#Summer in Other Languages

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.

Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.

Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.

In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rottmnt headcanons #bro was so excited about buying stuff that he didn’t realize it was a scam until too late #so now he’s super sus of all that BUT super willing to laugh at his fam for making the same mistake #anyway yeah I love Leo being well traveled because it honestly makes sense? why NOT use your teleportation to travel if you can do it fast #all his portal mishaps in the series as well as that time he accidentally went to Paris (+ once a diff dimension?) live in my head rent free #Leo destroying the stall of some random family’s restaurant in Paraguay and having to work it off the rest of the summer #he’s just like ‘hey guys I’m heading out’ but doesn’t mention it’s for a part time job in a different country #he only knows like English and Spanish BUT he’s picked up on a lot of other languages too due to his misadventures #tho he mostly knows a whole lot of various swear words #leo about to tease donnie for getting banned from witch town only to remember HE’S banned from a place in Turkey: 😬 #he keeps trying to find where he accidentally put his brothers in Tahiti but he can’t find it and he’s so salty about it lol

[blended-ice]

A fun little sketch. Open wide!

#peas n guac #feeding each other is a quintessential love language methinks #u ever try to draw arms and be like. how fucking long are you supposed to be. #and then foreshortening is a thing #wild #college is done for the summer which means my ass gotta catch up on the things I’ve let slide #so I am SO!!! TIRED #I’ve moved like a bajillion (approximate estimate) bricks these past few days #may have ducklings in a few days though v excited abt that #mimi has been obsessively sitting on the nest #and attacks me when I make her leave the coop #but mimi unfortunately your stank ass gotta bathe #sorry ab rambling about my personal life in the tags #I get very excited about my birds #yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #viktuuri #id in alt text #fanart #food #tw food

[drawballa]

I think our surfer boy is falling for his fishy friend ... <3

#jikook #jikook fanart #kookmin #merAU #okay but its not summer until you break out the temporary tattoos #thank you to my patreons for helping me pick a tattoo for jm #okay but they're starting to speak each others languages!!!!

[viric-dreams]

Tamaas (eventually Tamara)

Addressed as: Madam* (she/her)

Age: 23

Height: 5’4”

Occupation:

Main Skills: Shadowy, Watchful

Prominent Quirks: Melancholy

Closest to: The Urchins

*it's a form of address that feels strange compared to its Varchaasi equivalent, but she no longer has any claim to that title.

Backstory below the cut:

She never questioned her life, much like she never questioned her love for Mihir and her native Varchas. One rarely has to when all is well and life is easy.

She doesn’t understand why her brother did not share this contentedness. Fraternal twins, they were ever-close, sharing everything, but his interest in the Jewel-Turbaned Youth and his fanciful club was something that she simply could not get her mind around. The rest of the family paid it no mind—they’re harmless anyway. Let him have his fun.

She doesn’t know what it was that stopped her from retiring to bed that one fateful evening, a nagging in the back of her head that something was off. When she stepped back out into the yellow evening lamplight, a familiar shape slipping down the streets confirmed her intuition. Her brother made it as far as the Mirrored Gate before she clamped her hand around his wrist. Was he mirror-mad? What could he possibly be thinking? Who would want to leave the light, and to set sail on a steamer with a Tamaas captain he’d only met that morning? She’d argued with him, begging him to see sense, until they were both shouting. Deep in their quarrel, she’d barely noticed the shape in the mirror pressed up against his back until it was too late. It struck and he screamed, jerking to the side. Hand still latched around his arm, she slipped in turn, down the slope beyond the gate and both of their lives ended in an instant.

She’d later piece together what had happened from The Sympathetic Captain, most of her memories a blur, and Mihir knows, she’d had enough time on that ship to play her retelling back in her head in endless combinations. Before her brother had even met the ground, before his head had hit stone and his heart had stopped beating, he was Tamaas. As was she, not a fraction of a second later. The Captain had heard the commotion and was not far from the bottom of the cliff. She had insisted that the Captain take them both, that no one in the city would help them anymore. She had to get him to the next port where he could recover.

How his body had disappeared a day later, on a ship miles from the coast, was not one the Captain could answer, no matter how much she raged, how many objects in the cabin she smashed in her fugue. The Captain could only offer a sympathetic ear and a cup of tea.

