There is no official English release. When the story was first serialized in One Piece Magazine, a fan translated chapters 1 to 3, but they took the translations down because they kept getting stolen. Chapters 1 to 4 plus an exclusive epilogue were released in book format in Japan in 2020, and that’s what I liveblogged. I have never read the fan translation and I have the physical book, so I don’t know where to download any of it.
I’ve seen someone uploaded what appears to be a Spanish fan translation of the English fan translation to Wattpad, but it’s content stolen twice over and reposted for clout, so I’m not going to link to it. Chapters 4 and the epilogue are missing, since it’s all based on the work of the original Japanese to English translator.
Feel free to send me any other questions you may have about the novel!
Edit: There is an official French version published by Glénat as of March 3rd 2021!
Edit 2: I am liveblogging it too, like the clown I am. The tag is here.
Edit 3: A fan is working on a Portuguese translation here: https://www.facebook.com/Renata-Rayleigh-223769802925286/ Chapters 1 to 3 are translated from the Spanish fan translation, and chapter 4 and the epilogue are based off of the official French edition.
Edit 4: A Spanish edition of Novel Law has been released by Planeta Cómic as of May 24th 2023.
Edit 5: There is another English fan translation doing the rounds, which apparently got posted twice to AO3. Please don’t do that. It’s currently hosted in a google drive. Here’s the tumblr post. I’ve done a quick check and it seems to be a translation of chapters 1 to 4, though they’ve been divided into smaller chunks. It doesn’t include the epilogue. If you read this translation, all that op asks is that you click the button here to help fundraise for Palestine. All proceeds go to UNRWA.
We took Watson to the new vet yesterday and she said he’s so energetic and moves around so well that it would be best to let the fracture heal on its own. Apparently, inserting metal plates inside a growing kitten is ill-advised unless there’s no other option. Who would’ve thought? 😒 The other clinic wanted to have him under the knife today.
We’re taking him back to the vet in a couple of weeks to see how he’s holding up without medicine, but so far it looks like he’ll be fine and will make a full recovery without surgery.
Anyway! One of the things that sucks about moving social media and/or blogging platforms is not knowing if there will be enough activity for you at the new place. Be it from old friends, new friends, or interactive communities, there’s a lot of ways you could find activity at a new place, but finding at least two of those categories can be tricky in itself.
Luckily, Dreamwidth has a few shortcuts for you already!
Adding new people to your reading page and finding new friends:
addme: Straight up a place to find new “mutuals” on Dreamwidth, with no particular focus; a good place to start!
addme_fandom: Same as above, but with a specific fandom focus! Interested in a particular fandom right now and want more people to talk about it with? Here’s a good place to find fellow fans!
fandomcalendar: This is a community dedicated to announcing fandom events, which can include fandom-specific friending memes. (I’ll be linking this one again later, as well.)
Getting started on Dreamwidth:
newcomers: A community dedicated specifically to helping Dreamwdth newcomers find their way around on a new site! I believe it was launched around the time Cohost was being shut down, so a lot of the people there now are Cohost “refugees”, but it’s still a good place to start.
dw_news: The official Dreamwidth news community. I highly recommend following this one and the next one, which will help you keep up with what’s going on around Dreamwidth. DW News typically only posts a few times a year, but maybe that’ll change if a bunch of new users come by…
dw_maintenance: Keep up with the mechanical goings-on at Dreamwidth! If there’s a planned site outage or if DW is updating code, you can find out more here; if there’s something funky going on at Dreamwidth but the site is generally still usable, it’s also a good place to check.
Things to do on Dreamwidth:
dw_community_promo: The official Dreamwidth community for promoting Dreamwidth communities! People will promote new communities here, as well as events going on in established communities. A good place to find out about new things in general.
followfriday: A place to share links to check out once a week. Did you find a cool community that you want more people to know about? Link it in the comments here!
justcreate: A place where you can talk about things you’re working on. There’s a weekly check-in/reporting post, but sometimes people also organize body doubling sessions and other productivity-boosting things.
queerly_beloved: An anti-exclusionist queer space to get together and talk about all things queer, including intersectional matters. Hosts a weekly recommendations thread, but more and other content is very welcome!
