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Here is the prompt master post to make it easier for me to keep track... :D

(If you have a prompt, drop it in my inbox and I’ll add it here. Or remind me if I’ve missed one - my tagging has been rubbish, hence the creation of this list. If you want to write one of these, please feel free! The more the merrier, right?)

#obikin #dinluke #ask

teaboot

Not to be rhe ten millionth person to say “USAmerican President Donald Trump Is An Incoherent Public Speaker Whose Train Of Thought Can Be Best Described As Scat Jazz” but I just remembered that when he talks at international events it is several dozen people’s job to translate what he’s saying and what he intends to say to world leaders in real time

And I desperately wish to hear how they do it

teaboot

If anyone reading this isn’t fluent enough in English to understand the sentences that man says, please know that he has essentially mixed a number of adjectives and topics together in a hat and is pulling them out at random like a horrible children’s game

teaboot

Like that waxy jaundiced bitch will straight up be like “J'étais sur internet l'autre jour – internet, la plus grande invention américaine. Et la Chine a “internet aussi. Pas un bon internet, pas comme le mien, j'ai un internet formidable. Les gens me disent : « Donald, ton internet est génial ! » On adore l'internet de Donald. Mais la Chine… Chine, Chine, Chine… Vous savez qu'ils mangent des oiseaux ? C'est terrible. J'adore les oiseaux. La Chine mange des oiseaux. Pas comme nous. Pas comme mes oiseaux. Mais vous savez, c'est comme ça, et c'est terrible. Mais voilà ce que je vais faire : je vais sauver les oiseaux. Je vais sauver internet et sauver les oiseaux. Tous ces magnifiques oiseaux. Pour l'Amérique. Et la Chine va nous détester pour ça. Ils vont nous détester parce qu'on est les meilleurs sur oiseaux”. And people will lose their minds

angryraptor13

International translators have had this problem for A While - if they *don't* clean up what he says to sound coherent, they look like they're doing a bad job.

Explore Trump translation challenges, tips for interpreters, and 2025 strategies for accurate political translation and Trumpslation success

teaboot

oh my god

freckles-a-constellation

There was a scandal in Poland because one translator decided to translate him accurately, tone, vocabulary level and word salad tangents and all. Polish conservatives who don't speak English and previously only heard smoothed out translations that sounded coherent and used big words were up in arms about how the translator was "inserting her political agenda", "mocking him", "exaggerating", "purposefully trying to make him look bad" and "incredibly unprofessional". I listened to the translation in question. It was literally just accurate.

kimbureh

5. Sensitive and Controversial Language Trump’s speeches occasionally contain misogynistic, sexist, or inflammatory language. Japanese interpreter Tsuruta, for example, faced challenges when translating sexualized remarks, ultimately opting for standard terminology to maintain professionalism. Similarly, Chinese translator Kumiko Torikai found certain lewd expressions ethically challenging, ultimately leading to her retirement. Navigating these situations requires skillful balancing of accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity, ensuring that the translation is appropriate without distorting the original intent.

I don't know why the authors of PoliLingua act as if Trump's verbal misogyny and racism wasn't very much part of his "original intent".

it only now dawns on me that millions of people on this planet think Trump is way smarter than he is because translators have neglected to relate his violent speech accurately out of misunderstood politeness. Make the ape sound like a ape

Finally on to S4 of the Gotham rewatch and, although it's kind of been like pulling teeth, it is reminding why I so liked the fandom side of the show. There were so many cool ideas and characters introduced - but they were generally wasted with abysmal execution. Every episode is just: 'what could this have been in the hands of someone else?'

Jim's visit to the Falcones has put me right back on my Carmine Falcone/Peter Gordon bs. They were such good friends, y'know? Carmine is even sitting down nicely with this guy who killed his son because, at the end of the day, Jim's his last link with Peter. (I dunno where Roger is in Gotham-verse. I usually headcanon him as the older brother who doesn't necessarily hate Jim, but sees through Jim's justifications to the guy who just really likes abusing his authority...)

My no. 1 fave ship scenario was always Tetch virus Gordlock though. Just, the whole being buried alive thing really captured my imagination - but it's only this week that I finally realised why because it wasn't like it had any lasting plot impact or anything. I've also been rewatching Silent Witness and it hit me that I'd just kind of imprinted all the drama of Nikki being buried alive onto my OTP of the moment. (I think Awakening aired about four months before Pretty Hate Machine. Nikki even has ongoing trauma about it into S21.) Proof that I'm 100% unoriginal lol.

