#..............but what if its all redundant

[zizbombs]

I don’t even know what to say to this, what are you even talking about?

first off, i think its a little crazy to just chalk it all up to the butterfly effect of them and you could say that for literally everyone. I think its fair to give them a smidge of credit for, you know, keeping worm's genre non post apocalyptic. we've all seen the eden!bet stuff. like yeah the win was total chance but cauldron stacked the deck and were the reason they had a fighting chance and was apart of that string of longshots like 20 times.

Second off, the prt and protectorate didn't help at the end of the world? the entire fucking first half of the fight and all first response to scion was organized and aided by the PRT and cauldron. Doormaker and clairvoyant were MVPs the second gm started. the entire effort would've been next to impossible without them, and also the PRT provided a structure for the beginning of the fight. which was, you know, very crucial. i'm not even gonna bother addressing the points at the lower half of the prt argument since its redundant here. we're talking about gm exclusively, if we werent this wouldn't be a discussion.

third, i honestly don't even know what you're trying to say here? why wouldn't organizations who had capes important to the final fight mean they helped? I don't really remember, but if the ABB and fallen did something that means they count if they helped in gm. a lot of people were in gm and did something, i was more picturing a leaderboard for most contribution during the final fight, where people like foil, cauldron, tattletale, taylor, panacea and people like that would be. my viewpoint is that doormaker and clairvoyant were instrumental in beating scion. no cauldron=no doormaker and clairvoyant (along with a whole host of other things)=no beat scion.

and for your final points i really dont give a shit about c53s or ethics.

this isn't even the original post either lol. I was talking shit about holier than thou sbers who think they could come up with a super shmart plan to beat scion.

in conclusion, alexandria and contessa are just morally unique lesbians

99% of cauldron haters tremble in fear at the simple question of 'what would you do instead?'

[haru-dipthong]

Fansub release + translation notes for Utena ep 26!

お前は彼女の事どんな風に思ってるんだい？

This line from Akio is an interesting one to translate. Word for word, it means “How do you think of her?” But this misses a few bits of nuance. For example, 彼女の事 is “her”, but it comes with the nuance of “her whole self”, so the question is almost like “what do you think of her - body and soul?”

“How” is also an oversimplification of どんな風に, which feels more like “in what kind of way do you think of her”? For this line, I settled on this:

When you think of her, what do you feel?

I believe it encapsulates what Akio is asking, even though the individual words deviate quite heavily from the original script.

Akio then grabs Anthy violently and asks again, this time more directly and aggressive:

彼女の事どう思ってる？

Again, this could be translated directly as “How do you think of her?” The only thing that has changed is どんな風に into どう as well as omitting the subject and question particles — a shorter sentence with more direct meaning. I translated it as a more direct way of asking the same thing:

What is she to you?

Anthy: さあ、でもそれはイメージなんでしょ？

Anthy: Sure, but I thought it was just a fantasy.

The word イメージ (imēji) is one that trips up a lot of Japanese learners, and even some translators. Because it seems like a 1-to-1 loanword of “image”, it often gets translated directly as such. But in reality, the word only means “image” in the sense of a mental image, an impression, a depiction of something as opposed to the reality of something. This can be most commonly seen in the ubiquitous phrase seen on all food packaging — 写真はイメージです. A bad translation of this phrase would be “this photo is an image”, a hilariously redundant sentence. But its true English equivalent would be the phrase “serving suggestion”, indicating that the product contained inside is not exactly what is depicted on the packaging. 写真はイメージです is therefore more akin to “this photo is one depiction of how this product could look” or even “this photo is merely a depiction and may not reflect reality”, or sometimes even “pictures are for illustrative purposes only” if the photo on the packaging isn’t even a picture of the product (e.g. cows in a field on a milk carton, or a picture of pizza on a packet of pizza flavoured potato chips).

For example, this image was posted on a Japanese listicle titled 『でしょうな！当たり前すぎる「写真のイメージです」』 (translation: “Yeah, no shit! Extremely obvious product disclaimers”). The joke being that “yeah, no shit, I know this carton does not contain a literal field of cows”.

All of this to say, Anthy’s line might be translated by someone who doesn’t understand this as “Sure, but that’s just an image, isn’t it?”. But what she really means is “I thought that garden wasn’t a real garden, but instead an idealised image of a garden from Miki’s mind.”

Touga: 君の魂が本当に諦めていなければ、世界の果てを駆け巡る、この音を聞こえるはずだ。

Touga: If your soul hasn’t truly given up… You should be able to hear the sound that tears through the End of the World.

I forgot to discuss this in the notes for last episode, but it’s worth highlighting since it’s a phrase that will be repeated again and again. The key word here is 駆け巡る (kakemeguru) which means "to rush about" which I think is meant to evoke images of a car tearing through the streets. Kakemeguru is also a compound verb made up of the two words kakeru and meguru — kakeru means “to gallop on horseback” (or simply run/rush), and meguru means “to circle around, to tour around”. So the word carries nuances of almost joyriding around at high speeds. Also of note is the use of 世界の果て (end of the world) here to mean a location (the farthest ends of the earth) rather than an event (the revelation).

Thank you to my editor @dontbe-lasanya for their amazing work editing my translations!

