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christaspirit · 9 months ago

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Izzie Blake- wait no, Indigo Screen, she was technically on duty, even if she wasn’t in costume- frowned at her phone screen.

Her private Discord, the one used for school friends (she hadn’t seen them in a year now…) and family, had been added to a new server. It appeared that Jamie, her younger sibling, had added her.

But why was this server called ‘villain team ups or something idk’?

Letting out a huff, Indigo made it so she appeared offline even though she was looking at the chat, and entered the server. Scrolling through…

Plans of attack, from a few villain team ups, and even some solo plans, with cooperation… a villain group chat. She grimaced, recognizing some of the past plans. There were several future plans as well, and Indigo jotted those down on a post-it. But the latest conversation under ‘planning-thread’…

Poison_not_fire: tips on blackmailing the rich to get money?

I just hated Jack and Rose: get something scandalous on them

Yes fire: kidnap their child

No_I’m_not_your_mom: don’t go after a target closely associated to the heroes

No_I’m_not_your_mom: that’s a good way to get caught and get nothing but a beating

No_I’m_not_your_mom: also whatever you do don’t go after Viper

No_I’m_not_your_mom: he’ll kill you

Totally_not_catwoman: just steal from them

Poison_not_fire: I think I’ll stick to some scandalous

Poison_not_fire: could I get continuous money from them that way?

No_I’m_not_your_mom: possibly

No_I’m_not_your_mom: a bit risky

No_I’m_not_your_mom: who’s the target?

Poison_not_fire: don’t know the name, but my sister is living with some rich girl

Poison_not_fire: I’m after the rich girl

I just hated Jack and Rose: I thought you liked your sister?

Poison_not_fire: …

Yes fire: you could kidnap your sister

Poison_not_fire: I could…

Poison_not_fire: but she’s closely connected with the heroes in her city and an adult hero

Poison_not_fire: but the adult is a bit dumb…

PurplePaint: hey remember that time you kidnapped me?

Poison_not_fire: I said I was sorry!

PurplePaint: remember what we agreed to?

Poison_not_fire: no more kidnapping, I know

Poison_not_fire: sorry…

PurplePaint: why are you blackmailing her mom anyway? Is it the attention thing again?

Poison_not_fire: No.

Yes fire: punctuation she’s mad~

Poison_not_fire: >:(

There hadn’t been anything more recent.

But PurplePaint… that was Jamie’s handle. Why were they associating with villains? Poison_not_fire must’ve been Lady Arsenic, why was Jamie working with her?

Had… had Jamie gone evil?

Indigo took a deep breath, and hacked the private messages. There were some between several of the different people- villains- but she was most interested in the one between Lady Arsenic and Jamie. Locating it, Indigo scrolled to the top, and started reading.

Poison_not_fire: this working?

PurplePaint: yes!

Poison_not_fire: :)

Poison_not_fire: Gonna short out all tech in the downtown area

PurplePaint: thx

PurplePaint: u ok?

PurplePaint: you haven’t done anything in a few weeks

Poison_not_fire: fine just planning

PurplePaint: nothing too sinister I hope

Poison_not_fire: no one will die

Poison_not_fire: well, no one should

Poison_not_fire: I’m teaming up with some others

PurplePaint: don’t go overboard

Poison_not_fire: I won’t

PurplePaint: that was the definition of overboard

PurplePaint: 1 death and 20 injuries?!

Poison_not_fire: …someone died?

PurplePaint: you didn’t know?!

Poison_not_fire: I got dragged away from the action early on

PurplePaint: why did it go so far?

Poison_not_fire: the others kept making it worse

PurplePaint: don’t work with them again

Poison_not_fire: I won’t

Poison_not_fire: I’m sorry…

Poison_not_fire: Jamie…?

Poison_not_fire: Jamie, I’m really sorry

Poison_not_fire: please, talk to me

PurplePaint: you kidnapped my brother

PurplePaint: when they finally rescued him he had a broken arm!

