#I mean i have a couple of theories

[zaacataac]

one thing the I haven’t seen the hfth fandom talking abt that kind of surprises me is the episode structure?

and I don’t mean the whole thing with Nik not doing the interludes I mean the fact that all 3 chapters followed the same story line???

that rarely happened in seasons 1-3, let alone in a premiere, which just interests me idk what it means though

#I mean i have a couple of theories #But like #there’s literally so much goin on in this one episode I can’t process everything #hfth #hello from the hallowoods #hfthw #hfth s4 #hfth spoilers

[eddiezpaghetti]

Okay, so my experience with Stranger Things is a weird one.

I didn't care when it first came out, started to watch it out of "might as well" in 2020, wasn't interested in it enough to make it past S2, forgot about it outside of going "oh, hey, cool, there's a lesbian in it now, I guess," in S3, got really annoyed when "Running Up That Hill" got popular from it because it was a song I listened to on fucking loop after one of my best friends died in high school and I fully expected its appearance in the show to ignore the whole survivor's guilt theme of the song (and was very happy to learn later that it did the exact opposite of ignoring the lyrics), saw people drawing Eddie, suddenly got a lot more interested, watched just the fourth season like a fucking psychopath because I was seriously only there for Eddie, then got interested enough to start the show over properly, having mostly forgotten what I did watch of the show before.

And let me tell you something from the perspective of someone who started with the complete fourth season, who wasn't there from the start, who wasn't tainted by ship goggles or this internal battle of hope and despair, who wasn't theorizing about what the painting could be or expecting Mike and Will to kiss when Volume 2 happened or rooting for Mike and Eleven's relationship to go down in flames or whatever the fuck. Just someone who went blind into Season 4.

It's really fucking obvious that Will and Mike are gonna be endgame.

Like holy fuck. It's so fucking blatant I don't even know why people are nervous.

No sane fucking person would shoot this scene this way if they wanted the audience to care about El and Mike as a couple. Despite being all blurry in the background, Will's reaction to what's happening here is smackdab in the fucking middle, clearly showing that the important part is what's going through his head here. What he's feeling. It's like the opposite of that scene from Kingdom Hearts II where Sora and Riku reunite and Kairi just fucking vanishes into the aether while it's happening because, despite the fact that she was standing between them when the scene began, she doesn't matter to the scene, so she's just kind of gone when the camera angle changes. Will could have been behind one of their heads, or so far in the distance he blends in with the background, but he's not. He's so obvious that despite being massively blurred out, he's still the first goddamn thing you look at. What, you think that's an accident? You think he's in the middle of this dramatic fucking scene because of a mistake? He basically has a big flashing neon arrow pointing at him with "THIS IS THE POINT" being screamed through a megaphone.

And then this?

They're paired up like they're taking fucking prom pictures. Each one of these pairs is so fucking close to one another and so fucking far from everyone else. It's not, "Oh, they're standing vaguely near each other in a group shot," it's fucking Noah's Ark out here. Again, there's no way to take this as an accident. It's not just a framing issue. If they wanted to make the shot look balanced while still not hiding anyone else behind El, they would have scattered people around much more naturally. Even if they wanted to keep Nancy with Jonathan and Hopper with Joyce, there's so much room on that hill for three people to stand on El's left and three on her right. But they didn't do that. They put Mike and Will together on purpose in the most obvious way possible.

Like I get that coming up with crackpot theories is fun in and of itself and I'm not blaming anyone for having fun. I totally get the appeal of arguing a point and reaching for every stupid little thing to pull into it because it's like a game, okay? I've done that. But if you're trying to actually convince someone (whether it's someone who wants to believe or someone who's pissed at the very idea that Mike and Will could be in love), stay away from blue and yellow lights, stay away from costume design, stay away from the existence of closets in backgrounds. And don't worry about whether Mike's gay or bi when he's in love with Will either way. I'll give you a little tip about persuasion: You're only as strong as your weakest argument. Even if you've got strong stuff in there, too, the person you're trying to convince is going to dismiss anything you say as complete insanity the second you start going on an entire tangent about the shape of a character's fucking pocket.

