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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

i wanted to show off handmade valentine's day chocolates for ness but i have a feeling they're going to turn out unphotographable

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

there's no such thing as good lighting or photo composition in my world. it is what it is.....

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

my sachertorte experiment 1 was an expected failure bc it's boxed brownie mix and american-sweet apricot jam with a questionable chocolate ganache. i think if ness ate this, it'd become his new least favorite food 💔

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i remembered your words about buttons when my oasis glitched out 🫡 thank you for the rec!!

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i added a screensaver today i love my kainess life

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

coming out of retirement to announce i translated ch 1/3 of a #kainess fic 🥳 featuring: 🥀 hanahaki au 🥀 fruitless sloppy makeout sessions 🥀 kaiser crashing out for 3 entire chapters thanks for waiting so long and i hope you enjoy! 🫡 #baotls archiveofourown.org/works/756213...

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

the way i totally lied last year and this year too </3

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

i'm blue locking in this time for a late #rinbachi xmas in march ✊🏻 bachira is finally coming back and i am too #baowip

The last time Rin ever saw Meguru was right before winter break. He’d long forgotten what happened between the two of them, because he was used to running away.

That was just how they were.
Meguru had hugged him then.
Meguru loved hugging people. He always said that it let you touch the deepest parts of someone's heart.

But Rin hated being hugged. If he was hugged for too long, too many ambivalent feelings would rise within him.

It was ambiguous—the flavor of pickled cucumbers devolving into ochazuke and bream in his mouth. It was disgusting and delicious.

He was a soldier on the battlefield, yet he was taken down by a hug.

Unforgivable.

They weren't lovers, so it was just a hug. But they weren't friends either, because it wouldn’t have felt like they were crossing a line.
Both friends and lovers could have acted more openly, but only a simple hug was allowed in this relationship.

Their embrace left a sour taste, and that was enough for Rin to surrender. Wrapped under the shiny facade of a holographic candy wrapper, everything it reflected broke into patches of iridescent light.

If you could wipe away all the childish impulses, their youthful inexperience, and the silence that followed, what remained between them was nothing more than a single hug.

Meguru wordlessly opened his mouth, and left him.

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

here's a #rinbachi translation wip! aiming for xmas release ^___^ #baowip

Once school was over, Meguru would pull at him and ask whether he wanted to go eat fried chicken or strawberry cream cake. If Rin said he wanted fried chicken, they would end up having strawberry cream cake.

It was actually quite delicious. The fresh cream and fluffy sponge cake were cool in his mouth, and when the wind blew around them as they ate outside, it felt like there was something special in the air.

After a few bites, Meguru would begin to play around; swiping at Rin’s strawberries, attempting to smear cream across Rin’s face. Only, he never succeeded, because Rin’s retaliations meant it resulted in a mess on his own face.

Moments later, Rin would take his shot and call him “a stupid Bobcut.”

And after that, Meguru would cling onto him and follow him home. Rin’s protests were half-hearted, because Meguru trailed after him no matter how many times he objected.

Meguru would whine, “Rin-chan, just hold my hand for a little while, okay?”

Who knows which one of them reached out first, but their hands were joined either way, and Rin wasn’t going to be the one to let go.

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

glad there's other rinbachi fans 🤝🤝🤝 our numbers may be small, but we stand strong 🫡 i'm trying 2 get one more rinbachi out by the end of the year but we'll see how it goes...

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

i'm happy you enjoyed my translation!! ^___^ i loved reading your reaction thread ehe

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

you don't need the original work to be on ao3! you're able to link to outside works as well ^___^ most of the fics i translate are from other chinese social media sites

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

yes!! i always get permission from the writer before i translate :D lanxiyuki is very kind and let me know that i can take my time with it :-) which i need since tend to work slowly 😿 have you read their other work "10 years after kabru died, i met another demon"?

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

i'm working very slowly on a couple of kabumisu translations!

Milsiril hadn’t expected the noodles to be so pleasantly chewy, coated with the perfect amount of steaming broth.

The taste was foreign to her—Milsiril recognized that there were many spices and complex flavors, but she could not name a single one. The mild heat reawakened her dormant appetite, and her eyes widened in surprise.

“...” Milsiril was suddenly unsure how to respond. “So Mithrun can actually cook. Is this one of Melini’s specialties?”

“No.” Mithrun also took a sip of broth. “This is the cuisine of Utaya.”

Were she unaware that Mithrun possessed no sense of humor, Milsiril might have believed it was a cruel joke.

Kabru quickly cut in. “I was nostalgic for my mother’s food, so I tried recreating it! Though it’s not quite the same, it’s pretty good, right?”

However, Misilril could no longer remember what foods the people of Utaya had enjoyed either.

She tried to recall the battle from the distant past. By the time she arrived with the rest of the Canaries, Utaya was already wracked with devastation. She had long forgotten whether or not she tried the local specialties.
During the war, food was merely a means to ward off hunger. She was loath to revisit those painful memories, much less take note of such an unimportant detail.

Yet those two are different, Milsiril thought to herself. Kabru and Mithrun can speak openly of Utaya.

And so she realized with no small surprise that, throughout the years Kabru had been in her care, her child had never mentioned that he missed his mother’s cooking.

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

[grasps your hands] it's wonderful please join my book club

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

the most recent post-canon #quanyin fic i translated! happy (super late) mid-autumn festival 🥮 archiveofourown.org/works/44487928 #权引 #baotls

Of what is recovered and uncovered between them on an unexpected outing.

“Gods and ghosts are not alike, so please, Qi Ying Dianxia, stop coming to Ghost City. For the good of us both.”

“But I think Shixiong doesn’t want me to leave,” Quan Yizhen said. “Otherwise Shixiong, why won’t you let go of my hand?”

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

i don't want to repost all 30 fic translations so i'll just do a few across some different fandoms

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

oh dw i'll be showing it off to you when i get to the bookstore 🫡🫡🫡🫡

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

YESSS please read the preview with me 🥺 and ask your local library to order a copy, it comes out on 10/29!!

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

if you've ever loved a translated work, be it manga, novels, games, subtitles, lyrics, etc. i strongly recommend reading this as a love letter to that translation. this book is super approachable and you can read a preview here! books.google.ca/books?id=EsY... #bookclub

the philosophy of translation by damion searls, coming out 10/29/24

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

end of year fic translation goals: -mingqian -rinbachi 2025 fic translation goals: -saiou -quanyin -asoryuu -kabumisu

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

i want to eventually catch up and finish my backlog for fandoms i'm not rlly active in anymore so i can work on the backlog of new(er) fics! praying the authors will not delete their accts before then </3 it's a recurring curse bc i'm slow T___T

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

i hope next year i can get to 35 fic translations. or write a chapter of fic. whichever one happens to happen. it always takes so long to produce a piece.......

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happiNESS day❣️🎂 @turtlebaos.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

hoping i can finish this before the end of the month, but there's a lot more work than i expected ^___TTT you can definitely tell this was one of my very early 2019 era translations...i made so many choices i would not have made today.....

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