#and not just translate in your head

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Man I feel like a lot of leftist activists would do a lot better to just use common fucking language to talk about things rather than dense academic shit that's only understandable to people with PhDs and people who spend 95% of their waking life on Leftist Twitter lmao

Like, you're talking with other academics? Great, use academic language. You're a social media account trying to interact with the general public? Don't say "decarcerate", say "find alternatives to imprisonment". Don't say "collective liberation", say "freedom for all". By GOD don't say "bodymind autonomy", say "the ability to have control over our own minds and bodies".

Yes it takes a little more effort to explain shit in common language but I promise you people will stop looking at you like you have two heads and dismissing everything you say as Woke Bullshit if you like, actually get on their level, goddamn it. Not everyone has the privilege to have a graduate-school level understanding of this type of language or spend so much time reading leftist theory that they can perfectly understand this stuff.

#being a public health student has made me even more passionate about this too #like. You want to make a change? You have to make sure the general public UNDERSTANDS WTF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FIRST #Like for example I think Project LETS is a great concept and is doing great stuff #But my god their public outreach needs some MAJOR work #By using this type of language you are isolating the type of ppl who can benefit from your services to 'college educated Twitter leftists' #Social justice is a MAJOR INTEREST OF MINE and even I struggle with making sense of some of the shit y'all say!! #Like I have to translate it in my head to normal speak #And like. These types of spaces constantly talk about accessibility for disabled people? Bullshit man #What about those with intellectual disabilities or cognitive impairments who struggle with this shit? #What about people who are just learning English? What about people who work full time and don't have the time to learn this terminology? #Goddamn #It's all performative!!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #xue yang #Its such a relief to not have to draw so many characters once again. #Redrawing the specific font from the English translated mdzs books was surprisingly fun! #Maybe I'm alone in this...but I think characters switching to a different font of speech for *emphasis* is peak comedy #you can't communicate voice changes of sound very well in non audio forms so this is the best I can do. #Anyways...rip Xue Yang. You finally meet your idol and he brushes you off #Rather— he doesn't live up to the expectations you built in your head #Kind of an on going issue there Jester (I refuse to call him king or sir) #XY is constantly making people out to be the versions he needed them to be to feel justified in his actions #but struggles to pivot when confronted with the fact that these ppl are *more* than just one surface reading! #wwx doesn't actually think xy is flirting. He's just tired of all the fake fans + wants to get out of this convo. #button mashing the A button to skip the unskippable cutscene #Lan Wangji is in the next comic btw. I've missed him dearly. I'm sorry he's been gone so long </3 #edit: poorly spelt MDZS strikes again. This is why I need more time to write my comics. So I can actually proofread B*( #edit2: I cast 'Power of Technology' and fixed my error. Everyone reblog this version instead please

[corfisers]

two weird things that happen to me more often than i'd like and feel like they are on the opposite ends of the same spectrum: forgetting that i do actually speak two languages and forgetting that some people who post here in english speak only english

#the latter is usually when there's some post on linguistics or just like?? a thing with eng being passed as universal??? #don't have any examples off the top of my head unfortunately #but sometimes you read a post and get this “oh you never had to grapple with concepts that are not applicable to your first language” feel #this isn't me trying to shame anyone who speaks one language btw you're fine as long as you're not being an asshole #to people who's eng isn't perfect or have some weirdly strong opinions on translation or languages in general #while not having any actual knowledge you know? #whatever idk how much sense i'm making #forgetting that i speak rus has more to do with how used i am to using eng. to the point that i mostly think in it #kinda sucks if i'm being honest? i'm rereading idiot and went to look up eng translation for a chapter because i wanted to post something #and augh it's not the same! it's not the same. might be just not the best translation fuck if i know but still #but yeah i barely use rus outside of talking to someone irl (rarely happens) or reading a book. it's weird #benvey tag

[defeateddetectives]

IN THIS ESSAY I WILL

[follow-up to this two-image post that's worth more than twenty thousand words and altered the course of my life]

