#especially funny bc like. no one is leaving comments in spanish which i do speak. nor any other language that i don’t speak

[rollercoasterwords]

obsessed w the confidence of the people who comment fully in portuguese on my fics. never once have i said that i speak portuguese nor indicated that i can understand it yet there r multiple people out there leaving multi-sentence comments & sometimes even paragraphs in a language i do not speak. just fully confident that no language barrier will stop the message from getting across…i love u

#also i do speak enough spanish 2 get the gist of what’s been said so. it works out #& translators exist as well etc…still i just find it funny & charming #especially funny bc like. no one is leaving comments in spanish which i do speak. nor any other language that i don’t speak #it is specifically just portuguese in my comments. portuguese-speakers ur confidence is unmatched #honestly at this point i’ve been gaslit like. did i accidentally tell u guys i speak portuguese at some point #txt

[cabinofimagines]

Can I kiss you? (Leo Valdez xFem!Reader)

A/N: Wassup I’m back uwu college ripped a part of my soul but hey, Leo can always fix it, right? -Danny

Requests: Can you pleaseee do another leovaldez x hispanic reader!! I really love the first one ♥️// Oh my gosh I love your work, so I was wondering if you could do a Leo Valdez x reader where the reader is Percy's sister and her and Leo are best friends, and she constantly gets bullied by Drew bc she’s latina and Percy defends her but she gets really sad about it and Leo tries to figure out why. So like a protective/comforting  Leo imagine? I know this is long and probably confusing but I feel like you’ll do a great job.

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Warnings: maybe slight racists comments coming from Drew? The random cursing, and uh, spanish lmao 

She was doing it again. 

Drew, she was making fun of my accent. Which is not so bad, I know it cause I’ve lived here for a really long time, practically my whole life. My accent is just fine. Drew is evil, and for some reason, she decided I was her favorite target, so this is the kind of shit I have to deal with every day.

Today was different, though. I was definitely not in the mood, my head hurt after a bad night of sleep and my arms were sore from all the training.

“Drew, can you move?” I mumble tiredly after finishing my sword training, “My water bottle is there...”

“Sorry, your what?” She smiles innocently, “Y/N you need to speak up, I barely understand what you’re saying”

“Come on, Drew not now,” I try to reach for my bottle but she gets in the way, “are you serious?”

“Y/N, I’m just trying to help you,” She puts a hand on her chest, “if you never get to speak properly people will never take you seriously.”

“You’re the only one nagging about it,” I reply, “leave me alone and move out of my way!”

“What is going on here?” Percy notices my demeanor and quickly approaches, “Y/N, are you alright?”

“I’m fine,” I lie.

“It’s all okay, Jackson,” Drew raises a brow, “I’m just giving some... advice.”

She walks out without even looking at me, her friends following close.

“Hey, are you sure you’re okay?” Percy puts a hand on my shoulder, “I know Drew can be a pain in your ass most of the times”

“I just need a nap, I’ll be fine” I shrug, gently pushing his hand away, “don’t worry about me, okay?”

I walk away, not noticing Leo coming from the other side of the arena.

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“Hey, Y/N!.. Y/N?” He walks up to where Percy is and nudges his arm.

“What’s up with your sister?”

“Drew,” Percy sighs, “she was probably making fun of her again, I can’t tell didn’t get there fast enough”

“Is she okay?”

“She says she is, but to be honest, I think she’s fed up about it, maybe I should go talk to her...”

“I’ll do it,” Leo offered quickly.

Percy gave him a funny look, he kinda had the feeling that Leo had a crush on his sister, but he wasn’t going to mingle in their business.

“Sure,” He gives him a small smile, “I hope it goes well.”

“Don’t worry, man, I got this,” Leo winked at him, making his way over to cabin 3. 

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I kick off my shoes and lay on my bed face-down, not wanting to know about the world outside my cabin for at least the next two hours. When I hear the door opening and closing I figure it must be Percy, trying to make sure I am really okay, so I speak up in a tired voice.

“Prissy, I’m fine. Please just let me sleep...”

