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[rjptalk]

THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE

THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE, a trip to #Manila. #OhmNanon #FanMeeting

Last year at this time I was preparing for a long trip to Manila, but was it the last great adventure? The following appeared last January on SERENDIPITY. Far, Far Away, by Rich Paschall The most important point, to begin with, is that I never had any desire to cross the Pacific. I have made the trip across the Atlantic to Europe many times. The flight time from Chicago O’Hare to a western…

[the-fellwood]

I feel like I wasted every opportunity because I was so hurt and didnt want to do anything by myself so I just did nothing.

She flew me across the world and then turned around— wanted nothing to do with me when I got there.

The first 2 weeks were great and then I don’t know what happened… suddenly she said I was physically and romantically completely unattractive. Who says that… after over a year of planning and getting excited and daydreaming and telling each other how much we wanted it, suddenly she wanted nothing and I hated everything about myself.

She went on like nothing happened and expected me to do the same— but how?

Everything I’ve ever wanted was right in front of me but now infinitely out of reach at the same time.

I couldn’t do anything about it, I didn’t want to do anything at all if I wasn’t doing it with her.

I was paralyzed for weeks just trying to wrap my head around it and try to be human again.

[pierredechambery]

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[lord-shitbox]

EST or earlier mutuals good morbing hi hello

[womansfilm]

🫶🏼

[kayzis]

bc of the data center travel test my bestie got to come visit. im still a little emo

[remythologise]

[gaybd1]

do you think it’s common knowledge that people who live in big cities have smaller carbon footprints?

[metropolitanmutantofark]

Sorry, was nobody gonna mention the one over here???

Reported Bigfoot Sightings

[sirenstare]

happy birthday man

[cinematicnomad]

5, 7, 10, 18, and 25 for the most recent ask game

005. favorite form of potato? answered

007. what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium? if it's an aquarium that has a petting pool then i get excited for the sharks. if not, then i like seeing jellyfish or octopi bc they're just fascinating to watch move.

010. on a plane, do you ask for apple or orange juice? if i ask for any juice on a place, then it is tomato juice.

018. your boba/tea order? oh, i go for a classic black milk tea boba or a brown sugar. but tbh i don't really order boba enough to have a "standard" order.

025. would you say you have good taste in music? i have MY taste in music, which i think is good FOR ME.

weirdly specific and unrelated asks to know someone well

[play-now-my-lord]

One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

[kaurwreck]

Hello! Not sure if you’ve answered something similar already, but out of curiosity, how do you know so much about Japanese law?? I’m an American university student planning to attend law school, is this something you learned while there or something you picked up on your own?

I love your posts, I think your takes on the legal landscape of Death Note are so interesting!!!

Everything I know about Japanese law is self-taught; everything I've shared about Japanese criminal law in my Death Note posts, I researched and learned for the purpose of drafting the posts.

(I'm just monotropic and engage in research as a hobby and compulsion.)

[marriageagencytma]

Transpacific Marriage Agency (TMA) was established in 1994 to provide new opportunities for encounters, especially between Japanese women and men, mainly from Western countries. Since then, many international couples have been born.

[kaurwreck]

Regarding your tags, Studio Bones is not responsible for the translations. Translations are derivative works that are typically licensed to the English language publisher with the distribution rights. This is because the English language publisher is typically better equipped to commission, provide, or supervise English translations than the Japanese animation studio.

Bungo Stray Dogs is distributed in English by Crunchyroll, which has an in-house translation and localization team. Crunchyroll may sometimes consult the licensors (here, Studio Bones, Kafka Asagiri, and Harukawa) to confirm details like the spelling of certain names and placement of subtitles or to ask questions about creative intent. Crunchyroll outlines its approach to translation and localization here.

But, Crunchyroll decides what the questions to ask and how to translate the intent gleaned from asking those questions. Further, because of the unique challenges associated with translating Japanese to English, there are a myriad of potential translations for the same concepts, all of which strip some context and nuance from the original dialogue, and all of which must be displayed or recorded within the constraints of the medium in which they'll be displayed.

As an audience, we can exercise some agency in confronting those challenges by engaging proactively and curiously with the translations, but that requires (i) acknowledging the limitations of our own lenses of interpretation; (ii) asking questions prior to jumping to conclusions or presuming malice; (iii) identifying and making efforts to address potential barriers to our understanding; and (iv) recalling that when we are engaging with foreign media, we are guests rather than the primary audience.

Also, Studio Bones is divided into five smaller studios, each of which work on separate anime titles. Studio C was responsible for Soul Eater. Perhaps it's okay to forgive Studio D, which works on Bungo Stray Dogs, for an anime that they did not create as studio.

fuck studio bones for not including chuuya’s “no witty commentary” line and dazai’s slow and almost mournful reply. dazai doesn’t jest about his victory or flaunt it in front of nikolai like he does with other villains. he lets him mourn.

dazai knows what it’s like to lose the only person that looked past your violent and cruel exterior and into your true essence. your heart. dazai knows what it’s like to lose the only person that ever understood you. and that’s why he digresses and tells chuuya to leave quietly by his side.

[academyoftheheartandmind]

Transpacific Correspondence and Other Poems

By Gemma White Transpacific Correspondence Across the pond our letters flew yours on fluoro yellow, lined, margined fool scrap mine on cartoon cat-themed writing paper that I’d somehow kept since I was 12. We’d used all methods of correspondence. Chatting over the net, email and recently that surreal international phone call so unexpected after 5 years. I was so nervous all I could talk…