Shrugging Cutely

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Cute & gay Sophia [she/it] 30s. White autistic transfem (yes, that means TMA). @rebloggingcutely

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Still feeling like hot garbage (ate some raw spring onions I had left over from soup because body craves the vitamins) so I'm doing nothing interesting at all, so I started watching Vtuber clips and like, there is this one Hololive Minecraft event where Okayu puts a leash on Vivi and calls her a good girl and Vivi plays along but also complains (ノリツッコミ Osaka style) but it's like, I can hear her have some kind of feelings about being treated like a puppy and I have some kind of feelings about that

(Of course she is a masochist, have you seen how much she likes Pekora

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Was talking about video games with my brother and he was all "Sting makes such weird games" and then had like a breakdown where he tried to explain the mechanics of Yggdra Union to me and how there's hundreds of hidden items with hidden mechanics and half of them only have a niche use that is still purely negative and,

and he mentioned Sting also made Dungeon Travelers, which is a game I find incredibly frustrating because it's a ToHeart spinoff and supposedly one of the best DRPGs but it's the most "main character is a boring guy surrounded by dozens of cute girls who deserve better and there's terrible sequences where girls have sexy accidents" and it's so painfully het and the big bad censorship (cover boobs a bit more) doesn't help at all because it doesn't address the actual problem which is that you cover a demon girl you just fought in a cool boss fight with slime so she can be sexy and weak for the benefit of gross and boring men and,

and, this is my Sting-related breakdown

(funnily enough, he also likes Sting the musician)

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This is why Monster Monpiece is actually great, the protagonist is just a very nice girl and she gets to feel up monster girls for reasons

Was talking about video games with my brother and he was all "Sting makes such weird games" and then had like a breakdown where he tried to explain the mechanics of Yggdra Union to me and how there's hundreds of hidden items with hidden mechanics and half of them only have a niche use that is still purely negative and,

and he mentioned Sting also made Dungeon Travelers, which is a game I find incredibly frustrating because it's a ToHeart spinoff and supposedly one of the best DRPGs but it's the most "main character is a boring guy surrounded by dozens of cute girls who deserve better and there's terrible sequences where girls have sexy accidents" and it's so painfully het and the big bad censorship (cover boobs a bit more) doesn't help at all because it doesn't address the actual problem which is that you cover a demon girl you just fought in a cool boss fight with slime so she can be sexy and weak for the benefit of gross and boring men and,

and, this is my Sting-related breakdown

(funnily enough, he also likes Sting the musician)

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"sure, everyone may piss you off right now, but can you really trust your emotional reaction when you're miserable because of antidepressant withdrawal? let's assume it's temporary and be patient"

"oh, good point, everyone pissed me off all the time before, too, but I wasted my energy on pretending otherwise and now that I don't have the energy to pretend I'm honest with myself for once"

"n-no, that's not,, no?"

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Should be living the life of an artist hermit but I'm lonely and also too ADHD to ever do anything, but not living that life hasn't worked out for me either

"sure, everyone may piss you off right now, but can you really trust your emotional reaction when you're miserable because of antidepressant withdrawal? let's assume it's temporary and be patient"

"oh, good point, everyone pissed me off all the time before, too, but I wasted my energy on pretending otherwise and now that I don't have the energy to pretend I'm honest with myself for once"

"n-no, that's not,, no?"

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Wild to watch someone play FF7 in 2026 and have the full emotional reaction to the Big Scene as if hadn't impacted pop culture at all and also suddenly get crushed by all the implications of Sephiroth references in more recent games

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I also have some feelings about the pacing of a game that scale (it's not great and games got even worse about it) and about pre-rendered backgrounds (something very charming about running around in an image instead of an actual 3d world)

Wild to watch someone play FF7 in 2026 and have the full emotional reaction to the Big Scene as if hadn't impacted pop culture at all and also suddenly get crushed by all the implications of Sephiroth references in more recent games

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Really not a fan of how my temporarily weird brain chemistry leads to nausea if i move my eyes too much, considering how there really is not a whole lot you can do that doesn't require extra eye movement

Hope this doesn't last a whole week again

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Quite sick of the nausea and dizziness and hot flashes and general gross feeling, tbh

If I have to be stuck at home feeling like garbage at least let me do things

...made by a single person who has no interest in suing people? Like it's very important that ZUN does not sue people

I don't think I understand the question

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You know what the problem is with English translations? That anime girl sounds like a white yankee appropriating AAVE now instead of talking in GenZ anime otaku slang with a pinch of local dialect

The US should simply not be allowed

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I do have to say it's not just that I hate the US (though I do) because the same problem exists in German where I find all translations of Japanese media unbearable because everyone sounds like Germans now

