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Ok so I’ve avoided most middle names in my cataloguing but I’m manfully resisting the temptation to list Oscar Wilde with the full set
#I just think it's funny people forget he was originally from Ireland#And when I say people I mean the English#Especially the ones who were forced to read Wilde for university or whatever or refer to him as an icon but don't know much about him#I know he's incredibly important to the London literary scene and that informs a lot of his stuff#Like the sense of Englishness is very important I'm not dismissing that#And I'm told that he made the decision to drop the middle names himself which like good for him#But at the same time his parents didn't lumber the poor lad with the name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde#for people to go around calling him English#It's also a really mellifluous phrase and I enjoy saying them#Alright Oscar I'll respect your wishes and not use them#There's already one Fenian name in there anyway with Oscar (Fenian in the mythological sense I'm not getting needlessly political)
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more ghost!Roach with accidental necromancer Soap, their first interaction !
(please ignore the fact that i can't draw the same character twice lmao)
#cod mw2#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#gary roach sanderson#ghostroach#soapghost#ghostsoap#soaproach#ghostsoaproach#accidental necromancer soap and ghost roach au#i'm gonna keep pushing welsh roach i don't know why but i really like it#ooh do you think he spoke welsh to ghost when he was annoyed and ghost told him to speak english#and so when soap speaks scots and he says the same thing for the first time he has a huge internal breakdown#meanwhile roach floating above his head like 'bahahah ur never gonna rest again english man - wait fuck no pls don't cry i didn't mean it'#and soap who can also hear him on the coms being like ._.#he feels bad for ghost but also that is a life goal he can get behind#if ghost didn't want this life he shouldn't have been english#of course he also has no idea what roach is saying when he speaks welsh and roach doesn't know either when he speaks scots#but if it's against ghost it's fiiiine#they're not above pretending to have a full conversation in their respective language to mess with people#anything to have ghost sigh at them it's the funniest thing ever for them
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「30歳の童貞に片想いすると魔法使いになれるらしい」 (from cherry magic volume 11 special edition) — english translation
#cherry magic#my translation#finally. after months i got to read this at last !!!!!!! i can be at peace now#also gonna do a little t/n in the tags bc i wanna clarify one little bit#the term '苦手' comes up a bunch here and it can mean either 'not being good at smth' or 'disliking/hating smth'#and from my understanding when used for people it can mean either 'not knowing how to get along with someone' or 'disliking/hating someone'#so on page 1 kurosawa uses 苦手 to say that the other guy doesnt like him#and on page 4 adachi uses 苦手 too which kurosawa misinterprets bc he doesnt have all the context#bc adachi means that he doesnt really know how to interact with guys like kurosawa but kurosawa hears it as 'i dont like his type of ppl'#(which gets cleared up later anyway thank god . tho it did give us a funnie panel)#i couldnt find any word in english that worked with the same sort of double meaning as 苦手 so i tried phrasing it in a way-#-that would have that same sort of 'this can be easily misinterpreted' vibe . dunno if it worked but i tried kjfkds
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i cant explain it but daigo being subtitled to just be like 'you're making me look like i have no balls' feels so illegal and wrong. hilarious but something's off
