#not a native speaker

[spoi1er-a1ert]

you guys “habibi” isn’t necessarily a romantic term

i see it all the time with jondami content used as this huge declaration of damian’s love but like a LOT of people use it familially/platonically. it means “my dear”. it may be an originally romantic term but a lot of the time it’s not used that way. like i use it for my cat and my friends. my professor called me habibi once. like it’s a token of affection but not always a romantic one

[712virginia]

I like to believe that Will and Hannibal survived the fall, and after that, for a short time, they lived a life closer to the way Will lived his life before; isolated. I feel like that would be Hannibal given up the luxury and exhibition for a while just to have Will, to admire him in his habitat. He would be allowing himself to have something that's not a spectacle or a game. It's just intimate and private.

I think they find a house/cabin in the middle of nowhere, kill whoever lived there and didn't waste anything (like Garret Jagob Hobbs). They hunt, they fish, and they cook. Listen to the silence, talk to each other.

Hannibal would look so peculiar and out of place, and I think Will would find that quite fascinating.

I don't think that could last forever. They've eventually got bored and start to plan something scandalous, dramatic, just for the sake of it. It's not in their nature to be ordinary.

However, I think they they would try ordinary life for a while, just to have those memories ( and since FBI would probably be looking for them in fency places).

[moorswanderer]

Hey I am here from that Caesar sucking on the gun barrel post.

I wanted to ask. Wtf is up with ch 42? How did they manage to ruin the story like that? The whole story was interesting because the power dynamics were never solely in favor of one side. Which is usually the case in toxic yaoi. But then they had the blondie straight up shoot, kidnap, drug and rape Leewon for 10 days. And he doesn't use that word even though he is a lawyer???!!!! Wtffff

hello!

i too was baffled reading that chapter. i think the author wanted us to remember that caesar is, in fact, a gangster and therefore a bad person, but in my opinion it was totally unnecessary; then (if i remember correctly) they tried to ‘motivate’ this by making up some sort of ‘plan’. which seemed like a last minute excuse to me.

as you said, the power dynamics where so refreshing and i was literally left with my jaw hanging at that point. like, it was going so good, they were both kinda crazy but i mean, they were cool with it. if you noticed i kinda stopped posting about ‘roses and champagne’ after that.

i interpreted the fact that leewon didn’t react after that and instead kept being with caesar in a stockholm syndrome way. not that i think that’s nice or anything but i can’t think anything else about it. (and it’s not a plot choice i share btw)

[meirimerens]

it is so funny to me how i started learning english on my own age 10 because the manga i was reading was turning so so so bad i went to fan content to cope with how shit it was. and 15 years later this pays off as my boss tells me i'm an essential asset in the team as the only fluent english-speaker.

[babykittenteach]

No but fr having an indigenous family broken up for its own good by the state and one of them leave her homeland to go get a Real Education is not just counter to the original story's characterization, it's not just erasing the colonialism commentary for the sake of failed feminism presumably based on the girlboss objection to portraying women as caretakers and the classist objection to blue collar jobs, it is an act of colonialism.

It is in fact so ridiculously an act of colonialism that it should come off as such to anybody able to think about media critically for a few moments, but to anybody familiar with what the US did to many indigenous peoples via the faux benevolence of boarding schools, including to native hawaiians, it's fucking revolting.

Like, shoutout to removing Pleakley's gender exploration, to removing the cop villain in lieu of just having the mad scientist remain one, to removing some of Cobra Bubbles's nuance, to removing commentary on race and colonialism, etc etc, but mainly: this did a colonialism.

[shitpostingkats]

Oh english is absolutely not his first language.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

It's not what I expected by 我是阿彪叻

[pepurika]

two idiots from the upcoming knight comic.......

[chlorophyllium]

[orchidsarchives]

Jason “teach me your language. i may not be native to your homeland, but let me belong; let me be native to you,” Todd

[kayascodelorio]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) S02E03―No Pain

[leefail]

This is just a mini info dump from an Arab batfamily fan because I find Damian calling his siblings Akhi... adorable (for me as a native speaker watching a writer use Arab words) and, not painful, just... itchy, it URGES me to make a pptx with 300 slides and just? Talk about Arabic?

So... أخي, Akhi, Brother.

