#onewayworld

Yeah that's def the most awkward part, but I can't help but think they put that in there because 1) Frankenstein book reference 2) lead in to her and his connection to Zicterium and 3) to slow Cardia down so she doesn't confess her love until the last few chapters like with everyone else.

It makes sense they’re play with the audience about it, since Frankenstein’s monster, but #3 also makes sense, considering they still spend more of their route having confessed and being lovey-dovey than others even with that. If the didn’t delay it, it would give the unfortunate impression that Victor falls in love with her in the common route, thus dooming him to one-sided love every time you don’t pick him.

Wow, hi!!  Yeah I remember you :D  I’ve seen your Tumblr around, and I snooped a bit and you used to go by Yamamoto Kou right?  Good to see you still around ☺ And gosh someone actually remembers that I scanlated DGM for five minutes!!??!?! I’m very flattered and sorry that we didn’t go on with that for longer lol.  Anyway gotta be honest, it’s been a minute since DGM for me so my memory is a little fuzzy lol, but I recall you being a chill cool person :)  Hope you’re doing all right yourself, goodness knows it has been a struggle for everybody in the hell year of 2020.

As for your questions, let’s see...

Interacting with Japanese fandom: Gonna be honest, it’s been a while since I did a lot of this.  It is very hard to break into Japanese-language fandom spaces in terms of like, actually making friends, if you’re not Japanese yourself.  If you really wanna make a serious go of it I’d say you pretty much have to be out there producing fanworks on a regular basis, or starting interesting discussions on Twitter on a regular basis, that sort of thing.  As in English-speaking fandom, being prolific with posting and proactively going out to interact is the easiest way to get noticed by like-minded people.  Though at least these days you probably don’t have to be on Mixi or anything like that lol since Japan has adopted Twitter so enthusiastically.  Japanese fandom can be extremely insular though, a lot of stuff takes place in private spaces or completely at offline events, and obviously the latter is something that most English-speaking fans simply aren’t going to be able to break into for the sheer effort and expense -- I’m not sure how that side of things has been affected by the pandemic, but still, the fandom has that tendency.  Sorry this is very generalized but if anyone else has any more detailed thoughts, please do feel free to leave your own comments.  I don’t have more specific advice because the last time I had the time and energy to genuinely (unsuccessfully) try to make Japan fandom friends was several years ago lol.

Translation commissions: I absolutely take commissions! I used to do this more formally in the past and had a site and stuff, but I never really got any bites so it’s more of a case-by-base basis when people ask me these days.  Mostly I am a J→E text translator: my standard rate for fandom stuff is USD $0.04/character for pure text, $1/page for manga (text script, scanlation is extra).  I have not been asked to do a drama CD before as I normally don’t work with audio, but I’m open to the idea!  I’d probably have to listen to and transcribe the CD before translation (unless of course you already have a text script) which can be a quite labor-intensive process, especially as my auditory processing isn’t the greatest, so that would be an extra fee; but I’d be very glad to give you a quote on what I would charge if you want to discuss details.  (Incidentally I have also been commissioned to do E→J in the past, which I’m happy to do as well with the caveat that I’m not a Japanese native speaker so I can never guarantee complete accuracy in that direction.)

Hi! :D  How you doing?

I’m afraid I haven’t kept up with DGM in quite a long time.  It lost me completely during the arc where Alma was introduced and I just gave up lol.  Though I’ll always have fond memories C:

I have heard about the group trying to put together a new Xkit, but old Xkit still works fine for my purposes, so I haven’t felt the need to switch.  I’m also not confident that this new group will stick around considering that it’s a lot of work to maintain a project like Xkit with Tumblr’s constantly changing code, not to mention providing support to users with problems and dealing with the sorts of demanding assholes who ran off the poor Xkit guy in the first place.  I hope their group is able to handle it all, but I guess we’ll see.

Glad you’re enjoying the GW2 stuff, I’m pretty hyped for it lately with Heart of Thorns coming out this year!!!!  I got to try some of the new class specializations during the last beta weekend and the necro one was pretty amazing.  I can’t wait to get to use it for real.

OHHH man here let me dump some info I got…

But the TL;DR answer is: If you act fast, sure. 

I’m just gonna quickly mention a list of organ stuff without muscle because I really did not look into muscle loss and I don’t think you do transplants of that (I might edit this ask after searching). But for now, I’m assuming it’s similar-ish.

If you don’t like medical details and surgery crap, don’t read any further

a break is definitely a good idea! especially since this kind of thing tends to kill morale. ^^; not really the person for colour advice tbh, but colourlovers.com or the hue/saturation slider could help you decide maybe. hmmm, what program is it btw?

Took a break, I think it helped to clear up some things about why I was struggling, the main conclusion I reached is that I realized these are all things I've struggled with before and I just have to remember what worked then and that should help.