#snap chats#WAIT I HAVE TO INTERRUPT THIS POST WITH THE FUNNIEST SHIT#SO I WAS GETTING FOOD FROM MY SCHOOL'S DINING HALL AND YOU CAN WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU WANT ON A SHEET YEAH#AND I SAID I WANTED A SAMMY AND FRIES OK BUT WHEN I GET MY PLATE ITS JUST FRIES#AND YK W/E OK I'LL JUST EAT THAT BUT THEN. WHILE IM LIKE. GETTING PIZZA TO SUB IT YEAH#I HEAR THE COOKS BE LIKE 'yoo why do we just have a sandwich here' AND THE BIN IT#AND I WAS LIKE 'was that a chicken sandwich cause uhhh <:)' AND THE WOMAN WAS JUST ':OOO IM SO SORRY'#LIKE DAWG /IM/ SRRY I FEEL BADLKAJLJ but yeah. they were nice enough to make me another one 😭#ok. back on topic with this fuckin post SORRY. i just have all these potatoes and a pizza to eat with this sadnwich now#i didnt eat breakfast or lunch so its ok. moving on#watch me explain it lol. i think its just cause its hard fr me to imagine daigo even saying balls like that. in jp or english#like he just doesnt have the Oomph to do it like the kansai bitches#see this how i know jo from kansai.... that easy as balls to imagine...#LIKEIM TELLING YOU THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN SAY BALLS AND MEAN IT ARE KANSAI/EAST COAST BITCHES#in regards to eng its the accent... you just put a heavy mphasis on the b yk... any east coast bitches know what im talkin bout#or am i insane.it could be both idk#its cause in context he looks so meek like no !!!!! you dont be shy about balls talk !!!!!!!#I JUST IMAGINE HIM SAYING IT SO POLITE LIKE NO !!!! YOU HAVE TO SAY IT WITH FEELING. WITH YOUR BALLS#anyway daigo bb ily and i care for you but youre not hard enough to say balls#which is the most insaane thing i could say considering Daigo And His History but yk... im right...
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one thing i love about qsmp is that no one makes fun of anyone else's pronunciation, i really love seeing all the different accents
#im very protective of peoples accents because i hate when others assume “”“broken”“” english means the person is stupid#as someone with immigrant parents who taught themselves english as adults#and people could be so rude like “huh??? what are you saying i dont understand???” when theyre speaking clear english#qsmp#my posts
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What’s your opinion on the English
#this is a JOKE no one come for me#i hate England as a State in terms of what they have done and what they stand for#i hate posh english people for the way they treat me and scottish people in general on an every day level#but the I Hate The English doesn’t literally mean i hate english people. it’s like saying you’re gay when you’re bisexual#it’s enough to get the point across without dealing in semantics#@ normal english people i love you come here#but also i don’t usually feel the need to say all this. it’s probably obvious#like i’m not trying to be dramatic but england has had a far more profound impact on working class scotland than people fully understand#i felt it in my every day life all the time as a kid and i was born way after most of it happened#so i don’t need to add a disclaimer to every silly throwaway Fuck The English joke i make. in my opinion#anyway sorry anon i hope this answers your question
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the voices are telling me to give in and write my absurdly long rant abt how Rhinedottir’s more than the propagnda and didn’t just send albedo to mond to explode everything
#aaaUGGHHHHHHHH#in other words.#I have a distinct disdain for the people on TikTok who say#‘people when the villains a villain’#USE. YOURBRAIN#SHES THE VILLAIN BUT NOT LIKE TJAT#YOUFUCKWADS !!!!!!! !!!!!!!#NOT EVERUTHING SHE DOES IS OUT OF MALICE#DID YOU. LISTEN IN 8TH GRADE ENGLISH????#WHEN WE ALL READ TKAM??? OR FHE OUTSIDEDS#DID YOU EVEN LISTENNNN GO ATTICUS FINCH#WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKK#Rhinedottir is a bad person. no SHIT#BUT#stop dumbing her down to this obnoxious and degrading ‘girlboss antagonist >:3’ STEROETIUPPPEEE#ITS OKAY TO MAKE THOSE JOKES. THOSE WORDS ARE FUNDAMNETALLY FUNNY#but I hear one more person make her into this weirdass entirely cruel and mean and ‘she was born and lived evil her whole life!’ character#I’m gonna blow.#uUUGGGHHHHHHGGH#SHEE EVIL!!!! BUT SHE CAN BE MORE THAN THAT !!!!!!#crepe rambles#rhine#crepe rant
