#after this it's fan translations only

[vynegar]

"Albie" (main story 11-21)

At the end of Episode 11 (Part 1), we find out that "Albie" is simply a name that Vyn made up on the spot when Rosa asked. He may have been inspired by his own birth name, Vilhelm Richard Albert de Haspran.

In Chinese, Vyn choose the name "阿明". "阿" is a prefix used to form nicknames, "明" can be a name but also means "bright, clear". In Vyn's Romantic Rail Getaway card "Food for Thought", he tells us the meaning of his name:

You can see the character 明 appear in the word 明亮 ("bright"), although 明 is such a common character that I wouldn't say that this Chinese text alone is enough is sufficient evidence to show the connection between the two names. It's the way that the "Albie" and "阿明" happen to coincide in the name "Albert", which made me take note of Vyn's "careless" choice in name.

If the Chinese name was intended to subtly reference "Albert", I can certainly imagine imagine this as one way to preserve that reference through translation, even if it becomes more obvious. We do have an example of the translation preserving plot-relevant wordplay in a name: Lowe Leare ("Lowly"), originally 萧仁 ("小人", both pronounced "xiao ren" but with different tones). However, there's also an incident of a plot-relevant name being missed through translation, though it was in an event (not the main story) that probably foreshadowed a distant plot point and had infamously bad translation issues.

Anyway, it remains possible that "Albie" is a coincidence. However, after Vyn and Rosa wrap up their conversation about Albie's name, the narration makes a comment on the importance of that moment:

It isn't until the whole case is settled that you are surprised to realize something... You had briefly touched on the key to cracking the case at this very moment.

...which at least gives me enough confidence to not feel silly writing up a whole post about it. We've only seen part of this case, and there's a lot of mystery still surrounding Vyn's behavior so I don't have any definitive hypotheses on why Vyn might have chosen his own name for Albie. Is there something that made Vyn seen himself in Albie? Did the delinquent's attitude remind Vyn of the cruel, stratified world that he was born in? Is he reminded of how people who have imperfections will be tossed aside and abandoned? I guess we'll see when part 2 of this episode is released.

#tears of themis #vyn richter #tot vyn #tears of themis analysis #mo yi #tot translation #thoughts of themis #was the ''albie'' reference really obvious or not?? i honestly have no idea. but it only clicked for me bc i was staring at both versions o #text side-by-side and i was like. WAIT A MINUTE. #doing fan translations is fun bc even after there's an official translation; you might read something almost 2.5 years later that triggers #some deep memories (bc u took so so long to translate and had to agonize over every single word choice oh my god) #god i did my first translations two and a half years ago. sounds CRAZY when you put it like that #but honestly great experience 10/10 i'm always wishing i could go back to that time. also nothing makes me feel more powerful than when i k #know i have an easily searchable script of certain cards thanks to my own translation. it was SO EASY to find that RRG excerpt #hmm should i crosspost to the themis subreddit. i do have an account but i use it mostly to talk about console otome games

[hollowwhisperings]

The Oath of Fëanáro

Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, brood of Morgoth or bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Doom itself, shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin, whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all…Death we will deal him ere Day’s ending, Woe unto world’s end! Our word hear thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth…On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!

#the oath of feanor #tolkien #silm #feanorions #emphasis mine #i am intrigued by the use of “day” here bc the oath predates the sun #the sun is anachronistic #so that's likely “translation” at work #to anyone who actually tries reading this aloud: it's probs not binding to humans bc we fans are but mortals of no relation to fëanáro #that & the oath here is only a “translation” (the premise of the legendarium is memoirs turned story turned historical text turned myth) #so the ENG is several languages removed from the “original” wording #i.e. noldorin qenya #i am counting “westron” as several languages bc it would evolve over the [time] between “translations” while elven languages remained stati #qenya to westron to [time] to ENG (bilbo had access to the original qenya bc his historical source was elrond) #similarly to the use of “day” is the anachronistic use of “feanor” rather than “fëanáro” #i doubt that feanor ever spoke sindarin prior to his death by Every Balrog At Once #the sun didn't rise until some 30-ish years after feanor's death #the qenya ban took effect 50-ish years after the first sunrise #don't be a tolkien nerd: there's too much math & nouns can be out of character

[solradguy]

Sometimes I think of Guilty Gear AUs where Frederick and Aria just got to live their lives and I get overwhelmed about the minutiae of it to preserve certain relationships.

