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Lrt as a FORMER otw volunteer I have been very suspicious of the person claiming to be an "AO3 volunteer" if only bc no one calls themselves that either you specify your role (tag wrangler, support etc) or say otw also bc so much of what they say does not sound like how vols talk
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The application process deliberately filters out ppl who don't support the org mission (various shades of antis included), nobody who genuinely believed all this would've gotten to the interview stage
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But yeah the lack of in-group lingo is very telling like see I quit years ago and still say vols lol it doesn't go away
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“Claiming” is a very conspicuous choice of words
Opinions from anyone claiming to be an OTW volunteer do not represent the opinions, policies, etc. of the OTW or AO3. The OTW strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space for all fans and does not condone behavior that violates the OTW Code of Conduct: otw.org/code-conduct/.
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Opinions from anyone claiming to be an OTW volunteer do not represent the opinions, policies, etc. of the OTW or AO3. The OTW strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space for all fans and does not condone behavior that violates the OTW Code of Conduct: otw.org/code-conduct/.
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Unironically the fan sub culture, while making it so that Japanese media could even get to the west at all, left most consumers of Japanese Media in EN with an appetite for really bad and wonky translational practices, because they were earnest amateur works. It's like if everything translated from Spanish was done specifically by translating from Spanish to French then into English. It left a stamp on the way the translations looked, and that then ascended from simple translational style to mark of the genre. Which makes modern, actually trained and professional translators, ESPECIALLY those young enough to postdate fansub culture's heyday, have a hard time meeting fan demands, because translational techniques and attitudes that you are trained to see as good are hated, and the errors you get drilled into not making are what the audience expect! But only in Media Translation. Which given that Media is often the lowest pay, lowest prestige type of translation work, means, ta-da~ JP-EN Media translation is a specially designed noob trap.
Sometimes I agree with localization haters but half of them are racists talking about cultural eradication, however, even ignoring that, whenever they try to prove how superior translation is, they just make every character talk like a middle schooler that doesn't know grammar
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Why is there a hockey man at the doctor's office...
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They're real and they're writing articles about how they're addicted to fanfiction in The Cut thecut.com/article/heated-ri…
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joining the war on AO3 getting on the news on the side of AO3 getting on the news. can someone give me a TV spot please i would like to explain the situation to boomers in middle america
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Sarah Chihaya in The Rumpus interview last year— on writing and the “splinter of ice”
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Once my day-to-day Japanese became a bit more natural I learned that OFTEN the answer to "how would you say XYZ in Japanese" is "you would probably not." Once internalize that, it becomes obvious why Japanese translates to English so differently depending on context.
it’s interesting to me that a lot of subtle lines in the Japanese dialogue in Godzilla Minus Zero are spelled out in the subtitles. Like, “onegai shimasu” being translated as “you’re in charge”. I wonder to what degree that reflects an assumption about the audience.
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In universe, I think the dominant rpf ship is ushioi or ushisaku. The same way kenhina is probably the top rpf ship for hinata and kenma. But I like to think 1 crazy person shipped ushiten after seeing their documentary
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fandoms have this habit of wanting to turn all platonic relationship into a family dynamic
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when youre 14 you deadass think youre fully capable of thinking rationally until you realize years later that you were on some bullshit 😭😭
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Do polish people exists anywhere but twitter telegram and discord
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significantly more excited imagining a Conclave style movie about the casting than about sentencing one of these guys to a decade of hell in the Bond Dimension
The 5 finalists that have tested for the role of James Bond: • Robert Pattinson • Jack Lowden • Callum Turner • Nicholas Hoult • Josh O'Connor Who would you choose?
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speaking of typing like a japanese translated tweet... it reminds me of this interesting phenomenon I noticed, where some artists who read so much translated manga make their comics like it. making their text balloons long vertically eventho the texts should be read horizontally
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So, Terry Pratchett was once asked what books aspiring fantasy novelists should read if they hope to write great fiction. His advice was telling. He encouraged authors to avoid reading much of what passes for contemporary fantasy (what he called “Extruded Fantasy Product,” derivative of Tolkien). “Do not write it,” he said, “and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees.” Any great fantasy series you can name, from Star Wars to Narnia to Discworld, was written by authors who read voraciously, who read old books and loved old myths, whose minds were so steeped in history and folklore and obscure pulp fiction that they couldn’t have written derivative works if they had tried. We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era.
Hayao Miyazaki on modern anime, via Roland Kelts the author of 'Japanamerica' "Hayao Miyazaki said to me at one point: 'The problem with young anime artists today is that the only thing they study is anime. When we were young, we studied French literature, we studied impressionism, we read Dostoevsky. We swallowed everything. And then we went and created original anime. But if you grow up and all you watch is anime, you're just regurgitating spinning wheels.'" He also spoke about his work on the upcoming documentary 'Tezuka! God of Manga'
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Reading a book that has me literally shaking my head in real life at its protagonists terrible choices
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It's true!!! I think fandom people, especially ones that have been around since the early days of AO3 when it was genuinely obscure, SEVERELY underestimate how popular it is. it's absolutely massive!!!!!!!!
Replying to @skorpiomag
was reading @llegrarosenberg’s recent substack on this where she points out that people use ao3 in like, tiktok numbers. that’s reportable whether we like it or not
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