#skalman

[green-nerd-showdown]

GREEN NERD SHOWDOWN ROUND 1 BATTLE 15

BASIL MOUSE FROM THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE VS SKALMAN FROM BAMSE

PROPAGANDA

BASIL

Hat and overcoat are green. He's heavily based on Sherlock Holmes (in fact, he lives in Holmes' basement)

SKALMAN

He is an old man who loves inventing new things but is super chill about it. He has managed to create liquid that makes you able to go inside a book and experience the story first-hand, a time machine, and a drink that shrinks you. Despite these crazy achievements, his favourite invention is a clock that tells him when to eat and when to have a nap. He is so based

He's an inventor and he invented a self propelling wheelbarrow and a "food-and-sleep" clock that he follows strictly, like he took a nap in the middle of a race ha was participating in (and winning). He's a turtle.

[andelfin]

Skalman=aroace icon

[vannavitsvans]

några Skalman highlights

[bamses-icke-korrekta-citat]

Bamse: Det finns inga dumma frågor!

Skalman: Det gör det visst.

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Favorite character tournament round 1

[zehcnasednuldivad]

Look, I know this is gonna be incredibly niche, but: Odin going into his Odinsleep whenever Thor needs him most, and Skalman hearing his "Sleep Clock" and immediately falling asleep whenever Bamse needs him most, are the same thing basically*. *they don't seem to need Skalman that much in this particular scene, sorry, but it was the only image I could find. But. If you've read the comics you'll know what I mean.

[yesterdays-lemon-meringue]

Vote Skalman plz

Congratulations to all our participants!

[tizeline]

Who’s your fave turtle?

[jojotranslates]

Fansubs released for Bamse (1972-1981)

So a little while ago, @the-best-fictional-turtle held a tournament about fictional turtles. Skalman, one of the central protagonists from Swedish children's comic Bamse, somehow made it in. On my sideblog, I joked that I'd translate every single comic in the franchise's 57-year long history if he won. And well... He actually won!

While I genuinely can't translate the whole comic as promised, the creator's animated shorts made in the 70's and 80's have now been subbed. These shorts are missing a lot of the modern cast, and the comic's strong educational tone is not as apparent here. But if you like funny little animals going on funny little adventures with some bonkers sound effects you may enjoy it!

The series is legally available on SVT Play for free*: here's a very basic guide on how to use the site if you don't know Swedish.

That being said, I'm going to do something different than usual. Characters are often named after their species and/or character traits in this series... So this time I would like to provide two versions of the subs:

With no localised names (on Dropbox) - ready!

With localised names (OSS, Subscene, & Dropbox) & other corrections if necessary - eventually

Under the read more there is more info on what exactly I plan to localise and how well (or poorly) I'm doing with those plans.

Happy watching!

Like I said I can't localise the whole franchise, but I still want to leave some doors open for the future when picking names.

So:

First I have to address Vargen. You'll notice that he gets called "the wolf" even in the un-localised version. This is because, according to his backstory, he doesn't have a proper name. His caretakers just called him "vargen"/"the wolf" despite being wolves themselves. So just in case I decide to translate the stories detailing this backstory one day, I couldn't give him a name either. sorry wolf :(

Bamse is a tough one, and I'm leaning toward not localising it. Even the official localisation gave up and just called him "Bamsy"! For comparison, the word "bamse" in Swedish is usually an adjective meaning "big", and occasionally a noun referring to a bear. So even though Bamse is a fairly small bear, it fits him well... I guess Teddy would have been a decent name for him, but there is a comic typically considered the "prototype version" of Bamse which features a similar protagonist already called Teddy. And later in this series, Bamse actually has a son called Teddy... So no dupes allowed.

Lille Skutt -> Good grief. The official localisation called him Little Frisky. But in the original both he and his son are named after terms related to jumping, so I would prefer to save that theming for later. Hopper always sounds nice, so Little Hopper... Then his child could remain "Mini-Hopp" (with or without that extra p). But their names become too similar then? I'm still frantically looking through naming sites and can't find anything useful... of course the anxious little guy would cause me the most stress trying to think of a name for him EDIT: A simpler alternative would just be Little Jump... Thinking I might settle for that for now.

Skalman -> Shellback. Taken from the official English localisation, which actually called him Professor Shellback. I'll cut the Professor to save space in the subs/speech bubbles. (For comparison, his original name means Shell man.)

