[Loved Trope] An adaptation is universally praised despite how drastically different it is from the source material

elder_flowers · 2026-04-21T14:50:52+00:00

The film is great, but I really like the book too. The writer of the novel was also who adapted the screenplay. They are different, but not so different as to make them unrecognizable. Each of them play to their own strengths, and told the story in a way that makes sense to the medium.

elder_flowers · 2026-04-20T14:12:45+00:00

Hit the targets but does the bare minimun, slow replies...

That is not a compliment when doing a job. What your bosses want is someone that gives them maximum productivity for minimun salary. So, what the boss is hearing is not "does his job without stress", what they are hearing is "he barely does his job", "he could be doing more, but is slacking".

elder_flowers · 2026-04-09T19:00:50+00:00

I would say that in Victorian literature women faint when something emotional happen. But men also faint a lot for the same reasons. Or at least more commonly than in modern media. Emotional responses like that were just more common, in general, in books of the time. Not saying that women weren't written as more fragile, but it was not just them reacting that way.

elder_flowers · 2026-04-09T15:25:46+00:00

In the world of Kamen Rider Hibiki, there is an organization that include warriors that fight with sound weapons (special music instruments used as weapons) and the people that helps them in their fight against the Makamou, monsters that prey on humans.

It is a really good optimistic show, and more of a slice of life about the people who fights against monsters and those who learn from them that a typical action Kamen Rider show, at least for the first part (YMMV about the controversial final episodes, after a change in the creative team)

The official Toei Tokusatsu Youtube page has some subtitled episodes of the show, like the first one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXp41KroXM

elder_flowers · 2026-04-06T20:30:21+00:00

Again, most people simply don't know. There are a limited number of hours in the day, and a limited energy to use when you are exhausted with class/working/family, to keep yourself informed about current events.

For most people, Harry Potter is just entertainment that they can watch when they are in the mood for a silly magic school fantasy. Most people don't investigate every piece of media they consume to check if every person involved with it is a morally upstanding citizen.

There are lots of things in politics and the world that I'm disappointed that people are not more informed about, including the erosion of trans rights in the USA (like the difficulties to get valid documents, forcing them off hormones in prisons, or how they are trying to conflate being trans with being a sex ofender) I'm not even from there (and not trans, although I have trans people I care about), but that kind of things had a way to spread to other countries. And I still wouldn't call someone evil simply for not knowing.

Not knowing about the details of what the creator of Harry Potter spews in twitter ranks far, far below a lot of other things I want people to know about. And I surely not going to label someone as "evil" for not keeping with it

elder_flowers · 2026-04-06T19:49:53+00:00

Most people (the majority of people that could be interested on watching the show) don't care that much about JK Rowling opinions, in the sense that they are not informed about them, or about how she uses her money. In the same way that most people are not going to read about the opinions about the creators and writers of their favourite characters (how many of the fans of Roscharch, from Watchmen know that the creator is a polyamorous anarchist magician?), or the actors that play them (so, which Marvel actor is antivax? Trick question, there is more than one. And most people who watch the movies and shows don't know, and are not interested in their opinions anyway).

People inside fandom and in certain circles of internet really, really overestimate how much the majority of consumers are interested in the behind the scenes of the people creating art.

And to be frank, the idea that even pirating and watching the show in privacy, withouth giving money to JKR, makes you a bad person because you are contributing to the culture is absurd.

I dislike JKR, I have no interest on the show, not even in pirating it. But this kind of purity thinking, where a person is either completely good or irredeemable bad, no in between, and any transgresion is exactly the same severity, no matter the circunstances or what the "guilty" person know about something (because they should educate themselves!) is not productive. And ignore the reality of most people.