Sometimes, clothes are just clothes. Sometimes, there's a closet in the background because it helps establish that a character is in a bedroom. Sometimes, blue and yellow are just a couple of colors that look nice together. And sure, it might be set designers and costume designers and cinematographers smirking and winking at the audience from behind the camera. But if the show was just those things, instead of those things in the context of everything else, they wouldn't be saying anything of note.

But this?

This tells a story all on its own. Someone with no context can look at this and automatically assume that each paired person is standing with someone they care about deeply, seeking comfort as they watch some sort of disaster unfold. And yeah, romantic couples usually come in twos, and we live in an amatonormative society, so that's going to be the first association anyone makes seeing a bunch of people paired off.

It's the same reason you look at this

And go, "Oh..."

"Those two are probably a couple."

And I genuinely don't understand how people could have watched S4 Vol. 2 and gotten scared. Because as someone who went in with no investment whatsoever, I just looked at these two--

--and went, "Oh, those two are a couple. Good for them." And I moved on. Shut up about the trees for five seconds and just see the forest for what it is.

Oh, and if you're still nervous? Little thing from a storyteller here: You don't leave a hanging thread like "Will confessed his romantic feelings for Mike by projecting them onto El, but Mike either didn't understand or at least didn't say he understood," without coming back to that later. That's Chekov's gun hanging on the wall, babes. It's gonna fire at some point. If Mike was going to reject Will's feelings, if they weren't relevant, they would have had that discussion in Argyle's van. There'd be no reason to leave you in suspense.

#byler #meta #stranger things #theory #I mean I fucking guess #in the same way gravity is a fuckin' theory. #It feels silly that I even have to say this honestly. #Watching people freak out over these two feels like I'm being pranked. #Like you guys aren't pulling a Goncharov are you? Just making believe there's any chance these two aren't gonna be endgame? #Like completely ironically? And I'm too autistic to catch it? #It genuinely feels like I'm explaining that red and blue make purple here. As if you guys should have learned this in kindergarten. #Or like watching whole-ass adults watch Cinderella for the first time and being on the edge of their seat #wondering if she's going to live happily ever after with the prince or not. #It feels like I'm talking DOWN to people and I don't WANT it to feel like that but it's so obvious and I don't want people to be like #anxious for no reason you know? #Like I get that we're all scarred from queerbaiting and I know you guys are biased from years of shipping these kids. #But like. These guys? The most obvious 'there's only one way this could go' couple I've ever seen? You're scared about THEM?

[pomme-fraise]

Tianshan boyfriends being cute~

Simply love the non-verbal communication between those 2 ❤️

Also could we ask for the next Christmas special in July? 😭🙏 Sure it doesn't make sense, but look at them husbands~ I don't want to wait another 6 months

#have you ever witnessed a couple simply looking at each other and it's like a whole silent conversation? #and no one around them knows wtf is going on #Tianshan couple goals #remember when HT said he had nothing but 2 boxes of random stuff and he looked at Mo and there was sort of a long stare #so when Mo gave him his drink did it mean “what's mine is yours” ? #is it simply overinterpretation? 😭 #possibly #I like that theory though #because when they kissed HT also said “I'll give you anything you want” or something like that❤️ #19 days #he tian #mo guan shan #tianshan #old xian #one day #19days

[mari3with3]

One of the main reasons why I love the theory that Rauru and Sonia are reincarnations of Link and Zelda It's because, since they have the spirit of the Hero and the blood of the goddess, it means that they were destined to meet again 🥹🥹 And they were also destined to fall in love, and Hyrule was founded thanks to the love that the goddess and the hero felt for each other, and, and-

