May Chong 🇲🇾

@maychong.bsky.social

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(she/her) Bi Malaysian poet/speculative writer in Apparition Lit, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons. Not the food journo.

A screenshot of a poetry draft. The visible text reads: Caged and uncaged come the wire birds:/oilblack unblinking, glistening/And the great cacophony of the world dislodged/In gouts from throat upon twittering throat.
A Mass Effect mission board with two player figures (male Shepard and Wrex) and a few enemy counters. The mission boss has been defeated. The game master is reading from the plot book.
Close up of handwriting. Red ink on off white paper. The visible words read: “No,” the witch lied. | A young man — a boy | small and wiry and with (…)
The Apple Books cover of Dot and the Kangaroo by Ethel C. Pedley: a white sun in a blistering orange sky, seen through a foreground of (gum?) trees.
Panel out of Ultraman: Super Fighter Legend. Rough translation of Zoffy’s speech bubble: “No matter now strong our foe, I cannot stand quietly by and watch our homeland be trod underfoot three exclamation marks”
A screencap of payment required for a bottle of fountain pen ink. The ink is MYR 52. The shipping is MYR 89.28.
An oriental magpie-robin perched on a bare twig. It's just a little black and white guy.
A macro shot of a dragonfly partially obscured by grass in the foreground. It appears to be eating another, smaller, dragonfly.
A male pink-necked green pigeon in a tree with small orange fruits. He's looking into the camera. His dusty pink neck and orange breast feathers are clearly visible.
A macro shot of a slightly blurry bee (Amegilla sp.), hovering at a flower. Its abdomen is striped in black and sky blue.
A Eurasian tree sparrow on a branch, looking downward and away from the viewer. Yes, this means their tiny feathery butt is facing you. Sorry.
A bottom-up shot of a Malaysian bird in a tree, head not visible. It has a grey/white chest, a bright yellow vent, and dark tail feathers with a thin white stripe just below where the butt fluff ends.
A very close crop of an Ultraman screencap. The subtitles read “Don’t lose your kindness”.
Screenshot of a Tumblr poll for the “Queer Book Ship Tournament”. One of the options is “Shesheshen/Homily - Someone You Can Build a Nest In”
AI Overview of a search query, “Yosano Akiko poem for son”. It describes Thou Shalt Not Die, written for her brother. | ネット検索「与謝野晶子　息子への詩」のAI概要。「君死にたまふことなかれ」の情報が書いてある。
A screencap of two TV characters. At top, Takeshi Yamato, a teacher from Ultraman 80. At bottom, Takechi Yamato, a teacher from Mr Hiiragi’s Homeroom/3 Nen A-gumi: Ima kara Minasan wa, Hitojichi Desu
A screencap of some of Yamamoto Kouji’s recent roles: Kohinata in What Did You Eat Yesterday, Masayoshi in Kappei, and…Alex Louis Armstrong in two live action Fullmetal Alchemist movies. (OP’s shock has been passed down through the Armstrong line for generations…)
A tray of fish at a market. Closed caption reads: “Is it a species of fish of the douchebag variety?”
Four kanji characters: 後来不落/kourai furaku. OP has decided to translate this as “never to fall again”.
A Shinto talisman from Kumamoto Castle: a blue and plastic-looking rectangular object with a knot of white cord. More context in the thread to follow.
Part of the header from “AI art in SFFH” (sffh-ai.bsky.social), with 1 follower and 1,000+ followed.
Partial Screencap of Uquiz result. The first two sentences read: You create from grief. It is an endless grief that puts out of your eyes and mouth and fingertips over and over again; a grief too bear to be contained.
The top of someone’s head wearing a white cuboid cardboard…construction of a hat. You can just about see eyebrows and some of hair at the bottom edge of the photograph.
A hand giving a thumbs up in front of a glass table with some flat white pieces of card on it. The thumb has a plaster wrapped around the middle.
A Screencap of Samurai Evolution’s female protagonist declaring her impending attack.
A screencap of a 'submission received' message from Moksha.
Screencap of news article on Malaysia’s Ministry of Health relaxing quarantine and masking guidelines. “Individuals who test positive for Covid-19 will be treated like those with other respiratory infections and will no longer receive an HSO (Home Surveillance Order).”
Yellow laser light show shining through the darkness over a stadium audience. Dots of light from phone screens are visible here and there. Behind the lasers is a presentation of astronomical milestones (and Kitaro, somewhere)
A “Salted Caramel Saint-Honore”. Picture a pile of light brown mousse studded with darker choux puffs.
A sea of theatregoers surrounding a sign of the Hamilton logotype, taken from above.
Zebra dove on red concrete path, looking into camera. A dull, fluffy bird with a long tail and fine dark barring all over.
"Expectation" half of bird photography. A stripe-throated bulbul perched on a branch, facing the camera. A jaunty-looking bird with a yellow butt and face.
A turtle (red-eared slider) climbing onto a grassy bank from the water.