#luhan imagines

[multiphandomunnies]

exo

reactions

idol gf has a wardrobe malfunction

*T* gf has self harm scars

bf decked out in merch at fansign

Mc makes fun of idol gf

how would exo cuddle

*T* gf comes out as F to M

college au

you send an inappropriate photo as they’re at practice

imagines

xiumin

winters promise

boyfriend xiumin!

half asleep

single dad!

falling in love

suho

lay

bf! lay

baekhyun

blushing

pantone 18-1018

chen

christmas special

chanyeol

falling prolouge

snapdragon

bf! chanyeol

instagram

kyungsoo

morning kisses

kai

(*M*) first time

tulip

bf! kai

sehun

orchid

jealous

luhan

don’t wait

tao

unexpected

[bsgpiece]

Could you draw Luffy kiss Hancock is Blushing Fully💗✨

Yeeessss!!! 😍😍😍

I couldn't resist giving a little context, so here's a silly newly weds short story

And of course, the bonus panel

I love the idea of Luffy learning new ways of showing his affection after marriage, but it'll sure take some time for Hancock to get used to it!! 💜❤

[xotaemintol]

⚠︎MDNI⚠︎

X Black reader EXO imagines and more

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[lalasknives]

I'm sorry but I can't get over the fact that Dana and Luca have a FOOT difference in height. And you would think that Luca is the problem, turns out it's Dana that's 5'1😭.

[bpcybhk]

Olá!

Eu sou a Tata, e estou aqui para te convidar para uma jornada de coração e alma. Minha nova história, "Apenas sete dias - Sete noites de redenção" (Chanbaek), já está disponível no Wattpad e promete ser uma viagem inesquecível.

Imagine ter apenas sete dias para reconquistar o amor da sua vida. É isso que Chanyeol enfrenta após meses de trabalho incessante que o afastaram de Baekhyun, o homem que ele ama. Agora, com o divórcio batendo à porta, Chanyeol pede sete dias para se despedir, mas em seu coração, ele tem um plano secreto para reconquistar Baekhyun.

Cada capítulo é um dia na contagem regressiva dessa emocionante história de amor, perda e redenção. Será que Chanyeol pode reverter o destino e salvar seu amor? Junte-se a nós para descobrir!

Para começar a ler, basta procurar por "Apenas sete dias - Sete noites de redenção" no Wattpad ou visitar meu perfil @bpcybhk. Não esqueça de deixar suas estrelas e comentários; adoraria saber o que você pensa!

Com carinho,

Tata! ♡

[𝐄𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐎]

[dmumt]

i just know if i’d been into exo from their debut i would have been the biggest xiuhan truther

[theboytatu]

now im curious.. what are the other members of exo in omegaverse??

you shouldn't have asked this. for your own good

junmyeon - beta. really plays into the expectations he has as a leader (bc traditionally it was always alphas that were assigned as leaders) and all the pressure he faces. because even if he's not an alpha and not the oldest he is the exo member that trained the longest and no one takes their role as leader as seriously as him!!!

minseok - alpha. WALK with me! this fandom loves to think minseok is this fruity little fairy twunk but they're so fucking wrong. you ever heard the phrase "big dicked men are always quiet"? that's minseok. tbh it takes someone very secure in their masculinity to go up onstage and do aegyo and wear cat ears while dancing to gg challenges. but if you pay attention to him off stage every exo member defers to him - they might love teasing junmyeon but what minseok says goes.

baekhyun - we already established he's an omega. like he can manspread all he wants but im sorry those childbearing hips aren't fooling anyone

jongdae - beta. this man is just a very traditional next door good old beta boy who's the pride of his family and his group. i think exols love to pin him as an omega because he's on the smaller side but in my head he's a beta married to an alpha woman which he kisses the ground she walks on.

chanyeol - i mean.... is there really any other answer than alpha? 😭 he could be a beta if you wanna just go the unexplored lane but sometimes stereotypes exist for a reason

kyungsoo - beta obviously. if only because i know he wouldn't have the time for all the biological compulsions nonsense that comes with being an alpha or omega. imagine this man going into heat like oh my god? spare him all this shit and just let him go on his merry way

kai - jury's out on this one. i don't really see him as an omega but he's definitely not an alpha. personally i just assigned him beta because it was easier but you can make the case for omega. i have this headcanon that sm (and kpop companies in general) tend to make betas the centers of their groups because it's easier and can appeal to the widest audience possible while keeping things mess free. so beta it is for me!

