paigeys-writing-diary

[jackalhadrurusluvr]

i hope that the person who liked my tweet about dunes birthday and has been reposting dune the movie things knows that idc about dune the movie i only care about dune my oc. my beloved oc. my very very very beloved oc who was named after a grumpy elderly character in the hit book series wings of fire, not dune the movie

[punkeropercyjackson]

🎸Hobie Brown headcanons🎸

🎸'Babygirl he's jamaican' < an actual thing i've said about Hobie in response to nonblks writing him like a white brit,pretty sure it's canon actually!Jamaican slang,last name 'Brown',fuckin' WICKS?He's jamaican-english for sure

🎸Transmasc multigender i.e boygirl and nonbinary.When he said he's unlabeled,that's what he meant and he sadly has the gender trauma that comes with being black trans but the black trans swag too,including not needing t or surgeries as he's naturally androgynous on all fronts and flatchested(just like me fr fr)

🎸No masking game audhd.He grew up a bully beater for himself and even kids who didn't like him as his mama taught him he should always stand up for what's right.Ptsd too,a huge contributor of it how targeted for his extremely dark and strong features he was/is and he wouldn't have had it THAT young if he was nonblack(Hobie's only 17........He should've been at the after school club)

🎸His main special interest is the sea.His favorite color is blue,his favorite kind of jamaican cuisine is it's seafood,his favorite season is summer,he diy's ocean material based crafts all the time,he's a surfer,he knows how to play calypso music and he has a thing for mermaid-y black women specifically

🎸And ofc this is because he's black4black in general and THAT and his spinterest is because of his mama.Hobie is black Mama's Boy supreme and his mama loves him just as much and he actually got his nickname 'Hobie' from her calling him that when he was little and him refusing to let it go no matter how dork ass it is.He calls her 'Mama' specifically and has wicks because she does too💚🤎💛🖤

🎸Team Dad of both Spiderbands(comics + Atsv).As in 'Dad Friend',not nucleaur family headassery he'd be against as an anarchist-He keeps the mood and morale up,makes sure they stay feed and well-slept,protects them on and off the field and is masc only in a goofy black sitcom dad typa beat.Hobs tries to not let it show but it does wear down on him so the Spiderbands notice eventually and pay him back all the time now

🎸Hobie had no like.ACTUAL friends as a lil kid and it messed him up most of all because he didn't even realize the nonblack kids were being shitty and fake due to how normalized it is for nonblacks to treat black people as inherently beneath them and it rubbed off on him for ages subconciously and he's still unlearning but little man is getting there!!

🎸Totes loves The Cure,Alt Black Era,D'Angelo,The Misfits,Tracy Chapman,Megan Thee Stallion,Teezo Touchdown and Rihanna.He listens to pop music but literally ONLY black pop artists,black death metal(self-explanatory)and is a gigantic fan of jazz because he's the smoothest in the whole multiverse and also is black.Idk,

🎸His other favorite color is pink and that's why he turns pink around the people he loves the most(Mayday=Baby sister figure,Miles=Crush,Gwen=Girlfriend,etc).He has a small soft spot for pink things in general(Gwen,Miles and Margo)

🎸Gwen is half black dominicana with black hair,brown eyes and light brown skin because literally the only problem with Hobie being into her is she's white but ALSO as a Gwen kinnie she feels more biracial afrolatina to me than anything else so it all comes together.They met Bubbline style at one of his concert's where Gwen's autistic ass thought he was hot as fuck and made an absolute fool of herself but Hobie's autistic found THAT hot as fuck and invited her onstage to sing as a ref to that one concept art.They reunited the next day at Spider Society as Gwen recognized him as that one kid Jessica also mentors and ran after him and introduced herself as the girl from last night and Hobie was stunned but she went to remove his mask so he smirked and did the same,saying 'Eager to see your pretty face again too,Gwendita' and they linked arms as they talked and became best friends from that day on