It's almost like it is inherently political which variety of a language you consider "authentic"

But I'm also really coming around to making it obvious that a translation is a translation and not the original form of the text. No, she didn't actually use this jargon, she said a thing that just makes the most sense to translate as that jargon to convey the meaning, but you are reading between phantom lines

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Ugh, sorry, but this has kicked something loose in my head

I watched a Vtuber clip of Himemori Luna where she asks if it's possible to read the Minecraft server's backend data to see what she was doing, and the comments were all "wow, you can tell she had programming experience because she used jargon". But she didn't. She used a word that means something like "internal" and it just made a lot of sense to translate it as backend. But she did not actually say backend because she wasn't speaking English there. Sure, you can read into how her first thought wasn't "I'm streaming everything I do" but "you might be able to see from the data what I did", but you cannot read into her using a word she did not use because she was speaking a different language and a translation doesn't actually show you the platonic ideal of the meaning she was trying to communicate

Anyway. I can buy a translation of Dostoevsky and it will assume I know enough about 19th century Russia to make sense of like, the occasional Russian term for, I dunno, specific furniture. And yet 21st century Japan is apparently so out there that you cannot have "senpai" in a text without people accusing you of going all "keikaku means plan"

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You know what the problem is with English translations? That anime girl sounds like a white yankee appropriating AAVE now instead of talking in GenZ anime otaku slang with a pinch of local dialect

The US should simply not be allowed

shruggingcutely

I do have to say it's not just that I hate the US (though I do) because the same problem exists in German where I find all translations of Japanese media unbearable because everyone sounds like Germans now

It's almost like it is inherently political which variety of a language you consider "authentic"

But I'm also really coming around to making it obvious that a translation is a translation and not the original form of the text. No, she didn't actually use this jargon, she said a thing that just makes the most sense to translate as that jargon to convey the meaning, but you are reading between phantom lines

Stumbling upon a male artist who keeps drawing the same girl over and over looking cool and/or wistful and I turn to you and make the globally recognized "egg?" gesture

Food is so dumb, you have to eat several times a day and it's a huge pain, but when you go "I just need the calories to keep me going" and try to live off rice or bread or potatoes or something your body gets very unhappy with you because it actually needs all the nutrients

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Suddenly got a craving for seafood instant ramen with egg, so I quickly made noodles with dashi and mirin and soy sauce and egg, and it mostly hits the spot. Had I had planned this I'd probably added some onions

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Exchange-studying in Japan for a year did not teach me to cook (for several reasons), but it did teach me that dashi is magic and like 70% to an actual meal

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God, I thought I wanted the main thing to be the noodles but now I just really want to slurp more of that soup

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I really need you to know that I basically can't cook, but as long as you have dashi (plus soy sauce and mirin) that's really all you need

...weird side effect is that it's making me wanna drink alcohol when I only ever drink socially (and barely even then). I dunno, something about it makes the thought of an oolong highball sound really appealing

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Suddenly very fortunate I can't go to a nearby convenience store and get a tiny bottle of Kirishima

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Suddenly got a craving for seafood instant ramen with egg, so I quickly made noodles with dashi and mirin and soy sauce and egg, and it mostly hits the spot. Had I had planned this I'd probably added some onions

shruggingcutely

Exchange-studying in Japan for a year did not teach me to cook (for several reasons), but it did teach me that dashi is magic and like 70% to an actual meal

shruggingcutely

God, I thought I wanted the main thing to be the noodles but now I just really want to slurp more of that soup

shruggingcutely

I really need you to know that I basically can't cook, but as long as you have dashi (plus soy sauce and mirin) that's really all you need

...weird side effect is that it's making me wanna drink alcohol when I only ever drink socially (and barely even then). I dunno, something about it makes the thought of an oolong highball sound really appealing

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Suddenly got a craving for seafood instant ramen with egg, so I quickly made noodles with dashi and mirin and soy sauce and egg, and it mostly hits the spot. Had I had planned this I'd probably added some onions

shruggingcutely

Exchange-studying in Japan for a year did not teach me to cook (for several reasons), but it did teach me that dashi is magic and like 70% to an actual meal

shruggingcutely

God, I thought I wanted the main thing to be the noodles but now I just really want to slurp more of that soup

shruggingcutely

Suddenly got a craving for seafood instant ramen with egg, so I quickly made noodles with dashi and mirin and soy sauce and egg, and it mostly hits the spot. Had I had planned this I'd probably added some onions

shruggingcutely

Exchange-studying in Japan for a year did not teach me to cook (for several reasons), but it did teach me that dashi is magic and like 70% to an actual meal

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