sehun - omega to subvert all these stereotypes again mwah thank you sehun our woke king. i think sehun being an omega is hilarious because it checks out with his bratty maknae shtick - plus it means exo-sc is just exo-alpha omega and i think that's fun! (sechan shippers dni. these two have an older younger brothers dynamic and we don't need to make it weird). plus he really does give off alpha bait sometimes specially during the lotto and kokobop era like omg sm was really pimping him out..

(and as for yixing he's an alpha btw. bonus ex members assignments: luhan omega, tao beta.)

[wolfhednn]

Celebrating TOA and the people who contribute to make our group what it is. Repost, don't reblog. Only fill in what you feel comfortable sharing! Happy anniversary, TOA! Here's to many more years spent together.

Name: rai

Pronouns: it's complicated so she/he take ur pick

Birthday (no year): may 17

Where are you from? What is your time zone? the states, east coast beast coast. (not rly its swampy here)

How long is your roleplay experience? i regularly lose count. 17 years now i think?

How were you introduced to roleplaying as a whole? neopets, p sure. at least i can't remember rping before that. warrior cats and gifteds rps on neopets were the one-night stands of my heart

How were you introduced to TOA? according to legend, ree was reported famously to have said "we could do it tho" and then i answered "yeah ig we could huh"

Do you have any pets? nah i've come to realize that im not very good at taking care of living things (including myself) and no lifeform should be subjected to that

What is your favorite time of year and why? i'm an autumn girlie, complete with the pumpkin spice. november specifically is my favorite time of year

What is your IRL occupation? i work at a community college writing center ob it's really rewarding to make a direct impact on other people's experiences

Some interests and things you like/enjoy? gacha games, reading, poetry, hearing the dank beat drop in a song and imagining some dramatic rp scene to go along with it

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play? honkai: star rail, granblue fantasy, pokemon, jrpgs, otomes, vn's in general, whatever games my friends want to stream for me while i grind granblue fantasy

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon: raichu, and flying types

Tell us some fun facts and trivia about yourself! 3 stuffed animals have pride of place on my bed and they are a fennec fox named luhan, a red panda named shizi (persimmon in mandarin), and whale tartaglia

How did you get into Fire Emblem? was browsing the nearby gamestop in college shortly after fates came out, decided to pick it up on a whim because it looked up my alley. got hooked and blasted through the rest of the series in short order afterward

What Fire Emblem games have you played? everything except jugdral, but i've studied jugdral like i did ff7 back in the day in order to rp it

First & Favorite Fire Emblem games: fates as mentioned above. favorite depends on the metric jsdjgsk but, simplified, binding blade remains near and dear to my heart

List your 5 favorite Fire Emblem characters across the series! i cannot do this i do not hold enough characters in my working memory at a time

Who was the first character ever to make you go “ooh I like this one in particular” and why? Can be any context and reason! i think tsubaki. he was pretty and a pegasus knight, and i only liked him more as i actually saw more of his character HAHA

Any Fire Emblem crushes? huh. surprisingly, not really? was definitely expecting to have some for this one

If you’ve played (or are familiar with) the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays? 　　Awakening: lucina. and yes. always always 　　Fates: tsubaki, nishiki, and leo. and yes. 　　Three Houses: felix bc i liked his character and i always tend to s-support my faves just to see their lines. ambivalent now tbh im kinda roulette w 3h s-supports 　　Engage: gregory, mostly bc i'm also roulette w engage s-supports rather than any overt favoritism for gregory. maybe fogado?

