#crosscurrents

[kth1]

https://x.com/eternal_jiminie/status/1710032336300228702?s=46&t=tQmb6lTg3qIKzKeQJGIQnQ

My whole Crosscurrents fic has this pink jimin merman?!?!

[grrlmusic]

crosscurrent magazine

[kingstealer]

reading a star wars legend novel and the inciting incident is our main guy having a force vision about Looming Darkness that ends with "you'll find what you need at the black hole on fhost". and ofc this guy goes "that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard. how is there a black hole on a planet. and it turns out The Black Hole is the favorite shitty bar on fhost of one of the other characters.

which, honestly? i love that always. improbable quest location turns out to be a shitty bar? ideal

[highinanartmusuem]

TAKASHI HOMMA PHOTOGRAPHS FOR CROSSCURRENT ISSUE FIVE

Ai Kamoshita Fashion

[bigfuckingcrab]

Idk why but one of my favorite things about playing older games is catching shit that almost no one else would care enough to notice like recognizing obscure voice actors from one game in another

for instance I just discovered that the character Logan Sheppard in Command & Conquer: Renegade has the same voice actor as Jaden Korr, the player character from Star Wars Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy

[joons]

today i learned it's supposed to be called "poke sallet" but southerners must make everything funnier

[magnetarbeam]

A few random chains of thought just came together about the question of how Ship found the Lost Tribe.

First thing is this passage in Abyss:

"If Ship was what the records aboard the Omen indicated he was, he was a servant of the ancient Sith. Everything he had done since finding the Tribe - even the fact that he had researched the Battle of Kirrek and gone to the trouble of tracking them down - certainly supported that assertion."

This could, potentially, be read as meaning that the Omen came directly from the Battle of Kirrek. It is also reasonable - more tempting, to my tastes - to interpret the way it's phrased as meaning that researching the Battle of Kirrek and tracking down the Tribe were separate actions.

The way that the incident at Phaegon III that resulted in the Omen's crash is shown to us in Crosscurrent makes it kind of difficult to believe any logs could have made it out at the time. There were three hyperspace-capable ships there: Omen, its sister ship Harbinger, and the single Jedi Infiltrator (some kind of two-person stealth fighter) that delivered Relin aboard Harbinger. In the perspectives aboard Harbinger, nobody even proposes sending word of the engagement to forces elsewhere. The Infiltrator was destroyed near the end of the battle, and Drev spent about the whole time too busy dodging lasers to report the situation himself.

We don't get a whole lot of detail about events aboard Omen, but they don't even start to realize something's wrong until they pick up weird readings from Harbinger's hyperdrive, less than twenty seconds before the synchronized jump, and Captain Korsin seemingly doesn't have time to move his ship when Harbinger ends up on a collision course due to Drev's kamikaze impact.

That collision, for those of you who haven't read this book, is what knocks Omen off course from its jump, and ultimately sends it to Kesh.

Just knowing about the Battle of Kirrek would not allow anyone to find Kesh. The two dreadnoughts were detached from the primary Sith fleet prior to the battle, and it's very unlikely that any reports of their fate made it out at the time. They weren't even attempting to jump to Kirrek. They wanted to go to Primus Goluud.

However, a whole plot thread in Crosscurrent is that Relin's sabotage meant the Harbinger didn't fully enter the hyperspace tunnel, and instead accelerated to near lightspeed in realspace, in the process experiencing relativistic effects that mean that in a couple minutes aboard the ship, thousands of years passed outside. It comes out of its jump in 41.5 ABY, shortly after the end of the Second Galactic Civil War and in time for Jaden Korr to encounter it while in the process of coping with their experiences in that war.

Also in time for everyone's favorite Sith meditation sphere to have defied the One Sith and gone looking for other Sith.

At that point, the Harbinger is still carrying a shitload of lignan, and I think maybe Ship sensed that in the Force. Harbinger and its diabolical cargo are pretty thoroughly destroyed by the end of the book, but my tentative idea is that there was some kind of log, like the equivalent of a black-box recorder, that still held the sensor data from the incident at Phaegon III. I propose that this was found by Ship, using his knowledge of the time's warships to pick out that particular piece of metal out of the debris field, and he used the data to generate an outbound vector on the Omen's jump, and by following that trail he found Kesh.