#I really wish with all my soul that that theory becomes canon #I mean- with all the paralllels that both couples have it does seem like it is canon #and since when it comes to Zelda Nintendo never confirms anything directly #Zelda #the legend of zelda #Loz #Totk #tears of the kingdom #Tloz totk #loz totk #Rauru #King Rauru #Rauru totk #totk rauru #Sonia #Lady Sonia #Queen Sonia #Sonia totk #totk Sonia #Rauru x Sonia #Rausoni #Link #Tloz #tloz link #loz link #Princess Zelda #Zelink #zelda x link #nintendo #mine

[dollypopup]

y'all can all cancel me (again) for this, but if there's even a SHRED of 'who should I pick?' from Penelope in season 3, I am tuning out SO fast because like. . .sorry not sorry, there IS no choice. Debling is some crusty OC suitor she barely even knows and Colin is a man who she has been so supposedly in love with to the point where she'd ruin her entire family's reputation to have a potential love story with him. Penelope and Colin have background, years of knowing each other, intimacy that few people in the Ton can boast of having (letters, conversations about purpose, fights and arguments and makeups) and her and Debling have. . .a dance or two at a ball because he's a rebound for Penelope's broken heart. he means nothing. he has no nuance, he has no weight to the story, he is such an afterthought to me. either I wanna see Penelope going 'you know what? I don't even LIKE this dude. he's. . .fine, but I don't care about him even a shred as much as I care about Colin' or the INSTANT Colin's like 'you know what? we should get married' if it's not an immediate 'say less, you're already my husband, try returning me without the receipt, Debling whomst?' then I don't want it!

like. . .it's just so frustrating to see all the 'I hope Debling sweeps her off her feet and she rejects Colin's proposal and she makes him work for it and and and-' nonsense from the fandom and it's always tagged and no matter how many times I block it, it just keeps popping up. I go into the Polin tag for POLIN. I don't give a SHIT about a male love interest other than Colin. Not one. Not a shred. Not an iota.

and also. . .Debling has the 'benefit' of not having depth, or character traits, or HISTORY, so peeps can project onto him however they want, but I'm calling it now, there is NOTHING he could do or be that would make me like him more than Colin. Colin will always hit different, and I will always love him more. and if Pen's not on that same page? lol bye

you want me to believe Penelope and Colin are soulmates and it's romance for her to hem and haw about how difficult a decision it is for her to marry a stranger who knows barely anything about her. . .

when Marina was out here dropping banger lines like 'You were the only man with which I could see myself being happy' and 'I do not care about any of these men, where is Colin?'? like hello??? and she wasn't even fully in love with him!!!! but we'll demonize her until the cows come home in our fandom and make her the villain in Polin's love story for DARING to get in between Polin, yet Debling, a white man, is a darling dear perfect prince for getting in between Polin? existing in our fandom solely so Penelope can be like 'lol, Colin ain't shit, let me entertain any and everyone else'?

if that's the direction it goes then, ten toes down and on my mama, she doesn't deserve Colin and she can move because I'm on my way to court him my damn self

and that's that on that

#you know what? lol it's been a bit since i've posted a controversial opinion #tagging it #polin #sorry not sorry i ship polin. . .so i wanna see. . .polin. . .and i'm getting damn sick and tired #of all the bullshit pen/oc pen/other dude theories and stories in the polin tag #and i don't want polin to lose screentime over a frankly bleh male oc #you can't change my mind #if i don't see at least marina's 'you've seen him with the little bridgertons!' level of squee and 'i only want to talk to colin' #levels of devotion then i don't fucking WANT IT!!!!! #yeah definitely try out the marriage market #realize that NO ONE has a good time on the marriage market #try to get over him w/ whomstever #but then be like 'i don't even LIKE this dude where's colin i miss him' about it!!!!! #because otherwise i am not here #i am asleep #and i am courting colin in your place pen #i'm coming for your man #anti debling #if debling has 100 haters i am one of them if he has 10 haters i'm one of them if he has 1 hater i am the hater if he has 0 haters i'm dead #it's incredibly obvious that 'pebling' is half rooted in a revenge storyline fueled by anger at Colin and his complexity #and half a projection of wanting Penelope to have 'choices' because she is a representation and manifestation of the fans themselves #and so people think an OC that can be 'perfect' for them- whoops I mean Pen (because he doesn't have any real depth or interest) #he's a cardboard cutout we can throw whatever you want onto #so we can make him 'perfect' instead of the much more meaningful storyline of pen and colin both being messy and loving each other more #and part of it is bitterness over Polin not being insta-love #which. . .if it was i wouldn't like them as much as i do #anyways y'all ain't slick #and it's fucking WEIRD to be in a fandom that's like 'i ship this couple but i hope she gets with ANYONE else' #maybe you. . .don't ship the couple?? #like. . .to the point of wanting her necklace to be from debling. . .and her wearing it everywhere??? WHAT??

