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@sparrowling

bookseller, translator, storyteller she/她/伊・@shuurens on twt

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Doing art badly is good and sacred

06.02.2026 18:25 👍 6288 🔁 1788 💬 3 📌 75

Have not been able to get this passage from @vajra.me out of my head:

07.12.2025 00:51 👍 167 🔁 68 💬 2 📌 2
Artwork of a lake with reflections of the starry sky above it. Lotus flowers are growing on the surface and stars and white bunnies are shooting across it.

Artwork of a lake with reflections of the starry sky above it. Lotus flowers are growing on the surface and stars and white bunnies are shooting across it.

shooting stars 🌟💫

11.03.2025 12:31 👍 5876 🔁 1725 💬 23 📌 10

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

07.02.2025 10:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

romance

28.01.2025 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

tumblr screenshot. HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start? To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado: SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

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/...

08.01.2025 22:56 👍 5109 🔁 1921 💬 131 📌 28
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Happy New Year

02.01.2025 23:21 👍 23819 🔁 4475 💬 386 📌 313
text box from witch hat atelier by kamome shirahama: "every drawing is a step forward"

text box from witch hat atelier by kamome shirahama: "every drawing is a step forward"

text box from witch hat atelier by kamome shirahama: "two drawings are two steps forward"

text box from witch hat atelier by kamome shirahama: "two drawings are two steps forward"

witch hat atelier wisdom i keep on my desktop to stare at until it's imprinted directly onto my brain

30.12.2024 03:32 👍 6316 🔁 2197 💬 28 📌 20
鄉愁

小時侯
鄉愁是一枚小小的郵票
我在這頭
母親在那頭

長大後
鄉愁是一張窄窄的船票
我在這頭
新娘在那頭

後來啊
鄉愁是一方矮矮的墳墓
我在外頭
母親在裏頭

而現在
鄉愁是一灣淺淺的海峽
我在這頭
大陸在那頭

Nostalgia
Yu Kuang-chung

When I was little
Nostalgia was a tiny stamp
Me on this side
Mother on that side

When I grew up
Nostalgia was a narrow ship's ticket
Me on this shore
My bride on the other shore

Later, oh later
Nostalgia was a squat grave
Me on the outside
Mother on the inside

And now
Nostalgia is a shallow strait
Me on this shore
My Mainland on the other shore

trans. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

鄉愁 小時侯 鄉愁是一枚小小的郵票 我在這頭 母親在那頭 長大後 鄉愁是一張窄窄的船票 我在這頭 新娘在那頭 後來啊 鄉愁是一方矮矮的墳墓 我在外頭 母親在裏頭 而現在 鄉愁是一灣淺淺的海峽 我在這頭 大陸在那頭 Nostalgia Yu Kuang-chung When I was little Nostalgia was a tiny stamp Me on this side Mother on that side When I grew up Nostalgia was a narrow ship's ticket Me on this shore My bride on the other shore Later, oh later Nostalgia was a squat grave Me on the outside Mother on the inside And now Nostalgia is a shallow strait Me on this shore My Mainland on the other shore trans. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

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

20.12.2024 19:33 👍 511 🔁 136 💬 4 📌 6
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Joy in the dark is a candle. I don’t feel good about our country, and I don’t wish I our country well.

I wrote about the bowl and about how joy in a dark time is a candle that must be protected.

13.12.2024 16:58 👍 822 🔁 141 💬 33 📌 14
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a man on the inside is great

01.12.2024 18:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two landscape studies of frosty winter views seen from a train. On the left, an open area with young coniferous trees growing here and there, with a few taller trees left standing in the distance. Clouds are coloured pink by the rising sun, with some narrow streaks of a pale blue sky between them. On the right, two tall trees are standing amidst lower ones against a pale blue-pink gradient sky. The treetops are coloured a peachy red by the sun barely peeking above the horizon.

Two landscape studies of frosty winter views seen from a train. On the left, an open area with young coniferous trees growing here and there, with a few taller trees left standing in the distance. Clouds are coloured pink by the rising sun, with some narrow streaks of a pale blue sky between them. On the right, two tall trees are standing amidst lower ones against a pale blue-pink gradient sky. The treetops are coloured a peachy red by the sun barely peeking above the horizon.

Views from the train

25.11.2024 15:58 👍 6024 🔁 1648 💬 47 📌 5
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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…

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!

22.11.2024 23:00 👍 96 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 1
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“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.

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...

25.11.2024 14:57 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1

going through the change*

*transforming into a malevolent mist

19.11.2024 13:47 👍 339 🔁 89 💬 5 📌 1

if u see me adding yet another t. kingfisher book to my goodreads no u didn't

18.11.2024 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

18.11.2024 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

06.11.2024 23:42 👍 8598 🔁 2962 💬 152 📌 203
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in lieu of an introduction please have my son tucked in for the Encroaching Winter

07.11.2024 00:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

starting ur branding STRONG

07.11.2024 00:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i feel like i've been off grid for so long i barely know how to function on social media anymore lmao 😭

07.11.2024 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*whacks dusty container* ok how does this thing work

06.11.2024 23:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0