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Also on: AO3

My submission for Blind Go—an ensemble-cast video about the various criss-crossing paths that the characters have chosen to walk, featuring a hug compilation at the end. :) Tap the CC button for English subtitles.

I don't really have a lot of feelings about this, but I relistened to the full song recently and now I appreciate my past self's audio choices? I'd spliced together all the chorus variations from different sections of the song, so the chorus in the video comes off as overly long but I think it kiiiiinda works when it ends on the big, sweeping instrumental break.

The song is 夜空中最亮的星 (Brightest Star in the Night Sky) by Escape Plan. As I was looking for cover versions I could possibly use I ran into Yisa Yu's performance which was absolutely ethereal and went straight into my personal playlists... Wish there was a full version!

I still ended up using with the original studio version by Escape Plan because the lyrics were more complete and the vibes more appropriate. ^^;

I was pretty satisfied with the lyric translation at the time I wrote it, for the simple reason that at that it looked like it was done by a human person. It's a fairly straightforward song but sometimes you have to hang on to the little things.

Translation "draft":

I never refer to these when I'm actually subbing btw (I prefer to translate as I'm watching my own vid), it's just a good way to organize my thoughts and consider how else I can edit my vid.

CN lyrics + text translation below )
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Re-posting because I was feeling nostalgic—technically it's a Qihun fanmix (concept: Gu Yu and Jiang Xueming make a mix CD together), but it's pretty much a 2000s Mandopop playlist with three out of the five S.H.E songs I know. Originally posted on Tumblr 3 years ago.

fanmix cover tracklisting

tracklist, stream links, and notes here on [community profile] chillwaves




Recently:

  • Finished watching To the Wonder, which certainly, uh, took a turn in the last ep. I think I have thoughts about the show and some notes about the production, but right now my only thought is that I could have been healed with more scenes of baby sheep.


  • Started reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Rainbow Turtle fantranslation). I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected! Some of the character moments were scenes I didn't even know I needed... But it really is so long and I'm bad at consuming anything for extended amount of time so I've stopped, somewhere around volume 5. I like that it's appropriately webnovel-y and very easy to read on the phone (it's very light on descriptions), while also being meaty.


  • Got myself stuck in the Proving Grounds of Eiyuden Chronicle. 🤣 I initially stopped playing because I wanted to wait for "the right time" to do a dungeon crawl, but, well, weeks have passed... Sometimes I turn on the game so I can "explore a bit"... But there's a puzzle element to this dungeon and I genuinely don't remember which dungeon configurations I've finished... And battles still take forever to load so I ragequit every time I try to continue. 🤣


  • Saw 毛雪汪 ep 90, featuring Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng. I now get all my ZXC updates from [twitter.com profile] gixininja, a Tan Jianci fan who... has conditioned me to think about Tan Jianci every time I think about ZXC. I initially wasn't going to watch this because I just don't have the spoons/attention span for variety shows (ZXC is doing a lot of variety shows this year and I simply am not following them), but she assured me it was my type of variety show (chill and cozy) AND informed me that Mao Buyi has a pug who is an official cast regular... She was right! There were also mentions of TJC, which I reported accordingly. XD

    My key takeaway from that ep is that ZXC wrote a song for the drama he and WYW are in (whose English title is *drumroll* You Are My Lover Friend), and that WYW was NOT asked to sing for it, as previously agreed. (From what I understand, it's meant to be a duet?) (This is all told in good humor, since WYW and ZXC are childhood friends, and 80% of the ep is WYW exposing ZXC.)

    I also have to say that it also felt very freeing to just sit back and watch this without having any thoughts about subbing or translating or cutting the video into bite-sized segments... And to not really feel a thing except mild interest in music. I feel like my Chinese has deteriorated a lot over the past year of stepping away from fandom and most cmedia, but it's really nice to just be a regular viewer lol.

    Anyway this is the ep... I didn't realize how clickbait-y the episode description was until now haha:
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    3 Qihun / Hikaru no Go + 3 Nirvana in Fire vids ♥ This was exhausting but the quantity made me feel better about the quality haha.