Favorite Fire Emblem class? nomad ranger / bow knight

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class and stats? Would you be playable? i've been told i'd be mage into mage knight but wielding dark magic. magic nuke but kind of whatever everything else. lysithea but mounted i guess. if i'm somehow playable the circumstances must be EXTRAORDINARY because good luck peeling me away from my nice quiet life for your continental justice war no thanks

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation? black eagles probably and i'd cringe abt it

If you were an Officers Academy student, what would be your boons, banes and potential budding talent? reason and authority boon. gauntlet, heavy armor, flying bane. i don't rly think i'd have a budding talent in any of the rest

If you were an Engage character, which nation would you originate from? tbh i'd probably be from elusia

How do you pronounce TOA? individual letters

Current TOA muses: felix, caeldori, rosado

Past TOA muses? too fucking many yall. ugh lemme see. volug, sety, idunn, leif, yuri, kurthnaga, ephraim, lucius, etzel, nel, citrinne, nishiki

Who was your first TOA muse? If you no longer have them, can you see yourself picking them up again? will smith gestures at the grumpycat

Do you believe you have a type of character you gravitate towards writing? reckless boys with hearts of gold (felix, leif, zeiss, ephraim); perfectionistic dreamers (caeldori), charismatic cunning extroverts concealing a boatload of issues, somber cerebral sages (sety, etzel, kurthnaga arguably)

Do you have characters or types of characters you don’t think you can handle writing, but wish you could? there's plenty of archetypes i don't gravitate toward, but i don't really wish i did either. so not really

What kind of scenes, situations etc do you believe you enjoy writing the most? i like dramatic, fast-paced action scenes. i also like anything that explores complex topics and reveals how subjective the world really is, situations that challenge a character's views and beliefs and force them to reflect on what makes right or wrong

Do you have any scenario in mind for your muse(s) that gets you thinking “man I hope I get to write this one day”? not really right now. i don't usually have rp wishlists like this because my enjoyment of a scene depends more on how effectively i feel it's being executed rather than just getting to do the specific scene by itself

Favorite TOA-related memories? probably running team mercy in lock&key? that was a really fulfilling experience

Present or past tense? present tense

Normal size text, small text, no preference? small text but idc what my partner uses

Got any potential muse delusions to share? i have muses falling out my pockets. lately i've been fistfighting the ilios in my head constantly. sometimes you just want to play a loser

[miramizar]

It's a love that's meant to be - Chapter 5

Summary: Drabble based on the word "Game".

Genre/Category: Humour, fluff

Characters/Ship: Kai, Sehun; SeKai (Warning: Mentions of OT12)

Word count: 460

Crossposted on AO3

AN: I think that all EXO pairings are cute, but SeKai is adorable on another level in my opinion and I could easily imagine them playing around like this during their trainee days~ (´ ω `♡)

“Wanna play a game?” Sehun asks one day as they take a break from practice, him and Jongin seated next to each other on the floor with the mirrors behind them. Jongin swallows his mouthful of water and dries the sweat from his forehead with a towel.

“A game?” Sehun hums and points lazily towards the other members of their newly formed group who are scattered across the dance studio.

“If we overlook the fact that SM already decided on pairings, which members do you think could work together? As a potential couple.” Jongin is taken aback, but only for a moment. He had gotten weirder questions than this in his life.

“We take turns, then? And you want me to start?” Sehun is grinning from ear to ear now and Jongin snorts. “Fine. Okay, let’s see…” He puts his head into his hands and looks at the others. “Kris-hyung would work well with Tao. Or Yixing-hyung.” Sehun nods slowly.

“Not Junmyeon-hyung, then?”

Jongin shakes his head. “They are way too different. Junmyeon-hyung could work with Kyungsoo-hyung or Jongdae-hyung.”

“You broke the rules now, but I agree with you. Jongdae-hyung loves Junmyeon-hyung already, and everyone can see that Junmyeon-hyung adores Kyungsoo-hyung… but then again he adores everyone so who knows. I’m putting Minseok-hyung and Luhan-hyung together.” Jongin grins.

“You know HunHan is big, right?” Sehun grins back.

“Doesn’t mean that I want us to be anything more than friends.” He leans in to whisper in Jongin’s ear. “You're the only one for me, and you know that.”

Jongin laughs loudly, making the others turn to look and smile at them, but Sehun is quick to return to his spot, seemingly unfazed by the attention. “I’d like to ask you the same thing about KaiLu, and KaiSoo for that part.” 

Jongin shakes his head, still smiling. “I look up to them a lot, but that’s it. And didn’t I put Kyungsoo-hyung with Junmyeon-hyung already?”

