#ask brim

[beneaththebrim]

Hi, brim! Hope you're doing well. I just want to ask, recently I've seen some people say that the simplified cn volume 1 of shangxian seems to have an exclusive extra chapter. Do you know about it? If so, is there a chance you can translate it to us? If you're willing to do it and happen to need the cn text, I can send it to you once my copy reaches me. I loved your translation of this book so much, thank you once again for it <3

Hi anon! My shangxian print came in last month, it's just that I've been rather busy with work and hadn't been able to work on translation for a while. I have been working on transcribing/translating the print-only extra the past couple weeks, though, and I'll probably have it all done in 2-3 weeks!

#ask brim #anon #不见上仙三百年 #An Immortal's Absence Three Centuries Hence #since the print isn't scannable text it takes longer to read because there's more effort in looking up words I don't know #but mainly I've just been busy with work #luckily I've still been able to practice my Chinese skills at work #so I haven't gotten too rusty #(btw after this I am also planning on translating the tongqian print-only extra if no one else has already) #not sure if anyone else has though #I haven't been very active online lately other than to check DMs for translation requests

[mersei47]

Brian and Tim hugging because they are so cute ^^

pat pat

#marble hornets #mh brim #brian thomas #tim wright #myart #ask

[corrodedcoughin]

Steddie going to bed when hellfire sleepover are like an old married couple. Both of them sat up in the double bed, Steve has a roller in his hair and doing the crossword, Eddie with glasses perched on his nose reading up on new dnd concepts. Eddie shouting through the walls when he can hear to kids up late ‘KEEP IT DOWN! YOUR MOM HAS WORK IN THE MORNING’

#guys #guys listen I’m brimming with shit posts #I don’t know if you want them all out of the way in one big post #or peppered throughout your dash #I swear I’m trying to be less tag shouty and ‘too much’ in tags/posts/asks too #I’m genuinely sorry about that. a lot of people don’t like that and I probably overstepped the mark #so I’m really sorry #I just…really liked getting excited? idk! #more importantly!!!!! Steve and Eddie kiss in a gay way #stranger things #steddie #eddie munson #steve harrington

[shrimparts-blog1890]

Here's some Darling wips so y'all don't think I'm dead 😭😭😭🙏🏻🎀👩‍🍳

#ask me stuff #send me asks #ever after high #ever after high fanart #eah #eah fanart #darling charming #dappling #darlapple #also pls y'all don t mind me i draw her differently ever single mf time 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 #i ain t dead i m just full to the brim with tests #and exams and stodying in general 💀

[imsogayyippee]

brim but brian is a whore and tim is completely flustered all the time

idk what you're talking about, that's just marble hornets (i can't draw brian)

brian to me is like that picture that says "why get top surgery when you can just get jacked"

#marble hornets #tim wright #brian thomas #brim mh #mh brim #asks

[marimayscarlett]

Can you please showcase the MEATIEST photos of Richard? I'm desperately craving some Organic, Home Grown German Beef 🤤 that man is a whole ass steak dinner with sides AND dessert 🥵🥵

Hi 😌

Thank you for your order, some of the finest organic German beef coming right up 👌🏼 First up some moving imagery to marvel at the fine movements of this overall wonderful thickness:

(credits: gifs are by @mrsfitzgerald)

You might seem a bit irritated by the b&w bottom left one - but I'm so extremely focused on his meaty arm here, so it had to be included 👀

Some more meaty Richard is always good, behold those voluptuous curves:

(credits: top row by @sechsherzen; rest to the rightful owners)

The day this man dresses himself in fitting clothes is the day a little part in me dies.

While i absolutely can't get enough of this thick and wonderful chunky man, i want to emphasize that it seems like Richard lost some weight in the last couple of months, at least it seemed like this in the two new videos we got with him (the guitar signing and i think the speaker company one), and I think that's great and good for him ☺️

I hope you are satisfied with your order 😌

#rammstein #richard kruspe #ask #chunky richard to fill your dash to the brim

[onestopfanficshop]

if we’re taking about the cod boys being dads…can i just slip in how price would be the type of dad that would eat his daughter’s girl scouts cookies when he’s really supposed to be helping her sell them???

