Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026got a lovely message about a short story I wrote and published like nearly a decade ago. sometimes it's hard not to feel depressed about publishing but it's nice to be reminded that work can still connect with people even many years after it has been sent out into the world 0291
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll be taking part in the Victoria Festival of Authors later in October. Will be speaking on the panel Transformation and Translation - please check out the event if you're interested. victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/events/trans...victoriafestivalofauthors.caVictoria Festival of AuthorsVictoria Festival of Authors — an annual literary festival featuring readings, workshops, and conversations with Canadian and international authors. 061
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm going to Victoria (BC) in mid-October for a literary event. Wondering if anyone has recommendations for any antique stores, thrift stores, or flea markets I should check out if I'm looking for vintage photos, ephemera, etc. related to Victoria's Chinatown / Chinese Canadian history. 2158
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026有偿寻求住在东京的中日口译译者/研究助理。我是秋瑾诗词的译者,10月底-11月初会去东京研究秋瑾在日本留学生活的足迹。想要找人在与大学博物馆以及图书馆档案馆联络时提供翻译,以及帮着查一些关于秋瑾在日本生活的地址。优先考虑熟悉日本文史研究机构研究流程,学术日语,明治时期/晚清历史/女性史的。欢迎自荐或者推荐 #翻譯 #東京 #中日口譯 #日本留學 065
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc. 11516
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is interview a lost art? I ask angrily as I respond to an email where the interviewer accuses me of "censoring" them just because I said asking "is translation a lost art" is inappropriate and they should avoid asking it of translators again in the future. 2325
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy mid-autumn festival! 0241
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026While I have your attention, anyone has thoughts on the signature and who it might be? I'm wondering if it might belong to a missionary, sinologist, or photographer with China-related ties, and how it ended up in Saskatchewan 🤔 2184
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So a few days ago I found a copy of volume 3 of the War Scenes of the Chinese Revolution when doing research. 🫨 To explain how rare this is: this is a volume from the first and oldest published series of photo books featuring firsthand photos of the Xinhai Revolution, 3449
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I had a really stressful experience at the city of vancouver archives where one staff kept policing my handling of ordinary non-fragile paper, letters/envelopes and business cards in the Paul Yee fonds. I have to go back today and it's stressing me out. It felt like I was on constant surveilliance 2223
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Mothsmycorrhizal wong @rrrwong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Please speak up to protect the Burrard inlet from dredging - sign the petition and share with friends #Vancouver: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... 066
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I went for a walk around Chinatown and nearby and popped into a thrift store I have been meaning to visit and found some vintage looking books. one of them has turned out to be a stele rubbing from the Qing dynasty 😆 idk what's going on but the takeaway is to go for strolls when in a bad mood? 1370
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I didn't think things could get worse 🫠 Having a really upsetting day today 4120
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Went looking for a Qiu Jin stamp in a local international stamp store, and not only found her and her contemporaries, but also all of these 😂 i love the ones featuring historic buildings along the Yangtze River, the Shaolin Temple, and especially the Chinese mythology ones 1388
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026exhaustion from having to explain a terrible experience with a white translator who dismissively said "it has nothing to do with race" in response to BIPOC translators' bad experiences in publishing 🫠 1192
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsYilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Last year, I translated @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social Jane Shi's poem "incense search engine" into Mandarin as a surprise for their birthday. After lots of drafts and tweaking and back-and-forth discussions, I'm really happy to share the translation that came out of our collaboration. 1206
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsJane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is so cool and special, thanks so much @yilinwriter.bsky.social <3 1185
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Last year, I translated @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social Jane Shi's poem "incense search engine" into Mandarin as a surprise for their birthday. After lots of drafts and tweaking and back-and-forth discussions, I'm really happy to share the translation that came out of our collaboration. 1206
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026i finally watched Niu Lai with a friend yesterday lol. i'm impressed and inspired by all the dedication and love that mother-son team poured into the project, even though the animation and plot are really odd at times 😂😅 090
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Toronto-based friends I know in real life: i'm looking for someone who lives in or near Markam to pick up a Chinese book, package it, and mail it via canada post. i can cover costs like gas, shipping, and packaging. anyone can help me out? thank you! 243
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026RIP, Yayoi Kusama 😢 1233
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A while ago, when I was still away in China, I was approached by the editor of Write Magazine at the Writer's Union to write a piece about the day-to-day of a translator. This is what I sent them instead: www.instagram.com/p/DchGgSKScwj/ (will post a text version on my website when I have energy)instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 1136