“And with Jongdae-hyung.” Whispered remains of the last outburst of laughter escapes Jongin’s mouth and soon they are both a giggling beyond control, them realising that they’ve become the focus of the entire room only spurring it on and it takes a couple of minutes before they’ve calmed down enough to talk.

“I think they’re putting us together.” Sehun’s smile is wide, and so is Jongin’s. They lace their fingers together just because they can.

“I do too. I only have eyes for you, Sehunnie.”

And so break time ends, and so they let go of each other, and during the rest of the practice they are unable to stop themselves from smiling when their eyes meet - a small seed of truth turning their little game into something that might just be more than a game.

[duckydae]

BOYS PLANET + EXO PLANET

seok matthew -> kim minseok wang zihao -> zhang yixing sung hanbin -> kim junmyeon lee hwanhee -> byun baekhyun park hanbin -> kim jongdae na kamden -> park chanyeol jay chang -> do kyungsoo lee seunghwan -> kim jongin ricky -> oh sehun

the way this group would've been so fucking powerful. (not my top nine personally, but damn...) gen z / fifth gen exo would've been truly something but i also can't imagine the group without my boy zhang hao, who lowkey gave me luhan vibes anyway.

[mybiasisexo]

Ngl I kinda wish Luhan and Tao were still a part of exo, so that Xing could pull a MiSaMo (twice subunit) with them and promote in China together. That way he wouldn’t be all alone 🥺. Plus, imagine the chaotic power a subunit composed of Luhan, Tao, and Lay would have lol.

*sigh* Tis but a fever dream now…

China line always ate tf down!!! And had they stayed exo would’ve been even more powerful than they are now! Esp during enlistment. They would’ve carried frfr

I still believe we can get that unit! Even tho I think luhan said he retired or something but my fingers are always crossed for a collab with them all 🥺🥺

[bsgpiece]

The Proposal - LuHan version

It's very silly, but it was very fun to make, specially Hancock's expression! 🤭 Love this two and their dinamic, they're so sweet.

I love to imagine a few years after Luffy becomes pirate king, in one of the visits the strawhats pay to Amazon Lily, Hancock would ask Luffy to marry her like she always does and everyone (including her) would be like "oh, poor Hancock will get rejected again" and OUT OF NOWHERE Luffy would accept it, because why not? And that's how they would get together and start a family in the most random way lol

Bonus:

[myhappyexobubble]

EXO Fandom - Part 2 - FanArt

This post follows part 1 - available here.

After working on stories and loving the imaginative fiction created by the fandom, I came across stories that highlighted visual work by fanartists to help provide visual reference. Initially I found most artwork to be digital, but it was happening upon a pencil artist that struck a chord and made me think, “I could probably do that.”

At the time, I was close to graduating with my Bachelors Degree in Studio Arts with an emphasis in painting and mural. I was known for hating portrait work and chose to mostly work in abstracts and landscapes, or still life. The pressure to make a person look recognizable was daunting. I had just finished my senior project early and had very little to do in studio reserved time, but had an ample supply of medium and papers. So, without much thought, I started to draw EXO.

My early work is pretty rough, but as I mentioned, I did not like drawing people. I spent most of an entire semester working on some random drawings and eventually completed my first ‘series’ which was really just portraits of all members using the same medium and paper. I posted those drawings on my personal Instagram because I didn’t see it being a big deal. It became a big deal.

With enough positive comments, I decided that I wanted to keep working on portraits of EXO and sometimes other K-pop artists when inspired. I wanted to improve and to see if I could get better at drawing faces. As I continued working on shading and texture - especially hair, I began to wonder what other mediums could be used to achieve different effects. I also began networking. I started to follow and talk to other digital and traditional fan artists who used all sorts of effects. I wanted to emulate digital effects traditionally, working with physical media in layers. I went to the art store often and purchased more variety of tools. I got recommendations for brands and techniques from a network of artists that was beginning to span the globe. I had never felt so rich in community as I did around my 2nd year of working on fanart.

Of course, it wasn’t just the community that prompted artistic growth. Not to be biased, but Kai has always been just a little more artistically portrayed in photoshoots. What I consider to be odd fashion preferences became amazing to recreate in charcoal and colored pencil. Still frame movement and emotions were so motivating that at times I couldn’t keep up with the amount of visual content that was coming out and how fast I could draw.

