#i just dont know how to completely translate it

[pixiecaps]

i cannot even describe to you guys how roier picking that song for qroier completely rewired my brain because it is so so painfully accurate to qroier in that moment

like lets break down the lyrics okay?

“i miss you more than ever and i don’t know what to do. i wake up and i remember you at sunrise. i wait another day to live without you. the mirror doesnt lie, i look so different. i’m missing you.”

already off the top wow. we immediately understand what qroier is feeling and i think the mirror line really hits because obviously he was looking like a fucking mess without cellbit so its all very accurate. also i cannot translate that last line “me haces falta tú” that really conveys the longing and sadness it signifies. its missing someone but in the way of saying like you’re missing them as a part of your life to live or as a piece of you like you’re missing them so you’re struggling to function.

“people come and go its always the same. the rhythm of life seems wrong. it was so different when you were here. yes, it was so different when you were here.”

people come and go reminds me of qroier talking about the eggs and the other islanders. people come and go But you were different. without cellbit everything is just wrong for qroier.

“there is nothing more difficult then living without you. im suffering in the wait of watching you return. the chills of my body ask for you. and i dont know where you are. if you hadn’t left me, i’d be so happy.”

i mean perhaps the most devastating part which isnt surprising as its the chorus which he repeats. i cannot put into words how life changing of a pick this song was for a cubito? for qroier? for mcrp of a queer relationship? THERE IS NOTHING MORE DIFFICULT THEN LIVING WITHOUT YOU? immediately we understand again what qroier is feeling hes very bluntly telling us. thats what makes doied saying he was fine without cellbit even more gut wrenching because cellbit never understood how fucking broken and unfunctional roier was without him. he struggled to fucking live. IM SUFFERING IN THE WAIT OF WATCHING YOU RETURN? every day cellbit was gone for roier it felt like hell. which is devastating cause as we know cellbit was under the perception that roier could finally be happy without him meanwhile roier is barely making it through the day having to take care of a new kid with reminders everywhere of his husband that left him behind. he is anything but happy. THE CHILLS OF MY BODY ASK FOR YOU? screaming. he misses his touch he yearns for his body warmth. do you think when he laid in their bed at the castle it felt as cold as ice? do you think he clung to cellbits side of the bed hoping to feel even just a fraction of the warmth and comfort he felt sleeping by cellbits side months prior? much to think about. AND I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE? he’s again searching for him so desperately we saw the attempts qroier was trying his fucking best cause he made a promise to his husband and it was interrupted sadly. but i think the line of just saying i dont know where you are makes the song and the moment even sadder. all this talk of suffering without a person and you dont even know where they are right now. very accurate for qroier! IF YOU HADNT LEFT ME I’D BE SO HAPPY? no words just no words. you can suffer in agony with me in this one. think about it for a second and cry. no words.

does anyone ever think of spiderbit and how in love qroier was

[indecisive-dizzy]

Ok Serious Question!

If Eddie were to deliver mail/just go about his job with forearm crutches or a similar mobility aid, How would he do so?

For context: Eddie can walk without aid, just not for extended periods and/or distances. Some days are better/worse than others and he may need one, both, or neither of his crutches on any given day. At least that's what's I got so far, this is subject to change as I do more research.

Of course he still has his mail bag for letters and small packages, but I'm thinking of Bigger Boxes. Like Howdy's stock or Julie's bowling balls. A cart/Wagon?

Maybe he just has everyone pick up their own packages,,, hmmm. like offers them a trolley to use? idk how Howdy would get his stuff then. he's so busy with the shop,,,

[spicyraeman]

I could be having so much fun rn if I didn't fumble conversions like it's my profession

[mintypsii]

dekho mujhay urdu mein lineay marne nahi aati meri taraf mat dekho yeh sanji ki galti hai

[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

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

"my education is my highest priority" everything returns to vocaloid

[bunnihearted]

ཻ۪۪♡.

[always-a-joyful-note]

I've finally finished part 5. And.....once again, I would talk about it way more if I wasn't in shambles......it was such a good wrap up to the story arc about the past. The whole stuff about Zero's wounded legacy finding healing, even if it's not a complete resolution. The Nanase Twins getting to perform together on stage and fulfilling an old dream before all the tragedy and changes struck. Minami and Nagi getting a little more closure with Sakura. Even Kujo finding a bit of redemption. So now, I guess, it's time to start resolving the story arc about the future....