#apparently the last time i read this arc straight through was FIVE YEARS AGO and at the time i was so awestruck over it's existence alone #(also: bratty clan head being locked in the cursed room with the cursed love of his cursed life!!!) #that the extent of the textual parallels didn't even register aside from maybe that iconic bench of sadness and general ~themes #but no it's? RIGHT? THERE? #'HE COULDN'T MAKE HER SHARE THE BURDEN HE BORE' #'I WON'T PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF THE LEGACY YOU'VE HAD TO SHOULDER' #(the way i SAT UPRIGHT) #i cannot attest to the quality of these translations or comment on the original text #but would be so intrigued if someone could compare how similar/different the wording is for the panels in the middle row #because the choice of language the way it comes across in translation is just. #yeah. #i'm incoherent #(tumblr's suggested tag: i'm inconsolable #which yeah. THAT TOO!!!) #your honour i rest my case??? #natsume yuujinchou #horrible exorcists #specifically #horrible exorcist number one #OH AND - AFTERWORD: 'i think these days a person does not have to bear it alone'!!!!!!!! #and it coming from natori of all people #(i am not asking you to abandon your family or who you are and i'm here and i'm not leaving and i'll meet you where you're at) #and though this isn't the first time he's said it the YEARS it's taken him (taken them both) in getting here specifically #and the temptation and hope and promise in it!!! which lets one wonder if maybe just maybe they'll break the cycle or at least make a dent #(doubtful....but i can dream!) #pls send thoughts and prayers as i'm about to undertake homura arc properly for the first time (yes finally) and may not make it out alive #(one day i may or may not also become emotionally equipped to make the unhinged post about the two separate times he's asked and reacts to #have you ever considered quitting exorcism? #alas that day is not today...but maybe in another five years!!!!!) #dont forget we're here forever etc etc etc ETC :)))))

[anxiously-sidequesting]

You know what I love more than just heroes and villains going up against each other is when the hero and villain have a certain respect and acknowledgement to the other, have a special relationship or connection with the other, or just a general interest that's between just THOSE TWO GUYS and not anybody else Grandfather Spider Morganthe Schismist Soldier Duncan Grimwater

Like I could easily see the YW teaming up with almost any of those people (see: only GFS and Morganthe the other two are crazy) not out of maliciousness or because they switched sides but because they're just compatible with them in ways where it just makes sense. Like for example the YW fighting back-to-back with Morganthe or having in depth magical discussions with her because we understand her on a level no one else does. Like in a crazy season finale where the Savior of the Spiral would not even Dream of Ever Working With Those Ruffians but when they have to they're like so magical (no pun intended) together because they just click. Like in the original Teen Titans where Deathstroke and Robin were like fighting in Hell together and they were on the SAME WAVELENGTH despite being bitter enemies THAT'S THE SHIT I LIKE. I think maybe that's the reason why I resonate more with these guys than Malistaire because imo it's just so much more interesting and emotional when we get two people on opposite sides of the morale scale able to come together and work so fluently. This is also me saying I want a Schismist Soldier and YW Roommate Sitcom.

#im dissociating like a motherfucker rn so this post may read as disjointed IM SORRY I JUST THINK THIS IS COOL #and the best part of this post is that it doesnt even necessarily have to be in a “romantic” sense. you can work so well with your rival- #-or enemy without having romantic implications at all #not saying i dont ship the wizard with the soldier because i do. DJALSHEOEJ #honestly though i would have loved to see us team up with morganthe #BUT WE DID KINDA GET THIS WITH OLD COB WHEN WE WORKED TOGETHER but we didnt really know each other then #IDK HOW TO EXPLAIN THIS DYNAMIC WELL. SOMEONE CAN TRANSLATE THIS FOR ME IF THEY WANT TO #this is also me saying the Mirage final boss fight has been stuck in my head for 4 straight years #grandfather spider: we know each other so well so imma resurrect your mortal enemies from the dead to beat ur ass <3 #also im gonna be honest. my little oony also i spired this post JALAJFKRJRJ #ask me how my little pony inspired this post. any one of you ask me how i dare you. #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts #no i wont shut up about the soldier i dont care who the IRS sends

[poohbea]

sauce — @/teaforgods via twt

#okay so I had a little idea in my head #imagine a tag team with these two right #hear me out #can you imagine Miguel just talking Spanish while fucking you #and Toji translating it in your ear #in like a deep whisper that sends tingles down your spine #you know? #miguel ohara #miguel o’hara #atsv miguel #atsv #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #jujutsu toji #jjk toji #jujutsu kaisen #jjk

[hanzajesthanza]

it kind of bothers me that witcher fans don’t really unite under sapkowski’s name like other fans of fantasy authors do (e.g. “tolkien fans”).

in practically any other fandom of fantasy books, save for the particularly rancid authors known for their disappointing and shameful behavior or views (e.g. jk r*wling), it’s just regular business to say the author’s name. but sapkowski’s name is treated like a dirty word in the witcher fandom, for really no good reason…

it must be asked — what is stopping us from doing so?! why don’t we call ourselves sapkowski fans. it would be much easier than saying “i’m a fan of the witcher, but only the books, i don’t consider the various adaptations canon, etc. etc.” … “half a hundred words, when three are enough!!”