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[coolnonsenseworld]

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[pedaleceleste]

did they.. did Dan and Phil compare themselves to chARLIE AND NICK FROM HEARTSTOPPER????. look. I’m not one to go « omg its as if theyve already hardlaunched », I’m really not (bc as an aromantic person I rlly dont think it matters if their relationship is or is not romantic like we can value it for what it is without needing it to be labeled directly and explicitly in alloromantic-allonormative terms ANYWAY ONTO MY MAIN POINT) …

I did pause the video and stare at my wall in disbelief for a full minute though… what a time to be alive, truly.

[thecherrygod]

currently thinking about when you let kim know you found out about the pale while he was gone, and that if you tell him its terrifying hes like "so trying to spare you from it was a good idea", or that if you tell him its unreal he says how a lot of things are unreal, or that if you ask him where you are he says they are in elysium, but that all of them involve him comparing the pale to water, death, and "the fact we are all stuck behind our eyes, between our ears, talking for all eternity, like every other human being". and then saying heavy topics are not his forte and acting as if he never said that. you cant just say "heavy topics are not my forte" after dropping that. both the caring and trying to protect harry, and that water, death, and having a mind is terrifying/unreal/just how the world is...

[thedreadvampy]

I really can't substantiate bc it's an ongoing situation but one of my best friends works at a formerly extremely inclusive and queer-friendly women's charity which has recently come under new management

and they told me the other day

that their 'gender interrogation' is this week (their words, not the employer's)

apparently, they and 2 other employees out of about 30-40 have been singled out and asked to say whether they self-identify as women. implicitly as a condition of continued employment.

because it's a women's charity they all already self-IDed as women when they started there for the purposes of the Equalities Act exemption on gender-specific services.

oh also as a Strange Coincidence all 3 of the staff who've been asked to reassert their gender are butch/GNC and there are femme nb people there who aren't being asked. My friend is nonbinary (but uses she/her at work), but is a dyke in Dickies and buttondowns so has to pinkie promise they're a woman in order to Protect The Women.

they're so fucking mad about it cause they're like. wild that as an afab person I have to self-ID as a woman for it to count, but self-ID means nothing for amab people (the charity has already jettisoned all its transfem staff)

and I'm just like

jesus well that's not a good sign on the Weimar Mindmap is it.

[lemonynuggets]

is that representation really bad or do you just not relate to it?

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[blueiight]

the thing is abt rosaleen is that shes someone who loves ghastly things & sees herself as someone proximate to that (which is why the brunt of her movie is scattered dream sequences that eventually becomes ‘real’ in that she becomes a wolf + the movie ends with her being awakened to wolves breaking into her bedroom). her favorite person is her grandmother whos viewed by the village as this withering crone regaling her with ‘old wives tales’. the grandmother seeming to warn rosaleen not of the wolves , but how people are mistreated bc of the fear of them not realizing sexual abuse + the hunt is commonplace and not unique to wolves, but something in ‘men’ (the woman who married a werewolf , thought he died, then she remarried, the werewolf was alive, attacks her child, and her second husband beheads the wolf+ slaps his wife for still loving him). the only two stories rosaleen herself recites from her grandmother to her mother + the huntsman are that of outcasted women making the best of their lot — the pregnant witch who turns the nobles into wolves and makes them sing her baby songs, the shewolf who came above and chose the world below. just as rosaleen herself ‘chooses’ the world below, ‘chooses’ the werewolf who hunts over polite society. rosaleen seeing the glass infant that sheds a tear as she applies on red lipstick (and her ‘self’ in the modern world going to sleep with a full face of makeup on, how the fixtures of her tales occupy the room she lays in) and the village encountering the cow that died in childbirth… the girl died, the woman is destroyed, and the shewolf is born thru the demise of the only other she was close to (her grandmother) as she runs off with grandma’s killer away from the villagers trying to save her. the company of wolves movie came out in 1984 , adapted from the 1979 bloody chamber, and featured a werewolf who hunted wolves with a red cape + rifles, and we had a friend whos story in 1985 starts with him donning a red cape + a rifle to hunt wolves, another who suspected him of killing his brother , the only other person that understood him in this world, but ‘chose’ to become a monster with him

[devilsskettle]

i hate that this website has location based ads now like it's one thing to promote the local grocery store chain to me but i am seeing ads for my workplace now :/

[digirainebow]

Jonas essentially just shows up and Alex is like oh I hope he's friendly... And then immediately proceeds to give up her life for him and the fact that you can say something like "that was for Jonas" it's like OUUUGH SHES SO-

when her grief from losing michael makes her not only accept jonas as a sibling right away, but also makes her follow in michael's footsteps by taking jonas out somewhere just to bond and have fun but accidentally loses her life instead 😁✌

[j-esbian]

HOAs are fucking wild. you're telling me that even if i legally own this home, i still have landlord rules. who the fuck cares if i have pets in the house that i own. it's my problem to clean up after them.

and who the fuck cares!!! about the color of my curtains!!!!!!!

[thecherrygod]

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[b4kuch1n]

Hi, I've been inspired by the composition and abstract style of your artwork for a while now, if I made an experimental art piece inspired by your composition style would you want me to credit you as an inspo? or would you just not be comfortable with me using your art as inspiration altogether? (which is fine btw, i don't wanna do smth that would make you uncomfortable)

oh sure! feel free! I don't mind at all lol

[beatcroc]

comic planning/roughs on the clock at work 👍 ok. this one's still a few posts out though

[falllpoutboy]

i’m guilty of doing this before too but PLEASE stop looking towards celebrities for their piece on a current event/political topic please