#But in English it does matter

[arom-antix]

As part of a two-part reverse bang-bang, here's some more Valentines art to which @probablytoooldforthis wrote an amazing fic, Sweets for the Sweet! Please go check it out, I promise you won't regret it, and keep your eyes peeled for the second chapter - and artwork, of course - coming out on White Day aka the 14th of March!

Also, I this is an unrendered version, the finished version will be posted within about a week's time (hopefully) since I don't have access to digital drawing at the moment YuY

#this piece makes me so happy #and the fic even more so #i really wish i hadnt ended up on crunch time to even get this half finished version done but whoever said i was a responsible adult #whoever said i had time management skills #whoever said that was wrong #anyway THEYRE MAKING CHOCOLATES BECAUSE I COULDNT NOT #viktor is very concentrated UuU #also if any actual confectioners (is that the english word? idk) see this feel free to yell at me in the tags for everything thats wrong #my experience with making filled chocolates is extremely limited and very messy #so uh #this is probably not accurate #BUT THEYRE HAVING FUN AND THATS WHAT MATTERS #i like to think viktor has clips to keep his hair out of the way but he always somehow manages to lose them oh how sad how “unfortunate” #guess yuuri will just have to keep his hair up yet again how tragic YnY #also yuuri 100% knows viktors clips dont magically disappear but he cant get himself to say anything because does he really mind? #no #no he doesnt #not at all #he gets to lovingly brush viktors hair out of his eyes what in the world would he be complaining about? #yuri on ice #yuri on ice fanart #fanart #art #arom antix #arom antix art #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #viktuuri

[pyrrhiccomedy]

as just a side effect of the kind of little guy she made to be the main character of Heretic, Emily now has to actually, herself, figure out how the French could have defeated the English at the outset of the Hundred Years War

we had a little talk about how whatever happens next isn’t adversarial GMing, the English just really did have that many longbows and I’ll be impressed if she figures out how to deal with them all

she assures me that this is what reddit is for

#heretic #dice matters #she does get to use magic #however the english also have magic

[touchlikethesun]

yuri on ice is fantasy wish fulfillment for japanese speakers specifically because the chances that every single person you come across at an international event is fluent in japanese is just... it really is not that high

#it wouldn't bother me if it wasn't diegetic #like yuri will use english if he's trying to reassure viktor or make sure he's understood #which he only does with viktor #which means there is an implicit assumption that viktor understands english better than japanese so like #ik ik anglophone media does this all the time as well #but i feel like in those cases there's just no acknowledgement of other languages beyond accents #so it's throwing me off in yoi #sorry i pay too much attention to linguistics #it literally doesn't matter ik ik #yuri on ice

[tytrack]

trying to practice restraint by not speaking about it but taeyong’s situation specifically has gotten so out of hand seeing the vilest shit being alleged between him and his sister and the swarm of death threats sent directly to him and his family after a random instagram story from half a year ago of a now confirmed censored single volume of a popular anime. extrapolating from a photo he took of some fucking shoes he was gifted saying hes read and promoted eleven volumes of uncensored whatever without fact checking anything/going off hearsay is so insane? and trying to lump all 4/5 idols in the same way without any nuance or even care for victims of these abuses is just irresponsible. i’m not here to justify or speak on the contents of the original anime itself because i haven’t read it but the way misinformation and crazy uncritical mob behavior functions on stan twitter/tumblr without any critical thinking is disgusting and also makes the content of what’s being criticized completely frivolous. it’s disgusting!

#this after when i initially saw what was happening knowing that i would have no problem dropping him as a fan #this is not about protecting idols no matter what etc. but jesus christ people will make the most out of an opportunity to absolutely malig #and crucify without any critical thought whatsoever #seeing posts on my dash like ‘i always knew there was something off about him’ #like some people don’t really care about the issues being disgusted and are waiting for things like this to happen simply for the drama #with him specifically too the way misinformation has been spread about him since predebut #i’m being so serious people don’t care about these actual issues they either want to show #that they’re above supporting any idol (performative) or wait for the ones they don’t like to fuck up #why does a protect account have to send out a tweet that says TAEYONG NEVER SAID he wants to sleep with his sister. people are vile #not only his sister but his dead dog. a gun isn’t enough #btw it’s been confirmed that the korean censored/english versions are different. so ppl really need to stop the deranged behavior

