❌"Hi—" ⭕"Hina—" have to consider the splice point when translating a word/name that's cut short, especially when -the isolated chunk constitutes an ENG word on its own ("Hi!") -the vowel of the chunk could mistakenly be read with ENG pronunciation solution here: add more of the full name (Hinako)

did a lil metroid in crochet (bananas for scale, pattern by MadeleinesMonsters on etsy)

my gf's v-day card selections are unmatched

on my first go through, it eluded me that "Meryz" and "Goraz" are obvious Mezu/Gozu (Horse-Face and Ox-Head) allusions, b/c they show up pages apart. only caught it on the edit pass doesn't affect the loc, except to confirm that my chosen spellings should deffo have those "z"s in there

"It's no skin off my jaw."

I'm doing a new series for Yen out in May (Every Adventure Needs a Weapon!: weapon-smith girl with chuuni design sense in a fantasy world much more akin to Delicious in Dungeon than isekai slop) and it really grabbed me when she invents the chainsaw(man) from first principles

fave loc bit in the latest World Trigger: Ikoma's そそそそういうこと 1) It's not stuttering! The first three そs are just rapid-fire for comedic effect 2) My TL emphasizes "this guy" b/c he's pointing at Koala (manga dialogue should jive with visuals) 3) alt was "Yeah what he said" but Option A felt funnier

"Can't see the screen..." "Those gloom lines are diegetic?!"

don't exactly have "health care" so while in Japan I went to Jins, where you get a free eye exam/rx and just pay sticker price for frames the DB collab glasses were the funniest option (half-price too!) and that was before I knew they came in a giant stupid box with exclusive capsule+cloth

my fave spot in RuriDragon ch44 mom's lines are バカなの？ (lit: Are you stupid?) 先に行っとくよ (lit. I'm going ahead without you) Good ex. of how baka usually has to be softened for English (esp. in a casual, slice-of-life setting, between family/friends). Also a sly capital-G God idiom, without the God.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

my two shopping hyperfixations during this Japan visit focused on Little Guys from opposite ends of history

my son needs an important dental surgery that will cost $5k-$6k. I thought I would be able to cover it, but we've been hit with a series of unexpected expenses. with my husband disabled and unable to work, it's been so hard for me to keep us afloat all these years... paypal.me/PrettyTransl...

guy on an alien planet in fantasy manga says the oppressed sub-race don't live past 40, so hunting beasts for bounties is the only way they can earn money made zero sense, until I realized the author is assuming galactic universality of the JPN notion: "must work for one company from age 22 to 6X"

pleased to discover that the little papercraft model of Todaiji Temple that I bought in the gift shop has the pillar-hole! completely obscured once fully built, but still

got called a kouseinen (a fine youth!) by my fiancee's creaky Kagoshima grandparents in a letter re: our engagement, and it's unlikely any compliment will top that soon

donned a hazmat suit to spelunk into the Chernobyl basement that is twitter (to check something for work), and a very niche bad thing about the site auto-translating JPN posters' posts is when mangaka use in-series terminology, and the auto-translation (different than mine) then seems official-ish

finally got an irl glimpse at Japan's earliest IPs. even got merch!

loc spot in RuriDragon ch43: Kashiro is a manic codeswitcher, but the switch is so abrupt (same scene/audience!) and her distal speech is so plainly facetious that I just had to have the ENG loop back around to "pwetty pwease" also pleased with "And we're back to touching me?" for <don't touch me>

did some more tinkering; proud of my vacation homework

went to the legit Ikea in Yokohama yesterday, mostly to find the exact reference shots used in She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, volume 5 #tsukutabe #つくたべ

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

spent yesterday roaming southeast Kanazawa and making a dual pilgrimage to sites concerned with earthly attachments (against/for)

2025 TL roundup- three new titles for the life-to-date mosaic straight-to-GN manga: 34 📚 add'l GNs via simuls: 10 📑 simul chapters: 55 💻 simul chapters done on the Osaka->Yokohama Nozomi shinkansen, in a harrowing battle with spotty wifi: 2.5 🎡🚄🐙 still-NDA titles: 3 QA'd GNs: 70🔎❌ lectures: 1 🗣️📈

