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Dnd 5e fans have gone beyond "guy whose only ever seen the boss baby seeing another movie and saying 'getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this'." As they've somehow managed to become "guy whose only ever seen the boss baby seeing another movie and saying 'there are fan edits of boss baby in this genre so why bother watching an entirely new movie'."

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Tony Tony Chopper (one piece)

If you see this post you’re legally required to tell me at least one trans woman headcanons you have for a canonically male character, I never get to see transfem headcanons like that, give me them, and for equality of my own please know estrogen could have saved Insector Haga and Dinosaur Ryuzaki I will not elaborate, also Yuya.

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Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

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The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing

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My brain loves to mix the words “monoecious” and “Miocene” together, creating the word “mioecious”. I do not know what this exciting new word is supposed to mean.

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the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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Like everything else that's taxonomical, there's always a lot of wank involved, but it seems to be.

Isekai literally just means "Another world" and Japanese Wikipedia says (checked via Google Translate) that isekai covers any story that involves different worlds with Isekai Tensei (transfer to another world) being the truck-kun subgenre and Isekai Yuori (posession in another world) being the transmigration subgenre.

The same Wikipedia page calls Narnia and Connecticut Yankee isekais.

So I'd say that yes, all portal fantasy is considered isekai in Japan. That said, loanwords experiencing semantic drift is very common - you wouldn't call Sponge Bob an anime, so there's no particular reason to call Narnia or Wizard of Oz an isekai. Unless you want to, which fair. As an English Second Language speaker, for example, I was completely unaware of "portal fantasy" as a distinct genre and lumped it with the isekai classification because it just made sense in my head.

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The only reason portal fantasy and isekai are not completely interchangable terms is because isekai is explicitly Japanese and portal fantasy is not. They cover, broadly, the same ground, with isekai being the Japanese version with its own set of typical tropes and conventions, many of which you'll also find in western portal fantasy but usually handled differently because Japan has its own culture and tropes that arise from that culture. However, it is also highly likely that early Western portal fantasy (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court among others) influenced what would eventually become the modern isekai genre. (Similarly, all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares!)

So, yes, Wizard of Oz could be considered isekai simply by virtue of the fact that isekai and portal fantasy have so much overlap and likely influenced each other as stories have long crossed cultural folkloric boundaries! (See also: one of the earliest examples of Cinderella being Chinese!)

Also, there is an anime adaptation of The Wizard of Oz that is considered isekai, so I'd say it counts on that basis alone.

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I'm not familiar with what all is considered isekai. Is all portal fantasy from Japan classified that way?

The thing that strikes me about the common examples people have mentioned to me vs. other portal fantasy is that it's reasonably common to see portal fantasy where the person can travel back and forth at will—though maybe with some limitations or before or after a particular plot event. It seems like the "Reincarnated in __, now what?" thing is more common in things labeled isekai.

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the average art student in Latin America will produce something a hundred times more satirical, smart, eloquent and thought provoking with a cellphone camera, $2 and three friends than any prestigious European director will ever manage to make in their lives

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moodboard latino

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Not the first time I've seen anything of the like, but last night I saw some yank asshole tell someone to "stop victim blaming" because the other person, who was from Brazil (a country which has been a victim of US military interventionism several times in relatively recent history) said they didn't have any sympathy for US army veterans, even the disabled ones.

And again, it's not like any of this is particularly novel to me, I've seen similar arguments a hundred times, but it will never cease to amaze me the way how, in the imperial core citizen's mind, the people who suffered collateral damage as a result of carrying out the US military's imperialist violence will always get to be considered THE victims of the US military before any of the people on the receiving end of said violence.

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tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

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They do, you guys just don’t speak Portuguese. Log onto Brazilian internet right now and you will see Portugal getting torched on the regular

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In Portuguese we did this with a couple of names too.

It's how Santo Iago (Saint James) became São Tiago.

There are a bunch of Santanas (both people and places) that are a reanalysis of Santa Ana (Saint Anne)

In Rio de Janeiro there used to be a neighborhood called Praça Asseca (Asseca Plaza), named after a viscount. It eventually became Praça Seca (Dry Plaza) through reanalysis.

I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:

The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"

The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"

The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"