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The Adventures in Fansubbing: Localization and the Song of La Béfana (FR Miraculous Ladybug S2)

At this point, I just have a feeling I need to write this (mainly since I think people might find this interesting). If people are ever curious about the process of making subtitles/captions and what goes on, I’ll share some of that right now.

Now, releasing subtitles to a show isn't super abnormal these days. But there are some challenges that do come with making them.

Most people these days aren't too fussed with getting a direct translation from a fan subber, but when trying to create a quality project that keeps with the spirit of the original work is much more difficult to execute well. If you want to know more, keep going. You’ve got a lot of reading under the cut.

Professional captioners have some standards to keep to which can drastically alter what you read. These can include:

Ensuring the lines only show up in a certain number of lines and within a certain percentage of the screen. (The standard is a max of two lines, with few exceptions being three.)

Making the captions easy to understand and read in a timely manner.

Format captions to flow easily and smoothly to a viewer.

Making the idiosyncrasies, jokes and cultural references of one country understandable to other cultures. Otherwise, using an appropriate cultural reference in their place. (AKA Localization)

It's a lot of work trying to stick to that list and can often result in many things being lost to translation. A lot does hit the cutting room floor and things are altered to get an idea across in a shorter form. It's the kind of stuff that people might criticize on forums or such, but it's sometimes a necessary evil that has to be done.

With that, I want to talk about the last tick on the list (localization) in relation to S02E04 La Béfana in Miraculous Ladybug. Of course we’re talking about captioning the French language version.

I’ll start with a disclaimer: I am not a translator. I am not even fluent in a second language. I don’t even claim to be a professional captioner. I only do this for my own personal fun and education. Most of what you’ll read now is merely anecdotal and based on experiences doing this as a hobby.

It’s a pain in the butt trying to write subtitles for a language you aren't at all fluent in. What's worse, is when you run in to something that only works within the context of the original language or culture. It happens too many times to count.

I'm only going to detail a small sampling of what happens.

In this case, we have two very time consuming issues in La Béfana: the song that Béfana sings while flying around, and subsequently Chat Noir and Ladybug's responses to the song. These two are exactly the kind of localization problems that slow down jobs when you're not working on a team of multiple people. Let that be known if people are thinking of picking this up.

I won’t detail people on Miraculous Ladybug, one can easily Google the show on their own. But to set the stage for us here, La Béfana is actually based on the myth of Befana from Italy. She's a very popular figure who gives gifts to children on a flying broom, kind of like Santa. She gives candy and presents to good children in their stockings and coal or dark candies to bad children. The way Béfana in Miraculous Ladybug is portrayed is in line with this myth. Naturally, the show also has her sing a traditional Italian song while she's flying around. I wasn't able to find the original song this was based on (which may have made this easier to understand). Allegedly, it's a song that's found in a Befana opera, according to a friend of mine but I could be wrong. Knowing this background information can be helpful in understanding how to handle what we’re tackling. (Google is your best friend!)

The song in the show looks sort of like this:

La Béfana arrive sur son valle volant aus enfent j'en tiens don de bonbons aus enfent benial chet du charbons

*NOTE: I'm aware this is most likely not correct at all

This is not obvious to someone that doesn’t understand French, but this song isn't entirely in French. It's some sort of mixture of French with some thick Italian undertone and word selection. It's non-standard. The best I could do was sound it out and look through dictionaries and grammar books to figure out what Le Béfana is singing. This problem is exacerbated by the fact I know neither French or Italian and have no basis on their grammatical structure or phonetic language.

This language mixing also makes it hell for a normal translator to pick through since while it sounds like one language it doesn't line up with it (in this case it's French). It caused a lot of confusion when I asked a French translator to assist me. I spent hours trying to figure this out but I can't be spending more trying to figure this out if I'm on a timetable.

Needless to say, how do we handle this scenario for captioning?

There's two ways this can go. One is to try to bring over the spliced languages. I've actually done it before when working on No Game No Life. Of which I have and example here:

The alternative is to just play it straight and not even bother with bringing the song's language mixing over. That would look like this:

The Befana is here On her flying bike All good children get candies All the naughty ones get coal

In this case, I threw out trying to chop in multiple languages in the English caption and not bring over the idea of Béfana singing in not-Italian. Why? Because it would slow processing it when it's read.

This is just a song that La Béfana sings that (specifically) American-English speakers won't understand the significance of. Additionally, it might not even be intentionally mushed together! Trying to write the mangled-ness might even be insulting. I'm pretty sure the people who wrote the French script didn't actually intend for it to be interpreted as really terrible joke-Itali-French. And unless you live in that area of the world, the meaning of it is lost regardless of what I do and I don’t want to disrespect it.

