#the impossible city

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Avengers #12

#the avengers #black panther #scarlet witch #captain america #vision #captain marvel #the impossible city #orchis #marvel comics #marvel spoilers #matt reads a thing #i posted this

[thebibliomancer]

#avengers #carol danvers #captain marvel #the impossible city

[evilhorse]

The Avengers and the Impossible City. I like the sound of that.

(Avengers #6)

#avengers #captain marvel #carol danvers #captain america #sam wilson #thor #scarlet witch #wanda maximoff #the vision #iron man #tony stark #black panther #t’challa #the impossible city #jed mackay #ivan fiorelli #marvel comics #comics #2020s comics

[latestagebaby]

#now reading #the impossible city #hong kong #book

[vivian-bell]

I'm not formerly depressed, but rather a sometimes depressed person.  But if I kept looking over my shoulder, wary that my depression would return, or let the dread over Hong Kong's political future overtake my days, I would miss all the life that goes on in between.  If I wanted to wait for my circumstances, my city, and this world to improve definitively before I resumed living, that day would never come.  With the cards that we have been dealt, everything is going to be shit for a long time.  Our lives are but collections of quiet moments amid the chaos: the watering thrill of spicy food, the rain that looks like coconut flakes from my window, the way a tree drapes itself over my street, speckling sunlight on the pavement.  These present moments belong to us even if our futures do not.

The Impossible City by Karen Cheung

#the impossible city #karen cheung #books #2020s #posts by me

[straycatboogie]

2023/06/24 English

2023/06/24 BGM: Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

It was a day off today. This morning I read Karen Cheung's "The Impossible City" with Blur's "Parklife". I guess that I had misunderstood about this book (or the place Hong Kong itself). TBH I had expected THE Hong Kong where people try to achieve their democracy. The place where is crowded with the atmosphere of tear gas and political demonstration. But this book doesn't show that kind of Hong Kong. I won't say that this book has no worth to be read by this fact. I have to think about this again because I could be trying to find "THE Hong Kong by various social media" and "THE Hong Kong I wanted to watch/enjoy". NO! I guess this author would say this. NO! The real Hong Kong, and the life in that town must be richer than that banal bias of mine. This book must be one of the best books I have read in this year. Yes, it is a great masterpiece. I have been attracted by her straight/honest words which describe her difficulties of life. It "knocks" my mind actually.

Influenced by that "The Impossible City", I look back to my youthful days (but not in anger). Ah, at that time I was really a idiot student. For me at that time, Damon Albarn from Blur was actually my hero. Almost everyday I had been into Blur's great albums. "Modern Life is Rubbish", "Parklife", and "The Great Escape". As you know, these are quite British albums. I can treat them as "Blue-eyed music", not any "funky/groovy ones" (of course, I welcome your different opinions!). Now I remember this... At that time, I could have these ideas in my "young and lovely" head as "Why was I born in this world as this kind of Asian one?", "Why is this town not London, Liverpool, or Manchester?", and "Heaven knows I'm miserable now"...At least, at that time I had NO interest in any funky/groovy music (Jazz, Funk, Hiphop) or world music (Reggae, Rocksteady)... I might blame myself too much. I believe that Damon Albarn could learn a lot from those sources of rich global music masterpieces.

This afternoon I went to the main house of my group home. There, I confessed about the failure of money management to the chief. I also talked about the "comfort zone". TBH I have a twisted mind so could feel comfortable if I was blamed terribly. If I am praised a lot (Ah, I can feel a lot of actual kindness from a lot of people on Discord, MeWe, and also my private life scene!), then I feel uncomfortable. I tend to think by that as "I am not such a great one". I can't accept that "praised" myself. "I must be a piece of rubbish", "I can be nothing but an idiot", and I do eat a lot or buy various things too much (my virtual self-hurt I guess). But this can't be any excuses. I want to "enjoy" those praising words... The evening I talked about this with a Russian friend of mine o WhatsApp. She taught me honestly as she had showed her braveness to attend various meeting. That's her important trial to go out of her "comfort zone"... I thought I should say farewell to my comfortable nest in my mind. I decided to go to another English meeting.

