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ljwrites

@ljwrites@writeout.ink

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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ljwrites, to random
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Happy and proud to announce that I have a short story upcoming in the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2024 fiction lineup! https://wandering.shop/@heatherrosejones/111953977084224813 A Very Long Malaise is based on recurring complaints during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea about female palace attendants being in romantic and sexual relationships with other women, with some of them forming factions to leak palace secrets. My story is an imagining of these lesbian palace spies' lives and intrigues, centered around two exes pitted together by circumstance.

juergen_hubert, to blogging
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I'm curious - what are people using for self-hosted on the ?

, or just with the plugin? Or are there any other alternatives I haven't considered?

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert https://write.as/ is a blog platform built specifically to federate, I think?

weirdwriter, to random

Was stunned into silence when a real life Tech Bro floated this idea to me.

Hey, Robert, I have this great idea to innovate the eBook!

Me: More Trans sex?

Him, WTF? No, so, you ever read a book and you just wished the plot could change, like on a dime? What if, what if, for a fee, you could pay to have the plot completely change in a book when you wanted, when you wanted? Even better, what if we have books that randomly change the plot as you read them!

Me, Oh my dear. I guess you don't know about first drafts and Pancers, bless your heart! Tell you what? I'm a pancer, I'll let you read my first drafts for free! They have all those innovations and more! As a bonus, names change halfway through chapters and hair color changes too!

ljwrites,
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@weirdwriter you're ahead of all the techbros, Robert!

weirdwriter, to Wikipedia

I'm seriously starting to think everybody that says you should never use #Wikipedia as a source or basis for research simply doesn't know how to use Wikipedia. For example, the references, and the external links, are where the real goldmines are at and it's a hell of a lot better than hitting paywalls or LLM garbage!

ljwrites,
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@weirdwriter I don't disagree but I'm also wondering how free Wikipedia is from LLM garbage nowadays...

KaraLG84, to random
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I'd love to read a novel that has a well-written blind character in it for a change. So if any of you have suggestions, fire away. I usually read sci-fi or fantasy but I'll try most things.

ljwrites,
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@KaraLG84 I feel like @weirdwriter would have great suggestions...

ljwrites,
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@KaraLG84 @weirdwriter I just can't find a rec list by him, and I think he's deleted his Bookwyrm? And I don't trust the rec lists I see floating around.

juergen_hubert, to languagelearning German
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My decision to try and learn as a third language (after German and English) was based on two things:

  • I want to travel outside of Germany again, and to my mind it's best if you understand the local language. However, since I want to avoid flying for environmental reasons, I preferred a nearby country.

  • Furthermore, my main hobby obsession is German - and German folklore has a large number of folk tales about and Venetians that read like drug-induced fever dreams. The opportunity to compare the myth to the real thing is too good to resist!

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert plot twist: Venice turns out to be exactly like folklore said it was.

Ellirahim, to random
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I didn't know I wanted to know that "When it’s hot outside, Turkey Vultures will defecate on their feet to cool off." - allaboutbirds.org

But now I can't unknow this. :blobcateyes:

ljwrites,
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@Ellirahim These birds are SERIOUS about climate adaptation!

ljwrites, to history
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12 January: You're at the coffee shop at the end of the universe. What three writers are you talking to?

The wife of Yi Eung-tae who wrote him a love letter that she buried with him in 1586 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eung-tae-mummy-love-letter-andong-south-524368 , and the 18th to 19th century feminist Neo-Confucian scholars Gang Jeong-il-dang and Yim Yunji-dang.

ljwrites,
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Scholar and writer Gang Jeong-il-dang's collection of writings, published in 1836 four years after her death at the age of 60, is effectively her husband Yun Gwang-yeon's love letter to her. He considered Jeong-il-dang his scholarly and literary partner and advisor in life, and she had composed a number of writings in his name as well. His project to publish a posthumous collection of her writings, including returning credit to her on the ones she had composed for him, was an unprecedented move at the time. This collection is the only reason we have any writings by her, a rare case among the untold amounts of women's writings lost to apathy, loss, destruction, and male attribution.

ljwrites, to writers
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Anyone game to read and comment on a short story (around 4,800 words) that I'm planning to submit early this month? It's about ladies-in-waiting in the late 18th-century Korean royal palace being lesbian spies. The premise is drawn from Joseon-era records of sapphic and espionage activities among this class of women. @writers

Story is formatted in .docx available for Google Docs sharing or email, drop me a line via reply or DM if interested. Any response time within a week would be perfect, both detailed and overview comments welcome!

I'm a bit strapped to pay fair rates right now, but can do an equivalent labor exchange. And if you're familiar with this account you know I give thoughtful and constructive comments about things I read ^_^

juergen_hubert, to Trains German
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Due to yesterday's storm, the around here in the German northwest are massively delayed - my train to Hannover was intended to leave at 9:35, but I'm now stuck at the Oldenburg train station until at least 11:26

Still, I won't waste this time - I discovered this magazine about Germany around the year 1600 in a train station shop. And I have fantasized about writing a setting about a folkloric version of Germany set in that period, so this is great research material!