Poison_not_fire: I’m sorry…

PurplePaint: sorry doesn’t cut it!

PurplePaint: you promised to tell me if your plans affected me!

Poison_not_fire: …the others told me to do it

PurplePaint: the villains you told me you’d stop associating with?

Poison_not_fire: …

PurplePaint: don’t talk to me

Poison_not_fire: can we meet up?

Poison_not_fire: in person?

Poison_not_fire: I really want to apologize

PurplePaint: you planning to come with the cat mask?

Poison_not_fire: no I’ll be in normal clothes

PurplePaint: where do you want to meet up?

Poison_not_fire: there’s this little coffee shop in the downtown area

Indigo stopped reading there. The date on this exchange… two months ago?

“Jamie said they were getting coffee with a friend we didn’t know…” Indigo muttered. “Why…?”

Lady Arsenic… she seemed off. She’d been off since coming back from the dead…

She seemed like a teenager.

Indigo’s stomach dropped.

There was a new message in the private chat, and Indigo scrolled down to it.

Poison_not_fire: who’s the new person in chat?

PurplePaint: you think I know?

Poison_not_fire: any of the others would’ve introduced them

PurplePaint: fine

PurplePaint: it’s my sister

Poison_not_fire: why?!

Poison_not_fire: which one?

PurplePaint: because clearly you’re having some issues

PurplePaint: a hero keeping an eye on things might keep you from doing something more sinister

Poison_not_fire: or maybe I’ll stop talking about things to these guys!

PurplePaint: your plans barely worked before

PurplePaint: I’m just worried about you

Poison_not_fire: you could’ve told me ahead of time

PurplePaint: sorry not sorry

Poison_not_fire: I will block you

PurplePaint: no you won’t 😎

Poison_not_fire: …I won’t

Poison_not_fire: which sister?

Poison_not_fire: I seem to recall you having 3

PurplePaint: I’ll just say she’s probably active right now even though it says she isn’t

PurplePaint: and probably reading this chat

Poison_not_fire: seriously?

Poison_not_fire: Indigo?

PurplePaint: look

PurplePaint: she’s the most likely to keep this a secret and she’s the only family who still talks to me

Indigo’s stomach churned. No, they talked to Jamie… right?

…when Jamie had been kidnapped it took them until the ransom video came two days later to realized they were gone.

Poison_not_fire: honestly not that different from my upbringing…

PurplePaint: promise me you won’t go overboard?

Poison_not_fire: alright

Poison_not_fire: I won’t go after the girl raising my sister

PurplePaint: why did you want to anyway?

Poison_not_fire: I…

Poison_not_fire: I came across Kitty the other day and she just seemed so… happy

PurplePaint: so you are jealous

Poison_not_fire: …maybe

PurplePaint: you need to talk to her!

Poison_not_fire: she wouldn’t want anything to do with me

PurplePaint: I promise she will

Poison_not_fire: she hates me

Poison_not_fire: and we haven’t had a proper conversation since before she was expelled

Poison_not_fire: there was a fight…

PurplePaint: at least consider it

PurplePaint: anyway I got homework to do

PurplePaint: ttyl!

Poison_not_fire: ttyl

Indigo continued to stare at the screen, even when both members of the private chat went offline.

Kitty? That was a name…

There was a young teen hero in a nearby city. It didn’t have much crime, but there was a small band of heroes who took care of the crime all the same, Kitty often acting as leader. She’d also worked with Fern’s team a few times. She must be the sister…

Lady Arsenic was a teen. That much was clear.

If she could figure out who Kitty was, she could figure out Lady Arsenic. The League could finally take her down-

She was Jamie’s friend.

…could Indigo tell the League?

What did she know about either? Not much about Lady Arsenic… she’d had three henchmen but they’d vanished not long after Jamie had been rescued. Her plans had been failing, but they’ve been successful more recently.

