#lots of translation

[children-of-epiales]

Conversation

(The night Lara’s parents decide talk about leaving Poland)

26 June, 2008

     As her parents converse in the next room, Lara remains in her so-called secret spot, her back and head pressed against the wall and her legs folded up so they don’t cross over into the light. 

“ Scotland? Dear, there are so many countries in the world-why would your brilliant mind wander back to the United Kingdom?” Roxie demands in an exhausted tone. 

“ It’s just a suggestion, Diantha.” Arkadiusz reminds her, the sigh he lets out immediately after giving away that he, too, wants to be done with the conversation. “ I agree-our daughter should get to experience something new, but I don’t want her to be completely overwhelmed. Please, don’t act like you’ve forgotten why we’re discussing this.” 

The Irishwoman’s shoulders sink upon hearing the reminder. 

Lara’s eyes grow and she readjusts herself against the wall, shifting slightly further away from the entrance to the living room. If it wasn’t for why she’s decided to eavesdrop on her parents in the first place, she would be covering her ears as well. 

“ Of course I’m worried about her.” Her mother confirms. “ Don’t act like you’ve forgotten you’re the reason I haven’t killed that boy for punching Lara in the eye the other day.” 

Arkadiusz cannot hide how easily the scene reappears in his mind. He closes his eyes before he can see his wife’s grin. 

The brunette reaches up to touch the skin right below her eyelashes, having seen in the mirror earlier that the skin around her eye is still faintly bruised. The words he and the others shouted at her start to echo in her head again: Diabeł! Wróć do piekła, Diabeł! Nie należysz tutaj!

“ Maybe we should move to Scotland…” 

Roxie’s words break Lara free from the fog; she covers her mouth just in time to hide her gasping, the idea of moving never having crossed her mind before. She then decides she is unable to continue listening due to her chest feeling as if it has been torn wide open. 

“ I know it’s been a long week-” The Pole reaches for his wife’s hand; he kisses it, “-but we both know we’ve been avoiding this conversation. This was supposed to be where Lara was supposed to grow up.” 

“ And they took all of that from us.” Roxie states dryly. 

“ It’s late, let’s go to bed.”

The couple consider moving, only to freeze when they hear their child run upstairs. Lara closes her bedroom door much less gently than she desires, and Roxie can’t help her head falling into her hands. 

“ I’ll go talk to her-” Roxie tells her husband immediately. 

Arkadiusz stands up instead, one of his hands finds and squeezes his wife’s shoulder. “ No, no, you should go to bed.” He reassures her, “ I’ll speak to her.” 

The Pole follows the Irishwoman upstairs, waiting until she enters their bedroom before he goes to their daughter’s room; he knocks lightly and waits what he hopes is a minute, then enters the dark room. 

Arkadiusz closes the curtains first. He pauses, his head following the sound of the weeping, his knees slowly giving out so as to not make so much noise and lifts the end of the comforter up. 

All the way at the other end of the space, Lara lies curled up; her soft crying forces the warlock to crawl over to the head of the bed, Arkadiusz lifts up the cover. “ Proszę wyjść tam, Lara.” He pleads. 

He watches the girl freeze up, quick sniffs and deep breaths follow. “ Nie chcę, po prostu zostaw mnie w spokoju.” Lara presses herself further against the wall, she shuts her mouth in an effort to stop making sounds all together. The pains in her chest, unlike the sounds, do not come to an end. She cannot ignore them nor pretend the pain does not exist. 

Arkadiusz rests on his side, his hand extending as far as it can under the bed and keeps it there. 

Time seems to stop; Lara senses this, she knows she couldn’t avoid her father for long, even if she wanted to. 

“ Why are we leaving our home, Papa?” The girl finally gives in. “ I didn’t do anything wrong-I don’t think I did. I was trying to…” There’s nothing she can think of that would make sense to her father, with how many times he promised her that the kids who despised her so much were never Lara’s fault. 

Reassurance, her father promised her many times before, lasts for quite awhile. What he didn’t think of was that the magic that came with said reassurance had eventually worn off. That, and Arkadiusz taking her to school most mornings so the kids themselves and their parents had time to consider his imposing size; it was all he could do, the warlock couldn’t go to class with Lara and continue to be big and scary. 

