#but now I gotta go lay down

[funeralpotatoesorbust]

With the changes to the For Strength of Youth, I was thinking about theoretically getting another piercing, and it made me physically panicked and nauseous lol

#I saw this really pretty threader earring designed for three piercing on tiktok and it got me thinking #but now I gotta go lay down #Jenna tells the internet things that should be told to a therapist

[kitocrystal]

Checking out other Quest AUs as I wait for my will to come back to continue with Inky Mystery.

(The conflict has not let down yet and I’m starting to feel dread)

Anyway, go check out this neato retell of the og Quest story by @thequestfortheinkmachinecomics. The characters’ designs are nicely touched up, their personalities seems more natural now, the art is really cool and oh no, I’ve run out of juice for words… I just know that this retell will be good so I’ll be on along for this ride.

#kitos art #fanart #bendy and boris the quest for the ink machine #babtqftim #tqftimc #cuphead #bendy #no that isn’t bendystraw #mugman #boris #felix #felix the cat #i’ve posted art a lil nonstop for the past few weeks i gotta lay down and rest for a while #eughghhgt #my brain’s a soup now #none more energy #aaaaaaaa #i wanted to also draw more art for JaAC #but i need to take a break or else i really am gonna have a burnout #i slightly mimick the style of the au i draw #with my own influences ofc #so expect diff styles and designs for diff aus cOugh #just waitin for the father-son stuff #im mushy for my favs getting caring parental figures #just makes my heart go hgngnhg #alr ill stop talking now and go to sleep #or take a nap

[inklore]

JORDAN GOING INTO PROTECTIVE MODE AND MOVING CLOSER TO MARIE WHEN CATE CAME INTO THE ROOM!!!! I’M GOING INSANE!!! EVERYONE SHUT UP!!!

#the squeal that left my body needs to be studied #jordan really said i'm a marie human shield now i live and breathe to protect the loml everyone can catch these hands #i'll be thinking about this all day and i gotta go lay down #jordan li #marie moreau #gen v #jordan x marie #jordanmarie #gen v spoilers #THEMM <333 #ʚ laurs art ɞ

[b4kuch1n]

What is this for, love? Home, or glory?

#pokemon #swsh #assistant sonia #gym leader nessa #aquaheartshipping #mermay #on a technicality dskjfhjk but hey. it is the base concept #maybe later on in the month there will be an actual monster. but for now. themb #happy baku draws dr. jones and callie again!! I still think about them. about dr. jones' six phds #instead of going home to ur wife!! ma'am #this was fully like. me fucking around with colors probably. I was just coasting my digital energy while its still there #and then. here it is #the full res file of this is very big #my last two digital things are all drawn on a giant canvas lol #(the other digital thing. u gotta wait to see. itll be awesome) #this tho. this is here on time. fish!! #I may need to lay down #well what else is new!! I gotta wake up early tomorrow to marinade the stuff. so. you know how it is #have a good night!! home or glory its all good!

[gayhoediaz]

they’re so each other coded i’m sorry

#started it to be silly now i gotta go lay down #lalo salamanca #rio martinez #better call saul #good girls nbc #bcs #bcsedit #goodgirlsedit #lalosalamancaedit #riomartinezedit #parallels #usernie

[tillman]

anyways. chipp for you.

#ok now i gotta at least turn on the lights or go lay down my eyes hurt. oops. #txt

[what-if-angels]

I just moved my cat into our apartment about twelve hours ago and she’s very anxious and hasn’t moved before, save for when she was a kitten and moved into our house. It is currently about 2:45 AM and I’m trying to sleep on a futon on the kitchen floor near the bathroom she chose to stay in. Unsurprisingly, I’m sleeping poorly, and now that she feels safe enough, she’s walking around and exploring, which means I can’t SLEEP. My girlfriend’s cat is territorial, and although she’s confined into a different part of the apartment, they can still see each other and I don’t want them flipping out, so I really gotta supervise.

Anyway, post = I wanna sleep

#self post #and I had a DREAM #and I was sleeping on this same futon in the dream and it was strsssful #Nona won’t lay down and snuggle with me #or stay still at all really #OUGH THAR SHE GOES AGAIN #AHHHHH #it’s good #she’s gotta get used to it here and I’m not going to abandon her #she has anxiety #kitty #goodnight for now I might be back

[rosicheeks]

hi Princess

i hope you are doing well

please tell us a little about your new job with the doggies!

