ran out of woobles licensed crochet kits, but I found a legally-distinct "dark tower" pattern on etsy it felt a little bare-bones, so I freestyled a bunch of extra adornments using my whopping ~2-weeks'-worth of crochet comprehension. It's fun! Quite mathy! Kind of like coding!

MP1: no npcs who talk to you MP2: one (living) npc who talks to you MP3: at least five npcs who talk to you (<-Halo envy, here) MP4: some Whedon-Marvel Jack Quaid-ish anthropomorphized-yellow-paint quipper (the pinnacle [derogatory] of npcs who talk to you) the roadmap was always there 🤷‍♂️

re: entitled men can't email: For work I usually correspond with in-the-trenches women who can write, but for one project, a high-level manager-type man was on the chain, and istg this dude wrote in incoherent misspelled sentence frags w/o capitalization, punctuation, etc. Kinda revolting!

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

needed a photo for the holiday card; had to unleash Mrs. and Mr. Autumn

haunted by this very specific exchange

about to translate famiresu as fast casual dining and nobody can stop me *actually a bad loc, b/c famiresu in Japan are cheap as sin, cheaper even than US fast food, thereby giving the wrong impression to western readers **but indexing against JPN incomes makes it an apt comparison, so it's fine

took a minute, but the autograph wall has now got frames and all. 10 cast members down, only a few thousand to go!

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the existence of LoTR amigurumi kits mean I had to learn to crochet 🤷‍♂️

a triumph 7 months in the making

came across an unholy triple negative! ...okay, maybe 2.5. three ないs anyway 倒せそうもないって気はしないんじゃないか？ >We ain't ready to call this thing 'invincible,' right? (transposing the negative verb phrase (we cannot beat) into a neutral adjective (invincible) is a handy trick. preferable even to "unbeatable")

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

new and uncomplicated recipe: butadon! (via: aaronandclaire.com/butadon-japa... )

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

got to this part in The Bugle Call and yeah the Looking Glass Branched is basically two soulsborne bosses in one the mirrors-as-portable-portals-from-Portal creativity only gets wilder in volume 4 (volume 3 chapters were just added to SJ app: www.viz.com/shonenjump/c... )

shot of alternate history where the Swedes won World War 2 😲

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fun fact: my now-fiancee first became aware of my existence b/c I demanded that amazon add my translator credit to my book listings. she worked in sales at Viz at the time, and was like "excuse me, who is somehow altering the title metadata?" the moral is, self-advocacy gets you a wife 🤷‍♂️

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes. It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click. I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

I'm not saying there are "correct" answers in translation, but the correct answer here is Happy Baaa-thday

walked past Keanu, realized it 3 seconds later also saw Annie Murphy and Bill Irwin, independently, on the sidewalk, in the same 72-hour period. Manhattan is a world of its own

I swear this native English speaker writes in early-stage J>E English (not derogatory, just fascinating)

been hungry for this number for a bit 😈 now to do precisely 2/3 of one more book, getting me exactly 2/3 of the way to the peak of Mt. 1000. the climb goes ever on!

-unrepentantly evil charlatan whips up credulous bloodthirsty populist mobs everywhere -as villains burn it all down, primary opposition is a passive/ineffectual org -young people realize the authorities/courts will not save them good thing A Series of Unfortunate Events is fiction (just rewatched)

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when the author thinks my stance re: "English does not tolerate repetition" is a bluff and not a boulder of a principle that I've chained myself to and that will drag me off a cliff go ahead make all 95 characters say 了解 in a row, see if I blink

i may need treatment after receiving a near lethal dose of verb-modifiers-object-subject syntax

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the contents of volume 5 of DRCL are up for ~free(ish) if you're subbed to the SJ app this book covers the arc where Joe Suwa is convinced Dracula is Jack the Ripper, and he unleashes his steampunk clockwork Renfield sex doll made in the image of Luke/Lucy Westenra www.viz.com/shonenjump/c...

signage text too tiny to read? just gotta look up the irl location easy peasy

took a walk down the street where I live; Portland signage is on the pulse, as always

me at the end of every Yowamushi Pedal volume

the length of the English word umbrella is a problem I don't run into very often, but

manga TL is knowing your ハァ (Hff...) from your ハァ (Hwuh!?) when side-by-side, based on context, punctuation, balloon style, font wake me when LLMs can grok that much 🥱

I'm 5th on the DKC2 speedrun leaderboard! (on virtual console; would be 50th on SNES🤪) my current sum of best segments is 1:36:11, which would earn me 4th, but a perfect run (for me) like that ain't happening. anyway, pretty satisfied with this, as my first speedrun, after <2 months of grinding

woke up, saw the latest, ran outside to join the War on Warravaged Portland on the side of Portland...but i was too late. it's all gone. all that remains are Warblasted ruins, Warlords in their modest 3-bedroom compounds, Warbyproduct skellingtons and tree goblins. the War has taken everything

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!

a silky smooth start to Web Woods, generally thought to be the most miserable level in a speedrun (it killed an attempt last night, ~70 minutes into the run)

it came to me and compelled me to do a doodle

never miss a chance to translate a chapter title as if it were an alliterative Donkey Kong level this being Downhill Downpour, obviously

some of my funnest current loc work is getting past the no-fun-allowed forces and smuggled out to the public via Tokyo Fears Rhapsody this dinky 10-page chapter is full of jokes/whimsy from a minor character named Ignitor (the name itself loc'd from the Japanese "Chakkaman"—big toku naming vibes)

to the credit of Kaiser (not oft said) here in Oregon, their covid clinic form was like: "check here if you're 65+ or have a preexisting condition that the CDC says you have to have to get the vax OR check here if you don't meet those reqs but want the vax anyway, we're fine with that too"

also, I've been translating 亜人(種) (ajin) as "demihuman," so there's a thematically apt transition from demi to double in ENG, which incidentally reinforces the shirking of haafu (surely intuited by JPN readers as subtext, from "double") (also glad they kept my choice of hand wave(d) for ぼかす)

a biracial friend once ranted to me about the vaguely dehumanizing microaggressivity of the "haafu" ("half") term for mixed-race Japanese people the fictional Bureau of Anomalous Fauna Information Management in RuriDragon apparently agrees! (the JPN version straight up uses the ENG word "double")

between a possum playdate and some grave-cleaning, it's been a weekend for touching grass

people always seem bewildered by this, but it's really quite simple There's 'Stache Drac, Nekomimi Baby Drac, and Michael Dracson, in that order. Going by Freeza logic, his next form will be the smoothest and baldest yet.

one fun part of translating period pieces (or even alt history) is etymology research to figure out what idioms are appropriate for one-off lines