#using a kindle for this

[kylominis]

I need more clingy Xavi [♡]

[acemangan]

[sumire-no-nikki]

Books read in 2024 📚

[thaila-daughter-of-zeus]

STILL INTO YOU!!

[solifloris]

約束する生きてても死んでても二度と離さない。

I promise—for as long as I'm alive, and even if I die... I will never let you go, ever again.

aka, another attempt at explaining the nuance in this dialogue that made me cry (it did 😭 it really did 😭)

im saying a disclaimer again that im not a native speaker, i really just study japanese sometimes 😭 so like. again. this is based off of the knowledge i do have, but by no means is it complete knowledge either? SO !!! REALLY if anyone out there esp native speakers see something wrong please correct me 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

BUT this statement i feel just really has A LOT OF WEIGHT????

preface; the translation to english again has nothing wrong with it! for reference, "then it's a promise—in life, or in death, we will never be apart." <- which, you can see, is fine on its own!!!!!!!! it already hits really hard!!!!!

but it kinda hits different kind of hard in japanese, bc there's just a tiny bit of nuance that means something more than how we'd read it in english.

to note:

"ても" (temo) — a conditional indicator, used to imply that certain things will stay the same regardless of the given condition. i.e.; "even when (condition happens), still, (action/situation that remains the same)". in this sentence, it's used with the verbs for "to live" and "to die": "ikitetemo" and "shindetemo" respectively. so it forms "even if (i) live" and "even if (i) die", therefore stating "to live" and "to die" as the conditions.

BUT. because "temo" means that something stays constant despite the given conditions... if living and dying are the conditions, then what stays constant? 二度と離さない。(nidoto hanasanai).

specifically;

二度と (nidoto) — for context "nido" literally means "twice" (二 <- i believe is the chinese character for 'two', and is also japanese for 'two' (ni)!!!), and can generally be taken as like,,, "again" or "for the second time". but "nidoto" as a word is always accompanied by a negative form of a verb, so it ends up meaning things like "(verb) will not happen again" or more succinctly, "never again" or "from hereon out, never again".

離さない (hanasanai) — from "hanasu" meaning "let go/release", but negative form because of "nai". effectively this means "to not let go"!

in other words....

二度と離さない。(nidoto hanasanai) — following "(not doing a verb) again"... so, "to not let go again". in other words, "(i) will never let you go ever again." there's a sense of finality in the phrase, but also two things— (1) it's implied that it has already happened once before, and (2) there's a conviction that despite that, it won't happen a second time.

under the conditions of living and dying—whether i'm alive or whether i'm dead—what remains the same is that i will never let you go ever again.

or;

I promise—for as long as I'm alive, and even if I die... I will never let you go, ever again.

you kinda see why it hits hard, right? 😭

it's a more active, action-oriented statement on caleb's part. he's the one saying—and this is before he kisses her—i don't care, the universe can do all the shit it wants but i will never let you go.

he's promising her what he will do. that maybe it's happened before, but this time things are different. because he's going to act.

he's not going to let her go. not anymore. not ever, ever again.

it is a very constant fact, something that will remain, a promise that will remain, whether caleb is alive or not.

so it kinda feels like it has a little more weight in its nuance than "we will never be apart", at least, that's what i think...

ahfjsjf the dialogues caleb has in japanese are so eloquently worded somehow 😭

[starmocha]

Midnight Whispers ▪︎ Snowfall Encounter

[fisheito]

based on @winterdesu's comment..... ON THE COSPLAY POST (The snipao won. I thought about it😐)

[sunburstsandmoonshadows]

"in the end, all I hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you when there’s not a lot warmth left to go around" - boreas, the oh hellos

below, a version with other lyrics:

[wowyoulikeflowers]

people don't talk about how powerful will solace is enough, in my humble opinion. like, this man sewed limbs back on and had them functional without the ability to call upon his father's powers--that was all him. furthermore, he managed to harm Nyx twice in TSATS while in tartarus, and like....tartarus is, quite literally, the farthest will could possibly distance himself from his father's domain. he was weak, tired, injured, and afraid, and he managed to scrounge up enough force to inflict a beam of light powerful enough to singe the primordial deity of darkness that, in some mythos, is older than gaea, to the point where she cries out in pain. he also, after having weakened so much from that burst of light he had to be carried and was woozy, inflicted a strong case of hay fever on a primordial goddess on his first attempt at accessing his plague powers. like, if it weren't for his fatal case of imposter syndrome from watching his role models die before his very eyes, will would be on league with the Big 3 kids and topple the world.

oh, and I forgot to mention this all happened when he was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, and he injured a primordial with powers he discovered how to use in such a manner, or that he had at all, ON THE GO.

[strongintherealgay]

Realizing you can transfer the fics you download off of ao3 onto your kindle has been a game changer ngl. I can still read my fics before bed without hurting my eyes

[lemurianjasmine]

And to my Sea God...I will offer my most sincere devotion.

[tubbo--updates]

Tubbo posted on his Instagram story around 4 hours ago!

[unpretty]

Quick q for you and The Followers! I'm looking to divorce Kindle books going forward, and looking into getting a Kobo ereader. Do you or the collective have one, and if so, do you like it? Additional thoughts? Thank you!!!

i don't have one, but i've heard good things! boox is also supposed to be good if you want something that runs android that you can install all your reader apps on, but android on e-ink devices comes with a certain amount of jank because android isn't really designed for the low refresh rate of e-ink. there may be other good readers but those are the two i usually hear about.

[amnspages]

WE ALL KNOW YOU FIND HER DELICIOUS SHUT UP

[reithwinwanderer]

The BG3 origin companions and their favourite book genre:

Shadowheart: I think she’s a literary fiction girl. She specifically loves books about sad and weird (I say affectionately) morally grey girls because she relates to them.

Lae'zel: okay this might be because I've been reading a lot of Shakespeare for university but I feel like Lae'zel would LOVE Shakespeare. Yes, for the sheer amount violence and the regicide, patricide etc etc... but I also think she would resonate with a lot of the stories; I think Julius Caesar would be one of her favourite plays. ANdddd she'd throw random Shakespeare quotes in daily conversation.

Wyll: he would definitely love heroic high fantasy for sure, but dare I suggest... rom-coms? I mean the man can quote smut for god's sake. He absolutely loves a romantic comedy with a happy ending. Giggling and kicking his feet aww.

Karlach: she strikes me as a graphic novel and comic book gal, and I think she’d love the cosy fantasy genre. But let's be honest, she's also reading AND writing self-insert fan fics. I mean she literally does that if you play her as an origin character so there's no debate there.

Gale: Gale's reading range is incredibly vast, of course. He will read any genre or sub-genre that he can get his hands on so his taste is varied. I do think he would like non-fiction a lot, like memoirs and essay collections, poetry as well. Fiction-wise he probably likes a good murder mystery or historical fantasy.

Astarion: his favourite books are what people now would call classics, but they were the books he was reading 200 years ago when he was alive, so he always sounds really pretentious when people ask him what he likes to read.

[fishareglorious]

some time ago i made a post wondering why kakania looks to be pretty proficient with a gun, and @/please-let-this-work-oh-my-god in there said that she probably learned how to for self-defense but also brought up the question of how exactly is isolde good (at the very least, knew how to use one) with firearms too.

and im here to bring my idea to the table. what if kakania was the one who taught her how to use a gun, because much like her own reasons for learning how to, she also wanted isolde to learn out of self-defense.

little did she really know, isolde would use that knowledge in killing theophil, mr. karl, and hofmann.

in the grand scheme of things, this is just one of the footsteps in their joint path of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".