#ENG VERSION

[wolfythewitch]

in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[satsuha]

recent doodles

[adelheidvonschicksal]

I’d always choose original Xavier, but I feel like we’d be in trouble no matter what we answered 😂 it’s so funny how they stay jealous of THEMSELVES. It’s like Cat Noir and Ladybug pls. They’re both falling into yandere codes atp.

Shimmering Moonlight

Trailer of New Event [Shimmering Moonlight] Is Coming! When moonlight graces the night, he'll come to your side. From May 13, 05:00 AM to May 27, 04:59 AM (server time), the 5-Star Solar Memory Pair [Xavier: Midnight Rainfall] and [Xavier: Midnight Whispers] will be available in the Limited Wish Pool. During the event, you can claim [Deepspace Wish: Limited]*5 at the 50th and 100th wishes; at the 150th wish, you can choose between [Xavier: Midnight Rainfall] or [Xavier: Midnight Whispers]. It means making 150 wishes guarantees two 5-Star Memories and unlocks the New Companion [Xavier: Lumiere].

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■ Myth: Twilight's Dawn

Following the update on May 13, you can read the Myth of Xavier: Twilight's Dawn in-game. The sword's swift and forceful motion coincides with moon's gradual shift to fullness, which echoes a distant memory from fourteen years ago. "…According to the survivors who were rescued, a figure resembling Lumiere appeared just as the explosion was about to go off."

[eudaemon-m]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[fizzydrinkuno]

Soooo guess who read the jp subs for book 4.

I’m coming for the translators legs

[northernsunsets]

Bounce Bounce am I right?

bonus with some nsfw text + og post under readmore

[skyplayssplatoon3]

SPLATOON 3 ART BOOK 3/31/2023!

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[wynntermelon]

drawing the whole svsss cast by memory? pshhhhh. easy . (is so normal about this book

[miniaturedinosaurpuppy]

Been thinking a lot about an AU where Enid was adopted by Weems. LOL I just love found family/adoption thropes in media.

She was like 7 years old when adopted. She was in adoption since beeing a bby she for sure doesnt remember her old family. And orphanage did not know how to properly take care of a werewolf child.

Also she is like her adoptive mum(Weems) always neat looking. No hair out of place (smthing she can bond with Wednesday on). The wolf teddy was given to her by Weems when she was adopted and was first day in her new home.

The name of the teddy is : Wolfgang (😏)

Okay, last thing I wanted to add is Enid bit off a piece of Wolfgang. (werewolf things)(She regretted it quickly tho)

U will be destroyed if u touch him with out asking.

Idk It was like 80 years in my mind and after all that time I decided to do smthing about it. Also what would the AU be called as I saw more found family thropes where Enid is "adopted" by Addams family.

[biscuitboba]

I love how the translation from the colored version makes a certain someone sound more whipped for his captain😭 and the thing is, we can tell who is down bad (out of all the strawhats) for a certain captain from facial expression alone like, okayy??

[the-mang0tree]

DID YOU SEE THE NEW TRAILER?!?!

THE MOMENT IT DROPPED !!!!

[mintypsii]

PENlS EXPLOSION SPELLLLLLL

more of them because they won't get out of my head

version without the text

[rocketbirdie]

Arrrghh. People are finishing up Rebirth and looking up the different localizations, and the inevitable wave of hate for the English version is starting to gain traction again just like with Remake. I guess I just get super defensive about it because I have worked on large translation projects before, and it's not as straightforward as players seem to think.

It's not like the good ol' days of "This Guy Are Sick." They don't write the JPN script first, and then just send it out for translation anymore. Nowadays the different language scripts are all written simultaneously, with the teams working back and forth together, to check over each ofher's work and make sure that no one sentence is under- or overshooting a goal. Like it or not— everything is checked over and approved.

There's a lot more being translated than just words. There's so much to take into account— tone of voice, the cultural context, the lip sync and corresponding length of each line (which isn't allowed to run over by more than 0.2 seconds which is CRAZY). It's a messy process and it's a lot of goddamn work.

And then there's the audience, too. Different languages' audiences are often going to have wildly different interpretations of a character. A really good example from FFVII would be Yuffie. In the JPN version of the OG, Yuffie is written to be a confident girl who's dead serious about her ninja training. The ENG translation didn't do that justice... she instead comes off as a silly annoying kid pretending to be a ninja. Remake's DLC was testing the waters to see if they could write Yuffie in a way that's still faithful to both of the strikingly different regional perceptions of her character. And they nailed it.

The same thing happened with Cloud, and continues to influence the way he's written in the Re-trilogy. It's much more subtle than with Yuffie, but it's still noticeable, and I think it's why a lot of people get up in arms about his dialogue.

Cloud has always been written as having a stark disconnect between his tone of voice and his choice of words. It's just that the two major languages get it swapped! JPN Cloud has a harsh, mean tone, but his choice of words is polite and easygoing. On the other hand, ENG Cloud says a LOT of nasty shit out loud, but his true feelings are betrayed by his soft voice and gentle body language.

The difference goes unnoticed by the average player who isn't so invested to give a damn. But if you're actively searching for "bad translations" to get mad at, then you'll find them where one version's Cloud comes off a bit too strong. It's only natural that English Cloud is the one that pisses people off more often— after all, he's literally saying stupid shit to to piss other characters off constantly. His character is so convincing that players want to reach into their screens and wring his neck, and I think that's glorious.

But that's why it upsets me to see people turn that frustration at the localization teams. They didn't "ruin" a character's dialogue— they were just barely able to make something work, all things considered. Character, line length, culture, story context, facial animations, voice acting, for MULTIPLE languages, like... holy shit. It's a miracle that most of it is really really good, and that the bad is only a little bit bad.

Idk where this rant is going. Just... c'mon people. Have some respect for such an insanely complicated art form.

[lumioluna]

anyways the main reason i love luca guadagnino is that, in an industry oversaturated with women/femininity always portrayed as the object of desire, he truly shows what it means to be (insanely) attracted to men and masculinity. god i don't fucking know exactly how he manages to do it but he does, oh he DOES. he understands it. and as a person who is indeed attracted to men and masculinity (and i mean not the over inflated, perfectly patinated, self serving power fantasy kind, but the vulnerable, real, crude, obscenely carnal kind) it's so validating to be on the other side of things. to actually being allowed to be fully INSIDE a desiring perspective. so hot.

[littlelightfish]

Mickbell + Holm screenshots from chapter 14