This is a case of a functional change. I can't salvage this even if I wanted to. It felt best to not try and overstate the mixed sentences as a thing. However, I did leave the not-real spliced not-French-not-Italian caption above the English caption in case someone cares for it. (This technically is my file I make for fun. I can do whatever I want with it.)

At that point, it was just choosing between a direct translation and a more artsy lyrical one. Long story short, in this case, we (my translator buddy and I) just picked a lyrical one because we liked it more. It's not 100% what Béfana sings, but we wanted it to read as chipper as the tune. In the end, we end up with something that looks like this:

Doing alright so far! Next!

Our second issue was Chat Noir and Ladybug singing in response to Béfana in the second half of the episode. It goes a little something like this.

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir vient lui aussi Descret comme mort la nuit

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What also rhymes with "-it" [I]?

LADYBUG (singing) Il défend Paris Avec sa Lady

In this case, Chat Noir is wondering what will rhyme with "aussi" and "nuit" which end on the same phonetic sound of "-I". Ladybug jumps in and supplies "Paris" and "Lady" (which also end on the same sound in French). Oh man. This is a gag that specifically works because of how French is pronounced.

This is also entirely a children's show joke. There's plenty of words in French that rhyme with "aussi" and "nuit". It's silly, and perfectly in line with the normal comedy line of this show. The problem was trying to get that idea and feeling across to read in English captions. If you translated this more directly, it would look something like this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir arrives as well Discretely like the night

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with “night”?

LADYBUG (singing) He protects Paris with his Lady

It's serviceable. It's functional. The gag is completely lost though and it makes no sense to read.

Well. Let's try an alternative version! It might go something like this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir is here as well Discrete as the dead of night

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with "-ell"?

LADYBUG (singing) Defending from the tower, Eiffel Helping his Lady fight

Hmm. This at least rhymes now in English, but it's clumsy to read. I really don't like it. We don’t want it to look like some strange archaic poetry you need a masters in English to interpret.

As a related aside, sometimes you do have to completely rewrite a cultural joke or a gag to work when bringing a work to a different culture. This happens all the time (especially in dubs) and it's definitely based on how much people would know about at the current period.

A super famous example of localizing a cultural item was turning rice balls in to donuts. One has to understand, that at the time this sort of change was made (early 90s), people didn't know much about Japanese foods. The standard was people knowing about ramen and sushi. Rice balls look similar to sushi (specifically maki roll type sushi). They might have even been interpreted as sushi. But rice balls are 100% not sushi. (joking) What a mistake one can make! (/joke) On top of that, having rice balls be retained in the context of the show had a chance of not being accessible, thus a change was made to keep the flow of the show intact.

Another one that people might not be familiar with is changing ramen in the Phoenix Wright games to hamburgers. (If you want to see an insane piece of localization work, look up articles on the localization of Phoenix Wright. It's fantastic. The amount of alterations in that game series is astonishing.)

In our case in Béfana, this is just a phonetic gag. This gag may only make sense right now in French because of the way French is spoken, but it’s still only a phonetic gag. I don't have to look up anything like French expressions or idioms or cultural lore or even specific items. I could make a completely serviceable alternative that shouldn't look as weird or insert an equivalent American-English gag.

Unlike in the case above where we couldn’t retain La Béfana’s not-Italian song, we can do something here. Our goal here now is to capture the spirit of the joke or the joking nature of the lines. If we have to toss out the direct meaning of the words to do it, we’ll have to do it.

Spend a couple of more hours with a pen and some scratch paper and end up at this:

CHAT NOIR (singing) Chat Noir is now here, you see Coming like the night on the scene

CHAT NOIR (speaking; questioning tone) ...What rhymes with "-ee"?

LADYBUG (singing) And he defends Paris Alongside his Lady

Surprise! We got super lucky here! I didn’t have to rewrite an entire section of episode dialogue!

It isn’t exact, but it’s not a full replacement of the original French lines. The same questioning of the rhyme still exists. It's working on the fact that it's pretty much all half-rhymes, but if you actually read it out loud (of course pronouncing Paris as "Par-ee" and not "Pah-ris") it sounds pretty good! The line where Chat Noir is referring to the night can also be connected to the environment transitioning to night time so that tracks as well. On top of that, there’s plenty of words that rhyme with “ee” in English. (Get it together Chat Noir!) As a bonus, this version is singable to the tune they sing to in the show. It works just fine for my purposes. We saved the joke! That’s all that matters!

Job done! Looks nice! Time to ship it out!

Now, If you survived this long reading this and you're thinking "Oh god. Is it over?" while I did just write an essay, you probably only read this in a fraction of the time it took to solve this issue. I’m heavily generalizing this process. In reality, these two sections alone took maybe seven hours to settle on. Surprised?