🎸Hobie got Gwen into the political sides of punk by teaching her the legit history and pratices and that was when all emotional ties to George were cut.Gwen got Hobie into kidcore and pastel transfem things to help him feel like a real teenager and heal his inner child(Hobie has a gummy sharks addiction btw).They say they're 'Soulmates by choice AND by chance' since Gwen isn't 139 Gwen Stacy and Hobie isn't a Peter Parker Variant and even made patches on their battle jackets with the phrases in a mix and match of eachother's colors and Gwen is one of the mermaid-y black women Hobie's type is

🎸Number one dogs and sharks lover.He loves those varying in sizes guys,they're so him-coded,and has the downlow on sooooooo many facts of them and has so many memes and wholesome pics saved!!

🎸Once he learned to use a phone that is😭Total grandpa at first with it,the cockney was NOT helping‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️But he's gotten a pretty good hang of it

🎸Gracias a Margo!!That was actually how they got close,she was friends with Gwen before he was so he asked her for help and she gladly gave it.They accidentally pulled an all-nighter and had an 30 minute special adventure through cyberspiderspace and tried to hide that they hadn't gotten any sleep when they caught with Gwen but Margo fell face first into her loaded nachos and Hobie squeezed his soda can so hard it reached the roof when Lyla spooked him so she knew what was up.Wasn't upset but she did make fun of them

🎸Also Margi is haitian!!!Someone did a fucking gorgeous qpp Punkbyte art with that hc and jamaican Hobie and i haven't been able to unsee it,they're so fucking right.The Spidey Core Four are afrocaribbean4afrocaribbean4afrocaribbean4afrocaribbean and Margobie specifically are the indie games,always in some weird ass situation,can never shut the fuck up duo

🎸Pavitr and him are like brothers.Mainly because Pavitr is the token straight Spiderkid LMAOOOOOOO He got that masc transhet moc swag <3 Just guys being dudes ft.bi wife energy and femme faggotry.They do cultural exchange and no,Pavitr dosen't make fun Hobie for being british because he's not white so he realizes why there's even black-british people to begin with(read:SLAVERY).Hobie likes Bollywood movies and i'll let @refrigeratedboombursts take over on the specifics since he's indian and a Hobie enthutiast like me

🎸Goes on crime sprees for fun,is really into energy drinks but his favorite is Birthday Cake Bash Bang,grafitti's with Miles,adores Pokemon and has an embarrasing crush on Nessa because she's his type,is an Animal Crossing expert and his favorite is Flick and can do a deeply guttural metal scream voice for who knows how long that makes Gwen,Margo and Miles go 😳😳😳😳😳😳

🎸Watches Bluey with Mayday.Bluey fan Hobie is canon idc what y'all cringelords say,he's a 17 year old afropunk with more street cred than y'all let him be a happy kid but actually instead of weird racist fuckery

🎸Yeah,he did in fact kill his canon event cop and the reason he was ashamed in his reveal scene wasn't any emotional attachment but worry Miles wouldn't like him anymore.Also Spider Society KNOWS he's beyond down bad for him,they just didn't say nothin' to not embarrass him but also how could they NOT notice?BABYBOY DID ALL THAT SHIT IN PUBLIC!!!!!!!!

🎸Usually has at least one pink lipstick mark on him,be it electric pink(Margo),pastel pink(Miles)or baby pink(Gwen).Gets called a ladykiller/casanova/etc because of it but is actually the most aroaceflux mf to ever exist and falls in love with every transfem he befriends because of the femme transmasc swagger

🎸And similarly has cutesy stickers on him almost at all times,by gift of Peni.He's her big bro figure and ptsd buddy and she's his lil sis and he's her role model just like he is to so many 139 kids.Mcr isn't his kind of music but he listens to it with her and they talk about pretty much anything(including him taking lighthearted jabs at Noir)

🎸Jessica and him are the cooler Miles and Peter B i.e Jessica is Hobie's mentor from the start of his Spiderpunk days but an actual parental figure to him instead of age difference pseudo-siblings.Very much your classic black mom and black son relathionship but minus the hitting and shit 'cause Jessica's a proud black woman,not a child abuser.Based off that lil 'Hobie,you're not helping' 'Good' exchange that convinced me she's super familiar with his attitude and vice versa.They Get Eachother™️

