#i have a sideblog about it actually!!

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

You reblogged a dewy spiderweb photoset the other day and commented you made a shawl inspired by that once. Tell us about that, do you have pictures? 👀

I DO ACTUALLY okay so like here's the thing you gotta Understand about me, i get. Intense. about gifts. and when i had my Defining The Relationship conversation with my long-distance then-friend now-datemate (of now over four years!! i love them so much, i'm so happy :D) it happened in february of 2020, so uh. all of our travel plans were pretty immediately kaput due to covid. which meant that i was getting returns on interest on my pent-up first-meeting-in-person, and it had to go SOMEWHERE

so i uh. might. maybe. have gone slightly overboard making them a courting gift, while we waited.

they'd started using spider imagery for me as an endearment after a while of seeing the kinds of stuff i liked to make, so when i found this pattern on ravelry i got a little obsessed with it because doesn't it just vibe like a dewy spiderweb, though??

i had a good couple skeins of this really lovely llama/silk blend yarn (now tragically discontinued, RIP to juniper moon stargazer) that i had intended to use to make a cardigan for someone who ultimately blacklisted herself from my knitworthy-people list, but that's besides the point, because the POINT IS that i found myself staring at the ~1800 yards of it that i had, and the little jars of vintage wooden beads i'd picked up at a flea market ages ago, and uh. look. they didn't NOT remind me of a cute lil jumping spider when i sat them next to each other, is the thing, and the yarn was SO cozy soft, and uh

it turned out B I G

out of all that yardage i literally only had LESS THAN A FOOT left after the bind-off, so i think i pretty successfully won that round of yarn chicken XD

i ended up going even MORE overboard with gifts when i did finally get to meet them in person, because in the meantime i'd made a cedar box with fancy grain matching to put the shawl in and decided THAT wasn't enough so i packed mugs, looseleaf tea, teaspoon measure, animal tea infusers, a family friend's homemade bread, homemade plum chutney, three kinds of cheese (two of which were from the dairy farm i worked at for a year), a cutting board to put all that on, fancy chocolates from the airport, a worksheet with measurements for a sweater to make them later, and a few other odds and ends, along with pillaging the landscaping around the hotel for greenery accents XD

and the funny part is, the way the room was laid out you couldn't immediately see the bed from right inside the doorway, it's around the corner to the left, so when they walked through the door and saw all this and were like "is this your version of a trail of rose petals leading to the bed? XD" i was like "wellllllll,"

"maybe a little bit yeah :3"

and they just cracked up XD

#answered asks by cwaf #procrastiknitting #thank you for asking :DDD i love yelling about my knitting #i have a sideblog about it actually!! #tumblr @dawnthread #i'm gonna reblog this over there too

[machinerot]

#my art #you know he was being a little shit #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #harrykim #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #this is the first drawing ive managed to finish in over a year (we dont talk about the 3 million wips) #so thank you gay people for getting rid of my art block 🫶 i love you #i didnt use a reference though so apologies if the proportions look a bit wonky but GOD i had so much fun making this #ive missed Enjoying doing art. like actually enjoying the process and not just impatiently rushing for the finished piece #like maybe art IS fun.. #crazy. anyways #this sideblog is brand new so i doubt people will even see this but!! if you do then i should have some more DE art on the way :-)

[min-xie]

help i cant stop drawing fem neuvillette

#minxie art #neuvifuri #genshin impact #furina #neuvillette #UGHHHHH I LOVE FURI BUT IM GETTING BRAIN DAMAGE FROM MY OWN DRAWING IF NEUVI #I RLY LOVE TALL WOMEN THAT ARE SOFT ON THE INSIDE BUT SERIOUS AND OR POTENTIALLY SCARY ON THE OUTSIDE #also im rly proud of furi here bc she looks so cute im bleating pathetically #my fave thing about drawing them is making them obsessed with each other #and giving neuvi big milkers lol #am i turning neuv into a bimb0........... LOL idc! #ooc? idc! #no ones winning against her in a yearn off #for context on the bottom left #furi dropped her DL and neuv waited the entire day after work to give it in person #also she bought a new dress and got her hair nails and makeup done bc i said so #sorry im annoying but ive always been like this lol #like if u look at my amaya sideblog it gets worse #i have an alt twt as well but its priv and that is 10 times worse too #also listened to golden hour serafina cover for like 7 hours doing this #i said bottom left but i mean right lmao L #actually i had like 2 endings for this #one is that neuv was a demon the entire time #so she remembers #the other is that neuv turns into a demon but has no memories #but i didnt want to be sad so i just made her remember

