#and kinda gross imo

[uiruu]

one gripe i have with subtitles for stuff like Squid Game is that it translates some things that don't need to be, and doesn't translate some things that would be helpful. for the latter, in season 1 when Saebyeok says her name to Gihun, he says "that's a beautiful name, it doesn't really suit you though". I'm sure to many people watching, they'd just have to go ".... is it?" because they don't know that Saebyeok means dawn. her name is Dawn. i don't want them to translate that every time lol but i feel like that one scene could have had a parenthetical saying "saebyeok means dawn". Minyeo, when she says her name, says something like "yes that's my real name", i think. if the subtitles explained that she said that because Minyeo means "beautiful woman" that would have been helpful to people lol.

as for the former, ive always hated how Korean stuff translates words like oppa unnie hyung and noona in subtitles. Minyeo calls Deoksu oppa and the subtitles say "old man" but it doesn't mean that, lol. it does mean she's calling him older than her, but it's more like "big bro". but honestly it's SUCH a standard Korean thing that i kinda just wish it was left as oppa. if you watching something in the Korean language, then oppa unnie hyung and noona are just things you'll have to learn. it's not hard lol. girls call older boys who they're close to "oppa". boys call older girls who they're close to "noona". boys call older boys "hyung", girls call older girls "unnie". it's a sign of deference to an older person but also closeness. they literally mean sister and brother, but translating them as "brother" or "sister" or "old man" feel.... unnatural in English lol. the subtitles often translate them as just the character's name, like when Ali says Hyung the subtitles say Sangwoo. that's correct. but when the subtitles say big bro or old man, that's just... nobody talks like that in English lol

[jaredthebc2]

Just a quick friendly reminder that when a company says their chickens are “free range” chances are they really mean “we meet the bare minimum legal requirement of giving the chickens a very small space to walk around in” cause they don’t give a damn about the chicken’s life, they just want a fancy label to put on their packaging so well meaning but not well informed people choose them to buy from

I can’t say a perfect alternative, I just want people to know that the label doesn’t really do much but say the chickens had the bare minimum rather than hell. I’m not against eating chickens or anything (hell, I own chickens, but that doesn’t stop me from eating chicken nuggets) but I do feel it’s worth bringing up so people know

[405blazeitt]

trying to find an mp3 player that looks like it's from 10-20 years ago, not an apple product, no touch screen, the screen doesn't even have to be in color, it doesn't need bluetooth, doesn't need amazing sound quality as i'd only be using cheap earphones, at least 16gb OR accepts micro sd cards... and ideally comes in fun colors.

apparently there's ONE line that fits this, but it was discontinued somewhat recently. there are some used ones on ebay, but even ones that aren't working are being sold for more than the (probably clearance) prices that stores still list them under.

[dracolizardlars]

Sorry this is completely random but Fates could've gone a long way towards fixing the fuckedupedness of Corrin x Hoshidan Royals S-Supports by making the very simple, tiny change of having the revelation (ha) that they don't actually have the same father moved to their respective A-Supports... Like I would have still not really agreed with the concept but honestly that would make so much difference lmao... Like ok you find out you're not biological siblings and then you potentially HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT TIME between unlocking the next support for your relationship to change with this person and to start seeing them in a different way... It's not a lot better, but obviously devs were determined not to break the rule of the player character being able to marry ANYONE (so long as you're being heterosexual of course, incest is fine but god FORBID you be gay with anyone except our few pre selected Queer Characters™)

[ann1e-on-earth]

I don’t eat pig meat but that sounds so poetic and it makes me want to eat bacon

[that-dragon-with-pet-sheep]

Man I love unfollowing + blocking people that think it’s cool to post leaks or fan art of leaks, especially with no tags

[radioisntdead]

I want a pomegranates

[girlbob-boypants]

Someone made a Bayonetta cosplay with the new Ember heirloom so maybe I do like the skin actually

[nightmare8-420]

my mother got me a drink and. Its fine. I guess

[kanvasal]

I was going to share this here because of the name (I mean, he did make them the right size and shape...), but honestly I listened to it and was like "damn, that's actually nice"

Ok so I just looked at the album this is from to see if this was a shortened version of a full song (it isn't) and saw that they also had songs called things like "Wwhy Do They Call It A Oven When You Of In The Cold Food And Of Out The Hot Food" and "Fucked Up in the Crib Drinkin' Doctor Bob" and these are all videos that I would click on. The worms one is my favorite tho

[emoclone]

given the state of public health rn, if you haven't unpacked your trauma surrounding the 2020 lockdowns, now is a good time to do so. i say this because i've noticed people (especially abled people) dismissing very common and useful accessibility tools just because they were things that everyone had to use during the lockdowns.

masks aren't evil; they're useful for preventing the spread of airborne illnesses. you just hate them because the last time you had to wear one, it felt like the world was burning down. (and also because you were wearing cloth masks, which imo tend to get kinda humid and gross.)

zoom/video conferencing isn't the bad guy; you just hate it because you had to use it extensively during a time when you were under a lot of chronic stress.

masks are a good thing. video conferencing is a good thing. contactless pickup/delivery is a good thing. don't dismiss accessibility tools just because you associate them with everything that happened in 2020.

