#Translation: I wish I was good enough

[mxtxfanatic]

I’m gonna say it once real clear so I have a post to refer back to the moment it happens again (cause it will). I don’t give a fuck about any other reader on a personal level when I am reading a book. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, the people who claim you, the degrees you hold and in what subject. Not a damn. When I’m discussing the book, I am discussing the things the author wrote in the book. When I am discussing characters, your personal life experiences or cultural “expertise” factor 0% into my analyses except as an addendum to my thoughts if it matches what the novel or author has already said. That means that I will not automatically bow to a reader just because they claim to be Asian in general or Chinese specifically (cause I’ve had people try to flex with both, before). I am just as capable of reading and thinking on my own, and mxtx is just as capable of conveying what she wants us to understand from her story without the “cultural translators” acting as the unwanted, unasked for middleman. Especially when that middleman is directly arguing against what the book tells me. Heritage isn’t a “get out of jail free” card for intentionally shitty analysis and willful illiteracy.

So no, I’m not entertaining your argument that a child abusing character is just fine and dandy cause “I’m Chinese, my parents beat first and ask questions later and that’s called love 🤪” You’re Asian? You’re Chinese? So what? The author is also Chinese and disagrees with you. I also have Chinese friends who’d disagree with you. Are they less Asian than you? Do they not count because they don’t confirm your self-interested generalizations? Newsflash: Chinese people are not a monolith, and the continent of Asia definitely isn’t. Unlike in this cursed fandom, most people irl can think for themselves.

I can tell you one thing, though: mxtx damn sure didn’t write any of her novels so that a particular group of Asian diaspora readers can run to a majority-white fandom to play “cultural translator” about how “inherently abusive” Chinese culture is to a round of hehe hahas at their own expense. And for what? White validation? Western approval? Over a web novel??? Does that not sound demented to you? Is that not the definition of self-hate?

[gideonisms]

Liked the broad strokes of translation state and deeply enjoyed some moments of body horror and/or humor. Qven was my favorite character and I think the whole book could have been narrated by em and I would have loved it. I did find enae's bit of the narrative dragged at times, and if you are going to do three pov characters alternating back and forth, it seems like their lives should all be more connected or they should be more connected emotionally. I felt that connection between reet and qven but not necessarily between them and enae. But it was fun sff in the vein of a star trek episode so overall I'd recommend it

[gingermintpepper]

Absolutely the funniest thing about my current corner of tumblr is that pretty much everyone I've recently followed for Apollo-Appreciating Purposes are either genuinely Hellenist or just rather very into Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series which is wild because I know a net zero about both of those things.

[bowyooo]

i did an art to the kimharry fic i enjoyed like A LOT A LOT

if you can read in [rus] please check this thing out, imo it’s marvelous!! i’ve translated a tiny piece describing the scene, check below under cut for ~the mood~

here’s a little piece i’m making an art to, in [eng]:

ESPRIT DE CORPS - The lieutenant is stubborn. Now that I'm here, at least let me have this. I'm not leaving with nothing.

YOU - Leaning toward Kim. The end of the cigarette trembles and fails to hit the burning flame of the other.

KIM KITSURAGI - His palm slides onto your neck and grips the back of your head tightly, holding you in place.

PERCEPTION - A shiver runs through your entire body, your hair stands up.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - You haven't felt *this* way even when you were making out with some youngster in the Paliseum. Every nerve exposed, blood pounding in your head. And it's just a cigarette, dude.

KIM KITSURAGI - Doesn't break eye contact. His brown eyes seem black in this light, only the light from the apartment glinting in his pupils and on the lenses of his glasses.

REACTION SPEED [Easy: Failure] - The lenses slightly magnify his eyes, and they now look like an overcast night sky with a sickle moon shining on it. You stare back, mesmerised. You forget to breathe.

KIM KITSURAGI - He says through gritted teeth, "Drag on." You thought there was a chuckle in his voice. He pulls his cheeks in.