[sonknuxadow]

sorry i dont really like the shadow is silvers dad theory/headcanon/whatever and part of the reason for it is that people keep presenting it as an actual thing that could be possible even though it makes no sense and all "evidence" people use to back it up is easily disputed

#''they both have white chest fur'' okay ? there are so many other characters who have small physical traits in common #doesnt mean they have to be related #''shadow and silver are lancelot and galahad in sonic and the black knight'' okay and . #im sure there might be SOME meaning to the character choices in the storybook games but i highly doubt their lives are 1 to 1 parallels #or that the character choices are meant to imply anything about the characters that we dont already know #plus amy was nimue and nobody tries to argue that shadow and amy are related because of that? #also im aware that a lot of dad shadow stuff takes place in the future when silver is a baby and shadow has still been alive for a long tim #(which. how would that even work wasnt shadow in stasis again in the future) #but sometimes i see people do it with like present day shadow being a father figure to the silver who time traveled there ? #thats like the horrible combination of people infantilizing silver in a way they dont do with other characters his age or younger #and people pretending shadow is an adult when he isnt . what #also i dont get why people insist that if shadow is silver's dad then the other parent MUST be someone from the existing cast #like . silver is not from a few decades into the future hes from 200 years into the future #none of the characters youre saying shadow is gonna get with are gonna be living that long im sorry to say #and why does silver HAVE to be the child of a couple in the existing cast why cant he just be some random guy #and im not saying every au idea has to perfectly align with canon #but a lot of the people who think shadow is silvers dad arent presenting it as a fun little baseless headcanon #theyre presenting it as an actual plausible theory . when it really isnt . #also ive noticed one of the most common pairings for silvers parents is sonic and shadow . #sorry but that is just not happening i feel so strongly about sonic never wanting to get married or have kids #i think shadow being an older brother figure to silver could be cute . #and the idea of a timeline where shadow doesnt die or get put into stasis or whatever the hell and is still around in silvers time #could be interesting . but im not really on board with the dad thing

[t4llhum4n]

Was getting ready to work out with the new Reductive Audio in the background. I paused it right after the ad, and now I think I have a new reaction image:

#also hiii i haven't been dead for like a couple weeks what do you mean? #like i've wanted to talk about the monarchal summit updates but like #i really don't have the time to type out all of my thoughts and theories #because damn #redacted audio #redacted asmr #reductive audio #the essays do be essaying tho #my final papers are coming up so quickly guys i can't take this

[kaedeichinose]

i think signalis is ultimately a very self contained story but there are certain minor pieces of info that make me wonder if they plan on doing more with the universe in the future

#kinda like how the silent hill games are largely self contained but theres things connecting them #well the first couple anyway you know what i mean #in particular i just cant find a theory as to why ariane and falke have the exact same cg thats remotely satisfying to me #and then you factor in that falke looks like the great revolutionary and also ariane looks like alina seo #and during the first ending you can see lilith itou doing the same ritual elster does in the secret ending #mysterious

