#localizers are vandals

[tlaquetzqui]

Whoever decided to translate kōkō debyū as “high-school glowup” should be skinned alive. It just means “reinventing yourself in high school (compared to how you were in middle school)”; “glowup” isn’t even a reinvention, let alone meaning all the different kinds of reinvention that kōkō debyū can cover!

[tlaquetzqui]

But he just said nigerundayo, which is not eccentric or a figure of speech. Nigeru means “to escape or flee” and the -ndayo ending is an emphatic or assertive particle, often with an imperative connotation.

“Time to run, Smokey!” is about as eccentric or figurative as you should translate it.

My favorite thing is seeing how different translations convey eccentric phrases and figures of speech.

[adiradirim]

Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki in their traditional costumes, in the city’s old cemetery, before the war // a contemporary photo that shows where the destroyed cemetery once was, which is now Greece's largest university, built partially on top of and with land and materials (particularly tombstones) stolen from the razed site.

Thessaloniki or Salonika, once referred to as “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” due to its Ladino-speaking Jewish majority, saw roughly 96% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust. This mass destruction extended to the city's Jewish cemetery, which had been the country's largest, established in the 15th century and housing hundreds of thousands of Jewish graves until its razing by city authorities who had long desired to repurpose the land and resented the inconvenience of Jewish presence. Despite its large-scale destruction during German occupation in 1942, which was initiated and carried out primarily by Thessaloniki authorities with Nazi consent and arrangement, some parts of the cemetery survived intact as late as 1947. Many tombstones were subsequently appropriated and used by city authorities and the Greek Orthodox Church. After the war, people were still carrying away Jewish gravestones each day and regularly looting the cemetery in search of valuables. The city's officials, led by their mayor, completed the cemetery's destruction and sold the tombstones to contractors for use as building materials in various projects; as such many were and are still found in various walls, roads, structures, and churches around the city. A 1992 commemorative book pictures Greek schoolgirls playing Hamlet with skulls and other bones they found in the cemetery.

“[T]he ‘rape’ of the cemetery escalated, marble flooded the market, and its price plummeted. Jewish tombstones were stacked up in mason’s yards and, with the permission of the director of antiquities of Macedonia and overseen by the metropolitan bishop and the municipality, used to pave roads, line latrines, and extend the sea walls; to construct pathways, patios, and walls in private and public spaces though out the city, in suburbs such as Panorama and Ampelokipi, and more than sixty kilometers away in beach towns in Halkidiki, where they decorated playgrounds, bars, and restaurants in hotels; to build a swimming pool – with Hebrew-letter inscription visible; to repair the St. Demetrius Church and other buildings...” Devin Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece

Most of the efforts to return found tombstones throughout the city are led by Jews, particularly Jacky Benmayor, the curator of the Jewish Museum and last Ladino speaker in Greece, who has personally recovered hundreds of tombstones including his own family's. Surviving Greek Jews never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the destroyed cemetery, upon which now partially rests Greece's largest university, Aristotle University, which also used Jewish gravestones as building material for its long-coveted expansion finally made possible by the dispossession and annihilation of the city's Jews. In 2014, 72 years after the cemetery's destruction and appropriation, a small memorial was established on campus grounds to acknowledge the Jewish cemetery the school is built on and with; the ceremony just 10 years ago involved the first-ever acknowledgement of the atrocities and apology from a Thessaloniki mayor. The memorial has been vandalised multiple times since its establishment.

[ksen-noodles]

meet Vandal!

Yea, that slugcat that very much isn't supposed to be slobbering all over your superstructure, yet it is

[the-halfling-prince]

✨Lindsey Bergman✨

[cenotune]

Round 3 of ordering Posca markers bc some invisible fuckstick keeps eating them

(no it's not him)

[godsfavoritescientist]

I picture this against my will every time I hear the song "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and now you all have to picture it too

[whataboutfractions]

bomberman jetters english wikipedia page compilation

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

This whole revelation is too funny, like Mr Collins, what were you seriously expecting to happen bringing along a bunch of college students for a private commission? Have you been on a trip with young adults??? American young adults specifically???? My man! Aren't you a college professor???? Hello??? ahababahahababab

[bitchapalooza]

Why my parents get so pissed when I say I wanna do nothing but rest in bed on my day off is a mystery 💀

[houseshoesandtallboys]

Lexington KY

[tlaquetzqui]

Maybe the anime localization companies are so concerned to virtue signal because they are run by thieves who open actors’ mail?

Wouldn’t be the first time wokeness was just cover for being human trash.

[vandal-flower]

I really recommend that you fanfic read record of Ragnarok at Quotev, they have great stories there like :

•Our little sun

•Infatuation

•Monomia

•Cursed gaze

•Deeper than the sea

All of the above are story that contain yandere that I already read and I will always come for more.Btw they haven't finished yet the story.

ANON!!

Just, thank you. I have no words, like, I would no longer be deprived of my desired fics.

You're great anon.😭💗

[theragamuffininitiative]

.

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

me, very casually scribbling an AFA onto a post with permanent marker:

the people i'm with, all falling silent and watching me:

me, exasperated and a little paranoid: why don't you make it even more obvious that i'm committing a crime huh

friend, joking around: yeah well, next time just tell us to look away

another friend: best announce it loudly for everyone to hear

me:

me: i hate you guys

[ixmrxsaint]

Caught an awesome sunset and threw a tag on the rail to top off a perfect photo ... North Bowers Beach