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I meant to post about this back when TTPD was released and never got around to it, but it's so touching to me that Taylor has peppered so many British-isms into the album, and not just in a jokey kind of way like in "London Boy" back in the Lover days.
It's such a beautiful, subtle nod to how much that was her life for years, and to the marks the city and the muse(s) left on her. Because isn't that true of any of us when we've been around a person for so long, or live in a place we've made into our home? You start picking up their speech patterns until they become second nature. (For instance, one of my best friends moved abroad for university, and before long she started dropping in words like "fortnight," "lorry,""shops" (vs. stores) into conversation when we'd speak, which only got stronger along with her accent shifting as the years went by and she stayed there.) Kind of a love language code switching.
It’s sprinkled throughout the album. “For a fortnight” in “Fortnight,” “blokes” on “The Alchemy,” “the shops,”* in “How Did It End?” I think my favourite use of it is in “The Bolter,” because it’s such a classic twangy yeehaw Taylor song, but she’s got these tiny turns of phrase that point to where she spent a large portion of her adult life. (E.g. “best mates,” “out the drive,”* “wish he wouldn’t be sore,”*)(*yes I know these aren’t like, specifically not-American, but as someone who has grown up with North American English in the same generation as Taylor, these definitely feel anachronistic/foreign. Like if I hear someone say “the shops” instead of “the store,” “drive” instead of driveway or “sore” meaning upset, I’m thinking they either watch a lot of 1950s movies or they’re from the UK. And yes I know it’s to make everything rhyme BUT THAT’S THE POINT SHE IS MAKING THEM RHYME ON PURPOSE ok I’m stopping now before the linguistics nerd in me jumps out) It’s such a cool merging of influences, much like the album as a whole fuses together experiences and muses and sounds.
And that gets back to the “I love this place for so long,”of it all. The place is the city, the place is her home, the place is the person, and they are all part of her. To me, these are part of the subtext of the album, of the big love she once felt for all of it, and how it changed her. And, why it hurt so much to leave it all behind. So she’s starting over back home in America, but she’s taking a little bit of London with her for its curtain call on TTPD.
#it’s kind of like how her intonation on anti-hero was a little more English than her standard accent#though that also worked with the 80s sound of it#the tortured poets department#writing letters addressed to the fire
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minsc & gale
recently i've been doing a playthrough taking minsc along during the limited amount of time we do get to connect with his character in the game and i have to say he's growing on me in a way he didn't in previous titles.
i wanted to take the opportunity here to write a short post about his relationship with gale because that, too, is something i found myself enjoying despite the (too) few interactions that we have between them.
minsc's initial thoughts about gale
Player: How are you and Gale getting along?
Minsc: I do not wish to speak of the wizard.
Minsc: I could not have said it better myself.
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Player Option 1: Gale's great - what's your problem with him?
Minsc: He came to me one night with a little book of mischief - full of words and their meanings.
Minsc: 'Posterior', he says. 'Can you say 'posterior'?' I refused! Minsc does not need to know the language of wizards.
Player: 'Posterior' isn't wizard-talk - it's another word for 'butt'.
Minsc: It is an inferior word. Far too long to use in a battle cry, which is where a 'butt' belongs.
Minsc: Gale would do better to educate himself in the ways of sword and steel than to throw these pointy words at Minsc.
Minsc: Ai, yes. Gale also owns a cat. A cat with wings! That is most unnerving for poor Boo.
Player: You should give him a break - he's only trying to help.
Minsc: Never! If he is not careful, Boo will shred his books and use them as bedding!
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Player Option 2: Did you know that he has an explosive magical orb in his chest that could destroy a city?
Minsc: WHAT?
Minsc: That is a thousand times more interesting than anything that has ever been written in a book.
Minsc: GALE! MY GOOD FRIEND! WHERE ARE YOU? MINSC AND BOO WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE EXPLODING.
they may not start off on the right foot, but with gale's genuine interest in other people's cultures as well as his perception and easy-going nature that changes:
sorcerous sundries
Minsc: Minsc has never trusted places such as this. Too much of a wizard's power can be simply packaged and picked up.
devnote: Grumbling as we make our way through the shelves of Sorcerous Sundries
Minsc: Well, picked up by all but Minsc. When he touches the many delicate little jars, oh how the wizards shout and stare!
devnote: Revealing that his objection of Sorcerous Sundries is not in fact a deep philosophical belief that wizards have too much power - they just make him feel stupid and awkward when he pokes at their things
Gale: Fear not, Minsc. You have a wizard at your side who positively encourages such curiosity. You'll fit right in.
devnote: Reassuring
Minsc: Obliged, wizard. Should we find our way to a weaponsmith, Minsc will rough you up a little - so that you too can fit in.