And this evening I enjoyed a presentation on ZOOM by a French translator and Rakugo (a traditional Japanese comedy) performer, Cyril Coppini. He has translated Gosyo Aoyama's popular manga "Detective Conan" from Japanese into English. He taught us how he had encountered the Japanese language. And he had learned Japanese literature and culture by ancient books, quested Rakugo's greatness, the reason why he started translating "Conan"... And at Q&A time I asked him as bravely as I could. "There are a lot of forms/styles of Japanese language. Ancient literature's one, Rakugo's traditional one, and manga also has funny one... Cyril san, what kind of Japanese language is your favorite?".  Then Cyril answered us that "I like Osaka dialect, But every Japanese form must be profound. I can't stop studying because of its depth". I thought it could be the same as my idea about learning English... Ah, today was a really grateful, happy day (Indeed I made a failure about money). About identity as Japanese, and how precious learning foreign languages are... I thought about them once again.

#diary #journal #english #online diary #tumblr diary #damon albarn #blur #karen cheung #the impossible city #comfort zone

[lusilver001]

Councilor Sophie ✨

#reject canon #embrace ace Sophie #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #my art #kotlc fanart #sophie foster #Sophie foster fanart #councilor Sophie #stop projecting myself onto Sophie challenge level impossible #SHES IN A SUIT #adkskdnksnksqndwkndw #anyways #backgrounds who #I only know blue circle #or rectangle #depends on the day

[asoftepiloguemylove]

ON DREAMS

Clarice Lispector / pinterest / Augusto Cury / Li Qingzhao (tr. Jiaosheng Wang) Tune: The Pertridge Sky; Complete Poems / unknown / Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve / Victor Hugo from a letter to Adèle Foucher written March 1822 / unknown / Charles Dickens The Fellow of No Delicacy; The Tale of Two Cities / Anaïs Nin The Diary of Anaïs Nin / Sappho XII / Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai dir. Jim Jarmusch

#it's like impossible to reverse image search movies forgive me #on dreams #on dreaming #web weave #web weaving #poetry parallels #poetry compilation #clarice lispector #augusto cury #li qingzhao #jiaosheng wang #the pertridge sky #blade runner #denis villeneuve #victor hugo #adele foucher #charles dickens #the tale of two cities #anais nin #sappho #on love #on loneliness #oh falling in love #on heartbreak #on emotion #poetry #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #poem

[hellspawnmotel]

terranigma, a cool game

#terranigma #terranigma ark #terranigma elle #terranigma meilin #art tag #im going to write a little review in the tags bear with me #first the negative: #the magic system is weird to use and basically useless apart from one boss thats almost impossible without magic #it has some weird racism like most old games where you travel around the world. a little more egregious since its supposed to be real earth #i found the main character to be slightly insufferable for about 3/4ths of the game. i came around on him by the end tho. he grows up a lot #and i found whats by far the largest section of the game (chapter 3) to be the least interesting #im not really into helping cities develop and trade quests tho so it might just be me #oh also it is STUPID easy to permanently lock yourself out of like 15 sidequests #and theres a lot of mandatory things that are really hard to figure out. you need to use a walkthrough for this #anyway thats what i didnt like #what i DID like tho. i dont want to get into too much detail but #its a genuinely beautiful game for so much of it #there were so many moments that left me speechless #its high-concept and thoughtful and fun to play #you dont really need to do much grinding either #at its worst its obtuse and cliche but at its best its breathtaking #and i really recommend more people check it out #special shoutout to my friend seona who modded my 3DS and downloaded a bunch of roms including this one #so in conclusion. terranigma is an underrated gem. play it if youre a 90s jrpg junkie like me #just have a walkthrough open also lol

[snalsupremacy]

While reading TGCF I kept a character chart so I wouldn't get lost on the plot and it VERY quickly derailed into my sassy ass gay opinions on each of them (1/2)

#gay person try not to be funny challange level impossible #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #shi qingxuan #fuck it im not gonna taf all of them #oK WAIT ONE MORE #ling wen #OK IM DONE #snal posting #mxtx #also fun fact about the last one: #so in the beggining i wrote cinnamon roll #then after the ghost city arc i wrote war criminal #then after the first flashback i changed it to the secret third thing

[phoenixcatch7]

Identity reveal shazamily fic idea:

They're fighting some big bad in a huge cave or throne room or in an air pocket miles underwater (the Rock?) and the league and shazamily are all there, every two stuck in separate areas (magic barriers? Cave ins? Enemies simply not letting them close?).

The roof is starting to collapse. Billy catches it, but with his powers divided, he's struggling. With a time limit before he falls, the battle intensifies.

Mary and her jl partner fells her opponent first, and looks across the room just in time to see him stagger under the crushing weight. She cannot reach him (in time?). They meet each others eyes. The wisdom of Solomon, or perhaps Mary batson, has an idea.

In a crash of thunder, she detransforms, in front of their enemies, and the entire justice league.