#here are a few pictures from today 🥰🫶 #I have SO many pictures now it’s crazy #I should probably go through them cause I’m sure a lot of them are blurry but some are gems I must say #my favorite parts are probably when my yard is quiet and calm for a little bit (usually at night) and I sit down #and usually a bunch of them come rushing over to sit next to me #I can’t tell you how much I love it when a puppy lays on me or sits on my lap #it’s the best 🥰 #there are definitely a few challenges to the job but I’m sure I’ll be able to deal #the hard part is it doesn’t give me enough hours and I don’t think it’ll be enough $$ either #so I’m gonna have to find another job which really really sucks #I’m already so exhausted with this one idk how I’m gonna juggle another one on top of it #but I need to figure out a way to get my own car and move out of my parents place #I love my parents so much but why can’t they just let me be me? #my friend literally said it sounds like they’re putting me on a leash and that’s EXACTLY what it feels like #not gonna get into it but it’s been rough lately #life hasn’t been the best so I’m sorry I’ve been so quiet lately #haven’t replied to anyone in awhile #but thankfully work has been good and I’ve been able to meet some amazing angels 🫶🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️ #I just wish it paid better #also gotta figure out a way to wear my headset so it doesn’t trigger my migraines cause that’s been a struggle #really really REALLY hope one day I’m able to get my own puppy but at least for now I get to take care of other dogs 🥰🥰🥰🥰 #ask #thanks for asking 🫶

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Me, yesterday, 5:30 PM: wow I’m honestly doing so great at my adult tasks; I’ve gotten some homework done, I went grocery shopping, my laundry is almost dry. I spent so many spoons and I barely feel tired! Maybe I’m finally fully recovering from burnout!

Me, yesterday, 6:00 PM: oh.

#turns out that I was not drawing from an unlimited spoon supply when I spent spoons so fast #and instead was overdrawing #because at 5:59 I thought ‘oh you know I’m a bit tired I should lay down’ #and then spent almost six hours in Nap Hell as I laid down too tired to get up and take my sleep meds #but also not really sleeping consistently. like dozing except I didn’t want to. #woke up ~11:50 and apparently sent some very misspelled messages to my friends #took sleep meds. and then passed out until morning. #so… I’ve learned something here. such as ‘even if you feel fine. you know you’re spending too many spoons. slow down.’ #I’m gonna try to go to bed early tonight too #and just. rest. bc I know Thursday is going to be a lot for me bc of my ASL class. #just gotta get these labs done first #the exhaustion is partially also my fault bc instead of going to bed after getting home from the airport #I did in fact go straight to DND and played until midnight because DND is Monday nights now. #but in my defense. I had napped on the plane. so I didn’t feel v tired. #but yeah I shouldn’t have done that bc that meant I was operating on a Significant Sleep Deficit yesterday and still had a lot of tasks #that absolutely could not wait. I needed food bc I didn’t have any in the house and needed laundry bc all my wearable clothes were dirty. #and I’d been in class since 9:30AM and went straight to the store from my last class and then straight to laundry after putting away grifos #and STILL FORGOT TO GET GAS #it’s fine I’ll get some today after chemistry or smth on the way home

[ferrettooth]

local area woman is swallowed by insurmountable love for everything and everyone through persistence of grieving the moments barely passed!!

#and that woman...is [REDACTED] #heard a song that made me feel things past dissociative sonder...need to lay down for 5 billion years now thanks #hey man remember-- yes. i remember it all #heard a music and i am going so insane over it (i want to cry while i stand in the bread aisle #u ever hear smth u gotta take ur headphones off like....enough! enough. #personal

[skydigiblogs]

back on my bullshit (thinking about translation theory in the context of my silly little monster cartoons <3)

(this ended up so so fucking long so i put it under a read more lmao)

specifically thinking about it in the context of like a handful of world/postcolonial lit courses we took and some anth courses

what i mean by that is like

when it comes to just literature there are already so many things that have to be taken into account for translation! let's say you're taking a poem. in its native language, that poem has a sound, a rhythm, a way of communicating that a lot of poetry in a lot of languages do. when you translate it to another language, like english, are you going to translate in a way that preserves the meaning most, or a way that attempts to approximate the meaning while preserving the synesthetic qualities of its sounds?

the homeric epics are a really fun example for comparative translation analysis imo. and i mean fun because there are so many translations of them into english, and at least one madlad decided to make a prose translation of an epic poem. only recently did the first translation of the poem by a woman get published, and that revealed that a lot of biases in the linguistic nuance were kind of getting smoothed over like a crease in clay.

