If I can't flex on pifo I'll flex on here

Reminds me of Hakuryuu baby

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Active Pillowfort user as I am, it is only understandable I think. Ever since 2018, I've been desperately looking for a new home. (That's when I stopped using Tumblr because it had too much acephobia.) It's pretty great I made a blog here because this place is god-tier in the way ao3 is, but of course this is no social media. I'm pretty amazed people managed to ever build communities on these (=LiveJournal and Dreamwidth). But I guess that's Internet 1.0 for you.

I tried Amino which I was pretty excited for but honestly, it's just not that good. It's full of passive-aggressive children who send you lewd rp's even when you say in your profile that you don't rp. I even logged back into my deviantart to rant about the state of today's internet. Look the thing is, I really hate Twitter, even more so than I hate Tumblr and that's what I call an achievement.

I posted on Pillowfort maybe three times a week maximum but I really grew to like it. Now that it's down temporarily, I'm just kind of twiddling my thumbs but that's what got me to check back here. My inactivity on this site started the same time when I made a profile on Pillowfort. But now that the site is down, I can't even see my Juhaku headcanon post, do you understand my pain. I'll try to crosspost more in the future, as well as backup my translations and headcanons as soon as the site is accessable again.

Nightwish - Kuolema tekee taiteilijan (English translation)

Kerran vain haaveeni nähdä sain // Only once, I got to see my dream
En pienuutta alla tähtien tuntenut // I didn't feel my smallness under the stars
 

Kerran sain kehtooni kalterit // Once I got bars to my cradle
Vankina sieltä kirjettä kirjoitan // As a prisoner, I write a letter from there
 

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you*
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am*
 

Sinussa maailman kauneus // In you, the beauty of the world
Josta kuolema teki minusta taiteilijan // Out of which, death made me an artist*
 

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am

Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla // My God, let me come to you
siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee // To become what my child thinks I am

Oman taivaan tänne loin // I created my own heaven here
Anna minun päästä pois // Let me get out
Oman taivaan tänne loin // I created my own heaven here
Anna minun päästä pois // Let me get out

Notes:

• "Luoja" I've translated as "God" here, but it literally translates to "Creator". It's a common way to refer to the Christian God in Finnish.
• The following part: "Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee" is wordplay and has two meanings/sentences on top of each other:
  "Luojani, luoksesi anna minun tulla" means "My God, let me come to you", and
  "Anna minun tulla siksi miksi lapseni minua luulee" means "Let me become what my child thinks I am".
  Essencially, these two sentences have been smashed together and it's impossible to draw the line between the two of them.
• The word "taiteilija" literally means "one who makes art", so you know, an artist, but it's usually used for things such as painters, sculptors, etc. A musical artist, on the other hand, would be referred to with the loan word "artisti".

Nightwish - Taikatalvi (English translation)

Taikatalvi // Magic Winter

Lapsistain rakkain tää näyttämö on // This stage is the most precious of my children
Mis kuutamo kujillaan kulkee // Where the Moon goes on its way
Taipunut havu, kesä hoivassa sen // A bent sprig, summer in the care
Valkomeren niin aavan // Of that white sea so wide
Joka aavekuun siivin // Which, with the wings of a ghost moon,
Saapuu mut kotiin noutamaan // Arrives to get me home

Päällä talvisen maan hetki kuin ikuisuus // On a wintry ground, a moment like eternity
Mi pienen kissan jaloin luokseni hiipii // Which tiptoes to me with the feet of a small cat
Tääl tarinain lähteellä asua saan // I get to live here at the source of stories
Mis viulu valtavan kaihon // Where the violin of great longing
Ikisäveltään maalaa // Paints its eternal melody
Laulullaan herättää maan // Awakes the earth with its song

Notes:

• "Mis kuutamo kujillaan kulkee" is literally, "where moonlight goes on its paths".
• The word "maa" means "ground", "earth", "land", etc. so it can really be any of them in all of these sentences.
• "Lähde" means a source/origin, but it also means a spring (like in spring water = lähdevesi). Therefore, it can be the source of stories, or a spring of stories where the stories come from in a more figurative sense.