memory of the future

Links roundup:

• You can now buy piano sheet music for Gris! I kind of want the physical book, of course, but I would probably wreck the edges so fast if I used it with an actual piano. The arrangements are quite good.

• An essay about Dutch baroque typography, and how modern typography is unnecessarily gendered.

• Chaoyang Trap S2 E1 — this is a great newsletter about Chinese pop culture and internet life, and this specific issue covers how the Taiwanese indie scene is perceived in and operates on the mainland. Of course, it touches on cross-strait politics and the shared cultural nostalgia around Teresa Teng; but there’s also an entire section of how machismo gets associated with authenticity, rock music, and Beijing. It also comes with a playlist (Youtube / Spotify). [CW: the music videos by Chthonic and Obsess have violent imagery. Also there’s a bunch of smoking and alcohol in various videos and lyrics.]

• Last month someone in The Old Guard fandom was exposed for racefaking and claiming to be a cultural authority in order to bully POC.

( Back on my britcom bs )

( And being nostalgic for boybands I wasn’t even a fan of )