#this is soooooo so kind

[whiskeyswifty]

Beyoncé personally paid 100k to keep the DC metro running an additional hour, as it usually stops running after a certain time of night, when weather delayed her show in DC this weekend. the ENTIRE Metro, all 98 metro stations not just the rail from the stadium to the larger stations, to make sure fans got home safely. that was a huge concern of mine when we had potential weather issues looming for the NY show (which ultimately didn't happen thankfully) because the NJ transit trains stop at 1 am, so that is INCREDIBLY kind and a huge relief to hear. LOVE when huge and wealthy pop stars take care of their fans like this like!!! the legend that she is!!!

#me making a brave post praising beyoncé when we got real racist pieces of shit rampant in this fandom but who cares it must be said #this is soooooo so kind #to even think about that and be aware that it's an urban area where most ticketholders take public transportation..... yeah #like DC and NY and Chicago specifically would strand so many people if public transportation stopped after ANY concert #THIS IS NOT A TAYLOR ANTI POST DONT BE WEIRD #MORE THAN ONE POP STAR CAN BE KIND AND CONSIDERATE TO OTHERS YOU FREAKS #ITS OKAY TO SPOTLIGHT OTHER PEOPLE SOMETIMES #and to be fair taylor has never had a significant weather delay in a very public transportation heavy city so maybe she will take note #and do this as well! #it feels like something she would do as well

[vampryn]

i love making internet friends. when ur mutuals w somebody for forever and then eventually start chit-chatting and then ur like wow we are friends now officially!!! lets make internet pancakes together and dance!!!!! lets make plans to meet that will never happen bc we live on different ends of the globe!!!!! lets jus be supportive and love the ppl in our community!!!! they are so cool!!!!!

#there are so many cool ppl in the goth/punk community #by cool i mean like super down to earth and kind #people say they leave bc of the snakes but like there will always be snakey ppl #you gotta find the good ones bc theyre soooooo worth it #personal

[once-ina-blue-moon]

something something ceaseless watcher

#blue does art #the magnus archives #tma #tma fanart #jonathan sims #breekon and hope #mag 128 went so crazy honestly #like wow he really violated that poor man didn’t he #season four is going soooooo well so far #I kind of honestly am sick of working on this piece but also I feel like it’s not done? somehow? #my birthday present to me is just posting it so I can stop looking at it #we’re gonna just forget basira was there ok

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Who Wants To Talk About Japanese Orthography In Manga???

Me, it's me, I do, and I have been chomping at the bit to get the chance to.

Orthography refers to the conventions of written language to represent sounds. That may bring to mind the idea of rigid grammar rules or spelling standardization, but in a linguistic sense, orthography simply describes observable trends across language use. This isn't about authority--I am not going to talk about what schools teach or say people should write one way or another. This is about examining how real people use written language creatively to convey different things in popular media.

This is a huge topic, so I'm only going to use examples from MHA to highlight Horikoshi's style.

First, let's get a run-down of the main parts of written Japanese and how they tend to be used.

We've got kanji and kana; kanji are logograms, while kana are syllabaries. Kana refers to both hiragana and katakana collectively, but we will delineate the two from here on.

The Wikipedia page for kanji, describing this more succinctly than I'm about to.

For clarity, I'm gonna color-code each one.

Let's take a quick look at all three in action.

Chapter 65

By virtue of being the syllabary that grammar particles are written in, hiragana can get away a lot that kanji and katakana can't.

You can write simple sentences in hiragana alone, like so:

The sentence is perfectly comprehensible like this, but it reads as casual or perhaps a bit immature, like the person is either leaving out kanji for speed or simplicity (like online) or they aren't confident using kanji. Although, the word hito (person) is extremely common and its kanji is simple, so this would probably look more natural:

But there are also kanji for the word kawaii, so you could also write it this way:

On the other hand, writing the whole thing in katakana looks weird as fuck:

bECAuSE iT kINDA reADS LIKE THis, or maybe L I K E T H I S

It seems almost alien, overemphasizing the phonetic sound of the words, implying there's something notable or unusual about them.

But what if you write it like this?

Both ways use katakana to put flavor on a specific word. The first puts it on person, which could be used in a situation where someone hasn't been named yet, but the speaker tonally emphasizes your knowledge of them--like "oh, you know who."

