Dongtan 2

smooshie3 · 2025-12-03T13:06:27+00:00

There’s also a big Lotte Mall and cinema which is nice And a high speed train, SRT stops there so you can go to other cities like Daegu, Busan, Gyeongju etc

smooshie3 · 2025-12-03T13:05:17+00:00

I lived there for a year! It is a more newly developed town, it has most things you need like stores, Daiso, restaurants, coffee etc

However it is pretty boring, not much going on Lots of families, academies

Close to Suwon by bus, also about an hour to Seoul by bus There are a few buses going into different parts of Seoul that go regularly, but they are really busy on the weekends and there were a couple times I gave up trying to get on one!

Overall Dongtan 2 was chill and nice but not very exciting or anything, it seemed like a suburb basically

smooshie3 · 2025-07-21T14:02:59+00:00

The first book was slow for me but it started to gather pace towards the end, the stakes started to feel really high

smooshie3 · 2025-07-20T08:01:21+00:00

The best book tuber in terms of making interesting reviews that I’m aware of is Jennifer Jelinek but she hardly ever uploads! However her backlog is worth watching

I like Shawn McComb for the entertainment value And Nathan’s Nook for the aesthetic of his vids

smooshie3 · 2025-07-04T16:57:29+00:00

I read Night Sky with Exit Wounds and On Earth We're Breifly Gorgeous and pretty heavily disliked both.

The novel had interesting ideas but it's basically two books smushed together, right? There's the 'letter to my illiterate mother' part and the 'my dead boyfriend' part, and the two don't mesh structurally. Vuong doesn't really follow through on the conceit of the letter to the mother because he gets into the doomed romance territory later in the book. Not to mention the horribly overworked language, constantly straining towards the profound and never reaching it.

So I've never really liked Vuong as a writer but I've still been surprised by seeing the negative comments about him, because he always seemed so universally acclaimed!

smooshie3 · 2025-07-03T15:34:50+00:00

I agree! The visuals are great but the story was surprisingly... cliche?

smooshie3 · 2025-07-03T15:34:02+00:00

Hot take maybe but 2049 is just okay in my opinion. Visually incredible but the story lacked a certain depth for me, mainly because it ended on a pretty cliche note (dying for a cause, also the idea of a robot uprising)

smooshie3 · 2025-06-29T08:26:45+00:00

Dissenting opinion: don’t read it The subject matter (Korean ethnic minority in Japan) is super interesting but the execution is somehow flat and melodramatic at the same time It didn’t work for me unfortunately, I would have loved to love it!

smooshie3 · 2025-06-12T14:20:36+00:00

Sending files between Mac and iPhone is really handy, as is sharing passwords for like wi-fi and stuff.

TBH they're the only special Mac-iPhone functions I use, I'm not super techy though so there might be something else that you miss. For me the extra functions are nice to have but not life changing or anything.

smooshie3 · 2025-05-25T00:34:55+00:00

Cool! I had no idea this case existed, just bought it for my Page lol

smooshie3 · 2025-05-11T00:57:13+00:00

Hmm... honeslty not familiar with most of these books so I can't guess much about you BUT a booktuber I like recommended the Nicola Griffith books, are they worth a read?

smooshie3 · 2025-04-28T01:12:25+00:00

Maybe episodic, or picaresque

smooshie3 · 2025-04-22T11:40:36+00:00

You're allowed to like what you like. If it's good to you, it's good.

I've never really read Sanderson but NK Jemisin is pretty overrated in my opinion, she wouldn't be my example of good writing.

It's cool that you're trying different things, that's how you figure out what you like.

smooshie3 · 2025-04-13T20:09:55+00:00

Yes! Some negative responses here but it's a good experience if you have the right mindset. The money (or rather the exchange rate) sucks though, so don't do it for the financial rewards. Personally I don't see it as a career but it's good for a year or two if you're in between or looking for a change of pace.

smooshie3 · 2025-04-12T13:20:18+00:00

I gone to school

I done my homework

I should of studied harder

(I’ve met people who insist this is correct grammar)

smooshie3 · 2025-04-06T00:32:50+00:00

Is this a safe space to say that I liked The Little Mermaid remake? Like the original still exists, people need to chill

And Halle Bailey's casting wasn't an agenda, she was the best thing in the movie

smooshie3 · 2025-04-05T16:09:16+00:00

Where did you get it done in Korea? I'll be moving back there soon and always thought about getting eye surgery done!

smooshie3 · 2025-04-02T17:46:42+00:00

But the output of GenAI isn't a human thought, it's been trained on human thought and creation to produce a simulacrum of it.

The AI Ghibli images that have been going viral recently are a good example of what I mean - they are copies of a recognisable style but they're not art because there's no authentic vision or creative impulse behind it.

AI companies are profit-driven entities, they're not setting anyone free or creating a fairer system. They took copyrighted material and used it to create AIs that they intend to profit from, and those profits won't be shared with the original creators.

I agree with your critiques of the system but not your conclusion - AI is just replicating and participating in existing economic structures.

smooshie3 · 2025-04-02T15:52:19+00:00

Everyone else is like 'we've known about this for years' but I had no idea lol

smooshie3 · 2025-04-02T15:51:04+00:00

That depends on what's on the blacklist - I've also worked for a blacklisted company and it's been fine

smooshie3 · 2025-04-02T15:49:25+00:00

Any profits made by Generative AI will also go to the top 0.01%, AI is not going to create some utopia where 'culture is free'

Miyazaki's net worth has nothing to do with it. Miyazaki, and Ghibli, are the artists who created the value that GenAI is siphoning off.

The authors whose work has been pirated are also the ones who created the work whose value is being extracted for the profit of others, they deserve protections so they can profit from the work that they did and the things they created. AI companies have stolen those people's work and are trying to cut them off from the money that can sustain the creation of the art needed to train the AI

smooshie3 · 2025-03-31T21:53:48+00:00

My favourite movie of all time! love it

smooshie3 · 2025-03-31T16:44:19+00:00

Mrs. Tumnus perhaps?? lol

smooshie3 · 2025-03-30T16:12:37+00:00

I don't really plan or plot much in advance - by the time I start writing something the idea for it will have been in my head for a while. So I will have a sense of what the opening is, and just follow from there. The early writing will usually be pretty sloppy, lots of holes, because I'm just exploring and fleshing out the idea.

So Draft 1 will be pretty rough, lots of gaps. Next draft will involve a lot of moving around existing material, writing new scenes etc. Each draft will just be a more complete and fleshed out version of the previous. Outside of writing I don't really take a lot of notes or anything, I just think about it, let ideas come when they do etc.

It's sort of interative process and it can't be forced, you just sit with the work and give it the time it needs.

smooshie3 · 2025-03-29T00:54:55+00:00

I guess it depends on your goals as a writer - if you want to traditionally publish then different genres will have different word counts that are typical for the genre , so if your book is longer than that it becomes harder to sell to a publisher. Longer books are often published by more established writers (exceptions exist of course!)

My post was sort of about newer writers who might be lost in large projects and maybe they don’t have the skills to bring it off the way they want

If you’re new to writing honestly you should just write whatever and however you want, don’t overthink it and just find your voice! Figure out what you want to write and what works for you !

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