🧔🏻‍♂️: (on his second box of thin mints)

👧🏽: daddy, you’re not supposed to be eating them! we have to sell these!

he eventually writes a check out covering the cost of the ones he ate.

no because anon you're so unbelievably correct. the worst part is he thinks he's being so slick about it and that he can can control himself when in reality he can't! he opens yet another box of adventurefuls after he just polished off some thin mints, swears he's "only having a couple", and then boom they're all gone within the span of half an hour. your daughter is looking at you helplessly like "mum what on earth why did you marry this man" and all you can do is shake your head in disbelief and disappointment 💀. but he is very dedicated to helping her sell all her boxes (when he's not scarfing them down of course). he went out and bought a whole pop-up canopy for her to set up under and he's standing out there with his classic dad aviators (you know the ones), arms crossed in a black fitted tee as he handles all the digital payments, grumbling under his breath about how no one carries cash anymore. he's lost count of the amount of business cards he's handed out; the grocery store cashier, the mailman, his barber, all of his neighbors, and of course, the 141 boys. yes, even mr. simon "i don't eat sweets" riley, whom your daughter thinks is hilarious to refer to as the "uncle with the casper mask". simon, however, does not find this amusing. needless to say, she passes her sales goal with ease. obviously, because prices never lose!

#like just imagine this man in his bucket hat with his sunglasses lugging along a red wagon filled the brim with boxes of cookies #and don't even get me started on the amount of girl scout moms that would be drooling over this man #captain john price #john price x reader #john price headcanons #captain john price headcanons #onestopfanficshop asks

[ihearnocomplaints]

I point you all to my ko-fi page once more -> link

my parents, enraged that I didn’t sort a massive mound of clothes yesterday (after doing the other chores they asked), essentially decided they are going to start charging me rent.

So this is just in preparation for that moment when they do start asking. I’m still trying to save up to move out. It’s not a huge deal yet (idk how much they’re going to charge) so there’s no pressure to donate.

I work a full time job so I can’t really give much in return. But I can take doodle requests upon proof of donation! I’ll doodle any DCA you want.

Thanks.

#Idk what to tag this #i’m just so tired. #i’m just tired of my parents putting so much pressure on me #like 1) I did the chores they asked of me #2) The only one i didn’t do was because it was literally an overwhelming amount of clothes. The entire fucking laundry room is filled to the #brim with clothes. Literally you cannot walk in there without strpping on some #that’s 6 people’s clothes. Not even most of mine because I actually do my own laundry. other than the ones that get mixed in with the others #and they wanted me sort them. by myself. #I’m autistic and a massiver germaphobe and they wanted me to sort their grimey fucking clothes. #And when I don’t do it? call me useless and lazy #and then i fel insane because maybe i am just lazy and i should do more because they let me live here for free #sometimes i feel in the wrong. maybe i am in the wrong. maybe i should just suck it up and deal with it instead of complaining #I don’t know. I’m scared. I’m so scared #I don’t have anything to fall back on. I don’t have my own car. I have nothing.

[lunearobservatory]

Hi! for the character art asks thing: Austin with g4 in fistfight with god?

the uhhh the scrunk? the skronkle? the baby boy baby!!!

#texas with no brim ⁉️ #ignore that this is technically a sketch i alr posted #lune talks #wttt #wttsh #ben brainard #welcome to the statehouse #welcome to the table #when ppl ask me things #lune posts art #lune's art requests #wttt austin #i hate drawing cowboy hats but anything for Him (the shrinkydink)

[alittlesidenote]

Can you feed us starving fans some mooorrreeee suggestive brim?? (I’m a simp) (and not the same person who keep asking, BTW. Well, as long as I can remember 🤷‍♀️)

you are definitely the same anon lmaoo, I hope you enjoy some makeouts

#asks #marble hornets #mh #tim wright #brian thomas #mh brim

[beneaththebrim]

if u dont mind sharing, how do u recommend learning chinese? (since i think knowing the endgoal might help: it is more to read c-novels than to communicate in chinese, though reading itself can theoretically to the latter lol)

I can't really pretend to be an expert on how to learn; I really only know what has been working for me. However I am.... both autistic and unemployed/riding on savings, so what's worked for me to get to where I am has depended on having both a lot of free time and an obsessive ability to focus on a single project for very long periods of time.

Anyway, I started simply, just through a mobile language learning app (I used lingodeer which had been recommended to me, but it costs money and I'm sure duolingo works fine too). Eight months later, I got pretty much through what the app considered to be HSK 3-4 (I doubt that would actually count as HSK 3-4 though) when I spontaneously started a private translation project.

I think translation is a better tool for learning than just trying to passively read the source text, especially in the beginning, partially because it is a lot of work figuring out the meanings of sentences from the definitions of words and some grammar skills, and translation gives you something to show for it at the end--it's a motivating factor. In addition, when you get invested in the translation, you dig a little further, and end up learning more that way.

When I started, I had first run all the characters through yabla's chinese-english dictionary so that I got a 'pre-digested' rundown of words (in that yabla decided on how to break down the string of characters into words/chengyu). However, I think doing it that way ended up making it so I didn't pick up words quite as fast, because I was focusing more on the definitions of the words than the Chinese characters themselves.

To more effectively use translation as a tool for learning, I'd highly recommend going straight from the source text and using the zhongwen extension (works both on chrome and firefox) to highlight characters to see their definition. This method has the benefits of 1) allowing you to see the characters as they are in the sentence, and 2) forcing you to choose whether to look up a word or not, rather than just automatically translating every word.

