I'm trying to get back into tumblr, but I've been gone so long that I'm sure people have changed names a dozen times...so I apologize in advance if I fail to tag people or screw your name up. Please just tell me and I'll remember who you are, I promise. Missed y'all.
she's so beautiful
Hey all! Proud to announce that a project I've designed/wrote/storyboarded/directed at Make is finally ramping up to release. Check out the trailer!
PS. another trailer to a certain personal film will be dropping sometime early this year..
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH VIEWS ON THIS TRAILER @_@ THAT MUST BE FIXEEDDDD
I bet after Aragorn became king he would continue to be Just Some Chill As Fuck Dude. You go to the market and there’s the king of Gondor. Buying turnips.
I firmly believe Aragorn gave his minders the slip on the regular, seeing as he's a) Aragorn and b) knew Minas Tirith before anyone who's bothering to chase after him was born. He is absolutely Just Some Guy about town with a frequency that gives anyone in politics conniption fits.
Faramir is SO JEALOUS
What?!? Faramir is probably right there next to him! Don't forget that Faramir was also a Ranger (just of the South). And you know Faramir never got to do any fun stuff like sneaking out of the castle when he was a kid, because Denethor was such a hard-ass.
I bet they sneak out together and go to taverns, and then pretend to have loud arguments about weird things like Should Quenya replace Sindarin as the Official Language? Or who would win in a fight, a Cave Troll or a Mountain Troll?
And then Farmir would show him the new bridge they're constructing in Osgiliath, under the direction of a few dwarf friends.
Chocolate and vanilla dragons that are best friends
#61 & #62 - 可可 (kěkě / cocoa) & 香草 (xiāngcǎo / vanilla) - Ironically, this position keeps them both very warm 🍫🍨🍦dail
[ID from alt: Illustration of two dragons, one with brown fur and curved, triangular horns, the other with cream-colored fur and black horns like vanilla beans. They sit cuddled together inside a large waffle cone, in a swirl similar to soft serve ice cream. Behind them is a heart colored half in cream and half in brown. On the left is text that reads "可可 Cocoa" and on the right "香草 Vanilla". Near the bottom of the cone, an artist signature reads "@daily-dragon-drawing". End ID]
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Gotta reblog again
Go have a nice day everyone ☀️
duality of man
Running a passenger rail company
Tnt to bedrock with the whole family.
So much translation discourse just boils down to monolinguals not understanding that "coolness" doesn't translate across languages, and you need to re-add it manually on the other end.
Spanish and French understand the anglicism so just say "eso es muy cool" or "c'est très cool" if the context is not particularly formal
No no, not literally the word "cool" I mean the [concept of coolness]. Things that sound cool, poetic, funny, dramatic, etc in one language will completely fail to land if you simply go 1-to-1 word equivalents.
In the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist, the antagonists are named after the seven deadly sins, in English. As in, rather than the Japanese word, "Greed" is still Greed in the original.
Because loan words from English are often pretty "cool", as with your Spanish and French example.
But this presents a problem, because, to give them a bit of flair, the antagonists are sometimes given a proper Japanese adjective along with their name, to make a sort of title of sorts.
"Greedy Greed"
The italicized part would be a Japanese adjective, and the bolded part is an English loanword. This is fine in Japanese, but would be totally nonsense in an English translation.
After all, it's common sense to keep the names the same, duh, and obviously the whole point of what you're doing is to translate the Japanese.
Greedy Greed. You cannot call him that.
You can't go 1-to-1. To keep the [concept of coolness], you have to identify what made the original cool, and then recreate it in the new language.
And here, we have a foreign word, and a native word, both meaning the same thing, paired together to give an antagonist a cool sounding title. So how do we do that in English.
Well, the seven deadly sins, being Christian and Catholic and all, have fancy names in Latin. Or well, they just sound fancy in English, because Latin was the language of intellectuals for a long long time.
