#bug does events

[musical-dash-trash]

🌼200 follower event!!!🌼

thank you all SO MUCH for 200 followers!! this means more than i can put into words. you’re all so lovely and deserve the world.

on to the event! 

🌻(sunflower) i will find an image that reminds me of you!

🪷(lilypad) i will find something else that reminds me of you (book, movie, poem, etc.)

🐥 (chick) i will show you something in my bedroom that reminds me of you!

🐝 (bee) i will share something creative i’ve made!

🌼 (daisy) i will tell you what i think of our dynamic!

🦇 (bat) i will give you something random from my camera roll

🎃 (jack o’lantern) i will give you something random from my notes app!

🐸 (frog) i will tell you something (or multiple things) that make me happy 

☀️ (sun) i will tell you what i think of you!

🌈 (rainbow) i will assign you something that i like! (media, so movies or books and things like that)

💌 (heart letter) i will tell you something good that’s happened to me lately!

🧸 (teddy bear) you can request a doodle from me! (no nsfw please!! i can and will turn down request i am not comfortable doing)

🎟️ (ticket) i will share something that i am passionate about but rarely discuss on here!

🧊 (ice cube) i’ll show you a random book i own

🦆 (duck) i will assign you a duck from my duck collection!! 

🪱 (earthworm) i will show/assign you something else from my collection of strange things!

🍩 (donut) i will share a fun fact about me that you may not know

🫧 (bubbles) wild card! ask me anything!! 

please don’t use anon for this!! i can’t do a lot of these if i don’t know who you are!

heavily inspired by the lovely @ivys-head-is-spinning !! (you should go check them out they’re amazing)

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[project-sekai-facts]

How are we feeling about ensekai’s emu3 translation!!! (I’m mad)

(if you remember the 3 whole posts i made when asahi got de-gayed on EN you'll know i am mad too and that this is probably going to get long)

i don't like to be too cynical but it was so obvious that they were going to change that line, i had a feeling since the event first released on JP and after the incident with Asahi where I went through and tracked down multiple other examples of EN removing queer subtext it became clear to me that in no way shape or form was "emu-chan really loves nene-chan" making it to EN without getting changed. what i didn't expect was them changing Nene's line after Luka's comment, which actually makes this whole situation far worse than many of their other instances of toning down queer subtext.

for anyone who isn't aware of what happened, in chapter 5 of the current Emu event, there's a scene where Nene, Rui and the Virtual Singers are talking about what would cheer Emu up. The vsingers all talk about how much Emu loves spending time with Nene, leading to the following exchange

If you look for them, any fan TL of this scene will be something similar to this:

Luka: ...Fufu. Emu-chan really loves Nene-chan, doesn't she? Nene: Th-that's nothing special...

EN's official translation is this:

So what's the issue? I'll start with Luka's part. In the original text, she uses the word daisuki, which can mean to "like a lot" or "love". It's a word you will see frequently in the idol/idol-adjacent genre of games, due to its ambiguity in that it can be read as either platonic or romantic when used towards a person, and often will be used in ambiguous situations so that it's harder to confirm the writers' intentions either way. so here, fans of the emu/nene ship could view the fact that emu loves spending her time with nene as more on the romantic side, but people who don't like the ship could view it as platonic and move on.

while they didn't translate daisuki directly, Luka's line still works, and still contains the ambiguity that works as ship tease in the original text. it's a perfectly fine localisation that still conveys the original intent. despite that, there is something to be said about EN's consistent refusal to translate daisuki as love in most instances when it's not used on An/Kohane (but then again, EN has literally teased An/Kohane on their twitter account so is it all that surprising?).

Here's some examples:

Aibou no koto ga daisuki de / he loves his partner -> he cares about his partner very much (The Power of Unity chapter 7 when Kaito is comparing Arata to Akito and Toya)

HARUKA-CHAN, DAISUKI DAYOOOO!!! / HARUKA-CHAN, I LOOOOOVEEE YOU!!! -> You're the best!!! (Dear Me, As I Was Back Then chapter 4 when minori is at an ASRUN concert. this one isn't actually that great of a localisation)

Honachan no koto daisuki dakara. Kore de iinda yo. / I love Honachan, so this is fine. -> I want what's best for her. And this is it. (Leo/need main story chapter 14 after Saki tells Honami she won't bother her anymore)

Minna daisuki de - taisetsuna tomodachi na no / I love them all - they're my dearest friends -> They're all amazing, and very dear to me. (Leo/need main story chapter 17. this isn't good either)

What's particularly amusing about that last one is that there's a second official translation for it that I assume was done by JP staff (since EN never promoted doing the Journey to Bloom subs like they did back when they provided subs for Petit SEKAI) that actually keeps the word daisuki as love.

Yeah. I love all my friends - and they mean the world to me.

It's a better localisation than the official EN team one.

Questionable localisation choices aside, Luka's line is fine and is actually in line with the original. The issue with this localisation very much lies with Nene's part, because that is an entirely new line.

In the original text, Nene's "that's just normal" or "that's nothing special" or however you choose to TL it, is meant to be her questioning Luka's statement, since all the things that the other vsingers said that Emu liked were pretty normal things like going shopping and playing video games with nene. To Nene, these things are normal activities for them to do together, so she gets embarrassed by the fact that Luka concludes from that information that Emu loves Nene. When I dissect it like that I think you can really tell what the writers were going for here lol.

