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At first glance I thought this was Sun Wukong.

Sylvia Foolproof Suddes@bossproofreader.bsky.social · 3w ago

#MosaicMonday

电影十字路口 Cinematic Crossroads, a new CN/EN film studies journal edited by documentarian/film scholar/novelist 张阴暗 Zhang Yin‘an (Yinna Z.) and poet/cultural curator 贺中 He Zhong (老贺 Lao He) www.cinematiccrossroads.jo3.org Includes a conversation with 林鑫 Lin Xin and a roundtable on film poetics.

Cinematic Crossroads

Cinematic Crossroads is a Canada-based, non-profit academic journal of cinematic arts, dedicated to exploring the multifaceted dimensions of film as an art form, technology, and socio-cultural phenomenon. We welcome submissions in both Chinese and English from authors worldwide, aiming to build a cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary platform for film research and discourse.

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A recent encounter, not pictured: metallic violet Tesla with badge altered to read 特斯拉bubu.

Joel Martinsen@jdmartinsen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Model sounds like 毛豆 máodòu “edamame,” so Tesla talk online tends to be full of beans. You occasionally see replacement badges like 毛豆山 máodòu shān “edamame mountain” and 毛豆歪 máodòu wāi “edamame askew.” A neighbor’s vehicle extends that to a cute visual pun:

A-Yue’s “Go With The Flow” bugged me until my brain surfaced Jars of Clay’s “He” (acoustic version). Then that AI portrait dredged up the Omartian’s “Dr. Jesus”. And now m-fing “King of Spain” is driving me nuts a week after returning from Toronto. Not a fan of ancient memories breaking containment.

@ign.com if you want to cover otome games, you should get someone who is willing to cover controversies properly. I'm available anytime 😉 medium.com/@cofactorstr...

What’s really going on in Love and Deepspace right now? Wolfgate2026: The Valko controversy.

Papergames — the Chinese company who produce the incredibly popular otome game Love and Deepspace — have had a tumultuous week.

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Talk of Red Lobster and communists calls to mind the classic 1959 stop-motion short 龙虾 by Jin Xi 靳夕: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwH...

木偶剧《龙虾》-1959年

YouTube video by A C

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BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Red Lobster is a United Front operation, ofc, hence the name.

Feng Xiaogang’s movie I Know Who You Are 抓特务 finally opens today. A Beijing cop plays cat-and-mouse games with his KMT spy neighbor against the backdrop of major events from 1945 to 1984. Had a lot of fun doing the subs for this one.

🎹 Here’s a charming story about a beguiling “new” keyboard album (its first ever release) that I find addictive. It’s quite a ride! Larrison Seidle grows up in the 70s and 80s in Greenwood, Indiana, a working-class suburb of Indianapolis. 1/n freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/connec...

Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999, by Larrison

25 track album

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📚Introduction free to download📚 It's the official release day of my book and OUP has made the Introduction chapter free to read. academic.oup.com/book/62722/c... Take a look if you're interested in... why do I want to study ideas of 'the west' from without, why do I want to theorize the postliberal

Introduction: Constructing the West from the East

Abstract. This book is positioned at the intersection of two lines of inquiry: the co-production of hierarchical difference in world politics and reading t

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Early ’90s, among the ads for printer ribbons, dust covers, and Bible databases in the back pages of inCider/A+, Shan’s Digicorder blew my middle-school mind. Was the actual device as awesome as the copy made it sound? Would it work on my Franklin clone? Did anyone win a trip to Kerala?

“Half-asleep half-awake, we face each other.” A poem by Jim Daniels.

There are some gems among ’80s Chinese translations of novels by Fleming and others. John Gardner’s “For Special Services” turns into 007 巧破冰淇淋阴谋 “007 Cracks the Ice-Cream Conspiracy”.

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · 3mo ago

Hell, I can write ya a James Bond movie title. Here, have some free ones: NEVER IS NOT AN OPTION SHADOW MARKET TODAY IS YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW MEASURE OF PITH EVERYBODY'S WORKIN' FOR HER MAJESTY PERMISSION TO DISMEMBER LIFE IS TERRIBLE INCOGNITO SUPREMO

I’ve been enjoying Andrew Rule’s posts of Chinese netlit recs from fans, authors, translators, editors, and academics. He’s now assembled the entire project into a single page with lots of links to originals and translations. (I’m in there recommending 废土西游 and 此刻我存在.) substack.com/home/post/p-...

