*flails wildly*

[donutsweeper]

In news of the awesome in nature, faikit on AO3 has translated my MCU fic "Old Dog, New Bun" into Russian!

Oddly enough, my one semester of Russian twenty-mumble years ago isn't enough for me to be able to read it, but it looks awesome and I'm super thrilled they liked my story enough to do a translation of it. If you know any Russian please go take a look at "Старый хот-дог, новая обертка" and drop them a comment or kudos!

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I love the dialects archive!

I had no idea that was the actual difference between turtles and tortoises. I mean, I knew they were actually different creatures, but not the specifics of how they were different.

Dialects are so difficult! Especially in fic where you're trying to get the sense of someone's accent without writing it out (I've come across far too many authors who attempt writing out accents and it can be terribly painful to try to read them sometimes) but a lot of times you can get by with just using the little things like "I've not" vs "I haven't" or whatever to give the greater sense of their rhythm of speech.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

a lot of times you can get by with just using the little things like "I've not" vs "I haven't" or whatever to give the greater sense of their rhythm of speech.

Yes, exactly that! I do that with child characters, too, to show their age. Dialogue is my favourite part of writing, I love coming up with how original characters speak and distinguish them from each other.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It shows what a dedicated writer you are to do that :)