(In fact, after finishing a first draft of my first translation project, I went back and retranslated/edited the parts I'd done with the 'yabla method' using the 'zhongwen extension method' so it'd all be at the same level of quality)

Another tip I'd recommend for retaining vocabulary is to sound things out to yourself. It’s much easier to remember which characters are which if you remember how they’re pronounced, and eventually you can start to suss out the differences between characters that look the same (“right, that’s 睁 - zhēng, with the eye radical, means to open one’s eyes. and that’s 静 - jìng, with radical 青 (that green/blue/black word), means calm”). The zhongwen extension also gives you characters' pinyin and tones (and given that you've already gotten far enough learning through an app, you ought to be able to know how to pronounce characters correctly given pinyin with tones). The policy I've begun having is to sound out all lines of narration in my head, and sound out all lines of dialogue out loud.

I hadn't really started sounding things out on a regular basis until my current translation project, cuz it really does take a lot of time in the beginning when you hardly know any of the characters in an average line. But it really does make you improve a lot faster, I think. But, if you think it's a drag in the beginning, you could maybe just sound out dialogue, or particularly important lines.

So, the timeline for me was basically, April 2020 I started learning Mandarin through an app. December 2020 I started my first translation project, and I could probably read about 20% of characters in an average line. I finished that project in October 2021, at which point I could probably understand about 70% of characters in an average line. Then in January 2022 I started my current translation project, and by now (about a month away from finishing that project) I can probably understand about 95% of characters in an average line--which is now enough to read the raws at a reasonable pace, just occasionally hovering the zhongwen extension over a word I don't know.

#ask brim #anon #I also won't take up another project after my current one #since now I can read the raws just fine #and I uh #need to find a job and stuff 😓

[mersei47]

How do you feel about the head cannon that Brian semi-accidentally befriended Masky before the MH filming just because Brian would of there for Tim any time he would have an episode bad enough for Masky to come out

wait thats really cute. I think Brian would probably be understandable towards masky and get along with him well too

#marble hornets #mh brim #myart #ask

[habken]

hey! wondering if you had a problem with people posting your stuff on tiktok? saw a comic there and just wanted to make sure you knew.

Yeah I don’t want anyone posting my stuff on there at all, if it’s up there it’s without my permission. If you see anything, you can tag me and I’ll try and get it taken down my username is deliciousquinoa !

#ask #tiktok is filled to the brim with reposters I hate it #worse they never credit me ever

[i-heart-hxh]

Hi again! I've had this thought in terms of hxh meta that I personally have not seen discussed, so I'm gonna dump it here for you! There's an underlying theme I've noticed of characters throughout the series being one that lost their other halves. Like, most obvious, Leorio and Kurapika lost their childhood best friends. Melody lost her friend to the devil's music. We see Nobunaga lose Uvogin, and so on. So Killua saving Gon instead of letting him die after CAA seems to be a "breaking the cycle" so to speak, although I'm not sure what that would even mean! Nothing much to say besides those details I've noticed, but I wanted to know if you had thoughts? Or perhaps it's just an interesting background detail that is up in the air in terms of being significant?

Hello, thank you so much for sending an ask again! I've put some thought into this topic as well, so I'm happy you brought this up! How I'm answering this is both somewhat abstract and far-reaching in the series so it's a little difficult to summarize and express simply, but I hope you and others might get some meaning out of it!

I strongly believe that one of HxH's great overarching themes is the transformational power of love and how it grants people second chances in life. In this post I'm referring to love in a broader sense, not just romantic love, as of course many different types of love are portrayed and have deep importance in HxH. We see the theme of transformative love in so many different relationships and instances that it's difficult to even summarize them--a few examples are Gon and Killua, Meruem and Komugi, Meruem and his Royal Guard, Ging and Kite, Killua and Ikalgo, even in less major character pairs like Ging and Razor (Razor: "Ging taught me it took only one person, one person in the entire world who will trust you, to save you.") and Kite and Koala, but that's only scraping the surface. I reblogged a previous wonderful meta that pointed out the domino effect of Killua's act of kindness towards Ikalgo, which ended up changing the ultimate trajectory of humanity's war against the Chimera Ants. This is a great example of this theme in action!

But of course, while meeting and loving someone can transform that person's whole life, so also can losing someone significant. It can set someone on a completely different life track than they would have been on had they not lost them--Kurapika, Leorio, Senritsu, the Phantom Troupe (especially with their flashback in recent chapters), Gon and Kite, Kacho and Fugetsu (though this hasn't played out all the way yet) come to mind, but there are many more throughout the series as well. Not all of the losses that fit into this are someone losing their other half/most important person, but there's a solid enough percentage that it certainly seems to be a trend Togashi is establishing and exploring.

