#xx anthology

[burgeurger]

"NINE LITTLE KILLERS" i named it that because the number 9 shows up in here a lot (sometimes unintentionally LOL) and it reminded me of that one christmas song few other versions! :

idk what happened here it just looks cool. i think i solarized it

aaand this is the scanned version without any filters. since the paper i used was too big to be scanned in one go, i had to scan four different pieces and then stitch it together to complete it, which may be the reason why the filters did that freaky background thing that i love. nature is healing

[lesbiangiratina]

Saw a gg tier list on twitter for who could beat a stegosaurus in a fight i guess

They dont even know about testament stegosaurus nap image. They would befriend the stegosaurus. And take a nap on it. Ok

[hanaasbananas]

absolutely creasing, I just started reading tbis poetry anthology and the first poem really just hit me in the face w the brick of relatability

which is especially funny bc most of our chats just look like this rip

[rollercoasterwords]

You have probably answered this before, but have you ever considered becoming a published author ? Your writing style is soo good

sure lol i’ve considered it but the older i’ve gotten & the more i’ve learned abt how the publishing industry actually works the less it’s become a priority… “author” was like my dream job as a kid but it takes a lot of time & money & connections that i simply don’t have rn 2 write & publish novels so! maybe one day i’ll give it a go but 4 now i’m more focused on writing & publishing nonfiction articles/research as part of my work…of course that is not something i will make money from lol but it’s what i’ve gotta do if i want a shot at building a career in my desired field so. current priority lies there…

anyway appreciate the compliment glad u enjoy my writing <3 let’s all hold hands & enjoy it 4 free…

[tillman]

Alroight lol. These’ll all be scanned thru the week ill probably just post em as I go cus fuck if im gonna edit like 800 pages of scans in a row 👍 YIPPEE

[solradguy]

Omg Denki Akiba has stories in both volumes of the GGXX Anthology Comics and one of them's like 20 pages... Would it be too much of a tease if I translated only the Denki chapters from those volumes lmfaaooo I've got scans of them both

[greenvillainredemption]

Recently watched this short horror film that had so much potential and some really good imagery but there were no actual scares and then the big scary reveal at the end is not satisfying at all because we all know it’s going to happen but it’s not done in a well paced way

[magicalgirlfia]

Guilty Gear XX♯Reload Comic Anthology Translation: Exploring New Horizons

This is a comic from the Guilty Gear XX Sharp Reload Comic Anthology, which I have been translating. The original scans of this comic are by @tillman and can be found on archive.org

Not much to say about this one expect that Anji Mito has been being a bisexual menace since 2003 and I love him for it. We will gather here to morn the loss of his silliness in localization. Oh also that comics with Japanese concepts that don’t have an English equivalent are annoying to localize but like…it’s not like they were made for localization. I do this because I love it.

You can read the previous translation here

And the next translation here

Usual disclaimer: I am not fluent in Japanese and all of this is a one Fia job so everything might not be 100% accurate but I always try my best!

[taylorklosscomeout138]

Hello! What are your thoughts on the mass coming out theory and comingoutlor? xx

Hi! I reposted almost all my coming out lore theories so if you do have the time to scroll through my feed you will find them all! I would absolutely restate everything but it is a LOTTTTTT there is so many moving parts and sub groups of interconnecting theories. However, I will briefly summarize current and touch on New Romantics.

I'm still a firm believer in Dec 13th coming out on her birthday. I have thought for some time it'll be the Reputation TV release with KARma as the vault tracks (KARma the album will be how she comes out initially, it is explicity about KARlie and that is why she was not allowed to release it in 2016, instead we got tracks born from Karma which is why Rep is her shortest album to date only 15 tracks. It will be the full album and likely be rock of some kind in honor of Carly Simon and all of that implemented lore, which there is a ENTIRE rabbit hole of Carly Simon and James Taylor/James Hart but that's for another time, but she tested this type of album structure with TTPD / The Anthology)

Right now the storyline is the Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road, with the destination being emerald city. I believe she will arrive at the emerald city a day after the final eras tour date, Dec 9th, which is also the first day after she ghosts a Chiefs home game for the first time. If you look at the eras dates compared to home game dates, she has always planned around them, even in upcoming, just 1 day off, but Dec 8th she directly overrid that game, that's her goodbye to "Kansas" bcuz in this story, she wants to stay in Oz. Oz is the secret garden in her mind, the planet where they can all understand it, the great escape. And she is the Wizard behind the curtain. The Wizard doesn't leave Oz. As the story goes, after arriving at Emerald City, the curtain is pulled on the Wizard revealing that the Wizard was entirely something and someone different than the initial facade, the brand facade. So that would allign with Dec 9th, emerald city, Dec 13th, curtain pulled.

