Where! Has! My! Passion! Gone! I Had It Abundantly When I Was A Child, And I Must Have Dropped It Along

where! has! my! passion! gone! I had it abundantly when I was a child, and I must have dropped it along the way, but I cannot figure where!

As someone who uses a cane myself, I must reblog because All This. 

Also I want to contribute that my sister and grandfather have canes made out of repurposed vintage farm equipment and horseshoes. 

And once I saw a woman at a concert who had a cane that was molded to look like a femur. CANE GOALS. 

i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.

I will add a note to support self-care!

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

A Second Chance chp 2+3

For @kisames-corner Kisame Birthday Bash 2023! Here’s links to day 2 and 3 of the bash!

Rating: T

Chapter Two: The Power of Refusal

Prompt: Comrade Killer

Summary: It's graduation day, but for the low-caste cohort there's one last exam. Kisame knows how everything ends, unless he can change something. Will he become a comrade killer for a second time?

Chapter Three: Bonds Formed

Prompt: Roommates

Summary: Everyone has survived, but now comes the hard part. What do they do now, and how will they survive with the cards stacked against them?

Links below the readmore:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45811153/chapters/115383085#workskin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45811153/chapters/115444201#workskin

This is a great idea and a great offer. Rebloging!

Also, does ‘white man’ include non-cis white men? 

whole thread from post calling for "any POC interested in Japanese translation". so understand full context.

DM @/lhkuroda on twitter if interested, for real.

Twitter thread:

(Link: thread 1) (Link: thread 2) (Link: quote retweet) (Link: 2023 Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases article)

@/lhkuroda on twitter (April 10, 2023):

"Cannot believe how much Japanese fiction is coming out in English this year. Almost unreal.

this list also reveals that more than 90% of Japanese literature translators are still white men. we desperately need more translators who are not that. please.

i'm literally begging.

Japanese in particular seems to be worse than almost any other translated language i can think of. ask yourself why that is.

i count 32 books of translated japanese fiction coming out this year. out of those books, 8 are translated by women [of any racial background]. 6 are translated by people of color [of any gender].

if you are a person of color and you are even remotely interested in becoming a japanese literary translator (all caps): Please D.M. me. I will Help you. This is an S.O.S. (end of all caps)

and if you are a white man and you feel that translating japanese literature is your calling i am begging you to do anything else."

two years ago Kenji Liu and I got funding from @/poetswritersinc to run a free, online workshop for people of color interested in learning about japanese literary translation. more than 30 people attended.

would anyone like to fund me to run another one? idk it feels urgent.

i can share tips for getting started, basic industry info around pitching, plus some 101's of translating literary fiction in general

every year more and more white men become japanese literary translators, and more and more women and people of color are discouraged and bullied and manipulated out of projects they deserve to work on bc these assholes are powerhungry and there are a lot of them.

a very prominent white male translator of japanese bullied me into quitting a project this year because he insisted there was something wrong with every single sentence of my story, and refused to let me publish until i accepted every one of his edits. i almost quit translating.

then i remembered that he can go fuck himself. so anyway if you are anyone that's not a white man and want advice about starting out in translating japanese literature i'm more than happy to help or offer advice."

@/kalauapuwailani on twitter:

"same offer stands here!"