devnote: Warm, comradely, would genuinely be doing Gale a favour
i feel like it truly speaks to gale's character that he doesn't dismiss minsc here - neither his feelings of inadequacy nor his innate curiosity about the things he perceives as wizardly.
it would've been very easy for gale - the wizard prodigy, the former chosen, to archwizard - to act the part of the haughty scholar, akin to the arrogant wizards that minsc describes in this banter, looking down on him, shouting at him, but gale doesn't.
gale reassures minsc, encourages him, telling him he'll fit right in. it reminds me of the way he treats karlach and fostering her interest in books and reading. another pair of seemingly polar opposites that still find a connection. i do think gale is quite natural at this, despite his long time spent in isolation.
and minsc does appreciate it - his tone changes to one of warmth, one of camaraderie - and i think this is also when minsc's perception of gale changes: from the annoying wizard to someone he sees as a companion and friend.
rashemi traditions
Minsc: Gale. Minsc worries you might send a fireball up his butt, with all of this stringy hair in your face.
Gale: Is that why you keep your head shaved? I assumed it was a custom of some sort.
devnote: Curious, referring to Minsc's origins
Minsc: Oh, no! Most warriors of Rashemen wear long battle-braids, weighed down with stone. Minsc can show you, when next we camp?
Gale: Thank you, but I'm more wizard than warrior. I'm not sure my scalp would stand up to such a plaiting.
devnote: Very politely declining
i like this banter for several reasons: i think not only does it show the progression of their relationship with minsc offering to show gale the traditions of his homeland, gale also shows the same curiosity he shows many different cultures and ways of life, same as he does with lae'zel for instance and githyanki culture.
when he declines minsc's offer, he does so politely, without insulting minsc's traditions, putting the onus on himself instead. he's the wizard, not the warrior.
house of hope
Minsc: Gale! You will perhaps able to explain where Boo has not - what exactly is the difference between a devil and a demon?
Gale: A fascinating question, one that boils down to which criteria we choose to apply. Are we speaking about the physiological? Theological? Etymological?
devnote: In teacher-mode - up for an in-depth, intellectual discussion
Minsc: Eh. Just how-to-kill... -ical.
devnote: Non-plussed, echoing Gale's ending every word with 'ical'
Gale: Oh. Then for your purposes, they are exactly the same.
devnote: Disappointed
this banter genuinely made me laugh. again, i like how it shows the progression of their friendship, to the point of where minsc goes from finding gale annoying to imitating his speech. and gale doesn't put it beyond minsc to have an 'in-depth, intellectual' discussion... even if he is disappointed by the end of their banter, realising that minsc's priorities are... elsewhere.
wychlaran
depending on your party composition and who you take with you, minsc can also call gale his wychlaran.
The Wychlaran, meaning "wise old women" in the ancient language of Halardrim, also known as the Witches of Rashemen outside their lands, were the spiritual leaders of Rashemen, communing with the spirits and guiding the souls of the Rashemi people.
minsc does use it, too, to describe a special bond and a sense of duty and protectiveness to the people he ascribes this title to. he did so in bg1 with dynaheir and in bg2 with aerie.
elminster
Minsc: It must be difficult for Gale to imagine great Elminster a-courting. Writing poems. Doing... certain... deeds.
Gale: Long before my time, thank goodness. That's not an image I care to dwell on.
Minsc: Ugh. It is difficult for Minsc to think of, too. Let us speak no more of it.
Minsc: ...
Minsc: Of Elminster and the sex, I mean.
another banter that did genuinely make me laugh despite the seriousness of the situation, especially given the bond that elminster and gale share as well, which speaks of paternal feelings on elminster's part that come with a certain sense of responsibility, as well as gale's admiration, but also often exasperation with his former mentor.
on a more serious note, minsc offers great insights in his interactions with gale and gale's story:
mystra and the vremyonni
The vremyonni or Old Ones were an arcane brotherhood in Rashemen.
Men that were arcane spellcasters in Rashemen had two choices, exile or to join the vremyonni. Many vremyonni were kept alive for eons by longevity magic. Vremyonni were expert weaponsmiths and magic item creators.
On very rare occasions, vremyonni would fight in the defense of Rashemen. Vremyonni used secrets of magic that even the Witches of Rashemen did not use, destructive spells forbidden among the wilds of Rashemen, in case such magic was needed.
The Running Rocks harbored secret strongholds of the vremyonni. All vremyonni wore masks.
Minsc: Gale reminds me of the vremyonni of my homeland. The man-mages of Rashemen.
Minsc: While the girl-folk go on to rule as wychlaran, Weave-touched boys were hidden away. Trained to work their craft in silence and secrecy.
Minsc: It is an old custom, not well-observed. In truth I thought it born of caution, after some catastrophe wrought by wizardly men-folk of old.