It was a constant race to keep up. I remember that the Die Jungs photobooks were the first that I felt so incredibly motivated by and yet could never draw everything I wanted to from those books before new content was available. When Exodus and Love Me Right came out, I was cranking out 1-4 portraits a day or at least in a week. I wanted to do more series. As EXO members moved on (Kris, Luhan, Tao) I wanted to keep making series that included the 12 regardless. I wanted to merge charcoal with paint and do blends of medium that seemed impractical. It was intensely motivating because I had not just Kai but 12 total muses that belonged on canvas.

At the time of writing this I have produced 692 pieces of traditional fan art. That’s 692 pieces of paper or canvas where the medium was applied by hand via pencil or paint brush. Never in my youth did I think I would ever complete that much body of work in an entire lifetime. 

EXO gave me the inspiration to get over a fear of portraits, dabble in more medium than I’d imagined, network globally and make friends, and for the first time made me feel like a legitimate artist. Now, we could spend another entire post talking about the copyright issues and art practices and their validity, but for now - my creative growth is still one of the many reasons EXO is my favorite K-Pop group. 

More to follow, thank you for reading.

[jisungshotfirst]

Levanter anon: sounds like SM Entertainment is having a chaotic time once again.

On a more lighthearted note, if you look at the graph of SM stock prices going down, it looks like a cat now. 'Tis the EXO-dus cat!

But jokes aside: what will happen to EXO now? How many group members would be left in the company (assuming the don't also leave after the first group of members)? Where will the leaving members go?

Also, will this affect other SM groups? I am not the most familiar with them, but I hear SM groups are very interconnected, with NCT and Superm and everything. So will other groups have members leaving?

Hello!! they sure are hahahhaha

omg we love<3 jfjfdj exo's legacy :')

So there currently Chanyeol, Sehun, Kai, Kyungsoo, Suho and Lay are still contracted with SM. Chen, Baekhyun, and Minseok are still in exo of the moment - they've left the company not the group and so unless there's official word after all the legal stuff that they've left the group - they are still in the group! the contracts will be them individually contracted as SM artists, not as members of EXO so they don't lose that when the contracts gone until SM declare it. Sehun... is unpredicatable so i can't say anything for sure 😭 but he is basically sitting back atm with popcorn watching it go down so i imagine that whatever the outcome he will step up and try something himself hahah the others i truly don't know! Kai fucked off to the military right as the drama's happening so we won't get his news for a while 😭 the contracts are kinda frozen/extended over military enlistment periods i've noticed so he won't be doing anything until it's over. The leaving members are very likely going to go get signed to other labels/ set up their own ! i can imagine they have a plan, and considering they're suing together at once i can imagine they have a plan together! it would be great for us fans to have them sign to the same company but you gotta remember this is their first free decision about their career they've prob ever gotten so they should go with what they want individually and find companies that will suit them and work well with them<3

oki so I think there's a lot that could happen if u compare it to other groups! they could definitely do a got7 where they are in different companies focusing on solo stuff but manage to do a full-member comeback by organising it themselves between all their companies (if only once or twice </3). Or you could look at snsd. snsd came back through SM but 3 (?) of the members aren't under SM anymore - it was just something arranged between all companies involved and i can imagine that the non-SM girls got well compensated 😭 but yeah - something like that could happen if there's some relationship between the members and SM... which doesn't seem particularly likely considering the lawsuits but anyways it's a possibility hahaha!

about other SM groups! it will be affecting poor taeyong trying to promote his solo atm thru all this drama 😭 and as you said about the stock prices - that does inhibit the other groups. However, if they win the lawsuit, one can only hope that would encourage better artist treatment and fairer payout around the whole company!! and if SM don't do it themselves, the other artists would have tonnes of info on how to beat SM in a lawsuit 😭 so we can hope they use it well<3 but yeah - the icky thing about companies is that although they are all artists with similar contracts, the treatment and payout could be extremely different between all the groups :(( and within the same group (read: luhan and tao lol). and good old misogyny when it comes to rv<3 so each SM artist could have a different experience and some could have it much worse than others.

