#and tumblr especially . idk its just like brain poison

[notahorseindisguise]

it fucks me up sometimes that theres literally kids on here. like i know im friends with some literally kids but like. its so weird idk

[leatherbookmark]

couldn’t help myself.

as usual, absolutely don’t quote me as a Specialist™ (or at all), because i am not one. there’s just something wrong with me and i like to dig around.

anyway, the “perfect” wgxn quote:

WiFi和汪叽都是非常理想的人格，人品上不会有太大争议，做主角最适合不过。我当然非常喜欢WiFi，但是如果要找男朋友，对不起我只要汪叽（。

and exr (i’m copying from a post that quotes it because i’m too lazy to look for the chapter directly myself):

Both WWX and LWJ are highly ideal characters, so there wouldn't be too much dispute on their moral standing. They're perfect as the protagonists. Of course, I do like WWX a lot, but if I'm looking for a boyfriend, sorry, I'll only have LWJ please.

okay. having all that, let’s go.

1. “highly ideal characters”

chinese: WiFi和汪叽都是非常理想的人格

now, disclaimer: i have japanese brain poisoning, and when i know a term in japanese and it occurs in chinese text, i’m probably going to understand it in its japanese meaning, and then go “...but just to make sure” and look it up in chinese.

THAT BEING SAID.

indeed there exists a 理想人格, and as baike baidu defines it and google translate translates, it’s “Ideal personality generally refers to the morally perfect model advocated by a certain society or class, and it is the image of perfect personality that people generally believe. It is the highest embodiment of the moral requirements and moral ideals of a certain society.“

HOWEVER i can’t help but notice that it’s not actually 理想人格, but rather 理想的人格. again, idk etc, but the former looks like a set Term, and the latter like an ��adjectivey noun”. in this case, 理想 is the adjective and 人格 is the noun.

now, 理想 means “ideal, dream” (ideal both as in “the ideals of (some group)” and “ideal date/girlfriend”), and 人格 means personality/character; integrity; human dignity.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THEN: i don’t know. you’d have to ask an actual chinese speaker, not me. i don’t know chinese, but i suspect that a lot can depend on context, just like in japanese; so i exr might be right, or perhaps i am right. i’m not arguing. maybe it really is about Moral Ideals and Integrity! or maybe it’s about characters having personalities that just Work, are fun, engaging and make fans post insane shit on tumblr dot com fall in love with them.

next,

2. “moral standing“

chinese: 人品.

now 人品, according to wiktionary (i’m using wiktionary for all definitions unless i say otherwise, btw), is: one’s character, especially the quality of it; one’s appearance, looks; and in modern internet slang: one’s luck.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THEN: see above.

3. “perfect as the protagonists“

chinese: 做主角最适合不过.

“适合“ means to suit; to fit; to agree with. wiktionary’s examples include a color suiting someone (assuming: clothes) or spring in beijing being good for cycling.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THEN: perhaps not as much “as protagonists, they’re perfect in every inch” but rather “they fit their protagonist roles greatly”.

if you put this whole quote into gtrans, you get “Both WiFi and Wang Ji are very ideal personalities. There will not be too much controversy about their personalities, and they are the most suitable protagonists“. of course, gtrans is definitely not the ultimate translator, but i’d just like to point out that there Can be a translation, even though it’s done by a machine, that doesn’t feature even one (1) instance of the word “moral”.

IN GENERAL, THOUGH: the exr translation is... sigh. sometimes i prefer it to teh official one (well, most of the times, because the official one is another can of worms and it’s 3am) because it’s concise and often opts for clarity and less words rather than keeping everything as it was and making things confusing in result. sometimes i notice mistakes or not really correct translations, but understand why those decisions were made. and sometimes there are mistakes that are simply baffling.

it’s not a perfect translation! it was done by a very young person, for fun and no profit, in their free time, and it seems they were in a hurry and didn’t really have a beta. so i really, really advise against using this translation for this like, close reading, focusing on every word and the placement of it in the text kinda interpretation -- the translation simply isn’t the one you can do that with. even if there was a professional translation, i still would be careful because chinese and english are Different languages; if you want it to be as similar to the original text as possible, you’re not going to get a nice, clean, pleasant read, and if you want a nice, clean, pleasant read that sucks you into the world and makes character sparkle with personality, you’re probably not going to get the most faithful translation in the world. it HAPPENS.

that one would use hastily translated a/n to preach to other fans is simply fucking hilarious. but anyway

4. boyfriend???

