#the future of translation

[polysprachig]

27.09.2023 | Translation complete, ☆ translator notes not so much given the pleasant turn in the weather ☆

Poem: Sehnsucht von Kaiserin Elisabeth

There has been something of a finger-wagging, something-wicked-this-way-comes, weird-sister-on-the-heath-level doom vibe in the air regarding the future of human translators. And it's not coming from translators themselves, literary or otherwise; at least, that's how it seems to me. Especially as translation is, in my opinion, time well spent trying to capture the fleeting impressions of one mind and tongue in another, a relaying of culture, time and place, experience, mood and idea, form, style and tone—the deepest of readings possible outside of explication or psychoanalysis, oftentimes including both, and many translators know, love and hate this. Even so, it is a most welcome curse to be plagued with.

Translating Sisi, not to mention reading her poetic journal, has led me on a series of journeys to get to know her interests, obsessions, manner of expression, grief and personal hardship in the context of her life. I too have stood at a legendary grave, not that of Achilles, but of the fallen at Marathon, and dwelt on it long after I left. Trying to express that similar sentiment as the empress poet expressed it in my own language—that is the challenge, the fun, the experience, and the purpose of my translation, and I don't know many translators who would give that feeling up.

#polyglot things #translation #translators #my polyglot studies #poetic translations #the future of translation #thoughts on my mind #langblr #studyblr #kaiserin elisabeth #german #english translation

[fab-livious]

oh dear, a puppet with no strings 

#toh #the owl house #the owl house spoilers #for the future #for the future spoilers #raine whispers #wanted to give them a little more puppet-y look?? #HOPE THAT TRANSLATES WELL #I LOVE RAINE #LOVE THEM SOOO MUCH #gender #myart

[corruptimles]

That makes my Miku Movie Marathon for this year’s #MikuAllWeeku! If anyone has a favourite from the set, I'd love to hear it. Until next time...  

#vocaloid #hatsune miku #miku movie marathon #mikuallweeku #I dont have a drawing tag #the thing #jaws #the godfather #joker #singin in the rain #back to the future #i robot #also @ people reacting to the japanese on the jaws poster #leave me alone!! I didnt go google translate it or anything like that it's literally the japanese poster for the movie #I wasnt sure what direction I would go for with all of these #and the thing poster doesnt have the title either because I couldnt make a joke #and yet singin has it without being changed so theres inconsistencies everywhere #let me liveeee

[jimimn]

tae loves jimin so so so so so much 🥺 (transl. cr. taee)

#btsgif #jimin #taehyung #vmin #bts #userbangtan #btsedit #park jimin #kim taehyung #* #*jm #*th #*vmin #my laptop d*ed a thousand times while making this set so future sets depend on whether my laptop cooperates after the restart rip<3. #thank you so very much julia for the translation <3333.

[fullmoonfireball]

due to high demand (i assume? i don't actually know what the demand is like, but based on the notes these translations have been getting, combined with what's featured here...) here's today's comic translated! while translating this one, i listened to Groovy Long Legs's theme on loop for immersion

#Rambles Into The Void #Vesper's Translations #Pikmin #sorry to confirm that Louie is not actually that relevant here #this DOES open the possibility he'll appear in future comics though!

[spockandawe]

So. I know I just did a binding of The Disabled Tyrant's Pet Palm Fish, but that was a lectern book, and it's been tough to get a lectern binding that I'm completely and unreservedly happy with. If more practice is what it takes, then I'm game! But in the meantime.... this is the fish book. The romancing a fish book. The impatiently waiting for a fish demon to..... devour my essence book. The 'my servant thinks I'm fucking my fish' book. The fishpreg book. The fish themed wedding book. What, was I supposed to NOT use my exciting new fish leather??

Now, the struggle with fish leather is thst it comes in very irregular oval-y shapes. I wanted the spine to have the right weight, so I cut the biggest rectangle I could wrangle from the hide, and belatedly realized my remnants weren't large enough to get good corner pieces. So that's something to consider in the future! But despite that, the fish handled like a dream, the gold and brown aligned BEAUTIFULLY with a wave fabric I had in my stash, and I shamelessly went back to the scale themed endpaper well. I usually don't like repeating myself so quickly, but I had a lot of fun designing this typeset, and this story is just a delight on every level!

