the “i don’t speak french” crisis monologue from jon in mag 102 is so funny out of context but in context it’s absolutely crushing because it’s a marking of his gradual realization he’s slowly becoming less “Jonathan sims” and more “The archivist, avatar of the beholding” and i screamed when it first clicked
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logging in and seeing miguel on your blog is literally like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
i’ve been white knuckling life for the last week thinking about him and my silly little stories in my silly little head
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Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier - in Mando’a
Here we go again.
This one is... not quite as difintively A Clone Song to me as the others I’ve translated, but there’s something about the fact that the mando’a phrase for a fresh start is ‘cin vhetin’ or white field/fresh snow, and it’s also what they call pure white armor... like the clones’... and how many of them died needlessly, died without knowing anything but war... Well, I just kind of had to translate it into Mando’a.
I’m honestly pretty pleased with how this one came out? The scansion is pretty damn good, with only one or two spots where there’s an extra syllable, and it still fits fairly nicely. (That’s the nice thing about translating a slow song; there’s more leeway.)
So, here it is:
Tal bat Cin’ciri (Blood upon the Snow)
Bah an kebise o’r kaysh taylir (To all things in her keeping)
Oyu’baat dinu akaan (The galaxy gives violence)
Kaysh meg mar’eyi tsad (He who finds a pack)
Kaysh meg kemi yust* solus (He who walks his path alone)
Uvet drashaa uraktoshya ti cir’nara* (The world grows harder with the winter)
Buire kyr’churu val vaar ik’aade (Parents bury their half-grown children)
An senaare shev’la (All the birds are silent)
Sa utreeyai* bat cin vhetin (As they starve on a white field)
Cir’nara tran*, ge’tal bat cin (Winter sun, red on white)
Sa tal bat cin’ciri (Like blood upon the snow)
Sa tal bat cin’ciri (Like blood upon the snow)
Kyrbeje olar darasuum (The battlefields here are endless)
Eparavur bal su draar yaihil (Devouring and yet never satisfied)
An meg oyu’baat ru dinu (All that the universe gave)
Cuyi taab’echaaj’la lo ka’ra (Is marching on into the stars)
Ni kemi yust (I walk the path)
Bal bid kisol olar suvari (And so few here understand)
Meg dha’ne ca (What the darkest night)
Bal cir’ne woor ven hiibi (And coldest wind will take)
Ni jii dar copaani (I now no longer want)
Haa’taylir vaii yust slana (To see where the path goes)
Dargana ner nada* (I lost my warmth)
Sa tal bat cin’ciri (Like blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Ner kot ven nu trattoko (My strength will not fail)
Al ibic akaan draar ani (But this war is never done)
Kurshise nuvore (The trees refuse)
Naas meg vencuyani (Nothing which sustains them)
Nu pitat, nu tran’nau (No rainfall, no sunshine)
Nu tal bat cin’ciri (No blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Tal bat cin’ciri (Blood upon the snow)
Bah an kebise o’r kaysh taylir (To all things in her keeping)
Oyu’baat dinu akaan (The galaxy gives violence)
[*yust (way/path, esp. metaphorical) = goyust (road)]
[*cir’nara (winter) = ciryc (cold) + ce’nara (time).]
[*utreeyair (to starve) = utreeyah (empty) + yai (belly). Could also mean ‘barren’ as in, unable to have children, as ‘yai’ also means ‘womb’.]
[*tran (sun) = tranyc (sunny).]
[*nada (warmth/heat) = nadala (hot)]
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ii shdoulnt be managnfg a store when I'm absoogurely RUINed frim snorting 4 xanax
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Every time I remember and think about Scrapnik Island I become such an emotional mess
Like damn they really did that…they actually fuckin did that
I miss them so much I need them back right now…
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Thought too hard about stede bonnet. May need to go lie down for a bit.
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sobbing crying throwing up because i bave a 7page researchbpaper due by the 12th but all i can think about is mistyembers holding hands
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IM AWAKE I PROMMY. NICO DID HAVE TO WAKE ME UP BUT!!! I AM AWAKE NOW. TOTALLY TOTALLY.
anyway!!!! doing doodles, and maybe some on stream comms again!!! come say hi! :DDD
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maybe i do actually need chin surgery
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