"That's just us being friends" does still convey the idea that Nene thinks these activities aren't anything out of the ordinary and she isn't sure why the vsingers are picking these out as some of Emu's favorite things to do, but it's very different from the original line. "But those are just normal things we do together" is something I just came up with on the spot, but it's a lot closer to the original text and still conveys the same meaning. The fact they changed the line to "that's just us being friends" is, honestly, not even subtle that they're covering up queer subtext. The original scene was very clearly written in as ship tease, and EN mentioning "friends" for no reason, especially since the word nor anything close to it was not used in the original, is instantly a red flag because it's like the go-to for queerbaiting and censorship. This was intentional. There was no need for them to specify that the relationship is platonic, Luka's part is ambiguous for a reason so that fans can view it how they like.

Just to top all this off, here's Rin's original line just before that Luka+Nene interaction:

Oh, and! And! She said that playing games with Nene-chan is also super fun!

And here's Rin's line from the official EN translation:

That's not the same thing, but even more weirdly, the incorrect part (super fun->really loves) is a correct translation for the part changed in Luka's line. So, they can do it, they are willing to say "really loves", just not in the right places. Maybe because Rin's part is less personal than Luka's part? It's strange actually, this isn't the first time they've done this either. Off the top of my head I can think of an example from Shiho's Varied Kindness 2* story where they translated the word "suki" as really loves, despite that being much stronger than the original word used (and the fact that daisuki is used a lot in the Leo/need stories and it's incredibly rare if not entirely unknown for them to translate it correctly).

It's not subtle that they're trying to remove implications of the characters possibly being queer, they did it in curtain call and they did it in walk on and on, and multiple times before then too. And considering some of the content in this year's events and the amount of times they say daisuki alone, it's gonna keep happening. honestly i hate the fact that i keep trying to justify the translations in these posts. these translations are intentional. what happened in the curtain call translation back in october says enough. when a character who uses explicitly romantic language towards another guy passes as a straight character in the translation you know they're doing it on purpose.

oh and once again, it's only the EN server that has this issue. The scene in question was translated almost word-for-word on the TW and KR servers.

read fan translations. they're better than what EN gives us and people put a lot of effort into them.

[morganbritton132]

The upside is that if the whole Wayne family is at an event and something crazy happens in the city, you can draw straws to see who gets to leave.

The downside is that your family gets to come up with the reason why you left and Dick just told 1.5 million viewers during a live interview that Tim had to go because he has IBS.

[romajuliettesupremacy]

we, collectively, moved on from the fact that alisa got infected with the bug things and almost died wayyyyyy to quickly

[ssruis]

Very funny that when tsukasa like. Messes up or gets upset about something very minor he’s like I’m literally a disgrace I will remember this moment for the rest of my life I will never forget this failure for as long as I live. & then when he actually has a reason to be upset he’s just like 🙁 (doesn’t say anything)

[xitty]

Louder for the back row again: Hiyori does not hate Eichi

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD at "The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise Of Electro" fan event in Singapore (March 26, 2014)

I’m amazed how he’s practically not aged from 2014 to now!

(source)

[kordbot]

mwah :]

more poppyganda for the @bug-oc tournament! poppy is a true gentleman and working hard to uphold that title, so why not vote for him HERE to let him advance to round 3? and if you don't care for poppy much, still consider voting for him as this is my FOURTH propaganda post in this tournament already. i care about my firefly man so much!! #POPPYSWEEP !!

[smolalienbee]

since finishing up the next chapter of sixpence is taking forever, here's a funny snip. that chapter is a real rollercoaster

[byberbunk2069]

Netrunner looking for her netrunner ex.

[egophiliac]

Waittt, what did you mean with your last post?? I don't want to spoil myself so I'm waiting for the nightmare before christmas event to arrive on the eng server before diving deep into the wiki. But I HAVE to know; were there hints of Lilia joining in for a rerun or a sequel ??? Your big "OR IS IT???" filled me with way too much hope !! please tell me it wasn't a bit : (

there was a little teaser at the end that implied there'll be a sequel event, though we don't really know anything beyond that! I do think it's likely we'll get the other half of the cast in it, even if it's just wishful thinking on my part. 🤞🤞 NIGHTMARE SUITS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

as far as I know there's been no confirmation on whether it's going to be next year's Halloween event or a separate thing (the snow makes me think it'll be more Christmas-themed, or otherwise more related to the plot of the original movie) so. we're probably going to have to wait quite a while before we find out anything solid. :') they really do love just dropping these things on us and then watching us go absolutely wild with speculation while they watch like

[thehigherthetide]

to that one person on tiktok who said wyll is easy to find and people who don’t recruit him just hate him,

i’m stupid. i want to dance with wyll and smooch him but i never encountered him or karlach and i didn’t even know minthara was a companion and just killed her and stole her underwear.

[arolesbianism]

Almost got too comfortable with liking a whole 3 25ji originals and tried listening to a 25ji cover playlist before I remembered that I do indeed still very much not like a good 99% of their covers

[mizufae]

I now get a little “mutuals” tag on activity created by said mutuals and I do not like it! It feels exclusionary, like it’s saying the people who I’ve interacted with for years yet never followed for esoteric reasons or the people who regularly like and reblog things with no notes or other interaction and when I go to their tumblr they post like a hundred things a day and I could never follow them because I am a completionist, and other such folks are somehow not just as delightful to receive notification of activity from as my moots. Like, I’ve been mutuals with some of you freaks for like fifteen years but that doesn’t mean I don’t also have a bunch of people who I don’t follow who I regard with jocular familiarity like a quiet yet mysterious neighbor who are just as important! HARRUMPH

[smilesflower]

anyway goodnight moontuals