Peter Cullen 🕊️ 🍃
Edit: art by doodoolings 🎨
“I am Optimus Prime and send this message to any surviving autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.” -Transformers
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Not a Useless Lesbian but An Oblivious Bisexual.
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30 years old. She/Her. Fails at Adulting. Awkward. Bad Sense of Humour. Everyone seems to think I know what I'm doing. Spoiler: I do not. Ask box for LU x Reader Requests is currently CLOSED due to Brain Has No Go Juice. (I’ll get there soon, I swear!)
there are teenagers whose parents met on tinder
Buddy there are teenagers whose parents met on Tumblr.
I'm followed by enough individual parents and their children to be able to assert with reasonable confidence that those teenagers are also on tumblr
#this website having children to care for it in its old age #parents are out there introducing their teenagers to my blog WHAT what WHAT #apparently one of my follower's kids recently read the Clown Deli Meat Fiasco out loud to his high school sewing group #which makes me wonder what the heck is going on in high school sewing groups and why didn't my school have one... (tags from @biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist)
crying omg you're being passed down like a family heirloom 😭
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.
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
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".
genuinely what are we even supposed to do in a world where theres no dolly parton. like whats the point
today i died at sea
i'm a romantic you see
Aega psora
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH
Friend, In Deed [1x02]
rest in peace, peter cullen
doctor: cure is simple. go see clown
chronically ill patient: but doctor, I'm seeing a clown right now and he's not helping
the intended reading of this joke is that the doctor is being called a clown, but I also like people's alternate readings in the notes where a) the patient's partner is a clown, figuratively or literally, or b) the patient is hallucinating a clown everywhere they go
okay too many of you also thought the patient was having some kind of regular clown therapy appointments, so I am hereby revising the original joke. the punchline is now "but doctor, I'm seeing a clown right now and you're not helping." ambiguity resolved please go about your day
there are now people in the notes saying "oh I thought it was a reference to that Pagliacci joke"? goddamn of course it is motherfuck– look. this is an inversion of the Pagliacci joke that correctly places the fault for the patient's continued illness on the substandard care they have received from their medical provider rather than on their own failure to achieve health through a positive attitude. I am never telling another joke again
OP: joke is simple. medical industry is a clownshow
The rest of Tumblr: but OP-
“The original orgies and bizarre sex were perfectly sufficient” I am always saying this
Oh this is also extremely me
The thing is, if you read the original essay, Ada Palmer’s thesis is the OPPOSITE of what comes across in these quotes! Her actual point is this:
“Thus, rather than by accuracy, I judge this type of show by how successfully the creators of an historical piece have chosen wisely from what history offered them in order to make a good story. The product needs to communicate to the audience, use the material in a lively way, change what has to be changed, and keep what’s awesome. If some events are changed or simplified to help the audience follow it, that’s the right choice. If some characters are twisted a bit, made into heroes or villains to make the melodrama work, that too can be the right choice…
I am not meaning to pick a fight here with people who care deeply about accuracy in historical fiction. I respect that it bothers some people, and also that there is great merit in getting things right. Research and thoroughness are admirable, and, just as it requires impressive virtuosity to cook a great meal within strict diet constraints, like gluten free or vegan, so it takes great virtuosity to tell a great story without cheating on the history. I am simply saying that, while accuracy is a merit, it is not more important to me than other merits, especially entertainment value in something which is intended as entertainment.
This is also why I praise Borgia: Faith and Fear for what I call its ‘historicity’ rather than its ‘accuracy.’ It takes its fair share of liberties, as well it should if it wants a modern person to sit through it. But it also succeeds in making the characters feel un-modern in a way many period pieces don’t try to do. It is a bit alienating but much more powerful. It is more accurate, yes, but it isn’t the accuracy alone that makes it good, it’s the way that accuracy serves the narrative and makes it exceptional, as truffle raises a common cream sauce to perfection.”
Absolutely phenomenal read if you’ve ever been bugged by historical inaccuracy in media.
I've seen a few people less familiar with JJJ in the comics think that it's unrealistic for the Daily Bugel to not be transphobic in their coverage of Spider-Woman, cause real newspapers are frequently horribly bigoted toward trans women.
What you need to know is that The Daily Bugel is consistently more progressive than the other NY papers in the marvel universe. Like, Jamison and the Bugel are pro MUTANT. The average Marvel citizen thinks that if a 4 year old girl develops fish scales on her face then she needs to be put down "for the good of society".
If you are looking for a parallel to real life coverage of trans women in media the most interesting angle is right here:
The Bugel somehow becomes the only paper that's Pro Spider-Woman, because the other papers become so violently Transmisogynistic that there needs to be a dissenting opinion, which is what the Bugel often does on social issues.
You can explain this by having Jamison realize his beef with spidy is petty and pointless, or by him just swallowing his pride to do the right thing, but it also opens the door to something even funnier: Jamison is pro Spider-Woman because he only hates Spider-MAN.
cheerleading is more important now than ever
I cannot stop watching this that man put his everything into that line read. Worlds #1 ally
Do remember to cut out the logo from the bottom right, if you do end up doing it
Oh no I did notice the Gender X logo, I part time a sex shop and recognized it as the brand we supply our packers, binders, and harnesses from- just wasn't sure if they also do porn or if this was like. Some other deal
Never forget what they took from us.
For those asking how it compares today
and also
Mid-year 2026 update (this is without tax):
Remember this the next time someone argues that raising the minimum wage will raise prices
to be clear, the U.S. federal minimum wage in 1999 was $5.15/hour, so a worker who made the minimum wage could buy the items on that receipt with 41 minutes of work.
in 2026, the federal minumum wage is $7.25, so a worker who makes minimum wage would have to work 95 minutes--more than twice as long--to buy those same items.
Jesus Christ!
I’m not even shocked , just upset & disappointed.
The cost of things then and now is crazy.
the best of us
