#mod staff

[ryllen]

"I told u zayne, i can"

[phightingdoodles]

vinestaff in the gardening section of a home depot

she's having the time of her life

[ahollowgrave]

ugh i'm just obsessed

[14dayswithyou]

tell ren to turn his location on👉👈

I saw one of the posts of how ren does get jealous of pets being loved over him and alll that so now I have the thought of the one meme of ‘ah yes, me, my partner and their [enter normal pet size] foot [pet]’

I don’t have anything else, it did pop into my head though and I thought I’d share with the class.

⌞♥⌝ ItsNotVivy on Twitter actually made that exact meme with Ren a looong time ago!!

[sealsdaily]

I'm so done with staff i hate that they're just going full mask off now

[wildstar25]

Honeymoon pt.5 - Shaaloani

Aetherically, there are some striking differences; but in form alone the similarities to The Qitana Ravel are uncanny. That such ruins could exist both on the first and the source.... This has given me much to think about. Come, you two, let us freshen up and make camp before nightfall. Our adventures may continue tomorrow.

<<prev//next>>

[flowersforthemachines]

|| Ghilasara Thorne ・Equipment details (inspiration)

[kibby-reaper]

absolutely losing my shit over the cybird april fools gag- the staff in charge of this should be promoted fr 😭

- mod kibby

[howlingmod]

don't wanna write a huge thing for it (yet, at least) but thinking about some of the phighters with an s/o that's a watcher

Medkit who brushes off the feeling of being watched so often he barely thinks about it being anyone other than the true eye, who dismisses the glowing, oddly-shaped eyes as a trick on his. Medkit who can't help but slowly get more and more on edge because, while Broker and Scythe play tricks and keep an eye on him, it's never been this bad before. Medkit can't ignore it any longer when he makes eye contact with the bright, burning holes of a pumpkin, who can only stare back until they disappear back into the crowd, who can only stare up at the ceiling in the first breath of fresh air he's had in weeks, thinking about his encounter. Medkit who finds himself looking for those eyes from that day on, more out of returned curiosity than anything.

Vine Staff who tends to them, tying bows onto their antlers and examining their rind for cuts or bruises, all the while talking about her day or any phights she's participated in recently. Vine Staff who shares her passion for gardening with them, pushing potted plants into their hands as she works without paying attention to how their hands brush. Vine Staff who leans on them to steal that coldness that runs through them after a long day, listening to the muffled crackling somewhere in their chest, who laughs whenever they recount some argument her and Shuriken got into ages ago.

Subspace that sees their gaze as some sign of approval. While he hardly needs the Swords to approve of his work, he's more than prideful about being admired. For a watcher to take any note of him, he has to be important in some way, surely. So, he entertains them, standing perfectly out of the way of his work so they can see every detail, record every meticulously thought out decision he makes for future generations to gawk at, leaving his name in the history books as it should be. Sometimes he lashes out, calling them out on their perceived judgement of him, other times he calls out to them for approval, for proof of his excellency. Either way, they've tangled themselves into his life in a particularly persistent way, one of the few other beings he pays any mind to. They should be honored, just as he is to have such a grateful audience.

many possibilities .. much to think about

[sakuraxharuka]

nii-sensei 🥺💖

[animatedjen]

The Mantis Crew explores Jedha | Jedi Survivor (mod)

[fatphobiabusters]

I was tagging an ask I answered about skiing as a fat person, and these were the first two tag suggestions Tumblr gave me:

All I wrote was "ski" and Tumblr listed for me two different thinspo tags. Tumblr staff truly does not care about the cesspool of thinspo blogs they allow to infest this website. That's why they secretly make the report button "magically" stop working when you try to report more than two thinspo blogs at a time. They know they've allowed their thinspo problem to fester to the point of being a lot of work to fix. So, instead of doing something to make this website a safe place for fat people, people with eating disorders, and especially fat people with eating disorders, they'd rather pretend to not know the problem exists.

Tumblr staff needs to actually work on the problems with this website. And I'm tired of Tumblr staff targeting fat people while allowing shit like this to continue.

-Mod Worthy

[phightingheadcanons]

Here’s a few assorted hcs for y’all. As a treat :3

Vinestaff doesn’t have anything against modern medicine…BUT if you ask her for medical advice, 9 times out of 10 she’ll be like “have you tried rubbing moss on the wound?”

Skateboard once crashed into a wall so hard, he got his horns stuck for a solid half hour. They don’t really talk about it anymore, but every now and then one of his gang members will bring up ‘the mach 3 incident’ and Skateboard will get all mad.

Sometimes Subspace will witness his Biografts doing peculiar things after matches, his favourite being when one of them came back to the lab wearing some shoes. He still doesn’t know where the shoes came from. (Based off of Bio’s more inquisitive lines.)

Pwnatious is TERRIFIED of little critters. Like full on standing-on-top-of-a-chair behaviour if he sees a rat or something.

Carnage is the Glumshanks of Phighting (this only makes sense if you’ve played Skylanders)

Boombox’s gear is just an ordinary boombox. It’s not even modified; he just found a way to weaponize it in order to participate in Phights.

