#sorry I'm just being nitpicky

[entenoi]

what an incredible scene ruined by an ugly font in the Eng tl

now look at the original JP version

[papaiyatree]

ong seeing this wasn't even dramatic to me, i literally just let out a chuckle and thought to myself "this could've been avoided if we had her on the mission as oracle"

[bleaksqueak]

While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)

ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao

[touchlikethesun]

what is the point of sweeping a dirt path. it's- it's all dust it's all dirt san lang dear surely there is a better use of your time

[sskk-manifesto]

Atsushi's back in the game!!! ۶( ˆ o ˆ )

[raziraphale]

so I'm new to Buffy. I'm new to Buffy fanfiction. and I think it has the highest ratio of me closing fics out early that I've ever experienced in a fandom. at a certain point I have to wonder if I'm the problem. head in my hands weeping begging god to tell me: would she not fucking say that?

[thepoisonroom]

if i may complain for a second i told someone i was dating that some things they'd said to me previously made me feel kind of confused and uncomfortable and they responded with "well it sounds to me like you could have advocated for yourself earlier" like okay yeah maybe but i'm doing it now????

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

idk why but it bugs me that sometimes the official art puts claptrap's eye so low like.. i'm internally making the todomatsu bulgy-eyed stare™ because it's not what i'm used to at all

[freshydip]

this tiny little scene with falin. in the manga. means so much to me

i know it's nitpicky of me, but the anime translating her line as "be at peace and leave this body" just doesn't hit the same. phrasing it like that feels a little more impersonal than in the manga. saying "i'm sorry, you have to give him back" is a direct sentence to the spirit, an empathetic statement, a recognition of their suffering. she's talking to them like she would another person. "be at peace and leave this body" just feels more like a stock magical/vaguely religious directive. it's not negative by any means. it's still a lovely sentiment. it's just not as impactful for me. falin is all about being casual and open and caring to everyone at all times and i think the line in the manga, small as it is, is more reflective of that

[neil-gaiman]

Hello!

First of all, season two was brilliant, I loved every minute of it, and I can't wait for what's next!

I have a probably silly question to ask you-

We know that all Nina's copies of Everyday had previously been different records and had turned into Everyday after Gabriel's miracle. And that the new ones she sent turned into Everyday after being played on that specific jukebox.

If these records were for a jukebox, how come the hole is too small? Did somebody take the record out of the jukebox and put a 45rpm adapter insert inside of it, just to send it back to the shop? Seems a bit unlikely to me.

I suppose I was wondering if this was an oversight and I'm just far too nitpicky or if there was an actual explanation.

I'm far from an expert when it comes to records or jukeboxes so it's possible I'm just missing something but it did catch my eye! And my dad, who is much more knowledgeable about records than me, pointed it out too.

Thank you! Sorry for such a long message :)

I pointed it out as soon as I saw the singles. We actually reshot scenes with the correct kind of hole in the record, and had plans to CGI the holes in scenes we couldn't reshoot but it started to turn into a monumental project aimed only at pleasing me and your dad and somewhere in there we said "oh sod it" and let it be a goof.

[kingdomoftyto]

They get points for trying to expand on the supernatural gimmicks for their protagonists, I guess, but Apollo's crazy eyes simply do not compare to Phoenix's secret-detecting magatama, in usefulness OR in fun value, as is clearly evident by the big sigh of relief I let out when the psyche-locks made their reappearance in the 7-years-ago flashbacks

[atopvisenyashill]

What are your thoughts on GRRM’s new notablog post on HOTD S2?

omg i'm sorry so i did not get notified that i had a few new asks, i didn't even see this until i logged in on desktop. tumblr eat shit smh.

ANYWAYS.

I actually agree with Xiran Jay Zhao, here, where they said this was a warning shot. It feels like a warning shot. Like a "hey I'm being nitpicky and pedantic now but if you think I won't go scroched earth you got another thing coming." I've seen so much "this is unprofessional" "this is annoying" "why is he complaining" and I think it is not only mind boggling to side with a corporation and the idiots running these shows (and we know I mostly like Condal and Hess, but come on Condal was the mastermind of Sansa Bolton why are we defending him right now!!), I think everyone is blowing his comments wildly out of proportion. He didn't take a dig at anyone but the writer's room and more specifically Ryan Condal, who he has had a working relationship with for well over a decade. He didn't shittalk any casting, he didn't shittalk any specific writers or directors except one of the main showrunners, he compliments the special effects, he has consistently had (and imo is careful) nothing but praise for the actors, even minor roles like Blood & Cheese. This was an incredibly milqtoast "please remember that every change has huge affects on the narrative later" critique and the people handwringing over his behavior are absolute losers, I'm sorry.

