#this has been a mod post

[blackmetallersdoingnormalstuff]

Can you recommend some non white nationalist black metal? I miss it but when I had to remove over half my bm music because of dumb shit like that. Thanks in advance, friend

My rule of thumb for finding black metal that isn't full of Nazis is to check whether the band is cheesy (Nazis take themselves too seriously to allow themselves to be fun and cheesy), has POC members, and/or has women members. Also check a band's page on Metal Archieves, as that will tell you what lyrical themes they have.

This isn't fool proof unfortunately, one of my fav symphonic/DSBM bands, Advent Sorrow, had a POC guitarist, but their second album was full of NSBM dog whistles and then imploded once the other band members realized the vocalist was a straight up Nazi. In a lot of cases, you'll have to be fine with "this band is okay until I have proof that tells me otherwise."

That being said, Spotify does have a two part playlist for anti-facist black metal that I highly reccomend. I'll reblog and add bands I personally like once I get a moment. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51uLnyyESjDhdJfV8tmQtl?si=358d096850214a81

[krazieka2]

Here's a big old Fire Emblem Search & Find I did for the FE3H Masquerade Zine! Find the Golden Deer, but see if you can't find the rest of the students as well! For the ultimate challenge, see if you can't name every character! (Disclaimer two characters are NPCs with no names)

[verocitea]

“And what happens when they catch a glimpse of you on their radar, huh?” Sonic grinned. “Well, first they’d have to catch me, sis.”

So excited to share my @sthbigbang piece for @skimmingmilk’s incredible underground fic, Relative Dissonance!! Please be sure to check it out, as well as the other amazing illustrations created for the fic by @eclecticjace (x) and @manicpanic-arts1 (x)!

[077891st]

trying to remember how to draw again 🐠

[daily-grian]

"P… pesk…y bird."

[bacchuschucklefuck]

forgot to specify on firearm possession when he posted that job ad

[daily-basil]

hes one of the girls

[puppet-purgatory]

“OHh season 6 had no loreee” untrue. we learned

Ryan Bergara has no sister

Steven Lim would choke employees who quit

Stanley Melvin Murphy was a PC gamer

a Second prophetic dream occurred

Ryan is thicc but not thicc enough to win

The Professor is a top and his dick is “up inside” him

He calls God a “personal friend” 🤨🔎

Dinosir ate at least four dogs? Like just off the street?

Ricky Wang has acquired a taste for blood

The Professor is still just a little guy

tgeyre friends now!

[megidoreyn]

Hey there, samurai! Have you been holding off on playing SMT IV? Do you want to experience SMT IV in higher resolution to better appreciate the wonderful art and intricate + detailed worldbuilding within this game? Well, look no further! The SMT IV HD Textures Mod is in the works!🎉 ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【⭐What is the SMT IV HD Textures Mod?⭐】

This is a mod made for the sole purpose of completely "remastering" SMT IV's in-game textures by hand, which includes: the UI + text, backgrounds, character portraits and other visual assets by manually recreating them in higher resolution.

By applying this mod, anybody can experience the stunning HQ detail originally present within the game that was forever lost within the game's original stunted 244p quality. 【⭐How do you manually recreate smaller detailed assets like the Character Portraits?⭐】

In contrast to other HD Mods or Remakes out there using impractical methods to "upscale" character images, our team is dedicated to redrawing the original crunchy ~300px Character Portrait sprites within the game into higher resolution by hand ourselves (using the ~7000px Key Art as a base). And sometimes, we have to redraw certain sprites entirely from scratch!

➡️As one of the artists part of the team, I'm very passionate about getting those iconic "Doi style" elements that are present throughout his SMTIV art. Personally speaking, it's an honor and a learning experience to be a part of this project in being able to faithfully recreate his work with as much respect and care as possible. That being said: We're all basically doing the work that an entire dedicated team within a company would usually do, out of love for this game! And because we want to provide something meaningful for the megaten fandom, too. If you're interested, stay tuned for more information! And don't hesitate to spread the word, too! ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【Feel free to follow the staff linked below for any updates on twitter!】 Please give lots of love to the staff! Your interest and commentary means a lot to our humble team + helps motivate us to keep going!💪 ⭐HD UI Redesign, HD Demon Scans and more⭐: 👾Vesk ⭐HD Character Portrait + HD Sprite Redraw Artists⭐: 👾Lamprey 👾Reyn - PS: I'll be posting some of my progress here on tumblr too! ➡️Twitter log of sprites I've finished so far + Works in Progress ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ 【Project promotional banner above and character portrait art credit within this entire post + the banner goes to myself (@megidoreyn on twitter and here on tumblr!)】

[ikasdeadasf]

Pokemon trainer demoman hhrghhrrgg

[blackmetallersdoingnormalstuff]

Sorry if you already answered this, but from what country are you from and how did you get into Black Metal?

