just TL'd a chain of four おつかれs in a row between four people as -Hello, all. -Hi there. -Greetings, sir. -How goes it? feels like a glimpse of the pre-Babel world's universality, of purer notions, unspoilt by semantic signification; a droplet of which demands such a journey!

good loc is what made ME want to dip my toes into that field after years of just writing short stories and whatnot. i love a good loc! inject the good locs directly into my veins!

Before the events of Sep 10th, KOSA was reported to be dead in the committee. Now they're using said events as an excuse to try to get the bill through. Just because the debate guy got killed for his free speech doesn't mean they should take away yours. Linking resources below

はいはい　友情を深め合うのはそこまで okay, guys, enough bromancing. #AmTranslating

the plot of mobile suit gundam looks different to how i remember

Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense? Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives. Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.

Degrees of Lewdity's Vrelnir: "My SubscribeStar page has been soft banned [...] people can no longer support me, payments are no longer being accepted, and I cannot post the update there." "I've contacted support, but have yet to receive a response." vrelnir.blogspot.com/2025/09/degr...

Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io www.eurogamer.net/queer-develo...

Even just the subtitles themselves are formatted so much better in streaming versions. These subs from BTR are way easier to parse on streaming: Bocchi's inner monologue is in italics, and the dialogue is in blue and separated, to make who's saying what much clearer.

tl-san is on fire today

Dress-Up Darling episode 3 Left: Crunchyroll web streaming Right: Blu-ray The blu-rays are using PGS (image-based) subtitles, so it's not an issue of cross-device compatibility; the format can support text styled and positioned however, and it'll display the same in every player.

私を困らせないで Stop that. Behave yourself. #amtranslating

だったら勝手にするわ So I'm just going to take what I want. #amtranslating

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

A good reminder that less can be (a lot) more and that good word-smithing should not sacrifice readability. Or "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

I'M LIVE ON TWITCH TOMORROW!! Catch me at Anime Lockdown at 11:30 AM PST! www.twitch.tv/animelockdown I'll be talking about how we use translation theory to craft high-quality subtitles for your favorite anime. Come for the linguistics, stay for the memes. Here's a sneak peek (slide 37 of 74). 👀

Rrrreeeeally wish Japanese AI bros would stop reaching out to me on LinkedIn to pitch their 'AI localization tools'. I got one this evening with a a site with "AI-translated" English. If you can't even localize your own tool correctly, why would a developer want to use it?

Since we've been talking about O Maidens in Your Savage Season, here's one of my favorite scenes to translate from E03! After borrowing a DVD and finding an unexpected surprise inside, Kazusa sneaks into his room to return it. Notes (and Powerpoint slide) in thread below!

These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

This was supposed to be lettered in InDesign using fonts. It wouldn't have worked. Hand-lettering isn't always practical and isn't always allowed, so kudos to the editors who let their letterers to break the rules.

There are definitely some specific contexts in which I would say it's fine, but most of the time I would push for a simple "huh?" or "what?" or "wha?" for character voice and meaning purposes okay but really i'm leaving now

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

あ♡あ♡すごいすごい！きもちっ…！♡ Oh! ♡ Ohh! ♡ Oh god! Yes! Yes! ♡ (Japanese porn dialogue never has people saying 「神様！はい！」, so I try not to shoehorn "It feels good!" into English porn dialogue unnecessarily when there are more natural functional equivalents handy) #AmTranslating #AmTranslatingAfterDark

鍛えてるだけあって締め付けがぁ…！ I can feel your toned muscles squeezing down on me! #AmTranslating #AmTranslatingAfterDark

This is also actually reminding me of the way a dictionary can be a false friend, too, especially when you don't have a deep enough understand of the source language grammar. a story🧵: some years back, I was helping a J->E translator friend untangle a scene she was having trouble with.

