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ameliora-j · 4 months
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boxer ron omg 😍
“you’re doin great, rockstar” you whisper to ron as he comes back to the corner. he groans softly as he sits, smiling lazily at you while you squirt some water in his mouth. “looks like it hurts” you whisper, pouting a bit as you put vaseline on the open gash on his forehead.
“i can take it, baby” he winks, puckering his lips softly as his coach tells him what to do in this next round. you smile, leaning down and planting a loving kiss to his lips.
“go be great” you whisper, smoothing his hair back as he stands once more and hits his gloves together.
“for you, baby” he winks, pointing at you as the bell rings and a new round starts.
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greenbergwrites · 2 days
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Steve - I'm not jealous (he totally is) and please
Once upon a time (in 2017), I reblogged that dialogue prompt post for the first time and someone asked for this prompt + Steve meeting Bucky's ex. I started it and never finished it.
MOST of this is from that original post and I just tacked on the ending, finally. Enjoy~
Also, I sort of changed the prompted dialogue a bit? It's along the same vein, just not 100% the same.
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Her name was Ilaria and she was beautiful.
Steve first saw her in glimpses through a crowded street. Bucky hadn’t shown him a picture–hadn’t even described her, beyond mentioning that she was Italian and they’d met because their fathers were business partners once upon a time–but he just knew.
The woman standing outside the restaurant couldn’t be anyone other than Bucky’s ex-girlfriend. She was a tall, full figured woman in sleek heels and a slinking, off-the shoulder dress that hugged her ample curves in all the right places. Unblemished, tawny skin and dark hair coiffed to perfection, she wore gloves as dark as her dress on slender hands and diamond jewelry that would’ve looked gaudy on anyone else but on her, it was elegance itself.
She looked like a model on her way to a gala rather than a woman waiting to have dinner with her ex and his new beau.
The look of cool sophistication so artfully arranging her face melted away the moment she spotted them. Her smoky eyes lit up, a genuine smile stretching blood red lips.
“Oh, cuore mio, there you are,” she said, holding out her hands.
Bucky smiled back at her, taking her hands his own and holding them to his chest. The look he gave her was full of warmth and fondness.
“I haven’t been your cuore in a long time, I’m afraid,” he said, bringing her hands up to kiss her gloved knuckles. “I belong to someone else now.”
Steve had been watching the exchange with a growing sense of unease. He wasn’t prepared to have this woman’s gaze on him, but suddenly, he was the center of her attention.
“Ilaria,” Bucky said, “this is my sweetheart, Steve. Steve, this is Ilaria.”
“Um.” He pasted on a smile that he didn’t truly feel. “Hi? It’s nice to meet you.”
Ilaria turned down his offer of a handshake, pushing it away with a scoff and instead hugging him. It should’ve felt stilted and awkward, but it wasn’t.
“Steve,” she said, a light accent lilting her words. “I have heard so much about you, it is so good to finally meet you!”
She pulled away, but didn’t let go, holding him by the shoulders as he appraised him.
“You are gorgeous,” she said, cupping his cheeks. “My, such an angioletto!”
Steve blushed, ducking his head. He felt anything but when standing next to someone like her.
“Look at this blush.” She touched his cheek, smiling. “I could just eat you. Are you sure you want to be with a grump like James, angioletto? I would bring you home immediately.”
He’s not a grump, Steve wanted to say, but before he could, a big, warm hand pressed into his lower back.
“I’m afraid not,” Bucky interjected, tucking Steve close to him. “This one’s mine.”
Steve melted into the embrace, his entire body warming at the words. He couldn’t stop himself from turning a shy, pleased smile up at Bucky.
She watched it all, a sweet, satisfied smile playing on her lips.
“Yes,” she said. “I can see that.”
In Steve’s eyes, she was perfect. 
It didn’t escape his notice that she was also different from him in every way imaginable.
Dinner was enjoyable. The food was good and there was never a lull in conversation; Ilaria made sure of that. She talked to Steve more than she talked to Bucky, making sure that he never felt left out or excluded. For every story told about her time with Bucky, she asked Steve for one of his own.
It was a careful balance and one maintained solely out of respect for him. He appreciated that, even if this attentiveness made her even more perfect to him. There wasn’t a single thing he didn’t like about her and that made his stomach clench.
He felt clumsy, uninteresting, unworthy in comparison.
How could he ever hope to compete for Bucky’s attention, his affection, against her if she decided to take it back?
But she didn’t. She laughed and talked and although she touched Bucky more than once, her touches never lingered. In fact, she pulled her hand away a little quicker each time, as if realizing what she’d done. Her gaze always went to Steve to make sure he wasn’t upset.
At the end of the night, she hugged Steve again and kissed his cheek, laughing at Bucky’s huff.
“Stop it,” she admonished. “There’s nothing I could do to persuade him into my bed and we both know it.”
But then she did the most surprising thing of all. She turned to Steve, her expression serious.
“I would like to say goodbye to him as I did with you,” she said, gesturing to the spot where she kissed Steve. “May I?”
Steve meant to say yes. But he saw it in his mind’s eye, their embrace. Bucky’s hands on her full hips and her soft lips against his cheek, leaving the memory of them behind in a red imprint. The private smile they’d share, the way they’d look at each other as they remembered their shared history.
It was all a figment of his imagination, but it was a figment that left him feeling sick.
“No,” he blurted out before he could stop himself.
Bucky’s eyebrows shot up, the surprise showing on his face, but not Ilaria. 
Ilaria just smiled knowingly.
“Smart boy,” she said, tapping his nose. “Protect what’s yours.”
