#but something gets lost in translation

[geekthefreakout]

I imagine the greatest fic scenes in my head. I've just moved myself to tears with one. But I know if I write it down it won't come out the same way, so I guess it's going to stay in my head.

Such is the story of 90% of the fics I come up with. Sigh.

[t-u-i-t-c]

to flee - to run away from a place or situation of danger

[fisheito]

I had a thought I’d like to share with the class. So we know that Kuya is super bored all the time but what if he sets up traps for Quincy. Bullying Quincy is his step above bullying normal forest creatures. Kuya sets up puzzles for his ex husband to solve and just sits in a tree watching him get out of his traps. Quincy takes into account the possibility of getting caught in a trap whenever he goes out hunting and includes it in his schedule. (I love them, they’re so husband.)

Quincy has also probably learned that the best method for dealing with Kuya is to run away because it deprives him of any enjoyment. Kuya is probably so pissed off when he does this tho like: “>:0 How dare you not fall into the trap I spent hours constructing for my own amusement.” So Quincy probably knows he has to solve at least one of Kuya’s traps per week if not he risks Kuya going insane. It’s his enrichment.

Now onto my thought: What if in one of his latest traps he turns Quincy into an animal, just for the funsies. Latest trap turns Quincy into one of those giant tortoises if he doesn’t solve it quickly enough. Then Kuya kidnaps him and keeps him in his garden. Quincy is completely fine with this because Kuya will probably just turn him back when he gets bored.

Meanwhile Topper is like, “Oh shit, I gotta go tell Eiden” so he makes his way to Aster’s mansion to tell him. Except Eiden is having a hard time understanding Topper so he gets Yakumo. Yakumo also thinks he’s misunderstanding what Topper is saying. Then they think about it for two seconds and are like, “Yeah that does sound like something Kuya would do.” So they get their asses over to the Wood Territory, accompanied by Rei because he’s curious about how Kuya managed to turn Quincy into an animal.

Meanwhile Quincy is living his best life eating the vegetation in Kuya’s garden and not having responsibilities. He’s killing two birds with one stone so he’s not complaining. Eiden gets there and the conversation goes something like this.

Eiden: Why would you turn him into a giant turtle, you need to turn him back.

Kuya: First of all he’s a tortoise. Second, he likes it.

Rei: What kind of kink is this?

Quincy: *munching on a piece of lettuce*

Eventually they convinced Kuya to turn him back but you know damn well he’s gonna do something similar next week.

Thank you for sharing with the class...!! 🤓🔍🤏🧐 why..... you certainly brought up many ideas that i never considered. a very enligtheninggn story. . . a narrative of silly proportions.. makes me want to eat some lettuce

[zishuge]

我找你找得好辛苦啊! The Spirealm 致命游戏 (2024) | Ep. 57

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[okitanoniisan]

new rgg fans will never know what they missed back in ye olden days of the fandom (like, 2019), doubly so now that scott strichart's deleted his twitter and jon riesenbach's privated. twitter was so fucking fun and then whatever-the-hell at sega of america happened and caused a fucking snowball effect and now we have shitass localization and resulting discourse that makes every release nigh unbearable, misinformation, confusion, people complaining about "bad writing/mischaracterization" not realizing it's because of the shitass english loc, i'm sitting here like jesus christ these loc bitches massacred saejima's character voice, people will never see him as he was intended, as original yakuza 5 localization Correctly painted him, and now they're coming for kiryu. god help us. we used to be a proper fandom. before everyone was subjected to the remastered localizations and shaky eng characterization. no one had even played yakuza 3-5, people still called morning glory "sunshine" orphanage, kiryu was our only protagonist and people still called him "boring", it was beautiful...

anyway gaiden uses affective instead of effective because the current localization team is full of careless dumbasses who don't give a fuck about ensuring they're using correct english grammar and this is not an isolated incident

[kuririhimitsukichi]

Keroro Movie 4 Deleted Scene: Shion's Prologue

Back in spring 2009, the Keroro movie was about to release in theaters, which left the fandom outside of Japan, myself included, to wait for the DVD release before we could see it. However, at this point I had been learning Japanese for a good few years and decided to import the book through a specialty shop I sometimes went to so I could try reading it.

However, when the DVDs finally released and I got to see the movie itself, I noticed two scenes I had read in the book were missing, one of which was particularly surprising since I had seen fully animated footage from it in the previews that were edited into the opening credits.

I don't remember if there were other deleted scenes, perhaps I'll do a full translation of the book someday (yes, it's the story of the movie, but there's some nice flourishes), I'm not sure where my copy is, but the preview for the e-book version includes both scenes.

