#Damara translation:

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

ROXY: have u seen that trend where it’s an image n someone comments I should call her and it looks vaugly correct if u squint hard enough

ROXY: that’s American culture

DAMARA: 私はアメリカの文化が嫌いです

DAMARA: すべての違反

ROXY: makes sense

[nekropsii]

No one has mastered the Hater Game quite like Damara.

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 267

the arajade emo band is back with a few new members

to the anon who suggested the band name and concept?? you're still so right. i have been thinking about it since the last drawing. so fuckin true dude.

[badlydrawnkankri]

original mlp comic by punkitt-is-here

[serfuzzypushover]

heheeeh polycule gets piercings :]

[turnstechgodhead]

damkri?

woah thats an interesting one

ive alays wondered why people ship that?

i will say i get the appeal

[garfieldsgnightmare]

(for drawing request) damara would be cool 😎

she should be allowed to kill

[femmestuck]

sketchy with some colour

[isselesu]

dirk<>mara {japanese and spiky}

[relaxxattack]

new alternian custom fonts... 2!

as promised i've finally gotten around to making more fonts for hiveswap new alternian! some more standard choices this time, along with the requested homestuck land font.

i've ALSO gone back and REDONE the first four fonts so that now they're more streamlined, and include punctuation and accurate sizing! i stuck with english punctuation so that all of the quirks would translate accurately.

all of the fonts should now be compatible with every canon troll's typing quirk except for damara, daraya, and potentially meulin.

these are free to use for whatever you like. i made all of them by hand, so sorry for any mistakes! i hope you enjoy!

download new fonts | download remade old fonts

[sayokou]

men cannot be lesbians. (no im not talking about GNC lesbians) no real lesbian, elder or young, is saying men can be lesbians. gender non conformity has always been apart of lesbian history, and always will be, but not men.

and here are some arguments yall lesbian "men" love:

- "read Stone Butch Blues" Stone Butch Blues was actually NOT about being a man, you read the book instead of repeating misinformation spread by others who also haven't read the book

- "leslie feinberg was a man" so close! ze wasn't a man at all. "I am female-bodied, I am a butch lesbian, a transgender lesbian-referring to me as "she/her" is appropriate, particularly in a non-trans setting in which referring to me as "he" would appear to resolve the social contradiction between my birth sex and gender expression and render my transgender expression invisible." this in no way is saying leslie identified as a man. to finish off this quote: " I like the gender neutral pronoun "ze/hir" because it makes it impossible to hold on to gender/sex/sexuality assumptions about a person you're about to meet or you've just met. And in an all trans setting, referring to me as "he/him" honors my gender expression in the same way that referring to my sister drag queens as "she/her" does." [forgive me if i used 'ze' incorrectly]

- "trans men feel safe in this space, away from xyz" and what about the lesbians who use the lesbian community as a safe space away from men? why do they have to compromise their safe space for the sake of a man?

- "trans men feel an attachment" and that's totally fine! it's okay to feel an attachment to a community you've been apart of for a long time. but there is a difference between attachment and identification. wanting to aide the lesbian community is totally fine, welcomed even! but this does not equate to identification.

- "gender is complex" as someone with a complex gender identity, i agree! but again, i am talking about men 'being' lesbians. not about gnc/gender complex lesbians.

- "it's not your business what a trans person identifies as" when it gets to said person invading my community, they make it my business. the same way it would be if a cis person claimed to be t4t

- https://africasacountry.com/2014/03/africa-has-always-been-more-queer-than-generally-acknowledged "see! it exists outside of america!"

wrong again! "Whereas the term ‘male lesbians’ is an attempt at translating the Hausa (e.g. Northern Nigerian) for ‘passive’ male partners or ‘yan kifi, who have sex with each other, ‘lesbian men’ in Namibia designate women who play the dominant ‘butch’ role in a same-sex relationship. Even though the terms ‘butch’ and ‘femme’ are not known in (Namibian) Damara culture, the various sexual practices and dress codes find some resonance in the admittedly Western butch-femme dyad." as you can see, the term 'lesbian man' is a place holder for the term 'butch' seeing as that term does not exist in those cultures, aka, lesbian 'men' are not a thing and this debate is solely american

I am in no way belittling trans people or the things the trans community has done for the LGBTQ+ community. This post is strictly saying men cannot be lesbians, again, men not gnc lesbians.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

MEENAH: bruv they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit ya tv when it didnt work good

DAMARA: それはただあなたのふしだらな女のお尻をたたいてその太いチンポを受け入れさせることに移行しただけです。まるで良い小さなおもちゃのようです。

MEENAH: what

MEENAH: rufioh she betta not have said somefin fuckin crazy

RUFIOH: uh... she sa1d... are you sure you want me to-

MEENAH: fuckin do it i aint no wimp

RUFIOH: ...she sa1d "1t just sh1fted to spank1ng your puppy's *ss, to make them take that th1ck kn*t... l1ke the good l1ttle playth1ng they are..."