WHAT DOES IT-- listen, i don’t know. perhaps “moral standing” is important in terms of choosing a boyfriend, even amongst young people. okay, he’s hot, but what about his moooorals? (an euphemism is born.) i don’t know! i find it a bit weird for one to jump from something as heavy as being a morally perfect person to something as silly as “welllllll but if i had to pick a boyfriend between my two characters that i wrote... ;p”, but then i’m not chinese, i don’t know mxtx personally, etc, etc.

BUT i’m thinking that maybe she meant it less like “they’re role models for people to follow”, and more like... yknow, something a writer might say about their characters. that they’re fun to write and read about, to think about; that they’re well written. so for example, for me, a character that’s fun and well-written is one whose good traits are also their bad traits -- they’re smart, but too smart for their own good; they’re loyal, but that means they’re willing to support someone when they’re wrong/hurting others/hurting themself. this way, the characters’ problems aren’t easily solved, because they’d have to change a fundamental part of themself. it’s neat! it’s interesting! emotionally engaging! perhaps that’s what mxtx meant. and perhaps she also wanted to say that wgxn do have the ideals they want to follow, and in general they want to help people who need their help; probably their decisions don’t make the readers seriously hate them.

maybe! or maybe not, again, these are just my theories. i might be wrong, because maybe she actually Did mean their moral qualities! but, etc etc.

[applejuiceyjuice-art]

what type of pokemom would the main cast be? im curious on which you think tumblr would be

these are partially based on the type specialties and partner pokemon i assigned them:

tumblr - mr. rime (LOL) ok how about alolan ninetales? it’s a pokemon that lives alone and is vindictive, and it’s an ice type which i think could suit tumblr for how rude and closed off he is to others.

twitter - altaria (clouds get stormy when angry) for the blue version. maybe could be changed into honchkrow or just another version of altaria for the rebrand. I think altaria is looks welcoming and kind, but we can make it turn scary when angered. it’s still a dragon type, after all.

amino - mimikyu since andy says it relates heavily to it, basically its whole deal is similar to amino’s

discord - rotom. i like it being a ghost/electric type which both suit discord and being able to change its form and literally be a communication device (rotom phone)

twitch - i wanted to say mawile bc i wanted mega mawile as her ace but i actually like morpeko being electric, cute, but also two faced with half n half colors. idk if im satisfied w saying thats the definitive one she would be, but its hard to find a single pokemon i think fits perfectly…

youtube - floatzel bc its sooo cool and he wears pool floaties in the water. he was assigned water type n i actually do not know why, maybe bc he’s laid back? but he definitely seems like he could be a beach trainer. alternatively, he could be fire, and then i could say he could be a cinderace n show off with soccer tricks instead of surfing tricks.

TikTok - roserade because it has the red and blue roses, reference to tiktok live, and its a poison type for tiktok poisoning ur brain lol

instagram - gardevoir because its refined, pretty, and it can sense emotions like how instagram is kind of an “empath” herself. the psychic type is for her knowing a lot about everyone which, combined with the empath stuff and being good at talking to people, makes it seem like she reads your mind.

ao3 - bewear is sort of the opposite of ao3’s appearance. he is a strong, stoic, loner type who has a fondness for sweets and romance. the normal typing is the same as wikipedia, being librarians, and the fighting type is for his strictness and literal strength.

wikipedia - girafarig because its a normal type which is the most neutral type and it’s a psychic type for his inquisitive nature.

kik - tyranitar shares the same color scheme as it and i think rock/dark suits kik as a rough, abrasive person who mostly acts out of her own self interests.

