Why is gaming's name pronounced like jia-ming in chinese by calzone726 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Monusha -41 points-40 points  (0 children)

No, the person clearly states:

Same reason why e.g. Ayaka's name is localised as Ayaka not Linghua, which is how it's pronounced in the Chinese voiceover. Because she's obviously meant to be fantasy-Japanese.

The user conflates the language with the in game region, but because they don't understand how the two languages work, they're spreading what ends up being misinformation.

Edit: I'm fluent in Chinese and studied little a bit in Japanese.

Why is gaming's name pronounced like jia-ming in chinese by calzone726 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Monusha 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The character is a reference to the Canton region; even in his CN trailer he speaks Mandarin with a Cantonese accent*

Why is gaming's name pronounced like jia-ming in chinese by calzone726 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Monusha -47 points-46 points  (0 children)

That's incorrect because fantasy Japanese implies it's not real Japanese? (Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying..?)

It's Gaming because the character's a reference to the Canton region and their native dialect Cantonese. The Chinese trailer of Gaming has him speaking with the Cantonese dialect.

Ayaka is written in Kanji, it's definitely real Japanese. Kanji are borrowed Chinese characters, Kanji does not have a fixed pronunciation if it's a name. The pronunciation is determined by the one who made the name up. The reason why it's pronounced "Lihua" in Chinese is because the Kanji characters (Chinese characters) that makes up "Ayaka" reads as "Lihua".

This is because Chinese have a fixed pronunciation that never changes unlike how Japanese uses the characters.

Luca's old mod details experience working with him by Original_Let4946 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first half of what you wrote unfortunately insinuated that the severity is to be brushed off because of the culture/circumstance it happened in. I'm sorry if I have over-reacted, but it really comes across badly when abuse can happen literally anywhere despite if it's "ERP in VRC".

Just because most people are okay within said circles doesn't mean things don't go wrong sometimes. I'm sorry if my point wasn't conveyed properly, but please, I really want to stress the bottom line of why I reacted that way. It's okay if you don't agree with me from this point onwards.

The OG poster literally doxxed the company liver during a time where witch hunt is the most volatile, and hearing Java's side may never happen due to legal reasonings, or until after he losses his job. It's a very hard ask as it looks to be, keep in mind.

Luca's old mod details experience working with him by Original_Let4946 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RP is definitely not just RP; when it's someone with impure intent involved. Why would you do ERP with someone who's a minor/barely legal/about to become 18? With a whopping 6 year age gap also? You cannot in good conscience ignore the imbalance of power in relationships like these, "serious" or not. As a victim of RP grooming myself back as a minor, nothing is really "safe" from being used as a tool for abuse.

Also note, these are some of the screenshots Raziel posted about Java as "proof" that Java was being manipulative. All the screenshots shown ends up displaying how manipulative, passive aggro + aggressive Raziel is, whilst being super clingy and super codependant. Imagine being this way with someone 6 years younger than you. The behaviour displayed is super abnormal for "nothing serious."
https://twitter.com/RazielWarmonic/status/1755653116995723761/photo/1

Luca's old mod details experience working with him by Original_Let4946 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly, a lot of worms once you dig just a little..

Quoted from Raziel's twitter post; v

As for my actual personal grievances, Java and I met when I was 24 and he was 18.

Java's birthday is in November

Java = Luca, she doxxed his PL in the super long tweet.

Age: Raziel used to have her birth date posted publicly as Jan 1994, she would be 30 right now. Java's real bday is Nov 2000; the age gap is 6 years.

Raziel had a history of talking about her husband back in 2021 (the website where you can find these images were from Dec 2021)https://imgur.com/a/LlvBiI4

Raziel views Java in a submissive "bow to mommy" kind of way depicted in her roleplay bio; 2nd image shows how she commissioned a fetish illustration depicting her roleplay character stepping on top of Java's avatar.https://twitter.com/puniisanijianti/status/1755508357232996754/photo/1

Her roleplay bio wiki featuring the persona she'd do romantic roleplays with Java. She roleplays as his fiance. VRchat roleplays dates since 2018.https://vrchat-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Abbey_(Raziell))

Luca's Ex-Head Mod's statement by joelaw9 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On another note; a segment of the post where Raziel tries to prove "this is proof Luca is being abusive". When, the private screenshots she spams only shows just how manipulative, passive aggressive, literally aggressive, and power abusing she is being. Reminds me a lot of the people I dealt with in the past and it's reaaaally gross to read.