You don't want to imagine listening to these dialogue exchanges for that long trying to interpret what's being said and workshopping captions till you find a set you like. This is just a small snippet of what goes in to these sorts of things. It's work. It takes (a lot of) time. It's exhausting. But in the end people that do this do it out of enjoyment of the same piece of media you enjoy and to help other people enjoy it as well.

That's about all I have to say for now. I hope this was informative. I may see you all again some time in the future.

Thanks to aprilblossoms for being my translator buddy for this one! And thanks to all my friends for putting up with me while I was giving myself a lobotomy trying to hammer this out! (Special note to C-Note for helping me come up with the final captions for Chat Noir and Ladybug's song response.)

[omnistruck]

hoo boy, here comes some serious talk about fandom mentality.

I feel like there’s a huge failing on readers’ parts to communicate to fic authors how much they appreciate their works or how much it affects them, unless the fic is “fandom famous” for some reason. sometimes it gets translated into demands (which are awful literally do not demand updates from an author ever).

more often than not, it gets translated into silence, and coming from a writer, the silence is probably the worst. you never know if they like it, you never know what the reader actually thinks about it. or even if they read it at all. and it’s… heartwrenching, and nervewracking and you start constantly questioning yourself and wondering if you’re actually good enough or if you belong. and you start comparing yourself. to the people who are popular, to the people with huge followings, to the people who get questions and art and compliments up the wazoo. and you start wondering if you should have bothered writing at all. in some cases you start begging. and in some cases, you do worse.

and it’s terrible. a writer shouldn’t have to beg. a writer shouldn’t have to only get attention when they’re frustrated or upset. a writer shouldn’t have to doubt themselves every time they pick up a pen or open their laptop. a writer should never feel so unimportant that they consider deleting their work–and do. and then be subjected to questions of why they deleted it.

(which, by the way, is kind of a rude thing to do. it’s their content, and they can do with it whatever makes them comfortable. and more than that–why wait until it’s gone to just suddenly unleash your appreciation for it?)

if, at this point, you are thinking, “well, writers shouldn’t write for attention anyway! writers should be writing for themselves!” then you are missing a Very Huge Point about the intricacies of and emotions behind creating art. of course art comes from the self, but art is meant to be shared. with people. like you. art is created for people to talk back to, to engage with, to live alongside–and yes, that in turn bolsters the creator’s own securities and motivation. it’s also a sad testament to the fact that we as a people have come to condemn the notion that anyone, especially content creators, should want attention at all.

and that’s toxic, and an awful mentality to have. (it’s also atrocious marketing. but, that’s another discussion for another time.)

what I’m trying to say here is this: a lot of this could be prevented by one simple thing. if you read a fic you like, *speak up about it.* make some kind of sign. about whether you like somebody’s work, or whether it excites you. reblog it to share with other people, gush in the tags, leave a comment/review if it’s on ao3 or ffn. (authors read tags as much as artists do, trust me.) kudos and likes are fine too, but like with any other kind of art, they’re very invisible. be vocal, y'all. spread the love.

and above all, *tell the author directly.* send them an ask, write a comment, tag them in an appreciation post. I can’t stress that enough. you’d be making someone’s day, relieving some securities, visible or not, instead of being complacent in this system, this mass way of thinking, that only popular writers deserve attention, that it has to be earned through working yourself raw instead of asked for. it causes these cliques and hierarchies and ultimately people start or keep maintaining this idea that people who are at the top deserve to be at the top, and people who get ignored deserve to be ignored. (which I have, in fact, heard people say, and that’s… I don’t even have a word for that.)

I just. something has to give, you guys. we have to stop doing this. we have to stop letting this happen. we have to be kind to our writers before they disappear.

and yes, you can reblog this post. in fact, I’d highly encourage it.

[genginger]

I agree with a lot of this, but some of it puts my back up. 

I mean, YES, leave feedback! Do it! If you liked anything at all about a piece of writing you should tell the author, and the more specific you can be the better! Authors live for that stuff, and a comment can make their day.

And YES art is meant to be shared. If you just wanted to tell stories to yourself, you wouldn’t write them down. If you wanted to imagine scenes and visuals, you could do that and not try to get them onto paper. You could visualize a really cool sweater and never try to create it in real yarn.

But just because you write something and put it out there doesn’t mean you are entitled to feedback. And maybe that’s my Cynical Old Lady talking. Maybe it’s years of being a performer and a fiber artist and a tech worker that gives me that perspective. You aren’t always going to get thanks. You aren’t always going to get feedback (helpful or not). You aren’t always going to get acknowledgment. 

But the flip side of that is that you should treasure what you DO get. And remind yourself that for every positive comment, there are probably at least 10 other people out there that read your stuff and thought it was at least ok. 

