Thank you!
Mar. 30th, 2026 06:52 amThank you so much for helping me celebrate my birthday, which meant a lot. ♥ If I missed seeing anyone's greeting, please give a shout!
( Sweet greetings )
( Sweet greetings )
Tree time
Mar. 29th, 2026 10:01 amSo, as you may be aware, after we lost darling
jj1564, her family planted a memorial tree at her favourite place, Hever Castle. The tree is a flowering cherry tree and it's absolutely thriving!
Flowering cherry trees produce blossom in the Springtime, usually pink or white, and are such beautiful trees when they are in full blossom. However, their blossom period doesn't tend to last very long. You're lucky if you get three weeks out of them.
I've visited June's tree multiple times, but over the four plus years since it's been at Hever, I've never managed to see it in full blossom. Multiple circumstances such as covid, traffic strife and many and varied other commitments have meant that I've never been able to get there in that brief blossom window.
Yesterday, I finally managed to buck that trend!
Mr D and I took a trip down to Hever to meet up with Brenda and Barbara, two of June's sisters, and June's lovely tree put on a magnificent show for us!
It was beautiful - even prettier than I imagined it to be!



Flowering cherry trees produce blossom in the Springtime, usually pink or white, and are such beautiful trees when they are in full blossom. However, their blossom period doesn't tend to last very long. You're lucky if you get three weeks out of them.
I've visited June's tree multiple times, but over the four plus years since it's been at Hever, I've never managed to see it in full blossom. Multiple circumstances such as covid, traffic strife and many and varied other commitments have meant that I've never been able to get there in that brief blossom window.
Yesterday, I finally managed to buck that trend!
Mr D and I took a trip down to Hever to meet up with Brenda and Barbara, two of June's sisters, and June's lovely tree put on a magnificent show for us!
It was beautiful - even prettier than I imagined it to be!



CATE RANDA > MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS
Mar. 28th, 2026 07:55 pmCANON: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
CHARACTERS: Cate Randa
ADDITIONAL INFO: 111 icons from episodes 1-3
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CHARACTERS: Cate Randa
ADDITIONAL INFO: 111 icons from episodes 1-3
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MIO > XENOBLADE CHRONICLES 3
Mar. 28th, 2026 07:52 pmCANON: Xenoblade Chronicles 3
CHARACTERS: Mio
ADDITIONAL INFO: 273 icons, Chapters 1-4
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ADDITIONAL INFO: 273 icons, Chapters 1-4
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ANNE > THE DREADFUL
Mar. 28th, 2026 07:50 pmCANON: The Dreadful
CHARACTERS: Anne
ADDITIONAL INFO: 97 icons from the movie
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CHARACTERS: Anne
ADDITIONAL INFO: 97 icons from the movie
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Found in Translation FiMFiction Group for Translated Fanfiction
Mar. 27th, 2026 09:10 pm
I created a group on FiMFiction designed to link the English language stories that are found there to versions translated into other languages. The group, called Found in Translation, is meant as a resource for the larger, worldwide community, a reference library linking individual FiMFiction stories to the fanfiction archives scattered thither and yon on the Web, where translated versions of those stories have been stored. My intention is to make it easier for people to find translations in their native language, to show the global reach of fanfiction, to encourage networking and to satisfy everyone's values through friendship and ponies.
FiMFiction contains 124,897 stories that are rated Everyone and Teen. That's 2,009,968,811 words. If you were to read all it, non-stop, it would take you 797 weeks. Include the "Mature" stories and you're up to 160,889 stories. There is no easy way of finding stories published on FiMFiction that have been translated. Of the stories that have been translated, most do not say so in the story summary or teaser. Found in Translation changes that. It is a language-specific reference library with over 1,200 stories in the folders and with a forum where the links to the translations are given. Many of the stories are entire books, like Anthropology (translated into Spanish, Korean, Italian and Ukrainian), Fallout: Equestria (translated into Spanish, French and Italian) and Hard Reset (translated into Spanish, Russian and French). There are only 12 languages to choose from right now, but more languages will be added as they are found. So far the Spanish, Russian and Chinese folders contain over 300 stories each and the French folder has just under 200. This is a work in progress, more stories are added every day and lately I've been working on building up the Polish collection.
I figure that in order for a person to put in the time and effort to translate a story, it is probably a good story. Ergo, if you're looking for something to read, come on down to https://www.fimfiction.net/group/219287/found-in-translation and take a look. You could choose some translated fanfiction and polish your language comprehension skills, or you can always just come on by to find something to read in English.
The world is multi-lingual and so is the Pony fandom. Let's party!