[writergeekrhw]

greetings!

i watched ds9 recently and i was wondering if you had ever talked about dukat and kira specifically? dukats fixation on kira makes my stomach turn and i never truly understood why he was so obsessed with her. (and bajor overall, honestly. bro literally became bajora for a while! like! what!? whose idea was that!?)

anyway, maybe i just need a few more rewatches but hes just so. SO. creepy and off putting so i cant help but be fascinated. i think i get his Thing™ for sisko but his Thing™ for kira always kinda confused me even after the revelation about her mom. cause to me that feels like a reason he should distance himself rather than do... whatever the fuck that was

thanks for (co) writing characters that cause such visceral reactions even decades later! they all rotate in the lazy susan that is my brain rent free <3

IMO, Dukat is obsessed with Kira because he is a malignant, predatory narcissist who lives for conquest and control and gets off on imposing his will on others. Kira's loathing for him makes her an object of desire, and "winning" her would validate his narcissism. In his mind, she's Bajor and Bajor is her, and he's sure she'd end up building a statue to him if she'd just give him a chance.

Also the mom thing probably makes him feel even more entitled to Kira. Gross.

So, yeah, Dukat's interest in Kira is supposed to creep you out. Because it's super creepy.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

every time someone makes a counter argument to people who say 'why would edmund sell out his family for some turkish delight it's gross' with 'it was war time and there was a ration on sugar' or countless other defences of the choice of sweet my eye twitches cos like yeh that IS true (as well as turkish delight probably being a novelty in the uk at the time to feel like an indulgent treat whereas it's much more common place now, it's also quite a bit different from a lot of traditional british sweets lol... like imagine if c.s. lewis had gone for a stick of rock instead lol like the sentiment just wouldn't feel the same imo lol) but the thing is... that TOTALLY misses the point of why edmund made that decision lol

like, you have to remember that at the beginning of the story edmund is feeling resentful and bitter towards his other siblings and the rest of his family. he wasn't as confident as peter or as intelligent as susan or as sweet as lucy, he felt undervalued and under-appreciated by everyone in his life so it's fairly clear that when he meets a beautiful woman offering him (and him alone) all the sweets he could ever eat and a seat next to her ruling an entire kingdom away from his siblings and the rest of his family? like of COURSE he would have jumped at that opportunity lol!

like edmund's whole arc in the story is to being less selfish and to realise his family DOES value & love him lol it's not a complicated message to get behind lol but idk people get fixated on the turkish delight thing (a bit how people get fixated on the door thing in titanic but like that's an argument for another day lol) that they kinda forget what c.s. lewis was trying to actually say with that part of the story lol

[happypotato48]

Random BL Superlatives: 2024 Edition

Mua5555 it's my time to shine @lurkingshan and @bengiyo has started the awards season . so i shall join in the festive with my deragend mind.

Favorite Loser Man That Should Get Kick In The Nuts By Me: Ai Phi Ter In Wandee Goodday

What can i say i'm trash and have horrible taste in men. this man is pathetic, slimey, and in general just plain gross. still 100% would let this man ruined my life then plot my revange after.

Favorite Scene That Supposed to be Dramatic But i Can't Stop Laughing While i was Watching: Peak and Thanwa back and forth in Knock Knock, Boys!

These morons are the dumbest most embressing bitches alive but i would kill for them. the peaks at the end of the scene were gold.

Favorite Man That Got Wet: Q In The Rebound

This show might be a mess but its did gave us so many Nammon shirtless moments and he got wet in two of them. Nammon means holy water and i am for one feel blessed by his wetness.

Favorite Best Worst Thai Pun BL Name: Caged Again บอกกรงๆ...ว่ารักเธอ

Thai name for this show is so dumb ya'll. it's บอกกรงๆ...ว่ารักเธอ /Bok Krong Krong... Wa Rak Thoe/ = Telling You Cagefully... That i Love You. they replaced the word for truthfully to cagefully and i'm like omg this is so cringe but also kinda cute.

Favorite Couple That Probably be Insufferable to Hangout with IRL: TanFang In We Are

I love this two so much but i could tell that if i meet these people in real life. i probably plan how to break them up just cause how annoying their relationship is. relationship goal but would stab these bitches for realsie.

