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stormyoceans · 6 months

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offgun confirmed today on gmmtv live house that cooking crush will air on sunday the 26th of November, which means that the friday/saturday slots will be free after dr and ofts...... you know what the means, right? NO MORE CLOWNING, WE ARE GETTING THAT TRAILER AND THE LT ERA IS ON THE HORIZON. My bet is that it's gonna air on saturday, which begs the question: will we get the trailer this week or on saturday after ofts ends? And will there be a special episode so that means the first episode will air on the 11th of November or will the show start immediately since gmmtv seems to have abandoned the idea of a special episode? I lowkey want one because i just want to dive inside the mind of each and every cast member lmao

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

[PUTS A DETECTIVE HAT ON TOP OF HER CLOWN WIG] OKAY HEAR ME OUT

with cooking crush taking the sunday slot, im even more convinced that last twilight is gonna air on saturday. only friends is ending this week and GMMTV needs a trailer to play after the last episode is over (it’s usually what happens, unless there’s a rerun). cherry magic is still in the middle of the filming process, and while that doesn’t mean they can’t release a trailer for it, we know that the last twilight one is fully wrapped up and ready to go because people inside the company have already seen it, so it only makes sense for last twilight to replace only friends on saturday

we also know that GMMTV always does an official trailer release announcement, which means they only have three days left to do it before saturday. im not taking friday into consideration because they have to promote the new dangerous romance episode and it would be a conflict of interest to release anything on the same date, so that leaves tomorrow and thursday. right now im personally leaning more towards thursday, if only because sea is a guest on live house tomorrow, and just like offgun confirmed cooking crush airing date on it, i expect sea to give us some news about last twilight too

as for the ‘inside’ episode, it’s true that GMMTV hasn’t done one in a while, but i think we actually might get one for last twilight. i don’t have strong proofs to back this up, but

the first picture was shared at the beginning of october and we still don’t know what it is for. the second one is from a short video p’aof shared yesterday and we all thought it was an old one, from the same day of the first pic since jimmy and sea are wearing the same clothes, but apparently it actually is from yesterday. the three of them filming a special episode could explain this, and even if that would mean waiting one more week for the show to air I REALLY REALLY WANT ONE BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SHOW

ANYWAY. tl;dr/monica you’re not making any sense/please for the love of god shut up already: LAST TWILIGHT IN THE SATURDAY SLOT. TRAILER ON THURSDAY. SPECIAL EP ON NOV 4 AND FIRST EP ON NOV 11. IF IM WRONG ONCE AGAIN IM GONNA EAT MY CLOWN WIG

#WHAT IS ENGLISH. WHAT IS COHERENCY #I REALLY FEEL LIKE A DETECTIVE SLOWLY LOSING HER MIND OVER A MURDER BOARD COMPLETE WITH PINS AND RED STRINGS #AT THIS POINT IM HOPING GMMTV IS JUST GONNA MERCY OF MY POOR SANITY WHICH IS DETERIORATING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT #ANYWAY!!!!! thank you for asking my opinion and thank you for letting me know about cooking crush airing on nov 26!!!!#hope you're having a wonderful day!!!! 💜#last twilight the series #hsfavoriteworlds #m: ask

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twelfth-dykector · 3 months

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CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! I REPEAT!!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!!!

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fredoesque · 3 months

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the way franklin has silna's father's body disposed of in ep 3 is a really fascinating indication of how the english see the inuit to me.

because yeah, obviously it's incredibly disrespectful in ignoring the man's own burial traditions and even from an entirely english pov as a way to "bury" someone. but on top of that i find it very telling that they felt it was their place to bury him at all--if they truly didn't think he was worth the trouble, why not just give his body to silna?

they must have felt on some level they had a claim to his body and, perhaps in their seeing themselves as a last outpost of civilization, a duty to make sure it was taken care of. even though they clearly didn't care one bit about the man they were actually burying.

this moment is one of a few in the show where the english seem to assume, entirely without question, that they have authority over the arctic and the people in it. that just by virtue of being english they are naturally and immediately the highest (worldly) power present. which obviously betrays a deeply imperialistic worldview.

and in showing that insidious assumption of authority in interaction with more baldly racist disrespect and disregard towards a netsilik person, i feel this moments highlights the twofold superiority the english feel over the inuit: both as having a exclusive claim to power and as having a exclusive claim to personhood

