#combo deal

[a-drama-addict]

HERE TO INTRODUCE MY NEWEST GIRL HER NAMES JANKA

[souporsaladnatural]

Obsessed with the sudden shift in Cas' willingness to say insane romantic shit to dean in season 8. A couple of seasons ago, he would tell dean that they had a profound bond to his face. That everything he did, he did for Dean. Now? He's hesitating. He clenches his fists to avoid hugging Dean back in purgatory. He stutters and looks away before saying he stayed away from Dean to protect him. When asked what broke through heaven's brainwashing, he looks away and says he doesn't know. It's so interesting to me

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[thefirstpaleontologist]

Anatomy of Alastors demonic forms

[rascal-rose]

also that one chef task in john gutter where you gotta go speedrunner mode

[labyrinthofdreams]

Natsu going from "you can go home" to "I'm not going anywhere without Lucy and Lucy isn't going anywhere without me" is something that can be so personal to me

[gobenie]

go benie

[towerofluin]

C’mon Raph, don’t noogie the elderly

(Or: finally, communication)

[sesamenom]

arwen's goth phase, aka the most stressful decade of sauron's life

with the full mask & veil without the white makeup

[narrettwist-art]

Red squared but separate.

[bklynmusicnerd]

Me checking in on how T'Kor's handling her HOH...

[da-janela-lateral]

Yooooo look who I found back in Rio de Janeiro

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Idk why i drew this…

[grewlikefancyflowers]

pretty disappointed with the way 7s have translated wwx's iconic 'right or wrong' speech.

"Thank you for keeping me company today, and thank you for telling me about my shijie's wedding,” Wei Wuxian said slowly. “But—right or wrong, the decision is my own. It doesn't matter what others think of those decisions. I will bear the consequences of my actions, whether they be good or ill. I know what I should do. And I believe everything is still within my ability to control."

it has very basic language & tone, it doesn't flow smoothly at all. wwx's remarks here are supposed to sound poetic.

'不過, 是非在己, 毀譽由人, 得失不論。該怎麼做,我自己心裡有數。我也相信我自己控制得住。'

the first sentence even uses that classic 4 character structure (this is what lwj's speech patterns are known for).

here's exr's translation for comparison. it reads far more smoothly and rhythmically, as do the other fan translations further down

‘Wei WuXian spoke slowly, “Thank you for keeping me company today. Thank you for telling me the news about my shijie’s marriage too. But, let the self judge the right and the wrong, let others decide to praise or to blame, let gains and losses remain uncommented on. I, too, know what I should and shouldn’t do. I believe that I’ll be able to control it as well.”’

i also think 7s' version obfuscates the meaning, 'But—right or wrong, the decision is my own. It doesn't matter what others think of those decisions. I will bear the consequences of my actions, whether they be good or ill.'

here is how some others have translated the same phrase

'Right and wrong lies within oneself; let others speak of ruin or glory; pay no mind to gains or losses.' (spicychickenyang)

'However, right and wrong is a personal issue*. Leave the slander to others. Let’s not talk about merits and demerits.'

*personal issue: WWX actually said ‘right and wrong are inside the self’' (translation + footnote from qinghe-nie)

wwx is explaining his moral philosophy, that people should decide for themselves what right and wrong is, and not factor what they gain or lose into moral decisions. this is critical to the themes of mob mentality, centralised authority and corruption in mdzs.

in 7s' version, it could be read as 'i make my own decisions, right or wrong is irrelevant.' it's ambiguous, but i don't know why they've chosen to add ambiguity that isn't present in the original text.

7s also added words/phrases that do not reflect the original text. the line 'I will bear the consequences of my actions' is entirely their own invention. the chinese phrase is '得失不論' 得失 = gains and losses, 不論 = do not speak of. additionally, wwx says 'my decisions,' 'my actions,' 'i will bear' — in 7s it comes across as if he's just talking about himself & his specific circumstance, rather than being a speech about his stance on morality in general.

finally, this line 'And I believe everything is still within my ability to control."' just isn't accurate. specifically, wwx does not say everything is within his ability to control, he says he believes he'll be able to control himself. the chinese line is '我也相信我自己控制得住。'我自己 = myself. wwx said this specifically in response to lwj asking if he will be able to control his cultivation earlier on.

i know people are gonna think, 'translation is nuanced, poetic language is hard to translate!' well, the fan translators did a pretty good job of it, why is it so hard for a professional publishing company to do the same?? why did 7s choose to add words/phrases and punctuation that aren't even present in the original text, making it disjointed and rambly? why did they ignore context and add meanings that aren't even in the original text?

[jaekaicx]

marcanne from my chemistry notes

[zeb-z]

also something about foolish, who usually sticks around spawn, who builds or fools around, who takes care of his daughter, going off thousands of blocks away to fight in dungeons. to throw himself into the fight again and again. to find something harder to fight each time, to get a reward that he doesn’t really need or want anyway. no leo around for him to worry about, or worry about him in return, after all