空気を読む Checking the vibes

so if you’ll indulge me, I want to say a bit more about what it’s been like working on The Otaku Love Connection with minami! minami and I first met when we both worked for cybird in tokyo. we quickly discovered that we were both deeply involved in otaku fangirl culture and liked the same media

Another new series I'm lettering, this time for SuBLime Manga, releases today: A Man Who Defies the World of BL!

THE FED-UP OFFICE LADY WANTS TO SERVE THE VILLAINESS Vol. 1 An office worker gets transported into a visual novel and decides to help the villainess succeed in this #yuri/Girls’ Love isekai manga! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/the-fe...

Sheltering Eaves 4 is out, and in addition to the heart-wrenching-to-hopeful turn the story takes, it includes what might have been the most challenging translation task I’ve ever taken on—a rap with meaning so integral to the plot, the story can’t move forward without it 🧵

Also, it looks like the cat is finally out of the bag!! I've been sitting on this cinematic translation baby for so long! It's so good!! You are going to love it so much!! www.darkhorse.com/Blog/4515/ta...

Look! It is my inquisitive translation baby, announced at last!

Guess who 🤗❤️🩷💖

"The Demons Are Planning Something Good" volume 1 looks awesome! @clairparfait.bsky.social did a fantastic job with the translation; I want some macawrongs now 🤤

Congrats to The Apothecary Diaries!! It’s been such an honor and privilege to be part of the team of this incredible series!

I always believed this abstractly, but living in Denver my last few years in the US and seeing the homeless population explode in front of the state capital really made it hit home that US economics is violence. It's the only way to describe the antipathy I saw from both legislators and gentrifiers.

Made it to Anime NYC! I think this is the first con I've been to since covid started; rn I'm just wandering around the exhibit hall while I get back into the swing of things. If you see someone in a black KF94 and an Utena Killed Henry Kissinger t-shirt, that's probably me <3

Many translators fear and lament what will be lost as their work gets automated. Many were never in it for the money, but for love of the work—of translating games, prose and art. They worry AI-generated output stands to flatten and collapse culture itself, our very ability to understand each other.

Here's a thing about translation. Particularly, people who complain about "accuracy." Nearly always, what they mean is, "I put this word into a J>E dictionary and that's NOT what it said!" But have you looked at an English dictionary? No, really, have you? Does it look like a J>E dictionary?

"For selected products only, there's Mastercard."

People don’t appreciate the amount of R&D that goes into running a dungeon. Do you know how much logistical work it takes to come up with new methods to torment, maim, and humiliate humans??? Find out in The Demons Are Planning Something Good!, Vol. 1, coming out August 26th! buff.ly/tKJp2vq

It’s me, at 2:30 EST on Saturday, September 6! Streaming online on Twitch! I’ll be presenting a panel about translating anime, with loads of examples and some of my favorite concepts in translation theory! Come for the applied linguistics, stay for the memes. See you there!

責任取れ Fix it, now. #amtranslating

ってどこに行くんだよ？ 帰る。 Wait, where are you going? Home. #amtranslating

余計な詮索はするな Don't pry into my affairs. #amtranslating

The person in this interview I'm working on actually used the phrase 坊主憎けりゃ袈裟まで憎い, and I'm so mad that his overall vibe and personality will not let me use "bitch eating crackers" for the translation.

The biggest mistake you can make in NSFW is thinking that by classifying your work as wholesome, affirming, some other positive adjective, etc and throwing people with the weird and questionable kinks under the bus you will somehow be saved from a normie moderator who's not too fond of queer people.

Some numbers I just dropped in one of the threads about "Itch should have already set up a high risk payment processor and been using it": these numbers are from 2010, but to the best of my knowledge have not substantially changed.

To add some info to the payment processor discourse that a lot of people probably aren't aware of: while there are processors who are more amenable to adult content out there like CCBill and Verotel, being forced to use them comes with significant downsides, especially in terms of how much it costs.

New-to-me idiom: 人の口には戸が立てられない You can't build doors over people's mouths! I love the visual of this! Even if you've never heard it before, you'd get that it means you can't stop people from talking. #TranslationIsLearning