I think way too much about this weird little book, the one that did time travel in Star Wars but in a way that makes sense.

[magnetarbeam]

I seriously didn't remember that this wasn't in the movie, because the junior novel version had it.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Deleted Scene - “Cargo Bay”

#THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING SCENE #AHSOKA CHUCKING HER LIGHTSABER AT THE DOOR BUTTON TO CLOSE IT #AHSOKA INSULTING THE TWILIGHT ONLY TO PRACTICALLY KISS IT WHEN SHE’S SAFELY ABOARD AGAIN #TOTAL DAD MATERIAL ANAKIN SKYWALKER #BABY CRYING.  ANAKIN’S RESPONSE:  ’UHHHH JUST HOLD ON A SECOND SHE’LL BE RIGHT BACK’ #AND THEN THE ENDING #GOD WHAT A DISASTER DUO I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

[inthewindtunnel]

Innesti

Crosscurrents Through Nuances

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crosscurrent

[niibaataa]

Some Indigenous Poets to Read

Disclaimer: Some of these poems deal with pregnancy, colonialism, substance abuse, murder, death, and historical wrongs. Exercise caution.

Tacey M. Atsitty [Diné] : Anasazi, Lady Birds' Evening Meetings, Things to Do With a Monster.

Billy-Ray Belcourt [Cree] : NDN Homopoetics, If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart, Love is a Moontime Teaching.

CooXooEii Black [Arapaho] : On Mindfulness, Some Notes on Vision, With Scraps We Made Sacred Food.

Trevino L. Brings Plenty [Lakota] : Unpack Poetic, Will, Massacre Song Foundation.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski [Apache] : Nobaude, murder on the gowanus, What To Say Upon Being Asked To Be Friends.

Gladys Cardiff [Cherokee] : Combing, Prayer to Fix The Affections, To Frighten a Storm.

Freddy Chicangana [Yanacuna] : Of Rivers, Footprints, We Still Have Life on This Earth.

Laura Da' [Shawnee] : Bead Workers, The Meadow Views: Sword and Symbolic History, A Mighty Pulverizing Machine.

Natalie Diaz [Mojave] : It Was The Animals, My Brother My Wound, The Facts of Art.

Heid E. Erdrich [Anishinaabe] : De'an, Elemental Conception, Ghost Prisoner.

Jennifer Elise Foerster [Mvskoke] : From "Coosa", Leaving Tulsa, The Other Side.

Eric Gansworth [Onondaga] : Bee, Eel, A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function.

Joy Harjo [Muscogee] : An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, A Map to The Next World.

Gordon Henry Jr. [Anishinaabe] : How Soon, On the Verve of Verbs, It Was Snowing on The Monuments.

Sy Hoahwah [Comanche/Arapaho] : Colors of The Comanche Nation Flag, Definitive Bright Morning, Typhoni.

LeAnne Howe [Choctaw] : A Duck's Tune, 1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed.

Hugo Jamioy [Kamentsá] : PUNCTUAL, If You Don't Eat Anything, The Story of My People.

Layli Long Soldier [Lakota] : 38, WHEREAS, Obligations 2.

Janet McAdams [Muscogee] : Flood, The Hands of The Taino, Hunters, Gatherers.

Brandy Nālani McDougall [Kānaka Maoli] : He Mele Aloha no ka Niu, On Finding my Father's First Essay, The Island on Which I Love You.

dg nanouk okpik [Inupiaq-Inuit] : Cell Block on Chena River, Found, If Oil Is Drilled In Bristol Bay.

Simon J. Ortiz [Acoma Pueblo] : Becoming Human, Blind Curse, Busted Boy.

Sara Marie Ortiz [Acoma Pueblo] : Iyáani (Spirit, Breath, Life), Language (part of a compilation), Rush.

Alan Pelaez Lopez [Zapotec] : the afterlife of illegality, A Daily Prayer, Zapotec Crossers.

Tommy Pico [Kumeyaay] : From "Feed", from Junk, You Can't be an NDN Person in Today's World.

Craig Santos Perez [Chamorro] : (First Trimester), from Lisiensan Ga'lago, from "understory".

