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mxtxfanatic · 6 months ago

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Been inundated with posts about the character descriptions in the 7seas mxtx releases, and I just wanna say that I find it the highest level of disrespect how a publisher treated someone’s serious writing that they bought the publishing rights for as a little jokey joke that’s lead to so many people’s misconceptions about said book. Tell me: why do these character sheets include publisher/translator opinions on the characters? Why do these character sheets directly go against what the actual text has to say about these characters? Why do these novels need character sheets?

#mdzs #svsss #tgcf #i am once again hating on 7seas #as having done the most offensive translation work i have ever seen #we don’t have character sheets for 20+ long book series published in english #none of the mxtx novels came with built-in character sheets #so what fucking right did 7seas have to insert them?#when will people who *aren’t* racist #be given the resources and prestige to handle cross-cultural work?#i don’t care how serious or not serious you think any of these books are #someone *made* them #and that act of creation should be treated with the fucking respect that *creating something* deserves #and if you do not want to do that #then don’t go into that line of work

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