#but also i have portuguese friends

[https-furina]

Te desafio a traduzir essa ask >:3

okay so i’m lowkey cackling because i speak español (obviously i know this isn’t) but i know that traduzir is translate because it’s traducir in español JAJAJA <3

#so shockingly i didn’t actually need help translating that #i used my heckin big brain !! #but also i have portuguese friends #and doesn’t brazil speak a variation of portuguese? 😌 #LOOK I’M BEING SO SMART TODAY #someone be proud ): #— 🎟️ vega #the archon’s disciples 💙 #> entry to the opera epiclese ✉️ #https-furina

[leafeonb]

whenever i remember dungeon meshi ended and there's no new chapter to wait for on the next month it's so ooouhhh

#lulu.txt #its good that it ended that was a nice journey i had fun 👍 but also wowww i have been following it since like #2021 i think... it must be so crazy for people who were following it since the start #the other day i found the oneshot it had before it started it was translated only in brazilian portuguese though #but it was still fun :-) izutsumi was there #i think i will reread soon... i wish there was an official brazilian release so i could rec it for my friends who dont like #reading stuff digitally and prefer physical books... #im looking forward the extra stuff that is coming for dm in the future 🤸 #i forgot about the animation... well *goes back to forgetting about it*

[acutenobody]

Congrats Tumblr, you are the first to know. I might be non binary!

But I'm not sure yet 😂

#but idk bc still only use she/her #i don't like the they/them portuguese version #and i also like my name so I'm not changing #and i know there's no right way to be non binary but idk #i still feel like I'm too feminine to be non binary #even if my friends tell me I'm not feminine #but that's bc they're dumb and think thay to be a girl you have to wear dresses and skirts and wear makeup and jewelry #yeah #idk #personal #nonbinary #non binary #pride #coming out

[47-protons]

fighting for my life on duolingo i finished first place last week with like 400 XP and I went to the next league. they put me in one with more active people because of it.

i’m clinging to second place haggard and covered in blood behind someone who. when i checked like 3 hours ago they had 1100 something. I’ve just checked. they are now at 1557. I have 586. I am clinging here by my fingertips. I will not be moved. next week will probably be hell on earth but by god i am stubborn this week and i will Not Be Moved. i won’t get first but i can damn well try to outrun the guy in third.

#when i took spanish in highschool i struggled endlessly it was so fucking hard dude. i use the same account still. #my top three languages rn are norwegian with 6844. portuguese in a WEEK with 992. and SPANISH THAT I TOOK IN AN ACTUAL FUCKING CLASS #WITH 260 #i am motivated on two fronts 1.) mr bit of the cell variety is going to make me chew through drywall number 2.) i have a FRIEND #who is ALSO learning it!! and like HAS BEEN?? i got a notification about an OBSIDIAN leauge what the hell is THAT??? #i am so so so proud of myself though like i'm finally to the point where like when duolingo goes 'youve gotten this wrong' I can go OH #and i KNOW WHY

[divorcetual]

Ohhh should I learn portuguese or indonesian next .......

#long long goal bcs im still just beginning japanese lolz #but still.... I have many reasons for both #I have friends who speak both... portuguese wld be easier bcs I already know spanish #but indo has an easier verb system so only vocab would be my main problem..... #indo is also a new language family which can help jf I want to learn other austronesian languages .......

[waugh-bao]

*

#just got an email from my advisor #telling me that I got a summer fellowship I applied for #from one of the british studies centre that runs out of our university #so it’s official! i’m spending half the summer in london (and hopefully also the south of france for a week)! #doing research and working on the second year project that’s going to be a test case for my dissertation #this is amazing #not only the travel but having named fellowships and successful grant writing on my CV is a big deal #now I just have to wait until Wednesday #to see if the jewish studies center will accept my grant proposal for a month of intensive Portuguese at the University of Lisbon (and work #in the state archives there) #the best part of this #is that #(if I also get approved for that) #I’ll be able to fly to Taiwan for the two weeks in between the end of my research stay in London and the start of my course in Lisbon #and see my best friend in person for the first time in 2 years #I’m dying to know for sure so I can tell her #me stuff #not the stones #ngl I’m also just excited to be in London again #my little LSE alumna heart hates being gone for too long

[mollymarymarie]

Last Line

tagged by @theresthesnitch thanks babe! 😘

this is more like a last paragraph, but i wanted to have a whole little story here

“And maybe it was the memory of those nights in Brazil, maybe it was the fact that he finally had someone that could take him back to those nights, someone who could appreciate feijoada and caipirinha and Los Hermanos and maybe even José de Alcencar, despite his hatred of classic literature. Whatever it was, Sirius found himself saying, “Yeah,” with a soft and careful smile. “I’d like that.” Before Remus could see the silly little sentimental tears in his eyes, he swept past him and out the faculty lounge.”

