#kyung-sook shin

[metamorphesque]

musings on motherhood

Kyung-Sook Shin ("Please Look After Mom"), Nguyen Thanh Binh, Ocean Vuong ("Headfirst"), Ritika Jyala (excerpt from "The Flesh I Burned"), Gustav Klimt "Mother and Child" (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), Sue Zhao ("My mother texts me instructions to cook silken tofu")

buy me a coffee

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Nothing happened this past summer. Only that, in the hot sun from time to time, a brief thought would appear and disappear around me. That thought was closer to me than any of the flowers in the shop. Even as I tried to capture the thought on paper, the heat would exhaust me and I’d give up. There were plenty of things I gave up on, using the heat as an excuse. Which means I spent this past summer repeatedly deciding to do things and then giving up on them. As if my life were an exhibition of how good I am at giving up. It was that kind of summer.

—Kyung-Sook Shin, Violets tr. Anton Hur

[uslostinthememories]

Even though Mom’s missing, summer will come and fall will come again and winter will come, like this. And I’ll be living in a world without Mom.

Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin.

[sylviaddict]

Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

[endlessendymion]

“E um dia fui à igreja. Parei no adro. Curvei-me aos pés da Mãe de Jesus, que segurava o filho morto, para que me ajudasse a sair da depressão que eu não conseguia mais suportar, que tivesse piedade de mim. Mas parei, pensando em como eu poderia pedir o que fosse para alguém que segurava o filho morto.”

“And one day I went to church. I stopped at the churchyard. I bowed at the feet of the Mother of Jesus, who was holding her dead son, so that she would help me out of the depression that I could no longer bear, that she would have mercy on me. But I stopped, thinking how I could ask anything of someone holding their dead child.”.

[petit-poids]

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

[quillaffinity]

“Mom” is a Heavy, Heavy Word - A Rosemary and Sophie Walten Web Weave (TW: disturbing, flashing imagery, blood)

“i miss my mother” is such a weak thing to say and i am - i’m weak without you

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The Walten Files is an online Analog Horror Series by Martin Walls

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[astreamoflight]

Please Look After Mom

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Jack Stauber Just Take My Wallet // Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig // Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert // Hannah Green Night Terrors // Veruca Salt All Hail Me // Fleabag (2016-2019) cr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge // Laurie Anderson O Superman (live) // Kyung-sook Shin Please Look After Mom // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Euphoria (2019-) cr. Sam Levinson // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden

[need-grows-teeth]

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

[samireads]

March wrap up. I was coming off the SKZ high from last month and I went to Japan… this was the result 🫣

[metamorphesque]

Hello, hope you are doing well :) may I request some quotes on motherhood, but the healthy one. Thank you?

Sue Zhao

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Sanober Khan

Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

buy me a ☕

[heavenlyyshecomes]

The tedium of summer must have been digging a trap this whole time. Love, all of a sudden.

—Kyung-Sook Shin, Violets tr. Anton Hur

[scenesandscreens]

Decision to Leave (2022)

Director - Park Chan-wook, Cinematography - Kim Ji-yong

"The moment you said you loved me, your love is over. The moment your love ends, my love begins."

[andilostyou]

"My Mother's Body", by Marie Howe

Radical Feminist Theory: Working in the Context of Violence, by Bonnie Burstow

"Memories of My Mother", myself

Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown

Please Look After Mom, by Kyung-sook Shin

[namjhyun]

DRAMA REVIEW | Perfect Marriage Revenge (2023)

There’s an argument to be made about how Perfect Marriage Revenge had a perfect execution because it was a 12 episodes long drama and didn’t waste time for unnecessary conflicts. Everything took its right time and was resolved in a cohesive way with the characters development.

Both leads were compelling and had amazing chemistry, but the secondary characters were equally interesting to watch. All the performances outstanding and you can tell the actors are enjoying themselves in their respective roles.

On a story about a woman looking for revenge against her own family, this kdrama had a perfect balance between makjang and romcom. Making it an easy and fun watch. I highly recommend it!