“Buenas, buenas,” I hear a voice that is nothing like my brother’s but that I know too well, “How’s the sea monster doing today?”

“Leo,” I grin, turning to a side so I can see him, “you can’t be here, you know it’s not allowed”

“Oh, so now you’re playing by the rules?” He raises his eyebrows, “that’s new.”

“Shut up,” I throw him a pillow that he easily avoids, “I’m not in the mood for your teasing, I just need a nap.”

“Yeah, I heard about that,” He scratches the back of his neck, “Drew, right?”

“Drew. What a pen...” I stop mid-sentence, deciding to keep the word to myself, “you know, I was about to offend her with a really strong Spanish word, but I don’t think she’s even worth it.”

“Que alma tan amable...” He says teasingly. (Such a kind soul)

“What can I say? Asi me hizo mi mamá,” I wink, returning the smile. (That’s how my mom made me)

He laughs and sits beside me, starting to play with my hair.

“No, but really,” He adds in a careful tone, “are you okay?”

“Is not like I’m not used to it,” I sigh.

I move to my left a bit so Leo can fully sit on the bed, but he decides to lay next to me. Both of us are now facing the ceiling 

“Today it was just bad enough without her stupid remarks, I think I’m just sensitive cause I didn’t sleep well last night.”

“I see,” Leo nods, brushing his hand slightly against mine, “should we take a nap, then?”

“Si!” I pout, leaning my head against his shoulder, “you’re the best.”

“Asi me hizo mi mamá,” He mocks, using the same words as me.

I laugh, looking up at him.

“Thank you for coming to make sure I was alright,” I whisper, I can see all the freckles on his face now, and I would gladly spend my whole life counting them if I could.

“Hey, you’re always there for me when I need someone to talk to,” He frowns slightly, “what kind of best friend would I be if I weren’t there for you?”

“A shitty one,” I giggle.

“A crappy, bad friend,” He replies with the same playful tone.

“Totally not worth my time,” I scrunch up my nose, raising my hand and gently stroking his cheek.

“Boring to hang out with,” He continues, looking at me with a strange glint in his eyes.

He reaches up for my hand and holds it still, smiling at the contact. I don’t try to move it away, it’s weird how comfortable I feel on his arms, like this is where I should be at all times. Part of me always thinks about it, not gonna lie. But today...

It feels like he might think about it too.

“You know,” He rubs small circles on the back of my hand, he’s never been able to keep his hands still even for one moment, but that’s somehow reassuring, a reminder that he’s real, and he’s with me, “I’m glad to know those are all lies, and that you think I’m worth your time.”

“You’re getting sappy about it?” I smile softly.

“What now? I know I’m usually the class clown but dammit I’m allowed to get sentimental,” He complains and after I let out an honest laugh, he adds, “especially if it’s about you”

I freeze instantly, opening my mouth to speak but being unable to ask what I wanna ask so badly.

“You should, uh- we should try to have that nap,” He offers, blushing madly after his latter statement, “cause you’re tired, and I’m tired, we don’t want to start saying nonsense because of our weariness, right? I mean-” 

“Leo,” I interrupt.

“Yes?” He asks in a panicky voice.

“Can I kiss you?”

His eyes widened for a second, but I was surprised to see the certainty on his face when he finally answered:

“Yes. Please, kiss me.” 

I lean over, Leo gently cups my face with the hand that was holding mine moments ago and pulls me closer. 

When we finally kiss I forget everything. Why was I so upset before, when I could’ve been kissing Leo instead? Our breathing is in sync, I have my eyes closed but I can tell he’s smiling against my lips. When we break apart, he’s beaming.

“What was that for?”

“I think I’m just happy to have you in my life,” My heartbeat is so loud on my ears I could swear Leo can hear it, but he doesn’t seem to mind.

“I’m happy to have you too,” He chuckles, leaning and kissing me once more, this time deepening the kiss.

Oh, how fast happiness found me today.

