#it's more wordplay

[princess-of-the-corner]

I remember a video about a Iida that was like "until this day I don't know what UA stands for and it's stressing me out!" And I couldn't stop thinking about it

The only thing that came to my mind is ultimate academy but that's danganronpa

LMAO RIP BECAUSE I MIGHT'VE MADE THAT A THING AT SOME POINT

[meirimerens]

l'homme embras(s)é

[shallowseeker]

everyone always thinks cas would be into bees but not super lame romantic poetry?

[squeakadeeks]

SLAY SQUAD

more formal photos coming soon but I just finished the full trio and I love them!!

[fukia]

Uncontrollably sobbing;;; I’m so obsessed with how beautifully precious this very specific slade is,,,

He’s got that Bojack Horseman silly, that big round singular eye, and a mask that makes him looks like a fucking splitface tortie/calico/chimera kitty

//deathstroke more like deathheartattack// I love him with all my heart and soul//

[kikuism]

a part of me is always going to grieve that i'll never be able to consume animanga in the original language bc there is sooooo much that's lost in translation and i'll just never get the true essence of what's being conveyed

[discount-elysium]

so I feel like 'Vacholieres absolutely have a derogatory term for RCM based on the reflective patches, but I am just not clever enough to come up with it

like, you can't tell me that all cops have a single universal identifier on their clothing and there isn't some sort of "pigs" or like "jackboots" equivalent for it

[sisterofthesouth]

does anyone else think jasmine and barda’s riddles at the bridge should have been switched

[heraverick]

"today's youth could never handle a world war"

my sister in christ,

NO ONE FROM ANY TIME COULD

this generation is no more or less human than those of the past, you just never truly knew the lives those past generations lived

only the idealized versions, where everyone comes out a living hero

there are NO "pure" heroes from war, best case scenario is a deeply traumatized person who had their developmental years stolen by a fist of imperial steel, with and/or against the swing depending on which side of which fight

the human was not built to stand against nor wield that imperial steel, and those who do will find it's not steel, but lead

lead, whose poison slowly kills them, killer and/or survivor

lead, whose weight bears down on them for the remainders of their lives, killer and/or survivor

lead, who blasts through their fragile bones, killer and/or killed

THE HUMAN IS NOT BUILT FOR WAR

[heightsofmadness]

Persona 5 but all the characters are trans girls accessing fantastic occult power by throwing their masc away

[cormancatacombs]

Thank you for shopping at the Tell-Tale Mart!

Where great deals are just a heartbeat away!

[foursaints]

saints i got the notification that read jude and taryn duarte and i screamed In Real Life

!! i just finished the trilogy yesterday and suffice it to say i am SHAKEN to my core… nothing has hit me like taryn duarte. nothing

i mean she really has everything. stolen child married to a capricious faerie lord. obedient daughter to her family’s murderer. mistress, wife, and courtier. her twin sister is nothing like her (deep down they are exactly the same). killer of her monster bridegroom -> thus retroactively fulfilling what her mother could not. she wears a gown of gossamer and glass. nobody ever knows what she’s really thinking. she lies and cheats and eats faerie fruit for fun.

(i think the duarte twins are both defined by their powerlessness, and their innate discomfort with it. jude has a pathological need for power, to shield herself against feeling weak. taryn copes with feeling weak by making a life out of it, reveling in it, doing everything to make herself seem as powerless as possible. she cannot be discomforted by it, if it’s what she chooses. <- twin girls who eventually snap)

[milkbreadtoast]

Apparently the TWSB novel swapped their title image and summary with that of the original QPB novel for an April fool's day event before... I asked a korean friend to help me translate the summary!!! it's so good and gives a lot more insight into ham ga-in's chara...😭

+ the webtoon's QPB cover art (by 해그늘님) for comparison🥺

This fucking company. In a world where you can choose and eat any flavor from 31 flavors of ice cream, the fact that I've aged 31 years and was still tied to this damn place felt like shit. (*this one was tricky bc it plays on how the verb for eating can also be used when talking about how you've gained a lot of years.) So i wrote my letter of resignation. My last commute home. I kicked my shitty boss's Benz without a care. And (after that) ended up in(fell into) a shocking world.

(and here's the TWSB novel cover and the TWSB webtoon cover for comparison💖)

[lenglengflames]

i'd like to think that hua cheng has many skills that involve the creation of something, i.e., sewing/ weaving, wood carving, pottery, sculpting, etc. i see him as someone who would enjoy tactile creations. artisans/ craftsmen were largely made up of the commonfolk in ancient china, so hua cheng being able to sew (perhaps first out or necessity, in order to patch up his tattered robes), carve wood, etc, wouldn't be too far of a stretch.

he could've also taken the time in those 800 years to pursue any of such interests, and i'd like to think one of those skills would be blacksmithing.

xie lian has the whole of hua cheng's armoury to pick a new spiritual weapon after losing fangxin, but apart from ruoye, hua cheng realises he never really settles on the using same sword. instead, xie lian rotates through the swords in his armoury.

so, hua cheng decides to forge a sword for xie lian. since the sword is made for xie lian, hua cheng requests that xie lian name it.

xie lian takes a little time to think, but would eventually settles on the name: 诚心 (chéng xīn).

time to unpack the name a little:

诚 translates to sincere, and 心 translates to heart. so together, 诚心 would translate to 'a sincere heart'.

hua cheng's name in hanzi is 花城 (huā chéng). not only does the 城 in his name look similar to 诚 (sincere), they have the same pronunciation. verbally, it could be said as 城心, which would translate literally to 'city sword'. but in the context of his name, where 花 is his surname and 城 is his given name, it'd translate to 'hua cheng's heart'.

(hua cheng had also said once that there was no one in the world more sincere than him.)

i cannot express how much i love wordplay in chinese.

xie lian takes to carrying chengxin around with him on his duties, or sometimes just because. so even if hua cheng cannot physically be beside xie lian to protect him, there'll always be chengxin.

[thisonelikesaliens]

Ep8-10 notes (nothing major for 6&7):

Ep8:

what Mama said was the 4-word idiom 喜新厭舊

喜新 xǐ xīn = like new (while pointing to himself)

厭舊 yàn jiù = hate old (while comforting the wife)

(i cackled. i love Mama)

"he's learning to bend himself or see if anyone wants to bend him over"

"you didn't even notice he's target-locked onto you"

(original was slightly more hunter/prey, way less romantic)

Ep9:

"i'm going to fill up my power bank"

(the innuendo here is really really really direct since 充電 (chōng diàn) aka recharging literally means "fill up power")

"but thanks for pointing out my blind spot"

(the straights are making me mad but this was an important epiphany)

"the more you fear hurting each other the more helpless you feel"

"i can't get over (myself). let's leave it for now. i'm sorry"

Ep10:

"you should get back to work"

(i honestly think the translator is biased against Xiao Zhi by adding erroneous words. and i still don't have an answer for why they translated Xiao Zhi as Leslie)

"because we sincerely put our hearts into it, when every relationship comes to its end, it's worth letting go with care"

"will you be with me?"

ALL RIGHT I'M DONE!

[dailykugisaki]

Day 158 | id in alt

The hater streak returns, your honor.