“ This will be for all of us, moje Serce.” Arkadiusz blinks as his daughter almost hits her head turning so she could face him. “ Could you please come out from under the bed, Lara-I don’t want you to knock yourself out.” 

The girl eagerly climbs out from under the bed. “ Why do you want to leave Poland?” Lara immediately asks her father. 

“ Me? Oh well-well for me I suppose there’s nothing here for me anymore.” Arkadiusz responds. He could never get away with lying, not even with Lara. “ I do love Poland, the people I grew up with and the city-but it’s time for something new now.” He won’t say he’s made the decision to leave before, that there was nothing left for him in the country before, and he certainly couldn’t admit he came back for Lara’s sake. 

“ And Mama?” 

“ Moje Serce, you will have to ask her.”

He takes the few seconds he has to study the girl, while she contemplates actually wanting to ask her mother about the situation; besides how obvious it seems that Lara would prefer to avoid the topic around Roxie, Arkadiusz notices some sort of relief on her face. Possibly that she herself isn’t the reason he and her mother decided it would be best to move. 

“ We should have told you sooner-” He acknowledges when it becomes clear that the idea went right over his and Roxie’s heads, “ we just wanted to make sure we spoke about it before telling you. I’m sorry, Lara, if we made you feel like this was-” The words stop coming out because Arkadiusz cannot say “your fault”  to her face. He knows she knows what he means, to him it’s important that she knows that no one is blaming her for anything. Because Lara hasn’t done anything wrong. 

Arkadiusz carefully reaches and wipes a tear from Lara’s cheek before it can run. He remembers the principal’s words about the situation, the moment he and Roxie entered the office, the warlock was recognized by the now-elderly teachers. 

They were able to connect two-and-two better than the principal, who insisted there was no need to press charges against the students who chased after Lara the day before. That it was all a misunderstanding.

Roxie wanted to kill the kids. While the idea seemed a little extreme to the warlock, despite the situation, he knew the family would not be leaving Poland without expressing their dissatisfaction with the school and the children who should have been held responsible. No matter that people were wary of them before. 

Lara standing up snaps the warlock out of his thoughts. He rises as Lara sits on her bed. “ I know you said it already, Papa…” The girl says wearily. “ But, it isn’t my fault that we’re moving? I didn’t cause anything bad to happen for you and Mama, did I?” 

Arkadiusz shakes his head. “ I promise you, Lara.” He adds. “ Now, you probably already heard me say this-but it’s very late. You try and get some rest tonight, in the morning all three of us will talk about moving together, alright?” 

Not wanting to object, Lara lays down while her father pulls the covers up and over her.

*****

Translations:

Diabeł = Devil

Wróć do piekła, Diabeł = Go back to hell, Devil

 Nie należysz tutaj = You don’t belong here

Proszę wyjść tam = Please come out from under there

Nie chcę, po prostu zostaw mnie w spokoju = I don’t want to, just leave me alone

Moje Serce= My Heart

*****

Tag List: @poisonedtruth

[hunxi-after-hours]

"If rest becomes a form of recovery from work, as is the case today, it loses its specific ontological value. It no longer represents an independent, higher form of existence and degenerates into a derivative of work. Today's compulsion of production perpetuates work and thus eliminates that sacred silence. Life becomes entirely profane, desecrated."

—Han Byung-Chul, The Disappearance of Rituals (trans. Daniel Steuer)

[supertaliart]

Ship or not, I think they deserve to be domestic and talk shit.

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: There's a possibility you have two fathers *laughs* and there's nothing bad with having two dads, ok? One of them - one of them is a man called Luzu, and the other one is a man called Wilbur. How does that sound, son? Now we're gonna have to choose and find out which one of them is gonna be your dad.

Tilin: *puts down a sign*

Quackity: Let's see, what does it say? Move, move son I can't read it.

Tilin's sign: I'm la tres leches?

Quackity:

[scruff-mutt]

Have you ever wanted to be 100% accurate when creating Splatfest-related art? Consider downloading the Splatfest Script today!

[teruri-ruri]

more doodles part 26445658753435.8 + bonus shion bc it was his bday the other day

[translations for what izana was saying from left to right:] Taho = filipino drink, usually consumed during breakfast tangina mo, kapal ng muka amp = fuck you, you have a thick face (that's the literal translation. it means u have no shame, or the audacity of this bitch or something), amp (shortened for amputa = bitch) gago ka ba = are you a fool? (i think? im not sure, some ppl say gago means asshole i.e. 'gago ka' - ur an asshole)

[turnaboutarchives]

Gyakuten Saiban 3 4Koma Kingdom- “Teach Me • 2”+”Grave” translation

[splatoonusna]

We hope you are staying cool during this hot summer. The sunlight is so strong that it could turn you into a dried fish, but the young people of this region seem to be used to it.

