#the word choice the TELL ME

[bakudekublogblog]

god thinking about katsuki murmuring "gotta win... right izuku?" right before charging right into his death is so so so fucking batshit insane of a thing to include. like he's yearning for him. like not only is he speaking as if izuku is still at his side, but he still remembers what izuku said to him all those months ago and is fighting to live up to the version of himself izuku admired. and then he goes "tell me.... izuku.... can i still reach you" CAN I STILL REACH YOU LITERALLY LONGING FOR HIM, TELL ME, ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO, JUST TELL ME IF I CAN REACH YOU FUCKING I'M LOSING MY MIND OVER HERE IT'S PEAK PINING TRAGIC ROMANCE

#bkdk #bakudeku #i'm literally going insane thinking about just how hard katsuki was yearning for him #all of this happening knowing he's probably going to die specifically to hurt izuku #the word choice the TELL ME #IZUKU ONE THING SPEAK TO ME ONCE MORE JUST TELL ME #CAN I REACH YOU #RRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAA #CAN I STAND BY YOU CAN I BE BY YOURSIDE AM I WORTHY AM I STRONG ENOUGH #the fucking YEARNING IS GOING CRAZY AND THIS IS WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT WHEN HE DIES #when izuku thinks he's gonna die to muscle man in s3 he's like “sorry mom” #katsuki is just full god i wish i could be at your side izuku i want to speak to you one last time i want the silly trading card we got #signed #hori i swear to god if you dont let these boys hug each other after all this tragic gay pining i'm gonna scream

[dc-himbo]

Let me tell y'all about a real thing that happened:

Me, just finishing Mistborn Era 1 Book 2 talking to my husband about predictions for Book 3: Man....I just want the world for Sazed.

My husband, who had finished with the series, internally screaming at my choice of words: Uh-huh.

#mistborn #mistborn spoilers #not dc related #personal #but yeah #i had no spoilers going in #so that was just pure happenstance #but my husband was very very understandably vibrating with my word choice there #AND LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I CRIED AT THE END #it was a lot #anyways #back to dc posting

[sainamoonshine]

My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »

Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.

Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.

(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)

TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.

#the murderbot diaries #taking a bat to an hornet’s nest there but I said what I said #I go by she/her because that’s the default people use for me even tho my own gender identity is also #ugh I would sincerely prefer not to have to deal with this think about it or even be perceived #and I would be hella pissed if a book of my life came out and people got into fights about my pronouns #trying to assign me the most politically accurate agender pronoun possible #when my own choice has always been specifically to let people call me the default because idc #and I don’t want to be identified by any identifier that might indicate I do care #and using a different pronoun even if its a gender neutral one is a CHOICE! #it does indicate a preference! and caring about it enough to pick a word and tell people about it!!! #Murderbot didn’t pick IT that is specifically the point! #it was used for it and MB just kept going with that #I mean imagine it if wrote down a different pronoun on its ID form one day and someone actually called it that #it would set itself on fire #its discomfort at having made a personal choice and the personal choice being respected would be off the charts #maybe it a later book after hella character development but I just don’t see it happening tbh #respect the agenders who just don’t want to get involved and use the pronoun equivalent of the default avatar that came with the account #PLEASE #that is all

[unspokenstydia]

LYDIA MARTIN And I've got a lot to pine about. I've got a lot to live without.

You don’t care about getting hurt. But you know how I’ll feel? I’ll be devastated. And if you die, I will literally go out of my freaking mind. You see, death doesn’t happen to you, Lydia. / Unbelievable…you have no idea what you are, do you? The wailing woman.

