HAL
Hal. 한국어+日本語. Artist/writer/bookworm. Mainly original works and my versions of classic literature. All use/repost of my artwork prohibited.
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- Didn’t read much horror as a kid myself, beyond Goosebumps or Poe, and am still weak at tolerating horror beyond Stephen King When I wanted to read dark things in primary school I read history books at the library. Reality has always been more sick and unjust and traumatizing than any horror story.
- My barrier with horror fiction (films, stories, games) is I like the concepts and premises and such well enough, but with some key exceptions, I can’t stomach the Vibes. Can’t do nonstop helpless Dread and Despair. It feels just deeply unpleasant and doesn’t hit for me, nor can I relate.
- I like Stephen King horror and other stories where the characters have brains and balls and actively and effectively Do something to survive and overcome. I can’t stand horror where the characters are clueless and passive or incompetent or for other reasons can’t fight back. I get sick of watching.
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As long as I'm dying on hills: kids need access to horror stories. Children out there have and will go through absolutely horrific things that they don't have the words for, that they can't process on their own. Kids already know monsters are real; they also need to know monsters can be survived. - It’s impossible for me to pick a #1 favorite type of cuisine but Mexican and Latin American up there in top 5 (on my way to try a place rn)
- Near impossible to find Mexican cuisine in Korea that is semi-decent ofc…can’t hope to even touch the shadow of what I had access to living in an area with massive Mexican population.
- But in recent years more people from outside are coming into Korea and doing great food, and KRs themselves have been getting stronger and more cultured—refining taste and improving knowledge in every field. So in general I’m finding more and more Actually Decent places doing foreign cuisine.
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View full threadHe said there’s a difficulty in going for truly authentic flavors in Korea bc Koreans who haven’t lived abroad are unused to strong Spices I’ve seen a lot of KR restaurant reviews by people who can’t stand the authentic flavor profiles of CN, Indian or Latin American foods and it’s always bc Spices
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- Can’t believe I said I “don’t have a history of loving jesters” when I had a not-brief phase in my teens when I was obsessed with Clopin 🤡 youtu.be/gvAz4NfvaSI
- It wasn’t Because he’s a jester though, it was his moral ambiguity combined with his Voice. No D*sney song ever matched up to the sheer psychic impact of The Hunchback of Notre Dame‘s opening for me (Hellfire right behind it) youtu.be/ILpEwq-105c
- French version even sicker w/ the lyrics “Menacés par les forces du mal—d’un puritain inhumain, au cœur plus dur que le métal des cloches de Notre Dame” [Threatened by the forces of evil—of an inhuman puritan, with a heart harder than the metal of the bells of Notre Dame.] youtu.be/fwn1Pbmjz70
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View full threadThis guy really hit it on the nail though, why Clopin hit for me.
- Feeling uncertain now bc I keep making changes to Fortunato’s design and with every change he is becoming more powerful…and this just won’t do. I have to curb myself somehow
- Been working on his sheet Very slowly bc I kept changing my mind (and I’m always busy trying to do so many things at the same time)
- I don't care to see cynicism and brutality in Every story (there are plenty of lighthearted low-stakes stories I love and consider flawless) But if a story wants to go in that direction I do prefer that they go All The Way, without flinching or pulling punches. And that they don't Discriminate.
- What I find intolerable is when a story pulls every punch for Some characters who are the writer's precious babies but inflict insane disproportionate cruelty on others, especially when the reason for that unfair treatment boils down not to What They Did, but Who They Are.
- I go on having mixed feelings between highly respecting JJK for its unparalleled darkness and brutal realism/cynicism, and being pissed that they introduced a character I find absurdly appealing only to kill him within a few eps (again)
- Can't have the one feature without the other, I get that but it's always the characters whose appeal explodes like fireworks who gotta go out with a short-lived bang while relatively dull characters I do not care about last so much longer than feels merited 😔
- On one hand I think it works well every time because sometimes the characters who have the greatest impact on the audience psyche are the ones who appear briefly and leave you wanting more, as opposed to a character whose presence drags on longer than is exciting to witness.
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View full thread....But also I simply wanted to see more of the insanely provocative, exactly-my-type character with the most appealing fighting style/animation I've ever seen 😮💨 He deserved to suffer beautifully for at least two seasons
- Occurred to me that I could wax throughout this month about my response to a different poem, prose text, play, film or song by a different Black Artist that struck me to the core and shaped the way I see the world.
- Natasha Tretheway I mentioned by coincidence bc I’d just seen something that made me recall her poem, but many of the rawest hardest hitting works I’ve read or heard or seen throughout the years have been by Black Americans.
- Here’s the trick to helping someone Actually Move On in record time: try for once in your life just acknowledging someone’s experience without diminishing its severity or telling them they should just Get Over It because there’s nothing they can do or telling them to focus on the positive.
- They may still not move on as fast as you prefer, but at least you will not later find yourself immortalized in their internationally famous poem as that one patronizing jackass who advised them to “talk/write about something else.”
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- One of my favorite poems I've ever encountered.
- Read it a long time ago but the final stanzas struck me like lightning and have since remained always turning and turning in the foreground of my conscious mind. www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/natash...
- My initial gut reaction ofc was bafflement bc of the out-of-nowhere Korean mention in a black US poet laureate's poem But upon reading on there was total understanding. That is certainly a line you could only hear out out of a Korean poet.
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View full threadThat intense grief was what drove Tretheway to write poetry in the first place. Inability to let go of the past and the unparalleled drive to do justice to those and other Memories is what made her a powerful and highly distinguished poet. So if you ask what it’s “worth,” you also have this answer:
- Every time I see a Korean being set apart as the only person in the room to speak right and do right while every other person is being spineless, disingenuous, and/or clueless, that proves something to me.
- Finally settling into a design direction I actually like for Fortunato… Unfortunately he’s threatening to Become Attractive 💀 (and thus harder to kill)
- Do you know how many jesters I had to draw to get him to this point…for this my sentiment toward him is now tenfold more sinister.
- My one fear is that if games-and-anime people finally pick up a book they almost certainly won’t be equipped to actually understand it they’ll just apply their usual illiterate, emotionally-immature “THE PEOPLE IN THIS STORY ACT BADLY AND ARE MEAN, IT IS A BAD MEAN BOOK” BS to literary novels
- The thought filled me with so much dread I actually had some trouble falling asleep last night. Makes me think maybe…not everyone should read books after all.
- I mean it wouldn’t be anything New. Such people have always existed throughout history to rail against books based on “it has SEX / BAD WORDS / IMMORAL BEHAVIOR in it” especially the masterpiece classics always catch the worst of it because they are the most widely read.
- That kind of backlash is why for example Mary Shelley made major changes to Frankenstein (1831) so that it is much “safer” and more morally didactic than the (far superior and I consider definitive) 1818 text.
