Diana T. ☆ Laiska’s Tweets

Mar 27, 2019

🌟 Hi all, I’m D.! (a.k.a. Laiska / Waltz) ☆ Writer/narrative designer, editor, game dev, and Japanese-English translator of light novels and manga, & queer, mixed race person of wibbly gender 🌟 ✨ Portfolio: waltz.moe/portfolio/ ✨ Games: laiska.itch.io

Studio Élan ⚢ @ Please Be Happy Release Nov. 21

@vnstudioelan

Please Be Happy, our slice of life wlw VN about Miho, a Korean fox spirit, on her travels to find what it means to be happy, will release on PC... November 21st, 2022! In 3 weeks you can play as Miho & experience Wellington for yourself✨ 🦊Wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/844670/Ple

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(Tangentially, I really need to translate some of this appendix info one day so that other folks can read it. SQEX, hire me to do this legitimately!)

Am I so paranoid about this adaptation of my all-time favorite RPG that I'm literally watching it with the Deepest Lore guidebook in hand? Quite possibly!

The only way to watch the LoM anime

Katrina Leonoudakis

Localization Specialist

@katrinaltrnsl8r

Oct 27

You can have experience, education (a Master's!), and talent, but despite the number of titles out there to translate, manga and anime translators can't pay the bills. 🥲 I love what I do, but I hate how the system exploits our love and passion.

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Elena Kirillova

@pillowedwillow

Oct 26

After 1.5 years of translating manga, I've come to admit I'm just not fast enough and it doesn't pay enough to make a livable wage. Starting to look for something part-time to supplement it with.

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Little victories: Yesterday was my first totally pain-free day since early July; now we're on day 2. We'll see if it holds up 🙏

Nilah Magruder

@nilahmagruder

Oct 25

I wrote a blog post on illustrating/painting dark skin. It's part one of a dual post, still need to upload the second part, but in this post I spend a lot of time talking about cameras, which I think is an important part of the discussion. nilahmagruder.com/blog/2021/08/1

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Lil Uzi Hurt

@lostblackboy

Apr 25

I will be interviewing 100 LGBTQ elders over the next two years for a project I am calling “OLD & QUEER.” I believe it’s vital to collect stories from our elders while they’re still alive, and I’m excited to share the first one here: Pat and Paulette, both 70, in Harlem, NYC 🧵

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Secret in case anyone was ever wondering: It is not as though people in the industry now have never participated in the production or consumption of fansubs/scans; we simply learned to recognize the value of professional work and supporting the properties and grew past it :P

Things I do not recall doing #576: I just found an old cd case; apparently at some point circa 2010 I backed up all my torrented fansubs to DVD-Rs in order to save hard drive space... Talk about a time capsule 😂

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Oct 22

"This is all my fault." This may...actually be the first full comic page I've ever drawn

Apparently what motivates me in art is hurting my own feelings- Who knew! Speaking out against power can bring danger, and my cleric has been left with a terrifying dilemma... #dndart

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Oct 22

😭 Naturally, this news has shaken them up quite a bit... But they have a crucial mission to follow through on, which would put everyone in more danger if they were to surrender to the capital now, and so for the first time in ages they find themself truly at a loss ;<

(Full context: My cleric [half-elf, 97] has been implicated in aiding another priest who is being targeted by a corrupt govt for crimes he didn't commit. In the country's capital, their family has been questioned because of this, and their outspoken grandchild recently detained.)

"This is all my fault." This may...actually be the first full comic page I've ever drawn 😶 Apparently what motivates me in art is hurting my own feelings- Who knew! Speaking out against power can bring danger, and my cleric has been left with a terrifying dilemma... #dndart

JazineDraws (BLM) Commissions open

@JazineDraws

Oct 21

Here's the comic I made for #adhdcosmictakeover. I hope you enjoy it. #ADHDawarenessmonth

Mother is kneeling down to a girl in a butterfly costume.
Narration: When I was a child, my mom would call me her little butterfly.

The next panel shows a butterfly flying.

Narration: Fluttering from thought to thought. Topic to topic. I couldn't stay still for very long. I had to check out the next patch of flowers.

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Narration: I hated being a butterfly.
The picture shows the girl as a child and as a teenager.
Narration: It was the reason why I lost or forgot so many things. It was why others saw me as different. Or akward. I wanted to be like everyone else.

But.

The picture shows the mother talking to the daughter.
Mother: Without butterflies, our world would not be as lively.

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Shows a panel of flowers and butterflies around the flowers.
Mother continued: The world would not be as diverse. You may face struggles, but don't hate who you are. You are you for a reason. It takes that understanding to reach your full potential.

Shows the teenage girl cradling the butterfly in her hand as she looks at it.

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Shows a girl reaching out to the sky and butterflies surrounding her.