[brother-emperors]

Slavery and Roman Literary Culture, Sandra R. Joshel

#i have a small collection of texts on greek & roman slavery in the late republic era and the early empire from doing #a bunch of research for a spartacus comic and this is something that rattles around in my head constantly #i dont have a reading tag bc i have a sideblog for that but hey! what's the point of a blog if not to post on it #anyway! horrific! that one quote from the spartacus documentary. that the worst thing was to 'get used to it.' #there's a previous part in this text about the assimilation of identity and the violence of benevolence etc #(i also had to do a lot of this for the crassus comic and unlocked a new debate about his wealth that keeps me up at night for other reason #like. i need a map. actually i need several maps and a spanish dictionary) #roman slavery tag

[sparring-spirals]

well. i need to yell about it somewhere. listen. Amanda Lehan Canto on newest season of Um Actually. Ify hosting. BDG hosting with Ify!!!!!!! Fucking. WILD.

#this is when i reveal that ive accidentally gone down a DEEPLY gay rabbit hole about the smosh women in my cr hiatus #but also this new season looks SO goood!!!!!! BRIAN AND IFY CO HOSTING. WILDIN. i will miss u trapp and michael but !!! #not cr #dropout #god i need to figure out my dropout tagging on this blog sorry #um actually #brian david gilbert #ify nwadiwe #... #amanda lehan canto #at some point i should maybe make a spread of sideblogs. but that day is not today #also. yes. amanda lehan canto on dropout. god im having an out of body experience at work rn from sheer excitement #im SO thrilled and also so curious what the episode topic is bc. my impression os that damien and amanda's knowledge sets do NOT overlap #v much

[cemeterything]

okay fine i'll read homestuck. whatever. i've cracked i can't take it anymore i need to fuck around and find out.

#🐉 #james reads homestuck #btw i know some people have legitimate objections to it so im fully prepared for that #and im not going to be an idiot and just try to ignore that and bury my head in the sand #but im curious as hell and even if some of it sucks i want to understand why #its such a compelling and beloved story to so many people #and hell i want to actually understand why some of it is Bad (for lack of a better word) #and not just take the word of random internet strangers as objective truth without further investigation #because thats the opposite of using my critical thinking skills #if you think reading media with some shitty stuff in it makes you a Bad Person just by exposure well idk why youre still following me anywa #but yea heres your warning that i will become aware of homestuck if thats something you cant stand #even though the likelihood of me blogging about it is slim #and if i do ill probably like. make a sideblog so people who really dont like it can avoid it. #MAN. okay. sorry for the disclaimer im just worried people are gonna think im an idiot or something and send me condescending asks #or assume the worst about me as a person #because. internet.

[katabay]

The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights, edited with an introduction and notes by Paulo Lemos Horta, translated by Yasmine Seale

#book club tag #you have no idea how fucking hyped i am about this english translation oh my god #also. ngl. if you were excited about emily wilson's translation of the iliad/odyssey. maybe. spread that hype with yasmine seale's #arabian nights. perhaps. it is DEEPLY important from a cultural-language translation aspect esp wrt to the racist and orientalist #translation choices of earlier translations. also if you've never read any of the actual arabian nights tales. consider. reading them #....i might make a side blog just for this kind of thing. a book club side blog. i just got really excited abt this translation and wanted #to share it with all of you!!! #i will make a sideblog later

[medi-bee]

Hey FAM are you still accepting asks if so what's your thoughts on the centi-lizard.

The... centi-lizard? What? I've never heard of... oh, an image. That's—

HOW? No, WHY— WHO would make this? It's obviously not natural! A red lizard and a red centipede? Are you trying to create a monster?? Don't you know that getting too ambitious results in—

...

Only an idiot would have created this. A very gifted idiot.

#FAM asks #fortune amidst misfortune #iterator oc #rain world #I FORGOT TO CHANGE THE ASKS TITLE BACK TO NORMAL LOL #so asks technically aren't open but obviously i'm not gonna turn them down #So I gotta finish one more! maybe ill actually get around to opening the sideblog this time #also i've been looking for an excuse to draw this abomination for a while and this was just too funny #congrats! you managed to scare Fam and Nips! #you seem to have struck a bit of a nerve there :) wonder what that's about.

[cyberp-1-nk]

I thought you were just joking when you said you were obsessed with Homelander. You weren't.

