see you in another dream

narrowing it down to 3 cards is hard because i like so many of them for different reasons, haha. there are ones that talk about love and a relationship, and then there are ones that talk about human nature. but if i absolutely had to pick just 3, then i think i would go with these.

haha, those pesky one character differences but also how vng uses pinyin doesn't help because xiao yu's name in chinese is 小宇 which is more like "Little Yu" and he doesn't actually have a surname. this is a common way to address kids in chinese. meanwhile, xiao yi's name is 萧逸 and so it's very easy to see the difference.

i did want to answer this though because we do have canon ages!

If only LN sea were with a more reputable /'better' company that is handling it. Everytime i see in twt someone pointing out the mistakes in the localization or even just straight up wrong is, i wonder do they even hire someone to do this and proofread or is it ai.

Ive seen you and several people saying how LN is a very chronological game and with VNG fuckery of a schedule, I prob follow the one you recs in one of your asks. Bless their heart for making it cause that is so detailed aaaaa. I should follow their acc in twt, need to find more LN twt cause theres none in mine.

Writing this makes me wonder, when did you start playing it and what draws you in playing the game first time? Other than that, so gratefull on meeting you and other creators in this app who is doing fan translation for this gorgeous and interesting game💗💗 hope you are doing wonderfull love

unfortunately, the lack of consistency, proofreading, and most critically i saw someone share a screenshot of how charlie's avatar frame was translated as "Charlie Su" points at VNG's english translation being mostly done by AI because only AI makes that mistake with Charlie's name. on the other hand, i hear that the thai and vietnamese translations are much better, so that's a minor relief? although i feel like if they were going to half-ass english like this, then they shouldn't have done an english translation or wasted money on those english voices... which sometimes i think are AI too, oof.

i'm a day one player on the chinese server and haven't missed a login day since, so my personal anniversary is also light and night's anniversary, haha. i didn't have any good reasons to start playing light and night though, it was actually because i dropped the chinese server of tears of themis cold turkey when they implemented their gacha system change and because i still had gacha habits i just jumped to light and night to try it out. if tears of themis didn't implement their gacha system change, then i was actually prepared to stick with them and not try out light and night (due to not having the time to juggle two gacha games).

Im fluent in 2 languages in a sense. My country language and English, and even so. Even after my whole life using my native language and English, till now i be forgetting words and have a mix up from both language and have to search.

So when you say that learning a language never stops truly change me lol HAHAHAHAH. Im too caught up on thinking how to reach a certain 'level' on a spesific amount of time where in reality is as what you say. We can never truly 'master' a language, even the native people from the language we are interested even searches words they forgot or didnt know.

My INTP self is too much overplanning and overthinking where in reality its better to just start it and keep opening our mind to new information and knowledge and keep on learning wether its language and other topics. The pursuit of knowledge !!

(Ngl you always have such good opinions hahahhahah. If you have a talkshow or a podcast, i would watch it and support it😋)

i sound like i have good opinions because i get time to sit and think about how to respond to these asks. if you were to put me on the spot in a podcast, then you would hear how many times i go "uhh... umm..." hahahaha. i'm happy my words were able to give you some food for thought and make you see things in a new light! in my opinion, one of the ways to enjoy life is to hold onto a curiosity and openness towards things around you!

i also feel like there's a short adjustment period everyone needs to go through when they read or watch something new, because in a sense you're engaging with the creator's thoughts, emotions, and messages they want to convey, and at the beginning you're both strangers to each other and you don't understand their style. once you read a couple of chapters, or watch past the first 15 minutes of a show, then you start to get an understanding of how they do things.

a large part of media comprehension (whether it's in your native language or a language you're learning) involves working together with the creator. it's not a competition where the creator is trying to trick you or throw twists at you and where you're trying to predict what they're going to do so that you can be like "oh of course they're going to do that, how cliche" but rather for the creator to invite you onto a journey together.

Also, fellow gavin/bai qi main 🤝 my favs in themis are artem/zuo ran and luke/xia yan though lol. For light and night, I thought evan would be my fav based on visuals alone, but considering what you’ve written about all the LIs, I now have no idea which one i’d like best, or if i’ll be drawn to anyone at all lol

Anyway, i read a couple of your fics out of curiosity and they’re excellent, hope you have a wonderful day!

i'm worried you just ran into a bunch of spoilers, haha, but thank you for your kind words! there was no archetype like Bai Qi among the themis men, so i had to accept my second bias influence (the Xu Mo to Mo Yi pipeline). i'm going to place money on Osborn catching your eye though because i think Bai Qi, Xia Yan, and Osborn can roughly be put into the same group (they're all motorcycle big boys at heart).