(i have a copy of emily wilson's translation but am not the guy who reads classics in our system, i just write the essays lmao. but she wrote multiple times about the theory of translation she was working with and if you're at all interested in this topic, look her up.)

but even if you aren't translating a text from antiquity and are, say, working with a more contemporary example of literary translation, you still have to bridge the gap between two cultures that may be very different. just a word for word translation may not work too, because figurative language like idioms might not be understood by the language you're translating to.

the amount of cultural knowledge required to sculpt a truly effective translation that preserves the image of the original while making it comprehensible to an otherwise ignorant audience is just. so cool to me. i say this as someone who could never really do translation work myself, on account of not having that kind of complex grasp on another language than my native one, of course, but you don't have to be fluently billingual to understand what i'm talking about here, imo.

another example, and one that i actually wrote comparative analysis on, is work from charles baudelaire's les fleurs du mal ("the flowers of evil"). works of short poetry are effective case studies in what different translations can look like, because translations of baudelaire's poetry still portray the subject matter in a way that is presumably true to the original french. while something may always be lost in translation (there's a saying for a reason there), the philosophy behind one's translation can also highlight one's own reading of a text, and offer a closer insight into said text for foreign audiences (me, it's me, i'm the foreign audience reading charles baudelaire in world lit and going absolutely insane about translation theory).

for my mileage, you end up seeing a paradigm between translations that span between "strict" and "loose," if that makes any sense. a strict translation makes no changes in its translation, preserving the literature in its entirety as it is translated, to the best approximation possible where a direct translation is impossible. a loose translation meanwhile may make more artistic choices in its translation, foregoing certain details in order to better articulate the artistry in the original work.

okay, now, the reason i'm thinking about this today, right now.

in literature this is already a complex subject, but when you get into other forms of art, like animation in the case of this blogs primary topic, there become a lot more moving parts. like with literature, there's going to be the simple fact of looking into a cultural window and trying to communicate that snapshot to foreigners.

with subtitling, you can add things like translator's notes. this is a non-diegetic method of communicating information to your audience, and you can see it present in literature as well (footnotes or endnotes are a frequent addition to many translated works; hell, they're common even in non-translated works). in animated works where there are vocal tracks (like anime openings or insert songs), you can also have subtitles for those, no problem!

however, when it comes to dubbing, you automatically include more elements to juggle in your translation work. you have to take into account individual voice, background tracks, visuals, etc. etc.. the method most dubs handle translating the work often discourages non-diegetic methods of communicating information, so you're less likely to see translator's notes in dub work. sometimes this even includes changing on-screen text so that a foreign audience can read it.

the lengths to which a dubbing company is willing to censor in translation is also, obviously, a conversation worth noting (see again my losing my shit at pinnochimon packing heat). a phenomenon i'm sure we've all noticed when it comes to dubbing (as opposed to most translations of literature i've seen) is that dubs may market to a specific age range in translation. sometimes that may end up defanging a work's themes, or changing them entirely. the censorship of a dub may come out of a cultural difference or hesitance to show certain subjects to a younger audience, but regardless it is part of the theory behind some dub work.

i don't really have a conclusion to this, but it's just in my mind a lot while i'm watching some of these series for the first time subbed. by all means, i don't think dubbing is a bad thing (if anything it's complex), but having the experience of watching the sub is allowing me to do a type of comparative analysis i don't think i've ever had the chance to actively do.

i know that there are folks who have done more thorough comparative analysis work than i'll probably end up doing, of course (there are so many wonderful blogs here on tumblr alone about that meta-analysis). it's just that i'm enjoying engaging with a childhood interest in a way that i suppose i didn't know i wanted to do so badly.

#sky talks #digimon #digimon adventure 02 #i am not proof reading this so if anything is phrased weirdly my apologies baksdfbjhbdfs #digimon is just out here reminding me why we're trying to go to grad school lmfao and i gotta ramble #//lays flat on my office carpet contemplating translation theory for another 3000 years// #it's really funny because i almost slipped out of front on account of a flare up trying to kick our ass #i've been laying down for four hours watching digimon now though and it's like #“oh yeah right the digimon guy gets to be in front for when we watch digimon” #and here we are

[aria0fgold]

I just realized that I've gotten old enough that my old habit of waking up and immediately going about my day will not work anymore because of the risk of low blood pressure resulting in fainting.