WHY IS IT ALL OVER YOUR REBLOG PAGE? IT'S ALL JUST HOMELANDER. I WAS SCROLLING FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES.

DUDE I'M SORRY - BUT HE'S SO FINE. I'm sick and tired of pretending that I don't wanna squish his man tits, and call him my babygirl. I have to live in a society where I have to pretend like I WOULDN'T allow and tolerate his possessive behavior. I'm tired of pretending that I wanna fix him. I don't. I wanna make him WORSE. I would 100% be his enabler.

"It's us against the world babyboy😫💔🥀🖤⛓️"

#i'm /j but also not /j #these anons are coming for my Homelander obsession and its scary #god what I'd do to have to have him lay on my lap #homelander is hot. #i'm gonna release a fic about him on my sideblog soon #I want that man so bad yall have NO IDEA #i'd probably keep a cow in my HOUSE just to give him the best possible quality of milk. i don't trust them companies. #“well actually raw cow milk is bad🤓-” SHUT UP NOT IF I MAKE IT WITH LOVE #wait technically im not making it #unless.. #i'd literally shapeshift into a cow for him #i'm very downbad #homelander #i just realized that I can legit produce milk on my own 💀 so I wouldn’t even need to shapeshift into a cow wtf #i'm so stupid #i have a job interview today and this is what I'm doing instead. #says a lot about my character #sobs. #hes just so fine #homelander is my babygirl #thank you to the homelander writers on tumblr. you guys are my reason for rolling out of bed in the morning. #i'm being 100% serious btw #anyways #homelander x you #ฅ'ω'ฅ 𝐌𝐫𝐬. 𝐒𝐚𝐱𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭

[dpraved]

a couple of eidens and kuyas from my awful and wretched sketch files

#my art #nu carnival #kuya nu carnival #eiden nu carnival #hi guys sorry i privated all my posts itts because my old art embarrasses me #BUT i do have some. big plans (i dont) for the future (i dont) #i do want to make some more drawings of the things i got into while i was gone (2 years apparently??????????!?!?!?!??!?!?!) #but these are part of my files. my selfship files. so its not really ship stuff but you can decide that for yourself. #anyways. im going away for another 2 years again #BYE 👋 #just kidding #kissing you. #i actually havent been drawing at all lately #just absolutely 0 energy #sorry about that #hope that i can draw again soon #MY GUILD IN NU:C IS CALLED. CAULK. #ISNT THAT AWESOME? i made it myself i just havent had anywhere to say this #besides my other sideblog #what am i talking about #bye

[jicklet]

Beast Boy + Raven episodes → Spellbound

Raven: I know it was all a lie. But he was the only person who ever made me feel like I wasn’t… creepy. And don’t try to tell me I’m not. Beast Boy: Okay. Fine. You’re way creepy. But that doesn’t mean you have to stay locked in your room. You think you’re alone, Raven... but you’re not.

#teen titans #beast boy #raven #teentitansedit #bbrae #spellbound #v posts things #v watches teen titans #bbraeeps #ho boy i cannot be normal about this episode #beast boy being set up as a foil to Raven's love interest #beast boy messing up bad but actually going and apologizing this time #the beast boy vs raven's room of it all #he starts off impatiently trying to get her out of it and then force his way in to try and connect with her #then when malchior literally rips a hole in her room putting her vulnerability out there for all to see #she asks him to leave and he does #and when he comes to her at the end he stays back from her door #and she finally leaves her room and is the one to come to him #im fine it's fine #also on my screencap sideblog I got to The Prophecy and I have Thoughts #about parallels between the end of that ep and this #also they made her a special referee cloak! #that's just adorable #cyborg gains a lot of goodwill in the beginning of the episode to make up for the ending #between calming bb down at the beginning and then the kitchen scene #i like thinking he saw bb about to say something and figured he'd mess up and tried to get him out of it #now raven's ire is directed at cyborg and not bb #okay cyborg you're off the thin ice well done #beast within is supposed to be next but ps has been such a pain lately wish me luck

[ghostsofbuttonhouse]

I actually adore that Mary's backstory episode (Season 4 Episode 2) wasn't focused on her death. I love that she was able to tell the story of her death to the other ghosts, but it wasn't really shown to us.

It's easy, both for us the audience and for the characters to fixate on how the ghosts died, particularly with Mary. Throughout the show, we've seen the other ghosts' eagerness to hear about the witch trial and Mary's unwillingness to talk about it. But in terms of themes about moving on from trauma, it's actually far more powerful that when we did get proper Mary-focused flashbacks, they were mostly about her experiences after her death.