#tag game! #last line of my wip #the one where they are rival academic professors #and remus is brazilian #but sirius ALSO lived in brazil for a time #so they both speak portuguese #oh i am looking so forward to writing more of this fic #listening to a lot of los hermanos and lagum to get in the mood to write lol #my husband supplies all my music #but hit me up with more please if you know some!! #i know some of my friends/followers are brazilian 👀👀and have some good recs #also feel free to play this tag game anyone who wants to

[liliran]

today i learned a new word in my own native language and was instantly reminded of that post about the word 'defenestration'

adejar (v.), flap your wings to fly, float; take little flights without a definite direction, hover

#portuguese language #sometimes i'm reminded we have oddly specific words #and that's the beauty of a languagw #also i learned it through a poem written by a friend #he said he likes to see the seagulls flying 😭 #i miss him so so much he's been away for too long #good for him to be out on an exchange program but PLEASE COME BACK I MISS YOUR HUGS AND POETRY

[sunnybergamota]

Reading my own posts like heheh she’s so funny

#self love 💕 🥰✨💕✨ #bergi gabble #thank god none of my vent posts appear on my recommended posts #we can’t have people thinking I have feelings #also I’ve been posting so much in Portuguese lately like wtf #15yo me wouldn’t believe #it’s so nice that I found br friends on here <3 beijos meus amores

[mistninja]

Being and immigrant really fucked up my social skills. That and the pandemic have really affected my ability to make friends, i feel like i havent been able to connect deeply with anyone in 5 years

#personal #all my friends are somewhere else #my venezuelan friends arent even in venezuela anymore most of them also left the country and its like #i have no home to go back to where my friends are #then i moved cities so now my friends in manaus are also away #i cant hang out with my two best friends one is in costa rica the other is 6h away #and my uni friends are nice but i cant seem to get close to them #i used to always naturally been part of a group i never had to like. earn a place inside the circle #but now is like im on the margins of every group of friends #ugh #also the language barrier is still a thing like 5 years here and i still stumble and its so embarrasing #insert the modern family woman saying 'you guys dont know how smart im in spanish' #like i know i sound dumb. #my tongue still isnt used to some portuguese sounds and i have a thick accent and everyone always mentions it #and i have to repeat myself or take time to find the words #its hard getting close to people when half the time you cant even express yourself and sometimes i just dont get what they mean #sorry. i needed to vent #im feeling a bit lonely

[papirouge]

This is such a dumb question lol but what are French men like? 😂 😅 handsome? Rude?

Back when I was young and thought I had to socialize with people I didn't even like that much, I went to this girl place to have an apéro. She invited 2 of her male friends. At that time I had these phone strap in the shape of donut, and they were also soft to liken the real texture of donuts. A minutes in of chatting, one of the dude caught interest in my donut strap. He then proceeded to put his index inside the hole of the donut and started to make awkward back and forth before telling me, literally staring me with a creep expression on his face -still moving his fingers back and forth- "this is the same feeling as inside a girl's vagina...."

French boys for yah.

#YES THIS IS A GENERALIZATION I KNOW #not every of my male acquaintance are that weird and disgusting #but French can be THAT ratchet so be prepared #there's also this weird jerky attitude towards them but I guess for foreign women it can be attractive 🥴 #my male friends aren't White so they totally don't have the same attitude #that's why they're my friends lol #one is Chinese the other is Portuguese so both culture don't allow such outward perversity lol #answered #personal #*french BOYS can be THAT ratchet

[traitorsinsalem]

old people are so cool i love old people. cooking for old people and having meals with them is the coolest also.

