#sea speaker

[myokk]

💘

[xcziel]

Liu Chang sings the interlude of Zang Hai Hua

When the snow falls, the old friends meet again and never forget each other...

[azure-clockwork]

How Does it Feel to Read Classic Sci-Fi?

Orson Scott Card: Two of the most interesting books you’ll ever read if you’re willing to look past a handful of things. And then you find the planet of Chinese people who worship having debilitating OCD. And the Mormonism. And the fact that the author is wildly homophobic and ought to read his own books.

Robert Heinlein (or at least the Wikipedia Summaries): I guess that’s a neat concept—oh, it’s a sex thing. Um. Gotcha.

Ray Bradbury: Man, I gotta read this thing for class huh. Well here’s hoping it’s good! *three hours later* oh. that’s why he’s famous. this will stick with me forever and I will never look at the phrase ‘soft rain’ the same again. christ. And then repeat 3x.

Isaac Asimov: Wow, this is such an interesting concept! I wonder how the exploration of it will influence the plot! Wait, hey, are you going to add any characters? Any of em? No like, with character traits other than ‘robot psychologist’ and ‘autistic’ and ‘woman’? None of em? No, ‘detective’ isn’t a character trait. Those are all just facts. Aaaand now I’m bored.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Hah, get a load of this guy! He’s never heard of nonbinary people before. Lol, what a riot; how dumb do you have to be to comprehend that these people aren’t men *or* women actually? Oh, wait, what’s happening. Oh shit, it was about society and love and learning to understand each other? And now I’m crying? And perhaps a better human being for it??

Andy Weir: Alright, this guy’s a really good writer. Funny, creative, knows so much engineering stuff…ooh, a new book! …I guess he can’t write women. Well, he wouldn’t be the first sci-fi writer…ooh another new book! And it’s more engineering problem solving and—wow. It’s not just women he can’t write. Please stop letting your characters talk to each other.

Lois Lowry: Oh, I remember this being fun when I was a kid! Wouldn’t it be fucked up to not see color? …upon reread, it would be fucked up to have your humanity stripped away, replaced with a tepid, beige ‘happiness’ for all time. Yeah.

Tamsyn Muir (let me have this ok): Haha, “lesbian necromancers in space” sounds fun. Lemme read this. Oh wow, yeah, this is right up my alley. OH GOD WHAT. NO. FUCK. OH SHIT WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING AND WHY IS IT REFERENCING THE BOOK OF RUTH AND HOMESTUCK BACK TO BACK!!! AHHHHHHHHH!! Now give me more please.

[mattodore]

spotify wrapped 2024 with me :3

[tracichee]

Want to gift one of my books to a friend or loved one? Here's a quick guide to how much you'll make them cry, on a scale of 💔 to 💔💔💔!

The Reader 💔

The Speaker 💔💔

The Storyteller 💔💔💔

We Are Not Free 💔💔💔

A Thousand Steps into Night ❤️

Kindling 💔💔💔

OK, so Kindling isn't technically out until next year--though preorders ARE available now--but untli then you've got four lovely offerings, from minor heartaches to major tearjerkers. And in case you want to spare your giftees some heartbreak this holiday season, there's always A Thousand Steps into Night! 😈

[helmetjellyfish]

first person pronouns & honorifics for magmell main cast and then some

edit log:

10/27 - updated Okijirou's section under Shinya and vice versa. these lean more towards "what they call each other" than honorifics/titles, but one of them does have some fun trivia attached to it.

11/2 - updated Ryou’s personal pronouns. forgot to include that he uses “watashi” when he’s closeted.

