#sdl drive

Lovely peeps! A little while ago we reached 100+ people in the drive! How great is it that we reached 100 people watching SDL with english subtitles in only a year? And in the meantime, we've reached more than 1TB of content on our main drive and about halfway the Mafin part drive.

When we launched this drive about a year ago, we were mostly just sharing the work we were already doing, hoping to get SDL to more people. We were going through it, knowing Alba had to leave at any moment and no clue when she'd get back. Making these corrected subtitles kept us hooked, on the plot (not all of them though) and on analyzing the characters, the plots, the weird twists and turns this show takes.

Thank you for joining us, and continue to spread the word! I'm still noticing that a lot of people don't know we exist, or think we're an old defunct drive. Nope, we're very much up and running.

That being said:

If anybody is interested in helping us out, in any way, do not hesitate to contact any of the team. (See masterpost pinned to my blog) Lives are busy, and the more people we have, the more we can spread the project out, work on the backlog of episodes, or work on the daily episodes. Even if you can only help for a little while, we're happy with any help checking subtitles.

I've uploaded more Belmonte and Brunet projects that they've done before and during SDL! I'd say about 90% of the projects either actress has been in, is now also available in the Donation Folder of our drive as a little extra for people who have donated. The projects are not always (fully) subtitled, and some are as of yet impossible to find.

I don't want to keep fanprojects behind a paywall and the drive will always remain free. But it did feel nice to be able to give these projects (some of which are incredibly hard to find) to the people who are able to support us in that way.

Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart to make this project so broadly supported among the mafin community. It's a pleasure to keep making these subtitles (even if we in the group often groan and get fed up with certain storylines. We'll still do our best to correct them!)

Access to the Mafin/SDL Drive: DM me (not an ‘ask me’) an email address with access to Google Drive. I’ll add you to the access list! 

What we have: The English subtitled episodes/parts that we ourselves have made are always titled the same (SDL XX ENG subs & XX Mafin), and will start with our credits. The episodes that have not yet been corrected by us will have a different title. 

Season 1 & 2: The earliest SDL episodes, and everything after ep 300 have been subtitled with fully corrected & uploaded by the team. We’re working on the Supercut Mafin parts for the episodes we have already corrected but our priority is with Season 3 & the daily episodes. Eventually, we do want to correct all of the full length SDL episodes, and create the Supercut. 

The episodes we haven’t gotten to yet are on the drive with CC’ed subtitles you can turn on/off. These subs have been checked by a third party that gave them to us to use. For these episodes, we have the parts made by @excellentrectangles!

Season 3: All the episodes corrected by the team. 99% of the time, the new episode will be uploaded to the drive within about 2-8 hours after it airs in some form. Sometimes that is a DRAFT episode, which means subtitles are not (entirely) corrected yet and will be checked over later & reuploaded. 

The Mafin parts for these newest episodes might be uploaded, but might also be reworked. Since we include context scenes, sometimes we go back to include a scene that might, at first glance, seem unrelated. Only for it to later be important context for the story. 

Donation Folder: Extra Belmonte & Brunet content from past work, often not subtitled in English. Some of these are hard to find, so we wanted to make them available. This folder is the only thing stuck behind a ‘Donation Wall’. If you donate, you can let me know and I will add you to the folder!

Donations can be made via our KoFi page. These donations are used to keep the Google Drive online, the Atresplayer subscriptions, now & in the future.

Once in the Drive, there is also an FAQ for more information.

To close the gap between episode 44 and episode 300, there has been an offer by someone whose done a lot of work for the Mafin fandom by making these cuts. We've been granted permission and access to translated and corrected subtitle files for SDL and Mafin parts, along with a Mafin cut for many of the episodes we are currently missing made by @excellentrectangles! This will be a big help for me and the team to make sure you all don't have a massive gap between T1 and T2, and can go back to the most essential Mafin scenes already. And even full SDL episodes!

