#I like a multilingual man

[arkangelo-7]

No thoughts, just Jason Todd speaking Spanish.

[jay-wasstuff]

[skuntank]

Y'know what I think Diantha should be trilingual. French, Spanish, English. Spanish being her second language and English being her third. And also fuck it why not make her conversational in Italian

[bmpmp3]

kotarou maghni ai thank GOD i literally sighed an audible sigh of relief

[canyourlawnmowerdothis]

nothing makes me more mad than someone apologizing for their english when it's perfectly understandable. because first of all no one should apologize for that shit to bitches that only know english. and second of all Who the fuck said something to you that made you think it was bad i need to start killing

[thorntopieces]

Benefit of being multilingual w/ my second language as my dominant one: it's cool

Downside: I become the dumbest person on planet Earth and I can't understand anything in any language

[padfootastic]

so, so telling. and u have it straight from the mouth of the horse. his father and godfather are familiar, even adored. wormtail is always the betrayer, that stain will never go away (and that one’s interesting bc it NEVER goes away. even voldemort calls him that as a permanent reminder)

and finally, lupin. cold. clinical. placed at a distance. because that’s what remus is, no? he’s a virtual stranger for harry. even when harry tried to bridge the gap (unintentionally or otherwise) remus never allowed it. he was actually very happy not being involved w harry honestly—i wonder if he even really cared tbh.

The marauders in Harry's mind are called James, Sirius, Lupin, and Wormtail

[belit0]

Indra and The Uchiha clan with a lover who is multilingual, randomly speaking different language when frustrated or just wanted to talk shit about people-

"this language doesn't have enough curse words-" she then started to curse in different languages lol

THIS ONE WAS SO MUCH FUN

Indra

(Y/N) is livid.

Not the kind of petty frustration that burns hot and fades fast, but something colder, deeper—an anger that simmers beneath the surface, looking for an outlet. And Indra, in all his infuriating superiority, stands there, watching her unravel like a scholar observing a subject in a glass case.

So she lets her frustration spill in the one way she knows he won’t be able to counter: language.

-Μάγκα μου, είσαι αβάσταχτα αλαζονικός!- she hisses in Greek, pacing the room. (My god, you are unbearably arrogant!)

Indra hums, slow, considering. "-πότε, έχεις θεούς, αλλά προσεύχεσαι σε μένα με το θυμό σου; Πόσο ενδιαφέρον.- (So, you have gods, yet you pray to me with your anger? How interesting.)

She whirls on him, startled.

But Indra is already stepping forward, composed as ever, expression unreadable.

(Y/N)’s fingers twitch, needing another dagger, another layer of distance. "Genuinamente me tienes harta, harta!" she snaps in Spanish. (You genuinely have me fed up, fed up!)

"¿Asi y todo no puedes dejar de pelear conmigo, no? Admitelo, te encanta...- Indra answers smoothly, his voice dark with amusement. (Even so, you can’t stop fighting with me, can you? Admit it, you love it...)

(Y/N) exhales sharply. He’s playing with her. Entertained by her anger, watching her fall apart while he remains untouched. Smug bastard.

-К черту тебя!- she spits in Russian, voice seething. (To hell with you!)

Indra’s smirk barely flickers. -Ты действительно думаешь, что я когда-либо уйду туда, где я правлю?- (Do you truly think I can be banished to a place I already rule?)

(Y/N)’s nails dig into her palms. Fucking idiot.

He understands everything. Every insult, every curse meant to slice him down to size. And worse—he doesn’t just understand. He replies. Effortlessly. Sharp. Unshaken.

-Of course you speak every language,- she mutters, exasperated.

Indra tilts his head, an infuriating display of curiosity. -Oui, mon amour.- (Yes, my love.)

Her glare could shatter mountains. -Ne m’appelle pas comme ça!- she snaps in French. (Do not call me that!)

His eyes glint, dark and knowing. -Alors pourquoi ton cœur s'affole-t-il quand je le fais?- (Then why does your heart race when I do?)

(Y/N) grits her teeth.

He takes another step. A slow, deliberate thing. -Szeretsz veszekedni, ugye?- (You love arguing, don’t you?) His Hungarian is rich, velvety, curling around the words like a trap.

-I hate you,- she mutters.

Indra exhales, slow and pleased. -Olyan hazug vagy.- (You are such a liar.)

She sucks in a sharp breath, fists clenched. But Indra? Indra watches her as if she’s the most fascinating thing in existence.

-You enjoy this,- she accuses.

Indra’s lips twitch. -自然。- (Naturally.)