Anyway, when I get back from Aqua Fit tomorrow night it's on to disc two!

#gotham 2014 #gordlock

cenzi04

OLD GOTHAM ART DUMP

Time to actually use this page as an archive like I intended, so I'm gonna post all the Gotham fanart in sections

These are all kinda old and some of them are kinda ass AKJHSF (it's only been 3 months and I'm tweaking over nothing)

I'm a normie 😛 my favourites were Jim and Oswald

cenzi04

OLD GOTHAM ART DUMP — (pt. 3)

Misc sketches and shitposting I guess LMAO (including one collab page with @gambitgambino)

I think that about sums it up for my Gotham slop...crawls back to my riddlebird...

whyactlikeahuman

quasikool

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

ao3commentoftheday

By the Numbers - a short fic challenge

Write a fic with 6 puns/references/inside jokes in 7 sentences.

Write about the meaning of life, the universe, or everything in exactly 42 words.

Write a smut scene in 69 words.

Write a fic of 101 words that includes at least one dog.

Write a 10 sentence fic about why one character hates another.

Write a 666-word fic about a dark omen.

Write a fic containing substance use that is 420 words long.

Write a fic that's 404 words long about a character who can't find something.

Write a fic with a three-digit word count (100-999) that contains your AO3 user number.

Write a 314-word fic that contains a mathematical concept.

Write a new backstory in exactly 52 words.

Write a 616-word fic that takes place in our universe (for a fandom that doesn't).

Write a dystopian future!fic that is 2046 words long.

Write a fic about an evil government that is 1984 words long.

Write a fic that is 177 words long and contains the number 76 and a reference to football.

Write a fic about a hacker that is 1337 words long.

Write a fic that is 24 sentences long, formatted in 7 paragraphs, and describes a character's year.

mossdftba

Explaining the references:

1. 67, internet meme

2. 42, "the answer to life, the universe and everything" in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

3. 69, sex position

4. 101 Dalmatians Disney movie

5. 10 Things I Hate About You movie

6. 666 known as "the Devil's number" in Christianity

7. 420, the weed number

8. Error 404, file not found

9. (Not a reference)

10. 3.14(15927...) or pi, a mathematical constant

11. New 52, DC rebooting its chronology with new backstories for several characters

12. Earth 616 is this universe in Marvel comics

13. 2046 movie by Wong Kar-wai (unsure, if anyone has a better idea, please add it!)

14. 1984 book by George Orwell, where the phrase "big brother is watching" came from

15. 17776 or "What Football Will Look Like in the Future" multimedia online work by Jon Bois

16. 1337 or "LEET" short for 'elite', a great hacker. Research leetspeak for more info.

17. 24/7 which is short for "24 hours a day, 7 days a week" meaning always.

ao3commentoftheday

Well done! but two half corrections 😆

While number 6 is indeed the Devil's number in Revelation, I was specifically referring to the 1970s horror film The Omen.

The other half correction is for 17. which was actually 24/7/365

(but 13 is right! - and so is everything else 💗🎉)

dogpuppy

chickenmim

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

teaboot

This has always bothered me too and it didn't make sense until someone older told me that when they were growing up "scare quotes" were used the way we used *asterisks* or ALL CAPS for emphasis

programmerhumour

Once upon a time…

friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt

undergroundwubwubmaster

I need people to understand my old woman yuri vision.

kushblazer666

deodorantdenier

people are saying this is a song and i can't imagine what it could possibly sound like. what the hell are you talking about

the-timewatcher

like this

prokopetz

You need to understand that twenty years ago this was considered the pinnacle of online culture.

#I bought this single on CD…

So much relief today when the Senedd results came in! My biggest worry was that the Tories would recover enough to enable them to form a coalition with Reform (because, let's face it, the likes of Millar and RT are barely a step away from them in outlook...)

But Plaid pulled it out of the bag.

Diolch i’r drefn!

ladillados

kontrollsysteme

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

lloerwyn-deactivated20201104

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

petermorwood

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

brightwanderer

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

tuulikki

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

jackiedollcurtis

"Omg (insert character's) would be so disgusted if they knew who fans were shipping them with." Well it's a good thing they don't FUCKING exist!

Can we please stop pretending fictional characters have thoughts and opinions. They aren't real. They have no feelings.

I've been so busy the last few weeks but I finally - finally - managed to get to the end of S3 on the Gotham rewatch.

I guess it's that I already know what's coming, but I'm really struggling to like Jim this time around. Every episode is just like, Jim, meet the consequences of your own actions... Which did make him getting buried alive even more satisfying. It was just a shame he wasn't stuck down there longer.

