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Translating Killjoy Names
The Fabulous Killjoys live in the American Southwest outside L.A. if u try to tell me that they're not all a little Chicano imma be mad. I say they get spanish names too bc i love translating.
There’s a quote that’s like “you’re never translating literally between just two languages, you’re also talking about the third thing that the original phrase actually meant” and Killjoy names got a lot of connotations and meaning behind them ESPECIALLY when they’re referencing other stuff. So without further ado:
Jet Star -> Estrella Oscuro
There's a couple different connotations of the word 'jet', notably as a specific type of plane or the color descriptor 'jet-black'. There's also some lesser connotations about elegance, usually as an offshoot of the two more common meanings. Which to use here in terms of translating to get the point of it across?It’s actually unclear bc we got little information about why the killjoy names were chosen or the associations they were going for (both in terms of in the danger days universe and outside of it). I went with the 'jet-black' connotation here. Jet is a kind of dark rock, and where we get the phrase ‘jet-black’ from. Literally Estrella Oscuro means 'dark star', and I think that is a really cool killjoy name as well as an acceptable translation bc it keeps the sense of 'wait, these words go together but WHY.
Fun Ghoul -> Demonio Divertido
This translation is both easy and difficult. Right off the bat, you can do Demonio Divertido, literally Fun Demon (the word demonio means demon, yeah, but also has wider connotations for monstery things like Ghouls.) HOWEVER. This is one of the killjoy names we got an additional info for-another reason it was picked was because it sounds vaguely like ‘fanculo’ or ‘fuck you’ in Italian. Finding a spanish translation that also sounds like an insult in another language actually makes my job harder so we’re sticking with Demonio Divertido until I come up with something better.
Party Poison -> Maria Mata
Similarly, the direct translation of Party Poison would be Veneno Festivo. BUT Party Poison is also a slang term for molly/MDMA/ecstasy. Again, finding a Spanish term that keeps the idea of “killing your fun” WITH the added connotation of having the same name as a drug makes translating more difficult. Do ya use the spanish slang terms for molly, which vary but include extasis, pastis or Maria? A fun way to do it could be Maria Mata, aka “Molly Kills” going off slang terms, and I like that one because it keeps the idea of something/someone fun also fucking you up.
Kobra Kid -> El Hijo de Serpiente
The Kobra Kid translated literally is El Hijo de Serpiente, and I have no idea if there’s any deeper meaning behind that choice so we’re gonna stick with it.
Maybe I'll do more later?
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toxic yuri save me
#if u saw this twice no u didn’t#I was like I’ll take it down and finish it for real later but. no I won’t#life series#my art#traffic smp#trafficblr#wild life#wild life smp#shiny duo#gempearl#geminitay#pearlescentmoon#trafficshipping
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#because they see a man of color w vaugely long hair and go ah yes i will she/her#this character without thinking of the various compound biases probably encouraging me to do so @glitching-desert-snake
Can I bring up these tags for a sec actually?
I have a lot of...complicated feelings about how race is brought up in the danger days verse/fandom bc 1. it's not handled well in the source material to begin with (see the blatant villainization of eastern Asians in the mvs, the white-washing of The Girl in the comics, etc.) and 2. bc this is connected to MCR, a great many of the fans are hailing from emo bandom, which is a notoriously racist space!
So we're already working with a group of people who generally aren't going to be thinking about the implications of racial headcanons and how they interact with gender and stereotypes.
The thing is however, there's a SIZEABLE portion of the danger days fandom who are (and I say this with affection, if not a small amount of annoyance) baby gays. Teenagers who want to put gender headcanons on everything they can bc they want to see themselves in their stories/fuck around with gender in fiction and again, aren't thinking about the implications of their various racial and gender headcanons.
How many people are actually aware of the extensive history of Latino (and in the continental US, Native) men simultaneously being feminized/emasculated AND portrayed as disgustingly and overbearingly masculine/threat to white women due to having long hair?
And how many of you draw Jet Star, who is portrayed by a light-skinned mixed Puerto Rican man, as SIGNIFICANTLY darker skinned to make him more 'visibly ethnic' while keeping the rest of the cast white as all hell?
What some of you need to understand is that:
Having long hair, especially as a man of color, is not automatically GNC or feminine.
There are a lot of implications when you take a predominantly white story, mix it with a predominantly white fandom, and then try to slap racial and gender headcanons onto that without examining the foundations on which the story is built.
This all gets worse when you combine it with the danger days fandom/bandom's long-standing tendency to make Jet Star/Ray Toro the 'mom friend' in fanworks, which is just entirely fucking racist. A lot of people take a look at a real-life man and a character he plays-who doesn't have a single line of dialogue in either the mvs or the comics to give us a characterization-and say "yeah this is a 'mom friend', like every other person of color in media I like."