#aria rants #earlier today i woke up with the urge to pee. so i just opened my eyes and then got up immediately with no pause #speedwalked to the bathroom then did my business there but as i sat there i could feel it again. and i was like: ohfuck #i had to quickly finish up then speedwalked again to my room to immediately lie down cuz if i spent another second #out of bed im gonna have a bad time. and then i could feel my heart struggling to catch up from just on the verge #of slowing down to beating normally cuz it was a quick action from my heart noticing the low blood pressure to my brain #to suddenly being provided just the right amount and i was lying there like: would a handstand help speed this process up #like back then when i was attending school. my mom would wake me up and then id just get up right after cuz i was like: #if i stay laying down i might end up sleeping again so better to get up alrdy. and also cuz i had a strict schedule #so waking up is the very start of it and i gotta just get going once that happens but now if i try to do smth like that #my body hates it and immediately punishes me for it so now i gotta spend a few mins just lying there after waking up

[wellhalesbells]

15 Questions, 15 (or whatever) Tags

I was tagged by @kikiroo​ - thank you!!  *heart hug!*

1. Were you named after anybody?

Nope.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Um, I cannot stress enough that I cry at the drop of a hat in fictional situations (pretty much never in real life) so it was either Ted Lasso or reading The Celebrants by Steven Rowley, or it could’ve been The Emperor’s Bone Palace by Hailey Turner - I just finished that.  I can’t remember if I did or not, but I was so stressed out, I probably did, things went poorly for a bit there and I was a wreck.

3. Do you have kids?

I do not and have no plans to.  I’ve never wavered on that, I’ve always been very ‘who knows, could change,’ about it but so far: nah.  And I feel like if I had ever wavered, my sister having two pandemic babies and me being her entire village (I am the only relative who lives in the same state.  And the people who are best at babies do not live in the same country.) has nudged me more firmly towards: that’s really not for you, broh.  I love them to death but I am so glad I get breaks where I just get to be a selfish monster for seventy-two hours straight.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Neever.

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

I played soccer for maybe a few weeks in middle school and then I was like: this is just running, and running is so much worse than sitting, was everyone aware of that?  I’ll be on the bench if you need me. *throws up a peace sign*  Though I did just tell my sister that I would absolutely fucking kill at basketball against K-1st graders and I stand by that.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about someone?

Sense of humor.  Honestly, I don’t know if it’s an ace thing or not, but I can’t even describe people beyond: heightish and hairish until you interest me as a person, which is usually because you make me laugh.  It’s kind of embarrassing sometimes because I really do not notice, and sometimes I’ll be asked to describe someone I’ve been in the vicinity of for, like, two months and I’m like: I genuinely cannot tell you a single thing about this person, I’m so sorry.  I just don’t track details.  That’s why I try really hard with names.  I can’t tell you what they look like in any detail (do they wear glasses? Have freckles? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), but I can tell you their name.  And sometimes that can feel like a superpower tbqh, because you know who people come to find out the new person’s name: moi.

7. Eye color?

Blue.

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Oh scary movies, hands down.  They’re my favoritest things.  I regularly have them on as background noise.

9. Any special talents?

If I do have them, they’re a secret even to me.  I like to have that Kathleen Madigan mindset about it: “What if we’re all prodigies, but it’s just at something we’ve never tried yet? ... What if I sat down at a pottery wheel and made a cup and people were like: Holy Christ, lady, that is the most phenomenal cup ever made.”  It could happen!

10. Where were you born?

St. Pete, Florida.

11. What are your hobbies?

Writing, reading, tending to an imaginary beluga whale that lives in my nephew’s bathtub, creating to do lists over and over again that I have no intention of ever completing, and playing Pokemon Go.  There’s a girl at my work and we were the two nerds who were really into it, we would get together, do the fests and the raids and community days and such.  We have now converted half our workplace into either reactivating their accounts or creating them and there are now at least two more people who are just as - if not more - into it than we are.  (Like, they had to make a Pokemon Go policy because of us spreading it like a virus, lololol.)

12. Do you have any pets?

I have a doggo that I accidentally made obsessed with me and super introverted.  You know how they say owners start to resemble their dogs?  Nope.  I broke her and now we like to stay in, are wary of strangers, and essentially try to occupy the same space at all times - I blame COVID, honestly, we were both way more normal before that.  Or she was, anyway.  The good news is I can let her off leash ‘cause she’s going precisely zero places without me.

13. How tall are you?

5’

14. Favorite subject in school?

English in high school, Evolutionary Psychology in college.

