Woe to the conquered (the conquered is me)

Vae, she/her, 26 years old, some form of asexual. Usually a lurker, might write stuff if I get the spoons and Brave to do so. Mostly just here to look at submas fan art. Also if you ship the brothers romantically please exit stage left pursued by bear. I also watch VTubers but am too anxious to show other VTuber fans my blog, so shhhhh.

[heyvaevictis]

I reblogged the GoFundMes of every single person in my Tumblr Ask Box. And now, I'm closing it.

I'm a college student with little money to my name that I'm not spending on books for my major, and as much as I wish I could help more, reblogging is the best I can do for now. I will continue to spread awareness where I can, but for now, I will close my Ask Box.

I'm sorry that this is all I can do for you all.

[nitw]

compilation of penny snapcube getting scared by bad al because im actually fucking dying

[fluorescencefuture]

(holo)star fox: guy talk 🐸🐶🦊🦝

[talos-stims]

trying to groom her brother | source

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[dailycatsblog]

[depsidase]

[cute-catts]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black mackerel tabby with high white spotting

[louceph]

smirking bastard with grievous grin

[mlpoutofcontext]

[mlarayoukai-archive]

[pikadxrat]

you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

[creatures-in-posts]

this creature is you

[beemovieerotica]

someone on reddit shared texts of her and her husband's exclusive english dialect and it's beautiful

[beemovieerotica]

a linguist is analyzing it

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[importantcatpics]

[railroadlion]

Shiny Mega Feraligatr, Croconaw, and Totodile

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Also prev tags:

That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nohoperadio]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*