    Hikaru no Go



    Cupid (Shi Guang/Yu Liang)
    A Tiktok-style edit for the prompt: Shi Guang and/or Yu Liang go to sleep on far ends of the bed from each other but wake up to realize they are snuggling". NOTE: fast cuts.
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


    Here's to Never Growing Up (Shi Guang/Yu Liang)
    For the prompt: Shi Guang/Yu Liang go-themed wedding day. In my mind, their wedding is just a big go tournament. XD NOTE: fast cuts
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


    Anhe Bridge (Gu Yu + Go Club)
    For the prompt: Gu Yu-centric + 安和桥 vibes + If you feel so inclined to make it shippy with Jiang Xueming I would love that too but no pressure. NOTE: Lyric translation is by me and might contain mistakes - feel free to point them out!
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr


    Nirvana in Fire


    Nirvana in Fire OP (Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan)
    For the prompt: Fan video of Mei Changsu and Xiao Jingyan with their typical drama, longing, tragedy, to the music of the opening!
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter


    I of the Storm (Mei Changsu character study)
    For the prompt: Mei Changsu or Mei Changsu & Xiao Jingyan focus
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter (part 1) / Twitter (part 2)


    Hello, My Old Heart (Lin Shu | Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan)
    For the prompt: Mei Changsu (Lin Shu)/Xiao Jingyan, romantic or platonic. For fic: post-canon reunion, angsty with happy ending please. For non-fic: any setting, prefer non-AU.
    Watch on: AO3 / Tumblr / Twitter
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    Cross-posted: AO3 / Tumblr


    Gu Yu fanvid set to 安和桥 (Anhe Bridge), a song about halcyon days and memories of being loved.

    Prompt from [archiveofourown.org profile] jianghuchild: "Gu Yu-centric. Something that explores his character, especially his inferiority complex, his pride, his sort of 可怜之人必有可恨之处 type of thing." + 安和桥 vibes + "If you feel so inclined to make it shippy with Jiang Xueming I would love that too but no pressure"

    This was such a great song suggestion from the requester herself! I got all the feels reading the lyrics and found it perfect for a number of Hikaru no Go characters. ;__; I tried to squeeze in as many shippy moments as I could (as requested) but the gen / Go Club feelings won out haha. I love them!!! So much!!!

    There were a couple of lines in the lyrics I wasn't sure I understood, so I'm afraid I might have mistranslated them. Thankfully my audience of one doesn't need subs???

    -

    One last request left, with a week (and a whole weekend) to spare, which means I might end up dropping the ball on it. I feel bad for the requester already ajsksdfpa;sj;
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    (In lieu of a media log - I barely watched/read anything)

    Subs:

  • 她属于我 She Belongs to Me: audiodrama clips
  • 待我醒来时: wrap-up special/teaser
  • 春色寄情人 Will Love in Spring: BTS - Wechat scene
  • 微暗之火 Tender Light: Apr 21 trailer [blocked]
  • 微暗之火 Tender Light: Apr 22 trailer [blocked]

    Vids (for Cdrama Gotcha for Gaza)

  • 棋魂 Hikaru no Go: Cupid (Tiktok-style edit) for [archiveofourown.org profile] chapatiluvsfic
  • 棋魂 Hikaru no Go: Here's to Never Growing Up for [archiveofourown.org profile] chapatiluvsfic
  • 琅琊榜 Nirvana in Fire: opening theme edit for [archiveofourown.org profile] StarsinmyTea (process post here)

    Misc.

  • Delicious in Dungeon, Handsome Stewardess, Their Story: icons

    Re: Cdrama G4G - My main assignment was the second one (Hikaru no Go - go-themed wedding), everything else was a pinch hit with self-imposed deadlines and I think it kind of shows. ^^;

    And I think I might have translated/scanslated the final main chapter of the I Ship My Rival X Me manhua for a couple of friends at some point? But it's not work I'm proud of so I'm happy to just let it be buried in the chat.

    I've also managed to continue reading at least 2 chapters of She Belongs to Me a week which I'm happy with. But no time for journaling. :( :( :(
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    Content notes: both videos have fast-ish cuts

    For the prompt: "Shi Guang and/or Yu Liang go to sleep on far ends of the bed from each other but wake up to realize they are snuggling"






    For the prompt: "Shi Guang/Yu Liang go-themed wedding day"

    The idea is for Shi Guang and Yu Liang's wedding to be a Go tournament, but I lost track of the plot around 30 seconds in oops haha


    In other news, P-pop girl group BINI, who just released a banger summer minialbum, appeared in Mango TV's Show It All today...It's pretty cool to see a Chinese translation of their lyrics even though some of it is wrong (they should have retranslated from the official English translation, IMO) + the Tagalog lyric captions are a mess lol.



    Full highlights cut here
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    Happy Mid-Autumn!