#succ speaks #thinking abt my neighbor who died a few months ago she was a nice old portuguese lady who lived in a house that she and her husband built #once she made stuffed quahogs for us as a surprise gift so we cooked a whole ass feast to have w her and her son #also one of my parents' friends whose grandsons i've been friends with since we were little #i'm always scared to cook for her tho bc she runs a restaurant LOL like i could never beat the food her husband makes i wouldn't even try #she's like 70 and both of her parents are alive in their late 90s and she jokes 'my people live forever' (she's japanese) but like no fr HOW #<- so she's not even that old she just has old person vibes. i don't think someone is actually old until they hit their 80s #neighbors tho my most recent old neighbor was this widowed guy who let me call my dad when i got locked out of the house skateboarding #and we also took each other's barrels to the front door and i'd bring his newspaper to his doorstep #he also gave me his dead wife's copy of the complete works of shakespeare??? hardcover with gilded pages and shit????? #but yeah cooking for and eating with old people is so cool and fun

[roaringroa]

oficially diagnosed with adhd babeyyyyyyy

#this is so funny to me cause if you asked me a year ago if i thought i had adhd i would confidently have said no #but then in the middle of a therapy session i could almost see the imaginary lamp over my therapist's head turn on #and she said you know what? i think you should investigate if you have adhd #and i was a little skeptical about it but i mentioned it to my parents and they were like hold on... she's right #and then on the same week i was hanging out with a newly made friend and outta nowhere she stopped me and asked if i had adhd #so i was like welp... maybe i do #and then i made a psychiatrist appointment who sent me to a neuropsychologist to take multiple tests involving logical thinking memory #attention span etc etc #i did very high on logical thinking but the attention part was low and the memory part was average #which means i can't pay attention well but the moments that i do i retain and can understand well #it explains a lot cause i had literally no trouble with school like i was top5 students in my school up until 9th grade cause we didn't have #to do any long term studying or projects or whatever #but then in high school when things got more complicated and i HAD to pay attention to understand concepts things got much harder #i couldn't just logic my way out of exams anymore and also i had way more classes #like when i had afternoon classes (two times a week) i literally just gave up cause i knew i couldn't pay attention #but i mean i still passed every class with no final exams or anything but i went from a 90% student to a 65% one #(except in humanities i love you humanities) #and then i got into college and the pandemic hit and online classes were absolutely awful like it was truly bad for me #i was a portuguese major for a year and a half and i honest to god don't remember 5% of what i was supposed to know #again i did well on my tests and stuff i had a 88% average but like #that was solely from panicking pre due dates and crying and doing the little reading i absolutely had to do 10 hours before the exam was due #and then immediately forgetting everything the second i hit send #i think there were maybe 5 ocasions during the whole year and a half where i was able to actually pay attention during an online class #most of the time i tried for like 3 minutes and gave up #and it really made me sad cause i thought i was just a lazy ass throwing my college experience away #which made me extra upset cause i was studying in like basically the best college in the country #and it's a public one so the people were paying for my studies only for me to throw it all away?? #anyway it was a tough time for me mentally and this diagnosis makes me feel so relieved #like when i can't pay attention it's because of the way my brian opperates and not my character #my post

[marivenah]

you know i gotta do it

How do their friends and family feel about them as a couple?

What was their first kiss like?

What nicknames do they call each other?

Who hogs the blankets or takes up more than their fair share of the bed? Who puts their cold feet on the other? Who is the big and the little spoon?

for paloma x sam? 😳

Thank you Cam 💕 I'm definitely way too excited to work on them, so I decided to answer at least these few questions! I shouldn't, but I'll do it anyways

PRE-RELATIONSHIP

7. How do their friends and family feel about them as a couple?

Paloma's sister adores Sam, she thinks he's funny and a good company. She really wants to keep him around as her (hopefully soon-to-be) brother-in-law. Her mother thinks Sam is a good-for-nothing, not very fond of him. Her brother doesn't like him either. And her father doesn't like Americans in general. Overall, Sam will have such a great time here :)

Nathan and Elena both like Paloma. Nate and Paloma know each other since they were younger and they already became good friends back then. He was sometimes third-wheeling when Palo and Sam were meeting and actually intended to spend time alone with each other. She didn't mind though. As for Elena, she likes Paloma a little more than Sam, but don't tell him that, he doesn't need to know.

GEN

3. What was their first kiss like?

If things are going to work out as I've planned so far, then you could say it was a teeny tiny bit awkward? They were each other's first kiss, so simply inexperienced. It was a small, chaste kiss. It was cute, I give them that.

LOVE

11. What nicknames do they call each other?

So, Paloma originally wanted Sam to call her Palo, like her friends do. However, he instead opted for Paca and sometimes even Paquita (thanks to her sister). Other nicknames include Honey and Sweetheart.

Paloma usually calls him "gordi", sometimes "amor". She also refers to him as big guy every now and then.

DOMESTIC

11. Who hogs the blankets or takes up more than their fair share of the bed? Who puts their cold feet on the other? Who is the big and the little spoon?

Sam takes up like two-thirds of the bed. But, to his luck, Paloma is very clingy while sleeping, so she's always close to him anyways. This means, hogging the blanket is not an issue for them. His chest serves as a second pillow to her.