#(‘...i know you find me extreme in my grief. i bear it hard.’) #do jennifer’s words ever ever leave her? they never utter ‘wail’ again in the series. #when does the myth she was first told about herself being to feel prophetic? because this reveals a change in register— #or a reconciliation with or reminder she can’t outrun of the knowledge that her skull-shattering (the last chimera) skull-crushing (twtm) #weapon of a voice wields immeasurable power but is born of and devoted to immeasurable sorrow and lamentation. #(‘but i tell you i have no choice. it compels. i act because it compels.’) #and that this very part of her being makes tragedy all that more ineluctable for her. (‘i cannot not grieve.’) #lydia martin #stydia #teen wolf #twedit #teenwolfedit #lydiamartinedit #teen wolf: the movie #teenwolfgifs #fyteenwolf #tslyricsedit #cinematv #dailytvwomen #filmgifs #filmedit #‘so i’ll say words i don’t believe’ the idea of a scene like this dizzies me #it’s always about loving someone so much that you would leave them to protect them isn’t it

[joy-crimes]

Isn't weird how in Kingdom Hearts, one of the few people of color is portrayed as being inheritly evil & malicious...just some food for thought :)

#you misused the word inherently #like there's nothing to suggest he's the antagonist for no reason other than personal choice #but KH still has a racism and colorism problem #also god the whole “i'm telling you this like you've never thought about it before” attitude is really grating #like even though i agree with u i wish u would use more tact when ur talking to someone u dont know #did u like... expect me to disagree w/ u?

[arcticwaters]

something something reckless dangerous decisions something something confronting mortality

#critical role #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #laudna #laudmoore #my art #critter role #i drew this right after ep77 but the parallels i saw between them got more confirmed for me in 78 #i spent the ep trying to figure out why laudna was so upset (betrayed was such a strong word for something that had little to do with her) #(like yeah the shard was important but like it wasn't hers it wasn't imogen's it was his journey not theirs. i get being upset but THAT?) #''why didn't they learn my lesson'' was very telling to me and all but confirmed my theory that she saw herself in him #she made a choice to kill bor'dor in a way that risked waking up dalilah but did it anyway because she needed it; a sense of control #the same day she learned that dalilah had become extremely strong and could not die without /her/ dying she watches #ashton make a choice that they knew risked everything but did it anyway for a sense of control. and he dies. #he dies right after she realizes she may have to die to protect her loved ones but it will HURT #and it does hurt; fearne gets hurt they all get hurt #''why did they break her rock?'' #ANYWAY it's like i said in another post: 'they are a child' she says as she cuddles a toy and asks an older woman to hold her #also so sorry i'm shit at effects

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.

#I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but joining this fandom made me fucking hate the word ‘redemption’ #no person I’ve seen who is in love with the concept knows the who what where when why or how it should work in a story #apparently it isn’t just themes and tropes anymore people don’t understand the proper use of the word ‘villain’ #kelseethe #also hilarious: Jason should recieve sensitivity training HR style from Bruce ‘I’m the government and children are my cronies’ wayne #if Jasons headstrong/‘answers to no one’ attitude towards vigilantism is what makes people think he's villainous #I hate to be a broken record but the baddie you’re describing is Bruce #nobody thinks he’s a villain for only trusting in his own methods/self and repeatedly isolating himself #and on top of that gaslighting and hurting people around him in attempts to do what HE **thinks** is the right thing #you people always thought *him* heroic not problematic for all these traits #the only difference is Jason isn’t psychologically abusive & controlling #yet he’s still the bad guy just cause he liberally kills folks in the crime business. #l'd argue goth ham war is the b*tman story to remind you of everything that makes Bruce authentically himself #Idk how to tell you that Bruce mentally compromising/crippling his son in a twisted attempt to ‘save him from himself’ #is perfectly in line with slitting the same son’s throat because he couldn’t stand to see him avenge his own killer #and yk what a redemption arc could be interesting for someone like Bruce #because he rarely questions or doubts his choices esp wrt Jason. no matter how morally dubious they may be #I think it would be quite fun to witness his extremely restricted worldview be challenged/shattered he deserves that humbling experience

[ickypuppi3]

franz kafka // billy & steve

#+ words #billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #do you ever think about #billy wanting to leave #planning to leave #saving up to leave #then getting with steve and #.. yeah #either staying and enduring all the shit he does anyway #staying under neil’s roof even though he now has a ‘choice’ as such #because of steve #or leaving #and telling steve that they would just end up resenting one other if billy stayed #GOD #no one talk to me i’ve made myself extremely sad about this

[puppetmaster13u]

I have so much temptation for Jason in the Dies Irae Au to meet Fright Knight. There is so much temptation to write them meeting in general.