#Danny's writing #leo valdez x reader #pjo imagine #pjo writing #hoo imagine #percy jackson

[jancys-blue-bayou]

Yeah so Stranger Things 3 was painfully bad

Yeah yeah big negative post about ST3 coming up. Just... holy shit, my expectations weren’t exactly high but jesus I didn’t think it’d be this bad. Wow. Mindboggling to think it was made by the same dudes who made season 1, it feels like a different show. Some of the worst writing I’ve seen in a long while, parts of season 3. This got very long because it was very bad so it’s under the cut. Starting with the few positives and then away we go...

Of course there were bright spots, I thought what we got of Jancy was generally good (just wish there had been more of it. Just like... more lines between them, a few moments could’ve gone on longer...like after the awesome hospital fight scene jesus just let them fucking desperately embrace and profess their love for each other, it was awesome how they relentlessly kept going at the monster to save the other but can we please just have a few more seconds for a comfort moment after?) I liked how they handled the fight btw, apart from the Oliver Twist comment yeah yeah heat of the moment but still felt OOC with that loa a blow. Nancy and Karen scene was nice and um... well Max and El bonding was nice. And um... Mr Clarke! And I kind of dig Murray.

My main issues with it:

- The product placement. Jesus Christ. Okay, ST has always been a show with noticeable product placement. But it’s gone from things like a Coke can prominently on display on a table in s1 (El crushing it with her mind) to literally having a straight up ad for Coca Cola in the middle of a tense scene. That’s the big offender that made me go wow you’re really doing this to yourselves huh, there are many others ofc (everything at the mall ofc, Slurpees being in hyperfocus for a bit, and a lengthy talk about Burger King. These smaller things one by one wasn’t the worst but all combined jesus it was too much, all added together and then bam the Coke commercial was wow... Congrats on the like 80 sponsorship deals and esp the new ST themed arcade hall by Coca Cola hope it was worth completely selling out for.

- Relatedly, the original fucking song. Holy christ talk about jumping the shark. That was the oddest, cringiest, weirdest shit I’ve seen in a long time. Gaten’s a great singer don’t get me wrong, but there’s a time and place for it and an original song stuffed into the middle of the tense climax of the season is not it Duffers. Just a blatant cash cow, hoping to bring in more money via the song.

- Robin. Sorry but holy cow what a Mary Sue. Hey here’s this super cool girl who’s cool™ and funny™ and super smart™ and NOT Nancy (like they seriously for real said in a scene, they actually for real had to pit Robin and Nancy against each other for no reason). And she conveniently has these specific skills needed for the plot (which she gets involved with for no real motivation other than having nothing better to do, lazy writing). Said skills were so over the top unrealistic it completely sucked me out of it. To start with, this random girl in small town Indiana in 1985 speaking French, Spanish and Italian um... does Hawkins High have the most amazing language department or what? Very un-american in that case... and okay then, her knowing those languages wouldn’t help jackshit with understanding Russian. Russian is a notoriously difficult language to learn and it is not related to the Romance languages at all, Robin knowing those languages and oh, having “a good ear” bc she’s in band (?!??! what?!) wouldn’t help her at all. Having the alphabets on the wall and listening to strange words in a foreign language she has no understanding of would never work. No way for her to understand what is she’s hearing, what letters are in the words just, nothing. It’s completely ridiculous. The good thing is she’s a lesbian, crushing Stobin that made me LOL. Btw, I don’t get what age they were writing her as? She’s still in school but later says she and Steve was in the same class, and she knows who Nancy is but Nancy, who is still in school, doesn’t know her even though presumably they’d be in the same year at little Hawkins High? Was it just sloppy writing or what?

- Too. Much. Plotting. What happened to “this season is about the characters” um there was just so much plot stuff and action sequences and barely any character driven moments at all. Those intimate moments that made s1 amazing. Generally regarding plots felt the Russian plot was messy and not well-written also what happened to the US government as the big bad? Unless they’re setting up a big Cold War thing for s4. And felt the zombie thing was wasted, could’ve been used differently like I’d have thought it’d be used like the MF spreading it’s influence over vaster areas and being harder to keep track of etc.

