Hey,
Thank you to anyone who's posted with kind words, I'm glad people are getting something out of this.
I'll be a bit busier with work from tomorrow, so chapters will slow down a tad.
When I say the stuff that's waiting to be uploaded needs QC, I mostly mean switching fonts (I only started with this one pretty recently, and had to go back and change everything <_< ) and sometimes adding SFX explanations I didn't do before.
I have been making a few extra tweaks based on what I've seen people saying, and I'll try and cut down on bolded words. Too influenced by old-timey comics, I guess. >_> I also started doing minor redraws around chapter 30 or so. (Sorry for the white blobs up until then, I literally never did any of this before a few weeks ago.)
I liked the series so much that when the first group drifted away from it I went to Pixiv to make an account so I could read it with MTL, and when the second group stopped, I thought "Okay, if nobody else comes along, I'll give it a try".
I've used MTL to read stuff in Japanese and Chinese for years (games, manga - I've used it so much lately the "take screenshot" button is burnt into my current phone screen...) and I would definitely not say it's a magic solution by any means (some of the manga I tried it on just would not come up with anything usable), but TnC seemed like I could turn it into something readable without fudging it too much.
Plus I'm used to the quirks MTL has by this point - mixing up subject and tenses, weird word picks (it still chooses "mosquito" instead of "power" sometimes, even after this long!) and so on. And I do recheck stuff as much as I can (I've even tweaked a few of these uploads right before I've posted them.) If someone who's fluent comes along and says "Actually this is all wrong" then... fair enough, but I'd honestly be surprised.
But yeah, if that doesn't happen, then I'm happy to stick with it. Working on #37 atm, and I'm still enjoying it, so if people want to read it, I'll keep going.