Favorite Unhinged Rich Man That i Would Def Gold Diggin: Methas In This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans

He is rich, he is evil, and he is so so pathetic for love. this man is like an English Bulldog(i don't know much about dog so i just googled rich people dog breeds) in human form. Him and JJ are one of few class difference romance in Thai BL that imo holding up well all the way through the story.

Favorite I Can't Believe I Just Witnessed That: Takegawa Sunshine! Moment In Ossan’s Love Returns

(Can't find the gif for it but) SUNSHINE! LOVE! Blip "sorry i can't bear to watch it" me too maki me too.

Favorite Sex Scene That Make Me Want to Lose My Virginity: Karan and Achi In Cherry Magic Thailand

I rencetly gone back and rewatch Cherry Magic jp and although i still like it there was an undeniable feeling that something is missing. and what was missing in that version was intimacy. the thai version made these character feels complate as human and it gave me so much catharsis when i watching it.

Mua5555 Tag me you nerds if you gonna make one of this.

[nquesoxlies]

tbh this is entirely based on my own experiences watching the show, but looking at the poll about "whose going to be endgame buddie vs bucktommy" im just like... how many of them actually did watch the show before they picked buddie? because while i came into the show for tevan as a ship (the funeral with buck and tommy together was the exact scene that convinced me to watch the show), i honestly expected to like... understand where the BoBs were coming from.

and then it just... never happened. a lot of it was "yeah, i can see where some people would interpret this as romantic if they don't have really close friendships," but i've literally got close friendships where if i was widowed, i would write it into my will that my child would almost definitely go with one of my best friends (if they were fine with that decision) rather than my parents, if those were my only two options (idk im assuming in this theoretical for my life that there's a reason why my deceased spouse's parents aren't an option). like, i have solid reasons to say "i'd want my kid going to one of my closest friends" and i don't feel anything romantic toward those friends in the slightest--and i have friends who are compatible w my sexuality and those who aren't, not that it matters since i can still have feelings for someone i'm incompatible with. i've spent countless hours yapping to one of my closest friends about anything and anything. if i found out she was injured badly enough to be hospitalized, i'd probably go into a depressive slump and cry over her because she's family to me. i literally had someone ask me once if i was dating her, gagged over it, told her, and then she also gagged over it because "we're family??? gross??? i love u but not like That????" before we moved on talking about something else

like... ik ppl calling out the "there's no platonic explanation for this!" stuff has been going around tumblr plenty and i'm glad it has been. there's always a platonic explanation, y'all just don't have deeply intimate relationships with close friends and it shows. i love my close friends, but i'm not in love with my close friends, and imo that's healthy and important, and it wouldn't change even if i was dating someone rn.

i can buy people viewing stuff through shippers goggles bc everyone does that at some point. the issue really comes from insisting that it was 100% intended and that b*ddie is going canon any day now because ppl can't tell their headcanons from what the show and everyone on it keeps telling us. ik its been said before, but b*ddie doesn't have to go canon to be enjoyed. like id say at least 80% of fandom shipping culture is looking at non-canon ships and going "yeah, i'll fuck with that." lmao literally i kinda thought linda and eddie would have had a cute relationship and its entirely based on the fact that i liked what we saw of their friendship and that it could be nice for eddie to have a friendship with a woman first before later pursuing her.

but idk thats what i get for watching the actual show in its entirety and enjoying the actual show on my screen rather than just watching tiktoks saying "OMG B*DDIE CANON???" because they breathed on the same planet at the same time. the writers could have buck come out on screen right now and say the literal exact words "eddie is my brother, not a guy i want to date. and even if i did, i deserve better than him" and they'd still be finding a way to say the b*ddie is canon trust while also bitching about buck for implying that eddie is anything less than perfect

Annie, yes yes yes yessssssss

[rumpelree]

💕Some William and Michael doodles!

Basically just copy pasting from my YouTube community post here but- I like to think that post Clara’s murder, William would make Michael cook with him bc neither he nor Michael can cook well, so he thinks it would be better if they put their brain cells together(also father son bonding time since William gets clingy to like, the only child he has left besides his pet cat in my AU). He is 100% mistaken and neither knows what they’re doing-

His pride, to an extent, won’t let him admit that his cooking is terrible but at multiple points he just has to pack it up and get something from Freddy’s for him and Mike XD Why doesn’t he just, idk, get a modern cookbook? He’s set in his ways and also frugal, he’s not gonna waste however many few cents it would take to like…pick up a cooking magazine at the store, no matter how cheap- also. Depression meals ARE very money saving, so XD

The pictured “Lime Cheese Salad” is just a kinda crudely drawn version of an actual existing Jell-O salad recipe, unfortunately XD (the ingredients list is so gross imo, that’s seafood salad in the middle YUCK)