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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 1h

What an embarrassing website lol

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Emma @ehanashi.bsky.social · 19h

In case anyone will be in Tokyo during October/November/December…

Planning for the Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) meetups are underway! If you would like more information, feel free to DM. 🙇

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 21h

The first time I tried to use it for something work related, it couldn't even open the document, so that was that 😂

Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing like a client telling you that they think you did a wonderful job on the translation! Even better when that translation is based on the dialect you grew up speaking. Feels good, friends 🥹

#AmTranslating

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

The good news is that there seem to be quite a few options for astigmatism lenses now, so if these ones don't suit you, there are probably others!

When I brought it up with my doctor, he told me that there are lots of options and it just depends on which store you go to :)

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

I know!!! They took it out because it wasn't improving my sight, but my eye was so tired from fixing my focus that everything was blurry. It was a whole drama that took two years to fix 🤣

Love hearing about your contacts though! I've been thinking of trying them again. Good info to have!

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

I've had this since I was a kid! If you really do have astigmatism, your life will be forever changed for the better with a proper prescription 😁

Mine doesn't actually help me see better anymore (and it was 勝手に removed for 2 years as a result?), but the fatigue improvement is immense. Good luck!

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

I'm translating a series that has horizontal text fairly often to indicate languages other than English, but thankfully the font is also different, which makes it very easy to see, and I can avoid brain melt.

Sometimes they're really just throwing the challenges at you 😂😭

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

Oh the cover of the French edition is so lovely too!

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

It didn't look like it had any weird formatting, but it might have gotten funky passing through newer versions of Microsoft and then going into my 2010 version and then back into the newer versions again 🤔

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 3d

Jim, this feels like a miracle to me because the first document I tried to handle with this program in order to check viability for work would not open 🤣

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 5d

Excuse me while I scream.

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白浜鴎 @shirahamakamome.bsky.social · 5d

全ての差別に反対します。マイノリティを非難して安心を得ようとする心理と戦います。排外主義を扇動して耳目を集めようとする人の過激な発言や行動を批判します。戦争に反対します。暗い時代を生き延びるために自分に何ができるか考え続けていきたい。

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 5d

The story was quite good!

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think I know anybody who actually lives in this area who is particularly happy about this plan 😅

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 7d

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

This is actually a horrifying prospect based on what we've already seen the Bluesky team fail to accomplish 😌

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I'm sure there was room for the story still to go somewhere after they moved to Hokkaido, but it just isn't moving and I'm not sure what the point is at this stage unfortunately 😅

Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

I finally gave up on that one and got rid of all of my volumes (except for the original single volume) since after that huge time skip, it just felt like nothing sauce to me. Sad to hear that's still the trend 😭

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I remember the volume before that being really intense and then just that volume having nothing to do with anything I cared about.

Definitely reading given because of the four main characters, no offense to Mafuyu's childhood friends haha

Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

It was that thing with Hiiragi and Shizuku (is that his name?) that cooled my interest honestly. Yet I bought that movie and the other one after it?

I'm only human. I'll probably get to it eventually and then maybe read the continuation. We'll see 🤣

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

I can't remember how far you've read, but I think the last volume I read there was a specific plot device that felt extremely unnecessary and made me feel kind of ick and I haven't read it since.

Yet I continue to buy the volumes and also all of the Blu-ray discs 😆

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

And then there's me over here just shamefully not reading the last like four volumes for reasons I'm not completely clear on since I continued buying them 🤣

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

I've already had it three times. Truly terrible...

It's a lot, but I'm doing the best that I can! Thanks :)

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! It's a work in progress, but I'm doing the best I can 😆

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