This Is All Based On A Text Post I Saw That Was Going Around And Every Time I Heard It, It Was In Either

This is all based on a text post I saw that was going around and every time I heard it, it was in either Mettaton or Papyrus’s voice. I know the grey person seems odd in the last one, but I wasn’t sure how to represent an “Anon” kind of character otherwise.

I would like to thank @thenatsolstice for singlehandedly adding FIFTY to my boop counter.

I will be returning with reinforcements. and anything that's not a trackpad.

i saw this poll on twitter (with less options) and it didnt get a lot of reach and im curious what program is the majority rn

Oh goodness! Thank you very much, that was way more than I expected in response. That’s actually much clearer and relevant to what I’ve been trying to figure out.

Because a lot more in the way of English related stuff on the subject tends to be from teachers which tend to at most seem to be in an apartment complex sort of thing at most.

And no worries, the only issue was on my end trying to figure out the right keywords that got results. xD Even if I could infer what was meant, having the actual Japanese word makes this SO much easy. Thank you again.

If you don't mind me asking, on the last picture you translated of Grell in her pajamas, what was the word you used for "Team dormitory"? I've been fascinated trying to figure out how the shinigami live and that seems like it has a cultural connotation. I've hit a wall with my usual methods but if I had the Japanese word that seems like it's a good keyword I might be able to jump the rest of my research off of. (Also thank you very much for translating that image in general. It's great. xD)

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Dear inardentlongingofpastintricacies,

No, I don’t mind at all! The term Yana used was ‘社員寮’ (しゃいんりょう・sha’inryou), which I just quickly translated into ‘team dormitory’. But I think ‘company dormitory’ or ‘employee dormitory’ would have been more accurate

(＾罒 ＾;;)づ My apologies.

The image on which Yana probably based the Reaper Dispatch Society is probably this ⇊. Usually a relatively large building, either standing on its own, or even actually attached to the office.

Obviously they come with sleeping rooms, often only offering a bed/futon, one desk and a place to store clothing. TVs etc. really would be a luxury.

The more luxurious dormitories would have single rooms, while shabbier ones only provide shared rooms as bad as cramming six people into such a tiny room as the picture above.

Japanese company dormitories usually have a canteen, as is depicted in this ⇊ doodle by Yana herself. Even if there is a canteen, many dormitories also provide a shared kitchen. Those kitchens are usually the more industrial ones, and the majority of the space is occupied by many fridges for the employees to use.

Other shared spaces include a lounge, laundry facilities and bathrooms, of course. Some dormitories come with private bathrooms and toilets (which are more of a luxury), while others have communal washing facilities.

I hope this helps!

Getting boop'd by my mutuals and other people has me feeling all warm and mushy inside

I was stupidly late to the party on fanfics for my age (compared to my friends who were reading them much longer). My first fanfics were Black Butler in high school and I read NOTHING else until Sherlock. Took ages to ever leave those fandoms for anything else. But if I'd been more aware (And less "fear of disaster" regarding computers) I might have read Inuyasha or even Artemis Fowl at an earlier age. I was just terrified that anything on the internet might ruin the computer (any link beyond Wikipedia was supposedly a virus waiting to happen) and of reading anything that might get ruined for me forever if I read a bad fanfic of it. About somewhere 2009-2011ish? Hard to say, I'd have to sit down and do the math on that.

addendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.

for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc--popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren't necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.

homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)

honorable mentions that didn't make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader "american superhero comics" category (this would be valid as an option but i don't have the space)