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so kuragebunch (the website the manga is hosted on) is celebrating its 11th anniversary, and as part of the festivities all chapters of the japanese raws (except for ch. 51) are currently free to read until 10/28 11:59AM JST. i figured i'd take advantage of that and put together a chart of the first person pronouns and honorifics that the characters use in japanese. here it is as an image.

the characters have been divided into four categories: magmell (koutarou, minato, nagisa, shizuka, asahi, ran, haruno, ryou, natsuhiko/deputy director); the fishermen (shinya, okijirou/oki); the parents (kouyou, asumi, nagiko); and other (mahiro, naru, mikako, seira). a blank space means they have never directly referred to that character in conversation before, at least not by their name/title. multiple names/titles listed for a character means that all are used interchangeably unless indicated otherwise.

criteria for selecting characters was 1) having a full name, 2) having made at least two appearances*, and 3) having been featured on the cast page and/or having interacted with at least two other characters who already qualify. ex: seira counts because she was on the vol. 8 cast page and appears in ch. 30/32/40/41-42, naru counts because he's talked to both oki and shinya and appears in ch. 12/21/43, but ren and namikazu do not qualify.

*for the sake of convenience, "one" appearance can be defined as either a) showing up once in a single-chapter story or b) showing up in both chapters of a double-chapter story.

i'll also be formatting it as a list under the readmore, in case that's easier to view! formatting will be as such:

Category

Character A

Self: "(Personal Pronoun)"

Character B: (What Character A calls Character B)

fair warning that this will be very, very long. here we go!

Magmell

Tenjou Koutarou

Self: "Boku"

Minato: Director ("Kanchou"), Minato-kanchou, Minato-san (Starts using in ch. 14)

Nagisa: Nagisa-chan

Shizuka: Shizuka-san

Asahi: Asahi-san

Ran: Ran-kun

Haruno: Doctor ("Sensei"), Haruno-sensei

Ryou: Ryou-kun

Natsuhiko: Deputy Director ("Fuku-kanchou")

Shinya: Shinya-san

Okijirou: Okijirou-san

Kouyou: Dad ("Otou-san" [Young], "Tou-san" [Present])

Asumi: Mom ("Kaa-san")

Mahiro: Mahiro-kun

Mikako: Mikako-san

Osezaki Minato

Self: "Ore"

Koutarou: Koutarou

Nagisa: Nagisa

Shizuka: Shizuka

Asahi: Asahi

Ran: Ran-kun

Haruno: Haru

Ryou: Chibata-kun

Natsuhiko: Natsuhiko-san

Kouyou: Kouyou

Asumi: Asumi-san

Nagiko: Nagiko

Osezaki Nagisa

Self: "Nagisa" (Third person. This is common in small children)

Koutarou: Koutarou-kun (Written only in hiragana. Likely also to reflect her young age)

Minato: Daddy ("Papa")

Ran: Ran-chan (Written only in hiragana.)

Haruno: Ghost Man ("Obake no Oji-san")

Nagiko: Mommy ("Mama")

Nagaizumi Shizuka

Self: "Watashi"

Koutarou: Koutarou-kun

Minato: Director, Minato-kanchou, Minato-san

Nagisa: Nagisa-chan

Asahi: Asahi-san

Ran: Ran-chan

Haruno: Haru-san

Natsuhiko: Deputy Director

Mahiro: Mahiro

Yui Asahi

Self: "Boku" (Written only in katakana. I do not know the significance of this)

Koutarou: Tenjou-kun

Minato: Director, Minato-kanchou, Minato-san

Shizuka: Shizuka

Haruno: Haru-san

Dougashima Ran

Self: "Ore"

Koutarou: Koutarou

Minato: Minato-san

Nagisa: Nagisa

Shinya: Shinya-san

Haruno Izuho

Self: "Watashi"

Koutarou: Tenjou-kun

Minato: Minato-san

Nagisa: Nagisa-san

Ryou: Chibata-san (Initial), Ryou-kun (Present)

Natsuhiko: Deputy Director

Chibata Ryou

Self: "Suzu" (Young) [This is third person again], “Watashi” (Around his mother), "Ore" (Present)

Koutarou: Senpai (Initial), Koutarou-san (Present)

Minato: Director

Shizuka: Shizuka-san

Haruno: Doctor, Haruno-sensei

Seira: Seira

Mito Natsuhiko

Self: "Boku" (Young), "Watashi" (Present)

