#on our school accounts

[caccry]

Happy OFMD-eve to all who celebrate

#LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS I KNOCKED IT OUT IN LIKE 3 HOURS #KINDA A GOD????? #i'm so excited for the next season i'm literally losing it over here #and the ed in a dress thing has been haunting me recently so I had to do somethign about it #kinda mad that i won't be able to watch it until the late evening tomorrow bc of school but i'm coping #ANYWAY YAYAYAYYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO EXCIGTED #caccry art #digital art #digital illustration #also sorry for being so incredibly inactive on this account i kinda forget about it #but i also don't do much fanart these days so i don't really have a reason to post here yknow #ANHYWAY #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd fanart #blackbeard

[ravs6709]

imagine this being your bathroom

PLEASE even when I was like SUPER into sokeefe this could not be me

#wait fun fact: when i was in middle school my friends and i. during class time. went through the entire page #and we. downloaded all the project images and saved them into a google drive folder on our school account #i cant remember if any of us ever moved it to a personal email or if all of them have been deleted along with my school email #but either way. something was deeply wrong with us #kotlc #astra's asks #roisin

[clonerightsagenda]

The thing about college AUs is that they often focus on students and fail to realize that at many higher education institutions the employees are this close to breaking out into open warfare. A W359 college AU where they are students would not work. A W359 college AU where they all work at a community college and still want to kill each other the same amount would be entirely believable.

#the Hephaestus has powerful community college energies #run down underfunded held together with spit and prayers #people assume everyone there is secondrate and couldn't do any better for themselves #then they get acquired by a for profit and when the shiny Urania Institute people come swanking in #they're like hands off our garbage #the only reason the fma college au was low on faculty drama was bc i thought of most of it while in grad school #now I am on faculty and god. I thought grad student drama was bad #I mean tbf grad students are often teetering on the cliff's edge a bit more but still #one time they upcycled our computers (not replaced them. we got slightly newer used ones) #and they had to go back and install internet explorer bc a loadbearing part of our accounting system requires it #i work at the Hephaestus station of colleges #Hilbert is still doing horrific experimentation but in a lab that's not even as high quality as the local high school's #wolf 359

[foe-of-fate]

NEED HELP FROM TUMBLR

I lost a fanfic 🥲

It was a BBC Sherlock high school AU where Sherlock and his family come to America for his moms work and he meets a young John Watson, who is a star football player and currently dating Mary. It takes place in the South, John comes out, his mother is homophobic and his father gets run over by a tractor, they live on a farm and John goes into the military at the end of it. Molly is Sherlock’s friend and a great ally, and Moriarty questions his sexuality. The title is either the name of a song or song lyrics.

If anyone knows this fic or the author please help me out. RB to spread.

#seriously I love this fic so much #I read it before I made an #ao3 #account though so I don’t have it saved #it was so good though #please help #ao3 works #archive of our own #bbc Sherlock #Sherlock Holmes #John Watson #Johnlock #Sherlock x John #teen Sherlock #school au #sherlock fic #sherlock holmes fic #bbc sherlock fic

[more-thxn-him]

In response to a student-led petition at the university of michigan to divest from israel and acknowledge genocide around the world, Hillel has started an organized and funded attempt to stifle it. Within days, Hillel at UMich raised over $46,000 dollars from 84 anonymous donors, making the average contribution over $550.

If this petition fails, a new one will come, then another, then another. They have money but we have time, and their money will run out before our time does.

#hi guys sorry i died i dont use this account very often #but shit has been heating up at my school and man. #free palestine #pro palestine #palestine #university of michigan #umich #umichigan #umich hockey #umich wolverines #umich boys #umich imagine #umich blurbs #umich smut #umich fic #umich x reader #umich lb #umich football #WHAT THE FUCK IS UMICH SMUT?????? #anyways sorry im spamming all our school’s tags

[thresholdbb]

My P+ subscription just renewed, which means I have been on this Star Trek high for exactly a year now

