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[musing-and-music]

Ugly Love

Written by Hawkeye59 (Sei), translated by Musing_and_Music. Inspired by Colleen Hoover’s novel Ugly Love

Chapter 6: Caught red-handed

Rating E | 4561 words | Alternate Universe - Riza Isn’t In The Military, Riza and Jean are half-siblings, Grief/Mourning, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Secret Relationship, No Strings Attached, Happy Ending, translation from french, Rating will change (T to M to E), Let Riza Hawkeye Say Fuck | Royai, Jean Havoc & Riza Hawkeye & Roy Mustang, Team Mustang, Original Character (Gustave Bennet)

Summary: They refused to love. Passion will break their rules.

Read on AO3 / Read the original work in French

I’m only the translator, so go give your appreciation to Sei, who’s an amazing author!!!

chp1 / chp2 / chp3 / chp4 / chp5 / chp6 / chp7 / chp8

#royai #jean havoc #royai smut #fma #fanfic rec #hawkeye59 #fanfiction #musing translates #musing writes

[metamorphesque]

"Good morning, Jack. How was your night?", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

#quotes #literature #translated literature #vardges petrosyan #short stories #armenian literature #my translations #musings on stars #classic literature #romantic academia #light academia

[tofixtheshadows]

So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Meshi meta #Mithrun #Milsiril #Kabru #btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry #so keep that in mind #like it just seemed WEIRD to me #that gloomy introverted Milsiril #who left the life of a Canary behind #decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy #maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk! #but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice #it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril #I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have #struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective #but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party! #crazy stuff there #everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character #musings with Dea

[mournfulroses]

Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "To The Muse," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems

#lit #alexander blok #poetry #writings #words #to the muse #poetry in translation #fragments #excerpts #selections #p

[melverie]

Am I going clinically insane for real this time or did they actually refer to Lucifer as "daddy" in his newest Wanderers' Whereabouts thingy

edit: proof

#i'm just #why #WHYYYY #THEY DIDN'T EVEN CALL HIM “”“DADDY”“” IN THE JAPANESE VERSION IT WAS JUST 'お父さん' #TRANSLATION TEAM WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING???? #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me lucifer #mel's starry musings

[dearorpheus]

"In ways that are often hard to articulate but run through everything, my work has been deeply informed by my own experiences. I have been reading Homer throughout my adult life. Whenever I hear blustering winds and rain-storms, surging rivers or choppy seas, when I watch a flock of geese or a swooping hawk, when I walk through rustling woods or up a mountainside, I know I am inside the world of Homeric similes. Even the most trivial moments of daily life remind me of Homer. I notice that my feet are not "well-oiled" whenever I tie my sandals on. I cannot watch my dog happily rolling in mulch without thinking of Achilles, prostrated in grief and tossing around in the dust. More seriously, the poem gives me a language to understand my deepest emotions and those of people around me. When I weep for my mother, who died recently in a distant land, I remember the grief of Achilles and of Priam. The Iliad is with me always."

— Emily Wilson, in the translator's note of her Iliad

#'Calliope the Muse of heroic poetry probably has better things to do than help a mere translator. #Nevertheless I have prayed for her aid daily for over a decade as I worked to create these two translations of the Homeric epics. #Now that the task is done I lay my words at the feet of the goddess.' #homer #my upload

[solacium]

presence // aventurine

he'll never outrightly ask you what it is, not at the outset.

he might find you curled on the couch, quiet, trying to breathe out the something in your chest that writhes and constricts, or in tears, but he won't ask, only sit quietly with you, lean against you, the weight of him enough to reassure you of his presence. maybe you reach for him, curl into the hollow of his body, and he'll let you, hold you until the tears stop, or you can feel your hands again, or you fall asleep, to the steady rhythm of his heart.

you'll wake, or look at him, and he'll speak, then, maybe look back at you with those iridescent eyes that you love, as he asks, softly, if you're feeling better, if you want to talk about it.

he'll keep you company, either way, listening. there is a steadiness in the weight of his arms around you, in the even beat of his heart against your back. you'll have to move, eventually, one of your legs falling asleep under you, and you'll both laugh, and shift. he gently disentangles himself from you, to get you something to drink. you settle back down, curled around each other, talk quietly until the sunlight changes.