Like 35 year old Frederick would be having beef with 10 year old Ky Kiske. Later on that same annoying kid is a grown adult who gets his (similarly aged) daughter pregnant. He is forced to put up with him, reluctantly.

Mostly though, I get emotional at the prospect of a late middle aged Frederick running around with his grandkid strapped to his chest and still being (for all intents and purposes) an intimidatingly big guy.

Guilty Gear AUs are so cool. I wish more of them existed publicly

Ahhh yeah, I think about that sometimes too. Like what if the Gear cell research had never been used for weapons? Aria, Asuka, and Frederick would be heroes. It was supposed to be used for advanced medical research to cure all sorts of ailments and stuff. Like, look at how indestructible the Gears are. What if that could temporarily be applied to someone to cure even potentially fatal genetic conditions or "incurable" things like I dunno... prion disease or something.

GG's setting is so interesting in that it was already set up with high fantasy mixed with scifi from the start (magic and the Backyard alongside the super advanced science Aria & Co. were working on). Even before the actual GG story starts with the Begin novel there was a lot to work with for "what if" scenarios. If the creative side of GG's EN community was bigger I bet there would be all kinds of slice of life/no military Gear research AUs... There are a few floating around on AO3 but this side of the fandom is still very small despite Strive's success :(

#asks #There are a bunch of GG AU doujinshi but there are only like... idk maybe 4 active GG fan translators haha.... #I won't scan/translate doujinshi published after 2009

[summertimemusician]

Honestly I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong due to sleep deprivation, but out of everything in TOTK one of my favorite little details is that Zelda's eyes in her Divine Noodle (affectionate) form when Demon King's flames hit or graze her tremble a little, more so around the pupils than the iris

The implications are absolutely delicious when you think about it, either it's an expression of deep seated, primal fear which she would probably feel as a dragon even if her main instinct is to help Link, it makes sense she'd feel distressed when faced with a bigger predator if we assume the dragons actually work like wild animals (I mean have we looked at Demon King's full size and length? He absolutely overshadows her and he's clearly going in for the kill, what with that initial bite, he's clearly not only gunning for Link and for Hyrule but also for her specifically), because Zelda by nature is not a warrior, she will fight for her people and to defend her people but she's not one to start the conflict, she's not one to HUNT, so when faced with something actively doing so it makes sense she'd be a little afraid, just because you are made to fight the divine threat from birth doesn't mean you can't fear death in the process('Courage is not the absence of fear but the will to rise against it even when you're afraid' and all that), immortality or not and trust me I'm getting to that part-

And arguably the more interesting implication: that dragons can feel pain/get hurt from other beings in a similar status, which also puts their immortality into question. Because that little twitch can also be because the flames actually hurt her.

One thing I always found interesting in TOTK is the dragon skeletons deep down in the Depths, they're parallel with the Leviathan skeletons, sure, but the fact that the dragons that we know can come and go from the depths and that there are actual skeletons there makes me look at them side by side and think "Oh those are dragons" rather than Leviathans, which begs the question: what could have killed them if dragons are immortal and can live for such long periods of time? What could have killed them when none of our weapons (including the Master Sword mind you) can't hurt Naydra, Dinraal, Farosh and Zelda in a way that matters?

I think the best answer in this case is given to us by Zelda's reaction (assuming I'm not wrong and didn't just imagine it due to sleep deprivation) to the Demon King's flames.