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every so often i think about how if i ever make a post or something that blows up, i'll immediately be harassed en masse by people claiming i'm a zionist
#i've seen the people you call zionists and that's when i know we're not speaking the same english#1) every time it's about someone who *isn't* pro-israel and/or *is* pro-palestine:#but what they *are* is somebody who condemns hamas or mourns 10/7 or calls out antisemitism or thinks israelis are normal people#defensive anti-propoganda on tumblr (where the majority opinion seems to be that israel and *anything and anyone remotely connected to it*-#-is Pure Evil) is not indicative of somebody's full opinions or their other actions#do you know how many progressive jews debate with pro-israeli-government jews offline and in more prominently jewish spaces?#no. because there's no room here to talk about any of that#not when discussion is seen as co-conspiring and the only real action is extreme action#jews *are* a close-knit community and a lot of jews probably don't feel comfortable airing their arguments within the community#because there's also a general feeling that regardless of our actual politics people are going to consider us a monolith and-#-be antisemetic across the board. this is a feeling that does not originate from but was heavily reinforced by the Holocaust.#2) i don't know how good of an idea it is to say this so bluntly but it's sorta horrifying how easily people will just say 'X is a zionist'#and expect that one word to carry so much meaning that no other explanation is required.#Zionist. Evil. Stay away.#i'm so fucking exasperated and disappointed#not only does *actual* zionism come in many different forms functionally#but the word means *nothing* when you use it to mean so many different things *which do not all hold the same weight*#blast babbles#jumblr#i/p#sorta#ask to tag#regarding the actual post here...#i'm not a zionist#i'm not an antizionist#i'm not comfortable trying to stick a label that's bigger than me over my name#i don't have any illusions that people will judge my opinions fairly either way#just don't say that i'm something i'm not#just because i say some of the same things as people you don't like#gonna have reblogs off but replies on. feel free to chip in. (edit: tag limit reached!)
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when you're reading a story with cass in it and she's blatantly written out of character
when they also have her use sign language when she has never used it or ever suggested that she knows it in mainline canon
#batgirl#cassandra cain#...i would say this is not to knock on people writing/headcanoning cass using ASL etc.#but it kinda is. i'm sorry it's just annoyingly prevalent when it's not even a part of her character#she could speak just fine in both pre-flashpoint and new 52. quiet does not mean “cannot speak”#and her problem is *learning* language not the act of speaking itself#sign language would *not* be “easier” for her as it's still a language. she'd have just as many problems learning it as she would english#i understand wanting more disability representation but cass is not the character for mute representation because she's not mute#and idk. imo it's a bit weird to take the character who struggles with language and conflate it with “she cannot speak”
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idk man kaz isn't my real name, my birth name DEFINITELY isn't my real name i have a bunch of nicknames but i don't have a name
#gets really funny when people ask me about my name and i look like an idiot#because i'm trying to decide whether to tell them the greek pronunciation of my birth name#the english pronunciation#the nickname of my birth name#or just ''kaz''#sometimes i say kaz is just a nickname and then they ask what it's short for#man idk!! it's a nickname without a name.#not quite an online nickname. most of my irl friends call me kaz#i think i put too much meaning in names actually#persimmon's rambles
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We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.