Sam is usually the big spoon. Though, due to Palo's clingy nature, she also gets to be the big spoon sometimes.

#thank you!! <3 #oc: paloma garcía #paloma x sam #x: where i want to stay #I studied his wiki page a little to answer these properly #from what I've gathered he doesn't speak spanish only portuguese #which is good for palo she can call him things and he wouldn't even know what they mean 😈 #also they might be childhood friends if it works out #they'd have quite the journey from friends to lovers to enemies to lovers #sorry that the first answer is so short I don't know the characters that well yet 😭 #also her nickname comes from her second name francisca!

[lycoris-squagmigera]

Going to Alternatively use this blog as a place to gently set Some of my thoughts on the server and or language that I don't want on my main purely bc a friend in question knows my main and I do Not want an argument godbless (< she made One comment back in like July and it's lived in my head ever since and I Desperately want to evict it)

#it wouldnt have been weird to go say hello to the folks from brazil. i feel this in my heart. it probably would have been okay. #but NOPE 'if theyre not speaking in english they probably dont want to be talked to' like????? no?????? #if i was w a bunch of my friends and we were in fuckin. germany. i wouldnt be speakinf in german w my friends itd be inefficient #this friend also has been Weird abt. any time i say something in the Autism channel. for infodumping. if i say it in English and then put #the same thing down in portuguese. bc i think it is a useful exercise for how to actually Use the language. but No thats Bad too apparently. #tw/itter user.

[magicalmanhattanproject]

Okay, so with Quackity Studios tweeting about adding new people and the need for tolerance and patience with people who don't speak English, let's just take a second and have a chat about what that's gonna look like.

First: you will hear things or read things on the translator that hurt or offend you.

This is inevitable. Do not immediately post about it. What you need tolerance for is hearing things that hurt or offend you and what you need patience for is figuring out of malicious intent was present or if this is a hill worth dying on right now.

As an example, we're pretty sure at this point that Korean is gonna be the next language added. The second person pronoun in Korean sounds a lot like the n-word in English. The n-word in English, if you're not aware, is like the single most offensive slur we have. It's not something that you want to hear unexpectedly. But also, if we get Koreans, they're gonna be using the word for "you" and English speakers are gonna have to be able to tolerate that.

On the other side of things, Korean has a complex system of honorifics and addressing someone without an honorific would be considered very forward and intimate at least if not very rude. None of the QSMP languages have honorifics though and only French really retains formality* so no one else is going to address them with honorifics unless they specifically explain it to people and walk them through it. That will probably be weird and uncomfortable for them and they're going to have to be able to tolerate that.

*Spanish and Portuguese do technically have formal vs informal but it's disappearing quickly in both of them.

These natural cultural clashes and pain points are going to be harder to overcome since we also know that at least some of these creators won't speak English at all so they can't just switch to English to helpfully explain things to us easily in a way we understand. We're going to have to deal.

So here's the thing: just because there can be cultural miscommunications and mistranslations, that doesn't mean that people can't also be assholes. How do you distinguish between the two?

Step One: Assume good faith. Assume that everyone in a given encounter is trying to communicate respectfully and compassionately and that a failure to do so can be overcome

Step Two: Don't get involved. Especially not in Twitch Chat. Two or more people trying to communicate through a language barrier does not get easier when they're also trying to wrangle hostile viewers.

Step Three: Are you sure you heard what you thought you heard or saw what you thought you saw? Did the translator fuck up? Is it a word that just coincidentally happens to sound like another word? If this is the case, the streamers can ask for clarification or use another tool and get it cleared up. Keep watching and see if they do.

Step Four: If they did say what you thought they said, are the streamers handling it? We had a thing a while back where Bad called some friends, including Bagi and Etoiles, uncultured because they didn't get a reference he was making and Etoiles was like "bro I'm French" and Bad apologized. That should have been the end of it, but I had to see people arguing about it for weeks. The problem was solved in 10 seconds.

Step Five: If the person is doubling down, are you sure this is something you can fix by yelling about it on Twitter or Tumblr? Would it be better to let people who actually know them talk to them behind the scenes? Pierre made a few missteps in the beginning of the server, Quackity said they had a chat, Pierre hasn't misstepped since. It's just easier to sort things out in private, one on one conversation than yelling at someone in public.

In short: it's fine to take note of behavior in case patterns start to emerge in it, but yelling on social media about how so and so is the worst person possible is not constructive.

#sorrelposting #qsmp