Also, what do you think on learning chinese through LN ? I have a very small grasp on chinese (those 12 years of chinese mandatory classes in school only help little lol) and thinking to go back and learn chinese again. I have to say my motivation aint that grand (Playing LN & read Chinese novel) but it makes me want to be consistent on learning so i guess that helps in that area.

My biggest issue is prob how LN is, in a way that based from your translations and from you explaining to anons before. It seems i need to be already in the chinese culture or perhaps a good foundation of chinese so that i need to be able catch the context of the game, the history, and others. So that is kind of a big hurdle for someone who is out of the loop.

I'll prob be playing with the translation of other people opened up and keep checking and while i immerse myself in the game. What do you think ? From someone who learns japanese from medias (or atleast not from traditional textbooks etc (?) I have read you telling another anon on you learning japanese through games and medias. If i mistaken this pls do ignore this part😥)

I gotta say playing LN on my own and experience the art, the game is my current and biggest push to pick up my chinese but aaaa ik starting something new is there is always a steep before everything goes on smoothly but idk if trying to immerse myself in LN is too steep 🥲(esp starting on cn server rn despite 5 years gap)

This....is prob too long, i apologize for making this far too long that needed. Hopefully you are having a wonderfull day and having a great summer !

so, i actually dislike viewing language in terms of "how long did it take you to learn" because in my opinion the learning for any language never stops. think about how you might still look up words or idioms in your native language here and there, or how if you pick up some classical literature or technical text you'll feel like you don't even understand your native language, haha.

looking back at my records though, i think i sat my n2 after 6 years of playing and translating japanese otome games and listening to drama cds. this time could have been shortened if i studied seriously, but all my learning literally just came from games.

i think it's completely fine learning chinese through light and night! i actually learned to read chinese through playing otome games too LOL but my learning only took around a year this time because i already knew how to speak and listen, i was just illiterate and didn't know how to read or write the characters (the life of being a diaspora).

in my opinion, there is no such thing as a "grand" or "not grand" motivation to learn a language. the result is that you learn a new language, so what does it matter how you got there? the most important thing in learning anything is that you have enough motivation to keep at it, even when it feels hard. if that motivation comes through reading an otome game, so what?

I'm a SEA player, and I have a question. As a F2P player, if my goal is to make my account as strong as possible rather than collect cards, would it be a good idea to only pull on the standard banner since it seems much easier to get duplicates there?

being blunt here, but i don't think light and night is the game for you if your goal is to make your account as strong as possible, because no one talks about the battles after the first 3 months. the entire game is about grabbing as many cards as you can to read the story because all the cards contribute to the main story and vice versa.

the easiest and cheapest way to get duplicates though would be through roulettes, and even as a f2p you should be able to dupe the strongest cards in the game several times if you conserve all your polaris and wait until the last man in the wish upon a star series while saving your permanent spins.

【Light and Night: Rhyme from Afar】

Tbh you are my dream person to become. To be able to write so beautifull AND to able to understand so many language (if im not mistaken you can do 3-4 languages ? English, Chinese, Japanese, and your country languagek(?))? Such an incredible person you are

you're all going to give me a big head with these compliments, ahhh!! thank you for enjoying both my writing and translations (honestly these two disciplines are somewhat linked, haha)!

i just know three languages, english, mandarin, and japanese!

So my question is how are these cards (multi banners with heavy plot) connected to the story ?

I played Tears of Themis and knew that all of the cards with fantasy/historical settings are AU (since e plot setting is modern and no fantasy). I played LBC with both AU and stories directly connected to the lore of the ingame universe.

But I started to get a bit confused with what were the difference between AU and canon when I played LADs....

Hence why my confusion with LN. Like should I regard every stories as giving us lore on the world (we are getting more information on Spirit Clan, Blood Clan, MC and LI backgrounds...) or are there stories that specifically don't add anything to the plot. Like for instance the 2nd anniversary Unknown Paradise seems to take place in a Sci-FI setting and 4th anniversary in a war (?) (20th century). Should I regard these stories as linked to the lore of each character (reincarnations ?), as a big "What if" MC, LI or other characters had acted differentely in current timeline or is it simply "themes" the devs found cool and throw at us because "why not?"

I hope my questions aren't weird 😅 English isn't my first language so I might have mixed some word's définition and didn't convey my ideas proprely. I just want to know what I'm signing for in terms of lore, writing and plot. I've read that for some anniversary cards, the reading can go up to 3hours and more. I just am curious at how everything has a place within the story in the end.

light and night AUs mostly work like themis AUs! they're parallel universes not connected to the canon universe, however what i do want to praise about light and night AUs is that they mirror the current character development in the canon universe. so as the characters experience ups and downs in the story, the AUs will mirror the conflict and themes at that point (this is why chronological order is so, so, so important to light and night, including for the AUs).

in particular though, i also want to gush about light and night's choices for their anniversary themes because they're both "cool themes" and reflect the sociopolitical climate at the time.

