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ljwrites

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Translator, researcher, writer, and mom. This is my alt for creative writing. Current main project is a novel about a branch of Koreanic people in 1st century B.C.

Avatar is a typewriter with multicolored butterflies on it, found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/susannaht/5092985916/

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juergen_hubert, to random
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Thought of the day:

You can learn a lot about a person if you have almost exactly the same email address.

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert oh no xD I wonder if they get your emails, too?

ljwrites, to 13thFloor
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Cheoyong (處容) is an admired figure in the Korean pantheon, and his dance is performed to this day. According to record, he was a son of a sea dragon and appeared before the King of Silla in the 9th century dancing with his brothers.

Cheoyong remained at the capital to serve the King, who gave him a wife. Yeoksin was smitten with her beauty and Cheoyong came home one night to see Yeoksin lying with her. The dragon's son withdrew dancing and singing without confrontation, which shamed the god into swearing not to cross a threshold if he saw Cheoyong's face.

That was how people came to put up paintings of Cheoyong to repel smallpox, and his dance was performed for luck. I have written more about Cheoyong's story here: https://ljwrites.blog/posts/cheoyong-story/

A performance of Cheoyong's dance, with figures in colorful garb wearing Cheoyong's mask and casting around long white sleeves that accentuate their arm movements.

cosmicvoid, to pixelart
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4 more days left for Devil's Hideout's Kickstarter campaign, you guys! 😃

There's still time to back this point and click horror adventure 👇
https://bit.ly/devils-hideout-campaign

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ljwrites,
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@cosmicvoid I backed it, this looks extremely my pace!

juergen_hubert, to mediawiki
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Okay, let's say I want to use for hosting a campaign setting.

Who has experiences with this, and what recommendations can you give me?

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert @Whidou Chiming in with the DokuWiki recommendation--it doesn't use a database, just text files, so it's easy to back up and access your info with no worries of DB corruption. There are also plugins to write your pages in Markdown if that's your pace.

ljwrites, to transgender
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The gender-fluidity and patronage of GNC/ people by , goddess of :

"When I sit in the alehouse, I am a woman, and I am an exuberant young man. . . . When I sit by the gate of the tavern, I am a prostitute familiar with the penis; the friend of a man, the girlfriend of a woman."

"To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana."

Inana C 115-131 https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm

kazarnowicz, (edited ) to random
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Ellen DeGeneres: “I got kicked out of show business”.

No, sweetie, you were cancelled because you are a horrible person to anyone you deem below you, while stroking the egos of anyone you consider above you.

You bullied people on your show, both guests and coworkers.

You were cancelled because people saw the real you and realized that you're petty, unkind, and a sociopath who posed as a good person.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89zy07x40no

ljwrites,
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@kazarnowicz I rolled my eyes and put her out of mind when she got racist on her show over Asian names. Having her go down feels like a bit of validation.

ljwrites, to random
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What are some lively metaphorical expressions about awareness and knowledge that are not explicitly or implicitly ableist? I'm fond of "can't make heads or tails," for instance.

ljwrites, to random
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April 24 - When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?

There's no universal "should" or "shouldn't" in all circumstances, and can smug white people please shut up omg

futurebird, to random
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Husband: There's a spider on my shirt can you get it?
I catch the tiny grain sized spider
Me: I'm feeding this to the girls!
Husband: Nooooo! That's horrible.
Me: But they love spiders the most...
Husband: You have to give it a chance put it outside.
Me: It's too cold it will die. Let me just feed-
Husband: 🥺
Me: OK fine. I'll put it on the bookshelf.

I leave the spider in an open tiny glass vial on its side on the shelf.

The spider is lazy. When I get home it's built a web in the jar.

ljwrites,
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@futurebird if your husband asks you can tell him it probably found another place to live 😇

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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A common power of witches was the ability to summon former boyfriends back to them.

Mind you, this only changed their location - not their attitude.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dodgy-love-48650837

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert the ability to make human mistakes at supernatural scale

ljwrites, to random
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Apr. 11 - How much power does your MC have?

I have two MCs, one a noblewoman, the other a refugee. The noblewoman has built up political and economic power, but it's power that's derived from her father's lineage, her husband's lordship and, in later books, being her sons' mother. So she's very powerful but that power is limited by being a woman in a patriarchal structure. To overcome these limitations she also finds ways to build up her influence by building well-placed alliances, too.