The car ride home was quiet. Bucky waited until they were alone and in their bedroom to gather Steve close.
“I’m going to ask you something,” he said, trailing fingers along Steve’s spine. “And I want you to be honest with me.”
Steve nodded.
“Were you jealous of Ilaria?”
Steve bit his lip. 
“No,” he said haltingly. “Not–not jealous.”
He didn’t think that was the right word, at least, even if the right word evaded him.
“Then what?”
His gaze dropped to where his hands rested on Bucky’s chest.
“Was it–was it better with her? Were you…happier?”
“No.”
The answer was immediate, but it wasn’t dismissive. That one word held a weight that said not only was Bucky taking the question seriously, he was answering with the same gravity that Steve had asked the question.
“No, sweetheart,” Bucky repeated. He cupped the back of Steve’s head, bringing him forward to press a soft, lingering kiss to his forehead. “Never.”
He kissed Steve again, before pulling back to look him in the face.
“You have to understand, Ilaria and I were kids when we met,” he said. “And we were barely out of our teens when we dated. But by then, we had both figured out that we liked certain things in the bedroom, and our tastes were too similar to be compatible with each other. She wasn't kidding when she said she'd love to take you home."
He smiled, playfully nipping at Steve's jaw.
"You," he said, "are catnip for the right kind of person."
Steve blushed for the millionth time that night, but this time didn't feel like a failing. He petted the lapel of Bucky's jacket.
"What happened? Between you two?"
Bucky shrugged.
"We tried it for a few months and then decided we were going to ruin a perfectly good friendship if we kept going. Neither of us wanted that, so we broke up. She was never going to be my forever. And she wasn’t ‘the one that got away,’ if that’s what you’re thinking, either.”
Steve hesitated, but he couldn’t stop himself from asking, “Is there a one that got away?”
Bucky gave him a look.
“Not unless you plan on running away from me any time soon."
He leaned down, kissing Steve so tenderly that it was suddenly hard to breathe.
“You are my forever,” he murmured. “You're the only one I've ever thought about that way. The only one I've ever loved like this."
Their lips brushed in another aching kiss.
"God, I love you, sweetheart. I love you in ways I didn’t think were possible. I need you in ways I didn’t know I could. No one compares to you, not even a little. I don’t want you ever worrying about that.”
“I–I don’t,” Steve whispered breathlessly. He really didn’t, not usually. It was just– “She’s just so perfect.”
Bucky laughed lowly.
“I have the stories and the pictures to prove otherwise,” he said, nipping at Steve’s lips. “But first…I think my baby needs to be reminded how much he means to me. What do you think?”
Steve shuddered, his head falling back as Bucky sucked at his throat.
“Yes,” he breathed. “Please.”
“Mmmm, that’s what I thought.”
Bucky bent, hoisting Steve into his arms. 
“C’mon, gorgeous, let’s go to bed.”
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sweetlics · 1 year
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seresinhangmanjake · 3 months
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Happy Holidays! 🎄
As a tiny Christmas gift, I thought it would be fun to post a teeny bit of dialogue from a Jake Seresin drabble that was a request from months ago, and it's moodboard 🎁
Anyone wanna guess which series it goes with? 🤭 (J: Jake; R: reader)
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Jake "Hangman" Seresin x fem!reader
J: “Well, what do you think we should name this little man? We never decided.”
R: “We weren't given enough time. He came too early.”
J: “I don't think one week before your due date qualifies as too early. Let's be real, Honey, we were slacking from indecisiveness.”
R: “We could let our daughter decide.”
J: “Now wait a minute, Honey. Think about what you're saying. I love you and I love our daughter, but do you really want to risk our son being named something like, I don't know, Meeko? You know she loves that weird raccoon from 'Pocahontas'.”
R: “Oh, she wouldn't do that.”
J: “Did you just meet her? She absolutely would! So get ready for Meeko Seresin.”
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A/N: for your peace of mind, he will not be named Meeko
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bnhaobservation · 4 months
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Keeping up with the Todorokis or, just me observing the Todorokis in the various volumes: Volume 3
So this is nothing else but a collection of information, volume by volume, about what the Todorokis do in the story or which info are revealed about them and so on.
PREMISE
WHO ARE THE TODOROKIS STARRING IN THE VOLUME?
Todoroki Enji: Chap 24 to 25 (mentioned only, although he appears in the anime transposition)
Todoroki Shōto: Chap 18 to 26
WHICH ARE THE CHAPTERS IN THE VOLUME AND ARE THE TODOROKIS SHOWN IN THEM?
018. Heroes' Counterattack (逆襲のヒーローズ Gyakushū no HEROES) Shōto
019. All Might (オールマイト ALL MIGHT) Shōto
020. The World of Pros (プロの世界 PRO no Sekai) Shōto
021. In Each of Our Hearts (各々の胸に Onōno no Mune ni) Shōto
022. That's the Idea, Ochaco (そういうことね お茶子さん Sō iu Koto ne Ochako-san) Shōto
023. Roaring Sports Festival (うなれ体育祭 Unare Taiikusai) Shōto
024. Mad Dash and Knockdown (駆け上がれ蹴落として Kakeagare Keotoshite) Enji (Mentioned) - Shōto
025. In Their Own Quirky Ways (みんな個性的でいいね Minna Kosei-teki de Īne) Enji (Mentioned) - Shōto
026. Chase Down the Leader (立て追われる身 Tate Owareru Mi) Shōto
ALL THIS IN WHICH ANIME EPISODES IS TRANSPOSED?
