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biggs-regretti · 5 months

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Just a couple of immortal beings finding creative ways to spend their eternity

#Love #Archfey Love #Loves bae doesn't have a name just yet #dnd #leshay #blood #dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #art #myart #my art #They both fey and theyre eternally enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers again #it spices things up #keeps things interesting

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tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang · 1 year

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just saw one of your posts saying that Wakui usually does the opposite of what you predict and now I’m genuinely curious

like is there anything you’ve predicted that he’s done the exact opposite of?

Ohhhh there's been a few times (ok maybe not the exact opposite but he loves doing stuff I don't expect)

#ngl i find it hilarious and actually like it though #keeps things interesting

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reed-it-and-weep-dpd · 10 months

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Favourite book trope. Go.

Uhh I'm not much of a reader. (I CAN read, before Sixty says anything.) I guess I like books with a decent hero's journey but they're hard to find without clichés. Generally I prefer movies.

#thanks for the random question #keeps things interesting

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keira-draws · 2 years

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"I've shattered my soul; the mirror told me so..."

#THIS DRAWING HAS BEEN SUCH A PAIN YALL #anyway here's my fav moon boys cause i love them and need a little angst in my life #keeps things interesting #black and white #moon knight #moon knight fanart #marc spector #steven grant #jake lockley #khonshu #also peep how many moon/khonshu references there are #it's a LOT #also this is still a wip i've gotta color it LMAOOO #oh hes so hot and miserable #fanart #keira draws

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just-some-guy-joust · 1 year

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Oh shit we're starting over? This'll be fun! People better be nice!

Yup! Starting over isn't exactly it, the brackets will only have 32 characters this time around and I picked them myself based on the reactions they got in the first tournament. Certain characters aren't making it into this one specifically because the people who were rooting for them were absolute assholes about it, so I got to be verrry particular on who got in :) Hopefully it'll still be fun! I brought back some guys that lost rounds 1 and 2, so if your blorbo already died they might have a second chance!

#working on the bracket list rn!!!#taking mx narratives idea and randomizing them rather than giving a bracket #keeps things interesting #also in case anyone is curious yes this means jackie is disqualified #don't remember who else I left out i'm focusing more on who i decided to keep in #also heads up i am keeping this SUPER self indulgent because what's the point of making a tournament if im not having fun with it?#doing it for OTHER people?#we've already seen how that goes #anyway :) im having a good time #-R #doomed by the narrative showdown #asks

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fabulouslygaybean · 6 months

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love having friends that text me "hey wanna see the knife i just bought" at 11pm

#keeps things interesting #currently waiting on the knife pictures though

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misrepresentedmorallygrey · 7 months

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Glad to have caused discourse on the these characters are subject to to much discourse tournament

-original homestuck anon

Every tournament needs at least a little discourse, as a treat

#not a poll #srsly tho thanks for starting the topic it gets BORING just waiting for the next polls to go up #keeps things interesting #jade harley age discourse #<- thought I should add for organizational purposes

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vynegar · 2 years

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really? this vyn, the one i’ve been playing old maid with for a year, the one who we famously met making a house of cards, doesn’t know what card games are??

under the cut, some criticism on the translation for Vyn’s Endless Whispers SR:

Lost In Translation: Vyn’s Endless Whispers SR

[EDIT 9/10/2022: Mihoyo has fixed the translation for the two main issues that I mention (”card games” and “self-reflect”). Some details about that here. I’ll leave the post up as it was when the card was first released, though.]

I think the translation choices made in part three of the story (and to a much lesser extent, part six) create a completely illogical scenario when you think about Vyn’s character. My main issue is the scene where the illustration appears, and Vyn is completely perplexed by something that MC brings up in her continuation of the story.

The original word in Chinese was 游戏卡. This could be literally translated as “game card”, since it is made up of the words for “game” and “card”. And indeed, the initial times the phrase appears, its translation is “game card”.

However, for me, the phrase “game card” doesn’t conjure up an immediate, specific idea. If the phrase were said to me without context, I would probably think of one of those chips that you insert into a game console that has the game data and allows you to play it. Maybe it could also be a vague way to refer to any kind of card used in a game. It certainly didn’t convey the idea of something immediately recognizable as a schoolyard pastime.

There’s another translation option for the phrase: “trading card”. If you do an image search for 游戏卡, you’ll see many things that could be described as trading card games (although the results are pretty skewed since the name for Yugioh is so similar to the phrase). Still, it perfectly fits the context as something that might be found at school, was collect and used for battling games, and was a popular pastime children could bond over. It’s the translation I used when translation this SR, and it was also used in the official Twitter post of this illustration.

But. Unfortunately. There is. A third option. That appears when you swap the order of the words in the literal translation. You can see in the previous dialogue screenshot that the phrase quickly becomes “card games”, which continues to be used in the scene. (In Chinese, the original word游戏卡was used for the entire exchange.) The phrase “card games” conjures up the idea of games played using the 52-card deck (plus two jokers) with four suits, cards numbered from 2 to ace, etc. So now we have an absurd scenario where MC is trying to figure out how to explain card games to Vyn, who supposedly has no idea what they are. Vyn, who we met across a house of cards, whose highest upgrade materials include gilded poker cards that we SAW him use in chapter 2, who we’ve been playing card mini-games with for a year.

And despite the illustration on Twitter using the “trading card” translation, the in-game description for the illustration uses “card game”. I don’t know why there’s an inconsistency, but it’s just extra frustrating to me that the better translation is right there and they didn’t use it.

