#there is no True Translation

[new-haven-psych-ward]

trying to find good subs for shows is just deciding what your tolerance level is for:

untranslated words like language-specific honorifics, words with "too much culture-specific context" that are "impossible" to find a 1-to-1 correspondence, my nakama, or any term you saw floating around on the internet in the early 2010's and prior MAXIMUM PROFANITY where any word that could maybe be considered vulgar is taken to its FULL FUCKING POTENTIAL

the op and ed never being translated :'( waiting months for updates and not being sure if a sub group killed this project or not

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Happy New Year 2024!

[todayisamostenjoyableday]

Hey guys, it's been a while! But I bring y'all the BEST news possible! Y'all remember how Osaka wanted to be a teacher at the end of Azumanga Daioh and how Ena mentioned her teacher had a Kansai accent? (Where the city of Osaka is.) Well......

She freakin did it y'all!!! My ADD icon is officially Yotsuba Canon! Osaka Sensei is a thing! (According to some translators, she does, in fact, have her kids call her Osaka Sensei, which is seriously wholesome.) Many thanks to the Yotsuba&! Subreddit for posting this precious gem.

[ventique18]

Malleus: "Very well. Come forward, those who wish to return to ash."

The camera turns back to Yuu and Grim. They're trapped! But suddenly, someone who isn't Grim makes a noise...

Grim: "I heard it too! Who was that?"

???: "Ugh, my entire body hurts..."

Lilia: "Does Malleus never get tired? Oh how hard it is to pacify a dragon..."

Lilia: "Oh? Where am I? But I was just at Castle Blackscale..?"

Grim happily greets him, but Lilia's still surprised.

Lilia: "I.. woke up. So this is reality?! Did Malleus lift his magic?"

Lilia: "... Anyway, what a terrible state this lounge is in! There's rubble everywhere and the walls and floors are covered in thorns!"

Suddenly he hears a large screech!

Lilia: "This voice... Malleus?"

Grim: "The NRC guys are fighting this huuuge dragon Malleus!"

Lilia: "Oh no. I must stop Malleus at once! Flames, burn these thorns away!"

BUT HE COULD'T. HIS FLAMES DIDN'T EVEN SPIT OUT A LICK.

Lilia: "..!!! That's right, I'm already... Damn it! But, I can't just give up like this!"

He grabs a candelabra and just starts hacking away at the thorns with it.

Lilia: "I may not be able to use magic, but I can still do this much!"

Yuu: "I'll help!"

Lilia: "I mustn't let him sin any more than this! If he does, then he'll reach a point of no return, just like what happened to Maleanor! I won't let that happen!"

[counting-stars-gayly]

This might be a hot take, but I actually like that Percy figured out Luke was the traitor at the last minute. There were A LOT of clues that would’ve been hard to ignore, and he ignored them for as long as he could. And it’s clear that even after accusing Luke, he’s still surprised and heartbroken at Luke’s confirmation of his suspicions. He was holding out hope, guys!!

Also, the Betrayal Scene flows better as an exchange of dialogue and a swordfight than it did, in the books, as a monologue and a scorpion sting. This also leaves a bigger impact on the viewers and characters because it’s more emotional.

[ashinaisshin]

Sekiro scenery [6/?] 馨し水蓮 / Lotus of the Palace A white lotus flower found blooming in the depths of the Sunken Valley, where the Fountainhead Waters pool deeply. The flower's aroma attracts female apes. Thus the Guardian Ape carefully tended to it, so as to offer it to his bride. One of the incense ingredient sought by the Divine Heir for Immortal Severance.

[reality-detective]

Something To Think About 👇

UNDERSTANDING: "THE WIZARD OF OZ"

"The Wizard of Oz = The Crown Temple. This is not a mere child's story written by L. Frank Baum.

What symbol does "Oz" stand for?

Ounces... Gold.

What is the yellow brick road?

Bricks or ingot bars of gold.

The character known as the Straw Man represents that fictitious ALL CAPS legal fiction a PERSON - the Government created with the same spelling as your Christian birth name.

Remember what the Straw Man wanted from the Wizard of Oz? A brain! No legal fiction has a brain because they have no breath of life!

What did he get in place of a brain? A Certificate. A Birth Certificate for a new legal creation. He was proud of his new legal status, plus all the other legalisms he was granted. Now he becomes the true epitome of the brainless sack of straw who was given a Certificate in place of a brain of common sense.

