I Like. Wanna Figure Out A Graceful Way To Put Honorifics In My English Writing. And Like This Frustration

I like. Wanna figure out a graceful way to put honorifics in my English writing. And like this frustration is so near and dear to my heart because my first language has a formal/informal tense that is fucking. Impossible for me when I'm writing in English because I so desperately need it there. And it works the same vice versa, I struggle translating English to my native language because when and how do you take a decision to change a text in that way and when is it appropriate?

Ack. It's so. It's so difficult because English is not made for that and for me the swapping to the other language just ruins the sort of suspension of disbelief. It takes you out of the immersion. And when you're translating it's always good and proper and I love it when there's long appendices detailing those things out but when you're writing original/fanfiction that is in a different language than the setting or source work it's just such a difficult editorial decision to make.

I've kind of landed on. When you're writing your own thing you should follow the conventions of the language you're writing in (ie, no formal tense/honorifics/specific conjugations if you're writing in English) but still making it clear within the linguistic context of the setting what it would be otherwise.

This is a nuance that's hard to capture and I don't think I'm good at it yet? This is also why I genuinely feel that all translation is impossible without some degree of loss, like there's always a little bit of the original sense you're going to miss. And that's okay, and I accept that, but it SUCKS as a writer. Like I once wrote a short story set partly in Russia and it's INCREDIBLY HARD to capture the sense of familiarity in nicknames and patronymics in English, even if you just use them straight up. My friend who is a native Spanish speaker INSISTS that magical realism just does not work in English because there's an inherent loss. I can't enjoy translated poetry. It's one of those things.

Anyway all of this is to say I am rocking back and forth on the floor because man writing is so hard writing convincingly within a setting where you don't speak the language is hard writing in your second language is hard translation is hard everything is hard.

Just don't write I think.

Hello world

I'm so incredibly normal about things I promise.

Thinking about Detective Tsukauchi from BNHA because I do not trust the police or law enforcement as they are the muscle and therefore the violence of the state, whose interests are not inherently and in fact are rarely ever aligned with the interests of the people. But like what do you do when your gift from the world is to tell truth from lies? There's something so futile in trying to be anything other than an investigator into people and the only way to reach your own potential is to become part of the violence of the state.

Like what do you do, who do you become, in a society where you have to register your ability and it's effectively known to all? You'd just become a part of it. And maybe you could be raised to have some idealistic dream of fixing it all maybe you get in before it truly sinks in that there's no way to be a good cop, but then where do you go and would you ever truly be allowed to leave? Would any government allow someone with that power to just walk away?

Much 2 think about

All for One named himself All for One so I choose to believe there was some sort of Francophilia there. Or just Big Into Dumas. Which is also good. Dumas was a Bonapartist but also in general that era of France had some big good ostentatious thrones so maybe Yoichi said "brother I see you and I will crib your shit"

A question for you avid mha watchers

A friend and I were talking and came across something

The OFA Thrones.

WHY ARE THEY SO BIG??

I’d love to hear your theories as to why this is.

My theory, is that this is inside Yoichi’s head, and therefore created by Yoichi. And he’s so homeless, he forgot what chairs looked like.

or perhaps it’s something he saw from the comic book, Captain Hero??

this case must be solved, leave theories and evidence in comments.

thank you for your time.

I'm not really on that dad for one grind (sue me I got to a point w the manga where it felt like there wasn't going to be much more going forward in the story that I was really interested in) mostly because it feels like it robs the meaning of a protagonist that truly is No One. Comes from Nowhere. Before being given this ultimate power and inheriting a fight he has no real conception of but is chosen for due to his compassion and who he is, not whose son he is. There's a way a dad for one story could be done well ig but it's just not really what I personally liked about Midoriya Izuku as a story to follow.

That said I do think dad for one is a funny concept and I think if I were in charge of the universe he'd be losing his mind over how All Might got to parent His Boy before him