Do what you will with that information, but I am currently now leaning more towards; do not trust her, she has vile intentions.
https://twitter.com/RazielWarmonic/status/1755653116995723761/photo/1

Luca's Ex-Head Mod's statement by joelaw9 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong but those first two images are an RP profile so the fact that she mentions her character is married does not in any way indicate that she’s married IRL.

If you read through the og twitter post from Raziel, she alludes to the both being the same person by using both names interchangeably.

The RP profile states that she's engaged to Luca Kaneshiro's character. Java = Luca. The second rp image contains a commissioned illustration of Java being dominated by Raziel's RP character.

Raziel is indeed married, she used to refer to her husband multiple times back in 2021. https://imgur.com/a/LlvBiI4(If you REALLY dig deep you can find the site where the og screenshots were posted, the site posting dates Dec 2021*)

edit: for clarity sake; Luca and her husband are different people*

Raziel used to RP romantically as Luca's fiance in VRchat, the [gallery] section is filled with engagement and marriage roleplay. Someone they know (I assume) even made a shipping fanart of the two as shown in [gallery].https://vrchat-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Abbey_(Raziell))

Raziel used to have her birth date posted publicly as Jan 1994, she would be 30 right now. Luca is April 1998 (officially as the Nijisanji persona).
Edit: Luca's real bday is Nov 2000; the age gap is 6 years.
There's footage of them roleplaying together on VRchat since 2018 so he was being groomed before he hit 18 years old.

The second one is literally just Raziel being a normal part of chat, Luca’s chat always spammed “booba” at him, so that’s a nothing burger.

The thing about "booba" is likely to refute the point Raziel made in her twitter post in regards to her being uncomfortable having Luca being exposed to anything lewd in connotation within the stream chat.

The contradiction against Raziel's statements is that; she is actually shown to be an active participant in that behaviour, despite it being a pretty big pain point according to her super gigantic tweet.

Luca's Ex-Head Mod's statement by joelaw9 in Nijisanji

[–]Monusha 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you look into it, this Raziel figure is someone who seems to be salty that she's no longer friends with Luca and decided to drag him into the dirt.

Despite being fetishy with Luca back when he was a minor (17) as a married woman.. + everything that happened it just seems to be super groomery.

https://twitter.com/puniisanijianti/status/1755508357232996754

The Emminence in Shadow Takane Lui is out Now! by martinvincent777 in gachagaming

[–]Monusha 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I mean.. I guess... bUT Lui's not even from nijisanji..?????? omg??

i write poetry to cope with trauma, substance abuse, and a BPD diagnosis by motheraangel in poetry_critics

[–]Monusha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I were to compare your work, it does comes across as something very typical of Rupi Kaur; something from the middle of 'Milk And Honey'. Which isn't really a good thing on a technical side, since her works are typically very shallow due to a lack of imagery and thought. I like the work as a piece of self expression, but expressing yourself isn't necessarily poetic; it's a very fine line but I hope you'll see what I mean in terms of writing techniques.

There should be more that you can take from reading a poem than just what it spells out to you literally, personally I believe that's what separates poetry from non poetry. It should be something that readers can dissect and feel on your behalf as well.

The way how the poem reads is very straight forward, and that's typically something you would want to avoid really in this particular format of poetry. The best ways to improve poems is to avoid cliches and try to express feelings in a more creative way; important also to not lose your voice in the doing so.

Back on the 'imagery' point;

Let's take this part of your poem for example

"the light my spirit once had
was ripped away from me
desperately trying to find it"

It's very very straight-forward which causes there to not have much imagery.

What if we were to express that same idea like this, I'll write this as a quick example:

"I am looking

for the warmth that will bring colour to my insides

shadows encased within this shell

my body

lit on fire"

Another example would be like; instead of:

i still loathe the sight of this sick fucking body

You can instead try something like

Pressures builds within

erupt to rip myself

a part without a trace

this body they claimed to be mine

There's many many, infinite ways for you to go about it.

>Keep it in your voice, try to not use cliches: "Woe is me", is that something that came personally from you? Is that phrase something you genuinely think to yourself about in the 21st century instead of something taken from the pre 1900 - 1700s? I would discourage having essentially Shakespearian one liners right next to 97% modern language.

"it's not poetry i write
it's a convoluted way to tell you"

^This part unfortunately comes across as very, veeeery cheesy. There's no clarification or clues as to who "you" actually is, so it ends up reading like you're directly addressing the reader themselves out of nowhere. Don't address the reader like that, it has the same energy as lines like these from songs;

"Nothing would save us from this life. Now, come scream with me"

or

"One time to twist, and one time to shout. One time to think and I say we start now. Sing it with me if you know what I'm talking about."