🎸Uses emulators on anti-capitalist principal and diy's merch of his interests for the same reason but also so he can make it extra personalized✊🏼Once again,he just like me fr-Black Gwen Stacy with locs figure,you WILL be seeing the light of day

🎸He's a Book!Percy Jackson Variant.Full 'fence,full shade,Peter Parker's not good enough to be Percy Jackson and i DO mean Book!Percy Jackson,not 'dark Percy' or 'himbo Percy' or whatever weirdass can't even handle an undiagnosed autistic and implied punk children's protagonist crackheadarry y'all got up to

[coffinsister]

Hi there!

I just wanted to let you know that I'd never heard of Saya no Uta until I saw you talking about it on my dash and I was like hey I'll look into that!! I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and it was definitely an experience. I've only played the route of choosing Saya and choosing to call Ryoko, so I still have to make the other choices to view all of the game's content, but I just wanted to come say thank you for giving me the second controversial piece of media I've been able to consume without my ocd throwing a bitchfit, because the whole story is fascinating from a psychological standpoint and that definitely drew me in.

I just wish the story was a little more 3D, I guess? Like the writing is overly descriptive of things it doesn't need to be descriptive of and underwhelming with the actual voiced dialogue. It's an extremely bizarre contrast. And from what little Japanese I've learn over the years out of SpInterest there are some translation points that aren't entirely accurate.

A big one is the fact that Saya speaks in third person which is a common cutesy mannerism for small children in Japanese media. In fact, she speaks super similarly to Maria Ushiromiya from Umineko ( complete with using 'uu!' for emphasis too ) which caused me to attach quickly to her for it. While it's true that this doesn't translate well into English, it does lose in translation just how young Saya really sounds while speaking. Because in Japanese she's saying things like 'Saya did this for Fuminori because Saya wants to be with Fuminori forever!' and it's getting translated as like 'I did this to make you happy. So you'll stay with me forever, right, Fuminori?' and those are two completely different tones. In fact, it's so overlooked from the English translation that this trope of hers isn't even mentioned on the The Song of Saya tvtropes page and that's wild to me.

Sorry, I didn't meant to turn this into a rant in your inbox asjklhd. Thank you for bringing this intriguing piece of media to my attention. 💖

Hiii, I'm so sorry for taking so long to reply to this ask but it was lovely getting it, so please don't apologize! We love getting long asks, and talking about our interests <3 And I'm really happy me basically screaming into the void about it, got you into it! That's great, that's exactly why I post about the things I like.

This was very interesting to read so thank you for sending it.

Side Thought: TV Troupes actually really really sucks for this kinda thing, it is widely innacurate with big media, and incredibly lacking for small media. So personally, I would not chuck TV Tropes lacking this as much to the (very bad, like super bad) official translation, as much as I would to the site just kinda sucking.

I'm sorry if I sound harsh, the website is fun, like any other wiki is, I just have personal beef against it, do not mind me, old man yells at cloud.

The first route I finished was also the one with Ryouko, and tbh, in my opinion that's the best one, but obviously seeing the other endings gives a lot of extra information, and character depth, so I hope you play through them and enjoy them too.

And yeah, I feel you, I wish it was more 3D and that I could have cared more about the characters, the writing definetly feels too much like purple prose, and way too descriptive about meaningless things sometimes, while also compeltley glazing over others.

Also big big same about the translation, I already posted my long rant about it, but it's really such a shame, because Nitro+ is actually so good at conveying character through dialogue, like actually reading some of the VNs in Japanese is a whole new experience on its own

And exactly as you said, it would have been far easier to understand Saya is a literally preubecent child if the translation had shown how childishly she actually speaks, or another big one, we would have gotten to see more of just how badly Fuminori wants to show off in front of Saya and Yoh, if the translation had actually shown him avoiding being fully honest with Saya.