Kitty… among Ferns team she was closest to Silverwolf (L’ynx, alien shapeshifter) and Cardinal (unknown, no info). She certainly acted closer to Silverwolf, but…

Silverwolf wasn’t dumb. If anyone on Fern’s team had earned that descriptor it was Cardinal. Unless there was another hero she wasn’t aware of, it had to be Cardinal that Kitty was mentored under.

But Cardinal wasn’t active in the same city… usually she stuck to where Fern was based.

It would help a lot if she knew Cardinal’s identity, but her mask scrambled every facial recognition software. It was great technology usually, Indigo knew which suit designer always put it in. But for a hero with so many unknowns…

Fern didn’t even know.

She was getting off track.

Indigo stared at the post it note. She knew more than the others…

This felt wrong.

Indigo- Izzie left her room, going down the hall to knock on Jamie’s door.

“Come in!”

Izzie twisted the knob, and opened to Jamie’s room.

The room was painted beige, but anything else that could be purple, was purple. Bed, dresser, all of it. Jamie had an eisel with an unfinished painting near the window, getting natural light. Their tablet was sitting on the dresser. Jamie themself was laying on their bed, laptop open to some kind of assignment. Music was blasting from speakers, and Jamie was laying on their bed casually doing homework.

“Izzie!” Jamie grabbed their phone and paused the music, before assuming an upright position. “Thought I’d see you soon.”

Izzie smiled weakly. When had she last come to visit her sibling?

“I’m assuming this is about… well…” Jamie held up their phone, vaguely gesturing at it.

“Why didn’t you have to add me?” Izzie asked. She shut the door and sat on Jamie’s desk chair. The desk itself was never used for homework, but there were a variety of different types of sketchbooks on the desk.

Jamie grimaced.

“I’m just… worried about her.”

“Why are you friends with her to begin with!” Izzie said, “She’s a villain, working with other villains-!”

“She doesn’t actually want it.”

Izzie stared at her younger sibling.

“What?”

“She doesn’t want it,” Jamie repeated. “She thinks she does, and I can’t convince her otherwise, but… she just wants the attention.”

Izzie swallowed hard and looked to the floor.

In another life… maybe even in this life… Jamie could‘be gone down the same path.

“Why?” Izzie asked. “What… made her think this was the way?”

“If I tell you, will you tell the league?”

…she should. She was a league of heroes member, she was supposed to tell them everything.

But…

Jamie had added her personal account. This wasn’t a matter brought to Indigo Screen.

This was a younger sibling, asking for their sister’s help.

“I won’t tell.”

Jamie nodded.

“Her… her mom is the original Lady Arsenic. The one the league… offed.” Jamie looked uncomfortable.

Izzie had been 11 when the decision had been made. She wasn’t told the details for why… she’d only barely joined the league, and she wasn’t even a full member. But mom had been the one to do it.

“I didn’t know she had kids.”

If the league knew, they didn’t say anything.

“She wasn’t a great mom,” Jamie said, wringing their hands in their lap. “Always busy doing villain stuff… the two kids were neglected. Leilei… the current Lady Arsenic that is… she wanted her mom’s attention. She was desperate for it, and thinks that if she acts like her, her mom will finally be proud of her.

“I’ve tried to tell her that it’s not worth it. She doesn’t have the stomach for anything actually bad. But… I can’t convince her.”

“What about her sister?” Izzie asked. “Kitty, was it? Isn’t she a hero?”

“From what I can tell, she wants nothing to do with their mom,” Jamie said. “Leilei and her got into arguments a lot at the boarding school they were sent to after their mom died, and after a big fight they never reconciled, and then Kitty got expelled. I don’t know much about Leilei’s time at the school, but I don’t think it was good… especially considering they got sent to the School for Future Villains.”

Izzie muttered curses under her breath. The League knew of the school, but without a location, they couldn’t do anything to shut it down.

“Please, can you just… promise me you’ll keep an eye on her?” Jamie asked.

Izzie clenched her hands together.

“I will, promise.”

