part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[(Anonymous)]

"You know, I don’t really understand the people who own any merch or form of literature (I’m really focusing on manga) from Japan or other countries if they don’t understand the language.

Like, I know that there are people who are multilingual, but to the people who aren’t ??????? How are you supposed to enjoy it if you don’t understand it?

Are you wait for the writing to speak to you?"

thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

You would enjoy the pictures? Or the item itself? Idek what the issue is

[(Anonymous)]

I have French movies and I don't know the language very well. I enjoy them for the acting performance, and because I like the subject matter so I at least get a gist of what's going on in them.

[(Anonymous)]

It was on some of the maintenance posts. I don't have the link with me right now, but I did recently try to import some entries+comments from my old lj rp account and only the entries got imported. It also seems that I wasn't the only one with this problem and a lot of users can't import comments either. It's really frustrating. :T

[zeetee]

I have a random Japanese volume of Fruits Basket, one of the bilingual Cardcaptor Sakuras, and a Quebecois Tsubasa. I love them because I like languages, I like seeing the different interpretations of the stories, and I like having random stuff from other countries like coins and books and clothes. At any rate, I own english versions of all three so it's not like I'm lost '3' More egregious is the old Chinese children's textbook I own moooostly because of the cute little illustrations, haha :'Da

(And in the case of the Fruits Basket volume it informed and cemented my dislike for Tokyopop's utter mishandling of the whole thing, oh my god how could you take a book with such wonderfully fine lineart, blow up the images to fit larger pages, and then have the gall to crop off the edges of the original artwork anyway?!)

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed! I think the more they update lj, the more incompatible it becomes with dw.

[(Anonymous)]

People can scan those books and scanlators can scanlate? I don't see the issue of owning them, tbh.

And what if I want to enjoy the pretty pictures, eh? Eeeehhhh?????

[(Anonymous)]

Well, at the last convention I went to, my roommates bought a trove of Tiger & Bunny R18 doujins and they had a massive reading party. They just made up whatever lines they wanted and read it that way. Sometimes they didn't even bother to read right-to-left. And none of them read Japanese at all, and they only asked me what one thing actually was. It was hilarious.
So you can definitely do it for the lols, man.

[(Anonymous)]

Are subtitles not a thing in these movies?

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, they're French imports that haven't been released with English subs

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.thankskillingthemusical.com/ThanksKilling__The_Musical/Home.html

I didn't know they made it into a musical...

[(Anonymous)]

Is there Gobble Gobble Motherfucker (reprise)

[(Anonymous)]

No but singing, dancing, blood, tits are in the first scene!

Re: ooc

[lux_n_burg]

Yes, I know that. ;3; /sends anti-stress hugs

❤❤❤

(And a cute picture!)

[(Anonymous)]

I "read" comics even before I learned to read. Just looked at the pretty pictures and imagined what's happening.

[(Anonymous)]

hiiiii

what are your favorite recipes?

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Hello anon friend!

[(Anonymous)]

What if we started the meme quarterly thing up again?

What are some kind of fixed "columns" you'd like to see? Like a meme digest, RP summaries, writing/art challenges or prompts, a spotlight on some of the threads you found funny or interesting, book reviews, sports reviews, historical fact of the month, etc etc.

And would you want to see it semimonthly/monthly/bimonthly/every quarter?

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone here speak Dutch?

[yuuago]

I wish I could read all those doujinshi I have piled up, but I have zero interest in learning Japanese. I really wish they were in a language that I have interest in learning.

That said... there are plenty of things to appreciate other than the text. They're comics, so there is the art, for one thing. Some of them are absolutely gorgeous!

And the way the doujin itself is put together is something that I can appreciate too... this part is a little bit more difficult to describe but doujinshi aside, basically I love collecting books that are especially pretty and/or have a lot of thought put into cover/presentation/how they're put together, how they look, etc. And that comes through with doujinshi too. Sure, a lot of them are designed in a relatively unremarkable way, but with others it's really clear that someone went the extra mile with considering not only what the art looks like, but how the overall thing is presented as an art book, and that's really cool.

Also, with a lot of them - or at least, a lot of my favourites - it's pretty easy to follow the plot, especially if it's a historical setting.

... I also own a couple of books that aren't in English but also aren't comics; one in French (which I really struggle to read) and one in Old English (which I can't read at all). And a Japanese volume of Hetalia too. But this is because I enjoyed the English translations and wanted to have a copy of the original version too, for sentiment's sake.

[(Anonymous)]

Jazeker.

[(Anonymous)]

Would it be possible for you to translate Herman van Veen's answer to the following question? I tried Google translator, but it left a few phrases so mangled that I'd rather see what a human has to say about it.

If it's too much work, no problem. But thanks if you can take a look!

Wat ik ook verwarrend vond was dat Ollie de Ooievaar halverwege de serie van geslacht veranderde. Eerst wordt Ollie aangeduid als vrouw en daarna als man. Waarom was dat?
Ook die dingen gebeuren, er wordt heel wat af verbouwd in de wereld. Ik vond het een leuk idee, juist bij de ooievaar, de babybezorger. Ollie heeft wellicht een keuze willen hebben, want als je altijd maar jongetjes en meisjes bezorgt wil je zo af en toe misschien wel de een of de ander zijn. Hij vliegt nu door het leven als man, maar misschien wordt hij ooit weer een vrouw.

[(Anonymous)]

Good morning! (Or afternoon or evening!)

#EndFathersDay was a 4chan prank. It fooled some people on Twitter but it achieved nothing

[(Anonymous)]

Those tweets were not from feminists but from 4chan manchildren. Shocker.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/williamhenderson/100013807/endfathersday-was-a-4chan-prank-it-fooled-some-people-on-twitter-but-it-achieved-nothing/