#I really said 2023 is gonna be ALL ABOUT STAR TREK and it was!! #the Trek obsession went dormant then came back with a vengeance like November of last year #I went through an intense tng phase in grad school #looking back on the year I wouldn’t have it any other way #I got p+ and proceeded to speed run tng and ds9 #I savored voyager and when it was over we started our Sisyphean delta quadrant journey #somewhere in my mixed up brain I KNEW voyager would be a problem and I avoided it #I have been ruined for other media #LISTEN Picard isn’t the best show but it was precisely why I wanted to catch up #still have yet to finish tos tas ent and dis for shame #also it was half price last year I cry for my continually dwindling bank account #I am actually very grateful because I was lonelier and more miserable before I started engaging in fandom now I am slightly less so #plus going to stlv and making/doing cosplay for the first time a whole experience! #if we’ve interacted this year (and you read my tags) hi I love you #if we haven’t hi I am intense but love talking to equally obsessed mutuals #also lol at meeting the actors Garrett wang taking a picture of me and Picardo being like uhhh ok when I talked to him #jin maley and Michelle Hurd are absolutely lovely #terry ferrell was very very sweet and I shared an elevator (and hand injury story) with Casey Biggs #and I bumped into Rom his-real-last-name-is-hard-to-spell #and marina sirtis called me love I cry #hilarious but also so cringe what is my life #also thanks to Star Trek for the paradigm shifting very likely autism suspicion that I’m gonna seriously pursue in 2024 #ok I love you bye #melts into oblivion

[castielsupernatural]

asking bc where i live there’s an instagram account everybody in the city knows about and follows from the students i used to mentor to the ceo at my new company and people just submit videos and things happening around town to them and they usually “break the news” with a more insider angle than our news stations do or they’ll repost stuff from our local news and that’s the first place people see it

#sorry this is a weird poll i won’t be offended if no one votes im just thinking #it’s the weirdest media symbiotic relationship i’ve ever seen and i’ve always wondered if it’s one of a kind #a girl i went to college with did a couple years of high school in my city and when i told her i was moving there the first thing she told #me was to follow this account. it boggles my mind #i would argue it’s the best place to get local news from in our town and that’s insane

[white-poppie]

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#i am so drained and overworked right now #I am running on 5 hours of sleep for the past month #newspaper lauch work of co editor in chief #working on our cultural fest with house competition #piling academics #portfolio building #Projects #running our school's editorial board's instagram account #doing editing for our school instead of our digital editor #writing my novel #keeoing up with tumblr ffs #runnin g my instagram account #all upon that I have such a bad throat infection #white poppie talks

[pregnantsecondo]

Talking to my sibling. I don't remember when exactly I started getting on Tumblr but she just told me that she remembers talking about it with me in 2014 so ig that's when I first started being on Tumblr.

#its funny she said 'donald trump was in 2016 but i remember being in high school and talking about tumblr with you' #she wasn't in high school in 2016 so our theory is that i was on it before then #i wish i could find my old account idek what i did on it 💀

[radio-to-trenchcoat-demons]

(Spoilers incoming for anyone who didn’t watch 5 and 6 of Hazbin Hotel)

so I watched the newest episodes of hazbin hotel….

I F-CKING KNEW THAT VAGGIE WAS AN EXTERMINATOR SINCE THE PLIOT AIRED

But no, my irl friends were like “she can’t be one, you can’t just call it because Of HeR eYe bEiNg A “X” or because she has a similar looking spear like the angels” = this is why I hate ppl /j

The only things that caught me off guard was how brutally they ripped her wings off like dang-; how Alastor cursed out Lucifer (I didn’t know the man had it in him) and was trying to steal Charlie away from her dad; and how my boi Angel Dust finally gave the middle finger to Valentino

On another random note, I took SO many screenshots of Alastor bullying Lucifer, Vaggie WITH short hair (a masterpiece), Angel and Nifty, and the bois eating popcorn :]

-Ender

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#al was here! #hector estaba aqui! #proceed with caution at my blog #ask #moot moot #endie moot #sorry i dont have much imput bc i havent really watched it much #i was watching it on my friends amazon account but our wifi at school is shitty #so ive resorted to watching this dude react to it but he clips the footage weird to where i cant see bits of it :[

[doctorwhoisadhd]

tbh us education system needs a massive overhaul. need to be at least 2-3 teachers in every classroom and way more funding. like teachers literally do not have room to take days off in this country and its a huge contributor to burnout and lets be real every single kind of problem schools have.

#ari opinion hour #if there was more than one teacher in the room it would significantly help with accountability AND any paras would have an easier time too #more hands = more and better learning etc #teachers cant be late to school or even anything its. Not great #like you cant choose your hours you cant choose anything #literally just hiring more teachers having more teachers per classroom and paying teachers more would go a huge amount of the way towards #fixing many of the problems with our education system. Not EVERY problem but quite a fair amount of them i think

[crunchworldsupreme]

Bookmarks: More Useful Than You Think (FireFox Edition)

RSS feeds are great, but more often than not I don't really want to subscribe to a website, just save the link. This is where bookmarks come in. You're probably already using them for some things, but I tend to see bookmarks treated as messy and impractical.