She owed that much to her little sibling…

You’ve just figured out what the bad guy’s plans are because you were accidentally added to their group chat. You’ll go out and stop them, but reading through the group chat couldn’t hurt, right?

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puppyeared · 6 months ago

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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what #allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of #the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than #to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do #im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt #take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was #mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their #mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that #explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain #direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in #arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to #engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out #theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive #a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked #picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing #sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example #for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war #is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old #wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for #steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with #especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can #look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never #treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time #but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made #feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them #accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me #yapping #diary

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houkagokappa · 1 month ago

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Bless Mokumokuren for outright stating that the genre tags for Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu have never changed, i.e. the official site never dropped the "BL" tag from the series as it got more popular to reach a wider audience. It's been a persistent rumor in the fandom, and one I'm afraid will start circulating again once the anime starts airing.

If you mainly follow English language sources, please remember that whatever tags different anime and manga sites, databases, aggregators etc., either add or leave out don't always reflect the author's intent and the official sources, and should NOT be used to argue for what genre or demographic a certain work belongs to. It can just be random people claiming whatever they want based on their own interpretations and I've seen plenty of errors and real time changes to them based on new chapter developments, that might help catch the attention of some people, but don't suddenly change the genre of the work itself.

Not having BL as a genre tag also doesn't mean that a work can't include any boys loving. The queer themes have always been present in HGSN, and if you're up to date with the manga, they've been outright stated. Having queer characters or a queer story line doesn't automatically mean that a work is BL or yuri, and not including those tags doesn't mean that it's just "baiting". This gets brought up so much I think Mokumokuren's gotten tired of it, because the other day they clearly spelled it out for everyone, assuring that the story is queer, although it's not tagged as BL or focused on romance.

Here's what they shared on their Bluesky account:

The genre tag and advertising direction on the official website have never changed since the beginning of serialization. From the beginning, it has been consistently promoted as a "coming-of-age horror" within the official reach. (It's also true that the official reach is very limited…) Whatever the genre tag is, and even if this story isn't a romance, as the author, I guarantee that it is a queer story. There seems to be a persistent false rumor going around that "the author suddenly removed the BL tag from the official website by the 3rd volume," but the truth is that there was never an official BL tag from the beginning. (This is not to deny any queerness.)

And further back:

My opinion that the genre of The Summer Hikaru Died is something that the readers are free to think about on their own remains unchanged, but I view it as a story that sympathizes with those who have been left out of stories about love and sex, so I describe it as "coming-of-age horror." I think the key is the fear of not being “normal” and not having a place to belong, which is common for all kinds of people regardless of their attributes. I think it's fine for queer stories that aren't romances to exist. That's why I've been careful not to position it as a love story from the start.

Let's stop obsessing over tags and allow queer stories to exist and thrive, even when they lack a clear romantic plot or subplot and are more subdued.

#my nonsense #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #i've been following mokumokuren for years and they've been getting more and more direct about this #i have to imagine they've gotten tired of international fans pestering them about this to really spell it out #usually using some english too #they also pointed out how genre definitions can differ in different countries so expectations differ too #it must be so frustrating to be writing a queer story about not fitting in and constantly have ppl saying you're not doing it right ;____;#also i don't know how much of a problem this is anymore (apparently still to some degree?) or how necessary this post is anymore #but i want it to exist for new fans esp those who find it thought the anime since i know the baiting discourse will start up again #and old ones who lack media literacy or maybe don't follow and translate mokumokuren's tweets and bluesky stuff #speaking of should i get a bluesky account???#(also the translations are janky bc i used translators and can't spend any extra energy on them pls forgive me)

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helenofblackthorns · 1 year ago

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no matter how many times she explains it I don't think me and Cassandra Clare will ever be in agreement about James and Lucie losing their powers. like its just not a satisfactory explanation to me im sorry

