassandra, After” is unfortunately not anywhere online)

“The Ghost Birds” by Karen Russell (I think this is actually my favourite short story ever)

“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang

“L’Esprit de L’Escalier” by Catherynne M. Valente (a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice that tells us the only way Orpheus could have brought Eurydice back is if he loved her less. insane)

“The Frog King” by Garth Greenwell

if you have read and loved Her Bodies and Other Parties then obviously read the rest of CMM’s short stories available online

I’m having trouble finding online versions of their work but you should also look up Angela Carter’s and Shirley Jackson’s short story collections (The Bloody Chamber and The Lottery and Other Stories respectively) because their writing & themes are very similar to CMM’s (and also to Julia Armfield’s - “Wolf Alice” by AC inspired “Formerly Feral” as well as the name of the best band in the world) - horror short story queens !

[goosemixtapes]

max's favorite short stories & articles!

to be updated as i read new things! "articles" could be anything from political points to philosophical musings to fascinating stories. obligatory statement that i don't necessarily agree with everything in every one of these stories/articles, but i think about them a lot and want to share :)

short stories

Avi Cantor Has Six Months To Live by Sacha Lamb (@kuttithevangu) (novella) (so says the writing on the bathroom mirror. of gender & judaism & magic and t4t trans guys. cw for suicidal ideation and bullying)

Epistolary by Sascha Lamb ("The [stuffed] frog you are selling on your blog is MINE and he is NOT HAUNTED and his name is MOSHE not BILLY HOPPER.")

Chokechain by Andrew Joseph White (a trans man discovers his parents have replaced him with a robot version of his pretransition self. cw for transphobia and violence)

Sandrine by Alexandra Munck (the tagline for this one is "I dated a sun god in college" but that doesn't do justice to the sheer concept here please read this)

The Traveler Wife by yves. @yvesdot (an astronaut writes to the wife she left back home)

You Wouldn't Have Known About Me by Calvin Gimpelevich (set in a hospital ward where patients are recovering from gender-confirming surgery)

No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander (novella) ("After the world’s end, the last young human learns a final lesson from Earth’s remaining animals." cw for climate change/extinction)

And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead by Brooke Bolander (what if you had to death-match-fight a virtual version of yourself at your meanest made by your boyfriend whose life you're trying to save would that be fucked up or what. cws for guns and violence)

Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang (stories that clock you in the fucking teeth in the religious trauma.)

A Serpent for Each Year by Tamara Jerée (microfiction) ("Our relationship is almost a year old when I ask Nal why she is covered in snakes." cw for animal death)

The Front Line by W.C. Dunlap (microfiction) (cited as one of the world's finest attention-grabber openings. cws for police brutality, racism, and SA)

Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience by Rebecca Roanhorse (step into the simulation and gain an authentic experience! cws for anti-Native racism and alcohol)

articles & essays

Lockhart's Lament (on how math is taught in schools. that is, badly. one of the most cathartic essays i've ever read on education)

Against Cop Shit by Jeffrey Moro (on adversarial education)

I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. by Jennifer Coates (do you have to be out to be a woman? cw for transphobia, homophobia, and eating disorders)

Debunking "Trans Women Are Not Women" Arguments by Julia Serano (comprehensive, well-written, good to have as a reference point)

On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu (and on the politics of desire)

Turning a Unicorn Into a Bat by Josh and Lolly Weed (on Mormonism, love, and whether a gay man and a straight woman can marry happily. cw for homophobia)

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price (musings on motivation from a social psychologist and professor)

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Peterson (how come everything happens so much?)

