#english translation in the reblogs!

[sflow-er]

Reblogging this with the translations since most of my followers are non-Finns! A couple of clarifications:

The TV broadcast of 1800 guests shaking hands with the president is the most watched TV broadcast of the year. Every year.

The Väinö Linna novel is a war novel called the Unknown Soldier. At least two of these adaptations are broadcast on TV on/around Independence Day.

"shit city" is a piece of graffiti on a particular wall in the city of Oulu that keeps being painted over and reappearing.

This is the generally acceptable way of saying you do want coffee (especially in certain parts of Eastern Finland).

The "torille" ("to the marketplace!") or "torilla tavataan" ("let's meet in the marketplace") phenomenon refers to people gathering in the centre of town to celebrate Finland's success (primarily in ice hockey, but also in other sports or Eurovision, for example). This phenomenon has also given rise to the national inside joke of saying "Suomi mainittu, torille" ("Finland mentioned, let's go to the marketplace") whenever Finland is mentioned or vaguely acknowledged somewhere.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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[ratinthevoid]

Polscy mutualsi i reszta Polbrl, jest akcja wspierająca na pomoc powodzianom z gminy Głuchołazy.

Pisarz Jakub Ćwiek (pochodzący z Głuchołaz) wypuścił nowe wydanie swojej książki "Topiel" w ramach akcji "płać ile chcesz". PEŁNY DOCHÓD Z AKCJI IDZIE NA POMOC POWODZIAN.

Dostępne są: wydanie papierowe, audiobook i ebook. Wpłacić można dowolną sumę (w przypadku ebooka i audiobooka kwota minimalna to 1,20 zł, w przypadku papieru – 10 zł).

Akcja trwa do 30.09.2024!

Z ważnych informacji:

Akcja to PRZEDSPRZEDAŻ. Audio i ebooki zostaną udostępnione w ciągu kilku dni, natomiast wersja papierowa ruszy do druku dopiero po zakończeniu akcji. "Chcemy drukować bez nadwyżek, bo to ma być nie tylko książka, ale i pamiątka Waszej wspaniałomyślności. Zaraz po zamknięciu akcji dostaniecie wiadomość o terminie, gdy książka do Was dotrze."

Akcja istnieje we współpracy z władzami Głuchołaz. Środki z akcji zostaną przekazane do rozdysponowania burmistrzowi gminy.

Więcej o książce:

"W sierpniu 1997 r, ukraińscy żołnierze, przybyli na pomoc powodzianom z Głuchołaz, dokonują makabrycznego znaleziska w korycie wciąż wezbranej rzeki. Na ułamanym, zanurzonym w wodzie drzewie wiszą zwłoki nastolatka.

Niespełna miesiąc wcześniej dla czwórki młodych chłopaków – Kacpra, Darka, Józka i Grześka – rozpoczynają się upragnione wakacje. Mimo strug deszczu, wzbierającej rzeki i zagrożenia powodziowego, wszyscy czterej są przekonani, że to będzie ich lato. Trzy dni później rozpoczyna się “Powódź stulecia”. Wydarzenie, które na zawsze odmieni życie… tych, którzy przeżyją."

“Topiel” to oparty na osobistych doświadczeniach autora, szczegółowy, emocjonujący zapis pierwszych dni wielkiej powodzi w 1997 r.

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

[laurasimonsdaughter]

how many languages do you speak? :o

That's a very cruel question to ask a multilingual person, I have never spoken a language in my life

[sisterdivinium]

Finding "the meaning" to a show that could have had up to five or seven seasons but was cancelled after the second is somewhat like trying to understand a novel composed of seventy chapters by having read only twenty — there is a whole wealth of information which we do not possess that could alter our reading of any given element or of the entire thing in itself.

Still, there are always patterns that weave a story into a cohesive unit and they can help us to better grope in darkness towards comprehension. One such pattern in Warrior Nun appears to be how the consequences to mistakes, "sins" or evil deeds committed by characters manifest.