(And I still thought the storyline would have worked way better if Mario's infected blood had spattered over Lee and got in through a cut or whatever, meaning that the whole thing was entirely Jim's fault...)

Harvey desperately looking for him still hit me in the shippy feels though. The more pathetic a character Harvey is in the ship scenario, the more I love him. <3

#gotham 2014 #gordlock

olderthannetfic

I've seen a lot of discussion around black and white, no nuance, Absolute Good vs Obviously Evil themes and character expectations plaguing fiction writing spaces. I have noticed it has been bothering me when trying to find fanfiction to read. I keep trying to read Detroit Become Human fanfiction for example but despite the potential nuances and questions that could arise in the idea of robots gaining sentience so many writers in this fandom seem determined to make it extremely clear how 'pure and good' the androids are? They are 'incapable of hate crimes' is something I have seen in so many fics and I'm at a loss here. What does that even mean. Not to mention how many people seem to equate the idea the androids being asexual in someway makes them pure and good and unmarred by evil which...yeah. A lot to unpack there. It is of course dreadfully boring to me to read about angel faced pure clean machines being the ultimate martyrs but I don't see how people can't see it themselves? Why this is...bad? Idk how to articulate how I feel tbh I am not a writer. I fear I might be throwing stones in a glass house.

olderthannetfic

Having now properly read the ask, I would like to add some Detroit: Become Human context that I think will help those of you who don't give a fuck about it understand why the fandom is deeply terrible.

You know that Astarion guy who's the subject of so much BG3 wank?

His voice actor is Neil Newbon.

Newbon is also the VA for Elijah Kamski (the creepo billionaire robot designer) and Gavin Reed (the bigoted-against-robots cop who is one half of the popular ship with Sir Not Appearing In This Game).

The main robot, Connor, and also Sir Not Appearing In This Game are played by Bryan Dechart.

Both Newbon and Dechart do shit like stream themselves playing games as their character. (And are also friends and appear in videos together at least sometimes from what I remember.) They did the mocap for their DBH characters and the characters look a lot like them.

Cue every single bad fandom behavior around streamers people have a parasocial relationship with, RPF-adjacent wank pretending it's something else, and people being massively unable to chill about anything to do with this game.

The fact that the game covers heavy political topics and covers them very, very badly and that the other actors are mostly not streamers (well, aside from Dechart's wife Amelia Rose Blaire who played the lesbian sexbots) means that the other two thirds of the game plot aren't featured in most of the fandom activity.

The three sections of the game are:

Caves of Steel ripoff where woobie robot, Connor, and bigoted-against-robots cop, Hank, learn to work together in a developed and satisfying arc, whether you kill each other or fall in love raise the relationship stat enough to get the happy ending (Also featuring more-bigoted-against-robots cop, Gavin, and more evil robot, Sir Not Appearing in this Game if you're the kind of philistine who doesn't want to fuck that old man.)

Choose whether Markus becomes MLK or Malcolm X and which of his three subordinates he spends the most time with (resulting in all of them being underdeveloped)

Lady robot needs to protect a child and follow the underground railroad, complete with black lady monologuing about the actual historical underground railroad and much nonsensical world building

I was in this fandom for 30 seconds, but the sources of its godawfulness are pretty obvious if you're familiar with the VAs and the structure of the game.

tunglo

One of my fave DBH fics to write had the old Anti Android League switch tactics and start campaigning as though they were the sole protectors of android rights. ‘They’ve only just been activated so they’re clearly pure innocent children who shouldn’t work, have sex, or be allowed out after curfew.’

Saint Markus obviously did his best to point out this was really about stripping androids of personhood but the damage was already done…

(Mostly though, to my shame, I did very little world building beyond: there are robots here and now there’s going to be wireplay smut.)

#DBH #Reed900

nevereverthem

Gotham imagine:

Harvey's fed up with Oswald constantly coming to the GCPD to flirt with Jim, invite him places...

Of course Jim always dismisses him gently, using work as an excuse...

But recently, that pattern has worsened!

Oswald came every single day this week, and on this Friday morning, like clockwork, the little bird comes limping into the station in search of his favorite policeman.

As per usual, they start exchanging courtesies that ultimately lead to Oswald casually asking Jim out.

"Jim's got plans tonight," Harvey asserts, slipping an arm around his partner's waist.

The younger detective freezes in place.

Oswald falls completely silent.

A police officer drops his donut.

Another one spits out his coffee.

Ed, who was just passing by, trips on his own feet.

There were worse ways of coming out.

#Gordlock

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