Volume 2 - Blog Posts
“I… will not steal from you anymore, and I don’t wish to do anything other than give. If, one day, you ever come to think that you ‘understood’, I want you to accept my love. Violet.”
-Gilbert Bougainvillea
My completely baseless Volume 2 hopes:
I want Steve to either die and come back later or be presumed dead, like maybe after Nancys cliffhanger at the end of V1 he gets stuck in the upside down?? Idk, I just want to see peoples reactions but not have it be permanent.
A main character becomes a villain, absolutely nothing for this has been set up but the storyline opportunities are unmatched. Maybe someone who’s been to the upside down becomes corrupted in some way. Idk.
Little to no focus on romantic relationships, all the focus on the found family.
Another character being confirmed as queer.
Leave behind some kind of mystery about the upside down, I hate the idea that it’s just been one guy behind it the whole time, I hope they at least hint towards something bigger working behind the scenes.
Big character reunion before the final episode, I’ve always hated how these characters who are supposed to be best friends will somehow have absolutely no communication between each other until a dramatic scene at the end of the season.
ROBIN AND WILL INTERACTION
MIKE REACTING TO NANCY GOING TO THE UPSIDE DOWN.
That is all 😘
Amok the Animal's Action
Competent of a calling
Listless within a love
Oppressive to an over
Australopithecus an area
Pithecus of the program
Perilous any of phony
Millennia the most maybe
Instantaneous towards an incubus
Capillaries a century since
Carotid the collective called
Conscientious after a collide
Eroding the furthermost earned
Crates a cite to be seen
Itinerant those illusive indeed
Amok all actions, animals.
Stars of Chaos 杀破狼
Vol 2, Notes 1. Pages 21 - 46.
A very kind tumblr user had to educate me that, yes, Priest edited her work after it was published (stolen on to?) on pirate websites, and so, yes, the translators were working off of a different version than I read.
But I LOVE the version I read, so I'm sharing it with you. You get BOTH.
Please excuse my angry "MISSING PARAGRAPH!" hand-written notes, as I did not realize that official edits were made post-pirate-publication.
Below are many possibly-unnecessary cultural notes that I think are just really neat, plus differences between versions. (I love the old one!)
Here we go:
Very cool word, 帅。
Usually, I read or hear it in reference to some guy being very cool. Devilishly handsome. Dashing.
Here, 大帅 is used as "Commander-in-Chief," which is the same thing as "Marshal," which can mean (dictionary.com) "a military officer of the highest rank" as well as the one I'm more familiar with, "chief of a police or fire department in some cities."
I just like how, in Chinese, I can also-interpret that everyone is calling him "Big Handsome."
Yah, Chen QingXu is a Boss. Who introduces herself as, like, a snake-oil peddler.
讷于言 The young soldier was bad at words. Not sparing, not careful; just bad.
悬壶济世 hang pot save world, because so much of Chinese medicine is boiling herbs for patients to drink.
No one is putting powder in leather sachets. It's dried herbs.
I usually agree with the Seven Seas' formatting, but I think it would be more clear if those sentences were broken into the original two separate paragraphs.
Top: Gold Tank = container for violet gold. It took me a second to figure that out.
Bottom: 小兄弟. I love how you can combine the "older brother" 兄 with the "younger brother" 弟, add a "little" 小 in the front, and it becomes, effectively, "Bro," but respectful.
In case you can't read my tiny bad handwriting: there used to be another paragraph here about how Gu Yun wants to see Chen QingXu because his meds are losing effect. The effects of drinking the meds used to last for months, then weeks, and now they only last two days.
And on the facing page, in the illustration, Chang Geng should be ON his horse.
It hits a little different, I think, to say You have to bathe and change your clothes just to walk your horse? And it has to be this exact time and place?
锋芒毕露 "sharp point must expose"
After years spent guarding the Silk Road, Gu Yun's propensity to show off had gradually faded...
OK. I think ten is enough for this post. More to come...
My DanMei Literary Adventure Masterpost
Stars of Chaos - All Notes Links