#crafts #bookbinding #binderary #the disabled tyrant's pet palm fish #the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish #dtppf #ahhhh should i go back and align my tags with the new title #question for future spock #dtppf is an acronym with such good rhythm #dtbpf hits different #either way im delighted to compare the new translation to the old one!

[youweremyridehome]

The Murderbot Diaries, estonian covers for All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Liis Roden

#sharing these cause they fucking RULE #aitäh liis roden !!!! #the murderbot diaries #the artist shared on ig that the 3rd book's translation should be out very soon #so expect a new cool cover in the near future #i hope the artists link works but this is tumblr so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[e-turn]

cw sibling death

They all sung it to him. Baby Casey in a laundry basket crib, rocked by an attentive Mikey. Little Case cuddling with April after bad dreams. Casey Junior with fever flushed cheeks, dozing on Raph's lap. CJ in a loose piggy back as Cassandra carried him on a long trek. Casey holding Donnie's hand in the med bay, asleep against the lip of the mattress. And Sensei singing this song, stroking his hair, carrying him through the death of everyone they loved.

@remedyturtles you are so cool and also I blame you for my shattered heart

highly recommend everyone to go read death wish series

Главы перевода с 12 по 22 уже на ао3!

#fic: death wish #April and Cassandra took the whole base down with them and they did it badass and I will not think otherwise #cw death #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #riseofthetmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #future april #future cassandra #future leonardo #future donatello #future michelangelo #future raphael #rottmnt leo #rottmnt casey jr #my art #cw family death #cw sibling death #my translation #перевод на русский

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Lightgiver (Darkstalker). /Снегопад (Мракокрад)

Darkstalker from my alternate universe where Arctic and Foeslayer decided to fly on Pantala instead of Nightwing Kingdom. Since Arctic didn't kill guards in this universe, he's not afraid to use his animus magic. So he made his son more icewing and gave him different name. Lately I've been thinking a lot about this au and how much the world of wof has changed there.

(reblog > likes)

#wof #wings of fire #wof darkstalker #wof au #dragon #digital art #my art #драконья сага #wof icewing #wof nightwing #драконья сага мракокрад #yes in russian translation his name a “little” bit different #maybe I will write a fanfic about this au in the future #but idk #darkstalker #wof design

[tsubasale]

Devil's Manner feat. Haruka, Akito, Rui, and KAITO

#project sekai #proseka #haruka kiritani #akito shinonome #rui kamishiro #KAITO #edits #gifs #I'm bored and the new mvs gave me an excuse to make gifs :D #no team name because this is the I have no idea how あっちこっち should be translated lol #my current guess is “everywhere at the city of the future” #but I'll replace the names with the team name when someone more experienced posts a translation lol

[starbuck]

that mountain goats song? oh yeah, i love that song. it’s one of my favorites. i could sing the whole thing for you right now. i know what album it’s on and which part of the album and possibly even which track number it is. what is the song called? i don’t have a fucking clue.

#this is mainly a problem with the albums i’ve listened to a lot in the car #with the disks that my car’s reader cannot translate #so it tells me the track number but not the song name #meaning that i could name maybe four songs from protein source of the future… now even though i know that album by heart #this one was from sweden though #which I thought i was better with #but apparently not… #i think it’s just been too long #but yeah i absolutely never would have guessed this song’s name it’s so funny #because i LOVE it #one of my current wips is NAMED AFTER IT #and YET!!!!!!!!!!! #the mountain goats #tmg

[tunaf1sk]

What a nerd

#my art #epithet erased #sylvester ashling #sylvie ashling #I had no idea how to translate his hair into a semi-realistic style... This doesn't really look like it but hopefully it still looks fine #Also tried to capture some teenaged grease-itude #( I really like rendering in this style but I might stick to making it cartoonier in the future... I worry it looks a bit creepy like this)

[firestorm09890]

hey that's. hey. that's. not at all the same line

Ienzo-

#kingdom hearts #kh3 #ienzo #an amateur's attempts at translation #that's my tag for any future shit i do like this #all my knowledge of this language came from mandarin! which is helpful for some kanji and that's it so really not at all! #im using like 5 different dictionaries for every word and phrase!! #im slowly learning what different particles mean and how grammar works through exposure and repetition yayyyy #me post #alsoooo if you were wonderingggg everything else ive seen ienzo/zexion say he uses boku for himself but here he's using watashi #he also uses anata for ansem #i think he might use anata for everyone

[jyfrnd]

"She's calling out to me. I can feel it." / "Sora saved me once. And...I heard him call my name. He needs me."

