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Who Shed More Tears

Original fanedit by 优悠千道 on bilibili. Subbed and reposted with permission. Do drop a like on the original video if you can :)

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Vat [缸subbed] - High Cloud Quintet animatic

Original animatic by YoungW好累了 on bilibili. Translated and reposted with permission. Do drop a like on the original video if you can :)

Translation notes:

Dyeing vat/染缸: (fig.) an environment that easily influences/corrupts people's thoughts and actions

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To be to Someone [他是他FMV subbed]

Original edit by 此木辄 on bilibili (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18h411C7NC). Translated and reposted with permission.

I really enjoy this edit so I absolutely wanted to translate and share it. The way it deals with how people are perceived and the way they're addressed is really skillfully done. The coloring of the pronouns draws the focus specifically on the relationship between the different high-could quintet members as well as Jing Yuan's attitude towards Dan Feng vs Dan Heng and whether he recognizes them as separate individuals.

The fact that Jing Yuan is never addressed by his name and always by his title General is a subtle knife, given that he's basically lost everyone of the high-cloud quintet who were the people he was closest to and who'd address him by name.

Now, he's one of the most respected arbiter generals, a position that finally gave him enough power to free one friend and give him another chance at life, but this said friend denies any personal involvement with "the general" :')

While this edit's emotional beats might make it seem like a BE, it is actually hopeful to me because it does build up to Jing Yuan acknowledging that Dan Heng is his own person and not only a shadow of Dan Feng. And that is the first step to actually being able to build a new relationship with him.

Also the lyrics of this song are just so fitting! If I may ask this, please do rewatch the edit once and pay attention to the lyrics🥺 Jingliu's issue being something he regrets forever (regret that she became mara-struck, regret that he failed to end her life when that was what she asked of him), Jing Yuan being Dan Heng's saving light, Blade's fate with the Stellaron Hunters not being something that Jing Yuan could've anticipated. And the whole chorus just being a dig at Jing Yuan and Dan Heng both lol. Leaving it here again for reference.

Shoutout to yjtc, lokian and the diaspora server for helping with translation wording choices <3

If this path is blocked, then ride the clouds and taste the mist

You've said "farewell", so you can say "it's been a long time, I missed you" as well

You've voyaged the universe, how hard to navigate can mortal affairs be?

You've used your whole life to realize a most precious encounter

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郭顶 《凄美地》 — The Fog Space by Guo Ding

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凄美地: lit. desolate, beautiful land

不知疲倦的人啊，去到那个一切未知的目的地。 Thou who art untiring, go forth, towards that unknown destination.

translation under the cut

曾经我是不安河水 穿过森林误入你心 没计划扎营搁下了是非 一去不回 I used to be a turbulent stream. Meandering through the forest, I entered your heart by mistake. I had no intention to linger, yet discarding right and wrong, I stayed and didn't return.

如今我是造梦的人呐 怅然若失流连忘返啊 等潮汐来临 我就能记起 你的样子 Now, I am the creator of dreams. I couldn't tear myself away but the nagging feeling of loss can no longer be drowned out. Once the tide rises, I’ll be able to remember your shape.

我没看过平坦山丘 怎么触摸开花沼泽 I have never seen flat hills, How can I reach the blooming marsh beyond?

嘿等我找到你试探你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 在这凄美地 Once I find you and see myself in your eyes, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you, Here in this beautiful, wretched place.

曾经这里是无人之地 为何没留下有效地址 肆意的消息迷失在十月 没有音讯 This land used to be uninhabited. Why didn't you leave me an address I could reach? Shameless messages that got lost in October received no reply.

如今这里是风和日丽 等你再回来雨过迁徙 看夜幕将近 我又能记起 你的样子 Now, this is a place of sunshine and gentle breezes. If you'd return, it would be to a time when rain no longer falls. As night falls, I can finally remember your shape again.

我还记得平坦山丘 如今身在开花沼泽 I still remember the flat hills. Now, I’m drowning in the sea of marsh-flowers.

嘿 等我找到你试探你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 在这凄美地 Once I find you and see myself in your eyes, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you, Here in this beautiful, wretched place.

在这之前别说再见 我已再经不起离别 在这之前别说再见 我已经开始了想念 在这之前别说再见 请帮我停住这时间 就这样 别安慰 Please don't say goodbye before this, Another farewell is impossible for me to bear. Please don't say goodbye before this, I have already started to miss you. Please don't say goodbye before this, Will you help me stop time? Let us remain like this, don't comfort me.

嘿等我找到你望住你眼睛 心无旁骛地相拥 那是我仅有的温柔也是我爱你的原因 如此不可及 如此不思议 让我坠落在这凄美地 Once I find you and lock you inside my gaze, The only thing that will matter is our embrace. This is the only non-violent part of me and the reason I love you. Such is the height of folly, Impossible and indescribable. Just let me fall in this beautiful, wretched place.