012 All Might (オールマイト ALL MIGHT) Shōto
013 In Each of Our Hearts (各々の胸に Onōno no Mune ni) Shōto
014 That's the Idea, Ochaco (そういうことね お茶子さん Sō iu koto ne Ochako-san) Enji (Fantasy), Shōto
015 Roaring Sports Festival (うなれ体育祭, Unare Taiikusai) Enji (Mentioned), Shōto
016 In Their Own Quirky Ways (みんな個性的でいいね, Min'na Kosei-teki de Īne) Enji (Mentioned), Shōto
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE VOLUME?
CONTINUING FROM PREVIOUS VOLUME
U.S.J. ARC (Chap 12-21): Shōto, along with Bakugō and Kirishima, reaches where All Might is and help him fight the Nomu and Kurogiri, Shōto partially freezing the Nomu with a control of his ice (he managed to freeze the Nomu but didn’t freeze All Might despite the latter being close) that positively impress All Might.
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He however tells them to keep out of the fight. Shōto though, points out how things would have been troublesome without his help and All Might agrees...
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...but then beats up the Nomu, impressing Shōto, who agrees they’re not at ready for the level All Might is fighting at and suggest they’ll go help others. As the other teachers reach the place Shigaraki and Kurogiri leaves. The police witness that Shōto is among the unharmed kids and Shōto discover Hagakure was in his same area so, when he used his ice, he could have frozen her.
U.A. SPORT FESTIVAL ARC (Chap 22-44): The day after classes are cancelled. The day after it, Aizawa is back at school and informs Shōto’s class they’ve to prepare for U.A sport festival. At lunch Shōto overhear Īda and Uraraka saying All Might called Midoriya and Īda pointing out how Midoriya has similar super strength to All Might while Uraraka suggests All Might could have taken a liking to him.
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Two weeks after, just before the start of the sport festival, Shōto approaches Midoriya pointing out how he’s stronger and more capable than him. Then he claims All Might got his eyes on Midoriya so he’s going to beat him.
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‘Midoriya’ 「緑谷」 “Midoriya.”
‘Todoroki-kun… Nani?’ 「轟くん…… 何?」 “Todoroki-kun… What is it?”
‘Kyakkanteki ni mite mo, jitsuryoku wa ore no hō ga ue da to omou’ 「客観的に見ても 実力は俺の方が上だと思う」 “Even looking at it objectively, I think I have better ability, above yours.”
‘E! ? U~tsuun…’ 「へ!?うっうん…」 “Eh!? Uhu…”
‘Omae ALL MIGHT ni meekake rare teru yona.’ 「おまえオールマイトに目ぇかけられてるよな」 “You're being watched by All Might, isn’t that right.”
‘!!’ 「!! 」 “!!”
‘Betsuni soko sensaku suru tsumori ha nē ga…’ 「別にそこ詮索するつもりはねえが…」 “I don’t particularly want to pry into that but…” ‘Omae ni wa katsu zo’ 「おまえには勝つぞ」 “I'll beat you.” [Chap 23]
I didn’t transcribe the whole dialogue but Shōto’s way to talk contrast with Midoriya, who’s much more polite.
For start Midoriya refers to him as ‘Todoroki-kun’ where Shōto goes just for ‘Midoriya’.
Even if we don’t see it here, to say “I” Shōto uses ‘ore’ (おれ/俺), the tough, masculine, kind of rude way to say “I”, while Midoriya uses ‘boku’ (ぼく/僕), which is more humble, and to say “you” Shōto uses ‘omae’ (おまえ/お前) which either expresses the speaker's higher status, or a very casual relationship among peers where Midoriya goes for ‘kimi’ (きみ/君) which is the polite way to say you.
So Shōto is less polite than Midoriya and his words are clearly not nice, however he’s not super rude either. This will change later so I thought to point it out here.
Kaminari is impressed by how ‘the strongest of the class’ (aka Shōto) made a declaration of war to Midoriya and when Kirishima tells Shōto he shouldn’t pick a fight now, Shōto replies it’s okay since they aren’t pretending to be friends, here.
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‘Nakayoshi-gokko janēnda nandatte iitaro’ 「仲良しごっこじゃねえんだ何だって良いたろ」 “That’s not like we are playing close friends, so it’s okay.” [Chap 23]
Midoriya agrees Shōto is stronger but claims he won’t fall behind.
The first event at the sport festival at which Shōto takes place is the "Obstacle Course Race" (障害物競争 'Shōgai Butsu Kyōsō'). Shōto freezes the legs of the one next and ahead of him and becomes the "leader" (先頭 'Sentō'). He then faces the robots which were used during the entrance exam, freezing them so that they won’t be able to move and he’ll manage to get through… but he froze them in such an unstable position they’ll fall on whoever else will try to pass. Shōto still comments he wished U.A. had prepared something better as his "shitty old man" (クソ親父 'KUSO Oyaji'), aka Todoroki Enji, is watching.
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Shōto, keeping the lead, then easily passes the second barrier, tailed by Bakugō, whom he notices is all fired up and wonders if Bakugō is a slow starter. Meanwhile the public is impressed by Shōto due to his Quirk and to how he’s athletic and perceptive. When they realize he’s the son of Hero Number Two, Endeavor (aka Enji) they find normal he’s so strong and assume the Pro will fight to have him as their sidekick.
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Once Shōto reaches the minefield he understands it’s an obstacle made to put in disadvantage who’s leading. At the same time Bakugō reaches him, claiming he made his war declaration to the wrong guy, surpassing Shōto. The two fight for first place when Midoriya surpasses them. In order to get first place again, Shōto makes an ice path, aware it’ll help the others too, suspending his battle with Bakugō so that they both can chase after Midoriya who however manages to keep the lead and get first place in the race while Shōto is second.