There are a number of side characters with a "human" first name and species as their last names, i.e. Mickelina Räv and her parents (foxes), Ola Grävling (racoon badger sorry), Annika Anka (duck)... I'll probably just translate the species and leave the names alone. (Nina Kanin didn't show up in these shorts but might be an issue later, since her name is supposed to be a palindrome as well as a reference to her being a rabbit...)

[svenskjavel]

Älskar att WWF Världsnaturfonden använder Skalman som referenspunkt

[the-best-fictional-turtle]

Guys if we try hard enough we can have the Donatello battle my random seeding didn't let happen. VOTE THE DONATELLOS

Round Three

Friday, 31st

[green-nerd-showdown]

GREEN NERD SHOWDOWN ROUND 2 BATTLE 8

Skalman (bamse) vs Jeff Andonuts (earthbound)

PROPAGANDA

SKALMAN

He is an old man who loves inventing new things but is super chill about it. He has managed to create liquid that makes you able to go inside a book and experience the story first-hand, a time machine, and a drink that shrinks you. Despite these crazy achievements, his favourite invention is a clock that tells him when to eat and when to have a nap. He is so based

He's an inventor and he invented a self propelling wheelbarrow and a "food-and-sleep" clock that he follows strictly, like he took a nap in the middle of a race ha was participating in (and winning). He's a turtle.

JEFF

Rocket scientist

A very stereotypical science geek. The guy makes death rays out of discarded trash, and is the only non-psychic in a group of four. He's still the most powerful because he has a bazooka and rockets

[andelfin]

Hans ansiktsuttryck säger allt

[michaelnordeman]

Skalman, a Hermann's tortoise/grekisk landsköldpadda. Värmland, Sweden (July 14, 2016).

[bamses-icke-korrekta-citat]

Inte alltid man ser någon slåss i Bamse, speciellt inte Skalman

[museofvoid]

started reading a new book today that I got for my birthday, some crime thriller which isn't really my thing but I'm giving it a try, and I'm only like 15 pages in and it has already thrown me for several curveballs. not even related to the murder!!

first a teenage girl is introduced, she's at her parents midsummer celebration and is having an awful time. relatable I like her. then it's revealed she's a very obnoxious vegan and because some of the food served is meat she posts on her instagram about how 'midsummer is murder!' (haha get it cause people are gonna die) so I instantly like her less but she's a teen whatever. then to pass the time she facetimes a boy who likes her, but she laments to herself about how he's nice but she doesn't like him back and that she might be asexual (hello??! who knew swedish crime authors knew about asexuality!!) so that makes her slightly cooler.

then people show up on a boat with guns and teen girl jumps into the lake to hide while her parents and everyone else are getting murdered. but her shades miraculously stay on. nice 👌

now main character gets introduced, woman author, former cop, who's gotten the task of writing the next book in the millennium series (you know girl with the dragon tattoo actual real life series) because the original author doesn't want to write more books?? she'd thought about this and the impact it would have on her life. she'd probably make a lot of money that she doesn't know what to do with, she doesn't really need or want a swimming pool... she still decides to write the book just to show the haters that she can!

lisbeth salander (character in millennium series) is a hacker though, and this woman doesn't know anything about hacking. to help her with this the publisher finds an actual hacker to help her. hacker has gender neutral name, is it a man or a woman? she asks. idk I never met them, publisher says, just meet them at this café they know what you look like.

she goes to the café, and soon what she assumes is a guy sits down in front of her. he's the hacker, or "cracker" as he calls himself. she notes that he's in his late twenties, about 20 years younger than her, has long black hair, pale, frail looking skin, and blue eyes. he looks like a metalhead but he's wearing a t-shirt with skalman (swedish cartoon turtle) on it. skalman? she asks. yeah he's my idol, the hacker says.

they talk about hacking and author lady gets some useful information for her book, while he also comments that he read one of her previous books and it was shit, but so is everything so whatever. she's a little hurt by this. afterward the have a smoke together outside. you wanna have sex? hacker guy asks. you're aware of the age difference right? authir responds, despite feeling somewhat aroused at the mention of sex. she hasn't slept with anyone in over a year you see. yeah, so? hacker says. what's the issue? that i won't become a father?

she contemplates this. let's not decide now, perhaps we could have a glass of wine and see where things go first, she says, intrigued by this strange guy.