[elegyofthemoon]

also to anyone who plays honkai, does anyone have other translations of the game? aside from the official?

i feel like i talked about this with a friend, but the translations just. don't line up with what's being said a lot of the time and it's slightly driving me insane x - x

[true-blue-sonic]

In the Elise ice skating story Silver goes from a skater to a coach because he's afraid of his powers coming out during contests. So Silver still doesn't have complete control of his powers and worries about them activating when he doesn't want them to.

Also in that story he pulls a Katara and COMPLETELY STOPS THE RAIN.

That suits Silver, I feel; he is quite concerned with justice and honesty, and having his powers come out during a match would definitely give him an unfair advantage compared to the normal participants. That, or he gets disqualified immediately. Both of them would be quite bad for him! Since the translation of the story seems to focus a lot on the emotions felt by Elise (how she associates the song with her parents to the point she cannot perform to it, her doubts while practicing, the courage Silver gives her etc.), maybe they wanted to use that sentence to describe something similar to Silver and his own emotions that his powers are linked to? Otherwise, I can't really think of a reason why Silver's powers would suddenly activate during a competition.

And I believe he stopped the rain through forming a dome around the skating rink with said powers, which is quite impressive! Mundane utilities are one of the more fun things powers like Silver's can be applied to, in my opinion. Sure, Silver can stop Elise from landing wrong in her triple axel, but he can also make sure the skating rink stays dry. Best of both worlds!

[swaggy-transfag]

Thought of making a post abt my struggles with communicating and getting my thoughts out in words. But then i was struggling too much abt how to word it so it made sense, so i gave up

[cellgatinbo]

btw quackity's been talking about the qsmp and about reconstructing the staff and everything

[gifti3]

Is the newest story good??

I heard the writing was kinda off and tbh im still sad about zenitco,,,

[ko-eko-ev-go-ms]

It continues to trip me up how much human brains are just weird organic computers

[solradguy]

Finally got around to starting Valentine's GG2OMC story and it starts right off the bat with complicated Backyard nonsense. Alright.

[deadsince1973]

I've just finished episode 5 of Vivant, and I have to say, I really love and appreciate the mix of languages on this show. You just KNOW that if this show were American, all the "Balkan"/Mongolian characters would be speaking English with a foreign accent for the convenience of the audience. So I absolutely love this show's choice to have huge chunks of the show's dialogue delivered in Mongolian, including lines by the Japanese main characters, and to simply subtitle it in Japanese. No handwaving about how the main characters' foreign contacts just happen to speak Japanese with no expectation that the main characters might also speak Mongolian. No, instead, all the main characters speak Mongolian and English (and Arabic maybe, in Nogi's case?) in addition to Japanese, none of the Americans speak Japanese, only the Balkan/Mongolian characters for whom it makes sense that they would speak Japanese speak Japanese, and the language of the scene is chosen based on what language would most likely be used in that situation in real life. Convenience for the audience is simply not a consideration. And I love it!

[theokusgallery]

I know it's a classic but I think it fits blondie

https://youtu.be/9RZv-tG0OkU?si=v151h2mIwfJQag8E

Oooh I'm gonna be honest, I like this song (though I'd never listened to an English cover before skjdf) but I... don't super get the lyrics. The vibes of the song are great, and I like how it sounds, but I'm just... not sure what the lyrics mean sdkjghsjl

[2cinnamin]

This scene was the cutest. Taemin was on the team that didn't get to eat, so he came over to Minho and tried to butter him up. There's a few cuts/editing but in another shot it's clear Taemin got what he wanted and his mouth is stuffed. Cutest.

[damnprecious]

one day I will throw a fancy party for which I reserve a fancy venue and a fancy catering company and create a cool playlist that's timed perfectly for the event and invite my friends and have a mcfrigging good time and don't think about how amatonormativity makes me sad

[innocent-until-proven-geeky]

[Image Descriptions: Image 1: Photos of a bat and a mouse (or rat perhaps) on a white background. A speech bubble coming from the mouse says “Dios mío! Un ángel!”

Image 2: Photos of scorpion and a lobster on an illustrated sandy beach background. The scorpion has a speech bubble which says, “Dios mío! La sirena!” End Image Descriptions.]