Taylor Drew
@mollymay5000.bsky.social
she/they | Canada → 日本 | Japanese to English translator | English, Français, 日本語
https://taylordrew.me/
https://taylordrew.me/
Sometimes finalizing a rough draft is a breeze because past you was a genius. Other times, finalizing a rough draft is a kind of written warfare between you and the past and you and the present.
I experienced both types today. Humanity is full of multitudes.
#AmTranslating
I experienced both types today. Humanity is full of multitudes.
#AmTranslating
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Sometimes finalizing a rough draft is a breeze because past you was a genius. Other times, finalizing a rough draft is a kind of written warfare between you and the past and you and the present.
I experienced both types today. Humanity is full of multitudes.
#AmTranslating
I experienced both types today. Humanity is full of multitudes.
#AmTranslating
I wrote my #ReadingLog for November a few days ago, but I forgot to post it on this website. I've been working on catching up on my magazine subscriptions in between frantically working, so it's a short one.
Still fun to write though, so enjoy if this is your thing!
#AmReading #booksky
Still fun to write though, so enjoy if this is your thing!
#AmReading #booksky
november 2025 reads
Another month gone and we're already into the last month of 2025! Where did the time go? I'm worried I might be lost in a dimension where a whole month passe...
taylordrew.me
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wrote my #ReadingLog for November a few days ago, but I forgot to post it on this website. I've been working on catching up on my magazine subscriptions in between frantically working, so it's a short one.
Still fun to write though, so enjoy if this is your thing!
#AmReading #booksky
Still fun to write though, so enjoy if this is your thing!
#AmReading #booksky
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A little old man just passed me chanting “Sayuri, Sayuri” to the slow rhythm of his cane clicking on the pavement and I asked if Sayuri may have gone to Arakawa cuz I could look there but he didn’t know & now I am broken everyone get out and find his dog right now especially you @katch.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
A little old man just passed me chanting “Sayuri, Sayuri” to the slow rhythm of his cane clicking on the pavement and I asked if Sayuri may have gone to Arakawa cuz I could look there but he didn’t know & now I am broken everyone get out and find his dog right now especially you @katch.bsky.social
Always nice to get a message on LinkedIn from a recruiter from some company or other asking me if I would like to help them do quality assurance on data sets that they're trying to use to replace me.
How about no? I would rather launch myself into the sun.
How about no? I would rather launch myself into the sun.
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Always nice to get a message on LinkedIn from a recruiter from some company or other asking me if I would like to help them do quality assurance on data sets that they're trying to use to replace me.
How about no? I would rather launch myself into the sun.
How about no? I would rather launch myself into the sun.
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Please donate! All donations TODAY will be matched. Please help this important cat rescue group continue their life saving work.
#cats #catrescue #japan
#cats #catrescue #japan
Donate to Japan Cat Network — Japan Cat Network International
Japan Cat Network International relies entirely on donations from the public to operate.
All donations go to our extensive activities such trap-neuter-return (TNR) operations, cat care, rescue house...
www.japancatnetwork.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Please donate! All donations TODAY will be matched. Please help this important cat rescue group continue their life saving work.
#cats #catrescue #japan
#cats #catrescue #japan
Reminder to freelancers that you really need to read your contracts before you sign them. Reading contract language, especially if in a different language, isn't easy, but doing so may save you the potential future harm of overly broad clauses in the contract.
You need to be careful.
You need to be careful.
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reminder to freelancers that you really need to read your contracts before you sign them. Reading contract language, especially if in a different language, isn't easy, but doing so may save you the potential future harm of overly broad clauses in the contract.
You need to be careful.
You need to be careful.
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Look for RJL’s 2026 list of new and upcoming releases from Japan later this week.
In the meantime, enjoy a sneak peek of what’s already available for pre-order!
In the meantime, enjoy a sneak peek of what’s already available for pre-order!
2026 New Releases from Japan
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Look for RJL’s 2026 list of new and upcoming releases from Japan later this week.
In the meantime, enjoy a sneak peek of what’s already available for pre-order!
In the meantime, enjoy a sneak peek of what’s already available for pre-order!
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【お知らせ】TVアニメ『とんがり帽子のアトリエ』のティザーPV &キャストがついに解禁されました！
ココ：CV #本村玲奈 さん
キーフリー：CV #花江夏樹 さん
アニメの公開日は2026年4月より放送開始です。
みんな、魔法の世界に旅立つ準備はできたかい？
#witchhatatelier
#とんがり帽子のアトリエ
youtu.be/dkJNqHgTxwI?...
