And it's done, I finished translating Liz to Aoi Tori.
It was amazing. Not only a masterpiece of a movie but also a very personal thing.
I want to dedicate this fansub to the people of kyoani, thier loss and pain is here with me and I don't want that to fade or be forgotten.
they actually arent. humans are remarkably not sexually dimorphic compared to all of our recent ancestors and modern humans are less sexually dimorphic than pre-civ humans. Like we are fine-tuned to hone in on those differences and we still fuck it up sometimes.
It's funny to see people in the quote tweets defending this as Joyce having a big heart as if she is not currently letting Blackwater rapists terrorize a ghetto
I think it’s rather interesting that despite being far wealthier in absolute terms than a Vanderbilt or Carnegie or Stanford, and being directly positioned in an industry that could benefit from it, no tech elite has ever founded a university, and few have even given endowments
For a Chinese Emperor, there was literally nowhere else to go. China was their everything. For all intents and purposes, China was the universe, or at least its center. For the Son of Heaven to seek refuge from the king of a petty realm was unthinkable.
said this to some friends recently that the reason i find joyce so compelling is that she’s someone who has Done The Reading and concluded that a better world was not possible, which is such a real and pernicious trap, especially as you age