#shitty translation by me

[emily-mooon]

To make up for the fact that I didn’t do anything for them for Christmas, here’s another fake shoujo magazine chapter cover :]

pose ref ↓

HAHA ITS FROM ITAKISS!!!! Naoki and kotoko are nothing like the blorbs but I thought this pose worked for that scene (it’s apart of a much large page split into two images, but I decided to crop it cause the rest of it doesn’t matter tbh)

[leafdragon16]

Experiment!Wheeljack AU goofs that will probably not make any sense outside of the context of the fic lmao

Bonus:

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

sniffle . sob

[harapeveco]

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[noctilu-uca]

[theblacksheepcz]

Assigning songs to TADC characters cuz i can

Pomni:

Nothing’s working out - meiyo

Creature Comfort - Arcade Fire

Human - Christina Perri

Nobody - Mitski

My Time - Bo En

I can’t handle change - ROAR

Hand me my shovel, I’m going in! - Will Wood

Be nice to me - The Front Bottoms

The Stand - Mother Mother

Ordinary-ish People - AJR

Ragatha:

Me and my husband - Mitski

I bet on losing dogs - Mitski

Washing Machine Heart - Mitski

Goodbye, my danish sweetheart. - Mitski

I will - Mitski

Vampire Empire - Big Thief

Step On Me - The Cardigans

Jax:

Wrecking Ball - Mother Mother

Verbatim - Mother Mother

Burning Pile - Mother Mother

Happy Pills - Weathers

Parents - Yungblud

Alien Blues - Vundabar

Boys will be bugs - Cavetown

Icarus - Bastille

I Am Shit - Crywank

Backstabber - Ke$ha

Friend - FRND

Memento Mori - Fish in a birdcage

Gallery Piece - Of Montreal

When you die - MGMT

Gangle:

Coma Baby - Nicole Dollanganger

Oh Klahoma - Jack Stauber

Thurs 6-25 - Sales

Better than me - The Brobecks

Juliet - Cavetown

Treehouse - Alex G

Kinger:

SAD - Lemon Demon

Infinitesimal - Mother Mother

The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake

Lemon Boy - Cavetown

Critters have feelings - Todd Edwards

Carpet Crawlers - Genesis

Freaks - Surf Curse

Little Lion Man - Mumford And Sons

Walk With Me - Taba Chake

them changes - thundercat

Fish in a birdcage - Fish in a birdcage

Heart - Pet Shop Boys

Same man I was before - Oingo Boingo

Amnesia was her name - Lemon Demon

Zooble:

Body - Mother Mother

Rät - Penelope Scott

Blow my brains out - Tikkle Me

Jealous - Eyedress

Are you satisfied? - Marina and the diamonds

my body’s made of crushed little stars - Mitski

Let’s go to bed - The Cure

gender is boring - she/her/hers

Caine:

Cabinet Man - Lemon Demon

Eight Wonder - Lemon Demon

Fine - Lemon Demon

The Machine - Lemon Demon

The Greatest Show Unearthed - Creature Feature

Turn the lights off - Tally Hall

I am not a robot - Marina and the diamonds

Entropy - Awkward Marina

Things she said - Chris Garneau

Digital Silence - Peter McPoland

Hullabaloo - Rare Americans

2econd 2ight 2eer - Will Wood

Puppet Boy - Devo

Bubble:

Kids - MGMT

Superfast Jellyfish - Gorillaz

Doom Crossing: Eternal Horizons - Chalkeaters

Kaufmo:

Touch-Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon

Everybody likes you - Lemon Demon

Baby Hotline - Jack Stauber

Fighter - Jack Stauber

Dr. Sunshine is dead - Will Wood

Your Clown - Eiffel 65

[naomiknight-17]

Note to self

Never ever say anything about queer discourse on this site ever again

[taruco]

Super Pochaco & Super Taruco comics from Super Pochaco Whopping Topping Book

[luckyowl21]

Coming back to those ear pieces again, I wonder if it also translates the languages from each respective player to the stream as well.

Because we *know* that BllkTV is streaming their interactions Big Brother style, and that is one of the more “exclusive perks” that the streaming service has to offer (other than the matches itself and Ego’s promise about the creating a) newest U20 Japan team and b) the world’s best striker).

But considering the panels and shots of the audience also watching the stream being implied to be all over the globe, not just Japanese audiences, I can’t help but also wonder when will that shoe drop on the BlueLockers. Like they already have the pressure to perform because all of the largest soccer clubs are watching and bidding on them, and after the U20 arc we’ve seen how they were experiencing the “mild” amount of fame they gained from the experience (not enough to get in their heads but juuuuust enough to get enjoyment from it)… so when what will happen to them after NEL? After their every waking moment aside from using the washrooms has been streamed to the globe?