Any marketer can tell you – a thing that takes effort for people to do, only a small percentage of folks will do. That’s just the way people are: lazy. If you go out there expecting different, you might be disappointed. 

(Please note I am not a popular writer – this isn’t coming from a place of “it’s easy for me so it should be easy for everyone.” But I have always assumed my lack of popularity, like Elizabeth Bennet’s poor piano playing, is partly my own fault for not getting better at my craft. It’s partly because I write less popular pairings. It’s partly because I don’t know as many people and so some folks that might like my stuff just never discover it. And it’s partly because people are lazy.)

So DO make an effort to tell the writers and others who make stuff you like that you appreciate their work. But don’t let lack of feedback stop you from creating. Keep going! Keep practicing and getting better. Develop ways to publicize your work if that’s important to you. Don’t let silence stop you. Keep on pushing.

[violetcarlin]

But just because you write something and put it out there doesn’t mean you are entitled to feedback.

Repeating that line, because yes, this is exactly what I’m hearing about 75% of the time when I read these screeds about how unappreciated fic writers are. 

I’m a fic writer. Not a super popular one. I ADORE feedback. It makes me super fucking happy when I see the kudos email, and positively ecstatic when someone actually comments. And encouraging people to leave that feedback is great! But I hate all these posts that make it seem like comments are some kind of mandatory homework assignment for readers. 

And for fuck’s sake, kudos and likes are not actually invisible. I don’t know where this idea started, but I want it to die right now. I am happy with whatever method of feedback you choose to give me - any acknowledgement that someone read and enjoyed my work, or even that they think it sounds interesting enough to come back to, lifts my spirits. I’m sorry that others don’t feel that way, but trying to convince readers that kudos and likes are somehow lazy or inadequate or selfish is really counter productive.

I appreciate the basic message of “hey, readers, a small comment goes a long way!”, but come on, let’s not be overly dramatic. Fic writers aren’t going anywhere. Fanfic isn’t going to dry up and blow away if readers fail to comment. People have been writing and sharing the modern conception of fanfic since before there was an internet to publish it on. Maybe some people will leave fic writing if they don’t get enough feedback, and I’m sorry for that, but it’s not going to die. So this whole “be kind before the writers disappear!” tactic is just pointless melodrama meant to make fic readers feel guilty. Fic readers are here for fun. I guarantee most of them (me included, since I’m both a writer and a reader), when confronted with a guilt trip, will simply head off to read something else. Calling not commenting a “failing” of readers isn’t going to net you new readers, I’m sorry to say.

Fandom is community. Tumblr is community. There are tons of ways to build community, and yes, interacting about fanfic is one of them. Attention is lovely, and it’s not wrong to want more of it! But sheesh, feeding this idea that all fic readers are responsible for a writer’s ego is doing more to hurt fic culture than any reader who casually enjoys a story and then moves on to the next one. 

This is apparently the hill that I will die on. Whoops.

[trovia]

Oh hey, I’m a marketer, incidentally. Let me talk about fanfic feedback from a marketer’s POV. I never get to do that. I think about it a lot, though. Don’t usually try to apply it to my own stories because that’s not why I’m here but it’s not like you can shut it off. 

This part of online marketing is not complex. You have a group of people who saw what you did there (they read the fic) and they understood what you want from them (leave feedback) and yes, only a part of them will do it, too. (but speaking as a human being - “most people don’t do it” is a pretty low reason to say, “So clearly it’s not necessary to do it.”) The act of a person who saw the thing becoming a person who did the action is called a conversion, and the art of improving the ratio of conversions is called conversion optimization. Many small things can improve on the conversion of a thing on the Internet dramatically, such as moving a button, changing a design color, or rephrasing a sentence. There are some things that generally, in online marketing, will almost always make more people do the action. A big one is telling them to do it. Just before they would have to do it. So in a fic that would translate to leaving a note underneath your chapter, to be read after the chapter but before the “comment” button, and this note of yours should say, “Please review!” It makes a huge difference on websites, trust me. It transforms so so many visitors of online shops into buying customers, just saying “Buy!”. “Buy now!” works even better, so theoretically “Review now!” should be a good one for fic writers, too. (strictly speaking, the one that’s catching on right now is “own it now!” but I don’t know how to apply that here)

But here’s the funny thing. In fandom? That flies out of the window. Because fanfic readers are fucking prima donnas compared to averages users. Of all the excellent marketers I know, they would all cry elephant tears when confronted with fandom. Ten years ago, we used to see a “Read and review!” attached to any fic. But readers soon started feeling annoyed by that and frustrated. So writers stopped because apparently it’s not okay to write for free, then ask for feedback, you also have to do it in a way so that none of your free consumers will feel pressured. You have to do it in a particular way if you want it to work, or they’ll think you’re “needy” and “whiny” or “arrogant” and “what the fuck do you get off on, do you think we need you?” For the marketing psychology to work, you have to tell them exactly the options they have (like, share, leave feedback, bookmark, or any combination of the above) but you also have to do it in a way that people will still like you afterwards, so you have to explain why, and you have to give the reasons they find bearable to hear. So you have to be verbose about it, too. But then your little text - your so-called call to action - gets too long and it loses its pull and you’re back where you started. Then you have a text that doesn’t work well in terms of marketing and also everybody hates you. Great. 