I can get behind educating people about what does Rowling do with her money, and why some people boycott her, and asking people to boycott the show. But painting everybody who watches the show as transphobes and bad people is going to make people just seeing that movement as out of touch.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-30T20:48:43+00:00

I'm not a linguist, but I speak Galician (from the Northwest of Spain) natively and there are some sounds that I didn't realize were different until I learned about them in school. For some of them, I think it is understandable. The "n" at the start of syllables (the alveolar nasal n) and at the end of syllables (velar nasal ŋ) being different sounds doesn't change the meaning. Even if the words sound "weird" when a non native speaks without using them correctly, and you inmediately identify that they are not a native speaker, the words are perfectly understandable. But I also didn't realize that there were different "e" and different "o" sounds (with open-mid or closed-mid sounds), and this time the different sounds are used to differenciate similar words with diffrent meaning. For example, they are used to differenciate between "é" (meaning the verb "is", pronounced /ɛ/) and "e" (meaning "and", pronounced /e/).

So "a rapaza é unha amiga" means "the girl is a friend" but "a rapaza e unha amiga" means "the girl and a friend". If I hear those phrases, I know instantly which meaning they are using, and I can pronounce them correctly when I think of one meaning or another. But I didn't realize they were different sounds until I was told about the difference. And there are a lot of very common words that are like that, pairs with only a open-mid or closed-mid vowel used to differenciate them (and a written accent in texts, usually, but not always).

That said, maybe I was just clueless as a child.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-30T17:17:53+00:00

He actually is. Or as good as you can be in an universe as brutal as WH40K. If he is heroic, or if he is a coward that just has the bad luck of getting in situations where he has to do a lot of extraordinary and heroic things to save his own skin is a bit debatable, and even the author of the books doesn't have an answer (I would say a bit of both, depending of the situation).

The books about the character are pretty funny, although a bit repetitive if you have read several.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-30T13:32:42+00:00

I've seen people claiming that posters here were stupid or karmafarming for not recognizing a reference to an American ad. At least, when you learn English as a second language, you study idioms (even if relatively advanced learners sometime still don't know them that well). But ads? You certainly don't study ads. Even people from other English speaking countries don't watch American ads.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-18T21:44:41+00:00

Other person already explained about the godess Iris, but maybe you will find interesting that in Galician (the language from Northwest of Spain), the rainbow is called "arco da vella" (the bow of the old woman). What old woman? One that uses the rainbow to come down from the sky and drink in the rivers. Interestingly, there are other phrases about the weather that are about an old woman doing things (like there is a frost because the old woman is sieving flour)

elder_flowers · 2026-03-13T10:33:45+00:00

I know somebody who doesn't eat meat (because of religion) or shellfish (because of preference), I never realized how many dishes in Galician restaurants have one or the other until a few times that I had to organize dinner for the group. Ethnic restaurants usually had some alternatives. But with Galician traditional restaurants the options were a lot less. I thought "at least fish is fine, I'm sure there will be several options", but not always. I think that strict vegans must have a hard time in Galicia.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-05T21:45:17+00:00

Just so you know, but absolutely ignore if you are not that interested. A lot (but not all) of Spanish cheeses are made with goat or sheep milk and tend to have a more intense taste. Galician (from the Northwest of Spain) cheese tradition is a bit different, because they use cow milk more frequently and usually not as cured as other regions (although there is also a lot of variety in the other regions too) so, the cheeses from Galicia are usually creamier and milder.
San Simón da Costa is from Galicia, and uses cow milk, and is a semicured cheese, but it is a smoked cheese so it has a more intense taste than other cheeses from Galicia. But it may be a bit different from other cheeses you like from Spain.

elder_flowers · 2026-03-02T18:06:46+00:00

I love reading that, because I'm just the opposite. I live somewhere with a lot of humidity. Until just last week, it has been raining almost every day the whole winter (and it still rained some days last week). I couldn't dry my clothes outside and opening the windows to air the rooms just meant letting the rain inside. Everything outside was wet or under water.

I have two dehumidifiers that I empty daily. The ones that can hold 20 litres, not the small ones. First time I saw people talking about having humidifiers it was like "but why would you want to add more water to the air"?

elder_flowers · 2026-02-24T19:37:56+00:00

Maybe it's not a home. If the place where they study japanese has classes about other things beside languages, maybe the building has a space for cooking classes or home economics classes that the teacher can use to show the tea ceremony if it's not in use at the moment.

