'Darn Abalone' by Oh Aesun from Class 3-8

[translated by me]

Day after day, abalone, abalone.
Even as typhoons rage, it's abalone, abalone.
More cherished than her own daughter, still abalone, abalone.

When she dives below, shouldn't she surface soon?
Why then does silence stretch, leaving no news?
Is it because the abalone hides, refusing to come forth,
or because her breath falter, holding her under the sea?

Her dear child’s heart burns with worry
as that darn abalone scorches Mother from within.

A hundred hwan earned by selling abalone.
I would pay them to buy a single day’s rest for my mother.

My mother, with her aching back,
my mother, coughing and weary.
If only, for a hundred hwan each day
I could let my mother take a rest.

"Then grow up fast. Grow up fast, and give me a hundred hwan every day."

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OH AE SUN, When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025) EP01

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES (2025) dir. KIM WON-SEOK
episode three: YESTERDAY WAS YOUR SPRING

That day, if she hadn't run as fast as she could... If she hadn't run that day... would she have been able to outrun her destiny? But in the end, destiny was a stubborn thing.

Those cabbages are sweet, would you like some?
— When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025)

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by N.C. Germanacos, from Kassandra and the Wolf

[Text ID: "the sweetness had blocked my throat,"]

their names soysauce and milk

i’m just curious, is there any artist(s) that you know their entire discography… like everything they ever made is just imprinted in the back of your mind

let me tell u something faggot to faggot

things to do when your day's been bad

• lie down on the floor beside your bed
• take a shower, use the good soap
• listen to a song you liked ages ago
• write your thoughts out in all caps
• draw a head and then 'decorate' that head however you're feeling (I drew a man with a hole for a face. It worked)
• listen to a song and try to focus on one (1) instrument at a time, baseline, drums, guitar, another guitar, repeating sound effect
• wash your face
• take a nap or go to bed early
• call someone. tell them about your horrible day or let them talk about theirs or both
• go through your camera roll (specifically the screenshots folder)
• go through your saved instagram posts / tumblr likes
• watch That One Really Great Live Performance of That Artist You Love, then read the comments of everyone having great taste like you do
• cry a little about it
• remember that this day will end and another will begin. it'll be all new, never experienced before, no bad things will have happened, and you'll be okay.

how lovely and nice it is that clementines and mandarines are already divided into tiny delicious shareable pieces for us to have and enjoy and share with the ones we love:)

That state of being Creatively Inspired but Mentally Mushy is a special kind of frustrating

'The Beauty and the Beast' illustrated by Angela Barrett.