#is this coherent. hopefully #the terror #obligatory disclaimer i've done some reading on relations between the inuit and victorians but it hasn't necessarily been extensive #so lmk if this is way off base #but i do feel there is sort of a paternalistic bend to the way the english position themselves wrt the netsilik throughout the show #that from what i can tell reflects actual victorian attitudes #like whenever a character (say goodsir or crozier) approaches the netsilik with more decency (especially nearer to the start of the show)#it reads to me not as ''the basic dignity you afford fellow human beings bc they're your fellows''#but as ''the burden of care you have towards those weaker than yourself''#for example in the same ep when goodsir tells the men to bury the talismans with silna's father #obviously he means well and is acting from a place of compassion and even attempted respect #but i do find it telling that he never questions whether it's HIS place to make that decision.#he assumes implicitly that he has both the authority and the knowledge to decide how the body should be treated. when really he has neither

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spiderziege · 13 days

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i threw together all my tsg writing and notes ive made for the past few years (which ended up being like 115 pages lol) and now im slowly reading through it. and apparently in one version i did actually do the trope of 'extremely powerful and evil magician gets defeated by a regular gun'

#its barely coherent writing more like dozens of outlines and first chapters. only thing they have in common are the characters #these ocs are my sisyphus boulder unfortunately #but this is just what i have on this laptop so theres still stuff from my old laptop + phone notes + on paper stuff missing #ALSO most of its in english which sucks. my next future abandoned first chapter should at least be german

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fragmentedblade · 9 months

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I love that you can pinpoint exactly the moment in which Jing Yuan steals that piece (and which one) from the board in his trailer

#I love him to bits #Watching the video made me wonder whether the bird imagery with Yanqing was to draw a parallelism with the birds following Jing Yuan around #They are adorable #I... I want this in my blog #Please tumblr let me organise things without bothering people #Is this enough?#Perhaps?#Maybe?#Almost ten tags already #The post shouldn't appear in the general tags anymore right?#Please?#Jing Yuan #Yanqing #I talk too much #By the way... His voice is beautiful in English but it doesn't get the character at all I feel #He sounds drastically different in any other language and all the others are more coherent with what we are supposed to believe of him‚#with what we see and what he is revealed to be #The playfulness‚ the youthfulness‚ the apparent carelessness‚ truth and lessons like a magic trick to hide his true intentions #It's all there in Chinese‚ for instance. It's mostly lacking in the English voice #A lot of his depth lies there and I feel the English dub isn't appropriate #Goodness I love this character to pieces haha I could talk about him for hours I feel #I think about him all the time

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hella1975 · 1 year

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i love my econ group bc they’ll write the most complex thorough sentence about econometric analysis and data coding and then they’ll slide it over to me and i have to be like ‘nice! you have zero grasp of basic grammar though!’

#using commas as full stops. be serious #math smart meet english smart FIGHT #it’s so fucking funny bc in my head I’m doing the BARE MINIMUM in this project like I’ve done the intro/conclusion and final edits that’s IT #I’ve absolutely coasted on this one #but to my mates they’ve actually admitted that my help is invaluable #and then I read what they’ve put and I’m like honestly… yeah… like youse actually cannot write a coherent sentence #10% of the total mark is the quality of the writing alone and we’ll lose even more if we submit as is #THAT’S how bad the writing is. like i read the boys’ section and was messaging my mate actually distraught #like head in my hands level of questioning my existence #I’ve never valued my english brain during this degree as much as i do rn #i feel like a teacher and they’re all coming to me with their contributions #and I’m like ‘it’s good it’s SO good but this sentence is so convoluted that I actually don’t even know what point you’re trying to make’#lmao feeling good about myself rn. girlbossing even #hella goes to uni

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whom-to-kill-whom-to-let-live · 8 months

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Random TriStamp thoughts of the day:

(Note: this is just me rambling and might be completely entirely off mark, I’m sure others have much more accurate analyses about this subject than me.)

So!

A lot of people have pointed out already that while Knives aligns himself with plants he is more like a human, and how Vash is kind of the opposite.

That made me think about how Knives claims to want a better existence for his sisters, but we only ever see Vash actually heal/’help’ dependent plants.

Which in turn makes me wonder, is it that Knives chooses not to heal them or that he can’t? Because that distinction says a lot about his character methinks (Burdened by his inability to help and how that might shape his choices VS he can very much ‘help’ but chooses not to because he’s past the point where he can see any other solutions but his ‘master plan’).

