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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First)

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Eclectic Creative. The first Jewish Korean Adoptee writer and first Korean Adoptee pro-pubbed in SFF. Queer. BA in Anthro concentrated in systems (such as racism, sexism, etc). Minor in Comparative Lit. I block genA.I. users. http://www.kimyoonmiauthor.com

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · Nov 24

I'm more complex than my profile suggests, and I would think that you are too.

Some people might be curious.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 6h

BTW, I told a chef friend of mine about the Jamie Oliver incident and as soon as I said his name, she rolled her eyes before I even said the story. He has a reputation that proceeds him.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 8h

What animal has the best morals? A Conch because it has a conch sense.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 9h

What books can do that movies can't. Make punny homonym jokes. Maximize what books can do that other mediums can't. Don't write them like it's a movie. Write a book like it's meant to be a book.
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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 9h

It gives a roadmap of what the motivations for our current state of affairs is... and maybe that's why it's banned. So on one side, the plot devastates you thoroughly as you realize it's too close to reality, and on the other hand the language itself make you want to cry for joy.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 9h

The book is a dystopia where there is a rampant disease, a near dictator president based only on charisma, tech oligarchy and planet destruction through pollution is imminent. I mean... what part of that isn't true? Some of the book feels like prophecy, especially when she sets it in 2024.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 9h

#BannedBookWeek since I have a fixation on talking about it. Tickles my soul with the gorgeous language, but also horrifies at the devastating destruction that feels too real in 2025. #ParableoftheSower by #OctaviaButler. Too close to reality? woottoncommonsense.com/23282/review... #WritingCommunity

Read what they don’t want you to read: Three books to explore in wake of imminent ban

Last year, PEN America reported that over 10,000 books were banned in United States public schools. These bans don’t mean that a book will stop being produced or available to purchase, but depending o...

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 14h

There is still "take lead" meaning "to take charge," which is where the derivation of "lead" of a story came from. But some editor thought it was "too confusing" with "the metal" and changed the spelling, ignoring the other meanings and thousands of other homonyms. Twisted etymology.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 14h

Granted, it was there in the 1970's, but it didn't become overly official until 2008. This means there are people alive today who still remember it as "bury the lead" and they would be "correct". The justification for the change is odd though.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 14h

When you have a lead on a story, or buried the lead, it was spelled like this... until 2008 where people changed their mind and changed it to lede. WTF. Then it became bury the lede. Because they didn't want to confuse it with the metal. #WritingCommunity

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, the most striking thing people have said after reading the list of reasons books have gotten banned is that if you follow all of the list, there is absolutely nothing you can publish to satisfy everyone. The best way, then, is to work through it and discuss it.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

Which is why I'm often surprised when people object to sex, drugs, etc under YA when the books that defined the genre have, *gasp* sex, drugs, etc in YA. (also things like running away from home and so on).

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

It covers things like the loss of his sister, mental illness, but also loss in the face of impending adulthood. Published in 1951) With the Outsiders (1967), also often banned and challenged, they are marked as the first official YA novels under other books were eventually retconned under.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 1d

#BannedBookWeek Catcher in the Rye is often challenged/Banned for sexual themes (the prostitutes), the first challenge happening in 1960 resulting with a teacher being fired over it. bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/j-d-salinger... #WritingCommunity I loved the book for it's hardcore themes of loss.

J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” – The Banned Books Project

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

Your occasional reminder that Gustav Freytag was a pro-fascist pro-genocider. This is also why most of the 20th century writers make sideways references to him, but never mention him. BTW, if you need a rebuttal, which is clearly a rebuttal, Polti does a pretty good job of it. lol #WritingCommunity

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget #BannedBookWeek #WritingCommunity #LGBTQIA

What's your favorite Banned Book?

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Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 3d

I don't get how you manage to get two different soy sauces and neither of them are Korean. It confounds me.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 3d

I watched that video. The garlic is softneck. The soy sauce is Japanese and Chinese. The chili looks Anaheim??? None of it is Korean. I'm still reeling.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 3d

#JamieOliver's #Korean fried rice🍽️ hurt my souls. (plural on purpose. Look up Mugyo.) How did he manage to make exactly none of the ingredients Korean? Not even the garlic, chili or soy sauce??? Please at least Maangchi, if not looking up Bapssang for how it's properly done.

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 4d

Banned Book week! Why would your WIP get banned?

Lost on reasons other books got banned? Here's a copy of the post I put on Nanowrimo for years before Nano got into either scandal: www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiaut... #WritingCommunity #BannedWookWeek

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💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 1 · Why Your Books Will Get Banned (Old Nanowrimo Post) · I used to post this game on Nanowrimo. I saved the text before Nanowrimo declared that the N-word spelled out was OK and this…

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

BTW, there is a plant nursery across the way... so they shouldn't be all surprised.

Sometimes I think we've lost the plot when people can't recognize the plants we eat.

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

A restaurant kicked me out for carrying lemon grass, blackberry vines and pansies I bought. O.o; Really? You're a restaurant! You should recognize it because it's on the menu.

This is why I say that agricultural and Industrial agricultural subsistence systems are not always the best. #Worldbuilding

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

I volunteer at the community garden🌱 and for some reason people on the bus freak out when they see me carrying plants... Are we that removed in capitalism that we don't recognize food plants anymore? Someone lost it once when I was carrying mint. Mint O.o; Seriously?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

The thing people have to be vigilant about with anything related to #Trump is knowing that people will hold their mouths on how they will vote because ultimately they know someone will judge their morality if they say how they will. This will skew poll numbers. #USPolitics

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

I respond with where the person is at so they will come to our side... which might put some fellow adoptees off. We're mostly battling public perception and ignorance. Like over 90% of adopters are white. And people still argue adoption isn't a form of genocide. Differing social justice philosophies

김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · 5d

I'm more like aim for the ideal, but it's not likely to happen the way we want since I've been in social justice circles before. People often aim for the ideal in one go and then give up and become jaded. But such social change is slow. Backlash has been harsh for Koreans.