A Positive Light on a Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong
be so real with me if I were on total drama island and I fucked up so bad would you vote me off. I'm talking like I fucked up really bad. like unforgivably
what did you do
I fucked up so bad
hrrrrm... as long as it gay wasnt is
homophobic yoda stroke is having
call the yodambulance
ALThomophobic yoda.... please don't give up
Is near my end, faggot. goodbye. kill gay vader, you must.
im gonna (remembers suicide jokes negatively impact my mental health or something) bribe the officials im gonna kill all the judges its gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage
But I wonder if we also ignore illness because of our bias toward agency and control. We would like to imagine that we captain the ships of our lives, that human history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning even though he almost certainly died of typhoid or malaria. We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection.
John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
banger.
this post is for, like, three of you but I had to bring it over for the merlintuals
Piece of Asian media: *has a title that's obviously not in English*
Fan Translators: hmm taking into account the intention of the original and the rules of both languages, plus the tone of the story, the best title would probably be something like Adherent of the Blade of Duality, but probably an official translation would want to shorten it to Blade of Duality, or perhaps Double-Edged Sword to borrow a popular turn of phrase that also fits thematically--
Official English Translators: Master of Double-Penetration
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