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eileen 🍉

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Super excited to post my submission for #AugurMicros2025 !
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September 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

I guess my MC is THE original anarcho-communist edgelord 🤷🏻‍♀️
Her QPR partner gets this:

Purple and white columbine flower: columbines signify "faithlessness and folly" in traditional Victorian floriography

March 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

So all my WIP's POV characters have flowers associated with them (Why? Because I grew up reading a certain very long book series about late 2000s edgelords, iykyk) and I love how the flower meanings are all "devotion! loyalty! protection!" and then we have "declaration of war"

Bright yellow tansy flowers; tansy in traditional Victorian flower language symbolizes hostility, resistance, and "I declare war on you"

March 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

"Even if my fingernails are ripped out, my nose and ears are cut apart, and my legs and arms are crushed, this suffering does not compare to the suffering of losing my nation."
- 유관순 열사/Martyr Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920)

Sepia mugshot of Martyr Yu Gwan-sun in a Japanese prison uniform after being arrested for resisting the Imperial Japanese colonial government in March of 1919.

March 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

The first part of the prologue! #scarletwip

November 1877

The lights were fading.
It was deep at night, where the only noise was that of the wild forest, of prey escaping the teeth and claws of its hunter, and of the lone soldier traipsing through the leaves, with a gun strapped across his back and a prayer on his lips. The sky was a stark black, the only illumination from the glow of the city on the horizon.

The first time he’d gone out on patrol in Osaka, he’d barely been able to see for the bright explosions of sound and colour everywhere around him. There had been thousands of people out and about, some dressed in silks and goldwork, and others in roughspun farmer’s cotton, and the textured fabric had made the soldier think briefly of home, before another loud distraction carried his attention away again. The pulsing beat of a city like that could never slow, its light never dim, unless he was far enough to escape its trap.

February 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

In 1918 Korea, an anonymous political pamphleteer fights back against the colonizing Empire of Japan's attempt to destroy her people. But when an explosive and deadly epidemic incites settler fury, she must find new ways to resist— and control her own terrible rage.
#youdeservepit #ya #h #sf

January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century French singer. She was a skilled fencer, dressed in men's clothing, and snuck into a convent to be with her female lover. She later stole a body and burned the convent down in a failed attempt to run away with her.

January 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

BLOOD SCION x A CRANE AMONG WOLVES
When an epidemic of spontaneous combustion strikes in colonial Korea, an anonymous political writer electrifies the masses into fighting back– and their Japanese oppressors into scapegoating her as the terrorist responsible.
#p2ppit #w #ya #sf #h

January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

A CRANE AMONG WOLVES x A TEMPEST OF TEA
#bluepit #ya #h #sf
The year is 1918.

In Japanese-occupied Korea, a girl becomes a legend when she joins the fight to free her people.

But the killer targeting her city's poor has other plans– and so does the empire hunting her down.

9 images: a pile of pages on fire, the quote "No one expects an angel to set the world on fire", a b/w shot of two Asian girls lying next to each other, a closeup of red lips framed by long black hair, detail from the painting "The Death of Marat" featuring Marat's hand holding a letter, silhouette of a person on fire, an old typewriter, sepia shot of three girls in hanbok facing away from the camera, a round sun in a dark red sky

January 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

forgot alt text 🤦🏻‍♀️

Alt text: 9 images: A bathtub full of blood, a figure falling through the sky, a woman doing another woman's hair, dark red nails leaving a red line on someone's neck, the words "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," in white font on a black background, an East Asian person's eyes with their lids smeared with blood, a low-res art piece of a person's silhouette that reads "mechanized heart never misses a beat", an Asian woman with black hair and red lipstick against a dark background, a Silla-style royal crown with round gold prongs and hanging chains.

January 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

#bluepit
LUCY UNDYING x THE SCARLET ALCHEMIST

When her twin sister's body falls to the ground from an opulent castle in the sky, a young fighter pilot abandons her post and enters the service of the countess who rules it, on a quest for answers–and revenge.

#ya #f #sf

January 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

#meetmymcs
Shin Eunji is more than just a girl. Talented, suppressed by the patriarchy and seething with fury over her people's colonial oppression, she becomes a legend of Gyeongseong's streets– and a target of the divine empire that wants her silenced.

January 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

FINALLY DONE!!!! 🥳

holy wow that's a lot of words... time to fix all the (many) plot holes and other glaring issues and chuck it in a drawer to marinate!

#scarletwip

January 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

#bluepithype day 2!
sharing some art of my MC (by me) and my moodboard!

Digital illustration of a young Asian woman in a long red coat and white shirt, glaring at the viewer and holding a red hat in one hand, while crumpling a piece of paper in the other.

9 images in a square stack: Ink print of some red flowers on a burgundy background, sepia photograph of three Korean girls in white hanbok, painting of a silhouette on fire, detail of the painting La Mort de Marat showing Marat's hand, quote reading: "They belong, in a certain sense, to history", Asian woman wearing a straw hat and lacy white gloves looking pensively off to the side, wood paneling of some birds against a dark red background, Asian woman covering her mouth using a lit lighter, detail of a painting of an angel with a spiky gold halo.

January 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

Unequal Marriage by Pukirev:

oil painting of a youthful bride and an elderly groom being married. The groom's expression is stern while the bride is visibly upset.

January 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

#StartingOffWrite
🧪🧨 🚩❤️‍🔥🌻⛓️‍💥

In 1918 occupied Korea, a revolutionary, a thief, a disgraced noblewoman, and a scientist fight back against the divine empire across a sea- and the mysterious killer lurking in the shadows at home.

Bonus marks for guessing the quote in the moodboard!

A moodboard for my book! Featuring knives, wood panelling, moody gaslight scenes, sepia photography, angel paintings and prints of flowers on a red background.

December 16, 2024 at 2:29 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

MY CITIZEN
I love her oml

Lego display of a group of Korean women holding flags and looking determined, as soldiers attack them with guns and swords.

December 13, 2024 at 7:50 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

This is supposed to be Ahn Jung-geun (guy pointing gun) although I'm having a hard time seeing the resemblance here:

Lego display of a man in a grey coat pointing a gun at a white-haired man as guards try to stop him.

Photo of Ahn Jung-geun, a Korean resistance fighter who (successfully) assassinated the first governor general of occupied Korea, Ito Hirobumi. His hands are folded across his jacket, and the last joint of the ring finger on his left hand is missing.

December 13, 2024 at 7:50 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

Oh wait, there's more:

A photo of a Lego display depicting an angry man tossing a water bottle (probably a bomb) at some high-ranking soldiers on a platform. A crowd of lower-ranking soldiers gathers behind him. Text in Korean below the image translates to "A great man leaves his home and does not return home until he has accomplished his goal."

December 13, 2024 at 7:35 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

I love Koreans. You mean to tell me that they have museum exhibits depicting assassination attempts on FOREIGN LEADERS? In LEGO? (For context, this depicts Lee Bong-Chang, a Zainichi Korean in Japan, throwing a grenade at Hirohito in 1932, the last assassination attempt he would ever face)

A Lego display of a triumphant-looking man throwing a grenade at an ornate carriage, as the driver and two guards on horseback look on with worried expressions.

December 13, 2024 at 7:19 AM

eileen 🍉

@unrealhistories.bsky.social

It's so wild to see people shocked that Korean protest culture is so enthusiastic. Isn't this what naturally happens when 4 out of your 5 previous republics were ruled by dictators? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Although I'm impressed by how quickly they're able to print out all those signs and that FLAG🫡