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This journal is now defunct. Existing posts have been left as is for informational and archival reasons.
If you're looking for my translations, analyses, or fanfiction, you can find some useful compilations under the index tag.
For the sake of anyone in the fandom who's interested in what's said in this CD and either has difficulty listening to it or wants to easily check my work, here's my transcription of the Japanese audio. I produced this purely for my own reference, so it is not prettily or consistently formatted. Nonetheless, I'm posting this in case it may be useful to someone.
Click here for the finished translation.
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Click here for the finished translation.
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Commissioned by Olivia.
This is the nice formatted version of the translation, ideal for reading on this page right here. For the raw text, better suited to copy-pasting (and perhaps more legible on small screens or something), click here. For a raw transcript of the Japanese, click here. For the original audio, click here.
If you want to commission me to do work like this, shoot me an email at amielleon [~a t~] gmail [~d o t~] com.
( Fate/EXTRA Last Encore CD 2 )
This is the nice formatted version of the translation, ideal for reading on this page right here. For the raw text, better suited to copy-pasting (and perhaps more legible on small screens or something), click here. For a raw transcript of the Japanese, click here. For the original audio, click here.
If you want to commission me to do work like this, shoot me an email at amielleon [~a t~] gmail [~d o t~] com.
( Fate/EXTRA Last Encore CD 2 )
Thoughts on Persona 5 (Massive Spoilers)
Apr. 28th, 2018 12:31 pmI gradually played Persona 5 over the course of a month or two and finished it about a week ago. I liveblogged/ranted about it on Twitter as I went, but figured I'd collect my big picture thoughts in one place.
( Spoilers below )
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Dec. 31st, 2017 02:20 pmI downloaded All About Lily Chou-Chou several years ago because I'd heard it was about a bullied kid who found solace in fandom friendships. Seems topical.
I didn't get around to watching it until recently for some reason or another. In the time since, I'd spoiled myself on the wikipedia page, which sounded awful lot like an extreme load of sexual violence combined with the oldest catfishing story ever told about internet friendships.
But after watching it, I've realized that there's a very big difference between All About Lily Chou-Chou and tales like the documentary Catfish.
See, the usual catfishing narrative relies on the lurid shock value that The Kind Of People You Find On The Internet holds for normal people who do not live on the internet. We, the people who actually do live on the internet, understand that the majority of people we encounter are mentally ill deviants who are probably not terribly good-looking and probably suffer from one or two off-putting habits in the flesh. Knowing this, I think most of us have good intentions to be as honest with each other as our neuroses allow, and only a minority of us engage in true catfishing--and we condemn this behavior amongst ourselves too.
Nonetheless there is one profound difference between a good-faith internet friendship and one formed in the context of a geographic community--and that is that the pretense of your friendship likely lies in the deeper, kinder abstractions of the human experience. You share your pain. You share your happiness. And, since your internet friend only ever knows about your life through the purity of your own perspective, it is rarely complicated by the other person thinking, "Bitch, I can't believe you're complaining about the group leaving you behind on that swimming trip. The whole reason that happened was because you wouldn't stop splashing everyone."
All About Lily Chou-Chou's identity reveal twist isn't about being Fooled By Crazies On The Internet. It is about the pain of discovering that your closest friend, who thinks and hurts so much like yourself, is an enemy in your daily life.
That's something real about the lonely internet nerd experience.
And because of that, I can forgive its flaws in depicting the general human experience. All About Lily Chou-Chou's world is suffused with a bleakness that's too much even for me, and I don't think it quite understands how that bleakness got there.
For instance, near the end, the clueless teacher talks to the protagonist about the plummet in his grades and can only speculate that perhaps it's because he's had difficulty studying. This might be a real moment demonstrating how adults are blind to the cruelty children inflict on each other in their presence, if not for the fact that several of her students have died. Under these circumstances, you can't convince me she wouldn't have a few better guesses as to why some students in her class are failing.
I don't know if you should watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you're bad with sexual violence, don't watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you dislike extreme bleakness, don't watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you're bad with shakycam films, it would probably take you 5 separate sittings like I needed to even get through the film.
But it is one of the only narratives I've ever seen that really captures the feeling of being a loser who lives on the internet.
I didn't get around to watching it until recently for some reason or another. In the time since, I'd spoiled myself on the wikipedia page, which sounded awful lot like an extreme load of sexual violence combined with the oldest catfishing story ever told about internet friendships.
