#ignoreing the fact that that phrase

[willowways]

I hate a “starving kids in Africa” ass bitch

[griem]

ijbol idk man releasing screenshots of very polarizing things said in a private discord server between friends in a public "callout" post is #the most #tumblrific thing ive ever seen LOL.

#opinion 😱 in tags

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat im crying about charles xavier at near 1AM i need professional help

[brucie-baby]

the thing is - i think jason becoming angry and violent as robin could've been so good if it wasn't just randomly thrown in by a guy who hated the concept of robin. like. a kid who had to fend for himself on the streets gradually becoming more and more frustrated with the lack of real justice towards victims?? showing the difference in mindset between a poor kid and a rich man?? a kid struggling with with what do i do when there is nothing that can be done?? if the anger was slow, showing his descent from that happy kid to someone so full of rage because there is so much to be angry at, i think i would've enjoyed it. he should have been angry!! he deserved to be angry!! he was loving and compassionate and he cared so fucking much and he deserved to be angry!!!!

randomly introducing it just didn't work. they should've given him a specific target for his anger instead of just making him more brutal. i enjoyed the felipe garzonas (apologies if misspelt, not googling) story purely because it makes sense for him to want felipe dead, i wanted him dead!! but suddenly hitting everyone harder just didn't fit. i'm just kind of rambling, i think, because it bugs me a lot that there really was potential there that wasn't utilised. it could've been so good.

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

zeddison headcanons because i want them both and i need them back neow

they're both queer (not really a niche headcanon but i'm putting it)

it took zed many months to get over the dog imitation habit

(ignoring the queer headcanon for a sec) addison is the biggest ally to ever ally. like one of those obnoxious allies but it works for her

^full on rainbow cake and celebration when literally anyone comes out, but she'll also be lowkey if requested

they are "me? obsessed with you? yes, yes i am" personified (about each other, ofc)

addison was zed's anchor when it came time to learn how to control his zombie state (similar to kipo and her anchor from kataow)

addison knows enough of the zombie language to have conversations but struggles with pronunciation (i'm slightly projecting with this one i fear)

they're literally always holding hands or linking their arms/pinkies (literally canon)

addison lets zoey dress her up and do her hair, especially after she got her true alien hair

^zed has a whole album of pictures of addison after zoey's makeovers (simply just because he loves them both so much, literally only like 3 were taken for funny reasons)

zed has dyscalculia but thought that it was just a zombie brain issue for the longest time (yes, he's canonically top of his class. yes, i'm giving him dyscalculia. both can be true)

^once he figured out what he had, he had to be practically begged by addison and his friends to ask for accommodations

addison is insanely touch-starved but presents herself like she's not (i definitely feel like dale and missy weren't the most physically affectionate parents, and i assume that angie (her most touchy relative) died when addison was young)

addison is closer to eliza and bonzo than zed is to bree (this is pretty much supported by a handful of scenes in the movies but whatever)

^don't get it confused, zed and bree are still very friendly to each other, as she is addison's best friend and bonzo's girlfriend

addison's baked dessert of choice is muffins, especially fruit muffins

^zed hates the sensation of cooked fruit (we're projecting again) but he eats them anyway to make addison happy

^once addison finds out he doesn't like cooked fruit, she then feels really bad for giving him so many muffins to taste-test and recruits zoey and bonzo instead

zed is greek (at least on his dad's side, due to the "-polis")

zed ends up pursuing a career that does not require more years of school due to his gifted-kid burnout (we all know he has it) being so bad

^addison most likely pursued something in the hospitality industry, became a politician like her mom (but like an actually good one), or became a defense lawyer

^i also feel like addison's the breadwinner of their relationship (not that that matters in the slightest just a thought)

[kacievvbbbb]

The fact that Rob Lucci on egghead is probably the closest we will ever get to seeing a Mihawk that is desperate to measure up. Is something I don’t really like to think about.

[ot3]

in my most recent trawl through the ace attorney tag i saw a post that, based on its phrasing, may have been prompted by the ask i answered about my thoughts on aa5 and 6. nothing wrong with that, pretty standard 'why does everyone act like aa5/6 killed mainline but when you go and actually play them they're just fine games'. at the end of the day whether or not you think 5/6 are well written, interesting, or fun is extremely subjective. but it's crazy how whenever anyone is making a post about how Everyone Is Just Being A Hater The Games Aren't That Bad the racism thing never comes up.

since i'm insane enough to comb through the main fandom tag without really having anyone blocked and while filtering almost nothing i have seen a Lot of pro soj stuff, and i can't recall a single instance of anyone actually talking about the racism when they come out with an overall favorable view of the game? i obviously can't know what anyone is thinking but the impression i get is that many of them don't actually view the racism as real/an issue and kinda view pointing it out as a 'gotcha' that people who hate the game use as a cudgel against it. like we just think the game is racist because we hate it and are trying to find reasons to shit on it? it would be refreshing to see even one person go 'heres why i think shitting on aa6's writing is blown out of proportion but i do still agree that its racist'

[jankwritten]

i think one of my biggest gripes with TSATS is the sentence structure and the way that things are phrased.

