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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Dressmaker is #anti-AI and you can tell the #game human-made, so much so that the people who play it like to fill in voices for the characters, which is super entertaining. If my big computer was functional, I'd probably play it.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was looking for genuine leather shoes and then I realized that they don't make leather shoes anymore, but plastic ones to pollute the sea with every year. And now genuine leather shoes have shot up in price to sometimes 100-300 dollars. They are built to *cough* last.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You learn about Goguryeo and how Koreans liked to retcon history so older kingdoms were renamed by the newer ones pretty much the first week or two of class. And you know about the hanja and about the fact it's a posthumous name much later. The hanja does not mean "Korea".

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Because Germans use Deutschland and Deutsche Menschen is German people. As much as I hate Chinese nationalism, I'd trust a Chinese nationalist to get the details of Goguryeo right over a mediocre white guy. Dude, you learn the word for Korea in Korean first day of Korean language class.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Guryeo does not mean Korea, this would be like insisting that Germans call themselves Bismark and German battleship Bismarck is proof of the age of the empire. And then lecturing to someone German that they are not German because the German is rolling their eyes and telling you ya wrong.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As I've said before the problem is white men using white power to make idiotic remarks, not all white men, but enough that the comment mediocre white men are too sure about everything. I've seen white men use their power to take down other white men and it's glorious. I can watch hours of that.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How to show yourself to be a white man to a #Korean. lol Korea, as a word is indeed a cognate of the word Guryeo, because this is roughly when the whites had contact with Korea. BUT this is not what Korea calls itself. Hanguk is the name Korea traditionally calls itself...

Are you even Korea? You don't even know the actual meaning of Goguryeo. It's not close to Korean. It is Korean.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Although, I kinda think it would be funny to set up the heroine with a reported dandy...

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There was a reason for the temperance movement later and the story of the woman who was getting abused by her husband in the Victorian era wanting to divorce her husband. Drunkards made horrible husbands.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Travelling to the continent made you cultured. Being a rake was a cad, a bad boy in a negative sense, a moral ingrate. Someone who drank and gambled ruthlessly. A woman did not want to marry a rake. He was likely to be a drunkard that gambled everything away.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I looked up the history of the word "rake" and it doesn't mean "f*ck boy" like a lot of #HistoricalRomance writers make it out to be. Nor does it mean "cultured". The standout story from the era is two men, naked, in the red district simulating s*x with each other on a balcony while drunk.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OBVIOUSLY, all humans eventually lead to Africa. So this insular myth is a farce at best and if they paid attention in history class for a blinking second they'd know that other groups also had an influence.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have beef with the idea that Koreans were so insular for all of time they magically appeared out of nowhere which is what a lot of the nationalists like to argue. Or the even shakier, core group of Koreans are related to the Manchus, who populated the area much later.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is additional erasure around the Imjin War and subsequent invasions from Qing Empire. The "Honorable" woman's list doesn't list the "Honor killings" or the women who refused to do it.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Koreans tend to like to lie that Koreans had no outside influence to the ethnic group for all time. This includes totally having amnesia about Goryeo being lead by a King that was part Mongolian. It's infuriating when the public government and contradict them on the origin of the surnames.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

FINALLY. I saw this was true on tumblr. Also, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood should give up fighting for child marriage. ACLU talks about the evils of Epstein, but won't stop fighting for child marriage? Choose a side. Both are child abuse. calmatters.org/politics/202...

calmatters.org

California bans child marriage after 9-year fight to outlaw the practice

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting marriage for people under 18. Liberal civil rights organizations fought previous efforts to ban the practice.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A quick reminder that Amerigo Vespucci was a fraud... that's likely why Trump admires the name. In this case history totally rhymes. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

In terms of connotations, America today has become one of the worst names that a hemisphere, and a particular country, can have. The USA is the only country in the hemisphere that actually calls itself “America.” Clearly, that alone is enough to conjure up all sorts of embarrassment and all sorts of resentment among other communities in the New World. Then there is the fact that the name is loud with imperial resonance which has been imposed on this hemisphere from outside. Amerigo Vespucci, finally, is a rather embarrassing namesake, who, though a hero to some, is a villain to many, denounced as a charlatan or a fraud, a cuckoo who nested in Columbus’s rightful glory. Nowadays, corporations and even countries seem always to be changing their names in pursuit of an enhanced image. If rebranding consultants were to look at America, they would say, "You’ve got to change the name. ‘The United States of America’ presses the wrong button, sets up the wrong vibes. Call it something politically correct. Change it to the United States of Turtle Island."