Instead of focusing on how she was demonised and killed, the show showed us how she made a friend and came out of her shell. How she died is only really covered in a short cold open scene, and the witch burning itself isn't shown. And I think that's important, because Mary should not be reduced to how she died. Even after that terrible trauma, she made interpersonal connections, learned things, and grew as a person. She was more than just a person who was accused of being a witch - people are more than the awful things that have happened to them, and the show made an effort to show that.

#BBC ghosts #Mary BBC ghosts #It was important for Mary to feel able to talk about her death #but it wasn't important for us to see it #We can kind of fill in the gaps ourselves #Where they actually went with those flashbacks is far more interesting #Tbh I kinda forgot I had this sideblog #but I've just finished watching series 4 #and I have Thoughts and Feelings about it #I really love Mary and Annie's friendship #BBC ghosts series 4 #BBC ghosts spoilers

[rox-of-iu]

Mu Qingfang lost both his rounds and is now officially out of the side-character poll....... .............. ......... .do not @ me, do not hit me up, I'm logging off forever......there is no winning ever

#not even a crumb of a W for my specialest little guy #troops......how could we let this happen..... #fjhkjdhgkfk #but we did our bestest thank you everyone who fought for the cause 🫡 im giving all of you a kissy 💖💖 #the ones who even reblogged it to enable my shenanigans of the day deserve a medal lol (also some of those tags were the funniest ever hahh #btw just to clarify im not like actually upset its just poll its not that deep lol BUT- my boyyy boohoo hfhjdk #mannnn. we got robbed. robbed I say.. #fine. FINE. YOU HAVE FORCED MY HAND #I WILL BECOME EVEN MORE CRINGE ABOUT MQF #hjfkhdkkfjg #ive got things lined up just you wait. hahha (once i stop being busy) #damn my guy never winning anything i should just make a sideblog with my own poll and its all just different mu qingfangs hfjhkhfkjgk

[marimbles]

the agony of enjoying MULTIPLE THINGS AT ONCE. How do people do it….

#part of me is like. ok is it actually the best move to just have separate sideblogs for every interest #cause I always feel weird and insecure abt being a multifandom blog. For some reason #I’m like aaa I’ll annoy people if I post things they’re not interested in! :( they’ll be disappointed in or frustrated in me! #and then the evil (read:normal) Kermit side of me is like girl it’s not that serious #you are not important enough for ppl to be worked up about your blogging habits lmao #if they’re annoyed they unfollow. swell. neato. #u can trust people to curate their own online experience. It’s not your job to post what they want you just do what you want. on ur own blog #do u follow #Sméagol me: yes ma’am #(I mentally switched to gollum instead of Kermit btw) #gollum me: it’s normal to like more than one thing. good even. and you will go through phases anyway #that’s life silly. You’ll have different moods at different times. and maybe completely different interests in the future #are you gonna make a new blog every time you enjoy something. #your interest are fluid but your identity is rooted in something beyond them. Right #you can just be a person who’s always changing but is also essentially the same. that’s humanity hun. do you understand #Sméagol me: yes #gollum: good #Sméagol: but also what if it’s hard to be friends with someone who has 3–4 interests #gollum: good grief

[coffinsister]

Hi there!

I just wanted to let you know that I'd never heard of Saya no Uta until I saw you talking about it on my dash and I was like hey I'll look into that!! I had no idea what I was getting myself into, and it was definitely an experience. I've only played the route of choosing Saya and choosing to call Ryoko, so I still have to make the other choices to view all of the game's content, but I just wanted to come say thank you for giving me the second controversial piece of media I've been able to consume without my ocd throwing a bitchfit, because the whole story is fascinating from a psychological standpoint and that definitely drew me in.

I just wish the story was a little more 3D, I guess? Like the writing is overly descriptive of things it doesn't need to be descriptive of and underwhelming with the actual voiced dialogue. It's an extremely bizarre contrast. And from what little Japanese I've learn over the years out of SpInterest there are some translation points that aren't entirely accurate.

A big one is the fact that Saya speaks in third person which is a common cutesy mannerism for small children in Japanese media. In fact, she speaks super similarly to Maria Ushiromiya from Umineko ( complete with using 'uu!' for emphasis too ) which caused me to attach quickly to her for it. While it's true that this doesn't translate well into English, it does lose in translation just how young Saya really sounds while speaking. Because in Japanese she's saying things like 'Saya did this for Fuminori because Saya wants to be with Fuminori forever!' and it's getting translated as like 'I did this to make you happy. So you'll stay with me forever, right, Fuminori?' and those are two completely different tones. In fact, it's so overlooked from the English translation that this trope of hers isn't even mentioned on the The Song of Saya tvtropes page and that's wild to me.

