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marthawells) wrote2025-07-07 11:42 amJuly 4 Flood Relief
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little_details2025-07-06 06:05 pmhelp with Venetian dialect
I've got a fantasy story that's set in early 18th-century Venice. I don't speak Italian, and definitely don't know the difference between the various regional dialects, so I'm looking for some help with a nickname in Venetian.
I have a priest who can use magic, who is not exactly a nice guy. Nobody likes to be around him, he's the kind of person you can just tell will erupt like a magic-spewing volcano the moment something doesn't go his way. My main character is ten when she first meets him and has a very visceral Do Not Like reaction to him, comparing him to a pack of rabid dogs. She is not told his name at the time, so in her mind she dubs him Father Mad Dog (creative, I know).
Several years ago I tried to parse "Father Mad Dog" into Italian/Venetian, and I don't know where I came to the conclusion that it'd be "Don Can' Pazzo" but that's what I've been using. I guess somewhere along the line I was under the impression that cane would get shortened to can when used like this. Is any of this correct? Or do I need another phrase entirely?
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treefrogie84) wrote in weekendwritingmarathon2025-07-06 09:28 amWriting Sprints July 7-11
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elyusion) wrote2025-07-05 01:15 am
Sunshine Revival Challenge #1
Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Because I'm obsessed with making lists, especially to-do lists, I actually do have a list of well-defined goals to finish by the end of this month. I'm only going to share the ones I'm pretty sure I'll complete, because it's really embarrassing saying you're going to do something and then not doing it.
- Translate 5 chapters of that thing I'm translating.
- Translate one smaller thing, like a one-shot or interview or something.
- Finish one (1) singular illustration.
- Finish one book of original English-language fiction.
- To the readers here this probably seems crazy to have to add as a goal, but I usually use comics to fulfill my fiction needs, and read nonfiction otherwise. For my future job I need to read more fiction in my native language though, so here I am. Although, I'm also told I need to be reading contemporary fiction, to know what readers expect now... instead what I'm reading is from the 60s and 70s. I have a problem, I think.
As for the creative prompt, I had started a drawing (completely unrelated to this event, but I was going to share it regardless), but I wasn't able to finish it in time. I'm trying to figure out what's causing me to be such a slow artist lately - lately meaning the past 5 years or so - but I hope I can do at least one of the creative prompts. I know there's not actually any time limit, so maybe I'll do them all even if it takes a while... I still haven't even finished the Snowflake Challenge though. ^^; I forgot about it until just now, although it's in one of my many to-do lists.
Here's to hoping I'm able to accomplish everything I want. 🙏🏾
fennectik) wrote in anime_manga2025-07-04 10:55 pm
Sailor Moon creator bringing back manga in color
"To celebrate the birthday of Sailor Moon’s main protagonist, Usagi Tsukino, new colored manga art has been released by the series creator, hinting at the publication of the next two volumes in the Japanese 'all-color' digital manga release."-CBR
Link to the full article
https://www.cbr.com/sailor-moon-naoko-takeuchi-usagi-birthday-art/
elyusion) wrote2025-07-03 09:58 pm
*shakes my can of links at you*
( *shake shake* )
formidablepassion) wrote in weekendwritingmarathon2025-07-03 05:37 pmSign Up July 4 - 6!
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bloomingsite) wrote2025-07-03 10:23 pm
draft notes on - veifei mirror image observations
reflections / mirror images / parallels
- VeiFei ambidextrous, perhaps ? (We see Xia Fei writing with his left hand in his PV, and we also see Vein using his left hand at various points)
- PAIN MV: literal double!vein, figurative double!felix (his disguise/mask); chp1-2 being similar tonally, and colour wise (the real shift musically is in the final chp); xf and reflections (he's a vampire who cannot behold his beauty, plus the lift where he's surrounded by pictures of himself), and vein's portraits in memory of a man who is Not dead (both hit a similar note of dramatic irony, perhaps)
- XF aesthetically takes after vein in pain mv (seeing pain!XF's outfit next to Vein's canon outfit really draws attention to this lol)
- In canon, we have both of them sporting black turtlenecks
- (the latter being heavily implied/potentially canon) "all i do is pursue" (PV song lyrics) /"i only go for the best" (canon quote) > Vein, youngest son working his way to the top (like!!! such a parallel)
- MoD — Vein turns people who win against him into tiles; Prince Xiafeierwen or whatever they called him LMAO is a prince, but one who if you are not sufficiently charmed by, he'll turn you into stone ? < need to check the details on this
- "taboo maze" (PAIN lyric, Feifei's verse) and "all taboos are off (no paths are bound)" (MoD; Vein's line/lyric) .. interesting
- The fact the episode we're introduced to BOTH Vein and Xia Fei is called THEM...