What about the Tin Man?

Does Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) mean anything to you?

The poor TIN Man just stood there mindlessly doing his work until his body literally froze up and stopped functioning. He worked himself to death because he had no heart nor soul. He's the heartless and emotionless creature robotically carrying out his daily task as if he was already dead. He's the ox pulling the plough and the mule toiling under the yoke. His masters keep him cold on the outside and heartless on the inside in order to control any emotions or heart he may get a hold of.

The pitiful Cowardly Lion was always too frightened to stand up for himself.

Of course, he was a bully and a big mouth when it came to picking on those smaller than he was. They act as if they have great courage, but they really have none at all. All roar with no teeth of authority to back them up. When push came to shove, the Cowardly Lion always buckled under and whimpered when anyone of any size or stature challenged him. He wanted courage from the Grand Wizard, so he was awarded a medal of "official" recognition. Now, regardless of how much of a coward he still was, his official status made him a bully with officially recognized authority. He's just like the Attorneys who hide behind the Middle Courts of the Temple Bar.

What about the trip through the field of poppies? They weren't real people, so drugs had no effect on them.

The Wizard of Oz was written at the turn of the century, so how could the author have known America was going to be drugged? The Crown has been playing the drug cartel game for centuries. Just look up the history of Hong Kong and the Opium Wars. The Crown already had valuable experience conquering all of China with drugs, so why not the rest of the world?

Who finally exposed the Wizard for what he really was?

Toto, the ugly (or cute, depending on your perspective) and somewhat annoying little dog. Toto means "in total, all together; Latin in toto." Notice how Toto was not scared of the Great Wizard's theatrics, yet he was so small in size compared to the Wizard, no-one seemed to notice him. The smoke, flames and hologram images were designed to frighten people into doing as the Great Wizard of Oz commanded. Toto simply went over, looked behind the curtain - the court - (see the definition for curtain above), saw it was a scam, and started barking until others paid attention to him and came to see what all the barking was about.

Just an ordinary person controlling the levers that created the illusions of the Great Wizard's power and authority. The veil hiding the corporate legal fiction and its false courts were removed. The Wizard's game was up.

It's too bad that people don't realize just how loud a bark from a little dog is. What about your bark? No matter how small your bark is - it can be heard.

Do you just remain silent and wait to be given whatever food and recognition, IF any, your legal slave master gives you?

Are you going to continue to follow the script by what they command of you? You are NOT a puppet so when they pull the levers to create their False Flags/Black Swan Events...

Ask: "Where is YOUR bark?" 🤔

What scares them? A "Pack of Dogs" removing the veil and all barking together, then the evil cowards will back down. They definitely do NOT want ALL of US standing TOGETHER barking.

[facets-and-rainbows]

Blue Exorcist Character Guidebook 2: Mephisto

Info on Mephisto from the new guidebook! Each character has a profile followed by relevant questions from fans, and then there's an interview section later where Kazue Katoh gives commentary on each major character and each manga arc. I have more guidebook than time, so I'm skipping the parts that are just like...summarizing who he is and stuff. So this will mostly be fan questions and Katoh's commentary

Biographical info

Gender: Male Age: (°w°) Rank/Titles: Director of True Cross Academy and head of the exorcism cram school, Honorary Knight for the Knights of the True Cross, King of Time Anniversary [T/N Katoh gives demons these in lieu of a birthday]: August 28 Blood type: ( ʹ - ʼ ) Height: 195 cm (184 cm without the "horn") Weight: 74 kg Skills and interests: movies, manga, anime, games, music, toys, miscellaneous subcultures

Fan Q&A

How do members of the Knights of the True Cross usually find out that Mephisto is a demon king?

I think some people might find out from books, the internet, etc even before they become exorcists. They do publish demon field guides that you can find at regular libraries, and Mephisto seems like the type to mention it in online interviews. Rin was the only one who didn't know.

How long has he had his current body?

About 200 years.

Which media from Assiah has had the greatest impact on him?

I imagine he would have been shocked the first time he saw a cinematograph.

Mephisto really likes all sorts of entertainment; has he ever tried making something himself?

Demons in general (not just Mephisto) tend to be bad at creative pursuits, though there are exceptions. Mephisto has a certain respect for human creativity.

Why is he so fond of Beelzebub?

Beelzebub just kind of struck a chord with him. Meanwhile, Beelzebub also likes being spoiled by Mephisto.