(Y/N) barely has time to react before his fingers trail against the underside of her jaw—just a ghost of contact, the barest weight of possession.

-You can try to hide behind your words,- he murmurs, switching back to their native tongue, -but I will always understand you.-

(Y/N)’s pulse is a war drum.

Indra’s smirk is lethal.

Madara

Madara is not a man who enjoys unnecessary distractions, but when (Y/N) begins cursing in a tongue foreign to most—her voice sharp with irritation—his focus shifts entirely. He doesn’t ask, doesn’t interrupt. He simply watches.

His Sharingan flickers to life, tracking the shape of her lips, the cadence of each syllable. The more she speaks, the more his expression shifts—brows arching slightly, amusement curling at the edge of his lips. Then, just as she takes a breath, preparing to hurl another foreign insult, he calmly replies.

-That’s quite the assumption, but no, I wouldn’t do that. Not unless you begged for it first,- he muses, answering something she was certain no one could have understood.

(Y/N) freezes.

His smirk deepens. -And for the record, I’m not arrogant. Just aware of my superiority.- His arms cross over his chest, watching her carefully. -Shall I correct anything else? Or would you prefer to continue proving my point about your temper?-

There’s no way. He couldn’t have possibly—

Madara tilts his head, as if reading her thoughts directly. -You forgot something, by the way. If you’re going to insult someone in another language, make sure your lips don’t betray you.- His voice lowers, deliberate, the glow of his Sharingan sharp. -I never miss a detail.-

(Y/N)’s mouth opens, then closes. She exhales through her nose, trying to compose herself, but he can see the tension in her jaw. The battle between indignation and disbelief is delicious.

-Are you done?- she finally grits out.

Madara gives a small, knowing hum, stepping closer. -Depends. Are you?- In an assertive invasion of personal space, shamelessly Madara like, he moves closer and kisses her neck, holding her by the nape. -Or shall I give you something else to say, in any language of your choosing?-

Izuna

Izuna isn’t just enjoying himself—he’s thriving.

(Y/N) is furious, words tumbling from her lips in a mess of languages, each one more heated than the last. But instead of being deterred, he leans in, grin widening with every sharp consonant, every venom-laced syllable.

-Oh?- he drawls, head tilting. -That one was new. Go on, say it again.-

(Y/N) glares at him. -No.-

Izuna clicks his tongue, shaking his head. -Come on, doll, don’t hold out on me now. I was just starting to appreciate the poetry in your insults. Do the one with 'arrogant bastard' again, that had a nice ring to it.-

She narrows her eyes. -Do you even know what I’m saying?-

-Not a damn clue.- His grin turns positively wolfish. -But I don’t need to. I just like watching you get all worked up like this.-

(Y/N) exhales sharply, as if gathering patience, then switches to another language entirely—one Izuna has never heard her use before. His smirk falters for half a second.

-Ooh,- he murmurs, leaning in. -That sounded serious. What was that one? Should I be flattered or deeply offended?-

(Y/N) lifts her chin, smug. -You’ll never know.-

Izuna studies her for a moment, then, as fast as blinking, she finds herself airborne—his hands firm around her waist, spinning her before pinning her against his chest, arms caging her in.

-Say it again,- he purrs, breath warm against her ear. -I dare you.-

(Y/N) swallows, but there’s a flicker of something in her gaze—challenge. And Izuna? Well, he’s never been one to back down from a fight.

Obito

Obito panics. The first time (Y/N) starts spewing words he doesn’t understand, he genuinely thinks she’s putting a curse on him.

-Wait, wait—what?? What are you saying?? Is that a jinx? Am I going to die??-

(Y/N) blinks. -No, I’m just calling that guy an absolute waste of oxygen.-

Obito exhales, relieved. Then, a pause. -Wait. Do you say that kind of stuff about me?-

-...Not to your face.-

-WHAT?!-

(Y/N) bursts into laughter, patting his cheek. -Relax, sweetheart. If I wanted to insult you, I’d say it in a language you do understand.-

Obito squints, unconvinced. -Now I’m worried.-

Shisui

Shisui eats this up. He loves it. Every time (Y/N) switches to another language, he watches her with open admiration, a wide grin pulling at his lips.

-Damn,- he whistles, leaning against the wall, arms crossed. -That was hot.-

(Y/N) stops mid-sentence, blinking at him. -I was literally insulting the idiot who doesn’t pick up after their dog —right in front of our fucking door….-

-Yeah. Hot.-

-...What??-

Shisui shrugs, still grinning. -What can I say? Watching you talk shit in four different languages does things to me.-

(Y/N) groans, covering her face. -Just... Shut up.-

-Watching your lips move so sensually when you're angry is addictive, you know? Pleaaaase, keep going.-

(Y/N) stares at him before switching languages again—this time, specifically directed at him.

Shisui’s grin only widens.

Itachi

Itachi doesn’t react at first. He listens, nodding slightly as (Y/N) mutters something under her breath, switching from one language to another like second nature.

Then—

-This language doesn’t have enough curse words,- she sighs before launching into an entirely new set of expletives, her tone dripping with frustration.

There’s a small pause.

-...Impressive,- Itachi finally says.

(Y/N) blinks at him. -You understood that?-

He nods. -Most of it.-

She stares. -Most???-

Itachi’s lips twitch slightly. -I make a habit of studying useful things.-

(Y/N) narrows her eyes. -So you do know when I’m talking shit about you.-

His expression remains unreadable, but there’s a glint of something—something amused—in his dark gaze. -Perhaps.-

(Y/N) groans. -Great. Now I actually have to be careful around you.-

He hums, thoughtful. -Not necessarily.-

-...What’s that supposed to mean?-

Itachi turns away, the barest trace of a smirk ghosting his lips. -If I know what you’re saying, I can hold it against you.-

(Y/N) swears at him in yet another language.

Itachi only chuckles.

[sosodynamight]

I always love language mishaps and now this will be everything I'll think about for the next months and I'll just research into accents more than I usually do now

Also, I do think sometimes in ff (it was a jylxnmj one so bare with me) they portray the Nie's dialect as more rough and like harsh? And the Yumeng dialect as more like flowy(? like they drawl a bit and intonate words a bit more or different as far as I understood.

Since then I loved the fact that every sect talked different and like had different idioms, which is awesome bc imagine wwx just saying like a phrase that totally means like 'i really like you and think you are the best' thinking he's sneaky and no one will know bc ofc it's yumeng's phrase ao anyway lwj doesn't catch it and thinks nothing of it while jc is just so sick of it. LANGUAGE MISHAPS PEOPLE, WE NEED MORE FICS ABOUT FUNNY LANGUAGE MISHAPS IN CONFFERENCES AND LESS MURDERING CHARACTERS PLEASE

I just remembered again that regional dialects canonically exist in MDZS (it’s implied that Lan Wangji speaks Gusu dialect) and now I want to know how this comes into play with the sects. Do disciples at conferences talk shit about the other clans behind their backs in their own dialects? Are secret conversations held in different dialects to ensure another level of security? Do translators exist in the Jianghu for those who don’t have as firm a grasp on the standardized spoken dialect? Are there slip-ups during meetings and conversations sometimes between dialects or interactions that use a chaotic mix of several? There is so much potential here

[andriel-islife]

Welcome to my TedTalk of my favorite aftg recurring event: people reacting to Neil’s languages.

First the monsters reacting to Neil’s French

“He wished he could take some satisfaction in the shell-shocked looks the language and his furious tone earned…It was an age before anyone responded. Nicky was too busy gaping at Neil to say anything, and Aaron was staring at Kevin as he waited for a translation. Andrew’s surprise gave way to what a fool might mistake for delight and he leaned forward on the desk. “Wow another one of Neil’s many talents. How many can one man have?””

This scene is funny because unproblematic and ordinary Neil Josten just busts into their dorm room with no explanation and starts speaking in angry French. (And Andrew’s “you’re interesting to me” without actually saying so.)

Andrew and Wymack discovering Neil’s German. (Only Andrew reacts but it’s important to remember Wymack heard the German as well(for later))

“That wiped the irritation off Andrew’s face. It was forever before Andrew answered in German. “That’s unexpected. Did no one tell you I hate surprises?”…”how many languages do you speak, runaway?””

We love seeing through Andrews medication to his true feelings(surprise). And then this being followed by a civil conversation of Neil’s true past and Andrew’s reactions. Is this really the love hate(mostly hate)TFC andriel dynamic we loved for half a book.

The upperclassmen+Wymack finding out about Neil’s French (only Wymack's response but, again, important to know the upper classmen hear his French.)

He didn’t realize what he’d done wrong until he felt Wymack’s piercing stare. Andrew’s lot new Neil spoke French…But Wymack, like Andrew, had also heard Neil speak fluent German. Neil ground his teeth and refused to return Wymack’s look.”

Wymack hadn’t reacted to the German because of the situation but he probably also didn’t feel the need to respond to yet another one of his kids having a second language. But apparently bilingual is where he draws the line for languages. Neil “multilingual” Josten had Wymack questioning who he really was and why his second and third languages happened to be those already present in his team.

Upperclassmen, Nicky, Aaron, and Kevin finding out about Neil’s German (thanks to Andrew being Andrew)

““Oh shit,” Nicky said, switching languages in a heartbeat. “Since when do you speak German? Andrew, you knew about this? Why didn’t you tell us?”…Aaron looked at Neil. “When were you going to tell us?”…Down the hall the upperclassmen stared at them in disbelief. Matt was the first to get his tongue back, but the best he came up with was, “I thought you spoke French. That was French this morning right?…”

Aaron being the king of not caring about things concerning Neil.

Last but not least(if I remember correctly) Jean reacting to Neil’s French.

“Jean wasn’t expecting him to understand them and shot Neil a startled look.”

This startling Jean was funny. How can one be anymore scared when sitting next to Riko Moriyama. And Neil letting his attitude get the best of him in not only English but also French. He was on a roll and he wasn’t going to let a language switch stop him.

[teaboot]

Different actors and artists I mistakenly thought were the same person for a really long time:

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller (? Tall face dad man? Comedy. Brown hair blue eyes. Early 2000's Blockbuster Video regulars.)

Kiera Knightly and Natalie Portman (Scary and pretty like an android that would eject me from the space shuttle)

Kiera Knightly and Kristen Stewart (K-names, queer kid kryptonite, pretty)

Justin Timberlake and Orlando Bloom (Pretty face white man, teens love him)

Ryan Reynolds and Paul Rudd (Thin face brown hair white guy? Comedy? Superhero with red suit. Immature dad vibes. "Pull my finger" type energy)

Celine Dion and Shakira (Pretty and tall multilingual blonde singers?)

Michelle Pfeifer and Uma Thurman (Odd name? Blonde? 2010 era songs about them)

Gene Wilder and Mike Myers (Cannot explain)

Individual actors I always thought were two different actors:

Lucy Liu in "Kill Bill" and Lucy Liu in everything else (I keep thinking Kill Bill came out in the early 70's and Lucy Liu does NOT look older than my mom)

Natalie Dormer (Though she was a bunch of different blonde women who looked alike but it's just her)

Actors and artists who I cannot recall ever seeing in my life, whose appearances I make up in my head whenever people talk about them:

Uma Thurman (Blonde? Very pretty. Red lipstick. Like Marilyn Monroe but a sharper chin.)

Stevie Wonder (A handsome Black gentleman in his late forties. Always in a tuxedo.)

Gilbert Godfrey (Peewee Herman??)

Celebrities I can picture in my mind with absolute photographic clarity:

Mike Tyson

Doug Jones

Miss Piggy

Public figures whose names I've heard of through pop culture osmosis but retained zero information about:

Roger Whittaker

Grace Earl Jones

Casey Anthony (??? A person??)

Akon

Greta Herwig (I think that's a person)

Tony Montana (Fictional???)

[dailymanners]

It's still off topic Tuesday for another hour so I'm going to use that for a bizarre thing I experienced this afternoon.

I try my hardest not to post personal details about myself, but I do private one on one language lesson tutoring in my spare time (not as my main job). I've tutored both English and Icelandic, but currently my only student is a woman who knows neither English nor Icelandic, but she decided she wanted to learn English first because it has a much easier grammar system than Icelandic, and I cannot blame her, Icelandic grammar is truly beastly and not for the faint of heart.

Today while I was tutoring my student at the library, and I saw this older Icelandic woman circle past our table a few times while staring at us. I'm used to it at this point, when I'm teaching English in a public place like a library it's not unusual for Icelandic people, especially of (but not limited to) the older generation to give death glares over hearing English being taught / learned instead of Icelandic. Last week an old man sitting at the table next to us was straight up grimacing at us when he noticed I was teaching English (and not Icelandic). The week before that a group of Icelandic teenage boys started loudly angry shouting about how foreigners never bother to learn Icelandic and they all only speak English (and I'm sure it's *totally* a coincidence that this angry rant started about ten minutes after my English tutoring started and was accompanied by several glances in the direction of my student and I (/sarcasm))

However, this woman who kept circling our table and staring at us was more persistent and upfront than I've experienced before. It was making me nervous, but I was just trying to ignore her and tutor on.

Eventually she very assertively demands to know how much I'm getting paid. Doesn't introduce herself, doesn't apologize for interrupting our tutoring session, just looks at me and demands to know how much money I'm being given to tutor English. I give an awkward chuckle and try to get back to my student, but she's very insistent and doesn't leave when I try to ignore her. Eventually she starts indignantly demanding why my student is learning English and not Icelandic, and starts going on and on to me about how she's an unemployed Icelandic teacher because "none of these foreigners even bother to learn Icelandic anymore!". Eventually she finally leaves us alone, thank god. And thank god this woman is unemployed because I don't think someone who has an attitude like that has any business working with and teaching immigrants.

I'm not sure why I'm posting this here. Maybe because I want people to know that being a jerk to foreigners who haven't perfected the local language isn't unique to monolinguals, and certainly not just English speakers.

I get frustrated when I make posts about being nice to second language speakers like "don't patronize people who speak your native language as their second language / don't treat them like they're dumb or lesser than you" and half the notes are like "ENGLISH SPEAKERS THIS IS ABOUT YOU!" or whatever. No the hell it isn't, Icelandic people are extremely nationalist about the Icelandic language and are often very nasty towards immigrants who they think aren't trying hard enough to be perfect at Icelandic the second they step out of the plane.

So when I make posts in regards to being polite and respectful towards people who speak your language as their second language please stop making notes like "ONLY ENGLISH SPEAKERS DO THIS UGH" or "MONOLINGUALS THIS IS ABOUT YOU!!" (because most Icelandic people are bilingual, and yet are still very shitty towards anyone with Icelandic as a second language). Pretending that attitudes of nationalism and xenophobia (in regards to language usage) is unique just to English speakers and/or monolinguals is damaging because the other languages and the multilingual people who are also shitty and nationalistic and rude towards anyone less than perfect at their language shouldn't get off so easily.

[magicalmanhattanproject]

man one thing i really love about the qsmp team is how they turn accessibility needs into creative opportunities. when you're disabled, voicing your accessibility needs can feel like you're ruining the fun for other people, but the admins consistently take advantage of accessibility tools to make things more fun and dynamic

like i'm thinking about how easily changing egg signs could have slipped into "aw man new duller colors are more boring" but instead it's "yippee! new creative custom signs for our friends and pals!"

and also just like. going from tubbo mentioning offhandedly that reading signs kinda wears on him after 10 hours on stream to less than 24 hours later there's sign tts to book tts to translation on the tts to making it part of quackity's narrative to using it to add clues and hints that wouldn't have been accessible to people before to allow the multilingual server to have more content available in more languages

like it just speaks to a really good philosophy and intentions at the heart of the team

[minhosimthings]

Girl Dad!Skz headcannons

Pairings: husband!Skz × wife!fem!reader

Warnings: fluff fluff fluff, mentions of pregnancy, reader wears a dress, mentions of food, teensy swearing

A/N: GUESS WHO HAS BABY FEVER AYY ITS THIS BITCH RIGHT HERE. I am so DONE with watching my fav idols play with babies and not expect me to die. WHERE IS MY CHAN WHO'LL GIVE MR A BABY HUH? anyways enjoy my very drunken headcannons

Bang Christopher Chan

DID I JUST HEAR BEST DAD IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD

This man was born to be a dad istg

He'd be so amazing when you're pregnant, like he'd ask his mom for advice, give you belly rubs if your ask and will willingly lend his entire closet to you.

Would be so supportive through the birth process, is not disgusted or anything because he is him.

"She looks just like you."

Would be just a teensy bit overprotective, just a teensy bit.

"And you will bring her back by 7 yes? Oh and what's your address for unrelated purposes?"

*sends the address to Minho incase he needs to murder anyone*

Would be so comforting when she gets her period

"you know I used to do this to your mother.", While massaging her back.

The baby would grow up multilingual and Chan would be so smug about it

"my daughter is my second producer

Lee Minho/Lee Know

Would have such mixed emotions when you tell him you're pregnant

On the one hand A PERSON MADE UP OF BOTH OF YOU? WOAH

On the other hand OH SHIT A PERSON WHO HAS BOTH OUR GENES

Cooks all your weird ass cravings for you but not before giving you a side eye

"Alright y'all are gonna get a sibling." *Is talking to the cats*

Buys everything cat themed

"baby what if the baby is a dog person?"

Y'all have twins, a boy and a girl (manifesting my twin dad Minho fantasies)

Would dance for them when they're babies and would get elated when they try to copy him

Pouts when their first word is mama

Brags so much about them

"I mean they are MY spawn, obviously they're better at dance than your kid, Susan"

Seo Changbin

GIRL DAD GIRL DAD GIRL DAD

So elated when you tell him you're pregnant

PREGNANT CUDDLES KZKSNSNJ

Would be a 100% on board with lifting your belly to save your back

When you find out it's a girl, he straight on sobs.

"I CAN'T HANDLE ANOTHER PAIR OF ADORABLE YN EYES LOOKING AT ME"

Holds the baby extra carefully in his buff ass arms

She looks like you part 2

Tea parties with her are serious buisness for him

"jagi can't you see im currently discussing with the princess about her magical dragon I'll do the dishes later."

Would probably ask her if she wants to go to the gym with her dad and when she says yes he'd be so happy

"you're better than your mother she can't even lift her ass up and go to the gym"

Hwang Hyunjin

When I say this man would paint you a portrait when you tell him you're pregnant-

HE'LL PAINT YOU A FUCKING PORTRAIT

So sweet with you all throughout but also a nervous wreck

Much like me

Would love to paint your belly if you allow him to

Would try your weird cravings with you

And actually like them

Let's not pretend like Hyun doesn't do the pregnant woman pose everyday

Cries so hard when your baby is born

He doesn't mind the gender or anything, but when he found out it's a girl-

"GUYS ITS A MINI Y/N"

She looks like you part 3

Such a clumsy mess when it comes to taking care of her

ART CLASSES ART CLASSES ART CLASSES

"Darling, we painted this for you."

Han Jisung

Immediately freezes when you tell him

Jisung.exe has stopped working

"wait so the protection didn't.... Protect?"

Now Y/N.exe has stopped working trying to figure out whether you actually used protection or not

Talks to your belly all day

Treats the baby like a gossip partner

"girl you won't believe what Hyunjin did today."

"what did he do?"

"yn shush I'm talking to our baby girl."

Is your personal high school cheerleader during the birth

"jagi you are slaying right now you can do this."

Cries when baby is born part 3

Calls her a co-producer part 2

Spoils her shitless

She has him wrapped around her finger, much like her mother :)

Making playlists with her is his love language

Lee Felix Yongbok

Did I just hear breeding kink

Cries when you tell him

Bakes so many brownies when you tell him like one time that you're craving his brownies

Makes your weird cravings part 3

Idk what it is with me and DanceRacha making all your weird cravings

Runs you baths, with bath salts, bath bombs, scented candles and massages your aching muscles I WILL DIE RIGHT NOW

Is the best during the birth, holds your hand allowing you to squeeze it as hard as you want

Dresses baby up like the fashionista she is

Is so amazed and ecstatic when the baby gets an Aussie accent

"JAGI SHE JUST SAID BREKKIE"

Kim Seungmin

Tsundere daddy meow

Will literally melt like his face will be like 🥺

Buys all the cute stuff on day one

I'm talking cradles, blinkies, toys, bonnets for some reason

"of course she needs a ponyo outfit darling come on"

Tones down his teasing a bit

Still makes fun of your penguin walk tho

And if you cry, he will comfort you and never forgive himself for it

Is kinda disgusted by the birth process but he's a strong soldier

Cries when baby is born part 4

Like Kim Seungmin crying is a real thing chat

Singing lessons are free for her, and she has her dad's angel voice!!

Also inherits her dad's roasting style, and she's the only one who can roast him back hehe

He kinda died inside when she told him he was old (he's never been prouder)

Yang Jeongin/ I.N

Bruh this guy istg

Mixed emotions part 2

"IM TOO YOUNG TO HAVE A CHILD"

Calms down eventually (after a slap on the head)

BELLY RUBS

Spoils the shit out of you because obviously

Asks his mum for advice part 2

Sings to your belly at night when he thinks you're asleep

Secretly hopes baby will have his dimple

He loves kids, so parenting is a natural thing that comes to him

Probably more experienced at holding a baby than you are

Feeds her for the first few days when you're tired

Perfect husband honestly he should marry me

Loves braiding her hair and giving her fashion advice

Mini fashion shows!!!

Dances with her a lot

[deepdreamnights]

Vidu 2.0 - First Reactions

I am in the Vidu Artist's program, so I've had a chance to play with version 2.0 before the official launch on the 15th. What I'm working with is a pre-launch build, and has improved day-to-day, so this may not reflect the final release.

I haven't yet had a chance to give it the full paces-run-through it deserves, but here's some early samples, and early thoughts. (Converted to GIF because you can only upload one video per post.)

The short version is that everything has been incrementally improved: Better coherence, better prompt responsiveness, better motion, and way, way better speed. Without doing exact time-tests it's say it's at least 25% the time to generate a video of the same dimensions.

While there's still some of the "smudge-blurring" that you got with 1-1.5, it happens less frequently, and is more mitigated with an image/animation that match.

Motion varies gen-by-gen, but impressive results seem to be the norm.

While his sticks are somewhat flexible at full framerate, the cat drummer's cymbal hit struck me as particularly nice.

Control and Coherence

While the roar may not seem particularly impressive, roars, howls, and other emotional outbursts didn't work well in previous versions. Aunt Acid's fumes and drips are are particularly fun, and while it still has problems with her tail, PteroDarla's crest and wings are actually working the way they should (after a number of attempts).

For a long time, I've wanted the last shot of the TMax opener to be Max starting with a zoom-in on the eye going out to a roar and pose. While this isn't quite where I want it, 2.0 is the first time I've gotten him to go through the whole sequence. Which is promising.

Weird Stuff Works

What remains impressive about Vidu is how well it handles concepts and characters that are off-the-beaten-path. Hailuo just released a character consistency feature that only works with humans, but here...

Here's my friend Cole's OC, the Waffler (Intergalactic Bounty-Hunter.) He's one unbalanced breakfast. He's also rather resistant gen AI replication because he's an SD space man with a waffle for head, a very specific waffle for a head turned at a 45 degree angle. Vidu 1.0 wasn't able to work with him, almost always giving him a mouth or rotating his waffle, if not completely glitching out. 2.0 is much better to handle it.

The numerous dino-anthros above are all in the "Tricky for AI" box. If I was into doing what could be gened easily, however, I'd just be pumping out an endless parade of pillowy waifus.

In my defense, I classify SexBomb as more of a 'strifu'. This particular one was an attempt to see if a toony image prompt could be rendered live-action with text prompting. Long story short it can't, but it can produce some interesting effects like the faux-posterized background.

I've had AI gen close to her costume before, but it never adds the fuse or does the boob-window right, and here we are.

One of my old bits of Transformers fanart of the Pretender Monster Icepick served as the character model for the one on the right.

Fantastical Creatures in general are a lot easier to execute in this version as well.

And... Action!

Motion is a lot more natural this time around.

Weapons fire (though sometimes a bit literal) tends to come out of the barrel semi-consistently now, characters can fight the waves without melting themselves and...

A giant rubber monster can eat your protagonist (if you're lucky.)

Quirks and Flaws

Nothing is perfect, and all AI you see is curated. So lets talk areas to be improved.

A lot of stuff presently generates with multilingual gibberish captions sometimes, which I expect is an early model bug. Versions 2-3 of Midjourney would have similar artifacts, and that sort of thing isn't hard to correct for.

There are still issues with blurring/smudging, especially with things like tail-tips, hands, and any motion the robot doesn't quite get.

Sometimes stuff shapechanges or appears that ought not to, like the knight's floppy second blade.

Or speed gets off requiring being fixed in post.

And stuff just goes dumb sometimes, which one should expect (and in my estimation, desire) from any generative system, artificial or analogue. Should the water go on the fire rather than the firemen? Yes. Do I regret this gen? No.

One quirk of the system is how it resolves incongruous multi-prompts. I've been accustomed to Midjourney, which, when generating an image must blend everything requested. You can put two completely different backgrounds in as image prompts and it will blend them into something new and wacky.

Vidu resolves problems like having two background images at once by taking advantage of the 4th dimension. Confuse the robot too much and it will just cut/fade from one idea to the next.

And then there's stuff that just happens, like, a shot being perfect except a painted (and thus ought to be static) background object animating beautifully (going retro is a path wrought with irony) and the robot deciding it'd rather do CG-style than 2d.

And while it doesn't show up great in the gif of Max at the construction site there, 2.0 is more vulnerable to interpreting bad transparency-clipping as part of the character design, so be careful if you're using transparent PNGs.

Also, if you slap a character and a background together without elaborating on the setting with the text prompt, it will often slap the background back there as a static backdrop and produce a very "greenscreen-y" effect.

Rather than laden this post down with more animated GIFs, I'll be setting up a batch of them as posts for the upcoming days. At least, that's the plan.

[peacheeeliz]

003. they're not soundproof (wc: 1046)

Mark sits at the end of the study table, arms crossed as he takes slow breaths. When he left the room, only you and Allen had occupied the table. But once he returned, four of your classmates had joined his little ‘study group.’ Everyone was off in their own little conversations, but you couldn't help but send him a small smile. His blood would boil if it were any other person there, but the sight of that sly smile that played on your lips just left his heart pounding.

“Sorry, my brother and Jungwoo said they wanted to join,” you whisper to him, pointing at the two that sat on the opposite side of the table: Jiwoong Kim and Nicha Yontararak, or Minnie. Two upperclassmen that were friends with your brother and Jungwoo and also a part of your Japanese class. You stared at the two on either side of them, “those two, I don't really know why they're here. I thought you said they couldn't make it?”

‘Those two’ were Mark's friends, Donghyuck and Julie, who sheepishly smiled at him as they conversed with their classmates. “Well, that's what they told me,” he tells you, huffing.

Julie, closest to the two of you, leans over to butt in. “We had something come up with our other plans,” she starts, shrugging before she mouths a quick ‘sorry’ towards Mark.

Before Mark can respond, Jiwoong starts on the other side of the table. “I'm so glad somebody started a study group,” he says, smiling softly. “I was starting to go a little crazy because of Mr. Suh's lessons, and we're only one week in.”

“Oh my Gosh, same,” Minnie continues, hands falling down on the table. She sends a sorrowful look your way, “your Japanese is literally so good already, girl. How do you do it?”

You laugh lightly, shaking your head at her words. “Oh, it's nothing, come on,” you draw out.

Allen, who had now moved to the chair on the other side of you, threw his arm over your shoulder with a bright smile. “Y/Nie here is a multilingual genius. I genuinely think she has a superpower to learn any language she wants just like that,” he snaps his fingers to emphasize the word ‘that.’ “She's amazing.”

“Stop it,” you say sheepishly, swatting his arm away. “I want to learn just like you guys, I've just got a few languages down, so it's easier to learn others.”

“I agree with Allen,” Mark starts, smiling sweetly at you. “It's really amazing.”

Your eyes don't stay on him long, as Hyuck's loud voice calls you back to the group. “Well, then, you will just be a great help for our study group then, won't you?” He asks you, a mischievous glint in his eyes as he glances back and forth between you and Mark. “Mark is just terrible at learning new languages, so he might need a lot of help.”

“Haha, shut up, man,” Mark laughs, though his eyes stare daggers towards his friend.

“Well, I think this is going to be fun,” Allen exclaims, tapping the table excitedly. “I've never been in a study group before.”

“Actually, uh, before we start,” Mark interrupts, eyeing Hyuck again. “Can we talk real quick, outside?”

Despite his previous cheeky mood, Hyuck tenses up at Mark's gaze. He nods quickly, following his friend out into the hall. But of course, he doesn't forget to send you a friendly wave before the door shuts behind him.

“What the hell, man?” Mark starts instantly, huffing as he crosses his arms once again. “This was supposed to be just me and her. What the fuck are you doing here? What the fuck are any of you doing here?”

“Listen, Y/N invited everyone but me and Julie, alright?” Hyuck rebuts, scoffing. “And Allen only invited us because he had no idea we were ‘supposed’ to be a part of your little study group.”

Mark rolls his eyes, letting out a pained laugh. “Listen, roll your eyes all you want,” Hyuck continues, jabbing his friend in the chest. “I can try to help you out as much as you want, but forget studying alone with her. This study group's happening. If I have to study, so do you, sweetheart.”

The sound of the door opening brings their attention away from each other, and their eyes fall on you. You peaked your head around the door, “hey.” You said softly. “Just wanted to let you guys know that these windows, y'know the windows that completely surround the study room. They're not soundproof.”

“Fuck, Y/N,” Mark starts, following you back into the room with Hyuck. “I'm sorry, really.”

“What, sorry that your plan got ruined?” You ask, sitting back down at the table. Your classmates stayed silent, watching the scene play out in front of them. “Or sorry that I heard how disappointed you were in the plan not working out?”

He watched as you prepared your books for studying, ready to completely ignore him if absolutely necessary. “Obviously the latter, come on,” he tells you, eyes too focused on you to notice that Hyuck returns to his seat. “I really want to study with you, genuinely.”

You stare up at him with a blank stare, “drop the act. I'm not falling for it,” you reply, returning to your notes. “If you don't want to study with us, then fine. You know where the door is.”

“Y/N,” he says, but all he gets in reply is you pointing at the door in silence. He looks to Julie and Hyuck for help, but their eyes are glued to their textbooks. His eyes graze over the others, who awkwardly avoid his gaze by looking at each other or their notes. “Fine, I'll leave.”

He begins to pack his things back up in silence, though his eyes keep wandering back to you. To see if you'd look back at him. To see if you'd tell him to stop, just sit down and join them. But you never do. Your eyes stay on your textbook, never leaving to meet his.

He scoffs, rolling his eyes as he throws his backpack over his shoulder. Without saying another word, he exits the study room and doesn't turn back.

synopsis ⤏ mark, desperate to talk to the cute girl in his japanese class, forms a study group. who knew that other struggling college students might want to join a study group?

a/n: i'm imagining their seating arrangement to actually be like it is in community 😭😭 so like mark in jeff's spot, y/n = britta, allen = abed, hyuck = troy, jiwoong = pierce, minnie = shirley, and julie = annie. i hope that all makes sense !

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