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a date night at the opera

#ferdibert #hubert von vestra #ferdinand von aegir #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #my art #spent embarrassing amount of time repainting it 949493990202 times #but I guess the end result is decent #it was supposed to be another pining yearning but neri yelled at me to let them hold hands so #warning: (premarital) h*nd h*lding

kosmogrl

interestingmistakes

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

finnglas

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

finnglas

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

finnglas

oh no is this what we’re doing now

finnglas

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

waltersnowwhite-deactivated2013

a detailed list of things i hate

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

midnight-sloth

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

These wonderful people have a single braincell to share but unfortunately none of them are using it

#vid #reblog forever

aokozaki

So much translation discourse just boils down to monolinguals not understanding that "coolness" doesn't translate across languages, and you need to re-add it manually on the other end.

beforeliteracytherewasdeez

Spanish and French understand the anglicism so just say "eso es muy cool" or "c'est très cool" if the context is not particularly formal

aokozaki

No no, not literally the word "cool" I mean the [concept of coolness]. Things that sound cool, poetic, funny, dramatic, etc in one language will completely fail to land if you simply go 1-to-1 word equivalents.

In the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist, the antagonists are named after the seven deadly sins, in English. As in, rather than the Japanese word, "Greed" is still Greed in the original.

Because loan words from English are often pretty "cool", as with your Spanish and French example.

But this presents a problem, because, to give them a bit of flair, the antagonists are sometimes given a proper Japanese adjective along with their name, to make a sort of title of sorts.

"Greedy Greed"

The italicized part would be a Japanese adjective, and the bolded part is an English loanword. This is fine in Japanese, but would be totally nonsense in an English translation.

After all, it's common sense to keep the names the same, duh, and obviously the whole point of what you're doing is to translate the Japanese.

Greedy Greed. You cannot call him that.

You can't go 1-to-1. To keep the [concept of coolness], you have to identify what made the original cool, and then recreate it in the new language.

And here, we have a foreign word, and a native word, both meaning the same thing, paired together to give an antagonist a cool sounding title. So how do we do that in English.

Well, the seven deadly sins, being Christian and Catholic and all, have fancy names in Latin. Or well, they just sound fancy in English, because Latin was the language of intellectuals for a long long time.

And in fact, while we also have the word "greed", English has a fancier sounding word that means the same thing, but whose etymology comes from the fancy Latin. That might give a similar cool-loanword feeling, right?

Let's try it.

"Greed the Avaricious"

Oh yeah. That's definitely, undeniably, "cool".

anophiles

Shen Qiao calmed his breathing and said coldly, “I have never seen Sect Leader Yan’s heart before. How should I know whether your heart’s changed completely?” Yan Wushi grabbed his hand and brought it to his own heart. He said softly, “If you don’t believe me, you can dig it out and see for yourself, then you’ll know. From today onward, this is all yours.”

#yanshen #yan wushi #shen qiao #thousand autumns #千秋 #my art #out of context this seems like such an awww cute scene #but shen qiao wants to hit him the entire time and doesn't buy his sweet words #I support shen qiao's right to hit yan wushi with a rock at least once

Shen Qiao's dilemma: kiss him or kill him

#yanshen #shen qiao #yan wushi #thousand autumns #qian qiu #千秋 #remember that one time sq admitted he thought about kissing yw a thousand times??#but also a thousand times sq wanted to hit him with a rock/throw soup over his head/pummel him flat #love shen qiao being done with yan wushi's bullshit #but also still wanting to kiss that stupid mouth #giving in to drawing yanshen after 9 months of trying to restrain myself #there are not enough fics or fanarts to quench my thirst for them!!!!!#my art

parkchanwoohoo

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

raine-of-auroria

Me watching this:

cowboybarbaryn

I’m not letting this rot in the tags

tiercel42

The kids are alright

loveridden1999

cosmonaut-observer

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@daysleftofsecondterm

starlightshadowsworld

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This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.