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wordy-little-witch · 9 months ago

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I feel like I’m getting annoying with all these agere asks but I’m in a weird headspace rn and so my favs now have to regress and be happy so I can sleep better and maybe someone else gets a kick outta it I dunno? Anyways

I still love the idea that Buggy’s regression is mostly unrelated to wanting to wear certain clothes or long for certain toys or even a specific kind of food or such, I like to think it’s very „No. aesthetic“ type of regression, where you probably couldn’t tell at first glance and it’s not as easy as just giving him kiddie stuff and he’ll be happy. (Not to knock on anyone who does like the aesthetics and kiddie stuff just to be clear.) so he actually doesn’t have a bunch of toys and plushies and such and doesn’t really ask for them either.

…. THAT BEING SAID

Buggy should most definitely have an absolutely gigantic plush Fruitwani. Massive thing. It’s almost as big as Crocodile himself and that’s not counting the tail. A complete impulse purchase by Crocodile as well, being separated from his husbands for a while, having to delay reuniting them for another two days because of unforeseen circumstances and some unfortunate encounters with some Marines. Talking on the Denden to both of them and learning Buggy has had some bad regression days behind him. He doesn’t even let himself slip fully, there’s still a part of him that knows why Crocodile isn’t back with them, so he tries to stay in a big headspace when talking to him, but inwardly Buggy just wants to cry badly and curl up into Mihawks arms all day because Croccy isn’t home and he doesn’t LIKE it when people aren’t with him for too long because they may never come back. It’s a mess. Crocodiles suffering, Mihawk is suffering and Buggy is absolutely miserable.

So when Crocodile spots the giant plush toy sitting in a store window, surrounded by smaller plushtoys, his mind is immediately made up. Yes that one. Just for decoration? Not for sale? Well it is now. No. No that can be arranged. No the price doesn’t matter, he will leave this island with this absolute beast of a plush toy no matter how many Beri he has to spend or who he’ll have to harm if that what it takes. He WILL have that toy.

Buggy still clings to Crocodile more than usual when he gets back, no plush could ever replace the connection he was craving…. But after he has settled down a bit more the plush actually becomes on of his favorite toys. Not even just when he’s regressed, he just loves this thing. Has spooked several people wanting to talk business with Crossguild coming into the room finding chairman Buggy lounging on, what appears to be, a full sized Fruitwani , it just looks that convincing at first glance. For Buggy it’s not only cool and flashy, it’s a very, literally, big reminder that Crocodile cares about him in his own way, even when on some days the most he’ll get from him is a good morning kiss and the rest of the day is filled with snark towards him until he bids him and Mihawk goodnight again. It just means a lot to him to know he’s loved even when he’s being vulnerable or difficult.

Also yes, Crocodile also loves this thing and Mihawk has been on the suffering end of him and Buggy spooning the damn thing at night while he goes woefully unembraced on his side of the bed „ah yes, just me, my fiances, and the eight foot tall Applewani plush one of them threatened a shop owner over.“

Olay lemme preface this with some things

1) you're not annoying at all, and if anyone says you are, I'll eat their knees

2) I get it - honestly posting content for Buggy specifically for age regression was nerve wracking bc like. Idek really. But giving things I experience to characters I love is so cathartic, and I've spent more than a few nights just.... daydreaming about stuff like that just to be happy and comfy and cozy. No judgement on this blog, of that I promise you ♡♡♡

3) agere is valid every and any way, aesthetic or not, visible or not, it's doesn't matter, only the ways people feel. If you're safe, happy, and not harming anyone, you're doing so perfect and I love you and am proud of you

Now with my soap box stuff done, HOLY HECK YES YES PLZ I LOVE THIS I ADORE I NEED IT, GODS YOUR MIND!!!!! (/pos)

Buggy isn't a typical person, head to toe, inside out, he's Flashy but also incredibly subtle. His regression isn't some cookie cutter type of deal, he's wild and slightly feral in some ways, he's unusual and perfect and precious. His idea of a good time is knife games, climbing (everything is sight, nothing is sacred), explosions, and playing poker. He has a special rope that's just for him to tie and play with ((and occasionally chew on, though Mihawk has a mild heart attack every time he sees it while Crocodile cringes into the next plane of existence in disgust)).

At a glance, not much changes, but Mihawk can feel the change in Haki, and Crocodile can see the microscopic things there when Buggy shifts. He holds things differently, stims more visibly, just seems bouncier and even more animated yet somehow much more calm. The best explanation comes from Buggy himself in describing the shifting between his headspaces. "Some things turn off and others pop on open."

The worst thing to Buggy in general is a perception of loss or abandonment. Logically, he knows it isn't the case, and he can cling to that mostly, but experience has taught him that distance does NOT, in fact, make hearts grow fonder - at least, not for him. The one and only time he felt it may have applied - and this is a very tentative maybe - was when he reunited with his crew, made into Alvida's image and her decisions. There was no war over crew nor ship, just an allowance to slip back in as if he'd never quite left. The only changes or acknowledgement was Alvida's slightly awkward, brusque, yet lingering touch to his arm when she gave it a squeeze and remarked that "handling these hoodlums solo is not my idea if a good time." He was needed, and that did wonders for his security but not so much for the mental health.

Crocodile and Mihawk don't need him - he's the face man, sure, and he's got a talent for manipulation, speeches, rallying men. But at the end of the day, they outshine him despite their proclivities for the shadows. It's a juxtaposition. It's safe. It's wonderful, and Buggy still struggles to trust in the reliability there.

Logically, he knows- Croc is out, managing something for work, he's coming back, he will be back, he's not alone or abandoned or suddenly useless and worthless.

But he still feels it all.

And falling into his headspace to decompress is always harder when he's upset or scared, it only really works when he boils over, and the meltdown that would lead to is counterproductive. So he's waffling between the two, assured only by the calls, by Mihawk, and the few other places he can get some semblance normalcy and security.

When Crocodile does come home, a comically large plush toy over his shoulder, Buggy's already practically vibrating and is completely beyond the point of words in a positive way. He just squeals, lunges and the cushion of sand catching his weight is warm and safe and cozy and he clings, a clown themed koala, right there without shame.

The plush doesn't come up until later.

When someone inevitably asks - and, interestingly enough, it is Mihawk who does - Croc is honest. "Thought the clown would like it for longer trios like this."

The toy is big, yes, and also decently heavy, moreso than even it's size may seem. It's partially weighted in the tummy, legs and jaw, a display piece more than a toy for playing with, and Buggy is absolutely obsessed. It's Croco-sized, and it's a 'wani, and it's soft and cute and heavy. He loves it.

His first order of business is immediately dropping down to scramble under it and just... going limp. He wriggles a little, humming softly before falling still, cheek squished into his forearms, hair a mess but he's smiling, he's relaxed, he's comfy and happy and safe and with his boyfriends' Haki on the edges if his muffled, fuzzy awareness, he truly unwinds for the first time in over a week.

Crocodile carefully tugs his hair from under the toy with his hook, and Mihawk hands him a little fidget toy or a rope.

The toy is named later on, as demanded by a tiny jester with a frankly lethal set of baby doll eyes and quivering lip. Really, he could topple nations with that face, the other two swear.

Mihawk simply has to make peace with Addie the Applewani Cuddle Buddy having a semi permanent spot in the bed.

#i love the asks bb dw you're not annoying #agere buggy #agere one piece #sfw agere #regressor buggy #caregiver mihawk #caregiver crocodile #implied cross guild poly #age regression #all regression is valid if you're not harming anyone #honestly i think the only “”“”aesthetic“”“” things Buggy may enjoy would be like. chewy or soft things #maybe dress up but it's weird #it's not a REGRESSION thing he's just Like That #but honestly imagining Mihawk dressing Buggy up for a lil day and just. full doting but Goth Edition is both really cute and really funny #bonus for Crocodile doing the same but it's comically serious and devolves into Shenanigans #You Are Not Immune To Silly #witchy answers!!

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novelcain · 2 years ago

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Please read 🙏

So. I mentioned in the tags of one of my first posts back that I had to announce a few things that'd probably lose me some followers, but like I don't blame anyone if you do skedaddle because I know most of you are here for the monkie (totally understandable tho)

That being said I am no longer hyperfixated on jttw/Sun Wukong and that likely won't happen again for a while cause main the thing that caused me to clock out for so long kinda left a bad taste in my brain. However I will eventually come back to it. I can guarantee that. It just won't be for a hot minute (maybe who knows I can't control my brain lol)

As for the 10 billion asks I have in my inbox rn I'll be taking screen shots of the ones that have to do with monkie and such and putting them in a folder so that when I DO get back into jttw I'll just immediately start with those. So yeah if you sent me a really long ask FEAR NOT!😃 for I refuse to get rid of any of them 🥰

With that information tho, I never really intended for this to be just a monkie blog that's just what my hyperfixation had been on since I started. But I also tried to force that hyperfixation to stay way longer than I should have so that I could keep making content that my followers would like which is a part of the reason why I needed a break for so long. I wore myself out, and I needed to convince myself that it was okay for me to make content that makes me happy too. 😌

Tho unfortunately that does mean all my current projects will be on hold and I'll be updating the titles on ao3 soon to On Hiatus. 😔

I ofc will still gladly interact with/absorb any art or writings inspired by or dedicated to my works even if they aren't something I'm currently fixated on because effort deserves recognition and I love seeing ya'lls stuff more than anything. 🥰 Same goes for any submissions with art or edits/videos.

Also I did finish my Triad AU Sun Wukong character sheet like... forever go and just forgot to post it. 😬 (I KNOW I'M SORRY! 😭) SO I'll be posting that soon once I'm done moving everything around and making things more manageable and ✨️aesthetic✨️ on the blog.

Tho that kinda brings me to the next announcement I'll be merging my art blog and my spam blog onto this blog (so many blogs😫) cause honestly 4 blogs is just too much and I just wanna vibe 😅🤚 lol

The last announcement is that once I'm done rearranging everything I'll be going through all my mentions that I've missed and checking out what you guys made while I was gone cause I heard from a few people that there's quite a bit 😊 *much excitement* (on god I need an emoji that looks like it's vibrating because I need visual representation of how I feel like imma explode sometimes)

#skittle announcement

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muthaz-rapapa · 15 days ago

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Taiwanese Dubbed Precure Name Translations

First post of the year on this blog. Must I bring weirdness to the table?

YES.

😂 Well, it’s not that weird. This was a way to kill time while I was staying in Guangzhou two months ago. I wanted to watch youtube but since I was in the mainland, nothing would show when you open the app so I had to use a VPN. And cuz I set the location to Taiwan, YT started recommending me Precure in the local dub based on my watch history.

So I got curious, checked it out and this is what that curiosity spiraled into.

Before I get into anything though, this was my first time watching Precure dubbed in another language other than Japanese so I’m not that familiar with it beyond the episodes that are available on YT. I just know (according to the wiki) that in East Asia, it’s primarily broadcasted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea so it’s not hard to find those dubs online.

Of course, in Taiwan, people speak Mandarin but since it was dubbed in Taiwan, I shall refer to the dub as Taiwanese.

(I am not fluent in Mandarin btw so don’t come for my head if I get any translations or tonal changes wrong, this was just for fun :P)

好了！开始吧！✊😄

Few things to go over before diving into the seasons.

One, there is obviously no direct translation for Precure in Mandarin since “Precure” is a made up word to begin with. Although the Hong Kong/Cantonese dub does use the term “Pretty Cure” (as far as Fresh goes, I don’t know about the rest), the Taiwanese dub chose to retitle the series as “光之美少女” (guāngzhīměishàonǜ) which translates to “beautiful/pretty girls of light”.

I can see why. The other option would be to transliterate “Precure” into Mandarin but the result would end up being more clunky than anything aesthetic.

When it comes to foreign or loan words, Chinese would grab characters (hanzi) based on the sound they make to put it as close as possible to how the original is pronounced.

For example, chocolate is 巧克力 (qiǎokèlì) but when you translate it character by character, it gives you something like “skillful gram power” which is just weird. Even if it kinda makes sense if you think about it long enough, the direct meaning doesn’t give you the idea of “chocolate” right away, yea?

So I’m pretty sure that’s the reason why “光之美少女” is the equivalent of “Precure” in Mandarin. When you hear it, you’ll immediately know it’s referring to that magical girl franchise.

美少女 (měishàonǜ) is also “bishoujo” in Japanese and as far as I know, this is the term that has been used to describe magical girls as far back as Sailor Moon in the Chinese dubs (I can confirm this because I watched the old Canto dub). So it’s also to help identify Precure as part of the genre, I guess.

Two, instead of “Cure”, the girls are called “Angel”s (天使/tiānshǐ) with the variable part of the name preceding “Angel” rather than following after it.

This makes a lot of sense, too. “Angel” connects better with “光之美少女” (pretty girls of light) and children whose first language is Mandarin would find it easier to understand that than try to figure out what “Cure” means and how it relates in context.

明白吗? 👍

Ok, then. I’ll only be translating the Cure names (which I got from the wiki). The civilian names of the main characters along with the names of mascots and a few supporting characters, I’ll just spell out the pronunciation in pinyin.

Because unless they have kanji/hanzi in them, it’s (usually) going to be a transliteration from the original in kana. And as I said above, the combined meaning of transliterated words often don’t make any sense. They can also get very wordy if the name is particularly long so that’s why I don’t want to do it in this post. It drove me crazy enough getting through everyone in my notes 😅

But if you’re curious, you can do it yourself by copying and pasting the characters listed here into MDBG

*Note: The names taken from the wiki may NOT be accurate to script in the Taiwanese dub so if there are corrections that need to be made, I will do them later.

Futari wa Precure/Max Heart - 光之美少女/Max Heart

Cure Black - 黑天使 (hēi - Black Angel)

Misumi Nagisa (美墨なぎさ)- 美墨莎莎 (měimò shāshā/suōsuō)

Cure White - 白天使 (bái - White Angel)

Yukishiro Honoka (雪城ほのか) - 雪城穗乃香 (xuěchéng suìnǎixiāng)

Shiny Luminous - 夏妮露米納斯 (xiànī lùmǐnàsī)

Kujo Hikari (九条ひかり) - 九條光 (jiǔtiáo guāng)

Mepple - 美波 (měibō)

Mipple - 米波 (mǐbō)

Porun - 保倫 (bǎolún)

Lulun - 露露 (lùlù)

Yea, I still haven’t watched the first three seasons and I don’t think I ever will, lol

But since I’m doing this, might as well cover them all, yea?