[caluski]

Nephew keeps confusing words for "mustard" and "firework" (musztarda/petarda) but i love him nonetheless

#Context: he's 2 years old #Google translate suggests English language does use the word 'petard' but i am not sure if i can trust it bc i don't think #I've ever seen people online use it. Only petarda in polish. Doesn't matter #pogaduchy

[yume-fanfare]

eguchi takuya ikemen voice is too powerful

#and the best actor prize goes toooooo hibiki wataru!!!! #he really takes up all your attention no matter what role you put him in omg #him in eichi's spot??? that's so intense wow #also putting tsukasa in madara's spot is So funny because he pronounces date in his tsukasa english way #and i Lost it #the entire situation is already funny in a way only madara (and a select others) can pull off #but tsukasa being so ooc and then saying date as he usually does hskdjskds lost it #also they shouldve put yuzuru in the og lineup because hes too funny in all positions #need to try some other charas later #ohhh also hiiro in niki's spot is too good as i thought his gaze is just so intense #mar's midnight rambles

[cellbitupdates]

🟩 Dos mods do Cellbit/🟥 From Cellbit's mods/🟨 De los mods de Cellbit:

🟩 Voltaremos quando o Cellbit voltar de Los Angeles/🟥 We'll return when Cellbit gets back from Los Angeles/ 🟨 Volveremos cuando Cellbit regrese de Los Ángeles ❤️

🟩 O que provavelmente será amanhã ou no final desta semana. Na segunda-feira ele mencionou que poderia tentar entrar no QSMP para conhecer o novo criador coreano Jungryeok, mas ele não disse nada definitivo.

🟥 Which will likely be tomorrow or later this week. He mentioned yesterday that he might try to log onto QSMP for the new Korean creator Jungryeok but didn't say anything definitive.

🟨 Que probablemente será mañana o más tarde esta semana. El lunes mencionó que podría intentar entrar el QSMP para conocer al nuevo creador coreano Jungryeok, pero no dijo nada definitivo.

#cellbit #when will he be live #<- gonna be the tag for whenever the schedule changes. maybe. #first real update since people are probably wondering when he'll go live this week #i think his flight back was yesterday (hence the time sensitive stream) so he is probably back home #it's just a matter of whether he feels up to streaming yet or not tomorrow #also how do people feel about this in terms of translations and formatting #is it obnoxious to do it like this or does it work #bc i dont want to like put everything in english at the top and then every other language below if i can help it #like for transcripts it'll probably be different but it just depends #and im not sure if i'll always be able to do translations depending on the post it's a lot and again i'm not fluent #but anyway. here's this #also i'm gonna put his usual stream schedule in the pinned eventually i just wasn't really expecting to make an updates account and then #well it happened #i can also emoji code translations maybe? like do it based off the lang colors on twitter (so its not country based) #so red = eng yellow = esp green = ptbr #i dont speak french well enough to translate for that so unless someone wants to help with that it'll just be those three usually #anyway im overthinking this to the max here you go he might be live tomorrow he might not #mod bell

[darcyolsson]

ok. poll in honour of speak your language day

#asking bc this was a big big thing for me a few years ago #and it still is! but i think esp when i was a teenager english was very easy for me to hide behind #probably because (psychological analysis incoming) i dont associate words that may mean difficult things with those actual situations #bc i speak dutch in actual real life situations so the english equivalent does not have the same weight as the dutch word does #and i wonder if its the same for people and whether it matters if you have that association or not #yes this is just me being a nerd. #personal

[hockeyisforthegays]

if it weren't for the language difference (and the fact that i've now left it longenough that i think yuuji "noticing" it at this point would be weird) i would absolutely do something in heroine with the fact that teen!gojo uses ore and adult!gojo uses boku. because that's something that drives me crazy about him

