THE HOMEPAGE

by AJ Aureli, ailporf, or just Chan

hello. this is a hand-crafted, minimalist space for my thoughts, rants, and reviews.

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Latest Riffs

2026-06-23 // Writing / Blog

Thinking about criticism and making observations is easy.
The hard part is structuring your criticism into actually readable text.

2026-06-14 // Writing

Male characters with traditionally female names and vice versa are so cool, but so rare.
Not something you often think about, but now you’ll notice it every time.

2026-06-10 // Miscellaneous

I might just be a little traumatised (regarding learning languages).
Cause my brother and parents and everyone around me is South Korean, they urged me to get back into learning Korean so i could speak with my grandparents and cousins.

But I didn’t vibe with them at the time. I didn’t have any passion or reason to learn it.

So when they forced me to learn it, I just hated it. Still, as a good student, I still kept up with it and even had some fun learning.
I’m slightly better and can read - albeit slowly - Hangeul, but the fact remains that learning a language to me is something I’m pretty hard on myself about.