First season is simple enough since it’s, well, the first.

Nagisa and Honoka’s given names in Japanese are written in hiragana so they can stand for anything. However, there is no phonetic system like that in Mandarin so the Taiwanese dub gave them hanzi. Naturally, they’re gonna sound different.

And I could be wrong but I don’t think Honoka is addressed in her full given name, “suìnǎixiāng” (if that’s really how she’s called cuz I haven’t watched this season’s dub) 😅 It’s probably shortened or converted into a nickname somehow.

Same goes for Hikari, which directly translates to “guāng” (light). It doesn’t sound cute enough for a girl and there’s two ways I know they can go about making a single character name cuter. Either put “小” (xiǎo, “small/little”) in front of it to form “xiǎo guāng” (small/little light) or double the character to “guāng guāng” (光光) <- this doesn’t mean “light light” btw, it’s just a common way to give a cutesy nickname to someone in Chinese (typically girls but can be done for boys too and to make your speech sound cutesy-er)

I dunno, if anybody watched this in Mandarin, can you please tell us how they’re called? lol

The rest are transliterations, with Shiny Luminous having the honor of going first in demonstrating exactly what transliterating means. Again, put together, those characters are just there to imitate the sound of the original word(s). Otherwise, they make absolutely no sense in translation 😂

Precure Splash Star - 光之美少女 Splash Star

Cure Bloom/Cure Bright - 花天使／月天使 (huā/yuè - Flower Angel/Moon Angel)

Hyuuga Saki (日向咲 - rìxiàng xiào)

Cure Egret/Cure Windy - 舞天使／風天使 (wǔ/fēng - Dancing Angel/Wind Angel)

Mishou Mai (美翔舞 - měixiáng wǔ)

Flappy - 弗拉比 (fúlābǐ)

Choppy - 喬比 (qiáobǐ)

Mupu - 姆姆 (mǔmǔ)

Fupu - 芙芙 (fúfú)

Kiryuu Kaoru (霧生かおる) - 霧生薰 (wùshēng xūn)

Kiryuu Michiru (霧生みちる) - 霧生滿 (wùshēng mǎn)

Interestingly, this season was also called “Precure III” but I guess they dropped the numbering when Yes!5 deviated from the partner pair model to introduce the sentai-style groups.

Anyways, still pretty straightforward. This time, the girls have kanji in their given names.

The character for Saki’s name (咲) means “bloom” or “blossom”. But in Chinese, 咲 is also the traditional form of the simplified character “笑” (xiào) which means “smile” or “laugh”. So I guess there’s a double meaning there. when I learned this, all I could think of was Saki’s mouth opening VERY wide when she laughed in DX2

Yes! Precure 5 + GoGo! - Yes! 光之美少女5 + GoGo!

Cure Dream - 夢天使 (mèng - Dream Angel)

Yumehara Nozomi (夢原のぞみ) - 夢原望 (mèngyuán wàng)

Cure Rouge - 火天使 (huǒ - Fire Angel)

Natsuki Rin (夏木りん) - 夏木玲 (xiàmù líng)

Cure Lemonade - 檸檬天使 (níngméng - Lemon Angel)

Kasugano Urara (春日野うらら) - 春日野麗 (chūnrìyě lì)

Cure Mint - 薄荷天使 (bòhe - Mint Angel)

Akimoto Komachi (秋元こまち) - 秋元小町 (qiūyuán xiăodīng)

Cure Aqua - 水天使 (shuǐ - Water Angel)

Minazuki Karen (水無月かれん) - 水無月香戀 (shuǐwúyuè xiāngliàn)

Milky Rose - 妙奇露丝 (Miaoqi Ruth/miàoqí lùsī) - Milk (ミルク) - 米露 (mǐlù) - Mimino Kurumi (美々野くるみ) - 美美野露米 (měiměiyě lùmǐ)

Coco (ココ) - 可可 (kěkě)

Nutts (ナッツ) - 果果 (guǒguǒ)

Syrup (シロップ) - 史洛普 (shǐluòpǔ)

Omg, you don’t realize how big of a leap they went from two MCs to six until you’re going through the dictionary for every single one of them 😅

Nothing really different with the Cure/Angel names except Lemonade which got reverted to “lemon” 🍋

Milky Rose, though…hahaha, oh god, I had such a laugh cuz I google translated it first from my phone and what came up was “Miaoqi Ruth” 😂 The pronunciation is “miàoqí lùsī” but now I can’t unsee it! So everyone, whenever you’re referring to Milky Rose in Mandarin, be sure to call her MIAOQI RUTH, ok?! 🤣

On another note, the translation of “妙奇露丝” isn’t too weird, surprisingly. “Wonderful Strange Reveal Silk”? It almost fits since she’s technically a Purple Cure, mysterious (wonderful, strange) and beautifully OP and all. The “silk” part is ironic though. Cuz rose petals are soft in texture (like silk) but Milky Rose’s elemental attack is a storm of metal splinters 😂

Moving along, this season is also another case of gaining hanzi in place of hiragana. Most of them are quite charming. Urara’s can mean “beautiful” or… “Korea” (errkay 🥴) But I like Karen’s the most. Hers is a combination of “fragrant” and “to long for” so “longing for fragrance”? Hm~ Elegant~ 😊

可可 is cocoa, which is a loan word, while 果 means “fruit” but it can also mean “nut”. It got doubled to make it sound cuter.

Fresh Precure - 光之美少女: 幸福精靈Fresh!

Cure Peach - 桃天使 (táo - Peach Angel)

愛情精靈 - (àiqíng) Love/Romance Spirit

Momozono Love (桃園ラブ) - 桃園愛 (táoyuán ài)

Cure Berry - 莓天使 (méi - Berry/Strawberry Angel)

希望精靈 - (xīwàng) Hope Spirit

Aono Miki - 蒼乃美希 (cāngnǎi měixī)

Cure Pine - 鳳梨天使 (fènglí - Pineapple Angel)

祈願精靈 - (qíyuàn) Prayer Spirit

Yamabuki Inori - 山吹祈里 (shānchuī qílǐ)

Cure Passion - 熱情果天使/百香果天使 (rèqíngguǒ/bǎixiāngguǒ - Passion Fruit Angel)

幸運精靈 - (xìngyùn) Lucky/Good fortune Spirit

Higashi Setsuna (東せつな) - 東剎那 (dōng chànà)

Eas - 伊絲 (Yīsī)

Tarte (タルト) - 塔多 (tǎduō)

Chiffon (シフォン) - 希風 (xīfēng)

Fresh essentially saved Precure from cancellation so it wouldn't surprise me if overseas dubs thought the series was going in a slightly different direction that they decided to change things up a bit on how they market it to their local audience as well.

幸福精靈 (xìngfújīnglíng) is an add-on to the season title and it means "Happiness Elf/Fairy/Spirit" I'm gonna go with "spirit" here for 精靈 (jīnglíng) cuz I also put this through google translate first and it gave me "elf" and I was like "what elf? they don't have elf ears!" 😂

莓 for berry can also mean strawberry. For Passion's, I'm not really sure if it's 熱情果 (‪rèqíngguǒ‬) or 百香果 (bǎixiāngguǒ). The former is a combination of "passionate/enthusiastic" and "fruit" but the latter is how you say the fruit's actual name in Chinese.

There are additional translations for the different themes each Cure represents. In Japanese, Peach represents love but in Mandarin, it's specified as 愛情 (àiqíng) which means romantic love. Yea, that's quite odd because there was barely any romance element in the show. Passion, on the other hand, doesn't represent happiness but luck or fortune. To be honest, this makes more sense to me cuz the four of them together form the lucky clover so why is nobody representing luck? lol

They all do collectively, I guess.

Heartcatch Precure - 光之美少女: 甜蜜天使!

Cure Blossom - 花��天使 (huālěi - Flower Bud Angel)

Hanasaki Tsubomi (花咲つぼみ) - 花咲蕾 (huāxiào lěi)

Cure Marine - 海洋天使 (hǎiyáng - Ocean Angel)

Kurumi Erika (来海えりか) - 來海繪里香 (láihǎi huìlǐxiāng)

Cure Sunshine - 陽光天使 (yángguāng - Sunshine Angel)

Myoudouin Itsuki (明堂院いつき) - 明堂院樹 (míngtángyuàn shù)

Cure Moonlight - 月光天使 (yuèguāng - Moonlight Angel)

Tsukikage Yuri (月影ゆり) - 月影百合 (yuèyǐng bǎihé)

Shypre (シプレ) - 希普蕾 (xīpǔlěi)

Coffret (コフレ) - 可芙蕾 (kěfúlěi)

Potpourri (ポプリ) - 波普莉 (bōpǔlì)

Cologne (コロン) - 可隆 (kělóng/lōng)

Coupé (コッペ) - 可貝 (kěbèi)

Cure Flower - 花朵天使 (huāduǒ - Flower Angel)

Yay~! My first Precure love that got me into this damn franchise 🥰

It's strange that this season is called "Sweet Angel" (甜蜜天使, tiánmìtiānshǐ). I mean, I know there is no translation for "Heartcatch" but when you say 甜蜜 (tiánmì), it literally means "sweet honey" so wouldn't this be more suited for a season that deals with sweets like Suite or KiraPre? 😅

Anyways, Heartcatch has an older character in its cast so I'm gonna talk about that now. Yuri is addressed with "-san" by the girls which makes sense in Japanese context. However, in Chinese, using those honorifics (Mr. or Ms./Miss) to call someone who's only slightly older or within the same generation as you is very strange to the ears. It sounds too formal and distant. So even though I haven't watched the dub for this season, I'm pretty sure they call Yuri "百合姐姐" (Bǎihé jiějie) or “百合姐” (Bǎihé jiě), which would be "Yuri-oneesan" in Japanese. You don't have to be blood related to call an older girl or woman "jiějie" (or 哥哥 ("gēge" older brother) for an older boy). It’s generally used to help indicate familiarity in the relationship as well as acknowledges seniority between the older person and the younger ones.

Finally, Cure Flower's name (花朵, huāduǒ) also means a "cluster of flowers" as opposed to Blossom's name (花蕾, huālěi) which just means a "flower bud". Nice distinction there between the two generations, hehe

Suite Precure - 光之美少女: 美樂天使♪

Cure Melody - 旋律天使 (xuánlǜ - Melody Angel)

Hojo Hibiki - 北條響 (běitiáo xiǎng)

Cure Rhythm - 節奏天使 (jiézòu - Rhythm Angel)

Minamino Kanade - 南野奏 (nányě zòu)

Cure Beat - 節拍天使 (jiépāi - Beat Angel)

Siren - 賽蓮 (sàilián)

Kurokawa Ellen (黒川エレン) - 黑川艾蓮 (hēichuān ài/yìlián)

Cure Muse - 謬思天使 (miùsī - Muse Angel)

Shirabe Ako - 調邊亞子 (diào/tiáobiān yàzǐ)

Hummy (ハミィ) - 哈咪 (hāmī)

Suite is called "美樂天使" (měiyuètiānshǐ) in the Taiwanese dub which translates to "beautiful music angels".

(fun note: 美樂 can also be pronounced as "měilè" which means Merlot. As in, the type of grape used to make wines, haha)

The transliteration of "Siren" sounds a lot closer to how it's pronounced in English compared to "seiren" in Japanese. Even the first character in her name corresponds with Ellen's backstory (賽 means to compete or surpass which Siren wanted to do against Hummy before her character development)

Muse is also another transliteration and the hanzi (謬思) put together kinda fits her, too. 謬 means "to deceive/confuse" which can be attributed to her disguise before she revealed her true identity while 思 means "to think". What's another term for "think"? Muse.

Don't know if that was intentional or not but if so, it's quite clever.

Smile Precure - Smile 光之美少女

Cure Happy - 快樂天使 (kuàilè - Happy/Joyful Angel)

Hoshizora Miyuki (星空みゆき) - 星空幸 (xīngkōng xìng)

Cure Sunny - 晴朗天使 (qínglăng - Sunny Angel)

Hino Akane (日野あかね) - 日野茜 (rìyě qiàn)

Cure Peace - 和平天使 (hépíng - Peace Angel)

Kise Yayoi (黃瀬やよい) - 黃瀨彌生 (huánglài míshēng)

Cure March - 旋風天使 (xuànfēng - Whirlwind/Tornado Angel)

Midorikawa Nao (緑川なお) - 綠川直 (lǜchuān zhí)

Cure Beauty - 美麗 (měilì - Beauty Angel)

Aoki Reika (青木れいか) - 青木麗華 (qīngmù lìhuá)

Candy (キャンディ) - 糖糖 (tángtáng)

Pop (ポップ) - 波普 (bōpǔ)

This season is rather simple (so easier for me, yay).

There are actually many ways to translate "happiness" into Chinese. 快樂 (kuàilè) is the joyful kind of happiness (I'm mentioning this now to differentiate it from Felice's "happiness" later).

晴朗 (qínglăng) means clear and bright weather so it’s consistent with sunny days. But I dunno, when I hear "clear and bright", I think of blue skies, not necessarily the sun. But eh, whatever cuz you need the sun out to see blue skies anyway.

March has the coolest name change, imo. Whirlwind/tornado gets the image of her element across a lot better than her original name does.

Candy is the most accurate translation for a mascot name atm cuz 糖 (táng) means sugar or candy and again, doubling the character gives it that cute nickname effect.