But after watching it, I've realized that there's a very big difference between All About Lily Chou-Chou and tales like the documentary Catfish.
See, the usual catfishing narrative relies on the lurid shock value that The Kind Of People You Find On The Internet holds for normal people who do not live on the internet. We, the people who actually do live on the internet, understand that the majority of people we encounter are mentally ill deviants who are probably not terribly good-looking and probably suffer from one or two off-putting habits in the flesh. Knowing this, I think most of us have good intentions to be as honest with each other as our neuroses allow, and only a minority of us engage in true catfishing--and we condemn this behavior amongst ourselves too.
Nonetheless there is one profound difference between a good-faith internet friendship and one formed in the context of a geographic community--and that is that the pretense of your friendship likely lies in the deeper, kinder abstractions of the human experience. You share your pain. You share your happiness. And, since your internet friend only ever knows about your life through the purity of your own perspective, it is rarely complicated by the other person thinking, "Bitch, I can't believe you're complaining about the group leaving you behind on that swimming trip. The whole reason that happened was because you wouldn't stop splashing everyone."
All About Lily Chou-Chou's identity reveal twist isn't about being Fooled By Crazies On The Internet. It is about the pain of discovering that your closest friend, who thinks and hurts so much like yourself, is an enemy in your daily life.
That's something real about the lonely internet nerd experience.
And because of that, I can forgive its flaws in depicting the general human experience. All About Lily Chou-Chou's world is suffused with a bleakness that's too much even for me, and I don't think it quite understands how that bleakness got there.
For instance, near the end, the clueless teacher talks to the protagonist about the plummet in his grades and can only speculate that perhaps it's because he's had difficulty studying. This might be a real moment demonstrating how adults are blind to the cruelty children inflict on each other in their presence, if not for the fact that several of her students have died. Under these circumstances, you can't convince me she wouldn't have a few better guesses as to why some students in her class are failing.
I don't know if you should watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you're bad with sexual violence, don't watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you dislike extreme bleakness, don't watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. If you're bad with shakycam films, it would probably take you 5 separate sittings like I needed to even get through the film.
But it is one of the only narratives I've ever seen that really captures the feeling of being a loser who lives on the internet.
This was last touched November 28, 2014. I really don't remember much about what it was supposed to be. I think it was supposed to be about Yosuke trying too hard to fit in with some guys who are actually jerks while the people he loved in his high school years drift away from him, and feeling lost in his own identity because of it.
I wrote 1700 words of it and ultimately gave up because it was too hard for me to write party-loving frat bros. Looking back on it, I agree with that judgment. But it's also interesting to me, because it was my one attempt at writing a kind of person that I understand the least.
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I wrote 1700 words of it and ultimately gave up because it was too hard for me to write party-loving frat bros. Looking back on it, I agree with that judgment. But it's also interesting to me, because it was my one attempt at writing a kind of person that I understand the least.
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The View from Below (Fire Emblem Fates)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 780
I guess technically this is M for Niles's dripping cock.
Summary: After an accord granting free passage between their realms, the denizens of the underworld and spirit world gradually acclimate to the new immigrants around them.
Or: The tale of some lesbian girlfriends, some art student boyfriends, and a med student who just wants a bite to eat.
Notes: On twitter I spun the idea of some crazy fic that hit the biases of everyone I talked to about Fates at the time, resulting in this mad ambitious fantasy thing that never got past the first scene with Shura and Niles. Last edited June 20, 2016.
I'm posting it because I figured Boots might want the Shura content.
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Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 780
I guess technically this is M for Niles's dripping cock.
Summary: After an accord granting free passage between their realms, the denizens of the underworld and spirit world gradually acclimate to the new immigrants around them.
Or: The tale of some lesbian girlfriends, some art student boyfriends, and a med student who just wants a bite to eat.
Notes: On twitter I spun the idea of some crazy fic that hit the biases of everyone I talked to about Fates at the time, resulting in this mad ambitious fantasy thing that never got past the first scene with Shura and Niles. Last edited June 20, 2016.
I'm posting it because I figured Boots might want the Shura content.
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Perhaps you are familiar with the series's odd way of measuring time within a day. It does not come up often, and although I thought I saw it in other games, I was only able to search up examples in Radiant Dawn. This is the "mark."
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By the way, if you know other places in the Fire Emblem script that refer to a "mark" as a measurement of time, I'd be interested to have those examples.
