oh hey I'm thirty now. Legal beagle cosplayer seamstress reader crafter kimono wearer otome gamer. Studying Japanese and reblogging beautiful men. Blog is mostly dead. I like food. I like bento. I love animals. I sometimes reblog NSFW stuff and try to tag it as such. She/her. Let's get #personal :)
The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform
Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/miaâd by owlsâŠbut then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went âOH. I can feed them small food!â and learned to tear it apart!
EDIT: Thereâs a not-zero percent chance that this could be the same dad???????? The source is the sameâRobert E Fullerâbut they could be different birds.Â
UPDATE: Not only has Mister Kes learned to feed his chicks all on his ownâŠ
âŠ.the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.
Heâs a single father of six who does not possess the instincts to feed even one of his offspring, but he learned and adopted that behavior without difficulty and is now hunting and providing for six kids all on his own.Â
Lately as I have been mindlessly listening to a hundred and a half âI was reincarnated/transmigrated into a book I read/otome game I playedâ I canât help but imagine such a story with SLBP as the game in question.
Misc thoughts: Most of these stories have to do with changing oneâs fate / avoiding some disaster or doom or fav characterâs death and that would be so hard with SLBP from a which is actually one of the reasons why I think it would make a great story. The sort of inevitability of war and its influence is so deeply woven in and itâs not like there are âoh so and so attacked from x river as spring turned to summer in this yearâ details that could be used. To me such a big theme is just finding moments of meaningful happiness with the important people in your life, and I really like that as a story over a lot of these âsave the worldâ âwin the warâ âoverthrow a tyrantâ clear win/lose goals. How would that influence this kind of transmigration story? What would someone who woke up in SLBP have as a goal?
I think it would be interesting because even with knowledge of the supposed inner workings and secrets of characters, and some knowledge of future events, if the protagonist woke up as chef - itâs not like she would have money and influence to act on it. Itâd be an interesting challenge, IMO.
Or embracing the more stereotypical storylines you could go:
The semi-serious route of just âtry to stay alive during warring states eraâ which involves NOT being a poison tester perhaps.
The âgo romance favorite side character (Toramatsu? Tired single dad Kanetsugu? Kansuke?) who didnât get routeâ
âPlay matchmaker and find people similar to who nameless chef becomes over course of route because thereâs only one of her and you and want all biases to have SOME happiness in their livesâ (protag reincarnated as Umeko? As nameless retainer/vassal?)
Protag realizes theyâre in the game only after little brother has left to become a poison tester, and hurries after to get the game back on track (perhaps not knowing which ârouteâ theyâre on until they catch up) and then has to you know, not die despite now being extra suspicious
Get unexpectedly attached to a character who wasnât one of your favorites by virtue of actually experiencing things (egâInuchiyo)
Try to find a way to gain enough power and influence that they might be able to actually change things - go try and find Iga and train as an assassin to take out the lords they liked less? Uses the extreme cliche of somehow remembers enough detail about a modern invention or process to develop it (I remember salt being a brief produce plot point in Shingen/Kenshinâs route) but would still have to get around heroineâs agency or lack thereof and availability of resources to enact said inventions.
You could also scrap the idea of protag wakes up as chef and instead have it be likeâprotag wakes up as one of the lords or named vassals and that solves the influence problem but ups the likelihood of dying in battle or being named a spy problem.
If I were to write it, would probably be the usual slapstick. Go the route of protag waking up as chef, try and keep chef dad alive, leverage childhood friend status to preemptively bribe/lure Inuchiyo over to Kaiâs side, maneuver to end up on Yukimura/Saizo prologue path since Kai has the highest concentration of favorites, trying to get Shingen/Kenshin into an alliance (or relationship) trying to develop a business plan for a sweets business (focused on Nobunaga and Ieyasuâs favorites) with maybe Francesco as an investor to try and gain enough mercantile influence for future negotiations.
It would require too much research to rally do well but such is life đ
I love this a lot and I love your silly ass approach but I especially love the idea of, you're done be fucked because it's sengoku, right, so the Best You Really Can Do is to find moments of happiness and protect the people you love most...which I feel like IS how MC approaches her life without the benefit of foreknowledge.
i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.
lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.
arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.
swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.
i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.
how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!
i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it
i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!
another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!
I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!
Story time: one time I drove my best friend to tears of horrified laughter, by virtue of being bilingual.
See, Portuguese only has one word for "meat" and "flesh". If you're talking about meat off an animal that you buy at the butcher, or your own flesh, it's the same word, which is "carne".
So one time I'm visiting her, and I'm speaking in English cause she is American, and we are in the bathroom. I am trying to open the little valve that opens the water for the bathtub. The stupid thing will not bulge, I am trying to open it with my fingernails, and my grip is shit, and it will not work.
Bestie helpfully reaches over me with a wet towel, uses it to get a good grip, and wrenches it open.
I go, "Shit, thank you. I could feel my fingernails coming off my meats."
She had to sit down to cry-laugh at her bed, and still curses my whole bloodline every time I remind her.
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