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Next up is the "Cavalry battle" (騎馬戦 'Kibasen'). MORE ABOUT THIS ARC IN THE NEXT VOLUME
All in all Shōto keeps on being fleshed out more and more, so that we get how an awesome aspiring Hero he is in terms of abilities and in terms of Quirk power but also of ability to judge situations… but we also view also how cold and competitive he can be, as well as how he is aware of his own abilities. Plus we are introduced to how he’s the son of Number Two, Endeavor, but also it’s hinted how it doesn’t seem there’s good blood between him and his father.
HOW ARE THE TODOROKIS DRESSED?
Todoroki Shōto is shown in his first Hero costume, in his school uniform and in his gym suit.
IS THERE MORE CONTENT ABOUT THE TODOROKIS?
Todoroki Shōto is among the students depicted on the cover.
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Of course he's also among the characters depicted among the ones starring in the volume.
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In the anime, in episode 14, when Aizawa says by taking part to the U.A. sport festival they might end up noticed by Heroes, they show an image of Endeavor.
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waitmyturtles · 1 year
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TL;DR: My analysis of the quiet tone of the Cherry Magic movie -- the overarching theme of the movie was the development of family between Adachi and Kurosawa. 
Well, I’ve turned this space temporarily into a Cherry Magic hovel, a kind of messy sanctuary, really, maybe a cave full of hoarded passing thoughts, rising and cresting emotions, lots of SIIIIGGGHHS, at least two and a half re-watches of the movie, many reblogs, plummeting away my phone battery on consuming more and more gifsets. I regret not being here on Tumblr for the original series, but I feel like I’m more than making up for it by doing all I can to contribute to the dialogue around the movie, which I want to continue doing, meta-style!
Two things have cropped up in my reads of reviews here and on Twitter, one about the tone of the movie, and the other about the pace of growth between Adachi and Kurosawa. I think the first point goes into the second, so here we go:
I’ve seen a lot of comments about how the movie was quieter than the series. I reblogged a quick statement on quiet Japanese BLs earlier this weekend, and I also learned a bit about what the OG CM fandom hoped for with the original series way back when, when there were rumors of a real kiss for the final episode, and how the fandom was slightly let down. 
I think there’s an interesting dichotomy between heat and quiet in the kind of Japanese BLs I tend towards. If you read this space, y’all know my top three -- CM, Kinou Nani Tabeta, and Old Fashion Cupcake -- generally trend toward the quiet, with the slight exception of OFC, which turns up the heat in a panicked moment of revelation.
As I thought about this point, I asked myself -- why the draw towards quiet development and/or contemplation?
For me, all three of these dramas, especially KNT, center on family -- actively creating family, dealing with existing family, and/or managing expectations of creating a future family. 
If you’re Asian, as I am, the thinking on and managing of family issues is, in my opinion, the dominant issue that you spend the majority of your life dealing with. That’s not to say that in Western lifetimes, less time is spent on family issues. What I mean to say is that family issues, I would argue, take up more of your brain space and your sense of morality and ethical engagement in humanity if you’re an Asian, as opposed to the manifest destiny of the West. When I was right out of college, for instance, and rolling with a majority white hipster crew at that moment, my friends would comment on how I’d visit my family’s house once a month. That was tooooo much for them. And they’d legit tell me -- you care too much about your family, you need to separate yourself from them.
These are surface-scratching statements, and if you’re Asian, I know you’ll immediately guffaw at how ridiculous and impossible it would be to even BEGIN contemplating how to “separate yourself” from your family. It’s taken me a LOT of my old lady years to even come to grips with the fact that I needed to live an independent life away from the expectations of my family. And for hundreds of millions of people in our Asian cultures, those Western notions of “separation” and “independence” simply don’t exist. You can cohabitate, be co-dependent on, be enabled by your family, and that is just fine. Family is the structure that gives meaning to the lives of many Asians, without question. 
So to say that the movie tends towards the quiet, I think, possibly bypasses what I think is a major point that the movie is trying to make, both in a cultural arc and in the actual storyline: We are seeing Adachi and Kurosawa making a family together, THEIR family together. 
IMHO, the king of family-oriented BLs was KNT. Both Yoshinaga Fumi, the mangaka behind KNT, and Adachi Naoko, KNT’s screenwriter, deliberately gilded the KNT script with the tadaima and okaeri greetings that you hear when someone comes home at the end of the day. That set-up was meant to indicate that Shiro-san and Kenji considered themselves family to each other -- because, you might be saying tadaima to your parents when you’re a child, or your spouse as an adult. 
The clues to Adachi’s thinking about family are apparent. There’s the moment where he gives advice to his chief about the chief’s complaining wife. There’s the moment in the office when Rokakku and Fujisaki are talking about their lives, the very moment in their lives where they are single but happy at work and with friends. There’s the moment when Adachi picks up the mail and sees his name and Kurosawa’s name, while coming home. 
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And of course, the gorgeous moment in the kitchen when Adachi states his desire for a public and permanently committed relationship with Kurosawa. 
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Adachi is creating his new family in that moment. 
I want to tie this together with a comment I read on Twitter about how Adachi’s personal growth matched Kurosawa breaking down his walls of perfection, and how he originally projected his perfectionist nature on their relationship. We remember in the series Kurosawa being ULTRA cute in the office after Adachi’s original confession, saying he was going to create the best first date ever; and then all the practice dates they had; and all the planning that went into the Christmas date. 