[outer-edges]

just discovered cockney rhyming slang and i am SO obsessed with this i wish it didn't sound absolutely ridiculous in american english because it is right up my alley i LOVE doings that make my speech borderline incomprehensible

[magic-is-something-we-create]

i may know very little about ttrpgs and how they're made, but i have a friend who's taken classes in theory and the internet of resources at my fingertips and that means i AM impulsively starting a side project of translating ehl's magic systems into a ttrpg rule set

[woolydemon]

apollo bonding with the waa is like you know he likes you when he makes your fave cookies. you never told him your favorite flavor, he just Knows

that is so sweet actually <:] This guy's going to use his perceive ability to be like "Athena I noticed u smiled slightly when you said Peanut Butter so I made u peanut butter cookies. I hope u enjoy them"

[cruelsister-moved2]

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i hate this post wheneveri see it sorry lol i can smell the supersessionism. ‘there’s an old jewish story’ yep because judaism is just a quirky abstract reminiscence to help u fix the brokenness of ur own religion and not like a completely different religion with its own theology and philosophy unrelated to urs. there are no people it belongs to or thinkers it produces there is simply an ‘old story’ which you can now insert ur own very specific cultural understandings and theological baggage onto without wondering what the person who said that actually meant by it and if theywould enjoy u using it 2 talk about the guy who invented antisemitism n was forced down their throats for the next 2000 years 

[izanori]

dude does anybody have any adhd hacks that make you become able do things that are boring or require effort (i do not have the money or connections to buy drugs)

[235uranium]

okay... I've only got sojiro rank 10 left and futaba's at rank 7... let's just hope I don't get fucked up by turning down the romance route

[curiouschaosstarlight]

So, I don't uuusually type outside of tags like this (and I very much did not want to here either), but! The last time I typed out a bunch of tags in a big ol' ramble, tumblr ate the majority of them.

I've been slowly realizing more and more that I think the way I grew up -- anime, manga, books, and video games, all hand-curated by my mom because it was her money and she, too, loved all those things -- gave me a very different childhood from other people.

I've never considered animation to be "for kids", I've never had a game that "teaches" me that games can have story (because ALL my games had story, because my mom loves stories and intentionally went and got games that had them), I've never really had my "first big plot twist", "first big betrayal", "first big death" or anything, because about 85% of the media I had was all doing that. Even the Pokemon anime was doing that, though people like to discount Pokemon from doing anything that isn't strictly "for kids", because...honestly, I think because of the cultural differences? You see all the time people claiming that death "never happens" or is "never mentioned" in Pokemon, despite the fact that it's actually quite prominent. (There's an area dedicated to dead Pokemon, sometimes actual human ghosts, in every single generation, there's been the threat of death + actual deaths in the anime + full-ass character deaths in the movies, even discounting the ones where everyone winds up being okay afterwards, and the various mangas can also get pretty dark and not really the American version of "kid-friendly".)

My aunt (my mom's best friend) also loved anime and all that, and she had basically the entirety of Sailor Moon as a collection of dvds. Specifically, she had the entire first season as a set of og, uncut, Japanese only dvds. There were English subs, that was it. And I was allowed to borrow and watch that a LOT. God- I watched it a lot. Sailor Moon was one of my biggest jams growing up.

...If I did have a "first", it was Sailor Moon. Growing up and looking into it more, it was the first time I realized how radically a dub can change things. Specifically the gay relationships; the most famous one was sloppily changing Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune from lesbians to "cousins" in the dub, but there were also two instances of taking effeminate gay men in the original version (Zoisite in the first season, and Fish Eye in SuperS) and turning them into girls.

After that, I became way more curious about what the original subbed versions of a lot of my other favorite anime was like.

Now, for the most part, I'm a case-by-case basis kind of person when it comes to subbed vs dubbed, but I've noticed that when it comes to actual analysis of characters, story, intent, etc. I am VERY strictly a "watch the subs and do research" type of person. And when people have some truly asinine takes on characters, dynamics, plot points, etc. that only takes a very base reading of the English translation of something into account (ESPECIALLY if the takes also reeks of them heavily applying Western values to an Eastern work without even a hint of self-awareness), it genuinely pisses me off.

