Sherlockians, my people, I summon thee.
Prove to me that we are not a dead race, that I am not the only one left. Prove to me that there is still hope in this cruel, cold world. Prove to me that our cause is still one worth fighting for.
We are lovers of a great masterpiece. Enjoyers of a perfect art. Our ruler is one of emotion, comedy, tragedy, and suppressed gayness. With us gone, who would still be left to worship it?
I know it is still worth fighting for. Every time I lay eyes on it, my heart warms and I am young and free once again. Every time I see a statement from a long dead Sherlockian, it brings tears to my eyes. They make me so happy, and yet so sad, for if we truly are an extinct species then a part of me that I love and revere will be gone forever. Please, show me that it is not true. Reassure me that we are still alive...
I miss you.
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The Wright Family - AA4 Anthology Translation
Hey all, so earlier on @box-dwelling's post about Phoenix being kind to Apollo, I talked about a story in the official manga. Well, here is that story. I don't think that this story has ever been scanned and translated anywhere, whereas most of the others are floating around.
I didn't want to ruin my book, so rather than scan each page properly, I have taken pictures with my phone. Sorry for the less-than-stellar quality. Also, I translated this using Google Lens, so the translation may not be perfectly accurate but I think it's pretty good.
Naruhodo Family Members (or, The Wright Family) by Yuki Owari
(Read right to left.)
p1
Trucy: Daddy, are you going to just leave the hospital without permission?
Phoenix: I'm sorry, Trucy, it's because I don't have much free time.
Hotti: Well, I'm glad you're feeling better. sfx: heh heh
Phoenix: Yeah, but I still have stiff shoulders. It's awful.
Apollo: That doesn't have anything to do with anything!!
Apollo: If you're going to be discharged from the hospital, at least pack up your stuff properly.
p2
Phoenix: I'm sorry, it's because I had free time. sfx: ha ha ha
Apollo: If you have free time, you can also clean it up, right?!
Phoenix: Ahahaha. You've grown up, Apollo.
Apollo: Even if I'm praised in that way, I'm not happy.
Trucy: Oh, yeah! Apollo was amazing today!
Phoenix: It seems so.
Apollo: But after the trial, you went somewhere, didn't you, Mr. Wright?
Phoenix: Because I had free time.
Apollo: Enough!
p3
(Eldoon is harmonica… ing)
Trucy: Well then!
Trucy: To celebrate Papa's discharge from the hospital and as a thank-you for finding my panties, it's the Mr. Hat special!
Phoenix: Ah, yes, pants, Trucy's pants.
Apollo: Please don't say that.
Apollo: Oh…
Trucy: Speaking of pants, don't forget these, too. (holds up Little Plum's bloomers)
Apollo: That's enough!!
p4
Trucy: When Papa was in the hospital, it seems there was a strange phenomenon at Hickfield Clinic.
Apollo: Strange phenomenon?
Trucy: Midnight, as the inpatients are sleeping, it seems that mysterious noises are being heard.
Apollo: What… what noise…
Phoenix: Huh, I didn't know that.
Trucy: A nurse on a tour… as they were making their rounds, from a hospital room…
p5
Trucy: The sound of the piano echoes slowly…
Phoenix: Ah, me?
Apollo: Please, be quiet when you stay in the hospital!
Phoenix: It's because I had free time.
Apollo: Isn't that all there is to it??
Trucy: Apparently, it has now become one of the Seven Wonders! Papa is a big success!
Phoenix: It's an honor, ahahaha.
Apollo: This kid is totally…
Trucy: I was so moved today, by the Red Fox (Kitaki) family…
p6
Apollo: Me too… Trucy?
Phoenix: You must be tired from all sorts of things.
Phoenix: Because it seems like ever since you arrived, she's been moving around happily.
Apollo: I'm tired, too.
Phoenix: Thank you for your help. I was able to recuperate at a slower pace in the hospital.
Phoenix: So even if I'm away again, you and Trucy will be fine.
Apollo: (smiling) Such irresponsible…
p7
Apollo: By the way… it was Detective Skye…
Phoenix: Hm?
Apollo: Ema called me Wright's kid today. Even I was lumped together.
Phoenix: (millisecond of internal crisis, come on Phoenix, tell him the truth!)
Phoenix: You're also my kid, huh?
Apollo: Ah… that's right.
p8
Phoenix: Thank you for your hard work.
Phoenix: It's nice to be a father surrounded by his children.
<3
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decelerating for a moment
yeah that was. well. a lot’s been going on.
so i was at the farm for three weeks. the first week was like... mostly normal. the second week, Older Sister’s kids were up. I took them to the beach one day. The boys excitedly measured my house because they want to build a railing and staircase. Like, cool, why not!
Then the day they were leaving, the youngest one, my older niece, came down with a cold. Her older brother’d been getting over a cold. We didn’t really think much of it. So two days after they left, Farmkid also came down with a cold. Didn’t really think much of it. It was chicken day. We were busy. ALSO the culvert bridge that connects the house yard to the barnyard was getting replaced, which meant like, incredibly complicated logistics and a giant excavator and like, how the fuck are we getting these chickens from the barn to the farm store, and so on.
still dealing with that, wednesday morning Farmkid wakes up early and goes to check her own temperature and complains to her mother that this cold is not what a cold normally feels like. Her mother dutifully administers a COVID rapid test, which... comes out positive.
ARGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHH
My MOTHER meanwhile has also had the same thought, takes a test, ALSO positive. Cue older sister’s husband racing home from work to test the children, and discovering that sure enough, niece tests positive. NOOOO.
So anyway. I masked up and we all spent the next two days doing insane amounts of work while blowing through the backlog of COVID rapid tests. I decided to come home anyway, as I was supposed to, on Thursday; I worked my ass off from 6am until 1pm in order to do this, and left at 2pm. Got home 7pm to find that Dude had bought me sushi, which was greatly appreciated.
Friday was my birthday. I tested negative, so I went to work, and then came home and fell the fuck asleep. But on Saturday morning I tested negative again, so I decided I could at least move to my own bed to sleep in (I’d been in the guest room).
Like a fucking dummy, I’d told myself, if you want any fuss on your birthday you’ve got to make it yourself! be sure to order yourself a present so it’s there when you get home!
I did not do that, so my birthday was, well, a little depressing. But that’s my own doing. I have spent several days now trying to find myself something to get myself to cheer up, and I can’t, my ability to buy things is still fucked. Someday. We’ll see. I’ll just binge-spend a bunch of money on something I’ll later hate, that’s how this works. Oh well.
But. I have survived, and I never did get COVID, and now I’m Even Older, so I’ll take it I guess. I did get a fic published on my birthday and that meant that I was getting comments all day long which was really the only bright spot of the day, so I am immensely grateful for that.
[Also grateful: everyone in my family seems to have recovered from COVID, largely, and no one besides Mom, Farmsister, and both nieces got it, magically somehow.]
And now I have caught up on sleep and am going to hopefully get some shit done today. We’ll see!
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