It's difficult to explore one of these themes in depth and with honesty without the other--love happens, loss of loved ones happens, both are deeply transformative, and both can ultimately be placed under the broader umbrella of the transformative power of love. After all, if losing a person causes someone's entire life path to change, chances are they loved them a great deal and the force behind the change that occurs in their life is the love and grief they still feel after the loss.

HxH has many tragic elements and Togashi certainly doesn't shy away from the heart-wrenching and long-lasting results of loss, but I think it's fair to say from the 400 chapters we have so far that HxH's themes are not ultimately tragic and hopeless on this topic by any means. In HxH:

Death is not always insurmountable, i.e., Kite, the Chimera Ants in general

The life path one ends up on after a major loss need not be a tragic one, i.e. Leorio deciding to be a doctor and help children in poverty as a result of losing his friend

Death in itself can be an act of love, i.e. Meruem and Komugi, Netero and humanity

Even if one ends up on a dark path as a result of loss, that doesn't mean they can't be saved by someone else's love for them, i.e., Gon and Killua, this could also end up being the trajectory for Kurapika and Leorio potentially?

With Gon and Killua, their whole relationship is based on them transforming each other and giving each other second chances:

Gon saving Killua simply by not judging him, befriending him, and showing him another life path

Gon retrieving Killua from the Zoldyck family when Killua's resolve broke down because of Illumi

Killua pulling the needle of out of his head out of sheer love for and desire to protect Gon

And of course Killua not allowing Gon to die, simultaneously saving him and transforming Alluka's life.

(And Killua's ability to save and help Alluka is of course, a direct result of the kindness Gon extended to Killua and the love Killua has for Gon.)

There's no way to know for certain what will happen in their future, but I definitely think their relationship has one more transformation in it at least, in the form of a reunion and reconciliation.

So, in summary, I think these themes of someone losing a person who was their other half and how one continues to live after that are another way of exploring the broader theme of what it means to love someone and be transformed by meeting them, which I see as a primary theme of HxH. I also think some of these relationships are intended to be comparisons to or foils of Gon and Killua's relationship in a sense (especially Kurapika and Pairo and Kacho and Fugetsu, but others as well), expanding on the themes of their relationship and how a love that deep affects people, both in beautiful and in deeply painful ways.

#hxh #hunter x hunter #meta #gon #killua #killugon #gonkillu #kurapika #leorio #my posts #asks #snowlemons #it's hard to figure out what characters to tag haha #definitely not tagging all the ones I referenced in this post #I feel like this could be stated in a clearer and more eloquent way but I hope it makes sense! #if anyone has something to add on please feel free! #HxH is filled to the brim with examples of these and I'm certain I didn't include a bunch of important ones

[quietwingsinthesky]

not to bring up mass effect but that’s one of the most interesting things it ever posited when it came to the idea of organic vs artificial intelligence. a machine, if sentient, knows who created it and why it was created. and a person will never know that. like, even lacking spirituality, even if you ascribe all this to random cause-and-effect, that doesn’t actually get you any closer to understanding why there is a you. but a robot can look their creator in the eye, can read out the whole of its purpose, and know that no matter what it modifies, this is what it was made to be. and what if it was made limited, or flawed, or shackled. there are elements of that a person can relate to, maybe understand, but not all of it, not enough to fathom how different the experience of the world is when you have no questions about your origins.

#also not to talk about mass effect but this is whyyy i love the geth so much. it feels like this would be something you could easily take #in a cold and logical direction because of this whole. lack of questions. #but the geth are so brimming with this sort of. faith. you know? its written into every way they’re referred to. they call the reapers the #old gods. older. we must assume. referring not just to them but to the quarians. #they call splinters of their hivemind that disagree ‘heretics’. legion accepts that name specifically because of its implications. #for a whole game the geth are mindless enemies and then suddenly they’re a *people*. and legion takes the name of a biblical demon. #we’re getting off topic here but its mass effect let me ramble. AI are banned because this fundamental difference in worldview makes them #unpredictable to organic life. makes them dangerous. legion accepts the name of a demon. accepts what the geth are seen as and what they are #and still asks. if they have a soul. they were not made with one in mind. they know this. they know they were not created to have one. #the point of the question isn’t. objectively. do they? the point is. do you consider them to. will you treat them as if they do. #because the flipside of all of this is that you know a robot’s origins too. you know their purpose. so. could you treat something made #this way as if it has a soul. #you know? sorry im getting very pretentious here. i miss mass effect 2 and my littke guys

[imsogayyippee]

if ur still doing drawing requests brim where brian is telling tim how handsome and beautiful tim is and tim just getting flustered to death

yeah. the creatures

#marble hornets #tim wright #brian thomas #brim mh #mh brim #asks