☃️ happy bao-lidays❣️🎂

i wanted to show off handmade valentine's day chocolates for ness but i have a feeling they're going to turn out unphotographable

there's no such thing as good lighting or photo composition in my world. it is what it is.....

my sachertorte experiment 1 was an expected failure bc it's boxed brownie mix and american-sweet apricot jam with a questionable chocolate ganache. i think if ness ate this, it'd become his new least favorite food 💔

i remembered your words about buttons when my oasis glitched out 🫡 thank you for the rec!!

i added a screensaver today i love my kainess life

They kiss, but Ness isn't cured.

coming out of retirement to announce i translated ch 1/3 of a #kainess fic 🥳

featuring:

🥀 hanahaki au
🥀 fruitless sloppy makeout sessions
🥀 kaiser crashing out for 3 entire chapters

thanks for waiting so long and i hope you enjoy! 🫡 #baotls

archiveofourown.org/works/756213...

the way i totally lied last year and this year too </3

i'm blue locking in this time for a late #rinbachi xmas in march ✊🏻 bachira is finally coming back and i am too

#baowip

Once school was over, Meguru would pull at him and ask whether he wanted to go eat fried chicken or strawberry cream cake. If Rin said he wanted fried chicken, they would end up having strawberry cream cake. It was actually quite delicious. The fresh cream and fluffy sponge cake were cool in his mouth, and when the wind blew around them as they ate outside, it felt like there was something special in the air. After a few bites, Meguru would begin to play around; swiping at Rin’s strawberries, attempting to smear cream across Rin’s face. Only, he never succeeded, because Rin’s retaliations meant it resulted in a mess on his own face. Moments later, Rin would take his shot and call him “a stupid Bobcut.” And after that, Meguru would cling onto him and follow him home. Rin’s protests were half-hearted, because Meguru trailed after him no matter how many times he objected. Meguru would whine, “Rin-chan, just hold my hand for a little while, okay?” Who knows which one of them reached out first, but their hands were joined either way, and Rin wasn’t going to be the one to let go.

here's a #rinbachi translation wip! aiming for xmas release ^___^

#baowip

glad there's other rinbachi fans 🤝🤝🤝 our numbers may be small, but we stand strong 🫡 i'm trying 2 get one more rinbachi out by the end of the year but we'll see how it goes...

i'm happy you enjoyed my translation!! ^___^ i loved reading your reaction thread ehe

archiveofourown.org/works/561512...

i'm also working on "before the sun burns out" which uses meteorology as a metaphor for love!

no worries!

you don't need the original work to be on ao3! you're able to link to outside works as well ^___^ most of the fics i translate are from other chinese social media sites

archiveofourown.org/works/569351...

cw for major character death as mentioned in the title! it's a fun one that made me shed many tears

yes!! i always get permission from the writer before i translate :D lanxiyuki is very kind and let me know that i can take my time with it :-) which i need since tend to work slowly 😿 have you read their other work "10 years after kabru died, i met another demon"?

Milsiril hadn’t expected the noodles to be so pleasantly chewy, coated with the perfect amount of steaming broth. The taste was foreign to her—Milsiril recognized that there were many spices and complex flavors, but she could not name a single one. The mild heat reawakened her dormant appetite, and her eyes widened in surprise. “...” Milsiril was suddenly unsure how to respond. “So Mithrun can actually cook. Is this one of Melini’s specialties?” “No.” Mithrun also took a sip of broth. “This is the cuisine of Utaya.” Were she unaware that Mithrun possessed no sense of humor, Milsiril might have believed it was a cruel joke. Kabru quickly cut in. “I was nostalgic for my mother’s food, so I tried recreating it! Though it’s not quite the same, it’s pretty good, right?”

However, Misilril could no longer remember what foods the people of Utaya had enjoyed either. She tried to recall the battle from the distant past. By the time she arrived with the rest of the Canaries, Utaya was already wracked with devastation. She had long forgotten whether or not she tried the local specialties. During the war, food was merely a means to ward off hunger. She was loath to revisit those painful memories, much less take note of such an unimportant detail. Yet those two are different, Milsiril thought to herself. Kabru and Mithrun can speak openly of Utaya. And so she realized with no small surprise that, throughout the years Kabru had been in her care, her child had never mentioned that he missed his mother’s cooking.

i'm working very slowly on a couple of kabumisu translations!

[grasps your hands] it's wonderful please join my book club

Of what is recovered and uncovered between them on an unexpected outing. “Gods and ghosts are not alike, so please, Qi Ying Dianxia, stop coming to Ghost City. For the good of us both.” “But I think Shixiong doesn’t want me to leave,” Quan Yizhen said. “Otherwise Shixiong, why won’t you let go of my hand?”

the most recent post-canon #quanyin fic i translated!

happy (super late) mid-autumn festival 🥮

archiveofourown.org/works/44487928

#权引 #baotls

i don't want to repost all 30 fic translations so i'll just do a few across some different fandoms

oh dw i'll be showing it off to you when i get to the bookstore 🫡🫡🫡🫡

YESSS please read the preview with me 🥺 and ask your local library to order a copy, it comes out on 10/29!!

🫵🏻

the philosophy of translation by damion searls, coming out 10/29/24

if you've ever loved a translated work, be it manga, novels, games, subtitles, lyrics, etc. i strongly recommend reading this as a love letter to that translation. this book is super approachable and you can read a preview here!

books.google.ca/books?id=EsY...

#bookclub

end of year fic translation goals:

-mingqian
-rinbachi

2025 fic translation goals:

-saiou
-quanyin
-asoryuu
-kabumisu

i want to eventually catch up and finish my backlog for fandoms i'm not rlly active in anymore so i can work on the backlog of new(er) fics! praying the authors will not delete their accts before then </3 it's a recurring curse bc i'm slow T___T

i hope next year i can get to 35 fic translations. or write a chapter of fic. whichever one happens to happen. it always takes so long to produce a piece.......

hoping i can finish this before the end of the month, but there's a lot more work than i expected ^___TTT

you can definitely tell this was one of my very early 2019 era translations...i made so many choices i would not have made today.....