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"A stone with a banded appearance, Sunshine Jasper is often used to keep negative energies at bay and keep your outlook positive so you can realize your dreams. It's also called Bumblebee Jasper and is often a warm sunshine yellow. Interestingly, it's an agate and not a jasper as the name implies. It is a new stone, first discovered in an Indonesian volcano in the 1990's. As it has not yet been found anywhere else in the world, the consensus is that this rare stone helps to attempt the impossible."



Another character from my Nanowrimo. This Royal Heir is one to keep a positive outlook and is attempting the impossible. Though there is another one in the story who this fits even more... except that person's design is a huge spoiler. So Forsythia it was!


Unfortunately, I couldn't finish this in 2022 itself because I caught a heck of a cold early on in december. I'm pretty much better now.

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"Typically dark green with red inclusions, Bloodstone is often used to increase one’s courage, motivation, and creative energy. It’s also beneficial for endurance and physical strength. The Ancient Greeks held the Bloodstone as a gem with glorious powers and referred to it as Heliotrope, which directly translates to Sunstone. If your birthday lies in the month of March (or if you are an Aries), you can count Bloodstone as one of your birthstones as a means of action and vitality.
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Ooops I have been very tried lately, working hard on studying my korean and... having more work.


This is Sparrow, a squire to a character who already has a design. I chose him for bloodstone mainly because the traits of it are those he sees in his mentor, and wishes to emulate.

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So for this year's sunshine challenge I decided what I wanted to do was:
take characters from story ideas of mine that fit the theme
actually DESIGN them.

So first here is ■■■■, and I'm not gonna reveal why I chose him for Amber, but it will probably be pretty obvious if I ever get around to actually making his story. I wanted him to have 90s hair.

And yea I've been a bit slow. It's been a busy and tiring year for me. And I donated blood yesterday.

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I was right in saying I wouldn't get much done. Between fatigue from the vaccination, needing to drive around a cat, and work, I didn't have time.

Anyway, this week I reccomend the completed Podcast The Message.. Note that this podcast is called "life after" in the title, that's the sequel to "The Message", but while I liked The Message a lot, I found Life After... tedious.

A warning: The Message contains some elements of "The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You" early on in the story.

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This week was disorganised, with art, reading a texbook and anki being the most stable, and the other two slots being misc. including shopping, taxes, calling the bank and... sleep. On friday, I decided to add korean immersion back into the mix, with me starting up a game of Stardew Valley in Korean. I am not ready.

I had more time to work on classes because it was raining, but it didn't cool down much.

I'll try to be more organised next week.

This week's thing I listen to is: Creepypastas Read by The Dark Somnium. And a bonus, I've really been enjoying Ghost Stories of Canada but it's only got 13 episodes.

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With me having finished the Sunshine Challenge for this year, I found myself with a little time to make a quick art, and I returned to a classic for this year: Blaseball Fanart.
And just in time for... the end of the current era of Blaseball, and as far as I know, no date of return.
It was my birthday yesterday. Blaseball ended on my birthday. My team went into a black hole.
I also did Anki, and things will be returning to normal for next month. I haven't signed up for any challenges.
Doing the translations for Sunshine challenge was... helpful, and difficult.

From Sunshine Challenge Prompt 6:
"Amphitrite is the goddess of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She is the female personification of the ocean: the mother of fish, seals and dolphins. Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos. Refusing his offer of marriage, she fled to Atlas. The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king. She also bred sea monsters, and her great waves crashed against the rocks, putting sailors at risk."

For this one, I chose the song I chose because the music video (warning: flashing lights, implied suicide) uses a LOT of sea related motifs. I haven't translated any of the talking bits.
If you don't want to watch that one, here's A Video of a Live Performance (note, there are some additional lyrics near the end I also didn't translate. On translating the song itself, there were a lot of words I already knew in it, but it still managed to be difficult to do.

I used to love this song, I won the album it's on in a pop quiz. I remember one of the peopple I was competing with was trying REALLY hard to win, because she wanted one of the other prizes, and must've been very surprised when I chose this album over the popular k-pop band album she wanted. But I had no real interest in that band and had heard of Lee Sooyoung because she did the korean version of Suteki Da Ne from Final Fantasy X.

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From Sunshine Challenge Prompt 5
"Part man and part goat, Pan is a nature god well known in many mythologies. Born in Arcadia to Hermes and a dryad, Pan was a precocious child whose goat’s feet and horned head delighted the gods, but startled the mortals he lived nearer to; Pan did not live on Mount Olympus, but rather in the forests and wilds of Arcadia. Pan famously invented a musical instrument: the syrinx, or pan pipes as they are more commonly known. He is known for his haunting melodies, and music was often a central part to his worship."

Well, this one was basically a free space for me, with music being part of the prompt, so I chose to do a song I really wanted an excuse to translate ever since I first heard it.
Joe Pang's Korean Cover of "Welcome to the Black Parade".

Because when I first heard this song I noticed the "We'll Carry On" parts were translated as "함께가자", which translatest to "Let's Go Together".

Making this the first song I've translated that WASN'T originally japanese or made as a replacement for an anime song.



This was a difficult one, there's a couple bits where I had to actually use google translate's services to get a reasonable sounding translation, and I have no idea why this translation has a word that, as far as I can tell, exclusively translates to "author(s)". But I managed!

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From Sunshine Challenge Prompt 3:

"Otherworldly and mysterious, Hecate is best known for her association with magic, ghosts, and the night. If you hear the baying of hounds in the dark, she's likely near as they were ever at her side. She is traditionally depicted as bearing two torches to light her way or as a triple goddess of the crossroads. In mythology she is known for helping Demeter search for her daughter Persephone, a theme that ties her even more to the Underworld and spirits she is associated with. Today she is often considered a representative of those liminal places where reality bends and all manner of events may unfold..."

Considering the sort of stuff I like, I had a SURPRISINGLY hard time finding a song for this. I even discovered some potential songs, and then just as I started to translate one, I remembered Pita Ten.
Pita Ten was the first manga I had ever read, and I had heard the ending theme for the anime adaptation both in the original japanese and in korean. The japanese theme was called "Chiisana Mahou", which means "Little Magic", and I wondered if the korean version might be appropriate.

Presenting "Chageun Mabeob", which also means Little Magic!

I couldn't find a version of the original "Chiisana Mahou" with english subtitles, so I won't be posting that for comparison.

Oh, also translating "Chageun Mabeob" was really easy. Once I finished the first "verse and chorus" the translation was basically two lines away from being done because they just repeated that bit again. I guess they didn't want to record anything more than they had to for the ending of the korean dub.

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