The second emphasizes cute, which could read as sexually suggestive, teasing/joking, or even a threatening tone, depending on the context. "Real cute, ain't they?"

Basically, the connecting grammar bits need to be in hiragana, but nouns, verbs, and adjectives can typically be written in any of the three systems. That introduces choice into the matter, and these choices may have some cultural connotations.

This is a subtlety in written Japanese that manga loves to take advantage of. Orthography contributes a lot to characterization and tone, so individual creators develop little quirks as part of their own writing style.

Now let's finally take a gander at some of Horikoshi's!

Kanji instead of hiragana for semantic emphasis

Chapter 48

Best Jeanist could have used only hiragana for the word "good" (いい, ii), which is a very common way to write it. But he's not just commenting that they are nice kids, he's talking about them as "goodie two-shoes" and even puts brackets around the idea. The kanji emphasizes the cultural idea of a Good Child™, a well-behaved, morally upright, obedient young person.

Kanji instead of hiragana denoting a serious or severe tone

Chapter 36

Katsuki's "you" pronoun omae being written with kanji comes across as markedly serious, especially compared to how his dialogue is normally written. This is actually the only time Katsuki says omae and it is written with kanji--all the rest are in hiragana, which tends to read as more casual.

Hiragana instead of kanji denoting a gentle tone or youthful/childlike language

Chapters 129 and 183

Katsuki and his omae show us how kanji use can be seen as more mature and serious; Eri's dialogue does the opposite of this by using hiragana when it could use kanji, emphasizing her youth and innocence.

Katakana instead of hiragana or kanji for emphasis or slang

Chapters 209, 207, and 2

As I detailed above, one of katakana's most common uses is similar to italics or all-caps.

But you also tend to see slang written with it, and depending on the slang, the word being in katakana can immediately clarify it from other, perhaps more standard meanings. In Jirou's case, her personal pronoun uchi can mean a couple other things, so it being written in katakana clarifies her usage. It could arguably also imply she is taking a bit of an argumentative tone--Katsuki's slang is typically written in katakana for both of these reasons!

Katakana denoting regional dialect/accent, nonstandard pronunciation/muddled speech, or confused articulation

Chapters 102, 208, 394, and 2

Ochako gets flustered and defaults to her regional Kansai dialect. Instead of "chigau wa" (Tokyo dialect), she says "chau wa" repeatedly.

Katsuki and Toga both drop the w- sound from a word. Katsuki says "ore a" instead of "ore wa," while Toga says the word "kawaiku" as "ka'aiku" and "kawaii" as "ka'aii." Notice how the katakana which represents the vocal omission/hiccup is actually smaller than the others? That's also a little stylistic detail for communicating this kind of nonstandard speech.

Izuku repeats All Might's words, chikara wo, in a confused daze because he isn't following All Might's point. By removing the kanji especially, this kind of katakana emphasizes him sounding the words out without recognizing the underlying meaning.

Basically, Japanese has some excellent ~vibes-based~ orthography because of how the language is structured!

Of course, you find this kind of thing in English as well--especially in the age of the internet, where people note that "how dare u" reads as tonally distinct from "how dare you." As you develop language fluency, you tend to pick up these things subconsciously more than anything, but it's one of my favorite things to analyze and compare.

These are just a few examples and my own interpretations of them. I'm sure there are many more uses and flavor-nuance I'm not picking up on. Since any given choice can be read a few different ways, context is very important. My examples aren't definitive proof of anything, but it can be fun to keep these kinds of details in mind while reading.

Shueisha and Shonen Jump surely have in-house standards for text, and mangaka must operate within that range. That said, I have indeed seen every one of these examples in other manga as well.

And on the independent side of things, doujinshi and online manga are basically the wild frickin' west--I have seen tons of totally crazy, highly creative ways to take advantage of the unique flexibility found in Japanese, but that's a post for another day.

