Abeliophyllum, the miseonnamu, Korean abeliophyllum, white forsythia, or Korean abelialeaf, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. It consists of one species, Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai, endemic to Korea, where it is endangered in the wild, occurring at only seven sites.
my piece for the @hws-anthology! it's the gang enjoying some spicy street hotpot on a humid summer's evening 🍲
thanks to the mods for their enduring patience, and for pulling this off. i'm happy to have participated in something like this with so many friends and creators i admire ����
park chan-wook and jeong seo-kyeong took a story about love between two women freeing them from sexual exploitation, set it in japanese occupied korea, and made the main villain a korean man masquerading as japanese who believes in the righteous subjugation of his own country and people and who forces his own japanese niece to subjugate herself to him so he can at last truly “become” japanese through her degradation. the patriarchy and the empire act as one. fighting for women and fighting against imperialism must go hand in hand
ngl im fucking terrified of how the fandom will act when the asian ccs get added and they are confronted with asian customs such as honorifics, asian cultural norms, and the language itself (ie words that are common in one language that sounds like a slur in another) and i know most of the fandom will be open and welcoming but idk im probably being way too pessimistic as someone who is asian and has seen the bs that people can spew esp regarding things like stereotypes