THAT SAID. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with slapping weird genders onto stupid comic book characters. In fact it's really fun and I do it regularly! But I'm also coming at this from the angle of 1. giving all the characters weird genders, not just one of the two people of color in the danger days cast and 2. I'm literally a light-skinned trans mixed Puerto Rican dude.
No, this is not a 'write only what you know' situation. It's a 'think for a hot second about the implications of gender and racial headcanons and how your biases are influencing what you're putting in your art'.
There's nothing wrong with using she/her for Jet Star. But if that's the only character you're focusing on for gender headcanons and specific racial headcanons, think about why, and then knock that shit off.
why do people always use she/her for jet star?
#sebastian speaks#twice as shiny#danger days#I could say a lot more about how I love love love when people do racebending and HATE it when no one puts any thought into it besides like#brownie points for putting some brown people in their work#I personally make most of the killjoys black or chicano in my works bc like they're in the desert outside LA. they gonna be chicano#I also headcanon Jet Star as non-binary and using both he/him and she/her#partially bc I think it's a cool way to examine gender in a setting where there isn't strictly terminology for that shit#and also bc I briefly used he/him and she/her and it's fun#BUT I'M ALSO making literally all the other 'joys trans and keeping the racial headcanons consistent#i make them brown bc im tired of white people#some people make them brown bc they want diversity points
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Inktober #4 my parents Feyre & Rhysand 🌙✨
8x10 ballpoint pen, ink, & watercolor
#my art#she’s shiny too I love that silver paint#feysand#acotar#feyre archeron#rhysand#feyre x rhysand#sorry to Violet I know she’s won the poll here twice in a row but instagram & twitter keep winning
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"But I'm not a good man.. not usually. You see, I was in Blackwater. I kill people. And maybe I shoulda killed you. Should I have killed you, Jimmy Brooks?"
#arthur was his name but his victims called him death#the reaper who rode a horse and wore a gambler hat#with a gun louder than gods revolver and twice as shiny#I'm trying to get into the mood to do a low honour run but I'm failing miserably#his silhouette is terrifying if you're the unfortunate soul that arthur is taking#imagine if that's the last thing you ever see#oh man#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick gifs#arthur morgan#red dead redemption community#red dead redemption gifs#oh arthur
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Can not stop thinking about Shiny Duo "I know my Pearl sounds"
#shiny duo#like first of all#Pearl why do you make those noises when you stretch#second of all why does Gem immediatly know what it is#i saw it on Cleos stream first#but Pearl keeping it in her video???#they make me insane#frothing at the mouth#geminitay#pearlescentmoon#shinyduo#gempearl#just to clarify this is not me shipping the actual people#they are just good friends and im insane about how close they are#like they have only met twice in person iirc?#insane#i want what they have
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spent a month mashing two of my long term hyperfixations together into an AU, bone apple teeth
I wouldn't consider this a crossover as much as an inspired AU because autism brain drew parallels between the two narratives and I think it would be fun to explore the earlier years of the apocalypse, before the world is absolutely decimated (alongside many of the resources), before the fam loses Donnie and Raph, et cetera. I have Plans™
Paying homage to this iconic panel from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem:
Still finalizing each of the bro's code names, but here are the initial drafts and close-ups of their designs:
Riff-Raph
Donamite
Antimatter Master-Plan
Magic Mic
#louder than god's revolver and twice as shiny#*blends Danger Days and Kraang!Timeline future in my brain* oh we cooking now#representation for early invasion mutant turtle teens my beloved#before they truly see the full extent of the Kraang conflict#I think they originally went into the bad timeline seeing this as a fight they could win#like the season 1 finale against shredder!Draxum#the grim reality is something that dawns on them later#but if the kraang hate one thing its persistent hope and authenticity#what could beings that prize power and assimilation despise more than those fighting them seemingly not taking them seriously?#we be we!! embrace the turtle baby /ref#there's this vision of the turtles speeding through the outskirts nyc jamming to loud music and blasting the hell outta Kraang hounds#fyi this AU is inspired more-so by the Danger Days album and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California than National Anthem#guess which killjoy each bros outfit is inspired by :) guess :)))#the fabulous mad dogs au#tfmd au#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the tmnt#tmnt#rise of the tmnt the movie#explodingstar art#rise donnie#rise mikey#rise raph#rise leo#tmnt au#rottmnt kraang timeline#danger days
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Quick Fanart dedicated to my favorite Pokemon Scarlet Glitch I've had, my Luxray going pastel
#pokemon#luxray#pokemon scarlet and violet#shiny pokemon#It happened twice#Kinda wish it stayed#valkayink is my twitter
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A few silly little small sculptures that I made with some of the leftover clay from the main one I did recently
#sculpture#birds#neopets#sparkly little aishas my beloved.....#Though I actually kind of liked them with a matte finish more?? I wanted to try out making them sparkly and shiny..but#I think they might have looked better before adding all the shine. BUT I kind of like both. Maybe I should make two more that aren't shiny#just to have variation lol... an entire army of tiny aishas.....#The little house is so bad lol I hada headache at that point and kind of just wanted to get everything over with#(I bake the clay all at once so I had to get the smaller ones done to go with the main one)#and was like.. zero effort into making things line up or measuring at all. one window on one side is like twice as big as on the other lol#but I think from afar ifnot examined too closely it's still kind of cute. The birds were also just random like 'what can I shape out of thi#s small blob of clay I have leftover' etc. I did actually put irridescent eyeshaow on the pigeon but it just doesnt show up in photos ToT#The other bird is not anything in specific... some sort of random fantasy creature bird with slight purple on it's wings or something#The strawberry is exclusively just a quickly done accessory for the birds.. I wanted them to have a little meal to share#even though I dont know if birds eat strawberries#the last picture in the set is them all sitting on a shelf (the most well lit place I could find) but looks weird#since it has all of my avocado pit eyes in the background......... ominous backdrop for such peaceful little creachures..#you kind of cant tell what they are from that angle though i guess lol
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Every instance of prsk characters wearing glasses (so far!!)