DokiDoki Precure - 心跳！光之美少女

Cure Heart - 愛心天使 (àixīn - Love/Compassion Angel)

Aida Mana (相田マナ) - 相田愛 (xiāngtián ài)

Cure Diamond - 鑽石天使 (zuànshí - Diamond Angel)

Hishikawa Rikka - (菱川六花) (língchuān liùhuā)

Cure Rosetta - 幸運草天使 (xìngyùncào - Lucky Grass Angel)

Yotsuba Alice (四葉ありす) - 四葉愛麗絲 (sìyè àilìsī)

Cure Sword - 聖劍天使 (shèngjiàn - Peerless/Holy Sword Angel)

Kenzaki Makoto - 劍崎真琴 (jiànqí zhēnqín)

Cure Ace - 王牌天使 (wángpái - Trump Card Angel)

Madoka Aguri - 圓亞久里 (yuányà jiǔlǐ)

Sharuru (シャルル) - 夏露露 (xiàlùlù)

Raquel (ラケル) - 拉克爾 (lā/lákèěr)

Lance (ランス) - 蘭斯 (lánsī)

Daybi (ダビィ) - 達比 (dábǐ)

Ai-chan (アイちゃん) - 艾艾 (àiài)

Cure Empress - 皇后天使 (huánghòu - Empress Angel)

Cure Magician - 魔術師天使 (móshùshī - Magician Angel)

Cure Priestess - 女祭司天使 (nǜjìsī - Priestess Angel)

心跳 (xīntiào) means "heartbeat" so it's an appropriate term to replace "dokidoki"

In a similar vein to happiness, love can be translated in many ways depending on what kind of love we're talking about. Compare Love's 愛情 (àiqíng) from earlier which means romantic love versus Mana's 愛心 (àixīn) which means compassion or love and care for others.

Love and Mana also share the same character (愛, love) for their given names in Mandarin, btw.

There is a a word for (three-leaf) clover (三叶草, sānyècǎo) but for some reason, they decided to go with "Lucky Grass" (幸運草 (xìngyùncào) for Rosetta instead.

And yes, 四葉愛 (àilìsī) is how you transliterate Alice into Mandarin. Directly translated, it means "love + beautiful/magnificent + silk" (ooh, pretty~ 🤩)

The 艾 in 艾艾 for Ai-chan is not related to love but in fact, means moxa or Chinese mugwort which is used in traditional herbal medicine. So that hanzi was probably chosen to imitate the sound of "ai" while trying not to let it get mixed up with the other "愛"s in the show.

Finally, I threw in the legacy Cures just because I wanted to see if the hanzi used for Cure Magician would be different than the hanzi used for Mahoutsukai Precure and it was. But more on that later when we get to it.

Happiness Charge Precure - 幸福爆發！光之美少女

Cure Lovely - 可愛天使 (kě’ài - Cute/Charming Angel)

Aino Megumi (愛乃めぐみ) - 愛乃惠 (àinǎi huì)

Cure Princess - 公主天使 (gōngzhǔ - Princess Angel)

Shirayuki Hime (白雪ひめ) - 白雪姬 (báixuě jī)

Himelda Window Cure Queen of the Blue Sky - 希梅露達・溫豆・藍天之女王天使 (xīméilùdá wēndòu lántiānzhīnǜwángtiānshǐ)

Cure Honey - 甜蜜天使 (tiánmì - Sweet Angel)

Omori Yuko (大森ゆうこ) - 大森悠子 (dàsēn yōuzǐ)

Cure Fortune - 命運天使 (mìngyùn - Destiny Angel)

Hikawa Iona (氷川いおな) - 冰川伊緒奈 (bīngchuān yīxùnài)

Ribbon (リボン) - 緞帶 (duàndài)

Glassan (ぐらさん) - 墨鏡 (mòjìng)

Cure Tender - 溫柔天使 (wēnróu - Gentle/Tender Angel)

Cure Mirage - 幻影天使 (huànyǐng - Phantom/Mirage Angel)

幸福爆發 (xìngfúbàofā) actually means "happiness burst"

And HaCha also has a secondary title: 填充精靈 (tiánchōngjīnglíng) If you remember from Fresh, 精靈 (jīnglíng) means “spirit” or “fairy” while 填充 (tiánchōng) means to "fill up" so it can pretty much translate to "fairies that fill you up (with happiness)" or something.

可愛 (kě’ài) is the same as kawaii (可愛い) and it can be translated multiple ways including but not limited to “cute”, “charming”, and “lovely”.

Does the 甜蜜 (tiánmì) in Cure Honey's name sound familiar? Yea, it's the same 甜蜜 as Heartcatch's title in Mandarin so it's probably for the best that these two seasons don't do a collab. Even their abbreviations (HC, HaCha) can make it really confusing in the same space 😅

Fortune (命運, mìngyùn) in this case doesn't mean the luck kind of fortune (which would be 幸運 (xìngyùn), I believe) but more of the future-predicting kind and hence, destiny.

Another interesting case here with the mascots is that their names actually translate to the same meaning as to what the Japanese ones are based off of. 緞帶 (duàndài) means satin strap (ribbon) while 墨鏡 (mòjìng) means sunglasses.

And I was a little intimidated on whether I wanted to try "deciphering" Hime's ridiculously long name but turns out it's very mild compared to say, Fuwa's from StarPre. Now that I look at it after it's been a while, more than half of it is just a title. Her given name is probably just Himelda Window 😂

Go! Princess Precure - GO! 光之美少女公主

Cure Flora - 花神天使 (huāshén - Flower God Angel)

Haruno Haruka (春野はるか) - 春野遙 (chūnyě yáo)

Cure Mermaid - 人魚天使 (rényú - Mermaid Angel)

Kaido Minami (海藤みなみ) - 海藤南 (hăiténg nán)

Cure Twinkle - 閃亮天使 (shǎnliàng - Shining Angel)

Amanogawa Kirara (天ノ川きらら) - 天之川綺羅 (tiānzhīchuān qǐluó)

Cure Scarlet - 赤紅天使 (chìhóng - Scarlet Angel)

Akagi Towa (紅城トワ) - 紅城永久 (hóngchéng yǒngjiǔ)

Twilight - 黛維莱德 (Dàiwéiláidé)

Pafu (パフ) - 泡芙 (pàofú)

Aroma (アロマ) - 阿羅瑪 (āluómǎ)

Miss Shamour (ミス・シャムール) - 夏慕爾小姐 (xiàmùěr xiǎojie)

Kuroro (クロロ) - 庫洛洛 (kùluòluò)

Go!Pri is simply titled 公主 (gōngzhǔ) in the lineup which makes “光之美少女” (guāngzhīměishàonǜ) even a bigger mouthful to say when two more hanzi are added to the end 😅

Didn't understand where the "Flower God" came from in Flora's translation until I looked it up and oh, it's the name of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, doyy 🤦🏻‍♀️

Twinkle's is an intriguing translation because she and Sparkle wound up sharing the same hanzi. 閃亮 (shǎnliàng) can be translated a number of ways including “brilliant”, “shiny”, “flare”, “to glisten” and “to twinkle”. Basically, if you're blingin' bright, you're 閃亮 😎✨

Kirara's given name in Mandarin, 綺羅 (qǐluó), means “beautiful silk fabrics” or “a person in a beautiful silk dress” and is likely a reference to Orihime which her princess concept is based off of.

赤紅 (chìhóng) are two characters for the color red so placed together, it means really red (aka scarlet).

Twilight got to keep her name as is and this is the translation for it:

“black dye (for painting eyebrow) + preserve/maintain + name of weed plant + virtue”

...it kinda makes half sense at least??

Oh and 泡芙 (pàofú) means cream puff, not the powder puff used for makeup.

Mahoutsukai Precure - 魔法使光之美少女!

Cure Miracle - 奇蹟天使 (qíjì - Miracle Angel)

Asahina Mirai (朝日奈みらい) - 朝日奈未來 (zhāorìnài wèilái)

Cure Magical - 魔法天使 (mófǎ - Magic Angel)

Izayoi Riko (十六夜リコ) - 十六夜理子 (shíliùyè lǐzǐ)

Cure Felice - 幸福天使 (xìngfú - Happiness Angel)

Ha-chan (はーちゃん) - 小哈 (xiǎohā)

Hanami Kotoha (花海ことは) - 花海言葉 (huāhǎi yányè)

Mofurun - 莫夫倫 (Mòfūlún)

Mother Rapapa (マザー・ラパーパ) - 拉帕帕母神 (lāpàpà mǔshén)

Nobody should be surprised that I enjoyed doing this season's translations the most cuz MahoPre is my true love among the Precure seasons after all, hehehe 🤭💖

Ok, so as opposed to 魔術師 (móshùshī) used for Cure Magician in DokiPre, MahoPre uses 魔法使 (mófǎshī). I'm not sure if there's really that big of a difference between them but breaking both down, 魔術師 is "magic power + art/skill/technique + teacher/master" (translated to "magician") while 魔法使 is "magic power + rule/law + teacher/master" (translated to "wizard/sorcerer"). So I guess it really depends on the context in which they're being used.

For the Cure names, there are no major changes. 奇蹟 (qíjì) can also mean “wonder" or "marvel”. 魔法 (mófǎ) can also stand for “enchantment”. And 幸福 (xìngfú) means happiness. I believe this is the general term used for happiness in Chinese but it also carries a sort of...precious connotation to it? Cuz it also means "blessings" which Felice also represents so there's that. You can compare Cure Happy's joyful happiness vs Felice's blessed happiness and feel the distinction there.

For the civilian names, I didn't mention this before but any girl whose Japanese name ends in "ko" (子) will likely be translated to "zǐ" cuz 子 means "child". Though when I hear "zǐ", I think of "boy" instead of child cuz it usually refers to sons. Anyway, the first hanzi of Riko's given name means “logic” or “reason” which fits her personality since she is the more law-abiding one between her and Mirai. Xiǎo Hā means "little Ha" (the closest you'll get to translating anything with “-chan” in it cuz we don't have those sort of suffixes in Chinese) and 哈 is the onomatopoeia for laughter (aww~ 🥰) or Pekinese pug (lol 😂)

Mofurun's translation is very hilarious as well. 莫夫倫 means "do not + husband + human relationship" So I guess they really wanted to hammer it in that Mirai and Riko are a lesbian couple 🤣

Finally Mother Rapapa is called 母神 which literally means “mother goddess”.

Kira Kira Precure a la Mode - 光之美少女: 食尚甜心

Cure Whip - 奶油天使 (nǎiyóu - Cream/Butter Angel)

Usami Ichika (宇佐美いちか) - 宇佐美一花 (yǔzuǒměi yīhuā)

Cure Custard - 卡士達天使 (kǎshìdá - Custard Angel)

Arisugawa Himari (有栖川ひまり) - 有栖川陽理 (yǒuqīchuān yánglǐ)

Cure Gelato - 冰淇淋天使 (bīngqílín - Ice Cream Angel)

Tategami Aoi (立神あおい) - 立神葵 (lìshén kuí)

Cure Macaron - 馬卡龍天使 (mǎkǎlóng - Macaron Angel)

Kotozume Yukari (琴爪ゆかり) - 琴爪緣 (qínzhǎo yuán)

Cure Chocolat - 巧克力天使 (qiǎokèli - Chocolate Angel)

Kenjou Akira (剣城あきら) - 劍城晶 (jiànchéng jīng)

Cure Parfait - 聖代天使 (shèngdài - Sundae Angel)

Kirarin (キラリン) - 綺羅鈴 (qǐluólíng)

Kirahoshi Ciel (キラ星シエル) - 綺羅星夏爾 (qǐluóxīng xiàěr)

Pekorin (ペコリン) - 佩科琳 (pèkēlín)

Pikario (ピカリオ) - 皮卡利歐 (píkǎlìōu)

Julio (ジュリオ) - 朱利歐 (zhūlìōu)

Kuroki Rio (黒樹リオ) - 黑樹利歐 (hēishù lìōu)

Lumiere (ルミエル) - 露米爾 (lùmǐěr)

I was afraid of this one cuz how the hell do you translate "a la mode"??

Fortunately, it went the four hanzi route: 食尚甜心 (shíshàng tiánxīn) which means "food sweethearts"

Other than that, I don't have much to say. Beside Whip and Gelato, most of the names are loan words so they don't have specific hanzi for them and are all transliterated.

I think Cream is better than Whip though, don't you agree?

And I'm still dying at the translation for Gelato cuz it reminds me of that John Cena video where he’s repeatedly saying "wǒ xǐhuan bīngqílín!" (I love ice cream!) in order to appeal to China audiences to go watch one of the Fast & Furious movies 🤣

Oh and the “綺羅” (qǐlou) in Kirarin’s name is the same as Kirara’s given name in Mandarin. So 綺羅 is probably how the translators chose to substitute “きら” (kira) in Mandarin.

Hugtto Precure - 擁抱！光之美少女

Cure Yell - 喝采天使 (hècǎi - Cheer Angel)

Nono Hana (野乃はな) - 野乃花 (yěnǎi huā)

Cure Ange - 聖潔天使 (shèngjié - Holy and Pure Angel)

Yakushiji Saaya (薬師寺さあや) - 藥師寺紗綾 (yàoshīsì shālíng)

Cure Etoile - 星辰天使 (xīngchén -Stars Angel)

Kagayaki Homare (輝木ほまれ) - 輝木譽 (huīmù yù)

Cure Macherie - 摯愛天使 (zhì’ài - True Love Angel)

Aisaki Emiru (愛崎えみる) - 愛崎惠美瑠 (àiqí huìměiliú)

Cure Amour - 愛神天使 (àishén - Love God Angel)

Lulu Amour - 露露・艾莫爾 (lùlù àimòěr)

Hugtan (はぐたん) - 抱抱 (bàobào)

Cure Tomorrow - 明日天使 (mingrì - Tomorrow Angel)

Harryham Harry (ハリハム・ハリー) - 哈利哈姆・哈利 (hālìhāmǔ hālì)

擁抱 (yōngbào) means "embrace" or "hug"

Yell's name makes more sense in Mandarin and should've been “cheer” from the start, to be honest.

And I guess Ange could not be "Angel Angel" so they went with 聖潔 to allude to something saint-like.