And that’s not even me criticizing, this is me just outlining the realistic marketing problem that I see at the bottom of every fanfic I finish reading. (and then in most cases I leave feedback, yes) I’m a marketer who has been in fandom for over ten years now, and who makes her money in the day job by punching out multiple website texts a day, and I have not figured out the ideal way of asking for a review that will both make many people write a review and not piss them off. There is no way of asking for reviews that won’t piss a big portion of readers off. From a marketers’ POV, the fic situation is ridiculous. You give away free content, but you don’t even get to engage people. It’s positively bizarre, this policing of what the free content suppliers can and cannot do, and how they can do it, and when. It reminds me of gender role policing: don’t be too needy, don’t be too arrogant; don’t be too loud, don’t be too quiet There’s a huge amount of entitlement going on in fandom, an entitlement of proportions that I have not seen among any group of users who were being asked to spend money, sometimes huge amounts of money, rather than time and words. 

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

Yes! This is very true! A lot of free content tends to have this problem, and not just fanfiction. I have a lot of trouble trying to get people to comment on Webcomics to the point where I’ve pretty much given up. You can reiterate over and over how good it is to give feedback and how much of a difference it makes but if no one follows through, your words just fizzle and it’s not a good feeling to be confronted with when no one says anything about something you put yourself in to.

[a-ladywifi]

Draw a dick

reblog if you get it

[what-eats-owls]

Today’s warmup, relevant to Motorcycle AU interests.

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

YES! THIS. SOMEONE. MAKE THIS A THING. I WILL READ THE HELL OUT OF IT

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

TFOU Livestream Saturday!

I forgot to announce I’m doing this again like I usually do!

The stream is up!

STREAMS:

http://original.livestream.com/cookietoo75 - This is my normal stream but it has a 50 person limit, so it’s mostly first come first serve.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/it-s-random-doodle-time - My stream’s mirror. It also has a limit but I’m not sure how much of a limit it has.

Both streams are generally of low-middling quality but are generally watchable. Don’t freak out if it gets choppy. That’s perfectly normal. I stream at a fairly low bitrate and low resolution so I don’t kill my internet connection so choppiness is to be expected. Also, don’t expect them to work 100% of the time. Streaming tends to kill my computer (and I try to record episodes while they’re airing as well). I try my best but things happen! Try to be understanding if things break!

OKLive - TFOU: http://oklivetv.com/tf1-live/ - This is the normal TFOU stream people will link you to. If you don’t care about what I’m showing and just want to watch Ladybug, then you’re free to watch it here. Be warned that it has a tendency to have buffering problems and breaks pretty often

General Stream rules and more Information under the cut!

Keep reading

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

This is happening again! Same information as last time, but I’ll start streaming as soon as I get home from work. Exciting stuff, guys!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

TFOU Livestream Saturday!

I forgot to announce I’m doing this again like I usually do!

The stream is up!

STREAMS:

http://original.livestream.com/cookietoo75 - This is my normal stream but it has a 50 person limit, so it’s mostly first come first serve.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/it-s-random-doodle-time - My stream’s mirror. It also has a limit but I’m not sure how much of a limit it has.

Both streams are generally of low-middling quality but are generally watchable. Don’t freak out if it gets choppy. That’s perfectly normal. I stream at a fairly low bitrate and low resolution so I don’t kill my internet connection so choppiness is to be expected. Also, don’t expect them to work 100% of the time. Streaming tends to kill my computer (and I try to record episodes while they’re airing as well). I try my best but things happen! Try to be understanding if things break!

OKLive - TFOU: http://oklivetv.com/tf1-live/ - This is the normal TFOU stream people will link you to. If you don’t care about what I’m showing and just want to watch Ladybug, then you’re free to watch it here. Be warned that it has a tendency to have buffering problems and breaks pretty often

General Stream rules and more Information under the cut!

Current Programming:

- The stream will be a mirror of TFOU up until the end of the Ladybug episode. Feel free to tune in early to catch Oum and Le Ranch.

- After the new episode airs the stream will then swap to rerunning the new Ladybug episode if I get a good recording of it for as long as I'm awake or for as long as my computer will last. So if you miss it, you might be able to catch it when I show it again.