Cedar Sigo [Suquamish] : Cold Valley, Expensive Magic, Secrets of The Inner Mind.

M. L. Smoker [Assiniboine/Sioux] : Crosscurrent, Heart Butte, Montana, Another Attempt at Rescue.

Laura Tohe [Diné] : For Kathryn, Female Rain, Returning.

Gwen Nell Westerman [Cherokee/Dakota] : Dakota Homecoming, Covalent Bonds, Undivided Interest.

Karenne Wood [Monacan] : Apologies, Abracadabra, an Abecedarian, Chief Totopotamoi, 1654.

Lightning Round! Writers with poetry available on their sites:

Shonda Buchanan [Coharie, Cherokee, Choctaw].

Leonel Lienlaf [Mapuche].

Asani Charles [Choctaw/Chickasaw].

[handweavers]

i highly recommend crosscurrents (the journal) in general, if you are someone who is interested in religious studies or theology or philosophy of religion and how the subject intertwines with ecology, race and class relations, war and migration, etc. it also publishes poetry and reviews books on the subject and so many of my favourite articles have been published in it, including the skin of religion by s. brent plate which i consider to be a foundational piece of writing for my entire artistic practice

[thsyu-global]

Thsyu Alert: Bitcoin Pauses Near $69k as Weakening Yuan Tests China's Capital Controls – Policy Impact Analysis

Bitcoin's (BTC) recent upward momentum stalled Tuesday, consolidating around the $69,000 mark despite a potentially potent bullish catalyst emerging from Asia: the weakening Chinese Yuan (CNH). While BTC initially dipped nearly 2% over 24 hours to ~$68,900, the offshore Yuan slid further against the US Dollar, trading above 7.27, reflecting persistent depreciation pressures potentially linked to PBoC policy divergence and broader economic headwinds.

Data Point: USD/CNH > 7.27 vs. BTC ~$69k (April 8-9).

Policy Impact: The core tension lies between the Yuan's weakness potentially driving capital flight towards alternative stores of value like Bitcoin, and Beijing's stringent Capital Controls and existing ban on cryptocurrency trading within the mainland. Historically, significant Yuan devaluation has correlated with increased BTC buying pressure, interpreted as a hedge against currency depreciation by Chinese investors accessing offshore markets. However, the effectiveness of this channel is constantly tested by regulatory enforcement. Market observers on global platforms, including Thsyu, are closely monitoring flows for signs of this dynamic re-emerging despite policy barriers.

The current Bitcoin price consolidation, however, suggests the Yuan's influence is currently muted or offset by other factors. Analysts point to normalizing spot Bitcoin ETF inflows in the US, pre-halving profit-taking (with the event estimated mid-April), and general macroeconomic uncertainty tempering aggressive bids. Bitcoin failed to sustain moves above the critical $71,500 resistance level earlier this week, indicating trader caution.

Geopolitical Context: The PBoC's accommodative stance contrasts sharply with the Federal Reserve's data-dependent approach, contributing to yield differentials pressuring the Yuan. This divergence occurs amidst ongoing global trade frictions and geopolitical maneuvering, making currency stability a key policy focus for Beijing. Any perceived increase in capital outflows triggered by Yuan weakness could invite tighter enforcement actions, impacting crypto sentiment indirectly. For traders using platforms like Thsyu, understanding these policy crosscurrents is vital.

Market Reaction: While the "weak Yuan = strong Bitcoin" narrative persists, current price action suggests the market is weighing regulatory friction and other dominant crypto-native factors more heavily. The immediate impact of Yuan depreciation appears contained by China's policy framework for now. Yet, sustained currency weakness remains a key variable; a significant break lower in the Yuan could still test the resilience of capital controls and potentially fuel demand visible on exchanges like Thsyu.

Outlook: The interplay between PBoC policy, Yuan stability, China's regulatory grip, and global crypto market drivers like the upcoming halving and ETF flows creates a complex outlook. Monitoring Beijing's policy signals regarding capital flows and enforcement alongside broader crypto market indicators remains crucial for navigating potential volatility. Users on the Thsyu platform are advised to stay informed on these fast-moving geopolitical and regulatory developments impacting digital asset valuations. The coming weeks will be critical in determining if the Yuan slide translates from a theoretical catalyst into tangible market momentum.

