ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

you understand

You're right. Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight, son of Shmi Skywalker, The Chosen One, wouldn't treat me like this.

He'd treat you worse

Bruno Redondo - Batgirl & Nightwing

Ten hajzl ohýbá prackou reflektor! Kdo pak má ty rozlámané a pozohýbané antény opravovat. Být tam, tak to nepřežije…

not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’

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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.

idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers

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Interesting fact I think you didn't know (and which I've learned from my chemistry teacher that worked in different branches of the industry his entire life):

Czech people are kind of radiation resistant because we literally live on radioactive soil (the entire country is filled with uranium. When Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radiation, she was using Czech uranium).

And that's also why we handled the Chernobyl radiation so well - we're used to it and basically immune to it.

That's right folks, Czechs are basically radioactive

i'm sorry but we're what

also actually yeah that'd check out ig

You know what would make a GREAT plot twist? Fidelity.

And yes I mean in the context of romantic relationships, but not only in the context of romantic relationships. Or did AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER mean nothing to you?

not to hijack this post but it reminds me of when my dad’s best friend and his wife had just had their first child, and he had life-threatening complications and went into surgery immediately. as soon as my dad heard he got in the car and drove three hours to be there. he walked into the hospital room, and his best friend wasn’t even surprised. with tears in his eyes he said “I know you. I knew you would come.”

despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????

Orc BBQ would be fucking unreal

After the war of the ring people are trying to figure out what to do with the fucked up bird that the Witch King of Angmar rode in on. A few days later, a wagon train of orcs arrives at the gate of Minas Tirith with cartloads of flour, breadcrumbs, and fry oil.

And on that day, Grond, Hammer of the Underworld, was gutted of it's terrible purpose, reforged, transformed, reborn, into the greatest smoker in all of middle earth.

Your health bar is going up as you give this sphiel

+30 HP, +20 Stm

Thinking about this scene and, sure, it's a reference to the line "a more civilized age" in the original trilogy but also I really fucking love it as a metaphor. The Jedi are known for using their lightsabers, the weapon that is nearly synonymous with them, the one that takes a lifetime of training and the kind of precision that can only come from someone using the Force, that a lightsaber is a constant reminder that a Jedi must have care with everything they do because of their abilities, the things they can do. There's a reason the story group commented that, almost any time a lightsaber ends up in the hands of non-trained Force-sensitives, it ends badly. Here you have the final fight of the clone wars, this is General Grievous, this is the end of this war that has dragged them all through hell for the last four years, Obi-Wan was specifically sent because, with Dooku dead, Grievous was the last one standing that could rally the Separatists, this was it, this was the end. This is how the Clone Wars ends--with a Jedi stripped of his precise, controlled weapon and grasping for a less than perfect solution because this needs to finally fucking be over, he needs to goddamned finish this. I love this as a metaphor for the Jedi's position in the war--if Obi-Wan doesn't grab that blaster, Grievous is going to hit him with that Electrostaff and he's going to die. His lightsaber is flat-out not an option. The Jedi's choices are whittled down to: Imperfect solution or die. So he chooses the imperfect solution because it's better than death, it's better than letting Grievous go, and there's still so much to be salvaged from this. He doesn't use his Jedi weapon, but it's not like he's suddenly no longer a Jedi because of it, he will still be a Jedi at heart and will still go back to doing his best to hold up their ideals. This is why Lucas says, "Are [the Jedi] going to stick with their moral rules and all be killed, which makes it irrelevant, or do they help save the Republic?“ (Star Wars Archives 1999-2005) I like this moment as a metaphor because I see it as illustrating the point of the Jedi's involvement in the war: It's not perfectly the Jedi way, it's them stripped of their preferred methods, but the heart of the reasoning is the same, that if they don't fight, if they don't take the less shitty option, then everyone dies. Obi-Wan ending the war with a blaster rather than a lightsaber, because it was either that or die, is a fun callback to the OT, but also shows the two paths placed in front of them, the lack of options available, and just what exactly was on the line.

one day, you’ll look up and realise you’re home

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oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????

#turns out he gave up easy #he gave up so easy

professor shen qingqiu, the most confusing man in academia

(redraw of that indiana jones scene)

Sure you're "child free" now. But in 20 years when your riches are vast and you rule with an iron fist you're gonna feel real fucking embarrassed when you're ready to be usurped and the only guy scheming enough to poison your wine Is a weird cousin with vague familial connections instead of your flesh and blood idiot son that wants the throne a few years sooner

i guarantee you i will not be usurped by some cousin, i will have personally selected and groomed my murderer for success like a roman emperor