#hope you enjoy these clips I gathered of Justin

[jherbo10]

Thanks to Elle for the reminder that paintball Justin exists ❤️

This man’s humor is my favorite 🥰 he’s got me grinning too much 🤭

🎥:Darealmike_dub

[amintyworld]

LITTOH Chapter 3: By Your Side

A/N: I’d like to sincerely apologize for the lack of updates. Life got in the way, per usual. Anyway, It’s time to expand a bit on our side characters for this story, a bit of a break from the main storyline. Still disaster gays all around. Enjoy! - Minty

Summary: Remy falls for the new intern while Patton tries to help out his best friend and secret crush in his time of need.

TW: Stealing, having a crush, Blushing, sleep deprivation, overworking, Logicality, Remile (let me know if I missed any!)

Masterlist

Remy walked into Virgil’s room to gather the trash. An intern’s job is never done. His friend greeted him as he entered. “What’s up, Koffee Kween?”

Remy smiled. “Nothing much, Emo.” He grabbed the barrel and and held it above, dropping the trash into his rolling bin. “Hope you liked the roof. Went through a lot of trouble to snag the keys for you.”

Virgil smirked. “Don’t worry, they won’t find the key this time.”

“Speaking of which,” Remy said ever so smoothly, “Dee said you brought a guest…”

Virgil gave him a look, reading his mind. “Remy, he’s just a friend.”

Remy smirked. “Whatever you say.” He smiled, turning his attention to his trash.

“He had a bad day. So did I. So we went up to the roof. Big deal!” Virgil said. Remy set the trash can down with a loud thud.

“You’ve never brought anyone to the roof. Not even me.” Remy said. “All I’m saying, Emo, is that he must be important enough for you to bring him there, and well, I’m happy for you.”

“Um...I hope I’m not interrupting…”

Remy heard steps behind him, and he turned to meet birght chestnut eyes behind black frames. He gave a nervous smile as he looked around. “This isn’t the Nurse’s station, is it?”

He had a pure white lab coat with the blue ribbon all interns wear. His face seemed sun-kissed, with feckles and curly light brown hair. He was short, with a bow tie clipped on his white shirt. Remy felt his heart skip a beat, and he shook his head to focus, swallowing before speaking. “No...No, it’s down the hall…”

“Oh, sorry for interrupting, I’m new, and this hospital is huge.”

Virgil sat up on his bed. “I’m sure my friend Remy here can show you were the Nurse’s Station is. He’s been an intern for almost two years.” He nudged his friend. “Right, Rems?”

“R-right…” He said, dazed. I mean, he couldn’t think except just look at him, and he could hear his heart beat loudly in his ears. Virgil gave a nervous smile to the intern.

“Sorry, he’s just a little tired, you know?” Virgil said. “Remy, can you show this nice intern to the Nurse’s station?”

“N-nurse...station…” He said, dazed, before blinking, snapping out of it. “Oh, yes...yes, yes! The Nurse’s Station! Right this way.”

He dropped the barrel, turning to leave, giddly smiling. Virgil giggled. “Someone’s a little gay…” He whispered, loud enough for Remy to hear.

He giggled even louder as a blush spread across his cheeks at his words.

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“And over here is the main entrance to the ward, the Nurse’s Station is just over two lefts and a right.” Remy said, leading the intern toward the station.

“You really know your way around this place.” The intern said smling. “Oh! I forgot to introduce myself, silly me.” He reached out his hand as Remy took it. “My name’s Pacani. Emile Pacani.”

“Remy Justin, at your service.”

“Remy. I really like that name.” Emile said, smiling. If Emile kept this up, Remy was going to melt to the floor with the amount of times he was flushing pink.

“T-thanks, but it’s nothing special.” Remy said, before backing into a wooden door with a scanner at the side. “Oh! It uh, it looks like we’re here.”

“Oh..” Emile said.

“Just, uhm.. Scan your badge and turn the handle, okay?”

“Okay...I guess I’ll see you around?” Emile asked, hopeful.