Don't forget to take precautions against the heat and enjoy the summer!

[richea]

I translated Kousuke Fujishima's design commentary for the Symphonia cast!

[tshortik]

I love you messy artstyle i love you visible brush strokes I love you textures and rough edges I love you imperfections I love you roughness and colour blobs I love you scratchy sketches and bold stylisation and dirt and imperfections I love you ugly and raw emotion!!!!! ❤️

[counting-stars-gayly]

This might be a hot take, but I actually like that Percy figured out Luke was the traitor at the last minute. There were A LOT of clues that would’ve been hard to ignore, and he ignored them for as long as he could. And it’s clear that even after accusing Luke, he’s still surprised and heartbroken at Luke’s confirmation of his suspicions. He was holding out hope, guys!!

Also, the Betrayal Scene flows better as an exchange of dialogue and a swordfight than it did, in the books, as a monologue and a scorpion sting. This also leaves a bigger impact on the viewers and characters because it’s more emotional.

[mutalieju]

I have seen a bunch of positivity/appreciation/whatever for fanwriters/artists but like. remember to appreciate your scanlators/translators. like the scanlating scene is not what it used to be because the official sources have picked up lot of like. popular mangas but you still rely on scanlators etc for more niche works and... I used to do lot of scanlating and I don't think I EVER got a positive comment or any appreciation and like... at least when I write and share my unhinged fic or art I made it to amuse myself but if I am scanlating a comic I already can read it obviously so ANY work I am putting in is 100% for other people... I have literally scanlated whole-ass series because I knew ONE person read them at all and I wanted them to experience a series I liked. If people don't like your work tho why would anyone do it then?

[earlycuntsets]

ray and gerard rehearsing cute

feat. very still fedora frank forever

making of helena mv

[tee-dohrnii]

"You're already everything I need you to be."

[royalarchivist]

YD: Ahh, so adorable. I recorded some stuff, like them trying yukke. [Reading chat] Right? I was flabbergasted when I heard his age! I didn’t know that he was… 20 years old??? He was also shocked when I told him my age. I don’t really ask their ages when I’m talking to foreigners, we’re just friends, ‘cause they don’t have distinct honorific and informal languages like we do. And he guessed I was like, 23? [Laughs] I laughed my ass off.

YD: These kids are polite. They seem very polite, don’t they? Especially after hearing how old I am. It feels like they’re saying, “Yes ma’am, it’s very delightful.” So cute, and they seemed like they really enjoyed their meal.

YD talked about meeting up with Tubbo while he was in Korea and shares two videos of them eating food at a Korean BBQ place!

MASSIVE thank you to @Forgetmelotz on Twitter, who translated and subtitled this video and gave me permission to share it on Tumblr! Please make sure to give the original video a like.

[Full Video and Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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⚠️ This transcript is VERY LONG! ⚠️

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YD: So I was planning to have a dinner with Kei [a Kpop Idol / Singer], but unexpectedly, there's a foreigner friend I met on QSMP named Tubbo, he's from the UK, and apparently he's visiting Korea. And he posted an Instagram story about it. I saw it and was like "Wait, are you coming to Korea?" and it [Tubbo's post] even says Korea blah blah within the date two days after my birthday. So I sent him a DM and he responded with "Haven't you seen my Twitter DM?"

YD: I recently distanced myself a little from Instagram and Twitter for a while, yeah I didn't check my phone that often, and it turns out he messaged me about 3 - 4 days ago saying "YD, I'm flying to Korea! Blah blah–" so I was like "Oh, oh... I'm sorry I didn't see that!" and I checked the DM the day before he arrived here... I told him that I am so sorry and asked if I can meet him in person.

* [Translation note: this can also mean the other way around, ie: he may have asked her if they could meet in person]

YD: So we ended up seeing [each other] on the 21st. I was supposed to have dinner with Kei, so I told her "but my friend from abroad... is in Korea now... what should I do..." and we rescheduled the dinner to inviting her to come over next week. So um, the, right– Tubbo, Tubbo's friend [Eryn], Seoneng [one of YD's crew members] and Kang-si [YD's husband] the 5 of us had dinner together.

