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We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

I want to be with someone who makes me laugh and makes me happy. (2/∞)

so. they're in the car. tin has said that he meant what he wrote in the letter, setting a boundary. phob has just laid out his test - "I can forget [the letter/our past]. But you need to prove to me that you forgot all about it as well."

"Prove how?"

baby boy is T E R R I F I E D. (ongsa, those eyes, i swear to god. they gave his eyeballs secondary dialogue and he's locked. the fuck. in.) tin knows what's coming, and he's realizing that in all these years he spent burying his feelings, he never dug deep enough.

phob kisses him, and for half a second, tin has the willpower to resist, to reestablish the boundary he's trying so desperately to cling to. his hand even comes up to push phob away.

but once he does push phob away... there's that tear, running down the side of phob's nose. the reminder of all the pain they both feel, the choices phob was forced to make because of tin, the incredible guilt tin feels as the genesis of phob's suffering.

and it breaks his resolve immediately.

the only way he can repent for making phob cry is to tell the truth - and kiss him again. yes, i miss you. yes, i never forgot you. yes, i can't love anyone like i love you.

until he finds the scar on phob's arm... one more devastating reminder that tin letting himself love phob has only hurt him. ("You were with him when he had a hard time in life. I was the one who gave him the hard time.") tin can't be the reason phob suffers anymore.

Let the record reflect that Knot is an odd little duck of a show, and as a person who has multiple issues with omegaverse, I was already hesitant to watch, BUT I think about 47% of people's issue with the show is they are watching it with the original English subs, which are doing the show dirty; therefore, I'm not watching Knot the day it comes out.

The English subtitles from iQIYI the day it drops are not using the correct verb tenses, missing objective pronouns, and are not conveying the seriousness of emotions, yet the Spanish subs are great (thanks @babyangelsky for telling us) and the YouTube subs for the edited version two days later are good too. iQIYI does correct the subs eventually, but it takes a few days. For example, in the original English subs, Nakhun said "I already bite" <- present tense, no objective pronoun. Sounds like a caveman. Now, he says, "I'd bitten his neck" <- past perfect tense with an object

Might seem minor, but ALL the subs are changed. Every single one, so when rewatching the scene, it's clear how out of it Nakhun was because even the misused words are fixed (everything is written the EXACT way it was in the original subs)

Original - Why did you bite? I do not know. I can't control my self. The smell is so attractive to me. It's like the smell surround me. and when I realize I already bite. Revised - Why did you bite him? I don't know. I lost all self-control. His scent was too alluring to me, which consumed my every thought. Before I even realized what I was doing, I'd bitten his neck.

Because iQIYI has already revised the subs for the first two episodes (thanks @mysterygrl20 for telling us), I went to the high seas since my fellow pirates like to grab things the day they air to give you examples of the changes, like in the first episode, Phatsa isn't confused by the Alpha's behavior; he thinks it's odd.

Original - You are confused too, right?

Revised - You think it's weird too, right?

Once again, seems minor, but the lax choice of words to depict an emotion is a constant issue with the original subs.

Original - Are you mad? / What are you?

Revised - Are you insane? What even are you? Some kind of monster?

The original Spanish subs conveyed that Phatsa thought Nakhun's reaction was monstrous but the original English ones just made him seem confused about who he was talking to or something, and I cannot stress this enough, every single line of the show is revised days later in the iQIYI subs.

"Being concerned or being harassed" -> "Bro, this isn't concern—it's harassment."

I'm reading the MDL comments, and I know some people think the subs aren't that big of an issue, but watching with quality subs is the difference between chatting with your four-year old cousin versus your three-decade long best friend. The revised subs are far more natural, give more context, and have more emotion.

"You've never been a burden to this house" -> "You were never a burden to this family."

"If things keep going like this, one day I'll die of heartbreak" -> "If this keeps up, I'll stress myself to an early grave."

So, once again, I'm saving this as possibly a Sunday watch so I can experience the phenomenon of male pregnancy on the Lord's day as God and the subbers intended because I want to judge this show based on its wild ass plot rather than its weak ass subs.

Take it seriously P'Kian. You're holding back. How will I handle a real opponent if you keep going easy on me? [...] Maybe I love you too much. I treasure you more than anything. I just can't bring myself to throw you to the mat. Whatever. If you don't take this seriously, I'll find a new sparring partner. You can't. Why not? I'd be jealous.