With power returned, captain marvel stands a bit straighter. The roof grows heavier. Cracks scatter across the high ceiling.

As Mary is carried to safety, the family understands what they must do.

In conjunction with the league member they were trapped with, they work to defeat their opponents, and one by one transform, each time revealing people too small, too young. The crash of thunder marks each victory. Rubble starts to fall and shake the earth as the league members pull their partners to safety, gathering together by the entrance, bandaging their wounds. All eyes are on Marvel, trapped under a great pillar of stone. (They have been working with him for years now, but each of his family has been revealed to be children. Is he, too?) Each time he raises the ceiling a little higher, and each time it grows heavier as the battles and the ticking clock destabilise the thousands of tons above.

At last, the final group win, and exhausted league members piggy back the last child hero over the rubble.

All are evacuated, but Marvel cannot move. Rapid power transfer and hours of stress have taken their toll, and he needs to transform back as well.

Finally, finally, green lantern and superman reach him, and with their help he is freed, collapsing to the side in relief. No one says a word.

With one final lightning strike, the last member of the team is revealed.

He's twelve years old.

And the league needs to take them all to safety.

#The power sharing mechanics of the shazamily is so interesting to me. And so under utilised. #Detransforming. Revealing yourself and by relation your family as a direct way to save your brother #And I do love incredibly strong characters having to hold the sky to save their friends #You're looking them in the eye and they're saving your life by performing this impossible feat and neither of you are moving #Percabeth do it like no other but we can try #Once read a fic where some league members get trapped under a city in a subway or something during an earthquake and marvel holds the #entire roof + ground + skyscrapers above them up for eight hours until the league can find them without moving a muscle. #And every time I think of cap marvel I think of that. Like. What do you even do after that. Where can you go #dc comics #superman #captain marvel #dc captain marvel #billy batson #shazam #shazamily #mary bromfield #pedro pascal #mary marvel #mary batson #freddy freeman #I'm so sorry I don't know the surnames of Darla and Eugene #Fic idea #story prompt #fic prompt #justice league

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Avengers #11

#the avengers #edwin jarvis #the impossible city #marvel comics #marvel spoilers #matt reads a thing #i posted this

[thebibliomancer]

The Avengers make friends with a sapient flying space city

#avengers #the impossible city #captain america #sam wilson #black panther #captain marvel #carol danvers #iron man #Thor #scarlet witch #the vision

[evilhorse]

If there is one thing the Black Panther has always known…it is the breaking of chains.

(Avengers #6)

#avengers #captain america #sam wilson #black panther #t’challa #the impossible city #breaking of chains #jed mackay #ivan fiorelli #marvel comics #comics #2020s comics

[rthko]

Too many people assume that your politics or "how queer" you are are a direct reflection of how easy or difficult your life is but that's just not true. I work an office job and am free to wear dangly earrings and flamboyant prints because it's the kind of environment that has DEI measures so people know discrimination will be punished. It was when I worked as a dishwasher, kept to myself and wore the same uniform as anyone else that my coworkers called me "faggot."

I know people who are barely scraping by who know they have nothing to lose and embrace community and radical politics as a result, and people in the same material condition who have had normativity literally beaten into them and think it's the way out. I know stereotypical upper middle class "Pete Buttigieg gays," and people with all the same privilege if not more who posture themselves as the underclass. And I think pointing at random people you know nothing about beyond the fact that you dislike them and saying "you've never suffered" is cruel, especially if the accuser has unacknowledged privilege of their own.

There is a tendency online to attribute absolutely any bad behavior to privilege, and it draws to mind the line from Parasite: "I'd be nice too if I were rich." I'm not rich except in a global context, but yeah, I can admit the arguably "queer enough" life I live now a lot easier now that I'm college educated, can afford wardrobe overhauls and rent in a decently larger city, and am no longer physically exhausted all the time from my job.

#the countercultural metropolitan life of yesteryear is increasingly impossible and it enrages me #for a while the entry level 'love is love' appealed to me because it was the only glimpse into a better life that geographically reached me #and all the 'real queers' were in far away cities

[vivian-bell]

I am afraid that despite everything I claim, I have romanticized the city.  I am still learning how not to reduce the people I love to stories, trading their lives for a coveted byline.  There are other people whose stories are essential, but are missing here because I do not have the right to write for them.  I cannot force my community into the story you want, and then return to them and live with the consequences of my untruthfulness.  I am not here to exploit and then leave.  If you promise to try to understand, I will exploit myself for you.  But I will not apologize anymore.

The Impossible City by Karen Cheung

#the impossible city #karen cheung #books #posts by me #2020s