2nd anniversary, the unknown paradise = happened the year wandering earth 2 came out, haha, and this is a movie about continuing human civilization in an apocalypse. it discusses the enduring human will and our own humanity.

3rd anniversary, journey to the west = happened the year black myth: wukong came out and it went hard with breaking stereotypes (and i swear its song is about empowering women) by adapting a classic story for women, because you're the genderbent sun wukong.

4th anniversary, heralds of tomorrow = happened the year of the 80th anniversary of the second sino-japanese war and the event itself is about the famous southwest trek to form the national southwestern associated university.

【Light and Night: Glow In My Arms | 5th Anniversary Song & Message From Him】

Sang by Tia Ray.

it's already out, haha. the english translation and dubbing is pretty... terrible. everything is so inconsistent it makes me suspect ai was heavily used, which isn't too surprising (because otome games never get quality translations and, as of 2025, light and night has over 13 million words) but also disappointing because the strongest point of light and night is its writing.

I read through your ao3 and it felt like im in a unlimited goldmine area aaaaaa. Not only its rare to find someone (maybe in tumblr lol but i havent really find in other social media talk about it, maybe i should search in twt) talking about LN, to find fics ? That. Is truly a rarity aaaaaaaa. The way you write captures the character so damn much that I felt like you shake the characters out of the game and put them in your fics (one of my fav of yours is the one mc beating a pervert with the sandals like ??? ESP CHARLIE PART HAHAHHAAHHA). I always struggle to write character development or atleast stay true to their character so i wonder about how your progress on writing usually is ! How to capture their ‘essence’ to say the least

You are one talented writer and ofc one amazing translator. i love to watch your yt videos so damn muchh, and sometimes i wonder is your job is an offical translator (idk the title for it lol so im sorry if i got it wrong) cause you are truly like a professional that i wont even be suprised if you were lololololol. Or maybe even an author cause If you suddenly told to the blog that hey ! I have a book on the way ! I wont even be questioning it and ask when the book drops hihi

Such an amazing writer & Translator you are omgomgomgomg. Hope you are doing well when you are reading this ! So gratefull to have stumble to your blog and been following for 3? 4 years ? All i remember is that You have ever translated ToT and that must be some time now aaaaa, time truly went by fast❤️

oh gosh, thank you so much for your kind words. sometimes it's unbelievable how long you can know someone on the internet. you've been with me for such a long time, haha!

i don't really have anything to say about my writing process except to tell people to read, read, read. read the source material and read what your fellow fans are writing, preferably another creator you look up to so that you can see their style. i think it's also important to lean into your strengths! you can see that i don't write much for Sariel, Charlie, or Jesse (and i think those shorter stories are deceptive in that they don't let you see my holes, but if i were to write something longer then my grasp on their character would start to unravel).

my thought processes are more like Xu Mo, Mo Yi, and Evan, so i find it comfortable to "get in their head" so to speak. Osborn is easy for me to find the voice for too, but i don't have an explanation for this one, haha. i guess his traits are just that distinctive to me!

the nice thing about light and night is that they've really put their characters through their paces, so everyone has had moments of comedy, grief, rage, loneliness, teasing, love, jealousy, etc. the more emotions you can see a character exhibit, or the more situations they're placed in to make them show a range of emotions, the easier it is to extrapolate how they'll react in other situations or the mood of your work.

for example, don't think about forcing a character into a comedic situation, but think about how this character reacts in comedic situations. i think that's the key to making things sound more natural.

you're not alone, everyone in cn loves these too! we only get them twice a year though, one at chinese new year/valentine's day and one at anniversary.

Evan is essentially your foster father in one au (his title makes him second only to a father)

Osborn is your foster father (and an eldritch god) who raises you from childhood in an au

Sariel is your adopted brother (in the canon timeline and an au)

Jesse is your magical twin in an au (potential self-cest too because of the connection between the six-eared macaque and sun wukong)

Charlie had your heart transplanted in him in one au, so technically you share the same blood LOL

people have to understand that light and night has bigger fish to fry than "taboo" themes though. none of the focus of these stories is about the "incest", but rather things like monarchies, governance, humanity, religion, responsibility, etc.

i would say its "dark themes" are around the same level as tears of themis. both games are dark because they're set in modern times, giving the readers the illusion of safety because their world is so close to our real life world and so things like murderers, child abuse, drugs, and whatnot are shocking to see and hear about and are treated with that weight.