- Too little Will. Will’s whole thing with feeling left out etc was just dropped halfway through it felt very undercooked. His arc was just dropped wtf.

- NO BYERS FAMILY INTERACTIONS WTF. The sequence in the first episode when Jancy has overslept and Joyce wipes the lipstick off Jonathan was cute (but could’ve been even cuter I’d have preferred a short fluffy Jancy moment here just as they wake up before they realize they overslept, bc we didn’t get much pure fluff, and then it’d been awesome if Joyce would’ve just called Nancy into the house to mess with them). But like... that’s kind of it. For the Byers family. Talking to each other in the whole season. When they partnered Jancy with the kids many thought awesome we’ll get Byers bros talking and teaming up (and Nancy and Mike) but there was just nothing. Not even a family hug after the battle at the mall, just Joyce hugging Will, with all this tightknit little family has been through you telling me Jonathan wouldn’t join in?

- No Will and El bonding wtf? SUCH a wasted opportunity. They’ve built this unique awesome connection over s1 and s2 and now in s3 would finally be able to bond normally for real and... nothing.

- Turning Hopper back into an even bigger jerk than he was at the start of the show, neglecting all his character development. What was the point of the whole El and Hopper thing they devoted so much time to in s2 if Hopper’s back at it with the yelling and all now? And jeez his constant whining to Joyce about every man she interacts with holy christ that got annoying. Generally Hopper was such an annoying asshole this season I was so tired of him by the time he “died”.

- TOO MANY CHARACTERS. Jeez, I know I’m on about it all the time but jesus christ there is way way too many characters in this for 8 episodes which hurts the narrative and screentime for interesting characters is just... yeah.

- Speaking of screentime, did we really need that many identical generic fight scenes between Hopper and the Russian guy? Jesus Christ it’s so boring watching fight scenes like that, so repetitive (compare to the hospital fight scene which was dynamic and awesome). Also regarding screentime did we really need to devote so incredibly much of it to Steve and Robin being comedic relief while drugged? Yeah yeah mix light and dark and all that but jesus christ at that point in the narrative shit has hit the fan lean into the dark.

- Totally expected of course but still, the furthering of Steve Memeington. My god they actually had him literally call himself daddy... christ.

- The Billy and Karen/all the other middle age women remains gross and bad in a billion ways. Also completely pointless for the plot, they could’ve come up with any other way to get Billy to the factory. And what did it give Karen in development? Just the realization that yeah I’m tired of my husband but I’m not leaving my family and I’ll stick with him just ‘cause? Okay but did we need her almost sleeping with a kid a year older than her daughter for that? Icky. Also the editing of the scene where Billy hits her was so weird. Also that was weird as fuck.

- The ending. Okay christ my main gripe with this is because of a point above: No Byers family interaction at all! Joyce and Hopper talk briefly about her thinking about moving once or twice but she never talks about it with her kids... obviously she did in the timegap but we need to see that to build to the thing. Having no Byers interactions the whole season and then just oop we’re moving is so weird. I’m also not sure if Joyce’s motivation for moving (her bad memories of Hawkins) would be enough. For sure an argument for it, but an argument against is the one Hopper presents to her (and though he’s not around still there’s still a support system around them there, especially for her kids which she loves above all). Speaking of her loving her kids above all, she knows they love their friends/girlfriend/boyfriend to bits, have walked through fire with them and are each others support system as mentioned, would Joyce really just uproot them from that? There’s also some purely practical things that stuck out to me immediately: the timeskip for the epilogue makes it so they move when the schoolyear is already well under way and Jonathan has started senior year, feel bad for Jonathan there in a number of ways. Also, how the hell did Joyce manage to sell her house and what did it fetch? Her rundown house on the outskirts of a now infamous town with an incredibly bad rep? Even if the buyer bought it for the land the land doesn’t look special, just find it hard to believe she could get much for it. And where did they move? Where did she find a place? And work? Did she have something lined up or? I guess we’ll see.