Those walls began breaking down a little bit in the last episode of the series, and we saw that even more as the movie began, when we realized that they had not, indeed, bonked, as we thought they had, on Christmas Eve. When Adachi’s hunger interrupted their potential love sesh, Kurosawa was like, WEEEEELLLL, through gritted teeth -- I’ll still be patient for Adachi. 
That’s life. But as I originally wrote in my first review of the movie, what I didn’t expect to see in the film was that the movie would be utterly dominated by Adachi’s internal growth INTO the relationship, and how that ultimately steadied Kurosawa to be okay to be weak in front of Adachi, and in his own (Kurosawa’s) life. We know this is a HUGE DEAL, a HUUUUGE DEAL for Kurosawa. He mentions it in the essay he writes for Adachi’s family. He states it as a major point of being devoted to Adachi to his (Kurosawa’s) mother. Breaking down his walls is a major life moment for Kurosawa -- and it would not have happened without Adachi becoming his family.
Because -- family, often, is about rejiggering and redefining one’s boundaries, and creating new ones with the people you’ve chosen. If you’ve chosen well, and right, like our boys did, then your partner gives you the strength to do this major lifting.
AND: where else do we see these boundaries being rejiggered, besides between Adachi and Kurosawa themselves?
We see them in the family scenes. I think that the movie devoted a LOT of time to the family scenes says a lot about what I said earlier about Asian cultures.
I swear to jebus that I nearly had multiple heart attacks during the family scenes. Besides Kurosawa’s mom’s very apparent sadness and confusion, Adachi’s mom had me at moments, even though she outed herself as a fujoshi, basically, lol, when Kurosawa showed up. Why the heart attacks?
These confronting kinds of conversations to family about things like marriage -- I mean, I don’t know if I have the words to describe HOW MOTHERFUCKING HUGE THESE CONVERSATIONS CAN BE FOR MANY ASIANS. Like -- these conversations can be the culmination of a lifetime. They can destroy you. Y’all, if I wrote about what happened to me when my family learned I was dating my husband (in a cishetero relationship, peeps! Interracial and interfaith, yes, but otherwise, not really rocking the boat here!), I probably wouldn’t finish writing without breaking down in tears for an hour. It was horrible. My family couldn’t handle the growth, simply put. 
This Asian family dynamic that an individual’s original nuclear family unit carries SO MUCH WEIGHT IN THEIR APPROVAL OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO -- I emphasize here that this theme was major in the movie. The movie NEEDED to spend time on this in order to achieve Adachi’s dream of permanence with Kurosawa. Adachi NEEDED to tell Kurosawa that he (Adachi) would be present in front of Kurosawa’s parents -- because Adachi KNEW that Kurosawa would NEED Adachi there, because of how BIG that BIG CONVERSATION would be. I’m talking BIG, here, BIG. And I believe that the movie’s OG Japanese audience understands this very implicitly and very, very deeply.
Adachi NEEDED to grow into himself -- he needed to lose his magic, his crutch -- and needed to FIND himself to be the strength and pillar that Kurosawa would need to face his family. I want to take this point, make it into a Cherry Magic teddy bear, brand it with Gelato Pique, and place it on a mantle. 
In order to face their families, our guys needed to become family. And that’s why I think the movie tended towards the quiet -- because THAT kind of growth takes a lot of internal work that comes out in the quiet moments of intimacy with the people you’ve chosen and you love. 
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So I’m not the biggest expert on this stuff but, considering the type of job Gadget has, the implication that he’s Penny’s guardian due to her parents being deceased, being a cyborg and all the hijinks that come with that and everything else, I wonder if they’d have a social worker like how Lilo and Nani had Cobra Bubbles checking in on their situation to make sure Nani could properly take care of Lilo after their parents died.
It could explore how keeping Gagdet safe and their overall situation has an affect on Penny. How it affects her at school, her home life, how it affects her relationships with others, how it affects her psychologically, etc.
Not to mention considering how Brain’s been put in danger as he’s usually the one keeping a close eye on Gadget and often mistaken as a threat by him, they might be concerned if he could even take care of Brain, concerned not just for Penny’s welfare but his as well. Especially since Brain’s one of the closest Penny’s to, besides Gadget and the negative affects it could have on her if something bad happened to him too.
I can imagine this would be a HUGE stress for Inspector gadget, fearing the idea of not being enough for them and losing the only family he has left. This could also make him have to acknowledge his own limitations and how what happened to him has affected his life and the ones he’s closest to, in both positive and negative ways. Imagine if it was revealed to the grownups including the worker about how Penny and Brain have been secretly helping Gadget on his missions, their lives being endangered a lot of the time in the process.
Based on Lilo & Stitch dialogue
Gadget-Please don’t take her! Penny needs me!
Social Worker-Is THIS what she NEEDS!? It seems clear to me that you need her a lot more than she needs you!
Gadget-…
What do u think? Anything you’d want to see be explored more? I’d love to know💖
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When you're doing translations, are there parts of Japanese that are actually easy for you to port over to English? You've talked about some of the difficult expressions you've dealt with, but I was curious if you actually power through portions of it.
Interesting question!! I don't know if you could say I'm powering through anything since English isn't my first language haha. I'm always googling prepositions and some random grammar points. In subbing, the bits I like translating the most are casual/intimate conversations. I think I'm pretty okay at landing an emotional punch??? That kind of dialogue gets translated pretty fast. My least favourite bit is anything technical. Betweent you and me, I actually don't like translating the recipes in Kinou nani tabeta haha.
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Komui's Lounge: Vol. 28 (Part 4/4)
>> Part 1
>> Part 2
>> Part 3
Q16: I would like to know if Hoshino-sensei ever felt super hyped while drawing a scene?
