TXQ フィクション

Why this translation took as long as it did.

TXQ Fiction presents the usual problem of the genre: most of what matters is said quickly, off-mic, in regional speech, and the only circulating versions are machine-translated rips that flatten it into nonsense. Our pass on this file went through three drafts and two dialect consultants before we were willing to publish.

Where a line could be read more than one way, we kept the published version conservative and put the alternatives in the commentary. Members can read the full justification (the rejected drafts, the timing decisions, the alternate reads) alongside the .srt on Patreon.