Basic storytelling usually requires characters to act on something so that complications or resolutions may arise from their choices and move the plot forwards. In Warrior Nun, many of these actions are quite tragic in nature: Suzanne's arrogance and pride lead to the death of her Mother Superion; Vincent's allegiance to the higher power he believed Adriel to be inspired him to kill Shannon; Ava's flight from the Cat's Cradle ends up damning Lilith as she is mortally wounded and taken away by a tarask... All of these events have negative outcomes and heavy repercussions on all characters directly or indirectly involved. Something changes permanently because of them, be it in the world around them or within the characters themselves.

And yet, it would seem that all of these dark deeds not only move the story forwards but might also have overall positive results. We would have had no protagonist without Ava — and she would arguably never have received the halo to begin with had she not been murdered. What's more, on a personal scale, the horrifying crime she suffers is, in the end, the very thing that allows her a second chance in life, a new life.

An act of outside evil permits Ava to grow and develop, shows her a path she would not otherwise have found. Without her own season in some sort of hell, Lilith would not have been able to advance towards other ways of being and understanding beyond her very strict limitations. Vincent and Suzanne would not have embarked on their own journeys of enlightenment without having caused the pain they are responsible for.

Beatrice might have been paying for someone else's mistakes, but she, too, is given the chance to grow into herself through it. The afflictions that torment these characters advance the overall plot, but they also advance them, as individuals, as long as they are willing to learn and keep going despite the calamities large and small that they are faced with. Beatrice keeps going after parental rejection, Mary keeps going after losing Shannon, Jillian keeps going after losing her son (in part through her own actions, adding insult to injury)... Trouble and the adaptation that follows it, if one is open enough to learn from the experience, motivates the characters, propels them forward, teaches them.

The problem of evil has occupied the minds of many a thinker throughout the ages, given how the very existence of it, evil, might call into question that of God (a good, omniscient, omnipotent one, anyway). A common way of justifying suffering (and also God), then, is by claiming, as Saint Augustine, that "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist".

Now, it would be rather ridiculous to say of Warrior Nun that it follows in Leibniz's footsteps, also because this philosopher, expanding on the augustinian concept, attempted to defend the goodness of a real God with his "best of all possible worlds" while all we have is... Well, whatever/whoever Reya is.

But there seems to be an inclination towards some sort of optimism as a worldview nonetheless.

Betrayals reveal truth and grant knowledge (Vincent's culminates with the coming of Adriel, which allows us to know of the threat of a "Holy War" and thus prepare for it; Kristian's gives Jillian much needed insight, William's lights up the fuse for the fight to be taken more seriously...), crimes committed willingly or not open the way for Ava (Suzanne's killing of her Mother Superion causes the loss of the halo, which is transferred to Shannon, whose death opens the gates for Ava to walk through after being herself murdered by sister Frances)... The magnitude of these positive outcomes is perhaps not "balanced" when compared to the evil that brings them about, but there is still something to take out of the catastrophe.

However tragic the tones of a given event, the show itself appears to shun the predetermination that makes tragedy as a genre; if everything is connected, here it at least appears to not necessarily drag everyone into their horrible dooms.

What's more is that this lurking "optimism" matches really well with our own protagonist's personality.

And it makes perfect sense that Ava would do the best she could with whatever she is given.

Life for her, in the conditions she experienced after the accident, would have been unbearable without some sort of positive outlook on life. However deadpan, the joking and the "obscene gestures" and whatever other forms of goofing around beside Diego are a way of turning a portion of the situation in her own favour. Proverbial eggs have, after all, already been broken right and left — might as well make an omelette of whatever remains.

Humour is just another way of looking at the bright side of something, or, at the every least, of mitigating the utter horror it might bring. If the show allows for moments of lightness, if it lets us laugh, if it takes us through a perilous voyage which still bears ripe, succulent fruit instead of the rot of pessimism and its necessary contempt for humanity, it is because Ava herself sees things in this way. It isn't gratuitous or naïve in this case, but a true survival strategy, especially as it is confronted with the morbidity of Catholicism.

Here is a religion that soothes its faithful with the promise of reward in the afterlife — how else does one charge into battle against the unknown, risking one's own death along with that of one's sisters, without the balm of believing that we shall all meet again eventually, "in this life or the next"? How else does one come to terms with the ugliness and the pain of this existence if not by looking forward to a paradise perfect enough to make all trials and tribulations here worth it?