If at any point, the recording is bad, I’ll swap to other things and search for the episode while things are playing.

If the recording is good, expect random subtitles to show up in the middle of the stream playing as I live time the episode for my own enjoyment and practice. I usually don’t put in intrusive subtitles though, so don’t worry about it affecting your viewing experience. Just know that it happens.

- Due to the unorthodox scheduling during the end of the season for Miraculous Ladybug, if there’s a subbed version of the episode being shown, the stream will swap to it during the live broadcast. Don’t be alarmed if there seems to be a “hiccup” when Ladybug starts. That’s me swapping it over to a subtitled version.

Ground Rules:

- Stay cool in chatrooms. I don’t want to start moderating you guys while people are freaking out about the episode.

- I will not provide RAWs of episodes to anyone. Don’t ask me where I get them or how I get them. I record them on my own using my own equipment, my own time and energy. Don’t bother asking me for them at all.

- This is still my stream, so understand that I spend my own time and resources to do this for you guys. I'm not obligated to stream anyone anything and will take it down if I'm not feeling up to it or some other circumstance doesn't allow me to stream content you care about.

CHATROOMS:

Miraculous Discord (by @god-of-oreos): https://discord.gg/0mYMOckeUBnhlcQz - I’ll be on here in Voice Chat. This is also the place to find me in general during streams and the one I’m most likely to respond to

MLSubbing: http://mlsubbing.chatango.com - While I’m not officially associated with MLSubbing, I usually hang out here too. While Miraculous in general is airing, feel free to hop in and talk about Miraculous during the normal week! We’ll be happy to have you and talk about shipping Ladybugs and Black Cats

Otherwise, Happy Saturday, Miraculeurs! Stay safe! Have a great evening!

[miraculoushawkdaddy]

Let there be love

I have seen some fans who don’t want to be spoiled insulting/threatening fans who posted spoilers. As my words may have special resonance, I feel the need to say this: insulting or threatening when you disagree with someone is definitely not an appropriate behavior. As much as I don’t like spoilers, please never let anger take control of you and make you say such bad things to people who actually share the same interest as you. Remember what Miraculous message is: Nobody’s good or evil. But bad things happen when you let negative emotions overflow you. Master them, and you become truly miraculous, making this world a nicer place. Please keep on being the most miraculous fandom ever ^^ Now kiss!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

PAPAPILLON HAS SPOKEN! IT SHALL BE SO!

[fabulousanima]

ML Discord Chat

Hey folks!  I know with the new episodes out, some people will have watched them and others will not, and it can be hard to know when and where to discuss it.

Which is why I recommend joining the Miraculous Ladybug discord chat!

Discord allows for different channels for different discussions, and we have set it up so that all origin episode discussion happens totally separately than all other main chats!  When you join, you won’t even see it at first; you can let the moderators know you want to opt in, and then you will added to it.

It’s a great way to talk to fellow fandom members and decide how much you want to see about spoilers!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

Yes! Because I’m scared of even walking out from under this table! The Spoilers are scary!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

TFOU Livestream Saturdays

So, I’m back from Vegas, meaning I can stream on Saturday evenings again!

The stream will go up as soon as I come home from work which is usually around an hour or two before Ladybug airs. Sometimes it comes on before but will cut in and out. Don’t panic. That’s usually just me testing if everything is working properly.

STREAMS:

http://original.livestream.com/cookietoo75 - This is my normal stream but it has a 50 person limit, so it’s mostly first come first serve.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/it-s-random-doodle-time - My stream’s mirror. It also has a limit but I’m not sure how much of a limit it has.

Both streams are generally of low-middling quality but are generally watchable. Don’t freak out if it gets choppy. That’s perfectly normal. I stream at a fairly low bitrate and low resolution so I don’t kill my internet connection so choppiness is to be expected. Also, don’t expect them to work 100% of the time. Streaming tends to kill my computer (and I try to record episodes while they’re airing as well). I try my best but things happen! Try to be understanding if things break!

OKLive - TFOU: http://oklivetv.com/tf1-live/ - This is the normal TFOU stream people will link you to. If you don’t care about what I’m showing and just want to watch Ladybug, then you’re free to watch it here. Be warned that it has a tendency to have buffering problems and breaks pretty often

Current Programming:

- The stream will be a mirror of TFOU up until the end of the Ladybug episode. Feel free to tune in early to catch Oum and Le Ranch.

- After the new episode airs the stream will then swap to rerunning the new Ladybug episode if I get a good recording of it for as long as I'm awake or for as long as my computer will last. So if you miss it, you might be able to catch it when I show it again.

If at any point, the recording is bad, I’ll swap to other things and search for the episode while things are playing.