Sorry, I didn't meant to turn this into a rant in your inbox asjklhd. Thank you for bringing this intriguing piece of media to my attention. 💖

Hiii, I'm so sorry for taking so long to reply to this ask but it was lovely getting it, so please don't apologize! We love getting long asks, and talking about our interests <3 And I'm really happy me basically screaming into the void about it, got you into it! That's great, that's exactly why I post about the things I like.

This was very interesting to read so thank you for sending it.

Side Thought: TV Troupes actually really really sucks for this kinda thing, it is widely innacurate with big media, and incredibly lacking for small media. So personally, I would not chuck TV Tropes lacking this as much to the (very bad, like super bad) official translation, as much as I would to the site just kinda sucking.

I'm sorry if I sound harsh, the website is fun, like any other wiki is, I just have personal beef against it, do not mind me, old man yells at cloud.

The first route I finished was also the one with Ryouko, and tbh, in my opinion that's the best one, but obviously seeing the other endings gives a lot of extra information, and character depth, so I hope you play through them and enjoy them too.

And yeah, I feel you, I wish it was more 3D and that I could have cared more about the characters, the writing definetly feels too much like purple prose, and way too descriptive about meaningless things sometimes, while also compeltley glazing over others.

Also big big same about the translation, I already posted my long rant about it, but it's really such a shame, because Nitro+ is actually so good at conveying character through dialogue, like actually reading some of the VNs in Japanese is a whole new experience on its own

And exactly as you said, it would have been far easier to understand Saya is a literally preubecent child if the translation had shown how childishly she actually speaks, or another big one, we would have gotten to see more of just how badly Fuminori wants to show off in front of Saya and Yoh, if the translation had actually shown him avoiding being fully honest with Saya.

Like there's so so many moments in Japanese of him just going, Well, about that, you know... to Saya when she's asking him about their plans together, and he's very reluctant to ask her for help, even when he really needs it, until she blatantly offers it, and he takes it.

In the Official English version he literally just goes "Well, the thing, Saya is that I failed to kill Koji, any ideas about that?"

So much character missed there, I feel like also missing the honorifics isn't helpful or good, like Yoh calling Oumi, Oumi-chan makes them feel way way closer, than just college friends who hang out between classes. And it gives you a better sense that they care for each other.

My hot take about translations is that they shouldn't just accomodate to what's most familiar to the target audience, in this case USA people, it should just make the media more accesible. It isn't a failure of art if it is a bit of a struggle to engage with it, it's good to make an effort to try to understand foreign art, even when the way the text is presented, isn't super familiar or relatable to you.

This is basically what everybody who isn't from an English speaking country already does lol

#The first few people I met who had played tcoaal way back in the day got into it from me posting about it on a different sideblog and it #means so much to me to this day I wanna keep sharing what I like so maybe other people will like it too #I apply the same mentality to reblogging art and fics #I have actually never read Umineko I need to get in on that either way it's always lovely to see you around and I'm always up for #chatting about my silly little vns :) #soleil asks #saya no uta #longer answer to long ask

[dayssinceabrandcrossedmarkiplier]

100 days since a brand crossed Markiplier

29/8/23

(Be careful when reading the tags if you're sensitive to, albeit glancing, references to sexual assault/grooming)

#markiplier #someone made a joke about resetting because Mark didn't win a gamer streamy the other night #I skipped watching the award show because I knew Dream would be involved and I refuse to interact with anything that gives him a platform #but when I looked up who beat Markiplier in that category my unease grew #like obviously I'm not going to bring mcyt drama to a markiplier blog #but god it makes me so uncomfortable that a groomer who is 100% unremorseful about his actions was allowed to be a nominee #let alone *win* when genuinely good people who work hard on their channels were in the same category #anyway that's all I'll say about it because this is supposed to be a fun little fandom based sideblog #however I have been on the fence this evening about whether to genuinely go #'fuck the streamys for letting Dream have a chance to win let alone actually walk away with an award' #I'm still undecided and need to check how the winner was picked (I think public vote but wanna be sure) #I'm just mad and disgusted and completely uneasy #either way I wanted to quickly get my thoughts out but now I've delayed the post by 20 minutes by typing so sorry and here you go