laskulls:

when I was like 10 I asked my friend “what do you think of this cute boy in school” and she said “I wanna snap his bra strap” and that’s stayed with me all my life.

gastrophobia:

Friendly reminder!

1percentcharge:

1percentcharge:

1percentcharge:

blood is so cool

its like a magic liquid that keeps you alive. AND its bold red like the most cuntservy color possible and a little blood on the outside of your body and everyone’s attention is on you. It commands the room. AND it tastes good

this is a normal take ! 👍

chongoblog:

“average u.s president is indicted for 2 felonies" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president indicted for 0 felonies. Crimes Donal, who consistently and obviously breaks the law and has been indicted for 91 felonies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

hera-the-wizard:

mitzo:

hera-the-wizard:

mitzo:

hera-the-wizard:

mitzo:

hera-the-wizard:

testostergnome:

mitzo:

testostergnome:

*sticks my hand in your nucleus and swirls your dna around*

I’m a prokaryote

using a fork and twirling it like spaghetti

aaatttctga caaacgttac agggtgctgc tctgcaacgg tcaccagact cccgctctcc aacaaggtac tcacagcagt agacaggtca ctgcgttgtc cttgagatct aggagctcca cactcgataa gtaagttgcc ttctttactg cagtattctt tattctgctg gtctgttcct ttcgctttct cgatgtggca gcgggcacca aaataccact tcactttatt aaaagtttgc ttcttcacaa aattagcgaa cccctgtagg tggggtgttc ggccttcctc attaccctcc tcgccaacaa taaaataatc aaatagggag attgggagct cccgtatttt cttgcgctcg tcttcggaag gattattgag agtgaacacc caccttttat gtggttgggg tccgcttctt ccattcttct tactgggcat gttgctgctg aggtgctgcc gaggtgctgc cgctgccgaa gtgcgctggt aatacttaca gcgcacttct ttcgttttca gctatgacgt atccaaggag gcgtttccgc agacgaagac accgcccccg cagccatctt ggccagatcc tccgccgccg cccctggctc gtccaccccc gccaccgtta ccgctggaga aggaaaaatg gcatcttcaa cacccgcctc tcccgcacca tcggttatac tgtcaagaaa accacagtca gaacgccctc ctggaatgtg gacatgatga gatttaatat taatgatttt cttcccccag gagggggctc aaaccccctc actgtgccct ttgaatacta cagaataagg aaggttaagg ttgaattctg gccctgctcc ccaatcaccc agggtgacag gggagtgggc tccactgctg ttattctaga tgataacttt gtaacaaagg ccaatgccct aacctatgac ccctatgtaa actactcctc ccgccatacc ataacccagc ccttctccta ccactcccgg tactttaccc cgaaacctgt ccttgatggg acaatcgatt acttccaacc caataacaaa agaaatcaac tctggctgag actacaaact actggaaatg tagaccatgt aggcctcggc actgcgttcg aaaacagtat atacgaccag gactacaata tccgtataac catgtatgta caattcagag aatttaatct taaagacccc ccacttaacc ctaagtgaat aataaaaacc attacgaagt gataaaaaag actcagtaat ttatttcata tggaaattca gggcatgggg gggaaagggt gacgaactgg cccccttcct ccgtggattg ttctgtagca ttcttccaaa ataccaagga agtaatcctc cgatagagag cttctacagc taggacagca gttgaggagt accattccaa cggggtctga ttgctggtaa tcagaatact gcgggccaaa aaaggtacag ttccaccttt agtctctaca gtcaatggat atcgatcaca cagtctcagt agatcatccc acggcagcca accataaaag tcatcaataa caaccacttc ttcaccatgg taaccatccc accacttgtt tcgaggtggt ttccagtatg tggtttccgg gtctgcaaaa ttagcagccc atttgctttt accacaccca ggtggcccca caatgacgtg tacattggtc ttccaatcac gcttctgcat tttcccgctc actttcaaaa gttcagccag cccgcgg

I’m not translating all of that

lass it’s a genome

did you just

make a genome?

no joke in it

you just posted a genome sequence?

yeah, t-something bacteriophage if memory serves

why

eh

githvyrik:

scherzersbaldspot:

githvyrik:

githvyrik:

if you think “oh well medieval dances aren’t romantic, you’re just in a group with a bunch of other people going in a circle, you can’t pull your partner close or spin them around in your arms it’s not as intimate as a waltz or something” you’re just an absolute fool and you lack imagination. you wanna tell me that there’s nothing romantic about being in a large circle of people dancing but you can only pay attention to the one next to you, who’s throwing their head back in laughter, maybe somewhat breathless, their face flushed, their eyes a little wild as they look at you and give you a dazzling smile and squeeze your hand just a little tighter…………………………………..

um.