When the ship finally docked in London she disappeared into the darkness, too ashamed of her grief to say goodbye. Her life was over, but somehow she would have to keep living, Tamaas or otherwise.

#my art #anyway new blorbo just dropped #tamara #also very normal about the sun #but differently #i haven't gotten there yet but she's going to meet ockham very soon #and are about to have a great time first overcoming the language barrier #and then the everything else #she initially thought ockham was mirror-mad #but as soon as they could understand each other well enough to learn hishertheir actual deal you bet she nearly had an aneurysm #coming from a culture where you fear what lurks in the Is-Not #only to become closest to a creature of the Is-Not #specifically courting the creatures she fears the most #ockham was also the one to ask her name and when she said she was simply tamaas #ockham said absolutely not try again and she eventually landed on tamara #initially it was a reminder of what she lost #but eventually simply was her name #there are also a lot of my notes on what i imagine varchaasi fashion looks like in that second image #based on a lot of older SE Asian clothing specifically cambodian #but with the added touch of living in perpetual summer heat and humidity #and a culture that does not do shadows #and doesn't have to deal with UV radiation #but if anyone wants to join me on the non-London fashion train #please talk to me i love this kind of worldbuilding

[meichenxi]

life update!!

hello my friends!

as ever, not active - life happened! I probably will continue not being active, so let's count this blog as on semi-hiatus. BUT. I have big news!

I am!!!! going to china!!!! in august!!! for ten months!!! to work as a volunteer interpreter in a martial arts academy!!!! in a buddhist temple!!!!

I get to train with the foreign students 8+ hours a day, and translate when needed!!!!

ok that's the announcement, love and peace <3

I will be getting up at stupid o'clock (5:45am), eating in silence, wearing uniform / robes at all times, teach a beginners' chinese class, and also. crucially. do really HUGE amounts of Kung Fu!!!!

on a serious note, I have been trying SO hard for SO long during and after covid to get back to china. but now I actually HAVE THE VISA, as of today, the ticket is booked, all - praise be - will be well. I am so afraid to jinx it further, and so very happy :)

I would never have thought when I started this blog back in 2020 that I'd be able to use what I've learnt, all the 'useless' martial arts knowledge from copious amounts of trash wuxia, in an actually useful context. more long term, I also get to see if interpreting is right for me, improve my chinese, and get very fit - all for free :D

hope everyone is well! - meichenxi

#meichenxi manages #life update #chinese #really genuinely I have been keeping learning I just....this blog was An Interest #and unfortunately it no longer Interests me the same amount #I'm also trying to just...speak less and do more #practice what you preach etc etc #so I've been doing a huge amount of writing and other language things. also hot girl summer! #hope everyone is well in the community and the words befriend you <3

[enbysiriusblack]

sirius and peter are actually best friends btw <33 yeah, they loved each other sm. yeah, sirius enjoyed hanging out with peter. yeah, he didn't see him as inferior in the slightest that's just how outsiders viewed it just because sirius and james were more popular.

#i love their friendship so much #the gay sillies ever <33 #peter having summer jobs and sirius just sits and lingers in the cafe/shop peter is working in all day #they come up with the most undoable pranks together and then actually try to do them #they make fun of each other and mock each other the most. it's their love language to each other. #marauders era #marauders #sirius black #peter pettigrew

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

okay remember when Claude first met Athy and we thought this was also the first time Felix met Athy again after the massacre of the Ruby Palace?

in the novels he didn't even tell Felix that Athy was still alive

the short extra chapter however retcons this when Felix tells Claude how adorable athy had been as a toddler, making Claude jealous that he missed out such an important period of Athy's life.

I find this very interesting as it begs the question how he met Athy when she lived in such a remote place. Did he visit Athy secretly and looked after her without Claude's knowledge? Did Claude send Felix to the Ruby Palance once a year to check if Athy was still alive? If this happened in The Lovely Princess as well wouldn't the execution of Athy be so much darker as Felix might've partook in raising her or at least cared for her? This would make Felix a second absent father figure to Athy who then turned his back on her after Jennette's poisoning.

