#ash adventures

[ashanimus]

The snootler on his walk

[asksweetdisaster]

Hello all!

……or rather hello to those who are still here xD

For those of you who are new, this blog has been going on for a very very very very very long time. I started my art with this blog, and Ive made stories, friends, and heck even found my fiancé @ash-adventures through this blog.

OF course as the years have passed so have my priorities in life ^^; Ive moved, gone to therapy, gone on meds, and heck even just learning to live my life.

But nothing ever changed enough to make me stop thinking about art and my dear OC Sweet Disaster.

Am I ever able to make big updates like the old days? Probably not. Will I stop uploading? I dont’ think I physically can DX even when I wanted to up and quit this blog, I could never leave the blog that changed and bettered my life.

I’m not exaggerating when I say this blog saved me from the biggest trials in my life and brought me to the ones I care about the most in my life.

Because of that I want to keep updating!

So! What will I be doing now?

I’m going to be uploading the rest of Sweet’s story with the minimal art so as to get the rest of her story out ^^

Then afterwards? I wanted to have fun with @ash-adventures blog and do some fun art here and there. And to show ya’ll here a quick WIP.

See y’all in the flip!!

[tinylilemrys]

my fellow ADHDers, i cannot recommend the humble insulated travel mug enough.

am i travelling anywhere? absolutely not – i work from home and i'm literally still in my sleepwear. am i passionate about having hot drinks even after literally forgetting about them for hours? you bet.

the absolute joy of having a cup of coffee that isn't lukewarm or ice cold cannot be overstated.

[malusienki]

today i see a midsummer night’s dream! :)

[fullmetalharmony]

A cosplay compilation ✨️ this isn't everything that I've done over the last two years, just a few highlights! I'm still very much at the beginning of my cosplay journey, but I have big plans for the next year!

Uh hi 👋 I didn't realize y'all would like this so much. Feel free to follow me on IG and Tiktok if you want regular cosplay updates! I'm @fullmetalharmony on both

[therealsquiddo]

sqibo…. have you perchance partaken in the art of october and have starter with one of the calendars?? if so, show the art you’ve made!!:D (i’m rlly curious to see what calendar you did and what you’ve drawn if you are doing an prompt-tober thing:33)

I haven't had much free time to draw for years, I'm sorry :') Let alone one drawing every day! But if you are curious about my art here's (almost) everything I've drawn in 2024 that wasn't a thumbnail

[sconfittoleone]

is it something?

[blenselche]

Bubbline comic based on my demon neurochem HC.

AT didn't explain demons much so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ fair game, right? They have 4x the amount of love chem receptors compared to a human/mutant and since they can change form they recognize one another by smell, not sight. Think uhhh prarie voles ig. I wanted to explore how a species with so little empathy can experience love. It can cross their wires/become obsessive or violent if they're not full demons or if their creator isn't Hunson (so they have "cracks"/the craftsmanship isn't perfect).

[t0bey]

pretty much the entire racecourse holdup scene in AOM episode 2

[keira-draws]

save a horse

[nebulaesstar]

ORAAAAAAaa—

[ashanimus]

He is always so surprised and sad when I have to leave….

[asksweetdisaster]

Arc 1 of 3

Part 2 of 14

DATE START!

Finally getting down to the dinner x3

[tinylilemrys]

just found out that i have another cousin. my uncle donated sperm in the 80s and she managed to find my uncle through DNA testing years later. she's a few years older than me, super into ren faires and i can't wait to meet her.

[centrally-unplanned]

(Extreme on-brand post incoming) Some translation discourse about Chainsaw Man's latest chapter right now - in English this scene is translated as "slut":

But in the original it is 痴女/Chijo:

Literally "dumb woman" but almost always today used to mean "female molester". So people are complaining that, particularly given that Asa was the initiator of the current sexual encounter in question, that this is an incorrect translation - her anger is more over being a violator than shame over her sex drive or whatever.

I don't think they are right about that - "slut" is the best translation of 痴女. It doesn't not mean 'molester', it is used for someone who actually does that, but that is comparatively rare - its primarily used more metaphorically for a "sexually aggressive woman". Here is a typical dictionary entry for the word, which includes this line:

色情におぼれ迷う女

"to lose oneself in lust". Because the idea of this molester is that it isn't some calculating predator or anything, it is that she is overcome by her emotions, unable to reign herself in, and thus crosses boundaries. Hence the word origin - "dumb woman", right? Sounds like a slut to me, pretty similar to how we use that term - even if it has no connotations of sexual assault in English.

Also this is just the culturally accepted translation of the word, I think that counts for something.

But I want to go deeper - after all, there are other words in Japanese that mean "slut", like パンコ/Panko - yes like-but-not-exactly the breadcrumbs let's not get distracted okay? So why use 痴女? Here, I am going to note that this is a manga, it's part of a specific culture. Maybe you've noticed that in eroge male media - even tame ones like harem shows - compared to western porn the men are pretty passive? They don't make a lot of stories of chads pulling chicks, it is nerds having alien space hotties throw themselves at him.

This definitely comes from wider Japanese culture, don't get me wrong (and I lack expertise there, lets not oversell myself), but it is definitely the case than in animanga a male passivity streak is just sort of embedded as the default. And you can see that in the use of 痴女 in the medium.

So let's run an experiment! Let's go to e-hentai, and find the first relevant result with that word in the title. Here we go:

 カースト上位のあの子は実は淫乱ドスケベ痴女

"The girl in the top caste is actually a lewd, perverted chijo"

And yeah, its about a hot, popular teen girl being paid to fuck some guys who propositioned her. The fourth page literally includes a guy saying "I am so excited, this rules". He isn't being consent violated in the slightest, the fantasy that makes her a chijo is how eager and lustful she is.

Audiences read all this stuff and cross reference each other, like language does. Its a pretty common term in the space. None of the cultural focus is on the violation aspect, all of the cultural focus is on the desire, and it has added punch as a sort of shameful secret ("Popular girl is actually..."). It's just slightly confusing because there are undercurrents of default norms in the sexual language that we in English don't have. The default Japanese slut is 20% more aggressive, as it were.

Slut, therefore, is the correct term for a manga translation. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[thechooper]

Trying to get work done today but can't focus because a showreel of this man just keeps playing in my mind on repeat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