星辰 comes up as "stars" in the dictionary but when you break down the hanzi, it stands for "star" + "early morning/5th terrestrial branch"

lol, they didn't bother transliterating Macherie and granted her the title of "True Love Angel" instead (摯愛 can also mean "beloved", apparently) Even the hanzi for Emiru's name is full of love: 惠美瑠 = "favor/kindness + beautiful + precious stone"

愛神 is likely referring to Roman god of love, Amor, and therefore, love god. Amor is also known as Cupid so you can think of Cure Amour as Cupid Angel from now on, hehehe 🤭

And omg, Hugtan has the most adorable name translation! 😆💕 Cuz 抱抱 means "cuddle" and it's just so irresistibly cute to hear that from a baby when they reach out to you and ask for hugs like “bàobào? 🥺”

UGH 😩❤️

Star Twinkle Precure - 星光閃亮 ☆ 光之美少女

Cure Star - 星空天使 (xīngkōng - Starry Sky Angel)

Hoshina Hikaru (星奈ひかる) - 星奈光 (xīngnài guāng)

Cure Milky - 銀河天使 (yínhé - Milky Way Angel)

Hagoromo Lala (羽衣ララ) - 羽衣拉拉 (yǔyì lālā)

Cure Soleil - 太陽天使 (tàiyang - Sun Angel)

Amamiya Elena (天宮えれな) - 天宮愛蓮娜 (tiāngōng àiliánnà)

Cure Selene - 月神天使 (yuèshén - Moon God Angel)

Kaguya Madoka (香久矢まどか) - 香久矢圓香 (xiāngjiǔshǐ yuánxiāng)

Cure Cosmo - 宇宙天使 (yǔzhòu - Universe/Cosmos Angel)

Yuni - 尤妮 (yóunī)

Mao - 瑪歐 (mǎōu)

Bakenyan - 巴凱喵 (bākǎimiāo)

Fuwa (��ワ) - 芙娃 (fúwá)

Spegasus Plalan Mofupit Princeywink - 斯佩嘉薩斯・普拉蘭・莫芙皮特・普林賽溫克

Prunce (プルンス) - 普倫斯 (pǔlúnsī)

星光閃亮 (xīngguāng shǎnliàng) means "starlight twinkle"

Kinda nice how the Taiwanese dub was generous towards Star. In Japanese, she's only one star but in Mandarin, she gets the whole sky full of stars ☺️ (also, Hikaru shares the same hanzi as Hikari for their given names in Mandarin and her Angel name has the same hanzi as Miyuki’s surname “hoshizora”)

Selene is the Greek goddess of the moon, hence "Moon God" (月神).

But what makes me giggle is how 🌺nice-smelling🌺 Madoka's name must be since the character for "fragrant" (香) is used twice in it 🤭 In fact, I've seen 香 used a lot in girl's names and I belive it's cuz it's very feminine 😌💅✨

And like me, you may be surprised to learn that Mao's name is not 猫(cat, māo) but another transliteration. The translation for it is "agate/cornelia + Europe" 😅

Ain't touching Fuwa's full name so for anyone who wants to, go nuts!

Healin’ Good Precure - 元氣魔法 ♥ 光之美少女

Cure Grace - 恩典天使 (ēndiǎn - Favor/Grace Angel)

Hanadera Nodoka (花寺のどか) - 花寺和香 (huāsì héxiāng)

Cure Fontaine - 泉源天使 (quányuán - Fountainhead Angel)

Sawaizumi Chiyu (沢泉ちゆ) - 澤泉千優 (zéquán qiānyōu)

Cure Sparkle - 閃亮天使 (shānliàng - Shining Angel)

Hiramitsu Hinata (平光ひなた) - 平光向日葵 (píngguāng xiàngrìkuí)

Cure Earth - 地球天使 (dìqiú - Earth Angel)

Fuurin Asumi (風鈴アスミ) - 風鈴亚莎 (fēnglíng yàshā/suō)

Rabirin - 拉比琳 (lābǐlín)

Pegitan - 佩吉 (pèijí)

Nyatoran - 喵托蘭 (miāotuōlán)

Latte - 拿鐵 (nátiě)

元氣魔法 (yuánqìmófǎ) translates to "vitality magic" which corresponds with HealPre’s health theme.

The "grace" in 恩典 (ēndiǎn) doesn't mean "refinement" but rather like a "favor" or "honor" granted by someone.

Fontaine was already awkward but now it's even more awkward cuz in Mandarin, it really just means "fountainhead" 😭

There doesn’t seem to be a specific word for "sparkle" in Chinese (at least it hasn’t come up in my searches yet) so you go with the closest synonyms like "shining" or "twinkle" and that's how Twinkle and Sparkle ended up sharing the same hanzi. Which doesn't really help the thought that HealPre's designs were lifted from Go!Pri's and now they're even more alike than needed, lol

And I'm amused how the loan word for Latte means "take + iron/strong" cuz if you drink too much coffee, it can actually inhibit your iron absorption 😂

Tropical Rouge! Precure - 熱情閃耀！光之美少女

Cure Summer - 夏日天使 (xiàrì - Summertime Angel)

Natsuumi Manatsu (夏海まなつ) - 夏海真夏 (xiàhǎi zhēnxià)

Cure Coral - 珊瑚天使 (shānhú - Coral Angel)

Suzumura Sango (涼村さんご) - 涼村珊瑚 (liángcūn shānhú)

Cure Papaya - 水果天使 (shuǐguǒ - Fruit Angel)

Ichinose Minori (一之瀬みのり) - 一之瀨實 (yìzhīlài shí)

Cure Flamingo - 紅鶴天使 (hónghè - Red Crane Angel)

Takizawa Asuka (滝沢あすか) - 瀧澤飛鳥 (lóngzé fēiniǎo)

Cure La Mer - 人魚天使 (rényú - Mermaid Angel)

Laura La Mer (ローラ・ラメール) - 蘿拉・拉梅爾 (luólà làméiěr)

Laura Apollodoros Hyginus La Mer - 蘿拉・阿波羅朵��斯・希吉努斯・拉梅爾 (luólā ābōluóduǒluósī xījínǔsī láméiěr)

Kururun - 庫魯倫 (kùlǔlún)

Cure Oasis - 綠洲天使 (lǜzhōu - Oasis Angel)

熱情閃耀 (rèqíng shănyào) translates to "radiating passion"…I think.

Papaya, Flamingo and La Mer are the only ones who went through any changes.

Not sure why they went with the general term for fruit (水果) when there is a word for papaya in Chinese (木瓜, mùguā) but it still works with the tropical theme, at least.

And sorry, I love Flamingo but "Red Crane Angel" sounds so cool 🤩

La Mer isn't named after the ocean here but is called "Mermaid Angel" instead. So yea, she and Cure Mermaid share the same alter ego name in the Taiwanese dub.

lol, and Laura's full name sounds like straight up alien speak 🤣

Delicious Party Precure - 美味Party♡光之美少女

Cure Precious - 珍味天使 (zhēnwèi - precious/rare/culinary delicacy + taste/sense Angel)

Nagomi Yui (和実ゆい) - 和實結 (héshí jié)

Cure Spicy - 調味天使 (tiáowèi - seasoning/condiment + taste/sense Angel)

Fuwa Kokone (芙羽ここね) - 芙羽心音 (fúyǔ xīnyīn)

Cure Yum Yum - 好味天使 (hǎowèi - Good + taste/sense Angel)

Hanamichi Ran (華満らん) - 華滿蘭 (huámǎn lán)

Cure Finale - 甜點天使 (tiándiǎn - Dessert Angel)

Kasai Amane (菓彩あまね) - 菓彩甘寧 (guǒcǎi gānníng)

Kome Kome (コメコメ) - 米米 (mǐmǐ)

Pamu Pamu (パムパム) - 包包 (bāobāo)

Mem Mem (メンメン) - 麵麵 (miànmiàn)

Rosemary (ローズマリー) - 迷迭香 (mídiéxiāng)

Black Pepper - 布萊克佩帕 (bùláikèpèipà)

Shinada Takumi (品田拓海) - pǐntián tàhǎi

oh thank god, I'm almost done 😩

美味Party (měiwèi party) = delicious party

Notice how there's a 味 (wèi, "taste/sense") in the first three Cure name translations just like in this season's title.

Precious and Finale’s Mandarin names make more sense here cuz 珍 (zhēn) means "delicacies" while 甜點 (tiándiǎn) is "dessert" so you immediately make that connection to food.

And I find that Spicy and Yum Yum don't sound as convincing as they do in Mandarin. 調 (tiáo) seems to cover a wider range of condiments than just spice while 好味 (hǎowèi) just sounds better cuz it's like "good taste! 👍"

包包 (bāobāo) means "bun" (x2), not the same as 抱抱 (bàobào) cuz they're obviously different characters and even their tones aren't the same. And 麵麵 (miànmiàn) is also slang for spineless person (poor Mem Mem 😅)

Also not surprised that Rosemary is a direction translation of the plant, rosemary, but they let Black Pepper keep his alter ego name instead of using 黑胡椒 (hēihújiāo).

Hirogaru Sky Precure - 開闊天空！光之美少女

Cure Sky - 天空天使 (tiānkōng - Sky Angel) 晴空天使 (qíngkōng) (Clear Sky Angel)

Sora Harewateru (ソラ・ハレワタール) - 索拉・哈雷瓦塔爾 (suǒlā hā/hǎléiwǎtǎěr) 天晴・娃塔兒 (tiānqíng wátǎér)

Cure Prism - 棱鏡天使 (léngjìng - Prism Angel)

Nijigaoka Mashiro (虹ヶ丘ましろ) - 虹之丘真白 (hóngzhīqiū zhēnbái)

Cure Wing - 羽翼天使 (yǔyì - Wing Angel)

Yuunagi Tsubasa (夕凪ツバサ) - 夕凪翼 (xīqi yì) 夕陽翼 (xīyáng yì)

Cure Butterfly - 蝴蝶天使 (húdié - Butterfly Angel)

Hijiri Ageha (��あげは) - 聖揚羽 (shèng yángyǔ) 聖蝴 (shèng dié)

Cure Majesty - 莊嚴天使 (zhuāngyán - Solemn/Dignified Angel) 公主天使 (gōngzhǔ - Princess Angel)

Ellee (艾爾) - àiěr

Cure Noble - 高貴天使 (gāoguì - Grandeur/Noble Angel)

Ellelain (艾爾蓮) - àiěrlián

Ffffff, the wiki is wrong! Or at least half of it hasn’t been updated. I think what probably happened was the Japanese version of their names was translated in the Chinese wiki first but as the dub progressed, the translators chose to change some words around.

*SIGH* Now I’m doubting everything I wrote down up till now 😓

Anyways, I had to go back to rewatch this dub so I hope I got all the correct names this time.

Starting with the title, they used a Chinese idiom in place of “Hirogaru Sky” which is really cool.

開闊天空 (hăikuòtiānkōng) translates to “wide sea and sky”. Another way of interpreting it is the “whole wide world” or “chatting about everything under the sun”.

Sora seems to have gone through the most shifts in her name. Initially, her Cure name translation was 天空 (tiānkōng) which is just “sky” but it changed to “晴空” (qíngkōng) which is more specifically “clear sky” (空 can also translate to “air”). Her Mandarin given name also takes those hanzi to form “天晴” (tiānqíng) which would also be “clear sky” or “clear heavens”.

The 陽 (yáng) that switched out the 凪 in Tsubasa’s surname means “to expand”, “bright” or “glorious”. Fitting since the image of a phoenix is associated with our little birdie~

Ageha’s given name is just “butterfly” in Mandarin. However, her friends call her “小蝶姐” (xiǎodiéjiě, “Big sis Little Butterfly”) since she’s older than them so that sorta makes up for it.

And for some reason, the dub decided not to use “Majesty” despite the fact that there are characters that exist for that term. Instead, they went with “Princess” which is like c’mooonn… 😩

Cuz now we have another pair of Cures from different seasons sharing the same name/hanzi again in a dub (Cure Princess and Cure Majesty).

Also, it’s weird they changed Majesty but kept Cure Noble as “noble” (高貴, gāoguì) 🫤

Oh well. I guess it’s a matter of using simpler hanzi kids can understand??

Anyways, it just tickles me pink that Cure Wing/Wing Angel is also called a “bishoujo” in the Taiwanese dub 🤭

Precure isn’t restricted to the female gender anymore (the name itself never was, tbh, cuz it’s not a real word) but even magical boys are considered “magical girls” in the 光之美少女 sphere.

Ageha stills calls him “shounen” (少年, shàonián), though. Haha!

Wonderful Precure - 美妙寵物光之美少女

Cure Wonderful - 美好天使 (měihǎo- Fine Angel)

Inukai Komugi (犬飼こむぎ) - 犬飼麥 (quǎnsì mài)

Cure Friendy - 友愛天使 (yǒu’ài - Friendly Affection Angel)

Inukai Iroha (犬飼いろは) - 犬飼彩葉 (quǎnsì cǎiyè)

Cure Nyammy - 喵喵天使 (miāomiāo - Meow Meow/Kitty Angel)

Nekoyashiki Yuki (猫屋敷ユキ) - 貓屋敷雪 (māowūfū xuě)

Cure Lillian - 莉莉安天使 (lìlìān - Lillian Angel)

Nekoyashi Mayu (猫屋敷まゆ) - 貓屋敷真結 (māowūfū zhēnjié)

Toyama Satoru - 兔山悟 (tushān wù)

Daifuku - 大福 (dàfú)

Nico (ニコ) - 尼可 (níkè)

Weird how HiroPre’s translations got all mixed up but WonPre turned out normal. Maybe cuz HiroPre was the anniversary season?

Moving along…WonPre in the dub is 美妙寵物 (měimiào chǒngwù) which translates to “wonderful pet”.

It also has a nickname. Not really a secondary title name but a nickname which is “汪汪光美” (wāngwāngguāngměi) which translates to “woof woof shining beauty”.

美好 (měihǎo) is the closest word you can translate to from “wonderful”, I think. It’s a combination of “pleasing” (美) and “good” (好) so the result can be “beautiful”, “fine”, or “great” which can all be synonyms for “wonderful”.

友愛 (yǒu’ài) doesn’t mean friendship but friendly affection. The hanzi for friendship is 友谊 (yǒuyì).

Nyammy’s is a cute one. 喵 by itself means cat. 喵喵 renders it to the more cute-sounding “kitty” and it’s also how Chinese make the sound “meow meow” (like the Japanese “nya nya”).

Lillian’s name is a foreign word so it’s another transliteration. But the translation of it is quite pretty. It doubles the hanzi for “white jasmine” (莉, lì) and puts it together with the hanzi for “calm/peaceful” (安, ān). So it also fits Mayu’s character very well 😊

Ah, and there’s another way you can address someone close to you that’s kinda like a nickname but not as cutesy.

If their given name is just one character, you can put a “啊” (ā) in front of it or after it. 啊 is more of a particle hanzi. It doesn’t have any deep meaning to it but helps express emotions or soften tones in conversations. When attached to someone’s name, it makes you sound friendlier when talking to them as opposed to calling them by their full name (surname + given).

