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shadowdianne · 7 years

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wait, so the translator told you guys to "behave" just because you were talking about swan queen ???

Storytime xd After one of the pannels… I think it was Bex’s -all of this during the second day- we were talking about the rumors of how the swan queen questions were going to be veto-ed during the panels. All of this was discussed outside the… place -for the lack of a better word- in where the panels were taking place. I want to remark this because we weren’t in ANY panel at the moment and so we weren’t talking to anyone but the small group of four or five of us, swen, that weren’t buying food at the moment. So we were basically smoking and talking between us, commenting about the rumors and how some fans seemed to have been ushered up the line of people wanting to ask questions just because when they whispered their questions to the translator they apparently were tagged as questions not apt to be asked -and I want to also remark that even if it’s true that no question regarding JMO seemed to be actually able to be asked (Edit: Except one or two that happened during the first day if I remember correctly) I also don’t have the whole story, just bits and pieces- the translator who was also smoking a little bit further from where we were approached us and saw that we were wearing t-shirts labelling us as swen.

So she approached us and touched my back because I was the one closest to her and told us, very patroninzigly, that we needed to *not* be problematic since what had happened yesterday -the famous question regarding Hook- had been… I don’t remember if what she said was shameful or another word but it was definetely something not very good. I was already quite angry with her because of her manners -the whole drop the mic and swan queen chill comments- and so I told her so that I understood that within the panel everyone needed to be respecftul -me and my friends told her that I mean- but -and that’s something I said- her job as a translator was not to add anything or interact with the actors but merely translate to the ones that don’t understand english so she needed to be more intelligent with the tools she had at hand. I study this xd I know how it works and the translator wasn’t doing a really good job.

I admit that even if I wasn’t calling her stupid my comment about being intelligent may not have been the best one but she was starting to interrupt me and one of my friends who also studies this and basically knows as much as I do about the whole being a translator concept. She then touched my t-shirt in where a swan queen manip was displayed -I took a step back because hello personal space- and told me that she didn’t know how the ships worked but this was like the supernatural fandom in where some people shipped the actors between them which good for them but she didn’t understand why-I also don’t understand why the fuck she needed to say all of that, believe me- but we needed to behave and that she felt that I was starting to be the one with an attitude. Seeing that she wasn’t going to be open to talk about, perhaps, stopping being an asshole and actually start doing her job I merely closed my mouth and let her go. I mean, I was there to actually have a good time and I’m not usually a person that starts or continues things like this. I was slightly worried for the rest of the morning after that because even though I hadn’t insulted her it was obvious that she wasn’t a very open-minded person and between panels once all the big ones had finished another friend actually heard how she approached some groups saying how bad us, swens, had behaved, (I don’t know how far that went as well, I only know this because a friend of that other friend and an actual swen that was there but without any kind of symbol taggin her as swen was actually asked and so we knew she had approached some people asking that)

I truly hope she ends up meeting someone who actually makes her stop and see that if she wants to BE a translator everything counts. I don’t, however, think this was another part of some hidden agenda; just a VERY unprofessional person trying to have her five minutes of glory in a line of work that should never be about your own personal opinions.

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xkurtwagner · 7 years

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was tagged by @until-the-end-of-the-lline to do this!

nicknames: bec, bex, rebecks, boo star sign: scorpio height: 5′5 last thing googled: lego batman movie because my friends and i were making plans to go see it favorite music artists: pentatonix, lin manuel miranda, copper street brass, shawn mendes, thomas sanders (just downloaded the ultimate storytime soundtrack) last movie watched: hidden figures last TV show watched: prison break what are you wearing right now: leggings and a tunic shirt when did you create your blog: three and a half years ago what kind of stuff do you post: mostly marvel, with star wars, star trek, and dctv thrown in. plus some other miscellaneous stuff. do you have any other blogs: yes actually, i made a pentatonix blog when they released their eponymous album back in 2015 in order to be able to connect with other fans because i didn’t know anyone at college who liked them. if you really want to follow for whatever reason let me know and i’ll give you the url. why did you choose your url: because kurt. duh. hogwarts house: ravenclaw pokemon team: mystic moral alignment: chaotic neutral favorite color: dark blue or dark purple average hours of sleep: 7-8 lucky number: 35 favorite characters *cracks knuckles*: kurt wagner, sam wilson, kate bishop, logan howlett, peter parker, america chavez, clint barton, daisy johnson, kara danvers, cisco ramon, jefferson jackson, leonard snart, rey, finn, cassian andor, chirrut imwe, bodhi rook, jaylah, sulu how many blankets do you sleep with: a sheet and a duvet dream job: at the moment i really don’t know following: 1,149 wow

i tag the snart defense squad if you wanna, if not don’t sweat!

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