I will probably write more about this kind of thing in the future when I can pinpoint some more observations, but I hope you all enjoyed the ride. <3

#meta #linguistics party #this is the nerdiest shit I've ever written and I'm not sorry #I find this soooooo fascinating and fun to think about #people are so cute we think of all kinds of ways to properly convey ideas and feelings and reference shared cultural information #almost all human languages are first and foremost spoken out loud #and human beings get so creative trying to figure out how to express all the complex minute details contained within verbal communication #through the written word #mha 2 #mha 36 #mha 48 #mha 65 #mha 102 #mha 129 #mha 183 #mha 207 #mha 208 #mha 209 #mha 394

[pekoeboo]

some screenshots of a desert palace that @cookieg122 and I started some time ago! we've since moved this build elsewhere and are starting from scratch to make a Bigger and Better version for our giant desert town (that I might share in the future if we can get it finished!), but I'm still quite happy with how this smaller, cozier palace turned out! :'D

got a few pics of the bathhouse in the back as well - we'll be repurposing it somewhere in the new town, but for now it's still part of this older build. I thought it would be a nice addition to this post, though!

(ignore the mess on the right side of the palace tho, lol... we have plans to move all of that to a nearby jungle but we haven't gotten around to it yet haha)

#minecraft #mineblr #screenshots #minecraft build #yes this counts as art #which is why it's going on this blog #there's soooooo much we've built that I just haven't shared for one reason or another #but since we decided to scrap this and build something New #i figured now was the time to share it haha #also we originally started building in trixyblox's USW map #but the desert was just Really Flat and Sad so we moved to a regular desert outside of the custom map instead #but u can see some of the USW builds in the background so i figured i'd mention it #and i also copied the domed roof from one of the builds for this one as well so that's kind of important to mention i think #everything else is our own creation tho

[captain-k8kat]

Saw a vid that claimed that tfothou was "pro ai" because of a thing Madeline said about how someday ai could be used to write TV and movies, and it made me want to eat drywall.

You are not ment to side with Madeline Usher. Nothing in the show is saying you should side with her, especially not with ai. Madeline is obsessed with the idea of immortality and wants to use ai to do it but none of her technological achievements get off the ground, at least not further than managing Fortunato's records and business dealings. Like, the one ai she makes, lenore's ai, is a broken, hollowed out shell of lenore that only says one word on repeat. It's about the fruitlessness that is seeking immortality and the hollow lifelessness of ai. It's not pro-ai at all.

#tfothou #the fall of the house of usher #also the whole ai bit is such a small part compared to everything else happening #and the video spent way to long taking that ai bit apart and completely missing the whole point of the ai mention in general #and god it makes me so mad #anyways i just needed to scream about it somewhere #and i wasnt going to add more traction to that vid by commenting on it soooooo #yeah #tumblr it is #ALSO #Madeline is just the kind of character that would love ai #she's a capitalist of course she would love ai

[mftm1987]

in praise of martin gore's gretsch double anniversary ‘green knight’ semi-hollow body electric guitar » 1987–present

#depeche mode #martin gore #don't believe he was playing a geet on stage before mftm so i am p sure 87 is her earliest appearance #very often the enjoy the silence guitar hence all this blessed mart/dave content #so named bc he had one custom made by dick knight for devotional cause his original hollow 6118 had too much feedback soooooo #a few of these gifs are actually that first one lol #anyway i am very normal about this kind of stuff (is not even a guitarist)

[ssaraexposs]

WEAK UP SSKK NATION! AKU AND ATSUSHI ARE PLAYING WITH THE KIDS!

#this is soooooo cute #aku and atsu playing with the kids #so wholesome #the fathers are watching over them awwww #found family au #oda my beloved you will always be the best #beast mori being sqeet and kind is weird as fuck but still #atsushi deserves happiness #i freaking love beast #bsd beast #beast official art #bungo stray dogs #bungo stray dogs beast #akutagawa ryuunosuke #beast akutagawa #nakajima atsushi #beast atsushi #mori ogai #beast mori #sakunosuke oda #beast oda #sskk #shin soukoku

[comradekatara]

hi!! i'm sorry i don't go on tumblr a lot anymore but i was trying to look up sokka/yue playlists and i found a post of urs that said u might make one/have made one!! i was just wondering if u have it still since i'm not sure when that post was made? thank u so much for ur time!!

i definitely have one...... in my head......... but because spotify hates me, i lost access to my account shortly after i made my (extremely slept-on) katara playlist, so i never got around to making any more character playlists officially. but i can definitely make one for sokka and yue now! in no particular order...

