That's been refuted.
It started as a claim by Sherwin Wu, not Vince - www.reddit.com/r/KpopDemonh...
And the paper that originally reported on it made a correction in which they admitted using AI to translate the article to English - koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09...
Dark water surface, with hand reaching through it, while being reflected on the other side. The Scottish BPOC Writers Network logo is on the tip right. The text reads: "Connecting with my ancestors: The living, not the dead" by Jasmeen Kanwal
📣New Blog Post 📣: Jasmeen Kanwal is not her ancestors, she's goth punk! Read all about her exploration of ancestry here: https://scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/connecting-with-my-ancestors-the-living-not-the-dead/
Thread-like lines forming an abstract, necklace-like shape across the lower half of the image, title reads "the month of carrying the dead" by Natasha Soto. The Scottish BPOC Writers Network logo is on the top right corner.
📣New Blog Post 📣: Stories about our dead, and what they say about us, in our latest guest blog post by Natasha Soto. Read the full post here: https://scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/the-month-of-carrying-the-dead/
welp. first job application sent in.
reminder that Guns A-Go Go is available through these library services:
OverDrive
Odilo
cloudLibrary
Baker & Taylor
Hoopla
BorrowBox
Palace Marketplace
The moors keep their secrets.
What he had done was a desecration, but your lips were sealed and the iron grey sky unseeing.
She wailed in the wind. But only you could hear her.
You murmured comfort to her, as you held his head beneath the water, its depths silent and complicit.
WWW Wednesday | 4 March
[ includes discussions on:
My Name on Her Lips
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
One Piece 3-in-1 vol. 4-5-6
Spy X Family vol. 6
A Magic Steeped in Poison ]
actually the newmoonathon video was an absolute blast to edit
Drip.
She thought it was the faucet, but there was no water dripping. Not in the bathroom. Not in the kitchen. She checked both again, under the sinks in case it was the pipes, but no. Strange.
Then, she filled a glass and went to water the bleeding hearts and found the blood.
Drip.
#MorbidMarch
I love flowers.
And if they're dead, it doesn't matter.
If she's dead, it doesn't matter.
They're still beautiful.
She's still beautiful.
And they're mine.
editing, my beloathed 💔
Oh, she saved the pieces of the vase. The only thing anyone in her family ever owned that was nice enough to pass down. The vase he shattered in his rage.
She'll carve out his eyes with the largest shard and fill the sockets with the smallest. The porcelain is a prettier blue anyway.
#MorbidMarch
If you’re in Berlin on 20 March, come along to the launch of the German edition of my book, ‘The Roma’
eriac.org/book-present...
I thought Laura's death meant no one could steal her from me — until last night, when that woman was kneeling at the edge of the hole that hadn't been there. And there was Laura, looking like she hadn't been buried in that grave for years, looking up at her like she'd hung the moon.
#MorbidMarch
jesus fucking christ i've unsubscribed from bookcon emails FOUR whole times now and you'll never guess who's back in my inbox
mum took a wee spider outside and has been singing the spiderman theme song ever since
Hi guys, im so sorry but I need...a lot of help this time. Due to my IIH ive become near partial blind & need new glasses, I cant afford them on my own. I also still need to pay bills. As well start saving for inevitable surgery later this year. Im sorry to constantly ask for help.
I genuinely just don't know what more these people want. We're in an age where non-Ghibli anime films can be box office juggernauts and physical manga routinely does circles around Marvel and DC, all while paying pennies on the dollar for good translation talent. They're cultural rent-seekers, dude.
Anyway, pay your manga translators (and everybody else involved) a living wage and give them royalties, for fuck's sake. You're bigger than ever and can afford rates many times bigger than the 90s on the bestsellers topping the fucking NYT charts. Embarrassing you refuse to take care of your own.
If translation *alone* took six months, the pay rate would be so huge, it'd eclipse the golden years of the 90s and every manga translator I know wouldn't be juggling 10+ series. But no, it's one of the quickest, cheapest parts, for worse and for worse. You're drawing blood out of a stone, dinguses.
🚨 UPDATE 🚨
Seven seas stated in a follow up press release that Media Do’s acquisition will not affect daily operations, however..
Media Do has said they will use Ai to “to assist translators in translating manga into English, shortening the translation time from five to six months to two months.
in my sudden urge to spring clean i just chucked things outside my bedroom door once the bin filled up and am now realising that i have barricaded myself in my bedroom 🙃
2026 Children's and Middle Grade
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Geeeeez
even though i was pretty confident that would be the critique/feedback i would get, reading it is still 😬😬😬😬
Visitors had come all week, allegedly to offer condolences, actually to try to convince her that her brother’s casket should not be open. It would do no good, they said. They meant that she should keep her mouth shut, keep the secret.
As if he couldn’t tell what had happened himself.
#MorbidMarch
If you like my writing this is a pretty good time to join the patreon. billing is paused, likely for the rest of the year, so you'll only be charged for one month when you sign up. and i will give a month's notice for when billing starts up again. but new chapters and updates are still coming.
why is it always the day before something fun that work keeps me mad dashing into the wee hours???? ( >_< )
