Aliya Vasylenko

@aliyav.bsky.social

Bisexual bookworm, she/her

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen

David@crookedknight.bsky.social · 6d ago

*Standing up on the plane* This is the story of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy." Perhaps the most remarkable - certainly the most successful - book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than "The Celestial Homecare Omnibus," better-selling than

I’m not officially listed as one of the people who discovered Gummy Bear Poisoning but without my body to study the medical world would still be in the dark.

*sigh* This is not how translation works in the real world, I do not MAKE WORDS UP because I FEEL like it as the translator, the AUTHOR coined a neologism and I, in turn, came up with a TRANSLATION for it, I don’t just PUT THINGS INTO A BOOK THAT AREN’T THERE you guys locusmag.com/review/the-h...

Translator Anton Hur does a good job of evoking these types of media while also preserving the distinctiveness of Lee's setting and characters. On one point, however, he and I must part ways. He coins the neologism
"nearm" to describe the Nhaga's telepathic communication, and substitutes it for verbs like talk, speak, or say. This is presumably in keeping with Lee's choices in original text, but the result - "Ryun, nearm me, what should | do?" - is rather distracting.

🔥🪩 Introducing Burn and Rave, the new novel from Max Porter 🔥🪩 Meet Lynette - actor, writer, director, show runner. It’s her birthday and she’s about to star in her final movie in her head. Knowing Lynette, she won’t go gently into that good night. Publishing 11 February.

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