Sentence structure: the book is CONSTANTLY using ", and", or "then", or "but" instead of splitting up a phrase into two separate sentences. Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it. In some places it works fine, but right out the gate, as the first line of chapter one, it 1) caught my attention in a negative way and 2) felt immediately clunky and awkward.

The way that the book demonstrates action also feels unnatural and doesn't flow as well as it could. Things are described as happening "now", such as when Kayla takes her lolipop out of her mouth and holds it at her side, the book narrates it as "now holding the lolipop at her side". We didn't SEE that action occur, we're just being described the RESULT of the action, does that make sense? As a reader, you want to SEE the action, you want to SEE her tug the lolipop out of her mouth, see her hand hang by her side as her expression pinches with anxiety over the discussion. We don't want to just be told that "now" her lolipop is out of her mouth, y'know?

There are also sentences that just feel flat out unedited, phrases that have too many words for what they want to accomplish, or with a structure that doesn't make sense - like on page 56, the sentence "They raced up the steps to the platform, Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, though that was mostly due to Will having to get his land legs again."

First of all - why are they running up the platform? In the previous line, where we're told their cab driver got them to the station with 6 minutes to spare, the specific choice of saying "to spare" makes it sound like there is plenty of time to make it to their train. In the sentences after, we even learn that Nico and Will wound up waiting for their train anyway, so, the fact that they're running when Will feels sick reads...weird, to me. If I was car sick, and then somebody forced me to run for no reason, I would not be a happy camper.

Second of all - The addition of the final third of the sentence, after the second comma, should be it's own phrase. It should be given it's own space, like "(though that was mostly because Will didn't have his land legs back yet)." because it's not important information, just an offhanded comment Nico is making.

Third of all - "though that was mostly due to" and "having to get his" are clunky and wordy. It could've just been "Nico easily outrunning his boyfriend, who didn't have his land legs back yet." It's a smoother sentence that doesn't get bogged down by the extra words.

And that's just one instance. This book is LOADED with moments like this, where action will get lost in a sentence's wordiness. The book tries to be quick and snappy, in Riordan's style, but it fails because it can't quite nail down the phrasing.

There are also moments where the only thing the characters are interacting with is each other, only grinning, grimacing, sighing, glancing at one another, etc etc, instead of doing actions while they speak. Fidgeting with their hands, shifting from side to side, looking away at their surroundings, that kind of stuff is how you convey a MOOD. Body language is important when writing character conversations!! Is somebody relaxed, or are their shoulders tensed up, arms folded across their chest with their muscles flexed, leaning back on one leg with their body halfway tilted away, as if they were ready to flee at a moment's notice? These are the kind of details that I'm missing in TSATS, the kind of things that feel like they're missing.

I also have a lot of gripes with the dialogue itself.

People don't talk like they do in TSATS. The content of what they're saying is realistic enough, sure, yeah, but the specific way that a lot of the dialogue is phrased? It doesn't feel natural. Try reading some of the sentences out loud without editing any of the words. It doesn't sound the way a human being SPEAKS.

THAT'S what I mean when I say these characters are OOC. The way that they're speaking is uncomfortable and feels as if they're being used as a puppet, or a mouthpiece for what somebody ELSE wants them to say.

[so-very-small]

a girl should NEVER have to spend four hours in a dental chair

[ohnoitsnuance]

As someone who thinks voting in the US elections is you can is important to do, I think shaming people who decide not to vote due to moral reasons isn’t a good idea for the following:

1. Shame is a shit motivator. It’s not effective and it doesn’t work.

2. People choosing not to vote for moral reasons are doing so because they feel the Democratic Party has let them down or ignored their concerns (and often it has done both of these things, it’s not JUST a feeling) aren’t going to change their mind because people continue to ignore their concerns and perspective.

3. It’s not productive. There are plenty of people who A. Aren’t sure if they want to vote and are open to hearing multiple perspectives and B. Want to vote but don’t know how to get there/register/vote by mail. The time people spend here yelling at one non-voter would be far better spent addressing dozens of group A or B.

4. Unless someone is actively spreading disinformation on how to vote (like saying you can vote by phone), leaving these folks alone is frankly a better call strategically (and I think morally. A lot of the time the disagreement here comes down among other things to strategy, and I don’t think limiting ourselves to one strategy is wise unless that strategy actively hurts people).

Anyway I’m sure few will like this take, but hey that’s why it’s the nuance blog.

[nostalgia-tblr]

everyone has these thoughtful reasons and careful media analysis to make their point about why sylki will/won't "be endgame" and thus it's okay (or not) if they argue a bit first and i am slightly ashamed to admit that my entire thought process thus far has just been "well there's six episodes to fill, of course they'll drag the romance plot out as long as possible." :'(

[goldentigerfestival]

Yuri's dialogue (JP) is so fascinating to study, like... the repetitive use of certain words/phrases that others use sparingly but he uses constantly. the way it feels like his vocabulary is more expansive than what he uses, but he defaults to a "comfort" level of speech. the way it mixes in with his sort of "street talk" words and the sheer level of informality. the way his "street talk" phrasing is contrasted by the tone of his voice (on that note, people I know who also know JP are also very endeared by these aspects of him so I KNOW IT'S NOT JUST ME!!!).