#could only find that chapter in two other languages and neither was english #if anyone has the english chapter pls send it to me #wmmap #who made me a princess #sbapod #suddenly became a princess one day #felix robane #a perfect summer storm

[ct-multifandom]

Can you guys rb this or comment with how you pronounce “Goncharov”? I didn’t really think anything of it until one of my friends said it out loud and I was like huh? I think it’s interesting how people can have different pronunciations of a word or name they’ve never heard out loud in their head an not question it. For reference, I’m a native Russian speaker and I’ve always read it like gohn-CHArohv and my US American friend said GAHNCHA-rahv.

#goncharov #pronounciation #languages #russian language #today I remembered that tweet that’s like white people can’t pronounce POC names but they can say Tchaikovsky. and I kinda hate it because #no they can’t they cannot pronounce Tchaikovsky at all. please get a better example #English speakers of any race usually say chai-COUGH-skeee. that’s equivalent to white people calling jalapeños holla-PEEN-yo’s #also when I was in like middle school I took this summer cooking class thing and one day the teacher was quizzing us on food from around the #world and she asked us if we know where pillmini are from. nobody knew so she said they’re actually a type of Russian dumpling! my jaw #dropped when I realized she was trying to say пельмени (pyel’myeni) like ain’t no way #anyway how do you guys say Goncharov #not that there’s a right or wrong way to pronounce a fictional name unlike those real words in the other tags I’m just curious #I mean there’s a right way to pronounce a real person’s name if they’re actually called goncharov but I’m talking about the character

[aroacehanzawa]

entering my german literature era

#read hermann hesse's demian the other day and now i intend to start the sorrows of young werther #thomas mann death in venice is also on the list #i read kafka's the metamorphosis two summers ago so maybe the trial will be my next kafka read #oh yeah goethe's faust is also on my list #unfortunately my german is still too rusty so i have to go with translations but. one day. #i want the dual-language edition of demian so bad but i don't think there's a digital edition of it anywhere #and the print edition on amazon is like £30 ew #my level of german is at the annoying stage where i understand enough basics so i'm too lazy to actually study it properly #but not enough to just dive straight into reading a book without any aids #oh yeah. drop german lit recs pls

[unityrain24]

me when i create an entire 'nother language because english doesn't have the words to describe what i mean or even the words to describe the words to describe what i mean

#i mean there are other a bajillion other reasons too. #but like. english has so many words but not enough and id like to have a language where those words exist #because then expressing myself would be so much easier #also don't ask me for more on the language because. it's not created yet. #you see i HAD been working on it last year/year before and then last summer the. #the entire device i was creating it got wiped. #unityrain.txt

[divorcetual]

this is horrifying . i dont think you should be on roads i think the peacocks around your hosue should just take you everywhere . this ks so fucked up

I AGREE WITH THIS cars are an affront to humanity and every one of them is born with the intent to harm as many living beings as possible

#WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING FUCKED UP #so I live in oregon right #and im goin to a language program in japan this summer #note that japan drives on the other side of the road And has completely different signs than the us #turns out oregon and japan have this. agreement thing? Where if you hold a drivers license in one you can get a license in the other withou #having to take the knowledge OR practical test #like u literally just go in and go Hi heres my oregon license heres the japanese translations for what it all says. #and u get a japanese one #that sounds like im oversimplifying it for humor Im Not #its fucked up my host family is gonna ask if I can drive and im gonna LIE im gonna say NO i tried and then I hit someone and I can never #drive again or they will shoot me. I will take the subway

[trashbins-stuff]

#poll #polls #hint: one of them i got from a word form another language #and the other one is cicada in vietnamese bc i was created in summer

[ronanlynchbf]

this summer i need to cut my hair and buy silly t-shirts and stop being apologetic abt merely existing and do things even though i'm very bad at them and be earnest & bouyant and stop thinking i'm being punished when bad things happen and read books i've never heard of and be in any body of water as much as possible and be less afraid of people crushing my heart when i give them it!!!!! Basically i need to go on walks even when i don't feel like it so every time i do i will be enraptured by the world like i always am 🙏❤