YD: We went to a Korean BBQ place. I was searching through restaurants thinking “Uh… which Korean restaurant should I take these foreigners to so that they would be super impressed?” [YD thanks a dono] Yeah, I was searching hard and so I asked Ryeori. You know the Kwak tori & Ryeori couple? Ryeori the hair designer, I asked him, “Reyori, I’m trying to buy a dinner for my foreigner friend, do you have any recommendations for where I should bring him?” and he started listing up like Michelin star-rated pork gukbap restaurants and stuff. Then he also tells me that it’s really difficult to find an actual Korean restaurant in Hongdae, like it’s difficult to find a decent place. There are mostly fusion Korean food [places]. But then he goes, “Oh, hey, this place looks fine” and recommends me this Korean BBQ restaurant. I decided to bring them there and fed them.

YD: The reason I liked that place was that they sell doenjang-jjigabe, galbi-tang, jeyuk bokkeum, and other dishes as well as their main menu, the beef KBBQ. The banchans [side dishes] were also served neatly, they even had japchae, they sold yukke. Obviously there are better Korean restaurants outside of Hongdae, but their hotel was located there. It wasn’t like he had a car here, so I was trying to meet them somewhere they can just walk to. So Hongdae it was. On top of that, YD 4-cuts is also located in Hongdae.** So I thought it would be the best to just eat out here. And while we were eating, I’ve recorded some videos.

** [Note: This is a photo booth event with custom YD frames, as show in the background of this video]

YD: [Scrolls through to find the videos and laughs] Ahh, so adorable. I recorded some stuff, like them trying yukke. [Reading chat] Right? I was flabbergasted when I heard his age! I didn’t know that he was… 20 years old??? He was also shocked when I told him my age. I don’t really ask their ages when I’m talking to foreigners, we’re just friends, ‘cause they don’t have distinct honorific and informal languages like we do. [She thanks another dono] And he guessed I was like, 23? [Laughs] I laughed my ass off.

[YD plays a video she took of Tubbo and Eryn at the restaurant]

Tubbo: Oh, ok. [?]: You should tell them how to eat it together.  Tubbo: You’re overestimating my chopstick skill.  [?]: Here. [Passes Tubbo some of the meat]  Tubbo: Oh, thank you. [?]: And here, together. Tubbo: Ok. [Takes a bite] Waitress: With this vegetable. Tubbo: Mm, it’s really sweet! [?]: Foreigners quite like it. Eryn: [Reaches over and tries some food too, struggling a bit with his chopsticks] [?]: Unexpected, right? [?]: Oh, they like yukke? [?]: They just need to get used to it. Waitress: I will grill and hand it over to you, so please help yourselves. [?]: Ok, thank you. Eryn: [Tries more food and gives it a thumbs-up] [?]: Hm, good?! Tubbo and Eryn: Yeah! Tubbo: So far 10/10.

[The video ends]

YD: These kids are polite. They seem very polite, don’t they? Especially after hearing how old I am. It feels like they’re saying, “Yes ma’am, it’s very delightful.” So cute, and they seemed like they really enjoyed their meal. They were eating it up. They drank soju, they ate some noodles, and even doenjang-jjigae. I’ve heard foreigners don’t really like the taste of doenjang-jjigae, but they ate pretty much [all] of it. The restaurant also had pot rice, so I made them try that too. They ate that well too.

[YD plays the second video she recorded of them at the restaurant]

Tubbo: Go crazy ok, yeah! Alright.

YD: We ordered naengmyeon for a palate cleanser too. We ordered a lot.

Tubbo: [Struggles to cut the noodles with the scissors that were handed to him]

YD: He’s asking why we cut the noodles.

Tubbo: [Manages to cut the noodles] Kang-si [?]: Ok, and- and– [does chopstick motion] Tubbo: [Laughs] What am I gonna need?  Eryn: Chopsticks? Kang-si [?]: Yeah. YD [?]: Chopsticks, mm. Eryn: [To Tubbo] You go first. Tubbo: [Inaudible] Why is it cold? YD [?]: Oh, because the noodle is cold.

YD: Yeah, he found it interesting that the noodle is cold.