Heartbreaking words from Dr. STONE mangaka Boichi, who decided to stop posting art on X because of the implementation of the GenAI Edit button and who has been so distressed by its hostile, destructive purpose to destroy other artists' works that he hasn't been able to eat properly since Christmas😢

woman in hotel elevator in Yokohama: So, where are you two from? me: America 😓... and you? her: Canada. me: oh. i'm sorry for, um her: Yes, every American we meet says that.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

spotted an ad for a maker's market at the industrial port ass-edge of Osaka and, as avid craft fair goers, we had to check it out. like comiket for potters and knitters and muffin makers. not a single IP in sight (incredible!!), tons of alt people, and basically no sweaty tourists! ...except us!

first crawled through the Buddha's nostril pillar hole in Todaiji back in 2008 Did it again today, 17 years later, as haters and doubters looked on. Have now escaped reincarnation a second time. Reupped my nirvana subscription.

woke up in this Osaka hotel, opened the curtains, and experienced the opposite of a jumpscare

highlights from 2 days in Kinosaki Onsen

environmental storytelling in Kinosaki Onsen (bear rummages for sweet dregs in recycle bin next to hanbaiki; town puts up warning, turns bin around to render it unusable, asks people not to litter; people cannot/do not read, they litter; alluring vessels are now even more available to bear)

clearest view of Fuji I've ever had! en route to Kansai, somewhere between Hakone and Shizuoka

wish I could say that the fugu for a buck-twenty equivalent at the chain sushi was worth it. chewy, gristly, felt like gollum gnawing on it, didn't even get to enjoy tingly lips, 3/10

made a Porygon amigurumi! didn't have hot pink and teal yarn on hand, so my guy looks like it was getting sun-bleached on a dusty shelf for years pattern is from SirPurlGrey on etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/4419...

Japanese has chosen FPPs, English has email signoffs 私は Best, personally. sometimes dabble in 自分/All my love,

>hear faintly buzzing lightswitch >fiery Final Destination death incoming, surely >don't feel like bothering landlord and letting in some worker who, disgustingly, doesn't take off shoes >successfully replace it myself in 5 minutes with a 5-buck part >remain unaffected by never having a father

final pattern I bought from this creator (Emberloom on etsy) was the Fingercreeper much bigger than expected! (large banana for scale) each of the 12 fingers has a wire core, for slight posability. My customizations were the red cuticles and back-of-hand warts

couldn't pass up doing Miriel Pastor of Vows, aka turtle pope I modded the design to make him stand taller, and jammed a recordable voice box in his belly

next amigurumi from this pattern maker: the "pot boy" (legally distinct name for Elden Ring's jar warrior) this one's got wire in the arms, for posability :)

no joke- dentist just gave me an appointment at *two-thirty* tomorrow to address some molar pain 🦷💥

from the same pattern maker, the Dark Souls mushroom (parent) I did a few mods- angry eyes, bulkier arms, right hand w/fingers, bloodied-up left fist

two Ruri loc points: -literally, are you a middle-schooler?, but "what're you, 12?" is the standard English for that. -literally, should I downgrade you to "girl" status?, but "another species" gets the idea across less confusingly (mild misogyny-by-way-of-awkwardness)

2007- start learning JPN at college 2011- move to Japan 2012- pass N2 + KanKen4 2013- fail N1/pass KanKen3/leave Japan 2014- defeat N1 back in US KanKen pre-2 and 2 someday? standardized tests are 🥰. irl rpg stat increase vibes. get tricked into learning, for extrinsic validation? hell yeah

feeling like V. Frankenstein; made a leftovers waffle (mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, cornbread) 10/10

baja blast pie was sold out at every tb immediately when it came out a few weeks back, so we had to make our own for today

made a dark souls Crystal Lizard amigurumi! (pattern maker is EmberloomCrochet on etsy; will definitely be doing more from them)