#ch: the speaker

[hanasnx]

MINORS DNI 18+

MODERN!ANAKIN SKYWALKER is happy to see you when you stop at his garage to drop off his lunch. His coworkers know about you, wolf-whistling as a joke when he wraps a grease-streaked sweaty arm around you to tug you into him, greeting you with a wet kiss.

"Don't get her all dirty, Skywalker." one taunts from afar. His companion elbows him.

"Nah, he'll do that later."

"Ignore them. Long day." Anakin speaks against your lips, but you're unbothered, an amused grin gracing your features instead. His hand pats your behind lovingly, "What'd you bring me? Smells good."

"Some leftover roast from last night. Peas, carrots, sliced apples."

"Anything sweet?"

"Chocolate covered pretzels."

"I don't want the peas." You follow him under the shade of the shop with a frown on your face.

"But I made them special!"

There's a tarp that he lifts for you, and you duck under his arm. An inside look at the inner workings of the auto-body profession, and your eyes wander. When a peer approaches him, you notice how Anakin tugs the toothpick from his mouth, using it to point at him as he addresses him. You don't register the words until you realize he's speaking another language. Is that Spanish?

It's rapid, a back-and-forth exchange as you watch him argue like he's spoken it his entire life. Too quick to register anything he might've said, just that they both looked tired and upset. It's kind of... attractive. Not only is he a renaissance man, but he looks hot doing it. So effortless, so sweaty. When he returns to you, his hand guides you at the small of your back to lead you to the back breakroom. Thankfully, it's air conditioned.

"I didn't know you could speak Spanish." you tell him in admiration, and bite down on your lower lip. He has to pull you out of the way of a door beam because you're not paying attention to your path, hooded eyes glued to him as your mind wanders. What else could you get him to say? Does he know anything dirty? "It was kinda... hot."

He regards you with a look, drawing you to his side to speak under his breath. "Cállate, mami."

[petrichal]

One Piece 1133 talk: Praise Me for Living

i just wanted to open this with I WANT TO PELT SPANDINE AND THAT FUCKING SON OF HIS WITH ROCKS SO BAD OH MY GODDDD

"I'll never forget the sounds of the screams that emerged from the fire" THOSE WERE CIVILLIANS. ON THE ISLAND YOU ORDERED A BUSTER CALL ON. I HOPE YOU CHOKED IN YOUR GRAVE AND SUFFER IN HELL I HATE YOU

(kind of a moot point but one other thing i wanna say when I was reading through the raws was that Spandine says “ガキの皮を被った悪魔だ”/"That's a demon wearing the skin of a child" here which - to me - felt more visceral than the translation. still an insane thing to say about a child though, obviously.

edit: I was thinking how fucked up it was that literally everyone around her believed that she truly was the devil's child, but with descriptions like that (+ rumors spreading about how she can use "freakish sorcery" [-> devil fruits not being common in the Blues?], she'd "slit your throat in the night", and "no human emotions", like she's not human at all) you can see how easy it was for people to get brainwashed into this wrong idea of her when she was young. Government manipulation in, i guess, the entirety of West Blue at the time, ran deep. anyways)

With that outta the way, this chapter is masterful. Im gonna cry. Ive cried already throughout a third of my reading for this chapter, it's just so good. Nico Robin I love you so much

Though its unfortunate that we have to see Spandine again, Oda knows what he's doing bringing back Robin's tragedy at the start of the chapter. We know her story, we've seen her flashback, but it's an entire other thing to see it again in Elbaf, the arc where we know the context of, that Saul is alive, and it gives us a clue that that is where the chapter is heading towards.

Also isn't it crazy that when the dialogue frames Robin as this "dangerous", "unfeeling" person with no heart, the visual we're presented with is her crying as she sifts through garbage to search for food, and then sharing it with a dog?? Hello??? And the panels before that goes "The government won't go into detail about the story" for fear that "the truth" might "traumatize the children", which is CRAZY when slapped upon an image of cipher pol agents with guns actively hunting down a child??? The juxtaposition of Spandine's dialogue and the images that are shown is very telling, it's just so well done.

TW: discussions of suicide (for this part)

We know that Robin was ostracized as a child. We know this. Doesn't make it hurt any less, though. Especially (and especially) when it's shown on the pages clearly of how it affected her.