[daz4i]

i know aging isn't the end of the world and 24 isn't that old and life isn't a race etc etc etc. however,

#i think a big reason i feel so bad abt being this age is ppl told me this is when things start to get better #and i still feel the same way i did as a teenager so. well. is it really 😐 #(being on t probably isn't helping but it's been over 3 years already so... not an excuse i think) #but I'm also physically aging like the reason i barely upload selfies anymore is i see myself getting uglier every day #despite fighting for my life to at least take care of my face and hair...... can't fight the passage of time 😔 #+ ofc. my (younger) friends being way more sorted out than i am on every level #again ik life isn't a race but. it can't help but hurt to know I'm still behind literally everyone i know #and my excuses for that aren't even good. bc other disabled ppl my age are also more sorted out than i am #other depressed ppl other borderlines other autistics etc etc. hell these are also my irl friends 😭 #and it's dumb. bc feeling like i wasted my life isn't really pushing me to change that now. just makes me want to die even more #(bc i mean what's the point. i will never catch up. I'm still at the starting line AND i move so slow it doesn't even count) #(i don't have a single milestone ppl my age have not even finishing high school which is like. the bare minimum) #(and it sucks bc i also know i have potential i KNOW i can do shit in theory i know I'm smart and got skills. but i can't put it to use) #(and now this is turning into less of a thing abt age and just generally me talking abt how i wasted the last 24 years) #this was more of a stressed rant abt how I'm turning ugly and feeling super old but well. it all boils down to self loathing at the end 👍 #vent #negative // #ask to tag #sorry for being so depressing all day oof ik i already said it before but it's been a rough couple of months #(nothing happened my brain just needs to get flushed down the toilet ^_^) #edit: i think. part of my panic about aging. is bc as a kid i was used to being the youngest everywhere #i was the youngest in my class bc i started school a year early. i was the youngest in acting school bc they don't normally accept teenagers #and in addition to that as an adult but before starting t i was always told that i LOOK young too #but now ik i look like I'm in my 20s. and it's killing me that i aged this much in so little #i wonder if shaving my beard will help but i don't wanna get misgendered 😐😐😐 and rn it's the only thing guarding me from that

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

I need Goethe and Schiller in Bsd.

#You don't understand. I need them to be there. Please #We're currently talking about “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in german and I kept thinking about that #It would be so awesome #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #bsd manga #bungou stray dogs manga #goethe #schiller #johann wolfgang von goethe #friedrich schiller #I have to write a serious public online blog for a german project over a couple of weeks and I've picked to Blog about classical lit #Maybe I'm gonna write something about those two for Pride months #I mean. It's still Pride Month #And my German teacher only grades the blog entitys which we choose to show him (at least that was told) sooo #I really need to read the sorrows of young werther #We've read a part of it today and Werther felt really similar to the narrator of White Nights by Fyodor or to Alexei Ivanovich from #The gambler. Also by Fyodor Dostoevsky #There are theories that we will see Agatha Christie next as the final antagonist so there is a chance that we will get new characters right #So pleaaase. Asagiri I'm begging you #bungo stray dogs

[lecliss]

I've still been fucked up ever since I found out that(according to an actually plausible timeline), Konoha has only existed for like 90-something or whatever years??? It's not like. Fucking 200 years old or whatever. And that Madara died when he was 74 but he had himself hooked up to, fuckin what was it??? The Gedo statue?? A tree?? Whatever. In order to keep himself alive and you look at him all old and crusty and think he's like. Over a hundred at least. But no, that man's 74. He's just an average fucking grandpa!!! And Hashirama had been dead for a LONG while, so he actually died pretty young all things considered. And that also means Mito died like. Fuckin. I'm guesstimating here but in her 60s I guess???? But it's a significant thing that the Uzumakis have longer than average lifespans so like. What the fuck is the average life expectancy in Naruto for this bullshit to make sense???