Maybe, just maybe, what caused them to die was likely another dragon. Which means that dragons can actually die, just not through age or natural means, but have to actively be killed through the right means/being for it to stick. Which also tracks with a lot of divine lore in LOZ in general, Demise/Ganondorf only being able to be brought low by the Master Sword wielded by someone who posseses the Hero's Spirit (or that has become worthy of it is we see in Wind Waker) because it's quite literally a divine blade, Hylia actively giving up her immortal form to become a mortal but still slumbering/existing in a separate realm outside of time can also be considered a form of divine death, not to mention Bellum being in the process of killing the Ocean King in Phantom Hourglass. Divine beings have always had an element of mortality to them in LOZ, and it's not too much of a stretch to think that pattern might hold true in TOTK.

(Personally I think maybe the dragons we know might have killed the others in a territory/route dispute, if we go with the fact that a person loses themselves when they consume a secret stone and is guided by their base instincts/whatever goal they had before becoming a dragon, I don't think territory disputes would be all that far fetched, or some other goal which would motivate possible aggression.)

Although there's also the other possibility to consider: we get the armor set of the wild on the heads of those skeletons in TOTK, and we know for a FACT there was a hero before BOTW/TOTK Link, not only through the Ancient Hero's Aspect (which I have so many thoughts/headcanons about) but also through the tapestry in BOTW no matter what the heck happened to the lore in between games, you can still work with the information that there was a hero before BOTW/TOTK Link, and possibly one even before that one if we assume the armor set in the depths isn't from the Original Calamity Hero.

What I'm pitching here basically is, Original Calamity Link/another possible Link was likely a dragon slayer (not uncommon among Links, but how many Links killed an actual possibly divine dragon?), and possibly the one to kill the dragons in the depths and that maybe, just maybe we should have a game one day or a manga which either clarifies or debunks that- wait I know it sounds insane but listen stop walking away-

(Also if it's indeed a sign that Zelda feels pain it honestly ramps up Wild's/TOTK Link's motivation to kill Ganondorf WAY up because I too would want to eviscerate anyone who hurt Zelda even if she can't outwardly show it.

Also also- divine flame scars on Zelda where the gloom fueled fire grazed/hit her in her dragon form, you wouldn't be able to see it normally, but once she turns back into hylian they're there as another showing of how her time as a dragon will always stick and haunt her.)

#loz speculation #loz headcanons #*doesn't post in months. emerges from the irl rabbit hole. goes straight to the kitchen to cook and squints at results* Is this anything? #I dunno folks I'm sleep deprived and for some reason First has been hammering at my door to write about him in between projects #coherency is not my middle name lol #I shall forever pitch the idea of either OG Calamity Link being a divine dragon slayer who caused the skeletons in the Depths in TOTK #or that there was a Link before Hyrule started forgetting about the stories before BOTW who completed his journey #and left the armor in each skeleton head to hopefully be found/useful to the next generation #Summer Rambles #give us a game detailing pre BOTW Hyrule for real Nintendo you cowards #you wouldn't even need to include the Zonai like how you usually exclude newly established races *coughs in salty TP fan* #I just want to know what is went down there after the details got lost in translation in between Sonia's and Rauru's time pre BOTW Calamity #and Zelda time traveling in TOTK #please don't pull a pre-Minish Cap on us #I can only speculate and write so much

[future-crab]

It occurred to me recently that the person who translated Powers of Darkness (the rogue Icelandic translation of Dracula) back into English had the opportunity to be the funniest person alive.