ココ：CV #本村玲奈 さん
キーフリー：CV #花江夏樹 さん
アニメの公開日は2026年4月より放送開始です。
みんな、魔法の世界に旅立つ準備はできたかい？
#witchhatatelier
#とんがり帽子のアトリエ
youtu.be/dkJNqHgTxwI?...
【ティザーPV】26年4月放送！TVアニメ「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」
YouTube video by TVアニメ「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」公式
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
【お知らせ】TVアニメ『とんがり帽子のアトリエ』のティザーPV &キャストがついに解禁されました！
ココ：CV #本村玲奈 さん
キーフリー：CV #花江夏樹 さん
アニメの公開日は2026年4月より放送開始です。
みんな、魔法の世界に旅立つ準備はできたかい？
#witchhatatelier
#とんがり帽子のアトリエ
youtu.be/dkJNqHgTxwI?...
ココ：CV #本村玲奈 さん
キーフリー：CV #花江夏樹 さん
アニメの公開日は2026年4月より放送開始です。
みんな、魔法の世界に旅立つ準備はできたかい？
#witchhatatelier
#とんがり帽子のアトリエ
youtu.be/dkJNqHgTxwI?...
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Didn't expect to lose hours of my life today attempting to learn how to write believable Early Modern English for two throwaway lines that will definitely never come up again in this series I'm translating.
A solution has not yet been found. I am suffering.
#AmTranslating
A solution has not yet been found. I am suffering.
#AmTranslating
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Didn't expect to lose hours of my life today attempting to learn how to write believable Early Modern English for two throwaway lines that will definitely never come up again in this series I'm translating.
A solution has not yet been found. I am suffering.
#AmTranslating
A solution has not yet been found. I am suffering.
#AmTranslating
October was a bit lackluster for reading because I was so busy, but I finally managed to get my #BookLog for the month written. I hope anyone who actually reads these things enjoys the small excited rant I go on at the end of this one.
#AmReading #booksky
#AmReading #booksky
october 2025 reads
Following two months of COVID and eye surgery, my full-time job contract ended in the middle of October, so I've been in a bit of a transitionary period over...
taylordrew.me
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
October was a bit lackluster for reading because I was so busy, but I finally managed to get my #BookLog for the month written. I hope anyone who actually reads these things enjoys the small excited rant I go on at the end of this one.
#AmReading #booksky
#AmReading #booksky
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Hi! Big update today!
It’s been more than four years since we launched as Azuki in June 2021. Today we’re excited to announce a new name for our manga reading platform and publisher: Omoi
It’s been more than four years since we launched as Azuki in June 2021. Today we’re excited to announce a new name for our manga reading platform and publisher: Omoi
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hi! Big update today!
It’s been more than four years since we launched as Azuki in June 2021. Today we’re excited to announce a new name for our manga reading platform and publisher: Omoi
It’s been more than four years since we launched as Azuki in June 2021. Today we’re excited to announce a new name for our manga reading platform and publisher: Omoi
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I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Started my day with a DM asking me to do professional translation work for free because "I promise I'm a good person and I've always advocated for paying creatives."
Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me.
#AmNotTranslating
Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me.
#AmNotTranslating
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Started my day with a DM asking me to do professional translation work for free because "I promise I'm a good person and I've always advocated for paying creatives."
Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me.
#AmNotTranslating
Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me.
#AmNotTranslating
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The second book in Kenji Ueda’s Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop series (tr. me) came out this week. www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-978...
上田健次『銀座「四宝堂」文房具店 2』（英訳）
Notes from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop : The bestselling Japanese sensation for cosy fiction lovers (The Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop)
本の通販なら紀伊國屋書店ウェブストア、電子書籍ストアKinoppy！店舗受取で送料無料。図書カードNEXTも使える。紀伊國屋ポイントが貯まる・使える。コミックや雑誌も豊富な品揃え。国内・海外主要都市に店舗を展開する紀伊國屋書店のECサイト。
www.kinokuniya.co.jp
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The second book in Kenji Ueda’s Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop series (tr. me) came out this week. www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-02-978...
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The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
Subscribe at:
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clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
Subscribe at:
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November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The November 2025 issue of Clarkesworld features stories by R.H. Wesley, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Tade Thompson, Ramiro Sanchiz, Chisom Umeh, Brent Baldwin, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_230
Subscribe at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Reviewed another book courtesy of #NetGalley. Kind of hard to read near future speculative fiction that takes place in the United States right now, but this book was really good. I really enjoyed the calm chaos. Highly recommend.