What got me thinking when I saw this again was that all of West Blue was probably fed this lie from the World Government. Every island she went to knew who she was, literally everyone was warned to look out for her, that she was dangerous and should be turned in. And it's not like travelling out of West Blue was safe, nor was it probably an option that existed for Robin back then- like, she was eight!! How was she supposed to go across the Red Line, the Calm Belt?? She was truly boxed in. She must've felt that there was no other way out. Of course she'd turn to suicide.

That panel of her at the cliff honestly broke me. It's not like it wasn't implied at all back when her flashback was first shown; Her circumstances were difficult for her and it wouldn't be out of left field to think that she might have considered dying. To have it drawn on a page that she considered it, looked down from a cliff, and the fact that the only thing keeping her from jumping was her mother's words and Saul's promise was genuinely heartbreaking. She was so strong to have gone through all of that, she deserves the whole world and more actually

Cut back to the present and she lived through it all and here she is with her family, a place where she belongs aaaaaa 🥲 I love that Luffy gets all huffy (hah) over Robin saying that she can go alone, saying that a captain needs to pay their respects to those who have helped their crew, that it's the honorable thing to do. Sounds like a certain someone, ey? (Ace & Shanks lol, he remembers Makino's lessons from all those years ago too ;v;).

Then they all insist to go with her and it's so cute and I was like oh when did she change her clothes and $@!#>}! ITS THE SAME FIT SHE WORE WHEN SHE MET SAUL FOR THE FIRST TIME!! SAUL'S "FALLEN AND WON'T GET UP" IS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GREET HER SO HE DECIDED TO JUST FACEPLANT ON THE BEACH BECAUSE THATS HOW HE MET HER FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! ITS SO SILLY BUT I STARTED TEARING UP??? WHAT????AND THEN THE PARALLELS:

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

my heart...... my heart.....augghjkjsdh..... (speechless)

The fact that the first thing he tells her was about how Ohara's sacrifice wasn't in vain, that traces of them still remain, like Robin, did you hear Vegapunk's message?? That was the message from the people of Ohara, their voices are still being heard!! was so goddang wholesome.

And Robin hears this, and she hears about how Saul survived and the things he heard other people call her, and he's getting angry on behalf of her again but all she wanted (and perhaps, what she truly needed this whole time) was something else;

For Saul to praise her for having survived.

(The Viz translation isn't ~wrong~ with Robin's line here, but I wanted to point out how it was put originally; Instead of "I want to hear nice things about how I survived!", the raws read “生きたこと… 褒めてほ��い！”, which, as I understood it, "I want you to praise me... for being alive/having survived!". The chapter title has it as "Nice Things" but the original was “褒めてほしい”/ "I want you to praise (me)". And this probably seemed self-conceited in english?? and that's why it's translated like that idk, i just thought its nicer in jp)

But the fact that Robin is asking this of Saul and the fact that she's able to make that request in the first place is where I sobbed because this is what Robin wants to hear!!! It's a childish, selfish request, and it's something she wasn't able to wish for / doesn't allow herself to wish for before because she thought Saul/anyone she loved from her past was dead this whole time or that she didn't deserve it, but Saul is alive, and it's the first step she needs to take to truly heal!! Her changing her clothes and cutting her hair to seem more like herself when she was younger is a deliberate choice, this is the part of her that needs closure, the part of her that went through all the trauma the world had given her, and she's healing her inner child!! She needed to hear this from Saul!! She deserves this so much!!! (im rambly if this doesnt make any sense im sorry khfdjk)

And Saul laughs, and says of course!/“勿論だ！”, no questions asked, and the unconditional love just broke me down man i cant

Note that Robin was smiling this entire time (maybe from the start of the arc? or at least since she cut her hair) and leading up to the last page was when she finally started breaking down. They're crying, the crew's crying, Luffy looking on so fondly, happy for her, and I'm crying. I love One Piece so much, I love these dorks. I don't think I'll forget this last page for my life, it's one of the best moments in this series to date.... Truly the Robin chapter of all time <3

bonus: lmfao?? maybe they'll let him down once they get back for the festivities but rip bozo

[u3pxx]

oi, chukki!

