tutto cambia ma non il mood

{adrian||he/him}

[steorran]

this website is schrodinger's journal to me tbh.... if you like what i'm saying and agree with me, then i'm posting to participate in the marketplace of ideas but if what i'm saying is stupid and pisses you off then i'm just talking to myself in my diary, don't worry about it

[micromontage]

when it wasn't meant to be 🤣🤣 but the potential of possibility still plagues you 🤔

[effemimaniac]

I'm so horny I could fuck a person I was attracted to #TRUE

[pansyfemme]

yes im addicted to attention and orgasms and food and shiny jewlery and 7$ Iced Lattes. does that really not sound like an awesome lifestyle to you

[jacobwren]

The Orpheus Mosaic before conservation at Paphos, Cyprus

[infectiouspiss]

restrained summer fun. tied up summer fun. bound and gagged summer fun.

[kata4a]

one of the appeals of language to me is that reading or listening to something in a different language is I think kind of like swapping the qualia of all the colors

[rustingbridges]

On the Roman rams we can read traces of officialdom: ‘Lucius Quinctius the son of Gaius, the quaestor, approved this ram.’ On the one surviving inscribed Carthaginian ram, we read: ‘We pray to Baal that this ram will go into this enemy ship and make a big hole.’

must admit I am with the Carthaginians on this one

[snototter]

Green pond frogs (Euphlyctis hexadactylus) perch on an Asiatic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka

by Gary Stephenson

[toothfairyinc]

never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive

[steorran]

STOP GOING TO THE NICHE AND STRANGE PORNOGRAPHY WEBSITE JUST TO ACT SCANDALIZED THAT THERE'S NICHE AND STRANGE PORNOGRAPHY ON THERE

[perfectday1972]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from rachel coster (@/ r4ch4_theStarz) reading: Nobody is doing it like me because this is probably not the right way to do it /End ID]

[steorran]

tbh you gotta wonder how much of the critique england gets on the anglophone internet is disproportional because the most annoying french people are being annoying IN FRENCH* and therefore a significant number of americans can't read it and get mad

*this is probably true for most countries but french is one of the only other languages i personally can read other people's horrendous takes in (and get mad)

[theheartofdecember]

do you believe in a higher power

yes (whatever that means to you)

true agnostic

no (true atheist)

Remaining time: 19 hours 15 minutes

[baiwu-jinji]

Looking back at this post I feel like I didn't articulate my thoughts well - what I really wanted to do is not to comment on the quality of MDZS translation (because I haven't read it except for fragments), but to explain that localisation in translation isn't always what readers think it is.

Let's take as an example one line spoken by a dragon prince from a story set in fantasy ancient China:

translation version 1: Those ignorant humans sure know how to tell tall tales.

translation version 2: Those ignorant humans sure know how to bullshit.

Now which line do you think is more localised? Version 2 might sound tonally jarring given the setting, and it might seem more localised because it uses modern slang, but it's actually a more literal translation of the original sentence 這些無知的人類真會放狗屁, and this is because, as I explained in that other post, Chinese internet fiction frequently mixes contemporary slang with archaic language, which isn't something readers of English fiction are used to. So internet slang in historical/fantasy danmei doesn't always equal more localisation; on the contrary, an English translation of historical/fantasy danmei that reads tonally very consistent and which always uses language appropriate to the historical setting might actually be the result of localisation.

ok I'm done overexplaining

[steorran]

100% i have made this post before but i need someone to develop a book recommendation website that allows a person to specify WHICH ELEMENT of a book they want to sort/filter on; i don't care about the setting, i do care deeply about where it falls on the continuum of "all about plot, the characters are there to move readers between plot events" to "all about characters, the plot exists only to give the characters something to react to"

[steorran]

i wish the alanna books were three times longer.... and also good

bc i feel like there are so many interesting ideas that get vaguely gestured at but mostly blown past bc the whole series is moving at such a high-speed YA pace

[steorran]

I NEED TO READ A FANTASY BOOK FOR GROWNUPS but it can't be wet tumblr or creepy reddit