#yes this is my coping mechanism

[were-wolverine]

jason, coming back from the dead and seeing tim as robin: how could bruce replace me? how could he give robin to someone else?

dick, who created robin in honor of his dead parents and then had bruce take it away and give it to jason without even asking him:

[melan0phis]

"Caught in orbit"

[purrvaire]

black sails + tumblr text post I have on my phone (pt. 2/?)

[rocketbirdie]

Arrrghh. People are finishing up Rebirth and looking up the different localizations, and the inevitable wave of hate for the English version is starting to gain traction again just like with Remake. I guess I just get super defensive about it because I have worked on large translation projects before, and it's not as straightforward as players seem to think.

It's not like the good ol' days of "This Guy Are Sick." They don't write the JPN script first, and then just send it out for translation anymore. Nowadays the different language scripts are all written simultaneously, with the teams working back and forth together, to check over each ofher's work and make sure that no one sentence is under- or overshooting a goal. Like it or not— everything is checked over and approved.

There's a lot more being translated than just words. There's so much to take into account— tone of voice, the cultural context, the lip sync and corresponding length of each line (which isn't allowed to run over by more than 0.2 seconds which is CRAZY). It's a messy process and it's a lot of goddamn work.

And then there's the audience, too. Different languages' audiences are often going to have wildly different interpretations of a character. A really good example from FFVII would be Yuffie. In the JPN version of the OG, Yuffie is written to be a confident girl who's dead serious about her ninja training. The ENG translation didn't do that justice... she instead comes off as a silly annoying kid pretending to be a ninja. Remake's DLC was testing the waters to see if they could write Yuffie in a way that's still faithful to both of the strikingly different regional perceptions of her character. And they nailed it.

The same thing happened with Cloud, and continues to influence the way he's written in the Re-trilogy. It's much more subtle than with Yuffie, but it's still noticeable, and I think it's why a lot of people get up in arms about his dialogue.

Cloud has always been written as having a stark disconnect between his tone of voice and his choice of words. It's just that the two major languages get it swapped! JPN Cloud has a harsh, mean tone, but his choice of words is polite and easygoing. On the other hand, ENG Cloud says a LOT of nasty shit out loud, but his true feelings are betrayed by his soft voice and gentle body language.

The difference goes unnoticed by the average player who isn't so invested to give a damn. But if you're actively searching for "bad translations" to get mad at, then you'll find them where one version's Cloud comes off a bit too strong. It's only natural that English Cloud is the one that pisses people off more often— after all, he's literally saying stupid shit to to piss other characters off constantly. His character is so convincing that players want to reach into their screens and wring his neck, and I think that's glorious.

But that's why it upsets me to see people turn that frustration at the localization teams. They didn't "ruin" a character's dialogue— they were just barely able to make something work, all things considered. Character, line length, culture, story context, facial animations, voice acting, for MULTIPLE languages, like... holy shit. It's a miracle that most of it is really really good, and that the bad is only a little bit bad.

Idk where this rant is going. Just... c'mon people. Have some respect for such an insanely complicated art form.

[wastingawayinmyroom]

@jegulus-microfic - prompt: resume - word count: 219 tw: implied suicide, double mcd

resume.

He cradles the older boy's face in his hands.

"James," Regulus starts, and James' eyes immediately fly open. "Can I tell you something?"

There's a mischievous glint in his eye. He hasn't changed much, even after all these years. "We're married, darling. You can tell me anything."

Regulus smiles. He loves mornings like this, where they can wake up together and laze around for a while, in their own little bubble.

"I love you," he whispers, leaning in, closer to James' face. "I love you, to the edges of the universe and back."

"But the universe is always expanding." James is grinning now, even though they play through this conversation often.

"Then so is my love for you," Regulus says, and the gap between them closes, mouths connecting and devouring each other like starving men.

Regulus wakes up.

James is not there.

No, James is in the graveyard thirty minutes from his cramped apartment. Regulus knows that; he makes the trip every day.

Regulus is not confessing his love to James for the thousandth time.

He is lying facedown on the carpet.

Glass shards litter the floor. When he moves, he winces, feeling them get embedded in his body.

He is bleeding.

He does not care.

He will join James.

Because without him, he could never resume his life.

[itsnotjustgibberish]

I like to think that Soul uses Snapcube clips to comfort itself during mental breakdowns

[telleroftime]

Oh. My. God. Imagine you're the ruler of a kingdom similar to the Crystal Empire from My Little Pony and after battling with an evil for many moons, you finally manage to win your kingdom back. To celebrate, you invite all the neighbouring kingdoms, namely kingdoms such as the Mushroom Kingdom and the Koopa Kingdom, to visit what is rightfully yours.

