Devils in the Details
Sep. 7th, 2008 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99So there's these two fics I'm working on, where it's not so much the details themselves but what I should call them that's causing me problems. In both fandoms, they use a lot of non-English words. In one, 300, depending on the word I use, I shall have to write around reality (I'm reasonably sure Astinos and Stelios are different enough in age that Stelious couldn't have been mentoring him at school) or with the film (which takes liberties of its own) because there are no English equivalents for the words in question (syssitia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syssitia).
The other one is Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. Right at the start of the fic, the protagonist is in his underwear. Now the character, Kurogane, is from a fantasy Japan of the Shogunate era. So he will not be wearing boxer shorts, even I could figure that bit out. A bit of researching later, I have a name for the cursed garment (fundoshi). Now the manga tends to use the Japanese word for things, and then explain in the back-pages, so I could just footnote it, but that strikes me as being pompous when I've got a perfectly good English word (underwear), which while not the exact thing, is a reasonable equivalent.
Of course neither of these problems is as big as the one for a couple of fics I want to write. The three are 1) Cena, Orton and Cody Rhodes from when the three of them were involved in the feud that also had Cena's Dad involved, all about living up to your fathers, 2) Hornswaggle and Finlay - what sort of father keeps his son hidden under a wrestling ring, or sets up a scheme like the one in regards to Vince's bastard child and 3) Ox and Mutt. Because the bit at the beginning where Mutt is so worried about Ox is part of why I liked the character, and that he seems to warm to Indy so quickly is odd, if interesting, and Ox is okay with it (possibly because he rocks) and its all about what fathers are.
Some of you might have guessed the problem here. I don't have a father, so my data is lacking. Which annoys me, greatly. I feel less bad about 1 because Missy wrote a wondeful fic with Goldust and Cody on the general theme so I know someone's writing about it, I just want to write about it too.
The other one is Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. Right at the start of the fic, the protagonist is in his underwear. Now the character, Kurogane, is from a fantasy Japan of the Shogunate era. So he will not be wearing boxer shorts, even I could figure that bit out. A bit of researching later, I have a name for the cursed garment (fundoshi). Now the manga tends to use the Japanese word for things, and then explain in the back-pages, so I could just footnote it, but that strikes me as being pompous when I've got a perfectly good English word (underwear), which while not the exact thing, is a reasonable equivalent.
Of course neither of these problems is as big as the one for a couple of fics I want to write. The three are 1) Cena, Orton and Cody Rhodes from when the three of them were involved in the feud that also had Cena's Dad involved, all about living up to your fathers, 2) Hornswaggle and Finlay - what sort of father keeps his son hidden under a wrestling ring, or sets up a scheme like the one in regards to Vince's bastard child and 3) Ox and Mutt. Because the bit at the beginning where Mutt is so worried about Ox is part of why I liked the character, and that he seems to warm to Indy so quickly is odd, if interesting, and Ox is okay with it (possibly because he rocks) and its all about what fathers are.
Some of you might have guessed the problem here. I don't have a father, so my data is lacking. Which annoys me, greatly. I feel less bad about 1 because Missy wrote a wondeful fic with Goldust and Cody on the general theme so I know someone's writing about it, I just want to write about it too.