#i want there to be an endless cycle of unfaithful translations #none of which get discovered until after at least a decade #for context: #in 1901 valdimar asmundsson 'translated' dracula into icelandic #but in actually he just... wrote his own version of the novel #and no one realized until 2014 #icon behavior honestly #*in actuality #dracula #bram stoker #powers of darkness #dracula daily #(i know this is only tangentially related to dracula daily but i feel like dd fans would appreciate it)

[nicoscheer]

Okay but seriously what has happened that like a few months ago Miles started liking her posts

And not Louise liking THAT post and also the reply comments like we northerners get the joke

- also never ever is this pic from today cause Liverpool had a max of 7 degrees Celsius today and like that paired with the wind while boating is certainly wayy too cold for a open leather jacket and a thin tshirt

#06/01/2023 #I’m laugh crying while in a restaurant help I’m wheezing #alex turner #happy birthday #also the Mersey River is in Liverpool = Miles #also not L in her new years post saying something along the lines of to all the moments lost to translation like you mean literally right #cause like sorry but her English sometimes really is atrocious #also like please tell me that’s an old pic after the TBHC haircut and that he still has his wonderful fluffy hair like in the two pics we #got after the car tour #also like last years pic yeah that was actually sweet but this I’m sorry but like Alex looks fucking miserable 😭🤣 #just noticed that Miles obviously followes L but does NOT follow Amanda or Kirstin (anymore ? but Amanda follows him (Kirstin is private)) #he does however follow Katie (the only one who has yet to comment some shit on the fans or about Lousie being her sister) #only Katie’s private one (leatherbondagetrackie) #<- I’m not saying anything but I’m saying something #river mersey shit post #also why did Nathan also like it

[meowonhao]

soo crazy to me how in the last year with minghao, dokyeom, hoshi, joshua, junhui, and now woozi (idk if i'm missing someone) y'all are way too ready and eager to automatically throw them under the bus over something some random person (usually antis) said online and then like a day or two later when everyone comes to the consensus that it wasn't actually that big of a deal or even wrong/bad in the first place (which you could've figured out yourself from the beginning by just doing like. 30 seconds of research and exercising your critical thinking skills) everyone just moves on like nothing happened and goes back to being a fan/stanning them or whatever like you weren't just going with the crowd and shit-talking them 12 hours ago

#not even going to get into how so many problems arise from no understanding of korean/asian culture #and relying on half-assed and sometimes just straight up wrong translations #like cool you don't have to know everything about a culture or be fluent in a language but #that also means you probably shouldn't be speaking on certain things at all much less without even trying to look into it a bit more #anyways..yeah i'm sorry maybe i'm delusional but i definitely am going to default to trusting my idols #and then figuring out for myself if i really think they did something that bad or “cancel” worthy #before i'm about to believe some random twitter/tumblr/tiktok user and just go with whatever they tell me to think about something #and most of y'all don't apologize or clarify anything. just move on right after hurling the most abhorrent accusations against these people #who are people too in case anyone forgot #but then an idol kills themselves and everybody boohoo's and cries and acts like they just can't believe how this happened again #like it's you. you're why #and i can only speak on the last year of course bc that's how long i've been an actual carat and kept up with them to this extent #i'm sure other stupid stuff has happened before that too with other members #i just think if you're so ready to toss away your idols without giving them like any benefit of the doubt whatsoever you just need to go #i hate when i see this stuff too bc i'm usually only seeing the korean side of stuff and most of these things are such a non-issue here #bc people know better (not saying there aren't some crazy fans everywhere but) #then i see some dumb shit on tumblr dot com that either only has links to some dumb twitter thread #or i have to search for on twitter because again. i do not see stuff from int'l fans unless i am forced to or look it up intentionally #and just saying the timing of these things is always so calculated by antis and y'all fall for it every single time #this is all i have to say bc i just remembered the whole thing abt ppl trying to say hao was being fatphobic or something dumb #and then i remembered everything else and it just made me mad all over again lol #if anyone disagrees with any of this feel free to block me🥰

[cherumie]

reminder that Grelle can't fight for shit, the second her weapon became unusable she immediately gave up & was beaten half to death

#and also if they can teleport then its not as easy as snapping your fingers #she didnt even try to run she knew it was over gjdngngn #reading the official translation after only seeing the shitty fan scans for years is quit an experience

[np5enkidu]