The rulers all gather for the celebrations with the people of the kingdom more than happy to rejoice now that they are finally free. You, as the ruler, decide to mark the day by showing off your power. After so long of fighting in shadows, your kingdom gets to gleam and shine again. With a surge of magic and you the crystal monarch at its centre, the people of the kingdom alongside the visitors get to witness a different form of themselves.

They all glitter and sparkle and glow, the appearance mesmerising.

And you, after pleasantries with the other kings and queens and royals. You're mesmerised with a particular ruler. King Bowser, whose shell has caught your eyes. The spikes look like they are made of crystal, his claws like quartz and his scales like flakes of carnelian. He looks like a gem more than anyone else in the ballroom and oh how you can't help yourself but invite him to dance.

The Koopa King who has never danced before. The Koopa King who has been avoided by the other monarchs the entire day. The Koopa King who looks so beautiful to you.

Simple to say you come out with many new allies after that day.

[whumper-at-heart]

[shsl-heck]

Thinking about the Chevalier interlude, specifically the inaugural team of Wards. Like in universe, they sell it to this first group of kids (and presumably the rest of the world) as a place for second chances, to find friends and mentors who understand what youre going through, where you can learn to use your powers safely while making good memories. The kids broadly seem to believe in these noble intentions of course, but what really gets me is that I've seen readers buy into it!

"Oh, it's such a tragedy that the Wards program became this awful thing that traumatizes kids even more, and expects them to die for the sake of civilians! It's fallen so short of what it was originally supposed to be!"

No it has not??? The fact that the triumvirate and Hero are saying it has this noble goal doesn't make it true. The Wards was pretty clearly always a way to increase the amount of bodies the prt could throw at threats, and we know this because it was started by the fucking Triumvirate as a part of the Protectorate! Alexandria literally came up with the idea of the Protectorate to legitimize the power of capes, and have a consistent source of heroes Cauldron could throw at problems. That is the whole reason for the PRT/Protectorate existing. So when we have this group of children brought in a subsidiary, there are 2 real options.

1). Cauldron and Alexandria decided they would be really niceys and created this program with no intentions other than helping these kids out.

Or 2). As things got worse, they realized the Protectorate didn't have enough manpower to do what they needed, and so they expanded it to include children (the demographic most prone to triggering). That way, they greatly increase the number of capes who they can send to fight and die as needed, and the ones who do survive their tenure in the Wards will be better trained when it comes time to join the actual Protectorate.

At the risk of sounding conceited, I think the second one is far more likely based on everything we know about Cauldron. Maybe it was originally a little nobler, and the goal was just to create more well trained heroes and cut back on young villains, but there's no way Alexandria, Doc Mom, and Contessa didn't factor in the ability to sacrifice the kid heroes if it improved their chances of success. That was absolutely a perk at minimum.

That's the real tragedy of the inaugural Wards. The kids were lured in with promises of safety, comraderie, and second chances like lambs to the slaughter. All the while, Alexandria and Cauldron knew that many (if not most) of these children would suffer abuse by the prt (like in the case of Reed), die, or face a fate worse than death like poor Mouse Protector. It's horrifying! The idea that they didn't know the danger these kids would be in is literally inconceivable. Especially when one of you is also the head of the prt! They knew, and they didn't care. It improved their chances at the end of the world, and so they did it no matter the cost.

[faunabel]

my fave form of what's basically friends to lovers is when two people meet and have all their own baggage and the connection they form together and love they have for each other forces them to unpack all that baggage if they want to make things work. the kind of relationship where you're forced to look in the mirror and stop avoiding ur own problems because that person forces u to confront all of them (and u force them to confront theirs, too) because the relationship will Not work if you keep up all these walls either from your person of interest or even from urself!!! and there's too much of something there to give up and move on because it's difficult

the kind of thing where there's romance but the real plot of it all is self transformation through loving another. like the focus is on two individuals w/ their own lives who come together and have romantic feelings for each other vs the romance itself being the plot.

and maybe in the end they don't even stay together! maybe it doesn't work out! but there's drastic change and an undeniable impact they both made in each other's lives that will live on. is changing for the better not love in its rawest form?

[dystopicjumpsuit]

Seasonal depression got me like

[mitskiluvr]

i’m glad everyone is talking about how much maya has been through because i need to know that i wasn’t alone in the sheer shock i felt at the end of 2-4 when she JUST came back from being kidnapped and was like “nick let’s go get burgers ugh let’s get burgers yes yes i want burgers” … oh miss maya fey

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

“great position in the backseat” okay alex

[azoosepted]

saw this template being used for other characters and thought itd be funny to tweak it a bit credits to @syniminpie for helping me choose which sinner goes with which text

[izzyfizzyxx08]

Late night thoughts,,,