#her comparing it to the endarked & warlock's spells while also says Belial had no actual influence over them developing powers #in the same ask.... okay #like the relationship between Sebastian and the endarked was that he created them! he influenced them!#he was overriding their free will with his will like. them dying with him made sense #same with warlocks & their spells there's a very specific creator -> creation dynamic here #that is not comparable to James & Lucie relationship to Belial #maybe me and cc just categorize them differently bc to me theyre more like Sebastian & lilith or Jace clary & ithural #*ithuriel #like!! when ithuriel dies Jace & Clary do not lose their powers that are a product of them being born with his powers #*blood #BUT clary does lose her prophetic dreams that are established as being given to her by ithuriel #theres an established difference between the two!!!! James and Lucie should not have lost their powers I'll stand by that till I die #bella talks #james herondale #lucie herondale #cassandra clare #chain of thorns #the last hours #tlh

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wanderingmind867 · 5 months ago

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Marvel had their own Nightwing back in the day: Nightwing Restoration Services, Ltd. Misty Knight and Colleen Wing's detective agency together. And honestly: it's a clever name for a detective agency. They really had the perfect names for it. Also, i will admit to probably works as a ship name for the two of them. Nightwing sounds like the perfect ship name for those two, although you may need to make it clear you're not talking about the DC character.

Also, if we want to get petty: Marv Wolfman was Marvel's editor when Chris Claremont made the name of Nightwing Restoration Services, Ltd. So Marv Wolfman definitely stole the name for his Teen Titans series later. I don't blame him (it is a great name), but it's clear he probably did steal the name. And if he did, I find that funny.

#nightwing #by which I mean:#misty knight #colleen wing #that should be their ship name too #maybe spelled differently (with a k maybe)?#Knightwing #yeah i think that works #daughters of the dragon #chris claremont #marv wolfman #marv wolfman was a harmless name thief #in my opinion #marvel #marvel comics #dc comics #dc #iron fist

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purecommemasolitude · 4 months ago

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My one semi-controversial outsiders musical opinion that I will never budge on is that the S in Soda’s spelling of GREASE is “selective”. Almost everything else I will listen to alternate interpretations and readings but not this. Never this

#the verse already HAS a soda can’t spell joke it’s ‘a for effective’#also look the whole thing about Soda’s spelling is that he makes mistakes that should be eradicated by his age but mistakes that are #common and/or understandable nevertheless #adding an F to ‘yourselves’ missing a second S in ‘mising’#it’s not typo-style errors it’s mistakes that you make when handwriting and not being great at spelling #and there IS a difference #(to be clear I don’t think this is that deep which is why I made the post in this tone)#(but I also will never change my mind unless the musical team tells me themselves I’m wrong)#(and maybe not even then)#og #the outsiders #the outsiders musical #sodapop curtis

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vivitalks · 8 months ago

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what's up fellow jews, i have a question for you all here in the midnight hour of our chametz-free holiday:

reblog to get this in front of as many jews as possible <3

#stuff #judaism #passover #matzah #pesach #this poll brought to you by me journaling just now and using two different matzah spellings in one sentence #apparently i use matzo as an adjective and matzah as a noun. which is just so so funny not that i do that but that i didn't even realize #i was just subconsciously editing my own spelling according to part of speech #which is hilarious and also SO on brand for me i feel #polls #my polls #if i didnt include an obvious option I AM SORRY im only one jew #maybe there should be a 'i only write this word in hebrew' option idk idk

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ofweave · 10 months ago

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theres something so augh about it whenever gale goes "may it please mystra". how much of it is habit and how much is he still saying it out of genuine devotion.