'cause the thing is, he uses phrases that yeah, other people do use, but he uses a handful over and over and over (contrast to other characters' sparing use of repetition). it's actually... really refreshing? it sounds more relatable and less "video game/anime/JRPG/RPG" writing or something, idk. like closer to how a real person would speak.

I do my best in my translations not to make things sound too stiff across the board, but Yuri makes it so easy. it's why I'm so interested in translating all his lines in Vesperia, like... the actual, original tone for him with his original wording because it's smth Eng only players don't get to experience ('cause even if you listen with JP audio, if you don't know the language, ofc you're gonna miss out on context. it's nobody's fault for not knowing, just... they unfortunately miss out). the thing is, there are a lot of times when the lines in and of themselves are not contextually incorrect in the English ver (usually the situation for smaller scenes, because they altered the text outright for more important stuff which was the stuff that originally set me off, but there were also plenty of cases of just vocal tone shifting with the correct context that still gave off the wrong impression), but Yuri's tone is shifted away from the original in Eng even though it's completely and perfectly translatable.

I am by no means about to translate the entire game because let's face it, I really don't care that much for Vesperia on the whole. I'm kinda stuck with it because Yuri's there lo and behold I actually am WAY more engaged in his stories in Rays, Link and Asteria because it's an amazing character put into circumstances where he actually gets to shine and feels more alive, which Vesperia did not provide nearly as well with its very disjointed story. also, Tales gachas have banger stories that are arguably better than the mainline games, and they regularly make Yuri a very central character to the gachas. Crestoria was also about to do it until they pulled the plug on that game and I'm pretty confident something interesting has been lost to the world. also I just generally don't have the energy or motivation to do that, so... I'll only be focusing on Yuri's lines, especially because his stuff is where the bulk of the messing around was. he's just insanely fun to translate for and I love burying myself head first into his speech.

will I actually finish this project? dunno. will I get around to posting it? whatever I get done (so all of it if I complete it), and if I decide to call it quits then I'll post what I have at the time I decide that. will it take a long time? probably, but I can always mention stuff along the way...

[snail-email]

oooh i’d like to hear about your ocs! :0 which one is your favorite? as of right now

[surprised pikachu.png] oh god someone actually asked about them.

Honestly my favorite oc changes. So Often. Based on whatever i happen to be fixating on, so it's hard to choose a favorite?

But I'll pick Chea and Aster for now. Originally Chea was going to be a dnd pc [Aasimar divine warlock] and Chea was an important NPC and basically the whole reason she became a warlock. I could never find a campaign for Chea though so they became regular OCs. I plan on maybe writing a book about them one day?

Chea was born in this small village that's sorta nestled halfway into the mountains. She wasn't really abandoned or neglected but she WAS left to her own devices 90% of the time not super close to any of her actual family because of it. The two people she was closest to by far are her angelic guide and Aster. One day Aster gets sick with something. It doesn't start off all that bad but it only gets worse. Nobody can do anything to help, including Chea, who has divine healing magic as part of her birthright. There's rumors of a hag that lives even higher up in the mountains, making horrible one-sided deals as hags are want to do. Chea is desperate enough to make a deal, which the hag does with an awful smile. "Spread the disease ten-fold for one drop of cure." Of course, Aster's going to need a lot more than one drop of any cure, which is going to necessitate far more people than the village can provide. So, Chea leaves on her mission and tries not to think about how many lives she has to ruin in order to save one.

Aster is Chea's childhood friend. As previously mentioned, they're Sick with something that cannot be cured, and very aware it might very well kill them. I won't say what it actually is because of ~spoilers~ but it is at least somewhat magical, and the symptoms are all unique enough that they haven't been able to find anyone able to actually identify what's wrong with them. Aster is exactly afraid of dying but they're afraid of dying ALONE, and suddenly Chea's going off on some adventure ALONE. Aster knows it's all for them- to save THEIR life, but as time goes on they grow more and more anxious that Chea will return to a gravestone- or that Chea won't return at all. So, they leave in an attempt to catch up.

Surely nothing can go wrong with this situation and the questionable amount of communication going on.

[mad-hunts]

psst... i finished the blurb for my supernatural verse, and it is currently the only universe where julien is alive, which may be wilder than one might think. and i say that because that means that barton is less shouldered by guilt / more than likely comparatively even worse than he is in the main verse. i mean, don't get me wrong, julien's (one of barton's sons) death is definitely a tragedy.

it is also something that introduced more of a sense of guilt into him though because it made him realize that, yes — he IS not only destroying the lives of the strangers he kills but also the members of his own family's lives. so, without this event taking place, barton is (unfortunately) probably more cocky and liable to indulging in his very twisted impulses, so... yeah. but of course, julien is more than just a plot device character in barton's story. it's just that him being around does change things on a bigger level

[lifenconcepts]

man what do you even mean “when will you heal”?? I litteraly have been ascending ever since I left school and have peaked and not gotten off that high ever since. Just a constantly light shining from within, a radiating and pulsating mass of pure energy and joy.