#useful words

[internettythings]

[chouhatsumimi]

Words from Nukoduke, vol. 4, part 3

Words in bold are particularly relevant to the story, and words in italics seem like they’d be worth remembering outside the context of the manga. Bold and italic together means they’ve probably appeared somewhere in Nukoduke more than once. Kinda long list but it’s for a whole volume… actually it’s too long for tumblr, so splitting into four parts.

けろっと completely, entirely, nonchalantly, as if nothing happened 禁断 きんだん prohibition, interdiction, forbidden, prohibited / prohibición, interdicción 板につく, 板に付く, 板に着く いたにつく to get used to, to become accustomed to, to be at home (on the stage) 幼心, おさな心 おさなごころ child's mind, child's heart, young mind 刃毀れ, 刃こぼれ はこぼれ nick in a blade (sword, knife), chip in a blade 刀匠 とうしょう swordsmith 一級品 いっきゅうひん first-class goods / bienes de primera clase 物欲, 物慾 ぶつよく greed, worldly or materialistic desires ミルクパン, ミルク・パン milk pan / cuece-leches, cazo pequeño para hervir leche 新調 しんちょう making (a new suit, dress, etc.), having (something) made, buying new, new tune, new melody, new composition / nuevo, flamante 愛らしい あいらしい pretty, charming, lovely, adorable / lindo, encantador, hermoso, bello [see also 可愛らしい, kawai-rashii] 早々, 早早 そうそう as soon as…, just after…, immediately after…, hurriedly, in haste, quickly, promptly, early / rápido, deprisa, enseguida, inmediatamente 揉みくちゃ, 揉み苦茶 もみくちゃ jostling, being jostled, being mobbed, (in a) crush, crumpling 微笑ましい ほほえましい pleasant, charming 手のかかる, 手の掛かる てのかかる troublesome, difficult (e.g. customer, guest, child), laborious (e.g. task, dinner) 傲慢, ごう慢, 強慢 ごうまん haughty, arrogant, insolent, proud, overbearing / arrogancia 跪く ひざまずく, ひざまづく to kneel / arrodillarse 愚民 ぐみん ignorant people 偏る, 片寄る かたよる to lean (to one side), to incline, to be unbalanced (e.g. diet), to be unduly weighted towards, to be concentrated on, to be partial, to be biased, to be prejudiced / arrinconarse, inclinarse, ser parcial 偏った考え かたよったかんがえ biased view (biassed), prejudice, one-sided view 恐縮 きょうしゅく feeling obliged, being grateful, being thankful, being sorry, being ashamed, shrinking back in fear / vergüenza ゲロ, げろ vomit, spew, puke, vomiting, confessing / vómito 暴走 ぼうそう acting rashly, running wildly, behaving recklessly, reckless driving, rampage, runaway (process), reckless baserunning / ir fuera de control 精々, 精精 せいぜい at the most, at best, to the utmost, as much (far) as possible / al máximo, lo más posible 盛大 せいだい grand, magnificent, lavish, large scale, prosperous, thriving, lively, forceful, powerful, vigorous / grandioso, próspero, magnífico 拗ねる すねる to be peevish, to sulk, to pout 抜け駆け, 抜駆け ぬけがけ stealing a march on, getting a head start, secretly acting before others, solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory) 元はと言えば, もとはと言えば もとはといえば when it comes to the cause, when you get right down to it, as for what started it, as for the reason, originally 溜め込む, 貯め込む, ため込む, 溜込む ためこむ to save up, to stockpile, to stash away, to hoard, to amass, to salt away / ahorrar 初等 しょとう elementary, primary / elemental, básico, primario 初等教育 しょとうきょういく elementary education / educación primaria, enseñanza básica, enseñanza elemental

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[iamthetruestrepairman]

women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

[lezbianz]

observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

[rowanisawriter]

this what im going thru rn. if anyone gaf

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Happy annual Dracula Paprika Discourse Day to those who celebrate!

[luetta]

[howtomakeyousee]

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[internettythings]

[chouhatsumimi]

Words from Noragami, ch. 38

Words in bold are particularly relevant to the story, and words in italics seem like they’d be worth remembering outside the context of the manga. Bold and italic together means they’ve probably appeared somewhere in Noragami more than once. [Though it's been a kajillion years (okay three actual years) since I read it so I can't promise I can highlight them well anymore...]

・寸寸, 寸々 ずたずた, ずだずだ, ズタズタ, ズダズダ to pieces, into shreds / despedazado, hecho trizas, hecho jirones, en añicos, en pedacitos ・大過 たいか serious error, gross mistake ・はらわたが煮えくり返る, 腸が煮えくり返る, 腸が煮え繰り返る, 腸が煮えくりかえる はらわたがにえくりかえる to be furious, to seethe with anger, to have one's blood boiling ・反論 はんろん objection, refutation, rebuttal, counterargument / refutación, objeción ・仕込み, 仕込 しこみ training, education, upbringing, stocking up, laying in, preparation (e.g. ingredients), girl studying to become a geisha ・匿う, 匿まう, 囲まう かくまう to shelter (e.g. a fugitive), to harbour, to harbor, to hide, to give refuge to ・沙汰 さた affair, state, incident, issue, matter, verdict, sentence, directions, orders, command, instructions, notice, information, communication, news, message, tidings, update ・謀殺 ぼうさつ premeditated murder, deliberate murder, willful murder, wilful murder ・次元 じげん dimension, perspective, point of reference, level (of something) / dimensión (tercera) ・私物 しぶつ private property, personal belongings, personal effects / objetos personales, pertenencias ・柄にもなく, 柄にも無く がらにもなく out of character, unlike one ・身代わり, 身代り, 身替わり, 身替り みがわり substitution (for someone else), substitute, stand-in, scapegoat, sacrifice ・大団円 だいだんえん denouement, ending, conclusion, (grand) finale ・言いつける, 言い付ける, 言付ける いいつける to tell (to do), to order, to charge, to direct, to tell on (someone), to tattle, to report, to often say / ordenar, divulgar, soplar, delatar

- Ch. 37 || Ch. 39 -

[cosmogyros]

HE BROKE THE RECORD

Senator Cory Booker just broke the all-time record for the longest Senate floor speech, speaking for over 24 hours without a pause (no food, no bathroom breaks, only water to drink) as a protest against Trump and Musk and what they're doing.

The previous record was set in 1957, when Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes protesting the Civil Rights Act.

Senator Booker has blown past that record, currently at 25 hours and still speaking as of 8 pm local time. Respect.

[infizero-draws]

drawing deltarune every day until chapter 3&4 drop ✨(day 101)

childhood sweethearts

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