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“I myself hold a different view. Put yourself in the parents’ shoes—although the actions taken were a bit radical, it would be devastating for your own 21 year old daughter to be with a divorcee. Parents have more life experience and see further into the future, and the matters are not as uncomplicated as young girls think. The article takes perspectives of ‘rescue’ and ‘autonomy’ throughout, and…
I transferred to a new school in Ohio this year. The school has been truly great in many ways, but as soon as I settled in, I was hit with the managerial blunder of the leadership’s fervent implementation of Orah. Orah ⊕ I’d like to talk to Mr. Trank Snith, please. ⊕ Its registered NZBN is 9429041058619, if you want to look them up. Orah is a self-proclaimed “school safety platform,” which is…
My school recently completed a production of She Kills Monsters written by Qui Nguyen, in which I played Vera/the Beholder in addition to doing miscellaneous technical work. This is the first time I played any role in a serious production, and I also spent quite some time on building the scenography that accompanies the set. This post is a retrospective on the technical aspects of the show. I…
My friend recently drafted a lengthy yet dense article about the mourning and becoming of queer identities. I want to make a point here that part of the thesis, unduly summarized in the title, is a little stupid. Jido makes a terrifyingly tangled analysis about objects that we think can be mourned and objects that we think can be desired. The outstanding citation to support this comparison is…
This is a quick cover of はるまきごはん’s 彗星になれたなら, which is my first toki pona cover featuring my vocals. I did not have the luxury to put in a ton of effort on the music and graphics, but I think the homebrew feeling is somewhat charming in retrospect. The music featured a guitar with a pretty aggressive distortion, which hides the sloppy execution and makes the mix more solid when there is no drum or…
“If our union is destined to turn into separation; if it is destined to be pathologically misread and abbreviated, then so be it if we can only embrace each other under the footnotes of DSM-5 and ICD-11.” This is my rough translation of a Tumblr-style post I have come across lately. I absolutely hate it, but I hate it only because it sounds a bit cute and even a bit charming, which I am sure other…
Think about the conventional language we use to talk about mourning. “Have you recovered?” “Have you processed it?” “Yeah, I’m on good terms with it now.” “I need a few more months, I’m still a bit lost.” They seem to suggest that mourning is a process that can start at a specific time, can be worked on throughout a period of time, and end when the process is finished. This makes sense on a…
Sea and headland now grew dim. Pulses were beating in his eyes, veiling their sight, and he felt the fever of his cheeks. James Joyce, Ulysses Anger is often portrayed in accompaniment with revenge. In fact, most of the symbols of anger—fire, the fist, or the veins on one’s head—double as symbols of revenge. However, there are differences between the two that, however subtle, put them opposite to…
I am excited to publish this post accompanying my first mini-LP, The Forth-Takes . The Forth-Takes Vol.1 by Kai Wang Songs in The Forth-Takes are all recorded in four takes or less, uses sampler-based midi instruments, and based on other melodies or ideas. Its name, The Forth-Takes is a modification on the Japanese series The First Take , while “Forth-Take” is an inversion of “forthbring” (or, in…
I never really did programming after training for (and failing at) computer science Olympiads. The two projects I currently have are IRAHET (which is just an interface for LLMs) and Assistant Maker I made for MWH (which is embarrassingly unfinished). Anyway. I found my Stenokeyboards Polyglot today. It really is a fantastic keyboard, although I was bad at stenography and gave up before I got to a…