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Little Mushroom Audio Drama Trailer [ENG SUB]

Synposis from 猫耳FM:

Do not go gentle into that good night, do not peacefully surrender to extermination. Earth's magnetic field disappeared, mutated organisms invaded, the end of the world is near. A little mushroom from the Abyss makes its way into a human base on the search for the spore it has lost, and runs into The Arbiter Lu Feng. One human, one not, they meet at the end of the world and get to know each other, and together they walk into a future in which the only thing certain is uncertainty…

Ask anyone who has listened to Little Mushroom's audio drama and it is almost certain that they will tell you that it was one of the best produced audio dramas they have ever had the pleasure to experience.

You can find the whole thing - with English subs even - on 猫耳FM/missevan, so if this piece of media has ever been on your radar (and even if it hasn't!), let this be the sign that you should join this pit.

I haven't seen any translation of the trailer, so I took a stab at it. Excuse the violation of the maximum recommended CPS count, but there wasn’t much I could do about it... you might need to pause the video at times :P

Some notes on this translation under the cut.

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Because I am both lazy and hate articulating my thoughts, this will not so much be me providing much actual insight on translation choices than just some disjointed notes on the back-translation process of Dylan Thomas' poem "Do not go gentle into that good night".

An overly literal back-translation of the Chinese poem:

不要温和地走入那个良夜。// Do not go gentle into that good night, 我们应在日暮之时燃烧。// We should burn in the hour the sun sets, 怒斥、怒斥光阴的消逝。// Rage, rage at the vanishing of time and light. 尽管智者深知黑暗终将到来。// Even if the wise are fully aware that darkness will inevitably come. 尽管他们的话语无法再迸发出闪电。// Even if their words are unable to make lightning burst forth again. 不要温和地走入那个良夜。// Do not go gentle into that good night. 在这悲哀的山巅。// Here, on the sorrowful mountaintop. 请用你的眼泪诅咒我、祝福我。// Please curse me, bless me with your tears. 不要温和地走入那个良夜。// Do not go gentle into that good night.

Notes on the Chinese translation of the poem:

The refrains (“Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”) basically map one to one to the English original, which makes it easily recognizable as Dylan Thomas’ poem

This makes the other changes feel very much like deliberate choices on the author's part, even if they do leave me puzzled

No references to the gendered figures (wise men, my father)

In the second verse, 尽管 is repeated for emphasis where it wasn’t in English

Why is the line 在这悲哀的山巅 so much shorter than all others? The original English poem has 10 syllables per line, but the Chinese one is…just whatever. No discernible structure here, only vibes

山巅 (mountaintop) where in the English it’s an unspecified “height” and can be read metaphorically, while here it is very much a physical location. (I mean, of course it could be read metaphorically as well in Chinese but there are many other words you could have chosen that do not have "mountain" in them.) Might or might not have been a deliberate choice referencing [spoiler] Base

I thought it prudent to back-translate the poem since there are some changes and they aren’t that minor.

Back-Translation process:

Pretended the original didn’t exist and translated it off the Chinese alone

Compared it to the original and modified it so that it still stayed 95% faithful to the Chinese while calling back to the original

Tried to keep the ABA rhyme scheme and felt powerful af when I managed to make the 2nd line in all the tercets rhyme

Squished or stretched the lines into 10 syllables, while still keeping as close to both Chinese and English as possible

Despair. Because at this point I should maybe just have used the original poem or gone for a freer translation, what am I even trying so hard for when this comes nowhere close at all to the original

What I ended up using in the subs of the AD Trailer, ABA ryhme scheme, 10 syllables per line if you squint*

不要温和地走入那个良夜。 // Do not go gentle into that good night. 我们应在日暮之时燃烧。 // We ought to burn the hour nightfall nears. 怒斥、怒斥光阴的消逝。// Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 尽管智者深知黑暗终将到来。 // Though the wise know darkness will bring its blight. 尽管他们的话语无法再迸发出闪电。 // Though their words no longer fork lightning fierce. 不要温和地走入那个良夜。 // Do not go gentle into that good night. 在这悲哀的山巅。// Here, on top of sorrowful mountain's height. 请用你的眼泪诅咒我、祝福我。 // Please, I ask, curse me, bless me with your tears. 不要温和地走入那个良夜。// Do not go gentle into that good night.

*and pronounce hour with 2 syllables

Some thoughts on translation choices, apparently:

Actually, the back-translating went quite smoothly and it really is just one line that unexpectedly turned out harder than expected. Or maybe I made it harder than it should have been, who knows. I might be prone to overthinking. It's 尽管智者深知黑暗终将到来 which I ultimately rendered as "Though the wise know darkness will bring its blight." Here, I ended up straying quite far from both Chinese and the original. This is also where I have to thank both @hardwareabstractionlayer and @fwoopersongs for talking translation choices with me.