“I guess so…” Remy said. “Don’t worry, the first day is always the hardest. If you, um, need any more help, I’ll be around, okay?”

“Okay. Bye, Remy.” Emile said, turning to leave. Remy turned as well, heading back to the room to resume his work. That was life - you fall for someone, and they leave without giving you a second thought…

“Wait-!”

Remy stopped, turning around. “Yeah..?”

“Wanna meet for lunch?”

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Patton always held Logan close to his heart. He meant the world to him, and he just wished Logan could see that. He held the stack of paitent files close as he walked through the halls, trailing Logan.

They took college classes together, sharing a dorm for those eight years. When they were partnered together, Patton couldn’t contain his excitement of working with his best friend. They had interned together, Logan bringing Patton coffee when he had stayed up late, overworking himself and staying up until 1 am finishing everything. Logan had never left his side, and Patton had never left his.

When Logan had called about his promotion as a resident, Patton was more than overjoyed. Then, Logan had argued for a position for him - it was only 9 months ago everything had changed, and Patton couldn’t be prouder of Logan.

“Just set those on the table, I’ve got to look through them before the meeting…”

Logan’s hair was messy, his glasses trying to hide the dark bags under his eyes. He ran his fingers through his hair with a sigh, going to his computer, typing something.

“Logan, are you okay?” Patton asked after setting the files down next to him.

“I’m fine, just…”

“No, you’re not.” Patton said. “Logan, I haven’t ever seen you this bad before.”

“It’s fine, Patton. I’ll be fine…”

“Logan!” Patton said, hands on his hips. “You look like a raccon, there’s a half eaten bagel in your pocket, and you’re wearing two different socks! Logan, you aren’t fine.”

Logan paused for a moment. His desk was a complete wreck of wrappers and empty coffee cups, and he looked down to notice that Patton was right about the socks. He gave a small chuckle.

“Huh. I didn’t even notice.” Logan’s voice was dull. Too dull.

“Logan, are you sure you’re up for the meeting?” Patton said, awfully concerned. When Logan pushed himself too much into his work, he neglected nearly anything else.

Logan sighed again. What he would give for a nap right now. “Even if I’m not, I have to be. They trusted me enough to handle being the Head of Emergency Affairs. I can’t let them down.”

Patton’s eyes took the new resident in. Logan wouldn’t like it if he forced him to take a day off. The poor guy could barely stand as it is. He couldn’t baby him anymore, taking him home despite his protests. He sighed, closing his eyes.

“Go to the meeting, but I’m expecting you to get at least the night shift off. I know Thomas hasn’t found someone for the night shift yet, but he can’t expect you to fill that responsibillity. If he really needs someone tonight, I’ll take it.”

Logan shook his head quickly. “No. Patton, I can’t ask you to do that.”

Patton smirked. “I never said you were asking, Lo.” Patton said. “Now, it’s time you high tail it to that meeting, right?”

Logan yawned, giving a small smile at his best friend. “Right.”

There was something special about Patton, something his frazzled and tired mind couldn’t quite define...

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[skammovistarplus]

Culture and Translation - S01E09

SKAM+ Clip 4 will get its own post because it’s a fairly long clip and also really dense in terms of content. For now, let’s all marvel as Eva’s life goes fantastically off the rails. 

CLIP 1: “Now I have really shit the bed,” Eva says. But that bed will be further soiled soon.

Yo soy Lara y le parto la cara, pero mucho más. Se ha quedado corta (“If I was Lara I’d smash her face harder. I mean, that wasn’t enough”): “Partir la cara” literally means to “break Eva’s face in half,” like you would with a cinder block if you were a martial artist. “Quedarse corta” means that, in the speaker’s opinion, Lara didn’t go far enough and further violence would’ve been socially appropriate in order to make things even between Lara and Eva.

La sueltita (“the trollop”): “Sueltita” literally means “loose,” but the suffix “-ita” makes it a diminutive. So the speaker is calling Eva “loosey,” if that were something you’d say in English.

