#i also needed to translate it to english

[flipflopmasterr]

love when he does the thingy with his hands when frustrated/stressed

And this too

[megyulmi]

Suho asks Sieun, “Have you been living well?” Those words, once a last greeting, became a greeting of the beginning again. – from 『Next Actor Choi Hyunwook』

U: Sitting in a wheelchair, he only says three lines. Though short, I thought they were so inherently Suho.

S: As an actor, it’s been three years since he played Ahn Suho. Maybe that’s why he came to the set with much more pressure and worry than I expected. The script, too, had only three lines, but the actual dialogue was different. In the script, it was written as “Have you been well(잘 지냈냐)?” but Hyunwook changed it to “Have you been living well(잘 살았냐)?”. I only noticed the difference during editing. That was Suho’s first line during the last time he went to Sieun’s house in Class 1, and I realized the actor changed it to reflect that connection.

The middle line, “Who are those people in the back(저기 뒤에 분들은 누구셔)?” stayed the same. But Hyunwook said that line didn’t feel right in his mouth, so after a couple of takes, we cut it on set. However, we wanted to keep the intention, so we ended up restoring it during editing. To be honest, in Suho’s eyes, he probably couldn’t even see who was in the back. He was only looking at Yeon Sieun. Maybe Hyunwook wanted to cut that line because suddenly shifting his gaze away from Sieun to someone else felt too difficult?

The next line was, “Our Sieun has grown up, made friends too(우리 시은이 다 컸네, 친구도 생기고),” but Hyunwook condensed it into “It is good to see(보기 좋네).” Looking back, if we’d kept the original, it would’ve felt too contrived and overly explanatory of the director’s intent. So, Choi Hyunwook… he’s really something, isn’t he?

They fall into the same sleep. During the seasons when the Catcher* was gone, the children fell, got hurt, and rose again. Sieun, now the Catcher of the new friends, comes to find an old friend who has finally awakened from sleep. Suho asks Sieun, “Have you been living well?” Those words, once a last greeting, became a greeting of the beginning again.

*translating 파수꾼 (Watchman, Guardian, Sentinel) as the Catcher to keep the reference to The Catcher in the Rye in tact.

[royalarchivist]

Pac: I can't keep doing this, I can't do this– [Laughs] I can't do this anymore— What is this, man?!

If you didn't see Pac suffering in Sims earlier today, here's a (translated & subtitled) compilation of some silly Sims Hideduo moments that made poor Pac look like he was questioning all his life choices.

[numerousracoons]

Pathologic Classic HD’s English translation is really fucking interesting.

Not necessarily because of the translation aspect (which is cool as shit, but I’m too much of a monolingual loser to comment on)- but because it was very clearly written by English people, as noted by the fact that it heavily uses English dialects of the English language (which is pretty distinct- most games made in English, and even more so translated into English, typically use US American English), and that that use of English dialects actually contains so many implications on the characters that are really interesting.

This is mainly because of how social class works in England, namely, that it’s less so economically based, and more cultural based.

In England your class isn’t entirely dictated by your income, but rather your way of living; the shops you go to buy food, the brands you use, the places you hang out, the people you talk to, and yes, the way you speak.

And obviously, Pathologic Classic, a game that is very dialogue heavy, ends up saying a lot about class and character’s relationships to class without actually directly telling you, by dropping hints through the ways that characters speak to one another.

And one character that I find particularly interesting in this regard (namely because there’s so much dialogue you can get from him and all of it tells a very interesting story when complied together), is Daniil Dankovsky, and the fact that, despite his current very middle class position (University graduate at highest level, has a job as a researcher, owns his own research lab) he most likely came from a working class background/family, and I know that because of the way this fucker talks.

And one day, when I’m not saddled with work I’m gonna write the equivalent to an essay on this and no one can stop me.

[yazzydream]

The record holder for consecutive Black Flash uses, Nanami Kento, speaks It's not like using Black Flash consecutively is anything amazing. To do so consecutively more than twice in a row… Rather, if not done within the same day it would be difficult. It doesn't matter if the first time is by fluke or skill. Once they land a Black Flash, sorcerers temporarily enter a state athletes call "the zone." The manipulation of cursed energy that is normally done consciously, comes as naturally as breathing. There's a sense of omnipotence, like everything else revolves around you… That might be a good way to put it.

[waitineedaname]

this is a very serious affliction i have to live with every day. there's a demon in my brain and that demon is luo binghe

I wanted to make a version of this where it's leading to shen qingqiu's brain, but I felt this was more fitting. me and sqq are suffering together

[thatneoncrisis]

re whitewashing in tlt spaces. i feel like id be way more chill with seeing lighter toned harrow, bc at the end of the day she IS lightskinned you can just look at the cover of nona and that whole "skin the color egg carton" this is like. fanciful and kind of strange if your mind goes to the white or grey ones but like

absolutely within the range of human skin tones. its tan but its not like a dark chocolate brown. gives you enough to work with. but on top of just making harrow incredibly pale a lot of the time she is just. drawn like a white girl. just zero indication that she isnt entirely pakeha let alone maori if you didnt already have that info in your back pocket.

