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laliandra The Postcard Puzzle Project aka Everyone Lal Knows Is Made of Actual Win continues apace. I only have one word missing!
Look! (the lightening bolt was actually done by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mcollinknight and sadly has to cover most of azurelunatic 's lovely work because her word was my actualfax surname and I like to pretend that I have some semblance of anonymity)
It's so BEAUTIFUL and full of rainbows and delight and marmalade. I think when it's all done I will have to write a really detailed entry in which I thank you all one by one and am generally gushing and embarrassing, and then you can all hang out in comments and congratulate each other on your fancy art skillz.
Also! Part 2, the part with flyers for French tutoring (which sadly I cannot show you, again, RL details) is a go! Nat used his time and resources at work excellently and printed a bunch off, so any ideas about places to put them would be gratefully received. 
So that was awesome. Then we discussed fic! And also how everyone we know is amazingly and unfairly talented.
Lal: I love how all fics end with Chris in a corner, weeping.
TSNBB: *is mentioned*
Lal and Moog:
Moog: I am writing other things. Let me tell you about the were-unicorn story
Lal:
The next day we spent a lot of time in bed on tumblr totally got up at a reasonable hour and then had coffee for breakfast. And then we made Inception cupcakes! I'd bought these miniature silicon cupcake moulds and so I thought, a cupcake inside a cupcake!
The process is simple. Ish. You make tiny cupcakes (we made ours green for... some reason)
and then you put them in the normal size cases and cover them in a different colour cake batter (chocolate, for reasons of deliciousness) and bake. And you get something that looks like this!
You have NO IDEA how excited we were when we unpeeled the cases and there was a green circle on the bottom.
And then you frost them.
It's a pretty simple process. That is if you're not two people already giddy on pretty faces who haven't consumed nothing but coffee and cake mixture and spoonfuls of icing. It also helps if you're not sort of pretending to be Sweet On You characters.
Lal: We could add lemon to the frosting!
Moog: We could make it GREEN. THE FINEST GREEN.
Lal: You know how you made Mark make a cake by hand? This is what he'd be doing.
Moog: With Wardo laughing at him, all, it's not so easy now!
Frosting: *remains resolutely unstiff*
Lal: The lemon may have been an error.
Moog: *shakes fist* LEMONNNNNNN
Lal: I cried and my tears were lemon.
Moog: I cried and I was in the lemon.
Lal: MARK WHAT ARE YOU DOING, PUT THE LEMON DOWN.
Moog: But... I have to get it PERFECT. If I just add some more icing sugar.
Lal: Don't you understand, Wardo, the consistency is all wrong.
Moog: But Mark I'm ~cold and ~bored.
And the frosting sex that they would have afterwards was not discussed at all. O.o
And then we ate something that wasn't sugar. It was for the best.
During the afternoon we continued to randomly add the word lemon into, well, everything. And I made Moog watch High School Musical as part of a Truly Terrible No I Mean Awful But Really Enjoyable movie session. She enjoyed it. Don't let her tell you different. MY POST, MY RULES. And the new Spiderman trailer got leaked!
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone: *appear*
Moog and Lal:
Moog and Lal: SUCH A LEMON FACE.
So that was an awesome couple of days and I already pine for my mornaltwin of typos and lemon.
And also! The other day we were talking on Twitter about various things, UST and writing and the fact that I tend to abandon sentences in my documents while they are half finished and then I come to them a day or two later and have NO IDEA how they are meant to finish.branquignole suggested that all the sentences end with make outs, and I felt bad about how all of the sentences wouldn't end with make outs, so I gave her a teaser trailer sentence. And then she translated it into German! So that became kind of a thing.
So, have some sentences of my heist!AU in German. I couldn't decide whether or not to put the English in, so I decided not to and then if y'all want to know what they say, you can ask. Or give it a shot yourself. It's super exciting to me to see my words in another language. I'm such a language dork...
Ein Lächeln breitet sich über Wardos Gesicht, Mark kann es unter seiner Handfläche spüren.
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Eduardo beugt sich nach vorne und fährt mit der Nase Marks Wange entlang, sanft wie ein Zittern, bis ihre Münder auf gleicher Höhe sind, nur einen Hauch voneinander entfernt.