okay so i just read some articles and it's so funny djfgjjdfgj what i'm understanding is.. cbx were like 'yo can u provide us with the info on how we've been paid for 12-13 years' and sm are like 'no. i don't want to.' and sm are CONVINCED that some other evil company leaders have been talking to exo and getting them to sign with them and illegally go against their SM contracts. which very much could be true but it's not illegal to have discussions with other employers jgjdfg and SM are still like 'we have your best interests at heart, not those evil outsiders!'. ... they r so funny fkgkd. also their contracts were literally 12-13 years long... not the usual 7 recommended by the government.... and the contracts they r terminating were written in nov/dec 2022 and were extending them another 5/6 years...and SM's current defence is "no ur lawyer doesn't know the law properly we aren't in the wrong".. so .... unless some miracle is pulled I don't see SM coming out of this well since they're not rly cooperating at all.

but yeah.. i don't see a swarm of artists leaving SM happening, mostly because a lot of them won't have the luxury as EXO have to do that. And especially if they're also stuck in 13 year contracts... which is ridiculous. so yeah :(( but we can hope they get better treament!! and soz to any superm fans if there are any of you 😭 superm is a done thing i'm afraid</3 lucas flopped, baekhyun's suing and then it'd just be taemin in an Nct unit KJFGKFJGK. so yeah no more superm. but nct will prob truck on - they are SM's priority there's no denying it so they'll prob be fine. tho they are tragically suffering with the loss of sungtaro so like... </3 rip to them but infinite Nct flopped to me the second sungtaro left, like no one else matters</3

[mish-tique]

Please, Guanyu giving me Luhan vibes with the bucket hat and sunglasses 😭

imagine if they ever did anything like promo together. I'd die. The jackson wang x zhou guanyu hennesy poster already went straight to my heart

[engbergsinfinland]

Hello from Eskilstuna, Sweden!

Well, I've fallen quite far behind, and I'm afraid I'll never catch up! I wanted to share a few tidbits from my week away last week.

After the kids and Eric and I parted ways on Sunday, I believe I told you that I spent one more night in London and then the next morning I took the train to Nottingham. Once I arrived there, my colleague Andrew met me and he took me first to the University of Nottingham and from there we went in his car about 25 minutes away to Eastwood, which is where D. H. Lawrence was from. I've been studying D. H. Lawrence since my master's degree, when I wrote my thesis on his novel The Plumed Serpent. Lawrence and his wife Frida were given property in New Mexico by Mabel Dodge Luhan and I've long been fascinated by his New Mexico and Mexico period. Anyway, I've been an elected officer in the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America (DHLSNA) for over 20 years and a chapter in my book The Pluralist Imagination concerns him and I've written several articles about him. But I am nowhere near the eminent scholar that some of these people who focus almost primarily on him are. But, Andrew, who is one of the leading Lawrence scholars in the world and is the director of the D. H. Lawrence Research Center at the University of Nottingham, long ago promised me that if I was ever in Eastwood, he would take me on a tour. So last Monday was the day I finally got to do that.

I won't detail everything we saw, but one of the most memorable sites was Lawrence's second home, in the series of homes he lived in as a child. It is called The Breach House and it was in lovely condition (it's exterior, anyway), though it is I believe between owners right now. It was a brick home with green trim and Lawrence's father, who was a coal miner, could afford it, but over the next 10 years, they moved once more up the hill, and then once more to the top of the hill, where his mother had a bay window that she loved to look out of. It was in that house that Lawrence's beloved mother died of cancer.

In the afternoon that day, I went into the manuscript collection at University of Nottingham and looked at some papers related to the editing of the Cambridge edition of the collection Mornings in Mexico, which was edited by one of my mentors, Virginia Hyde. This is basically a one-off project I'm doing about her editing of that work. I want to present it at the D. H. Lawrence conference in Mexico City in August, of which I am an organizer. I want to celebrate Virginia's work on that important publication. The papers related to the editing were so interesting, but I don't have time to go into that here! So, if you're curious, hit me up in August!