This is only as true as you make it! There are really great built in tools that allow bookmarks to be organized and easy to access. Better yet, they don't impact performance! You can have a ridiculous amount of bookmarks. This is basic stuff, but I've seen a lot of people not know it's there so:

If your bookmarks look like a digital landfill and you want them to look like this ⬇

You're probably used to navigating bookmarks like this, or directly from your toolbar. It works, but it's annoying.

There's a whole bookmarks sidebar built into FireFox for a cleaner, more useful interface!

This guy! Opens and closes with the click of an icon. If you don't already have it, add it like this:

Just drag it wherever you want it on your toolbar. (And change anything else you want while you're in there.)

Now that you can open the sidebar, you can start organizing your bookmarks however you like. It's as easy as managing files on your computer. Right click for new folder then drag and drop bb.

Folder before and after organizing. Took about 30 seconds.

If the sidebar isn't ~advanced~ enough for you, you'll be pleased to know there's a whole other UI you can access for even easier editing.

0o0 !! love this thing. You'll notice the bookmark I highlighted has a vague ass title. Directory of what? You can quickly edit titles and tags here to make them easier to navigate. The name and the url are separate, so you can title them however you want. You can also export(backup) bookmarks to an html or json file that you store locally. Something you should do every once in a while just in case. It means you can also share these with other people, or transfer between different browsers.

You can also edit bookmarks on the fly by just right clicking them.

Why complain about the lack of resources on the internet when you can start hoarding them in a clean and orderly fashion?

#I actually started doing this because of work lmao #there's tons of shit I need immediate access to all the time and I work in 3 different departments #so my shit needs to be really organized #also our account syncing is trash so backing up bookmarks is useful #idk if anyone wants it but I will not be sharing my bookmark file #at least not my personal one #I'd have to go through it and take out all my work and school shit etc etc #but the point is like. It's easy to make your own Epic Bookmark File if you just bm as you go #get in the habit and you'll thank yourself later #crunchcore #crunch world #reddit blackout #reddit boycott #firefox #nerd shit #there will not be a chrome edition I don't use chrome and I'm not going to

[fairyhaos]

im CRYING i can't remember the password to my school email and i NEED it to look at the work ive been set to complete over the summer 😭😭

#yena talks #sobbing and typing in combinations of svt member names mixed with special characters and numbers #ive locked myself out btw #also my school has prevented us from resetting our passwords ourselves 😭 #which like. i kinda get it if they wanna monitor our accounts but STILL

[skydigiblogs]

back on my bullshit (thinking about translation theory in the context of my silly little monster cartoons <3)

(this ended up so so fucking long so i put it under a read more lmao)

specifically thinking about it in the context of like a handful of world/postcolonial lit courses we took and some anth courses

what i mean by that is like

when it comes to just literature there are already so many things that have to be taken into account for translation! let's say you're taking a poem. in its native language, that poem has a sound, a rhythm, a way of communicating that a lot of poetry in a lot of languages do. when you translate it to another language, like english, are you going to translate in a way that preserves the meaning most, or a way that attempts to approximate the meaning while preserving the synesthetic qualities of its sounds?

the homeric epics are a really fun example for comparative translation analysis imo. and i mean fun because there are so many translations of them into english, and at least one madlad decided to make a prose translation of an epic poem. only recently did the first translation of the poem by a woman get published, and that revealed that a lot of biases in the linguistic nuance were kind of getting smoothed over like a crease in clay.

(i have a copy of emily wilson's translation but am not the guy who reads classics in our system, i just write the essays lmao. but she wrote multiple times about the theory of translation she was working with and if you're at all interested in this topic, look her up.)

but even if you aren't translating a text from antiquity and are, say, working with a more contemporary example of literary translation, you still have to bridge the gap between two cultures that may be very different. just a word for word translation may not work too, because figurative language like idioms might not be understood by the language you're translating to.

the amount of cultural knowledge required to sculpt a truly effective translation that preserves the image of the original while making it comprehensible to an otherwise ignorant audience is just. so cool to me. i say this as someone who could never really do translation work myself, on account of not having that kind of complex grasp on another language than my native one, of course, but you don't have to be fluently billingual to understand what i'm talking about here, imo.

