Celebrating 300 Followers on the Moyatorium

I’m very grateful to announce that this blog gathered 300 followers last week! The current follower count is at 307 (+3 email followers, don’t ask me how). Many many thanks, people, for reading my somewhat inconsistent content!

I totally should I did consider doing a Q&A, but I answer almost all the award tags that come my way, so I’m sure there’s no more information I have left to offer you.

I Tried Singing in English

I covered a song in Japanese for 200 followers, and Leap250 suggested that I do one of my own translyrics for 300. I decided to go with that, because Leap was also the one to request translyrics for the Kalafina song and Sora no Woto OP “Hikari no Senritsu”/”Melody of Light” many months ago, which I have since translyricized (I know, took me forever to get there).

Sora no Woto is an excellent anime (that I didn’t watch)

I considered giving this post some cheesy title that fits “light” and “300” in the same sentence, but alas, I don’t think I can pull it off. I’ll sing my love to you though~ This summer seems to be particularly stressful for so many bloggers, myself included. Before I have to go on hiatus for my summer studies and stuff, please accept my sincerest wishes.

Moya’s unprofessional English cover:

Recorded…on my phone. I was pretty pissed about the fact that whoever arranged the karaoke version lowered the key and made everything very mid-range (a.k.a. Moya’s least favourite singing range). To play with it, I added a weird “reverb” effect that resulted in extra vibrato, and didn’t know how to undo it (R.I.P. my technology skills), but hey, at least the lyrics are a pretty decent translation.

As per usual with my translyrics (I haven’t done one in a long time), this one is about 90% faithful to the song’s themes/messages and 75% faithful in style/imagery.

Lyrics:

All of the light that spills from the sky

Is it reaching each weary chamber of your heart?

Once in a dream there drifted a tune

Droning soundlessly from afar

Even if you are far from that life you set out to construct

Never discard that memory of chords that somebody plucked

A song of feathers and blissful sighs

Played til all those fingers bled

By and by

Sound from heaven ringing high

Higher still, over your grief the tune will fly

Peering back at me as I search inside your eyes

Is the world, so grim and lonely in your mind

Neither tears nor tender lies

Bind you here, like strings attached to coloured kites

In the falling light I will sing to you once more

A song that guides tomorrow’s flight

To tell you a secret, the sound from the sky

Is a music that slips past ordinary ears

Yet, those beats you’ll hear them arise

In your heart for infinite years

Some Wednesday, a tired midnight

As you sigh underneath a streetlight

Lady Fortune may drop by, and kiss you a single time

One day you’ll see that your tears have dried

You’ll open your mouth and sing

To chords I can’t describe

Drumbeats have started to sound, so tirelessly

“Song of love,” everyone sings, so staunchly

And over that beautiful song

The sky blue notes ring, graciously

Singing for me and myself

Sometimes it feels a little bit empty and dull

I summon you in each of my lonesome tunes

Do you ever feel the pull?

Wherever you are today

What pain is I’ve started to learn

After placing my hand on the scar across your heart

Once in a dream there drifted a tune

Droning soundlessly from afar

Sound from heaven ringing high

Higher still, over your grief the tune will fly

That we are alive in this world until this day

Is a sign for us to laugh until the end

Neither smiles nor reveries

Bind you here like strings attached to coloured kites

In the fading light I will sing to you once more

A song that guides tomorrow’s flight

 

*I realized that I forgot to translyricize two stanzas when I was doing the cover. So I kinda just repeated the chorus.

*The original can be found here.

Thanks a ton for sticking around all this time. I will keep doing my best at blogging, or at least, trying to do my best~

The Honour Role

I thanked people by name last time, but now there are simply too many people to thank. I’ll make a list anyway…

Thanks to everyone who regularly reads my stuff. We all are selective to some extent when we go through our feed (aside from the few amazing people I know), and I’m honoured to have anyone read the content I produce.

Thanks to those who have ever dropped a comment on this blog! I looove comments. Arguments are very much welcome too.

Thanks to those whose blogs I always want to comment on! Sorry for getting too excited in comment sections sometimes, but it it means I’m totally in love with what you’re doing.

Thanks to anyone I’ve ever collaborated with! I always welcome a collab. Well, perhaps after this July, but I do welcome them.

Thanks to those who interact with me on Twitter and Discord. You’re all really cool people and I’m glad I got to make friends with you…

Thanks to those who Google all the right things and find my blog. I have no idea how it happened and I’m sure I disappoint you 95% of the time, but I hope at least 5% of you found my posts enjoyable.

Thanks to those who spoil me with the newest and funnest tags going around the blogging word. I may not get to all of those in time, but I appreciate every one.

Thanks to those who post consistent episode reviews and series previews. They’re super useful as references for my own reviewing and anime-watching.

Thanks to those who write stories on their blogs. I may not read all of your novel if it’s too long, but I love the fact that you do what you do. Keep it up, novelists!

Thanks to those who write inspirational posts. Some people set out to motivate, while others do so without realizing it. Emotional and/or personal posts are the type I find myself caring most about. Your stories may not always be positive in theme or cheerfully written, but how human you are and how you confront your vulnerabilities always makes me aspire to be the same.

Thanks to those who write conversationally on their blogs and people who fangirl/fanboy a lot in their posts. These posts are super entertaining to read and easy to engage in.

Thanks to those who write with sophisticated style and put as much effort into blogging as they would a dissertation thesis (at least, it seems like it to me). Your posts are so gorgeous I might die from envy, but I’ll totally stay alive to learn from them!

Thanks to anyone who read this post to the end. Thanks for hanging out at the Moyatorium!

Small Reminder:

If you would like to participate in the blogging community study I posted about last time, please feel free to follow this link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q9IfU4FgTdJIenAO8SKpAj5oGp7XiTg3tEB-d6uU7B0/edit?usp=sharing

I’m really happy that some of you took the time to do it, and I’ll make sure to update you guys on the progress!