Like there's so so many moments in Japanese of him just going, Well, about that, you know... to Saya when she's asking him about their plans together, and he's very reluctant to ask her for help, even when he really needs it, until she blatantly offers it, and he takes it.

In the Official English version he literally just goes "Well, the thing, Saya is that I failed to kill Koji, any ideas about that?"

So much character missed there, I feel like also missing the honorifics isn't helpful or good, like Yoh calling Oumi, Oumi-chan makes them feel way way closer, than just college friends who hang out between classes. And it gives you a better sense that they care for each other.

My hot take about translations is that they shouldn't just accomodate to what's most familiar to the target audience, in this case USA people, it should just make the media more accesible. It isn't a failure of art if it is a bit of a struggle to engage with it, it's good to make an effort to try to understand foreign art, even when the way the text is presented, isn't super familiar or relatable to you.

This is basically what everybody who isn't from an English speaking country already does lol

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

So I'm writing a thing for my twst MC (whom I have dubbed Mars, after my favourite planet) and I know I probably won't finish it but I'm so excited that I have to tell SOMEONE so I'm telling you (if you don't mind, of course)

So, to start with, Mars is a Victorian man who works as a servant in a middle/upper class household who gets plucked from his world and into the world of TWST while he was out doing the shopping. Why is he Victorian? Well, because I wanted to challenge myself and also because I wanted to write his reaction to Modern Inventions (I've sent u an ask before about their bathtubs!! so I guess I really just wanted to put my knowledge of my spinterest to use I guess)

BUT ANYWAYS. SO. Everything stays (mostly) the same BUT. it's all told in the form of a diary! also to challenge myself but I'm surprisingly having a lot of fun writing it!! and what's more is it's sort of writing itself! So far, he finds ace annoying and deuce humourous and endearing. I don't have very much written yet cause I started it maybe like 30 minutes to an hour ago and I'm hoping I don't abandon it like I've done with my....other multi chapter fics.....though it certainly does help that it follows the game storyline so.....I forgot what else I was gonna say. bye now -📖

Me to ur Mars (high quality verson)/j

[notquiteaghost]

sorry to keep yelling abt destiel in semi-earnest i have spinterest brain worms but. just.

like the problem is. HOW can u fucking grab someone by the SOUL and pull them out of HELL without falling at least a little bit in love with them! that is narratively compelling! that is narratively correct! no shit cas has been in love with him this whole time! fuck!

but. dean is made entirely of repression and rage and violence and trauma. and the show could've been SO GOOD if at any point they'd had him acknowledge that, had anyone else acknowledge it, and then actually ADDRESS IT. if any of the many times dean does something objectively terrible to his loved ones instead of saying "well that gave me yet more ptsd but you did it out of love so i forgive you", someone had said "that one was too far. and you are insane. and i love you but we cannot keep doing this. you are going to therapy."

i could write a goddamn 10k word thesis on how spn handles trauma and the cycle of abuse and how the perpetual motion tv machine's need to just keep upping the stakes is detrimental always but in spn's case made the narrative abt one very fucked up man's crusade to kill himself For The Greater Good and take all his loved ones with him, which is an INSANE THING to make on ACCIDENT. i think maybe the spn showrunners shld also be in therapy.

if at any point spn had decided to stop having The Apocalypse Again: This Time Even Worse! they could’ve made groundbreaking television. imagine a show where the tortured male protagonist looks at all the violence in his life and says 'huh, yknow what, i hate this?' and then stops. and goes to therapy. and kisses a boy. spn fandom has this story in droves, because it is the best fucking possible ending of dean's character arc, it’s established in THE. FIRST. SEASON. that he hates hunting and he hates himself. this chekov's gun has been on the mantle for FIFTEEN YEARS and instead of shooting it spn just keeps picking it up hitting their audience in the face then lovingly putting it back.

just. just! imagine if they had kissed!!!!!! imagine if the show wanted to actually tell a story and not just make money!!!!!!!! i want financial fucking compensation!!!!!!!!