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⌈ Secret Post #5479 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

same, anon. same.

[(Anonymous)]

Same boat! I wasn't big on it but I thought it was a cute ship. But then...yeah, fandom. I couldn't escape it and I don't even interact with SPN circles.

Also an aside: fandom ruined my enjoyment of the characters individually as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't think you're wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

admittedly never watched it but from what I absorbed third-hand, it seems like it might have been what actually paved the way for reality shows like Kardashians. it didn't need good writing or likeable people, it was a trainwreck and people watching it could enjoy the trainwreck while plausibly capable of saying "oh but it's just fiction."

Reality shows are still fiction but a different kind. They still pander to the Sex in the City, soap opera crowd without having to write any sort of compelling long-term narrative. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww, I used to ship them before I knew what shipping was. (I still ship them, but I used to, too.) :D

[sabotabby]

Same. I saw one episode and concluded that this was not what I would do with my money if I had a lot of it, and also that the love interest was garbage. Since then a lot of friends with otherwise good taste have tried explain the appeal and I still don't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't doubt you but there are still people who understand the source language and prefer genuine honorifics because, yes, they do convey a nuance that many western naming customs don't cover. Chinese style names are, as far as I can tell, even more nuanced and subtle than ye old sama/san/kun distinction so if that nuance is important, keep it and include notes on why the character is using it that way. there's nothing wrong with people in other cultures learning things.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that before S&TC there weren't many or any shows about women over 30 having blaitant discussions about their sex lives, fictional or not.

Music artists you discovered on Youtube

[philstar22]

Are there any music artists you discovered through Youtube?

[(Anonymous)]

Shrug. Sometimes those short-syllable honorifics convey a *lot* of information about how characters feel they relate to each other. While there are times when there's an easy English equivalent, sometimes translating is clunky at best. (Alternatively, I can use other markers - formality of language etc. - but, well. That can get clunky, too.)

When I'm writing fic, 'how characters feel they relate to each other' comes up a good deal. If there's an easy English equivalent I'll use it, sure - but if the fandom is already familiar with these terms, then senpai, shixiong, and gege are all fair game.

Re: Music artists you discovered on Youtube

[philstar22]

Riell is one of my absolute favorites, and I first heard her on Youtube. Also heard Beth Crowley first there and love her.

I heard a bunch of different pagan/celtic/viking groups first on Youtube.

Sabaton is now my absolute favorite music group, and I've bought everything of theirs, and I first discovered them on Youtube.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's fetishism for the majority of the people who get insistent about honorifics, I think their lack of understanding of the language and the explanations they hear, often from native speakers, make them believe for real that the words are more unique than they really are.

And I've seen many cases where a native speaker may not consider the word necessary to keep in a translation, but at the same time they'll explain their reason as "Well it means *explanation of the meaning* but there's no word for that in English and you wouldn't understand it," almost in this patronizing tone of "This word is too deep for you, so just make do without it in your English translation, which will inevitably lose a big part of the original nuance, but that's just how it has to be, siiigh." TBH this happens with words in all kinds of languages, not just honorifics in East Asian languages.