#here's more of my ven i guess #tiny one this time i'm working on another thing but the muse is steadfastly ignoring me #but he will give me this i guess #i actually really love reverse comfort but here is some not reverse comfort #bc jfc the other day i had to translate something that yeeted me straight out of my body into depersonalisation #and i had to sleep that shit off #so to make my brain wind down i wrote this #idk how ic it is but uh #come get your aventurine cuddles i guess #honkai star rail #hsr #aventurine #aventurine hsr #aventurine honkai star rail #x reader #reader insert #aventurine x reader #aventurine x you #actually i'll be the first to admit i /don't/ think he would be the best at being sympathetic tbvh but i just wanted to write this ok #let a guy have his brainworms lmfao #solacium.scriv

[origami-trust]

Dracula, May 28th: Here he caught sight of the strange symbols as he opened the envelope, and the dark look came into his face, and his eyes blazed wickedly—"the other is a vile thing..."

Dracula, Sept 25th: He opened it, and for an instant his face fell. Then he stood up and bowed. "Oh, you so clever woman!" he said.

a quick contrast here in how the opposing sides view shorthand, a message they cannot read: Dracula is furious, he is cruel; how dare Jonathan withhold information, how dare he think he has any power in his situation, how dare think he have anything beyond what Dracula chooses to give him. He promptly burns the letter, in front of him, to show Jonathan how helpless he is Van Helsing, in desperate need of this information, and though upset - gracefully accepts this joke, and asks for help. He acts charmingly, he doesn't use his Stern Talking to Women Voice (c) to tell Mina she must not do this, they part as the start of dear friends

#dracula #dracula daily #no strong points here just musing on this being the second time somebody else saw shorthand #Mina: I played a joke on the wonderful professor I showed him shorthand #Jonathan: ...and what did he do? #Mina: told me I was clever and asked for my help in translating it #Jonathan: oh he *is* wonderful

[lyselkatz]

Withering Lotus Flower

深深深情幾許 如果一刀能夠化作兩段 • 就讓一切在這地方 鬆綁 • 峯已回 路已轉 此情何苦枉斷腸 • 愛是沒有人能夠解開的兩難

How deep are the deepest feelings if they can be cut clean? • Let's just let everything loose here • The Peak is behind, the path has taken a turn, why should we remain heart broken by these feelings • Love is a dilemma no one can solve

轉彎 (Turn) - Nicky Wú QíLóng 吳奇隆

Chéng Yì's cover for the MLC concert is so lovely

...☕?/commission

#mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #cdrama #fanart #lyselkatzcreations #whump #Who knew Chéng Yì would please my Muse so much since I'm quite indifferent to his look #but he seems to be a genuinely nice human bean and that's very attractive of him #also such a good actor! #he can make me cry with just his eyes #ugh... the three dots on the ear disappeared with the image compression #lysel's savage translations

[future-mr-darcy]

*sends you a video of a kid kicking nightwing hard in the crotch*

I HAVBenT laugjed this hard in fuccking years, man.

#translation: I haven't laughed this hard in fucking years man #jason todd #jason todd rp #jt musings #dick grayson

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Don't worry, I won't tell him, but you should try to talk to him eventually.

"Gniht dab... Mih raen og I fi sneppah gnihtemos tub... Dluohs I... I-"

Peppino (from behind door, in flashback): "Stupid door. Jammed again-"

Fake Peppino (in flashback): "Edih ot deen!! Edih! Edih!"

Peppino (in flashback): "Ah! These bags have-a been ripped open again! If I ever get my-a hands on the one causing-a this, I'll show them-a what for!"

Peppino (in flashback): "Or I'll-a finally get a lock for the dumpster..."

Fake Peppino (current time): "Rehtegot... Flesym peek t'nac... Edisni dab sleef..."

"Dab... Dab... Dab... Dab sleef... Dab sleef... Doog ton... Mrof peek t'nac..."