Monday night, I headed to York via train; my friend Alison, who I was meeting, let me know it was running late. And one of the connections wasn't going to happen So, I had to get a different connection from Grantham. Thank goodness someone was on the ball! Alison and I met at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell over 20 years ago. Now, she is a professor at York, as is her husband. I got to see a lot of her over the 3 days I was in York and that was such a delight. On Tuesday, I gave a guest class in David Stirrup's indigenous literature seminar (he is also the director of the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies), and I had the students do a workshop with some archival materials from Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin's archive at Brigham Young University. I have had three grants to work with those papers over the last 15 years, so I'm an expert in what is included in that collection. I shared with the students some materials from the Red Progressive era, specifically related to Gertrude's formation of the citizenship-education entity the National Council of American Indians in 1926.

After my class with the students, I got to go see my friend Alison give a talk. Her book (The Art of Walking in London) just came out 2 weeks ago, and I didn't even know! Her lecture was in the Center for 18th Century Studies, which is housed in a beautiful historic building. Hundreds of years old! As it turns out, the Centre is moving to a different building in the university area because this very antique facility that they have been in just needs a lot of work. Anyway, her talk was filled to the gills in the seminar room. It was such a wonderful atmosphere, so collegial. Her talk about 18th century guidebooks to London, written by foreign visitors, was so compelling. That night, several people who were at her talk went to dinner together to an Italian restaurant in the Old Town in York and we had such a ball.

Finally, on my last day there, Wednesday, David and I gave a conversation together as part of the Modern's Group seminar. Our event was titled "Indigenous Cartographies and the (Cultural) Rhetorics of Mapping: A Conversation." If you heard the U.S. President's inaugural address, you may have heard him invoke Manifest Destiny as something aspirational, which of course flies in the face of many decades of (what I thought was) settled discourse about the legacy impacts and traumas associated with the "taming of the wild frontier." So, our conversation looked at Indigenous map-making histories, both textual and cartographic, and we had lots of compelling images that we shared, discussed between the two of us, and then we opened the floor up for discussion with the audience. It went really well, even though it was a bit freeform despite our lengthy slide deck; I was really a bit nervous about how it was all going to come together. Afterwards, David took me to the train station and I swooped on down to London and got on the Eurostar to Paris.

As if this isn't an exhausting account of an exhausting few days already, I haven't even gotten to the Paris part! I arrived to the hotel that I was staying in, as were many other attendees to the Lawrence conference there, and it was such a nice surprise that as I was rolling up, my friend Kathleen from Malta was arriving back from a late dinner and greeted my cab! I had wanted to meet her in person for years; she and I are part of the planning team for the D. H. Lawrence Happy Hour series, but we've never met in person! We finally did. She is just as great and fun in person as I thought she'd be. The conference was magnificent. Every attendee (about 30 of us) attends every talk, seated around a ring of tables, so everyone can see everyone. What a great atmosphere. I am always so blown away by the eminent Lawrence scholars, but some newly minted Ph.D.s were remarkable, too! My paper was fine, but I haven't had time to focus on bringing it through that final stage to ready-for-submission. Ugh! I hope to get there. Being in Paris for the conference was so fun and I really hope to be able to come back to that conference in a coming year, though it is so hard to fly from the U.S. to Paris for a conference in the middle of Spring term.

And then Friday afternoon, I flew back to Helsinki, took the train to Tampere, and then, just to add more fun to the mix, it was time to the hit the ground running on Saturday morning because our neighbors from the U.S. were there visiting for what would become a super-fun weekend with their three girls -- culminating in a voyage on the Viking cruise-ferry (the "Cinderella") from Helsinki to Stockholm overnight on Sunday night. What a ball we had. More on that soon -- as well as on my two-day visit to Mälardalens universitet, in Eskilstuna, Sweden, from where I write currently -- and from where I sign off. Whew! I can't wait to be reunited with Eric and our kiddos on Thursday after the mandatory Fulbright mid-term meeting on Thursday (and, ohhhh myyy, I will have to broach here in my next post maybe all of the questions I have been getting about the status of Fulbright grants, given the U.S. government's totally ignorant and reckless and shortsighted freezing of funding for Fulbright and other international educational exchange programs; we damn our nation to vulnerability and toxic insularity as a result of cutting off soft-power and global collaboration-building initiatives like Fulbright.)

And the weather in Sweden has been fine, fine, fine! A bit windy -- but dare I say, spring has sprung? In Finland, there are many memes about these early hopes of Springtime, like so: