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KAYLYN SAUCEDO @ DELTA H CON 2023

We are happy to announce that Kaylyn Saucedo will be appearing at #DeltaHCon June 30th to July 2nd at @MarriottHoustonWestchase Kaylyn Saucedo is an anime industry professional and online content creator. As a video, subtitle, and closed caption editor, her work can be seen across shows and films such as “Ascendance of a Bookworm”, “Housing […]

[genius11rare]

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I would say that most people will never be able to say they may or may not have been the intended target of a murder plot by a former anime voice actor, and I hope I at least live long enough to write an autobiography about how stupid the entire thing is.

[theglassesgirl]

English Dub Closed Captioning you will always be famous

[franki-lew-yo]

Doug Walker

Really scared that, because of his Smiling Friends appearance alongside the likes of fellow cringelords/friendly lolcows like Chills, the #ChangetheChannel buzz about Doug Walker and the people he's hurt is going to resurface in a new way --with people 'clapping back' with how Linkara or Allison Pregler or whoever else is "also cringe" and therefor what happened in 2018 is " nothing ". No one cares/should care that Doug Walker is "#cringe. That's not what people (in the know) were mad about back when and that's not what people are still mad at him for now. It's because,

in trying to deflect from drama he was in with his former employeefriends, Doug and his company publicly outed a dead person as a sexual predator, who's death and legacy they were protecting+monetizing, did NOT protect the victims of said predator, and all to make his critics at the time seem like the actual bad guys when in reality they, unlike Doug and co, didn't know.

and THEN Channel Awesome proudly acted like they had not only not done anything wrong for how they both protected and outed JewWario but also like they owed no apologies ever.

They (Doug and CA) went as far as to rope Double Toasted into this by having Brad Jones say on their show "Logan Paul filmed a dead body and he still has a career" and "apologize, even if you don't mean it". Brad and his wife went on to claim that the Not So Awesome crowd had doxxed and swatted him, which is an absolute lie.

No amount of badfaith Doug-reviews, Linkara barking back at RalphtheMovieMaker, Marzgurl's beef with Vic Mignogna or whoever in the breadtube sphere supported Keffals cuz they don't/didn't know of what she did compares to Channel Awesome.

Channel Awesome and the #NotsoAwesome stuff that went down in 2018 maybe started out as '' drama '' but through NO ONE's fault but CA's own it escalated into outright scandal where Channel Awesome is absolutely in the wrong. They (Doug, Brad Jones, all the rest of the CA team) should not be allowed cute cameos on any shows. They are not 'just as cringe' as whoever you were thinking of. They are cold-hearted egomaniacs who use and misuse other people.

In an age of fraudsters, criminals and every other streamer being some degree of awful predator or bigot, sure; maybe Channel Awesome being '' just '' complicit in hiding a predator and being a shitty friend/employer is 'small potatoes'. That doesn't mean it's okay.

If MrBeast gets flaq for existing, cr1tikal gets flaq for centrism, Vaush gets flaq for being Vaush and even Lindsay Ellis flaq for elitism, than you ought to hold Channel Awesome to that same standard.

[squidhominid]

AY YO, YA GIRL MET MarzGurl! It was great to get to see you! First time at AX in 12 years and I met two people in one day who I'm a huge fan of. Today was amazing.

[richardsondavis]

I was going over to reddit and saw some dude over at the gamergate sub that said that if Monica Rial was ever in a thing, they'd switch over to JP cause screw her and I think to myself if that's not how many SJWs think as well? Just on the opposite side. Not much upvotes to that one but oh well.

After looking through the entire KickVic debacle my conclusion is that...I care less about it than other things.

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOTE THAT THIS IS MY OPINION. FOR FANS OF FAIRY TAIL, I APOLOGIZE OF THE MENTIONING OF VIC MIGNOGNA AND FAIRY TAIL WOULD CAUSE YOU TO ASSOCIATE THE TWO WHEN YOU THINK OF FAIRY TAIL. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF CAUSING MENTAL DISTRESS AND FOR THAT I DO APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Hey, it's sad that a man's legacy got torn down and sad that shit is still brewing but with that said, why should I be concerned here? I live halfway across the world, the only dubs from Funimation I like is Fairy Tail which has Monica Rial AND Vic Mignogna although Rial has the more major role, Mignogna just has the villain for that one arc role but still!

And that dub was finished way before the shitstorm even started. I'm just kinda figuring things out myself.

Todd Haberkorn supports Vic? So what?

Monica Rial is a piece of shit person? So what?

Marzgurl ruined Vic's life? I enjoy reading the long post she made ngl but again so what?

I'm passionate about Fairy Tail but the VAs were never really my go. Todd, Vic, Monica, Colleen and Cherami are the only VAs I really did a deep delve on and most of them I know from Fairy Tail and I intend to enjoy Fairy Tail the dub via pirating because I cannot afford a subscription. I read the manga though and am just at the Everlue arc in the anime. So yeah, there's that.

I guess I just really felt like that one dude from KiA. I felt like when someone points out that the Fairy Tail dub has Monica Rial as a major character in the show, they'd ask my opinion on this whole saga but now I know that it was all in my head.

Damn.

[socialjusticefail]

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I'm trying to decided if I should believe this or not. A lot of things regarding the whole allegations in this whole situation never felt like it was all that true. I haven't looked into all of these things for awhile, so I don't want to say if there is one true answer.

[pawzthedrfoxfan]

So apparently, you’re blocked by MarzGurl on Bluesky.

who?

also if it's you arzmarz fuck you shut the fuck up about chelle blocking you already go to therapy

[a-mint-bear]

just saw the @marzgurl vic migdick post and holy fucking shit i didn’t know it ran that deep i just remember people saying he was a creep not all this crazy murder plot stuff…

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

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IT'S REAL IT'S REAL HOLY FUCK PRICK MENINGITIS IS SO FUCKING JOEVER

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KAYLYN SAUCEDO @ DELTA H CON 2023

We are happy to announce that Kaylyn Saucedo will be appearing at #DeltaHCon June 30th to July 2nd at @MarriottHoustonWestchase Kaylyn Saucedo is an anime industry professional and online content creator. As a video, subtitle, and closed caption editor, her work can be seen across shows and films such as “Ascendance of a Bookworm”, “Housing […]

[ultraericthered]

This REALLY puts this post of yours into perspective 'cause, damn. Vic is turning out more and more to be like this guy:

Hi there, @katkit-42 , just saw your tags and thought, actually, that's not a bad thing to elaborate upon.

This is another kinda long post, which I think most people should read, too, but I'll be kind and put the bulk of this behind a cut here. Please do take the time to open it up and read it, though.

The real answer is, this whole experience has been me balancing out being mortified by a lot of the things that have happened to me with the fact that everybody involved in the whole thing has also been a complete and utter moron. Any time I even slightly start to get scared, I have to remind myself (or even have my husband remind me) that these are the absolute stupidest people we're talking about, none of whom are wholly capable of completing something so horrific, no matter how serious about it they might be.

I hadn't said it in the previous longpost, but in 2019, it was very clear that Vic had intended to sue me along with Monica, Jamie, Ron, and Funimation (although that never happened). I had received an E-mail copy of a letter of preservation from Vic's very, very stupid lawyers. I'll go ahead and share that here.

It was moronic for a number of reasons. One, I was told it was sent to two different E-mail addresses I have, one of which never arrived. Two, it's written REALLY badly. Three, it supposedly was also delivered via certified mail. Here's the problem: they mailed it to an address in Inglewood, California.

I have never lived in Inglewood, California.

But I know why they THOUGHT I did. Because in 2018, while walking from where I was living to my car to go to work, I got mugged! I had just recently moved and had been filling out paperwork for new jobs and things, and the bag they took still had my social security card, ID, and even my passport in it, which somebody later used to steal my identity. I remember the cops calling me back in a week or two after my mugging asking me questions because they believed they'd found people associated with who mugged me, and they asked me if I'd ever lived at an Inglewood address, and I told them no, and they were like, "Okay, great, pretty sure we know exactly where they are, thanks." So, I hope the guys who mugged me enjoyed having my identity and receiving a letter in the mail saying they were possibly gonna get sued. Thanks for taking one for me, muggers.

I mention this to say Vic has had me in his sights for a LONG time. A good four and a half years now at this point. Although I'm not the one that had any stories of him assaulting me, I was the one who made sure that people could SEE the stories of other people telling THEIR stories, and he HATES that. Clearly, he hates that a LOT.

Vic has vaguely mentioned me NUMEROUS times on his livestreams, saying, "I'm not gonna name names," but clearly intending everybody to know it's me he's talking about. In 2022, he referenced how I have a donation button on my Twitch channel and in the past have occasionally had drives to help me make ends meet. This is despite the fact that my husband and I were both working full time, but life in Los Angeles is hard. Despite this, Vic has this to say:

"These are people who start crowdfunding campaigns to pay their bills. What does that tell you about them? These are losers, everybody. These are people that are for whatever reason so disgusted with their lives--so unhappy with their lives, and instead of, like, working or going out there and, you know--and building something or creating something, they want to sit at home on their computer and look for ways to trash me an other people they don't like. And then they ask you to give them money to pay their bills. Pathetic. Pathetic. *weird snarl* Anyway--"

I feel like a donation bar isn't a "crowdfunding campaign", but we don't have to nitpick here. Vic has also expressed though private E-mails with various individuals that he believes I used crowdfunding to pay for a "cat funeral", which he also found to be distasteful. So, this was clearly a jab at me, but he got the details of it wrong. In 2019, my 14-year-old cat Siren was very sick. I was trying to get her healthcare and wasn't sure how I was going to pay for it. My friend--NOT ME, SOMEONE ELSE ENTIRELY--asked me if it was okay if THEY set up a GoFundMe to help me find a way to save my cat. THEY created the GoFundMe, and some people donated, and we did all we could to save Siren before it was clear that she was too far gone, and we lost her. We did NOT raise funds to have a funeral for her. Not in the slightest. The fact that this is what Vic is telling people is disgusting, and cruel to the idea of somebody who has ever had to deal with the loss of a beloved family member. On top of this, if you have ever struggled to make ends meet, let's not mince words here--Vic thinks you are "pathetic". He thinks if you don't make money, you just aren't working hard enough (even if it turns out you and your family all work full-time and take side gigs just to cover everything). Of course, he also seemed to believe that I didn't have a job at all (a long-running conspiracy theory among his fans, just because they couldn't figure out who my employer was), when I was providing hard evidence of being actively credited for my work as a subtitle and closed caption editor in the anime industry (the very same anime industry Vic was kicked out of).

But it's weird that he thinks you're a loser if you crowdfund to pay your bills! Is that not precisely how you managed to sue the very women you assaulted, Vic? To this day, the "Vic Kicks Back" GoFundMe is still open, and has raised nearly $300,000 dollars--a significantly higher amount than anything I've ever earned via Twitch donations.

In May of this year (which is exactly when Farah was ramping up her online harassment campaign against me), Vic once again vaguely talked about me, but got all the details wrong yet again. Since I can only embed one video, I'll link to this second clip here, which someone else has uploaded to Twitter.

Everybody knows Vic means me when he says that prior to 2019 I only had about 800 followers and now have more like 18,000, all because I was talking about him. Which he's very much over-inflating. I'd already had several years of a career of being an online content creator. By 2019 I had 16,000 followers. I've had my account for something like 14 years. I'm now over 19,000, pushing 20,000. That growth from 2019 to 2023 seems relatively normal to me. It was a very gradual growth that honestly doesn't look all that much different from the growth I'd had since 2009. Even one glance at Social Blade will confirm this is true.

He also keeps saying we've never met (such as in the video clip linked above). But we have! We very much have! I have video of myself--video from EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO--walking up to Vic with a camcorder and him talking directly to me. Feel free to go and watch it for yourself. You can hear my voice and everything!

AND SO! I say all this to say that I have long been aware of how much Vic Mignogna hates me. Vic Mignogna HATES ME SO. SO. SO. FUCKING. MUCH. He has done everything in his power to belittle and discredit me as somebody so much smaller and weaker and completely different from who I actually am, deliberately lying about facts of my life that I can actively prove false at any given moment with a plethora of receipts.

But you wanna hear the real eye-opening thing? In April of this year, just before Farah started going on the attack, Vic was on his livestream yet again making a very ominous statement. Once again, I link directly to it here since I can't embed it for you.

"I'm already in the middle of looking into some very aggressive retaliation and resources to deal with that."

Now, at the time, we all just thought he meant he was FINALLY gonna pursue a lawsuit against me, which, let's go bro, I'm fuckin' ready to go any time, man. But as it turns out, this sure does line up a whole lot more with the timing of Vic's Red Lobster dinner conversation with Farah about starting a cyber warfare campaign against me, on top of maybe possibly probably murder!?!?!? We know that Farah started her cyber warfare just later that very same month, so that sure sounds like convenient timing to me!

My husband and I had joked for a long, long time, like, "You know, he hates me SO damn much. You think he wants me dead?" And it was always kind of a, "Haha, yeah, we're joking, but what if for real?" And then when Farah started E-mailing me and telling me it was probably very real, I mean... yeah, katkit, that did shake me for a bit. I got the E-mail from Farah while my husband was at work, and it stopped my productivity for the day dead in its tracks. Even though it was clear that they had seriously overlooked really obvious facts (like the fact that I was literally not even going to be in the same state as Anime Expo, the event where Vic wanted me hurt), the fact that he wanted me hurt at all was concerning. Also, it was concerning to me that, if Vic at all stopped being a complete and utter fucking moron and realized I'd VERY PUBLICLY already been announced as a guest at a convention in Texas that very same weekend, it might actually be EASIER for him to have someone come to that event and hurt me, because Vic also still lives in Texas. He himself used to live in Houston, where the event was taking place, and likely still had connections there. Delta H Con is really little, without a lot of security. There was only one possible hotel for me to stay in. I was scheduled for panels and to be at my table all day, every day. Where I was going to be at all times was easily tracked for the entire weekend. To that extent, yes, I was very scared.

In fact, over that first weekend of July, I was very prepared to die.

I started trying to spend more time with my husband, trying to be more conscious of how I spoke or reacted to little things, just in general trying to be nicer and more loving. I started spending more time loving on my two cats who I love very dearly, wondering if I only had a limited time left with them. I started preparing folders of information I wanted to make sure my husband had if for some reason I didn't come back from Houston alive.

In the end, obviously, none of that was necessary. Though I guess I can't say that it was in any way a bad thing to spend more time focusing on and loving my family.

Ultimately, I guess I was saved by the stranger who sent me all those screenshots from Farah's Discord server. Surely, they have no idea what they did. To that person, I thank them. I had no idea it was going to save me, either. Had I not had those screenshots to post online and knock Farah loose from her war path, she might have continued to pursue me until she had something she really could have done to harm me for real.

Now, that's just disrupted that specific plan. Whether Vic will continue to want to pursue my death in some other way, I have no idea. I guess I am a little bit more on guard now than I was before. But also, I know there's only so much I can do. All I can do is just keep going and pretending there isn't this weird dude with a life that he could totally control all on his own and live in peace but instead wants his ability to prey on young women so badly that he would literally kill a woman to be able to continue to get away with doing it.

For right now, though, I'm mostly okay. I'm continuing to do my work, I'm going to see a movie tonight that I had a hand in localizing, and I'm feeling grateful for that success. Thank you for checking in on me. It's very kind of you. I hope you're doing well out there for yourself, too.

[dualcoindeity]

Tch, Marz got another Vic appearance canceled. Twitter(.)com/MarzGurl/status/1641575604486299649

Not sure if it was because of her, or because of something else. I've seen other KVers aside from her tweet about it.

But kind of sucks.

Also Anon, whoever you are, If you get a Tumblr Account, you know you could DM these to me right?

[squidhominid]

'Localization as an artform' Twitter thread, 7/10/2021

Hey, heads-up to any aspiring creators out there. This is from personal experience as a YouTube ghostwriter, so listen up.

Translation is a creative effort. There is no 'correct' way to translate something, any translation involves interpretation of meaning and some degree of localization and original writing.

In the past I wrote content for Lockstin, analyzing the Splatoon franchise and its lore. And, I didn't realize the above. I thought, translation is translation, the text is what it is, no matter the language.

In the course of my research, I came across what I think was some translated passages from one of the art books. I did what I usually did: I took what I needed, wrote it into the script, and put the source into parenthetical notes for whoever edited the video.

Up to that point, I was mainly using translations from places like Inkipedia, and I did credit my sources, but due to this specific translation being from social media, I put a lower value cost on it; after all, it was 'just a fan translating stuff for other fans'.

I saw it as a public good and a service. I overlooked the creative effort of translation. Ironically, even though I was active in communities like Legends of Localization, I had not fully internalized the understanding of how much creative effort goes into translation.

Since then, I have learned. I have made friends in more places, talked with people more in-depth about this sort of work, and consumed content on the subject. Of note, I can credit obskyr for opening my eyes to the fact that translation is, itself, art and creation of art.

I feel like this idea, this belief that translation is a 'service' and not a 'creative effort', is also why we have seen a groundswell, especially lately, of people criticizing official translations for the use of terms like 'sus' or 'cancel' or other terms deemed 'incorrect'.

People think there is one, objective, unitary translation of a text, and the translator's job is to achieve that as a platonic ideal, an endpoint. This is nowhere near the truth. A thousand translators can look at a piece of text and come to a thousand different, valid results.

The translation achieved is the result of that person's worldview, their understanding of the origin culture, their understanding of the target culture, and most importantly I feel, their ability to recognize when things don't translate. And so, they synthesize.

They take things from one culture and seek out analogues. Things that 'feel' the same as the original intent, even though they are not the same. Think of translating Pokemon names, for instance.

In Japan, 'Torchic' is called 'Achamo'. Of course, nobody in the English-speaking world would be able to figure out that 'Achamo' is 'akachan', or baby, + 'shamo', a breed of chicken raised for Japanese cockfighting. But they understand 'torchic' is 'torch' + 'chick'.

Think of the effort that went into coming up with that name. It wasn't in literal text. Someone created that. Someone spent time thinking of that. That was creative work. Translation is creative work.

Treat translators as artists. If you're creating a video or an essay, credit them as if they're artists. For that matter, credit artists too if you don't! And ask both for permission! Translation is not a service with a correct or incorrect outcome. It never has been.

At this stage in my career I have nowhere near the reach I used to, and the person I wronged is possibly one of the biggest names in the fandom, so I can't achieve much by doing this, but if you have any interest in Splatoon lore, you need to be following Rassicas.

I also want to thank MarzGurl, whose tweets about anime and manga localization helped crystalize some of the ideas I've gone over here.

I know this is...incredibly off-script for a V-tuber Twitter, but, cut me some slack, I've always been a pretty forward and opinionated person. I just wanted to put this out into the world because since finding out about my error it's been on my mind.

Now, if you don't mind, I feel incredibly ill and I need to find the person responsible so I can tell them to make the room stop spinning.

[hol-hot-wholesome]

I posted 290 times in 2022

That's 59 more posts than 2021!

4 posts created (1%)

286 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@wilwheaton

@anerdyfeminist

@fatphobiabusters

@coinsofmcguffin

@seriouslyamerica

I tagged 8 of my posts in 2022

#city hunter - 2 posts

#kaori - 2 posts

#just wanted to see what all the fuss was about - 1 post

#they did udoooooooooonnnnnn!!! - 1 post

#this is why tumblr needs to bring back the op name above the post/repost line - 1 post

#lovelypurplefox - 1 post

#marzgurl - 1 post

#jacket - 1 post

#curiosity - 1 post

#retrocomputing - 1 post

Longest Tag: 77 characters

#this is why tumblr needs to bring back the op name above the post/repost line

My Top Posts in 2022:

#4

WE MADE IT!!!

400 PAGES!!!

REJOICE!!!

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#3

This reminds me...

All this talk about Goncharov reminded me of something I'd forgotten. ITC's late-period (mid-80s) entry into Superhero adventure, The Independents!

Of course, by that time, Lord Grade had largely moved on from the entertainment business, but for the money they spent, and what they achieved in effects, the Independents remains one of my favourite British shows of all time.

And even the Fifth, and especially the Sixth Doctor, could barely compete with ITC's money. ITV Dominated Saturday teatime with their show.

Anyone else remember the Independents?

0 notes - Posted November 22, 2022

#2

It's that time again! Tonight, or in the early hours of Tomorrow Morning, at least in my vicinity, Technical Night returns!

The worst of Summer is over!

5 weeks to Pumpkin Spice Season!

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My #1 post of 2022

Random Thoughts

Been thinking a lot lately about the 1969 supposed "Worst show ever Made" Turn-On.

Specifically, how the format was supposedly way ahead of its time, being all technological, the main conceit being that the show was formulated by a computer.

And I got to thinking, what would an AI comedy sketch show look like?

Go mad with that one, if you want.

Of course, Turn-On was supersonically fast-paced by 1969 standards, though the Fast Show of the 1990s also featured shortish catchphrase based skits.

And its February 5 sole episode airing (which in some US states didn't even make it past the commercial break) preceded even the legendary Monty Python's Flying Circus by several months, though Spike Milligan's Q5 (the first series, Don't ask) aired it's first episode on 24 March in the UK, on BBC2. (of course, as this kind of comedy was meant for the alternative BBC2, though Python was originally aired on BBC1.)

Perhaps, if George Schlatter, Producer of Turn-On, had gotten in touch with someone over here, he could've talked someone into Screening Turn-On in the UK. After all, we love a good Double Entendre in the UK, and we're quite fond of dirty jokes too!

Anyways, just a thought...

0 notes - Posted March 29, 2022

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