Hoshino: Lavi’s “Infinite Flame!! (火加減無し!!)” scene (vol.13)
(T/N: Lavi vs Road battle, below)
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Lavi: Whoa! Hoshino just popped outta nowhere!
Allen: Goes to show we’re already screwed in regards to the word count, I guess.
Hoshino: If you know, then watch it!
Reever: She was also pretty hyped during Krory’s “I don’t need no coffin” scene, as well (Vol.11). (T/N: Krory vs Jasdevi battle. Thanks @looniecartooni for the raw!)
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Q17: So Jasdevi has been called “monster” before?
Lenalee: Krory did mention them when we had a tea party some time ago. “Those Noah twins and I, we’re similar, so I have this feeling we’d meet again someday,” he said. I guess he must have been thinking what you’re thinking at some point.
Lavi: They’re weirdly simple-minded for their age. I guess it’s possible they’re nursing a wound in their heart.
Q18: Are there ever instances where a new accommodator eventually appeared for the Innocence shards of exorcists who died in the line of duty?
Reever: Yeah. Loads of them, in fact. Next!
Lavi: That was quick!
Allen: Mr. Reever, are they that strict about the word count limit this time?
Reever: The designer’s already at their limit from the looks of it, Allen. Whether we get to do this Lounge again next volume could depend on this!
Q19: Does Fo consume human food?
Allen: Fo doesn’t eat anything. That’s what I’ve heard back at the Asian Branch.
Lavi: Aaah, the Asian Branch’s Guardian Deity system is so interesting, really. Even Bookmen of old regarded the Chang Clan as a subject requiring special attention. Any clues on why they had their guardian deity take the form of a young lady?
Allen and Lenalee: Eh? No.
Kanda: …Didn’t Branch Head Bak’s great-grandfather who created the Guardian Deity system have it take the form of his late daughter?
Lavi: Wait, so Yu knew!
Reever: Who have you heard that from, Kanda?
Kanda: Alma said so.
Q20: A question for Allen-kun! If Kanda and General Cross were drowning in a river and you could save only one, whom would you save?
Reever: Al~righty!! Let’s wrap it up with this question.
Lavi: Welp, can’t be helped!! Welp, can’t be helped!! (T/N: Try reading it with a rhythm XD)
Allen: There must have been a better one in there! Come on!
Lenalee: Looks like Ms. Hoshino’s so nervous about the word count, she’s on the verge of a panic attack…(sweating). Let’s make do with this one for her, okay?
Kanda: If she’s gonna panic that much, then don’t do this Lounge thing, then.
Allen: No can do, huh…Or rather, these two don’t look like they’d ever find themselves drowning, seriously! Erm...Let’s see…I’ll save Master.
Lavi: And your reason behind that?!
Allen: Because Master could’ve been squirreling away the secret stash I’ve been saving!
Reever: Aaaaand we’re done! Thank you so much for being with us today! Now break it up! Chop chop! (Two big handclaps)
Lenalee: Would be nice if we managed to scrape a pass on the word count this time.
Allen: Which I reckon…we probably didn’t…
Lavi: Gave it our best shot, though……Alas, poor Hoshino……
Closing T/N:
Aaaand that’s it! Thank you so much for all your comments and tags. I had so much fun reading them.
@shashaspeaks The original Japanese dialogue for Allen cussing is the following:
ラビてめぇこの野郎なに口走ってんだよコラァ(ドス声)
(Rabi temee kono yarou nani kuchi hashitten dayo koraa//threatening voice).
It’s written with no punctuation, likely indicating he said it all in one breath XD.
//Don’t even get me started on Lenalee’s records gaaaaah what’s up now, Hoshino-sensei?!!
@candy-crackpot Again, thanks for the raws! Also super happy someone got my sneaky ATLA reference XD.
//Don’t worry, I know Komurin’s weakness is at the nape.
//Nah I think Cross is fascinated by the heartbeat of living beings precisely because he doesn’t have one. /ooooohh I think General Tiedoll would have approved of that burn.
//Highest Sci. Div. turnover rate prolly during Akuma Egg arc /oof!
@sauvechouris Yeah, I’m confused about the “kids OK but lovers NO-K” thing too. Like aren’t kids supposed to be even harder to leave behind, idk? LOL poor Bookman’s children, must have been one hell of a Daddy’s Issue for you all. Anyway, Past!Allen is Bookman’s kid headcanon anyone lmao?
@metiredlr YAAAAAAS MILF LINK
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the og dialogue is “nan desu?” “nani ga?” “nani te nani ga?”
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eddie would 100% be the type of guy to finger you while making out
your back is pressed against eddie’s bed, both your hands being held over your head by his one larger one as his mouth envelopes your’s, his tongue going on an adventure between your teeth. “eddie” you moan softly, grinding your hips up against his.
“hush babydoll” he chuckles, pushing your cheerleading skirt up and grazing his fingers over your clothed core. you whine quietly, bucking more into his hand as he presses open-mouthed kisses and small nibbles down your neck, “lest you want your pretty little jock boyfriend to find out all about our friday nights in my rv” he smirks.
you shake your head quickly, mouth ajar and ready to beg and plead for his mercy. however, all the words quickly die on your tongue as he plunges his middle two fingers deep into your core, curving his fingers up immediately to hit your g-spot. “oh god eddie fuck” you whine, tilting your hips closer to him.
he quickly shuts you up, pressing his lips back to your’s and shoving his tongue in your mouth. he’s making you dizzy with pleasure, your head sinking deep into a submissive swirl that jason never brought you to, yet eddie on the other hand never failed to. within seconds eddie had you like putty in his hand, writhing against his bed and begging and pleading for him to allow you to fall over that glorious edge.