Minsc: Now I wonder if it was not done to hide them from Mystra, and the snares she sets for young and prideful boys, hm?
Minsc: Though this suggests that Mystra has never tempted a witch into foolishness. Not that I would blaspheme by suggesting otherwise.
Minsc: I forget why I began this long and winding story. Yes Boo - we have been spending too long around the wizard.
i think this is a very interesting banter, especially since it's also only marked to trigger if gale agrees to return the crown to mystra.
it's easy to dismiss this banter, laugh it off as just another instance of minsc being minsc, but i think it's important to consider it within the context of game canon and what has been shown to us.
it's a story and everything within a story is there for a reason.
another great insight from minsc comes if gale is pushed towards the crown by the player:
gale and godhood
Minsc: Who among us has not been spurned by a lover? But a word of advice, if Minsc may be so bold:
Minsc: Let the wizard lick his wounds. Write some rickety rhymes, and weep most manfully into his hamster's hide. Eh - his cat's hide.
Minsc: But... his boasting is unbecoming. 'Claim godhood', he says? Will this make him any less a man with a half-mended heart?
again, minsc does at times share great insight into other characters and he does so here again with gale:
will this make him any less a man with a half-mended heart?
i think it quite accurately goes straight to the crux of what makes it so very easy to push gale towards godhood: he is hurt. he feels abandoned. by his goddess. by his former lover. both as a mystran and on deeply personal level.
he is drifting, seeking something to hold his head above the water. if it's not the protag's love or friendship, it will be the crown.
anyhow, i never expected to write this when i first learned that minsc would be a companion, but i truly did enjoy him and his interactions with gale in particular.
#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#minsc of rashemen#baldur's gate 3#bg3#baldurs gate 3#bg3 meta#ch: gale dekarios#ch: minsc#vg: baldur's gate 3#series: baldur's gate#meta: mybg3
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how he would take care of you during shark week.
⤷ chan / minho / changbin / hyunjin / jisung / felix / seungmin / jeongin
pairing: seungmin x f!reader
genre/warnings: established relationship, fluff; menstruation pain, he's a softie !!! (@seungminiuniverse kindly perish <3)
as always, i’d appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have, and please drop a like and/or reblog if you enjoy reading ♡
main masterlist / blurb masterlist / ko-fi
seungmin, who instantly regrets his teasing jab ten seconds after it leaves his mouth. "tired already?" he pretends to scoff when you tug on his sleeve and stop in your tracks just fifteen minutes into your mini hike, "you're such a princess."
he expects a witty comeback from you in return, but when nothing comes, he turns around, and the playful smile on his face drops instantly at the sight of your face, your jaw clenched tightly and about a dozen shades paler than you were mere minutes ago.
"hey, hey, what's wrong?" he's crowding you in a blink of an eye, one hand tilting your head up to look at him while the other settles on your waist. "you okay?"
"i..." the pain shoots through your stomach again, cementing a furrow between your brows and a frown on your lips. "can we sit down for a few minutes?"
on a nearby bench, your hand grips his tightly like a lifeline as your head rests upon his shoulder. it's a hot day outside, with the sun glaring down at you like a punishment, but for some reason you welcome the added warmth of his body next to yours, despite the thin layer of sweat that you can feel beading on your forehead and along the side of your neck.
you'd opted not to take your painkillers earlier, thinking they wouldn't be necessary since you didn't experience any discomfort. now here you are, looking absolutely miserable on a wooden bench under very limited shade, next to your boyfriend who glares at any passerby who looks at you weirdly.
seungmin, who starts carrying around things you may need ever since that little mishap. painkillers and extra pads are with him everywhere he goes, even though he doesn't tell you that. he just keeps them with him in case you need them.
seungmin, who eases up on the playful banter because he knows you don't have as much energy to deal with his obnoxious ass.
seungmin, who is never vocal about his fondness for you; words of affirmation isn't his love language after all. but every month without fail, he shows you his love through the little things he does. quietly sliding your favorite chocolate bar and a steaming mug of tea next to your laptop while you work. ordering your comfort food even though you said he didn't have to, that it's his turn to get whatever he wants to eat, but he just insists that he's got a sudden craving. gently rubbing your stomach even after you've dozed off so you could sleep better. in the morning, when he has to leave before you wake up, he puts a heating pad by your belly to replace his warmth.
seungmin, who's got his eyes on you at all times, on high alert for any sign of discomfort on your face, but still diverts his gaze just as quickly if you happen to catch him looking.
seungmin, who isn't overly physically affectionate either, but for some reason, during that one week every month, he amps it up for you. a brush of his hand on your back when he passes by your desk. a peck to your forehead or your hair when you're preparing to go to work or when you're getting ready for bed. squeezing his arms around you just a few degrees tighter when you give him a kiss in greeting after a tiresome day. it's subtle; he's still giving you space to go through your own motions, but he's letting you know that he's there if you need him.