#i booked an appointment to cut my hair & got two books i'd never heard of before and every time i go to the thrift store i look for silly #t-shirts and in regards to all the other stuff i will try very hard. and that at least is something. #ALSO i will watch tv shows from ten years ago and go to concerts without feeling alienated when i'm there and stop feeling like i'm running #in a race of time with other ppl my age that i will never win and be open to new experiences and push myself out of my comfort zone 👍 #double also!! i will stop being scared to wear certain clothes bc i think i'll be judged for it and i will be more easygoing with strangers #and i'll stop feeling like i'm slowly wasting away and i will stop feeling like i'm bothering everyone all the time and i will learn arabic #and greek and hindi and freshen up on my spanish & latin. the latter ones i am already busy with <333 #owl app i hate u but u do get me places. oh also if anyone's studying languages atm memrise.com is a pretty good site too!!! #ANYWAY. bucket list 4 the summer 👆 #through rain and wind and other hashtag bad weather i WILL swim this summer mark my words ☝️

[the-likesofus]

Snippet Saturday (Or Something)

PREPARE FOR ROLL CALL........I was tagged by: @loveyourownsmiilee, @two-cut-lines, @swiftiediaz, @monsterrae1, @rogerzsteven, @spotsandsocks AND @dickley-buddie, much love to you all! I loved reading the snippets you shared asfgghjkkl!!

Someone (@spotsandsocks) kindly brought to my attention just how many WIPs are currently sitting in my google drive so I have picked eight to work on over my three-month break from Uni! Please wish me luck in this endeavor and STOP ME if I try to start another WIP!!

I haven't shared anything for these tag things in donkey's years so here's a long-ish bit for you from the Love Languages Fic:

Buck's Jeep is in his driveway when he pulls up, which is not unusual but Buck had a day off today. He was supposed to be helping Maddie paint Jee's bedroom. Jee has been obsessed with ducks recently and they picked a horrendous sunshine yellow color. Still, some small, selfish part of Eddie is glad he's here. Bad days always feel easier when Buck's around.

Unsurprisingly, the front door is unlocked when he tries the handle. His duffle is slung over one shoulder and it is helping his swirling emotions to drag him over the threshold. Inside he's met by the smell of spices and- his son. Chris is perched on the couch and his face lights up when he sees Eddie come in.

"Dad!" His little arms are wrapped around Eddie's waist in an instant. Eddie almost chokes up at the realization that the top of his kid's head almost meets his chin.

"Hey, Buddy," He wraps his arms tightly around Christopher's shoulders and buries his face in his soft curls. The pressure in his chest eases slightly. He squeezes until Chris starts squirming and disappears up the hallway to his room.

He finds Buck in the kitchen, dishes strewn across the benches, and a wide grin on his face. There's sunshine yellow above one of his eyebrows, mirroring the pink of his birthmark on the opposite side. Suddenly it's not such a terrible color and Eddie can feel his chest warming from the inside.

"Hey," Buck's smile is just as bright as the paint. "Welcome home."

Most of the people I usually tag already tagged me so I'll only add a couple more here if people want to join in: @thosetwofirefighters @lilbuddie @bekkachaos @jacksadventuresinwriting @swiftiebuckleys if you haven't already done it yet xx

#i finally finished uni for the year #yay to three weeks of freedom before graduation! #my goals this summer are sleep write and play sims #so heres to all of the wips becoming works!! #buddie #911 fox #eddie diaz #evan ‘buck’ buckley #buddie wip #meegs writes stuff #snippet saturday #and all the others i have missed #love languages fic

[oldshrewsburyian]

On the one hand, the character of the Forest Healer™ annoys me because she (always sic) dates to a very specific, odd, and historically unfounded myth from, like, 1972. That said, I do kind of love Angharad in Hood because she, like Mérian, will not take any of Bran’s shit. We need more characters like this, I feel. And more women on the page. The fact that her reaction to Bran asking her if she can speak (?!) is to say: “Yes, I can speak and sing, but you can’t; shut up” is kind of great.

Also, for any wondering, yes, she is referring to the Holy Spirit as a goose.  (Sometimes the divine is like a dove descending. Sometimes it goes HONK.) I am still unclear on what Lawhead is doing with eleventh-century Christianities and cultures of belief, but at least he cares about them.

#hood #robin hood summer #fun with medievalism #for the record i have no idea what lawhead is doing with language #sometimes people use thee and thou like quakers #sometimes there is weirdly modern casual french to indicate that... normans are talking to each other? #this book is so weird

[plumbus-central]

#rick sanchez #summer smith #art #my art #rick #summer #minnie #minnie/rick #i always figured rick and minnie would use other languages to talk abt stuff infront of the family #gotta cross spanish off the list now #thanks a lot night summer