Like, Tristamp sort of went out of its way to bonk us on the head about how different Knives’ and Vash’s powers are in this version (that whole scene where Rem tells Knives to hide his natural abilities away and for Vash to proudly be himself (side note: Rem accidentally taught Knives a very bad lesson there didn’t she)).

I really got the impression that after Tesla was a ‘failure’ in integrating with humans- getting turned into a butchered experiment instead- whatever is causing independent plants to be born went “ok, let’s try that again but lets send a bodyguard along this time”.

Like, baby Knives makes fun of baby Vash for being ‘just like a human’ but isn’t that by design? Vash can blend in with humans easily and thus in theory avoid ending up like Tesla. Meanwhile Knives doesn’t require a lot of resources to live but he is really only good at stabbing things (and making snugly blankets) (Again makes me wonder if it is an active choice Knives is making or if he’s just a very specialized plant in this version. Something that inform a lot about his character depending on which one is the case).

Another thing that’s been constantly bugging me since I first watched Tristamp is how between the two of them, Vash is the one who instinctively(?) knows the song of the plants, while Knives doesn’t. Vash has to teach it to him, which really emphasizes the disconnect between Knives and plants.

So, what gives?

#[Text]#TriStamp #Millions Knives #Vash the Stampede #Rambles #if this isn't coherent that's because I just typed what came to mind ok #Also regardless of what the case is in canon I'm always a Knives apologist #Also Knives and Vash having different powers in Tristamp is one of those writing choices that really made me raise my eyebrows #I don't dislike it but I think it adds to this thing where characters have less agency in Tristamp compared to the other versions ?#I don't know how to explain this in english but it's like 'they do things ' VS 'things happen to them'#I suppose the latter is easier to use for plot driven story ?#but it also really strips away a lot of the nuances that arise when characters jump into the plot based on their own decisions ?#ack! brain scrambles #I'm making no sense now !#*hits post button*

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raayllum · 1 year

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I know it’s a longer one, but I vote for Rayla’s Position In The Narrative as a Dual Antagonist!

*cracks knuckles with shania twain music* let's go girls

So I've talked about this very briefly before in the context of a much larger meta about something completely different, but 'Rayla is the only character who enters the show as an Antagonist for both the humans and the elves. She is the first character to be caught in the middle, opposing everything the human characters are currently all trying to save (King Harrow’s life), and also ruining whatever chance her mission has of success, angering and endangering her fellow assassins. Much of season one, then, is pushing her into a more positive role for the humans, and much of season three examines whether or not she is right to oppose the elves — and how to reverse it if she can. This is part of why she wrestles so intensely with the ‘failure’ of both her own mission and her parents’

After all, neither Viren nor Claudia are an antagonist in any way until 1x03. Soren doesn't arguably become an antagonist at all until S2. Part of this is because Soren and Claudia, while they face set backs in what they were trying to do (protect the royal family; keep the egg on their side), they don't 100% shit the bed, so to speak. Claudia would've had the upper hand if Callum hadn't blind sided her and even then they struggled to get rid of her smoke wolves and she got out of the chain herself. Soren did successfully protect Callum and reeled from the loss of Harrow, but was still confident in his ability to find the princes when he thought that was the mission Viren was giving him.

Which is to say: Soren and Claudia don't go looking for redemption until much, much later, if at all; Soren only reaches that precipice 2.5 seasons later in 3x05 and then finds in full in 3x09. And even when they are opposing the heroes, they are not opposing their father; they are still aligned with a certain side. Likewise, even though Callum and Ezran are working against some humans, they have confidence that they are making their mother proud with the mission they have taken up and are later reaffirmed in their choices by Harrow.

Rayla doesn’t have any of this reaffirmation. Even Ethari, with their brief reconciliation in S3, doesn’t offer her much, if any, hope or comfort beyond their initial hug.

Rayla enters the show, has one scene, and immediately shoots herself in the foot, because she fails at the one uttermost thing she was absolutely supposed to do on a mission we have every indication she begged/fought to be on within an inch of her life, and she chokes at the finish line.

R: I am pretty awesome at everything... right up until the moment when it really matters. I dunno. I hesitate. I think too much. Get confused about the right thing to do. Then the next thing I know, I've failed.