- Oh and speaking of work, that was another thing that was just dropped, the mall killing downtown and the protests just fell out of the story. But, with what happened to the mall wouldn’t business come back to downtown (possibly reason for Joyce to want to stay if Melvald’s going out of business was another reason to move).

- Sorry but Mileven took way too much space.

- Again, no Jonathan and Will actual brothers bonding. But a whole lot of Steve and Dustin meme fanservice wank.

- Erica is just the sassy black girl trope non stop the whole season and nothing else and it’s so grating and... I was gonna say disappointing but I had no faith in the Duffers regarding this. Just because a bit character becomes a meme doesn’t mean they need to become a main. *cough* Steve *cough cough* Sorry.

- Last but not least, the woobiefication of Billy. Uggggghhhh. Disgusting. And having Max cry over him WTF?!?!?!?!?! staaaaaaahp.

#stranger things #stranger things 3 #stranger things 3 thoughts #stranger things 3 spoilers

[langernameohnebedeutung]

to your expert german ears, how was the german in the Argentina bar scene in X First Class?

The bar scene!

So, first things first, the guys playing the Nazis hiding in Argentinia are respectively Wilfried Hochholdinger and Ludger Pistor who are German, don’t have an accent and are good to go. They don’t have the typical regional accent I’d associate with being from Düsseldorf. Instead they speak Hochdeutsch (Standard German) which means they don’t feel out of place either. I guess for their time they’d come across as a little snobbish speaking that way and the probably unintended implication is that they come from a pretty wealthy, educated background so it’s not unlikely that they were high-ranking officers and since that one guy insists that his father made the best suits in all of Düsseldorf, that actually seems likely.

Which leaves Michael Fassbender. (the bartender is German too according to imdb but he only speaks Spanish). I already once wrote about Fassbender’s accent when someone asked me how to get rid of their English accent when speaking German and I referenced the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds as a frame of reference.

I wondered for a a long time how much German Fassbender actually speaks (as much as I hate to speculate about actor’s private lives usually) but I always found it weird that his German seems a lot more natural to me in Inglorious Basterds than it does in this bar scene in First Class. My lovely friend @timemngmtoptimisationproblems who's an insider in the business suggested once it might be a budget thing and that re-shooting and changing a scene can be very expensive so maybe they simply did more shoots in Inglorious Basterds and gave him more instructions than they did in First Class? because IB definitely puts a strong emphasis on language. Plus accents and fluency actually have a huge influence on the plot of the film. Meanwhile in First Class, Fassbender and Bacon phone it in pretending to be native German speakers. (It’s kinda funny how the main-Nazi in the film is played by an American and one of the German main-characters is played by a Scottish guy, an Irish guy and … I’m not sure where the kids are from. And Nightcrawler was also not played by a German. But they actually imported real Germans for the roles of these two extras. I don’t mind but it’s…a strange priority to make sure that these two random guys who get killed after saying a few lines are native speakers)

Because I was curious about it, I read a few interviews a while ago where Fassbender speaks about his German background and he’s downplays it a lot and says he speaks very, very little. Basically a few words. Which honestly surprised me, because he does a pretty solid job acting out his German-speaking scenes, emphasising the right words (even if the doesn’t necessarily emphasise the right syllables) and he seems pretty effortless compared to that flashback scene with Schmidt young Erik who are clearly have to focus on their words. Also directors clearly seek him out to play Germans so he seems to have a reputation that he can do that. A lot of my questions were answered when I found an interview of the Dark Phoenix cast in a German show where Fassbender actually speaks some German with the interviewer (× - starting at 2.00) -and he seems to be the ‘understands more than he can speak’ type. He definitely can speak more than a little German and hold a solid conversation, but he struggles with finding the right words sometimes. That’s obviously not a problem when you have a script but it also explains while he seems as little…stiff with his pronunciation and phrasing sometimes and why he misses some mistakes in the script.

To answer your actual question – I said that Fassbender’s German is not as good as in First Class Inglorious Basterds, but he actually does a solid job. You can tell that he knows what the words coming out of his mouth actually mean. Which is rare when English-speakers play Germans. Not so rarely, we have to turn on the subtitles to figure out what’s going on. And yeah, we’re not the only one with that problem. So I’m really nit-picking here. His acting is fine, you understand him and he doesn’t do the thing where an actor makes an effort to ‘sound German’ by hissing and snarling and making weird guttural sounds.

