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“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

Color theory is a set of guidelines for mixing, combining, and manipulating colors. Color theory includes ideas like:

Color harmony: Color harmony describes color pairings that are visually pleasing and provide a sense of visual order. Color schemes based on complementary and analogous colors are generally perceived as harmonious. But, since humans respond to colors differently depending on personal preferences and life experiences, there are no universally “right” colors for achieving harmony.

Color temperature: Color temperature deals with breaking colors down into warm colors (associated with sunset and daylight) and cool colors (associated with overcast light). Experimenting with combinations of warm and cool colors can help you mix colors to achieve a particular effect.

Color context: Colors appear to behave differently when viewed in different contexts. For instance, a rusty orange may seem dull and subdued when placed beside a vivid yellow, but when paired with a dark purple, the orange suddenly seems much brighter.

Color Wheel - a circle diagram that illustrates the relationships between different colors.

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That's fair. 'System' is a word I only use in the context of Bird primaries, so I just use it less.

A 'performance' is acting. You know you're 'pretending' while you do it, you don't do it while you're by yourself. Like 'customer service face' - that's a performance. (Kind of an exaggerated perky Badger performance.)

A 'model' is an additional primary or secondary you teach yourself how to use because it's fun, it's useful, it's cool, it's a coping mechanism, it's culturally required. It goes deeper than a performance and becomes 'part' of you more. You probably do keep using it while alone. Like to keep up the Badger example, there is a sort of "Good Parent" Badger secondary model a lot of people seem to think is either useful or required. BUT... if it becomes necessary, or if you don't have the extra bandwidth... you can and will drop your model.

Full disclaimer, these are all just my theories because I do not have access to every sorting ever. And obviously there are exceptions to all of what I’m about to say. This ended up becoming a small analysis on all the sortings.  

You’re definitely right on the Badger Lion. They don’t call it the protagonist sorting for nothing. When a character just wants to help people because they’re people and they immediately jump into helping them it’s easy to get a story going and just in general they make for nice characters. 

I would also put alongside it, Lion Badger, True Lion, and True Badger. A good amount of protagonists are somewhere on the Lion and Badger spectrum because they’re, frankly, easy to write. A character who does things immediately because they know they are right?? Shounen protagonists. A rival who jumps into the fight and is in it for the glory? Yes that’s a Shounen rival. A person who does things because they are right and joins with people and cares for them? A modern spin on a classic archetypical hero. A person who does things because people are people and they want to make people feel better through kindness and teamwork? Have you watched Steven Universe and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts?

I submit to you that the Badger secondary hero is becoming a lot more common in the modern era because there’s been a shift into shows where family and love and recovery are the main focus. While you can get that across with a Lion secondary protagonist, it’s easier when you have someone who isn’t actively trying to fight people and is instead trying to rehabilitate them. Kipo Oak from the above show is very much a True Badger and I’m fairly certain that Steven is a True Badger.

Another common sorting for opposite reasons is the Snake Bird. A villain who does things only for themselves and possibly those they are very close to by being studious and planners. They basically make for easy villains. True Snakes also get this treatment as well. True Snakes are more likely to be anti-heroes simply because if you need a trickster character who’s not really on any side you’re usually gonna have them be liars and thieves and shapeshifters-all very Snake qualities. 

Snake Lions are kind of a wildcard. They can be played as protagonists or as villains or as secondary characters. If they’re a protagonist they’ll definitely be a fan favorite-if they’re a villain/antagonist they’ll probably be a fan favorite. If you have a character who pretty much just follows their friends around and also will jump in to fight-chances are they’re a Snake Lion. They are not the most common only because Society has a tendency to think of protecting your loved ones over all else as selfish. Oh, and Snake Lions have a tendency to die a lot. 

Lion Birds are also wildcards. They are the vigilante/fed sorting, but where they stand in media is gonna depend on how they are viewed. Sometimes you end up with propaganda bots, sometimes they’re hardcore activists, sometimes they’re blinded child soldier creators, sometimes they’re somewhere in the middle. Because Lion Birds can be so many things they usually aren’t the center focus if they’re even in the story. Batman and Mulan the main character Lion Birds I’m familiar with, are weird outliers. Batman because he’s a detective first which most comic books don’t do nowadays, and Mulan because she doesn’t feel like Bird secondary, but then again Mulan never was my favorite growing up. I might be missing something. You also have Sarah Williams from Labyrinth as a main character. 

You also have Snake Badgers which I have basically no experience with. If I were hard pressed I would say Snake Badgers are love interests. They’re usually doing things for their close friends and their lover and using the people they know and working hard to get their rewards. If they aren’t a lover then they are usually the main characters super “platonic” best friend. Again Tiana is a weird outlier of a main character who is a Snake Badger (I would also count Cinderella as a Snake Badger).