True nihilism would have annihilated Ava. Her present perspective is what avoided the abyss.

And there is nothing Panglossian to her attitude or what the show might imply by giving us her view on things. This isn't about "the best of all possible worlds", but of making the best of whatever situation we're in, of taking what we have and doing something with it, something good, something of ourselves. It isn't God making good out of evil, but our choices.

Killing innocent people and feeling no remorse will never be the best someone can aspire to do. Sister Frances, cardinal William, Adriel all learn this the hard way.

Those who do their best find that, somehow, they can move on from whatever it was that paralysed them. Ava, most of all, knows what it is to be stuck, frozen in place; she can never be the character who refuses to grow, even through pain, lest she condemns her spirit to the same fate her body is all too familiarised with. Those around her wise enough to let themselves be touched by her, by the dynamic power she carries, walk forth with her and live.

It says very little about "God" that Warrior Nun should adopt its heroine's views and seem "optimistic" as it progresses — but it speaks volumes about the values it presents for pondering, of the inspiration its protagonists provide, and of the multiple reasons why this is a story unlike most others.

[killjoy-prince]

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[pegasusdrawnchariots]

I just finished Equal Rites!! 🥳 and the cinder block that is The Count of Monte Cristo. While I do have books queued up to finish next (Red Side Story & Don Quixote are first), I find my 2024 book list running short... What should I add to it?

feel free to make yr case as to yr choice if u wish, or to state support for multiple! I am nothing if not suggestible...

[pooce-art]

Today's 123 Rhodes Island translation. (no.53)Today is Texas Alter! Or Texas the Omertosa I guess.

I was honestly kinda surprised to see this one still untranslated since she was a banner 6* but I guess the limited alter fatigue really hit hard with this one.

As for my notes for this one... This one actually wasn't as bad to get something that makes sense. so the first thing is 哔. This literally means beep, I was really tempted to make it something like brrr like a vibration noise, but I felt like it probably wasn't worth it.

The other major one is Croissant's line in comic 2, it's more literally "Calm down, if we sell them now we can make a sum of money" but I couldn't resist the urge to write a southern accent.

Other than that it was kinda hard to determine how to do 喂喂 since 喂 is just a way to greet someone over the phone or informally, like Gnosis says it on non-trust tap. So I kinda just made 喂喂 a more excited greeting.

As always, this is just practice, and feel free to post it on other sites or to use them elsewhere as long as you credit me.

Original comic link:https://terra-historicus.hypergryph.com/comic/6253/episode/3186

[sunriseverse]

i know 7s probably pays their translators like shit since we’re not exactly, like, a vaunted profession, but god sometimes i long for the prestige (that exists only in my head) of having a real translation job with monetary benefits. instead of my realistic path which will be graduate -> find some job that i can handle working consistently -> do translation as a hobby if i have the time

[elbiotipo]

I love watching myself heal (it's a bruise I got by hitting my leg against my bedframe like a dumbass)

[caramelteaa]

Hey guys can we made a post full of your favorite, rawest quotes from QSMP?

Like let's make it long. I'll go first :D

"It's all fun and game, untill it happens to you."

"I'm not holding a fucking funeral, chat, 'cuz she's not dead!"

[darabeatha]

[witching-by-the-willow]

it's always "I love you" and never "main to yeh sochta tha ki aaj kal upar wale ko fursat nahi, phir bhi tumhe bana ke woh meri nazar mein chadh gaya, rutbe mein woh aur badh gaya"

[tenrose]

I finished the Broken Earth trilogy.

I was being a coward, pushing back reading the Stone Sky cause I knew it was gonna fuck me up so bad. And it did.

There is so much to say about this trilogy but I don't feel emotionally available enough to do so.

All I can say, every awards, and every good critic is deserved.

All I can say is how well it merges fiction and entertainment with actual important and harsh topics. We need more of engaged SFFF.

[supahstarrr]

as a dr fan we need to acknowledge that some of the danganronpa characters suffer through chronic liners for bad humor by out-of-touch old guy writers syndrome