“y’know what t’say when y’wanna cum” he murmurs teasingly, smirking down at you as he continues ti press his fingers against your g-spot, his thumb coming to stroke roughly against your clit.
“daddy please!” you whine loudly.
“daddy please!” he coos mockingly, smirking down at you. “you know what to say, babydoll c’mon.” he mumbles softly. “don’ be a fuckin brat.” he grunts.
“please daddy. let me cum please” you whimper “i belong to you. my body is your’s to corrupt and do as you wish with. i’m your’s and only your’s. nobody makes me feel as good as you don nobody ever will” you babble nonsensically “please i’ll do anything! let me cum!” you sob out.
“soak my hand pretty cheerleader” he smirks, pressing his lips to your’s again. and cum you do, soaking his hand in your release as your eyes roll back into your head and you let out repeated whimpers of his name. “good girl” he smirks, pressing a kiss to your head.
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Hi, about your translation nitpicking, i was always wondering what does is exactly said in the moment when buggy falls into the sea after eating the fruit.
“You’re supposed to be a great swimmer”
Usual interpretation is its truth and it adds angst to the moment, he just lost the thing he’s been good at, maybe better than shanks. But when I first read it I understood it as buggy was bragging about it before. He isn’t that amazing, but he told everyone he actually is. I know it’s small detail but I do wonder about buggy relationship with the sea.
hm. well, i don’t think digging into the original text vs translation is going to clarify too much here, this sounds like a point of personal interpretation. but i shall make an attempt!
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chapter 19, page 18!
the line of interest here, in the original japanese, is:
「おい お前 何やってんだ 泳ぎは得意だろ⁉︎」 oi, omae, nani yattenda, oyogi wa tokui daro!? “hey, you, what are you doing, aren’t you supposed to be good at swimming!?” (literally: “swimming is your specialty, right!?”)
so both the translation and the original dialogue could support your claim, but… i feel like a ship full of pirates would have noticed if buggy wasn’t as good a swimmer as he said he was? it seems an easily investigated claim, and like something that would have come up before this moment.
i think the plausibility of your theory is determined not by the precise wording of the dialogue but by how long buggy had been with this crew. and unfortunately that is something we simply do not know at this point.
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hey, i love your blog!! i read your translation of kubo's episode 9 commentary and it made me curious about something: during the scene where yuuri asks viktor to please take care of him until retires, both the subs and the dub on crunchyroll translate the line as "be my coach until i retire" instead. do you have any idea why this might be? i'm not fluent in japanese but even i'm pretty sure yuuri isn't saying anything about being his coach in the japanese dialogue, and kubo's commentary makes it very clear that she meant to have yuuri ask viktor to take care of him. it just seems like such a strange mistake to make, and especially to have it that way on both the dub and the japanese subbed version.
Helloo! Thank you for the ask! I'm glad you enjoy my translations! ✨
That dialogue goes like this:
Victor: 勇利、コーチとして 俺— これから何ができるか考えてたんだ。Yuuri, koochi toshite ore... Kore kara nani ga dekiru ka kangaetetanda. Yuuri, I've been thinking... about what I can do [for you] from now on, as a coach.
Yuuri: 僕も考えてた。引退まで 僕のこと— お願いします! Boku mo kangaeteta. Intai made boku no koto... Onegaishimasu. I've been thinking too. Until I retire... Please take care of me.
Victor: フッ… プロポーズみたいだね。Fuu... Puropoozu mitai da ne. Hum, [it sounds] just like a marriage proposal, doesn't it.
So you're right, Yuuri doesn't say "as a coach", so if we talk about accurate translations, it was unnecessary to add that.
Looking at the whole dialogue, you can sort of see, where that came from - Victor starts by "as a coach", so the translator probably decided to stay in that context.
In the context of the whole scene though, what Victor says sounds like Yuuri is proposing to him, is this "~made boku no koto, onegaishimasu", "Please, take good care of me until~", and also how serious and determined Yuuri is when he says that line. How this line really sounded like to Victor, only Sayo and Mitsurou know, but it's pretty clear that Yuuri didn't mean to propose and it's more "I want to enjoy my time with you as long as I can" sort of message.
With that sub/dub translation however, Victor's "marriage proposal" line doesn't make sense, or it turns it into more "by marriage, I mean we are always going to be coach and student" like dialogue. In Jp, on the other hand, the simple "Please, take good care of me", "Is it a marriage proposal?" exchange without specifying what they really mean, makes the whole dialogue really "representative" of their relationship - as a viewer you simply don't know for sure when they mean their professional relationship, when they mean they private relationship and when they mean both at the same time. It's exactly the same with "Let's end this" line in ep. 12. We just eavesdrop on their private conversations, so we naturally don't know what's going on to a certain degree 😂
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Hehe I was thinking about this translation a bit more taking a shower, lol ✨✨✨
The gist of that "as a coach" translation is most likely that the translator understood Yuuri's "I've been thinking too" as "I've been thinking about the same thing, what you can do for me as my coach in the future, too. Please, take care of me until I retire!". It's certainly a valid interpretation of Yuuri's line.
I personally understood the "I've been thinking too" as "I've been thinking too [about us from now on]", because that is what we see Yuuri is thinking about during his FS, during kiss&cry with Yakov, and before Yuri gives him pirozhki, that is: whether he is going to retire and when etc. - e.g., he says in his monologue, still in Moscow, that he is going to retire after GPF, no matter what. He then clearly wanted to talk with Victor about it ("There is so much I want to tell Victor. What I should start with?"), but in the end, the only answer he managed to give to him is "take care of me until I retire", and not "I'm going to retire after GPF", so for me this line was always about Yuuri focusing on "being with Victor as long as he can" (in his opinion), instead of the (in his opinion) inevitable moment when he will need to let him go.