(And oh. my fucking god. The amount of people that refuse to take Japanese culture into account despite HANDLING JAPANESE MEDIA drives me up the wall. There was someone I knew recently, a translator, that fucking insisted on a really off reading of a video game that could be easily answered with 'okay but things are different in Japan, we need to look at their standards to get the best idea of this' were shot down with 'I know' and then CONTINUING TO TRY ENFORCING WESTERN SENSIBILITIES WITH ZERO CHANGE TO THE APPROACH WHATSOEVER.)

(This is another reason why I despise "coding" as a fandom concept. It comes from the Hay's Code, which was enforced in Hollywood and heavily affected American media for a good fucking while. Coding, as a concept, does NOT fucking exist outside of certain time periods as it is, and it does not fucking exist in Japan, with media that was only ever released in Japan. The closest thing you can possibly get with that is, like, the Sailor Moon thing from before, and that's not ''''Coding'''', that's ACTIVE CENSORSHIP OF ACTUAL GAY CHARACTERS. When you experience a lot of Japanese media, like actually experience it instead of living with your head up your ass, you start to notice Japan really doesn't "code" characters in any semblance of the word. They kind of just Do or Outright State things most of the time, or otherwise make jokes about stereotypes that are probably incredibly obvious back in Japan. Now, I don't doubt there's instances of trying to squeak this or that past Japanese censors, but what Japan thinks is worthy of censorship and what America thinks is worthy of censorship are two different things for the most part.)

(If anyone reading that last bit thinks "well, that's what Coding is!", you are part of the problem, and you should just start calling ""Coding"" by what you actually mean; "Stereotyping".)

Part of the fun of Japanese media, and indeed other non-American media, for me is seeing and learning about cultures that aren't mine. I love finding out that this character or that plot point was the way it was because of this Japanese expectation or that bit of folklore, and so on.

(Other characters that people are REALLY fucking bad about trying to insist on attaching American standards to; Chihiro from Danganronpa, and Naoto from Persona 4. Both deal with the very strict gender roles in Japan, because Japan is very much, or at least was at the time those characters were made, I don't keep fully updated with how times change in Japan and I'm not going to claim to, a "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" kind of country. Being noticeably different, like being a guy with what's seen as "feminine" traits, or a girl in a heavily male-dominated line of work, causes a lot of problems, resulting in Chihiro getting heavily bullied and Naoto never being taken seriously at her job. So Of Course Basically Every English Fan Complains About How These Are Obviously Trans Characters And They're SO Badly Written And Don't You Dare Say They Aren't Trans.)

(Disclaimer, because I know I have to; I love trans characters in stuff. I want more trans characters in media. I want more positive trans representation. But I've seen people send each other death threats over this shit. I've seen people say others shouldn't write or even look at these characters as anything but "trans" or else, despite how literally the tiniest amount of research would be like "yeah, not trans, just a very Japan-specific issue".)

(And then we have the opposite problem where Vivian from Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door was trans, if handled nnnot the greatest in Japanese, was turned cisfemale, or at least her sisters respect her pronouns, in English, and once the remake was announced, we have a bunch of English fans insisting she isn't and wasn't trans < < Ugh.)

There's just. So much shit you miss when you look at non-American media and go "well, I know exactly what's going on here! I don't need to reframe the way I think at all!", and it's genuinely galling how hard some people will fucking refuse, refuse, to even attempt to engage with something with its original cultural context, or otherwise claim that they're TOTALLY keeping all of that in mind, but they still keep using American expectations to frame literally everything.

Ofc I wasn't this amazing, perfect literature analyzing child or anything like that. But...I dunno. I feel like I've seen a lot of other people hold certain experiences very, very tightly, and struggle to grasp "this thing was made with a completely different culture than mine and does not and would not reflect my sensibilities", when all of that has been fairly second-nature to me.

Something about this piece of Japanese media seems a bit weird or off or questionable to me? I might need to look into why it's that way for it to actually make sense? Yeah, I sure fucking hope it does.

You! American fan of foreign or otherwise un-American media! Are you aware of the nuances and cultural differences that are portrayed in that media and have an understanding that you as an outsider looking in should be careful with the lenses you analyze that media in because you have a different perspective that is not catered to?