Post #1433809

2026-04-16 06:05 UTC

15: Dark Horse Proofreading breakdown at the TP office this issue. Apostrophes got replaced with Õ in the font they use for funny little asides. As in, D says Leon has to come along because "HeÕs my chauffeur." D makes friends with Betty, the jockey/stuntwoman on a movie set. Asks her about her experience with horses: TP: My family breeds and raises thoroughbreds. Racing's in my blood. SS: My family runs a stable. We even have a racehorse. Basically the same meaning, but props to TP for using the expression "in my blood," it'll be thematically relevant soon.

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@ErinPtah@universeodon.com 2026-04-16 06:36

Another big divide in character names: Betty's precious family horse is "1,000 Deaths" in TP, "Sazandis" in SS. This time, googling the SS name got me nothing useful. Search engines are convinced that I really meant to type Sarandis, Sandis, Satan, Gandhi (??), Sandi's, Cindy, or Zande. So it's not one of those mythological/historical references the SS translators found after the TP translators missed. ...I think this is the first divide where the SS translators are the ones who just fell back on the phonetic, "sazan-dis", while TP came up with a meaning, "Thousand-Deaths." (Ruthless Nights Scans went with "Southern Death." I'm genuinely surprised nobody here went with "Sudden Death.") Also, TP uses "she" for the horse, SS uses "he." Did one of them miss a gender indicator, or is this just a completely gender-ambiguous horse? There's a reference to the Thoroughbred foundation stallions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughbred#Foundation_stallions SS names the Godolphin Arabian, the Byerley Turk, and the Darley Arabian. TP names a trio of their descendants: Matchem, Herod, and Eclipse. Looks like "all modern thoroughbreds descend from these 3" is accurate for both groups, and Akino originally wrote the names of the younger generation, but SS decided to swap in the older one.

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