More importantly, DOES THE MIKAGE TRANSLATORS ALLOW FOR SIMULTANEOUS STREAMS???

DOES THIS MEAN THAT IF SOMEONE STUDYING ITALIAN AND IS A SOCCER NERD BASED IN JAPAN WANTS TO WATCH THIS, THEY JUST GET THE ITALIAN DUB INSTEAD OF JAPANESE??

**DO VPNS OFFER REGION-BASED DUBS WHEN IT COMES TO BLUELOCK TV????**

[kleiner-detektiv]

New Bonus Story about Joel just dropped and volume 7 is in preparation! \(^o^)/

[whimsi-clown]

Finally! Someone else who at least recognizes Wiggins!

I also understand the Ratcliffe obsession. His voice is perfection. I personally do not obsess (I go for Wiggins tbh), but he’s an underrated villain who terrifies me because he’s so realistic at times.

YEEAAASSSS!!!!!

I understand why you would obsess over Wiggins. Mans is absolutely adorable! Prancing and skipping around like a pretty pony!

If I had a more sound mind, I would go for Wiggins too, but I'm begrudgingly all too drawn in by the allure and charisma of Governor Ratcliffe.

It might have something to do with the fact that I have a personal preference for big, long-haired evil men.

And he just so happens to fit the bill almost to a tee. Just close enough to get me going 👀

...

Man, I have shitty taste. XD

[sisterdivinium]

Finding "the meaning" to a show that could have had up to five or seven seasons but was cancelled after the second is somewhat like trying to understand a novel composed of seventy chapters by having read only twenty — there is a whole wealth of information which we do not possess that could alter our reading of any given element or of the entire thing in itself.

Still, there are always patterns that weave a story into a cohesive unit and they can help us to better grope in darkness towards comprehension. One such pattern in Warrior Nun appears to be how the consequences to mistakes, "sins" or evil deeds committed by characters manifest.

Basic storytelling usually requires characters to act on something so that complications or resolutions may arise from their choices and move the plot forwards. In Warrior Nun, many of these actions are quite tragic in nature: Suzanne's arrogance and pride lead to the death of her Mother Superion; Vincent's allegiance to the higher power he believed Adriel to be inspired him to kill Shannon; Ava's flight from the Cat's Cradle ends up damning Lilith as she is mortally wounded and taken away by a tarask... All of these events have negative outcomes and heavy repercussions on all characters directly or indirectly involved. Something changes permanently because of them, be it in the world around them or within the characters themselves.

And yet, it would seem that all of these dark deeds not only move the story forwards but might also have overall positive results. We would have had no protagonist without Ava — and she would arguably never have received the halo to begin with had she not been murdered. What's more, on a personal scale, the horrifying crime she suffers is, in the end, the very thing that allows her a second chance in life, a new life.

An act of outside evil permits Ava to grow and develop, shows her a path she would not otherwise have found. Without her own season in some sort of hell, Lilith would not have been able to advance towards other ways of being and understanding beyond her very strict limitations. Vincent and Suzanne would not have embarked on their own journeys of enlightenment without having caused the pain they are responsible for.

Beatrice might have been paying for someone else's mistakes, but she, too, is given the chance to grow into herself through it. The afflictions that torment these characters advance the overall plot, but they also advance them, as individuals, as long as they are willing to learn and keep going despite the calamities large and small that they are faced with. Beatrice keeps going after parental rejection, Mary keeps going after losing Shannon, Jillian keeps going after losing her son (in part through her own actions, adding insult to injury)... Trouble and the adaptation that follows it, if one is open enough to learn from the experience, motivates the characters, propels them forward, teaches them.

The problem of evil has occupied the minds of many a thinker throughout the ages, given how the very existence of it, evil, might call into question that of God (a good, omniscient, omnipotent one, anyway). A common way of justifying suffering (and also God), then, is by claiming, as Saint Augustine, that "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist".

Now, it would be rather ridiculous to say of Warrior Nun that it follows in Leibniz's footsteps, also because this philosopher, expanding on the augustinian concept, attempted to defend the goodness of a real God with his "best of all possible worlds" while all we have is... Well, whatever/whoever Reya is.

But there seems to be an inclination towards some sort of optimism as a worldview nonetheless.