#pizza tower #fake peppino #peppino spaghetti #translation: “I- I should... But something happens if I go near him... Bad thing...” #“Hide! Hide! Need to hide!” #“Feels bad inside... Can't keep myself... Together...” #“Can't keep form... Not good... Feels bad... Feels bad... Bad... Bad... Bad...” #not even ten posts in and I gave my muse a panic attack #good job me #also the real Peppino is here for a moment! #he'll actually be back later but let's focus on a very upset and gloopy guy right now #story post

[musing-and-music]

Ugly Love

Written by Hawkeye59 (Sei), translated by Musing_and_Music. Inspired by Colleen Hoover’s novel Ugly Love

Chapter 8: It’s now time for our hearts to heal

Rating E | 7521 words | Alternate Universe - Riza Isn’t In The Military, Riza and Jean are half-siblings, Grief/Mourning, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Secret Relationship, No Strings Attached, Happy Ending, translation from french, Rating will change (T to M to E), Let Riza Hawkeye Say Fuck | Royai, Jean Havoc & Riza Hawkeye & Roy Mustang, Team Mustang, Original Character (Gustave Bennet)

Summary: They refused to love. Passion will break their rules.

Read on AO3 / Read the original work in French

I’m only the translator, so go give your appreciation to Sei, who’s an amazing author!!!

chp1 / chp2 / chp3 / chp4 / chp5 / chp6 / chp7 / chp8

#royai #jean havoc #chris mustang #gracia hughes #fma #fanfic rec #hawkeye59 #fanfiction #musing writes #musing translates

[metamorphesque]

musings on writing

Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook by Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour), Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector, Isak Dinesen quoted by Raymond Carver, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Max Brod by Franz Kafka, Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch, The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

buy me a coffee

#web weavings #parallels #writing #poetry #quotes #literature #classic literature #sylvia plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #margaret atwood #clarice lispector #franz kafka #gustav janouch #elena ferrante #anais nin #translated literature #dark academia #musings #web weaving

[note-boom]

I still will never understand that comment by Asagiri saying that Dazai was the best thing to happen to Akutagawa when even Dazai himself doesn't believe that. I mean, from what I heard, the BEAST novel does a pretty good job in showing that Dazai knew Akutagawa would thrive and do better under people like Odasaku and Kunikida, right? Dazai throwing Atsushi at Akutagawa and kind of evading saying anything to Akutagawa sometimes did make me wonder if he was trying to force the boy from dependency on Dazai's approval (though, I also do believe Dazai doesn't fully want let go of his control over Akutagawa, which is another can of worms)

I mean, yes, Dazai wants to control Akutagawa, but I also think he knows objectively (not self-deprecatingly) that he just...wasn't good for him asides from the whole sort-of-saving-his-life thing. What I'm saying is that the relationship between the mentors and mentees of BSD are more complicated than saying "he/she was 100% good/bad for them" but also that generally we do see a progression of growth for the mentor with each "student" they take under their wing. In this essay

#i have thoughts but not enough TIME #but oh well.... #i mean of course it might just be translation #anyway sorry for continuing to obsess over that comment #part of me also wants to do a separate analysis taking asagiri as word of god and all and trying to find a way to make it fit #(i do enjoy doing that too tbh) #but for now have my half-thought out nonsense #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd akutagawa #character analysis #bsd musings #spitting nonsense #oh wow i found this in drafts and i was really fired up XDDD #dont know how accurate this is now but into the queue it goes anyway

[prettyinpunk]

tagged by beloved @josephtrohman <<333 to shuffle my on repeat playlist and post the first 10 songs!

king for a day/green day

love from the other side/fob

get up and fight/muse

lazy bones/green day

rhythm of love/plain white t's

i've been waiting/fob&ilovemakonnen&lil peep

wet hot american summer/cobra starship

soldier's poem/muse

young volcanoes/fob

WHAT YOU GONNA DO???/bastille&graham coxon

tagging @originofpwoper @alonetogether @aeolianblues & @syd-opaque if y'all haven't done it and want to :))

#i feel like i might've done this before but its always fun to do it again! #ty for the tag kelci ilyyyy mwah <3 #this is all very typical behavior for me #which is a tag i've used before #classic #idk why that bastille title is so aggressive #two muse songs who are beautiful girls that i love forever #pretty sure soldier's poem came up in another tag game i did lmao #i am constantly in soldiers poem world #i actually had to skip one of the songs that came up bc my keyboard doesn't write in katakana #i guess i could've translated to hiragana but i'm lazy #theres probably a way to change idk i'm stupid anyway #tag games #tar.txt

[catilinas]

translator? i hardly know her! <- catullus 51

#silly but also read translation as muse: poetic translation in catullus' rome by elizabeth marie young #beeps