#out of spell slots / ooc.#the game doesnt really specify it but i do think he considers himself mystran (religion) as well as #a personal servant of mystra (chosen). former or otherwise.#the two are obviously different but hes spent the majority of his life devoted to her on several levels #somebody: do you think that maybe you should try to Unpack all that a little bit #gale vc: 😌 idk what you mean (has a delayed trauma response and massively overcorrects/goes off the deep end in act 2/3)

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thirsty-4-ghouls · 1 year ago

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I’ve been learning Norwegian with books and Duolingo for the last (almost) year and every time I read “helgen” I instantly think of the exact opposite of what I’m supposed to think of. Practicing Norwegian? Think of Skyrim. Playing Skyrim? Why is this town named “the weekend”? I can’t win. The wrong one is always the first to come to mind

#emma posts #Skyrim #game developers: open up a Norwegian dictionary and point to a word at random #that’s a town now #it could also be a joke or something #I don’t remember if the start of the game takes place during an in-game weekend but if it does #the town only lasted a weekend (to you)#but a weekend implies two days #maybe it’s a Swedish word or something instead #I haven’t gotten that far into Swedish and Icelandic uses a lot of different letters #they seem to have gotten rid of a lot of them on the continental Nordic countries #but I don’t know ANY danish and I have no concept of Faroese (I am so sorry if I massacred the spelling)#I don’t have a Swedish dictionary so I’d have to use google translate or something to check #Icelandic seems to have more words for things than Norwegian but I’m not really learning that language yet #my grandparents decided to try learning Icelandic first and I am like. in awe but also a bit sorry #they don’t really have a reason to learn Norwegian and Swedish though. unlike me #and apparently Icelandic is the hardest to learn. which is why I developed my fantastic learning strategy #Norwegian seems slightly easier to learn as a native English speaker than Swedish does. and Icelandic is obviously the hardest. but it’s #also closest to their shared ancestor (remember I’m talking about language) so if I start with Norwegian it will be easiest and then #with each of the other languages the next should be easier than it would be without the other two #Norwegian and Icelandic have an interesting history as related languages but that’s not important to this discussion #but… Icelandic is all the same and Norwegian and Swedish have a whole bunch of regional stuff and oh boy idk #but all I need to know for the foreseeable future is how to read and listen #I don’t need writing and speaking yet #this would be so much easier if my grandparents had not just switched to English and forgot any of the other languages they grew up with #though the Icelandic ones didn’t speak much at all compared to my dad’s parents who spoke some of theirs as kids #I could know even more languages by now if everyone hadn’t just switched to English. though I keep forgetting how to write Spanish. that’s #only half related though. since it’s the second most popular language in my country we had some classes as kids and some media that was #bilingual but not enough for me to ever be fluent. plus I freeze up any time I try conversation because I get too nervous about making #mistakes. I’m so off track in the tags though

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katyobsesses · 3 months ago

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The worst part of outlining a fic as a multishipper is trying to decide what ships to have 😭

#do i want friends to lovers quinntina? or rivals to lovers faberry?#i already have puckurt as thats the whole point of this au and they're friends to lovers so do i want a different dynamic for quinn?#st. berry or st. anderson (and is that with coop or blaine?)#finchel???#samcedes is a definite end game but do i want hevans in there for a bit? blam? klaine????#kelliot will probably be a midgame #and there will be quick for a spell but itll peter out #tike will happen but do i want to break it up? so i can have quinntina?#brittana is a definite but do i also want Pezberry for a spell or nah?#will/shelby will likely end up happening and hinestly i think theyre the only ship i like for will except schuvester #hate both will and shelby so they work together in this instance #and theres no beth in this universe(... yet?) to make it weird #do i have a pregnancy scare in this universe? huh i might have to because that would make a think i want to happen work...#sorry quinn #also quinn canonically gets in a texting and driving mishap in every universe do i have that IN the fic or did she already have that happen #so many options #smash au #katy writes #quinntina is already happening in spiderglee so maybe i should do faberry #but then ill have to make rachels part bigger...#this is a smash au and i do kinda ship karen(quinn)/ivy(rachel) but also theres karen/ana(tina) to think about and derek(jesse)/ivy...#so many fucking options uhg