To your first question, I am American.

I don't think I've ever actually said how I got into black metal tbh and it took me getting into a whole lot of random bands to get there. Let's see, I was really into the likes of Josh Groban and Celine Dion when I was 14ish, but as I made it to high school, but then I saw a clip on the news about Evanescense that captivated me (my little baby bi self also thought Amy Lee was pretty) and when the segment was over, the news anchor was like "oooookaaaaaaay" in a way that indicated she didn't understand it and thought it was weird. This, in my little teeaged brain, automatically made them the most hardcore thing I'd ever heard and therefore I had to have the CD.

From there I branched out to other basic rock and alternative bands, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, 10 Years, HIM, The Rasmus, etc. Breaking Benjamin opened me up to listening to bands with harsher vocals and HIM and The Rasmus lead me to everyone's first metal band, Children of Bodom. From CoB, I started looking into other metal bands, specifically ones with female vocalists because I wanted a harder, heavier Evanescence, and that eventually lead me to finding Cradle of Filth through their song Nymphetamine with Liv Kristine. From CoF I found Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth and branched out from there.

This was all very organic for me, but to adults in my life it looked like I went from listening to Josh Groban to Darzamat overnight LMAO

So uhhh...Evanescense to black metal pipeline, I guess.

[project-sekai-facts]

How are we feeling about ensekai’s emu3 translation!!! (I’m mad)

(if you remember the 3 whole posts i made when asahi got de-gayed on EN you'll know i am mad too and that this is probably going to get long)

i don't like to be too cynical but it was so obvious that they were going to change that line, i had a feeling since the event first released on JP and after the incident with Asahi where I went through and tracked down multiple other examples of EN removing queer subtext it became clear to me that in no way shape or form was "emu-chan really loves nene-chan" making it to EN without getting changed. what i didn't expect was them changing Nene's line after Luka's comment, which actually makes this whole situation far worse than many of their other instances of toning down queer subtext.

for anyone who isn't aware of what happened, in chapter 5 of the current Emu event, there's a scene where Nene, Rui and the Virtual Singers are talking about what would cheer Emu up. The vsingers all talk about how much Emu loves spending time with Nene, leading to the following exchange

If you look for them, any fan TL of this scene will be something similar to this:

Luka: ...Fufu. Emu-chan really loves Nene-chan, doesn't she? Nene: Th-that's nothing special...

EN's official translation is this:

So what's the issue? I'll start with Luka's part. In the original text, she uses the word daisuki, which can mean to "like a lot" or "love". It's a word you will see frequently in the idol/idol-adjacent genre of games, due to its ambiguity in that it can be read as either platonic or romantic when used towards a person, and often will be used in ambiguous situations so that it's harder to confirm the writers' intentions either way. so here, fans of the emu/nene ship could view the fact that emu loves spending her time with nene as more on the romantic side, but people who don't like the ship could view it as platonic and move on.

while they didn't translate daisuki directly, Luka's line still works, and still contains the ambiguity that works as ship tease in the original text. it's a perfectly fine localisation that still conveys the original intent. despite that, there is something to be said about EN's consistent refusal to translate daisuki as love in most instances when it's not used on An/Kohane (but then again, EN has literally teased An/Kohane on their twitter account so is it all that surprising?).

Here's some examples:

Aibou no koto ga daisuki de / he loves his partner -> he cares about his partner very much (The Power of Unity chapter 7 when Kaito is comparing Arata to Akito and Toya)

HARUKA-CHAN, DAISUKI DAYOOOO!!! / HARUKA-CHAN, I LOOOOOVEEE YOU!!! -> You're the best!!! (Dear Me, As I Was Back Then chapter 4 when minori is at an ASRUN concert. this one isn't actually that great of a localisation)

Honachan no koto daisuki dakara. Kore de iinda yo. / I love Honachan, so this is fine. -> I want what's best for her. And this is it. (Leo/need main story chapter 14 after Saki tells Honami she won't bother her anymore)

Minna daisuki de - taisetsuna tomodachi na no / I love them all - they're my dearest friends -> They're all amazing, and very dear to me. (Leo/need main story chapter 17. this isn't good either)

What's particularly amusing about that last one is that there's a second official translation for it that I assume was done by JP staff (since EN never promoted doing the Journey to Bloom subs like they did back when they provided subs for Petit SEKAI) that actually keeps the word daisuki as love.