Ahora sí que la he cagado bien (“now I have really shit the bed”): The literal translation would be something like, “Now I have really shat it out but good.” Don’t mind me, I just enjoy every instance of poop-related language.

El mierda seca que lo ha soltado todo (“the shitstain who ran their mouth”): “Mierdaseca” is literally dry turd, lol. So the literal translation is, “The dry turd who let it all out.”

CLIP 2: Shitting the bed, pt. II

It’s really hard to make out what the boys are saying in this scene. Lucas does say that they (presumably his parents) “están hasta los cojones.” As I’ve mentioned before, “cojones” is the rudest way you could talk about somebody’s balls. It is a lot ruder than saying “balls” in English, but there’s no real good equivalent in American English.

¿Te crees que soy gilipollas? (“Do you think I’m a moron?”): “Gilipollas” is a dual purpose swear word in Spanish. It can either mean “asshole” or someone so dumb that it’s a wonder they can walk and breathe at the same time. It is not ableist language, it has never been a scientific term for people with intellectual disabilities.  

¡Yo no he dicho una puta mierda! (“I haven’t said shit!”): More specifically, Lucas says he hasn’t said “fucking shit.” 😂

Es que me parece flipante (“I’m tweaking out”): Again, Eva uses “flipante,” which is the adjective form of “flipar” (to trip, in a drug sense). Since Eva is having all these (completely wrong) epiphanies right now, I thought I’d do her one better and phrased it as “tweaking out.”

¡Es que me la suda! (“I don’t give a shit!”): Okay, so when Spaniards really, really don’t care about something, we say that whatever it is we don’t care about “me suda la polla” or “me suda el coño.” This literally means that thing you don’t care about is… sweat dripping down your dick, or your pussy, depending. So. Yeah. That’s how little Lucas now cares about Eva’s opinion of him. Sweat off his dick. For the record, yes, this is a fairly rude thing to say, but as you might’ve gathered from these posts, and just from watching Skam España… We use this idiom on the daily. It’s shocking coming from Lucas, but only because he uses it as a Precision F-Strike, not because it’s any stronger than the way the characters usually speak.

CLIP 3: Squad no longer

¿Esto no sera verdad? (“This can’t be true?”): So, right away, Viri has a belligerent tone, and also asks Eva this question. The literal translation is, “This isn’t going to be true?” As in, “this had better not be true, sis.” So Viri puts Eva on the spot with her opening line.

I think the Skam España crew should’ve waited a little longer before shooting this scene, lol. Unless Viri was tagged on one of the pics, there is no fucking way she’d have seen the hate ig unless she was present when it was created. It’s only been three minutes since the pictures were posted.

Ya son ganas de meter mierda (“You really have to be a shit stirrer to pull this”): A more literal translation would be, “You gotta be eager to shit stir.” I reworked it so the meaning came across more clearly.

So I guess a good question is, is what the girls did and said in this clip true to Spanish teens? I think that’s a very complicated question, but worth asking. Obviously, it depends on the person. Viri has her own character arc that we’ll deal with through subsequent posts. When it comes to Amira and Cris, though, my take is this. Spaniards will go hard for a friend. Amira and Cris have needed to be held back from telling Inés what’s what, if not outright fighting her. But, if you go so hard for a friend, you expect reciprocity. You don’t expect to have the rug pulled from under your feet, which is the way Amira and Cris feel. If Eva had told them about her history with Inés beforehand, there’s a chance they’d have told Inés to get over it and fuck off. Eva just didn’t give them the chance to process the info and then make the choice to defend her.

CLIP 4: We’ve reached peak Youth’s Daughter

It took me a while to decide whether I wanted to use “copying” or “cheating,” and it was a total waste of time, because I clearly should’ve gone for “cheating” and not “copying.”

How many remakes have used Youth’s Daughter at this point? It’s even on the soundtrack of the movie Lisa Teige starred in, Battle. Hopefully the remakes avoid song fatigue in the future, although some artists, such as Billie Eilish, Troye Sivan or Mona Haydar, seem almost compulsory.