Koutarou: Koutarou-kun

Minato: Minato-kun

Nagisa: Nagisa-chan

Shizuka: Shizuka-san

Shinya: Shinya-kun

Okijirou: Oki-kun

Kouyou: Kouyou-kun

Fishermen

Shirahama Shinya

Self: "Ore"

Koutarou: Koutarou

Minato: Minato

Ran: Ran

Natsuhiko: Natsuhiko-san

Okijirou: Mister ("Oji-san") [Initial], Oki-san, Master ("Shishou"), Old man ("Jijii") [This is derogatory, like "old geezer"]

Naru: Naru

Sagara Okijirou

Self: "Ore"

Minato: Minato

Natsuhiko: Natsuhiko

Shinya: Kid ("Bouzu") [Initial; This is familiar/derogatory language, like "sonny". May be wordplay, since it's the same kanji as the fishing term "bonzes" from ch. 36], Shinya (Present)

Parents

Tenjou Kouyou

Self: "Boku"

Koutarou: Koutarou

Minato: Minato

Asumi: Asumi-san

Nagiko: Nagiko

Tenjou Asumi

Self: "Watashi"

Koutarou: Koutarou

Minato: Osezaki-san (Initial), Minato-san (Present)

Kouyou: Kouyou-kun

Mikako: Mikako-chan

Osezaki Nagiko

Self: "Watashi"

Minato: Minato-kun

Other

Uchiura Mahiro

Self: "Boku"

Koutarou: Mister ("Onii-san") [Initial], Koutarou-kun (Present)

Shizuka: Shizuka-san

Kitagawa Naru

Self: "Ore"

Shinya: Shinya

Okijirou: Oki-san

Suzuki Mikako

Self: "Watashi"

Koutarou: Tenjou-kun

Oomori Seira

Self: "Atashi"

Ryou: Chibata-san (Initial), Suzu (Until end of vol. 8 presumably)

feel free to let me know if i've missed anything or if there's any mistakes! i hope this was useful (or at least interesting) information to learn ^_^

[stormyoceans]

SOBBING AND CRYING AND WAILING AND WEEPING AND BAWLING MY EYES OUT

[their-name-is-fake]

@staff ain’t even trying to hide it anymore. I mean Canada is trending? Really? Anyway, the supression won’t work, we will use any tag that trends don’t you worry 😘

Free Palestine

[sins-of-the-sea]

"Soy Ira, Capitán de los Siete Pecados Capitales de los Siete Mares.

"¡Prepárate para una muerte lenta en las profundidades!"

[crowleyaj]

I was in cork city yesterday and there was a march for free palestine, small but loud enough, people of different backgrounds walking and shouting and making passersby stop and watch. a week ago there was a protest in limerick city too, and a big march in dublin, there's something everywhere you go. and I love to see it. I love to see it. keep going

[a-smol-storm-gt-nomfs-blog]

I blame @boiled-ginger-ale for this one /lh

[akkivee]

i bumped into a pokemon fusion maker and have been having a lot of fun lol

[mishkakagehishka]

sea water is 50% water 50% salt. final answer

[LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER SOUND]

[catsrightnow]

east and southeast asian language conjugation I love you east and southeast asian language conjugation. Romance language conjugations I hate you.

[cherryjuicegf]

update the sea attacked me in the funniest way possible

[elbiotipo]

una campaña cyberpunk donde toda la party son libertarios estilo "la salida está en ezeiza", están intentando cruzar la frontera de estados unidos para llegar al paraíso biopunk sudamericano

skgkshhshjggs "why can't we be a serious country, like Argentina or Brazil? They tell me in Buenos Aires the streets are all clean and you can make your own business without paying the megacorps. They have another culture, see, they aren't all corrupt like us."

Me hace acordar a esa escena en El Día Después de Mañana donde los norteamericanos cruzan la frontera a México (escapando de la segunda era de hielo, es una de esas pelícualas de desastre viste) y hay una escenita cortita donde el presidente de EEUU dice que perdona la deuda externa a todos los países que reciban refugiados