Also remind me to ramble more about this au later, and to finish the in-universe memes I've been working on lol

#Honestly ngl kind of ship them #You CANNOT tell me they wouldn't be courting each other forever while also having sword fights #Give the sword-summoning undead dads some love #dies irae au #Jason adopts the fenton siblings au #DCxDP #DPxDC #Jason Todd #Fright Knight #Okay but Can you Imagine someone getting the drop on RH only for Giant Flaming Knight to drag itself out of the shadows to wreck their shit #Ngl I kind of want to ramble about my Fright Knight headcanons #I need to at least ramble about him at some point #remind me to elaborate later #batman au #Halfa Jason #Also can you imagine the hilarity of people questioning on if Peter RH and this Mr Knight fellow are in a poly relationship #Though it could be more hilarious if they didn't realize Mr. Kerian “Rian” Knight is the same being as the giant shadow knight that #RH affectionately calls Fright lol #okay gonna ramble about my choice for FK's name rq #Kerian is derived from the word carn; which means pile of stones #and referred to the stone burial chambers we now call cairns #Kieran also means “little dark one” or “black-haired” #He's a shadow-cored undead knight and I am very proud of this name <3 #Does Fright Knight and Jason have a ship name? #If not put forth your own ideas lol #Also reminder that Jason has a star core in this #liminal class #Jason really adopts the entire de-aged class lol #poll #shipping

[fluttermouse]

Lol tumblr just straight up deleted my reblog of the ttpd ad they've shown me 10x promoting the line "one less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen" because I pointed out the misogyny and hypocrisy considering her album is about her being ~*tempted*~ 🙄 by a guy* and then leaving her boyfriend for him. Mother must not be criticized!

*I'd call Matty something, but there's no male equivalent to the word "temptress" with the same connotations and shaming power. Hmm, what does that tell us?

ETA: I did another rb and looking through the rb's they didn't delete makes it so much more pathetic that they deleted one with valid criticism.

#one less temptress one less dagger to sharpen #how about you get one single grip? #misogyny #suppression #anti ttpd #anti taylor swift #i'm sure i'll be told it's unfair to criticize greatest lyricist of all time taylor swift for her word choice #something tells me she didn't really want to take out that line about “known for what she does on the mattress”

[visualtaehyun]

The Little Prince

Disclaimer: not a native speaker, still learning 🙏

Some followers or mutuals may know that I started reading the Thai version of The Little Prince and even though I haven't gotten that far into the book yet, I did skip ahead to find the two passages that came up in ep. 1 of Last Twilight. So naturally, I wanted to draw some comparisons with the dialogue in this lovely scene from ep. 8:

บางอย่างเนี่ย /baang yaang niia/ เราไม่ตองใช้ตามอง /rao mai dtaawng chai dtaa maawng/ ก็มองเห็นมันได้ /gaaw maawng hen man dai/ = For some things we don't need to use our eyes to look yet [we] can see them anyway.

ใช่ บางอย่างมันก็ต้องใช้หัวใจรับรู้ /chai. baang yaang man gaaw dtaawng chai hua jai rap ruu/ = Right. Some things need to be perceived by using the heart. เหมือนความรู้สึกพี่ตอนเนี้ย /meuuan kwaam ruu seuk phi dtaawn niia/ LOVE he means love!! all-encompassing, indescribable l o v e! I was almost expecting one of them to express it in words but what we got instead expressed it perfectly in actions

I'm not sure where Day is reciting from in ep. 1 (or if they had to change it for copyright reasons that I'm unaware of??) but it's very slightly different from the book so let's look at both!

เจ้าชายน้อย /jao chaai naawy/, ch. 21, p. 125, the Fox:

[...] เราจะมองเห็นแจ่มชัดด้วยหัวใจเท่านั้น /rao ja maawng hen jaaem chat duuay hua jai thao nan/ สิ่งสำคัญนั้นไม่อาจเห็นได้ด้วยดวงตา /sing sam khan nan mai aat hen dai duuay duuang dtaa/ = We can see clearly only with the heart. What is essential cannot be seen with the eyes.

