Hi! I moved to Japan and needless to say, life is expensive here! I have found a part time job but haven’t started it yet, and will only get money at the end of next month from it, but meanwhile I need to pay my rent at the end of this month QAQ
So in order to get some extra budget for my daily expenses, I’m opening translation commissions :) Please bear in mind that this is for things like song lyrics, manga chapters, doujinshi, drama cd episodes, interviews, blogs or news posts or basically anything, but please don’t expect you can have a novel translated for like 40$/€, translation still takes time and effort :) ((I’ve had requests for it and I would consider but it will cost you quite a bit, and it will take a lot of time~))
You would do best to contact me through email ( shiroi.sakura_at_gmail.com) or contact me on twitter <3 Let me know what you’d like me to translate, with the file included or some more information and I’ll get back to you asap.
Payment can be done through paypal or ko-fi. You only need to pay when the project is done, or for something bigger half before and the other half after.
My girlfriend needs help in raising rent and living expenses for December. She was fired by her boss in August for being in the hospital (illegal) and has been working hard looking for jobs and trying to get assistance. Any donation would be great!!
Dana and Hannah are both really incredible people! Please help them if you can
Here’s my girlfriend’s story:
Hello! My name is Dana. I currently have been out of work since August due to a medical disability that led to my being fired. My unemployment insurance payments as well as my food stamp payments have been exhausted. I am in the process of applying for social security disability insurance but the process takes several months. I am applying to as many jobs as I can in the meantime and have already had a few interviews so I am hoping to gain employment very soon. I am doing this fundraiser to raise money for December rent and living expenses. My mother is my only immediate family and she only has the resources to help with my utility payments. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story. Sending positive vibes your way ~
if you can’t donate please spread! and if you can donate, anything from 1 dollar to 5 dollars would be awesome. my girlfriend deserves the world and needs help
she’s at 302/1000 right now! please donate or spread
I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.
Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
hecate - into astrology, sleep who?, observant, spends a lot of time alone, wants to dye their hair, kind, likes coffee shops, a bit in love with the stars
asclepius -likes helping people, wants/has a dog, really smart, essential oils, nice smile, takes long showers, probably drinks herbal tea
hypnos - tired all the time, warm milk, smells like lavender, soft skin, doesn’t get angry easily, a bit sad, pretends to be calm all the time but is actually internally screaming
hebe -likes baking, pastel colors, flower crowns, runs on impulse and instinct, glitter highlighter, probably still goes to the playground, dumps a ton of toppings on their ice cream
khione -legit goes out in -10° weather with only a sweater, likes makeup, iced coffee, loves snow, brutally sarcastic, pretends not to give a shit about school but actually gets straight a’s
nike - #fIGHT ME, protects their friends, would die for fictional ships and/or characters, always on the leaderboard in kahoot, city person, minimalist, loves the satisfaction of winning
Small, slightly obscure, but really cool thing that happens in episode 1 of Yuri!!! On Ice that I don’t think a lot of people caught:
The snow.
They probably weren’t watching the weather forecast there in the first two shots, they were watching the news. This cold front came literally out of nowhere, as, like the announcer says, it was supposed to be a perfect day for hanami, ergo going for a picnic to watch the cherry blossoms. But instead, lots of snow.
Now, for those of you who live in colder areas, like myself, you probably just went “well, unseasonal snow happens sometimes, I remember once we had snow in mid-May.”
For those of you who live in warmer areas, you probably went “idk how snow works, so I guess that sounds legit???”
No.
Snow in April on fuckingKyushuis beyond ridiculous, okay. They barely even get snow in the actual winter months. This is happening on April 11th - or even later - and they should be having temperatures in the 15-20°C/60-68°F range - or maybe even higher. And they probably were, before this. That’s why Yuuri’s so surprised and confused.
So why would they even bother including this?
Victor. It’s all about Victor.
In part, I suspect it’s a literary/poetry reference, even if I can’t quite place it, because “he came from the north, bringing ice and snow” is something of a universal literary image.
But mostly, it’s because, in Japanese, when someone does something highly unexpected and uncharacteristic, like, say, me cleaning my room, you express your surprise by saying “wow, does this mean it’s gonna snow tomorrow?”
And it didn’t just snow. It snowed a lot. It’s a reference to how ridiculously unexpected it is for Victor to wanna coach instead of skating himself, for him to show up in Japan out of the blue.
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·ma
ˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
