all my keysmash are belong to you

+ You know how zempasuchil erased my Dean fic, In God's Country, into a handful of valor? Well, xenoamorist has recorded 'a handful of valor' as a podfic! You can stream the recording and I suggest you do so. She has a lovely voice.

+ heshipsj2 has translated Red Light, Green Light, my Matt/Misha Blindfold fill from last round, into Spanish, which you can read here. Thanks, heshipsj2!

+ I haven't been around on LJ as much, and part of the reason is that I spend more time on tumblr these days, bullying fandom with poetry and nursing 'verses where Castiel's vessel is fire or a tiger. Also noir AU, because 7x12 is THE BEST and I hope 1940s!Dean never leaves my dash. TUMBLR, MAN. I never meant to be fo' shiz about it but then it just... kinda... happened.

+ Also I wrote 245 words of Claire and Deerstiel for Lizzen, who asked for it, which is as good a time as any to re-rec the original Deerstiel and the time Claire went hunting because DAMN.

1. The lovely jusska_89 has translated my Merlin fic, Halcyon Days (Merlin&Will; PG) into Russian! :D Thank you very much, jusska_89! <3

2. Harry Potter RPF exists, right? Because the degree to which Tom Felton ships himself with everyone is getting ridiculous. With Rupert Grint. With Matt Lewis. Look at them being criminally adorable. But let's not forget Rupert Grint's tendency to wear shirts with Dan's face on them. Didn't Rupert also wear a shirt with Tom's face on it one time? There is definitely an interview out there where Tom Felton confesses his crush on Helena Bonham Carter. Also, Tom ships Harry/Draco, and we know what they say about co-stars who are really into playing Scrabble together.

3. This is a "Mystery Spot" question, and since that's back in season 3, I don't need to LJ-cut, right? Okay. So every time Dean dies, does Sam have to live through the rest of the day, or does he just wake up immediately after every death like he's stuck in 'Waking Life'? I always thought it was the former. After Dean dies, Sam has to mope around waiting for the next day to begin again. I like that better as far as fic possibilities go. But then again, does Sam ever try NOT sleeping and trying to pass the night through to the next day? And it's still Tuesday's sunrise. Does Sam ever try to kill himself in despair, but he keeps waking up on Tuesday anyway, back from the dead?

First of all! heathblossom translated Ashes, Ashes, my wrongbad croatverse Clairestiel/Dean fic that I wrote for blindfold_spn, into Korean. :D Thank you, heathblossom!

Second of all, get yourself over to the sassy_otp commentfic meme. You should write the prompt about club DJ Cas and the Sam who fanboys him. Mmhmm.

Thirdly, a fanmix. Pretty much after I finished my Novakfest, I decided to reward myself with doodly times on Photoshop. This playlist has been sitting on my iTunes for a while. I still walk back from my internship pining for the Cas fanvid set to this. Speaking of Cas! The Casfest S6 commentfic/art meme is in progress, so expect that in a few days. In the meantime, here's Cas in season 5.




I leave the world
all the time. These arms, these

fingers, this tongue, these feet,
and their bent wings. I know
it will be dirt, the prayers

now in marrow will retake
earth. I will live inside whatever flies.
Burning, the brink of all things.

- from Being by Eireann Lorsung

( ANOTHER COUNTRY | tracklist, back cover, picspam, poemspam, download )

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/44453.html | comments]

1. Hello, Merlin fans, by any chance could any of you be so kind as to Britpick/beta 2100 words of SPN fusion AU wherein Arthur and Morgana drive around the UK killing monsters and have family drama? I would be much obliged. :D

2. I'm crossposting this from Dreamwidth because I think there are maybe some folks here to whom the following might be of interest.

When I was writing Indonesian SPN fic, I found myself wanting to write Dean lapsing unthinkingly into Sunda. Sunda is the local language in west Java (WEST SIIIIIIDE), and my family on my mother's side would always lapse into it from Bahasa Indonesia when they are excited or surprised. Because of this (and systemic bias), it's a language I associate with intimacy and high emotion. Sunda!Wikipedia! I mean, I can totally see Dean going, "Dahar euy!" when Sam comes back with take-out.