I think at first Taylor will let the music speak for itself, then release a statement in the coming days. But the actual public step into the daylight WITH Karlie will be a little longer. I don't have a specific date for that at this time, but I wouldn't think too much longer after. Time will tell

I have a whole Bejeweled theory too that explains this same timeline with "she ghosted" and everything that is worth the read! I'll repost my older theories as well after this that are not on my feed currently.

As far as New Romantics project, yes this is absolutely happening. This is the Chely Wright prophecy. It starts with Taylor and she has to be the big name to lead it, but it does not nearly end with her, there will be many coming outs. There is a common misconception in the industry in terms of what it means to be out. Even celebs who were able to come out as LGBTQ+ are not out in the way they want to be. You'll notice even those people do not have queer public relationships. They can be explicity writing in their music that they are in one and yet they are still not allowed to go out in public and hold their lovers hand in front of the cameras. Some queer celebs aren't allowed to come out in any way shape or form, others can but only to an extent, but the one that remains consistent is that majority cannot have a public queer love relationship, and THAT is the major break out. So don't just expect to see confirmation of labels, expect to see confirmation of muses.

The reason this takes a big name like Taylor to initiate it, like Chely Wright said, is because of how many queer celebs are afraid and don't have the power to do it on their own and withstand not losing their career within the industry. So someone who is a huge world wide name must first set the precedent and normalize this. The world must understand queer love is not only normal in general, but it is extremely normal in the celebrity scene. And this is specifically how Chely Wright said it must be done. "I'm gay. And I'm normal."

So yes, that is honestly only scratching the surface but that's my best way to sum up the main events going on right now. Please feel free to ask any further questions, and as I mentioned my in depth takes of each component and more will be on my feed for all to read!

[reunioninn]

"Rescue!" Translation finished!

so i got just a liiitle distracted, but ive finally finished a translation of an entire chapter from the Guilty Gear XX Anthology Vol. 2 (Bros Comics) manga!

featuring anji, baiken, chipp, and robo ky (and a tiny bit of faust)!

it's 12 pages long, so ill be putting it under a readmore.

also my cleanup skills aren't the best. these raws were a bit of a pain to work with since the pages are a bit yellowed. hope it's not too bad.

enjoy!

i did my very best to make sure my translations were as faithful to the source and the characters' personalities as possible, but it's not perfect... still, im happy that its finished :)

also god translating "japanese" despite knowing the context feels SO racist. cries

[transmasczappa]

From Guilty Gear XX Comic Anthology: Volume 1 - via archive.org

[lesbiangiratina]

Package today… yay :)

[eightdoctor]

If you have Finished the EDAs their are three non EDA Stroies published by the BBC staring 8 and one published by Virgin

They are as Follows:

The Dying Days (set during the green-peace gap)

Wolfsbane (set during the Earth arc between Causalities of War and the Turing Test, also stars the 4th Doctor and Harry Sullivan)

Fear Itself (set after Earthworld)

We Can’t Stop What’s Coming (the only post Gallifrey Chronicles story with Fitz 8 and Trix dealing with the coming of the Last Great Time War it is found in the Target Book)

Several Short Trips are also set during the series:

‘Bounty’ ‘Dead Time’ and ‘the People’s Temple’ are all in the audio anthology Earth and Beyond and show Sam Jones’s first trips in the TARDIS a prior to Vampier Science.

