Be open to the possibility that people are speaking nicely about you behind your back. People are conspiring about ways to help you. People advocating for you. People are genuinely rooting for you behind your back.
Me: Time to play Chinese Openbound so I can see what the alpha trolls are like, reading Homestuck can be tough given my literacy level but I’m sure it’ll be fine-
Kankri, eagerly waiting to ruin my life and make me question all the decisions that led me to this point:
Me squinting at this for way too long trying to figure out why he’s typing 9 and 6 when he does.
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‘I really fucking hate my friends’, or at least 'I really fucking hate these particular friends of mine’, kinda hard to tell with the wording? Except the Chinese goes a level further because a more literal translation would be 'I really fucking hate my friends to the death’. Using 'to death’ as an intensifier is common in Chinese, kinda similar to using 'like/as hell’, 'it hurts like hell, it’s hot as hell’, 'that’s dumb as hell’, etc.
To be totally fair I’m not feeling terribly fond of a few of them right now either given hOW THEY TYPE/TALK.
Oh of course Kurloz has to 'talk’ in this fancy calligraphy script that… Honestly it’s not super hard to decipher (some of the calligraphy I’ve seen is just kinda nuts in that regard), but the more complex characters I’m not familiar with are a pain. Look at some of this shit:
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
Every day I think about how Lexaeus was deus ex machina’d out of Chain of Memories because Riku actually beating him on his own was too unbelievable. Which makes sense, seeing how Lexaeus launched Riku into the air with his axe so hard that he crashed into the 30 ft/~10m high ceiling. So they went ‘uhhh we don’t plan on really using this guy anymore so who’s going to kill him… Not Riku… Not Repliku… Not Sora… Definitely not Axel. Who does that leave?’
'What if Xehanort’s heartless that was vanquished in the previous game suddenly revived and possessed Riku?’
'Sure, that’s more believable than Axel doing it.’
Me: Time to play Chinese Openbound so I can see what the alpha trolls are like, reading Homestuck can be tough given my literacy level but I’m sure it’ll be fine-
Kankri, eagerly waiting to ruin my life and make me question all the decisions that led me to this point:
Me squinting at this for way too long trying to figure out why he’s typing 9 and 6 when he does.
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‘I really fucking hate my friends’, or at least 'I really fucking hate these particular friends of mine’, kinda hard to tell with the wording? Except the Chinese goes a level further because a more literal translation would be 'I really fucking hate my friends to the death’. Using 'to death’ as an intensifier is common in Chinese, kinda similar to using 'like/as hell’, 'it hurts like hell, it’s hot as hell’, 'that’s dumb as hell’, etc.
To be totally fair I’m not feeling terribly fond of a few of them right now either given hOW THEY TYPE/TALK.
every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok
Lumpfish come in a variety of shapes and colors.
[He scoops up the fish, it spits water and he turns it toward the camera]
This one is stumpy and green. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is what a normal lumpfish looks like. It is more elongated, but still a vibrant blue color. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is one of the stumpiest ones we have. Its hump is very high. It is very stumpy, but yet very beautiful, and very powerful.
[He pans over a lot of fish, all looking up at the camera]
My fish army is ever growing, and soon I will over throw the world. Very beautiful, very powerful.
because of this tiktok, i frequently murmur “very beautiful, very powerful” at myself, and i cannot recommend it enough.
Anonymous:
They definitely are, moral characters and good characters are far more likeable than shitty ones with no redeeming qualities who end up in toxic relationships with someone who deserves better than their abusive ass hope this helps <3
Did you even read the whole post, sweetie, or did you skim it? Lol go reread it and try again.
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