_____
"Du bist aufgeflogen." Eduardo schüttelt den Kopf und sieht ihn mit großen, ernsten Augen an. Mark hat keine Ahnung, wie er das mit seinem Gesicht anstellt.
"Verdammt", sagt Mark. "Es geht mir ziemlich gegen den Strich, alle meine Habseligkeiten verbrennen und mir eine Glatze rasieren zu müssen."
_____
Mark liebt es, wenn Eduardo andere in die Irre führt, wenn Mark der einzige Mensch im Raum ist, der weiß, wer Wardo wirklich ist, die unzähligen tödlichen Wunder, aus denen er besteht, ein Geheimnis für alle anderen.
Look! (the lightening bolt was actually done by
mcollinknight and sadly has to cover most of azurelunatic 's lovely work because her word was my actualfax surname and I like to pretend that I have some semblance of anonymity)It's so BEAUTIFUL and full of rainbows and delight and marmalade. I think when it's all done I will have to write a really detailed entry in which I thank you all one by one and am generally gushing and embarrassing, and then you can all hang out in comments and congratulate each other on your fancy art skillz.
Also! Part 2, the part with flyers for French tutoring (which sadly I cannot show you, again, RL details) is a go! Nat used his time and resources at work excellently and printed a bunch off, so any ideas about places to put them would be gratefully received.
Furthermore (see I know other words that aren't also. I just like it)! I got to go hang out with moogle62 in her hilltop lair for a couple of days and it was fabulous. You will all be, I'm sure, completely unsurprised to learn that she is just as wonderful in real life as she is online.
moogle62 in her hilltop lair for a couple of days and it was fabulous. You will all be, I'm sure, completely unsurprised to learn that she is just as wonderful in real life as she is online. We said that whoever of us posted about it first (why is it me? MOOG HOW HAVE YOU ACHIEVED THIS? *checks totem*) had to sum up our day in .gifs and or the internet memes we referred to on a near constant basis, thus alienating anyone else from our conversation. I don't have quite the resources that she does (because obviously one of the things that you do when you hang out with fanpeople is go through their folders of gifs and fanvids and macros and so on. Obviously. We are TOTALLY COOL)
Lal: *gets on train to see Moog*
Train: *goes North*
Fog: * descends*
Lal: *is alarmed* *texts Moog in alarm*
Moog: *cackles* *strokes white cat* AH, YOU ARE APPROACHING MY LAIR.
Lal: THIS IS NOT MAKING ME LESS ALARMED.
Lal:*arrives at train station*
Moog: You have come to creep on my hills!
Lal: YES I have come to creep on your hills!
Everyone else around them: ...
Moog: Welcome! Unfortunately it is raining all of the rain in the world. But! There are still many things we can do...
Moog and Lal: *talk solidly for 8 hours*
Most of the conversations summed up: -
Moog or Lal: I think this!
Lal or Moog: I agree!
So after surfacing from that we watched The Social Network because some things just have to be done.
The Social Network watching experience summed up:-
Harvard: *appears*
Lal: I HAVE BEEN THERE I WENT THERE WITHnovembersmith WE DID OUR OWN CREEPER TOUR OF HARVARD AND IT WAS AWESOME.
Lal: *repeats this every time Harvard is shown*
Moog: *for some reason does not order her out of the house*
Hand Covers Bruise: *plays*
Lal and Moog:
Mark and Eduardo: *are*
Lal and Moog:
Moog and Lal: *talk solidly for 8 hours*
Most of the conversations summed up: -
Moog or Lal: I think this!
Lal or Moog: I agree!
So after surfacing from that we watched The Social Network because some things just have to be done.
The Social Network watching experience summed up:-
Harvard: *appears*
Lal: I HAVE BEEN THERE I WENT THERE WITH
novembersmith WE DID OUR OWN CREEPER TOUR OF HARVARD AND IT WAS AWESOME.Lal: *repeats this every time Harvard is shown*
Moog: *for some reason does not order her out of the house*
Hand Covers Bruise: *plays*
Lal and Moog:
Mark and Eduardo: *are*
Lal and Moog:
So that was awesome. Then we discussed fic! And also how everyone we know is amazingly and unfairly talented.
Lal: I love how all fics end with Chris in a corner, weeping.
