#unless they are a professional

[durn3h]

Why is the average person so bad at translating? I get it if you aren't a native in the target language, but if you are translating something into your own language it should sound like something a native speaker would actually say. Like, you speak and write in that language every day, you know how it works and it's clear from your poor attempt at translating that you know the meaning of the text in it's original language, so where's the problem that's causing your translation to be so awkward?

#i am not at all a good writer so its not like it takes writing skills to be a good translator #unless of course youre translating poetry or something like that #but every time i see a translation from spanish to english or english to spanish it drives me crazy #because people always do an absolutely horrible job at the translation #always #every single time #unless they are a professional #and i dont understand how they fuck it up so badly #its easy #if you understand both languages #then just transmit the information in the original language through the target language #i dont really know any other romance languages but i can read them well enough to recognize most of those translations are trash too #and half the time even if its a language i know nothing about you can tell its a translation because of how awkward the english is #95% of the time even google translate gives better translations than actual people that are fluent in both languages #which is fucking insane #because google is largely just word replacement #if an algorithm that does little more than swap words between languages can provide a more natural text than a real human being #thats fucking embarrassing #ok autistic rant over for now

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

#apollo don't fucking touch this one #serious post #not a shitpost #hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day #fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists #i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it. #so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you? #what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown #at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal #i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid #like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies #and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line #probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored #luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap! #watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry #while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent #also eggs are $15

[saintgoddess]

Smoke break 😤

#touhou #touhou project #東方 #東方project #hatate himekaidou #double spoiler #2024 #touhou girls I have never drawn #will continue unless counseled otherwise by a mental health professional #or I run out of reference photos #whichever comes first

[puppyeared]

this has been plaguing my mind for days

#i.. i dont know what to say for myself #i kinda wanna make this a sticker for myself #im getting into sticker design cuz my mom wants a print of my velveteen rabbit poster i made for school #i kinda wanna remake it since i made that thing on fucking illustrator with vectors and it took me DAYS #i wanna make it look more storybook like and surprise it to her by ordering it as a sticker... itd be my first time #custom printing a sticker and i think id prefer to get it professionally done unless i decide to learn how to diy it #my art #myart #stickers #the very hungry caterpillar #eric carle

[boomdeyadah]

@jonmartinweek Day 3: Nightmare || Hair Care

#sometimes we can do both as a treat #jonmartinweek 2024 #jonmartin week 2024 #the magnus archives #tma #jonmartin #jmart #the third page got cut off a bit at the top unless you click into it #im not a professional apologies #also this is past midnight for me even in my timezone so it's my first officially late piece haha #my art

[pennielane]

Baby's In Black THE BEATLES in MUNICH, GERMANY — June 24, 1966

#tbh he might not say 'everybody' but it's the most likely unless he's saying something in german? but it sounds quite unintelligible to me- #-so just took my best guess #a professional in lip reading i am not #the beatles #mine #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #jp #mclennon

[stergeon]

i also write exclusively with fountain pens (cursive anon)

anyways i liked your recent comic, i feel like edelgard's cuteness is amplified by her short statue. makes me want to pick her up like a cat lol (says someone who is also short)

Byleth: Like a cat, huh...

Edelgard: ... can I help you?

Byleth: Tada

Edelgard: UNHAND ME THIS INSTANT

anon, you really shouldn't give her any ideas. for edelgard's sake.

#fe3h #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #edeleth #sterge.eml #sterge.pptx #edelgard von hresvelg #byleth eisner #in the days after #fountain pen supremacy 💪😤 anon i fuck with you big time #i've spent. an embarrassing amount of money on pens. #my workhorse is my parker im. i don't leave home without it!! #my grail pen is now at a price point i simply cannot abide and so i will have to dream of it eternally #unless i win the lottery i guess #alas. #probably should have colored this but whatever #narrowly avoided that emperor pantyshot. sorry perverts #i cannot be arsed to draw all their regalia anymore save for special occasions #thus byleth is out here in her thursday best (ladies night at the club) #knee brace over tights. are you sure? #please excuse my dust and be nice to me while i learn how to draw feet #idk that i ever even drew heels before i started drawing these chucklefucks #i am not a professional (or remotely trained) artist #i am simply a dyke with a pencil and more time than sense

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[flakytartart]

FINALLY....the Adachi bible

#tohru adachi #adachi anthology #p4g #persona 4 golden #p4 #persona 4 #yosuke hanamura #saki konishi #teddie #izanami #i was legally obligated to take that pic of izanami. i know she got shooters out here #was hoping for mitsuo but he was nowhere to be found! rip #cant read a speck of japanese but it was still an enjoyable 'read'! #i want to get this professionally scanned at some point....unless someone else already did #adachi tohru #irl stuff #flakygarbage

[queko]

pb&j duo 🥰🥰 btw this is a screenshot redraw, ref is under the cut :D

#don’t set your head on fire unless you’re a trained professional #quekoart #pb&j duo #b team #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #rise fanart #save rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #rottmnt fanart #unpause rottmnt #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt art #rottmnt #tmnt fanart #tmnt

[rockybloo]

Why do you call yourself SierraRay?/gen

Bc that's my real name, anon.