15. Dream job?

I hate to say it but: I do not dream of labor.  Anything I’m passionate about doing, I would immediately tarnish by needing it to now be the source of my livelihood.  It would lose all its joy because I would put immense pressure on it.

Though if I could somehow make bank through sleeping? Yeah, that.

I don’t know who to tag because I feel like I’ve seen everyone do this on my dash so: um, whoever hasn’t done it yet and wants to - consider this me tagging you!

#meme answers #meme #if you've ever met me you're probably like 'how are YOU your sister's whole village??!' and like YEAH #i don't know what my sister's doing here tbh #she HATES cold weather but she wanted to leave dc and was like: where are you moving and i was like: #washington in six months and she was like: cool i'll go check it out with my boyfriend on a road trip #and then she got pregnant on the road trip and now they're married and live here lol #this is nOT where they want to be - either one of them #they want hot hot hot weather #(which i despise - my sister's trying to come up w a compromise state and i'm like: *gently* those are opposites my love) #they want to be in florida but i was like: dude you gotta homeschool if you go there #and my sister's already like: i don't like the american scool system in general so you're not wrong #and the draw there is my parents who...... do not like children and are not that interested lol #HIS parents are but they live in occupied palestine soooooo ???? THOSE are the options lol #(occupied palestine is winning just on florida politics alone ???) #not to say i don't ADORE them being here and wouldn't miss them like crazy if they left #but i do wish their bench were deeper than me bc i am already laying down and reading a book on there

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#tfw a wave of pain that hits u so hard ur like. uh oh. i gotta go home now #i put stuff in the autoclave and then it hit me so hard i started sweating. i limped home. layed on the floor for half and hour #and then wandered back to pick up the glassware and go back home #i feel a lot better now that the ibuprofen has kicked in and im laying down. but woof. usually i dont get any pain #but then come the weeks like this. my sympathies for the ppl with sever and consistant period pain. i do not envy u #<- i wrote that this morning. i feel pretty normal now. hope that doesn't happen again tomorrow bc that sucked #now i just gotta stress abt finding an apartment and thinking abt what i wanna draw #like do i do something for b4rricade day. or n4ruto. or b4tman. im really feeling thr b4tman vibes #or do i just do nature stuff. ugh but god that takes so long with the coloring. oh shit. i aslo have a m3rlin thing half done #so many options. so much going on. my chaotic brain is flailing. just pick something bro #unrelated

[theamazingannie]

Fun thing about cleaning my room is I’ll find something I was using like a week ago buried deep under my bed in a pile of old receipts and candy wrappers and then also find something I haven’t seen in MONTHS like right there sitting exposed on the floor

#don’t understand this #Im so close to getting this room the most organized that it’s been since I moved in a year ago #but i gotta clean the junk out from underneath my bed and somehow that’s worse than everything else I’ve done #all motivation i had last week as disappeared this week #but i got a new shelf set up to put stuff that was laying around the floor on #i got my books all neatly lined up on the bookshelf I’ve had for months but had only put random junk on instead #got my earrings all sorted and put away except the ones missing their twin #which are set aside until they are matched #finally hung up my whiteboard calendar and got the dates down #not that I have anything going on I really need a calendar for lmao #but It’s magnetic so i departed it with some magnets and now I actually have some decoration in here aside from my eras poster #all my clothes are organized and anything I don’t wear is put in bins for me to shove against the wall #until they can hopefully one day be put in storage #for me to have when I hopefully one day move out and actually have use for party clothes #after a whole year of being in this room it actually feels lived in rather than just a storage room with a futon #It’s still half a storage room but it’s also now half me #unfortunately my shelf is cheap and the hooks can’t bare the weight of my jackets even with gorilla tape #so this weekend I gotta try to figure out what to do about that #need something stronger to support the weight #or maybe just more gorilla tape lol #anyways not that anyone is reading this but it is 3am and I can’t sleep so I decided to clean #but i think I’m just gonna read #or maybe play the sims #or maybe continúe to sit ln the floor mindlessly scrolling through tumblr

[aflockofravens]

I AM UNWELLLLLLLLLLL

#guess who just watched the new episode #hint: ITS ME #it's trauma all the way down #i was not as traumatized as i expected #but GODDAMN #i do have one pretty large gripe with the episode though #malevolent KITCHEN?! #KITCHEN?!?!?! #there's nothing malevolent about a KITCHEN #anyways #Mappa pay your goddamn animators #they're doing the Lord's work #i gotta go lay down now #spoilers #jjk spoilers #ep 17 spoilers #jujutsu kaisen spoilers #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #thinky thoughts