#Excuse the terrible quality- I don't 'do' gifs. #I've just been meaning to make a post for me and the two (2) other Clerith/Soriku shippers out there. #I really like how Aerith/Sora showed Cloud/Riku how to open up in past games....and in future games (FF7Rebirth and KH4) it's likely that- #-Cloud/Riku will do the same for Aerith/Sora. #I also find the amount of Aerith-Sora parallels really interesting. They both constantly uphold their 'cheery' personas but there's so #much that they're dealing with. Stuff that they try to handle all alone. And ofc Riku and Cloud have tons of parallels. Possession- #-longing for freedom/struggles with guilt/etc. #soriku #clerith #ff7 #kh #'Sora. I believe in you.' fits the first parallel better. But I don't know how to subtitle gifs...so I'm forced to settle with the original #-translation.

[pooce-art]

This is today's 123 Rhodes Island translation! This time it's Rangers! kinda another semi-unpopular opp today also :/

Today TL notes wise it's kind of uninteresting, most of the stuff can be translated pretty literally and give a pretty accurate meaning.

The most interesting thing is the 噔 SFX and 惊醒. they both appeared before, I just didn't really talk about it. 噔 just means "the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground" I used it before literally but in this case its more like *Vine boom* for the case of 惊醒 it means to wake up, but it's more like a suddenly waking up from a bad dream or situation.

Other than that the interesting things are like how Rangers calls himself "老夫“ which is a pronoun used by men over 70, and me translating 正好 as "you're just in time" while it can mean like "just" as in just right it can also mean "just in time" by itself, and I felt like that made more sense in this situation.

But this comic is actually special in a different way, as it's the last 123 Rhodes missing if you solely look at global content. Tomorrow is from the CN executor event. So now I started to think about what to translate when I catch up to the comics. I noticed that the A-1 reserve manga is still about half untranslated so I might translate that next

If that happens It might be a long while until you get an update after I finish 123 Rhodes, since they're a lot more complicated words wise , 31 pages long each and I'll also be trying to learn to typeset in gimp(cus I'm a cheap idiot)

But that's for the future and as always, feel free to tell me any issues, this is just for practice, and feel free to use my TLs or to post them elsewhere as long as you credit me.

Link to OG comic :https://terra-historicus.hypergryph.com/comic/6253/episode/3173

#123 rhodes island #arknights #english translation #arknights amiya #Arknigts Rangers #Love the operators over 70 club #it has uh Kal'tsit Rangers the doctor uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #but yeah thats just my thoughts for the future of 1.5weeks from now

[zishuge]

Obsidian won't exist forever... once the game is cleansed, that's when everyone will go their separate ways. Suddenly... I can't bear the thought of destroying this game. Mainly because I don't want to be separated from you. The Spirealm 致命游戏 (2024) | Ep. 59

#the spirealm #致命游戏 #kaleidoscope of death #ruan nanzhu #lin qiushi #ling jiushi #xia zhiguang #the spirealm spoilers #cdrama #cdramasource #kodedit #userhanyi #*gifs:mine #the soft piano music is back TT_TT #lingling stop saying “ni men” when you mean “ni” !!!!!!! #fuck it i'm translating “ni men” as you in the caption. you can read it as either plural or singular #something about the look on nanzhu's face says that he actually thinks about it constantly #我们可以一直配合下去 is not just “we can continue to cooperate” the implication is FOREVER #there's been a lot of foreshadowy bits in the last few episodes and i'm a little unwell #lingling out here tempting the cdrama gods by talking about their future plans like baby can you not