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12/14/17 - With thanks to Glueblade: The German version rephrases two of these examples ("It won't be long until we get to Kisca" / "We'll rendezvous at Kunu swamp when the sun is above the horizon") and changes "You have half a mark!" to "You have an hour!"
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By the way, if you know other places in the Fire Emblem script that refer to a "mark" as a measurement of time, I'd be interested to have those examples.
ETA:
12/14/17 - With thanks to Glueblade: The German version rephrases two of these examples ("It won't be long until we get to Kisca" / "We'll rendezvous at Kunu swamp when the sun is above the horizon") and changes "You have half a mark!" to "You have an hour!"
By the time the NoA version of Fates had come out, I was some 80,000 words deep into Joining of Worlds (to the end of Chapter 18). I had made my decisions regarding character motivations, their overall plotlines, and the shape of the world based on my knowledge of the text, back when canon only existed as the Japanese version of the game which I had played upon release. As such, I decided at that point that it made no sense to go back and somehow revise the story to be in line with the official English language version of the game, because many important parts of the premise had been trampled in localization.
Most people are probably aware of the general ~censorship issue~, but I thought I'd put in one place all the individual changes that greatly affect Joining of Worlds.
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Most people are probably aware of the general ~censorship issue~, but I thought I'd put in one place all the individual changes that greatly affect Joining of Worlds.
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Sain/Fiora Supports
Oct. 26th, 2017 10:09 pmAnother commission from harblkun.
I did these translations blind to form my own opinion of the text, and then added in the localization for comparison later. As such, some of the differences you see may just be stylistic differences between myself and Treehouse, so don't take the difference between "Huh...?" and "What...?" too seriously.
By the way, the stage directions for the sprites get kind of complicated here. Half of these are taken from PegasusKnight, and the other half were taken from MiruPage. Neither had all of the sprite movements down.
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I did these translations blind to form my own opinion of the text, and then added in the localization for comparison later. As such, some of the differences you see may just be stylistic differences between myself and Treehouse, so don't take the difference between "Huh...?" and "What...?" too seriously.
By the way, the stage directions for the sprites get kind of complicated here. Half of these are taken from PegasusKnight, and the other half were taken from MiruPage. Neither had all of the sprite movements down.
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Kent/Sain Supports
Oct. 26th, 2017 01:22 pmCommissioned by harblkun, whose love for FE7 is undying. She wanted to see me (re-)translate some of the FE7 supports, with copious notes for all the things that might've fallen through the cracks.
To that end, I did these translations blind to form my own opinion of the text, and then added in the localization for comparison later. As such, some of the differences you see may just be stylistic differences between myself and Treehouse, so don't take the difference between "Ah, Kent!" and "Ho, if it isn't Kent!" too seriously.
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To that end, I did these translations blind to form my own opinion of the text, and then added in the localization for comparison later. As such, some of the differences you see may just be stylistic differences between myself and Treehouse, so don't take the difference between "Ah, Kent!" and "Ho, if it isn't Kent!" too seriously.
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While helping a friend with a French translation, I noticed that the existing literal translations of FE14's signature song were somewhat haphazard. I think many of those translations were done before we all had a great understanding of the game, and since grammar in poetry can be somewhat loose and open to interpretation, many of those translations involved a copious amount of guesses (unfortunately wrong ones).
In fact, the original song was an incredibly accurate reflection of the events of Birthright, Conquest, and Revelation. I think a literal translation of the song is worthwhile just to appreciate that fact. I wrote this up for said French translation friend and figured it would be worth sharing with the wider community.
The Japanese lyrics are copy pasted from this site, and revised to reflect the official lyrics.
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In fact, the original song was an incredibly accurate reflection of the events of Birthright, Conquest, and Revelation. I think a literal translation of the song is worthwhile just to appreciate that fact. I wrote this up for said French translation friend and figured it would be worth sharing with the wider community.
The Japanese lyrics are copy pasted from this site, and revised to reflect the official lyrics.
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Nohrian Festival of Bonds - Leon/Zero
Mar. 23rd, 2016 05:53 pmThis isn't out in the NoA version yet so the table format is a little bit redundant, but I love this conversation a lot and it isn't too hard to stick it in a table anyway, so why not.
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Leo/Azura C-A (NoA)
Feb. 20th, 2016 12:54 pmJust throwing this up here because not much is transcribed on the internet yet. There's some junk from the code but it's serviceable.
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