#from what i know its pretty common in japan actually that like schoolboys go through an ore phase. so idk why it matters w gojo in particu #lar except IT DOES. OF COURSE IT DOES #BECAUSE #because if you're listening to the og japanese its suguru tells him to cut the shit and use boku or watashi instead of ore #(translated into “i've been thinking you should be less arrogant” in english #the implications lost. if youre following the japanese that moment is like ooh.... he DID stop using ore.....) #anyway gojo seems to have already switched by the time he's ~19 because he uses boku in his flashback with baby megumi #do i pay too much attention? yes. im also thinking about gojo tattoo theory again #i am gonna go trawl everymangagojo to see if i can get any more than my current 1 frame of evidence for gojo tattoo theory

[atthebell]

learning yiddish forever changed how i speak english i just throw prepositional phrases wherever in a sentence

#bell.txt #word order matters in yiddish but you can also put things like that kind of wherever which is nice #it does mean sometimes my english sounds nuts but thats fine

[umilily]

waking up from a poorly timed nap to my friend once more making the worst possible life choices

#lily talks #i don't want to be pessimistic but GOD #that message made me close my eyes and turn around again #woman is dating the worst man to ever exist and she just moved to another city to live with him #this is unfortunately a trend and it doesn't matter what i say on the topic #and yeah she's an adult and all but jesus this will only end in disaster #i will never forget her introducing me to this guy and telling me about him which featured the world famous sentence 'oh he's alright #'he just doesn't respect me' #said in the calmest tone ever #LIKE???????? GIRL??? WHAT????? #and it is 100% true #this guy does not give a shit about treating her with any respect from what i've seen and essentially wants her to drop any interestes and #ambitions she has to be his wifey and stroke his dumb ego #we are talking him getting 'jealous' over her going to univeristy to get a degree because that means she doesn't have time for him 24/7 #every interaction i've had with this dude made my skin crawl and want to leave the room asap #it was unbearable #and i told her that i think he's an ass #obviously didn't care #and now they're fucking living together and she more or less invited me over #bei aller Liebe aber nee #(there are no words in english)

[francisforever2014]

OUGHHH the way this post makes my eye twitch .

people in victorian times when they read a book that said “dear reader”: ITS HORRIFYING THAT WE’RE INVENTING A NEW 4TH PERSON PRONOUN 😱😱

#the way it’s neither a pronoun or in ‘fourth person’ which is a debatable concept in english AT BEST #like……. i think this is bc english doesn’t have a universal plural second person #and so people don’t see y’all youse you guys etc as what they are #and are shocked every time a new one is invented???? but like . it’s still a plural second person???? #and so many people in the notes are making these claims about ‘breaking the fourth wall’ making it ‘fourth person’ like . you’re just #conflating two different things???? a metaphor about a cinematic technique literally has nothing to do with tense omg #them using the same phrase does not make them equivalent -_- #me if ranting about things that don’t matter online was illegal: #actually it does matter bc i hate when people are confidently stupid . there

[daeluin]

guys i was half joking but

peterick en español (versión trap)

#Y'ALL SEE MY VISION #also im never beating the only picks break up songs for p2 bc im always thinking about the hiatus allegations #twin skeletons #english translation in alt text by yours truly #tho im not happy with it i never imaginated it would be so hard to translate 'y no da más' #for context it's an abbreviation of 'y esto no da para más'. literal this doesn't give for more. it's a frase commonly used when you speak #about relationships that have reached their end. where no matter what anyone says or does the relationship doesn't work anymore #and there's no fixing so you may as well just break up. there's nothing good there anymore and no more to give #anyways i don't know how to convey the feeling property in english i hope y'all catch the drift and see my vision #also stream duki - antes de ameri (2023) right now #it doesn't have this song but ysy a album sucks. duki's on the other hand is a masterpiece

[qubitos]

i don't think ive ever experienced the sort of emotion i felt when carre gave roier the coordinates for the global quest turn-in. like on one had LA TRAICIÓN on the other hand YES DRAMA and on the other other hand yaaaayyyy roier i love roier yaaayyyyy ^-^

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #i dont think it even really mattered in the end but in the moment it was everything to me #q!carre #q!roier #i also felt bad for carre since he wasnt with anyone else who spoke mainly spanish :/ #i mean cellbit was there and he does a really good job with spanish but he was mostly speaking english the whole time

[victorie552]

Menegroth was totally sacked in Second Kinslaying, right? You know what invaders do when they sack cities? They steal shit. Everything that isn't bolted to the ground (and few things that are) is taken.