Day in ep. 1:

เราจะมองเห็นทุกอย่างกระจ่างชัดเมื่อเราใช้หัวใจนำ /rao ja maawng hen took yaang gra jaang chat muea rao chai hua jai nam/ สิ่งสำคัญไม่อาจมองเห็นได้ด้วยตา /sing sam khan mai aat maawng hen dai duuay dtaa/ = We can see everything clearly when we use [our] hearts. What is essential cannot be seen with the eyes.

Sidenote: While trying to find out if Day was reciting from a different translation, I happened upon this article from 2020 which included this lovely photo of one of many Braille translations! :)

Back to the editions at hand though!

My edition is from 2013 and translated by อำพรรณ โอตระกูล (Amphan Otrakul). Hers was the first Thai translation, originally published in 1969. There are uhh a lot of versions by now though.

Judging from what I can see of the cover in ep. 1, my assumption is that Day's version is a print of this 2003 one which says on the cover is still the Otrakul translation but this site credits as being translated by พงาพันธ์ุ โบบิเยร์ (Panga-Phan Bobier), originally in 1997. I know there are three well-known translations and I've checked the one by อริยา ไพฑูรย์ (Ariya Paitoon) (pdf version here) so I'm just gonna stick with the assumption that Day is quoting from the Bobier translation. 🤷‍♀️

And because I'm very highkey in love with this song-

ประตูวิเศษ (Better Days), written by Amp Achariya, specifically Jimmy's lines:

/aat mai hen, dtaae rap ruu duuay jai/ = might not see but perceive with the heart /thee mai hen gaaw dai hen duuay jai/ = what isn't seen can be seen with the heart /kham waa rak man gaaw chat nai jai - praw ter/ = 'Love' is clear in [my] heart - because of you.

#last twilight #เจ้าชายน้อย #morkday #mhokday #local woman harps on about linguistics #again i wonder- am i even saying anything here or am i just presenting some words #the irony of several layers of translation back and forth going on here doesn't escape me but that's just language learning to me #while looking for the version day recites from i even found an academic paper in french comparing the three major thai translations as to #how they use or adapt the french quotation style aka «...» #the fact alone that i have to make choices in this post as to how to translate the thai with the goal in mind to point out the similarities #and differences between the different sources! #if you don't know any thai please do chime in if you can tell from my romanizations and translations

[clericofshadows]

not me making a video of this full scene--post-Zorya make-up sex

the gifs are good but like I wanted a 1080p version for myself and thought I'd share.

anyway the song is Test of Loyalty from CP2077:PL and while I know the context of the song is... way different from this I'm obsessed with it and liked the backdrop it provided since y'know... we have Shepard's voice coming out of Zaeed and Jack's voice coming out of Regis.

tbh now I wish I kept the red lighting for the gifs, I made it a lot lighter and a bit orange so they wouldn't be washed out...

#zaeed massani #regis shepard #LISTEN-- I SPENT HOURS SETTING UP THIS SCENE #i'm going to milk--er bad choice of words but listen--let me have this lmao #cleric's modding stuff #when I watched the fling with jack I didn't realize it was like this #so let me tell you when I went feral knowing I could make this for them #also for new people who followed because of this gif: hi i'm cleric i'm obsessed with regis shepard and his two boyfriends zaeed and kaidan

[skunkes]

ok guys what do u do when you look at art from a few months ago and think it looks Better to you Now than it did when you were making it and thought it looked catastrophically bad

and now you are having even more trouble gauging if your current work is good or not because you feel like you have to wait months to be able to look back and assess it (in either direction...)

#talkys #this is the most confused ive ever been. idk how to word it. this isnt my usual negative post i promise #i keep getting genuinely troubled about dis like how can i tell ! i cant tell and its rly confusing me #i know i have no choice but to keep going right...the answer is there's nothing to be done... but it feels really strange #like i cant trust my present eyes. why.

[storm-of-feathers]

damn why did i stop being an alcoholic being drunk rules actually i dont feel a single OUNCE of my burdens. i just feel the wine. and its pink.