[Single-Page Version] The Cold Window Guide to Chinese Internet Literature

Welcome to the Cold Window Newsletter.

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Today, ironically, my essay for @grantamag.bsky.social on his Narcissus Complex is out, one month after his death. I was unable to bring myself to change the tenses during the final copy edits. Present still seems right to me. granta.com/the-narcissu...

The Narcissus Complex

‘He knows who we are, and he reads the New York Times every day, although he doesn’t retain much, except the horror of it all.’

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A youth-oriented music festival has adopted the brick-wall graffiti aesthetic for its own (or that earlier piece was a test-run). They’re apparently still tweaking the messaging, though. I don’t know—I’d say CHANGPING IS DOPE is no worse than Chaoyang District’s 潮有范儿 CHAOFUN branding.

Joel Martinsen@jdmartinsen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new addition to the neighborhood over the winter:

OK, so here's the poem by Gaoping local poet, Miao Lingcong (苗令琮). Miao was from Fengtai in Shanxi 山西鳳台 and was named juren 舉人 (not jinshi 進士, oops) in 1771, so this is probably a late c18 poem, but is found in the 1880 gazetteer 續高平縣志 (and not in earlier Gaoping gazetteers, fwiw).

Kate Lingley 龍梅若@klingley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LOCAL POET: In 2002, doing research for a dissertation chapter about the small cave temple site of Gaomiaoshan near Gaoping, I spent some time poking through the county gazetteers (縣誌) for Gaoping county. Gazetteers are local histories usually compiled by local officials in the Ming and Qing...

It is not a great work of literary genius, though it's a pleasant enough read, but my favorite part is where he basically says "NOT LIKE THOSE STUPID WANGWU MOUNTAINS IN YANGCHENG [the next county over], THOSE COULD NEVER COMPARE TO THE FAME OF OUR QIFO MOUNTAINS!!" Local pride FTW.

How about "What if the Confederacy happened differently?" but I mean the novel The Confederacy of Dunces? click: www.patreon.com/posts/o-fort...

O, Fortuna! A performance piece | Nick Mamatas

O, Fortuna! A performance piece by Nick Mamatas on Patreon. Join Nick Mamatas's community for exclusive content and updates.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“what if the Nazis won WWII” alt history is boring — I wanna know your “what if JFK hadn’t been shot” alt history

Another key moment in mummy cinema is the 1912 French film L’anneau fatal (En. title The Vengeance of Egypt). A scarab ring stolen by an officer under Napoleon carries a curse that causes a string of tragedies (murder, poisoning, air crash) until it’s replaced on the mummy’s finger a century later.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Okay, it's time. Let's unwrap the movie mummy:

These are the true sports buffs.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

ADHD is I’m at the basketball game & I can’t stop looking at the people who sweep the moisture off the court while the action is on the other side

A new addition to the neighborhood over the winter:

Undecided on pre-ordering THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECK? Allow the publisher's marketing copy (below) to entice you... Then click this link — bit.ly/heartleafbeck — and buy indie from @bookshop.org!!!

Yep. AI summary at Google recently told me that "Rennwagen" was an example for a palindrome. Humanity is working hard on getting dumber.

A banger of a post from @slacktivistfred.bsky.social about a new song from Amy Grant, of all people: www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

'Is It Right On Red Or Left On MLK?'

It is 2026 and I am 57 years old and I am listening to a new song by Amy Grant and it is a good song.

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I was practicing Folsom Prison Blues for my first karaoke outing and I accidentally sang “I’m stuck in Wholesome Prison,” so…

I can't stress enough how weird this book is. written by a couple, there's an entire chapter on "nighttime hierarchies" that supposedly "add color and joy" to life. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Just Hierarchy

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political

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If anyone is interested in the sequel to COHERENCE, we finally landed on a story worthy of the mission. Unless the actors revolt, we will probably do it just like the first one, where they know their own character details, but don't know what the other actors are going to say or do. Like real life.

Go read this lovely translation of a fantastic story now! Pseudo-Science Fiction Stories is such an imaginative collection. It’s a real shame Cui’s work is out of print on the mainland (and that the early 2000s editions used lousy glue are crumbling to pieces).

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · 12mo ago

What happens when queer desire, religion, and science fiction collide in space? In Jesus on Mars, Cui Zi’en offers a haunting, dreamlike story that moves between faith and fantasy. One of China’s most daring queer voices brought to new readers in Yahia Ma's translation.

big news! could not be more excited to be translating《小花旦》by Wang Zhanhei 王占黑. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...