Tubbo: [He struggles with his chopsticks] Oh no, oh no… [Everyone laughs] Kang-si [?]: Very difficult. Ok! Tubbo: [Manages to fish some noodles out and holds his hand under them so they don’t splash everywhere as he transports them to his bowl] Seoneng [?]: Oh, uh, oh! It might be difficult for them to eat that. YD [?]: Hm? Kang-si [?]: Do you want some, Seoneng? Gimme the chopsticks, I’ll share you some. Eryn: [To Tubbo] Slippery. How did you get it?  Kang-si [?]: I’ll give you some, hand me the chopsticks. Seoneng [?]: Can I hand you mine? Just a small amount, please.

YD: They mimicked how Kangseok [Kang-si, YD’s husband] handles the noodles. Like, picking up the noodles like this and moving it to your dish.

Tubbo: That’s why you’re better than me (?).

YD: That’s Seoneng.

Kang-si [?]: Here’s your chopsticks, Seoneng. Eryn: I think this is enough. YD [?]: Oh, he’s taking some to his dish. Seoneng [?]: He learned. Tubbo: Do you like, spin 'em? Seoneng [?]: Scissors? Kang-si [?]: Like– [He holds up his chopsticks and shows them how to do it. Ok. OK! Eryn: [Picks up only a few noodles, which dangle] Seoneng [?]: Good! Tubbo: Maybe I did- I did a sht job of cutting, I'm sorry. Eryn: That's ok. Doing good.

YD: It had a nice atmosphere.

Eryn: Bravo. Tubbo: Oh, thank you. YD [?]: The noodles might be a bit slippery for them to...

YD: They really struggled to pick the noodles up. They asked why we cut the noodles then proceeds to eat like that 'cuz it's too long.

YD [?]: Shall we cut it? Kang-si [?]: Eryn? [He leans forward and cuts Eryn's noodles with scissors]

YD: –So we had to cut it for him like he's a baby.

[Everyone laughs] Eryn: It kept on moving!

[The video ends]

YD: [Laughs] Ah, so cute. It was fun. So we tried various dishes together. And uh, UK– UK– both of them are from the UK, but they didn't know there is a viral series of British students trying Korean food,*** so I told them "Seeing how you react to unfamiliar foods, like... How do I put this? You were very polite trying these out, not making any weird disgusted noises (so you can go viral too)." They didn't refuse anything. Well, they also said that this was the best Korean food they had so far. They might've been just being polite, but still, you know, they were... Hmm, very neat? Yeah. I get why he's so popular.

*** [Note: YT: Korean Englishman]

YD: Anyways, it was a lot of fun. After the meal, I asked them if they wanted to go take a YD 4-cut with us, explaining this is a trending form of birthday event amongst fans of younger generations in Korea where they rent and run a photobooth for their YouTuber / CCs / Influencers. I asked "It's close from here, you wanna go?" and he said yes. That's how we ended up taking a group photo. It wasn't planned beforehand.

YD: We arrived there– [Laughs] I tried, I knew it closes at 10pm, so I tried to visit there around then (to avoid people). So we got there around 9:30? And my fans were sitting there waiting for me. As soon as they spot me they go, "Wooooooo!!! It's so good to see you in person!!!" ...then they started crying, which made Tubbo and Eryn panic a bit. They were like "Wow YD, u a superstar! Whoa." [Laughs]

YD: No, 'cuz I told them that there might be a few fans because it's my birthday event, and they were OK with it. Well, he's also a Youtuber, so he wouldn't be too unfamiliar with this kinda situation I figure. But even though I warned [him] about it, they seemed a bit surprised as people started SOBBING, so Kangseok evacuated them all. He told them, "Let's get out and try some salted butter rolls while she..." The boys leave and get bread, and I go have a short conversation with my fans, take photos, give autographs... [Laughs]

YD: It was a LOT of fun. It was a memorable day.

The original VOD can be found here (please note that the video is only available to VIP members of YD's channel).

Timestamp for this conversation: ~12:30 - 23:00

[sugarcarnation]

little chuuya is absolutely devastating and i can’t help but make it worse by noticing that throughout this entire exchange he remains faceless. he has no real identity of his own he’s being defined by the people around him

and this is paralleled in the scene where he talks to dazai directly after the flashback. we still never see his face

until he sees dazais face. and stands up

and we see his face

absolutely bonkers of them