ORIGINALLY I signed my art as PockyBloo but then I switched over to RockyBloo.

But I didn't want to deal with having to resign my stuff as my new username especially when something may happen in the future and I wanna change again (I most likely won't tho bc I love my current username)

Rocky has a nice masc ring to it that Pocky was lackin and it keeps the mountain based name theme going.

So I just use my actual name for my art so I never have to change my signature again. (I have no plans of going through a real life name change)

#ask #i ask that errbody call me rocky tho unless we are close friends #or if I'm doing important professional business with you

[chiquilines]

I just like putting them in silly little outfits

#just turned in a 4000 word math project worth 30% of my grade so im celebrating with them <3 #i just wanna throw them out here immediately so if theres lil mistakes ignore them #i havent double checked anything #just scribbled them out in a frenzy #i love drawing them so much #realistically it is unlikely that fuyumi would wear that #UNLESS #I LITERALLY JUST GOT AN AU IDEA #professional MotoGP racer fuyumi #pit stop engineer rumi #oooooooh the thought i just thunk #the thought of fuyumi in a motorcycle racing outfit... the helmet.... #yeah i gotta draw that #and rumi in overalls with a lil baseball cap and a wrench... dont get me started #expect Things #forget about this drawing i literally just posted everyone start thinking about motoGP AU NOW #if anyone has Ideas send an ask i literally j came up with this so ill take headcanons #anywaysies #fuyumi todoroki #usagiyama rumi #miryumi #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #wlw #chiquilines draws

[goldkirk]

Got my first meeting with a psychiatrist in over a year since the last one demanded details about trauma when I was visibly sweating and shaking! Let’s hope today goes much better and that I have the prefrontal cortex online enough to leave if necessary instead of tolerating that kind of thing again

#note to everyone: if you say ‘I experienced xyz’ to a medical professional #on your FIRST VISIT #they are NOT supposed to require further and further details before moving the conversation along #they should take you at your word and realize that’s not the important part #the important part is hearing what symptoms you have had for how long and how they impact your daily life #so they can help you #NO ONE needs the details unless you choose to share them on your own time #and if someone is pressing you for things you’re not ready to talk about #LEAVE!!!! get up and LEAVE #i know that now #personal #this isn’t about sleep I’ve been going downhill in certain areas for weeks and haven’t gotten the boat to turn around #so I’m asking to start back on meds BEFORE things get really bad #i was planning to wait for the fall #but I’m struggling so much and I shouldn’t have to be #so. SSRI and asking about nonstimulant ADHD meds it is #the good thing is that while my self worth and competency and anxiety are in the toilet again #Im at least not feeling depressed and I’m not having all the sleep trouble I used to or the void feeling #my PTSD symptom improvement is still there it’s just anxiety and ADHD kicking my ASS

[snackugaki]

The Rona couldn’t kill me and I will use this mistake to make it every turtle body’s problem

#fancomic shitposting #fanart shitposting #hello my name is snackugaki #and i'm a professional turtle bully #i had alll my best shitposting ideas while coughing my lungs out #until I can taste coffee properly again #haven't bullied the Next Mutation turtles in a bit tho #until warby parker came along #i just had to deal with my glasses just ready to backflip off my face #the question now is #did any of the animators wear glasses #or was it just a detail they skimped on #(it's most likely a detail skimp tbh) #i don't usually censor my swears #unless it's funny #what in the french bread fuck am I doing with my illustration degree #being a menace to fictional characters #a worthy post-degree endeavor #using my powers for absolute shenanigans #jests japes and jokes

[ganondoodle]

the way i think about my stories can be so annoying bc there will be a point when i reach a certain story beat after which i dont know how to continue, and the way i do find are usually ... not good .. or i imagine it is not so i think man i cant do that thats so dumb and annoying i gotta think of something better, but then i cant come up with anything better bc once i got a solution to soemthign i cant think of anything smarter- and then i get bored of it as a whole bc man, this really was stupid from the start wasnt it