If the recording is good, expect random subtitles to show up in the middle of the stream playing as I live time the episode for my own enjoyment and practice. I usually don’t put in intrusive subtitles though, so don’t worry about it affecting your viewing experience. Just know that it happens.

Ground Rules:

- Stay cool in chatrooms. I don’t want to start moderating you guys while people are freaking out about the episode.

- I will not provide RAWs of episodes to anyone. Don’t ask me where I get them or how I get them. I record them on my own using my own equipment, my own time and energy. Don’t bother asking me for them at all.

- This is still my stream, so understand that I spend my own time and resources to do this for you guys. I'm not obligated to stream anyone anything and will take it down if I'm not feeling up to it or some other circumstance doesn't allow me to stream content you care about.

CHATROOMS:

Miraculous Discord (by @god-of-oreos): https://discord.gg/0mYMOckeUBnhlcQz - I’ll be on here in Voice Chat. This is also the place to find me in general during streams and the one I’m most likely to respond to

MLSubbing: http://mlsubbing.chatango.com - While I’m not officially associated with MLSubbing, I usually hang out here too. While Miraculous in general is airing, feel free to hop in and talk about Miraculous during the normal week! We’ll be happy to have you and talk about shipping Ladybugs and Black Cats

Otherwise, Happy Saturday, Miraculeurs! Stay safe! Have a great evening!

[v-katsuki]

i’m crying

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

HAWKMOTH LOOKS FABULOUS WITH EYESHADOW. DON'T LIE TO YOURSELF

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Some doodles I did a while back.

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

No TFOU Mirror this Weekend!

For people who were expecting a stream mirror of TFOU from me this week (@original.livestream.com/cookietoo75), I won’t be able to provide due to being in Vegas. I will be hanging out in the MLSubbing Chatango though and in text on the Miraculous Discord.

This means you’ll also have to live without me rerunning the episode on Sinday if you miss it. Otherwise, have a great weekend and see you next week! I’ll be back by then to join you for shipping Ladybugs and Black Cats!

TL;DR: Better find your own mirror of TFOU to watch because I'm not at home!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

"All I want for Christmas in July"

Someone make a visual kei punk appropriate line of Miraculous Ladybug clothing complete with graphic tees and blouses and I will love you forever.

[skypevevo]

Visit Original Link

[mujna]

This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.

[portmantaur-deactivated20240523]

favorite things about this

literally all the brass starts to get the hang of it and then the crescendos happen and everyone is like FUCK FUCK FUCK??? FUCK. JUST. BLOW RLY HARD.

the strings are lazy but also the same. like u can tell a lot of the ppl w/ the stringed instruments may already basically know how to play stringed instruments. like there’s definitely a section at the beginning where you hear a good portion going “oh yeah this is like. a smaller/bigger version of what i do.”

all you hear of any woodwinds is just “pffffttt??? pFFFTTTT???? PFFFFFTTTT I SAID PFFFFTTTT!!!!!” bc woodwinds are fucking HARD and you hear after like the first crescendo half of them just give up. they give up. they’re done. fuck this it tastes weird and my lips hurt.

that trumpet. that person is fucking TRYING man they fucking GOT this. they may not have figured out notes but they figured out LOUD and they GOT this.

[johncougar-deactivated20200128]

I JUST DIED

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

I died too. I played woodwind. THE STRUGGLE OF BEING A WOODWIND IS REAL. All the people who play woodwinds can do this amazing thing and make them sound good.

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

Valentine’s Stream is LIVE!

STREAMS:

http://original.livestream.com/cookietoo75 - This is my normal stream but it has a 50 person limit, so it’s mostly first come first serve.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/it-s-random-doodle-time - My stream’s mirror. It also has a limit but I’m not sure how much of a limit it has.

Both streams are generally of low-middling quality but are generally watchable. Don’t freak out if it gets choppy. That’s perfectly normal. I stream at a fairly low bitrate and low resolution so I don’t kill my internet connection so choppiness is to be expected. Also, don’t expect them to work 100% of the time. Streaming tends to kill my computer. I try my best but things happen! Try to be understanding if things break!

OKLive - TFOU: http://oklivetv.com/tf1-live/ - This is the normal TFOU stream people will link you to. If you don’t care about what I’m showing and just want to watch Ladybug, then you’re free to watch it here. Be warned that it has a tendency to have buffering problems and breaks pretty often

Current Programming:

- The stream will be a mirror of TFOU up until the end of the Ladybug episode (this means you’ll still get to see Oum/Baydrien and Le Ranch/Haydrien).