These episodes work via CC files on the player, instead of being hardcoded. The files are named differently so you might have to scroll a bit to see which version there is. We didn't do any edits to these video files or subs yet. The episodes/parts that we ourselves have made are always titled the same (SDL XX ENG subs & XX Mafin), and will start with our credits to avoid confusion. The episodes that have not yet been corrected by us will have a different title. For these episodes, our plan is still to go back through them and continue to create our Supercut of all supercuts for Mafin. And to further correct the subtitles we have for the full episodes. See this as somewhat of a middle of the road. We also don't claim to have made these subtitles ourselves, or these edits, and I want to thank the people who have previously worked really hard on this for allowing us to have access to these files.

For the Mafin parts, they're being uploaded to the folder as we speak. For the full episodes, it'll take a little bit to get all of the files uploaded to Drive. But with the recent expansion of the Drive I bought (since a NAS is still too far away), at least we have enough storage space!

As always, me and the team thank you for the support, both here and through donations. You've been instrumental in making this a possibility and covering most of the costs we've made so far to keep this massive project going.

I think I can now, with this update, officially say that this drive is The go-to place for SDL and Mafin for English subs.

Thank you to everyone watching with us, theorizing with us, tagging us, and making this a rewarding experience.

As the team has expanded, we've implemented different work methods and tried a bunch of things. We've streamlined a lot.

A massive thank you to the entire team for coming on this journey with me.

@mafin-libertad, @galacticdesperado, @lifeisbettergay, @thexfridax and @newsfromthegutter

But I also realised I was being a little bit of a perfectionist and taking on a lot of work that could be divided better among the team instead of wanting to do it myself. To prevent burnout on this project, we're going to start a new way of working in the team.

What does this mean for you all watchers?

TLDR: The episodes might be uploaded later in the day/night than they have been now.

Right now, I try and get up at least a draft before I go to sleep around midnight (UTC +1/ UTC +2) every single day, on the same day the episode airs. Even though I've never made any set schedule, or promised a time, that was always kind of my deadline. As you can imagine, that's not always feasible. We've made it work, but that might change.

We're dividing the work among the entire team more often than we were before. Others in the team are doing pre-runs (as we call them) and finalizing & rendering without any of my involvement. This has happened before of course, but now we're going to do it more systematically.

We are a global team! And that means that other team members might render and upload the episodes after midnight spain time.

The goal remains the same: to get at least a version out before the next episode airs. But we're all trying this new method in the next two weeks. So we'll see!

One thing I can promise is that the quality of the subs will remain the same: Fully corrected English subtitles for the entire episodes.

And as always, if you would like access to the Drive, DM me. And if you want to support the team to continue doing what we do, go to Caskettmyheart on KoFi. We really appreciate any support to keep this project going as long as we can 💪

-- Lina

I was wondering if you could explain how everything works with the Google Drive and the Atresplayer app. I’m not quite sure how to use them together or how to add the English subtitles. I’d really appreciate your help. Thank you very much!

¡Besos desde Alemania!

Hi hoi!

Our Google Drive is fully self-sufficient, hence why it takes up about 1TB of storage space already. You don't need the Atresplayer subscription to use it, as all of the episodes are up on the drive with the subtitles hardcoded onto it. You can just press play and start watching. As of T3, most of the episodes are also downloadable.

For access to our GD, I'd need an email adress from you (DM me) that is compatible with GD. Then you'll get an access link in your inbox. If you use a browser connected with the same email, you'll be able to watch all of the episodes - yes, all of them. See my pinned post on how we managed that for the T1 episodes - with corrected English subtitles.

There is a Google Drive out there with only the English subtitle files. Then you need an extention to get those playing at the same time as the episodes. But I also know that Atresplayer worked on their player recently and changed some things around. So I'm not sure if that works anymore (seeing as I don't use that method since making our own episode files). If anyone does, feel free to reblog this ask with info!

If you have any more questions, you can always reach out or send me a DM so I could help you further.

Groetjes uit België :)

PS: we've recently reached 100 watchers in the Google Drive! What a milestone.

While editting episode 48 for the final subbed version, I had to stop and capture this look.

If looks could kill...