contrasts / duplicity / duality
- Colour contrast, water/fire motifs
- the translations/interpretations of their (CN) name as contrasting
- wolf/deer ( < love of the wolf by cixous core. To me.)
- Xia Fei who is all about masks and facades; Vein who Hates lies... < but, still mentions facades in bloody storm
p.s this is taken straight from my notes app, but I wanted to throw it up here as a way of....remembering it exists I guess? I'd like to do a proper write up of my thoughts on this and share it on my tumblr, but I can't quite get myself to expand on said thoughts currently. So I'm posting this here partially for my own satisfaction as well (since I don't know if anyone who stumbles across this will even know what I'm on about. Anyway!!)
bloomingsite) wrote2025-07-03 09:24 pmSunshine Revival - Challenge #1
Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
For full transparency I find goals to be a little overwhelming, so these are tentative things I'd like to do rather than 'I'm definitely going to complete these', for my sanity.
July goals
- Write One more fic for VeinFei Week
- Write a drabble sequence for Xia Fei's birthday
- Do something to celebrate Xia Fei's birthday (I'm thinking a movie since his character profile specifies he likes movies, and/or a picnic!)
PERSONAL GOALS
- Prepare + get through my grad ceremony without having a breakdown (lmao)
- Continue going on walks a few times a week
- Reduce my phone screen time at least a little...
Longer term goals for the rest of the year include:
FIC/FANNISH
- Write SGDLR exchange fic
- Write pt.3 of piercing the window paper series
- Do something fun for Vein's birthday in August! (Hotpot restaurant...perhaps... ^^)
PERSONAL (movement, work, and hobby goals)
- Get back into going to the gym (if money allows)
- Get back into running (if foot allows orz)
- Go to a fitness class (very curious as to whether I'd even enjoy one of these) OR a dance class
- Rewrite CV
- Start looking for part-time work
- Get proactive about looking for experience + opportunities in the publishing industry
- Get back into writing original fiction (this would be an autumn/winter endeavour I think)
- Start a substack (maybe. I'm thinking about it)
- Solidify reading into my everyday routine (I want to read more!!! I've only read eight books this year...)
treefrogie84) wrote in weekendwritingmarathon2025-07-03 02:44 pmWriting Sprints July 4-6
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goddess47) wrote in little_details2025-07-03 01:37 pmManga (Anime) series info?
The story is the relationship between the main character and the dad, so this is a small piece of the larger story. But I know absolutely nothing about anime (or manga, obviously!) and would appreciate some recommendations of titles that would fit those categories.
Thanks!
ETA: I'm looking for currently available titles and perhaps where they are best purchased (a bookstore, a comic book store, a specialty shop, online?)
ETA2: I'm looking US-centric here.
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fennectik) wrote in anime_manga2025-07-01 04:32 pm
Finished Patlabor the Mobile Police
But for now...
Mission accomplished.
bloomingsite) wrote2025-07-01 08:52 pm
misc musings - and it's july...
<3
trope_mod) wrote in trope_of_the_month2025-07-01 08:41 pmJuly: Amnesty Month
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dw_maintenance2025-06-30 03:18 pmRebuilding journal search again
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
fennectik) wrote in anime_manga2025-06-29 11:24 pm
Dirty Pair cameo in Patlabor (?)
Its still pretty neat.
EDIT: Thanks to a reply below, I got told its most likely from episode 2 of the Patlabor OVA.
