#4 More Winks

[spacedlexi]

twdg s4 really gave us an adorable wlw romance for the main character about building a home and a family where the two antagonists are an evil woman who she was partially cared for by as a child and her girlfriends fucked up not-exactly-ex girlfriend who wants her dead (who has been manipulated by Evil Woman and they are character foils) AND its written by a gay woman and its fucking CRICKETS!!!!! i dont understand !!!!!!!

[fizzytoo]

made a bottoms (movie)/“fight club” inspired oc :D —leah dawn (she/her, 21, physics major) joined her university's "secret" self-defense (fight) club to impress girls and get pussy 😞

[litapeanut]

If you're browsing on mobile, please flip your phone to look at the horizontal pic at a larger scale.

Caption: Ciri travels to an alternative universe only to find out that everyone is gender-bent, and she helps them track down Alvin.

* I started this drawing four months ago, so Ciri's armour looks nothing like the one in the trailer (on top of that I'm too lazy to change it). But late is better than never.

[deathbypufferfish]

Goodbye Gen 2... 🌊

It's time to say goodbye to the longest gen ever! Marinella is moving out on her own to Mt.Komorebi to pursue a career in snowboarding. AND! Sibel is joining her for the summer!!!! Goodbye to Oscar and Miyu, my favorite sims ever 💗

[hsslilly-blog]

people with blue eyes staring at you meme but it's actually everyone to me. man stop looking at me. there literally no need for that. that's why i always side sit

[daydreamertrait]

🐇

[naggingatlas]

thinking about picard doing a cocomelon moment with data by singing gilbert and sullivan at him from a karaoke machine in the shuttle that data is shooting at so he calms down. this would work on me 100% ngl.

[darkdragon768]

Adding characters every day until the drawing is complete - day 2

Before | After | Final

[luvsimskaos]

The snow begins to melt as Spring hits. The family embraces the change in season.

Ishmael, Elijah, and Casper start cleaning the field so the incoming crops can grow healthy. After working by himself for so long, Ishmael is amazing by how fast the work gets done with three sets of hands. Elijah loves the new weather, it's a breath of fresh away after the cold, snow-covered winter.

Sable is no longer confined to the cabin with the children growing up, Daphne the only she keeps a close eye to. Daphne is happy to follow her mama around, playing with the toy Elijah gave to her for Winterfest.

Cato is left to his own devices. His parents worry about his health, especially with the change of seasons so they make him stay close to cabin. He find himself lost in book, trying to forget about his health and how it makes him stand out against his siblings.

[yixiangs]

god please let seokhee and gunwoo make it through this elimination i cant deal with any more losses today

[deathfavor]

old people are so wild omg 😂

[photozoi]

Hiya!  I, your Favourite Imp, am still here. Mom is obsessed right now with setting up the new tank and so you are just seeing lots of fish stuff and I am apologized for that. I am helping with the tank too, but am too short to show in the pictures. Good news! I am bigger than fish! So I am not so smol after all! I KNEW it!!!

the Imp (Silken Windhound)

[randomnameless]

Localization discourse has cropped up again on Twitter, and someone posted a few before and after screenshots of an Echoes mod that retranslates the game to be more faithful to the original JP script, with that same person claiming that all the mod does is remove all the personality and charm 8-4 added to the dialogue; for reference, here's the lines they're referring to:

Lukas (EN): But just once, i should like to be red with rage, green with envy... Something!

Lukas (JP): But still, i've never been caught up enough to lose control of myself...

Clair (EN): Do i not deserve better than these trite gambits of yours?

Clair (JP): That kind of behavior is very hurtful towards the one it is directed at.

Clair (EN): If that crass phrase means you wish to speak with me, then please proceed.

Clair (JP): Oh, Dyute. What is it?

I can somewhat get why people could see the first change as just being a less interesting way of getting across Lukas' lines about struggling with not feeling enough emotions (though even then i'd argue that changing the lines from him being dejected and resigned at his emotional struggles to him being actively angry about them is a decently big change to his character and not just "oh they worded it in a more interesting way"), but i really don't get how people can argue that Clair's localized lines aren't blatantly rewriting her character; her criticism of Gray being changed from "your behavior hurts people and you should stop because of that" to "your behavior hurts me and you should stop because i'm your superior and deserve better than to be toyed with by the likes of you", along with her greeting to Delthea being changed from "oh hi, what's the matter?" to "if that gross phrase means you want to talk to me, then i suppose i can grant you the privilege of a conversation" doesn't make the dialogue any wittier, it's just making Clair into more of a spoiled brat than she was intended to be originally.