White Women Drive Me Crazy by Aisha Mirza (on the harm caused by white women. cw for racism)

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong by Michael Hobbes (should be required reading for everyone at this point. cw for fatphobia and eating disorders)

Becoming Anne Frank by Dara Horn (on the cultural fascination with Anne Frank. cw for antisemitism)

The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem ([on/a] plagiarism)

On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People by Patricia Taxxon (video essay) (ostensibly what the title says, but actually a detailed musing on the essential properties of furry media and the freedom of dehumanization; changed my life a bit)

#max.txt #yayayayayay :) #i've decided i'm going to start doing the 'what i read this month' thing #so this is like #my base to come backt o and update when i find new favorites #readings

[librarycards]

💕❤️📖 📖❤️💕 We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson, saltslow by Julia armfield, be kind my neighbor by yugo limbo, everyone on the moon is essential personnel by julian jarboe, stories of your life by Ted chiang

thank you! added 'be kind my neighbor' to my 2024 tbr omg.

recs:

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly, Sybil Lamb

Where We Go When All We Were is Gone, Sequoia Nagamatsu

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

#ty! #noon-shadows #ask #book rec

[apollogyas]

2023.01.26 | readathon prep

books i’ve collected for the readathon:

the decagon house murders by yukito ayatsuji stories of your life and others by ted chiang house of leaves by mark z. danielewski the twenty days in turin by giorgio de maria sea of tranquility by emily st. john mandel the memory police by yōko ogawa the seep by chana porter i’m thinking of ending things by iain reid hummingbird salamander by jeff vandermeer tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin

i’ve been dealing with some insomnia lately, but i’m hoping to get a good night’s sleep before the readathon. either way, i’m really excited to set aside the whole day for reading! i’ve got a few other books that i may pick up to read (our wives under the sea by julia armfield, the bone clocks by david mitchell, and a few non-fiction books in particular). thank goodness for libraries.

#studyblr #bookblr #readathon #new year new read: january 2023 24-hour readathon

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 3/5

Book Blurb: Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry—Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.

“An astounding new voice.” —ERIC LaROCCA • "I love it so much.” —KELLY LINK • “Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.” —JOHN KEENE • “Incredible. Truly wondrous.” —KEVIN WILSON • "Heart wrenching and wickedly funny." —GWEN KIRBY • “Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.” —JULIA FINE

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.

Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.

With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as “singular and wise and fresh” (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: “Rapture,” “Ghost Story,” “Tropicália,” “Antropógaga,” “Idle Hands,” “Rent,” “Porcelain,” “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,” and “Hasselblad.”

A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!

Review:

The story about a writer who sleeps with the devil and writes stories for him throughout her life after seeing him again and again. The writer met the devil at a Halloween party in 1999... and she slept with him. It was only once but after that she sees him over and over again throughout her life. She's a writer and she spends the rest of her life writing stories for him. She writes little standalone stories that are all interconnected in the novel and the story itself is a blend of things. It's definitely a unique structure and it feels surreal. The story discusses the immigration experience and weaves surrealism and fantasy into modern life. It's an interesting story and has a unique feel to it.

*Thanks Netgalley and Tor Publishing Group, Tor Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #booksih #craft

[waxwing-saint]

5 books and 5 fics

@lumosatnight, I may have tweaked your tag game, but I’m just as curious about people’s fic choices as I am their book choices. (consider yourself tagged for your 5 fic picks)

Books

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It’s a classic for a reason. I read it probably too young and it jump-started my lifelong obsession with both Agatha Christie and isolated closed-circle mysteries.

If Not Winter fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson. Listen, I am a renowned sapphist. I am a sapphist in the deep aching longing kind of way, in the fleeting touches kind of way, in the openly watching each other across a crowded room kind of way. Anne Carson understands this vibe in a way no other Sappho translator does.

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. I love short stories, but the problem with short story collections is that there’s always one or two bangers and the rest are mid. All of these are bangers. While it’s true that some are slightly less bangery than others, every short story in this collection is incredible, haunting, painfully well-written. Like I just don’t have words for how good it is and I’ve been trying to find the words since the day I started reading it.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. I see people who read this book in like three hours and I am confused and disturbed. This is not a long book, but I don’t know how to talk to anyone who can manage this book in under a month. The current record in my friend group is 29 days, which is frankly impressive. Reading this book is a lot like trying to look at an eldritch being—it is equal parts intoxicating and dismantling; the prose is so painfully beautiful, the grief and frustration so true to life, that you have to put it down after a few pages. And that’s the story of how it took me two months to read a 240 page book.

Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. Is it cheating to include a short story? Who knows, I’m making the rules. This is my favorite short story of all time, and it is available in a collection with many other decent short stories (big props to Hell is the Absence of God) but none of them come close to this one, so much so that including the collection to rec this story feels disingenuous. There is something so special about a piece of art being created perfectly in the perfect medium. Would The Lament for Icarus slap so hard if it wasn’t a painting, but a novel? Could Artemisia Gentileschi have captured Judith fucking wrecking Holofernes in a gif? Both would be beautiful and poignant still, but it wouldn’t be the same. Story of Your Life needs the short story medium to do what it does best. Arrival was a good movie, but it lacked so much of the nuance found in the source material. (For further reading, please see the stage play The Last Five Years)

Fics

Spindle, Spire by @summerlightning. I don’t know why this is such a hard sell, maybe it’s the fandom or the fact it’s only available on tumblr, but of all the fics I rec this is the one the fewest people check out. Listen to the words coming out of my mouth: this. is. the. best. fic. i. have. ever. read. I would never fuck with you on this. You don’t need to know anything about the fandom or characters, leave this list, go read it (and then hmu so we can scream about it). I reread this fic at least twice a year. The aesthetic alone is enough to send me to an untimely demise. It is gritty, it is fucking gross, it is undeniably beautiful, it is a masterclass in writing with a strong narrative voice. There are pieces of this that haunt me to this day (“There’s another breakroom but it’s a scummy pond, mostly, and the cabinets fell off the walls long ago and rest in the water now like bloated wooden alligators with rusty hinges for teeth.”) shut up don’t fucking talk to me.

Watchers by a whole mess of incredible people. The Buffy spin off that was at times better than Buffy itself. And holy shit I go to this site all the time to read old episodes or feel nostalgic and shit and when I went to grab the link for this post I saw they’re planning new content. Fucking catch me screaming lads. Will be monitoring this sitchiation closely.

Ballads by @lipzlipzlipz. If we’ve spoken for more than forty-five seconds I’ve already reced this series to you(and I’ve also already told you to read it in post order not chronological order). Here I am recing it again and until my dying breath. Sometimes people make indulgent mistakes and then continue to make the same indulgent mistakes as they destroy themselves and all of their loved ones for one more chance to make that mistake all over again. Is it busted and bloody heartbreak? It is. Is it also the realest tragedy I’ve ever seen? It sure fuckin is babes.

Personal Jesus by @perfectly--random. This is the best fic I read last year, period, end of fucking sentence. It is a fic I think where it’s better to go into blind, so I’m not going to say anymore, but please someone come talk to me about this I’m dying.

Of Blood & Carnations by @rice-and-beans. This is the best fic I’ve read this year, period, end of fucking sentence. I’ve read a lot of excellent fics this year but I cannot imagine a world in which 2024 comes and this isn’t still the best fic I read this year. It’s so good that I can’t breathe when I think about it. It’s giving you Prometheus Bound and that’s all I’ll say about it because it’s another fic you should go into blind but take off the blindfold and peep the tags fist babes because she’s a doozy and you shouldn’t be unprepared. All that to say, beans cannot miss, hit up that author page and read them all, every one is a banger. This is the juice. This is the mineral the girlies crave.

Now. I limited my fics to completed works but if I hadn’t I’d have been struggling to fit in Danse Avec la Vie and Of Gods, Kings, and Men both by @sosh022, who I know can, in fact, finish a fic (contrary to popular opinion) and I can’t wait to one day have a headache fitting both of them into a list not unlike this one.

As per tag game rules I am required by law to offer up sacrifices to the altar so please tell your mothers not to draw me a bath only to stab me in the neck (I had a war to win). @sosh022 @lipzlipzlipz @perfectly--random @flyingpoptart @rachelc978 @drabsyo @terra-wisp actually you know what anyone. If you see this on your dash, consider yourself tagged m8 😤

#it was a tough choice #parable of the sower #and #the magicians #honorable mentions

[ericacrochets]

Boop the Ghost by Julia Chiang

Free Crochet Pattern Here

#free #free pattern #crochet #crochet pattern #amigurumi