Friendly reminder that I, as a fanfic writer, create content based on my interests and the interests of the people who send me requests, and you can always unfollow me at any point that you decide my content is not to your taste. Also friendly reminder that people who send abuse to content creators because they dislike the content or portrayed fictional characters, especially hiding behind anon while spewing hatred, really need to grow up and get a life.
Cleaning out my garage this week I found this old, signed Supernatural stuff. I was going to bring it to Goodwill, but then realized, “I know some weirdos who might want this junk!“ Y'all. I’m not selling them, I’ll just mail them to you for karma points. Text me “Yard Sale” TOMORROW 7/1 between 10 and 11 AM PT and I’ll pick random people to send these things to. You just have to promise not to burn it in effigy. Text me “YARD SALE,” 10AM-11AM PT Saturday: (323) 405-9939
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something’s going on I’m not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term “Pet Play” is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I’m not mad about using the term “pet play”. That’s a perfectly fine term. I’m mad because they didn’t use that term: they used “pet p!ay”, a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
@ladylilithprime informed me I must post this here little snippet….
Sam is unwilling to admit his love for donuts, but Cas knows. Every time he goes to Gabe’s bakery, he asks Sam if he wants anything, and Sam always says no. Cas always returns with a glazed and a jelly filled donut and puts them on the kitchen counter, and then leaves to “get something” from the living room. When he returns to the kitchen, the donuts are gone, and Sam is innocently licking his fingers.
“What happened to the donuts?” He’ll ask. Sam replies with a different implausible (or possibly plausible, but highly unlikely) reason for the disappearance of the donuts. Today’s explanation: a flying chupacabra flew through the window, snatched the donuts and flew away before Sam could even get out of his chair.
Cas glares, and then Sam smiles, big, bright and happy. Cas shakes his head.
“There are some days when I can’t imagine how you and Dean are related, and there’s other days, like today, where the resemblance is uncanny.”
Sam envelopes his angel in a hug, distinctly smelling of sugar and jelly.
“You love me,” he says.
Cas rolls his eyes. “Yes, even though you smell like the ocean and eat all the donuts I bring into this house.”
Sam blinks. “Cas, it was the chupacabra! And I just cleaned my pelt yesterday, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“Of course you don’t,” Cas grumbles under his breath. But meanwhile, he snuggles into his ridiculous moose sized selkie partner. He really does give the BEST hugs. Cas figures he’ll keep him, even if he is a donut thief.
are you whiny bitches seriously acting like faster and more affordable and more accessible translation is bad? it’s a bad thing? it’s a thing we should be against now? is that seriously where we’ve arrived? can you people think for ten fucking seconds just ONCE?
machine translation is really good for many languages - esp the romance ones - and while its not perfect or anything, like.. i don’t know how to tell you it’s a good thing we’re able to instantly speak to people, 80% accurately, from anywhere in the world
I went through the notes on this post specifically to find this reply - or one like it. Because it has a point, and it’s a decent point for you, the person. But it’s also missing the info of the larger scale problem.
(Or it isn’t; as you rightly point out in the tags, it’s a capitalism problem. But I’ll expand on this point of “capitalism”. I need to rant. I need to scream.)
I’m a professional translator. I work in video games and software, with an occasional dash of literary translation. I’ve worked in translation proper, I’ve worked on editing other people’s work, I’ve led a couple of translator teams. I’ve worked the occasional miracle, working around some Really Dumb Choices the developers made.
(Spoiler alert: other languages have different syntax and grammar, if you give me a list of nouns to translate, and then give me the plural “s” to translate separately, this is not good. Even in English, woman -> womans is dumb.)
I am a fan of making things affordable and accessible. I am really happy that Google Translate and similar things can tell me the gist of what people are saying in conversations I only half care about. As the poster above says, it’s great! Not perfect, but ok!
Do you know what’s not great? Do you know what the OP in the original image means?
The client the original image is talking about isn’t you. It’s not some person on the internet trying to find out what someone said in a Post. The client they’re talking about is, essentially, the corporation: the translation agency, the publishing house, the IT giant.