TSNBB: *is mentioned*
Lal and Moog:
Moog: I am writing other things. Let me tell you about the were-unicorn story
Lal:
The next day we spent a lot of time in bed on tumblr totally got up at a reasonable hour and then had coffee for breakfast. And then we made Inception cupcakes! I'd bought these miniature silicon cupcake moulds and so I thought, a cupcake inside a cupcake!
The process is simple. Ish. You make tiny cupcakes (we made ours green for... some reason)
and then you put them in the normal size cases and cover them in a different colour cake batter (chocolate, for reasons of deliciousness) and bake. And you get something that looks like this!
You have NO IDEA how excited we were when we unpeeled the cases and there was a green circle on the bottom.
And then you frost them.
It's a pretty simple process. That is if you're not two people already giddy on pretty faces who haven't consumed nothing but coffee and cake mixture and spoonfuls of icing. It also helps if you're not sort of pretending to be Sweet On You characters.
Lal: We could add lemon to the frosting!
Moog: We could make it GREEN. THE FINEST GREEN.
Lal: You know how you made Mark make a cake by hand? This is what he'd be doing.
Moog: With Wardo laughing at him, all, it's not so easy now!
Frosting: *remains resolutely unstiff*
Lal: The lemon may have been an error.
Moog: *shakes fist* LEMONNNNNNN
Lal: I cried and my tears were lemon.
Moog: I cried and I was in the lemon.
Lal: MARK WHAT ARE YOU DOING, PUT THE LEMON DOWN.
Moog: But... I have to get it PERFECT. If I just add some more icing sugar.
Lal: Don't you understand, Wardo, the consistency is all wrong.
Moog: But Mark I'm ~cold and ~bored.
And the frosting sex that they would have afterwards was not discussed at all. O.o
And then we ate something that wasn't sugar. It was for the best.
During the afternoon we continued to randomly add the word lemon into, well, everything. And I made Moog watch High School Musical as part of a Truly Terrible No I Mean Awful But Really Enjoyable movie session. She enjoyed it. Don't let her tell you different. MY POST, MY RULES. And the new Spiderman trailer got leaked!
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone: *appear*
Moog and Lal:
Moog and Lal: SUCH A LEMON FACE.
So that was an awesome couple of days and I already pine for my mornaltwin of typos and lemon.
And also! The other day we were talking on Twitter about various things, UST and writing and the fact that I tend to abandon sentences in my documents while they are half finished and then I come to them a day or two later and have NO IDEA how they are meant to finish.
branquignole suggested that all the sentences end with make outs, and I felt bad about how all of the sentences wouldn't end with make outs, so I gave her a teaser trailer sentence. And then she translated it into German! So that became kind of a thing.So, have some sentences of my heist!AU in German. I couldn't decide whether or not to put the English in, so I decided not to and then if y'all want to know what they say, you can ask. Or give it a shot yourself. It's super exciting to me to see my words in another language. I'm such a language dork...
Ein Lächeln breitet sich über Wardos Gesicht, Mark kann es unter seiner Handfläche spüren.
_____
Eduardo beugt sich nach vorne und fährt mit der Nase Marks Wange entlang, sanft wie ein Zittern, bis ihre Münder auf gleicher Höhe sind, nur einen Hauch voneinander entfernt.
_____
"Du bist aufgeflogen." Eduardo schüttelt den Kopf und sieht ihn mit großen, ernsten Augen an. Mark hat keine Ahnung, wie er das mit seinem Gesicht anstellt.
"Verdammt", sagt Mark. "Es geht mir ziemlich gegen den Strich, alle meine Habseligkeiten verbrennen und mir eine Glatze rasieren zu müssen."
_____
Mark liebt es, wenn Eduardo andere in die Irre führt, wenn Mark der einzige Mensch im Raum ist, der weiß, wer Wardo wirklich ist, die unzähligen tödlichen Wunder, aus denen er besteht, ein Geheimnis für alle anderen.