Iroha does this for Satoru (啊悟, ā wù) in place of “-kun”.

**NOTE: Since the new season details have only recently been announced, nothing official has been decided for the dub yet. These are just temporary translations and this section will be edited once the Taiwanese dub is released.

You and Idol Precure - 你和偶像光之美少女♪

Cure Idol (キュアアイドル) - 偶像天使 (ǒuxiàng - Idol Angel)

Sakura Uta (咲良うた) - 咲良歌 (xiàoliáng gē)

Cure Wink (キュアウインク) - 耀眼天使 (yàoyǎn - Dazzling Angel)

Aokaze Nana (蒼風なな) - 蒼風奈奈 (cāngfēng nàinài)

Cure Kyun Kyun (キュアキュンキュン) - 心動天使 (xīndòng - Heartbeat Angel)

Shigure Kokoro (紫雨こころ) - 紫雨心 (zǐyǔ xīn)

Purirun (プリルン) - 普利倫 (pǔlìlún)

Meroron (メロロン) - 梅羅容 (méiluóróng)

你和偶像 (nǐhéǒuxiàng) = You and Idol

The “心動” (xīngdòng) for Cure Kyun Kyun’s name translation is different from DokiPre’s “心跳” (xīntiào). 心跳 (xīntiào) refers to one’s pulse while 心動 (xīngdòng) means “heart movement” in the sense of your heart getting excited or aroused by emotion. Essentially what happens when you’re admiring and fanning hard over your idol.

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To be updated as series continues.

#i would say this helps me practice my chinese #but that’s a lie #who am I kidding? I’m gonna forget these in two days 😂#precure

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A Washed Up WoW Raider (from original release Cataclysm) Decides to Dip His Toes into FFXIV Savage Raiding and fails to clear an Ultimate

“This is a pretty easy raid tier.”

Had a subject I decided to write another mostly unedited blog post about. Let’s see how it goes!

So, since I started playing FFXIV I’ve been avoiding high end raiding. After having just completely burnt out on serious content in WoW a while back but still enjoying MMOs I’ve been trying my best to do so. Having felt Heavensward be the point where I still felt the toxic WoW player in me before that finally bled out probably around mid-Stormblood, I’ve been enjoying finding what I can to do. But on occasion I have dipped my toes into Extremes, and that’s always when a boss “hits me” right. Like something about the fight or the aesthetic gets me. Susano’s sword qte got me to clear it on extreme while still ‘current’ content, while the hectic nature of Barbariccia’s fight made me want to try it. But I never tried a savage because well, top content. After all, none of the tiers really spoke to me with their normal mode fights. But when Arcadion came out I just felt something click in. Something in me found the whole tournament arc, each boss having a separate theme, being voiced, and just the implication of what the tactics for savage could be. So I decided to take the plunge.

And decide fuck it, let’s make it a whole blog post because it might be fun.

Black Cat: the guild officer in me rears his ugly head

So, when I was first trying this fight I told some friends who said “Hey, let’s get together some other friends to do it for the hell of it!” So I decided why not? Dedicated people, probably better than party finder. So I waited to see if someone would say something since I figured someone else was ‘leading.’ Well waited a couple weeks and nothing came of it, so I decided you know what. I’ll say a day, see if people want to do it. Sure enough the group members we had were all available so we went with it and…

Got in a single pull in which we wiped on the first mechanic before we quit. So. That sucked. And that should have been it but instead I started to have thoughts. “Oh the schedule’s all fucked.” “I let the group down.” “The guild leader’s going to kill… The guild leader?”

So.

Turns out I may have been affected by my time as a guild officer in WoW having a guild leader who expected a lot more out of me than you should trust someone at that age and would chastise me hard for any mistake I made in leading the b team raids and would do things like guilt trip me into doing heroic content even after I said I was burnt out and needed a break and would then chastise me for fucking up on content I told him I didn’t have the fortitude for anymore. Then would talk down to me when I got rightfully mad because he wasn’t respecting my decision to not try serious content for a bit!

But thankfully a friend from that group was kind enough to hear me out and let me know “This has nothing to do with being a grown-ass man shit like that can fuck you up.” And I think having that moment helped me because.

I then tried it again on my own after leaving the pseudo-static to try it on my own. And I found that I can at least handle long prog parties if I have the time set aside!

Because I was there for 4 hours.

Very funny thing, I was told after a few pulls to go off tank because apparently my invincibility button wouldn’t be up for Raining Cats if I did the thing every group did where you used the button on the first tank buster.

We never made it to Raining Cats.

I don’t even think we made it past Mouser 2.

But I stayed with it, even when we had the group seem to break up temporarily. But due to it I had to eat a late dinner while I waited. The night ended with me hearing the group leader complain to me about how their boyfriend and other raiders had decided to make a static without them and while a nice conversation. Kind of an odd thing to just tell a random person from party finder.

But even though I could do it it got me thinking: do I really have the patience for prog like this? Do I really care enough about pixels in a video game anymore to commit to these kinds of parties that go nowhere? While plenty of people have stories of people who made long lasting friendships over MMOs I uh… Didn’t.

Most people in my guild were probably anywhere from 5-10 years older than me and those within my age group wound up… Not being great. Like a Warrior who would pad meters by spamming AOE on a fight in which doing so made us explode and for some reason decided to roll on a sword he didn’t need and when asked to pass it to the person who did decided to…

Disenchant the weapon and mail him the shard saying “Here’s your sword : ).”

So yeah, all the while this slow progress and my own bad experiences made me say something on twitter.

And a different friend said in response “Hey, we have a free company that’s literally serious savage raiders who try to help players who are new to savage.” So after a day or two of thinking about it I thought.

Alright, fuck it. First few weeks didn’t say much, tried doing more party finder. Then eventually I went into voice chat and talked a bit and eventually they got me into a group and helped me clear (Despite me somehow managing to kill the MT WHO IS SAID FRIEND by going to the completely wrong place). So I thought that was as much time as they could spare and I get hit by.

“We’re taking you into Honey B Lovely.” “You Wha-”

Honey B Lovely: NOW THIS IS SPEED PROG

So, at that moment I found out what Speed Prog is.

Speed prog is when someone takes you into an instance and goes “Alright buddy time for you to learn the entire fight in one lockout because everyone here knows what they’re doing.”

So not much prog story, but due to the above happening I FREQUENTLY forget things in the fight. So now even having done it a few times I’ll say that no matter what. Alarm pheromones gets me. And I can hear you saying “Oh yeah alarm pheromones 1 is bullshit.” NOPE. SOMETIMES 2 FUCKS ME UP. REMEMBER ME. IT’S SUPPORTS AND DPS. NOT LIGHT PARTIES.

Brute Bomber: The Frustrations and Limits of Party Finder

So having been essentially carried through the first two fights I was feeling pretty good, and decided to give a shot at continuing prog before I asked for help and first groups were pretty good, frequent progression forward to the point that I even made my way through Chain Deathmatch 2! Bombarian Barrage might still make me take a sharp inhale every time but I was pretty consistent! So I kept going and find out that…

Party Finder lies to you!

Fusefield prog? Nope, Final Fusedown prog!

Chain Deathmatch 2 prog? NOPE. Final Fusedown prog!

Fuse or Foe prog? NOPE. FINAL FUCKING FUSEDOWN PROG!

(Stated by a person who took longer than he cares to admit that it’s SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE MARKER for Final Fusedown.)

So I’m talking to the free company I’m in and someone says “Oh you’re that far? Just prog skip there’s nothing new to see.”

So sure enough I join clear parties and find that yes, the only thing I haven’t done is really easy and

So. Many. Are. Still. Final. Fusedown. Prog.

But again, a few members of this free company came on by down the wire and helped me out with a clear so I could be a part of reclears the upcoming week. Where I learned “AH ONE DOES HAVE TO TIME THEIR INVINCIBILITY BUTTON.” Good news, I only ate the last one and died rather than caused a slow death across the party!

Where I may have died and fucked up a bit but HEY FIRST CLEARS ARE LIKE THAT HEE HOO.

Wicked Thunder: Where Confidence is Born

So we’ve gotten to the final boss and in my first party finder pull.

And we die to the first raidwide. And you know what?

Everyone took it well! We just laughed about “Damn, that raidwide does need mitigation.” That’s one thing I’ve noticed from a lot of Party Finders, most people tend to be good sports and try to figure out what’s going wrong over just screaming at each other. Remember how I said it took me a while to figure out Final Fusedown? Well that was fixed because one of the parties figured out I was out of place and told me where I should be on the marker!

And boy howdy did I have fun with those early phases. No matter how much we wiped there was something hilarious to me about exploding during Electrope Edges. Even had someone who was out of place and overcharged me rage quit with this message:

But sure enough Electrope Edge is where things kept getting screwed up, and somehow during stacks I’d always find that things didn’t seem right.

Doing some runs with the raiding friend I found out “OH. FOR STACKS THERE ARE SET POSITIONS THAT AREN’T JUST MY MARKER SPOTS.” And through that I eventually make it to Sunrise Sabbath!

… I mean I was so overwhelmed by it I just stood in the middle and was definitely the reason that one didn’t wind up being a kill and I think shortly after a DDOS hit that caused use to have to stop pulling but HEY I CAN SAY I’VE SEEN EVERYTHING.

So I pushed on on my own and had plenty of characters that were on my blacklist temporarily. Some people bad, some people just obnoxious, and some that are wonderful people playing very well and making up for the fact that my dumbass died twice when I finally got that clear.

But I got the clear. In Party Finder. And I felt a feeling I haven’t felt in a while. That absolute adrenaline rush when you finally get a clear. The music, the tension, the closeness as sword quiver goes out. It’s that feeling of finally getting done with a boss and knowing that you are good enough at the game to do that. And as I did so I kept seeing that despite my zero parse on M4S, despite the mostly grey parses I had, I could tell one thing.

Wow I am better than most people in PF Jesus.

But what makes me say that? Well…

The Pain of Reclears

So, due to scheduling conflicts and one section later reclears started to not happen over in the free company. Which I was fine with might as well try to do them on my own because aftera ll everyone’s cleared this will be painless. Right?

Fun fact, when I did that 4 hour M1S party one of the people leading it said, and I quote:

“You guys are honestly better than most clear parties.”

I thought he was joking.

HE WAS NOT JOKING. OH GOD HE WAS NOT JOKING.

IT’S FUSEFIELD PROG NOW THEY CAN DO FINAL FUSEDOWN BUT NOW IT’S ALL FUSEFIELD.

IT WASN’T EVEN THE HEALERS THEY WERE FINE JUST EVERYONE FUCKED IT UP FOR LIKE 3 DIFFERENT PARTIES AND THE ONE THAT GOT HIT 1% ENRAGE 4 TIMES AND THE RED MAGE KEPT DYING.

Also somehow the Dancer who it was being cleared for was the only one who didn’t fuck up any tactics which is really funny. They might have gotten a zero parse but fuck man good on ya you got your clear and you can only improve.

That includes me I had the occasional messed up Lariat/Dive because I forgot which he was doing I ain’t perfect buddy let that be the lesson here.

Funny enough, M4S was far easier. Party had a wipe (literally my fault can’t even deny I fucked up Midnight Sabbath and murdered my partner because I tried to correct and just wound up confusing him) but like we had a pull where nearly all the ranged and healers died and we recovered and got the clear with that one.

And I main tanked that one! After that one party made me nervous and even got complimented! Because the summoner kept dying (they were aggravated with themselves sorry poor guy ya kept getting fucked) and happened to die during Mustard Bomb 2 leading to only one safe party member which the OT took so I had the opportunity to HALLOWED GROUND AND EAT IT RAW. THANK YOU OTHER TANK FOR LETTING ME MT SO THAT WAS UP SO I COULD FEEL COOL.

That was week 1 of me doing reclears on my own and well. Boy howdy I have some opinions but the most succinct version of it I can give is.

Uptime Sunrise is the funniest, most worthless resolution in the game. It turns a mechanic that might end with one person dying if someone is a little off to one that kills half the party. If your leader has markers even slightly off it means you’ll be dying and not knowing why. And as it turns out if DPS is high enough you can just skip it. It serves no purpose but to be put into the mind of Party Finder that those like what, 3 extra gcds will totally lead to a clear?

My plan had been originally to just clear and be happy, and now I’m BIS and have the mount. So I suppose I feel pretty good. Good enough to have decided to help out with something the friends were trying to do.

Perfect Alexander: Where We Learn Hell is Other People

So, there’s a funny thing people do if you do savage. And that’s that they say “Let’s do an ultimate!”

At first I was apprehensive but decided fuck it, nothing ventured nothing gained. After all, the group seemed pretty good. All people who had been helping me clear or people who already did Ultimates. By the end we had about 9 people so I even had an out if I decided to leave. So I thought.

Well, we had the three greatest problems any kind of group content has: Scheduling, Personalities, and Desperation.

The scheduling was a mess at first. Members who were only available at super late night and at very specific times (if people even remembered they had to tell the group organizer schedules) meant that early on we had a Tuesday night hat lasted about six hours. That got changed eventually to spread out the raid nights a bit more manageable. Unfortunately as it turns out two of our members just couldn’t make any of the times so that’s two down. But seven ain’t bad right? Well…

Personalities was me finding out that two people who were helping me may have, in fact, been big issues in the Free Company for a while and that the leader had finally had enough of their bullshit. This is made worse by the fact that, when I can only imagine they’re being told they’re going to be kicked, they decided to make a post claiming that they were leaving for their mental health. A real scumbag move! So that’s two more down.

Okay, not bad, there’s me sure but we still have three people who have cleared and are helping and someone who has done ultimates before. We just have to find people. And we found two fills who…

Had never set foot in even a Savage fight before. To their credit, they improved fast. But yeah we started to hit a desperation spiral especially with the last bits of problems.

We could not find a Physical Ranged DPS to save our lives. The first one we found was a pretty nice guy, was willing to adjust his schedule to meet raid times and even gave us a resource I used to figure out some of the trouble points like Limit Cut. Unfortunately data center travel screwed him over and he decided to leave the group as not to force us to have to play by the whims of sever availability.

Our second was a guy who just lied about his prog. Just outright lied. Pretty much washed the night, refused to get into VC for a significant period of time, and was gone the next night.