another example, and one that i actually wrote comparative analysis on, is work from charles baudelaire's les fleurs du mal ("the flowers of evil"). works of short poetry are effective case studies in what different translations can look like, because translations of baudelaire's poetry still portray the subject matter in a way that is presumably true to the original french. while something may always be lost in translation (there's a saying for a reason there), the philosophy behind one's translation can also highlight one's own reading of a text, and offer a closer insight into said text for foreign audiences (me, it's me, i'm the foreign audience reading charles baudelaire in world lit and going absolutely insane about translation theory).

for my mileage, you end up seeing a paradigm between translations that span between "strict" and "loose," if that makes any sense. a strict translation makes no changes in its translation, preserving the literature in its entirety as it is translated, to the best approximation possible where a direct translation is impossible. a loose translation meanwhile may make more artistic choices in its translation, foregoing certain details in order to better articulate the artistry in the original work.

okay, now, the reason i'm thinking about this today, right now.

in literature this is already a complex subject, but when you get into other forms of art, like animation in the case of this blogs primary topic, there become a lot more moving parts. like with literature, there's going to be the simple fact of looking into a cultural window and trying to communicate that snapshot to foreigners.

with subtitling, you can add things like translator's notes. this is a non-diegetic method of communicating information to your audience, and you can see it present in literature as well (footnotes or endnotes are a frequent addition to many translated works; hell, they're common even in non-translated works). in animated works where there are vocal tracks (like anime openings or insert songs), you can also have subtitles for those, no problem!

however, when it comes to dubbing, you automatically include more elements to juggle in your translation work. you have to take into account individual voice, background tracks, visuals, etc. etc.. the method most dubs handle translating the work often discourages non-diegetic methods of communicating information, so you're less likely to see translator's notes in dub work. sometimes this even includes changing on-screen text so that a foreign audience can read it.

the lengths to which a dubbing company is willing to censor in translation is also, obviously, a conversation worth noting (see again my losing my shit at pinnochimon packing heat). a phenomenon i'm sure we've all noticed when it comes to dubbing (as opposed to most translations of literature i've seen) is that dubs may market to a specific age range in translation. sometimes that may end up defanging a work's themes, or changing them entirely. the censorship of a dub may come out of a cultural difference or hesitance to show certain subjects to a younger audience, but regardless it is part of the theory behind some dub work.

i don't really have a conclusion to this, but it's just in my mind a lot while i'm watching some of these series for the first time subbed. by all means, i don't think dubbing is a bad thing (if anything it's complex), but having the experience of watching the sub is allowing me to do a type of comparative analysis i don't think i've ever had the chance to actively do.

i know that there are folks who have done more thorough comparative analysis work than i'll probably end up doing, of course (there are so many wonderful blogs here on tumblr alone about that meta-analysis). it's just that i'm enjoying engaging with a childhood interest in a way that i suppose i didn't know i wanted to do so badly.

#sky talks #digimon #digimon adventure 02 #i am not proof reading this so if anything is phrased weirdly my apologies baksdfbjhbdfs #digimon is just out here reminding me why we're trying to go to grad school lmfao and i gotta ramble #//lays flat on my office carpet contemplating translation theory for another 3000 years// #it's really funny because i almost slipped out of front on account of a flare up trying to kick our ass #i've been laying down for four hours watching digimon now though and it's like #“oh yeah right the digimon guy gets to be in front for when we watch digimon” #and here we are

[myfriendtheghost]

good morning baby boy

#I’m so glad this week is almost over lmao #I say that every week but #my work leaders have been being particularly fuckin stupid this week it’s driving me off the edge #literally trying multiple times to get me to call and get claim information on accounts I don’t even have member IDs for #that is not only impossible #it is also illegal!!!! #but ok #anyways… still waiting to hear back from those school jobs I applied for lol on my knees begging for the library assistant job still #I’m exhausted I cannot keep dealing with this !!!!!! #it should hopefully get better after today though because today is the last day of our fiscal year #so they’ve been particularly insufferable this month because of that #anyways folks never work in medical billing the job is fine but everyone around u will make u wish u were dead!!!! 💖

[amakumos]

i have midterms so i can’t even say “finals week or my final week” 😒😒😒

#yun talks #yeah idk why our school year starts in feb. why not in sept like the rest of the world .. #but these midterms r SO ANNOYING #i have a chem practical FOR A BIO CLASS like wtf #and accounting😒😒i’m Accounting’s biggest hater