Femme Fatal (found in More Shirt Trips starts Sam and Iris Wildthyme)

The Queen of Eros (found in Shirt Trips and Side Steps also with Sam)

Growing Higher (Found in Short Trips: Zodiac)

Fitz is also in:

Only Living Girls (a short story in Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus)

Fitz’s Story (a full cast audio story relased by Big Finish in the anthology a Company of Friends, also in that anthology is Benny’s story which is a loos sequel to the Dying Days)

Dead Romance (an unnamed appearance as the physical manifestation of the Horror in his Father Kreiner incarnation, acts as a Sequel to Interference)

Compassion appears beyond the EDA’s in:

Toy Story (set between the two Formans World Sections in Interference but should be read afterwards to avoid spoilers, also introduces Lolita, the TARDIS’s sister

Book of the War (book Zero in the Faction Paradox spin off)

Of the City of the Saved (book 2 in the Faction Paradox spin off. focuses on the Original Compassion, Laura Tobin, in the Afterlife also sees Compassion 2 and the TARDIS Compassion play a significant role)

Warring States (book 5 in the Faction Paradox spin off series)

Breakspear Voyage (Book 9 in the Faction Paradox spin off. a brief appearance)

The Faction Paradox Protocols (the first series of Faction Paradox audios. her appearance in performed media, also stars Sabbath)

Every City of the Saved Story (she is in all of them in some form of another. Read City of the Saved First to avoid spoilers all other appearances of the City of the Saved also star her.)

Scarlette from Adventuress of Henrietta Street also goes on to appear in

The True History of the Faction Paradox (the second series of Faction Paradox audios, shows her birth)

Faction Paradox Issue 1 and 2 (the only two issues if the Faction Paradox comic, also starts Sabbath)

Sabbath beyond his prior two mentions also appears in the audio story ‘Sabbath and the King’ but one should listen to both Faction Paradox series’s prior to this one for full understanding.

Faction Paradox also appear in:

Their own multimedia spin of series

The 13th Doctor Anthology the Wintertime Paradox (which ties into the Time Lord Victorious multimedia event as that is how the Faction Return)

Several Iris Wildthyme stories

The War in Heaven also appears in

All of Faction Paradox bar the comics

Several 10,000 Dawns stories

The Past Doctor Adventures novel’s ‘the Infinity Doctors’ and ‘Verdigris’

Several Iris Wildthyme stories

The Bernice Summerfield spin of series starting with Where Angles Fear (but foreshadowed in Down) and Concluding in Escaping the Future.

Iris Wildthyme also appears

Everywhere

So if you feel disappointed about finish the EDA’s and want more EDA fun you have all of these to look forwards to!

:)

thank you for this thorough ask…. though i have already listened to all of the faction paradox stuff and would rather disembowel myself before reading another lance parkin novel so soon this is a wonderful reference!! big appreciations xx

thant being said i think i am just going to reread them.

[whiskeyswifty]

What’s your favorite thing about folklore?

oh my god what a question. I'm just gonna riff off the dome here because if i try to go at this in any kind of organized way, i'll write a deranged thesis paper. (this is about the album proper, sorry to the lakes. too bad she never released it and we'll never know what it sounded like)

Gut reaction to this question is just how complete it is. It's an idea and concept, a writing prompt if you will, compiled neatly and cohesively in a way that's the perfect digestible length for it's form (music/an album) and also all killer, no filler. All the vignettes are not a "story" (save for the love triangle which i largely ignore because it's shoehorned) but come off like an anthology; that is to say that they're a series of emotional vignettes across a range of life experiences, but explored through the motifs and styles of one writer. I cannot jump around with folklore, i must press play on the 1, which has never happened before with a taylor album. It has no skips, every single one flowing smoothly but efficiently with the ebb and flow pacing of a babbling brook. (i do skip mad woman occasionally cuz its not what i wanna hear at the moment or epiphany cuz it's too heavy and too soon to go back to that mental place, but they're both excellent and fit perfectly within the album when i'm casually listening)

The sound is also just so perfectly aligned with my tastes. I contain multitudes, but unfortunately one of those is being a sad indie white girl lol. I love soft rubber bridge guitars, and whining violins and piano and minimal but expertly layered textures. atmospheric ones that carry the mood and the fill the space like fog but let you feel close to the artist, as i've said once before, as if she were sitting next to you and talking directly to you. There's a lushness to live instruments played softly and as pieces of a whole, and it makes any additions from a moog softened and supplementary. It just, for me anyway, really helps to hear the tactile nature of the instruments and mistakes and the breaths and the pedals on the piano and all the rest. it's the perfect mix of what i love musically from that genre, akin to Sujfan or Lucy/Phoebe or imogen heap or the xx or lana at times. even as way back and like dashboard, which shows my age a bit. you know the vibes. And i love how jack leaned into his more orchestral side, which he doesn't often do with taylor, still to this day. august in particular is just outstanding and he's great at stuff like that and i wish they would do more like that together!