Narration: Take it a day at a time. But always remember the beauty in diversity you bring. Because you are you.

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Oleg Dolya

@watawatabou

Oct 21

Constellations watabou.itch.io/constellations

Studio Élan ⚢ @ Please Be Happy Release Nov. 21

@vnstudioelan

Oct 19

Need a little sapphic horror in your life this Halloween? We've published 2 wlw horror games that are free to play 💖 🌷 Without a Voice: store.steampowered.com/app/1262190/Wi ♥️ Who is the Red Queen: store.steampowered.com/app/1930440/Wh

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Hey gentles! I’m lightening my load on my figures and getting rid of ones I bought impulsively. This extra money will help me financially as I just got a new job! Please DM me for pricing!

Oct 17

Cannot stop thinking about this excessively large squash we saw yesterday

IGDA Localization SIG

@igdalocsig

Oct 16

If an entertainment company can't provide living wages for their employees and freelancers, they are operating in unethical ways.

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I wasn't super familiar with this series before starting but it's surprisingly incredibly charming 😄 I know it has a lot of fans so I hope they enjoy the work we're doing on it

Oh hey, I'm working on this one :>

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VIZ

@VIZMedia

Announcement: High school girl Erika may be on Kyoya’s leash, but she’s determined to break free and unleash his heart! Wolf Girl and Black Prince, by Ayuko Hatta, releases Summer 2023.

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Sayonara Wild Hearts Gold Rank Gameplay [PS4] - Parallel Universes

Oct 10

Thinking a lot about how this stage of Sayonara Wild Hearts is still one of the coolest bits of level design I've ever seen in a rhythm game (mild flashing/eyestrain warning):

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Parallel Universes :3

Katrina Leonoudakis

Localization Specialist

@katrinaltrnsl8r

Oct 6

Anime, manga, and LN translators, we need to talk. Y'see, there's something very, very important a lot of ya'll aren't in the habit of doing. Sit down and let's talk... ...about terminology management. 🧵

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You need to make a term list. Every project. Every show. Every game. No exceptions.

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I'm one of the lucky 15,000 this year! I never even knew about this condition before a few months ago, and dealing with it is still a learning process. It can be mistaken for so much in the diagnosis process, so awareness is incredibly important. This happens to young people too!

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Facial Pain Association

@facialpainassoc

Today is #TrigeminalNeuralgiaAwarenessDay TN is an example of neuropathic pain, arising from the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve). New cases of trigeminal neuralgia affect 4 to 5 of every 100,000 people in the United States each year. facepain.org/understanding-

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In my research I learned they call this thing the "s/uicide disease," and in the worst moments of it, yeah man, I get it 😬

I truly cannot imagine how much more strife i would have been through if I hadn't lucked out that the third(!!) dental specialist I saw about my debilitating mouth pain had not been also trained in neurology, and able to peg it right away. I really can't begin to describe it

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Brain's officially broken, was trying to find something Halloween-related on a site, saw a category called "自然" which I then read phonetically, & my brain interpreted it as "season," so I was like, oh ok, seasonal things will be in here Then got confused seeing flowers & birds

Sep 30

This wasn't the one that inspired this but this bubble is literally the size of my thumbnail, and I have TINY YURI HANDS... Mangaka, please...

The Manga Translation Process: >read text bubble >think of the perfect translation >jot it down >look again at the size of the text bubble >look at your Word document >look at the bubble >look at your document >delete and cry

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-Fairly- certain I must still have a partial draft somewhere on my old hard drive, I just hope I remembered to make a proper note or copy of the source text

I'm so haunted... there was a really cool horror short I found on Aozora Bunko that I started translating some 10+ years ago as practice that I would love to take a new stab at now that I'm, y'know, half decent, but I can't even remember who the author was, let alone the title 😭

Ishiguro Kei (石黒ケイ) - BANANA

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@corpserevivers

Sep 28

hi people of the internet! did you participate in or gm the ZDK-12/IRIS arg on tumblr? do you have access to any sort of complete documentation of it? if so, please contact me! i’ve been looking for complete documentation so that argonauts can cover zdk-12 for some time!

Being a translator by both hobby and trade means walking away from your computer five minutes later still musing different ways you could have phrased a line in an '80s disco track about one woman's deep... passionate love for bananas

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This song came up on a random Spotify playlist while I was working and the need to halt everything I was doing to translate it has derailed my entire afternoon-

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I like the banana.Artist: Kei Ishiguro Album: Yokohama RagtimeLabel: InvitationYear: 1982https://www.discogs.com/artist/1307314-Kay-Ishiguro★★I do not own an...

Or, I would assume, but the number of times I've had to break down in detail to artists what it means to have the separate facial features on distinct layers in both cases is... ahahah

Not that it's not a fairly intuitive concept, but it almost certainly helped, I think