Vashti's Web

Kind of small, kind of cute, and kind of pixieish, with remarkably small hands. Goro Akechi's dead mom and psychoanalyst. My whole life is a Persona 5 spoiler.

[vashtijoy]

index of meta posts

Quick index of my meta posts.

Indexes: [two] [three] [third semester] [akechi's confidant]

The script I work from (which I did not make!) is here—page down to "Persona 5 Royal".

If you're looking for my Boueibu movie fansub, try here.

new posts

On that 11/21 meeting with Shido. (posted 2025/07/27)

On Akechi's 10/28 confession to Haru: "a sickening human being". (posted 2025/03/06)

Followup ask: alternate readings of Sae's "to you". (posted 2025/03/06)

On the deep meaning of "this isn't small potatoes". (posted 2025/02/22)

Would there be dodgy fanfic in Maruki's reality? Also, deleted scene about Maruki's thought control. (posted 2024/11/30)

"cursed child" and how Akechi thinks his own mother didn't want him. (posted 2024/11/23)

Why does Futaba say that everyone else was in danger on 11/21? (posted 2024/11/03)

What was the original version of Ryuji and Makoto's Bon Jovi reference? (posted 2024/10/07)

Rank 3: what Akechi sees in Ren by the end. (posted 2024/09/05)

Why does Sae say Kamoshida had a psychotic breakdown? (spoiler, she didn't) (posted 2024/09/26)

What did Akechi think was in Maruki's warehouse? (posted 2024/08/15)

On whether or not Akechi thinks he'll die at 18. (reblogged 2024/06/17)

translation and language posts (incomplete)

On Akechi's 10/28 confession to Haru: "a sickening human being". (posted 2025/03/06)

Followup ask: alternate readings of Sae's "to you". (posted 2025/03/06)

Would there be dodgy fanfic in Maruki's reality? Also, deleted scene about Maruki's thought control. (posted 2024/11/30)

"cursed child" and how Akechi thinks his own mother didn't want him. (posted 2024/11/23)

Why does Futaba say that everyone else was in danger on 11/21? (posted 2024/11/03)

What was the original version of Ryuji and Makoto's Bon Jovi reference? (posted 2024/10/07)

Why does Sae say Kamoshida had a psychotic breakdown? (spoiler, she didn't) (posted 2024/09/26)

"This one just got betrayed by its teammate!": the traps of bad translations. (posted 2024/06/18)

Does True Igor ever say "my Velvet Room"? Comparing the two Igors' use of language. (posted 2024/05/21)

How Haru provokes Akechi into opening up on 11/7. (posted 2024/05/14)

more translation and language posts

Did Akechi really say "Don't troll me online"? (posted 2024/04/01)

How does the use of honorifics compare between the Japanese and English releases? (posted 2024/01/26)

Shido's Palace: what do the posters say? Also, Shido and Akechi and their top buttons. (posted 2024/01/14)

Rank 5: what did Akechi really say? Also, notes from the Spanish translation. (posted 2024/01/10)

Terms of address: what do the squad call Maruki? (posted 2023/12/29)

[my translation] Deleted scene: Akechi at the refuge in February. (posted 2023/12/05)

8/28 and 9/13: Was Akechi really in state foster care? (updated 2023/11/20)

Akechi's deepest fear: "It's too late, I'm going to die." (posted 2023/11/12)

[translation] Akechi's P5T character trailer. (posted 2023/11/08)

Ann's confidant, rank 9: "you have the others". (posted 2023/10/20)

1/2: Joker's "true form" responses in Maruki's Palace. (posted 2023/10/19)

Haru: "we'll just take him out again". (updated 2023/10/19)

What song did Ryuji and Morgana originally sing in Mementos? (posted 2023/09/21)

"you trusted no one": life in single-player mode. (posted 2023/06/09)

Followup ask: "one for your lies, and one for your hate". (posted 2023/06/15)

Followup ask: is it rather Loki who represents lies, and vice versa? (posted 2023/06/15)

6/5: "pleasant boy". (posted 2023/06/06)

A karisuma X is not a "charismatic X". (posted 2023/06/05)

aijin kankei: Akechi's mother's relationship with Shido was more like sex work than a love affair. (posted 2023/06/03)

On translation: 4/10 and Shido's Palace: "a diplomat and some company president"? (posted 2023/05/28)

Does Akechi really say "the same strategy used in romance"? (posted 2023/05/27)

Character speech modes. Also, is Yoshizawa addressing her persona during her awakening? (posted 2023/05/12)

"Phan-site", "phandom", "phanboy", etc. (posted 2023/05/04)

Translation: the list of incidents in the background of the 4/10 cinematic. (posted 2023/04/22)

No, Akechi doesn't say "welp". (posted 2023/04/17)

Morgana uses wagahai, because he is, after all, a cat. (posted 2023/04/11)

The difference between a "phantom thief" and a "gentleman thief" in the localisation. (posted 2023/04/06)

"cursed child": "a child whose birth was unwanted". needs possible updating for negative suffering passive not being a thing (would remove "inflicted on the mother") (posted 2023/02/15)

Shido describes himself as making Akechi "dance", and Akechi later describes himself as compelled to dance. (posted 2023/02/15)

Cognitive Akechi: it's "you wanted Shido to love you." (updated 2023/07/01)

What's a change of heart called in Japanese? (posted 2023/02/03)

"the fish are beautiful": Joker's impromptu diversion at the aquarium. (posted 2023/01/20)

"good-girl type of pushover": what's going on here and wtf is he trying to say. (posted 2023/01/07)

[homophobla]

KILL ALL HOUSE FLIPPERS!

[unamccormack]

Hate to think what they’ve done inside. The neighbourhood WhatsApp group is going to roast them alive. They’ll probably have to move.

[vashtijoy]

I found the original X post for this one and the comments were full of racists talking about "the sort of people you know have moved in when the driveway is paved over..."

They really will say fucking anything. And people are stupid enough to believe it. Having lived in the same place for pretty much 45 years, I promise you white people pave over front gardens.

That's like a "Buckingham Palace is boarded up" level of we-don't-live-here bulltwaddle.

[athelstansangel-blog]

Monastery Icon for Saint Athelstan The Good, The Pure - Patron Saint of Cinnamon Rolls

Biography: Saint Athelstan is commonly associated with cinnamon rolls as his kind heart and gentle nature made him too good for this world, too pure. 

This beloved saint was a monk at the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, England where he spread the word of God as a missionary in several countries including France. St. Athelstan was carried off by Vikings to the Scandinavian village Kattegat to be enslaved and later freed by raider Ragnar Lothbrok. After assimilating into pagan society, he returned to England and was tortured and crucified after having been declared an apostate, though his crucifixion was halted by the King of Wessex. Subsequently, St. Athelstan had a vision of the Virgin Mary and experienced bleeding from his head and hands in the locations of his healed stigmata wounds. Many were witness to this miraculous sign during the establishment of the Viking settlement in Wessex, during which St. Athelstan’s palms dripped with blood from his stigmata. 

St. Athelstan eventually returned to Kattegat with now King Ragnar Lothbrok. Upon his return, The Lord appeared to St. Athelstan in the form of light and he was born again. Although no longer part of the Vikings’ pagan society, St. Athelstan remained in Kattegat as saving the soul of his dear King Ragnar was all that mattered to him. Shortly after revealing his intentions to the king, St. Athelstan was martyred for his faith with an ax to the head by a fundamentalist pagan seeking a blood sacrifice. After his death, St. Athelstan appeared with the Son of God in a heavenly vision to King Ragnar resulting in the baptism and conversion of the king to Christianity. 

St. Athelstan is rumored to intercede in the affairs of Wessex in Season 4 of Vikings and there is great hope he will also appear for King Ragnar who valued him above all treasures on earth and in the afterlife. (Thanks to blagamuffin for the cute quote!)

Patron saint of: cinnamon rolls (humans & pastries); baby goats; mannies; linguistic scholars; illuminated manuscripts; back-flipping eye-rolling crucifix-wearing tongue-wielding icy-blue-eyed brilliant Viking Kings

[bestbandname]

Round 3:

Which band name do you like best?

Pet Shop Boys

Massive Attack

Voting ended onMar 7

Note that this is about band names not their music or members.

[bestbandname]

Tie break poll:

Which band name do you like best?

Pet Shop Boys

Massive Attack

Voting ended onMar 27

[bestbandname]

Take 3

Pet Shop Boys

Massive Attack

Voting ended onApr 8

[bestbandname]

I'm going to start getting annoyed soon...