Then, to make matters worse, she covers up her failure and lies about it until it’s forced out by circumstance. Then, even after being removed from the mission, she resolves to make up for her mistake and heads to the castle in secret... and then defies and fights her mission leader. Thus, Rayla is squarely an antagonist for the first two episodes and it is only because we see her spare a human / struggle (both things our favourite princes are not privy to) that we root for her and trust her when she begins to turn in 1x03.

And in fact, much of 1x03 revolves around narratively ‘rehabilitating’ her as she follows Ezran’s lead, answers the boys’ questions, defends them, stands against Runaan to protect them, and is cinched by her vow to Callum: “Say the word and I’ll go back in that tower with you.” Say the word and I’ll fight against the rest of my troupe / people for you.

She goes from being both an antagonist to the humans and elves to switching right around and becoming an antagonist to her own people, the elves as well as her own family, with her and boys becoming their own side and their own team in many ways. Otherwise known as, in Rayla’s words:

But even once she’s switched sides, this double antagonism doesn’t just go away. Rayla is often directly opposed to whatever the boys want in S1-S2 - to go to the Banther Lodge, to take the boat, to take the easier path up the mountain, to trust Soren and Claudia at the Moon Nexus, to have Callum go out into the storm, or to try to save the dragon in forest. And in addition to this double antagonism, much of S1-S3 is Rayla’s reformation and redemption arc to both sides of the war, to both the humans she would have hurt and to the elves she left behind.

However, and this is where it gets somewhat tragic, is that it’s not like S1-S3 are smooth sailing for Rayla. She continues to consistently fuck up, often regardless of the support other characters’ offer in action or in word.

Which is to say: Rayla is also the most antagonist to herself. She gets in her own way, she trips herself up, and all of that just compounds and reaffirms her belief that the problem is her. She can switch sides, run away, get people to back off, take or learn every possible maneuver, and disaster will still follow, because the disaster is her.

Which is to also say: Rayla focuses so hard on redeeming herself to other people, to other causes, to other nations, she forgets that redemption is also supposed to be for herself, let alone that in so many cases she has nothing to forgive herself for. Not all, as we see in TTM and S4 and the way she blows her own life to pieces and Callum is caught in the crossfire most of all, but much of it. Even in the way she comes back into season four, knowing that she fucked up in some capacity, and that now she has to make up for it.

In many ways that what makes S4 so complicated for her, as Rayla is simultaneously at her best and her worst. On the one hand, she’s come home to try and let go (as far as we know). On the other hand, she still can’t let go, and she’s lost what made her Rayla in so many ways in her time away. Which just makes me think of this quote from a recent podcast interview with Head writer Devon Giehl and writer Iain Hendry on the show (reflecting on Rayla in 4x08 rather than 4x04, mind you):

You see her through seasons one through three like — just seems like any opportunity, she’ll be the one to make the big sacrifice. She’ll go out there to try and save the dragon, she’ll go and try and fight Viren and his army alone to protect everyone and so on. So the fact that once again she defaults to ‘I have to give up something painful to myself.’ [...] But I think you don’t do the — usually, you don’t do the greater whole any good by completely sacrificing yourself, and I do think that is often the lengths, like you said, a lot of the Moonshadow elf culture norms and mantras go to eventually is ‘You have to be willing to completely forget who you are’.

So now it seems, perhaps, that her heart is finally hard enough to do whatever it takes.

Or is it?

Rayla reminds Callum that destiny is a book he has written himself. That the pen and paper is in his hands. That the Narrative is his to control. And I think it’s particularly purposeful that Rayla says this in response to Callum pigeon-holing them both into the roles they initially started out in. Callum, feeling powerless and out of control as a ‘regular’ human or as a dark mage, submitting to the terror of doing horrible things. Rayla, being asked to be a proper assassin, and kill the accidental snag in her plans, her mistaken target, for another’s sins. He’s asking her to be his antagonist again, if he’s forced to be hers.

And, of course, this extends even further into the season finale, in which Rayla does the last thing the world that Callum wants, running after Viren again, highlighting what’s changed about their dynamic and what hasn’t, the ways they’ve grown to understand and accept each other, and the fundamental misunderstandings and clashes they’re still having. If you want to read more about this exchange and interplay of foils I’d recommend reading this meta here :)

Last but not least, I’d like to close this meta off by saying that there is one character who shares this dual antagonism from the start, and that’s Aaravos. He ‘helps’ people while really making them indebted or flat out pawns in his game. He offers gifts that leave the mages who take them dead shortly thereafter.