#we speak#writing#we grew up with pmd games and we feel like the way that pmd pokemon's dialogue tends to be excessively... direct?#should be a feature and not a bug when any pokemon that you meet might be totally unfamiliar with your species and biology#it's probably very polite to start up front with some basic facts about yourself so they know how to act going forward#the very upfront feel to dialogue also very much helps with keeping the dialogue feel more... pokemon#people mock the series for weird npc dialogue a lot but we think that taking these things literally makes for more fun society building#it doesn't all have to fit with socially acceptable for our world we think. polite in our world isn't even consistent by household.#sometimes a polite interaction sounds like “hello! i'm poochyena! i like to chase people and bite!”#name and immediately socially useful information. now you know about the chasing people and biting so you don't assume it's rude#of course poochyena bites and chases people. it likes to do that. you can say you don't like that and it might stop doing that to You#but it will not stop biting and chasing people because that's what it likes to do and it will probably only befriend people okay with that#it makes a very specific dialogue feel that's very fun to do. we like how the pokemon world tends to treat any sort of like#disability or “weird” things as something that you just say out the gate and everyones like “oh okay”#and then treat that as Part Of Interactions going forwards. there are a surprising amount of parts of the pokemon manga#that are dedicated to working around a character's disability after one or all of their means of dealing with it get taken out#admittedly we aren't that caught up on newer content but we find the way that it tends to be just Accepted as very refreshing#making the dialogue this direct does also tend to make it read as more “childish” in english and particular because a lot of Maturity's jus#learning how to dance around what you're saying or phrase it in different ways to get your idea across differently#whereas here everything is just as direct as possible. “i don't like charmander”. “i like roasting berries”. “i want to dig things up”.#all pokemon dialogue tends to go towards being exceedingly simple and it makes for some very distinct writing#especially when you have to tackle complex situations with characters who probably dont employ that sort of vocabulary#though we personally enjoy doing this sort of stuff your mileage may vary ofc#we are biased towards this sort of thins because we find it MUCH more fun to build up what we're talking about from blocks#than to like. try and use more indirect wording that may lose things in translation#unfortunately this is not fun in irl conversation. everyone has to be on the same page and you need to use the same playbook to communicate#we REALLY wish people said what they meant though. we're really tired of being asked shit like “is this accessible”#when what they mean is “can you climb these stairs” a question which depends on the day our energy level and how things have been going#there are a lot of things we could say that would make us feel like some sort of anti sjw type guy and a lot of em boil down to just#"for the love of god dont dance around a Sensitive Topic just get to the point and ask us about it this just makes things harder for everyo
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okay so this is not about anything specific just a response to some back-and-forths i've been been seeing recently but it can be true that some americans are entitled and ignorant when encountering other cultures AND that some europeans have a superiority complex towards americans that make them hair triggered against any comment from americans about their experience in europe. like trust that i really try hard to see both sides, but sometimes, when an american talks about their experience in europe or (god forbid) complains about it, some europeans will respond with such vitriol and condescension that really isn't warranted in the slightest. in the end, we really are so much more alike than we are different. people are the same everywhere, they really really are. everyone complains, everyone shit talks, everyone has their own form of ignorance. it's just that the particular flavour changes from place to place. everyone is so defensive and i don't get why we have such violent reactions when talking about cultural differences. please, can we stop the fighting it's so pointless.
#OBVIOUSLY ik not all of europe is the same#obviously#but like i do think about this a lot bc#yeah a lot of americans do make fools of themselves#but it's just as foolish when europeans try and clap back by making fun of americans for things that are out of their control#like#why are people like this i really don't get it#i saw some girl on tt say that it was confusing to her that french ppl would introduce themselves as being from#the 35 or the 91 bc… if you haven’t been hearing it your whole life it’s not easy to remember a list of numbers that’s only kinda relevant#like day to day#she wasn’t mean she was just like it’s a bit frustrating because if they introduced with their region#or the name of their department i would know it but its just harder for me as a foreigner to remember all the numbers#(side note but like idk if this is universal but i never remember numbers in french like i have to say the english numbers outloud)#(like house numbers or phone numbers or stuff like that idk why that is)#and then some french woman stitched her essentially saying well if you can’t remember the numbers why don’t you go back to your country#like…#that was not a proportionate response#like at all
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I love learning ASL it’s so good. Makes me happy to learn it. I’m so glad my university has classes for it with professors actually steeped in Deaf culture.