CLIP 5: Puns are a translator’s nightmare

After squinting at Eva’s exam for a good while, I feel pretty confident about saying that the high school is named after Margarita Manso. Margarita Manso was a painter and general eschewer of rules. It’s worth noting that she was close friends with Federico García Lorca, who was killed by fascists during the Spanish civil war. García Lorca stood accused of being a socialist, a freemason and a homosexual, and was executed. His body has never been found. However, Margarita Manso also married a fascist, Alfonso Ponce de León, who was himself executed by the faction supporting the government. Here’s a pic of Margarita:

No, that’s not the actual name of the high school where they shoot the show. As mentioned elsewhere, Spanish fans can be very intense and it’s in the cast’s best interests to avoid a Nissen situation.

Lucas was not done with that exam, lol. And Eva wasn’t even close to finished, yikes.

Nora sings Lo Malo to Eva. Lo Malo was written by Brisa Fenoy and performed by Aitana (again!) and Ana Guerra. Since the lyrics are a key element of the scene, they’re included in the subs. I just want to explain some of the puns in the lyrics.

Tira porque te toca a ti perder (“Roll because it’s your turn to lose”): “Tira,” in this context, would mean “get out of my face,” but also, “roll the dice.” So, roll the dice because now it’s your turn to lose, but also, get out of my face, I’m over your shit. I hope “roll” helped convey both meanings.

Tiro porque me toca a mí otra vez (“I roll because it’s my turn again”): Another pun about rolling dice. I’m rolling the dice, because I got a second roll of the dice, but also, I’m leaving because I got rid of you, and this time it’s about me.

Pero si me toca, toca, tócame (“But if it’s my turn, touch-a, touch me”): “Toca” can also have several meanings. In this case, it can either mean that it’s my turn (“me toca”) or begging to be touched/stroked/caressed (“tócame”).

As for whether Lo Malo fits the role Baby played in the original… First off, I have to say that William, in that scene, is styled to look like Baby-era Justin Bieber, what with the hood pulled up. Julie Andem is making a connection between the music Noora is embarrassed to listen to, and the boy Noora is ashamed to find hot. There’s nothing embarrassing about liking Aitana and Ana Guerra as artists, per se, other than they got their start at a talent show and dueted on this song because they were contractually obligated to do so. That said, the lyrics fit Nora and Alejandro thematically and, on top of that, the song was really. Seriously. Incredibly. Overplayed in Spain in the summer of 2018, much like Baby was in its time.

Lo llevo muy jodido (“I have a fucking F in it”): I fought with this line so hard, and even as the episode was rendering, I knew I would regret my choice. Alejandro is also making a pun. He says he’s been consistently getting bad grades in English, but he also means that all his efforts to hook up with Nora have failed. There isn’t really a good translation for his line, but if we ever fix our subs, I’d go with, “I’m fucked, if I keep this up.” Or something akin to that!

CLIP 6: Queen Lara

“Hey, dude, give me a sip.” Why did I sub this line? Because it was oddly clear, and it just… seemed like I should… 😬

Tú sabrás el rollo que te llevas con tu novio (“Whatever deal you have with your boyfriend, that’s up to you”): This is one of those lines that took me a while to settle on a translation for. I’m happy with the line, but I’ll expand on what Lara means. She means to say that Eva’s relationship with Jorge is not Lara’s business. When it comes to the part that affects Lara, she doesn’t blame Eva, and fully blames Cristian. Whatever led Eva to kiss Cristian, and whether that’s something Jorge is cool with or isn’t, Lara thinks it’s not her place to judge or speak about.

I think it’s kinda funny that the fandom is chill with Lara reading Cristian’s texts and not regretting doing so, despite the show making it clear that’s not kosher, but thinks Viri is an asshole for posting the Cristian/rando pic (which the show also looked down on when it was the hate ig doing it, to be clear).

CLIP 7: Kicking Eva when she’s down

You don’t know how much I want to know where those stairs are.

