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I started my story on Tapas! Due to my health and work, it's just a novel for now but I'd appreciate any attention/comments/thoughts on it!

You can find it here!

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Hey I just wanted to atop by and say that ever since I started reading obsidian (and ever since it's been on a hiatus) I stop by once a month to see if there are any new information about it's status and about hoe your doing. I read in the last question u got that ur struggling with some health conditions that make it impossible for you to continue with the story and I am sorry to hear that you have to struggle like that :c I hope that you'll be better soon. Because when ever you're ready to continue with Obsidian I'll be here 🍃💕 All the best and warm thoughts to you, you amazing, talented person🌞

Thank you! To be honest its almost more mental than physical. I found out that I have a spine disease (on both my mothers side and fathers side) that usually only appears in old people but both my mom and Grandmother unlocked it early like some secret gamer achievement when they were pregnant in their twenties. I am in my twenties but im not pregnant, and yet I too got the gamer award for fucked spine.

Fortunately for me, its something manageable. Its a pain I can deal with with physical therapy even if it'll never go away. Ive shrunk 3 inches in 4 years because of it.

The unfortunate thing is having to come to terms with the fact that now I am 'broken'. and like, I know I'm not broken in a rational sense; disabled people are people still. The fact remains, though, that for the rest of my life all the people around me are going to be conscious of how I can barely stand for more than an hour or that I cant bend over to feed my dogs and whoever I'm with will have to essentially sign up as a caretaker. Theyre going to not invite me to things or change plans, theyre going to get frustrated with my very existence and its hard to not think about that.

Its dampened my mood for writing that's for sure.

Right now its a matter of judging how much energy and pain im in and balancing it against what I want to do, which, recently, has been Original work. Because im tired and I want to be kind to myself. Hopefully I can make something of that. I really appreciate that you enjoy the fic so much though! It has a special place in my heart even though I know I can do better. And it means a lot to me that you went out of your way to tell me this.

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I wanted to stop by and say that your fic, Obsidian, is beautiful and has some of the best world building! It was incredibly inspiring to read and I was super caught up in the characters and characterization. The art you did to accompany it was especially wonderful. You have some amazing talent!

Thank you! I really wish I could continue it, but due to some health concerns right now I'm unable to continue it :(

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boom squad roll out

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Resurrecting the Dae au? hell yeah bois, deer centaurs for everyone

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sneak attack!

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Bakugou

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Hi! I have a translation question: what do you mean when you say that if there is a recognizable style, the translator isn't doing their job properly? I know little about translation so I'm just very curious (btw, I agree with your take on mha's official translations).

translators are supposed to be invisible. when you’re translating or adapting a text from a source language into a target language, you need to alter the text as little as possible while still trying to keep true to the meaning / message (or style if you’re translating writing). Caleb not only takes many liberties with the source material (the most obvious one being the “chicken soup for the soul” localization he did in chapter 290 without a real need for it, but in general he tends to embellish things to sound as smart as possible whenever possible), but he also injects his own biases in the translation, like when he purposefully softens the heroes’ harshest lines and instead makes the villains sound more evil

Compare the two versions:

the meaning’s the same, the nuance is different. The fantranslation makes it very easy to see the flaw in Jeanist’s reasoning and recognize that he’s wrong in not seeing Dabi’s victimhood, because there’s a stress on his concern for discretion. He sounds selfish and casual, just how someone who’s brushing off child abuse should sound like. The official translation not only sounds way more demonizing of Dabi’s actions, putting emphasis on how unjustified Dabi’s claims supposedly are, but he also calls him a fiend. If you check the raws here he calls him “ 荼毘め” which just means “damned Dabi”. It’s a simple imprecation that Caleb took as an opportunity to slip in his bias. Nowhere on the text is there a mention of Jeanist calling him a fiend.

Ah, by the way. I’m stating this before someone accuses me of reading too much into it. I’m not making up the fact that Caleb is unsympathetic towards the villains. He freely admitted it himself on more than one occasion.

Just two I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more. I stopped reading this “notes” when it became clear that he justified a military state that uses child soldiers to kill abuse victims.

Now, I definitely understand not being as incensed as I am about this. For me, this kind of behaviour is unjustified both because he’s the official voice for bnha for the whole western fandom, and as such his opinions are regarded as absolutes, and also because I have a degree in languages & translation and I notice these things and they upset me because that’s my dream job right there, and he’s doing it wrong.

I’m not saying anyone should agree with me, but regardless of my feelings on his ability to translate, it’s still pretty shitty of him to make his bias so obvious. Translations aside, he’s demonizing abuse survivors and he’s doing it as someone who has authority in the fandom (as was just confirmed by the anon coming here like a white knight to defend his honor)

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Dabi’s Hair: My Twitter Thread

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Ko-fi

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kacchan’s logic is a bit confusing

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Distraction

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this boy again

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Four ships suggested by Twitter :)

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coincidences 👔

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Hey! long time no see! 

I had the pleasure to participate in this year’s Erasermight BigBang, illustrating two scenes for my ever so patient partner SerasKucheki and their wonderful fic Rewrite the Stars. I strongly encourage everyone to check it out!

Also thank you so much to the mods for organizing this great event ✨

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boy and his big chicken