And in fact, while we also have the word "greed", English has a fancier sounding word that means the same thing, but whose etymology comes from the fancy Latin. That might give a similar cool-loanword feeling, right?
Let's try it.
"Greed the Avaricious"
Oh yeah. That's definitely, undeniably, "cool".
As someone who wants to work in translation, I've started thinking of it like this:
Translation and localization are like a chemical reaction in the sense that you are altering something about the source materials, but also in the sense that there is something inherently lost in the process. In science, it's heat that is produced and dissipated, and in translation, it's something unquantifiable that @aokozaki calls "coolness."
The difference between a translation and a localization is, in my opinion, whether or not an attempt was made to add something back after that loss. A translation looks for the meaning and conveys it correctly; a localization conveys it artfully, with the slight alterations and changes and bells and whistles that make the material hit just as hard--even if it's different, letter-to-letter--as the original.
I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years
It’s full of plastic bread clips
It’s for Science
At the risk of loosing some mystery, I think I should add some context:
There’s this website-I mean, scientific organization called the Holotypic Occlupanid Reasurch Group.
They are a group of abiologists who study and classify Bread clips.
I found a species that has not yet been described:
Yay for citizen science 👍
wtf?
Apparently HORG is widely appreciated by pediatricians since knowing exactly what kind of Occlupanid a child may have swallowed makes removing it safely much easier
IIRC this is actually part of the reason HORG was started. A man swallowed a breadclip and the clip closed around part of his tissue linings (in his intestines I think?). The specific shape and flexibility of the clip were significant determining factors in the removal process, as some bread clips have spikes and prongs that would have made extraction more complicated. They started the taxonomy so they could work out extraction techniques for each type.
are you fucking kidding me occlu like oculus or close and panid like bread. its a fancy word for breadcloser
happy very specific archive thursday, everyone
Short comic about The Vault with some wolchefant flavor
There's something so depressing about being an artist on tumblr these days that I'm finding hard to articulate. Years ago, shitty one-hour sketches I posted would at least get double digits in the notes. These days, I can post commissions that took over fifty hours and get 5 notes at most. Blah blah do art for yourself, sure, but the important part is -
I Rarely Get Commissions Anymore.
Where I used to have to limit how many comms I could accept at once because I'd get that many requests, now I'm lucky to get two when I open up coms again. People don't reblog the art I do for myself, so no one finds my commission info that way. People don't reblog the art I do for commissions, so no one finds my commission info that way. People don't reblog commissions posts. A couple likes will get tossed at it from people who don't actually reach out in interest, so it doesn't circulate and it's just me reblogging it into the void, desperately hoping for some modicum of cash. I feel like people don't understand these days how little money most artists are bringing in, and the anxiety that comes with drastically declining circulation of art on websites like tumblr. Right now, for example, I'm desperate to earn as much money as I can during the summer because what I earn this summer? Has to last me rent for seven months straight to help offset the inevitable drain of all the savings I have. Normally some of that would come from art - nowadays, I can't rely on getting even a single commission.
I think this anxiety and this real material concern is what is behind all those "please for the love of god reblog art/posts you like" posts that people love to get angry about. If you haven't been here for years, it can be hard to see the ways in which this vanishing reblog culture has severely hit artists and forced many away from this platform. I don't want to leave tumblr or stop posting my art here, but good god is it depressing to see this site, and I cannot stress this enough, almost COMPLETELY VANISH as a revenue stream. I don't know what the solution to this culture shift is, but I do know that it's causing this site to deteriorate and forcing artists to move elsewhere and invest less effort on tumblr because it no longer makes any financial sense. I know that everyone is tired of hearing this, and fair enough, because there are plenty of other artists with louder voices than mine saying similar things, but please, if you like some art, consider reblogging it. Even if you have no interest in ever commissioning that artist. Others might see it and be interested, and that's how most new clients are made. Artists have rent on the line.
hey. personality quiz right here right now. What did you do at recess. :)