I also felt that Vyn was done a slight disservice by the translation in the following exchange later in the scene:

You can see the Vyn’s original line here, with my translation below (I added the emphasis):

Vyn: The child found a valuable trading card. And then? Would he collect it? (孩子找到了珍贵的游戏卡。然后呢？他会收藏起来吗？)

MC: Yeah… Actually, trading cards are a kind of tool, a lot of kids used to use them to battle each other…

Originally, Vyn is able to infer from context clues a reasonable usage for the cards. It adds to his characterization as adaptable and quick-thinking. This part is omitted in the English translation, since MC simply explains how they’re used.

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And finally, I mentioned a more minor grievance in part six.

In my translation of the card, I decided to localize “self-reflection” as “detention”, since I think it conveyed the idea of the scene better (trying to avoid an extremely common school punishment). I explained a bit more in the translation note:

*I used “detention” here since it’s a more familiar to the English-speaking world. I felt like directly translating the original word would need an explanation, which would break the flow. It was originally 写检讨, which is when a teacher makes you write a “self-criticism” where you write what you were doing, why you were doing it, that you won’t do it again, etc.

I still hold that opinion. In addition, I feel like it’s bizarre to be told that Vyn, a psychiatrist, may not have heard of the word “self-reflect” before. It’s also a word that doesn’t have as much of a direct connection to being a school punishment.

The translation team has changed references for localization before, such as in Luke’s Qixi phone call where he references the story of Sleeping Beauty instead of the original story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. I think this is another instance where they should have made the decision to change it.

Honestly, Vyn being completely clueless about both of these commonplace things was already a bit too farfetched for me, but I think the translation choices exacerbated that.

#tears of themis #vyn richter #tot vyn #mo yi #tot translation #but anyway this is the first time i've reviewed my translation line-by-line against the official version and i've learned a lot!#mainly that vyn almost never uses contractions. but still #anyway so tragic that i'm so critical of a card that i might also be citing as a turning point in an analysis but oh well #keeps things interesting

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tchotchkeshelves · 2 years

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one thing about me is that i exclusively have good taste except for the times i have bad taste. but even when i have bad taste it’s still good bad taste. except for when it isn’t. make sense?

#keep the part of you that cringes alive so you can ping pong wildly back in forth between #thinking you're cringe. and thinking you're the hottest big brained person alive #keeps things interesting #homegrown

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goditsmeagain · 2 years

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my queue is getting ridiculous I'm upping it to 20 posts a day fuckers

#i just add to that so im not spamming ya know???#and i have it set to post when im asleep #keeps things interesting #Most of the posts i make are queued #if it is after 9pm uk time it is probably my queue #robin rants

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getting-messi · 1 year

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Manifesting France to lose just because I want this cute little World Cup champions curse to continue

#I love a niche little coincidence #keeps things interesting

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moonrolling · 2 years

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i am. slowly but surely. getting to all the men in genshin (in writing)

the ones left:

albedo

xiao (honestly shocked i haven't written for him yet)

gorou

heizou

venti

dainsleif

childe you can't make me

and the soon to come additions:

cyno

al-haitham

tighnari

#hmmm... not what i initially intended but what can i say i like variety ig #keeps things interesting #makes me think harder

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riaspeaks · 8 months

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i love you're life updates your life is so interesting 😭

Literally, why is something always happening in my life 😪 it's so stressful

#vickytalks!#Its lowkey fun #Keeps things interesting

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triona-tribblescore · 2 months

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TW// Abuse implication

Thinking about possible Vox and Angel's interactions and how they'd go down. Theres such a unique mix of hatred to each other and common ground with their different experiences with Valentino, has me thinking.

Also just want to clarify I love Vox's character a LOT but ofc obv don't sympathise with him or think he is any way shape or form a decent individual, cant with stupid toxic dumbass x

AND IF YOU SEE ANY MISTAKES OR TYPOS NO YOU DONT- (i was so tired when drawing it forgive me TwT)

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iridescent-x-pixie · 10 months

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(--*my automatic reaction when I see notifications in any app*--)

~oH no~

~I've been SoCIaLlY AcTiVe~

#why does it cause my brain such agony #whyyyyy #why am i like thisss #I do actively enjoy talking to ppl and suchlike I just clearly fear what I love so thts nice I guess #keeps things interesting

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welcometogrouchland · 1 month

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[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

#dc comics #dc #damian wayne #dick grayson #talia al ghul #batfamily #dc robin #nightwing #anyway. yes im a self-indulgent ''dick as damians secret third parent'' truther #like i DO think it's way more complex and nuanced than the schmoopy affectionate fan portrayal of it #they're brothers they're father and son they're partners they're the dynamic duo except only in past tense etc etc #but consider! I'm not immune to schmoopy affection in fanworks. it compells me despite itself #anyway it's technically not that crazy when it comes to dick and damian. they hug! often! at least they did #it's not as big a leap to these types of scenarios #also talia ''somewhat absent for complex reasons on both her and damians part but very loving and loved by her son'' al ghul #you will always be famous to me #son of the demon origin...bwahhh #anyway. someone made a comic kind of like this/like a post i made abt this topic #but way funnier bc dick and talia starting trying to beat each other up #so go look at that as well #anyway. it's been a somewhat difficult few weeks so I'm. desperately trying to take it easy #i got some reading with me (first vol of kevin smiths GA run that i found second hand and jaimes BB run vol 2!)#so we'll see how far i get through those. considering there's demons in my head telling me to re-read things (LET ME OUT!!!)#when i finish GA and BB i do plan on rereading robin 2021. as a treat to myself #it's a run I've really warmed up to as time went on #I'm keeping up w/ the current b&r run even though it is. admittedly very slow w/ some weird dialogue #i read it for the damian content more than anything. also nikas back so that's neat :]#idk I have a feeling that after absolute power shakes out we might get some more creative team switch ups #so if anyone at dc is interested in taking over the reigns on b&r...that could be very neat #(it's me they should hire me. please DC i have ideas listen to my red hood pitch PLEASE-)

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