It's not incorrect. The word is used in the right place and delivers its intended meaning. Other Arab speakers might not find a problem with it. They'd feel odd like I did but will likely go "eh" and carry on. But I'm an Arabic enthusiast, so...

Like with every language with geographically widespread users, the Arabic tongue kind of- deviated from its roots. The language has naturally branched out into so many dialects I myself can't keep track of.

Arabs from different regions can understand each other. They use the same words but for different purposes and with different pronunciations.

The original root language that holds them all (Quranic Arabic) was simplified into an easier, standard version that is used for formal speeches and as a communication bridge (seeing that you can't, say, translate something to Arabic and say it's for all Arabs if you use a certain dialect. Because an Arabic dialect is an identity at this point, tell me somebody is Syrian, and I know them already)

Now, with the fun part.

See, no Arab calls any sibling of theirs Akhi, I myself would burst laughing if mine did.

Yakhoi يَخوي (nonstandard, everyday Arabic for o, brother) , maybe, if I'm calling a stranger from the streets or an offender I'm going to give a piece of my mind.

Or, hold your breaths, my brother is crying, and the lights are out and I NEED to use the tenderest, most loving, most adoring, most revering tone I could muster so he just knows he is loved and family. Y'know? This specific situation.

And other Arabs might just say, no, I use it when, I use it when, I don't use it, etc.

The point is, nobody will mention Akhi. Because it's a Standard Arabic word, a formal word, and a word used in translated texts and stories when a foreign character we don't consider part of us call their brother. It's weird, it's devoid of emotions, and it's like watching a robot trying to be emotional, but it's a translated text. That's what translated texts use, and it's fine.

It is fine, Standard Arabic has been used for stories so much that nobody questions its influence on a character's characterisation.

I'm not saying Standard Arabic shouldn't be used for story writing, quite the opposite, in fact. I'm just saying that if Arabic is used to represent an Arab, its usage should also consider an everyday Arab experience and manners.

Now to Damian.

Akhi is robotic. Damian's personality does allow him to fall under that category. If for his well refined manners and polite, formal speech.

But even the King wouldn't call his brother Akhi.

He'd call him by his name. For my community (and most, I'm sure) siblings are called by their names, and if we look up historic Quranic (Root) Arabic speakers, they, too, call their siblings by their name. Yes, even the Sultan.

If not by actual name, then either endearing or demeaning names.

Arabs LOVE endearing names, but they're dipped in a pool of honey I don't think Damian would like to dive in.

Talia, on the other hand, would most certainly call Damian Mama. Arab parents call their kids by their own titles. It's the ultimate expression of parental love of all times, in my opinion.

(Don't make Batman call him Papa, though. Pretty sure Damian would malfunction)

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Well, I said all that, but watching writers include Arabic words in his vocabulary is still sweet. Tt is not even a word, but it's such an Arab thing it's my favourite.

If only I could make subtitles of everyday Arab talk and show you, their speech is heavy with, excuse my English, word softeners, it's like they're talking in a TV drama and not the real world.

Watching Damian adopting it would be interesting :D

[janniksins]

Jannik Sinner ahead of the 2025 Terra Wortmann Open in Halle

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[venriliz]

the bastardization of the sims 4 cc tags here on simblr has gotten so bad that i'm using fucking google and pinterest now to find stuff or i'm crossing my fingers that the good stuff magically appears on my dash when i happen to be scrolling through. 97% of simblr uses cc, that's basically all of us.

it's more or less agreed upon that those tags (sims 4 cc, ts4 cc and so on) are predominantly for actual cc creators or cc finds blogs to use to make cc-hunting easier on tumblr. using those tags on gameplay/edits/cas posts is causing this to be a pain in the ass because the tags then get flooded with posts that don't really belong there.

please stop using cc tags when its absolutely not necessary. it won't help with engagement on your posts like personally it actually makes me want to like and reblog them less. as i said... almost all of us use cc. pls stop ty

[nervouswrecktm]

the dynamic names in critical role are so good and funny

for beau and caleb you have the empire siblings because they are both children of the empire who seek to right the wrongs of the place they were born and the systems they were placed into and who have become found siblings after struggling to understand each other for so long

for beau and fjord it is brjeaus because they are bros™️ and their names are spelt stupidly