Our ‘final’ person was… So you know that kind of person who talks when they get nervous, and just won’t stop talking? The kind you feel bad for because you know it’s them just trying to keep themselves calm but they’re taking up the entire VC and it’s getting a little distracting but you can’t tell them to try to be quiet because you know that’s rude then one pull they just mute and deafen themselves saying ‘it’s okay I understand this I think’ and then they wipe you multiple times because you can’t tell them what to correct in time. And sometimes they say things that makes it feel like maybe it’s not a nervous habit but they’re a really big problem person who’s self-obsessive and the pull is going and you can’t ask for clear comms because you have no idea if they’ll fold in on themselves or reveal they’re a giant asshole who was just waiting for a fight.

So yeah we never had a consistent ranged DPS and by the end we hadn’t even made it past BJCC by our last week. And our last week was. Bad. People not able to make it, clear lack of interest due to knowing we’re not clearing, and PUGs that were the absolute worst kind of player.

We had some very nice, very understanding PUGs. But that last week our PUGs were RANCID.

So unfortunately, all this is to say we didn’t make it. It’s frustrating but hey it was a fun time for the most part and I’m glad I did it. Which begs the question of the most important question in this.

Is it worth it?

It’s.

Complicated.

Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun and enjoyed prog as I got my shit together and started to do better until we reached a kill for the fights. Frankly if you’re just going in to see if you can just get a kill and call it a day 100% go for it.

But thing is, I’m seeing stuff that turned me off of WoW raiding over the years as reclear nights go on. That kind of thing where you have no patience for people or the way you get advice is very clearly passive aggressive tone that makes its way through text.

As said in Black Cat I know this is all pixels. Pretty pixels but pixels nonetheless. And having not really gained much past finding out I have a weird trauma response to being in a leadership position in serious content from playing WoW I really don’t feel like having to deal with the MMO “and now everyone’s at each other’s throats because the one guy who actually fucked up isn’t owning up to it while someone else also fucked up and he’s trying to pin the blame on them.”

Don’t get me wrong, I think I’ll try to keep up with Savage content a bit. Maybe even keep up with TEA to see if I can’t get a clear and to see how funny it is with all the serious raiders more than likely doing FRU. Just seeing that the faces of raiding are more the same as what they were is something I keep thinking on.

Unfortunately, I’ve also become more aware of the XIV hardcore raiding scene. While I’m not a part of that boy howdy. Again. That sounds like every issue the WoW raiding scene has. Like shit man, I wish the worst of this was just people who clearly are too hardcore minded to understand that some things they want are things only they want. Now I’m aware of abuse and harassment constantly happening and man. Man that’s disheartening.

I’m here to play a game and people fuck up sometimes.

Anyways Here’s Some Random Advice

In general

You’ll die on first mechanic

That’s just going to happen. Raidwides that go unmitigated and wipe people, failed firs things. Give yourself the chance to learn and you’ll find fun in it.

Even if you’re a first time player you’ll find there are hardcore raiders worse than you

No seriously some of the worst people in some of my groups were literally sporting their legend weapons and titles trust me some people are just outright bad at the game because they try to act like the content can’t hurt them.

Try to be nice

I’m still mad about that fucking Viper getting snippy I will double the curse I put upon them just to be sure. Ask questions and own up to mistakes, practice parties know they’re not here for a clear.

No one will remember you (positive)

The people who will remember you are bad frankly are saying more about themselves than you. Like everything above, practice and improve and eventually you’ll get it.

And for Ultimate specifically

It’s a marathon, not a race

Expect these to take weeks or months. Yes you’ll see the occasional ‘I cleared x in 5 days’ or something videos but expect, especially if most of your group is learning, to be in it for the long haul.

As time goes on they get ‘easier’

Fun fact I learned: food and potions don’t scale with sync in XIV. This means that as time goes on these buffs become more powerful, and thus allow you some breathing room. No, you will not bullshit tactics BUT you will have some wiggle room with DPS checks and can have some screw ups with shields and such.

Just because someone has the weapon doesn’t mean they’re good

Some of our worst PUGs were people proudly displaying their weapon. Oh, paid legends you’d think yes? No. These people cleared. Multiple times. And they were frequently the reason for wipes due to not knowing their role. Or parsing. I am at a stage where I can honestly say I think parsers are the worst thing to exist in XIV, and I will always prefer grays across the board but a clear over someone greeding us to death.

So there it is. My bizarre journey of trying to see if I still got it, finding out I have a weird trauma response that I think I worked through with what they call exposure therapy (I think I’m not a therapist I don’t know terms), and then failing at an ultimate as I’m forced like a cosmic horror protagonist to see the truth of the World. It’s an experience! Figured the day before FRU was a good a time as any.

Thank you for reading here's my character on a capybara.

#Box blogs a thing #ffxiv

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Hi, Dear weird me. This is going to be a long ask, which is less of an ask and more of countering a point made on your blog. BUT I promise it has literally nothing to do with #straws but feel free to post a cute Taekook picture anyways 💜 Okay I wanted to talk about some of the narratives and questions I see swirling regarding the direction of Jungkook's music.

Jung Kook said on Suchwita that he was searching for another song similar to Seven for his next single. Clearly listening to 3D, we see he was able to do so. This brings me to question why the narrative when Jung Kook chooses to sing about sex , that the songs must have been chosen by the company for him to make him "appear straight", and that furthermore he had limited or no autonomy in choosing the music to represent himself as an artist?

I don't believe this is the primary narrative that was tossed around when Taehyung was singing about romance on Layover. Which is interesting because those songs also mention women, and we know for a fact that Taehyung did not write any of the songs on layover and that every song was in fact chosen for him to sing. And this is not Tae shade, I think Layover is a phenomenal album. However, I find it a bit hypocritical that Jung Kook gets accused of being inauthentic in his artistry due to the more explicit and poppy nature of his music, which brings me to my next point.

Jung Kook has always been inspired by the likes of Justin Timberlake, Usher, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, Harry styles, the list goes on and on. Every single man I've listed has sung about sex. And furthermore these songs stick out in their discography as massive hits. See Sexy Back for Justin Timberlake, Watermelon Sugar for Harry Styles, Climax for Usher, Dirty Diana for Michael Jackson, etc etc.

We know for a fact Jung Kook wants to be recognized as a global pop star, outside of BTS. We know this because Jung Kook has said this multiple times via his lives, and also in interviews. How do you become a global pop star? Why not look at Jung Kook's early steps as a solo artist from left and right, to Seven, to now 3D. Look at these songs and then look at the songs and steps that all of the Massive male pop stars before him have taken, and you can quickly see the similarities. All of this is to say that however, you feel about his sexuality and who he is or isn't dating doesn't matter to me. What does matter to me is to dismiss Jung Kook's art as primarily a form of "bearding" And when I say his art I am discussing the music that he chooses to sing and the visual aesthetic that he either chooses (creative director of the Vogue shoot) or makes his own tweaks to (dazed Korea shoot). As I've stated above none of the songs, or visual aesthetics Jung Kook is choosing is super unique to him, they sound and look great because he's Jung Kook, but they're simply not unique. So either every single male pop star chose to sing about sex to conceal their sexuality or a much less sinister idea, they chose to sing about sex because that is what the general public wants to hear. And what artists choose to lend their voice to does not always have to reflect who they may or may not be off stage. Now we could get into why the GP makes perceived straight sex music popular, but I'd like to stay on topic. Which is why Jung Kook gets accused of using his music to conceal something as opposed to just making the music he wants to make, the music that sounds just like the people who have inspired him and the music that will make him a global superstar.

At the end of the day however you feel about Jung Kook's music,I would gently challenge you and people who automatically jump to relate Jung Kook's music to his sexuality whether it be positive, negative, as a form of dismissal or a form of confirmation, I would challenge you gently to just try not to do that? I think it's easier to realize that maybe Jung Kook is singing about fucking, because every single male pop star does. Maybe he has his shirt off because that body is rocking because every male pop star takes their shirt off, Maybe rappers are being featured because not only does Jung Kook like rap but because pop rap crossovers are super popular. In fact, they are so popular that they beat out BTS several times for Grammys. His music is perfectly aligned to what Jung Kook says he wants for his artistic career and it's healthier to say "He makes this music because it bops and it's going to help him reach his goals" than to say "He makes this music because he's trying to convince the world he's straight" I say all of this to say Jung Kook is going to continue to sing about love, relationships, and sex. And he's probably going to keep taking his shirt off, and looking sexy for the camera. It really shouldn't bother trekkers or anyone who believes he's not straight, because it's his art, and his art does not have to be connected to who he chooses to love. Sometimes art can just be art 💜

Hi anon!

You know what, I agree with you. It wasn’t my intention at all to dismiss his music as bearding, that’s absolutely not the case and I apologize for coming across that way.

I do feel they’re taking a certain route with him, but that’s to reach the goals you mention.. not to make people see him as straight. The main goal is absolutely to get as big as he can get, and he deserves that. Jk is an amazing artist.

Not coming across as queer is never the main goal.. people don’t put out songs for that reason specifically, it’s more something that exists in the sidelines. Like Taennie for Tae (imo ofcourse). Jk singing about sex isn’t that to me.. everyone has sex no matter what sexuality they have. I do feel Jk’s song is specifically about women, no room for queerness and with the exclusion of a queer possibility the general public (or just those who don’t think Jk can be queer) will most likely take him as straight. If Jk is actually queer like a lot of us think, that might be some sort of choice, depending on how many people actually know about him being queer. That does not have to be a reflection of his actual sexuality though.

Thanks for your ask 💜

#i should not blog when I’m low on sleep #jk solo

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justtormentcrewthings · 2 years ago

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danke social media au

I don't have the time or energy to write this right now, so I am putting this here for the record

social media AU in which Dawn and Iskander communicate via tumblr. Both accounts are very private and don't reveal much about them, although Dawn doesn't know who Iskander is even when he drops his full name. (Which gives us a parallel to how Dawn said to Wedge!Iskander, "Do I have to know that name?")

Dawn originally posts a lot about his "rommate" who, judging by the posts, is a huge asshole but bringing it up doesn't help much. There are some anon asks (most of which from Ledge who has a very private profile and mostly posts about coffee and aesthetic pictures of his outfits), but they never get through to Dawn.

Iskander posts about art but will sometimes have personal things scattered throughout his blog, like how he hates coming home but does it for his sister.

After months of following one another and liking each other's posts, Dawn DMs Iskander. They have a full conversation, slightly awkward but sweet, in which they introduce each other and talk a bit about their interests and their past.

This marks the start of their friendship, but it's only a couple of weeks later that Iskander confesses that he wasn't actually texting Dawn during their first conversation. A friend of his (Wedge) took the phone and responded to Dawn - and at that point it escalated. Iskander expects Dawn to ghost him after that but Dawn is pretty chill with it.

Texting Iskander is interesting, but sometimes he won't respond for hours or even days. He mentions a lot of doctor's appointments and a "friend" living with him to take care of him. He also tells Dawn that his accident is the reason he's not very comfortable with showing his face anymore.

At some point, Dawn stops mentioning his "roommate" from before. When questioned about him in asks, he just says that he moved out. Wedge is now mutuals with Dawn too, he posts a lot of activism and speed racing content, and he's the first person to learn the full story of what happens with Dawn's roommate.

It's during that time that Iskander makes a post that goes "her room looks like she's about to come home any minute now". Dawn asks about what happened, and Iskander tells him that his sister died and he sees now reason to come home anymore - or to stay alive at all.

They exchanged numbers at some point, so when Iskander texts him that, Dawn calls him.

"Hey," he says. "Hey," Iskander answers. He sounds like he's out of breath. "Are you alright?" "I think so," Dawn says. "I'm here for you, you know?" Iskander chuckles. "Yeah. I know." They don't say anything else after that, but they stay on the call until Iskander gets interrupted by Spess. It's the first time that Dawn hears Spess' voice too, which has a slight accent to it, a lot more than Iskander's. "Sorry, I have to leave," Iskander says. "It was nice hearing your voice." "It was nice hearing your voice too." "If you knew how it sounded before, you wouldn't say that." Iskander's breath rattles in his chest. "Until next time, my friend." "Until next time. Say Hi to Spess from me." Spess mutters a greeting back. He sounds surprised that Dawn knows his name. Iskander is the one to hang up.

[gestures] and then they get through everything together, and they meet up and start dating etc etc

Iskander still gets insecure about his appearance and disability, and Dawn still gets flashbacks of what his roommate did, but they can heal together. Oh and also. They keep on the fairy lights in Ellian's room.

#just torment crew things #danke social media AU

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tea-with-evan-and-me · 1 year ago

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I miss the dynamic we used to have in fandoms too, it was pretty funny and genuine, now no matter which fandom you're part of, I think the whole thing has become very toxic for so many reasons. Everyone expects you to be perfect, to agree on their opinions, to be active all the time (even when you can't), to make your profile look in a certain way because it needs to look 'aesthetic', and sometimes you're tested to see if you're enough fan of someone, like having admiration and love towards an artist has to be measured and it's some kind of competition.

I had this account I created around 2014/15 on Twitter, I was part of many fandoms and it used to be so fun and relaxing to have a place to talk about the things you like and interact with people who understand this. But years later it started being so uncomfortable to be there because what it used to be about being just a fan turned into make yourself look in a certain way, pretend and act in the coolest way possible so everyone likes you. It actually affected a lot my mental health because I felt I needed to be accepted by everyone all the damn time, and I couldn't say what I wanted anymore I was so scared to be rejected by anyone and I didn't want to stay the incorrect thing, I loved posting about my favorite shows or shipps, but I realized that around 2021 that what I posted was not what I thought at all, it was just what everyone wanted me to say because if you didn't like certain scene from a random show (just to give an example) and you shared that opinion, you were attacked. I didn't even feel safe to give my opinions with some friends I made in these fandoms. I remembered specifically that many of my mutuals were harries and I had to pretend I liked him too because otherwise I would've been the weird girl or something, and it's not that I didn't like Harry, I love many of his songs and I think he's very talented, but I don't consider myself his fan because I didn't create that kind of connection with him. But I felt the pressure to said I was obsessed with him too. It got so bad, i ended up deleting my account because, which I actually regret, because I definitely wanted to leave all that nightmare behind, but I had so many great memories from the previous years that I wish I had thought twice before I deleted it, maybe I should have just logged out.