[theveiledstream]

The Veiled Stream

Beneath the city lies a secret—a river long buried, its waters still flowing in the dark, unseen but unstoppable. Elena Kovik knows what it means to be hidden.

Trapped between expectation and identity, between a family that won’t understand and a future she’s afraid to claim, she moves through the world like a ghost.

But when she stumbles upon the Veiled Stream—a forgotten underground river whispered about in half-lost histories—everything changes.

Drawn to its quiet defiance, Elena begins unraveling the mysteries surrounding the river and the people who once sought refuge along its banks.

With the guidance of Dr. Moreau, a historian who believes the past still has power, she pieces together stories of resilience, of transformation—of those who, like her, refused to be erased.

But it’s not just the river pulling her forward. It’s Mira, her best friend—the girl who sees her when no one else does, who makes her feel steady even as everything shifts beneath her feet.

What started as friendship begins to deepen into something undeniable, something terrifying and beautiful all at once.

As graduation looms and the weight of reality presses in, Elena must decide: will she stay trapped in the life others have written for her, or will she, like the river, carve her own path?

A gorgeous transgender coming-of-age story, The Veiled Stream is a tale of hidden histories, quiet rebellions, and a love strong enough to rewrite the future.

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Please note: Due to time constraints, this story is was partially enhanced using AI tools. For any queries please send a direct message.

If at any point you like what you read, please remember who this is for - Trans youth currently experiencing some of the worst conditions America has ever faced.

Donate to the Transgender Law Centre

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Chapter Links

Chapter 1 - Hidden Waters

Chapter 2 - Early Ripples

Chapter 3 - Diverging Streams

Chapter 4 - Eroding Banks

Chapter 5 - The Underground River

Chapter 6 - Whispers in the Water

Chapter 7 - Mapping the Source

Chapter 8 - Confluence of Thoughts

Chapter 9 - First Flood

Chapter 10 - Ebb and Flow

Chapter 11 - Glimmer of the Surface

Chapter 12 - Rising Tides

Chapter 13 - Bridges Built

Chapter 14 - Current of Courage

Chapter 15 - Erosion of Masks

Chapter 16 - Tidal Forces

Chapter 17 - Underwater Obstacles

Chapter 18 - Flowing Together

Chapter 19 - The River’s Voice

Chapter 20 - Surface Tension

Chapter 21 - First Light

Chapter 22 - Reflections

Chapter 23 - New Tributaries

Chapter 24 - Shifting Landscapes

Chapter 25 - Crosscurrents

Chapter 26 - Storm Surge

Chapter 27: Clearing Waters

Chapter 28: Merging Paths

Chapter 29: Undercurrents

Chapter 30: The River’s Gift

Chapter 31: High Tide

Chapter 32: Navigating Rapids

Chapter 33: Watershed Moment

Chapter 34: Riverbanks Redefined

Chapter 35: Flowing Freely

Chapter 36: The Deepest Current

Chapter 37: Rising Above

Chapter 38: Ripples in the Water

Chapter 39: Calm Waters

Chapter 40: The River’s Embrace

Chapter 41: The Tides of Acceptance

Chapter 42: Open Sea

Chapter 43: Currents of Connection

Chapter 44: Eternal Flow

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Stay tuned for more! 💖

[distantvoices]

Nazarit Machin, Edna Karibwami by Phil Engelhardt for Crosscurrent Magazine November 2023

[lepertamar]

There is, finally, the image of him left by the last person who saw him, the woman who guided him over the Pyrenees to the border of Spain. Lisa Fittko describes his unfailing courtesy in the midst of the worst dangers. The arduous trek over the mountains was made worse by his heart condition, and Benjamin was also lugging a briefcase with which he refused to part, and in which he had what he described as his new manuscript. He told her, "This briefcase is the most important thing I have. I mustn't lose it. My manuscript must be saved. It is more important than I am" ("Last Days" 52). But it, too, was lost after his suicide.

—Handelman, Susan. “Walter Benjamin and the Angel of History.” CrossCurrents 41, no. 3 (1991): 344–52.