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She saved lives. Thats her legacy - in so many charities and purposes, Dolly Parton saved lives. She never hoarded anything. She came from poverty, and knew to care for community. She is fundamentally - and fortunately for all of us - the opposite of what we see today. She was the best of us. 011731
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i got an email as a poet-translator where i'm invited to submit to the "2026 Stories Global Chinese Fiction Awards," which "explicitly allow reasonable AI or third-party assistance for translation". it's seriously messed up. so here's my PSA to please not submit to contests that allow AI 13410
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026For those of you following along in Bartz v. Anthropic, I gave some guidance as to when we might see money, and said in that guidance that it all depended on whether there was an appeal. Semi-bad news: there is an appeal. Want to know who is appealing? Do you, do you? 1137679
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/08/2026I am going to do a new thread because I have now read the filings from the two law firms who are appealing and I have read the underlying order of the district judge that they are appealing. 625860
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yeah I am self employed as an English tutor, editor, sensitivity reader and translator (for more commercial work) to sustain myself and then I spend my free time on creative writing and literary translations. Writing is like a passion project that's also an extremely low paying job 1174
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsChristina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in 2027! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out next year (or publicist), share the link/info here! 106599412
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026#namethetranslator 2217
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Heard online that the British Museum is releasing a Chinese language edition of their China's Hidden Century exhibition catalogue. I hope they have paid and credited their translator(s) and ensured all copyrighted materials received proper clearance this time lol 🤪 1707
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026it is when they keep subjecting you to verbal abuse 3470
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Three writer friends I know have been to Sichuan (where my family is from in China) in the same month and I'm envious of all the good food and tea they are all having lol 😂 1240
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do. 142891676
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is 100% true. They'll gleefully destroy any institutional space that makes room for Black people, and then turn around and say it's for "intellectual diversity" or similar bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these "anti-wokers" are mediocre--at best!--occupants of those same spaces 10806188
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Thinking about all the terrible experiences I had with the British media in light of recent discussions 0131
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026lol a lot of wuxia novels need to be 280 ep i think XD 070
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/08/2026Yuuuup. Understanding how LLMs and generative "AI" work is not some sort of secret knowledge, nor at its heart an unenduringly complex topic, and it turns out writers, who generally how to do research, are in a good position to get a bead on them. 261604249
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026really hating the auto dub on youtube videos 😅 170
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Deadline is the 14th!! That's soon!! ANMLY is now open for our new folio exploring the yard as the site in which we understand modern Caribbean geography and social life. We're seeking previously-unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. No AI. More: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 0109
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Good! 1150
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Get calling! 02016
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026terrible flashbacks about the time i was using British Museum compensation money (for stealing my work) to fund a project that was supposed to support literary translators, but i nearly got cut out from my own project... which left me bedridden from cptsd for weeks 2300
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Recommended for folks who like translated poetry and essays on translation 😂 1147
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026If you ever go to the vancouver flea market, beware of this antique seller who just screamed at me "you are not going to buy it anyway, if i move the stack of books for you it's trouble to put it back" when I was book shopping. I have reported him to the market 4133
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026oh gosh the number of items i recognize here as someone in my 30s lol (btw i'm still slightly shocked every time i have to explain to a high schooler i tutor what is a landline phone lol) 1150
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsEugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I found it to be of little use in writing anything of substance and I haven't used AI to write my stories. I've come to hate LLMs and I would never participate in a similar study today. I have been vocally against AI. 145075
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsWole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it. 14697257
Reposted by Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night MothsEugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.comWordcraft Writers WorkshopThe Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI. 33665261