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#stray kids fic#stray kids imagines#stray kids x reader#skz fic#skz imagines#skz x reader#skz x you#seungmin fluff#seungmin scenarios#seungmin x reader#seungmin imagines#seungmin x you#stray kids#kim seungmin#seungmin
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Tempted to do a post maigu ridge fic where Shen Yuan isn't magically untruamatized from his experience and the peak lords don't let him run out to the person they believe to be the reason for his death and alarming injuries.
And a Luo Binghe that without the influence of Xin Mo is wracked with terrible guilt for harming his Shizun and seeks punishment for his sins. Even if he wasn't in control, he should have died before harming his beloved! Luo Qingge is more than happy to deliver it for him, cue public whipping as punishment.
Shen Yuan is horrified but his protests fall on deaf ears, even Luo Binghe gently refuses to resist the punishment. It's alright Shizun, he deserves it. Shen Yuan eventually hits on punishing Luo Binghe himself as a solution. He'll be gentler than Liu Qingge. The whole thing is his fault anyway and so he should take responsibility.
Luo Binghe vehemently disagrees and tries to convince him otherwise, Shizun shouldn't sully himself like that! but Shen Yuan's stubborn will is even stronger than the protagonist halo and teary eyes. (Shen Yuan actually has his own protagonist halo) And Luo Binghe can't pretend it doesn't appeal to him.
If Luo Binghe wants to be punished, its only right that his Shizun be the one to do it.
Shen Yuan battles nightmares of maigu ridge, and an irrational new fear of his beloved. He knows it's not logical, but he can't help it. His body remembers the pain and doesn't comprehend logic or language. It can't be ordered to behave the way that he wants it to.
Luo Binghe weeps on his knees when Shen Yuan wakes up screaming and tries to leave, he can't sleep in the same bed as Shizun if it results in this! Shen Yuan has to grab him and hold him there. Weepy apologies ensue on both sides. Shen Yuan thinks exposure to the source of his fear will cure him. Isn't that how they cure phobias? (it's not)
They fall into a non-sexual power exchange wherein Shen Yuan deals with his trauma by learning that Luo Binghe will obey him completely, and Luo Binghe deals with his guilt and fear by handing control over to him and receiving punishment.
The other peak lords are reluctantly gratified that Luo Binghe is receiving punishment and making up for his wrongs. He goes around and heals the crippled cultivators with his demon blood. Arranges a demon vs cultivator tournament so both sides can fight it out without innocents being harmed.
Shen Yuan slowly de-tangles his sexuality when he becomes aroused at Luo Binghe's submission to his will. A latent sadistic streak rears its head, nurtured on by a Luo Binghe who both enjoys pain and believes this is the only way Shizun will touch him. He's surprised and feels even more guilty when Shen Yuan takes care of him after the punishments.
Shen Yuan starts to have wet dreams, and is forced to resort to masturbation to deal with them. Despite waiting for months and bracing himself, (he can handle it now!) Luo Binghe won't touch him, terrified of losing control again.
The nightmares fade as Shen Yuan's faith in Luo Binghe's iron will to never harm him again solidifies into certainty. He even tries walking around underdressed, and protagonist still doesn't jump him! He has to find a way to conceal his arousal during punishments, and he can no longer ignore how much Luo Binghe enjoys them.
His own desires grow and grow until he's so sexually frustrated, he makes the first move. It's been a whole year since that terrible day, Binghe, let this master teach you how to kiss. Tentatively they begin to court, much to the relief of their colleagues, who are tiring of all the pining glances, wistful sighs and rock-solid obliviousness. It's about time!
After months of frustration watching Luo Binghe spar, and bend over and submit and get hard during his punishment. Shen Yuan learns he must communicate exactly what he wants, so he can finally get some relief.
Maybe they have a wedding, arranged by a collaboration between cultivators and demons, the many fighting tournaments resulted in something like friendship as the two cultures met together frequently. Even Liu Qingge throws flower petals over them. He and Luo Binghe have bonded over how difficult it is to keep Shen Yuan from getting hurt, and are sort of frenemies now.
this is one of my reluctant sadist shen yuan ideas...
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Hello. First of all thanks so much for the translation notes of Boys Be Brave. I had a feeling the subs were not great so it's helpful to have a better understanding.
So about that. I was wondering if Jinwoo when he talks and writes about his ideal type mentions specifically that it's a girl he's thinking about.
In episode 1 he starts describing his ideal type at 3m40s. And the subs say something like ideal girl. And also when Kiseob finds the list in the notebook in his room which is in Episode 2, 18m47s. I took a ss in case it would be helpful.
I'm just wondering if he specifies gender. I just keep thinking about this also because of the makeover scene and all and it's bugging me not knowing.
Thank you so much for the space and for your posts about this show.
Rose-Tinted-Glasses💜
Thank you for appreciating my notes, I'm happy they are helpful! It's more than I thought I'd be writing about this show but I started liking making language notes since LFLS and it's a fun practice, trying to solve the shows' riddles for other viewers.
And also the answer to your question is simple: nope xD Jinwoo doesn't specify gender at all in his list. 이상형 means just "ideal type" (genderless), and the rest of his checklist are adjectives and descriptions like "looking good in one-piece" (which is funnily enough, usually in Konglish (koreanized english terms) it means a dress but Kiseob uses its more literal meaning and wears full-body combineson (jumper suit? Forgive me, my English isn't perfect either lol)
The only place Jinwoo adds anyone to the descriptions is point 8 but it's genderless as well, he wrote "a person" who plans for future.
So no, Jinwoo doesn't specify if his ideal type is a guy or a girl (we can pretty much say he's bi at this point, crushing on both Kiseob and Hyejin), but the fact that the checklist has "long hair" and "looking good in a dress/one-piece" would make people think about a girl in a typical setting. Maybe that's why Jinwoo is taken aback when Kiseob transforms himself by this checklist, I guess :D
#boys be brave#boys be brave comments#kbl#dropthemeta#dropthemeta kbl#korean language#lost in translation#droptheask
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thinking a lot lately about the desire many of us tend to feel for validation through community that not only respects but reflects us, and the way normie* men have been generally been happier to let me join them in their gender than normie women have been to let me leave it (them)...
#* not totally sold on 'normie' here but like. what i'm getting at is that the women i actually *know* are allies#(though of course it's like. how much of that is drawing on regard built thru homosociality...)#but like. when i get out in the world i find that women are the ones who really hate it#when they realize i 'could' be a woman but i'm Doin It Wrong#anyway it just does all feel tied to the thing i posted recently#about like. the ways many of us project our experience onto other people‚ looking to have them mirror it back to us#that post was about language and this one isn't so much#(although like. i've reached for 'we' twice in this post and substituted 'many of us' so as to be making slightly less blanket statements)#(and even then—that's still a claim both abt the world and abt how i'm grouped in it)#anyway i guess what i want to take away from this is the courage to be myself even unvalidated‚ whatever 'myself' even means#it's *hideously* hard bc i so often got invalidated growing up that i'm still horribly desperate for it#and i'm SO sensitive abt almost everything. but. at the very least a good goal for me‚ i think.#(also like. validation is great‚ or can be! i just think—when the desire for it leads us away from our truths‚ or towards fear and hate...)#(time to be wary then of its seductions and promises.)#anyway the cat is sitting on me so i haven't wanted to dislodge her in order to go make coffee#so instead: you get this
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[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]
Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?
[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*
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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.
Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!
Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.
* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.
#Pactw#QSMP#Pac#March 18 2024#As much as I love keeping people updated about Pac / the other Portuguese-speaking creators#I think I might not make as many transcribed posts for their clips anymore#I just don't think I'm qualified enough to be transcribing things for a language I don't know#like yeah we have the Qlobal Translator and Aypierre's translators to rely on#And I'm always upfront when I'm not 100% sure about a translation#but I've been thinking about it a lot and it kinda makes me feel a bit icky. Idk.#I might be overthinking this but I just I don't want to spread around translations I'm not super confident about#esp. since I know a lot of people cite my clips in analysis posts or link them to other people as resources#and 90% of the time I'm like ''Hell yeah I love seeing people getting a lot of use out of the archive''#but sometimes I get a bit anxious like ''Did I do a good enough job translating this''#''Am I ruining someone's entire perception of a conversation or character because I left one word out or mistranslated something?''#And like I said that's normally not a HUGE concern since if I'm not certain about a translation I just won't post a clip. but you know#idk it might just be the anxiety talking but I really really don't want to spread bad info#Happy to hear other folks' perspective#I'm really grateful for people like Bell and Pix and others who translate clips and I always try to reblog those#but we don't have a ton of people posting clips & translating things on Tumblr since we're so English-centric#which is part of the reason WHY I like sharing clips of the non-English-speaking CCs#but at the same time I want to do an accurate job representing what they're saying#Maybe I'll just start posting things and give a TLDR context of what they're talking about but not a transcript#that way native-speakers can hop in and add translations if that's something they're comfortable doing#and if not then well. at least I'm not sharing something that isn't super accurate#idk I'm just thinking out loud a bit in the tags#But I'm open to hearing other people's thoughts on the matter#Anyways giant rant aside. q!Pac is NOT doing ok rn
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i need to get over myself and learn the languages i want to learn if i want to learn them like i just need to do it if i want to learn them then i should go out and learn them and like . fuck whatever else any of it means . yes it IS embarrassing to learn a language like the ones i want to learn as an adult but who CARES and yes i KNOW my grandparents will never want to speak to me in those languages but who CARES if it's important to me it can be important to me anyway
#had a moment last night bc i was apparently having an identity crisis which was random#but i had a moment where i was like well even if i learn all these languages no one in my family is going to want to speak to me#in those languages because of [insert reasons i don't need to go into here] and so ultimately none of this is like . cultural Really#it's just me wanting to feel as though i am connected to something when i will never be#and maybe that's true or maybe it isn't but if i want to learn them i should learn them anyway like . at the end of the day#i DO want to learn those languages and i think it would be interesting and i would love to be able to speak to people#in those languages even if the people i speak to aren't related to me and i would love to be able to speak languages that aren't english#and that all stays true even if i am not able to have the cultural connection through language with my own family#like i can go on and on about how disconnected i feel from my culture bc of everything that has ever happened in my life#but how i still feel alienated bc i'm Not White to white people and all of that is true but not learning a language doesn't make it#any better and maybe learning a language won't make it better either but i think it's a better use of my time#ALSO !!!!! NO ONE EVER GOES OH WHY WLD U LEARN FRENCH OR SPANISH [OR INSERT EUROPEAN LANG HERE] u have no real cultural connection to it!!!#so like why is it different bc i want to learn asian languages??? it's not! except in my head! or maybe irl too but i'm just saying#that i think i make all of this a much bigger deal than it has to be#that being said i did just try to look up classes and they r all for children and about keeping children culturally connected 2 their famil#l m f a o but that can't be ALL the classes ............. i'll work it out is what i'm saying and i need 2 get OVER myself#bc none of it is that deep and i can feel conflicted all i like but i should fucking DO smth about it at least#anyway i am posting this in the hopes that i can beat it into my own head bc i am sick and tired of being weird about learning#languages and i need 2 get over my weird cultural identity issues if i want to like . live a life where i don't want to explode and die
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Mother 3 Headcanon of the Day: After getting mauled by the Mecha Drago, Claus developed Broca's Aphasia, a speech disorder where the person afflicted has extreme difficulty forming sentences and words. While as the Masked Man, he gets a machine installed in his head to smooth out some of his difficulties with speaking, it isn't perfect and he still struggles with forming very complex words and sentences.
In any post-game scenario where he lives, this machine got fried by the lightning and he can't rely on it anymore.
#mother 3#earthbound#i have sat on this headcanon for so long it has become canon to me#because there is absolutely no way he got out of that experience without brain damage#bonus: in my interpretation of post-canon Claus!Lives he takes up sign language to help compensate for his speech disorder#and the sign language isn't exactly true to any modern day ones since 1. languages evolve and 2. he's missing a hand#so some two handed signs would be difficult to convey. claus relies heavily on context and different bodily placement in his signs#to get the point across#(there's also a part of him that low-key craves the mind control because at least he didn't feel embarrassed because of his difficulties#with speaking since c.laus has always been a chatterbox in my mind. he hates the part of himself that wants that back though#*slaps roof of c.laus* this boy can fit so much angst in him)#i have been watching videos and reading scientific articles about Broca's Aphasia because i love this headcanon so much!!!#m3 spoilers#(shutting up now. bye!)#claus tag
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It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...
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the franklin expedition is dead as hell
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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing more from a M*lville fan
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Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all
#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh
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Just painted this
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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed
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HERITAGE POST
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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol
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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/
#as useless and degenerative as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect
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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling
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i think i hauve consumption
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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME
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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense
#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo
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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist
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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. #rochestersweep
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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened
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And? God forbid women do anything
#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily
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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon
#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting
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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH
#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....
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Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol
#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure
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'They’re like the drunk guy at the bar who can’t use the right words but is a better ally then the liberal college educated scum bag.'
No one loves making fun of the 'liberal college educated scumbag' like a right winger so I guess this is where the right and this kind of leftist finally agree. A happy day. :')
#seriously though this is weird don't do it#if you're wondering who the 'they' is- it's the pogues#quote is this tiny music blog i found which is so tiny i won't link or tell you the url- fellow tiny blog here i get it and won't do that#it was one of those things where i guess you can't rec an album without saying it's problematic because its from x older time#but like- you can just rec it! everyone knows about that stuff especially when it comes to music!#music is so much to do with vibes and tune as well as lyrics#and everyone has their own benchmark of who they will not listen to out of principle and who they give a pass#that's normal and fine tbh- you WILL NOT be able to enjoy ANY music if you only listen to people who share your exact ethics#but surely by pointing out the outdated language on a pogues album you are not so different than the college educated scumbag?#you didn't have to mention it but you did. acting like you're terrified of being called out for enjoying music when you get 2 notes a post!#anyway- liberal isn't an insult nor is it a coherant category#and leftists or whatever group you align yourself with do plenty of language policing too#i am against expecting everyone to speak perfectly but i see this plenty with card carrying hard leftists#what this is is weird left division stuff dressed up as class comentary
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The thing with the Mari Lwyd, though, is that it's being... I don't know, 'appropriated' is the wrong word, but certainly turned into something it isn't.
Thing is, this is a folk tradition in the Welsh language, and that's the most important aspect of it. I feel partly responsible for this, because I accidentally became a bit of an expert on the topic of the Mari Lwyd in a post that escaped Tumblr containment, and I clearly didn't stress it strongly enough there (in my defence, I wrote that post for ten likes and some attention); but this is a Welsh language tradition, conducted in Welsh, using Welsh language poetic forms that are older than the entire English language, and also a very specific sung melody (with a very specific first verse; that's Cân y Fari). It is not actually a 'rap battle'. It's not a recited poem. It is not any old rhyme scheme however you want.
It is not in English.
Given the extensive and frankly ongoing attempts by England to wipe out Welsh, and its attendant cultural traditions, the Mari is being revived across Wales as an act of linguistic-cultural defiance. She's a symbol of Welsh language culture, specifically; an icon to remind that we are a distinct people, with our own culture and traditions, and in spite of everyone and everything, we're still here. Separating her from that by removing the Welsh is, to put it mildly, wildly disrespectful.
...but it IS what I'm increasingly seeing, both online and in real world Mari Lwyd festivals. She's gained enormous pop-culture popularity in recent years, which is fantastic; but she's also been reduced from the tradition to just an aesthetic now.
So many people are talking/drawing about her as though she's a cryptid or a mythological figure, rather than the folk practice of shoving a skull on a stick and pretending to be a naughty horse for cheese and drunken larks. And I get it! It's an intriguing visual! Some of the artwork is great! But this is not what she is. She's not a Krampus equivalent for your Dark Christmas aesthetic.
I see people writing their own version of the pwnco (though never called the pwnco; almost always called some variant on 'Mari Lwyd rap battle'), and as fun as these are, they are never even written in the meter and poetic rules of Cân y Fari, much less in Welsh, and they never conclude with the promise to behave before letting the Mari into the house. The pwnco is the central part to the tradition; this is the Welsh language part, the bit that's important and matters.
Mari Lwyd festivals are increasingly just English wassail festivals with a Mari or two present. The Swansea one last weekend didn't even include a Mari trying to break into a building (insert Shrek meme); there was no pwnco at all. Even in the Chepstow ones, they didn't do actual Cân y Fari; just a couple of recited verses. Instead, the Maris are just an aesthetic, a way to make it look a bit more Welsh, without having to commit to the unfashionable inconvenience of actually including Welsh.
And I don't really know what the answers are to these. I can tell you what I'd like - I'd like art to include the Welsh somewhere, maybe incorporating the first line of Cân y Fari like this one did, to keep it connected to the actual Welsh tradition (or other Welsh, if other phrases are preferred). I'd like people who want to write their version of the pwnco to respect the actual tradition of it by using Cân y Fari's meter and rhyme scheme, finishing with the promise to behave, and actually calling it the pwnco rather than a rap battle (and preferably in Welsh, though I do understand that's not always possible lol). I'd like to see the festivals actually observe the tradition, and include a link on the booking website to an audio clip of Cân y Fari and the words to the first verse, so attendees who want to can learn it ahead of time. I don't know how feasible any of that is, of course! But that's what I'd like to see.
I don't know. This is rambly. But it's something I've been thinking about - and increasingly nettled by - for a while. There's was something so affirming and wonderful at first about seeing the Mari's climb into international recognition, but it's very much turned to dismay by now, because she's important to my endangered culture and yet that's the part that everyone apparently wants to drop for being too awkward and ruining the aesthetic. It's very frustrating.
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im thinking about that twitter thread that talked about how adult women who have experienced extreme childhood trauma often show child-like behavior and how this is very well shown with orin... i need a moment.
#ngl i wish people were writing think pieces about orin as much as they do with gorty because she is such a sympathetic and complex character#i'd do it myself but my first language isn't english and i'm not very good at writing so it takes me hours to write one single post </3#blanca.txt
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Pls understand I am saying this as a teacher who believes education is extremely important, but if the air conditioner is broken during a Florida heat wave I think we should be legally required to close the school until it's fixed
#this post brought to you by me having to send a little girl to the nurse with heat exhaustion just from sitting in my classroom#this shit isn't safe or healthy#and it's not like anyone's learning anything anyway i can promise you that#they're all too busy informing me that it's hot (as if I was unaware)#let them stay home! let me stay home! my window doesn't even open it is too damn hot in that room!#teaching my 6th graders about figurative language like#'so if i said 'this room is an oven' that would be both a metaphor and a hyperbole BUT NOT MUCH OF ONE'#teaching
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im on the home stretch of maldoror. for a second i thought i lost it and i was like what a funny way to end this year's annual attempt at reading it
#honestly i think ambergris primed me to read it through a more distinct layer of artifice so im enjoying it more#there are a few of the prose poems in particular that i think are quite good#the latest one being the one with the dung beetle person and the pelican person#i cant imagine this reads as bad in french as it does in english though#i post about this annually but im not sure how much the translator realizes that gender-number agreement in french#and other romance languages#kinda permits the ''labyrinthine'' sentence construction he says is so essential in this text#yeah because i can still easily pair the verb with the subject after the 5th clause because the verb is plural#or this adjective clause is clearly about many feminine gendered subjects#that just don't exist in english man!!!!#and its not even ''oh make short easy sentences'' but im sure there's ways to construct the sentences that carry the original french#while acknowledging you're translating into a language that isn't a romance langauge
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We (somewhat rightly) mock the 2000's era fansub translation notes for their otaku fixations and privileging of trivia over the media, but they should be understood as serving their purpose for a bit of a different era in the anime fandom. Take this classic:
Like, its so obvious, right? Just say "pervert", you don't need the note! Which is true, for like a 'normie' audience member who just wants to watch A TV Show - but no one watching, uh *quick google* "Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne" in 1999 is that person. The audience is weebs, and for them the fact that show is Japanese is a huge selling point. They want it to feel as 'anime' as possible; and in the west language was one of the core signifiers of anime-ness. 2004 con-goers calling their friends "-kun" and throwing in "nani?" into conversations was the way this was done, and alongside that a lexicon of western anime fandom terminology was born. Seeing "ecchi" on the screen is, to this person, a better viewing experience - it enhances their connection to otaku identity the show is providing, and reinforces their shared cultural lexicon (Ecchi is now a term one 'expects' anime fans to know - a truth that translator notes like this simultaneously created and reflected).
But of course your audiences have different levels of otaku-dom, and so you can't just say 'ecchi' and call it a day - so for those who are only Level 2 on their anime journey, you give them a translation note. Most of the translation notes of the era are like this - terms the fansubber thought the audience might know well enough that they would understand it and want that pure Japanese cultural experience, but that not all of them would know, so you have to hedge. The Lucky Star one I posted is a great example of that:
Its Lucky Star, the otaku-crown of anime! You desperately want the core text to preserve as much anime vocab as possible, to give off that feeling, but you can't assume everyone knows what a GALGE is - doing both is the only way to solve that dilemma.
This is often a good guideline when looking at old memetically bad fansubs by the way:
This isn't real, no fansub had this - it was a meme that was posted on a wiki forum in 2007. Which makes sense, right? "Plan" isn't a Japanese cultural or otaku term, so there is no reason not to translate it, it doesn't deepen the ~otaku connection~.
Which, I know, I'm explaining the joke right now, but over time I think many have grown to believe that this (and others like it) is a real fansub, and that these sort of arbitrary untranslations just peppered fansub works of the time? It happened, sure, but they would be equally mocked back then as missteps - or were jokes themselves. Some groups even had a reputation for inserting jokes into their works, imo Commie Subs was most notable for this; part of the competitive & casual environment of the time. But they weren't serious, they are not examples of "bad fansubs" in the same way.
This all faded for a bunch of reasons - primarily that the market for anime expanded dramatically. First, that lead to professionally released translations by centralized agencies that had universal standards for their subs and accountability to the original creators of the show. Second, the far larger audience is far less invested in anime-as-identity; they like it, but its not special the way its special when you are a bullied internet recluse in 2004. They just want to watch the show, and would find "caring" about translation nuances to be cringe. And since these centralized agencies release their product infinitely faster and more accessibly than fansubs ever did, their copies now dominate the space (including being the versions ripped to all illegal streaming sites), so fansubs died.
Though not totally - a lot of those fansub groups are still around! Commie Subs is still kicking for example. They either do the weird nuance stuff, or fansub unreleased-in-the-west old or niche anime, or even have pivoted to non-anime Japanese content that never gets international release. But they used to be the taste-makers of the community; now they are the fringe devotees in a culture that has moved beyond them. So fansubs remain something of a joke of the 90's and 2000's in the eyes of the anime culture of today, in a way that maybe they don't deserve.
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