He opposes the elves and dragons, yes, but has no love for humanity left in his heart. He opposes and orchestrates the downfall of each effort of peace. He will use humans and discard/destroy elves and dragons alike with little recourse. He doesn’t care about anyone, and Rayla (used to at least, and still does, deep down) care about everyone.

And just one of the many ways they parallel each other across the seasons, but particularly in season four.

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childe-of-saulot · 1 month

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Hello!!! I just saw a reel of a rat doing a very small agility course. So I wanted to ask. Do yours do similar things?? It was incredibly cute tho I realise it needs a lot of training. But oh so adorable

i could probably reasonably teach 2 of my 8 rats to do a small agility course if i put my mind and time to it. most of them will do things like come over when i whistle or call, climb my leg/arm when i tap it or want them to get down from somewhere. they're also very good about their daily schedules, getting into their specific cages when its time for bed, as they free roam in parts of my house most of the day. they have fairly different behavior so some are just much easier to teach things than others.

#my ratties 🐀#also i love getting asks but i always feel like what i write makes no sense #like im only able to make coherent writing in English if its short sentences

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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 3 hours

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I want to thank Misha Collins for inspiring me to do things that, for legal reasons, I cannot disclose online

and no, this is not a joke. Misha, through GISH especially, showed me not just the power of art-as-activism, but what creative modes function best in that setting, and how to organize and lead such efforts.

what I've done with that knowledge, again, would be legally dangerous to admit online

but I'm so happy I know how to do it. I've become a leader in my community, and a supporter of large and powerful movements.

specifically, those spaces know me as an artist. an artist with endless and diverse creative ideas, who knows no fear, takes no shit and is especially good at resistance and point-making via "funny" and lighthearted art.

would Misha approve of what I'm doing?

most likely, FUCK no he wouldn't

he's made himself damn clear where he stands on this stuff, even via silence alone

but I have him to thank anyway.

#misha collins #misha fucking collins #supernatural #love the character hate(?) the actor #Dont Meet Your Heroes.jpg #no ethical celebrities under capitalism #listen I'll meme on and cheer on Misha forEVER but know I have zero respect for him as a person at this point #“Misha Collins” the celebrity/public figure? hilarious. memeworthy. what the fuck is wrong with this man #actual human person Misha Collins? yikes. ik exactly what the fuck is wrong with this man and its Rich White Dude Syndrome #i feel like its a good day to mention that celebrities are putting on an act even when they act as themselves #fuck! im getting to know that firsthand rn!#for a far less controversial example see Jensen Ackles being a Total Deangirl Freak(i love him) and only wearing green at photoshoots #vs Jensen Ackles flying to hawaii to do a golf tournament while wearing khaki kneeshorts #btw I dont think this makes all actors bad or is a bad thing. its just part of the nature of celebrity.#the spn characters > the actors “in character” as spn actors > the blandest rich white texan men you'll ever see (they are v pretty though)#long ass tags #headcoldposting sry coherence is gone #I personally try to “play myself” on camera as principled organized and well-spoken. creative but clear on the movement's goals #in actuality I'm panicking almost 24/7. I drown myself in destiel angst nonstop and 50% of my internal monologue is in Old English.

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longagoitwastuesday · 10 months

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you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

