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alectoperditaFirst, I'm leaving for New York tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again after so long!
I will no longer be writing fanfic. I have never really discussed fandom and/or meta in much depth, neither will I start now. Whatever I have written up to this point will stay up for the time being and the incomplete will most likely stay that way. There's no drama or any sort surrounding this decision. It's simply a change in priorities/interest. So please feel free to unfriend me at this point. It would help me in cleaning up my own friendlist. On the other hand, you're free to stay friends with this journal if you don't mind the various rambling posts on nothing and everything else outside of fandoms.
And for everyone else (so this post isn't completely devoid of merit): MUSIC SPAM!
吳國敬 (Eddie Ng) & 蘇永康 (William So) - 老死 (Lao Si) (Music video with all it's slashy undertones can be found here)
Additional translation notes: Interestingly enough, the title 老死 (individual characters being "old" and "death" respectively) is one of the twelve Buddhist causes of suffering. It is that all humans must grow old and eventually die. It is the idea that all things depend upon something else in order to exist- "dependent origination." *remembers vaguely studying that in Mysticism* Ignorance begets mental formation/state, which begets consciousness, which begets name and form, which begets the six sense gates (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind), which begets sensation, which begets desire for sensation, which begets attachment and clinging, which begets state of transmigration (existence in the "real world"), which begets birth, and finally begets aging and death. I'm not sure if it actually has anything to do with the song. I think it's a reference that most native Chinese are supposed to catch. ^^;;; Of course, that's what I'm not.
Nickelback - Side Of A Bullet
Uncle Sam taught him to shoot
Maybe a little too well
Finger on the trigger, loaded bullet
He hit the stage so full of rage
And let the whole world know it
Six feet away, they heard him say
“Oh God, don’t let him pull it”
Please God, don’t let him pull it
How could you put us through it?
His brother watched you do it
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world all wonder why
I sat at home and on my own I cried alone
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
And in the wake of his mistake
So many lives are broken
Gone forever from a loaded bullet
And no excuse that you could use
Could pull somebody through it
And to this day so many say
“God why’d you let him do it?”
How could you let him do it?
How could you put us through it?
His brother watched him do it
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world
all wonder why
I sat at home and cried alone
and on my own
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world
all wonder why
I sat at home and cried alone
and on my own
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
On the side of a bullet
On the side of a bullet
I will no longer be writing fanfic. I have never really discussed fandom and/or meta in much depth, neither will I start now. Whatever I have written up to this point will stay up for the time being and the incomplete will most likely stay that way. There's no drama or any sort surrounding this decision. It's simply a change in priorities/interest. So please feel free to unfriend me at this point. It would help me in cleaning up my own friendlist. On the other hand, you're free to stay friends with this journal if you don't mind the various rambling posts on nothing and everything else outside of fandoms.
And for everyone else (so this post isn't completely devoid of merit): MUSIC SPAM!
| Ng: 你對我說你我都總會有錯 似你這句 我己聽得很多 陌生者的關心 卻彷彿一種切磋 |
You said to me that we'll both eventually make mistakes This sentence of yours, I've already heard many times Such strange kindness is like a type of (切磋 really hard to express in English) |
| So: 你說這世界美好不要錯過 你卻說你錯過了的很多 明天雖不清楚 仍願意苦心勸我 |
You said this world is beautiful and cannot be forsaken You said you've done wrong many times Although tomorrow is unknown, the pain urges me on |
| ＊Ng: 未算識你 但已想抱抱你 像老死 只需想到了你 打不死 輕傷的我哪敢死 So: 讓我跟你 學會不要放棄 未算乖 都知這個世界 不算壞 否則怎會碰到你 |
I haven't actually met you, yet I still want to hold you Like when old and dying, I need only to think of you Can't beat me to death, would this easily injured me dare to die? Let me follow you, learn how to not give up Not too clever, I still know this world Is not too bad; otherwise, how would I have bumped into you? |
| Ng: 我與你某次也許街裡見過 各有過去 你我也不清楚 陌生的世界裡 共同的東西太多 |
Maybe you and I have seen each other on the street We each have our own direction, you and I don't quite understand either In a strange world, there are too many things that are alike |
| Both: 我信你愛過更加哭過笑過 錯過跌過也算個好傢伙 誰捨得不信你 良善似兄弟對我 |
I believe you've loved before, and especially cried and smiled before Done wrong, fell down, and also considered a good fellow Who would dare not to believe you when you treat me like a brother? |
| Together: ＊,＊ | Repeat ＊ chorus twice |
Additional translation notes: Interestingly enough, the title 老死 (individual characters being "old" and "death" respectively) is one of the twelve Buddhist causes of suffering. It is that all humans must grow old and eventually die. It is the idea that all things depend upon something else in order to exist- "dependent origination." *remembers vaguely studying that in Mysticism* Ignorance begets mental formation/state, which begets consciousness, which begets name and form, which begets the six sense gates (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind), which begets sensation, which begets desire for sensation, which begets attachment and clinging, which begets state of transmigration (existence in the "real world"), which begets birth, and finally begets aging and death. I'm not sure if it actually has anything to do with the song. I think it's a reference that most native Chinese are supposed to catch. ^^;;; Of course, that's what I'm not.
Uncle Sam taught him to shoot
Maybe a little too well
Finger on the trigger, loaded bullet
He hit the stage so full of rage
And let the whole world know it
Six feet away, they heard him say
“Oh God, don’t let him pull it”
Please God, don’t let him pull it
How could you put us through it?
His brother watched you do it
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world all wonder why
I sat at home and on my own I cried alone
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
And in the wake of his mistake
So many lives are broken
Gone forever from a loaded bullet
And no excuse that you could use
Could pull somebody through it
And to this day so many say
“God why’d you let him do it?”
How could you let him do it?
How could you put us through it?
His brother watched him do it
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world
all wonder why
I sat at home and cried alone
and on my own
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
How could you take his life away? (What made you think you had the right?)
How could you be so full of hate? (To take away somebody's life)
And when I heard you let him die
And made the world
all wonder why
I sat at home and cried alone
and on my own
I scratched your name
On the side of a bullet
On the side of a bullet
On the side of a bullet
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on 2005-12-20 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
on 2005-12-20 03:03 pm (UTC)And well, we just have to accept your decision regarding fanfiction. It is sad to lose a good writer as you, but I also know that one has to be really determined to write a fanfiction.
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on 2005-12-20 09:31 pm (UTC)You said this world is beautiful and cannot be forsaken
You said you've done wrong many times
Although tomorrow is unknown, the pain urges me on
^.^
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on 2005-12-21 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-12-21 11:42 pm (UTC)