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It should read: 'Don's Best Friend': How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Trafficking Little Girls

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why do people need to literally die and suffer for our art and let rich studios benefit unequally, but only for art? Creatives probably share knowledge and give other creatives a leg up more than any other industry to break in and be something, yet the workers are called snobbish?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It used to be a treat to see the practical effects on a show and learn how things were made... but now people are upset, raging upset when the artists that made them say they were not fairly compensated by the rich moguls that got the benefit. I thought you all were against the 1%ers.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then people got raging upset at the person that worked on the production of Obsession and talking about how difficult it was and wishing that the contract was better across the industry. Raging comments... towards the worker.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And then people get raging upset at me for calling out Netflix/Streaming services for their bad practices towards international productions and what they've done domestically despite evidence to the contrary. I say we can still enjoy shows without our faves suffering. angry downvote.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My thread on a knitting group was locked a few years back b/c I reported the scarf from a TV show was likely knit in a few stages by the production team, and not by the actor. But the same people will get mad when they call crochet knitting. Usually they make more than one. It's a rule. So angry.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Behind the scenes used to be a treat that you get to watch to figure out shows/ #movies and what the working environment on a production was like. But increasingly people are angry at the workers reporting their favorite shows might have had hostile working environments or how things were made.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can do taxes online through the government for free... at least in the US. Those tax programs are a scam.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mind the bleed for the cover so that went you print it, your name doesn't get cut off, etc.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So wings as in wings of houses are generally capitalized. But the rooms are not, unless given a proper name by the tenants. But I kinda feel it's inconsistent this way. West Wing, East Wing, but parlour, drawing room, The Green Room.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Woke up before 6:30. It's now 9:36 and the heat broke my phone, so it didn't store all of the pictures I took of my plot.🌱 I watered it and the self watering preserved it.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Consensus does not have to be universal for something to be mostly true and generally move the story along. Humans love to dissent and build up false narratives.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Writing tip: Your characters do not all have to uniformly agree on who a character is. That will give dimensionality to the story. If M thinks H is a great person, but G thinks H is a horrible person, and so on, this makes the story quietly more dynamic. #WritingCommunity

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

True, but the irony is delicious. Ronald Reagan. But... there isn't a report of Obama using hardcore drugs like Trump during his presidency... www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

reaganlibrary.gov

Informal Exchange With Reporters on Allegations of Illegal Drug Use by Members of the White House Staff

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

thyme or 🕰️? Everyone needs more... especially the French. For that is French thyme. A study said that Dutch were more impatiens. ;)

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*I don't support banning or challenging the Bible either, but often Bible thumpers will be against a text while failing to read the Bible in full to realize that the Bible is hardcore itself on many of the things they are objecting to.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can't believe that Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is number 2 or 3 on banned of all time. It's mild compared to the Bible's contents.* But in the top positions for this year are LGBT and an examination of s*x sl*very because people don't want to examine the world around us. #BannedBooksWeek

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I learned that a lot of people challenging and banning books don't actually read them, so libraries have implemented book reports on the book challenges to prove that people have read them. Cite the page number, etc. #BannedBooksWeek

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I bought some crystal me[n]th...ol. I want to see if I can make my own cough drops. I was going to use my own mint, but then I learned it's really difficult to make it. But it sounds a lot like I bought a drug.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not for me. I ordered the kit and then heat wave from hell... TT

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A fellow #Korean asked me to lie about Korean history to Non-Koreans. I refused. Nationalists suck. All nationalists.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Ordinary People, but I don't think it deserved to be banned/challenged. Thematically both of the books are similar, but the emotions were a lot more quiet for me in Ordinary People.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And since I missed yesterday... Hmmm... Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. I remember reading it all in one night. Even though Holden Caufield treats women poorly in the book, I kinda felt that the processing of trauma was gripping. I related to it more than Ordinary People by Judith Guest.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BannedBooksWeek! I read Beloved by Toni Morison in College. I was aching to read it before then, but wasn't given the chance. The wordsmithing is A caliber. The quiet way trauma affects the characters feels like what would be called generational trauma before the term. #Books #WritingCommunity

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I only do it to avoid the algorithm censors or when I'm limited by word/character count. I make a lot of grammar errors when I'm trying to fix character count and then mess up the rephrasing. 😅 But yeah, my Neurodivergent/diverse self prefers the spelled out words when possible in more formal text.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BTW, I'm not kink shaming BDSM. That's CONSENSUAL and they should put into book more discussion phase and clear consent to respect that community. Beyond that I don't really care there, but I also think it shouldn't be put into marketing language either. Make it a normal list.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

S*xual violence. I would spell it out beyond that, but Blue Sky randomly censors sometimes. As in nonconsensual encounters of that kind. All SV is SA, but not all SA is SV. It's a way to avoid saying r*pe, because also of random algorithmic censoring.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I loathe it. When they do it with SV (not kink shaming BDSM, but more like true SV), that's worse. It's a good way to make people hate your book before flipping to the first page. But the solution should be list it normally. If you want full sentences, go with the TV-style warnings.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly, if authors are going to do this, I, as a person with actual triggers and trauma will advocate for them to stop listing them and I'd rather read intrepid reviewers to list them for me, because the average reader will not do this kind of BS.

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