Arisha's Temple

Long time no see! I recently finished and finally published the translation of the first chapter of the Tales of Graces novel!

It’s been a labor of love and I’m sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter done. I’m already well into chapter 2, though, so I can promise that the rest of the novel won’t take nearly as long. I’ll make sure of it.

The link here goes to the folder I will be putting all the chapters in as I complete them, but you can also go straight to the prologue and first chapter by clicking here.

I put a lot of work and care into this so that it would read like an English novel instead of a flat translation of a JP novel, but I owe a lot to the people who helped me check the translation as well as edit it into the version you can now read.

Now that this chapter’s finally done and out, I’ll be focusing entirely on getting the next one done!

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Title: Your Own Pace Rating: T Characters/Pairing: Touma/Haruka Spoilers: None Words: 1,088 Summary: Touma lets Haruka take their relationship as he does everything else–at his own pace.

A/N: I had this thought last night as I was trying to sleep, and this morning it was still around in my head so I did what any sensible person does: I wrote it lol. Unbeta’d, so mistakes are my own. I love…this ship so much….I’m sad they don’t get many fics but I’m glad I can contribute even a little bit. Also ngl there was a little bit of projection in here.

Read it on: AO3 | FFN

I still remember when I was a young teen and he was playing a Nirvana song and he stopped it at this one line: “I miss the comfort of being sad”

He told me that when you start to get better, there’s a part of you that misses being sad and that if you start feeling that way you have to be extra extra aware and careful because if you indulge the feeling you’ll go down a self-destructive spiral

And even though that was years and years ago, I think about it all the time. Especially when I’m reading discourse on the idea of getting so attached to mental illness as an identity that you don’t want to improve things because you feel safe in it and don’t know who you are without it

Phone: Alarm is set for 4 hours and 37 minutes from now.

Me:

And honestly? I shouldn’t anyway. You can literally make the opposite argument: that it’s wrong to hide your past. If we all keep pretending that ideological purity is possible and erasing the journeys we’ve gone though to learn from mistakes and become better, more educated people I feel like that does more harm than good.

I rewatched Balto 2 after like… 10 years and it’s such an enigma to me. It has the bones of a decent or even good movie: Strong female lead, father coming to accept his daughter can handle herself, accepting what you are to discover who you are, Inuit themes (which I’d want done accurately but still cool they did it), etc. But, it was a TV movie production so its low budget squashed potential.