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Things I would have "modified" if I were an IPKKND writer. Not change but Modify. Part-2
1. Stars don't have their own light. No, scientist Singh Raizada.
Mr. Raizada might be Haward educated, but he is wrong when it comes to science. Stars have their own light. I will omit this dialogue for sure.
2. Khushi's OG family, OG surname and inheritance.
Not much is revealed about her history. I would like to imagine that Khushi kept her OG surname Gupta. Because, if she was the daughter of Garima's sister, then she is bound to have a different surname. Because, according to the show, Sashi has no blood relations with Khushi.
Scenario 1:
Khushi's OG name is Khushi Kumari Gupta and Sashi's family has the surname Sharma/Yadav/Mishra/Shukla etc.
Scenario 2:
Khushi's OG surname is actually something else, but her document name is Khushi Kumari Gupta. Sashi gave her his name. (But I really don't think it suits Khushi to give up on her OG name and OG parents' identity).
Inheritance:
Khushi should have some material assets from her parents. Like a piece of land or some property. In the show we only saw her getting silver Anklets and Gold Jhumkas.
It would have been so interesting that Khushi ended up selling some of her assets or land to revive Sashi's sweet Shop. So touching...
3. Khushi and Arnav's education.
Please, make her a graduate at least. Please! She can't be a bachelor in Jalebi. Her husband is a Haward Business School, Boston educated businessman. Khushi ought to be at least a graduate!
4. She was 19 to Arnav's 26.
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Like many fans, I as well can't digest her artificial aging.
My version:
Khushi would start the show at 19. Would have a birthday a month or two before getting married to Rakshas Singh Raizada, so that she turns 20. By 21 she enters Mrs. India contest. That will make sense.
*Note: Khushi's age might have been increased in a ridiculous fashion, but her dialogues and character remained that of an 18 years old. Nani ji has mentioned twice that "Khusi bitiya apan umar ki ladkiyon se kahi zada samajhdar Rahi"
It should be kept that way. Khushi is young, idealistic, overdramatic, hyperactive, fun and bubbly like young girls tend to be. Her tantrums can only be justified by her being young and energetic. She can be irrational because she lacks the experience of life. Her decisions can be flawed, because she is too young for everything that happened to her.
Yes buaji forced a 19 years old to marry a man she barely knows. Buaji had an orthodox mentality, we must remember, she said in episode 2 that "Dahej lena to haq hai ladkewalo ka"
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I read ch 1 of DM and my god you took your sweet time because its LONG!!
If am not wrong the story happens before the kraang invasion and leo - YET AGAIN - try to escape the leader responsibility, i know the DM is 4 chapters but that makes me more worried about little leo's faith and how this would effect him, will he even start leading at 16?!
Am fighting to know HOW the two switch places/timelines? Could it be that the two leos opened the portals at the same time so it somehow clashes?
Back to the chapter, i had crazy fun reading Leonardo's part since raph kept saying " LEO IS OLD!! " and am over here laughing, i wasn't surprise when leo forgot where draxum lives because as Donnie said " a decade had passed " and if he's late 20s which could be idk... 28... 29 then it's been 12 - 13 years.
Leo enter the apartment for draxum to protect himself by a fork... A MF FORK AM WEAK!! 🤣
Then after they calm down and leo giving them 5 questions to ask and mikey & Donnie mess it up - as usual/hj - I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN RAPH SMACK DONNIE WITH THE BUNNY SLIPPER XDD COMPLETE ASIAN MOM BEHAVIOR!!!
That until leo answers the 4th question and the chapter ends there... It makes me think the kids could save the 5th question until before leo leave back to his timeline, maybe asks what causes the future to be like this?
All in all, i never thought i would love DM from the beginning because am not good with angst, i subbed to the story, put kudo on it already so i won't mess any new updates out!!
Thank you Nani!!
Listen. Distorted Mirror used to be planned as a 20k~ oneshot. That’s it. But with those first POVs I already knew I was greatly underestimating my need to write. And I thought I could salvage it as a oneshot by plotting out exactly what I wanted and what I could exclude. But then I hated it as the oneshot it became.
So I erased a good amount, rearranged some scenes/dialogue and replotted the outline and here we are. I still need to fill in the pieces from the oneshot used to be for the upcoming chapters hehe
Anyways~
Yes, Leo’s timeline takes place after the shredder fight (after season 2) and Leonardo’s timeline takes place 10 years after the krang invaded. I think I’m going off of someone’s calculations of Leo being 17 sometime after s2, so Leonardo is 27!
About the switcheroo, we’ll just have to wait for the specifics but you’re close!
Everybody laugh at the old guy! /aff (Leonardo is only a few years older than me…) but this is seriously doing some heavy mental damage on Raph’s sanity being face to face with a Leo that’s a decade older lol
Draxum is a firm believer of anything can be a weapon and he will defend himself with anything at hand. If the closest object is a fork, then so be it. /hj
Hahah the bunny slipper! No cute slippers were harmed in the making of this fic
The fifth question, let’s be honest, they’re not going to use it wisely hahah!
I’m trying to lay off the heavy angst for Distorted Mirror and try to match the tone of the movie and the show, so I’m trying to keep it lighthearted to some extent (minus the future timeline I don’t think I can make it all too light seeing how it’s so dark)
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