You ruined my day with this :(

(i know this is an old ask, but I forgot it in my drafts!)

I thought FE15's localisation was nice, but granted, I didn't have access to the JP script (nor JP audio!), but now I wonder if the schtick "nobles vs commoners" wasn't overplayed in the lolcalised version, which in turn, would kind of explain why some people felt cheated by Alm's reveal -

Even if I always took it as "being a noble has nothing to do with birth" didn't meant Tobin as a peasant could become a noble and have a noble heart, but meant that even if you are born a noble with super special powers or not, being a noble character only falls on you, and the actions you take : Alm rescues random women (FE15 for you!) around at the cost of his mission/safety/etc, when Berkut, who is noble-born just like Alm, hunts peasants and burns his fiancée.

8-4 adding more "Nobles BaD" feels in touch with what ultimately happened with Fodlan, even if while the FE series already tried to dip its toes in this water with Ike, his "nobles BaD" ultimately amounted to childish tantrum and refusal to deal with "complicated things" when you realise and learn what kind of people he's working with, and their responsabilities.

In a way, I can understand the people being annoyed that the mod removed the "additions" brought by 8-4 if they really made the characters more memorable - but my stance will always be to be able to choose if you want to put parmesan on your pasta or not.

8-4!Clair is a spoiled and snob brat - but can't we get the choice to get a Clair without parmesan?

You know what, I'm thinking FEH's decision (in 2017!) to, uh, not include dual audio was due to the supposed limitations of the app, but imo, was also amde with the dubbing/US!VA industry in mind because, imagine the players from FE14-FE15 having characters who, by tone alone, are different from the ones they're used to, what kind of message would that send to players? You've played the parmesan!version of those games?

And to be clear, I like my pasta carbonara with heavy cream because I'm french and cream is life.

And yet, IDK, maybe that's just me, but I think I'd feel a bit out of the loop if I was thrown in game that celebrates a franchise I never played, since the games I played were... heavily "localised" to catter to my tastes and overplayed issues that weren't there because I'd maybe like this theme more than what was initially presented.

Cultural differences are a thing, but Crayon Shin-Chan is meant to be watched, in japan, by children in primary school.

OD's Crayon Shin Chan is basically japanese!Family Guy.

We had the "same" heavily lolcalisation back in the days here, with French!City Hunter ("Nicky Larson") and French!Hokuto no Ken ("Ken le Survivant"), and while in the 80s-90s some people still harped that those were the "real deal", with time it became more and more widely accepted that Nicky Larson and Ken le Survivant were... products that were lolcalised to fit with the regulations of that time (no blood for children! no swear words - when the regular french person says "merde" at least 10 times per day) - but if you were to go and interview the authors of those mangas, they wouldn't have a clue about what you're talking about with your french "dessins animés".

(granted, I've heard that recently, during a convention, both the author of City Hunter and Hokuto no Ken were surprised but pleased that even if it was lolcalised to oblivion, their work was so appreciated here!)

With modern FE though, I feel like FEH has to pretend that Nicky Larson and Ryo Saeba from City Hunter are the same person - so they will put Ryo in a fridge and call Nicky Larson "Ryo Saeba".

I mean, that's what we got with Halloween!Rhage - who roars using her special, and yet winks in her artwork because the artwork was commissioned by the people who designed/came up with Rhea, not with Rhage - and here, with your examples, with Clair.

Clair is a young noble lady, who as you pointed out with those lines, is a well mannered noble who doesn't hurt nor is looking down on people from lower birth, eons away from the "oujou who only means well" trope we ended up with with 8-4.

At the end of the day, people are free to enjoy whatever they want, let it be 8-4!Clair of Jp!Clair - but I'll have the same opinion as I always did regarding localisation : was it really up to 8-4 to change her characterisation this way? Are they still localising or swapping Jp!Clair with a brand new character of their creation?

If so, can this still be called localisation?

[parola-di-winx]

stella agaaaain if i can request something for her? :)

YEAH YOU CAN REQUEST THAT. I TOOK THIS ASK AS AN EXCUSE TO REDESIGN MY REDESIGN I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND 💜💜💜

[girl-bateman]

Gaslighting, my old friend, I'll fall for you every single time <3

[thegayestcat]

Me: *Goes to boot up Fallout 4*

Fallout New Vegas on my desktop: