Big Rant Post

[kageisuke]

… I've been slacking at any real updates to my journal, and since I'm in a very ranty mood, I'm just gonna lump all of these mostly unrelated things into one HUGE ass post. They're all cut, for the most part, cus even I don't want to see how much space this'll take up when I've finished. Three pages 12 pt Times New Roman with 1" margins WHUT

When it comes to translations, there are two types. There's fan done, which usually ends up as part of a scanlation, or there's professional which are printed out and sold. So yeah, dur.

When it comes to fan translations, if it is not completely accurate, I really hold no grudge against them or anything because it's all strictly volunteer work. Just by getting the general gist from a scanlation, I'm pretty content. If they leave in random Japanese words that either don't have a fairly accurate translation or have a stronger meaning than the English equivalent, or hell, just sounds cooler, I'm all for it. Great way to build my anime vocabulary, I say. Hearing/Seeing Tatsuki shout out 'Aren't we nakama?!' to Ichigo has a different meaning to me than 'Aren't we comrades?!'. It invokes a stronger feeling, and in manga/anime, that is pretty much the point…

Leaving in honorifics is part of that, and I like it when some things aren't translated, especially names. For instance, I can't remember exactly who is translating it [they used to be on fifay.net] but Detective Bluecat is a BL manga and they translate ALL THE NAMES. It's so urking because why can't they call him Detective Aoneko? And there's another guy called Bee-something, and it just strikes me as weird to translate names as if this is still in the 90's where Usagi from the Sailor Moon manga was called Bunny. Now, thinking about on it, I wait for them to start calling Mizuno Ami 'Ami of Water' or Aino Minako 'Minako of LURVE~!' or something… which would be hilarious, but I'm getting off topic.

When I deal with professional work though, I do not give them the same leniency that I give a scanlator. Though I still like honorifics and other key terms for the names of weapons, I would not expect them to mistranslate anything whether on purpose or on accident. Random words like 'nakama' that *do* have an English equivalent I expect them to use it. In cases when it might be weird to translate directly, like calling a character 'brother' isn't a normal thing so they change it to the character's name, I understand and if they put a note in the back so the more hardcore fans know, I'm all for it.

And with that out of the way, I go back to scanlators. If they spell something wrong or start a whole trend of calling something by the wrong name, that really is a bad thing; but to get on fans cases who know nothing about the wrong way is being ridiculous. Most of the fans have no knowledge, or very little, of Japanese and have to take for granted what they're told. Jumping down someone's throat over a misspelling is overkill and solves absolutely nothing. Whoopdee-fricking-do, they typed 'Grimmjaw' instead of 'Grimmjow'! Alert the kana police! Honestly, as long as you know who they're talking about, I don't give a flying fuck HOW they spell it as long as the official licensed translation that I can buy is correct. If it really bothers someone SO MUCH that people are spelling it wrong, jump on the bandwagon of translators and put out your own version that you believe is as correct as you can get it. If you aren't willing to put in the time, stop bitching and move on. We can only listen to the same speech with the same reasons so many times before it gets irritating and the meaning behind it is ignored if just to stop it constantly hammering our brains. So yeah, that's that.

Even after I graduate in February with my associates Yaaay! :D, I plan to find a job and stay at home for the months between this and going back for my bachelors. Why? So I can:

1. Save up money to go BACK in the first place cus I don't want to have to take on any more loans.
2. Don't waste money on the rent and utilities to live on my own or risk having irritating as hell roommates.
3. Help my mother pay the bills.

All three of those are equally important to me, especially the third one, as my mother sucks at managing money and I don't. Even if I managed to only get a job that net pays 20,000 a year [and if that's all I can get with an associates in web design I'm not looking in the right places AT ALL] and stay out of school for only the 6 months before having to start paying back loans, I should have 10,000 dollars. Half of that could go to bills for all I care, but the other 5,000 would go to school, and since I plan to still be working when I go back, they can work out a payment plan instead of me paying it all at once so I have a money padding if anything does wrong… which it will, just because I said the word IF.

Does anyone know or care about those Steps 1/2/3/4 [of Four] Complete I was posting a bit ago? Even if you don't, it was my steps in completing my Grimmjow application for campfuckudie. You can look at it here if you're curious. Scroll aaaallllllllllllllllllllll the way down to the last one.

Step One : E-mailing mods to see if Grimmjow was applicable.
Step Two : Completing application.
Step Three : Sending the application out for betaing
Step Four : Sending in the application

People have always said A man will punch you directly in the face while I woman will stab you in the back. That, actually has very little to do or does it? with what I wanted to say… =_=

Anyway, I always found it odd the contradictories of women, especially in this modern age. 'We want equal rights!' but does that mean you want to be drafted, too? 'Treat us equally in the work place!' But those blonde jokes the guys tell are lawsuits waiting to happen. 'Just because I have a baby doesn't mean I have to be a stay at home mom. I can work, too.' But then you have the women who gladly stay at home and let the husband work.

I really have no problem with each having their own individual preferences, but you need to either say it's 'All or Nothing' or take what you have already. Women have moved up in the business world and make more money, are more independent, yadda yadda yadda, and that's a step in the right direction… but then you have Hollywood and Music telling you to 'be glamorous and sexy!' and 'milk that man for all the money he's worth' or 'be independent cus you don't need a man!'.

…

Seriously, can't they just pick one? Is it so hard to send the right message to young children? Instead of women shaking their asses in videos, even in their OWN videos, do something else… Sex sells, yeah… your soul. Of course, this leads me to the 'Parents need to monitor their children better and stop letting the TV and teachers baby-sit' rant I have every few days/weeks so I'm just gonna skip it and end this half-baked rant…

That cut name is misleading but I thought it was hilarious so I left it. This is actually about slash and what I like and don't like about it… Since it's all fanfiction, it'll bleed into other genres as well, which are only 2… het and yuri… D: If you're on my flist and reading this and don't know what slash is, I shall slap you and continued on…

So yeah, what do I like about it? Depends on what I'm looking for really. All slash isn't NC-17, or so I'm declaring right now cus if not… uhhhh… I like my slash with plot… Really… and not with a 'What' in-between Plot? What plot?. Especially when it's one of those 'WTF how did THEY get together?!' pairings. There is something to be said about taking two characters who totally hate/despise each other and getting them in a relationship *realistically*. It takes skill, perhaps a few cliché plot devices, but as long as it's good overall, I will love you and stalk your LJ or 'Pit of Voles' account.

Now when it comes to the porny slash, I don't even need to say anything cus most of you know what I like…

Shouta and Loli-con are just… wrong… and even as I say this you point fingers and go 'Hitsugaya!' but he has Paku Romi's voice and PWNS YOU ALL so he doesn't count… and he's just sooo cute… Not only are they little kids… just… gah… No! No badtouching chibi's! It goes against the laws of nature even more than yaoi/yuri… NO!

Yuri has to have a plot. Can't do the 'OMG yer so hawt must SEX YOU UP' thing. Well, I could if they already have a pre-existing relationship in canon or something, but other wise… nope…

Het is just like yaoi. I can do them all as long as they're written well… I think it's fun to read my least favorite pairs and be semi-converted for all of 5 minutes before going 'WTF? This is wrong!' and go back to normal. Yep, I'm a hypocrite. Oh well! ::laughs::

Gah, and that's all of it, I swear. I had another one, but I've been working on this post for hours and I give up on the last one… Lucky I even reread this for coherency and spelling errors which are still everywhere so shut up…

Comments

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Maa, my issue is less with fan-translations in and off themselves, and more the attitude that a lot of fandom takes of insisting that they're better than professional translations. -_-;; And hence, I read raw manga, and am hoping to work my way up to raw novels and anime in the near future.

And yes, "feminists" tend to irk me with the silly self-contradictory stuff. Especially since once you get down to it, no, people are not biologically the same. "equal" rights are fine, but stuff can be equal while being a bit different. Complementary.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well I stopped listening to them a long time ago. :D When it comes to scanlations and stuff, I just read and have no other opinion than that. Sometimes I like the way they do things better, but I wouldn't know if they're true as far as accuracy goes...

::thinks about Kyouraku/Nanao fic:: Yeah... I have no problem with the idea, it's just the 'Oh noes! Things aren't equal FIX IT NOW' people and the preachy people that piss me off.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

It's irritating when you get the fandom fixated on one idea that the fan translators used, but is technically inaccurate, and they then refuse to listen to reason of those who actually would know better.

*snickers* Where do you think I was getting the idea for the name of the fic? And yeah... but what really gets me about it, is that people try to assume that everyone is the SAME with all that. When clearly, people are NOT. Men don't have the equipment to bear children, for example. This doesn't make either gender better or worse than the other, simply different, and therefore having differing strengths and weaknesses.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Well, people don't like change, really, no matter what they claim. And everyone just wants to bitch about something, so I let them and go on my way.

I know exactly, that's why it reminded me of it. And the day men bear children is the day women all around the world laugh at their pain, say 'See! I told you, asshole!' and then get all worried about 'how wrong it is and unnatural'. ::rolls eyes:: And yeah, different strengths a weakness, but it's easy to resent someone for not having your weakness and not acknowledging their strength in other areas.

I express irony at the fact that women are supposably 'in charge of the home' and do all the cooking or whatever, but in the culinary world, most Head Chefs are men.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

People being willfully idiotic is annoying.

Heh, yeah. It's just silly. If you ignore your weaknesses that only makes them worse, you have to actually them to learn to deal with them. And nothing wrong with having another person who balances that out with their sets of strengths and weaknesses.

*snickers* Men who can cook (and grilling DOES NOT COUNT) are cool. Just because. Same with guys who can sew.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

... idiocy for fun is amusing, idiocy just for the sake of strife is a pain in the ass.

That's the thing, you can learn to deal with your weakness but it's still going to be painfull/irritating for people to constantly prod at them as if you didn't already fucking know.

HAha, Ishida anyway?

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

...yeah.

Eh, but it really shouldn't be like that. Just you know your weaknesses and strengths, so you focus on your strengths and work with others to balance that out.

Yeah. And most guy cosplayers I know are pretty cool, too.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

We can all try that and live happily every after, but there always has to be the one bastard in the group.

I go back and forth on cosplayers, because some are really nice, and others are elitist snobs and I can't stand them. I don't really know any personally either, so...

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we can ignore them, or something.

....I'm a cosplayer. So's Vor.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

...or something...

I don't know you guys personally. Internet is one thing, in person, face-to-face is another thing. =_=

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Bah, it's close enough. No worse than having a penpal or something.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a penpal since 5th grade. ::blinks:: Though I guess knowing someone over the internet through AIM and e-mail is the same thing, isn't it? Meh, whichever.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Exactly. People don't assume that things like penpals are somehow *not* knowing someone, yet if it's the internet they're suddenly all "oh you don't really know them" and stuff.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I never assumed just because I had a penpal that I knew them. They're just as apt to lying on paper as they are on a screen, I say.

[acdragonmaster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm talking about the overall mentality. Parents have little to no problems, in general, with the idea of kids having penpals. Might even think it was a good thing. But then when it comes to them having pals on the internet? Suddenly it's all bad and dangerous.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cus they're naive like that. I think the idea of talking fast and being able to plan things in a matter of minutes with people they don't know bothers them.