#as that's the one I'm most familiar with

[intravention]

u/Evangelion2004 on Reddit has been working on translating Dogra Magra (an epic feat given how notoriously long and complicated the original is). I hope they finish it, I'd love to read it all one day.

I know there's a recently published translation of the novel as a translation of a translation from Japanese -> French -> English. I'm not sure if it'll get reprints, though, so I don't think I'll be reading that translation any time soon.

Translation is hard, and inevitably, some details will be lost in translation. I wish I was more proficient in Japanese or at least Chinese so I could read it without being dependent on a translator. For now, I'm thankful to the people who do TL work. There are so many stories I'd never get a chance to know without help crossing the language barrier.

[psychotrenny]

It's awesome how Zoroastrianism basically solved the Problem of Evil several centuries before Christ was even born. Like it's not that hard to say "Our god isn't all powerful, but he's still strong and awesome as fuck so you should worship him. Still he has his limits and he's got a pretty strong enemy, so you can't blame him for all the bad stuff in the world". Meanwhile Christians really insist on God being omnipotent as well as omniscient and omnibenevolent, so they're constantly doing insane mental gymnastics and/or falling back on thoughtless cliches ("uhhhhh free will! original sin! god is unknowable!") in order to answer the sort of question that five year olds ask about "why's there so many unfairly or pointlessly bad things in the world".

Plus it means really stupid questions become genuine theological concerns: "If God is all powerful could he make a boulder so heavy that he couldn't lift it?" feels like something you'd see in a novelty riddle book and yet serious theologies have had to have whole debates over it. Like overall, the sticking insistence on Omnipotence has to be among the Jesus Fandom's most embarrassing failures

[jattendschaton]

Émilie Agreste purposefully giving Adrien an allergy to feathers to make sure her son would never be able to use the peacock miraculous in the future

[splickedylit]

every time a character is introduced with a big/arched/hooked/crooked nose and then slowly loses it to artstyle creep as the series goes on, an angel loses its wings and by an angel losing its wings I mean me, on the floor, softly weeping

[sysig]

Two skeletons in a trench lab coat (Patreon)

Bonus:

He’s very careful! Everything was fine before you interrupted!

[chellsartblog]

more wacky time lord outfit designs, this time ft. historical fashion influence 🔥🔥 (and also actual chapter colors)

left to right: prydonian chapter + early 18th century suit, cerulean chapter + 14th century armor, patrex chapter + 1890s dress, & arcalian chapter + early 16th century dress

[yuseirra]

a family bigger than 4! part 3. part 1 / part 2

this part wasn't planned either.. However, I got an inquiry about this earlier and it was on my mind all day..."Was it meant to be funny or cute that Hikaru isn’t excited about having a third child or that Ai is stubborn and inconsiderate about it?" Ah, it really concerned me if the comic came off as something like that, so I felt obliged to draw out a little more in-depth about what's been going on in their heads in this story.

It's actually the opposite. Ai is very comfortable around him, teasing him, and being playful about things since she knows he doesn't dislike the idea, it's just that he's afraid and worried. There is no way I draw Ai as thoughtless and inconsiderate! ;v;/// I take her as the exact opposite of those two adjectives!! In fact, I think she had a tendency to overthink on some occasions. What she did here - it's because she understood him and knew he'd be okay and happy about the outcome as well.

Even aside from this state of mind that he may have, personally, I feel Hikaru wouldn't immediately agree and go, "Okay, let's have more kids :)" even if Ai says she wants to have more. It wouldn't be out of reluctance; I think he'd be concerned about her safety because Ai is small!! and childbirth is something that puts a lot of pressure on someone's body. I mean, they even had a god die from it in the jp myths; He's someone who can't afford to lose her and strain her any further. But he'd listen to her wishes if that's what she wants in the end. And why wouldn't he want more cute children like Ai and him. I don't think he'd be the one to ask first though so it has to be Ai who takes the initiative and that's how this comic came to be!

this comic wouldn't have happened without the feedback, it's given this idea more depth! Hopefully, it's convincing enough? :)

More to come~

[daynascullys]

GET TO KNOW ME  ✰ [7/10] TV Shows ⤷ The Mentalist (2008-2015)

"Yes, I tweaked your nose. But in my defense, you were being very annoying."

[elvisqueso]

"...Will you go home?" — "Well, it's not like I have much of a home to go back to. I've never really...belonged anywhere."

Pocahontas (1995)

[csilla-nocturne]

Modern AU of popular TGCF ships preparing dinner at home.

Hualian: Super romantic. They are helping each other with little things, smiling and laughing as they taste test. A radio is playing in the background, and they dance to a favorite song while waiting for a timer to go off.

Fengqing: The kitchen is a disaster area. They are sitting in the living room eating a pizza one of the neighbors was kind enough to order for them with a little note asking them to keep it down as the kids have school in the morning. This happens so often the local pizza place calls it the Fengqing special. One large thin crust half extra pepperoni with extra cheese, half veggie lovers also with extra cheese. They can't remember how the fight started, or why there is cooked pasta everywhere as neither of them remember needing pasta for what they were planing to make.

Quanyin: The fire has been put out, and Yin Yu sits in shock as he watches the firefighter, who has to be the most patient person on the planet explain to Quan Yizhen that while yes, it is sometimes called a toasted cheese sandwich, constructing the sandwich, and shoving the whole thing in the toaster is not a safe way to make one.

Beefleaf(And Miao-er, He Xuan's Fiance. They all have two hands dammit!): Shi Wudu is coming over of dinner, and Shi Qingxuan wants to make something special! He Xuan is banned from the kitchen after eating too many of the edible ingredients. Finding they no longer have enough, because of this He Xuan is sent to buy replacements. This works out great for him because now he gets to stop at some fast food places, and buy some stuff to tide him over till dinner. Dinner time eventually arrives, and Shi Wudu is honestly disturbed by how much He Xuan is eating, but knows better to say anything lest he get yet another lecture on how his fuck up resulted in He Xuan's wrongful imprisonment, which is the cause of He Xuan current very unhealthy relationship with food in the first place.

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[hippy-pants]

I think Warrior Cats was to the 2000s what Animorphs was to the 90s

[smoozie]

Grian and Martyn's dynamic to me is the main character vs the guy who should be the main character

[smile-files]

if you vote, please reblog! and i'd love to hear your reasoning for your choice. i'm very curious :)

[evilfarmin]

@mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @mawofthemagnetar hii I love cribbage

[fantasticalleigh]

we talk a fair game about hating AI on here but there's that one extremely obvious AI made reylo fanart that keeps floating around from time to time and a lot of people have fallen for it and reblogged it and the person behind the account makes a ton of other AI art using disney characters and i try not to get annoyed about it because at first glance it's kind of convincing if you don't know what to look for but i think as a whole we need to get better about recognizing AI art if we're saying we're not going to support it. idk. t