Fandom things to do on Dreamwidth:
fandomcalendar: I linked this above, and I’m linking it again: Want to know about fandom events that are going on at Dreamwidth? This is a good place to do it! It’ll also fill up your reading page in a hurry; you might be surprised at how many events are going on at Dreamwidth, or are at least connected there!
fictional_fans: A community for all fans and fandoms. If you’ve got a post you want to make about fandom in general, or a specific fandom that doesn’t have its own community, this might be a good place to check out.
fandom_on_dw: Pretty much the same as above, honestly, but it’s good that there’s more than one place that hosts this kind of thing!
Anything else?
Search Interests: Individuals and communities can have lists of things they’re “interested in”. If more than one person has that thing listed, it may turn into a hyperlink that you can click to find other accounts with! You can also use the Search Interests function pretty much the same way. Simply type “cats” into the search bar, hit enter, and a bunch of accounts that have “cats” listed as an interest will pop up!
The Latest Things Page: Literally the latest things posted publicly anywhere on Dreamwidth. There’s a list of commonly used tags at the top, if you want to narrow things down at all, but in the mean time, it can be pretty neat to see what J. Random Dreamwidth User just posted about!
The Explore Tab: Useful links for Dreamwidth in general. In addition to linking to the Latest Things Page, it can take you to a random account, the FAQ page, and more! Worth checking out if you’re feeling lost.
And that’s all I can think of at the moment! This should help you get started at least, and help fill out your reading page a bit.
If you still have questions or want to do more, you can check out my Dreamwidth 101 tag; I’m also happy to at least try to answer any questions myself. I’m pretty sure I’ve got a few “Dreamwidth for Tumblrites” guides linked in my Dreamwidth 101 section, if nothing else…
from my sources adjacent to tumblr–from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector–im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i’m hearing there are about 25 people left.
This is important, people. Please don’t scroll past this one.
While I don’t think that Tumblr is about to shut down anytime soon, as a fandom old who lost my community and my people when the fandom diaspora happened from LiveJournal, I want to urge that you do something NOW:
Get your backup account(s) elsewhere NOW
Let your moots know your username(s) at those places NOW
Follow your moots at their places NOW
I mean this with all my heart. Get this done now. Get set up and find your people now. Tumblr is the home of fandom now, just as LiveJournal was the home of fandom way back. And you could end up losing your fandom home just as easily and quickly as us old LJ people did way back then.
It’s a horrible feeling, and most old LJ users still mourn the loss of it to this day.
The rest of this gets a bit long, so it needs to go behind a cut, but please take a moment out of your scrolling to read it.
i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.
Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.
this is GENUINELY one of the best character development sheets I’ve ever seen. Cuts right to the core of what you and your readers will glom onto, doesn’t waste time on details that don’t directly affect the narrative. Stupendous. Effervescent. Finally, some good fucking food
Bad news: He has a broken scapula and I cannot drop that kind of money on something that isn’t a life or death situation. Also, the vet I had to bring him to is part of a big chain of clinics and doesn’t seem like a trustworthy place (amongst other things, they took 2 x-rays because they fucked up the first one, didn’t tell me about the second, and billed me for both). Over 1/3 of my salary is gone on a cat I just picked up from the street and the only help they have extended is that’s so unlucky :( we could also do these other treatments for the cat (please give us the rest of your bank account).
Other good news: I’ve found another vet nearby that a friend and a former worker of a shelter have heavily recommended to me so I can have a second opinion on what to do.
My parents have told me that we’re keeping the cat. His name is Watson because his shoulder/leg got fucked up in the war.
I have been officially assigned Keeper of the Records of Every Subject Under the Sun. From June onwards it’ll be my job to get locked in the archive where no one can hear you scream from outside (we checked today) and chase professors with a pitchfork so they grade students and sign their goddamn papers.
Between the front desk and the archive I feel like I’m slowly morphing into my OP self-insert
What the hell is going on
To anyone who was reading Folding Socks: I just picked up a cream colored stray against my will
I have been officially assigned Keeper of the Records of Every Subject Under the Sun. From June onwards it’ll be my job to get locked in the archive where no one can hear you scream from outside (we checked today) and chase professors with a pitchfork so they grade students and sign their goddamn papers.
Between the front desk and the archive I feel like I’m slowly morphing into my OP self-insert
