What is your way to personal fulfillment?!

Filling the time with passion.

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Ben Howard Photos and Videos

“keep your head up, keep your heart strong”

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“It’s not the job of the writer to create characters that readers like, necessarily, but we do have to create a character readers can invest in.”

—Leah Johnson is a writer, editor and eternal Midwesterner, currently moonlighting as a New Yorker. She is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow whose work has been published in BuzzFeed, Autostraddle, Catapult, and Electric Literature, among others. Her bestselling debut YA novel, You Should See Me in a Crown, was named one of Cosmo‘s 15 Best Young Adult Books of 2020, and was an Indies Introduce and Junior Library Guild selection. Her sophomore novel, Rise to the Sun, is forthcoming from Scholastic in 2021.

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I just saw this post and I just needed to share this quote!

True and important to follow the own interests. 🌸

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Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago. ⠀ 📸 Tom Harris © Hedrich Blessing. Courtesy of Rebuild Foundation.

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Looking at these shelfs and books with the armchairs in front of them, it reminds me of "City of bones" . When I read the book I imagined the school library a little bit that way. Just not that bright. Darker. With dull light. I imagined a chimney. Right behind the armchairs. Filled with a small fire inside. Wood thats burning low and creating this special sound. The sound that you can hear when wood is not totally dry, still a little bit moist. A sizzling noise.

I loved imagine that, and thinking about it now makes me want to go to a warm and cosy living room with these kind of book shelfs and a chimney.

Or sitting down and writing with my best friend. Thanks a lot for that! 🌸

#books #cityofbones #bookmania @bookmania thanks for this memory :)

#memories #writing

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“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

— Neil Gaiman

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“Bad writing does nothing, changes nothing, educates no emotions, rewires no inner circuitry - we close its covers with the same metaphysical confidence in the universality of our own interface as we did when we opened it. But great writing - great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning reading Chekhov and in the afternoon, walking through your neighbourhood, the world has turned Chekhovian; the waitress in the cafe offers a non- sequitur, a dog dances in the street.”

— Zadie Smith, Fail Better (via bookmania)

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I didn't read the report yet but definetly going to

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i love my uni so much, can’t wait for the library to reopen again so i can study with the view of founders

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📚🖊️💻

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Se<oul ❤️

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❤️❤️❤️

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Korean Culture

Lesson Twenty-Eight: Wildlife

Masterlist

Previous Lesson

안녕하세요 여러분! Today I thought it would be fun to look at a few different plants and animals that are found in Korea.

시작합시다

Animals

White-Naped Crane

A White-Naped Crane is a crane that is usually found during migration Korean Demilitarization Zone separating North and South Korea. They are very large birds with pinkish legs, grey and white striped necks, and a red face patch.

Lynx

Also found in the forest of the DMZ, you may find a Lynx. A medium-sized wildcat with fur made for cold weather and characteristic black hair on the tips of their ears.

Common Minke Whale

This species of whale can be found in Korean waters such as the East Sea. This Minke whale is the smallest of the Rorquals and the second smallest of the Baleen Whale. They date back more than 3.6 million years.

Asiatic Black Bear

Currently one of the most endangered animals of South Korea is the Asiatic Black Bear. They have characteristic smooth, black coats and a V-shaped patch of white fur on their chest. They have been spotted in 지리산 National Park and the thick forests of 설악산 Mountain.

Plants

Hibiscus Syriacus

The Hibiscus Syriacus is the national flower of Korea. The flower is know for symbolizing immortality because of its long-lasting blooming period that lasts even until Autumn.

Korean Ginseng

The Asian Ginseng or Korean Ginseng is a perennial plant that grows in the mountains of Eastern Asia.

Metasequoia

Metasequoia trees or Dawn Redwoods are a fast-growing deciduous trees. Korea even has a tourist attraction called 담양 메타세쿼이아길 where the Metasequoia line a road beautifully.

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One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

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If we don't give deeper inside we will loose our own characters.

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One of the most important lessons in life 🌸 and the hardest 🌺🌸

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#koreastic vs. #koreaboo - Teil I

Inspiriert von hangup-berry - antworte / begleite ich ihre grundsätzliche Aussage bezüglich der Intoleranz Korea-Interessierten gegenüber.

Ich selbst genieße die korenische Sprache in vollen Zügen und freue micih jedesmal aufs Neue Duolingo zu öffnen und wieder eine Vokabel mehr zu lernen, oder meine eigenen Unterlagen durchzusehen. Daher werde ich auch in der nächsten Zeit meine eigenen Lernerfahrungen teilen, auf das noch mehr Leute sich der wunderschönen Sprache widmen oder sich nicht scheuen es zu zeigen.

Begriffe wie Hallyu und damit einhergehender K-Pop und K-Drama haben eine eher possierliche Konnotation als dass es wirklich geachtet wird. Was dabei - wie hanguk - berry bereits schön erklärt hat - außer Acht gelassen wird ist, dass ein reines Interesse an der Kultur und der Gesellschaft, an politischen oder rechtlichen Themen des Landes als schlichtweg unmöglich gesehen wird. “Ich interessiere mich für das Land und die Kultur” ist gleichzusetzen mit: Du bist K-Pop Fanatiker.

Dieses soziologische Phänomen findet man natürlich nicht nur bezogen auf die koreanische Kultur und Sprache. Die Thematik des Schubladendenkens / der Vorurteile die der Mensch unbekannten Dingen häufig gegenüber hegt, ist auf alle erdenklichen Ebenen des Lebens zu übertragen.

So, im Kurzen - als ersten Teil - meine Gedanken zu dem Thema. Wie schon erwähnt inspiriert von Hanguk-Berry und der Ganzen Thematik bzgl. “Koreaboo”. In den folgenden Tagen gibt es noch einen zweiten ausführlicheren Teil dazu. Aber das soweit erstmal.

Also :) Happy Studying and keepyourcalm ;)

What is your opinion and how did you experience this topic in the past? Or have you experienced intolerance concerning your interests in other fields? Just comment; I`d love to hear your thoughts!

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