#these dialogues just hit differently

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #look everybody else has a special line in this scene telling yu how special he was but this esp hit me the hardest because i'm yosukebraine #it's in the last line “don't go partner” LIKE DUDE the way it calls back to yosuke's cut romance dialogue when he says “don't go” #im not saying that yosuke has separation anxiety but uhhhh i also think the trajectory of his story arc has been about the ppl that left hi #and how he copes with it and grows and matures and moves on but BUT BUT #yu is different #yosuke has managed to let go of the superficial friendships that he held on to from the city #he's learnt to let go of saki #he's learnt to live for himself and for the people that have come and gone BUT. BUT YU. yu has changed his life so much #and it's not even because yosuke actually hasn't grown or accepted that people in his life will come and go he has it's just that #he doesn't want yu to be another one that leaves. bcause he knows what it feels like to have someone leave and how it feels to “get over it #and he doesn't want to get over yu #and i'm #just #sitting here #sobbing #he's good with his queue

[chocmoon-latte]

Could you IMAGINE the kind of power romancable companions in Fallout 4 could've had if they had interactions with you like the companions in BG3?

Why am I always living in the wrong timeline?

#I know the games are years apart and by different companies but I think about this so often #I know they were probably testing the waters in FO4 but they just didn't quite hit the mark #fallout 4 #fallout #I mean I appreciate you can flirt with them but that's only like twice within affinity dialogue #but they'll only say things about your relationship if you ask them their thoughts. Or sleep in a bed with them #No kissies? Or hugs? No true sexy moments?? 🥺🥺

[kaymarie-bell]

Diasomnia Book, Chapter 2 Translation [7, 28]

as always, my own translation. I am learning as I go, I do this out of love for the game. There will be mistakes.

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Summary: Silver has a heart to heart with Malleus. This will surely have no consequences in the nearby future, right? 

Note: jumping a few episodes ahead from my last post because I actually wrote this one first. I saw Silver angst and just had to get it out there, and then began from the start. Sorry for the non-chronological order and different formatting, it’s the lack of sleep <3

Previous episodes: NRC staff and students are at Lilia’s farewell party. Malleus is absent.

[7-28]

Main Street – amidst a snowfall

Silver has gone out to find Malleus. He takes note of the weather, it’s already spring but it’s very cold and there’s a snowfall happening. He finds Malleus near the Thorn Fairy’s statue. He asks him to please come to the party and say goodbye to his father before he leaves.

Malleus asks if the party already started. He tells the story of how the Thorn Fairy once gave some royals a special gift that surprised everyone. As the head of Diasomnia, he must follow the Fairy’s example. Silver objects and says that him attending the party is already enough of a gift. Malleus is still thinking about what to give Lilia. The wind picks up.

Silver feels very cold, he hurries Malleus back to the dorm.

Malleus: Oh, is it cold? I must have been unconsciously…

Silver: (…did he just stop the storm?)

Silver: (In the Valley it is well-known that when Malleus-sama is angry, thunder roars…)

Silver: (Was the snowstorm due to Malleus-sama’s feelings?)

Silver: (He didn’t show it on his face, but I wonder if separating from Father is hard for him)

Silver: (Of course, he has spent more time with Father than I have)

Silver: (I’ve only been here for 17 years)

 Silver begins to get chocked up. Malleus says it’s time to go back to the party, but Silver tells him to go first and that he’ll follow later. Malleus notices that Silver is crying. Silver apologizes for showing him a “pathetic” side of him, but Malleus says there’s nothing pathetic about it and it’s normal for children to cry. Silver says that he’s already 17 and not a child, he will be an adult next year. He might be a child in Malleus’ and Lilia’s eyes, but it’s already been 17 years since he was the baby Lilia found in the forest.

Silver: Father is a fae, and I a human. There is no blood relation, and he had no obligation to take care of me…

Silver: But he still raised me all these years.

Silver: Every day he fed me, practiced with me, and stayed with me all night long while I slept.

Silver: Fae and humans are different when it comes to their fragility and aging…everything is different.

Silver: Few people in the Valley of Thorns know about raising a human child. Also, Father is single.

Silver: How hard it must have been to raise a human baby without having someone to rely on…

Silver: I cannot thank him enough. I was going to spend the rest of my life repaying his kindness…!

Silver: And now…even though I still haven’t given anything back to him...!

Silver: He’s dying alone in a faraway country!

Malleus:…

Silver: I…my father is losing his magic. And my body is weak!

Silver: Even if the day comes when I forget about everything, I hope I can continue to support him!

Malleus:…Lilia has such a good son.

Silver: I am not a good son at all! I can’t even grant my father his wish.

Silver: I wan to send him off with a smile like he wants…

Silver: But I- I…ugh…*sob*

Malleus:…

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I have so much to say about this, look at my boys! They’re both in pain! 

Also I think this definitely aligns with my “Silver will be the catalyst to Malleus’ overblot” agenda. Also my “Lilia is [REDACTED]” prediction.  A win is a win.

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst spoilers #diasomnia chapter translation #diasomnia chapter spoilers #diasomnia chapter #my translation #you see my original format was 'summary' but then Silver started hitting me with that dialogue so I just had to write it out #the boy was in tears I couldn't help myself #neither could Malleus oops #Malleus voice 'I WILL keep this family together by ANY means' #also the acknowledgement of the difference between fae and humans? I wanted it to happen SO BAD but at what cost? #posts made at 7 am

[forcedhesitation]

watching astarion's horde of undead summons follow us around is the funniest thing to me. just another day in baldur's gate, citizens, nothing to worry about here! carry on and don't mind the smell of rotting flesh!

#bg3 #thoughts about media #sorry you want to hit my vampire? you'll have to go through his dragon blooded boyfriend and 7 undead summons first. #oh and shovel. I finally learned who shovel is. by accidentally binding her to astarion lol. #apparently she can be a proper familiar if you summon her in the apothecary's cellar and carry out a dialogue.... #so next playthrough! mister vampire of my heart! you can have her as your familiar. since you both love murder so much. #oh and I made wyll a warlock/ranger. so HE has summons too. and I can pretend the wolf summon is lily T___T #usually I bring halsin with us. and he ALSO has summons- elementals. something a little different! less bitey.... #shadowheart is here this time because we just finished the house of grief. #and good GRIEF. i forgot how fucking unfun fighting viconia and her drove of debbie downers is. #corydalis used like almost all his sorcery points. astarion had to use explosives at one point. wyll clutched with silence. #shadowheart's sanctuary SUPER helpful to keep hits off people who needed healing. #and by god did those zombies do work.

[orchideae]

When I find the perfect playlist for Yelan after having walked through (and watched) part of the first Chasm quest again. I forgot how far underground it is, how eerie it is, how the Abyss is encroaching all around it— and the Celestial Nail just gives me goosebumps. Yelan, you worry me so much; I just want you to be sane, and warm, and safe.

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ literally it's so deep underground. how does she even go there. ] #[ how has she not died. ] #[ how does she navigate this-- WHAT DOES THIS TO YOUR MIND? ] #[ ... god bless you lottie for letting me venture back in there with you. ] #[ being able to go through this zone again and reading the dialogue as you go-- it just hits you differently. ] #[ it really hits differently. ] #[ i truly hate it. ] #[ the loyalty to liyue is... unreal. ] #[ no one does this without one hell of a motivation. ]

[kingdomoftyto]

Hmm... Hot take warning, but since the new team took over, HS2 has steadily felt more like actual fanfic and less like the official semi-canon continuation that it was. I still LIKE it, I think, and I'll still keep up with it, but with the air of an odd-but-intriguing longfic instead of anything having any bearing on the characters or universe. 🤷

#ignore me #idk what it is specifically but it Feels different than before :/ #some of the dialogue really hasn't been hitting right these last few updates #and some of the character interactions and plot drama have been. a little much #in a way that bothers me when even the Epilogues didn't #I just. hm. maybe it's all the fourth wall breaking too. it doesn't sit quite right with me #it's still INTERESTING and the art is great though. I hope the team is having fun because it's still a really cool fanwork #edit: also yes I will continue calling it HS2 and not the new name bc I always thought the name change was kinda dumb lol

[blondeboyfriend]

sometimes all caps is necessary in a fic and knowing that is so important

#sometimes that all caps bit of dialogue just hits different y'know #.text

[theeryn-the-gold]

“Of course I’m jealous. Don’t you see how they look at you?”

“No, I don’t. I’m not looking at them. I’m looking at you.”

#who and who #i just keep applying this to different #otp #as someone who is observant to how people stare at their so #this hits meeeee #im also delusional and could see this being levi ackerman #dont @ me #he would be so loyal #text #dialogue

[sonic-adventure-3]

oh god. forces. hoo fucking boy. none of this is good vector. god. my fucking god

#this shit hits so different actually playing the game #the gameplay is just okay just the absolute middest thing ive ever played and then the fucking cutscenes. the dialogue. the plot #GOD. #not as torturous as i thought it’d be but similarly hard to get through #cause every line i just need to pause. and the only reason i want to play the stages is to unlock avatar stuff #i do have to say that the lighting and colouring in the cutscenes is pretty nice. nicest i’ve seen in a 3d sonic game ngl. #shame about everything else in them #the ui is pretty sleek too. #forces posting

[swordmaid]

so when astarion tells her abt his old master cazador and how he was essentially a slave to him she's just like that's so sad for you.. i had a mistress too who kept me under lock and key but unlike him she loved me (:

#then when they find out she was kept in constant isolation and indoctrinated to only love and follow lolth they're like Bruh #then you get the oathbreaker dialogues where it's all abt freedom and not wanting to be bind to any higher authority #whether it's to a dirty or a certain dogma.. and knowing it's bc she WAS trapped in that situation before.. but she's out now.. #and she's experiencing freedom for the first time.. and she wants others to be free as well.. it hits different...!!!!!!!!! #but then you get the ending where she either turns to a mindflayer to escape lolth or to face lolth's wrath and turn into a drider its like #WHAT..!!! she just earned this freedom 😭 im still 50/50 on that but im like nooo way no way will lolth or even her mistress will let her go #that easily. lolth will not bc she's an embarrassment / her mistress will not bc she knows too much info on the noble houses #AND their house to the point that she can be the key of their downfall if she wanted to.. like there is no way that she can #escape scot free. the only way i think she will be left unscathed is if eilistraee protects her or something but she doesn't even want her #blessing so ...

[byronicbi]

Maybe it's to do with how we're exposed to our languages growing up? I often get asked what my first language is and I just blank out because I legitimately cannot say whether it's Spanish or English. My dad only spoke English until he met mom, and mom was fluent in both English and Spanish when she met him. Meanwhile, growing up in PR during the 90s meant that 98% of the world outside of my childhood home was in Spanish, while the world inside our house was 99% English. TV, movies, music, books--everything was in English, and I was an avid reader. But also PR Spanish is so viciously "improper"/mutated that half our lexicon are badly pronounced English words.

Prende los parabrisas? Nah. It's prende los wipers. Dame un momento? Nope. It's dame un break. I was in AP Spanish during middle school and my teacher was a member of La Real Academia Española and boy howdy this lady had daily aneurysms because her students spoke like "American dropouts".

So like... I'm shrugging with plenty of confusion. There is no brain switching when I flip flop between English and Spanish. Words from both languages do blend together stupidly into a single sentence. It's not proper, but it just happens.

Granted, when writing dialogue it might sound weird when it's written by someone who's monolingual because conjugations might be off so on so forth, but that aside idk what some of y'all are talking about.

#i guess spanish would be my first because whenever i get pissed i immediately switch to it. english just doesn't have that OOMPH. #motherfucker is well and all but nothing quite hits like calling someone un mamabicho. #text tag #been thinking about this a lot because i have a lot of spanish dialogue in my book and one my betas is bilingual #and she pointed out what she took to be a mistake but i had to explain that no we just use that word differently. #she was very confused and it put me on the spot on whether i want to stick to the authenticity or make it a hint more universal.

[goldensunset]

WRRRAAAAAGHHGHGHHH WHY WASNT THIS SCENE VOICED

#i know cuz it’s the middle of the day and usually only the beginning and end of days are voiced but #HGBHGHHNB THIS DESERVED TO BE VOICED #a golden ntwewy replay #nagi the new mr. h??!! #girl you’re just gonna hit us with that out of left field? #this is clearly just a speech tailor made for fret bc his whole thing is that #he has to act like he doesn’t care what other people think #in doing this he’s trying to protect his own feelings from getting hurt #but he doesn’t realize that he’s hurting other people by doing this #he’s trying to be easygoing and chill but instead he seems insensitive and ingenuine #some sidequest dialogue from some time back demonstrated the difference between him and nagi interestingly #this dude was insecure and fret was like ‘let’s tell him to reject what other people think! screw what they say be yourself!’ #and nagi’s like ‘i hardly think antisociality would solve the issue… people need other people’ #fret didn’t mean it in a bad way but it came off that way and he failed to realize the nuances of the situation #whereas nagi is very observant and introspective and thoughtful

[andaniellight]

you know a fic is so good that you can’t even cringe or lose feelings when your brain, intentionally or not, switches off the language to your first language even though it’s written fully in English, your second or third language

#bonus point if the excitement still stays cause you find it /fancier/ or /more comforting/ to read fics in English #and you rarely use or read any fic in your native language #finding it might be so cringey or whatever #fanfiction like that just hits different #sometimes whenever I'm in the mood writing fanfiction for the ship I like I think about this #will the dialogue be okay for bilingual people? #cause polyglot people are just so cool #English is my second language as well so I'll keep trying mixing and matching vibes with the words

[tirednotflirting]

just had a lot of fun trying to be vague while explaining the plot of the movie i went to see last night to the machine shop guy who is apparently more conservative than i thought. the movie i saw last night was bones and all.

#also official review: fucking gross but not as gross as i anticipated #the worst part of this movie was the shitty dialogue it was just BAD #like i went in being like ‘wild that this is a YA book actually’ and i left being like ‘oh yeah that was VERY YA’ #bc genuinely the dialogue sounded like how the characters talk in tfios and and lee was giving some kinda pudge/augustus waters type vibe #like i didn’t hate it. but it could have just leaned in a different direction and been a lot better #also i need to read the book now bc if it gets an adapted screenplay nom i want to be able to complain from both sides #also to be clear: i live for cheesy YA coming of age type stories. this just didn’t hit the way i was expecting it to