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2024skin · 1 year ago

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I know artists are capable of creating narratives that are totally unrelated to their own lives but I HATE that "death of the artist" is the preferred way of analyzing the meaning of art. I think when an artist is black or female or living through war or disabled or gay that matters. It colors their entire life. How can you divorce those things from their art entirely? I think the viewers own interpretation of a piece becomes deeper when they incorporate the artists perspective into it, and everyone should be taught how to do so

#of course theres a difference between interpreting the artists intention and insisting that your interpretation is what they meant #but still. i think many things become more meaningful in context than they ever are alone #guernica is a very famous example of this. its a powerful anti war painting but it means nothing to me when i look at it #because i didnt live through the war in spain. its only with That context that the painting takes on meaning #but my favorite example of this is a poem that rudy francesco wrote about spiders after george floyd died #its a sweet poem about spiders but its not really about spiders at all. but you could only know that hidden meaning #it you know francesco is black and wrote it in a time of rampant police violence. the context adds so much #and i dont think guernica or that poem are completely incomprehensible without the authors context #but im glad i know the context i think more people should want to know Why an artist made something #i think the ''why'' matters a lot. maybe not more than anything but. it matters a lot #ack i spelled rudy's last name wrong this whole post T_T sorry mr francisco

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mathmusicreading · 7 months ago

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@yummysuika @ospreywhite I really appreciate your translation work; can you explain more about shichen timekeeping to me? Because I know a tiny bit of modern Mandarin Chinese, but I can't recognize the shichens as the zodiac animals:

Zi (I don't know "rat", so I actually can't make any argument here.)

Chou (I don't know "ox", but I reasonably could have expected "niu" for "cow".)

Yin (I know "tiger" as "hu".)

Mao (I don't know "rabbit", but to me "mao" is "cat".)

Chen (I know "dragon" as "long".)

Si (I don't know "snake", but now I find it interesting that it sounds like death, like snakes could be seen as evil in Chinese culture similar to how they are seen in the Christian world.)

Wu (I know "horse" as "ma".)

Wei (I know "sheep/goat" as "yang".)

Shen (I don't know "monkey", but I would have expected "Sun" or "Wu" or "Kong" because of "Monkey King".)

You (I know "rooster/chicken" as " ji".)

Xu (I know "dog" as "gou".)

Hai (I don't know "pig/boar" unless "pork" and "pig" are the same "siu".)

I tried asking my parents, but they just starting talking about how the Chinese zodiac is actually a 60-year cycle with the 12 animals and the 5 elements. So are these shichen names the "Pre-Han dynasty semi-descriptive terms"? Is it kind of like the difference between "midday" and "noon" in English? The former is a "descriptor", the latter is a "name", but they "mean" the same thing?

(I tried checking the etymology for "noon" on dictionary.com, so to be fair "ninth hour" is a descriptor, but in Modern English it's not really recognizable as such and so for the sake of my shichen question, I'm calling "noon" a "name".)

Or is this another language/dialect or due to the evolution of language (changing words and pronunciations)?

I was also looking up the Dragon Boat Festival being on the unluckiest day of the year, and it says, "The Chinese name of the festival is pronounced differently in different Chinese languages. Duanwu (端午) literally means 'starting horse'—i.e., the first "horse day" of the month according to the Chinese zodiac." so I was able to get the exact character for "wu". I think it's interesting that Wikipedia says "literally ... horse" but putting 午 into Google Translate yields "midday, noonday, seventh earthly branch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m." It's unfortunate that Wikipedia only says "different Chinese languages" for "Duanwu" instead of specifying them or time periods, but I appreciate it listing different romanizations by country for Cantonese.

Would you say there's any pattern to Chinese writers or English translators using the above terms vs. using "hour/time/head/body/tail of the (insert zodiac animal here)"? Like if one sounds better for a historical fantasy setting, or choosing to use the pinyin in English instead of translating to not be translating literally? ETA: I should have gotten onto a computer sooner. I asked my parents and then you guys because searching "shichen" in Wikipedia just resulted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement. But further digging took me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeeping. I'll probably get answers there (Maybe I'll even be able to explain to my dad why he was thinking of ten stems and not matching mathematically with "60 is from 12 times 5, not 10 times 6" when he was trying to lecture on the 60-year cycle for the Chinese zodiac, lol.), so my apologies for bothering you. I'd still appreciate your thoughts on what was formerly the last paragraph about writing and translation choices!

