noodle bowl muncher, and other qualities

she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

[a-ramen-fiend]

more yuri

[tomb-mold]

[jibunbosh]

we have two eyeballs to see in 3d. we have two ears to listen in stereo. we have two nostrils for like. fuck all i guess. its all connected anyway. who fucking cares. (looks it up) So that one of them can take a nap or something

[fs-oyaji]

嵐電。

[boccher]

true power comes to those who wear the pencil skirt without tucking

[boccher]

TRUTH NUKE...

[egirlbutternubs]

No i didn't "forget to pack a toothbrush and a phone charger" its called on site procurement. Solid snake does it too

[mikumiotics]

the thing is, people(trans and cis!) can kinda tell when you are dressing and acting a certain way for the express purpose of being "shocking" or "unconventional" like in a very literal sense you are being performative. And many TME people will quickly tire of putting on this performance and take it off, going back to whatever it is that is authentic for them.

Trans women, on the other hand, shock and transgress norms by just being ourselves. It is not a cute little performance we put on for the sake of shocking cis people and "genderfuck points" from the broader queer community. It is actually kind of a fucking huge problem we have to deal with every fucking day! Funny how that works!!!

[ouroborosorder]

i just learned about the official english version of Racing into the Night and i am so fucking baffled, i've never seen anyone do anything like this, what the FUCK

[ouroborosorder]

they translated??? the entire song??? so that if you aren't paying attention??? it still sounds like the original Japanese??? they tried to match the phonetics as close as they possibly could??????? so that listening to it, it literally feels like a soramimi of the original. what the fuck why huh what huh

[ouroborosorder]

listen to everything past the 1 minute mark here, it's like the uncanny valley of linguistics in music. i'm so enthralled, why did they go to the effort to do this

[jibunbosh]

Y'know, as someone who does do translyrics sometimes, I do appreciate it on some level. A lot of people really underestimate how much the inherent phonetics of the Japanese language - namely, the fact that there are essentially only five vowel sounds - influence how lyrics are naturally written. It's almost hard to not do inline rhymes. Lean into it more and you have something catchy. Yet when translating the musical elements of English, people either don't try to replicate that feeling due to it being outright difficult or just not even recognizing that specific quality of the original Japanese music enough to try to transfer that element to English, even if it takes more of a Shakespearean and/or MF Doom mastery of English to convey the same feeling using English vernacular.

That being said... trying to preserve not the rhyme scheme, but even the specific vowels being rhymed, and even the consonants... is kind of doing a little bit too much. And only really pleases the people who are already familiar with the phonetics of the original song. Which arguably defeats the purpose of doing a translation to reach more people... unless you're just doing it for the sake of doing it which is also respectable.

It's crazy.

[ouroborosorder]

you know i've been listening to japanese music and translyrics of said music for most of my life and somehow the idea that internal rhyming is just easier is something that's never occurred to me? I was always wondering why my lyrics just don't flow nearly as well as the songs that inspired me, and i always figured it was just like. Due to syllabic count differences, but this makes so so so much sense.

[7777777awawawa7777777]

you could get millions in venture capital if you promised to show everybody the nintendo 65 you got from your uncle who works at nintendo and then when the investors come to check on it you say it’s getting repaired right now but we can play with legos instead

[7777777awawawa7777777]

i used to have a lot of trouble relaxing my throat to sing so one time i tried doing poppers in the studio. no it didn’t work

[7777777awawawa7777777]

experts are reporting that stocks have neither gone up nor down but have instead in their stagnation become infected with a bizarre psychic miasma

[7777777awawawa7777777]

“desiring machines” ? “despotic signification” ? “deterritorialized flows” ? puppies are not supposed to know words like that, let me hear you bark instead

[7777777awawawa7777777]

why do you smell like indie rpg about depression

[7777777awawawa7777777]

“texas” was a form of mass psychosis that permeated much of human society in the late anthropocene

[yuriinullification]

topless mahjong is gonna be the next big thing

[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

theres apparently a strain of weed named white yoda?

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

lovers lost in a forest