Your Local Introvert

She/Her, 31 and Black.

[tofutomato]

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

[lakemojave]

People will see an underwritten woman or black character and act like it's the character's fault

[mosswall]

"English doesn't really have any equivalent whatsoever to Japanese honorifics, so we just completely leave them out of our subtitles because there's no way that our English-speaking audience could possibly grasp their significance in explaining these character's relationship with each other"

There is a character named Robert Thomson.

At work, he's known as Robert by his coworkers and Thomson by his boss. At home, the people in his neighborhood call him Rob. His parents, spouse, and closest friends call him Robbie. His best friend from childhood calls him Robbie and also sometimes calls him Roberto. The children in his neighborhood call him Mr. Rob but when he does volunteer work at the library the kids there call him Mr. Thomson. Children in the wild who don't know him personally call him sir. When he goes to anywhere with reception, he's typically addressed as Thomson.

So explain to me again why English speaking audiences can't grasp that those kids are calling that woman Oneechan because she's a young adult woman that they aren't personally acquainted with, and more importantly why you chose to localize that to her given name and not the equivalent of "Miss" or even "Miss Given Name"? Because if your goal is to replicate the experience that the original Japanese audience would have with those characters, you're failing spectacularly. Because now not only do you have a bunch of kids going around calling adults by their given names when in the original language they're calling them a cultural equivalent to Miss or Mister, but your insistence on removing all honorifics and just using names means that there's no absolutely zero difference in the way a person is addressed by the people closest to them and total strangers. Which is not only wildly inaccurate to how the Japanese audience would experience that, it's not even that accurate to English, either.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

The worst is when they don't even translate "Mr./Ms." Surname. We have that in English and it means the same thing basically!

It's not universal, but some people call close adult friends "aunt/uncle" in childhood. I can understand using family terms for close relationships. People often use nicknames or diminutives for their kids, you can translate that in the subtitles because sometimes it's hard for me to hear it.

It's so important to these relationships when someone drops formal terms of address 😭

[loveisactivated]

Rest your head against me.

[usermoran]

DRAMAS in 2025

➼ 16 || Ball Boy Tactics 볼보이 택틱스 (2025) dir. Kim Eun Hye

[jievn]

PERFECT CROWN 21세기 대군부인 | 2026, Ep. 1

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[gongsjun]

PERFECT CROWN | EP01

[darkspaceboytoy]

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

[thundergrace]

Black sapphics, if you're in line for a Black wlw coming of age story STAY. IN. LINE

[lee-minhoe]

you've worked hard, mark 💚

[scarefox]

What's it with BL fans who STILL believe that all Korean BL have dead fish kisses ??

Besides that it was because of broadcasting (lowkey censoring) laws it's also wack priorities to base on if it's worth watching a series / movie (there are amazing BL out there that barely have any kiss scene)

But for that toxic fandom bubble that claims to watch every single BL on earth (even if they hate it), they really are not up to date at all.... ?? How is that?? Could it be ignorance for thinking one countries production is superious over other countries productions??

ANYWAYS here have some korean BL kisses:

Secret Relationships 2025:

Thundercloud Rainstorm 2025:

Choco Milk Shake 2022:

Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo 2024:

Love for Love's Sake 2024:

Gray Shelter 2024:

Semantic Error 2022:

Ball Boy Tactics 2025:

Business As Usual 2025:

Jun & Jun 2023:

That aren't even all, just the ones I spontaneously remember.

And that is, my siblings in hell, why we don't listen to gossip on tiktok, MDL and xitter and rather look for ourselves.

[aceoflights]

The Time of Fever 2024:

[scarefox]

adding the series to the list that let me make this post (or rather the premature comments to that series):

Never Forget Your Enemy 2026:

[emmaharwoods]

RYAN COOGLER Best Original Screenplay for "Sinners" at the 98th Academy Awards — March 15, 2026

[aretasreads]

Michael B. Jordan is a first-time Academy Award Winner for his performance of Smoke Moore & Stack Moore!

[emmaharwoods]

AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW becomes the first woman ever to win the Best Cinematography Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards for her work on "Sinners" — March 15, 2026

[stevenrogered]

Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor for Sinners at the 2026 Academy Awards

[thewolveswithin]

Ryan Coogler wins his first Oscar ever for Sinners (Best Original Screenplay) 🏆💌 and thanks his ‘SINNERS’ cast and crew:

“All my cast and crew, please stand up! You guys are amazing! You all are winners in my book.”