(this is all some stupid rambling and does NOT represent anythign that will happen in destiny, i swear the actual story with a proper end makes much more sense)

listen to me rambling but this morning i thought about the essentialyl non-canon good "ending" of destiny, a kind of self indulgent dumb lil alternative where everyone lives blah blah, but then of course it cant just end there, bc the end goal of the both of them is to find out the gods plan and secrets and also kill the gods, as you do, then i got a certain point that i found cool (which initially came from the whole thoguht of what if zelda game but you could play demise and it took place after the alternative ending in which the goal is to get rid of the gods) where the fight one of the gods but are kinda losing and as the god is trying to devour demise, as gods do, he abandons his body and his spirit/core, who cant exist without his body so hes still connected through the spirits tail , and climbs through the gods interdimensional weird 'mouth' while its trying to rip him apart to reach the core of the god in a last attempt to take them down with him, while hylia is fighting to keep the god from severing the thin connection he still has to his body but fails just as he reaches the core so the god is killed but his core is immediatelly starting to dissolve and hylia manages to grab his core and put it back into his body and flee from whatever is happeing to that dead god back into hyrule

he survives but is incredibly weak as his spirit has lost half of itself (blade spirits are also forged throguh sacrificing part of their spirit/core permantently but this is besides the point, none of this makes sense anyway), something he obviously hates but cant do anything about really, once a part of their core is gone its gone (not like lost energy but gone gone) but the core is also slowly dissolving further which is a death sentence with no way to act against- then theres a whole quest to .. well, stop that, while hes falling back into self hatred and fear bc hes now so weak that hylia can break his bones without any effort if she were to treat him in any way similar to before and to a deity that all their life was never so fragile, one whos most defining feature IS his power and strength to keep going no matter what, thats gotta be pretty existentially dreadful (and also its a set back to know that they cant just go fight the gods together like that, theres still two more and he cant fight like that)

then i wondered ok what if then, even if the time doesnt quite line up but at this point the entire prophecy cant be done anymore either so everythings out of order, the cloud barrier weakens and zelda is abducted (not by ghirahim) and link goes and tries to find her, but since everythigns not as it should have been he meets hylia and demise (disguised tho) and they immediately know who he is and then go along and try to help link find his friend (hylia does it bc she got the idea to make him find the triforce and wish demises spirit to be restored, since only a mortal can do that and links the most likely candidate to be able to go through the trials of it since he was supposed to already, even if the circumstances are different- demise goes along with it bc hes still trying to deal with essentially slowly dying and not knowing what to do with himself since hes afraid to get into fights or similar, much to his disdain, so hes acting like a companion of sorts, a mentor figure in a way, not knowing what hylias plan is)

i found the idea kinda interesting to have them be like a lil group that goes on links adventured with him, but with strangely intricate knowledge of how the dungeons work, link still doing the heavy lifting but them being there like parents cheering on their kid in a competetion, all the while putting the whole puzzle and dungeon aspect in a way different light bc half of them were never completed (they wanted to escape the prophecy after all) so they all work completely differently, some bosses being maybe some of the gods creatures instead (like the skysw guardians)- the mid journey point being that they find zelda, and who kidnapped her, it being one of the shiekah having most closely worked with hylia before the whole -break the prophecy- thing started (idk if it would be impa .. idea is neat) and is hellbent on making the gods plan work out like it was supposed to, kinda like the inverse of the games plot, so they got ahold of zelda as part of making her into the new hylia (despite hylia being .. right there, but they dont believe it is her truly since the true tm hylia would never betray the gods- ALSO a paralel to how the downfall of demises world worked bc his mortals turned on him after he started destroying their version of the triforce in the belief destroying it would be the only way to save mortals from going to war agaisnt each other for it over and over, mortals believing that their true deity was gone and replaced by a demon despite demise being ..right there)

after link wins the fight and frees zelda from them they in a kind of last effort to do anything against their group they stab demise, normally that wouldnt do shit against him but in his already fading away situation it basically puts him from very slowly dying to actually dying, as a reaction to it hylia kills the mortal (maybe impa idk), which is the first time she does anything like that to a mortal but i like the idea of her being actually super ruthless when it comes to things she cares about

now with a much more dire time limit hylia sends demise back to essentialyl go hide in her temple and try to not die and to trust her having a plan to make this all still work out- he does and once he is away she reveals pretyt much the entire story around why and what is happenign to link and zelda, hylia herself cant go above the clouds as the barrier is still partially up and she cant do anything to reach the triforce either - so she sends link and zelda to go do that, and it works out in the end bc even knowing the truth know, demise was with them on half of their journey so they know and care, he WILL be mad about them wasting their wish on him (even if he is still happy to be alive- i imagined scene where hes watching himself fall apart and die, alone in hylias temple, having to come to terms with the fact that after everything they had went through hed still die alone- it made me cry while thinking about it, yes, yes you are allowed to laugh)