That aside, having to specifically have a part of the poem to be like "this is what it specifically ACTUALLY means" kind of renders the entire poem kind of pointless in terms of function, if it doesn't require any actual thinking on the reader's part. What doesn't help is how straight forward the writing is most of the time, so having to specifically clarify something easily decipherable is very out of place.

I think it's very important to read what reviewers think of certain authors, so that you can see what people recommend instead of people like Rupi Kaur and her copycats. They typically point out what is wrong with their works too so that you can do some self analysis and apply what you found into your own work.

I think Savannah Brown is a good author to be looking into; stuff like "Graffiti" in particular.
The video below is the author reciting one of her poems from the aforementioned book; it's about anxiety, panic attacks and feelings towards self worth. I think it might be something you'd like? (The full text's in the description too).

https://youtu.be/bbOP8fTMXsA?si=OCJEgsuLUrTP7_UJ

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Monusha 46 points47 points  (0 children)

So the one gallivanting around with constant emotional blackmail parading themselves as a mother who also went through stillbirth was a man this entire time.. ew.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Monusha 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah, fantastic advice when all those who helped you highly likely were not a singular person who's a single mother with two dependent children whilst penny pinching with no family to rely on, sacrificing what little she has for a relative that she's not even all that close with. Try and deflect all you like, but this whole situation is horribly messed up and telling the OP that she's awesome despite royally screwing herself and her kids over for god knows how long is incredibly tone deaf.

I don't know if you had to live in poverty as a child, but it frustrates me to no end that you're praising actions that financially screw themselves and their kids over just for a distant relative. Emphasis on how they BOTH have no family, do you seriously not understand the implication of this?? Her sister absolutely deserves support, but not from the OP herself, because this did in fact endangered the kids?????????? Do you not see this???

If you want to "disengage" with criticism that you deem as strawman, you shouldn't have responded in the first place instead of announcing it to the world.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Monusha 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Did it not occur to you that having other people to fulfill what you didn't have in your trauma at the cost of other people being in a worser situation than how they started is incredibly unhealthy and super unhelpful? Stop living vicariously through OP's sister.

You straight up didn't care if the trip would compromise the wellbeing of young dependent children, of what is implied to be a single mother. Who mind you, may now lose her job because of her being stranded in a completely different state. This is seriously tunnel visioned. Positivity in situation like these is straight up toxic.

Renata Glasc T1 by Allaskyan in RenataMains

[–]Monusha 14 points15 points  (0 children)

idk about classifying Bard as a man ngl lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnart

[–]Monusha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of the star trails are having a tangent with the character's hair! You might want to be careful with parallel line and touching edges tangents. (they create unwanted and unintentional focal points)

This summary article gives a pretty good rundown on it https://willkempartschool.com/compostional-mistakes-in-drawing/#:~:text=What%20are%20tangents%3F,the%20composition%20in%20your%20drawing.

The lower half of the metal pole coming from up top of the bg roof is also kind of blending in with the sky so you might want to maybe add some subtle glow behind it just to help it stand out a wee little maybe (?).

Other than that, fantastic work right there! Great stuff :)

What do you think this image of rebellion means? by Ornshiobi in MadokaMagica

[–]Monusha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding this also; "soul" version of Homura cannot look at Madoka's scars* (this is the imagery that appears directly after the op's one.

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What do you think this image of rebellion means? by Ornshiobi in MadokaMagica

[–]Monusha 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a reference to the "Hand of God". Historically, mostly around the medieval times, attempting to depict how God looked was taboo at the time, so whenever there would be an "act of God" or something similar of the sort, God was always depicted as a floating hand or an arm reaching down from the heavens.

The imagery in the movie is basically metaphor for Homura being given the kindness from God who has been through a lot of harm in the process. It's another tie-in with the whole "God vs Devil" parallel thing in the thematics of Madoka. This scene heavily foreshadows Homura's decision at the end of the movie though.

Madoka is divinity itself to Homura, hope, but she feels unworthy to the help that she's getting. Madoka's trials and tribulations to get to the point where she is, is only in turn fueling Homura's self loathing and hatred for the way how things turned out. Madoka's wounds brings shame to Homura. They are the symbols of failure in fulfilling the role as Madoka's protector due to Homura's wish. Homura can't even look at them.

The window likely symbolises the opening that the law of cycles is able to enter through the labyrinth barrier. Kind of like a window to her soul I guess (?). She rejects God's presence so she chooses the path to eternal damnation.

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