And beyond the fact that he didn't make any huge digs, I think this conversation also wildly ignores the way authors have no control over their own characters once they sign the rights over. They can be completely bamboozled by changes and they have no recourse to go "what the hell are you doing." And yet, signing your book's rights away (even if the production sits in developmental hell for decades) is usually what nets these author's the most money - GRRM surely makes a shitton off his books, but most authors get paid absolutely nothing even when they're wildly popular because of how book deals work now. Take, again, Xiran for example - Iron Widow was a huge runaway hit, a good and fresh take on this new boom of culturally based sff. And yet Xiran has talked about how they immediately set to work writing a middle grade novel because they desperately needed the money because they got paid 16k over two years for their runaway hit that made their publishers significantly more than 16k. I think George is not only mad for authors with less control than he has but also, obviously, for himself - I've said time and again, but I do think Dark Daenerys is where we are headed, and the fact that they completely botched showing it has got to smart. And if the ending for Dany is anything other than Jon killing her, that has got to smart too. So he watched these people fuck up his original series and push him completely out of that writer's room as they made more and more changes, and now he's watching s2 of HOTD and seeing some changes and getting some real bad vibes. It's not doomerism to think s3 is going to go massively off the rails when we have seasons 6-8 of the main show to show us just how off the rails it can go!

So anyways, that part of my rant over (and please believe me when I say I checked myself here because I could rant for hours about how it's genuinely so upsetting to see people call him unprofessional over this when not only did he write the fucking series, but he's lived in this series for three decades!!!!! this is his whole life, this is his legacy, of course he's feeling some type of way about how it's handled jesus christ on a cracker, there's people who have said worse about their mediocre nyt pushed bestsellers getting adapted badly!), when it comes to the actual meat of his post....I'm sorry idk how anyone is annoyed by this post because it was hilarious to me. He spent a whole blog post whinging about how Dead Baby #4 and Kingsguard Man #12 are gonna get cut out of the show. I think he framed it in that goofy way on purpose to hide how annoyed he is but you can see where the real annoyance lies - the changes to Helaena, losing one of his grisly death scenes, and being willfully mislead about potential changes to the plot. I think a lot of people missed those points but EYE am not a goofy ass like those people and I can guarantee you that Condal and HBO got the point too.

Of course, I do think he is also irked about Maelor and Ser Rickard's scenes being cut out. He wrote a long ass, highly meticulous, near unadaptable work, and I think when he handed the IP over he assumed he was giving it to people who would rise to the challenge and only make cuts when absolutely necessary. And that just clearly hasn't happened. Incredibly important characters get cut, main characters get their plots wildly changed for no reason, and people get personality transplants on a near constant basis for no other reason than D&D and Condal thought it would look cooler. I think if there was more dedication to keeping him in the loop and keeping true to the story, he wouldn't have bitched so much. But Hess is on record saying she doesn't feel loyal to the story and at a certain point, you reach your breaking point there and I think he has finally reached his. AND GOOD FOR HIM. LET THAT OLD MAN GO APESHIT THEY'VE COMPLETLEY FUCKED HIS WORLD UP!!!

[veespee]

i'm probably being nitpicky but everyone is so hyped about the Slenderverse documentary (me too) but why are they all ignoring most of the people featured and focusing almost ONLY on Evan and Tim 😭😭 like i get it, EMH and Marble Hornets are really popular, but come on... Heather and Chris, Lee, Valeria Santiago, the creators of hiimmarymary, daisy brown, and CH/SS??

i mean I'm a bit biased cause i love ARGs and some people just watched the popular slenderverse ones which is valid, but damn 😭 Valeria Santiago especially needs recognition for Stan Frederick (impeccable editing and story btw) and the fact that she is advocating for more Slenderverse series!! she is probably one of the reasons why Slenderverse is still alive rn.

anyway sorry for the small rant, i just want more creators to be recognised!!