#i was just thinking about this today. can we call ourselves andrzej sapkowski fans beginning now or what #note that i said GOOD reason #meaning that it’s not like sapkowski is a conservative #the witcher books #txt #like sapkowski has done and said stuff that i dont approve of or like #the alcoholism at cons for instance hem hem (though ive also heard that type of behavior was standard) #he’s said a few cringey things about women and lesbians but nothing worse than your typical old guy would #specifically i’m referring to the ‘i dont hate women i - he he he - positively love them!’ which is actually just everybodys granddad lmao #and the ‘i dont know about why my characters are lesbians - though i can be sure im not one’ #that kind of stuff just makes me shake my head and laugh #but its not like he has done heinous shit like some of these authors running around loose out here #i mean i think it’s mitigated in part that he’s a private person with no twitter account #i also disgaree with his points from there is no gold in gray mountains but i also dont know enough abt what hes talking about to understand #understand FULLY at least. i understand some but not all. i think i understand just enough to disagree #but he has expressed a lot of progressive points which also come through in his series #what i mean is: hes not a terrible person. so why do people act like he is #ALSO i think if we united under his name then there would be more inter-series fans #ive always wondered where the fans of the hussite trilogy are (online). is there an online fanbase? #and if we do that then we can get more and better translations hopefully #like theres still no official translations for a ton of his short stories

[sysig]

Ohh I would love to request a redraw of one of your strangels sketches ♥♥♥ if it's not too much trouble hehe, thanks!

Day 19 - The privilege ✨

#Requestober #Vargas #Edgar #Scriabin #Depending on your time zone it still might not be tomorrow yet! It's tomorrow for me tho #I just had no energy today lol I could not get my brain to focus on drawing at all #All that fun data - here's more! #Anyway lol #This happens to be the first redraw-request! Nice #Also for the record Brusk did specify this drawing behind the scenes lol I didn't just pick a random one #Lots of Scriabin resting his head in Edgar's lap around these parts #This was actually a way more challenging redraw than the ones I've done in the past :0 #Since it's only been a few months - considerably less than half a year even! - my style hasn't developed much in the meantime #You'd think that would make it relatively easy to translate from paper to digital but no actually lol #Not me thriving on novelty and recent art is too familiar lol #It's good to know though ♪ #And I'm still rather proud of the original so I was half like ''What can I improve here'' - I did improve some stuff! So that's neat #Plus I got to do weird stuff like with Edgar's halo and Scriabin's horn and tail! Neat #And kind of finally drew his wings digitally! Ah! #Still definitely want to return to that when I have time to dedicate to them properly haha

[catilinas]

why IS a greek chorus like a lawyer. well yes they are both in the business of searching for a precedent. but there;s also the human sacrifice thing

#i love that line of antigonick but also many many thoughts on it as a translation #ALSO many reasons a greek chorus is Not like a lawyer but then. are they the witnesses or the jury or both #BUT THEN. if the chorus are the jury what is the audience? if i think too hard about these things the entirety of robert icke's oresteia #will start playing in my head. hashtag the child is the price hashtag there is a death outstanding #hashtag people quoting 'she's been dead since the beginning' as if it's just from The Oresteia and not icke's weird wild and sexy adaption #die by my sword you haven't experienced 3 hours and 40 minutes of Play That Turns Your Brain Inside Out #but that is a post for. another time. but also when people do just reference that quote as The Oresteia im like #you have not read it and i do not respect you #beeps

[coquelicoq]

raksura for the ask meme?

YAY

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) moon was designed in a lab to appeal to me personally, so. it's about the trust issues!

scrunkly (my "baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) the sky copper clutch!! traumatized children imprinting on a guy with baby fever is usually what i go to fanfic for so to have it right there in canon? incredible. i love all of frost's little tantrums and idk, just the way that she claims moon as her family in a way that has nothing to do with court politics? she's like, we're your clutch, obviously. and this is our court because it's your court, and all the other jabronis who live here are on thin ice. she's ready to throw down with moon's wife/the government at all hours of the day and she's like six years old. i love that moon has that energy in his life even though he personally is pretty confused and exhausted by it lol.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) it's hard out here for an ember stan because he is in so few scenes relative to the space he occupies in my psyche! i need 5000% more interactions between him and moon. him and stone. him and shade. him and river. him and the teachers. him and the clutches. him and jade and balm and chime. oh my god him and malachite? him and celadon? him and delin??