Y habíamos quedado (“And you were supposed to come to the party”): Eva says she and Jorge “habían quedado,” which as I explained last post, means they had arranged to meet. In this case, they had arranged that both Eva and Jorge would party at Nora’s. So, not the exact translation, but the best option, given how vague the original sentence is.

Si Quieres Volver by El Imperio del Perro is the song which closes the clip and plays over the credits. I translated the lyrics that are used on the show:

You should understand That I’m in deep shit Any decision Smells bad where I stand

And now I’ll carry The shame on my back And I’ll be yet another person Who’ll apologize wordlessly

Tell me if you want to get back together (5x)

It’s so simple To ruin everything And watch as it burns

Something forces me to go on and Enjoy when it leaves I felt the need To jump in the well There was something else, I couldn’t see it

Tell me if you want to get back together (10x)

Social media:

Some people watch Skam and the remakes without keeping up with the social media aspect of the show. In general, I feel like you can watch Skam without the social media, and not miss anything of importance. But if you watch Skam España season 1 without the social media, you’ll miss a couple important details.

First, while the show was airing, the hate account felt inescapable. It updated very often and at random times, so that the real-time viewer first felt shocked, then tired, then massively over it. Someone who comes into the show late, needs to know that we would sometimes get excited because there was an update, but oh. It was yet more abuse.

Second, a viewer who watches the season without the social media, misses the actual chain of events, which is as follows:

Viri shares the following pic with Inés privately at some point during the week:

Clip 7 drops at 20:40.

Inés uploads the pic to her insta stories at 20:43.

By 20:45, the instagram profile @eva_la_z0rra or @eva_the s1ut, has taken the picture from Inés’ ig stories and cropped it, so that Eva and Cristian are the focus of the pic.

As a sidenote, Inés captions the pic like so: “wow, alex and alba came out cute… 🙊” Álex and Alba are Lucas’ and Eva’s actors’ real names.        

[artificialqueens]

Flying For a Distant Shore, 3

Flying For a Distant Shore

Hello! So it has been awhile, I kind of lost my inspiration for writing during my fall semester of college, but I have recently gotten back into this story, and I’m planning on trying to post more regularly, fingers crossed. Here is part three, hope you enjoy! - StarBright

Part 3: The Meeting

Nothing phased Violet Chachki anymore, and that included Bianca Del Rio.

              Sure, Violet wouldn’t say getting sliced, diced and toasted by the queen of mean was FUN, but unlike Courtney and Adore, who were currently cowering, Violet wasn’t scared of clowns. Violet also knew that no matter how much shade Bianca was throwing, she didn’t actually mean harm, she was just worried about the three of them jumping off of a 150 foot cliff. So Violet arranged her face into a look of boredom and only tuned back into the lecture to hear Raven interject into the tirade. “B, I think that’s enough, they understand.”

Bianca gave Raven her personal stink eye, then turned back. “If I ever catch wind of another fucking death wish attempt, I will personally clip your wings, do you understand?!” Violet made sure to nod along with Adore and Courtney, and Bianca sighed “All right, sit down.”

              As Violet took her seat between Adore and Alaska, she noticed that for the first time in a while, everyone had shown up to a main-land debriefing meeting. Normally, any useful information gained from a trip to the outside world was disseminated among the queens that lived here through gossip. Violet was just wondering what could be so god damn important when Raja rose from her seat and joined Bianca in the center of the room.  “Thank you all for coming today, although I assure you, the ass whipping you just saw wasn’t the reason we called a meeting.” A few chuckles issued from around the room, and Raja winked at Violet before continuing “As I’m sure you’re all aware, B, Rave and I just got back from visiting LA. We were able to trade for most of the stuff that was on the submitted list, so at the end of this meeting, we will pass out the rations. That’s not what this meeting is about.” Raja paused, looking around the room to confirm that everyone was paying attention. “While in LA, we managed to infiltrate a government lab, and we found a fellow member of our community. As such, we managed to break them out, and bring them here. They are very ill, as we all were when we came to this place, but we are hopeful for their recovery and we want all of you to be welcoming. Remember how hard it was for you when you came to this place.” Raja finished speaking, and Raven stood up to join her in the center of the room. “Again, it might be awhile before our newest guest is ready for visitors, but we wanted to inform you guys what was going on. Now, Bianca is going to handle the passing out of rations, and we will let you guys know about the next meeting. Thanks!”

