#pick up what we're putting down!!!!!

[pumpkinpaix]

Chapter Spotlight 4:

"Iterative Violence: English (mis?)Translations of Modao Zushi and Chen Qing Ling" by Chant Y. Ng

Describe your topic/chapter in one sentence/one meme/140 characters.

A work by any other translation would NOT smell as sweet!!! In fact!!!!

What drew you to this topic?

Hi yes it's me, your pal cyan, you may know me from such hit posts as 8k words of rage-crying about the translation of 知己 as soulmates (which is about translation as violence), or maybe that other one about translation as violence (shockingly, it's really about translation as violence), or perhaps even that other other one about how one might translate Lan Xichen's title— (you know, I think this one is also about translation as violence)

If there’s one thing you hope the fandom takes away from your article, what would it be?

I hope that people think harder about how impossible it is to translate a text, and that they choose to extend more grace and compassion to authors and translators alike. A translation is not a window but a painting. Also, I'm manifesting better pay and respect for the work of translation into the cosmos. Please consider this a memo I am posting on the great message board of the universe. Thank you.

What is your MDZS/CQL origin story? (i.e. how did you come to this text?)

Started watching, made some gifs, read the book. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit.

Favorite adaptation, if any?

Audio drama! The love, care and effort put into it continues to astound me. Sometimes, to get the sound of a dizi hitting the ground, you gotta throw a dizi on the ground, y'know?

If you were isekai-ed into MDZS/CQL, what sect affiliation would you choose and why?

Please let me live my life in peace, I am but a feeble scholar.

Most compelling relationship in the text?

Twin Jades!!!!

Chaotic one-sentence pitch to get your friends into MDZS/CQL?

*gripping you tightly by the shoulders* don't

If you could ask MXTX one question, what would it be?

你最近怎么样啊？

Anything to say to potential readers of the collection?

Thanks for checking us out! It's been a wild and unpredictable (four-year!!) ride but everyone worked very hard on their parts. Means a lot even if you're just here for our little promo. :) If you'd like a copy of my contribution for classroom use, please do reach out!

You can find Chant (cyan) here on Tumblr @pumpkinpaix.

(FAQ) (all posts on Catching Chen Qing Ling)

[deoidesign]

One of my first digital pieces (2010) versus one of my recent ones (2024)

We all start somewhere!

[danthropologie]

https://www.tumblr.com/cecoeur/761361960536309760/actually-not-to-reveal-my-insane-levels-of Apparently it probably is from 2018!

anon i was literally having a mental breakdown as you sent this 😭😭😭😭😭 i literally joked NOT TWENTY MINUTES AGO that he added that clip to say he's going back to red bull and like. literally he did. my third eye has never been more open in my LIFE HE LITERALLY DID

[running-in-the-dark]

I'm feeling like shit but hey at least I'm tidying up!! so that's something.

[cementcornfield]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjyaXnPu8Xi/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Someone get this man a daiquiri 🍹

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Kind of surreal to be pulling in slightly larger checks while not changing my spending habits so now I kind of have no excuse to not get myself a pressure cooker or the. the ultrakill blanket

[the-starlight-project]

I always voice act out loud when I read comics, so I started voicing Shadow different when he started panicking and I'm so happy to see I was right to do that. :)

How are you picturing Shadow’s voice right now? Is it higher?

Happy to hear I'm not alone in doing that very same thing! SB and I have pretty much the same opinion on Shadow's voice at the moment, and your instinct that it's higher is correct!

Why is that? I can't tell you just yet! But it's definitely paces higher than Sonic - or we - are used to!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[greeneyed-thestral]

[1nm806]

Maybe Jack Kelly is someone with only one friend before Davey.

He's got people that are friendly with him, don't get him wrong. There's Medda (though she's more similar to a mother, now he thinks on it), Mush, Henry, Racetrack.. Any number of Manhattan newsies could fit the "friend" box. He's definitely their friend, but he's not sure they're his. They're good people, despite their annoying habits, but they don't know him. And isn't that what friends are all about? Aren't they supposed to know his past, his wants, his dreams, fears, likes, dislikes and more? Jack could tell you things about his friends. He could tell you any number of things. Henry doesn't like sleeping alone since moving to the lodging house, Mush runs warm and hawks the headlines with rolled up sleeves even in January, Race refuses to eat anything that hasn't been tried by someone else already. He even knows a few things about Spot Conlon. But he's not convinced that anyone but Crutchie could say the same about him. He wants to have close friends. Holding people tightly in his hold, his heart never wanting to let them go, making people notice and feel his absence with a heavy weight in their chest if he doesn't show up to get that days' papes. Having a heart that craves closeness so immensely that it's eating him up inside is colliding against his own brain that keeps instinctually deflecting away from any questions about his life, cutting people's concerns off with jokes or quips or insults. So when he's sat outside the theatre with Davey and Les Jacobs, the younger boy long since asleep on his brother, talking about his dreams of leaving New York, he falters for the first time since meeting the pair. He couldn't let Davey know everything about his goals, so he threw in a comment about his parents waiting out west for him, but as the other offers him some encouraging (if lightly teasing) words, he starts to accept that maybe, just maybe, he can say he has another friend.

[isekyaaa]

I made this post before but I'm making it again. People get on the FL's case in otome isekai when she's in denial that the ML is in love with her and that he'll definitely fall in love with the og!FL when she appears but like... If I were isekai'd into Disney's Mulan and General Shang started to fall in love with me, I'd be straight up on denial. Like no way, you are Mulan's man, not mine. No way in hell. There is absolutely nobody you belong to but her. Accepting his love would feel utterly wrong, like I'm committing some grave sin.

[centi-pedve]

just reb– hi. just reblog'd your post made me wonder... french version of ioi... would five be named cinq? or english name kept cuz it's ~cooler~?

Probably Cinq! Since they named each other by number it'd be whatever language they were speaking/whatever language it's translated into. If Five were to be a name more so based on being given the birth name of Five or specifically finding the word Five cool then it'd stay as Five we think... Same with the ideologies, since they're named after concepts and not the words themselves, they'd probably be translated rather than preserved if a translation of an ideology is possible.

[crescentfool]

doing things outside of your usual is such a humbling experience...

[boyfhee]

fans will use the lamest excuse to defend wonyoung

[medicinemane]

My stomach sounds like some manner of beast right now, just kind of "mhhhrmmhhbbhh"ing, like some sort of creature snuffling and grumbling

[instantarmageddon]

Also a big part of getting back into reading for me has been just like, giving myself permission to not finish a book if I'm not enjoying it. I've spent so many hours of my life joylessly trudging through books that were recommended to me or that I think I "should" like and I think that's the main catalyst for my burnout with reading tbh