guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

my liege if you keep having all of the guards come to your bedroom to read you bedtime stories, there will be no one to actually guard the castle during that time!

any intruders are welcome to join us for story time

my liege the enemies to lovers yaoi is affecting your perception of the danger of real enemies.

when will it be my turn.

holy fuck

I'm reblogging because I need more people to see this. I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

Ok russian lit tumblr what's the general consensus on Constance Garnett translations because I only read Chekhov and in regards to his works she's generally considered to have done the best translations but apparently her Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy ones are from mediocre to terrible to downright making things up?? Is she actually mistranslating and changing tone from the original works?

As far as I know, with Dostoevsky at least, Constance Garnett translations tend to be lacking. In general, they're often confusing, sometimes she leaves things out or changes scenes, and she doesn't include translator's notes (which honestly would require a pretty vast amount of knowledge that she may not have at a the time). Someone else could potentially provide more information, as I only speak english and haven't read very many different translations and haven't read Tolstoy. But this is what I know.