( HMD )

[sakotis]

HMD ip logging's off, comments are screened, anonymous is on also feel free to aim me @ grief seed or email me at agrandissmant @ gmail! ADDITIONAL NOTE: hetalia is a canon that can be very off-putting, to put it lightly, to some people. while i do make it a point to avoid (while also being conscious of) certain major historical occurrences, it is totally valid to not want to play with me regardless! if that's the case, please reply and i will steer clear with no complaints!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love your Lithuania~ He makes me appreciate his character more. <3! You do him great justice.

[sakotis]

oh thank you i'm sorry i don't do a lot with him, though. i'm trying to get better about activity, especially with him, so hugs and kisses to you for enjoying what you have seen!!

[paluszki]

You like, missed a spot.

[sakotis]

[ rotates his leg around b/c damn that flexible booty and lathers him good ]

EYYYYYYYYYY

[(Anonymous)]

Hey! It's just a minor profile detail, but I thought I'd let you know. The sentence "neturi būti pernelyg drąsus, ar jums bus sudeginti savo akis." doesn't really... make sense in Lithuanian. :'D Google translate suggests it should mean "do not be too adventurous, or you will burn your eyes." If that's correct, it should go like "neturi būti pernelyg drąsus, nes gali išdegti akis", or "nebūk pernelyg drąsus, nes išdegsi akis", or "neturi būti pernelyg drąsus, nes gali akis išdegti", ... Hope that's useful!

[sakotis]

Thank you! But unfortunately, I looked around and couldn't find any of those from a credible site, just to double check. I did, however, find a variant of it on this site, which doesn't look like anything either of us have. I remember when I did pick that proverb, I got it from a .lt site and ran it through someone who was a native speaker to double check before I put it up, but honestly I have no idea now. I guess I'll just look around a little more and try to figure out what the real, tried and true proverb is.

[(Anonymous)]

...there are actually some grammatical errors in the site you linked, too, but I think part of it is that a lot of proverbs, either lit or english, don't really translate accurately.

I'm a native speaker too, and I'm actually... not familiar with this one. I'll try looking around old books and let you know if I find anything similar. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I found some things on the internet! I looked up things that were using the eye burning metaphor, so let me know if it's not the point you want to accent.

don't get in things without thinking (http://patarles.dainutekstai.lt/z/5df1101)
don't be too ...actually adventurous fits here (http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Neb%C5%ABk_per_daug_aik%C5%A1tus_%E2%80%93_akis_i%C5%A1degsi!)
a whole bunch of various proverbs and riddles (http://lt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lietuvi%C5%B3_patarl%C4%97s_ir_prie%C5%BEod%C5%BEiai)

Also the link you gave does have "nebūk per drąsus - akis išdegsi", which to me looks like what the original is aiming at, but the translation "Be not too bold, you will burn your eyes" is not absolute; it goes just as well with 'don't', and "drąsus" actually means "courageous" rather than "bold" but we don't actually have word for "adventurous" exactly, so...

I'M SORRY IF I'M JUST CONFUSING YOU! I'm trying to be helpful. |D;;

[mindey]

It is such a wonder that, when I searched for people in Lithuania on DW, I found you guys nearly everyone of you, like manga-style. Yey! This is so cute! I am also in Lithuania xD

[sakotis]

haha sorry about that! dreamwidth isn't exactly full of personal accounts in use, so you'll find more roleplay accounts than anything.

[mindey]

I see! (^_^) So you are playing games, and pretending to be Lithuanians? Wow, that's awesome! xD

[sakotis]

hmm, not exactly? i'm not sure if you're familiar with the concept of personification or anthropomorphism, but these accounts are actually for the country itself based on a representation in a web comic. so he's the personification of Lithuania as seen through the eyes of a comic creator. at least, that's the more complex cut and dry way of putting it i guess.

[mindey]

I see! So, are you actually a collective of comic creators, trying to represent my country together? Amazing!