#AmReading #BookReview #booksky
#AmReading #BookReview #booksky
happy bad by delaney nolan
I suppose it hasn't been too long since my last review, but life has been so hectic since August that it feels like years have passed since I was frantically...
taylordrew.me
October 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reviewed another book courtesy of #NetGalley. Kind of hard to read near future speculative fiction that takes place in the United States right now, but this book was really good. I really enjoyed the calm chaos. Highly recommend.
#AmReading #BookReview #booksky
#AmReading #BookReview #booksky
It cannot be understated how important a good editor and proofreader are to ensuring project quality. But people in these roles who lack a strong attention to detail/can't articulate their issues, can bog a project down.
Your translators can't read minds. Be clear and articulate in your comments.
Your translators can't read minds. Be clear and articulate in your comments.
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It cannot be understated how important a good editor and proofreader are to ensuring project quality. But people in these roles who lack a strong attention to detail/can't articulate their issues, can bog a project down.
Your translators can't read minds. Be clear and articulate in your comments.
Your translators can't read minds. Be clear and articulate in your comments.
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Do any of my followers read #Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and want to help me confirm the official translation of a quote for an article I'm translating?
It's:
"人間の寿命は短いってわかっていたのに… なんでもっと知ろうと思わなかったんだろう"
Something like "I knew humans had short lives... Why didn't I get to know him better?"
It's:
"人間の寿命は短いってわかっていたのに… なんでもっと知ろうと思わなかったんだろう"
Something like "I knew humans had short lives... Why didn't I get to know him better?"
October 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Do any of my followers read #Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and want to help me confirm the official translation of a quote for an article I'm translating?
It's:
"人間の寿命は短いってわかっていたのに… なんでもっと知ろうと思わなかったんだろう"
Something like "I knew humans had short lives... Why didn't I get to know him better?"
It's:
"人間の寿命は短いってわかっていたのに… なんでもっと知ろうと思わなかったんだろう"
Something like "I knew humans had short lives... Why didn't I get to know him better?"
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Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
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Tokyo friends, this is happening on Saturday - please come and join us!
#translation #literarytranslation #booksky
peatix.com/event/4568298
#translation #literarytranslation #booksky
peatix.com/event/4568298
Parallel Words: Celebrating the Translation Boom!
Event Description
Over the past few years, the English-language publishing market has witn...
peatix.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Tokyo friends, this is happening on Saturday - please come and join us!
#translation #literarytranslation #booksky
peatix.com/event/4568298
#translation #literarytranslation #booksky
peatix.com/event/4568298
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If any of my followers happen to know someone good at crowdfunding , especially in Japan, or if you or someone you know might be interested in funding a tech-savvy craft cheesemaking venture in Japan, reach out maybe? I'd like to talk.
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If any of my followers happen to know someone good at crowdfunding , especially in Japan, or if you or someone you know might be interested in funding a tech-savvy craft cheesemaking venture in Japan, reach out maybe? I'd like to talk.
This morning, translation involves carefully analyzing a drawing of a knee MRI to figure out if this character tore their ACL or their PCL since the injury name used in the text lacks that specificity (that is included in all references I've found), but the speaker is a doctor.
#AmTranslating
#AmTranslating
October 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This morning, translation involves carefully analyzing a drawing of a knee MRI to figure out if this character tore their ACL or their PCL since the injury name used in the text lacks that specificity (that is included in all references I've found), but the speaker is a doctor.
#AmTranslating
#AmTranslating
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In case anyone will be in Tokyo during October/November/December…
Planning for the Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) meetups are underway! If you would like more information, feel free to DM. 🙇
Planning for the Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) meetups are underway! If you would like more information, feel free to DM. 🙇
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In case anyone will be in Tokyo during October/November/December…
Planning for the Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) meetups are underway! If you would like more information, feel free to DM. 🙇
Planning for the Kanto Manga Loc (and more!) meetups are underway! If you would like more information, feel free to DM. 🙇
Nothing like a client telling you that they think you did a wonderful job on the translation! Even better when that translation is based on the dialect you grew up speaking. Feels good, friends 🥹
#AmTranslating
#AmTranslating
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Nothing like a client telling you that they think you did a wonderful job on the translation! Even better when that translation is based on the dialect you grew up speaking. Feels good, friends 🥹
#AmTranslating
#AmTranslating