Especially “Was hat Sie nach Argentinen verschlagen” und “Meine Eltern kamen aus Düsseldorf” almost sound native, although he does struggle with the “e”s a little (he either pronounces it too much or too little like an ä and honestly, I feel like a horrible person for faulting him for that bc it’s really the line between a perfectly fluent C2 German speaker and a native speaker to get something like that right. It’s really instinctive and not…a mistake, it’s just a very subtle difference and honestly, I do the same thing when I speak English.  

Another thing that English-speakers in particular struggle Is the German “r” (one good example of him getting it right is in Alien: Covenant in the final scene when he asks the computer to play “Das Rheingold” by Wagner) but here, we can tell he doesn’t quite roll it the way it’s supposed to when he says: “Was würden Sie gerne zuerst verlieren.” Which is a lot of r-s to be fair.

Now, for me one of the biggest issues is when he says his parents had his names taken away from them (….) “pig farmers”! And “tailors”! – because the preposition in the middle is missing, changing the entire impact of the comment depending on which preposition you mentally insert into that line.

What he says is: “Ihre Namen wurden ihnen weggenommen” *clinks glasses* “Schweinebauern! Und Schneidern!” – “Their names were taken away from them. Pig farmers and tailors.”

And yeah, there should be a preposition between that. It should either be:

“Ihre Namen wurden ihnen weggenommen – von Schweinebauern und Schneidern” – their names were taken by farmers and tailors” or –

“Sie hatten keine Namen. Ihre Namen wurden ihnen weggenommen. *clinks glasses* Auf Schweinebauer und Schneider!” - “Their names were taken away from them. (clinks glasses)(here’s TO) pig farmers and tailors.” – which would from Erik’s perspective be a really sarcastic way and cynical way of saying  “you false cowards are a dime a dozen and I know your type and I hold you responsible” while at the same time keeping them guessing about who he is and what he is about to do until he finally reveals the tattoo on his arm. So yeah, what he says is definitely wrong but also…you can’t just set it right in your head because…you don’t know what he is supposed to be saying. (according to the subtitles it’s supposed to be “von/by” which also fits that he’s using the genitive case instead of the nominative, but honestly, I would prefer ‘auf/to’ because that would be darker, sharper and wittier and really has that very peculiar sense of sarcasm that people associate with Magneto.)

In short – he really does a good job. He couldn’t trick anyone into believing that he’s a native German speaker, but I saw people comment that in the bank scene his French is better than that of the guy who plays the banker and that while he has a strong accent while speaking Polish, he still puts in a good effort so I’m going to commend him for consistently doing his best. It’s just weird that he…starts speaking English at the end of the scene which honestly. Doesn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever. Like imagine you’re speaking to some guy and you’re both English native speakers and there’s a Spanish guy in the room too and suddenly he starts speaking…Italian? That would be weird. But the scene is fine and the accent doesn’t really distract you from the gravity of the scene (like it does in that flashback scene in the beginning). Honestly, I’m probably not going to see the day they cast a Jewish German actor for the role of Magneto (and honestly, I give the first part priority over the German-thing because you can simply have actors speak English and pretend it’s German) but I also prefer having him speak German over speaking English WHEN IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO SPEAK ENGLISH. Imagine if they had kept the entire film in English. They would have avoided the weird accents in French, German and Russian AND I wouldn’t have had to wonder for the rest of the franchise why Magneto is speaking English in a particular situation. Why is speaking English to Schmidt? Why is Frankenstein’s monster IN ENGLISH? Why is he speaking English to his Polish daughter? Why is he speaking English to his Polish coworkers who are …. Factory workers in cold war Poland. He’s speaking English to god too. I know it’s to make these scenes more dramatic but at least be consistent. So yeah for me it's an either or situation in the greater context but the scene itself is good.

#fandom #x men