MURASAKI SHIKIBU WHAT DID YOU MEAN WHEN YOU WROTE THAT CHUUJOU WONDERED HOW IT'D FEEL TO BE A WOMAN LOVED BY GENJI AND IF SO HIS SOUL COULDN'T BEAR LEAVING GENJI IN HIS BEAUTY

#me reading how aoi's brothers all want to hang out with genji: lol gay #reading an intimate thought of chuujou after aoi's passing: WHAT #like either chuujou has a moment of man love or he's being to rude to aio. but he clearly grieves aoi's passing so. ms shikibu? #genjiposting #genji monogatari #yes i am stinky fate fan about it. shaking murasaki by the shoulders and she awawawa's #of course i need to check other translations and the original text bit unfortunately. i can read only two languages 😑

[thedevilsrain]

ok kind of a silly rant coming

#about fewl. of course #it rly frustrates me to no end how none of the fans who have the full official translations bothered to scan their manga #i know there are many factors involved as to the why (time; fear of copyright etc etc) #but really what cmx translated is almost the entire run before the series was 'over' (the hiatus i mean) #and their translations are 1. much less offensive than the fansubs 2. overall funnier and 3. in higher quality #bc mind you all of the fansubs are either literal xeroxes or are in very low resolutions #and you can find very little of the official translation online and when you do you hit a dead end #mostly having to do with posters inactive since literally 2010 #and now its 2023 and everyone who reads eroica complain about the goddawful quality thats on mangadex #and im like legitmately trying to get my hands on those cmx volumes to scan them because i know theyre good and i WILL scan them #in a higher quality #but theyre all very hard to find and most importantly ridiculously expensive #especially for someone like me who lives in brazil #so yeah im very frustrated the older fans didnt take into consideration that at some point after cmx closed down #those volumes would only become harder and harder to find #and like im trying to buy them and i have to count my cents every time i make a purchase because again theyre so expensive and ebay sellers #arent willing to bargain with you #its very frustrating #this is just a vent but yeah its been bothering me for a while

[fangcyclonelunaheat]

i have to stop spinning on my chair while drowning in touhou 09 ost and try to finish this at least until i reach somewhere mid ishida

yes at first this looks absolutely terrible but i have to trust the prosess and think another way to list this (also i really like colorcoded shit)

also this is all based on page appearance (which i hope i did right <3)

#fang rambles #wangan midnight #i really need to recheck this whole thing once im done because i lose my memeries really fast after a min or so <3 #im gonna countiue this as much as possible (my only way to get all of this is thru fan translations so most def stopping at r200 ark) #i guess im going something for fandom??? im not really sure lmao #also yes i got branch influence as well so thank you lasanga cat

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

the switch is almost dead so i hope we get a new rhythm heaven soon. i will not shut up about it for probably at least a month once we do. that time will probably be spent getting every superb n also a lot of perfects-

#puppy rambles #rhythm hell #on one hand megamix feels like it was meant to be the last game but also tsunku wants to make another rhythm heaven so- #idk since we have gba nso now i wouldn't be surprised if we get tengoku there so nintendo can gauge interest #possibly in english. idk what they did for other japanese-only games that've been put on nso #still bummed we didn't get anything for the 15th anniversary 😔 #esp since i'm pretty sure there was literally a direct on august 3rd that year- #if we do get tengoku on nso i'm totally making my moms get the nso expansion pack #i already own tengoku (specifically the fan translation even) but i wish to support rytm hevven #(i say even though i have pirated every rhythm heaven n don't have an english copy of tengoku) #in my defense i was desperate to play rhythm heaven- #n sucked at it hard. tengoku set 1 took me so long to get through #why don't you unlock the cafe until after remix 1 in tengoku who thought that was a good idea #wait if tengoku was in english in nso do you think they'd dub the audio #n do you think they'd let you toggle the language #cuz if there's not language toggling then *looks at marching orders and space dance* oh no

[solradguy]

Got all the short story illustrations from the GG2 Overture art book scanned in. These don’t have captions and the stories attached to them have already been translated by someone on Dustloop so I’ll be cleaning them up and slappin ‘em into the ol’ queue sometime next week.