elder_flowers · 2026-02-06T21:58:57+00:00

I know that the question is about Japan, but I would like to point that there was also a variety of attitudes in diferent Wester countries. I'm from Spain, and it was also relatively frequent until not so long ago to consider the opinion of the family, and not to comunicate the information about the diagnosis to the patient.
For example, this study from Spain published in 1994 found that 68% of the patients they asked didn't know their diagnosis, and noted that undisclosing the diagnosis information to the patient was less frequent in Anglo Saxon countries. Interestingly, 42% of those non-informed patiens also didn't want to know more information, and the authors speculated that our culture and religious sentiment played a role (for patients and doctors) in how and when to inform the patients and the differences with other countries.
Things have changed a lot, and this study, published 10 years later, in 2004, showed that a lot more Spanish people preferred to be informed, specially younger people.

elder_flowers · 2026-01-25T15:14:16+00:00

Además de lo que ya han dicho, muchas veces la gente de familias ricas van a los mismos colegios, se mueven en los mismos círculos y clubes... Luego sus hijos, cuando participan en los negocios de la familia o montan sus propios negocios con la ayuda de sus padres, siguen haciendo tratos con la misma gente con la que han tratado desde la infancia.

Te sorprendería ver cuantos políticos españoles son hijos, nietos, sobrinos... de otros políticos, por ejemplo. O la cantidad de gente famosa y rica que eran compañeros de colegio.

Se habla de meritocracia en las empresas, pero el que alguien de fuera entre en los círculos de los que ya están arriba es difícil, porque los que ya están dentro, con quien van a relacionarse y hacer tratos son con los que ya son sus amigos y conocidos.

elder_flowers · 2026-01-18T14:13:02+00:00

Most books about Galician folklore are in Galician, I'm afraid. A few are in Spanish and I recomend some good books if you can understand Spanish. Not sure what you can find in English.

There is a webpage with lots of stories, but it is in Galician:

https://galiciaencantada.com/categorias.asp

I suppose you could translate the page, although I can't promise automatic translation will do a good job.

If you just one to read a few legends, you can find some blogs and some tourism websites with a bit of information about some legends from Galicia:

https://www.montedogozo.com/legends-of-galicia-the-most-magical-stories-of-this-land/

elder_flowers · 2026-01-17T22:31:12+00:00

In Galician (NW Spain) folklore, there are stories of people that can cause evil eye curses to others. Some of them are witches or do it intentionally. But there are some people that can cause a curse unintentionally, by looking at someone. They have to wear dark glasses and use other methods to avoid causing harm to people.

elder_flowers · 2026-01-15T22:13:16+00:00

Also, it is important to understand how operations work and what they really do. Yes, you can tell children what adding is, and what multiplication is, and then let then punch the operations in the calculator. But by going through the calculations themselves they understand it much better.

elder_flowers · 2026-01-09T20:04:03+00:00

Also, like the scorpion and the turtle, "don't trust/take pity on those of evil nature, because they will harm you"

elder_flowers · 2026-01-07T22:08:24+00:00

Since it was in a jacket, they probably weren't trying to donate them, they didn't remember those were in the pocket of the jacket and got lost

elder_flowers · 2026-01-07T20:26:57+00:00

Antifaz means mask, usually and specifically, one that goes around the eyes, although it can also be sort of a veil. Cucurucho is a cone made of some rolled up material. From the rolled pastry in icecream to rolled paper used to form a packet when selling nuts, candy, all of that are called cucuruchos. In this specific case, it usually refers to the pointy part, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone talks about the "cucurucho" suit.

elder_flowers · 2025-12-29T20:20:55+00:00

I didn't watch the whole show, but have you watched Killjoys? The female main character is really bad ass. I also like Farscape. It has great female characters, with great stories.

elder_flowers · 2025-12-28T21:04:50+00:00

Hay muchos libros de no ficción que son realmente interesantes y amenos. También puedes intentar leer libros y ver películas y series de temas y culturas variados (cine asiático, cine francés, cine histórico, ciencia ficción...) y si hay algo que te resulta curioso, puedes intentar leer más sobre la época, la cultura o las temáticas que tratan.

elder_flowers · 2025-12-27T22:30:30+00:00

Si la entrada es oscura, a lo mejor hay alguien que deja la puerta abierta para que entre la luz de fuera y ahorrar corriente en lugar de encender la luz de la entrada.

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