and so much shit contributes to this its tazs descriptions in the book just focusing on how pointy and scrawny she is, its fanartists not really getting the nuances of how to draw poc outside of "white person" and "black person", its the fact that irl maori obviously have a vast array of different ways they can look and some of them can be white passing and that doesnt make them less maori, its that fact coming into conflict where in a book if you have a main character you say is maori but is lightskinned, white passing and has zero connection to maori culture, language, and wasnt even born on earth and its been 10000 years since that particular ethnic group has even existed. what does that mean. how would the text change if she was just pakeha

[ribbononline]

Atlus. Atlus. Atlus are you listening? Are you here with me Atlus. Atlus come closer. There's just one thing. Just one thing I need you to do for me Atlus. In P4R you are going to give Teddie a better translation. Okay Atlus? You are going to make it clearer when he's parroting stuff you are going to let him reference manzai just once. You are going to change 'scoring' to something more accurate. Atlus are you listening? Atlus- Atlus come back- ATLUS. ATLUS COME BACK ATLUS---

[esthyradler]

All my life I thought I never gonna use physics lessons and math for the rest of my life after I finish school, and now I'm here, reading about newton's laws just so I can put one in a comic for like one sentence...

[annabelle--cane]

with the training of a decade of formal language education I now have a strong enough grasp of spanish to read french and feel like I've been awake for three days and am having a stroke

[limeekak]

and what if I give ya the first chapter of the fanfic I'm writing (or a part of it) just for fun

(post s7 where Soren meets Lissa again)

[yohankang]

wayama is sick for drawing kyouji like this when satomi leaves......

[narastories]

It's worth being on reddit sometimes because I learned that:

there is a video of Hassel sipping whiskey during a zombie apocalypse... while he's twirling a pin from a grenade... with his feet in his stupid stripper boots on the table... just look at this shit. I can't physically be normal about this

your pet turning into a human is really canon in this game and it happened at least twice. I mean I knew that Cyros was a guard dog for that evil guy and it already felt super weirdly gay tbh but what do you mean he was Mamoru's pet? Like legit dog-shaped? What the fuck. (Don't even get me started on Reid turning from an adorable bird into a naked guy in Rodney's bed. That's... you know what, that's super fitting for both of those idiots (affectionate))

My resolve not to write fic for this silly game is weakening by the minute lmao

[archduchessofnowhere]

I bring you not very good news: Nancy Goldstone wrote a double biography on Elisabeth and Empress Eugenie, to be published on February 6 of next year.

After reading @vivelareine's review of Goldstone's book on Marie Antoinette I simply do not trust this author is a good researcher, and while I won't judge this book until it's out, I can't help but being very wary already. The synopsis alone doesn't give me much hope:

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.

When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Not only were they both young and beautiful—becoming cultural and fashion icons of their time—but they played a pivotal role in ruling their realms during a tempestuous era characterized by unprecedented political and technological change.

Fearless, adventurous, and independent, Elisabeth and Eugénie represented a new kind of empress—one who rebelled against tradition and anticipated and embraced modern values. Yet both women endured hardship in their private and public lives. Elisabeth was plagued by a mother-in-law who snatched her infant children away and undermined her authority at court. Eugénie’s husband was an infamous philanderer who could not match the military prowess of his namesake. Between them, Elisabeth and Eugénie were personally involved in every major international confrontation in their turbulent century, which witnessed thrilling technological advances, as well as revolutions, assassinations, and wars.

With her characteristic in-depth research and jump-off-the-page writing, Nancy Goldstone brings to life these two remarkable women, as Europe goes through the convulsions that led up to the international landscape we recognize today.

You see, I don't think it's crazy to pair up Elisabeth and Eugenie in a biography if your focus is going to be their queenship. Because they were very different as empresses, and I'd love a comparative study on why and how was that possible. Yet the synopsis is implying they were similar? How was Elisabeth personally involved in every major international confrontation? She was only personally involved in the Compromise, every other event she only reacted to (if even). Meanwhile Eugenie actively tried to participate in the politics of France and influence her husband (successfully in many cases, I believe).

The "domineering mother-in-law" part also worries me. Unsere liebe Sisi's been out since 2008, there's no excuse to not give Sophie a more nuanced portrayal.

But well, authors usually don't write the synopsis of their books, so I won't read more into it than what I've done already. I truly hope this biography isn't terrible because we don't need to add one more book to the already giant pile of books about Elisabeth that are filled with myths and misinformation.

[venacoeurva]

I don't think it needs to be said but just in case it does for anyone super new on here, now's a terrible time to ask about buying commissions in peoples' replies unless they actually recognize you because bots are spamming image posts like crazy with either very strange poor English (not an automatic red flag but it seems like real people who don't speak English well tend to do a lot better than the bots and word things better) or excessive ChatGPT-esque compliments where there's often an excess of emojis are used in a quirky corporate or facebook boomer-esque way and they aren't all the blank accounts now. Still a lot of random jumble of 3 or 4 words usernames, though.

[liuisi]

lowkey o-(-( right now