[vashtijoy]

Item: A Set of Dice Rarity: ⏶ Common

Do you consider yourself a lucky person when playing?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Based on my last score, mysterious cat? I'm gonna say no.

[vashtijoy]

[ur-fave-is-in-the-blood-ocean]

Dean and Castiel from Supernatural are in the Blood Ocean!

[ur-fave-is-in-the-blood-ocean]

Every person on Earth. All of us deserve it.

Every person on earth is in the Blood Ocean! No one is safe!

[catchymemes]

These circles are stationary

[jadagul]

Thanks I hate it.

[argumate]

*sigh* all power to hypnotoad.

[violetfractal]

Checked with a ruler and took screenshots - the circles are completely stationary. The effect is also not generated by the arrows, rather by the oscillating color.

The rings have 1px wide borders that oscillate out of phase with their interiors, and your eyes perceive the phase shifted borders as moving edges. It’s really neat, our optic nerves have specific hardware for edge detection and this gif fools it!

Also if I look away from the gif and stare at a spot, the gif looks really trippy in my peripheral vision. A++

[ngkiscool]

My brain hurts.

[ur-fave-is-in-the-blood-ocean]

Every Billionaire from Capitalism is in the Blood Ocean!

[the-haiku-bot]

Every Billionaire

from Capitalism is

in the Blood Ocean!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[apolladay]

Did your job exist one thousand years ago? Disregard changes in technology (i.e. doctors existed even if they didn't practice medicine the same way as today)

Yes

No, but there was a earlier/similar version of it

No, my job isn't analogous to anything that existed 1000 years ago

Unemployed

Voting ended onApr 1

[vashtijoy]

Absolutely yes:

The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek in the 3rd century BCE is regarded as the first major translation in the western world. This translation is known as the “Septuagint”, a name that refers to the seventy scholars who were commissioned to translate the Hebrew Bible in Alexandria, Egypt. Each translator worked in solitary confinement in his own cell, and according to legend all seventy versions proved identical. The translator’s role as a bridge for “carrying across” values between cultures has been discussed since Terence, a Roman playwright who translated and adapted Greek comedies into Latin in the 2nd century BCE. Cicero famously cautioned against translating “word for word” (“verbum pro verbo”) in “On the Orator” (“De Oratore”, 55 BCE): “I did not think I ought to count them [the words] out to the reader like coins, but to pay them by weight, as it were.” Cicero, a statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, was also a translator from Greek to Latin, and compared the translator to an artist. The debate about sense-for-sense translation vs. word-for-word translation dates back to antiquity. The coiner of the term “sense for sense” is said to be Jerome (commonly known as St. Jerome) in his “Letter to Pammachius” (396). While translating the Bible into Latin (a translation known as the “Vulgate”), Jerome stated that the translator needed to translate “not word for word but sense for sense” (“non verbum e verbo sed sensum de sensu”).

[mint-swirl]

clown event still possible

[roman-royy]

the always sunny podcast nº31

[queermystic]

Some actors get all snippy when they become a Meme but hes like "yes. Thank you, that's exactly what I was going for".

[obstinatecondolement]

I know I am fighting a lonely and perhaps needlessly pedantic battle with this one, but when people say that books "didn't used to have tropes" in their day (by which they mean commercial fantasy books in the 1980s to early '90s) I want to scream.

And yeah, I know what they mean. I know they are talking about marketing trends and the way certain readerships use a lot of very specific terminology. My mother is a lifelong reader and thinks "protagonist" is a pretentious way of saying "main character" and "antagonist" is a dumb, made up American word, so I can see how some people might think that Tropes are a stupid new thing that never used to exist. But??? Why are people seriously trying to tell me that commerical genre fiction didn't used to be tropey???? Maybe the word is new to you, maybe marketing based around tropes is new, but for God's sake.

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[teh-nos]

mentally reconsidering how much of the grimness of threads was the nuclear apocalypse and how much was just the 1980s

[mooflat]

One of my favorite lines about Boromir in the books is that part of the appendices that goes like, “Faramir thought Boromir was probably the greatest man in Gondor, and Boromir also thought that.”

[lilyhandmaiden]

That is also my favorite! "And of like mind was Boromir." I laughed out loud!

[unamccormack]

Such authorial shade.