Why I wrote fanfic and why I stopped

Fanfic filled me up as a writer until it limited me.

September 20, 2024 | Writing

Review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges

My review of The Lantern and the Night Moths for Exchanges, a journal of literary translation.

August 5, 2024 | Fannish

Records of homosexuality in premodern Korea

Who could their emulation of / the courtly love infringe?

August 1, 2024 | History

[Review] The Lantern and the Night Moths

A remarkable new collection of translated Chinese poetry and original essays by the translator.

July 19, 2024 | Fannish

Starting–and staying–small with housecleaning

On doing better and stressing less about the house with small, unambitious habits

July 18, 2024 | Life

The Crimes of the Cat (責猫)

Whose dereliction is it, pray / that mice run mad and wild?

July 16, 2024 | Translation

[Review] Sad Sacked by Liz Alterman

This memoir of a middle-class family’s brush with unemployment was funny and vivid in parts, but ultimately unsatisfying.

July 1, 2024 | Fannish

Overthinking the Schwarzschild Defence

Fact-checking the 2023 short story The Schwarzschild Defence because I am a killjoy.

April 7, 2024 | Fannish

The Dragon's Son Defeats the God of Plague

Before Koreans knew smallpox as a virus, we knew her as a god.

November 18, 2023 | History

Delightful Spring Night Rain

It trails the wind, comes stealing in at night / Bedews all things with thin and soundless threads.

January 25, 2023 | Translation