#rabsub

OP being grateful that the series didn't use gendered language because "it really represents more of boys love... and is more cuter"

The initial assumption that changing mia to hubby is the translating team "conforming to the global audience"

Rabsub specifying they "didn't want to misgender anyone" and identifying hubby as "a gender-appropriate equivalent that keeps the same affectionate feeling."

A lot of layers of translation, legibility, gender politics, queer worldmaking, the ways power operates through language, whether there is a dominant culture that is being catered to or subverted and how that differs when thinking of an anticipated Thai audience vs. international audience.

I've been out of academia for a long time, but in another world I'd want to write a whole thesis (or, like, at least an essay) about this.