The refugee peasant starts out heavily disempowered and is left for dead along with her family after violence and pillage. They and the other refugees organize and slowly gain more power at the noblewoman's demesne where they are the lowest of the low, so the source of their power is their mutual connection and community and later, an alliance with the noblewoman who needs them for her own ends. I guess what I want to do with this WIP is show different kinds of power and oppression in the ancient world, especially of women.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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The nautical charts of our coastlines all date back to the pioneering efforts of Doctor Faust.


https://www.patreon.com/posts/warlock-supreme-47115927

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert this may be the most science fiction-y folklore I have ever read.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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The Venetians of old could use dream-travel to move back and forth to their homeland - a magical realm of crystal houses and talking animals.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/gifts-of-54745793

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert What the tourism brochures don't want you to know!

egb, to ilikthebred
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The National Poetry Month prompt for today is to write a surreal prose poem.

I’m not sure if this one fully hits the mark or if it’s more of an extended metaphor, but I really like how it turned out! 🥒

@poets

ljwrites,
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@egb @poets That is delightfully creepy and evocative!

eclectech, to photography
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Today's unexpected discovery.

A mallard duck's arse makes quite a delightful pattern. I think this is quite lovely.

ljwrites,
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@eclectech took me a moment--they're like Cubism as birds!

NickEast, to scifi
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I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔

@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing

ljwrites,
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@stevesebban Frankenstein is not a "rewrite" of the Golem of Prague, and saying so erases both Mary Shelley's contribution and the distinctive Jewishness of the golem story. The golem was built not by scientifically-explained means but by a Rabb Loew's religious/ritual power to protect the Jewish community from pogrom, putting it in the long tradition of myth and religious fable. Frankenstein's eponymous protagonist on the other hand is a scientist, and explicitly disavows mystical methods like alchemy before applying his study of chemistry and other scientific fields to the creation of the Creature. It is this aspect that makes the work science fiction, not the creation of an artificial being. The two stories have very little in common other than an artificial animated construct that goes out of control--different materials, different methods, plots, motivations, endings, etc. @NickEast @macmanx @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

ljwrites,
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@stevesebban Lol hit a nerve with what--by being sexist and wrong on the internet? Too many others have that distinction for you to stand out in particular, I'm afraid.

It's Jewish people who have been pointing out that the Golem is a distinctly Jewish tale, and to say it's basically the same thing as Frankenstein erases that aspect even if you're Jewish yourself. And on that note, have a good rest of your life 👋 @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

ljwrites,
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@stevesebban Lol hit a nerve with what--by being sexist and wrong on the internet? Too many others have that distinction for you to stand out in particular, I'm afraid. Congratulations for being wrong about the meaning of "cultural appropriation" among many, many other things and have a good rest of your life. @sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing

ljwrites,
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Also:

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus - published in 1818
The first written account of The Golem of Prague - published in 1834

According to the person who claimed Frankenstein is a rewriting of The Golem of Prague, evidently Mary Shelley didn't just write science fiction--she lived it, by "rewriting" a story that hadn't been written down yet.

(h/t @CatFoxBirdLady for pointing this out!)

@writers @writingcommunity @writing

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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If you ask the spirits for food, be courteous enough to actually eat it instead of throwing it away.

For they don't take kindly to being insulted in this manner.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/baking-with-73718258

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert I actually cringed at the thought of throwing away good food! Korea has strong traditional norms against letting food go to waste and I assume this is true of many other cultures, too.

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert That seems somehow so eminently German xD

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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As you treat Frau Gode's dogs, so she will treat you.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/eternal-huntress-31971823

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert finally, a supernatural being who believes in fair pay, good treatment of animals, and uhhhh cannibalism?! :flan_cleaver:

juergen_hubert, to random German
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30 How do you keep track of your work? Do you have a system?

Trello for the tales I still want to translate, Google Sheets for the tales I have already translated, as well as a "Master Volume" PDF compilation of all my translations (now exceeding 1000 pages in length).

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert you're so organized! Is the Trello list much longer than the Google Docs list?

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert no shortage of work, I see! xD

ljwrites, to 13thFloor Korean
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I am loving this article for not only the in-depth discussion of John Campbell's racist, imperialist grift in the field of and , but also for confirming that is a story with deeply ingrained Christian preoccupations and imagery. https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/ (Article CW for sexism, racism, imperialism, sexual violence & slavery discussions)

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