#blue chatter#am I good at ASL? hahahahahahaha. no.#ASL and English grammar are incredibly different and even when I remember my vocab I am easily clockable as hearing#but I do have some language capacity now. enough to communicate the basics.#and I just. genuinely really enjoy it. it’s fun to learn and engaging in a way most of my classes just aren’t.#and I can. yanno. communicate respectfully w Deaf ppl. and learn about their culture#which is incredibly important given that I want to go into a field where there is a higher incidence than typical of Deaf people#autistic? you’re more likely to be Deaf!#not to mention the fact that sign language can sometimes be a useful alternative to speech for nonspeaking/nonverbal people#depending on the person obvi; some nonspeaking/nonverbal autistics cannot use sign language and that’s okay#but surely at some point I will encounter either a Deaf client or a nonspeaking/nonverbal client who uses ASL#and when that time comes I should have some idea of how to communicate with them#I also rly like the Deaf church by my parents’ house#their community is really welcoming and their services are really interesting#I think it’s rly cool how they take intentions directly from the congregation#they’ll raise their hands and then sign what their intention is from their pew to the ambo#which is rly neat#it is funny bc every time I go the Deaf ppl I talk to will tell each other ‘go slow she’s hearing’#which is ENTIRELY fair bc. I am hearing. and I do need them to go slower.#but it also makes me laugh bc truly everyone knows within a few minutes.#oh hey the new person? they’re hearing. yeah they’re learning ASL at college. sign slowly for her.#which again makes sense bc a big Deaf culture thing is keeping ppl informed. it’s not gossip it’s getting everyone on the same page.#Deaf ppl do NOT beat around the bush that is like the height of rudeness to them. u say what u mean goshdangit. do not waste their time.#which I appreciate the heck out of bc i don’t have to try and phrase things delicately or w/e#it was also funny bc my mom came w me while I was home for Christmas and they asked her if I was her kid#and she said yes. and the lady running the kid’s craft corner thing was like ‘great you’re doing a craft now’#and I’m sitting there. visibly over 18 years old. amongst several seven year olds. trying desperately to figure out how to say hot glue gun#I made a v pretty pinecone tree it was a lot of fun ^-^
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Just wanted to say thank you for the ottosuba posting you've done lately. The English speaking fandom is absolutely barren with Otto content, let alone ottosuba content. So to have someone as awesome about it as you post via Tumblr posts, fanfic, fanart, etc. on a good(-ish) website like Tumblr is like finding a diamond in the rough. Anyhow, looking forward to any future ottosuba content from you!
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anon you made my day fr these are very high compliments T^T <3 i appreciate it a lot pfft a part of me is always like "I CANT REVEAL HOW MUCH MY BRAIN IS ROTTING OVER THESE CHARACTERS..." bc i get a little embarassed a little shy bc what if i am posting the same things too much...??? but then i simultaneously go "lol my blog my rules anyway im gonna make a gazillion billion content *clicks post*" which is how all the otto and ottosuba content gets churned out alsdflj. especially bc - like you said - the english speaking fandom is a BARREN DESERT when it comes to otto and ottosuba content T^TT ive been thinking about it lately bc they seem to be a lot more popular in the japanese speaking fandom i think, but theres next to Nothing with the english speaking fandom :o interesting difference there.