4chan - tinkaton because she wants to appear cute and girlish but also can’t help being negative and aggressive or rude to others. she would like a giant hammer to hit people with, right?

reddit - clodsire, but galarian stunfisk special mention for r/stunfisk. i wanted to make him a ground type trainer in a pokemon au, and clodsire is so unassuming and squishy and nice :) reddit comes off as an ernest friendly person, but i can also see the poison type being for the more toxic forms of engagement they might partake in.

bonus:

quotev- absol, especially mega absol. its the poster child for half angel half devil ocs and edgy girls everywhere…

wattpad - alolan raichu mainly because of the color scheme and upbeat nature

twitch as a champion sketch bc im indecisive and she needs a whole ass multi type team:

[venranae]

I just reread death note for the first time in forever and decided to poison my brain with L metas on tumblr and- PPL STILL SHIPPING L AND LIGHT IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD 2021??? Is L not a grown ass man?? And is God complex not a high schooler???

Anyway so I will cuddle L idc If he’s not capable of romance in canon fuck you its my canon now.

Yeah they do it's still a really popular ship probably because we all forget Light is 17?? or sth??this guy doesn't really act for his age I forgot but yea he's a high schooler😭HOW AM I OLDER THAN LIGHT MAN IDK anyways fuuck him I don't think Light is even capable of feeling anything positive for other individuals lmao I always hated his arrogant ass (he's still a great character tho I just personally hate him). I like his relationship with L but I don't ship them especially not in THAT way yk I don't think it fits either of their characters and also the age gap is weird af even if light was 18 idk I can't remember

Also relatable (he looks very cuddly to be fair). He might do illegal things to achieve his goals and he might not feel romantic feelings and he might be a little rich criminal detective but he's still my little meow meow <33 I know we are in the year 2021 and this manga is old af but I will still BABY this grown ass man I don't care he's my first love and I will continue to be cringe about him I just love him too much

[canmom]

it’s weird i’m still here but lately i just... haven’t felt like posting. or even like reblogging stuff. like there’s always a barrier right between ‘heh that’s good’ and ‘this should be in my followers’ timelines!’ but that threshold seems to have gotten so high that I barely blog anything except donation posts anymore

below: personal, mutuals only please, like if you read? about relationship with a particular former friend

i guess now i see the connection... there’s a certain former friend who cut off contact with me at the end of the year and i’m still very chewed up over that. there’s mutual friends who i don’t want to lose touch with but i guess i’m effectively doing that anyway because i don’t want to impinge on her awareness in any way and every time i see her name it makes me freeze up. even though she has every right to drift apart and decide she can’t deal with me anymore... we were barely talking by the end anyway... sometimes things don’t work out

but yeah a few years ago we were partners like... i still really really care about her and what she thinks and i’m scared of doing any further harm or crossing any actual or hypothetical boundary on the one hand, and then some other component of my brain is unfairly resentful and feels disposed of, and just... still don’t know how to process the whole thing which means every time i see her name it’s just like... it throws me at least and if i’m at a low ebb it puts me in a really bad place.

and none of this i like... blame her for. i understand, to the extent i can understand i guess, why she has similarly messed up and complicated feelings about me and why that would mean that she made the right call in putting this friendship, which was being sustained out of my stubbornness and little else, out of its misery... rationally this was better than letting it slowly decay, and especially given her partner ____ has even more messed up feelings about me. and maybe she judged me unfairly in some ways (but understandably given the information she had) but ultimately, there was no way to fix this and i was fucking stupid to try for so long.

but then we have to keep living (i guess) and while for the most part i have a life that in no way involves her, for some reason on here on tumblr it’s like... more difficult to try not to think about her.