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) niran. i'm always up for a "longsuffering ship captain resigns himself to another restless night of hearing gigantic shapeshifters with incredible stamina fuck nasty on the roof of his cabin" moment. technically i have never been in that exact situation, but i feel like i can relate.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) river who is CLASSIC poor little meow meow territory like yes his whole personality is being a grade A asshole and sure he tries to kill my blorbo a few times, but once you get to know him he's so sad and pathetic that i'm kind of like okay where can i sign up to defend him from the largely factual aspersions of his dozens of quite frankly justified haters? he'd hate that. the good shit 👌

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) stone. every time he crankily says "why did i ever reproduce" upon finding himself entangled in yet another ridiculous clusterfuck thanks to one of his hundreds of idiot great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, an angel gets its wings. he's depressed and antisocial but he can't totally check out because he has to mediate relationship issues between his dumbass relatives. love that for him.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) malachite but specifically because malachite would not be scared of superhell. she'd skulk around being invisible, maybe fuck some shit up if she felt like it, and leave when she got bored. she probably makes it like. opal night's sister city or something. and nobody in the court is at all phased. yeah that's our reigning queen who recently got back from vacation in superhell. she does that. she says it's relaxing.

#yooo thank you for asking for this one!! i had already started thinking about it because river is like. plmms of all time for me #he's the platonic ideal of a plmm in my book #books of the raksura #asks #anon #every few months i check the ember ao3 tag to see if there are any new fics and there hardly ever are. but i live in hope #the moon-ember diplomatic attache tag team would be off the chain. it's all i would ever think about #ember was raised to be an imperial consort in a harem drama and he gets there and the empress is just like. #a deadly grizzly bear with no table manners who loves children and can't read and gets his feelings hurt really easily #moon tells him a bedtime story the second time they meet and ember is like #wow i love you. i'd die for you. if you'll be my bodyguard i can be your long-lost anger translator #a match made in heaven 🥰 #meanwhile moon is picking up on none of this and is like. well i guess nobody's going to want me anymore now that they have #a REAL consort. he even knows how to pour tea. bastard. but i have to look out for him because he's so young and innocent. dammit #but if anyone actually needs to be looked out for in the cutthroat world of court politics it's moon. and ember is the one who can do that #i love the idea of indigo cloud needing moon to fulfill some diplomatic function and everyone knowing that the only way #to get him to agree is to send ember to point his big sad eyes at him #ember likes to hang out in moon's bower just dressing him up like a doll. moon submits to this with resigned forbearance #if anyone else tries it he bites off their entire head

[uldahstreetrat]

okay so various headcanon rambling here quick about Zana cause she's my kiddo and I love her

I've been playing with the idea of her being bilingual for a while but couldn't quite decide on like, what that second language's irl equivalent would be? like Ishgard and French, I couldn't decide what language would work well for Ala Mhigo imo but I think for the time being I'll settle on Turkish, as suggested by my husband

that being said I've been recently reminded that the Echo just -- translates language for you??? and Zana suddenly gets the Echo in post ShB so what a TRIP that has to be

I don't even know which language it would translate into for her?? both, randomly, dependent on how she's thinking that day?? kid is gonna be going through it fr lmao

#like I'm not even bilingual - well now fluently - but will still randomly and on accident say an entire sentence in Spanish out loud #and then have to translate back to myself to remember what the fuck I just said #and my sister will randomly speak Spanish around the house and I would never be able to translate what the fuck she just said #if I was actually thinking about it #but we'll carry on a convo between Spanish and English for a few minutes before I notice sometimes #I can only imagine how much weirder that gets when it's suddenly being translated in your head for you #language is so weird #ffxiv #ff14 #tagging these rambles cause I wouldn't mind some headcanon sharing aha #love hearing other thoughts from yall

[caramelteaa]

Hey guys can we made a post full of your favorite, rawest quotes from QSMP?

Like let's make it long. I'll go first :D

"It's all fun and game, untill it happens to you."

"I'm not holding a fucking funeral, chat, 'cuz she's not dead!"

