#translation refresh

[justbwilde]

My Survival translation revision reached another milestone today. I've now finished 14 out of 32 chapters.

Hopefully I can keep up this pace...

A few thoughts after rereading it:

I honestly don't think I had any real plan for this story. 😅 I just wrote whatever came to mind. That said, I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing. It was fun writing at a time when I genuinely didn't care what anyone else would think and simply followed my own instincts.

Every now and then I catch myself thinking I'd write something differently today. Then I keep reading, and I realize it actually fits the story exactly the way it happened.

Honestly? Some of the dialogue is so good that I can hardly believe I was the one who wrote it. 🤣 But let's not get carried away. There were also a few lines that I ended up rewriting because they sounded really awkward... Some sentences just sound better in my native language than they do in translation.

Diego and Allison definitely didn't get the best hand in either Survival or Give Me Your Memories, and I completely understand why that might bother some readers. But if everything had gone smoothly for everyone, those stories probably never would have existed. Sometimes I think people must assume I don't like Diego and Allison because of the way I write them, but that's honestly not true. 👀

[justbwilde]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I think I’m going to keep spamming you now and then with old fics that have been given a fresh translation. But there's an exception here, the second chapter is new. 🤭

All I could focus on was that defiant expression. And her eyes.

Maybe I was having some kind of psychotic break. I couldn't think of any other reason why I was studying every tiny detail of her face.

She was crushing my hand. I didn't care. I wouldn't have traded that moment for anything in the world.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"What?"

"Are you high or something?"

God...

I wish.