i’ve unfollowed people who were much closer to her than me and i don’t talk to but when it comes to like... true mutual friends, i can’t fairly ask them not to interact with her, that would be cruel and absurd, and i can’t ask them to tag me out bc it would have the same effect as seeing her name... and i would compulsively open blacklist tags so that wouldn’t help... and idk what to do. i guess in practice what i’m doing is drifting away from those friends too and slowly cutting myself off but that feels shit, that’s not right

and sometimes it’s hard not to go into a spiral of thinking i’m a broken, poisonous person and i should like, withdraw in some much more substantial way from social contact, which i know is very irrational and probably has some really nasty motivations behind it, bc there are clearly people who do appreciate me and just bc i failed in a relationship once doesn’t mean i can’t change, it’s kind of inevitable that that would happen, you dumb shit bryn

but anyway also this like... media that i remember sharing with her, like evangelion or homestuck or (if i ever go back to watch it) haibane renmei... also has this effect though not quite as strong.

i guess the only answer is like... get over yourself, fix your brain, she owes you nothing and never did, if you lose other friends so be it.

i will probably make this post private in an hour or two but rn i guess i need to vent into the semi-anonymous void.

[alicedoessurveys]

60 Questions

Are you currently learning from anyone how to play any instruments? Not learning from anyone, but I'm teaching myself to play ukelele

Are you one of those people who always tend to think critically in issues? i dont 100% understand the question, but i am someone who is constantly thinking critically of myself. I'm not so critical of other people

Do you know anyone who is overly flirty with people? Girl or a boy? Yeah, I've known a few boys over the years who seem incapable of having a girl as just a friend without being flirty

When was the last time you had any kind of pork? What kind was it? Had sausage the other day, but i cant remember what day it was my brain isn't working

Are you someone who normally eats a full breakfast every single morning? i usually eat cereal, unless I'm not hungry or when i have to wake up early for something cause i tend to feel really sick

Do you believe vampires are real? Not the stereotypical Twilight kind. surely not, but then there are some strange people in the world

Is there anyone out there who can give you butterflies in your stomach? Yup

Are you someone who has to hide the things you like around friends? not really, me and my friends tend to like the same things

Have you ever been to a porn website? Were you addicted to it afterword? i have, i used to be friends with someone who while we were on Skype would find it hilarious to send me random links and wait to see my reaction when i click it and end up on some horrid porn site.

What is the most disgusting thing you think the opposite sex can do? Idk, i find it gross when i see guys out in public with their hands down their pants :’) and spitting, i hate seeing anyone walking down the road spitting theres no need and its disgusting

Would you rather be able to teleport or freeze time? Which one seems best? Teleport. never have to drive again 👍🏻

Have you seen the movie Twister? Did the tornadoes look real to you? i have not seen it

Have you actually been through a devastating natural disaster before? Thankfully nope. we don't really have anything that bad in england. we did have a bad hurricane once like over 10 years ago that cause quite a bit of destruction. i was actually in the exact area it hit like 5 minutes before it hit which freaked me out a bit

Did your mom ever fix your eggs and bacon into a smiley face as a kid? i didn't have bacon and eggs as a kid

What fast food place, in your opinion, has the best french fries? i really like burger king’s fries or mcdonalds

Do you believe one day aliens might take over the planet Earth? Nope

Are you someone who always looks for sales when you go shopping somewhere? not really, i have to be in the right mood. i do look when I'm online though

Are you constantly re-arranging your bedroom? Or do you not like change? i used to be someone who rearranged my room a lot (i get it from my mother) but since i moved into my current bedroom 2 years ago its stayed the same way with slight changes to what furniture is in there or the way i arrange my books/ornaments etc

Who would you consider the best teen actor or actress out there now? ones that people will know i think are the actors from stranger things, especially the girl who plays eleven. Also the main two out of the netflix version of ‘a series of unfortunate events’ are brilliant

When did you last cuddle up next to someone and watch a movie? not for ages

Where would people most likely find you out on the weekends? at home :’) i don't really go out

Do you like the school you attend or is it just pretty bland to you? im not in school anymore, but when i was i hated it. its was an absolute dive

Do you remember when they used to actually throw candy out at parades? I've never been to a parade that throws candy.