[ms-cartoon]

Don't even try to fight me on this, but Charlie didn't do much worth noting that she's Lucifer's OR Lilith's daughter. . . .

All it took was somebody dying for her to go berserk. Hell, she didn't even go berserk!! Literally, all this girl did was transform into a battle suit that doesn't even look all that badass, cast a spear, show her demonic eyes, and swinging her spear around while just barely winning a fight against Adam. We don't even get to see much of the fight since most of that scene is focused on Vaggie and not only that, frikin LUCIFER jumps in and saves Charlie and takes her place in fighting Adam!!

I said this before, but you'd think that being the daughter of Lucifer, she can actually- umm, I dunno- SHOW IT!! I'm sorry if I'm coming off as nitpicky, but considering how she'll turn all demonic when provoked-

You'd think she would have more to offer.

[kuruk]

sorry but is this person like stupid why did they choose to interpret it like this.. genuinely just needlessly nitpicky like do you not think it's kind of an indicator of the conditions for other women. it's like maybe watch what you say about a horribly misogynistic act and remember it shows how you view other normal women *because* similar things do already happen to women, and also it's just a reasonable concern like "do people care about when something like this happens? when such a case is so public and gets so much attention because it's a celebrity and there's no consequences what does that mean about where we are right now?" and sorry you are just a flat out misogynist if you think it's fine and that it's okay to laugh about a woman being sexually harassed with rape images of her the specifics literally do not matter like if a celebrity I hated was being harassed by white supremacist men calling them a carpetmunching beaner id be like wow I dont really feel safe and this is depressing.. I'm going to assume some of y'all will make posts to defend this behavior because you secretly wanna be guilt free about making rape jokes or something

[project-sekai-facts]

out of curiosity, which parts/episodes have the bad localizationing for phoenix? I'm probably going to read the official translation on sekai.best since I don't like using youtube and i wanna know what to expect

here's my main issues with it in brief for now, but i'll probably do a longer post on the topic of ensekai's translations later

Rui: I guess this is what you want to do

first off from chapter 7, rui's observation of Tsukasa's breakdown. this is just weirdly casual and honestly ooc for Rui. as a director, he's observant, and he's trying to understand what tsukasa's going through and what he's trying to do. The fan translation i linked puts this as "As I thought, this is what you're going for", which is far better.

Rui: We should let Tsukasa be right now...

also from chapter 7 literally 4 lines later. while at first this might not seem that bad, and is fitting with the context, i much prefer the fan TL version which puts this as "This is something that Tsukasa needs". Like do you get how much the word "needs" changes this. "We should let him be" is kinda broad all things considered. Like it could mean he needs it, but it could also mean that someone on tiktok or twitter will probably misinterpret it as wandasho not knowing what to do or some other angsty thing like them not being good friends i dunno

Tsukasa: It's because "I" am not strong enough...

Now this. This is a good line. Note the quotations around I. This is very important to Tsukasa's arc in this event of understanding the role of Rio and improving his acting. Note that here, the pronoun used is boku, when Tsukasa uses ore. Boku, or "I" here, refers to Rio, as in, Tsukasa is thinking as Rio. EN drops the quotations completely and translates it flatly as "because i'm powerless". He refers to himself in first person while thinking as Rio for the rest of the scene on EN though, so hopefully there won't be too many misinterpretations (but. you probably know what I'm vagueing about). Pronouns aren't used as frequently in japanese as in english so this is actually the first time he uses boku in this scene, hence the quotes. This is more nitpicky it's just something I thought was pretty cool.

Rui: Did you see that phoenix you were talking about?

one last Rui quote (rui im sorry ensekai can't translate you well). wow 3 out of four quotes here are rui in chapter 7 damn. anyway. the fan translation of this is "Have you finally found your Phoenix" which is SO much better with the context of the rest of the story. tsukasa decides that he needs to "find his phoenix" in order to nail the role, and this is correctly translated aside from this one line, which is arguably one of the most important uses of it. it's not just any phoenix, it's tsukasa's. his personal one, like a resolve of sorts. once again they made rui far too casual and he doesn't sound right.

yeah as i said i'll do something better another time, but he's my main nitpicks and complaints.