em x. liu | 刘雯雯☁️

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@greatmingling aurghhh i wanna watch

@greatmingling whoaaa these look so good

evocative cinematography of happy together (1997)

I am headed to worldcon tomorrow! no programming this year I will just be floating around the con and saying hi to people, so if you will be there & want to hang out, give me a shout!

it's totally cool if people don't like the specific het pairings that have become published novels but i find that aspect less concerning than the fact that just 13 of the top 100 pairings of all time on ao3 are m/f but all the successful published novels that were fics are m/f

@EliasEells @neonhemlock whoo!! congrats!!

More *immediately* because I just got the green light! I have a story coming in SHATTER THE SUN: QUEER TALES OF UNTOLD ADVENTURE from @neonhemlock! I can’t wait for y’all to meet Phasian, Paragon of the Seven Veils, called by some the Peacock Wizard 🦚

@junescribbles 😍😍😍

Lesbian Lovers Kissing In Tiananmen, 2006

@AiJiang_ you're a BEAST

Me trying to build my long form backlog so I can have a consistent flow of things for my agents to send out and realizing I’m now at 3.5 novels/novellas and two collections 😶‍🌫️

happy 32nd anniversary to "farewell my concubine", the first and only chinese film to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the cannes film festival.

@prufrocke dude hell yeah

hey uhhh doctor got me an appointment to start low dose t next month

happy together cast at the cannes film festival, 1997

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i am curious to see where these threads go, if anywhere! but you know, again, not to be Me but my kingdom for fantasy drugs that do not have their potency and meaning sublimated as something other than drugs 🙏

but what bix takes has no sublimated purpose, no alternative meaning, and so even though you have a possible metaphor of her use reflecting the necessary self-repression and discipline of revolution, when luthen encounters her use, he dismisses it wholly. he does not approve.

one that highlights that substance can be conducive to revolutionary change, can be the spark, can be the fuel—there is still a dichotomy happening here i think where rhydo is not *only* a drug and therefore we can have that nuance

it gives you powers! it connects you to gods or demons! it's medicinal! this very much echoes the real world—prescribed hydromorphone is supposedly not the same as street fentanyl—and while i do think the rhydo speech is in part brilliant bc it *is* a more nuanced depiction

i always think the depiction of substances that have potential alignment with substances of abuse in SFF is interesting because so often when depicted somewhat positively (or at least in a nuanced way) the substance has some property to it that justifies its use & existence

not to be too myself, but i am thinking about the drug/substance use in andor & the compare and contrast case you can make re: the unnamed stuff (if there's some star wars name for it pls let me know LOL) that bix is shown using versus saw gerrera's monologue on rhydo