‘I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power’ Arundhati Roy ✊ m.thewire.in/article/book...

Lovely! I've been giving to this foundation—it existed, it just didn't have official status, and now it can move forward!

Queer Korean author and translator @antonhur.com on The Banh Mi Chronicles Podcast about his debut fiction, Toward Eternity, and what he has learned as an author. We chatted about translation in literature, AI’s effects on writers, social issues, Mariah Carey, and more. Follow the podcast!

this interview was so good and very helpful for explaining the setting/context of the novel - I think I can finally give the book another try after watching this also oooh @ the ending book rec (Spent Bullets)! immediately added it to my readlist too www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN3Z...

watching Battle of Fates and it's so fascinating o: Every time a shaman talks about their grandma/grandpa/child spirit, it makes me think of yrzx's Dispatch of Detained Spirits + curious if the Korean spirits are gods/"pure" spirits rather than spirits that were once human?

everyone should read tai sui

Did it on a short notice so it might be error-riddled but here, I translated Priest's preview of her newest work. (only a preview so far, no title yet). Password is author name, all lower case, and no unauthorised sharing, thank you! drive.google.com/file/d/13pXh...

to put in full context: imagine you write a story of an abused person who fought tooth and nail and succeeded in jailing his abuser, & triggered a movement for more victims to speak up then in a second book, make the same character say 'i never changed anything. i've become one of the silent ones'

posted this before i even hit the turning point in shuzi, and everything got worse. almost forgot what a trilogy sometimes entails, so im being destroyed by how in shuzi, the same ideas are brought up again, built upon but in a different way thats in line with shuzi's theme of powerless kids

shuzi ch52-62: holyyyyyyyyyyy fuckkkkkkkkk

@xiaotranslate.bsky.social btw, thank you for your translation!!! Your tl of the free chapters was enough to get me hooked on the story, but I'm not sure if I would've gotten hooked if I had started from the raws

Finished Pretense (Vanity Fair) last night and I'm so hooked on Shuzi now that I'm reading it during the day... (which I haven't done since 2024 iirc) I've only read 1.1 books from Three Bananas but I'm sold on their stories. Will probably try their other works too after finishing this trilogy -

closing ceremony: yaaaaas celebrating the operas!!

FYI priest has a preview of her new book on Lofter! [porting over twt news] brief thoughts: - intro kiiinda made me think of the 3 body problem and the call from future self made me think of Mist (I think that's the right book...??)

ICE killed my fucking neighbor

literally tuned in 5 sec before ilia's score was announced and ohhoooo

this karrot market cops and robbers trend is fascinating loll. first heard of it from seseung's video a few days ago Anyways, the beginning is hilarious to watch as a viewer but as a J, totally understand Na PD's frustration at having to take over hahah www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6h...

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ahh, good job boyang!!! can't believe he's (almost) the uncle line now ;A;

oh lord..... thought "oh hey, liu xinyu and i-geon kinda have the same vibes" while watching then just found about xinyu's scandal from a reddit comment sighhhhh

oh whoops, guess I missed luge doubles before (just finding about it now on twt)

finally got time to watch skating - ohhhh, so georgia is the new russia ;;;

Milan Olympics opening ceremony: was thinking she kinda looks like mariah carey and then she hit a dolphin note haha

ayyy seseung's watching SI5 too! very excited for when she'll get to this week's eps :))) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ocg...

I don't hate mina sue like a lot of others seem to since I can somewhat relate to her indecisiveness and overthinking. But Seung-il really laid out the facts there (ep 8 end)

with all the heinous shit in the news i keep having to remind myself -- and i truly believe -- that most people are good

don't even know what to say about the epstein files but the fact that so many events (let alone people) are implicated?? (08 subprime, covid, bitcoin, AI, all the crimes up to possibly cannibalism???) I haven't even been reading the files themselves, just twt posts. and I know-

ayyyyy I spoke too soon - yay for the raws also being included at the bottom!!! "Only life and the many tiny conflicts and hopes that come with living." "Perhaps “danmei” itself is a reflection of the romantic sentiments in our hearts that we haven’t been able to realize in the real world."

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1. Intro to Logic 2. (Intro to?) Stats 3. Natural Products 4. Abnormal Psychology 5. Anal(ytical ____)

Loving Strangers watch thread ep 4 42min- huh, wonder if this line was in MM (maybe I'll check later) ep 5 - the OST (esp. OP) here is growing on me too (lyric tls help a lot) - another comment saying they hate FL (but not IU)....feel like pretty privilege is beneath that

liu yuning: oh, I'll give you a song to have stuck in your head during exams weibo.com/5456865382/5... old.reddit.com/r/cdramasfan...

people forcing a cough when they see you wearing a face mask is a weird and cowardly sight, they don't wanna actually say anything. I guess just want to express some sort of doublethink they probably don't even fully believe in, like getting ill is good for you actually

@halfcactus.follows.cat changed my mind and so far, in the first 2 eps, almost everything is the same except: - the wedding? don't remember but it is in character - they changed it from an engineering company to pharma - 3 brothers became uncle and I feel like the gravitas of mark chao/zxc doesn't

oh, the title and tagline are insanely relevant 😭(from the writer of My Mister) mydramalist.com/790724-every...

nvm, going thru it rn..... (crying in the club listening to sondia's adult)

man, I would love to hear Zhou Shen cover Sondia's Adult

ohh, so I did see right that zhang xincheng was in Loving Strangers as the gangster (jang kiyong's role) + him reuniting with zhang zifeng after The Heart of Genius! only skimmed some scenes from ep 1 but I might come back to LS when I finish Eternal Brotherhood. Made me realize that despite liking

"I'm no chill-na sue choi" - relatable though (on the overthinking) and I can't believe "Daoist" was mentioned on Single's Inferno loll

this pose 😂🤣

may the year of the fire horse bring you resilience, forward momentum and the strength in community to enact change 🎇❤️‍🔥 (a few weeks early🤫) #马年 #万马奔腾 #guolduart

just went out for a walk (thankfully they cleared yesterday's snow from the sidewalk vs the previous snow that took more than a day) and there's so many houses with 2 or 3 cars parked outside?? what do they have in their garages instead

her english handwriting is so pretty too ahhh (lol @ the message though)

been obsessed with these 2 cdrama OSTs lately: (also initially thought this first one was sung by liu yuning but I guess I don't know his voice that well) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKQj... www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zc...

For the remainder of the year, I will be sending 100% of received personal commission funds to PIRC (Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition). This is not a decision made lightly, as I live paycheck to paycheck from my dayjob, but a min. sacrifice on my part nonetheless. u can read about them here:

There's a video out there of ice lynching a man. Don't watch it. It will not help you or others to traumatize yourself. Spend the time you would have spent watching it/wanting to vomit and scream making a donation to somewhere in Minnesota, or if you can't, researching where you can help locally.

YT gatekeeping playback speeds for premium members....... no wonder I've been having issues with it for a while )):

culinary class wars s2: there were a few instances of using plastic wrap to shape something and then steaming/cooking it...... can't help wondering about the microplastics from that though

Shoutout to the one reddit comment that got me to try Heroes 天行健!! Been a while since I watched a drama that was as well-rounded as this one. guess I can say I finally watched a Qing dynasty drama lol (+ also counts as pre-Republic?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttI...

heroes 2024 ep 24: girls!!!!!!!!!!