And Menegroth was, well, the cultural center of Doriath (and only stone/ish city to my knowledge) and also housed Daeron, who famously invented his own alphabet. I'm sure they had a great library.

Someone, and I'm nominating Maglor for the honor, definitely stole every and each paper (that wasn't burned down during sacking) and took it with them to Amon Ereb or wherever SoF dwelled at the time. ("I mean, it's that or leaving it to the orcs" - Maglor)

SoF had more Sindarin texts and cultural treasures than people in Sirion (they're refugees. what is there to say). Maybe they even offered to trade them for Silmaril (cultural heritage for cultural heritage), before they decided to just go on with the 3rd Kinslaying.

Sure a shit thing to do, but came in handy when Elrond and Elros happened.

#I want to say #very english of them #but every empire and invasion does this #I don't think there were a lot of texts as elves aren't really all that about written records #but they should have Something #stealing their stuff after destroying the country really adds insult to the injury #smaller hurt than all the murder #but still very much a hurt #I really think that has potential #maybe that made the negotiations for Silmaril worse #maybe in the end somehow they had more Sindarin texts than Noldor ones #maybe they gave it all to E and E when they send them to Gilgalad #they gave that all back this time not for silmaril but because it's the right thing to do #and of course it didn't matter in the end #you can make a story there is all I'm saying #headcanon #maglor #menegroth #second kinslaying #sons of feanor #silmarillion #silm

[raayllum]

This might be because I’ve been working on the same story idea for close to 12 years, but I’ll never understand the “This wasn’t worth the 3 year wait” complaint about S4, because it’s a muddled complaint and an inherently emotional one. Having issues with the pacing, or characterization, or progression? Those are also subjective, yes, but they’re structural. They can be debated, discussed, explained, etc. But saying “this wasn’t worth the wait” is an emotional complaint. Which is also fine! But it’s entirely subjective. It’s saying your enjoyment of the season (a story that is separate as a concept out of time) is dependent on the time you spent waiting for it, something that means nothing to the story’s structure, because it was never built to take that into account from a Plot standpoint, never mind a narrative one

How I structure and write the plot progression of my novels does not change depending on how many years there are between books, or how long it takes even to write them. Particularly for something that’s long form and developed/created the way something as time consuming as an animated story is. 

I also think separating emotions from analysis is sometimes an important part of understanding and analyzing something, i.e. season three of Trollhunters left me absolutely devastated. I was so upset about a story decision they made I had to take a day just to process and think about it. But I also knew in my heart it was the best decision not only for the characters, even if it wasn’t what I was expecting or hoping for, but also because it worked best thematically and therefore for the story as a whole. My emotional reaction didn’t matter, and now it’s probably my all time favourite thing the show ever did. 

This is also informed by my personal experiences watching Steven Universe. I watched a couple episodes a day and made my way through the show like that from start to finish until SU: Future came out and I think that’s the strongest, story wise, way to consume the show, because I could fully enjoy each peace of filler while also not having to wait forever between drops and/or for lore. 

All of this to say:

S4 didn’t work for you pacing/plot wise is a subjective reading about structure. S4 wasn’t worth the wait after the season three hiatus isn’t grounded in anything other than emotion. Saying “how S4 was plotted/progressed wasn’t worth the 3 year wait” is still saying the structure is dependent on how it makes you feel; it’s an emotional complaint dressed up as a structural one. It’s not grounded in analysis. And you can evaluate stories wholly on how they make you feel, if you want to. That’s entirely within your and anyone else’s right. It’s just not very interesting to me, and doesn’t really do anything from an analytical perspective, which is my own prerogative. 

#tdp #the dragon prince #like analysis not better than emotion or vice versa #and the two are often deeply linked #the english major strikes again #fandom #dragons rambles #like does it Matter? no #but idk i've been mulling over this #in relation to TDP but also in stuff like ASOIAF or like anything with long hiatuses #or not long hiatuses #and how that can influence and inform audience opinion #and i think that discrepancy or relationship between the two can be interesting from a response/sociological leaning perspective #but just. not an analytical one bc that only cares about the story #and Maybe the historical / societal context surrounding the story At Best #tag ramble #also as always: isn't about anything in particular #just about general post s4 reaction