- After Ladybug, I’ll be showing Le Petit Prince in French with DVD subtitles (so they might not be a 100% accurate translation of the French being said)

- Anything after the movie is To Be Determined. This is basically the slot where I can subject people to whatever I feel like listening to so you’re free to tune out the stream at this point. I’m a fan of Japanese superhero shows and magical girls though and mostly view those types of shows, so you might like the selections if you like Miraculous Ladybug since they’re in similar genres. You might not. The shows in this slot may be super retro and most likely in Japanese

CHATROOMS:

Miraculous Discord (by @god-of-oreos): https://discord.gg/0mYMOckeUBnhlcQz

- I’ll be on here in Voice Chat. This is also the place to find me in general during streams and the one I’m most likely to respond to

MLSubbing: http://mlsubbing.chatango.com - While I’m not officially associated with MLSubbing, I usually hang out here too. While Miraculous in general is airing, feel free to hop in and talk about Miraculous during the week! We’ll be happy to have you and talk about shipping Ladybugs and Black Cats

I’m also tagging @penguinartist’s Valentine’s Shipping week for all you artists! The 13ths prompt is NathanealxAnyone and the 14th’s is the Love Square. Tag your works with the tag #MLVSW or #Miraculousshippingweek if you’re participating! Here’s a link for more information!

http://penguinartist.tumblr.com/post/138235971915/miraculous-valentines-shipping-week

Otherwise, have a good evening and a Happy Valentines Day!

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

Saturday Valentine's Stream!

Hey, Everyone! Since we aren’t getting a new episode of Miraculous, Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir today due to it being Valentines Day (we’re going to get a rerun of Dislococeur/Dark Cupid), I’ll try to show something fun on my stream! Feel free to join in!

The current programming is as follows: - The stream will be a mirror of TFOU up until the end of the Ladybug episode (this means you’ll still get to see Oum/Baydrien and Le Ranch/Haydrien).

- After Ladybug, I’ll be showing Le Petit Prince in French with DVD subtitles (so they might not be a 100% accurate translation of the French being said)

- Anything after the movie is To Be Determined. This is basically the slot where I can subject people to whatever I feel like listening to so you’re free to tune out the stream at this point. I’m a fan of Japanese superhero shows and magical girls though and mostly view those types of shows, so you might like the selections if you like Miraculous Ladybug since they’re in similar genres. You might not. The shows in this slot may be super retro and most likely in Japanese

If you’re interested, here are some relevant links!

STREAMS: http://original.livestream.com/cookietoo75 - This is my normal stream but it has a 50 person limit, so it’s mostly first come first serve.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/it-s-random-doodle-time - My stream’s mirror. It also has a limit but I’m not sure how much of a limit it has.

Both streams are generally of low-middling quality but are generally watchable. Don’t freak out if it gets choppy. That’s perfectly normal. I stream at a fairly low bitrate and low resolution so I don’t kill my internet connection so choppiness is to be expected. Also, don’t expect them to work 100% of the time. Streaming tends to kill my computer. I try my best but things happen! Try to be understanding if things break!

OKLive: http://oklivetv.com/tf1-live/ - This is the normal TFOU stream people will link you to. If you don’t care about what I’m showing and just want to watch Ladybug, then you’re free to watch it here. Be warned that it has a tendency to have buffering problems and breaks pretty often

CHATROOMS: Miraculous Discord (by @god-of-oreos ): https://discord.gg/0mYMOckeUBnhlcQz - I’ll be on here in Voice Chat. This is also the place to find me in general during streams and the one I’m most likely to respond to

MLSubbing: http://mlsubbing.chatango.com - While I’m not officially associated with MLSubbing, I usually hang out here too. While Miraculous in general is airing, feel free to hop in and talk about Miraculous during the week! We’ll be happy to have you and talk about shipping Ladybugs and Black Cats

I'm also tagging @penguinartist's Valentine's Shipping week for all you artists! The 13ths prompt is NathanealxAnyone and the 14th's is the Love Square. Tag your works with the tag #MLVSW or #Miraculousshippingweek if you're participating! Here's a link for more information!

http://penguinartist.tumblr.com/post/138235971915/miraculous-valentines-shipping-week

Otherwise, have a good evening and a Happy Valentines Day!

[theraikume]

*cough*

I ship MariXChloe 

[megatraven]

S AME 

I’M ALL FOR THIS SHIP

[shizukufangs]

*slams fists on table* CHLOE PINING AFTER MARINETTE

[megatraven]

*SLAMS FISTS ON TABLE AS WELL* I SECOND THAT MOTION

[shizukufangs]

whispers

i may or may not be including that in the senpai au fic

coughs

[megatraven]

*screams* YOU GOTTA HOOK ME UP WITH A LINK WHENEVER THIS IS WRITTEN (unless it already has parts out in which case i need to read like asap pls)

[theraikume]

[gamerfcapuno-blog]

SERIOUSLY. As much as Ladybug is trying to swat Chloé away, you don’t just LET people hold you at the waist like that... Ya know... That close. ;D