I’ve touched on Lion Snakes before, but there aren’t a lot of them, and even fewer of them are unburnt in some way or not modeling anything else. Lion Snakes are usually antiheroes, or morally complex heroes. There are cases where you have a Lion Snake who just uses the Snake skillset but I wouldn’t say it’s super common. Rarely are Lion Snakes the main character, they’re usually secondary, a deuteragonist, or a member of an ensemble main squad. 

We haven’t talked about Bird primaries yet which is why we gotta touch on something. Bird primaries are the least common primary sorting. Bird primaries are the most complex and thus harder for authors to write. Plus sometimes you look at a Bird primary and you think you’ve found one when it’s really just a Burnt Lion!

The most common of the Bird primaries is probably the Bird Lion. Bird Lions make for good protagonists who are confused about their place in the world-running from idea to idea, and also morally complex characters who are figuring out truth and what their place in it is. They also work as a wildcard, but thanks to that Lion secondary which most associate with good they usually aren’t villains, or if they are they’re working for another villain. 

Bird Snakes are weird and possibly the most morally complex? @wisteria-lodge (oh hey it’s about time I @ you) classified them as the Maverick/Artist sorting which makes sense. They’re usually Birds who have their truth and now they’ve just got a project they’re working on with their improvisational secondary. They usually show up as secondary characters or villains, although that villain status is subject to change depending on what they want to do and how they want to do it. 

True Birds you’d think would be more common, but once you get out of kids shows with a stereotypical nerd character Double Birds becoming harder to locate. I personally love True Birds, but apparently others don’t. These characters might actually be the most wild card of the bunch, ranging from characters like Victor Frankenstein to Entrapta to Hannibal. 

But poor Bird Badgers might just have it the worst of the Bird primaries. There are very few examples of Bird Badgers and even though they are great examples nobody really likes to write them. They’re never the main character though. That’s just a fact. 

Once you get outta the Lion and Badger secondaries there aren’t a lot of Badger primary characters. Badger Snakes are weird because they care about people (what they have judged as people) and will do whatever they can for them, but people have this idea that caring about people and being manipulative or lying or stealing is a conflict of interests. Woody from Toy Story and the Arthur Conan Doyle version of Sherlock are examples of main character Badger Snakes, although I would call them outliers. Usually they’re in ensemble casts or side characters. 

And then you have Badger Birds, which are like, nowhere. And of the characters I’ve seen that are Badger Birds, the ones I do know have no connecting thread between them. I don’t know why characters who do things for people because they’re people and use their plans and strategies to do it are uncommon. I guess maybe it’s because the idea behind a character who does things just because they’re people is thought to be not smart because they’re too kind for braincells? Doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s the only thing I can think of. Dean Winchester is a very weird outlier for this category. For some reason mixing Badgers and Birds isn’t very common.

If you hard pressed me to make a list of all these sortings in order of their relevance in media this is what you would. 

1. Badger Lion - (The Protagonist) Examples: All Might/Yagi Toshinori (My Hero Academia), Adora (She-Ra), Amalthea (The Last Unicorn)

2. True Lion - (The Badass) Examples: Princess Leia Organa (Star Wars), Bakugou Katsuki (My Hero Academia), Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)

3. Lion Badger - (The Powerful) Examples: Captain America (Marvel), Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter), Moana (Moana)

4. Snake Bird - (The Mastermind) Examples: Jareth (Labyrinth), Crowley (Good Omens), King Haggard (The Last Unicorn)

5. True Snake - (The Trickster) Examples: Loki (Mavel), Klaus Hargreaves (The Umbrella Academy), Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

6. True Badger - (The Peacemaker) Examples: Steven Universe (Steven Universe), Kipo Oak (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Chihiro Ogino (Spirited Away) (I place this one below Double Snake and Snake Bird as they’ve begun to rise into relevance recently-also once again there are several dark versions of this sorting) (After this the numbers get more muddled)

7. Snake Lion - (The Rebel) Examples: Darth Vader (Star Wars), Tony Stark (Marvel), Todoroki Shouto (My Hero Academia)

8. Lion Bird - (The Thoughtful) Examples: Batman (DC), Sarah Williams (Labyrinth), Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

9. Snake Badger - (The Love Interest) Examples: Prince Lir (The Last Unicorn), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog), Jaskier (The Witcher)

10. Lion Snake - (The Independent) Examples: Hawks (My Hero Academia), Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean), Toph (Avatar the Last Airbender)

11. Bird Lion - (The Truth-Seeker) Examples: Harry Potter (Harry Potter), Harley Quinn (DC), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

