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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are 2 things I can talk about all day: The Enneagram. And Honey Bees. No one wants to hear about the enneagram. So it’s BEE STORY TIME! christinehlee.substack.com/p/catching-a...

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Catching a bee swarm: Beekeeping, swarming, and new beginnings

Sidequests and subplots

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why are people so mean. Also: hurt people hurt people.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reading a book on the Black Death for novel research. I am SO not used to reading history books. Where is the protagonist? Where is the person I care about??? Every time the book brings up an interesting person…they DIE OF THE PLAGUE. I have 400 more pages to read.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At the point of boredom on my Covid recovery + Covid Jail Time where I am now willing to correspond with random strangers in my “request” inbox on IG.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lovely piece >>

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is so lovely. Christine articulates the pleasure I’ve had traveling with my teens the past couple years as they experience places that I have BIG feelings about.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is there a universal sign language? Or is even sign language broken up by national and cultural borders?

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/07/2026

I’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I squeezed in a bit of writing while traveling through South Korea. On the multiple narratives of a place. What it means to one person is not what it means to another. Aka the Han River. christinehlee.substack.com/p/the-han-ri...

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The Han River in Seoul: A travel essay about memory, family, and place

The idea of the Han River

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

What we do off the page is also what happens on the page. How everything is writing. christinehlee.substack.com/p/writing-wi...

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Writing without words

What quilting taught me about storytelling

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Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Next week in San Francisco, a group reading to celebrate the launch of my book UNITED STATES OF REJECTION with @tdorabji.bsky.social @xtinehlee.bsky.social @gracelp.bsky.social & Joyce E. Young! Tuesday, June 30 (7pm) Green Apple @booksonthepark.bsky.social , 1231 9th Ave. RSVP link below!

Green Apple Books presents: Alison Kinney, UNITED STATES OF REJECTION, featuring: Tara Dorabji, Christine H. Lee, Grace Loh Prasad & Joyce E. Young. Tuesday, June 30, 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). RSVP at Greenapplebooks.com

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Out to dinner. The conversation next to us: Yah! YAH. yahyahyah. I mean. Yah. Yahhhh. Yah! I shit you not. This is the transcription.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Me, noting a second Target store location within a mile of another. Him: it’s a Target-rich environment. Badumbum! These are the conversations we have in our car.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Have I been holding my breath? No. I don’t know when or if I’ll ever see money from Anthropic let alone OpenAI or any other company that stole work. Also yah attorney fees. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I teach at Antioch’s low-res(idency) MFA. And am on my way to teach in person at our residency. Which I affectionately term the “high-res” portion. No craft talk this time (last semester was global storytelling structures). This time: generative writing class on time and pacing.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

When I was a kid growing up, I saw so many men washing their faces in bathroom sinks following a tough talk or whatever, often at work. I am now deep in middle age. I have never ever seen this happen. In fact, I wish men would wash their faces more often.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hi: a gentle reminder to make sure your panelists are registered with AWP BEFORE you go to submit your proposal. I was about to submit and then it took a few days for everyone to get an AWP account. I subbed my proposal yesterday. The deadline is nigh: putting this out there to help.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is for a potential piece: Trans people, did you have friend(s) or your entire friend group abandon you when you came out and/or transitioned? I’m curious to hear others’ experiences … (Reposts appreciated)

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Two overwhelming thoughts in my mind: 1. Why can a grocery store keep strawberries fresh for a while, but when I bring them home I have to eat them same day or else they rot? 2. When will Mother’s Day ever stop feeling shitty for me? A peek into my stupid mind.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How bad are things that I take refuge in horse “bean” videos. (A very gross thing. So gross it blocks out all the other grossness).

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Scrolling through IG and see a video that says whales aren’t singing as much anymore because they are starving. And the next thing I see is a Kardashian at the Met Ball. EVERYTHING IS AWFUL.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

lmaoooooooo

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I made an IG reel calling Santa Barbara “delightfully odd” (weird is good in my book) and it seems I’ve offended a large number of Santa Barbarians. They don’t like being called delightfully odd? That’s…weird. In all seriousness the reaction is bonkers.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I wrote a little about how to keep writing, even when no one is reading. Kind of like dancing when no one is watching. christinehlee.substack.com/p/do-we-regr...

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Do we regret having breathed?

On writing without readers, publishing without guarantees, and why the work still matters

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Omg the wellness influencer who got mercury poisoning from eating cans of tuna everyday. Authority is subjective, especially when self-designated.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just saw a job posting looking for writers to help “non traditional” law school applicants write application essays. The job posting title is “fiction writers needed.”

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This is truth. Plus give us your aching, enlightening, courageous, weird, heartbreaking, heart-healing, mine challenging work.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

So. Just for context…here is why I asked about alternatives to Google Docs /cloud based platforms on which to continue writing my novel. My dealings with AI. YMMV and many of you might disagree with me. But they are my experiences and thoughts about AI. christinehlee.substack.com/p/ai-and-cre...

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AI and creative writing

Academic integrity and authorship are the core principles at stake

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Watching Hamnet. I don’t know if I can keep watching. Is Hamnet grief porn? Bc. I have historically not been able absorb large doses of grief.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Is there an alternative to Google Docs that can sustain novel writing and IS NOT used to train AI? And also…uses the cloud? (Aka I can access my writing across devices). I suspect this is impossible? And all our writing will be used to train AI? I had Scrivener. But it is so particular.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Re: the plane colliding into the fire truck at LGA, resulting in the tragic deaths of the airplane pilots…so many heartbreaking thoughts. But also what was that truck made out of? I wouldn’t have bet on the truck in that scenario.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Unpopular opinion: One Battle After Another was mid. I tried but stopped watching halfway through. But also maybe movies suck now.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Alysia Liu going for pure joy in complete DGAF mode is an inspiration. Also if she’s this DGAF at 20 (remember being 20?)…what will she be like at FIFTY? Watch out world.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Years ago when I was married to a man I loved dearly and deeply, I would post pictures of him and of us on Valentine’s Day. And then that ended horribly. I’m so sorry for “flexing” on Valentine’s. (I am happily partnered and have been for over 10 years now but will no longer “flex”).

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 08/02/2026

it's #SuperbOwl Sunday! Best day of the year. For your consideration, the Blakiston's fish owl. Largest owls in the world (six-foot wingspans, weigh close to a bald eagle), salmon eaters, live year-round in remote forests of northeast Asia. 🦉

bearded man with owl. Photo (c) S. Avdeyuk

owl that looks like a bowling pin. Photo (c) S. Gafitsky

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Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I think it's entirely possible that when we topple the fascist regime currently running the US, and we will, we will look back on the beginning of 2026 as the moment when the tides turned. In social change, the oppressor rarely admits defeat and collapses entirely all at once.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My new approach is to “match energy.” It’s time.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It can get lower!

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am at the age where wearing vintage clothing makes me look like I’m just wearing my old clothes.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Have we ALL learned that “law enforcement” is NOT on our side? They will shoot you. It’s fucked up. But they will kill all of us for “not obeying.”

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Will be using Calibri for the indefinite future.

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