@kimyoonmi
Eclectic Creative. The first Jewish Korean Adoptee writer and first Korean Adoptee pro-pubbed in SFF. Queer. BA in Anthro concentrated in systems (such as racism, sexism, etc). Minor in Comparative Lit. I BLOCK GenAI users. http://www.kimyoonmiauthor.com
Off of this discovery, I'm seriously considering adding bearded women to one of my fantasy cultures just to mix things up. Gender expression in #otherworld #fantasy and science fiction writing is far too contemporary. PLAY more. #sff
#Worldbuilding #WritingCommunity
Beauty standards should change over time in your fictional cultures and they do not have to match contemporary times. In Iran, mustached women were considered extra beautiful.
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over carrying plants in my arms, in my bag. What is this? These are food that you would normally eat, but you're scared once it's actually being shown to be growing? Why are you all acting so weird?
How industrialization sucks.
This is the third time people have freaked out when I'm carrying plants🌱 and it's really odd. We are so disconnected from our food system that when I'm carrying an armful of marjoram people are afraid? I've gotten kicked out of a restaurant, people freak out on the bus, not allowed to ride a bus
This is thanks to the Iran war. It used to be $2 something.
I think it should be illegal for all politicians to personally profit through their tenure in public office.
When is a book the greatest dinosaur?
When the book is the saurus. Besides, the words in it are very Rawr.
#punny #puns #jokes @merriam-webster.com #dadjokes #WritingCommunity
Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.
This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.
Painting Techniques (For painting class)
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Lit profs are failing to define what Romance as in Byron and Brontes meant if people still think that they wrote love story Romance. Love story romance was only defined in the 20th century. They mean Romantacism, the Literary movement. #WritingCommunity #Literature
The original was brutal, you should play the updated version released in 1992:
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Remember, 🍊 without bronzer is a 🍋. His followers would then be lemmings. A 🍋 in 🍊 clothing.
BTW, I caught 2 Russian agents using this joke. They didn't get it.
Most psychologists say people with NPD never mature past 3 because at around 3 you start to be able to separate yourself from others.
He truthfully doesn't know where he is most of the time.
I still remember, BTW, the exact justification for the word count of 20 words from Anne McCaffrey. You may no longer like her work, but I really don't want her to be erased from credit while you blindly put up different word counts on her idea without understanding why she said what she said.
I am not great alone. And I hope people instead of blind repeating things from the internet do go back and read the theories of these people in detail on how and why they advocated for these ideas. I keep track of the authors I take from, which is better than most writing advice books.
Tom Joyce would probably be happier if you learned his lesson on stop objecting to critiques over diluting his rules on how to critique. His lessons to me on how to shut up were invaluable. Him and Holly Lisle's Mugging the Muse. Go read what she says about critiques.
He beat into every kids' head that was even in his vicinity to stop objecting to critiques and to stop, "throwing stones at glass houses" because always, always the writer loses when they object. He had a long story about how spectacularly it could fail and would tell it until you got it.
Most critique places online took from my initial posts I did on Nanowrimo on how to do critiques. And I took those rules from my beloved Writing camp professor whose now passed from cancer, Tom Joyce. His lessons I feel like everyone should learn.
Key there is at conventions, Agents.
Comps also came from Nanowrimo, which still blows my mind, but I didn't post that one and there were still debates about if comps could be racist and anti-queer at the time. I raised a few objections on top of that.
This is NOT to be confused with elevator pitches, which I also posted on Nanowrimo on the back of Dan Wells and other writers (Dale Carnegie too) and marketing advice books. Where they said they would use it in elevators to pitch agents their books AT CONVENTIONS, NOT in queries.
The origin of the # -word summaries is from Anne McCaffrey. The original word count was 20 words. Not a word more or less. How do I know? I was the first to post it on Nanowrimo. She said roughly, you don't know a story unless you can summarize it in 20 words. #WritingCommunity
They also have issues with understanding genetics, apparently, too, which I had to also correct on the talk pages over the years. The whole biracial people look EXACTLY 50% of each race lol. Oh God, the editors just keep showing me who they are.
I openly mocked this for years and years, and still the editors can't get it together, and I suppose maybe the open mocking of it might have caught people's attention. Because I find it hilarious how worked up some white people get to think that ONE queen might have Black ancestry.
I have a long history with the page where one thing is claimed and the opposite is cited and it looks just that tad racist. But every time I correct it it feels like white people lose their collective minds and do something worse.
Open mockery... But Wikipedia page on Queen Charlotte continues to veer often a little racist at times. This time they claimed two books said that Moors were African at all. The sources they cited said the opposite. *sighs*
I think if Choi Si Won and Ko Kyung-pyo were in the same drama—it would be hilarious, for one, since both actors have similar types of humor, and two, I think one could play with the fact they do look similar. #K-drama. I can cook a few ideas.
And Trump chokes the air of all oxygen which then leaves just the magatry moron.
I did want to feed SK more stories about guardianship, though, but I'm trying to weigh how to do it. US is getting better at least. The turning point for me was Supergirl. Will Trent is sooo good. It is serious on police violence, trauma, and foster care/adoption without being too heavy.
That blog, BTW, does a great job, but I always have to dip in and say no. No. Nooo... No. Because adoption is always a soapbox for something else and polarized to extremes but no one wants to talk about the problems with the adoption industry itself. Every story I write about it, gets rejected.