hiatus - takin a break - no dms pls!

@clavissionary-position

Atelier ◆ 30+ ◆ MDNI ◆ Not spoiler-free!
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I want to clarify the disclaimer I put on my translation posts. It says all I primarily do, as someone who is neither a translator nor fluent in Japanese, is throw the lines into stuff like google translate or deepL (which is an AI translator), and then clean up whatever they spit back out.

I still think that's giving me too much credit though, because while I do run individual words through online dictionaries, I also consult websites that collect translated phrases and sentences and paragraphs from other works and documents (sites like reverso, kanshudo, ichacha, jlptsensei etc.) and just copy-and-paste those translations directly into my posts.

So I myself don't do much of my own translation or interpretation at all in the end. I just compile.

I should note that I generally don't read fan-translations within this fandom, but when I do, I'll note how they translated certain phrases and I'll keep a mental inventory. That's more of a case of inspiration than copy-pasting.

As such, all the actual translators in the fandom have my eternal respect because they bring the actual knowledge and experience and fluency and beauty of their own interpretations. Internet-hug your local translator today!

I've been feeling really bad about how I do my translation posts, and I don't know that I should continue making them anymore. I'm really very sorry!

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i wish i had a floating evil skull to follow me around and when we went to the grocery store she would say something like my liege we must purchase the strawberry cream cheese for the coming days and i would be like oh fuck youre so right and put it in my cart and then we would walk down the next aisle together our beautiful life

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You'd think Gilbert was the weatherman from how often he points out how wet Emma is

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Good morning to the suitor whose name appeared in my dreams on a television from the 90s, except it wasn't even his name specifically but someone who had the same name, and the caption underneath it was a date of birth, hyphen, date of death because the whole thing was an "in memoriam" type of thing? Anyway, good morning to Azel lmao

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Wish there was a feature that let you do 4 out of 5 or 3 out of 5 or 2 out of 5 salons at once. Sometimes you need to wait 2 or 3 hours for lucky time to start and it's annoying having to click twice or three times (sometimes having to switch out your salon guest each time, on top of that).

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Azel: (pokes Emma's cheek)

Emma: (pokes his belly)

Azel: (pinches her cheeks)

Emma: (pinches his belly)

Azel: (squeezes her cheeks)

Emma: (squeezes his belly)

Azel: (smooshes her cheeks)

Emma: (smooshes his belly)

Azel:

Emma:

Azel:

Emma:

Azel: (kisses her cheek and bolts for it)

a/n: potential fic idea for myself. inspired by that jean story from ikevamp where mitsuki kisses his belly into oblivion.

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No, but like, remember how disturbed Azel is by his statue? Another funny bit from his what-if-you-were-lovers story was after he'd chucked the doll version of him and Emma's like "That's so mean..." to which he's like, "Who's the mean one here, you cheater."

And so I'm imagining him having nightmares of Emma cheating on him with his own statue, waking up in a cold sweat, realizing he's still dreaming and Emma's sleeping with his doll cuddled against her while he's been delegated to the edge of the bed, realizing that, no, this is actually reality, and the poor little doll gets chucked again before Emma is swept up in another one of his Greedy Unholy Kisses

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Whenever I get to that part in Azel's what-if-you-were-lovers story where Emma's like "[This doll version of you] is really cute, don't you think?" and Azel, horrified, exclaims: "CUTE!?" I always imagine his voice cracking in a Ryan Gosling type of way XD Just like eleven octaves of livid. Oh how I wish that story was voiced. I hope doll!Azel recovers from being chucked and makes his glorious return in a voiced-story.

I wish there was some poll in-game where you could vote on certain stories for each suitor to be voiced later. That "CUTE!?" combined with his theatrical fake sobbing makes it a good contender for me.

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Matias: (hands out papers) I've done my best to petition, but the devs are adamant about not letting us onto the game's login screen.

Matias: Their official reasoning was a lack of space to accommodate all three of us.

Matias: However, after reviewing the voice clips you two sent in, I'm beginning to see—

Kagari: What's wrong with "I missed you, princess. Meow"?

Matias: You went on to meow for five minutes straight.

Kagari: I was eating dorayaki. I wasn't going to stop just so I could turn the recorder off.

Matias: Why were you meowing, then?

Kagari: I was happy. I was purring.

Matias: For five entire minutes. And I think there was the sound of someone dying at the end.

Kagari: Like I said, I couldn't turn the recorder off. I needed both hands on my blade.

Kagari: The recording stopped because the guy fell on it.

Azel: My line was neutral and polite and packed with blessings.

Matias: Your clip picked up the sound of your stomach grumbling in the background. Foreground, actually. Your words were barely audible.

Azel: Oh, I must have had the recorder on my belly at that point. I'm happy to make a better one, for a fee. And I'd appreciate reimbursement for the other 78845 attempts as well.

Matias: Seventy-eight thousand...

Azel: I WANTED TO GET IT RIGHT

Azel: (clears throat) I had an entire afternoon to myself with nothing to do.

Azel: Two afternoons. Eighteen. What was wrong with your recording?

Kagari: I think we all know.

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Jin: So we're agreed. The first one of us to die gets to haunt the faction office. The rest have to pick a different room.

Licht: I don't want to haunt the faction office. I want to haunt the stables.

Yves: Licht, you're not included in this.

Leon: You're not included, Licht.

Jin: Sorry, Licht, this doesn't include you.

Licht: Which part?

Yves: The dying part.

Leon: The dying part.

Jin: The dying part.

Licht:

Yves: Jin, you're not included in this either.

Jin: I was gonna haunt the nearest set of boobies.

Leon: You can haunt them as an alive person.

Jin: Sweet.

Yves: Wait a minute. I want to haunt the kitchen. Leon, you haunt the office. As an alive person. I'm saying that just in case.

Leon: That's fine with me. I spend the most time in here, anyway.

Leon's faction:

Leon's faction:

Licht: Stables, boobs, kitchen, office.

Leon's faction: (giggles)

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