New Used Evil Amulet

Stamps this at the top of all my original posts: 

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💀 Introduction

👁 Emile, 27, they/them

🏰 Totally normal about high fantasy, historical fiction, swashbucklers, gothic fiction, fairytales and mythology.

🦇 My main is @rabbitrah

🧪 My sci-fi side is @protectspock

🐀 I'm literally just vibing.

🔪TERFs and white nationalists go fuck yourselves challenge 🔪

🚫 Actively spreading hate about RPF, Harry Potter, and the Game of Thrones franchise. Live Laugh Love 🚫

Musidora was a French silent film actress. She famously played the role of Irma Vep in Les Vampires

Sometimes people will reblog my Tolkien name translation post and say something like "but people don't actually translate names by meaning" when like. Yeah, they do.

There are four ways to handle a name when translating works:

1. Don't do anything. Leave it exactly as it is.

2. Transliterate. Change the alphabet or script, but that's all.

3. Replace it with a similar name in the language you are translating into (When translating into English, this is Anglicizing)

4. Translate the name so that the meaning is preservered.

There are also some in-between names, such as Mumintrollet in Swedish becoming Moomintroll in English, which is a combination of 3 and 4.

Actually I just need to give another shout out to Jaskier for being THE meaning-preserving-translation bitch of all time like

So many of these translators were like "the reader needs to understand that he is a little flower..." and they were right.

I feel like the example in 3 used to be more common in past in translation and in media too. Now its more usual to leave the name as it is (if the script is latin).

As an example, i have old edition of Jane Eyre and its called "Jana Eyrová" in Czech. Jane gets turned into "Jana" since thats czech version of the name, while the last name gets added "-ová" for female surname. The modern edition/translations I have seen just use the OG english name of the book.

Another question with names is whether its first name first or last name first. Western tradition goes with first name first, but lot of asian countries do opposite, China for example.

everyone check out my new ya fantasy novel called a court of blood, bone, ash, roses, thorns, fire, ice, stone, ravens, enemies to lovers, fake dating, two number 9s, a number 5 large, and an extra large fries

Jake Seward said he'd give Renfield 3 days to get ride of his flys. It's been longer than that. Which begs the questions:

Count Dracula and Renfield

Suggested by @mirkwoodest

My job is kicking my ass lately and these silly people are making me feel better.👍❤️

yo that guy is weak to magic damage lets fucking kill him

remember what they took from you!! remember what could have been!! if they needed the bard to be dishevelled!! the blueprint is right here!!

pour one out my brothers in arms

Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

reeling back in disgust every time i remember that my favorite media is also consumed by the greater public and not only my small group of incredibly correct and incredibly autistic mutuals

nap time

I hope my friend Jonathan is fine I haven't heard from him for a while

fuck current fandoms and modern fandom drama. let's bring back the due south ray wars.

That's what I did at age 15 but then I went back like a year later and watched the rest and yeah..... I'm glad I did. Ray K my beloved.

Michael Powell’s BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE restoration coming in 2023!

Babička / Granny (1971) dir. by Antonín Moskalyk.