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Personal translation project for 2025

Now this is something I've been working on since New Year! For the past few years I've largely been translating for work, or for academic reasons. I just haven't had the chance to work on more personal interests, but this year, I've made the decision to indulge a little.

This is a Russian-English project. From tomorrow, and every Tuesday for the rest of the year, I'll do a musical showcase: every week I'm going to translate a song, mostly from my favourite musical period (1980s USSR), and post it here for others to see. Posts may include biographical notes about the musicians or interesting facts about the composition, as I'd like to focus on lesser-known songs, and it may be difficult to find context for them in English elsewhere. If you're a native/C1-C2 level speaker and don't find the time period too old-fashioned (😂), I'd also love to hear your thoughts on my efforts!

I currently have four posts queued up from January. They'll be posted this month, February's translations will go up on March, and so on. Not sure if December's entries will go up twice per week, or if this project will have to finish on Jan 2026, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Translations are scheduled for 5:30pm GMT. I like synthpop and songs about technology. Let's listen to some music together. 🥰

January: Поп-Комбинат - Телефонный робот Форум - Давайте созвонимся! Ариэль - Порушка-Параня Технология - Информация

February: Король и Шут - Прыгну со скалы Синяя Птица - Три аккорда Чернавский/Матецкий Проджект - Робот Наутилус Помпилиус - Князь тишины

March: Центр - Алексеев

#translation tuesday#langblr#russian langblr
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I don't think I've ever seen anything that more perfectly replicates how psychosis feels. The latching onto/ascribing meaning to little details. The endless "searching..." as your brain tries to fit every real-life stimulus into its narrative of what's REALLY going on. The background preoccupation with real, ongoing emotional difficulty...

People often imagine psychotic delusions as being entirely dependent on hallucination, people seeing and talking to fully fleshed out, convincing looking characters. But delusion doesn't require hallucination at all. All it requires is the conviction that ordinary things are a puzzle to be solved, that there's meaning to be made... and that you're so close to understanding things that no one else knows.

#unreality
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That's that one deathmark from "Pariah Nexus" with a cup of warm tea, I guess. Because this poor guy deserved better fate! I'm not sure if I'll finish this sketch though so I'll just leave it here

#warhammer 40k
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@absolut--kurant!

#hello my friend! happy friday!!! 💖💖💖💖💖#your evening walk picture came at a fortuitous time - i've finally got the picture i wanted to show you of our coastal attraction too 🤩#the day was bright and it was perfect! blue skies and a gentle morning! a wonderful day for photographing pier and sea#on that pier are some amusement rides and seaside town-typical arcade games#but if you're an adult you are probably there for the view and/or the restaurants and bars out to sea 😄#there's an observation post where you can sit with a drink and watch the starling murmurations in the evening... its spectacular#the city views are the view directly 180 degrees from where i was standing when i took the image of the pier#brighton's oldest aquarium is in the third image (see the blue and red roofed pillar) but the building itself is inset down a long stairwel#so couldn't capture a pic of it properly( thats a post for another time#in the fourth image is one of the best fish and chips restaurants in town... also the best coke floats#there should also be a park monument visible on the left but there's some construction going on at the moment 😅#you can definitely tell from all the verdigris we're by the ocean haha#that's brighton baby!!! i hope you like the photos 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰#let's get our bread and hope for a wonderful weekend!#love you lots 💖💖💖💖💖
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my daughter has been playing dark souls iii lately and it reminded us both of how much we loved the crystal lizards and how badly we wished we had little figures of them. she mentioned how perfect they would be as those wiggly articulated stim toys (colloquially referred to as "sugs" in our household). on a whim i searched etsy to see if they at least had little charms and it turns out they literally had exactly what she was describing, almost as if she willed it into existence.

anyway, we had to get them immediately so we could have mother and daughter crystal lizards. they're very fun to wiggle around and the mama lizard even has a light in her big crystal!

#dark souls
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