Betrayals reveal truth and grant knowledge (Vincent's culminates with the coming of Adriel, which allows us to know of the threat of a "Holy War" and thus prepare for it; Kristian's gives Jillian much needed insight, William's lights up the fuse for the fight to be taken more seriously...), crimes committed willingly or not open the way for Ava (Suzanne's killing of her Mother Superion causes the loss of the halo, which is transferred to Shannon, whose death opens the gates for Ava to walk through after being herself murdered by sister Frances)... The magnitude of these positive outcomes is perhaps not "balanced" when compared to the evil that brings them about, but there is still something to take out of the catastrophe.

However tragic the tones of a given event, the show itself appears to shun the predetermination that makes tragedy as a genre; if everything is connected, here it at least appears to not necessarily drag everyone into their horrible dooms.

What's more is that this lurking "optimism" matches really well with our own protagonist's personality.

And it makes perfect sense that Ava would do the best she could with whatever she is given.

Life for her, in the conditions she experienced after the accident, would have been unbearable without some sort of positive outlook on life. However deadpan, the joking and the "obscene gestures" and whatever other forms of goofing around beside Diego are a way of turning a portion of the situation in her own favour. Proverbial eggs have, after all, already been broken right and left — might as well make an omelette of whatever remains.

Humour is just another way of looking at the bright side of something, or, at the every least, of mitigating the utter horror it might bring. If the show allows for moments of lightness, if it lets us laugh, if it takes us through a perilous voyage which still bears ripe, succulent fruit instead of the rot of pessimism and its necessary contempt for humanity, it is because Ava herself sees things in this way. It isn't gratuitous or naïve in this case, but a true survival strategy, especially as it is confronted with the morbidity of Catholicism.

Here is a religion that soothes its faithful with the promise of reward in the afterlife — how else does one charge into battle against the unknown, risking one's own death along with that of one's sisters, without the balm of believing that we shall all meet again eventually, "in this life or the next"? How else does one come to terms with the ugliness and the pain of this existence if not by looking forward to a paradise perfect enough to make all trials and tribulations here worth it?

True nihilism would have annihilated Ava. Her present perspective is what avoided the abyss.

And there is nothing Panglossian to her attitude or what the show might imply by giving us her view on things. This isn't about "the best of all possible worlds", but of making the best of whatever situation we're in, of taking what we have and doing something with it, something good, something of ourselves. It isn't God making good out of evil, but our choices.

Killing innocent people and feeling no remorse will never be the best someone can aspire to do. Sister Frances, cardinal William, Adriel all learn this the hard way.

Those who do their best find that, somehow, they can move on from whatever it was that paralysed them. Ava, most of all, knows what it is to be stuck, frozen in place; she can never be the character who refuses to grow, even through pain, lest she condemns her spirit to the same fate her body is all too familiarised with. Those around her wise enough to let themselves be touched by her, by the dynamic power she carries, walk forth with her and live.

It says very little about "God" that Warrior Nun should adopt its heroine's views and seem "optimistic" as it progresses — but it speaks volumes about the values it presents for pondering, of the inspiration its protagonists provide, and of the multiple reasons why this is a story unlike most others.

[meimi-haneoka]

Every time I see the English translation of a certain Clear Card panel with Touyuki appearing on my TL I want to pull my hair because that line was mistranslated so, so badly and people are making speculations and going nuts about it in the tags and it's all based on something that doesn't exists because that's not what Touya says, not at all. Like, not even remotely. It's also so out of character for him to say something like that, I don't know how his fans don't realize something is off in that line.

One day I will compile those translation mistakes in one giant google sheet or something, I need to turn this into a mission because it's honestly so irritating to see how riddled with mistakes this localization is, sometimes to the point of messing with important parts of the plot. I don't see them releasing a decently translated edition in the near future, so it's all I can do to give back some respect to the story. Clamp are aware of the translation mistakes and how they change the perception of the story for the foreign readers, just as they are aware of the posts I've made about them over the years (they talked about this in a Space long time ago, and I still cherish that mention in my heart with pride). But there was basically nothing they could do at the time, if not suggesting the English readers to check the posts mentioning the translation differences. That's great and all, I'm glad I have their blessing but this is also not really how ideally one should read a story. My posts are long and filled with personal comments and maybe that would deter many people from checking out what a certain line actually says, so I need to find a quicker and easier way. Also, I started to do those only from chapter 40 onwards (and in the beginning I was way overzealous, I would need to revise) and this panel I'm mentioning above is part of the butchery they did in the first volumes, which weren't covered by my posts yet.

[venao-eviscerado]

Does this count as ship content? Also, an extra doodle

[kaiserouo]

oh my god why do i not know this until now

yeah it's kinda fun

[dnangelic]

at this point i should just make a huge post for translations/drama cds/light novels... but then i'd have to clean up my own first LN summary and i'm so lazy about that