Some of the design sketches in this art book have Daisuke commentary on them and I might translate that if it’s interesting enough, but mostly it’s just general design notes you can sorta context clue the meaning out of even if you don’t know Japanese. 

#textpost #Kinda wanna repost the story translations to here from Dustloop just to sort of have a secondary archive of them #They seem to exist ONLY in the DL thread and because of the ephemeral nature of fan works I'd really like to back them up somewhere public #In case something happens to the DL thread or whatever #There have been a few times I've run into dead ends on translations for other pieces of GG media before #because the original host went offline and there were no other archives.... #IIRC no one had translated Raven's story from the set so after Begin I could work on that too #Hmm... I should also maybe put together a public to-do list...

[aria0fgold]

What's the novel called, and where can we find the translation?

It's "I Just Want to Freeload on Your Luck!"

#arianswer #anon #that link should be fine right... its a fan translation from 2020 so ig its definitely fine. #i have a lot to say bout it i just rlly love it a lot #also as its a fan translation theres typos and a confusing part. i think my memory blurred as much as my eyes did but #i dont remember if the translator added a note smwhr. in the beginning the teacher for the protag's class was referred to #as a ''she'' but later it was changed to ''he'' just a lil heads up! its the only one that was confusing bout it #mainly cuz i thought it was talking bout a different character or the teacher in that class was changed but it wasnt the case #tho after that in my head i just thought of the teacher having she/her and he/him pronouns so i was like: neat. #other than that! the translator did an amazing job at it. i love how well they managed to translate chinese text #and make it flow well and even sometimes poetically romantic in english. i love it! #i know chinese is one of the hardest to translate in english cuz there are some idioms and expressions that doesnt #flow as well as it wouldve in english so im rlly amazed by the translator too! overall i just love everything bout it so much

[disownedbytiime]

I’m one book behind so I only got tgcfs book 7 today and I can finally read one of my favourite parts of the whole book:

Xl and sqx reunion 🫶🏻

#underneath that filthy black hair was a pair of exceedingly bright eyes as brilliant as they were before #<- ​this is how it was translated in the fan translation so this is how I memorized it but it’s very similar anyway #I was so excited when I first read this. I was so glad he was fine and he’s still himself and I’m love with that line #XL mentions his blue eyes when he first notices him (although he doesn’t know it’s the woman he met nor that he’s the wind master- #he only knows he’s defending him from PM) and that he mentions his eyes again when they meet after like 100 chapters was so refreshing #besties truly #cn rambling/

[erb23]

I miss [some of the comic characters I read] having civilian friends. Or just a civilian life in general.

If you don't balance out the heroics with them having something to come home to and live through then why are they even putting on a mask to fight for?

#i dunno like i said it isn't every character but it just seems like my current faves have people #who just don't care about that good good work life balance between civvies and hero stuff #though current newly started series are looking up in that aspect #at least B**** D**** or G**** don't have their hooks in my faves anymore though they did a lot of damage #*why would you want to read [characters] doing homework or hanging out with friends* because its interesting #old men literally make writing harder for themselves by limiting scenarios that could do so much to build up and flesh out characters #and then they go out of their way to make the worst decisions imaginable that wipe out nearly 4 years of character development #and then have the audacity to do nothing with their new blank slate and leave others to navigate the mess after. #Anyways giving one man full control over an entire slate of characters and shoving out all the writers that have been making good stories #with them for 4+ years was a dumb decision and soured so many people writing for them and then editorial wonders why they all start working #elsewhere #With all I have to say you'd think I only read American big 2 comics but nah. Everything else is just more consistent or has like 0 #fan presence so I'd be the only one talking about stories I like. But at any given time i'm reading 3 different books #and i'm slowly translating a ln the hooked itself in my brain. I'm bad at it but its so fun. Also studying for a certification exam :P