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Sep. 5th, 2003 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaInterpol is playing at Club Soda on the 16th. Naturally, by the time I get down to the box office they'll have sold out entirely, but it's worth a try.
Am halfway through the next chapter of GB#22 [for those in a hurry]. There's a fic there somewhere regarding Himiko's psychology in playacting, as she is cognizant and purposeful with regard to the effect achieved, but... dear saints, it's hard to write for this thing. I keep stumbling over foggy grey patches marked "We Haven't Decided What Goes Here Yet, Wuv, Authors". Now I know why I never considered writing any X-Files fic.
While researching Ban's entirely fictional occult powers (for value(research) == "desultory keyword googles"), I came across this, which has got to be the funniest thing I've read all week. (Actually no. The funniest thing I've read all week is a dj short from the antiquated SD anthology I bought at Book-Off, by Tokugawa Ranko of allBNFs people, in which Sakuragi runs afoul of a trenchcoat exhibitionist while gallantly attempting to save a couple of female classmates from same. But the link above comes close.) I'm so tempted to just use it - hey, Ban *is* technically speaking the host of a blood-thirsty reptilian from outer space, isn't he? - but that would distract from the main point of the story, to wit a ripoff hommage to Cortazar's nightmare shorts like "The Night Face-Up" or "Continuity of Parks", only with Toshiki being angsty and Juubei being unnaturally talky. Currently I only need Ban as a plot device.
Wank? You intrigue me. What is this thing you call wank?
Am beginning to recollect the lesson I learnt while translating Ozaki Minami, to wit: with great power comes great responsibility. Translators - and I don't mean just manga scripters of course, but fansubbers as well - have probably the subtlest and most pervasive influence on fanon slant of any animanga fengroup, and 95% of the time it's entirely inadvertent. OTOH that's why I decided to translate rather than burble on happily about what I just read, because in that case my subjectivity is all you'd be getting.
Am halfway through the next chapter of GB#22 [for those in a hurry]. There's a fic there somewhere regarding Himiko's psychology in playacting, as she is cognizant and purposeful with regard to the effect achieved, but... dear saints, it's hard to write for this thing. I keep stumbling over foggy grey patches marked "We Haven't Decided What Goes Here Yet, Wuv, Authors". Now I know why I never considered writing any X-Files fic.
While researching Ban's entirely fictional occult powers (for value(research) == "desultory keyword googles"), I came across this, which has got to be the funniest thing I've read all week. (Actually no. The funniest thing I've read all week is a dj short from the antiquated SD anthology I bought at Book-Off, by Tokugawa Ranko of all
Wank? You intrigue me. What is this thing you call wank?
Am beginning to recollect the lesson I learnt while translating Ozaki Minami, to wit: with great power comes great responsibility. Translators - and I don't mean just manga scripters of course, but fansubbers as well - have probably the subtlest and most pervasive influence on fanon slant of any animanga fengroup, and 95% of the time it's entirely inadvertent. OTOH that's why I decided to translate rather than burble on happily about what I just read, because in that case my subjectivity is all you'd be getting.