 A general mummer rose over the queens as they got up to form a line, and Violet turned to Alaska “Wow Lasky you were right. A new queen, I didn’t expect that.” “Neither did I” Alaska replied “When Bianca told me that was what the meeting was about I wasn’t sure if it was a joke or not, since it’s been a while since they have brought someone back.” “Did they say her name” Adore poked Violet in the shoulder “Did I miss that?” Violet rolled her eyes at Adore’s method of attention getting and said “Nah Adore. Maybe she hasn’t picked one yet” “Alaska!” The three girls turned as Raja called out to Alaska. “Can you come with me? I need your help, we’ll set aside your rations for you to pick up later.” “Ok,” Alaska said hesitantly, shrugged at Adore and Violet and followed Raja and Raven out of the gathering hall. “What was that about?” Adore turned to Violet with confusion in her eyes. “Honestly Adore, I have no idea.”

Alaska followed behind Raja and Raven as they crossed the bridge connecting the main gathering hall to other sections of the community. Their home had been built up in the trees, the massive jungle forest providing the perfect base for a series of treehouses. Who had originally built this compound no one really knew, but they had managed to add and fix it up to a place that it was a fairly cozy place to live. They lit the houses by torches, and they didn’t have running water in the traditional sense, but a series of pipes and gutters collected rainwater in the treehouses, meaning they rarely had to use their well. All in all, Alaska observed, it was very different from the life she had known as Justin, but it was more of a home then that world had ever been.

 “Alaska,” Raja interrupted her thoughts and she focused back in on what the older queen was saying. “Raven and I have a favor to ask of you. As you heard in the meeting, our newest guest is currently very ill. They need someone to take care of them, at least until they are strong enough to take part in our community. We think that person should be you.” “Why me?” Alaska asked quietly, not wanting to sound bratty but listening for the answer. “You are one of the most compassionate of us, Lasky.” Raven smiled “And while none of us are doctors, we think that Jerick would benefit most from you as their caregiver.” “Oh,” Alaska thought for a moment “I mean, of course I’ll help.”

“Good.” Raja stated, and the trio fell back into silence as they maneuvered across the series of bridges. No words were spoken until they reached a treehouse at the far edge of the community that was usually unused except when they needed a sick bay. Raja approached the door and opened it slowly, and then gestured for Alaska to walk inside. “We will wait out here, so you can see the damage yourself.” Raja’s normally cool tone had a sudden edge to it, and Alaska was suddenly very concerned about what she was about to see. Stepping through the door, Alaska observed the small room, with shelfs of first aid and medicine supplies on one side and a bed against the far wall. Approaching it slowly, Alaska had to hold down the vomit as she took in the poor being laying on the cot.

The person had longish tangled red hair, and their skin looked also translucent and was colored with bruises and cuts that looked to come from a whip. Alaska took note of the shivering and the closed eyes, which could only mean a pretty high fever. However, the worse part was the addition, a pair of light brown wings dusted with red tips. The wings were pretty, but Alaska could observe at the base that they were infected and poorly healed, something that could be deadly if not treated correctly. “What did they do to you” she spoke to herself as she took note of as many of the injuries as she could see. Suddenly, the person, Jerick, let out a low moan of pain. “Hey, shhh, hey it’s okay,” Alaska automatically knelt down by the bed and gently stroked the redhead’s hair. “You’re okay, you’re safe, and we are going to help you heal. Shh, I’ve got you, its okay.” Jerick seemed to calm down as Alaska stroked and whispered calming words, and she felt a strange connection to this virtual stranger, and knew that she had to help them. “I won’t let anyone else hurt you.” Alaska stated “I promise.”