#these two are the ones on top of my head #they just happened both be from q!slime #reblog and leave yours! #no hiding gold in the tags!!! #but you can leave your silly thoughts :D #I just want a list of cool qsmp quotes tbh #so I can try using these to drag my friends in #oh oh and don't be scared to leave ones thats not in English #we've got google translate on our sides!!!! #qsmp #qsmpblr #qsmp slimecicle #qsmp charlie slimecicle

[cillyscribbles]

i love you broken speech i love you heavy accents i love you regional dialects i love you pidgins i love you sociolinguistics i love you beginner speakers i love you interjections i love you language

#learning language is genuinely such a magical thing #(ie absolute hell while you're doing it but god it feels so GOOD afterwards) #kinda like art. guess that's why i like it haha #cilly.txt #i'm just. man! thinking today #thinking about how my friends keep enduring me rambling on and on about lithuanian registers near daily because i find them so fascinating #thinking about how i sometimes say a phrase i translated in my head and get a weird look because it's not a thing in english #thinking about how nice it is to be taught by people who can tell just how GARBAGE you are right now but theyre genuinely thrilled #that youre trying and making an effort #thinking about how my teacher fr just told me to stick my tongue out so i could pronounce the danish 'dd' easier #thinking about how some kids had to spell out their names 3 times to me in lithuanian sign language because it was my first time there #but god were they thrilled when i finally got it #man #humans #learning #it's all so incredible isn't it #just #what an experience my god

[the-mariachi-96]

I'm a Harry Potter fan, and I love my three girls, so I decided to talk about it!

but first, their houses.

Azula would be Ravenclaw, (I know, I know everyone will say she would definitely be Slytherin, but no) Azula is extremely intelligent, creative and resourceful, and we all know that she is a big nerd who loves to learn everything.

And maybe his second home would be Slytherin.

Mai would definitely be Slytherin. Very few think that maybe she wouldn't be ambitious or determined, I don't care.

That girl is more ambitious than Voldemort and determined than the whole fucking world.

(I won't do an analysis of his personality, since I'm not good at explaining about characters).

Ty Lee would be Hufflepuff or Gryffindor (I feel like she's more Hufflepuff), listen, many think that Huffs are just cute and adorable and sunny people should go there, but Ty Lee is more than just an adorable face, she is fierce and sends hell. to all the world. She is loyal (She didn't want either of her two girlfriends to get hurt, and Azula was closer), she is hardworking (she had to work at the circus) and among other things.

But I also think that she is Gryffindor, she has courage (she literally ran away from home at such a young age), she is brave, and she is adventurous (among others).

#Maizulee's legacy #azula #mai #ty lee #maizulee #atla #avatar the last airbender #hp #harry potter #I just wanted to talk about their houses because I wanted to get it out of my head. #That's right #I have been thinking about your houses for a long time #don't judge me for that. #traductor #translator

[professorlegaspi]

In my special self-indulgent headcanon version of speech gifts, telepathy is a mind gift, but the equivalently difficult Speech gift is speaking in concepts

#so instead of using words you use straight concepts #this is a difficult skill not just because of its technical challenge but because there’s a proverbial language barrier #The way you think about something the way you understand certain ideas is different than other people’s #So communicating in concepts becomes a very intimate act in which you must intrinsically learn to #wrap your head around someone else’s worldview and respond in kind #The way I imagine it when you get to this level of study Speech classes begin to resemble anthropology #for example #what is a woman? What is a house? Are these concepts immutable? #How do those ideas translate across the bounds of culture? How do you specifically conceptualize these things? #One of the final assessments in Speech is choosing a word and defending how/why you conceptualize it the way you do. #You do this in a conversation with a professor that is held entirely in the language of concepts #It’s not just an assessment of eloquence but an assessment of whether you’ve #thought about how and in what ways you want to participate in society #anyways #yeah #I can and will extrapolate about dem sense higher ed and speech gifts and are so fun and malleable #celias journey #speech gifts #worldbuilding

[spotsupstuff]

me eating your art + interpretations + headcanons furiously How are you so correct about everything always

GJDSKLAJGLKSDMCKLMLKG JESUS CHRIST LIKE A SHREDDER well i was born...! with a brain.......!!!!! in europe......... matured to the point i can confidently say "fuck it we ball" and make the interpretations spin around what makes me happy i guess LIGMšLKLAšKLGKCSL IDK MAN

#Spot says stuff #i sniff at things and then bite them real hard #ALSO im so sorry its taking me so long to get to ur request waugh!!!!!! #im just kind of standing with my hands on my hips trying to figure out how the fuck am i gonna translate your masterpiece of artwork + clrs #-into my minimalistic piece of zoomin shit style i am WORKIN on it the gears in the head are turnin i swear they are