"Ya. Aku mencari--" / "Bokapmu, ya, oke. Cas, Sam nggak ada."

[whynot]

HOLY FUCKSHITS: Indonesian-language Supernatural fanfiction jfldsjfa;l <3 <3 and like Team Free Will is all terkejut because biasanya Indonesia nggak exist di Internet, but here it is! Seperti miracle dari heaven! "Yang bener aja," says Sam, and "Busyet," says Dean, and Cas is all, "Ini menghabiskan waktu. Lucifer masih berkeliaran!" YOU TELL 'EM, CAS. omg some of the fics WARN FOR SELF-INSERTS. Precious!

Speaking of which, I tried writing 300ish more words of Indonesian SPN fic. It's just some random snippet, probably the beginning of some casefic, but I mean, this is pretty much just language practice and a composition exercise, so the willy-nilly snippets help keep it low-pressure. Also, my vernacular's probably off and sounds like an old person's.

In other news, there are these two essays that deal with the portrayal of class issues and economic status in SPN that I found quite interesting. A lot of the hunters in SPN seem to be coded lower-middle class, and I do end up wondering if there are upper class hunters in SPNverse, somewhere. Using frequent flyer miles to zip around on airplanes from case to case, making hunt money from stock market shenanigans. I imagine someone kinda like Daniel Ocean meets Batman type of person. (...So, basically George Clooney?)

Now seems like the time for an interview meme. haruslex asked me five questions. If you want me to ask you five questions, comment with your favorite dessert.


1. What's your favourite black and white movie?
It is a bad sign when my first thought is, "I wonder if Sin City counts?" Outside of Pi, I don't remember many black and white movies, and I don't even remember if I even finished Pi. I've become real crap at movies in general ever since I moved to the US because movies are hideously expensive here. So, uh. I like The Twilight Zone?

2. Something I actually meant to ask you and completely forgot: who'd play 'Mary' (Martin?) Winchester in your genderbent Supernatural? My life is not complete without knowing this!
Young Mark would be played by Zach Gilford:


Older Mark would be played by Viggo Mortensen, because when woobie quarterbacks are good, they grow up to be the king of Gondor:


There are a handful of people I forgot to cast, so let's just go through them now really quickly.

Anna Anthony Milton would be played by Jared Leto. What's the angel name for this dude, then? Antoniel?:


Younger Jane Winchester would be played by Samaire Armstrong. Here is Jane before her life got completely fucked over:


Bela Brendan Talbot would be played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. That's probably some magic sword or some shit that he stole and is gonna sell to the highest bidder:


Ash would be played by Kaitlin Olson. Here is Ash before she competently translates Javanese incantations:



3. If you were going to a desert island, what book would you take to pass the time?
TOUGH CALL. I'll do the cheat and list two. Probably 'Abandon' by Pico Iyer for its meditations on love, loss, God, and loneliness, which sounds about right for being stranded on a desert island. Or maybe I should go for the Hitchhiker's Guide omnibus, because it's funny. Well, when it's not being disorientingly sad.

4. Who would you marry, boff, and kill from Merlin?
I would marry Gwen because she is the most sensible one. I would boff Arthur because look at him. I would probably kill Mordred because he's gonna cause a lot of trouble for everyone and I'd rather not have that, thanks.

5. What's a skill you wish you had?
Faking accents.

I should probably update the genderbent!SPN post with these new castings, then.

Comments

[labseraph.livejournal.com]

OMG SPN fics in Indonesian is a hoot! Not so easy reading since a lot of the words require me to hunt for a dictionary but I shall persist!

I can't find any in Bahasa Malaysia, though :p.

To comment on your reply to Horusporus on Dreamwidth:

It's actually "negara jiran", literally neighbouring country. Negeri means state.

... Dia minggat!

OMG LOL ROTF LMAO. I got this picture in my head of Rano Karno saying that exact same words.

I gotta say Dean grumbling in Bahasa Indonesia is ... I have no words. It is cute, intense, funny, deep and ... and... *flails*.

I failed to log in into Dreamwidth; beginning to really loathe it. Making commenting a zillion times harder. X(

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

What I'm wondering when I read those fics is to what extent real Indonesians speak like this. Has it been, I dunno, sinetron-ized? From what I've seen (which is admittedly not a lot), there is a big difference between the bahasa sastra favored by writers and the actual vernacular. My gut instinct is that people don't actually speak like this, but I wonder if I know enough to judge at this point.

I was wondering also whether I should've made the narration more conversational in tone, more Dean streams-of-consciousness and even LESS sastra, but HAHA my Indonesian conversation is kinda patchy anyway, so.

Ah, okay! Thanks.

I got this picture in my head of Rano Karno saying that exact same words.
lsjfdlskfds AHAHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Anak Winchesterrrr, ketinggalan jamaaaaan!

At some point, I want Dean to unthinkingly slip into Sunda (west Java language), especially when he's interjecting, though I dunno how much sense that would make, since they're still Americans in Kansas and not actually in Indonesia. And it brings up interesting questions about language hierarchy in Indonesia. My mother's side slips into Sunda all the time, especially when excited, and the USA kind of doesn't have an equivalent to this kind of in-country multilingualism. I mean, maybe Spanish? I dunno. But in the hypothetical world where the Winchesters speaking Sunda makes sense, I can see Sam speaking less Sunda than Dean. Maybe when they were growing up, Sam and Dean used to speak more Sunda to each other and to their dad, but when Sam went to Stanford, that was one more thingn to distance himself from as he embraced the standard language and a standard life.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

*from. From Kansas, not in.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

the USA kind of doesn't have an equivalent to this kind of in-country multilingualism. I mean, maybe Spanish?
Hmm, I take this back. I wager this happens in immigrant households, first second third generation. Basically, a situation where a language is still vibrant and vital in one's life despite not being the national/state-assigned default. But in the USA, I think this kind of thing is usually associated with immigrant/multicultural households. But in Indonesia, people who also speak Sunda and Javanese and Batak etc are not immigrants. They have 'been there all along', and their language is minoritized anyway. It becomes a 'bonus', rather than baseline.

And I guess this is why Sam and Dean can't speak Sunda, lol. The sociolinguistic foundation is different, and the implications/associations of being multilingual just aren't the same.