OP cmon . Look at their little infield dance circle! Going in a circle w other people is so joyous

Originally posted by kitnita

thank you for explaining I was SO confused omg

fanku19:

Advantage of having a malewife

danielcalmdown:

It’s tru

kfcdivorce:

MORAL COMPASS

devpalmer:

devpalmer:

military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

centrally-unplanned:

We (somewhat rightly) mock the 2000’s era fansub translation notes for their otaku fixations and privileging of trivia over the media, but they should be understood as serving their purpose for a bit of a different era in the anime fandom. Take this classic:

Like, its so obvious, right? Just say “pervert”, you don’t need the note! Which is true, for like a ‘normie’ audience member who just wants to watch A TV Show - but no one watching, uh *quick google* “Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne” in 1999 is that person. The audience is weebs, and for them the fact that show is Japanese is a huge selling point. They want it to feel as 'anime’ as possible; and in the west language was one of the core signifiers of anime-ness. 2004 con-goers calling their friends “-kun” and throwing in “nani?” into conversations was the way this was done, and alongside that a lexicon of western anime fandom terminology was born. Seeing “ecchi” on the screen is, to this person, a better viewing experience - it enhances their connection to otaku identity the show is providing, and reinforces their shared cultural lexicon (Ecchi is now a term one 'expects’ anime fans to know - a truth that translator notes like this simultaneously created and reflected).

But of course your audiences have different levels of otaku-dom, and so you can’t just say 'ecchi’ and call it a day - so for those who are only Level 2 on their anime journey, you give them a translation note. Most of the translation notes of the era are like this - terms the fansubber thought the audience might know well enough that they would understand it and want that pure Japanese cultural experience, but that not all of them would know, so you have to hedge. The Lucky Star one I posted is a great example of that:

Its Lucky Star, the otaku-crown of anime! You desperately want the core text to preserve as much anime vocab as possible, to give off that feeling, but you can’t assume everyone knows what a GALGE is - doing both is the only way to solve that dilemma.

This is often a good guideline when looking at old memetically bad fansubs by the way:

This isn’t real, no fansub had this - it was a meme that was posted on a wiki forum in 2007. Which makes sense, right? “Plan” isn’t a Japanese cultural or otaku term, so there is no reason not to translate it, it doesn’t deepen the ~otaku connection~.

Which, I know, I’m explaining the joke right now, but over time I think many have grown to believe that this (and others like it) is a real fansub, and that these sort of arbitrary untranslations just peppered fansub works of the time? It happened, sure, but they would be equally mocked back then as missteps - or were jokes themselves. Some groups even had a reputation for inserting jokes into their works, imo Commie Subs was most notable for this; part of the competitive & casual environment of the time. But they weren’t serious, they are not examples of “bad fansubs” in the same way.

This all faded for a bunch of reasons - primarily that the market for anime expanded dramatically. First, that lead to professionally released translations by centralized agencies that had universal standards for their subs and accountability to the original creators of the show. Second, the far larger audience is far less invested in anime-as-identity; they like it, but its not special the way its special when you are a bullied internet recluse in 2004. They just want to watch the show, and would find “caring” about translation nuances to be cringe. And since these centralized agencies release their product infinitely faster and more accessibly than fansubs ever did, their copies now dominate the space (including being the versions ripped to all illegal streaming sites), so fansubs died.

Though not totally - a lot of those fansub groups are still around! Commie Subs is still kicking for example. They either do the weird nuance stuff, or fansub unreleased-in-the-west old or niche anime, or even have pivoted to non-anime Japanese content that never gets international release. But they used to be the taste-makers of the community; now they are the fringe devotees in a culture that has moved beyond them. So fansubs remain something of a joke of the 90’s and 2000’s in the eyes of the anime culture of today, in a way that maybe they don’t deserve.

the-village-dunce:

wait actually im really curious now

can you use chopsticks

yeah i’m really good with them

eh kinda sorta

barely, i struggle a lot

nope not at all

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catgirl-kaiju:

undersea animals when a whale dies

palipunk:

I got to see some leyendecker pieces in person! He’s a really big inspiration of mine so one of the things I focused on was the actual close ups of the brush strokes in his pieces bc they’re so cool