my love, mine all mine – mitski (song, lyrics)*

fast car – tracy chapman (song, lyrics)*

57821 – janelle monáe (song, lyrics)

earth angel – the penguins (song, lyrics)

don't let me sleep – shana cleveland (song, lyrics)

cosmia – joanna newsom (song, lyrics)

watching you without me – kate bush (song, lyrics)

goodbye ghost – la luz (song, lyrics)

they can't take that away from me – ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong (song, lyrics)

happy – mitski (song, lyrics)

kokomo, indiana – japanese breakfast (song, lyrics)

fernando – abba (song, lyrics)*

northern lights – st. vincent (song, lyrics)

day dreaming – aretha franklin (song, lyrics)

don't judge me – janelle monáe (song, lyrics)

i want you – mitski (song, lyrics)*

i'll be seeing you – billie holiday (song, lyrics)

black roses – escondido (song, lyrics)*

starchild – ghost quarter (song, lyrics)*

slow like honey – fiona apple (song, lyrics)

dissolve me – alt-j (song, lyrics)

stars – grace potter & the nocturnals (song, lyrics)

timefighter – lucy dacus (song, lyrics)

tides – the xx (song, lyrics)

moon river – audrey hepburn (song, lyrics)

doused – diiv (song, lyrics)*

isle unto thyself – miracle musical (song, lyrics)

i bet on losing dogs – mitski (song, lyrics)

ready, able – grizzly bear (song, lyrics)*

have to go – esther rada (song)

responsible – sara bareilles (song, lyrics)

picture me better – weyes blood (song, lyrics)

also, some bonus sokka songs, just for fun

the motherlode – the staves (song, lyrics)*

only kid on the block – cherry glazerr (song, lyrics)

hater's anthem – infinity song (song, lyrics)*

my way – frank sinatra (song, lyrics)

heat lightning – mitski (song, lyrics)*

mouth log – sidney gish (song, lyrics)

creep – radiohead (yes) (song, lyrics)

under ice – kate bush (song, lyrics)

funeral – phoebe bridgers (song, lyrics)*

window – fiona apple (song, lyrics)

how could i – thao & the get down stay down (song, lyrics)

blue spotted tail – fleet foxes (song, lyrics)

P.S. asterisks (*) indicate that the link to the song provided is a music video or live performance and not just an official recording

#i couldve made this entire playlist with mitski songs EXCLUSIVELY. know that i bravely refrained #sokka #yue #sokkaxyue #asks #atlamusic #ihauntmyselfdaily #oh. of course someone w this url would ask me this kind of question. of course #why was this soooooo time consuming #(i already had a list written out on my phone. believe or not. but finding all the links was so tedious) #of course it's worth it tho. as a testament to my insanity #also if anyone DOES have spotify and wants to make this playlist for me (excluding some artists who arent on there like joanna newsom sadly #and then link it to me. that would make me very happy. btw <3 #my music taste must seem so sappy assuming this is as a standard sample........ it's noooottttttt #(but also. isn't it a little?)

[sanasanakun]

There’s nothing hotter than a deranged, monstrous man who uses his fucked up worldview as a way to hide that he’s just some dude afflicted with “pathetic little boy” syndrome..Oh, you wanna take over the world? Ok, so why are you still crying that your parents don’t love you? Why are you so lonely? Why do you act so confident when you’re still a little bitch playing dress up to look powerful, huh?

#this post is about Enver Gortash #but I feel like this could also apply to ~Will Graham~ #enver gortash #gortash bg3 #lord gortash #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #is this a thirst post? #I feel like I’ve said these exact things to a man in bed before so🤔🤔 #this is a thirst post I’ve decided #the last month of grad school makes the heart yearn for domination over silly little dudes #or something lmao #I am a Gortash bottom truther but that’s obvious lol #I would say Homelander kind of teeters near here but he’s so pathetic and morally disgusting that he’s just …bleh #a horrid creature #I can’t stand homelander (in a good way since Antony Star is soooooo good as him)

[gojosattoru]

★ LOID FORGER | THE FLAWLESS SPY DADDY ★

↳ Birthday gift for my wonderful and sweet Kyra @theforgers  ❤⃛ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )

#spy x family #sxfedit #dailyanime #fymanganime #anisource #shounenedit #sxfgraphics #alledits #loid forger #userkarura #userrack #userchas #usersenka #userheidi #userlisette #heya sweetheart!! here's your bday gift!! #ascfdgsc i'm so sorry for being soooooo late but i hope you like it honey ^^ #loid in all his glory just for you <33333 hehe #thank you for everything #and for being such an amazing kind and caring friend kyra bby! #you're just so awesome!! i'm so happy we got to know each other more and chat a bit!! i really enjoy talking to you always lifting my spirit #whenever i need!! you're my gardian angel <3333 thank you truly!! #wish you the best and take care of yourself oki? may you always be blessed with love and happiness in your life <333 hehe #love you soooooo much!! *hugs you real tight* hope we can pass more time together in the future and celebrate more bdays hehe <33333 #stay well honey!!! *chu*

[what-the-fuck-khr]

HELP I CANT MAKE A SERIOUS POST ABOUT THIS BC ITS SO FUNNY TO ME THEY MADE THEM “SCIENTISTS”???? MORE LIKE SCIENCE CLASS WTF LMFAO

#AND THE CONSTANT USE OF TYL MUKURO BUT NOT KYOYA….. THEY THINK PRESENT MUKURO IS SOOOOOO UGLY #HAHHHSBDJD #WHAT IS XANXUS EVEN HOLDINGGFGF #SQUALO’S IS LIKE. COME ON ITS DONE ON PURPOSE SURELY???? #ALSO THE. FUCKINGNF SKELETON MUKURO HAS ON HIS HAND??? IT LOOKS EDITED IN ON TOP OF HIS HAND #BEL ISNT EVEN HOLDING ANYTHING BUT HIS KNIVES!!!! #JUST REALISED KYOYA HAS A TURTLE NECK ON LMFAO SORRY HES A TURTLE NECK KIND OF GUY?????? #Tsuna NATURALLY looks like an actual student bc he IS ONE….. #I’m so sorry I’m going to be thinking about this for days #was gonna say Fran isn’t even remotely interesting but #his clothes are soooooooo baggy kdnfkdksbsnc #BAGGY BAGGY BAGGY BAGGY BAGGY JEANS #help wait does Squalo’s ties always have a little clip on them……… he has one but Mukuro doesn’t omg #he likes!!! to look!!! clean and sharp!!!!!! #khr #katekyo hitman reborn #god……. GOD #sawada tsunayoshi #hibari kyoya #rokudo mukuro #reborn #xanxus #superbi squalo #belphegor #fran #GOD #official #artwork #merch #merchandise

[skellydun]

I was thinking about it today when I saw a trailer at the movies, but something about you reminds me of Jake Gyllenhaal. I think it's the eyes, you both have sweet puppy dog eyes.

yeah I see it

#thank u ajdjdjdkksa #ur so kind anon!! i do enjoy me some Jake #and rocked his prisoners hair cut for SOOOOOO long

[solradguy]

About a year before I got into GG, a phlebotomist said that I have "dark blood" (???) and since then my one friend group and I have joked about my cursed evil beast blood. It's been three years. Happy three years anniversary to my sinister dark blood

#textpost #I don't know why she said that and no phlebotomist has said anything like it since #Probably it was just the lighting in the room or something #(my red blood cell count & other results were fine) #It was funny though. Funny enough that we're still joking about it three years later #GG just made it funnier tbh. And now there's Granblue. I can't escape this wicked hex upon mine mortal essence #It's easy to joke about because my biology is just kind of weird in general #Like Wellbutrin turned me into a steam engine so if I don't drink water regularly I get soooooo hot and sweaty #And if I get hot and sweaty while I'm sleeping I have super fucked up nightmares #But it's ok. It's just my evil beast blood curse #And the night vision

[sholmeser]

consider them please

#these are kind of old atp but i lost my ipad for a while so i couldn’t post them #ANYWAYS. shoutout to spencer. trailblazer #i love them soooooo much #phoenix wright #herman crab #point was these r kind of old so i dont like them too much anymore but its whatever the world needs them #hernix #narugaku #phoenix is so hard to draw #myart #ace attorney #gyakuten saiban #naruhodou ryuuichi

[loviatarsluv]

there you are. I’ve been waiting. waiting since the moment I saw you. waiting… to have you.

#this scene being so kind of soft and extra intimate in comparison to other romance scenes makes me soooooo #like you’d expect him to be very rough but he’s gentle and takes his time #lord have merthy #astarion #bg3 #my screenshots #astarion romance #astarion bg3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 edit #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #otis’ camera tools #reshade