but regardless :o yeah i keep making otto and ottosuba content bc i am in Desperate need of it... its a desert and i gotta feed myself too HAH theyve always been interesting to me but in the years ive been into rezero that Interest has skyrocketed bc of all the interesting developments pfft (and also the lack of english fancontent for them HAH). i just think theyre so underrated in the english fandom.... thank you for liking my stuff anon <3 :DD
#ask#also you made me remember that ive been otto(suba) posting in like so many mediums lajdfljsl#i ended up sneaking a bit of meta into these tags oops aljsdfljsf but.#also i just think otto and ottosubas feralness is super interesting and my taste in characters totally isnt predictable (i say this as a p#five shuake fan also. cries.) but also like. people in the english speaking side of the fandom dismiss otto a lot which is interesting to m#like its u know that typical fandom tendency to sometimes only see characters for how they look on the surface. and its also interesting b#ive also been seeing a few people like. almost kind of miss how toxic ottos being in arc 8??? and also ottos general. subaru obsession#things yeah. like why do people miss this stuff??? he literally says his reason for being / existence is to oppose subaru??? what sane#person does that lajdslfjsldfj what sane person is so ride or die theyd rather leave a whole country + their bffs daughter figure to die??#what sane person manipulates all their friends in order to save them??? understandable motive but literally insane lajsdlfjsld#yeah so anyway im super curious on why english vs japanese fandom have different attitudes towards otto and ottosuba HAH#being an emilia otto AND astrea fan is so weird bc people are so kind with the astreas usually and then being an emilia fan means suffering#through all the sexism and then being an otto fan is just going “YOU GUYS WERE FOOLED BY HIS SOFT BOY AESTHETICS???” and begging people to#remember that he cares about subaru. but that goes for many emilia camp members treatment in fanon.#and also yeah being a fan of almost any character in this fandom is suffering i think alsjdfljsd#granted i was also fooled by the soft boy aesthetics but that was way back when okay. i know now. hes my silly fucked up little guy now HAH
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TBH i kind of am into phonetics in a freak pervert way
#sorry i said that. but well i am...#GF that i make memorize different phonemes to pronounce for me so i can writhe in contentment <3#amongst other things#that all dissolves out of my body the moment i enter my faculty & besides i am majoring in english#so my preferences are not really very present in the language unless you account for specific regional phonology in which case sure#but that is not something we will ever focus on i think... i mean in my level anyway Maybe if i get extra specialized later#my favorite sound ever in the world is the (voiced) uvular fricative ( & sometimes trill ) I LOVE IT so freaking KAWAII<3#i only started noticing it like last year & have been obsessed with it ever since it makes me so. ^_^^^^^ HAH rawrWHO SAID THAT#this is the only nerdy thing about me not saying this to save face but like it literally is i am otherwise retarded in the literal way#when i was a kid i used to ask people to pronounce “ng” for me like as in ŋ & i would lose respect for them if they were unable to#they pronounce it as a hard N like that is clearly not what i asked make a little effort are you hearing impaired like. not that hard#it is literally the sound you make in “eating” “maintenant” like what is the problem here stop playing. yes that was insufferable of me#anyway but only for a brief time obviously i only held one grudge in my life which i let go as of recent#not against a person but something way larger ♯Peace♯Love♯Light#BREAKING: girl has the most normal common ****** ever >gets stoned anyway
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Can you guys rb this or comment with how you pronounce “Goncharov”? I didn’t really think anything of it until one of my friends said it out loud and I was like huh? I think it’s interesting how people can have different pronunciations of a word or name they’ve never heard out loud in their head an not question it. For reference, I’m a native Russian speaker and I’ve always read it like gohn-CHArohv and my US American friend said GAHNCHA-rahv.
#goncharov#pronounciation#languages#russian language#today I remembered that tweet that’s like white people can’t pronounce POC names but they can say Tchaikovsky. and I kinda hate it because#no they can’t they cannot pronounce Tchaikovsky at all. please get a better example#English speakers of any race usually say chai-COUGH-skeee. that’s equivalent to white people calling jalapeños holla-PEEN-yo’s#also when I was in like middle school I took this summer cooking class thing and one day the teacher was quizzing us on food from around the#world and she asked us if we know where pillmini are from. nobody knew so she said they’re actually a type of Russian dumpling! my jaw#dropped when I realized she was trying to say пельмени (pyel’myeni) like ain’t no way#anyway how do you guys say Goncharov#not that there’s a right or wrong way to pronounce a fictional name unlike those real words in the other tags I’m just curious#I mean there’s a right way to pronounce a real person’s name if they’re actually called goncharov but I’m talking about the character
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