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Hey babe, am I a vibe-coded social network? Cause I'm down bad for you

currently working on two different comic drafts at the same time and I want to smash my head against the wall because I want to work on both but I also want to work on one that is due later than the other a bit more

I feel like I should offer a bit of a PSA since I've been getting more requests of this type recently, but though I do work in Japanese for my own creative projects I am not a native speaker and thus will typically refuse any translation requests from English to Japanese.

i say all of this because people occasionally come to me asking "what if people online get mad at me for the stories i write?" my answer is: you can't do anything about that. but also, in ten years, it probably isn't going to matter much at all.

I wish there was a way to get someone who doesn’t know me but is within my target audience to read my work and tell me what they think anonymously lmao

Desscaras ✨ #art

Okay grumbling to myself works apparently because I got a response lol

Trying to keep my cool but there are only so many times I can be left on read by people who say they’re going to give me a chance before I have a meltdown

I truly love his name. Honestly if you wanted a more “faithful” localization you could’ve given him any normal first name since his first name is pretty typical as far as names go, but since the title of the game in EN loses the 逆転 nuance, this is such a fun way to hint at it while sounding unique

We didn't deserve this day.

Anyone remember Dionaea House...that was so wild

I haven’t finished reading 17776 but like. Do they ever explain what happens to people who were born or were children on April 7th 2026

People wanna say you're washed up by middle age, but the YOUNGEST person on this moon mission is 47.

It is tomato ramen season but I have food at home, I will not eat tomato ramen today even though I really want tomato ramen

This is so, so well-articulated.

Oh no wait actually it’s

The thing is, I gotta say the girls really ate that. The boys need more work on their visuals! Surely they have better silhouettes than that! Especially LIHAKU

The apothecary diaries April fools artwork is everything to me

I signed myself up for two more months of overwork hell and I really wish I didn’t…I feel like I’m on the verge of tears every day

good post

okay the mahoyaku minigame is so much fun and I really think they should just put it in the actual game. please. for me. there's a reason suika game was a hit

done with the draft...now to catch up on all the shit I wasn't doing while working on this

I’ve been laughing at this thing for like 5 min

i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.

I am sitting in the community center working and there is some sort of event in the large conference room next to where I am where they invited what seems to either be two musical singers or ex-uta no oniisan and oneesan from Okaasan to Issho?

Wait, F/ACE is having a concert?!

Doesn’t look like they announced a second season for Tamon at AnimeJapan, huh…why…

My new bio just dropped

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as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

Wait, Natsuki and Kinoshita-san??? Omg...why does Tamon give me every type of pairing I love....

YEAAAH CONGRATS TO SINNERS

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

I make it work by having another freelance profession (translation) to actually put food on the table while I try to get another series in motion which, tbh, I’m not sure if I recommend LOL

The Tamon anime is so good but I really need to go back and catch up in the manga because the anime is almost like TOO real so the comedy sometimes becomes really scary translated into animation LMAO Maybe I’m too i7 brained…..

Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown radio outtakes are a NSFW bit of Americana that I hope never pass out of memory, so here’s my bit to make sure their legend persists…

every day I thank myself for making my schedule spreadsheet because it helps me realize that my life isn't as stressful as it might feel at points...

Only have 7 pages drafted so far but it’s happening…hopefully I can finish before my deadline at the end of the month 🥲

I have many thoughts about it, but I believe his statement was oversimplifying. EN and JP both have tools in their linguistic toolkits that the other language doesn't. East Asian languages' plethora of 1st and 2nd-person pronouns is just one example of this among many. But... 🧵

Hate it when this happens

As a test, I searched my LINE history to for instances of あなた and came up with a friend basically telling me that I was cooked wrt something I was desperately trying to resist at the time LMAO (手遅れだよ　あなた)

Thinking of JP pronouns, there was convo on the other site about "anata" and how it can mean "darling" in connotation, with people veering sharply in the other direction to say that in normal life, anata is actually very formal and you use it with coworkers. I am here to say both sides are wrong.

Apropos of "nothing," the refrain of "English lacks our pronouns, therefore any loc is compromised" is such a cliched one monolingual Japanese creators trot out when they're disconnected from the process. And as a translator who Gets It, like, it's just not usually a huge creative hurdle day-to-day?

I find this interesting because he’s actually on the opposite end of the spectrum from average Twitter users in that he believes English is flavorless LOL. Most monolingual English speaking people complain that English localizations are too colorful.

I think what is happening on a personal level with me is that the state of the world is so dire I keep feeling this urge to lash out at myself because it feels like it's the only thing I have control over. But that isn't helpful to anyone or anything and is frankly self-centered so

I want to draw comics so badly but I really need to make a dent in this translation…but I wanna draw…