Which other demon kings get along with Mephisto the best?

In order: 1. Beelzebub 2. Amaimon 3. Egyn 4. Astaroth 5. Iblis 6. Lucifer [T/N it took me like an entire minute to work out that Azazel is the one missing from this list. Presumably because he's a rock]

Has Mephisto ever altered the past?

He sure does say a lot of things that imply that! [T/N: Katoh. Katoh. Katoh.]

How rich is Mephisto exactly?

He's actually one of the world's top businessmen and investors. His total assets are probably over one trillion yen [T/N: Jesus f*ck][T/N: that's about US$6.7 billion]

Author interview

Mephisto is a character who can solve just about anything; does that make him hard to write? Honestly, he's super easy to deploy. Mephisto has the plot in the palm of his hand and can fix stuff behind the scenes; he's the one pulling the strings. For adaptations and spinoffs, I just say "if you need to fill in a plot hole, make it Mephisto's fault" (laughs). But I do think it's dangerous to overdo it.

He even took on a sort of narrator role in chapter 44, didn't he? Around Volume 10, I was trying to treat each chapter like its own self-contained oneshot. Mephisto didn't even feel out of place as an omniscient narrator for one chapter, and for me that really drove home what a convenient character he is. Though I'm always wondering when and how to show Mephisto's own serious motives and inner thoughts, since he does fall into that eternal comic narrator role.

He can suddenly turn terrifying just when you were thinking he was comical. Hidden depths. Fundamentally he's on the humans' side, and he's often in charge of comic relief, but I do want to show his demonic side too. Same with the familiars; I want to portray the demons as something humans are afraid of.

[chwylaven]

Simply a minor thing that won't escalate horribly

[qualityrain]

my hny reading experience

[kilometresrufflefuck]

the fan translation and official localisation can coexist. they can live together as brothers. no need to pit two bad bitches against each other. time to embrace tradition and collect ten different copies of the iliad i mean miles edgeworth investigations 2

[forgettable-au]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS!

Hii! This is the frequently asked questions post!

This is it for now but I might add more stuff if I keep getting more questions that I feel the need to include :D!!

Before everything, I recommend reading this post if you haven't already! I explain the basics of this AU there and that might have already answered some stuff :>!

This post is for both common questions I keep getting AND things I consider important that all of you know :D

PLS if you have any suggestions for things I should add to this post, tell me!

NOW FOR THE QUESTIONS:

Leaving the link to the theory I'm talking about here! I think this is where I first saw it????but I can't be sure,,,,,

(I really liked it when I saw it, I thought it would be fun to experiment with it in this comic hehe)

[meichenxi]

special interests are wild. they really have you going into second hand bookshops ugly sobbing like I've had such a bad day PLEASE tell me you have some books about imperial china. and then the shopkeepers are like uhhh yeah. over there. and then you cradle the book about imperial china in your hands like a baby bird and you start crying yet again

[heynhay]

lovely city!

[vesna-v-irkutske]

is artyoms letter about rats in his prison cell real? i saw it on a tg channel and ngl his writing style is lowkey cutie patootie (his grammar fucking sucks tho)

I think it is real, but I haven't seen the letter itself. You saw ONE obvious mistake and called him uneducated. But your tongue turned to call him cute, I'm shook. 🙄

🐀 Artyom's story about the rat from the toilet:

"When in our detention center, the so-called Red building, where convicts sentenced to life imprisonment are held, was undergoing repairs, it was exactly on their floor, i.e. on the ground floor. I don't know how it is in other places, but in our detention center, while I was there, repairs of various kinds were carried out all year round. Well, it was just some kind of the end of the world =) They began to dismantle the floors, apparently they were doing something with pipes, and the rats became so uncomfortable that they decided to rush to where the floors were more intact, i.e. to the cells =D And just imagine: so I sleep at night, I don't touch anyone and I wake up to the squeaking of these cute creatures coming from the toilet =) I boil the kettle, pour boiling water into this stinking abyss and realize that they're swimming somewhere there, and they just need some hot water to be added =) In general, zero emotions =) Well, okay, I went back to bed. And then this sweetie climbs out all covered in piss, it's been who knows where, excuse me =) Like it strolled businesslike through the toilet and dived back about its rat business. Well, nothing to do with local history, of course =) But I remembered something, and I decided to share!"

[faunandfloraas]

fav skz // cuddle bugs