Sorry I overshared 😭 basically to sum it up I miss the old years so much, it's probably one of the reasons why I love your account <33

And I'm glad I'm not the only way who feels this way.

don’t apologize! i get it completely. times have changed and not for the better. i do hope that eventually things mellow out as far as stan culture goes. i’m happy people can enjoy coming here, just as i do on this blog 💗

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fereldanwench · 2 years ago

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Hi! You can call me Wench. 💙 Pronouns are she/her. I'm 35, married with two cats, and absolutely smitten with Goro Takemura and my V, Valerie Powell. (In theory, I have other interests, too, but in practice, they're pretty much on my mind 24/7.)

Virtual photography is my main creative outlet these days, but I do dabble in a little bit of everything. Here are some tags where you can find my things:

🎨 ART | ✒️ FIC & STORIES | 🖼️ EDITS & VP | ⚙️ MODS | 📁 TEMPLATES

I also wrote a comprehensive guide on how I create my Cyberpunk screenshots using the Appearance Menu Mod to spawn and pose characters. I'm more than happy to answer any questions about anything in the guide, but please do check the FAQ below for the quickest assistance on the most common issues.

Before You Follow

Social Media Links

CP77 Modding + Virtual Photography FAQ

🔞 Adult Content Warning This is not a family-friendly space, and I strongly discourage anyone under 18 from following me. If you choose to ignore this warning, please be aware that you will be exposed to adult content (within the constraints of Tumblr's rules regarding said content.)

📝 What I Post My original posts are mainly about Cyberpunk 2077, specifically Valerie and Goro, with the occasional life update, selfie, and shitpost thrown in for good measure. Virtual photography in CP77 has become my main creative outlet over the past year, but I also draw and write. Please do not repost or edit my original works anywhere without my permission.

🔁 What I Reblog I reblog a mixture of video games, movies/shows, art, scenery/aesthetic, fandom history/commentary, and meme posts. Occasionally I reblog political/current event posts, but I mostly use this space to relax so they aren't too common. For a full scope of what you'll find here, you can check my tag page.

📅 How I Queue I maintain a queue that posts 5 times a day, and posts can be queued as far as four weeks out. I don't really have a consistent method for what gets reblogged immediately and what goes into the queue--It varies depending on my activity level, if my queue is running low, if I feel like a post is over-saturated in my feed, etc.

💕 Who I Follow I prioritize keeping my dash a manageable, comfy place, so I am somewhat picky about what blogs I follow, and I am just about at my limit for the number of blogs I find I can reasonably keep up with. In addition to having shared interests, I typically I consider these factors before following someone: - I don't follow minors, and I generally prefer to follow adults over 25. - I prefer to follow blogs with at least a basic tagging system. - While I respect the need to vent, I have a very strong aversion to guilt-trippy and/or instigating posts (e.g. histrionic pleas for users to reblog content, posts that drag one character to praise another, or excessive fanwank).

💌 Contact - Please be patient with me when it comes to responding to messages--I try to get back to folks within 48 hours, but there is a slew of things, from being bogged down at work to anxiety, that might keep me from a timely response. - My ask box is always open, but anon stays off. You can include a "PM" note in your ask if you want me to reply privately. - DMs are available to mutuals. - I love being tagged in Tumblr games/memes! That said, I'm often very slow at getting around to doing them. - I welcome any and all types of interactions on my creative works: reblogs with tags, reblogs without tags, likes, kudos, comments, spam liking, whatever. It's up to you to decide how you want to interact (or not interact) with what I share. 💙

I'm fereldanwench in most fandom-oriented spaces. These are my main accounts:

AO3

Twitter

Instagram

Dreamwidth

Pillowfort

YouTube

Ko-fi

You can also find me as fereldanwench in a few of the main Cyberpunk 2077 Discord servers: AMM Community, Lizzie's, Cyberpunk 2077 Modding, and Men of Night City.

This section will be updated as needed if I get more recurring questions. You can also browse my cp help tag to see if an issue you're having has come up previously.

Q: How do you make your Cyberpunk screenshots? A: The main tool I use is the Appearance Menu Mod, which is used to spawn NPCs, decor, and lighting. I wrote a very detailed guide on how to get started with AMM that you can check out here. I also use Reshade for the Cinematic DOF and Real Long Exposure shaders. All color editing is done in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Q: I read your AMM guide but I can't get the NPC poses to work for my NPC of choice. What am I doing wrong? A: First, double-check to make sure that you don't have any mod conflicts. The NPC pose .archive files can only be used one at a time per locomotion type, so if you have two or more in your mod folder, they won't work.

Most likely, though, the pose .archive file and the NPC you're working with have different locomotion types; e.g. Johnny uses the corpo locomotion, so only corpo locomotion files will work on him unless you also use an .archive file that converts his locomotion to another type. You can read more about it in this section of the guide.

Q: What mods do you use/recommend? A: I have a list that I update every few months that lists all the publicly available mods I use in my game as well as a more general mod tag for any mods that look interesting/useful. I've also dabbled in making pose mods, which are available for free at my Ko-fi shop. (Disclaimer: Please note that a mod recommendation is not necessarily an endorsement of the modder.)

#t: wench.txt #📌

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gwaaaaar · 2 years ago

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I posted 5,713 times in 2022

102 posts created (2%)

5,611 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@choco-myth

@beth-bethar00

@boronal

@willowfoxthefox

sean-gaffney

I tagged 441 of my posts in 2022

#mazm - 31 posts

#vatican miracle examiner - 20 posts

#vatican kiseki chousakan - 16 posts

#mazm thy creature - 12 posts

#identity v - 11 posts

#mazm hyde and seek - 9 posts

#mazm phantom of the opera - 7 posts

#baccano! - 7 posts

#baccano - 7 posts

#ganji gupta - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#reminds me of that one meme you made where its like this edible aint shit and its a pic of light music club cater saying i always wanted to

My Top Posts in 2022:

Ok hear me out, Ganji and Mike accidentally crash into each other during a match or something and they drop their Red balls. They scramble to pick what they assume are their own items but we cut to Mike trying to flip over a rail and the ball bounces back and hits him square in the face, he's out like a light. Now zooming over to ganji he's taking aim then BOOM! his bats on fire, Ganji is now chasing the hunter with a flaming glorified stick,ganji is now banned from Duos

Holy shit yes oh my god 😭😭😭😭. Clusmy anime girls with toast in their mouth except, threats to the hunter that dropped their balls.

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Raoul de Chagny (Mazm one maybe idk) is such a sigma male but also an L bozo. Mans literally cannot get manipulated by erik bc hes too stupid but at the same time he goes into eriks box to assert dominance only to pass out like an idiot. And the scene in the forest where he HAD A CELAR SHOT AT ERIK AND MISSED. L bozo.

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Having finished Hyde and Seek like 3 days after release here are some of my thoughts. There's gonna be some stuff implied so read with caution, i wont say outright but ill talk abt the implications. Sorry most of this is Alan rambling I have brainworms and I'm ill.

-Alan is literally my malewife. Love at first sight, if Noah is my little meanwhore Alan is my malewife. I love their big boobs.

-Pollie>Sally. My heart dropped when Alan tried to ask Sally out like out of all people, Sally? Good news though hes single by the end.

-Pollie is literally that one tumblr post where its like let women be pathetic little meow meows too. She is the definition of a pathetic meow meow and i love her for that.

See the full post

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LOLIROCK IS OUT FOR MY BLOOD WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM M SHAPED LIPS WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS THEY DID THIS ON PURPOSE HWGWJAGEJAHEHNSGEJSJSGZ

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My #1 post of 2022

Alright so ive been seeing this going around, the lack of paint on Sam in ENG . I dont want to start shit though, im saying this as a disclaimer. And i want to say this as controversial as it may be: it was for the best probably.

Voodoo has a history of being portrayed as dark magic which is horrible. Voodoo is a religion not satanic not dark magic. It is as much of a religon as Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, etc. Respect it. I like the bone paint too, it looked cool, but clearly its more cultural appropriation rather than appreciation on Sam (voodoo practicers if you can please tell me if ive said something wrong).

"Cancel culture" isnt just an "sjw" thing, its used to talk about problems. Saying "twst shouldve just stayed in jp" bc of the problematic aspect isnt good. We have to address problematic issues with culture and racism. Twst has racist aspects you cannot deny that. It doesnt mean you cant enjoy twst at all, but stay openminded and listen to minorities when they speak. Cultures arent "aesthetics" :/

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

welp, isnt that a doozy

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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Hey man, how did you know you were ace? I’m not sure how I feel at the moment - is it my anxiety that’s stopping me from having a relationship, or is it that I just can’t see myself having sex? Do I not see myself having sex because I have major self love problems and can’t see anyone loving me? Am I anxious about it because I don’t want it? I am so confused about what I feel. Any suggestions for figuring it out?

Uff not sure if I'm the best person to ask that, anon, but I'll try to answer.

Some options to get a good idea is

- follow ace blogs on Tumblr and what they post about (especially the memes were enlightening for me 😂)

- there are ace / aero tests online

- but in the end it's important how *you* feel about the term and its definition (there's even more detailed definitions but for me ace fits fine). If you read it and think, yeah, this sounds like me, it's probably true

Some of the signs I figured I was ace (and also very late, I'm in my 30ies and I didn't know of the term until a few years ago!)

I can imagine doing lots of things / hobbies rather than having a relationship

I very much like to be on my own and am not looking for "another half"

I don't have problem with intimacy and can have sex, but I don't *need* sex with another person. I could happily live until the end of my days without having sex with another person.

In my teenager years, everyone was starting relationships but I wasn't interested in them. I rather read fanfiction or made music, anything else. They called me a late bloomer lol but I just wasn't interested. I felt like something was wrong with me

A handful of people fell in love with me and I just couldn't reciprocate and it made me feel like, again, it was my fault, that I should be able to love them back and have these romantic feelings

Started a relationship and had sex because I felt this was society's expectation of me. No one ever told me it's okay to not be with someone!

I never understood people lusting after one another. Like, their urge. I don't have that.

Same goes for celebrity crushes. I don't have them in the "normal" way that I find someone hot and want to do the dirty with them.

My celebrity crushes are like I find someone aesthetically pleasing, beautiful in a "this is a perfectly shaped human being" way. And it's not their muscles or biceps or whatever people find "sexy", it's more about their character and behavior, their beard perhaps, the way their eyes glow, the love they show for someone else. This is what my celebrity crushes look like

You could show me 1000 men and I might find maybe 2 of them attractive. Because I'm not attracted to anybody 😂

Shipping fictional (and real) people because I love their love. But I don't want to be intimate with them 😂

Also, and my psychology friend voiced something like this too, I'm female and I mostly ship male / male, and we think that is because it's as far away from my own biology as possible.

Regarding reading / writing, it's more about non-sexual intimacy for me (even though sex creates intimacy too, don't get me wrong!) like hand-holding, cuddling, forehead kisses and embraces. I live for that stuff

That said, being asexual doesn't mean that you don't crave intimacy with someone else. I do. I would murder for a good embrace

Some people can be happy in a relationship and br asexual. As long as both (or how many people you want in a relationship) are fine with the lack of sexual actions and nobody feels forced or inclined to do something, that's good!

I just know for me that it would be difficult to find someone who would be fine with this, as it is currently in our society and the usual sex drive of men (Sorry for that big bucket but that is my experience)

And I know I have such a self-sacrificing nature (cough, people pleaser, cough) that I rather stay away from relationships now before I return to the vicious cycle "let's have sex, because I read once a week is normal / mandatory". No way, José

Anon, I just want to ensure you to take your time and don't force yourself to anything

Do what feels right for you

#Ace #Asexual #Personal #Relationship #Anon answer #long post

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we-are-indeed-villains · 3 years ago

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Some things I wish I had known before getting sucked into the whole “dark academia” business:

I waited a very long time to start posting here because It just seemed necessary to wait a bit since DA exploded out of nowhere last year. I just couldn’t bring myself to write when I was so disgusted with the community. Now that it seems like we are out of fashion again (lol) I decided it could be worth giving this blog a try.

Also, almost everything I say here goes for pretty much any change in lifestyle, and these are just some general guidelines that I find particularly easy to follow, but do what works best for you!

1 - You DON’T have to spend all of your money to fit into this “aesthetic”.

The biggest problem with what is now called dark academia (but really, it has been a thing for such a long time) is that people put it in the same category as, for instance, VSCO girls or Indie (not that there is any problem with these aesthetics in specific, they are actually quite cute!). I know this sounds like rubbish, but DA really is a little bit more than that. The clothing/visual part of it may be important to some, but the way you choose to live your life and the hobbies you opt to engage with are crucial for everyone!

That being said, don’t spend a ridiculous amount of money on expensive linen shirts and fancy blazers. You don’t need a brand new pair of Oxfords or a 100% leather messenger bag to consider yourself DA. Start small, then make investments if you find it to be worth it. That brings us to our second point:

2 - Find your favourite aspect of the community.

I know it can be very overwhelming to adhere to any new style of living, but there are some easier ways to make a smoother transition (also, you don’t really want everyone to notice that you went from water to wine in one week, and then back to water after two more because you felt lost amidst all of those weird nerds you found on Tumblr, right?).

Begin with figuring out what part of the lifestyle you identify with the most. Is it the musical part? Classical dance? Are you into poetry? Books? History?

Once you have that done (I plan on doing posts on all of those topics and more, so stay tuned!), narrow it down until you find the very core of your interest. For example, I absolutely love literature, but what do I love about it? Is it the writing part? The reading part? Both? Do I have a favourite style? If the answer for the previous question is ‘no’, try to find one! There are so many amazing styles and eras to explore!

After determining what is/are your main interests, make sure to find time to fit them into your life. Buy more books, if possible. There are also public libraries with a great variety of literature to choose from! If you already do that, I encourage you to try getting out of your comfort zone and attempting something new. Why not experiment reading a different style of books? Or maybe getting into the more poetic part of literature?

3 - Get into it!

Have you found your main interest? Great! Now it may be time to actually get into the fashion aspect of the whole thing. Also, remember that, although it is not a requirement per say, being academically successful is something you may want to achieve, so put some effort into that as well.

I won’t get too much into the fashion rabbithole, but I may write something about it later. In the meantime, you can definitely find some great guides on different DA related blogs.

4 - Don’t adhere to all the negative habits that DA romanticizes.