#I talk too much #I wanted to say The tragic sense of life by Unamuno and Philosophy and Poetry by María Zambrano #but I thought maybe they'd be hard to find in translation. They're both approachable texts of philosophy beautifully written though #Unamuno's essay Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (translated as Our Lord Don Quixote in English according to Wikipedia?) is also beautiful #I adore Schopenhauer and Nietzsche but I'm not sure I'd recommend them to anyone. Probably you can't go wrong with Kierkegaard though #I know what some of these books look like (like Wittgenstein's Tractatus or Cantor's Foundations)#but I swear they're approachable without specific academic background. The last line of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of my favourite #lines ever in the history of anything‚ philosophy or literature‚ but to be as hitting as it is you need to reach it at the end of the book #I think despite what it looks like both Cantor and especially Wittgenstein have an aesthetic intent in their writing #Wittgenstein in particular reminds me of Kierkegaard and Rilke and also of Unamuno and Zambrano. And of course Schopenhauer et al.#The Tractatus is very similar in my opinion to Huidobro's Altazor which is just amazing but I don't know how it would translate #These books I like in form and not just in content (although form is content like I think happens in Wittgenstein's Tractatus)#so when possible I'd read them in their original languages.I myself can't read German and know but very little of Russian and Ancient Greek #and a bit of Latin so I must be missing a lot of those. Nonetheless they're great in what I can get through translation #Perhaps you'd have the chance of enjoying them in full #If you can't read Russian I am actually quite specific with the translation of Crime and Punishment haha There's a concept #Razumikhin develops through the book at several points and often translators aren't consister with the word which makes the readers lose #the view of this development. And I happen to think the development works alongside the narrative of Svidrigailov #and also with what happens towards the end with Porfiry and Raskolnikov so I think it's important #In English there are several translations that maintain the coherence such as the one by Pevear and Volokhonsky #(the only one I can remember right now but I could check the rest). Garnett's translation is everywhere but that one doesn't do it #Hmmm Pedro Páramo in English takes some liberties and La Regenta isn't as funny which is what happens with Wuthering Heights #and The three musketeers in translation even when the translations are more accurate #I haven't recommended Wuthering Heights because I take you've read it but that's my favourite book #And I haven't recommended Pandora Hearts because that's a manga and you asked for books but it does some very interesting things #that I think are in line with many of the books listed here (as I said‚ I basically like the same few things retold over and over haha)#There are many books I am itching to recommend but that I can't do freely without some knowledge of the person asking #Like Steinbeck's arthurian novel or idk Gone with the wind #I hope this list is enjoyable enough. I'm not sure if I've been able to avoid being too partial #I suppose one has to bear the conditions of their existence and can't ever entirely get rid of themselves haha

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dandelionstep · 5 months

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i need smth other than duolingo to make me do spanish exercises daily TBH because 1. i know way more than this i just haven’t gotten very far because the ads piss me off insanely 2. if i’m immediately punished for getting something wrong with an explanation being paywalled and an encouragement on being fast i’m not going to learn very well from my mistakes. duolingo is honestly super annoying it’s just nice on account of being accessible esp. from my phone

#you know what i’d really love to practice is verb tenses but duolingo in their infinite genius #doesnt teach grammar first. as if thats not like the most important thing in an unfamiliar language #because spanish words especially as an english speaker aren’t usually difficult but remembering how to use them #in a coherent sentence can be -__-#txt #i’ll probably just find like a textbook or something i can work through IDK. i wish i could take a class but my college has one (1)#spanish teacher and i have heard people do not like him… and like. there’s nothing worse than a mean language teacher

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reiverreturns · 1 year

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every day i wake up in tory britain and every day i think guy fawkes had the right idea actually

#i am incandescent with rage over what's going on right now with the scottish gender recognition bill #like so angry i can't even be coherent #trans people aren't fucking pawns to win some political points with your bigoted english base #FUCK. OFF.#not even to mention how dangerous a precedent it sets if the uk gov succeeds in vetoing the bill #like. i can't even see the silver lining for the case for independence im so upset #this isn't democracy #this is living with a fucking boot on your neck

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fairweather-fangs · 10 months

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All texts except for lyrics ;)

We are now living in an alternate world where F actually looks at his phone.

㊁ : emergency

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey i thunk i fell down the stairs

:I can't find K or C i need help please

:I think i broke my arm. I might be being dramatic

:I can't go to the nurse I'm like bqlck our drunk

:Please

♡ : endearing/affectionate/loving

[Txt] [Bees]

:This might seem out of no ahere but... i really like that you out your hands on me alot

:It’s cute. I like the random touch

:You should be more handsy with me morenoften. Not in a weird way. Or maybe it is i don't know

👅 : sext/suggestive

[Txt] [Bees]

:I'm feeling a little bored...

:And a little needy...

:Do you wanna come to my room and have some fun or do I need to come to you?

[Semi blurry picture of him shirtless in a body harness smoking a blunt, the top part of his face isn't shown]

★ : wrong number

[Txt] [Yoriko(?)]

:Ok so if you could nake any mystical creture real? What one?

:I'd say like, specifically east asian dragons because then westher predicting would involve asking a lizzrd which os better than asking cclouds

:That or clownfish because they are very cute and I want one as a pet. Or to just see one i don't know

:Hey oh my god wait this is Yoriko right? C changed all my contacts. O don't know which ones are which i forgot to ask first haha

☯ : angry/hateful

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey not to be rude but do yiu have any othwr setting that "super mean and judgmenral?"