[dkettchen]

native english speakers learn how to pronounce basic german sounds even vaguely correctly (like you seem to manage with say french loan words) challenge 2024 - difficulty level: impossible apparently

[mellotronmkll]

linnells pronunciation on o tannenbaum is actually really not bad at all except for the "du grünst nicht nur..." line which he butchers really adorably badly

[tiredassmage]

smth smth... Back in Black

[ellimist]

Lmao linguistic wikipedia pages be listing off countries and then add shit like “and several African countries” or worse, “and elsewhere” like this isn’t a newspaper article and African countries aren’t a hegemony, name that shit

[fancydunamancy]

So, out of curiosity

People who don't speak Czech, how do you pronounce "Mucha", as in the painter?

[todayworldnews2k21]

CM has promised to resume Sujala Sravanthi works soon: Ayyanna Patrudu

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[hanasnx]

hi indy <3 OKAY so ik ur thirsts for anakin aren’t open rn but i had this idea after listening to music on the way home and i had to share with u 😭

https://www.tumblr.com/hanasnx/731661157123899392/modernanakin-skywalker-is-happy-to-see-you-when

ANAKIN SPEAKING SPANISH IN THIS yeah well i can imagine he’s also picked up on popular spanish/latin music from his coworkers and there’s this one song called moscow mule by bad bunny and there’s a lyric that says “te vo'a dar duro pa' que no me compare” which is roughly translated to “i’ll give it to you so hard so no one compares/beyond comparion” i can literally just imagine anakin fucking you soooo hard and rough because in his mind, he wants NO ONE to compare to him and no one can compare to the way he fucks you and knows your body, he’s just so possessive

queue anakin fucking you to the most sensual dirty sex songs in spanish and him chuckling because you have no idea what it means (or maybe you do if you ur a spanish speaker)

— link.

so my thirsts right now are indefinitely open! on my navigation page you’ll see a link on the word “thirsts” which will take you to the page of characters i accept thirsts for <3 so thirst away

listening to the song rn and this hits tbh like the beat immediately caught my attention.

i love the hc that anakin picks up on his coworker’s music because i know some primary english speakers happen to listen to mostly english songs which is like whatever yk like you listen to what you know and all that, but i think anakin not only listens to a language diverse discography but he prefers music in which he can’t understand the english lyrics because the music style distorts them, songs in other languages, and music with no words at all. with spanish songs he can catch some words and he got introduced to them through his coworkers radio i just love that. i can see his coworkers getting hype over a specific song and he’s working real hard but they’re kinda goofing off and they make him say some of the words cos they’ve made him listen to it soo many times

i love the idea that he listens to dirty spanish songs and thinks it’s soo cute you have no idea they’re singing about splitting you tf open and that’s what he’s doing to you rn

[schadenfreudich]

Whenever I see a username on tumblr that is in german, I mentally do the Spider-Man pointing meme

[epivanosilon]

reading demon slayer: chapter 8 adjectives

title: 兄ちゃん (にいちゃん) || big brother

official english title: big brother

優秀 – superior, excellent, brilliant, outstanding | ゆうしゅう

[evilvillain123456789]

Me: *Fake ass sick voice* "hey.. not feelin too hot, gonna have to call-"

My Manager: "You beat off so hard you threw up didn't you?"

Me: "What? No I-"

Manager: "You did-"

Me: "I didn't! I just-"

Coworker: *Very faintly due to distance and the fact that this has been on speaker* "hey boss can yo help re ch the bell pe p pers on the t shel in the w l k in?"

Manager: *Muffled, turned away from phone* "give me a second"

...

Manager: "You totally beat off so hard you threw up last night dude! You stayed up till like, 6 am, jackin' off even though you KNEW it was a work-"

Me: "That's not true man! I just- I think I have a cold, there's a bug going aroun-"

Manager: "-night, and then you woke up at 1 PM this afternoon, and you did it again!"

Manager: "You did! I know you did!"

Me:

Manager:

Me:

Me: "Well can I at least-"

Manager: "Sure bro thanks for the heads up"

Me: "Thanks"

Manager: "No problem" *Hangs up*

[atomatowriter]

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about an NPC that I made for one arc of one game that I haven't even delved into a fifth as much as I could or probably should have...but Dessa gives me a lot of Thala vibes.

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Exodus 4: God Works Out the Arrangements for Moses' Mission in Egypt

1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he replied.

3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 

4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 

5 “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

6 Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.

7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

8 Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. 

9 But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

10 Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 

12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

13 But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”

14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 

15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 

16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 

17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.”

Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”

19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.” 

20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

21 The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 

22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, 

23 and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”

24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. 

25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. 

26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)

27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. 

28 Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.

29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, 

30 and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, 

31 and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

[koushikrockboy]

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