Phighters with ‘consumable gears’ (Shuriken, Scythe, Medkit, Subspace, etc) naturally know how to craft more ammo/shurikens/whatever. But Subspace doesn’t have time for that, so that bag of his acts as a duplicator.

dude these would make awesome one-off comics

[phightingdoodles]

and what if they were sleepy

[project-sekai-facts]

How are we feeling about ensekai’s emu3 translation!!! (I’m mad)

(if you remember the 3 whole posts i made when asahi got de-gayed on EN you'll know i am mad too and that this is probably going to get long)

i don't like to be too cynical but it was so obvious that they were going to change that line, i had a feeling since the event first released on JP and after the incident with Asahi where I went through and tracked down multiple other examples of EN removing queer subtext it became clear to me that in no way shape or form was "emu-chan really loves nene-chan" making it to EN without getting changed. what i didn't expect was them changing Nene's line after Luka's comment, which actually makes this whole situation far worse than many of their other instances of toning down queer subtext.

for anyone who isn't aware of what happened, in chapter 5 of the current Emu event, there's a scene where Nene, Rui and the Virtual Singers are talking about what would cheer Emu up. The vsingers all talk about how much Emu loves spending time with Nene, leading to the following exchange

If you look for them, any fan TL of this scene will be something similar to this:

Luka: ...Fufu. Emu-chan really loves Nene-chan, doesn't she? Nene: Th-that's nothing special...

EN's official translation is this:

So what's the issue? I'll start with Luka's part. In the original text, she uses the word daisuki, which can mean to "like a lot" or "love". It's a word you will see frequently in the idol/idol-adjacent genre of games, due to its ambiguity in that it can be read as either platonic or romantic when used towards a person, and often will be used in ambiguous situations so that it's harder to confirm the writers' intentions either way. so here, fans of the emu/nene ship could view the fact that emu loves spending her time with nene as more on the romantic side, but people who don't like the ship could view it as platonic and move on.

while they didn't translate daisuki directly, Luka's line still works, and still contains the ambiguity that works as ship tease in the original text. it's a perfectly fine localisation that still conveys the original intent. despite that, there is something to be said about EN's consistent refusal to translate daisuki as love in most instances when it's not used on An/Kohane (but then again, EN has literally teased An/Kohane on their twitter account so is it all that surprising?).

Here's some examples:

Aibou no koto ga daisuki de / he loves his partner -> he cares about his partner very much (The Power of Unity chapter 7 when Kaito is comparing Arata to Akito and Toya)

HARUKA-CHAN, DAISUKI DAYOOOO!!! / HARUKA-CHAN, I LOOOOOVEEE YOU!!! -> You're the best!!! (Dear Me, As I Was Back Then chapter 4 when minori is at an ASRUN concert. this one isn't actually that great of a localisation)

Honachan no koto daisuki dakara. Kore de iinda yo. / I love Honachan, so this is fine. -> I want what's best for her. And this is it. (Leo/need main story chapter 14 after Saki tells Honami she won't bother her anymore)

Minna daisuki de - taisetsuna tomodachi na no / I love them all - they're my dearest friends -> They're all amazing, and very dear to me. (Leo/need main story chapter 17. this isn't good either)

What's particularly amusing about that last one is that there's a second official translation for it that I assume was done by JP staff (since EN never promoted doing the Journey to Bloom subs like they did back when they provided subs for Petit SEKAI) that actually keeps the word daisuki as love.

Yeah. I love all my friends - and they mean the world to me.

It's a better localisation than the official EN team one.

Questionable localisation choices aside, Luka's line is fine and is actually in line with the original. The issue with this localisation very much lies with Nene's part, because that is an entirely new line.

In the original text, Nene's "that's just normal" or "that's nothing special" or however you choose to TL it, is meant to be her questioning Luka's statement, since all the things that the other vsingers said that Emu liked were pretty normal things like going shopping and playing video games with nene. To Nene, these things are normal activities for them to do together, so she gets embarrassed by the fact that Luka concludes from that information that Emu loves Nene. When I dissect it like that I think you can really tell what the writers were going for here lol.

"That's just us being friends" does still convey the idea that Nene thinks these activities aren't anything out of the ordinary and she isn't sure why the vsingers are picking these out as some of Emu's favorite things to do, but it's very different from the original line. "But those are just normal things we do together" is something I just came up with on the spot, but it's a lot closer to the original text and still conveys the same meaning. The fact they changed the line to "that's just us being friends" is, honestly, not even subtle that they're covering up queer subtext. The original scene was very clearly written in as ship tease, and EN mentioning "friends" for no reason, especially since the word nor anything close to it was not used in the original, is instantly a red flag because it's like the go-to for queerbaiting and censorship. This was intentional. There was no need for them to specify that the relationship is platonic, Luka's part is ambiguous for a reason so that fans can view it how they like.

Just to top all this off, here's Rin's original line just before that Luka+Nene interaction:

Oh, and! And! She said that playing games with Nene-chan is also super fun!

And here's Rin's line from the official EN translation:

That's not the same thing, but even more weirdly, the incorrect part (super fun->really loves) is a correct translation for the part changed in Luka's line. So, they can do it, they are willing to say "really loves", just not in the right places. Maybe because Rin's part is less personal than Luka's part? It's strange actually, this isn't the first time they've done this either. Off the top of my head I can think of an example from Shiho's Varied Kindness 2* story where they translated the word "suki" as really loves, despite that being much stronger than the original word used (and the fact that daisuki is used a lot in the Leo/need stories and it's incredibly rare if not entirely unknown for them to translate it correctly).

It's not subtle that they're trying to remove implications of the characters possibly being queer, they did it in curtain call and they did it in walk on and on, and multiple times before then too. And considering some of the content in this year's events and the amount of times they say daisuki alone, it's gonna keep happening. honestly i hate the fact that i keep trying to justify the translations in these posts. these translations are intentional. what happened in the curtain call translation back in october says enough. when a character who uses explicitly romantic language towards another guy passes as a straight character in the translation you know they're doing it on purpose.

oh and once again, it's only the EN server that has this issue. The scene in question was translated almost word-for-word on the TW and KR servers.

read fan translations. they're better than what EN gives us and people put a lot of effort into them.