:Because i feel like you're just really bitchy 100% of the time

:It it cause you can't more number one or dose A not suck you off enough?

♖ : drunk/drugged

(=That’s like all his messages ajejaja=)

[Txt] [Bees]

:Are your feee?

:Cause i need hslo shsomehtjnv

[Blurry image of what might be his floor in his room, very filled with smoke, absolutely nothing can be made out in the image]

:THEIS!!

♛ : worried

[Txt] [Bees]

:Hey.

:So I cannot find some of the expensive stuff in my room and I'm freaked out someone took that.

:And that's alot of money so I was wondering if you knew anyone who came to possess a suspicious amount of my product as of late.

:Seriously this is like a net loss of a good several hundred pounds. C doesn't know shit I'm gonna loose it.

♘ : late night

[Txt] [Bees]

[Picture of a clear night sky, taken from the garden outside]

:That’s kinda fucked up huh?

#ask meme answers #beyondthebackup #ooc posts #the funnest part of this is going to be figuring out what F has evedyone saved as #I'm just nor gonna change mybtyoing mistakes for these #because F is typing most of this very much impaired #also F learned enough English to be coherent and pass English class and sometimes learns big words from movies #and then he gave up so don't expect him to type reasonably #and don't expect him to hold coherent conversations in Chinese or any other language spoken in Taiwan (there are several and F ia familiar #with alot of them) because he's just bad at language period

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echowilds · 11 months

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have been mildly obsessed with an acoustic cover of a song and i finally found the original (wasn't in a language i understand and is apparently at least internationally relatively obscure) and it sounds nothing like the cover. i will now go into the woods to be lost forever

#don't get me wrong the original is cool too #BUT IT JUST ISN'T THE SAME ;_;#yes i will be dramatic about it #it seems to be the only cover of it too :(#i am in hell i tell you. hell #i need to think of a cool music tag at this point i should probably have one #THE ORIGINAL BAND DOESN'T HAVE A WIKIPEDIA what am i supposed to do now :(#their singer does but not in english and it's super short so rip i guess #google i hate you but thanks for translate i guess #this is just me losing my mind over entirely meaningless things at this point #BUT. music :(#girl they have the shittiest name for internet searches. abbreviation is a basic universally used one and apparently what it is (possibly)#abbreviating just gives me sites that are entirely useless for me #why #okay i will stop here this isn't getting any more coherent nor is it getting anywhere #moth echoes #<- goddamnit that would actually be a fun music tag why'd i make it my rambling one

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starswallowingsea · 1 year

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i've been thinking about this a lot recently and for like the last year since i've taken translation theory courses and gotten more proficient in my second language buuuuuut. only like 3% of published works in american/english first language book stores are translated from other languages. compare that to how quickly books published in english get translated into other languages. an author could be incredibly well known in their home country or to their audience of native language speakers, but they're still considered "nobodies" by the general english speaking population because of a lack of translations into english.

part of the problem i think is the cultural superiority english speakers feel in the world right now and how its trying to bury other cultures and languages because english is best. this then leads to nobody seeing a reason to translate works from other languages or only translating very few* because there isnt an audience for "foreign" literature. i dont think most of my classmates outside the spanish program have read many, if any works by non-english speaking authors and that really is a shame because it opens so many new viewpoints on the world and gives you a look into other cultures right in your own home!

*the exception here i think is anime/manga which has an incredibly dedicated fanbase creating fanlations for smaller series that havent gotten official english dubs/subs/translations. japanese literature still has a hard time on the market in america though

#this isnt super coherent dont take this as fact or anything just my opinion #but i have noticed that its somewhat difficult to get anything other than a few classics as translated novels #officially anyway. like i have 100 years of solitude and hopscotch on my bookshelf #i think when i was looking for a copy of el lugar sin limites (jose donoso) i saw an english translation of htat #but it was more likely to be in portuguese or french or its original spanish #i think they didnt have any copies of the english text actually #uhm. also poetry in other languages when translated? exquisite #shoutout to translators who do poetry because goddamn that is so hard #to make it sound pretty and preserve the original meaning in that way to a new audience #translation is the art and science of languages i think.#anyway the site i linked had a translations database but it got moved so. idk what to do with that.#uhm anyway try reading more translated books or short stories #you can find quiroga's short stories translated online for free #or at least i found a la deriva for free online and it uses really striking imagery in it #shay speaks

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