A Journey to Love 一念关山 | Yu Shisan & Chu Yue

Audre Lorde, from "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" (1981)

NEXT TIME, YOU INVITE PAM

it's Friday night and for godforsaken reasons unknown, I have Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger stuck in my head. complete with all the little electronic squeaky clicks and the synth voice. the last time I heard that song was probably like...2020?

BECOMING EDEN [It's Me I'm Trees] PDF

I am absolutely delighted to announce that the wonderful @vash-in-the-void has done the impossible and formatted Becoming Eden [it's me I'm trees] for PDF! I am forever in your debt!!

What these pdf documents are for?

1. Your personal downloading and archiving desires!

As you may be aware the ao3 download for the fic is mostly illegible due to the amount of formatting involved. I intend to keep this document archived on google drive for as long as that is possible. The pdf marked with an e is best suited for ereaders and computer reading, it has links intact.

2. For your personal printing and archiving desires! The pdfs marked with a P are for printing and you have my full permission and blessing to bind this fic if you so choose. Please remember that selling bound fic is a copyright no no under the law, both against me and the parent IP. Gifts and trades are always okay tho!

Accessibility note: I do not believe that this pdf is screen reader friendly, however please catch @neosatsuma 's terrific pod fic for all your audiobook needs!

This pdf version also includes some of my sketches as well as amazing art by: @maz737 @bumblingdragon @frogenthusiasttsist @ghostiezone @snakegentleman @neosatsuma @needle-noggins @vash-in-the-voidoid THANK YOU SO MUCH <3 There is further Becoming Eden fic art not included here as I did not want to give too many spoilers for the whole damn forest... Special thanks to @valorsometimes who made the HTML of this story possible at all, thank you for enabling me!

One of my friends moved to the US for college and at first thought they loved the US but then they moved for grad school and discovered that they just like Massachusetts

This chicken cured my art block. She deserves to become a sticker

some unfortunate camera work going on. not quite the motion-sickness variety, but why does the camera have to be at sea. maybe this explains the strange fishy angles.

Hard to Find, ep01: this set must be deafening with all the wind machines going, my god. Like an airport runway.

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

Hard to Find, ep01: this set must be deafening with all the wind machines going, my god. Like an airport runway.

So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.

Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.

This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡

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video credit: Rob Harcourt

Not only can you see the MOMENT this Weddell seal decided to prank the Crabeater seal, BUT HE LAUGHS AT HIM AFTER HE DOES IT! Ah Weddells <3

The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

I think I’m falling in love again… 😍

She is always so beautiful 💕💕

Drawing by 一染_ - Source: weibo.com/yiranju

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