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shu 淑婷
@sparrowling.bsky.social
bookseller, translator, storyteller
she/她/伊・@shuurens on twt
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shooting stars 🌟💫
March 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
the holy trinity of books i am looking forward to this year. r.f. kuang's katabasis. amal el-mohtar's the river has roots. alix e. harrow's the everlasting. god bless fantasy authors
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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heya gamers. did you know i made a whole masterpost on how to make video games if you dont know how to code

🎮 www.tumblr.com/insertdisc5/...
January 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Happy New Year
January 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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witch hat atelier wisdom i keep on my desktop to stare at until it's imprinted directly onto my brain
December 30, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017.

Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia"
- in his handwriting, alongside my translation
#everynightapoem #余光中
December 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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I wrote about the bowl and about how joy in a dark time is a candle that must be protected.
Joy in the dark is a candle.
I don’t feel good about our country, and I don’t wish I our country well.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
a man on the inside is great
December 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Views from the train
November 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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This Spring 2025 MODEL FIVE MURDER by Tan Juan Gee takes us on a stroll into the realm of sci-fi noir with a story about a cyborg who solves the murder of a dead detective who wears his same face!
Pre-Order: Model Five Murder by Tan Juan Gee
Model Five Murder by Tan Juan Gee --- A cyborg solves the murder of a dead detective who wears his same face in this sci-fi noir graphic novel. --- Release date: 06/25/25; Paperback; 64 limited-color…
store.silversprocket.net
November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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my translation of Paris Friend 《巴黎朋友》 by Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 is in the New Yorker 《纽约客》

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Paris Friend,” by Shuang Xuetao
So you get on well? he said. You could say that, I said. You could say that, for a while now, she’s been my only reason to go on living.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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going through the change*

*transforming into a malevolent mist
November 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
sometimes i read widely with no regard for genre or setting or style, and sometimes i find an author whose stories resonate with me so much i spend a year reading their entire backlog
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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okay, so. i have bipolar disorder. we have a suicide rate of about 1/5. i've basically spent my entire teenage and adult life trying not to kill myself. so with that in mind, here are my tips on how to hang in there: 1) don't isolate. i know all the excuses. but don't do it
November 6, 2024 at 11:42 PM
in lieu of an introduction please have my son tucked in for the Encroaching Winter
November 7, 2024 at 12:30 AM
*whacks dusty container* ok how does this thing work
November 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM