Part two of me being pedantic about nuance because I can
While the official translation isn't wrong at all, I feel like the phrasing chosen here makes Nagi appear more distant than he actually is. In japanese, his inner monologue is more akin to "I'm sorry, Reo. Please, let me say something a bit selfish"
He's using causative. He's asking Reo's permission. And sure, we could make a case for how he doesn't say that aloud, so it's a moot point... But the implication is that he knows Reo won't like this but he wants Reo to be okay with it. For his sake. Just this once.
And "I'm gonna say something selfish" doesn't convey that at all. If anything, it makes it sound like he knows Reo won't like it and he doesn't care
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I know Viv has that sex tape shit on standby but also. I think it would be funny if she releases it and her scheme of “tell them I was paid to do it” immediately failed bc it shows her clearly enjoying some crazy shit. Out here begging Clay to hit her with that rubber chicken and bust out the whipped cream. Viv antis and trolls investigating her claim start pullin’ out timestamps like “this you? 🤨” and shit.
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I had some serious Cy-Simping brainrot last night, and after I drew my sona, I just like- had to draw her—
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Very fun to be an dormant Homestuck in 2023. We saw a post with an aside about the mid-to-highblood bias present in the fandom and we took a moment to think "wait, what?" before remembering how much people posted about Mallek, Lanque, and Marvus. Obviously no one asked our opinion on the matter but we think that a lot of the bias here may just be because fandom people will jump at any vaguely conventionally attractive male character who can say something angsty, and we don't see 99% of this effect because we rapidly get fatigued with any character who is overly present in the fandom and any ship that has overrepresentation in the sample size and start blocking tags.
Very highly effective approach, admittedly, but it leaves us a bit out of the loop. We only really start encountering Issues with that approach in smaller fandoms when blocking any given popular ship will instantly shrink our mutual circle to Just Us and maybe, like, one guy who we dragged in here ourself, so we have to relax blocking standards somewhat and just make it "blocked for a week" or something similar.
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i realized something very funny about my roblox account and how the difference between my username and display name perfectly encapsulates the shift in online culture from irony poisoning to earnest expression, where in 2016 i named myself a creatively spelled variation of "devil's apprentice" with a dozen Xs thinking that i wouldn't ever seriously use my account and also that it'd be hilarious because the edginess is ironic, to my display name as of 2022 being "Grim" and my title in doodle world currently being "Demon". if i'd done that shit in the early-mid 2010s i would have been ruthlessly bullied but not only do i have better friends now i am also over the age of 25
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