MEENAH: ...yea damz i dont reely think its like that at all

[nekropsii]

Will sov!Damara keep her speaking quirk?

Idk why but I think it would be really funny if a character just talked another language and nobody acknowledged it.

The only thing that made it awful in the comics its cause hussie just used the japonese so he could make damara say gross shit.

Fun Fact: Damara is capable of speaking English even in the text of Homestuck canon. She's just doing that to be deliberately obtuse and spiteful towards people who have hurt her.

In Sovereignstuck, we will not see her speaking Japanese nearly as often. She doesn't have much need to, not around The Players at least. They haven't done anything to warrant the Deliberate Obtuseness. Plus, a couple of them speak Japanese anyways, so... It's a little less obtuse when there's two guys there that are already fluent, lol. Also, it'll be... As close to legit Japanese as I can get. I'm not fluent or anything, but I'm pretty okay at it. A novice, if you will. I am rusty, though. Working on it. Anything's better than the Google Translate garbage that she's puking up in canon, though. You can see how bad it is even if you don't speak it at all, it's fucking nuts.

[mmmmalo]

Quick revisit of Damara

The official translation slightly undersells how crass she is: 白痴雌犬 (hakuchi-mesuinu) is reported in the transcript as 'bitch idiot' but seems to map more closely to 'retarded bitch'.

Her invitation 'please get stoned with me' uses the kanji for throwing stones (投石, touseki), affirming the SBaHJ joke that uses weed as shorthand for the violent punishment of transgression... is the idea that insofar as they're operating within homophobic rhetoric, a gay sexual solicitation is understood as suicidal?

I wonder if Meenah telling Damara to cut out that 'amateur noise' is code for 'baby talk' -- in condescending reference to Damara's (implicitly Hysterical) babble and/or in reference to the implicit longing for/mourning of infants in the dialogue (eg 'i want to feel my nipples between your teeth' addresses a lost baby, in addition to Meenah)

the word Damara uses to describe herself as jealous (嫉妬, shitto) is itself built on sexist descriptions of women as hysterical and uniquely competitive... kanji breakdown found here. On an ideographic level, the word's radical sequences of woman/arrow-sickness and woman/stone both seem to resonate with the scene's depiction of dysphoria (arrows are phallic) and with earlier depictions of looming execution (stoning) terrorizing sexual deviants... Local lawyer Latula threatening to kill Damara if she approaches Mituna (who here represents the child/self) is in tune with this

Winding back a moment: since the word for nipple breaks down to breast-neck (乳首, chi-kubi), reading Damara solicitation as "I want to feel my /neck/ between your teeth" would place her desire in alignment with the Rufioh-Horuss breakup, which splits a bloody stump (Rufioh's hair) from a penis-face (Horuss's emoji). "Please bite my dick/head off" simultaneously reinforces the section's undercurrents of dysphoria and the sense that gender confirmation entails death? And I suppose superimposing the original intimation of "Please bite my boob off" would keep the transgender cardinality ambiguous -- one bit of utility for the comic's persistent milk/semen conflation

[gallantblade]

I was hoping Damara wouldn't be as bad as I'd heard but no the way she's written is terrible. If her dialogue was just aggressively sexual or just strange google translate it wouldn't be too distasteful to read, but the combination is... Blegh.

[calware]

Aradia and John as siblings is probably the most chaotic idea I've heard in a while, it's just the weird corpse girl with her pranking brother and they're both equally cheerful

Probably leads to John developing a more dark sense of humor.

Damara and Jade? Hm, that's a bit harder since Damara's attitude was pretty much based on stereotypes...

I guess you could have her like, be a bit mean but overrall protective of Jade because she likes the kid but hates her Grandpa for leaving them alone in an island which can translate to Jade already being pretty headstrong when Karkat tries to bully her.

i really like the idea of aradia crocker being a ghost... the assassination attempts got to her because gcat isn't there to protect her </3