What is your favorite childhood memory? Who did you share this with? going to my nan and grandads house 3 days a week every summer holiday

Are there any windows open in your house right now? Which ones, if so? nope its cold

Is it currently your favorite season? If not what is your favorite? its just past my favourite season, i like autumn and the part of winter where its christmas

Do you like soda pop? If so, which is your favorite and least favorite? what is soda pop?

Does it bother you when people burp around you or do you do it too? Nope, doesn't bother me at all. I've been bought up in a family that isn't

Do you have any siblings you’re embarrassed about being related to? nope Im proud of my sister

Which noises do you currently hear right now? Can you control those? The telly which i could turn off if i wanted to but i dont. also, cause I'm ill I've got tinatus in my ears

What is one thing you’ve never understood throughout your life? a lot of things

When you see an old person do you think ‘sweet’ or ‘creepy?’ Sweet

What is it that makes old women want so many cats in their life? cats are good company and fluffy and low maintenance

What is one kind of music you’d do anything to not listen to in the car? Scream

When was the last time you babysat, if ever? Did anything bad happen? last time i babysat was last year sometime. nothing bad happened. ill be babysitting a lot more when this foster child comes along

How many times a day do you wash your face? Do you wash it really good? I dont wash it as much as i should. i tend to use face scrub/wash when I'm in the shower

Would you consider yourself to have a boring life or a really exciting one? currently very boring

Do you ever talk to people you met online through webcam? Or is that weird? No, thats weird haha

Who was the last person you kissed and why did you kiss this person? Ugh, I've kinda explained this in previous surveys. he was someone i got very close to and nearly dated but then i freaked out and decided i didn't want a boyfriend. then we didn't talk for a while and he found himself a girlfriend but when we worked on the same theatre production together we got close again. one night he was driving me home from rehearsals and he pulled over into a carpark and was like i want to kiss you and i let him kiss me then he drove me home.. the worse part was he gave me his cold too :’)

How many fish have you owned in your lifetime, so far? Did they all die? we used to have nearly 100 fish in the pond in the garden but one day they all died except one so we called him lucky and took him to live in my grandad’s garden pond. I'm guessing he's dead now cause that was like 15 years ago

When do you think it’s the right age to pass away? when you're ready and when its your time to go

If you were to get drunk right now, how would you most likely act? i dont drink so i wouldn't get drunk

How many people have you kissed in your lifetime, so far? Who were they? just one, read answer to earlier question.

Are you going to post this on a social networking site after you take it? Tumblr

Is there something people in general do that bothers you a lot? Just existing

Has anything supernatural ever happened to you? What were these events? Nope

How many concerts have you seen so far in life? Were they good ones? a lot

Do you like doing anything your friends wouldn’t expect you to do? Yup

Can you sing very well or are you considerably tone deaf? im don't think I'm awful.. i can hold a tune i just don't have a voice that i like

When did you last make a survey? How many people took it so far? i dont make surveys

Would you ever consider becoming a scientist? Why would you or why not? Nope im not smart enough & science was my worst subject at school

Where is your favorite place to go when you’re feeling sad and alone? Tumblr

Have you ever had to call poison control while you were babysitting? Nope…

Do you ever look back on the past years and wish you could go back? a bit, just health wise

When is the next time you’ll talk to the cousin you’re closest to? not sure, were on snapchat quite a bit

Does it bother you when people constantly sign in on MSN? Or not so much? nope i dont use msn anymore

When was the last time you saw a bird? What kind of bird was this? i was watching a robin in the garden earlier

Have you ever seen someone getting beat up by lots of people at one time? yeah I've witnessed a few fights cause i live opposite a pub so we get a lot of drunk people walk past late on weekends and occasionally they have fights

Are you really into vintage things? Have you ever been into that stuff? i like the look of some vintage stuff but I'm not super into it

When was the last time you bought new sheets for your bed? bought myself some new festive bedding in november, so like 2 months ago