Evan Nicoll-Johnson

@evnj.bsky.social

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Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)

Screenshot of the famous tweet that says "Me and my friends would've killed E.T. with hammers I can tell you that much"
Table displaying possible motivations for compiling accounts of anomalies (志怪) in the Qing dynasty, "Career Setback or exam failure, poverty, life setback, emotional misery, bad health, longing for literary fame, penchant for the six dynasties" (From Sheng Yang 盛洋 “The Revival of Zhiguai 志怪 Storywriting in the Qing Dynasty: In Search for Its Reasons” Monumenta Serica 63, no. 2 (2015): 295–326.)
Character 過 with top component of 咼 written with one stroke extending from the left side to the center and then down
David Lynch as John Ford in the Fabelmans, in the scene where he explains that when the horizon's in the middle it's boring as shit
Photograph of a beautiful black and white cat sitting in a chair at the dining table like a person.
Chinese painting of several armed soldiers exiting a forest. From the Guo shang 國殤 section of the Jiu ge tu 九歌圖 of Zhang Wo 張渥, after Li Gonglin 李公麟. Cleveland museum of art.