i didnt get that much further but his spirit was essentially reset to when he was in his prime back in the day through the triforces power- something he both likes and despises, it being the gods power of all things that lets him live again, but also lol to use it agaisnt them by giving another chance to the gods greatest enemy- the next plan is of course to kill the next one of the gods but much better prepared, as they cant just go and do the same thign again (neither wants that), one idea was that hylia goes on a secret quest to try and bring back courage (the third deity that demise killed when his world was still thriving) but it involves diving back into the realm of the gods so she doesnt tell him at first, i do think theyd go together in the end, not to fight but to release courage; the whole thing is also an elaborate revenge plot of hylia, how dare the gods do that to him!!

anyway thats most of what i got from that thinking session but its so frustrating bc none of this is even in the actual comic (since it ends in a way that leads into canon skysw, this is some brain fart nooo i want blorbo to live and succeed!!) and its also convoluted and kinda dumb, the idea to inverse the games plot in a way (instead of it being ghirahim trying to bring demise back its someones plan to make the gods prophecy happen no matter what) is neat but i cant have demise almost dying be the thing THREE TIMES, it kinda undercuts his character and is way too much centered around him, all three times also more or less involving it needing help from others to get him back, when his whole thing should be being unkillable bc he jsut keeps refusing to die, also hylia is, as of now in this spaghetti derailment of random thoughts, way too much of a side character, which i dont like, and it all would make people not like demise when im trying to do the exact opposite of that in the main actual comic

i know being super self indulgent and jsut doing what you want is good for the most part but theres a point where it becomes stale cringy fantasies about my blorbo tm and i wanna write at least decent stories- in the end none of this matters anyway as the actual REAL story of destiny is already pretty long and i got no plan to write that alternative 'good ending' anyway and i mostly just thought about it bc "i dont want blorbo to die :(" and "wouldnt it be fun if the entire plot of the game would get messed up and now demise link hylia and zelda etc can all just drink tea together and make plans to get rid of the gods that wanted them all to suffer needlessly"

i probably shouldnt post this as it was really only a vent to get out dumb thoughts from my brain before they poison me into losing interest of the biggest comic project i have worked on so far but i am unable to keep these things to myself so

if you read all of this, im sorry (´。＿。｀)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #dare i tag it as that #long post #dont read unless you want to cringe #and yes i know even bad art and stories have value #and i know im not as bad as i always think #but this really is the kind of stuff that makes me embarrassed to even be able to think #its all shortened and badly written #but some scenes i got so clearly in my head its like a movie #and those scenes make my brain go wooooooooooooooooo even if they make no sense and i cant fit them together properly #uh oh self doubt #sorry im neither a professional artist nor writer #im autistic with a blorbo and one skill that i only have bc i didnt know what to do with my brains rapid train of thoughts other than draw #big time for “oh no i made people think i am better than i actually am- i am a liar and a cheater oh god” kind of thoughts #the want to just do whatever you want VS wanting to make soemthing of value VS not wanting to embarrass yourself

[theangel-aziraphale]

Hey Aziraphale! I asked Crowley about something- about potentially getting turned into a non-human, and he told me that this was a horrible idea because the only people who can help me are God and a fae person. I just want to be clear Crowley is in no way guilty here.

But I wrote something out...

If I were to ask- and in this situation I would preface this with "I wish", but I'm not going to do that right now just so no one can do this right now before I'm ready, "to be turned into a non-human, yet still humanoid creature, still easily recognizable as myself without having to communicate who I am to people I know, without causing any more bodily pain that I already have and without any curses and major negative side-effects, leaving my mind unaltered, but possibly with extra magical or physical abilities, AND if anything goes wrong by my definition, I will be able to be turned back to my normal".

Do... You think I could possibly get away with minimal consequences?

I see! Well, I personally wouldn’t like for you to allow a fae to change you, mostly because their magic always come with a twist… however… that sounds like a very solid idea!

I think so! You’ve even included a clause to be able to turn back whenever you disagree with the transformation!… Worst case scenario we could convince the fae creature to help if something happened!

#Just in case it needs to be said: Do not mess with fae creatures unless you know what you are doing or are a professional! #good omens rp #good omens #go aziraphale #aziraphale #good omens aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens asks #good omens askblog #aziraphale posts