#ever since i found out mada died at 74 ive been thinking those obi grandpa theories/allegations could actually be true #cuz doesnt he actually call obi his descendant at one point or something??? i mean i do think he meant that metaphorically #but at that age it actually could be possible #mada just woulda had to have a kid later than hashi did to make sense of the age difference between obi and tsun@de #and his grandma from the anime isnt canon so we can discount her in this equation #still fucked up tho over all hidden villages therefore being younger than a century #i think in my head it just feels like kages should be kages from like. their 20s or whenever the get the position #to like. their 70s or 80s or whenever they die #ya know like hiruzen made it to 68 i think??? and only died cuz of oro #but then again he did step down for mina like. 15 whatever years ago if were using 12yo nart for comparison #so going by 'they have the position for like a couple decades. maybe 2 MAYBE 3 then pass it on to someone else' #yeah it would then make sense for konoha to be on kage number 5 within a century #it just. doesnt really occur to me i guess. am i the only one fucked up by realizing this??? or has it always been obvious to everyone else? #granted when i was a kid i was ALWAYS so confused by how there could be a 4th hokage when the current guy is called the 3rd #i just never picked up on the idea that the 3rd returned to the position when the 4th died lmao #so yeah of course this has always gone right over my head #personal

[petvles]

Okay so lemme tell you about my ghost theory thats been boiling my brain alive for at least a month, with Nihil coming up in the chapters more and more we can clearly see that his ghost is becoming less spectre, more corporeal. That plus the fact that they keep reanimating him for the miasma solo plus the fact that they're giving so much attention to moac makes me believe that he craves to return to the spotlight once more.

So my current theory is this: Copia is not going to die, but Nihil is going to possess his body and take his place as papa and head of the Ghost project. The new poster where Copia has two white eyes only further adds to this because copia has one white eye, but (old) nihil has always had two

#that or jesus is kevin #who knows #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #copia #nihil #i also have a hunch that we're going to get more songs from the 7'' ep #but dont quote me on that #its been a couple days since i wrote this and i want to add that i think we're gonna either get a new nihil ep or more songs on the 7'' ep #and i think that the two white eyes could also mean that copia is gonna go full antichrist like his papa before him #but for now im sticking with the possession theory thanks for listening #jani chats #@zwierendezwam wanted me to let yall know that my theory is wrong #instead the theory now is that terzos gonna be resurrected to announce hes vegan #no there is no evidence its just gonna happen mark their words

[johnbleepingzoidberg]

what a fucking day

#in which i got absolutely nothing done at all #first couple hours of work was spent with our IT people to figure out why something wasn't working on my computer #(a very important function that i need to have for my job) #server had to be shut down for a bit so that they could work on the issue #so i went to lunch. nbd #until the fire alarm went off #and then once we got back inside and got the all clear. power went out! #idk if the fire alarm and power outage were related #current theory is something happened down the street w construction that caused a surge #triggering the fire alarm and power outage #idk how that works but I'll accept that theory #went home early bc. no power means no internet/remote server means no with #no work* #spent the rest of the afternoon stressed bc i felt like i Should Be Doing Something Work Related #bro got cut from the baseball team so that's a whole thing too #and now I'm here eating McDonald's #mine

[toytulini]

