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[issenllo]

Finished knitting my cardigan (lie: I finished last month) but had to weave what seemed like a million ends first. After the first three I felt like saying, forget it, I'll just wear it with the long ends hanging out and tell everybody it's part of the design. But done's done. I need a cookie.

Apparently MXTX is going to get official English translations of her works (details here), which is great. I'm iffy about English translations of Chinese works, probably because I'm usually mentally translating it (badly) back into broken Chinese as I read. Oh well, we will see how it looks like first - in any case, I'm really more interested in MDZS and SV, rather than TGCF as I haven't even read it yet (will get round to it one of these days, I swear).

I'm at the stage of Untamed rewatch where I'm actively resenting the fact that no one taught Xiao Zhan to play the flute. He doesn't have to actually play - he can play 'do, re, mi' throughout, since it's gonna be dubbed - but it would save me from wincing at how the lip movement doesn't look right, dammit. For guqin I have lower standards because in some scenes it is so obviously a prop that I might get thrown out of the scene, but I am not annoyed by a prop.

This has been a random update.

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[alyknight]

re MXTX
I think I saw they approaching current fan translators for the official version. But yeah will wait and see how the official editing and publishing format will be

[issenllo]

Yup, I read that. But it was the translations that I didn't like very much, too (something to do with the style) so I'm not sure if I'd actually spend money for that later.

[macey]

oh my god for real, at least teach him how to BREATHE, come ON NOW

[issenllo]

ikr? Firstly it's just uncomfortable to watch and secondly, I'm indignant like, if XZ had known how to play the flute, he'd have looked 100x more badass as WWX. >_>