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I'm gonna slap my extremely lazy/quick translation of one small section of the JP launch event for Love and Deepspace from last year on here because, why not. Let's not waste my (minimal effort) TL!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/9rzip0vXOFQ?t=3200s

Note: The guests are the voice actors for the first three love interests (LI) in the game, Xavier (CV: Kobayashi Yusuke), Zayne (CV: Satou Takuya) and Rafayel (CV: Tachibana Shinnosuke). They are asked to demonstrate the features in the games, and Kobayashi Yusuke was showing one of the Kindled Moments in the cards. Kindled Moments are basically a snippet of a scene that is done with extra care that shows moments of intimacy with the LIs. He chose a card where his character, Xavier, is wearing bunny ears and tail. The video is set to start around the time the Kindled Moment starts. I might or might not come back to this to clean up and add more time-stamps and IDK if I wanna TL the rest of it, but hey, if anyone stumbles upon this and has a request and don't mind my super, super rough TL, let me know what timestamps you want translated (or summarized). And if you have corrections, let me know too.

Very rough translation under the cut )

Dance Up Close: Seeds and Sounds and Jumper Cables

Sunday, April 13th, 2025 09:16 am
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Philadelphia Dance Projects presents Dance Up Close: Seeds and Sounds and Jumper Cables. I attended this performance with my friend Camille, who is a reviewer. The entire performance is captured below - you can even catch a glimpse of me sitting on the left, wearing a dark KN95 mask, when I leaned forward a bit before the performance started.


Wednesday Reading - All of March Edition

Friday, April 11th, 2025 09:58 am
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Actually, one of these was before March but I somehow never wrote it up. This month, I am trying to get my reading mojo back. Currently, this is involving a mixture of library books (read them before they have to be returned, especially if you had to wait for your hold to come through!) and re-reading (the first couple of Murderbots because of the upcoming tv show; I know it's only the first one being adapted so far, but who can stop there? Not me.).

Passions in Death by J.D. Robb is fifty-ninth in this series and yes I am still reading it because every once in a while I crave a mystery because the point of mystery novels is for justice to prevail. Also, reading J.D. Robb/Nora Roberts is a masterclass in providing just enough information for readers new to the series when you're more than fifty books into it. The series is also topical; Roberts' feelings about current events and social change surface in the murder plot with both victim and killer. A young woman artist is murdered a few days before her wedding to another woman; suspicion fall on friends and ex-lovers of both partners, both male and female, and one trans woman. The motive seems more personal than simply homophobia, and Roberts skillfully juggles two equally likely suspects until close to the end of the book. I felt this was one of the better entries in this long-running series.

Rosebud by Paul Cornell is science fiction in the weird vein; the characters seem to be prisoners in digital form in a miniature space ship. The crew of the Rosebud are, currently, and by force of law, a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of insects. They encounter a mysterious spherical black ship and decide to gain favor with The Company by exploring it. For some reason, this involves them taking on different forms that lend an element of humor as well as horror to subsequent events. I am not really sure what happened in this story, and I had a hard time holding on to the plot. But it was definitely a cool experiment in narrative.

The War Was In Color by boopboop is a Captain America story set during World War II, but not trying very hard to stick to historical diction and details. While being ahistorical is not usually my cup of tea, I found it interesting that the author explored the time between Bucky Barnes being experimented on by Dr. Zola and his supposed death in detail, including some recaptures and graphic torture (which I skimmed as I wasn't up for reading it). I didn't love the story, but I do respect it, if that makes sense.

and my glory shall be love by Lake (beyond_belief) is a slash AU of the show Generation Kill in which Nate Fick is the Vice President and Brad Colbert has been assigned to help the Secret Service protect him from credible death threats. Otherwise, it's a Romance. I am unfamiliar with the original canon but still enjoyed this story a lot!

Falling by Nikki Pond is MCU canon divergence in which, post the first Thor movie, Loki falls to Midgard and lives among humans, eventually becoming a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and falling in with familiar characters in a totally different way. I enjoyed that the author grappled a bit with his character flaws and Asgardian morals.

Will You Stay Just a Little Bit Longer? by Bedalk05 is a no-powers contemporary AU of The Old Guard focusing on the romance between Joe/Yusuf Al-Kaysani and Nicky/Nicolò di Genova and how they make a new family including widower Joe's twin children. It is a very slow, gentle, kind story of supportive partners, loaded with Found Family and coming to terms with trauma via therapy.

Dracula: October 4 - October 6

Thursday, April 10th, 2025 02:18 pm
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October 4:
"He must hypnotise me before the dawn." Very poetic, Mina! A contrast to Van Helsing's "English is not my first language" dialogue which, to me, does not feel realistic most of the time. Did Stoker actually know any Dutch people?

The phonograph diary, as well as Mina's short hand, are contemporary technology but feel a touch science fictional in this novel. I am confused, though, by why Jonathan has to "read" Van Helsing's phonograph diary to her...is it not a voice recording?

October 5:
This chapter has a ton of infodumping. Mina is beginning to show early signs of becoming vampiric. Quincey Morris finally has something useful to do; he's a hunter, and proposes Winchester rifles to fight off Dracula's wolves when they pursue him to Varna.

October 6:
"...I must go. I can tell you now, whilst the sun is coming up; I may not be able again. I know that when the Count wills me I must go. I know that if he tells me to come in secret, I must come by wile; by any device to hoodwink—even Jonathan." Mina is definitely the best character in this book.

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