This Small Corner of the World

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Julia Serano, "Whipping Girl"

Hey everyone,

It's Your Local Bardic entity, Gallus Rostromengalus of Bread Jesus and other Weird Tumblr Story Fame.

Despite my best efforts to mitigate mt Terrible English Dental DNA, today two of my teeth broke.

I don't even have a fun story about this, it's literally terrible genetics and stress-grinding my teeth in my sleep.

I just got back from emergency surgery to get the pieces pulled and the hole in my jaw closed so I don't get an infection, but a second reconstruction surgery to give me a bone graft and dental implants will be needed so I can actually chew and use my mouth for it's intended purposes.

I do not currently have dental insurance. I haven't talked about it here much, but my husband was unemployed after getting laid off for almost all of last year. He has a job again, but it pays like 2/3rds of his previous one and the benefits are crap. Like no dental insurance until he's worked there at least a year.

So I'm on the hook for the full cost of Today's emergency surgery, Medication, and the necessary follow-up reconstruction, which my dentist estimates will cost between $5000-$7000. Our dentist has given us every discount she can and we have a payment plan, but losing half our household income has left us with no savings and credit cards at their limits. Even though I only need to come up with $500 this month to go ahead with the reconstructive surgery, I do not have any money to spare. It will also be VASTLY cheaper overall to pay for everything up front rather than pay interest over the months with the payment plan, but literally anything will help me right now.

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Thank you all so much, Gallus

「大丈夫 いつものことだし」

Which is essentially:

It's okay, this happens all the time.

Or that second part can be something like "it's always like this" or "this is the usual, after all" but the main point is that Sora keeps telling himself that him going through these things (loss of power and getting insulted over it) is fine because it's what happens all the time.

(This occurs in 0.2 and 3 respectively. (Linked to the moments, I gave it a little space before he says the line))

The thing is, in EN, the lines in those moments are phrased differently.

Which these technically translate and get the point across just fine.

But I think it loses out quite a bit on what it means for him to repeat the same phrase "it's okay, this happens all the time"

("I'm okay, this happens all the time") (notable that Japanese as a language is contextual so 大丈夫 (daijoubu can be either be "it's okay" or "I'm okay" when there's no 1st person pronoun to outright indicate which)

Also, if you listen to him in both 0.2 and 3, the direction that's taken as he says this line is that he tries to say it with the same tone and intonation but clearly, in the 3 version, he just sounds more and more pained/restrained, like he can't convince himself that it's okay.

And then Goofy repeats the line exactly, Sora says "Don't say that!" and then Donald says the "This happens all the time" part

I haven't been able to let this go in the time I first noticed it. It absolutely feels like Sora using a coping mechanism to not be held down by the fact that he is bothered by what's happened to him. But the fact that it keeps being brought up by all sides makes the phrase work less and less.

It feels like something he kept telling himself as he went out to visit the Dreameaters too, especially when thinking about how the line followed Yen Sid saying that Sora probably had already noticed the loss of his own power.

Because, yeah, it should be fine, he should be fine, he's been through this song and dance before, this happens all the time.

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And she was just like "school sucks, my mom sucks, being fifteen sucks, i just want to grow up"

and so me, a wise and wisened newly fresh thirty year old just replied "yeah it does fucken suck!"

And when i tell you the air physically lightened up and she laughed so hard! And she told me more about why it all sucks and how she feels like no one listened to her, and they tell her to just do it, just get it done, and this girl is tired! She has so much homework and she feels like shes not smart because shes inundated with homework and school and she feels like the people in her life are not hearing her!