You, the individual, do not have the power to demand how I do my job. If you come to me and say, “Sarshi, I want you to take this 300-word post, run it through Google Translate, and then charge me half of what you usually do for translating it”, I can take it or leave it.
But I get contacted by agencies - half of them want this. “We have a game, Sarshi! Just post-edit the results of a machine translation!” “We have support articles, Sarshi! We’re paying you a lot less to post-edit the results of machine translation!”
You say it’s ok to have 80% accuracy, and I feel you! Yes, sometimes it is! But companies are like “lol, this works”, too!
It’s happening over and over. And these aren’t… they’re not people, you know? They’re not Auntie May trying to figure out what the dough recipe she got from her niece in Indonesia says. They’re agencies, trying to increase their earnings by promising top quality to companies, then going, “gosh, we said we’d do it for cheap, how can we manage that?”
Or they can even be large companies themselves. Oh, you’ve spent a bajillion trillion dollars trying to create the CryptoNFTVirtualRealityAI hybrid that everybody knew wouldn’t work and now you panic because your earnings are lower than usual? Oh, and you want to “cut costs” by screwing over every contractor you have? Great. Just great.
This is going to screw you over - you, the individual. Not my client, not the translator’s client in general - the company’s client. The corporation is too big to really care about how you feel about their product - the employees individually might, but the company’s only metric is if you buy it or not. And the company makes decisions based on what brings the most money for the least cost.
So your hardware manuals might be crap and you might be in tears because you have no idea how to make your new appliance do the thing. You’ll go on YouTube and you’ll find a solution, and you’ll eventually figure it out. And maybe you’ll forget about the crap manual in time. So next time, they still won’t get a good translator, because they already have a cheaper solution that seems to work.
So your game looks like it was translated by a bunch of rats in a bunker and you can barely understand what anyone’s saying? Well, maybe they got a bottom-feeding agency overpromise that they totally have legit translators working for $1/hour. Pinky swear! Did you buy the game? You did. So… the system worked! They’ll hire the same agency again!
It’s like the clothing industry all over again. We could have better clothes, but it’s cheaper not to. They’re doing us a service by selling us shoes that won’t last a season, and T-shirts that will look like crap after washing them twice - they’re cheap, aren’t they? They’re affordable. Anyone can get clothes. (So you pay more in time are are more frustrated? Who’s counting!)
And meanwhile, it’s easy to forget things might be different. That we have the ability to create good things, pleasant things. That manuals can be easily readable, that games can sound great, that books can be awesome to read. It becomes harder to trust the market, harder to believe in quality, easier to say that this is normal, this is how things just are.
And if you speak English natively, well… You’re at a huge advantage. A lot of stuff is created by your people, for you. For countries like mine, that are small enough to import a lot, nearly everything is translated. I want you to imagine almost all movies subbed, every appliance made elsewhere (with menus needing translated and all), every app in a foreign language. And everybody who can cut costs will try to.
First like and this has already found its intended audience
uh oh
So, apologies for my somewhat sporadic presence being even more nonsensical than usual. School let out and I packed the imps off to vacation with their grandparents, which also involved travel down to the Gulf Coast. I’m still masking, but apparently my parents have stopped masking and my imps aren’t masking nearly as much as I wish they would…so of course I’m the one who got bronchitis and have been coughing up my lungs for a week and a half. (Just about over it, right on time to drive back home, too.)
So yeah, that’s why @hyrulehearts1123 and @jupiterjames have yet to see me in the wild but y'all can look forward to seeing my contribution to the Sabriel Bang (@spnsabrielbang ) go up the day after I get back home.
SEASONINGS include herbs and spices, along with minerals and chemicals used to season food!!!! Salt, citric acid, and MSG, are all examples of seasonings that are NOT herbs or spices!
HERBS are flavorful leaves. Only. Leaves. Doesn’t matter if its dried, fresh, whole, or ground, if it is a leaf, it is an herb
SPICES are flavorful parts of plants that are NOT LEAVES. These include seeds, berries, stems, bark, roots, flowers, buds… NOT LEAVES
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