12. True Bird - (The Knowledge-Seeker) Examples: Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein), Entrapta (She-Ra), Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)

13. Badger Snake - (The Take-Charge) Examples: Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

14. Bird Snake - (The Artiste) Examples: Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn), The Joker (DC-Nolanverse), Ciri (The Witcher)

15. Bird Badger - (The Survivor) Examples: Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Diego Hargreaves (The Umbrella Academy), Daphne Blake (Scooby Doo)

16. Badger Bird - (The Martyr) Examples: Michael (The Good Place), Poison Ivy (DC), Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Bird primaries are the most detached of all the primaries. Not necessarily the coldest, but they usually have the biggest picture to look at. Lion primaries are caught up in their own wants, Snakes are dedicated to their people, and Badgers are dedicated to their communities. Birds are the most likely to take a step back and see it all without emotions clouding their judgement.

The badger secondary is seen by most as a fundamentally attached secondary. They take their greatest power from people. Some people can see that as incongruous with the Bird primary.

There's also the fact that Bird primaries and badger secondaries are the least common respectively to write. Bird primaries are usually too complex and cerebral for writers and badger secondaries are usually relegated to side characters.

hey friends, i've found myself talking about dialogue grammar a lot as i do more and more beta'ing, so figured it'd be helpful to share more broadly :)

1. Dialogue + Tag (same sentence):

"I missed you," he said. "I missed you," Will said.

Use a comma inside the quotation marks.

Don't capitalize the dialogue tag unless it starts with a name.

2. Dialogue + Action (separate sentence):

"I missed you." He stepped closer.

Use a period inside the quotation marks.

The action isn't a dialogue tag, so it stands as its own sentence.

3. Dialogue Split in Two (same sentence continues):

"I think," he murmured, "that you should stay." "I think that," he murmured, "Will should stay."

Use a comma before closing the quotation mark and after the tag.

Don't capitalize the second part unless it's a name or proper noun.

4. Dialogue Split in Two (separate sentences):

"You're here," he said. "I wasn't sure you'd come."

Use a period after the tag, because the next quote is a new sentence.

Capitalize the new sentence of dialogue.

5. Tag + complete sentence of dialogue:

He released a breath before answering, "Always."

Use a comma after the tag.

Capitalize the complete sentence of dialogue.

6. Questions & Exclamations:

"Are you serious?" he asked. "Don't touch me!" he snapped.

Keep the ? or ! inside the quotes.

Follow with a lowercase tag unless it starts with a name.

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First take a standard rectangular piece of paper (I used one from a small notebook which I ripped out then cut the holes off)

Then fold in half touching the shorter side to the opposite shorter side.

Fold again making the new shorter side touch the other new shorter side

I did this one more time, but this time I unfolded it right after to get back to where it was only folded twice. It should have left a crease in the paper.

Using this crease, fold the corners up alongside it to look like this

This are also going to be unfolded, but this time you’re going to push in alongside the triangular folds you just made and undid.

Doing this once will result in this

Do the other side of you haven’t already to get this

You’ll open these newly created flap to change which parts are touching

Leaving you with this

Then you start pulling the top “tabs” down

Do both sides to get the final folded form

Decorate as desired.

A friend of mine from the UK recently mentioned that he noticed that australia has a generally more masculine culture than england - he felt that everyone is a bit more masculine here, including women. This kind of confirmed to me that my impressions of the dubbing were right - the tourists were speaking in a relatively (internationally) more masculine way. Yet their dub made them sound so much more feminine.

It made me wonder. When translating something, do you translate the manner of speaking “directly”, or “relatively” in terms of cultural norms? Maybe this graph will help me explain the question.

A direct appoach in this case might appear to a Japanese person to result in an unexpectedly masculine register, but preserves how the speaker's cultural upbringing has influenced their speech.

The news program translators chose the relative approach - I think I would prefer the direct approach. I think I prefer it because I believe translation should be a rewriting of the original utterance as if the speaker was originally speaking the target language, and the direct approach compliments that way of thinking the best.

Actually now that I type that, I’m second guessing myself. Does it? It does, if for the purposes of the “rewrite it as if they spoke japanese” thought experiment, we suppose the speaker magically learned japanese seconds before making the utterance, but what if we suppose the speaker magically grew up learning japanese - then maybe they would conform to the relative cultural values. But also, maybe they would never have said such a thing in the first place - their original utterance was informed by their upbringing and cultural values, so how could you possibly know what they would have said if they had known japanese from birth? Maybe my initial instinct was right after all?

If you work in translation, I’m very interested to hear if you have come across this problem and how you deal with it 🙏

me when people ask me how to say "I don't care" in french

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