Must Reblog Cute Post

Must reblog cute post

I haven’t posted on Tumblr in a while! I’ve been struggling with chronic illness, trying to get disability, and mental health. But good news is I finally got top surgery! 

The not so good news is that being off work even for a little bit has eaten up all of my emergency money, and the bills don’t wait. I have no idea if anyone will even see this, but what’s the worst that could happen. 

https://gofund.me/23009c60

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

Oh man. I really want to write something like this? This sounds like so much fun and is so up my alley. (I am that slightly unhinged dude risking all of time to bring back the extinct birds. It is me.) 

...subplot of the wildlife photographer who is dead set on personally documenting mid-pliocene Brazil or something and tries to do everything by the book! But repeatedly ends up needing to get slightly rescued because they totally forget in the rush of getting That Shot that sometimes stepping on that twig will have effects down the timeline...

here is a concept: time travel cop, fish & wildlife division

most of their job is dealing with the kinds of assholes who think black market tiger cubs are a great idea right up until someone gets mauled, except these are even bigger assholes with black market Smilodon cubs that they are even less equipped to care for

this is the most straightforward and therefore relatively headache-free part of their job, because it’s the same “put that thing back where it came from or so help me” song and dance every time

it’s also significantly less depressing than the trophy hunters who don’t even want an alive extinct animal. those are extra annoying because you have to undo the time travel that let them kill that poor Megatherium or thylacine or anklyosaur or whatever, and it’s always so much extra paperwork.

and those people suck, definitely, and have fully earned a stint in Time Jail. no question. but they still do not create anywhere near as much work as the obsessive hobbyists with their exhaustively careful best practices and worryingly good track-covering. also, weirdly, it’s almost always birds with them?

like. the guys who will flagrantly abuse Time Law to bird-nap breeding pairs just long enough to raise one clutch of eggs apiece, and return them seamlessly to their spots on the timeline. who are so determined to keep their pet (ha) projects going that no one even realizes what they’re doing until they have an entire stable breeding population of passenger pigeons up and running. who are now the reason that reps from six different zoos are about to start throwing hands right in front of you over who gets dibs.

those guys cause the most paperwork. and half the time they’re snapped up by the same zoo or wildlife preserve that gets their colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers or Carolina parakeets or — once, very memorably — giant fucking South Island moa, and they never even spend a day in Time Jail.

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!"

Giving this a reblog again!

There are five hours left for the third round of art claims at @wipbigbang! We have all sorts of great stories left in multiple fandoms, and we'd love any type of fanart for them: traditional art, digital art, fanmixes, moodboards, fic covers/chapter headers...any kind of art you can imagine!

The synopses are located at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/172787.html

The form is located at https://forms.gle/RLv3ZuRYyJYMPB6c7.

These are the fandoms we have left needing fanartists:

9-1-1 (TV)

A Song of Ice and Fire

American Idol RPF

Arcane: League of Legends

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Batman/Harry Potter

Bustafellows

Criminal Minds

DC Comics

Dead Poets Society

Disney Fairies, Pixie Hollow

Dragon Age 2

El Goonish Shive

Encanto

ER/Star Trek: The Next Generation

Final Fantasy

Generation Kill (TV)

Grand Theft Auto

Harry Potter

Harry Potter/CSI: LV/Hocus Pocus

Hermitcraft

Hockey RPF

It

Jujutsu Kaisen

Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016 film)

Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko’s Basketball

Law & Order: SVU

Mandela Catalogue

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wandavision)

Mass Effect

Nope (2022)

One Piece

Only Murders in the Building

Original Work

Pacific Rim

Pyre

Rules of Engagement/Teen Wolf

Spider-Man

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Voyager/Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Wars

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Star Wars: Rogue One

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Supernatural/Black Mirror

The 100

The Last Binding (Freya Marske)

The Silmarillion

The Untamed/MDZS

Transformers: Bayverse

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Wheel of Time

World of the Five Gods (Bujold)

炎炎ノ消防隊 | Enen no Shouboutai | Fire Force (Manga)