Tags:
- alan is totally scrubbing the cake tin,
- brimtoast betas my life,
- crazy conversations,
- fangirl sleepovers,
- lal's random skillz,
- lying liars who lie,
- mes amies,
- schmoopey stuff,
- tsn - why are they suing each other,
- tsn - why aren't they making out?,
- wardo isn't jealous,
- we all love fandom,
- you have my lemon
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Date: 2011-08-06 06:15 pm (UTC)Especially "Ein Lächeln breitet sich über Wardos Gesicht, Mark kann es unter seiner Handfläche spüren." ...er kann es SPUEREN ahhh das kann man sich richtig so schoen bildlich vorstellen! Du tust auch Lal's Gabe fuer geniale Metapher und uh, 'banter' richtig gut umsetzen *_*bb
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Date: 2011-08-06 07:38 pm (UTC)Also Bran is a Super Translator and you should read her work!
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Date: 2011-08-07 05:40 pm (UTC)Like for instance, I could barely watch more than a few minutes of the German dub of SPN because the way it was translated (and of course, the shoddy voice actors, but that is also a different story)-- the whole way the Winchesters talked became really really off in the German dub. You lost the blue-collar nuance, or even just any hint of accents. It was like some weird hyper-clean standardized German and that soured the whole thing for me.
And in Bran's translation she managed to A) capture the banter-y nuance in their conversation excellently and B) take your lovely descriptions and turn them into German with a lovely light touch that really conveys the same HAPPYSIGHHHH feeling you get when you read it in English, too.
MY THOUGHTS, HERE THEY ARE XDD
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Date: 2011-08-07 12:47 am (UTC)Oh, das mag ich auch besonders gern! Aber lal hat das auch so schön geschrieben. *___* Ob das lal wohl paranoid macht, wenn wir auf Deutsch über sie schreiben? Um, 'banter' = 'Geplänkel'? omg the German language, so bereft, I don't think we have a word that accurately expresses what banter is supposed to be! D:
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Date: 2011-08-07 05:48 pm (UTC)Hee anscheinend kommt sie eh ganz gut mit, SCHNELL LASS UNS AUF DIALEKT BZW. ARGER UMGANGSPRACHE WEITERMACHEN ;DD. Aber jaaa... Geplaenkel passt irgendwie nicht so richtig ne-- das ist fuer mich doch zu sehr negativ konnotiert? BANTER geht eh am besten loll. Ich existier' aber eh in ein staendiges Sprachenwirrwarr-- dementsprechend war es auch so erfrischend deine Uebersetzungen zu lesen und zu sehen, was die pure deutsche Sprache auch kann ;DD
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Date: 2011-08-07 10:42 pm (UTC)IKR, there are so many German-speaking people all over English fandom! It's lovely. Also, do you mind if I friend you? (:
Haha, verdammt. :D ICH KANN LEIDER KEINEN DIALEKT. (Ich würde dich wahrscheinlich auch nicht mehr verstehen, wenn du mit Österreichisch anfängst...) Genau, Geplänkel fängt das einfach nicht so gut ein, das klingt so sehr nach einer Unterhaltung, die vor sich hinplätschert, dabei ist banter ja mehr so was wie ein Schlagabtausch... oder... ARGH DEUTSCH. :D
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Date: 2011-08-08 03:46 pm (UTC)Hurraaaah nee dude, friend away! I was about to ask myself lol I always dance around this like some Victorian lady XDD Was gonna wait for the promised **Lal Postcard Project Friending Meme** but I couldn't resist jumping you in the comments :DD /impatient
Wiiiiiie? Ernsthaft? Und wo wir schon dabei sind--woher kommst du ueberhaupt aus Deutschland denn? Aber ganz ehrlich, ich kann eigentlich eh ned wirklich Dialekt-- meine deutsche Ex-Kollegen meinen zwar man merkt doch dass ich nicht wirklich astreines Deutsch-Deutsch spreche (da gefallen mir bestimmte Redewendungen und Vokabeln von uns zu sehr-- JAENNER > Januar, come onnn), aber die praegende Jahre in der Schule wo mir nur Hochdeutsch reingedrescht wurde haben Spuren hinterlassen. Ich versteh' den Dialekt von unsere Ecke in Salzburg natuerlich (und Wienerisch** lol), und kanns auch schriftlich oder ahem besoffen approximieren, aber es hoert sich bei mir einfach peinlich an. Da war ich zu sehr gegen meine oesterreichische Verwandtschaft als Kind verbittert um den Dialekt frueh genug zu lernen lololll.
**ein kleine aber feine Kostprobe ueber die sprachlichen Besonderheiten des Wienerischen ;D