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Freelance JP→EN translator in 🇨🇭 || Kodansha, Seven Seas, Vertical, Etc. || Skip and Loafer, Gazing at the Star Next Door, etc. || FFXIV LIFE☆ (CodexNi@Twitter) https://codexni.carrd.co/ (probably outdated by the time you click it)
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Damn! Not even an hour-long walk on the treadmill got me up to 10k. Only 8.5! THIS SHALL NOT STAND (that’s it, that’s all I did with my day. Hello new followers btw)

Also, MOVIE?!?!?! Awww hell yeasss

Look: would I ever recommend the Hemmingway School of Writing to the next industry greenhorn to cross my feed? No, of course not! (Luckily for me, nobody's crossing it.) Anyway, this Moscato is delicious!

Presenting my 2024 wrapped! I assumed I wouldn't be as busy in 2024 as 2023, but you know what they say about assumptions... This list could have been even longer if I hadn't started my language immersion school this summer... 😅

2025 is less than a week away?! 😱 Crazy how fast time flies 😮‍💨 Take a trip down memory lane as we look back on your reading trends for 2024 with the ✨⏰ Yen Press 2024 Rewind ⏰✨ 🧵(1/6)

I am definitely coming down with a cold, but I am literally BEGGING, PLEADING with my immune system to hold out for, like, 50 more pages and 10 more hours of editing? pLEASE GUYS? I promise we can collapse into the nearest gutter for the next two weeks!!

Kodansha's giving away free vol. 1's through December, and today you can splurge on Gazing at the Star Next Door for the low low cost of FREEE!! The characters are BABIES and you should definitely be reading it. (I'd follow it rabidly even if I wasn't the one TLing it!) kodansha.us/2024/11/29/t...

Ah yes, I see the spam bots are slowly but surely making their ways to Booskie...

I've been having fun teaching my multicultural German (GSL?) class outdated American slang. Today, I taught them how to "groove"! Next week I'm "fixing to" (WoTD yesterday) teach them to speak with a terrible southern drawl. Any other suggestions? (I am a menace and cannot be stopped!)

I want to learn to knit. How cool would it be to make scarves and hats made from the wool sold by our neighbor down the street instead of feeding the corporate machine? 🥹 (I'm in my "dreaming about becoming crafty and not so much of a workaholic" era.) (Ps: support locally owned businesses. UwU)

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

It's time for the November #Japanese slang review! Check out the link below to learn about the words... インプレゾンビ 大感謝長光 溺愛 貴族価格 アレンパ オソマ わかり手 月イチプリ サンガツ 布教 wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/j...

Ever17's first release was so utterly jank that I fondly remember yoinking the .txt file that contained the game dialogue (YES) and systematically correcting all of the typos in the script as I found them. Even so, this is a day one purchase for me, no question.

Highwind✨ #FF7R

German is a demon language (sorry fellow Deutsch enjoyers), but I finally figured out what makes a nominative a nominative during class today and I almost cried =')

Still unpacking from the move two months ago (knocked out by pneumonia for my husband, then bronchitis for me!), but no matter how many boxes are still stacked up, nothing brings me as much joy as my bright red telephone booth coffee/tea hutch. 🥲 I have returned to my teeaboo era.

IMMA BUILD SOME FURNITURE

This is some deranged bulllshit

Just as my husband was getting over his pneumonia, I went and caught bronchitis! I was looking forward to finally having cuddle time again, but NAWP, I get to isolate instead. Good thing it isn't affecting my energy levels, 'cause I've got books to turn in. =')

Reasons why I am a Very Good Person to Hire Unless You's a Fuddy-Duddy: I get so obsessed with my projects that I'll send you pictures of my mini-shrine to said series and drop real-time commentary into the margins of my script whether you LIKE IT or NOT (Sorry)

My only regret about buying flowers for my work desk is not making a habit of it sooner. UwU

I have 86 pages to translate today, wish me luck lmao (Nobody's making me do this and it isn't indicative of the industry in any way. I'm just an idiot and I've been moving out of my apt for the past month. 🫠 By gawd, a girl has to stick to her self-imposed, low-key draconian benchmarks!)

Holy frijoles, where did all of these follows come from?! Well, Hi! I'm Nicole, and I translate comic books. My job is fun. I think I'm pretty okay at it, but I never post tips and tricks because I'm flying by the seat of my pants. 🙃 I'm pretty obsessed with figures and Final Fantasy, so ye.

AIN'T NO GETTIN' OFFA THIS TRAIN WE ON (don't worry, this is an FF7:RB spoiler-feee zone. I'm just PUMPED)

SEVEN DAYS TO SEVEN!!!! (Oh, wait. It's six now. AHHHH)

I am back on my WFT (work from train) bullshit on an eight-hour train ride from Zurich to Vienna, feat. Milchrahmkäse strudel! Not really diet friendly, but...

Can't wait to be on the 8-hour train to Vienna in a little under 24 hours, pounding out this script for Star Next Door vol. 3~ 💪 (Trains make the BEST offices. Don't ask me why. They just are.)

How cool! My German lessons were supposed to restart next week, but they've been postponed (AGAAAAIN) until April 2! At this rate, I'm going to have to start skweeting in German just for practice. 😭 (I don't know what we call Tweeting over here, but I won't be calling it anything else lol.)

Please read this super wholesome book. 🥹 Lys and I put a ton of love into it! (P.S: You can read the massive first chapter for free at Kodansha.us !)