We all know that mental illness and self destructive behaviors are heavily romanticised, and I will say this from the bottom of my heart: DO NOT LET YOUR MENTAL HEALTH SLIP BECAUSE OF SOME 15 YEAR OLD ON TUMBLR! Trust me, it is NOT worth it.

Cigarettes, alcohol, coffee, all-nighters, heavier drugs. All of that may seem cool and edgy from the outside (why people think that, I could not tell you), but it can also defeat the main purpose of DA and, even worse, ruin your physical and mental health for good. How are you going to stay ahead in school and go to Oxford if you are too busy partying and snorting coke? You will get a sore nose and a big hole in your pocket, that’s all.

Nihilism is another one. Note that I said “nihilism”, not "existentialism" (more on that coming in the future). If you enjoy pondering the reason for human existence and you question the religious beliefs that control our society, welcome to the club! But please, please, don’t let that get too much in your head. Existential depression is a very painful and difficult thing to deal with. It will take away any joy you may find and it is not in any way productive. If you have it, you will know what I mean. Thinking about it sometimes, writing poems, debating with friends, that’s all good, even encouraged, but don’t let it go to your head and become a problem. Not worth it.

Some extra things I would like to mention:

1 - Don’t force yourself into doing or enjoying anything. Sure, reading is good, but if it isn’t enjoyable there is no reason to become obsessed with it! DA should not be a burden.

2 - Stay away from the eurocentric ideals that come with the community. Racism is bad even if you want to live in the 1800s. There is simply no excuse to think that European culture is richer or more refined than any other. Remember that the only reason you think that is because some rich, old, white men decided to murder and opress millions of different people for pure egoism. Not really something to be proud of.

Also, if you are thinking “Yeah, whatever, but English culture is a lot nicer than Mexican, or Indian culture”, then you should probably reevaluate the reasons for your interest in DA.

3 - Don’t be mean to people just because you think it fits with your all-new pretentious and arrogant character. I don’t care if you want to be perceived as such, but it can be very bad in the long-run. Just be aware of that.

And most importantly, don’t let DA take away your personality! It’s okay to like video games and read gossip magazines every once in a while. It is also okay to be yourself. You don’t have to (and probably shouldn't) get rid of all the qualities that make you unique (yes, this is a cliche, but there is a reason why people say it all the time). Be silly, say dumb things and play minecraft with your friends all night, for godsakes!

“This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

(Hamlet - Polonius, act 1 scene 3)

-- Shakespeare, William

Memento Mori, dear villains.

#dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia #romantic academia #cottage academia #art academia #classic academia #aesthetic #guide #vintage aesthetic #literature #poetry #classic

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task 011: luke skywalker.

technology & social media.

luke has been in the city long enough at this point to understand social media fairly well. considering all of the different sorts of technology that he was accustomed to in space, this is was nothing too out there from what he already had seen. that being said, given the nature of him being known as the president’s brother, he does tend to keep all of his accounts completely private. staying in line with an image is something that he can do in person when needed, but with these sort of things he doesn’t want to have to act a certain sort of way. he mainly uses them to follow just about all of their family, and the few people that he’s become acquainted with in the city. he does follow some popular meme accounts, and does have a habit of following some fashion blogs ( gotta keep up with all of the trends he can pair the chanel boots with ). his twitter is mostly retweets of things that he likes, with some original thoughts and posts sprinkled in between. with instagram, he does enjoy posting selfies or photos with the fam, as well as some aesthetic type photos. he’s good with any technology at this point, learning things quickly and becoming skilled at them without too much effort.

hobbies & free time.

truthfully, luke doesn’t have many hobbies. he enjoys flying, but it’s not something he can really do in his spare time around here given certain restrictions. there’s a lot of what he does that’s also so intertwined with the ways of the jedi and the force that he doesn’t consider them to be hobbies. if anything, the closest to that would be working on cars at the garage, but he usually goes there more for the socialization with han and allana more than anything else. i don’t know if luke truly knows what he would want to do in order to relax or what he would want to do in his spare time. the majority of his life was essentially laid out for him, and while it’s not necessarily a bad thing or something he would change, he doesn’t know what he enjoys outside of all of that.

tinder bio.

don’t listen to what they say about short guys

#hwtask11 #musings — luke.

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I feel bad for all the nice J*nsa shippers who like their ship for whatever reasons (tropes, pretty art, aesthetic appeal, whatever) and know it's not canon but get associated with the misogynistic Dany hating crowd who act like Jon being attracted to Ygritte is J*nsa foreshadowing because red hair (I guess Jon should fuck Edmure Tully too? Omg give me Dark!Jon getting revenge on Catelyn by seducing her brother!) Tell me something. I'm new to the fandom but was J*nsa popular before the show? And I've heard something about the OG J*nsa shippers being alienated by the new shippers who insisted it had to be canon and acted like the series is called, "A song of J*nsa #danysux." I don't find that hard to believe because I know people who are now ashamed of calling themselves J*nsa shippers. Like, at this point, it's not only rival shippers who hate it. Even Gendrya/Braime/Jon stans/etc have started disliking that ship. You know your fandom is a problem when people who have nothing to do with Jnsa have a problem with it.

me: reads this ask

me: iwastheregandalf.gif which I can't find now but

okay anon buckle up because I am sadly well-equipped to answer this ask but before I do lemme tell you dark jon seducing edmure to take revenge on cat is LITERALLY THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD but *clears throat* ALL RIGHT THEN.

disclaimer: as anon says I have no issue with like the shippers mentioned by anon in the beginning and ngl I agree, I have ABSOLUTELY ZERO FUCKING STAKES in the j*nsa vs j*nerys war and the only het jon ship I gaf about is jon/ygritte and we all know where that ended up I just... have been here since 2011/adwd was over and all the fic around was just for the books under secret lj communities and asoiaf qualified for yuletide and I have... seen... things.... and I actually have like uh had... beef... with some people in there and I know things bc ppl who hated those others told me stuff so anyway *sigh* buckle up anon I'mma tell you the story of jon shipwars through the years

in order, the old gods help me here, under the cut bc this is long as fuck

when I got into fandom also given what numbers were on ao3 one ship was popular and it was sansan. no like sansan was lit. the only asoiaf ship on ao3 with more than 200 fics. jb had twenty when i checked first. jc had like around 100-ish because of the show but sansan dwarfed anything. I posted the first jon/ygritte fic on the ao3 tag and the fourth throbb fic and like the others were all reposts from lj kinkmemes. nothing was popular before the show except for sansan when it comes to huge numbers bc grrm doesn't like fic and it was all hush hush until the show made it impossible to control and that ship was the one with a huge enough fanbase it actually had numbers, so like... j*nsa wasn't popular in the way nothing else was popular until it got screentime on the show

now, that stated, j*nsa had a... fair amount of fic for a rareship which was mostly book-based and from og shippers that were there from before the show and liked it for what it was but literally none of them thought it was gonna be canon, like it wasn't huge or anything but it had a small but dedicated fanbase who did their own thing and thought it was fun/liked the idea but that was it

that fandom had their own niche of hcs that they cultivated and shit except that like... at the end of S5/beginning of S6 there was a surge in shipping for... well obvious reasons bc it was obv sansa was getting to the wall and that would have been all nice and good but a) it was the time puritanical shipping was starting to take root and the 'shipping sansa with sandor or tyrion is hella problematic' rhetoric had started to circle coming from sans*ery shippers mostly but I'mma not open that fucking can of worms here, b) while the ending of S5 had more of a theon/sansa spike, the j*nsa stuff started getting big

now here we have to mention my villain origin story ie: j*nsa fandom had this one stan whose name I won't make because honestly it's been years and if she's still around I don't want her to remember I exist who was a bnf, wrote for... the website that created the whole larry/carol thing etc who was really fixed on this thing that j*nsa was actually canon and started writing extremely popular meta about it. now you're gonna ask how do you know, I know because this person once wrote a meta named 'why robb stark is a dick' and I told her that it was really fucking bad meta and she took it so badly she kept on trash talking me on her blog/her podcast (I was apparently the insane robb stark fangirl l m a o good lord) and like that was when some sane ppl who argued with her informed me in pvt that she was basically harping on the CANON thing when they'd have been okay with like... it being crackshipping and that she was basically cultivating a hoarde of followers who were harping on them/the ogs and basically ostracizing them;

I would like to add that this person - before her tumblr got 'accidentally deleted' and remade it therefore deleted most receipts for, er, her so-called meta which included stuff like ned and cat raised sansa as a sexual object and only wanted to sell her like cattle - had at some point started a round robin fic thing where... some of the characters mocked openly said stuff that some of the og fans had said specifically targeting them and people in that side basically went harassing anyone who didn't agree with that specific notion

now never mind that this person basically coined an entire term to describe ppl who liked white guys and excused all their wrongdoings out of my conversation re robb basically lying about everything I said as if I didn't have the receipts and tried to sell shirts with it and it didn't work and like then she got kicked out of her own website because she was telling her commenters disagreeing pretty shitty insults (considering I was called psychotic for disagreeing with her that time I don't doubt it) I think at some point she stepped back from fandom bc idk wtf she's up to these days and I don't want to, but basically at that point the dam was broken and there was a bunch of puritanical shippers harping on anyone who didn't agree with j*nsa is canon endgame stuff

this also includes an incident when those ppl were like... passing themselves as throbb shippers and ended up trying to tell t*hramsay shippers off the theon tag based on moral reasons and I ended up arguing with all of them (and they were all from that crowd) which in turn landed me in contact with other og j*nsa shippers who were like detached from that fandom bc those same people harassed them away as well ssooooo fun

anyway when S6 happened everyone was high on it and whatnot but I wasn't gonna begrudge them that I mean... you shipped it for years, canon is delivering you, good for you, but then j*nerys happened

god j*nerys happened

aaand basically...... I mean personally I was there like are y'all seriously arguing about the best incest jon ship out there but like basically the j*nsa endgame side was like AH JON IS PLAYING DANY SEE IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, the j*nerys obv got defensive af and both sides were sort of alternatively shitting on jon/ygritte anyway and depicting any other romantic rship jon could have as abusive™ and during S8 it just got worse and like I tried to stay out of it but basically from what I'm seeing now idk how the j*neryses are doing but on the j*nsa one it's ah jon's gonna play dany anyway and she's going to go insane like in the show so SHOW TRUTHING EVERY OTHER WAY and like again denying that sandor exists or that tyrion exists and like I barely touch my corner (sansan) but I ended up arguing with j*nsa/th*nsa people on twitter who were antis and is2g it was white-hair inducing and I know for sure the sansa/tyrion shippers were harassed to hell and back throughout so FUN

and even if the show didn't go there now since everyone there banked on the jnsa endgame thing and admitting you're wrong is like... not a thing, they still haven't let go of it and attach to that ship any shred of evidence which honestly is grasping at straws half of the time (like... the sansa/alysanne parallels like guys please no) and which is why every other ship is starting to get fed up, attaching canon proof of stuff from other ships onto theirs see that batb argument and jb is platonic but jonsa is not nvm taking all the sansan stuff and throwing it on j*nsa but then denying that sansan has canon evidence (like guys I had to read sansa touching his shoulder when saying gregor wasn't a true knight wasn't meaningful and we were seeing things please) and blah blah blah

this also goes hand in hand with the fixation on like... villanizing dany at all costs and like is2g I have zero investment in dany or her storyline I don't even remember it and I don't particularly care abt her either way and sure af I'm not for j*nerys endgame but like.... some stuff I read is completely excessive esp when fixing on how she's a completely mad tyrant who's gonna have to be put down and like... guys no

(also there's some srs stannis hate in that corner which I honestly don't get why they even care abt stannis but I had to read stuff like ppl don't recognize that dany and stannis are the real villains in this saga and like........ idek)

I think most of the og shippers are gone or don't ship it openly bc they don't want to be attached to the drama but like I also think they're pissing off everyone else bc like... I mean a bunch of them also were down with sansa being paired with other ppl as long as it meant a good ending for her except those ppl were... like everyone but the ppl she has actual contact with in canon which meant that at some point sansa/gendry was a thing and like.... you can imagine why arya/gendry shippers & arya stans were fed up, and there's also this tendency to behave like sansa is the center of the entire saga which like these books is named a song of jon snow basically can we pls make peace with it and personally I've had it with both j*nsa and j*nerys people since they started with that dumbass JON/YGRITTE WAS AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP rhetoric but I'm also fed up with the total ignoring that sandor exists/depicting us as delusional and honestly I also was by proxy fed up from the harassing of the sansa/tyrion shippers soooooooooooo

there were also instances of 'well theon is an acceptable choice other than jon bc he can't threaten her' which... i mean we all know what that meant and I'm not even commenting it bc it's one AM and I have no force to but I don't have to explain why it's not a progressive take now do I

there were also metas about how cousin incest being legal in half of the world means that jondany is a worse incest and j*nsa doesn't count as such and I was basically there like guys please just fucking own up to it but honestly I chose to forgot where I read that and I couldn't find the link if I tried

tldr: no one wants to admit that it's not gonna be endgame which considering the amount of fic they have on ao3 is imvho useless bc they have more content than like.. anything I ship that's not jb or that's actually like canon *cries in joncon/rhaegar but I mean renly/loras is canon and has less fic than them* so idk what's the problem with enjoying that instead of insisting it's gonna be canon when not even the show validated it while show truthing anyway when the only show truthing that can be truthed is the small council made of minorities and possibly jon eventually fucking off with the wildlings but not like that but like most people who thought it wasn't gonna be endgame had left/were made to leave by the time S7 rolled by and at this point since wow isn't out yet everyone is fandom-grasping at straws to find stuff to discourse on and we're here beating dead horses *shrug*

so that's... how it is but I would again like to point out that I don't judge ppl on their shipping, I don't particularly care about this entire feud bc I only ship jon with ppl he's not related to in whichever way and I try to stay out of this mess bc I don't really care to argue with ppl who have already decided to bend canon to whatever they want and will have to realize that it's not what grrm wrote at some point but like I have a very good memory and the above rant is as objective as possible also bc again I don't literally have a stake in that race I just think romantic/endgame j*nsa is not a thing and that ppl should stay in their lane and not harping on other ppl who ship whatever in general but especially when their ship is the most popular thing in fandom in the first place /two cents

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #anonymous #ask post #anti-jonsa #anti jonsa #anti-jonerys #anti jonerys #both of them for equality

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