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geryone · 7 months

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How Festive the Ambulance, Kim Fu

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #Kim Fu #id in alt text #…..peak romance

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sweetmilkbread · 5 months

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- Kim Fu, How Tender the Ambulance

#they are in love. affection. desire. violence. obsession. voyeurism. tenderly gouging his eyes out...do you get what i mean.#saltburn #saltburn 2023 #oliver quick #felix catton #kim fu #words #web weaving #my stuff

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 10 days

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For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu

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Peter Huang and his sisters—elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant—grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter’s own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father. At birth, Peter had been given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, powerful king. The exalted only son in the middle of three daughters, Peter was the one who would finally embody his immigrant father's ideal of power and masculinity. But Peter has different dreams: he is certain he is a girl.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this book before and it doesn't really sound interesting to me.

#for today i am a boy #kim fu #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #contemporary fiction #trans woman #misgendering tw #deadnaming tw #afaik the author is trans themself but idk if they are transfem or not so im not tagging as ownvoices for now.#if you know anything more pls let me know!#(+ also apparently biiiig tw for csa & victim blaming in the novel according to reviews)

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susiephone · 7 months

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"lesser known monsters of the 21st century" slaps SOOOOO fucking hard

#lesser known monsters of the 21st century #kim fu #booklr #bookish #literature

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reverie-quotes · 7 months

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Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike for this sweet, short, pleasure-drenched life.

— Kim Fu, "In This Fantasy," Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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andrumedus · 2 years

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Kim Fu, How Festive the Ambulance; “Lifecycle of the Mole-Woman”

[Text ID: we are in love. / He tenderly gouges out my eyes.]

#literature #poetry #kim fu #how festive the ambulance #is love not death?#love (repulsion)#canadian lit #typography #m #x

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eyerobertson · 2 years

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#lesser known monsters of the 20th century #kim fu #traditional art #copic #scissors #my art

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bookcoversonly · 9 months

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Title: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Author: Kim Fu | Publisher: Tin House (2022)

#books #Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century #Kim Fu

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elizabethgrofskyramos · 1 year

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This book was a series of short stories. I was feeling a little cheated when the ending of some of the stories ended suddenly without a traditional conclusion. Then I thought these stories would be a great assignment for my students to write an ending.

#50 books in 52 weeks #Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century #happymailideas.com #books and reading #Kim Fu

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beckytext · 1 year

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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By Kum Fu

2022 from Tinhouse Books

Okay!! So! As I was gearing up to start reading more in 2023, a thing I am doing (for now, we’ll see how long it lasts) I basically grabbed anything that looked neat from as many list of recent SF/F recommendations that I could find. One of those books was Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the hold list at my library was short, it came in, and I read it.

It turns out this is a collection of short stories, a thing I did not realize going in, because I did not actually read any blurbs or anything. I figured it out three stories in. The first two stories did not in any way connect, but my brain had reconciled the tone jump as “well, it’ll be interesting to see how these come together” because brains are fun like that, but when the third chapter also did not seem to fit in, and also had its own title and all, I went back to read the description, and duh.

I don’t tend to reach for short stories as a go-to. I find them mysterious and baffling because I am super long-winded personally and I have no idea how a writer can pack so much power into anything brief. It is very cool to see it done well, and in this case, a few of these were done really really well. Some were fine, none were bad, but the ones that hit really hit.

The very first story, “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867″ was basically an emotional gut-punch. I don’t want to give much away (it isn’t based in a twist, it’s just well paced out and revealed), but it’s all dialogue is a wonderfully, painfully relatable look at grief. This is the one that will stick with me.

My second favorite was actually the second story (I swear I did not just rank them in the order they appear), “Liddy, First to Fly.” This one is also extremely relatable, about that weird moment in time when you’re a pre-teen and starting to drift apart from your childhood friends but haven’t quite broken away yet; when you still play pretend, maybe, but you know it’s childish and embarrassing; when you’re going to be a teenager who cares about adult things soon but you don’t quite yet.

Those were the real highlights for me. “#ClimbingNation” was less speculative but had a perfect ending; “Scissors” was sexy as heck; “June Bugs” was creepy but good. I can definitely see “Time Cubes”, “Bridezilla”, and “Do You Remember Candy” hitting hard for people who aren’t me. The others didn’t really stand out to me, but none were bad and none were boring, so I have no complaints.

I will definitely loop back around to Fu’s novels at some point.

#lesser known monsters of the 21st century #kim fu #book review #science fiction #fantasy #speculative fiction #short stories #book recommendation

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saraquirtle · 2 years

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"Do you think it’s immoral to have children now?" "Yeah, maybe." But also: the sweet soft smell of an infant's head, a toddler's astonished shrieking laugh as their fingers grasped at the newness of anything, everything.

Kim Fu, “Bridezilla”

#2022 #bridezilla #lesser known monsters of the 21st century #kim fu

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geryone · 7 months

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How Festive the Ambulance, Kim Fu

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #Kim Fu #id in alt text

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murasaki-cha · 1 year

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Why are these two of my most popular posts? Seriously what is this power they hold??

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flowery-laser-blasts · 3 months

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I couldn't help myself... @creatorping and I were semi discussing Ron and his Monkey Powers and then this meme popped up in my head and this happened and well yeah...

#monke meme #monke #hmmmmm.... monkey 🤔#kung fu panda #dreamworks #kimpossible #kim possible #ron stoppable #ronstoppable #ronstoppablefanart #ron stoppable fanart #meme

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reverie-quotes · 7 months

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My wife and I are that other kind of rich…We'll give it all away upon our deaths, and there will be one of those shocked news stories about people like us and our secret millions, the sudden windfall upon our pet causes and distant nieces and nephews. Why don't we help anyone while we're alive? Our once-reasonable anxieties grown distorted, outsized, habitual. There will never be enough money to make us feel safe.

— Kim Fu, "Twenty Hours," Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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andrumedus · 2 years

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Kim Fu, How Festive the Ambulance; “It’s Always Damp Here”

[Text ID: Moss grows between the folds of my skin.]

#literature #poetry #kim fu #how festive the ambulance #earth is planted in my blood #flesh undone #typography #canadian lit #m #x

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