can i access the tunglr on work wifi but not discord. insane

#toy txt post #apologies in advance. nonzero chance this means i liveblog The Horrors. of slogging thru work #and or also liveblog. my own going insane over tryimg to remake character playlists now that the characters have evolved enough #that i look at their og playlists like.......what was i thinking #mostly. mostly Bytte #its just #hard to find things that match Bytte or Headloose or both of them and their. fucked up little dynamic both tonally and lyrically? #like in theory i Want to put Shakiras She Wolf on Bytte's playlist. its so iconic and In Theory. it could match. i could force it #in practice........god i dont even know how to expkain how it does not fit Bytte like....tonally and probably not even lyrically #i love bridge city sinners sound and a lot of their lyrics and would love to put them on both playlists but like lyrically and subject wise #theres just.....not much that fits? #i might be willing to try to explain Why It Doesnt Fit if i had more time ? and wasnt just typing in between printing labels..idk #and defining what doesnt work and why might in turn help me find more stuff that Does #i think i need to listen to a little more uhhhhhh. megan thee stallion? is that how u spell her name? for bytte. unsure. its so tricky #like half the shit on her playlist like only a couple lines in the song Really vibe w me idk #i actually just. remade her playlist completely the other day and im less mad at it now but it still could use a lot of improvement #theres not a good like.....flow between the songs? ig? #need to. figure out headloose now also.i think in fairness when i made Bytte's playlist i still hadnt really developed her as a character #much at all yet? idk #im not As Mad at either of Headloose's playlists theres just a bunch i need to add and reorganize and prolly need to trim? and tbh i prolly #need to just honestly make multiple separate playlists for all of them like i did for Suki.... #that will be similar and have plenty of overlap but have different nuances for the different eras of their lives #like. idk maybe Bytte needs to just have a Separate playlist for how her approach to and relationship w her sexuality evolves between #how she is as a human and. warlord. and then ig after she is w headloose which #is after she decides to become a demon but before shes fully transformed cos shes not dead yet so the evolution there is still #more subtle until she turns fully. and headloose gets 1) better at controlling the shapeshifting and healing factors and #2) Headloose getting more fucked up kinks. i guess. or learning more of his own fucked up kinks. or whatever #and the influence that has on her as well AND ALSO her like. lowkey toxicity in any attempts at long term rships #due to being a woman in a weird position in a point in history where we probably didnt have a word for aromanticism #...im out of tags. how does this happen everytime

[hazuneji]

every other week or so im struck with the powerful urge to become an editor on the limbus wiki. its been an uphill battle every time i see smth that i know and isnt on there or that could be fixed. but holy shit would i never do anything else

#i cant imagine how much context i could glean if i knew korean btw #in japanese they tend to have a lot more distinct dialogue quirks so its easier to tell who writes the flavor texts #(i am in camp 'every single description comes from a character') #and also the amount of Theory you can get from comparing what lines stay the same in each language. or comparing nuances in word choice #so many of my thoughts are wondering which parts of each translation were truest to the original text #like. in english theyre 'sinners' but in japanese they're 'prisoners' #in korean is it a word that means both? or maybe there's a specific connotation they're going for? #japanese has a regular ol' word for 'sinner' too it's very much deliberate methinks. were i a stronger man id be picking up the duolingo #anyways can you tell its my first day back on the adderall #tumblrs lucky i usually dump this on the discord friends the blog would be flooded #nightmare nightmare nightmare #post edit just something interesting but did you know in the bull observation logs one of the lines is pretty clearly rodya in japanese #but the english version of the line is almost certainly heath #weird innit #edit 2: theres a couple more instances of this (albeit less apparent) which is leading me to think that in the original texts #rodya and heath have similar dialects and the translators went with one or the other. interesting to consider the distinction between #a deliberate translation choice and simply separate people making their own interpretations. much to consider

[locktobre]

thinking about frozen saying that love is putting someone else's needs before yours vs barbie of swan lake saying that true love is two people loving each other more than they love themselves. rotating it in my mind.

#mel irl #barbie babbles #in theory the concepts are very similar but they feel worlds apart to me #like the specific phrasing has such vastly different implications i think #frozen has always bothered me with that. maybe bc in the context of the movie it's garbage. #bc i mean it's just a mess i can't get into it in tags but i have talked about it So Much Already #whereas swan lake is like. talking about the rarity of true love #and when they're trying to define it lila throws out a couple of things that are rejected #love is such a hard emotion to really conceptualize i think but i feel like swan lake does it better #but i think ALWAYS putting someone before yourself can be so so so ugly and destructive (i mean frozen even demonstrates this but WHATEVER) #anyway definitely thinking about themes of love and sacrifice this 2am