#this post is mostly a joke OBVIOUSLY i dont wanrt to be a True Alcoholic again #ive been sober #(in the definition that i dont consider myself addicted - not in the definition of complete abstinence) #since 2018. and its been very good for me obviously #but damn i gotta remember that alcohol exists and i have some if i ever truly need to unwind #bc like. yk. i have a lot of trouble unwinding #i used to have this uhh #one of my grandmothers brothers. idk the word. #he always said that the world was so bright and loud and sharp. except for when he drank. #dgmw. i do think autism runs on my dads side #(and thats cool!! bc it proves autism isnt just a white thing!!!!! something thats unfortunately a popular belief :/) #but i think there was def a genetic susceptibility to it on my moms side too #like ofc i was going to be autistic!! look at my family!!! #which is interesting bc as far as anyone can tell my only biological sibling isnt autistic #i have two Additional siblings but thats a longer story. but i love them both just as much as my biological sib #i love having lots of siblings by choice #so many of my younger friends have said im like an older brother they need #and i love that tbh. i love that i get to be something i desperately needed when i was a terrified teenager #n e ways. if u read this far thank you its just wine drunk ramblings. #WHO want to run in the forest naked with me

[starpros-sunshine]

Sometimes I wonder why cold symptoms always get worse in the evenings there has to be a logical explanation for that

#i need to know #i might have only choosen the biology major because I had no other choice but i do genujnely think the human body is a fascinating object #we should not exist there is no reason we should exist but here we are and here we are exactly the way we are isn't that funny? #it's such a silly body too what you're telling me I could produce an entirely new person in here #but one falsely mutated cell that brances out and has a personal problem with me specifically can kill me in a year or less? #that doesn't seem right. #if you think about it children are a little bit like cancer actually #i won't be opening that can of worms actually lets keeo that locked away in zhe cupboard #oh yeah and you can inherit the murder cell mutation because of course you can #and then we came up with thousands of ways to cure thousands of ailments and what did we do we put them behind a paywall #come onnnnnn where's the fun in that #we have this cool stuff why do you not let us use the cool stuff #i don't do meds on principle if I have anything I jusz sit that out raw and painful but hey it's not my place to tell others to do it my way #i just don't like the thought of building up a resistance against stuff so I just take my ibuprofen if there really is no way to function #without them anymore #luckily that's not the case a lot of times #i can work fine with the headaches they're just annoying #make the head foggy and words take a second to comprehend and the light hurts but i can work with it #have you ever had two kinds of headache atbthe same time thazs an experience #dealing with a tensuoj headache and then also the clogged nose headache is. it sure is something #you don't know where exactly it hurts and it's not so bad that you have to lie down but then you hold your head the wrong way #and Boom a bomb goes off up there #fascinating stuff #how did I even get here

[kathrynmjaneway]

i came out to my parents last night 😄

#and it went FINE #AH #like its all good and chill #i knew my mum suspected and i was counting on that and that she might have talked to my dad about it before which i dont if she actually did #but i think so #and like ive been dropping things like going to pride with all my queer friends etc #and my mum was like 'yeah i suspected' last night #and this morning she checked in on me again to see if im all good #and she was like 'you do know that ive known for years right' #and i was like 'yeah 🥹🥹' #and last night i was also like that i dont wanna like shout it out to my grandparents and extended family (yet) #and my D A D said yeah that's yoir decision! you decide when to tell people! #and my mum this morning then also was like i have one piece of advice #dont tell your (one) grandma #you can just wait her out #bc my aunt had 'a lesbian phase' aka lived with a woman for a few years #which i ALSO JUST FOUND OUT VERY RECENTLY THAT WASNT JUST TWO FRIENDS LIVING TOGETHER PLATONICALLY #and apparently my grandma had a few choice words to say about that #which yeah i probably like will not tell her bc why should i??? #and i Knew that #anyway #MERRY CHRISTMAS I DIDNT RUIN CHRISTMAS ITS ALL GOOD IM HAPPY IM RELIEVED I CRIED BC THATS WHAT I DO #personal #shdhsjskdhfhdhshsjdhdjak #needed to share :')