Ruffian

Hello, friends. You can call me Ruffian, after my favorite racehorse. (They/Them pronouns, please.) I'm here mainly to offer my services as a translator. I have roughly N2 level Japanese skills, and I particularly like translating song lyrics. I can also gather info about the IRL horses from Japanese sites.

In real life, I am a lifelong horse enthusiast. I've taken care of real horses and even rode for a while as a kid. My relatives are involved in racing, showing, and rodeo. I grew up less than an hour's drive from Secretariat's birthplace, and used to watch races at Colonial Downs every summer. I even had a sizable collection of Breyer horse figures. I fell out of the obsession but never completely stopped. Now, getting into UmaMusume has revived my inner Horse Girl with a vengeance.

If you want to find me on other sites, search for ParadoxicalFrog, possibly with a dash or underscore in the middle. I used a different name here because I wanted something horse-related, and honoring the greatest mare ever to grace North America's tracks felt right.

Likes	Organizing, physical labor, trivia
Dislikes	Phone calls, lying, complex math
Family	Everyone in their family is good with animals.
Personal Rule	Always watch an uma's IRL race footage before you pull from her gacha to increase your luck.
Phone Background	An aerial shot of Osaka (wants to visit there even more than Tokyo)
Before a Race...	Listens to a song that suits the trainee and their story.
Good Subject	Science and History
Secret Pride	Can cook a perfect grilled cheese.
Secrets	Has written reams of yuri fanfiction, but has yet to publish any of it.
	Learned Japanese by watching anime and reading doujinshi.