Some other options here would have been "Though the wise know at last dark will alight" / "Though the wise know dark will come as it might" / "Though the wise know in the end dark is right", but none of them felt fitting. Either the line was not quite proper english, or it failed to convey the the inevitability of 终将到来, or it felt too much like a pale imitation of the original etc etc.

Usually, I am the kind of person who translates rather literally and doesn't take too many liberties. Here though, "blight" simply works absolutely amazing in the context of Little Mushroom. Credit for that suggestion goes to hal, who nailed two major story settings with it, despite not knowing much about the book except for whatever 2am thoughts I fling at her. You see, after the Earth's magnetic field disappeared, humans had to build an artificial magnetic field to protect themselves from deadly cosmic radiation and infected organisms. Due to the magnetic field, an aurora dances all over the globe. The moment that light vanishes, it means the magnetic field did too, which signifies the end of mankind. Dark *does* literally bring its blight. It's brilliant, really.

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one of the funniest and most chaotic ban/pick phases of the 4th doudou cup/抖抖杯 (an abyss speedrunning competition) in which againwhy just wants to play xiao and doesn't care to listen to anyone's suggestions :)

(actual runs here -> https://b23.tv/0LvhYJm

the 2nd vid in the playlist, starts at 5:25. every player gets 3 chances, best time counts.)

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He...really is very lonely [他，真的很孤独 subbed]

Video description:

Jingyan really is very lonely. After the Chiyan Case, he has been fighting a lone battle and never succumbed. If he were willing to compromise just a little, Jingyan would have lived a much more comfortable life these thirteen years; but he never did. After he met Mei Changsu and decided to walk the path to the throne, he was still very lonely during that period because he didn't know the true identity of Mei Changsu. From his point of view, he alone was trying to clear the name of his brother, of his closest friend; Mei Changsu was simply a strategist who happened to help him. When he finally becomes the crown prince, becomes the emperor, that then truly is the point where Jingyan is in utter isolation and cut off from everyone.

original video by 楼上钱某 found on bilibili (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18h411C7NC)

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萧忆情 《如寄》 — A Temporary Stay by Xiao Yiqing

一路大雪纷飞 踏上归程 门外几株桃枝 宛若故人 雪中​​你眉眼如旧 唇角笑意深 一句问候却微微颤著声 The whirling snow falls thick on my journey back home. The few peach blossom branches outside the door remind me of old friends. Amidst the snow you look as ever before, the laugh lines deep. But when you ask how I’ve been doing, your voice trembles slightly.

听你温柔细数 清闲平生 笑我两鬓华发 消瘦几分 只捧起陈年的酒 又一杯满斟 这口酒竟比风雪还要冷 I listen to you softly recount your peaceful quiet life. You laugh how my hair has grayed and how I’ve become a bit thinner. I only lift the aged wine and pour myself another full cup, The wine is unexpectedly even colder than the biting wind.

是不是再多念想挨不过时光利刃 终究化成寒暄三两声 那一年相伴相护的承诺 散作了浮尘 负尽少年心 也未曾负过你深恩 Isn’t it right — regardless of however deep the longing is, it cannot endure the sharp blade of time? In the end it all dissolves into a few words of pleasantries exchanged. The promise from that year past of accompanying and protecting each other has dispersed like dust in wind. Though I might have failed our youthful intentions, I have never betrayed the debt of gratitude I owe you.

如今刀尖造梦 功名渐成 难逃俗世纷争 飘摇红尘 多少次闹市擦肩 将身影错认 灯火阑珊处心似座荒城 Now dreams are forged by the sword; reputation slowly established. It’s impossible to escape from the disputes of this world, to live a free unbound life. How many times have my shoulders brushed a stranger’s on a busy street, and I mistaken them for you? Where the lights are sparse, my heart is a wasteland of a city.

问你经年孤身 又为谁等 却答无心吟歌 琴案蒙尘 轻声叹人不如新 抚眉间折痕 说不忍看我沧桑的眼神 Being alone all these years — I ask — who were you waiting for? You however answer that you’re in no mind to play songs, layers of dust covering the qin table. Softly sighing that we are already old, your hands brush against the wrinkles between my brows, And you say that you cannot bear my eyes filled with traces of hardship.

听人说后来我们都变成江湖传闻 茶楼酒肆里说完一生 你只道昔年情谊皆封存 何必有悔恨 愿前路安稳 不再为旧事执念深 I heard that later we all became jianghu hearsay, In mere teahouses and taverns our whole life’s tale told to the end. You only say our feelings of the past are all safely locked away, why feel regret? Wishing for my journey ahead to be safe, that I won’t hold onto the past any longer.

回望你执伞伫立雪纷纷 黯然失魂 剑上新穗还留有余温 你知我一心向江湖而生 终为江湖困 人间本如寄 此一生再也无归程 I gaze back at you holding an umbrella, standing still under the whirling snow, dimly panic-stricken. There’s still remaining warmth left on the sword tassel. You know that I came into being in the jianghu and am thus bound by it. We are but passing guests in this world, there won’t ever be a way back home this lifetime.