    Spent a fair amount of the weekend with family because relatives had flown in for a wedding the following day (my cousin's cousin). Also read 繁星, Bing Xin's collected poetry fragments, because Zhang Xincheng was doing a reading for the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala... ended up subbing it myself and reading the English translation (book link: A Maze of Stars and Spring Water), a worthwhile exercise since the original text was still pretty fresh in my head and I could follow along the translation choices. Posting the original text + translations here for my reference!

    My translation:


    Idk if this makes sense, but I consider myself more of a subber than a translator, so generally I don't think my "translations" hold up in text form haha. I love how the video format allows me to disregard form and line breaks, because as much as I enjoy reading freeform poetry I have nooooo understanding of the craft.

    I don't really have any notes, other than me giving up on finding synonyms for "deep" so I subbed it with words for distance, and that the line 灿烂光中的休息处 is very much open to interpretation, so I went with the image that was in my head when I was reading it.

    My translation (line by line with the original Chinese text) )


    Published translation (it's unclear who translated it):
    Source: A Maze of Stars and Spring Water
    'A maze of stars glistens...' )



    Art recs (mostly Mid-Autumn related)
  • [twitter.com profile] washanapple: Happy Mid-autumn Festival
  • [Legend of Hei] The Legend of Hei Mid-Autumn 2022 art
  • [Legend of Hei] [twitter.com profile] naconaco757: The Legend of Hei Mid-Autumn (behind the scenes)
  • [Qihun] [twitter.com profile] dcbananagirl: Shi Guang and Yu Liang
  • [Qihun] [twitter.com profile] wwKjjaww Chu Ying :(((((((
  • Yoruneko anime: Mid-Autumn art
  • [Legend of Hei] [twitter.com profile] Eurya8 cute GIF of Xiao Hei and A-Gen!
  • [comic] [twitter.com profile] onenhillion: notes on happiness: Happiness used to feel like a coin toss
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    Also on AO3

    Second attempt at vidding--the first one was in 2018, and it took me an entire month to put out something that was barely over a minute long. I used a trial version of Adobe Aftereffects last time, learning as I went, but I can uhhh no longer get AE to work for me? So I downloaded Davinci Resolve 15 (free) and I like it! I don't vid so I don't really have any basis of comparison, but for simple vidding with typesetting (like in the video) I found it pretty intuitive to use. I guess it helps that I've used AfterEffects that one time so I have a rough idea of keyframing basics so I can get the type to behave how I want it to.

    I'm not very sure what other features it has. I still don't know how color grading works (took me forever to desaturate the Dear Missy clips--if I had to replicate a type of coloring, I wouldn't be able to do it), and if I can do any kind of masking in it. There's a fancier paid version that has more bells and whistles and motion graphics functionality, but I probably don't need those?

    Anyway I'm trying to be better at documenting my process, so:

    Read more... )
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    Note: Updated Mar 23, 2021

    This is a list (with summaries/descriptions and rough translations) of some Qihun fancomics that I really liked, mostly found on Lofter.

    As a courtesy to the original artists, please don't repost any of these fancomics, or edit in the translations.

    Disclaimer: My main objective is just to organize and summarize what I read/liked and make it easier for me to rec them. XD I'm definitely not a native speaker, my Chinese is at a pretty basic level, so I recommend heavily salting the accuracy of any ~translation~ I do. I mark the parts that I'm very unsure of. Feel free to comment or @ me on Twitter when I get stuff wrong. If you have alternate translations, I'd also be happy to link them here!

    LEGEND:

    : personal favorites
    ?: dubious translation. help appreciated!
    []: interjections and wild guesswork


    Table of Contents:

  • Gen
  • Bai Chuan/Fang Xu
  • Chu Ying + Shi Guang | Chu Ying/Shi Guang
  • Shi Guang + Yu Liang | Shi Guang/Yu Liang
  • Misc.


  • Read more... )

    There are still some comics I've bookmarked but not read, so I might update this list, just not... soon. o<-<
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    A super rough transcript/translation of the post-canon VR game that I did during the holiday break and forgot to post!

    If anyone can tell me what Shi Guang says at 01:47 in the first video, that would be great. XD Edit: Apparently "等等,我跟不上你的思路" (thank you so much, [twitter.com profile] 50percentcharge!)


    Video links:
    Full game + Ending 1
    Ending 3 + Ending 2

    Translation (EN):
    Full Game + Ending 1 )
    Ending 3 )
    Ending 2 )

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