#Tropes

There's been a lot of discourse in the English-speaking anime world this week about slang appearing in English localizations.But how does slang end up in subtitles, dubs, or localized games,
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I've seen a lot of jokes lately about the "exvangelical" phenomenon. I'm not anti-joke, and for sure, this phenomenon has cliches and tropes like any tribal movement, but I think
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How money is just a multiplayer abacus.Also: why BTC (or at least blockchain) is nothing new, just a recent incremental upgrade of an age old trope.1/ In the beginning, there
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Hey y'all. We're super excited that so many people want to do fan art of our @MotherlandsRPG characters! But it's clear some folks are not used to drawing Black folks.
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Hi! I’m film critic & festival programmer Cyrus Cohen (@film_fag), & I’ll be diving into one of my all-time favorite films, LINGUA FRANCA by Isabel Sandoval, which is currently available
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#bokuaka in which akaashi is a fiction writer who rejected the idea of writing a romance plot, until he came. “this is not romance.”fiction writer keiji never considered romantic plots
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May start a regular thread where I share an interesting paper in full. Recently discovered the scholarship of Dr. Lipton after the recent publication of his Rethinking Ibn Arabi that
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Let’s talk about The Last Jedi and The Bible. Yeah, really.Out of all the ongoing stories and multi-layered sagas that have been dreamt up in the last century, Star Wars
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I almost ignored this tweet entirely because it’s just so weak & devoid of fact. But who am I to pass on an opportunity to enlighten a Minister with evidence?
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Trump's "Schedule F" by Executive Order is unconstitutional. It also is a really bad idea. 1/ A little history lesson: The federal civil service has been mostly based on merit
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it would be cool if we could stop pretending girls who don’t have female friends do so on purpose out of a disdain for women & a desire for male
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A thread of Kdramas that I love and recommend. Extraordinary You (2019)Imagine one day you realize that you were living inside a manhwa.(comic) This story is about a girl named
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What your favourite hypmic says about you Ichiro Yamada: -You love family tropes -You think watching anime is a personality trait -You're trying ur buster best Jiro Yamada: -you think
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I'm going to be crystal clear so there is no misconstrusion of my words: The fact that an Adam stan was able to relate to this post fills me with
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I just thought I'd do a short thread to explain my twitter name change today as several disingenuous accounts have accused me of using my blue tick to impersonate the
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THREAD: here are some examples of anti-rights rhetoric #CapitalizingOnCovid to fuel existing discrimination and oppression against marginalized communities.https://twitter.com/PRAEyesRight/status/1253010725079076866 We are witnessing disinformation a
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