Yeah. I love all my friends - and they mean the world to me.

It's a better localisation than the official EN team one.

Questionable localisation choices aside, Luka's line is fine and is actually in line with the original. The issue with this localisation very much lies with Nene's part, because that is an entirely new line.

In the original text, Nene's "that's just normal" or "that's nothing special" or however you choose to TL it, is meant to be her questioning Luka's statement, since all the things that the other vsingers said that Emu liked were pretty normal things like going shopping and playing video games with nene. To Nene, these things are normal activities for them to do together, so she gets embarrassed by the fact that Luka concludes from that information that Emu loves Nene. When I dissect it like that I think you can really tell what the writers were going for here lol.

"That's just us being friends" does still convey the idea that Nene thinks these activities aren't anything out of the ordinary and she isn't sure why the vsingers are picking these out as some of Emu's favorite things to do, but it's very different from the original line. "But those are just normal things we do together" is something I just came up with on the spot, but it's a lot closer to the original text and still conveys the same meaning. The fact they changed the line to "that's just us being friends" is, honestly, not even subtle that they're covering up queer subtext. The original scene was very clearly written in as ship tease, and EN mentioning "friends" for no reason, especially since the word nor anything close to it was not used in the original, is instantly a red flag because it's like the go-to for queerbaiting and censorship. This was intentional. There was no need for them to specify that the relationship is platonic, Luka's part is ambiguous for a reason so that fans can view it how they like.

Just to top all this off, here's Rin's original line just before that Luka+Nene interaction:

Oh, and! And! She said that playing games with Nene-chan is also super fun!

And here's Rin's line from the official EN translation:

That's not the same thing, but even more weirdly, the incorrect part (super fun->really loves) is a correct translation for the part changed in Luka's line. So, they can do it, they are willing to say "really loves", just not in the right places. Maybe because Rin's part is less personal than Luka's part? It's strange actually, this isn't the first time they've done this either. Off the top of my head I can think of an example from Shiho's Varied Kindness 2* story where they translated the word "suki" as really loves, despite that being much stronger than the original word used (and the fact that daisuki is used a lot in the Leo/need stories and it's incredibly rare if not entirely unknown for them to translate it correctly).

It's not subtle that they're trying to remove implications of the characters possibly being queer, they did it in curtain call and they did it in walk on and on, and multiple times before then too. And considering some of the content in this year's events and the amount of times they say daisuki alone, it's gonna keep happening. honestly i hate the fact that i keep trying to justify the translations in these posts. these translations are intentional. what happened in the curtain call translation back in october says enough. when a character who uses explicitly romantic language towards another guy passes as a straight character in the translation you know they're doing it on purpose.

oh and once again, it's only the EN server that has this issue. The scene in question was translated almost word-for-word on the TW and KR servers.

read fan translations. they're better than what EN gives us and people put a lot of effort into them.

[naomiknight-17]

I try not to do this but I'm in such a spot right now

My Visa fees/interest come out next week. So does my student loan payment. I do not have the money/credit to cover either of these. I couldn't buy all the groceries I needed this week and had to hold off on some hygiene products. I had to empty my savings to afford my diabetic medication. The cats need a new cat litter box and I just don't have the money.

So look. I'm not dying. But it's very tight right now and if anyone wants to throw a couple of dollars my way it would be much appreciated.

I also really need to update/revamp my Ko-Fi but I just don't gave the strength. Soon, hopefully

Thanks for reading

[katadastical]

People will be like “let me show you who raised me” and then get a 10 year old photo of some emo with coloured hair who lives in the uk

[hythlodaeus-mynewoldfriend]

Siberite Akagane

“And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.”

― Mark Anthony, The Beautiful Truth

[daily-rikukingdomhearts]

Announcement to all Riku bloggers:

As you know, it's one person (me, scout, the mod) running this blog and as much as I try to keep daily-riku daily, life happens. My grandfather has recently had back to back health scares and I want to spend more time with my family. That, on top of being an adult with a job and bills and "responsibilities" or whatever, I'll be pressed for time. While I don't think it will affect posts, I might miss a day or two here and there. Thank you, from the bottom of my kingdom heart, for understanding and supporting this silly little blog ❤️