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert your post-retirement project? :blobcat_giggle:

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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"Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone."

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bearers-of-50146725

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert the German Sisyphus? xD

juergen_hubert, to austria
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A man from Grödig once went to one of the strange maiden dwelling on Untersberg mountain, and complained to her about his wife.

The maiden consoled him and told him that he would "find his wife in an agreeable manner". So... did she turn his spouse into a Stepford Wife?

@austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/weird-locations-25978238

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert Whoa, open ending! :blobcat_think:

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Once, the Devil was looking for an honest wife.

...that went about as well as you'd expect.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-goes-39519272

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert that's a really interesting mode of embodiment, corpses from the gallows! I bet these folktales are huge inspirations for ttrpgs lol.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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The vehicles of night hags often are not recognizable as such.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ride-of-walrider-31281991

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert I think they forgot to say "Oh, how the bells ring in England!" before they left xD

NickEast, to Writers
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Who else feels they enjoy the idea of writing more than the actual act of writing? 🤔😆

@writers @writingcommunity @writing


ljwrites,
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@NickEast as the novelist Frank Norris said, I "[d]on't like to write, but like having written." There are works I want to read but don't exist yet, as Toni Morrison put it, so writing is a grim necessity to make them exist. Kind of like how I love my kid but did not enjoy the whole gestation & delivery process, and adoption would have been at least as onerous. Sometimes transcendant things take painful paths into reality, and writing is like that for me.

@writers @writingcommunity @writing

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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On the whole, I recommend against making a business deal with dwarves.

Their omertà code can be a killer.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/under-hill-with-36229569

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert wow, best/worst customers ever!

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert That may be how they've largely convinced the human world the supernatural is not real! xD

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert hey spirit, what was the point of that whole exercise lmaoooo

ljwrites, to random
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Just read Samsaekdo (三色桃, "three-colored peach blossoms"), a story about Princess Bong, the infamous princess-consort in 15th century Chosun who lost her position for committing adultery with a servant girl. Hyeon Hojeong's retelling of the involved personages and their relationships was so sad and hopeful and beautiful and filled my heart up so big, it's wrecked me. This one is going to stay with me a while.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Once, giants lived where the city of Heidelberg now stands.

They may be gone, but they still left their mark.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lay-of-giants-34239999

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert This has the definite ring of some local creation myth. It's interesting how often these creators are giants, maybe because they loom so large in the imagination.

drinkswriter, to 13thFloor
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Working on a idea for a change and could do with help for a pregnancy timeline.

Young couple - just kids really - fool about and she gets pregnant. Let's say that's late summer, end of harvest maybe.

I need to figure out:

  • How soon she realises
  • How long she keeps it hidden
  • How quickly the parents can arrange a wedding for these only-just-old-enough kids to preserve some social standing

For context, this is 1890s, small town in Northern England.

@writers

ljwrites,
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@emma Yeah experiences differ so widely, from "realized the second they missed their first period, possibly even before" to "did not realize until literally in labor." Both are rare extremes and most fall somewhere in between. Those closer to the latter likely have more irregular periods and may have had spotting/showing throughout pregnancy that could pass for their "normal" periods.

I was closer to the more aware end of things, something like the timeline @drinkswriter posited because there was a "tingling" in my uterus about a month after my last period that definitely did not feel like business as usual. I was 36 and actively trying, though--that tingling has since evolved into a robust 7-year-old boy. I also had the benefit of an at-home pregnancy test, then an obgyn visit, that confirmed my spidey senses. If I were a teenager who was less experienced in my body senses and were invested in denying the consequences of fooling around, with no easy access to medical technology for confirmation, the first signs were subtle enough to ignore.

An additional consideration, given the time period, nutrition an so on, is that the girl in question might just barely have begun to get a cycle. That would make things even more irregular, and she would have less knowledge of what a normal cycle looks like for her. @writers

ljwrites, to random
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Often I'll just boost @juergen_hubert 's posts without even reading the actual folklore attached because the lead-in post is so funny--or just good life advice!

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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: I must say, the amount of literal child sacrifice in old German folk tales is... disturbing.

Usually this is done to fortify the foundations of a large building - by walling a small child into them alive.

In Celle, this was allegedly done during the construction of a church!

"If you do not bury a living child in the ground, the church will not be standing tall. Doesn't the little Baby Jesus the church so that it has a firm foundation? I am telling you: Only a live child will make your church stand firm!"


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ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert holy shit that sounds distinctly unbiblical 😬 then again there's a legend in Korea of a child being melted in the molten metal for a temple bell, which is hardly Buddhist practice! It's some relief that a substance test of the actual bell did not suggest any human/biological material. Now I'm wondering if these stories had a purpose in scaring children straight 🤔

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