This scene in particular takes on an interesting tone when you consider that Shion means "Aster"; both that her nickname is flower related (possibly because of her friendship with Momoka), and that this specific flower signifies regret at how things turned out, but also means grace & wisdom.

For now enjoy the first of the two deleted scenes below the cut, this one was right at the very beginning of the film:

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One year ago. On the outskirts of Paris.

Beneath the lead coloured, overcast sky, church bells chimed and echoed sadly. The time for partings had come.

It was a lavish funeral for the Dracoon family, a noble and ancient, ancient European bloodline. The gathered crowd of attendees spoke in hushed tones about the remaining family.

Ultimately, they were idly gossiping.

Things like "The Dracoon family fortune will go to her, can she manage it?" or "What can she do as just one person?" or "Even though she lost her parents, she doesn't shed a single tear, such a cold girl" Amongst this group, there wasn't a single person you could let your guard down in front of.

The remaining family....

Standing before her parents' gravestones was a young girl, only about 10 years of age. She had been left alone as her parents journeyed to heaven. Lead by the hand of her brawny butler, the girl placed flowers on her mother and father's caskets. The girl kept her lips pressed in a firm line as she looked forward.

While she felt like a gaping hole was opening in her heart, she kept up a brave front, despite seeming as if she could crumble at any moment.

"Lady Felicitashion" Her butler, having read her feelings, leaned in and whispered "It is acceptable to cry during sad times".

"No Pierre. I must not cry, for I am the head of the Dracoon family"

Even if she felt alone, she would not cry. No matter how lonely she was. Even if she she felt unbearably lonely. Even if because of that she became unable to smile.

This loneliness was....

The loneliness of being completely isolated, because nobody could understand how you felt. If she could forget it all, how nice it would be....

And so, our tale begins with the always unchanging everyday life in the Hinata household.

[goldentigerfestival]

Fun fact for those who don't know: it was actually Adecor (the tall, super skinny knight in the Schwann Brigade) who wrote the wanted notice on the notice board in Capua Nor. The localization removed the context that indicates that it was him (they might not have connected the dots to the catchphrase/tic at the end of the sentences and so dropped it, thinking it didn't fit, but that's just my guess), but the indication is in the fact that he leaves his catchphrase/tic at the end of his sentences on the board in JP.

お尋ね者!凶悪脱獄犯!!

黒い服の胸元をいつも開けている黒髪長髪の男なのであ~る!この輩を見つけた者は騎士団に報告するのであ~る!

Translation of the notice board:

Wanted! Vicious fugitive!!* He is a man with long black hair who always wears black clothing with the chest exposed, I say*! Anyone who finds him should report him to the knights, I say!!

*The term used here can also mean "escaped prisoner", which Yuri is.

*Adecor's catchphrase in JP is であ~る (a lengthily pronounced である), which is the dead giveaway it was him. This would basically be "it is" by itself, if they translated it directly, but that can sound weird in some of his English sentences. Verbal tics don't necessarily have to make sense in context, but my guess is they wanted a middle ground for it.

Sure hope it was also Adecor who took it down. 😒

[milfbrainrot]

i feel like i type so much more than is reasonable when i do talk to people but i also don't get to socialize a ton so i just have soooo many words in me and if i'm like, tired or short on time, it is so much harder to restrain to the already-pushing-it point i can sometimes manage ;-;

[ratatatastic]

no im still on maffhew calling the forsymaffhew lovechild a missile

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Someone help I can’t stop laughing 😭😭😭

[angelpaperclip]

My peeduo crumbs today were Etoiles finding Tubbo on the map, but getting distracted & upset by the size of Tubbo's hole. Purgatory did shit for Etoiles feelings about the Controversial Hole. He still hates it as much as ever lmfao

[bittsandpieces]

Saw a cutesy frilly lingerie set today that, upon closer inspection, had "Baby bAy" written on it, but the font really made it look like "Baby bOy", and I thought. Hm. Bitts would probably like that

are you sure it wasn't intended to say baby boy and the font made it look a bit like bay?? because that seems a bit more likely to me

[skhardwarevers1]

who’s gonna be the “what have I ever done to hurt you?” To my “you threw a 64 pack of crayons at me, that hurt a lot”

[after-witch]

Should...should I see Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes again this week.

I've already seen it twice

I feel like... I need to see it again???

[amandab821]

why is it "reverse bond" instead of "reverse bind"

like "bind" is where you make something match your movement

and "reverse bond" is where you make yourself match something else's movement. the literal opposite of bind

this has been bothering me since the day they announced it lol