#Chinese #Mandarin #language #writing #translation #timekeeping #shichens #Chinese zodiac #I think language is so cool and I am loving applying my interest to Chinese #Step aside English and Spanish and other Western languages #Also I am sadder for my parents that I haven't learned either of their dialects and I'm wondering about dialects dying out in China like ho #foreign languages die out in diaspora as immigrant generations increase #or like the formal eradication and reintroduction of languages like Hebrew and Welsh #Also me trying to flex my minimal Mandarin skills while reading needs to be taken with a grain of salt #I know just enough to hang myself (if even that much)#It's one thing to infer from context that a cardinal direction or number was untranslated in a name #But I was so wrong trying to figure out “Ballad of Sword and Wine” vs “Qiang Jin Jiu”#I was like I don't know “ballad” but “sing/song” is “chang/chang ge” so maybe the lower vocab word is used for multiple words and/or change #pronunciation slightly or the higher vocab word happens to be similar in pronunciation #maybe “jin” is a different spelling/pronunciation for “sword” as “jian” and of course “jiu” is “wine/alcohol”#But no when I did more digging and found fan translation notes and the Chinese characters even though the fan translation is gone #it turns out the English title is a figurative/interpretive title translation instead of a literal one #When I have the spoons I should retry finding the Chinese Wikipedia page for Li Bai's poem and plugging the poem into Google Translate #and attempting poetry analysis. I'm already having Thoughts about the title and the first book #not even the whole story #isn't available #I just love books so much and it's so cool how someone chooses the title for a story

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llicorice · 5 months ago

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another question.. grah.. you don’t hav to answer if you ont wanna..

about your headspace, I remember a post being made about Bat-Cat showing up which got me thinking Does that just happen? Like, what is headspace like— whenever I research DID or OSDD I can’t really figure out just what headspace is like. Can someone hear headspace while fronting, see it? Or is it more like just somewhere you go when not fronting?

a headspace is basically just a little world inside our head for all of our alters to exist with each other! some systems have them and some do not! usually when we say "someone showed up in headspace" it just means theyve formed solidly as an alter enough to be visualized there. ours is a big haunted house! sometimes the fronter can hear headspace and sometimes they cannot (also this all varies from system to system, as some do not even have headspaces and some do not have any inner communication at all, this is all just about our experiences in particular)

like i said our headspace is a big haunted house and we all just kinda live there and exist with each other, alters who are fronting are still inside the headspace but they tend to kinda zone out so they focus more on the real world, but people with a lot of practice (like licorice) can better exist within both spaces at the same time and switch back and forth between what theyre focusing on (he usually uses this to give messages from the real world to alters who arent fronting)

sorry this is kinda rambly and confusing, if u need me to clarify on anything do not be afraid to ask but please note we are not a dissociative disorder professional so we're just speaking from our own experiences :]

-shadow milk cookie♣️

#hehe sorry if this is confusing im not too good at explaining !#i should try to draw locations in our headspace sometime #its a very pretty place #weve had multiple different headspaces over the years they tend to change when we make a large transition in our life #i believe the haunted house change occurred from us more properly beginning a healing journey #our very first headspace is from when we were maybe 9 or 10! we remember it very well it was a large hallway lined with doors for all #our different alter rooms #surprisingly weve always been aware of our alters we have documented evidence of them dating back to around 2017 or 2018 i believe! which #was when we were a 7th grader! but thats just when we started writing diaries weve always known about them #one of our oldest known alters was back when we were in elementary school (around 4th or 5th grade) and is a winged cat introject of a #lisa frank illistration (im not sure how to spell that word) and she was our host for several years!#the mind is a facinating thing isnt it

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