#alas.

[orphetoon]

do you think joey knows the word egyptologist

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[ranuunculus]

this heavy body (OC)

[bvckbiter]

really interesting (/derogatory) to see how the marketing and fandom around the show is so heavily focused on trashing the books as something that needs to be “fixed” or “upgraded” when from the get-go, they have missed so many foundational elements of pjo’s story in service of making changes that are nonsensical at best and retcons at worst for change’s sake, either for rick’s ego (eg supplanting the movies) or as fanservice pandering (shoehorning p&a too early).

[cat-n-bug-team]

Who is Kevin what did he Do

anon. the better question might be what did he Not Do (derogatory)

Kevin Steinbach is the official english translator for the apothecary diary light novels. he is also possibly the number one jinshi hater and maomao misunderstander.

his work at its best is ...ok and at its worst changes what the original author (hyuuganatsu) meant fully and completely. his goal doesn't seem to be Accurate Translation but more like,,, a step by step process on making maomao a uwu cutie bean who never did anything wrong who. also has no emotions. rather than someone who just finds emotions difficult to process

notable fuck ups:

the first fucking page of the first volume💝

all of light novel 5: evil!maomao's uwu beanification. erasing her autism ++ whatever the fuck he did with that goddamned epilogue. you'll find hundreds of better fan translation everywhere (reddit is possibly a good place to start. i never thought id say those words)

maomao multiple times goes "I'm dirty" when jinshi is being clingy. this statement is Loaded. he changes it to you're dirty???? SHE WOULD LITERALLY NOT FUCKING SAY THAT

light novel 13's epilogue: he took off the condom (badly). he ignored maomao's request of "but what if we just did hand stuff lolololol"

LIGHT NOVEL 12 FOREHEAD KISS. HE CHANGED IT TO A CHEEK KISS⁉️

confucian = straight 👍

aside from that he just kind of just. eats all the symbolism. and the buddhism (i would like to very kindly push you towards @meowmeowsabortionclinic's posts). all in all its like he was MADE to NOT TRANSLATE this particular series in particular.

it's really really fucking tragic also bc natsu's writing is actually goated. so fun and poetic and blue curtains. once in a while she Really wants you to understand something so she'll hit you on the head with a brick about it. kevin unfortunately doesn't have a head.

EDIT: MOST IMPORTANTLY! he refuses to take any criticism. people have fought him. they have given up. it's his hobby to be wrong.

[mystery-broom-room]

Boo Stack.

[dykescooby]

if i was smart and ambitious enough I would try to start a (legal) digital library like @queerliblib but of comics/graphic novels/manga

[bunniope]

if i still had an onlyfans i'd be doing joke nudes