#and shockingly english

[h0ney-dames]

teachers need to stop giving me free time in class

[xanaduwu]

I read homestuck for college btw. Reading all of homestuck in a month fulfilled a graduation requirement and I'm not kidding. Anyway here are some teenagers.

[wizard-irl]

Modern crystal healing: It opens your ~chakras~ you will attract ~abundance~ you will ~connect with the universe~

Medieval crystal healing: This shit makes you invisible, stops your periods from hurting, and makes your husband love you.

[chilope]

rating for this is how you lose the time war: meh

[amplexadversary]

I do think an ideal translation team would need to have at least three people, and only two of them absolutely *must* speak both languages.

You need someone who's better at the original language but speaks the target language (to identify subtleties and cultural references), you need someone who is better at the target language but speaks the original (to make sure the initial translation makes sense), and you need a proofreader who has some expertise in prose in the target language (to make sure the concerns of the first two are being met in the final draft, and determine if there are any cases where a better-fitting word in the target language fits for words with multiple definitions)

and all three of these people need to be in some kind of communication with each other, back and forth until all parties can come to some consensus.

[razmerry]

bro you ever watched life on mars (uk) and/or ashes to ashes, its class tv, highly recommend

For a Midwestern Gen Z American there is actually a surprisingly high chance I would've watched a moderately obscure Brit mid-2000s drama series but no, I've never seen either. May check em out though!

[crabsdaily]

despite the fact that i did 13 years of french classes in school and have worked in french for years i am always genuinely shocked when i get through a casual conversation in french without saying at least 3 sentences that just straight up dont make sense

[uhhhhmanda]

I got to pick the pizza night movie tonight so I went with Yaksha. My husband said "Sure. Which dude are you watching it for?" I couldn't figure out how to succinctly explain so I told him "Park Jinyoung. He's my emotional support twink du jour."

[anarkhebringer]

I finally tried VOICEVOX and uh. My many years in my youth making TALKLOIDs in UTAU paid off.

[lokh]

duolingo has gotten me to be able to read swedish at. cefr b1 level. and thats it

[prommytheus]

my favorite part of cowboy bebop is the lengthy sequence of spike falling on his ass in the intro that i watch in full every time

[derpinette]

this year i really had a module called "british culture" &i got my best grade on it out of all of them this semester

[severalowls]

Ive been playing lord of the rings online again for nostalgia reasons. Fairly simple gameplay, a little retro. General community vibe is a bunch of nerds over 50 who probably literally speak elvish and get grumpy if you call it elven. Generally praised for being lovingly tolkein-y.

Which is great! Until the subreddit you go to for guides has several people unprompted doing the 'the amazon show was bad but especially because it featured "Blacks"' and then the next quest you do ingame after seeing that is... an epilogue to the book plotline which is inexplicably a seasonal event everybody is invited to do annually instead of part of the main story which follows the plot of the books and epilogues... which is aragorn and arwen's wedding, played out in full. Which is cute. And the guests and crowd are like, every single major NPC from the main story! Which is cool! Except every single fucking one of them is white. A crowd that exists nowhere good on earth.

And you realise why the subreddit is like that and how everybody's absolutely seeped in this ultra english-1950s fantasy world but at least when it was text you could fill in the gaps yourself because jolkein probably wasn't actively intentionally being a racist and explicitly ensuring every single one of his polite little old fashioned mans was explicitly described as only white. But when the game artists, designing the versions of the minor rolkein characters between the game launch in like 2006 and this wedding scene in like 2013, at every single turn portrayed them as specifically, actively, only, explicitly white... jesus fucking christ you can see why this fostered a community which is happy to rant about "Blacks" uncontested and suddenly the whole thing feels a lot less cozy forever.

Edit: upon inspection the peejack movies were in fact just as bad

[nicosraf]

HELLO. have u heard Francesca by Hozier? bc you lit need to add it to the abm playlist RN!! (It’s also based on the Dante’s second circle of hell)

YES I HEARD IT RECENTLY AAAAAAHSSS

It fits ABM but it fits my poem for the Devout anthology even better, which is about Lucifer and Michael in Dante's second circle of hell coincidentally AHSKSHSJD

But yes im adding to the playlist >:)

[lifeintheworldtocome]

winter break is next week which of course means we have 1000000 tests this week

[lesbx]

Ok hmm. voice synth ai is getting scarily good