I think its the PERFECT use of her voice. it's not blasphemous to say of all her artistic talents, she does not have a voice that can stack up against her peers vocally. But, as i've also said a million times before so sorry to bring it up again, she has a very emotive voice when it comes to the tiniest and most nuanced of emotions. maybe because she's less focused on vocal runs or hitting notes, but this album has her voice really shine. it's textured and rough and soft and smooth at the same time, fully bringing you whatever raw emotion is on the page. its the voice of a scribbled journal entry if that makes sense, off the cuff, unpracticed (even though i'm sure it is), and so intimate. you can hear her smile and hear when her throat is thick, it's just a showcase of her voice like nothing else. the pared down sound really lets all those tiny moments rise to the surface.

visually, i mean what can i say. her second best album cover ever. Fully removing herself from the center of it, diminishing herself with the trees for scale. Trees that have existed before her and will outlive her, as if to say this, the act of making art and ultimately the art itself, is so much bigger than me. my life and my problems. but everything is bigger than me, and it's important to not lose sight of that. which, if you were an adult at that time, particularly of a similar age to her at least, you commiserate with that sentiment. the black and white isn't actually black, but more of a warm gray, which i also love. i also know it was mainly out of necessity, but embracing how dressed down and simple her styling was. wrinkled dresses and limp, unruly hair. really suited the look of someone who's going to spin you a tale. NO TEXT TOO LIKE YEAHHHHHHHH god it's perfect and so well designed.

rapid fire now, lets see. i love that peace was done in one take, and you can tell, in a good way! and it's her HEARTBEAT???? i'm a sucker for that, no matter how played out that trick is, and imo it's justified because they disguise it with a dissonant tone of sorts. i love the PERFECT knee jerk answer opening of "i'm doing good" and then proceeding to delve into some of her darkest emotions she'd explored thus far (and in some ways since). i love that illicit affairs is missing it's final chorus, a song that is structurally unfinished and just peters out, the way doomed affairs always do. the way she never mentions the location or even the event, but the soundscape and the lyrics of my tears ricochet paint a perfectly clear church and funeral in your mind!! i love the word ricochet and i love how easy it is to spew it with vitriol. as corny as it is in the context of the rest of this more subtle album lyrically, i love the swiftian turn in the bridge of tlgad like.... damnit it's always so delicious. that harmonica in betty is just like a glass of sweet tea on a muggy summer night, it's SO bright and fun and puts a smile on my face every time!

But all that to say I think my favorite thing is seven. seven is a perfect song. her best song. the best version of a taylor swift song. a song so emotionally poignant and transcendent it wins over, however begrudgingly, even the biggest haters of her and indie music as it pokes at that one spot that will always be soft, and it's blank space's spiritual successor and therefore foil in that way. incredible feat to use the motif of your childhood self and not come off trite, like most other attempts by other artists can be. the most opaque she's ever been lyrically, which is a huge risk to take. small in scale but massive in it's implications and intentions. a song where the meaning and gravity exist in your reaction to it and not the song itself. perfect art. an opus of a song on an opus of an album.

[tillman]

by god happened upon the ohzora published xx comic anthology on ebay every single time i think i know all the different compilations and shit one more pops up what do you MEAN theres ANOTHER xx anthology out there published by a completely different company. they cant keep getting away with it.

[wildbornsiren]

So... I'm going to be publishing an anthology of spicy stories in a couple months.

Hi. I'm shelly and I'm an anxious terrified bean. I've got four stories put together and I want about 14 total.

But I'm gonna do it. Watch this space folks.

Xx

Shells