#collecting them all as if theyre a shiny pokemon <3#prsk#prsk glasses#project sekai#saki tenma#tsukasa tenma#so slay of him to appear twice#rui kamishiro#kaito#l/n kaito#mafuyu asahina#kohane asuzawa#so slay of her to appear twice#akito shinonome#haruka kiritani#airi momoi#shizuku hinomori#if i missed any pls let me know!#or reblog them any is fine~#rosierambles
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was out gift shopping and saw Ls symbol as a keychain and went "oh shit rook would love this i should get this for him"
....???
i think i was just fully imagining next time i 'pass by' u on the dash and going "oh hey i got this for you!" and handing it to u. before catching myself.
omg thank you i love it!!!
#this is incredibly sweet im laughing thank you for thinking of me#asks#i took this picture twice because i took it the first time and went wait my fingerprints are on the charm better wipe them#(pause) wait why would i need to wipe them#anyway it's nice and shiny now.
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Sometimes a man realizes he's written 73,000 words of danger days fanfiction over the past year.
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Here's Orodreth's barbie sword and Turin's Gurthang
#orodreth#turin#turin turambar#gurthang#tolkien#silmarillion#lotr#sword#art#illustration#my art#yea lets post this one too why not#barbie&goth relationship#obvs orodreth can't really fight sorry everyone#that's why he can have such a shiny sparkly sword because he uses it like once or twice
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for our phantom menace rewatch this week we are doing a “qui gon touch count” to count how many times qui gon (bad) touches anakin
#and also the other characters (they wanna know how many times he touches shmi but idc about that i’m here for groomer reasons)#my prediction is: ANAKIN then shmi then... i go back and forth on whether it's padme or obi wan#i want it to be padme and obi wan in dead last (for extra pathetic and sad unwanted padawan reasons)#it's so hard to age out of being an (unwanted) boywife and be replaced by a bright shiny young thing#but if padme even PADME gets touched by qui gon more than his own padawan#damn lol#touch starved obi wan real#but unfortunately for me i think he touches obi wan thrice that i recall and i can only think of once (or maybe twice?) with padme#but that's why we're doing the touch count!#i will report back with my findings tonight#i'm so gd excited#the phantom menace#pt#star wars#qui gon jinn#anti qui gon jinn#if implying that qui gon is a child molester is considered anti I GUESS#prequels touch count
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@thrumbolt dragged me into ACOTAR hell.
This isn't meant to be fanart of any specific characters. I just really love character design and this is the result. So these are based on their respective high lords, but I wanted them each to be a little more fantastical and have little unique features. They may not be 100% book compliant but this is how I see them in my heart.
#acotar#acotar fanart#kinda#i just love drawing chibis in cute outfitts#and shiny anime eyes#i'm weak#my art#me 'this isn't meant to be anyone specific'#also me 'draws tamlin twice but one time he's wearing a dress'#i just needed these out of my system
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foptober stimboards - day 30 board based off: whispers fred
🎧 🌃 🐛 / 🐦 x 🐦 / 🐛 🎤 🎧
#stimboard#stim board#stim#fop#fairly oddparents#fop a new wish#fairly oddparents a new wish#whispers fred#i was gonna do the doe twins but . i couldnt think of anything so heres whispers fred instead ..... im his nmber 1 fan be nice pls#funfact on the twins though one of them in the pitch bible is named hannibal make of that what you will#ik hes not scary but i dont feel like rearraging the whole list i have rn and ive only changed characters twice#caterpillar#bug#bug cw#headphones#headset#animal#bird#<- i associate him w those alot idk why ajkahjkah#nature#outside#dirt#sticker#shiny#sleepcore#hands#black#orange#green#purple
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