I dunno how much sense it would make even if it's just a translation trying to capture the 'feel' of things. In the hypothetical world where the Winchesters speaking Sunda makes sense, though, I 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, Sunda was one more thing to distance himself from as he embraced the standard language and a standard life. Also, when Sam and Dean are pretending to be cops or whatever, they'd probably have their furtive exchanges in Sunda.

In the USA, this kind of multilingualism seems to be associated almost exclusively with immigrant/multicultural families, which Sam and Dean are kind of not. In Indonesia, people who also speak Sunda, Javanese, Batak, etc. have been there for centuries, but their language has been minoritized and deemed informal anyway. And so maybe this is why Sam and Dean can't speak Sunda, haha -- the sociolinguistic foundations just aren't the same, and the implications of being multilingual are different.

I wonder if this is one of the reasons why there are so many terrible Indonesian translations of things. It seems there is a higher percentage of multilingual people in Indonesia, but literary/translating conventions seem to favor monolingual stories, thus bringing up issues of how to best capture ~authenticity~. Perhaps this is changing, though. A recent Indonesian soap opera, Muslimah, had their characters speaking FOUR languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Sunda, English, and Arabic. There were subtitles. It was glorious, and utter crap, and my mother never missed a single episode.

I still want Dean yelling, "Kumaha atuh!" in frustration when butting heads with Sam, though.


3. Here are some things I read that I enjoyed and agree with: cultural appropriation, ally arrogance, 'strong female character' bullshit.

ETA: JIM BEAVER TWEETING IN INDONESIAN. MY WORLDS ARE FOREVER COLLIDING. \o/

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+---+translation

Okay, now this is just fucking cool. Once upon a time, someone named Sasha_Engel emailed me asking permission to translate my X2 fic, Superglue, to Russian. I was squeeful and flattered like woah and gave her permission, asking for the URL of the finished product. She never replied back with a URL, but today I found it while Googling my email address.

Superglue (Russian translation)

How fucking awesome is that? I'm all a-squee!


+---+recs

You know, I thought I had all summer to write and finish off my WIPs, but suddenly my summer's ending in two weeks. What the fuck? I have a lot of shit to write, but for now I have non-shit to rec, in titular alphabetical order.

At The Pub by copperbadge. RPF. JK Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman. I don't believe you when you say you're not curious. PG.
As he puts it: "The book we'll never see..."
QUOTE: "Yes, the woman whose 'if you liked this book, try these!' lists my books always end up on."

Bruno Walton for Student Body President by rageprufrock & throughadoor. Bruno and Boots. Boots/Bruno. PG13.
I haven't feedbacked this yet, which is bad of me, because I really should. I also haven't replied to rageprufrock's beautiful post about immigrating to America, which I also really should. This is a collection of IC (i.e. amusing!) emails exchanged between Bruno and Boots in college.
QUOTE: Just in case my appreciation has not been made completely clear any time in the last five years, thank you so much for almost getting us suspended so that we could get a pool. Of all the times that you almost got us kicked out of the Hall, the time you almost got us kicked out of the Hall so that we could get a pool was definitely the best time.

This Is How It Happens by queenofhell. RPS. Ryan Gosling/Justin Timberlake. PG13.
I love how Proserpina writes, like, the randomest ships? And writes them well? And seriously, who doesn't love well-written rare ships? Chicka bow chicka bow bow!
QUOTE: This is how it happens: with “hello” and “nice to see you again” and a manly, backslapping, distant hug. You look at him and see yourself if you had gone another path, and you think, Thank God. Not me.
And then you think of yourself with your blonde hair and white-white smile on TV, and think, Okay, maybe me.


+---+icons

Also, I've found it is possible to get icon-maker's block. I've started some of those Help! icons, but it's hard to concentrate when your brain is going blaaaaaahlalalalalah all the time. So I only made two of those. I bring you Lock, Stock icons as well, but only eight.

1) 2)
( We grow copious amounts of ganja, and you're carrying a wasted girl and a ticket to ride. )

Anyway, you guys know the deal. Brush credits are here. If taking any, would you please be so kind as to credit 'lassiterfics' in the keywords. Not 'lass' or 'lassiter' or indeed 'fics', but 'lassiterfics'. I'd really appreciate it, because I don't want to be confused with this guy here, as I don't plan to have that kind of hairline until I'm well into my octogenarian years.

Seacrest out.