FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON

[upupa_epops]

Old news: lj is dead. Everyone is crazy busy, or they have other reasons not to be here. No one has time to read those huge meta posts we used to write once upon a time. But maybe we can all find ten minutes to do this:

FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON!

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[fluffyfrolicker]

tVD/BtVS | comparison/differences between damon and faith

[penny_lane_42]

I want to tempt Kelsey, so...

Kpop: Infinite: write me something about any of the guys' approaches to performance, how they do or don't delineate between who they are on and off stage, how they construct identities through performance, etc.

[ever_neutral]

YOU DO THESE THINGS TO RUIN MY LIFE

[penny_lane_42]

I do. I absolutely do.

[kwritten]

feck.... everything....

I feel utterly inept!!! How could I possibly attack this prompt with any level of proficiency?!

[upupa_epops]

BtVS/TVD, Damon, Spike and kitsch.

(Or just one of the two characters, I don't care.)

[upupa_epops]

Buffyverse, translations. Have you ever seen Buffyverse in any other language? Tried to translate anything? Wrote fic in another language? I'm very curious about other people's experience with Buffyverse language in translation.

[beer_good_foamy]

Just a brief idea I think I've posted someplace else before: I've watched Buffy in three languages - English, German (dubbed) and Swedish (subtitled). Some really odd voice actor choices and translations aside (the Swedish subtitler once has Spike describe Andrew as a "pimp" rather than a "ponce", which... would be a completely different show), what's stayed with me is the titles.

See, the original title Buffy, The Vampire Slayer really encapsulates a lot about the story (I wrote more on that here). It's the story of Buffy, who is a vampire slayer. You have a silly name, you have monsters, and you have the promise that the girl with a silly name will kick monster ass.

The Swedish title comes out Buffy och vampyrerna - Buffy And The Vampires - which not only makes it sound even more like a kids' show, but also misses a couple of key points: the fact that Buffy slays vampires (notably, one TV critic wrote a very critical essay about the show despite clearly never having seen a second of it, since she was convinced that Buffy was a

[upupa_epops]

In Poland, we have Anioł ciemności (Angel of Darkness) instead of Angel. I keep wondering what they'll do when one day they decide to release Dark Angel in Poland XD.

To be fair, I've never seen Buffy in translation (unless you count that one time I watched almost the entire series with Portuguese subtitles -- except I don't speak Portuguese, so...). But I used to write Buffy fic in Polish, and we had to come up with translations of all the proper names and whatnot, that was fun!

Polish title is Buffy postrach wampirów, which roughly means what the original means, but it loses the whole "slayer as a mystical creature" layer. You can't build a mythology around this word. I'm not sure how they solved it in dialogues, but my bet is, they had to come up with another word for "slayer".

[beer_good_foamy]

It's the same in Swedish. (And possibly in German, I'm not sure exactly what connotations Vampirschlächterin has aside from sounding reeeeeeeally Teutonic.) It's an everyday word, used mostly in legal discussions. It doesn't exactly bring the "she alone will have the power" yada yada.

[antonia_zar]

I tried to argue that, but I eventually just gave up. Yeah, Damon appreciation week was essentially me skimming 80% of my dash. Because most of the posts seemed to miss his character entirely and were focused on his pain and insecurities of never being loved, etc. etc. We've all seen that, though :P

[upupa_epops]

To which I say: cry me a river ;).

(The beauty of lj: you can say this in an open post, and no one will reblog it five hundred times with butthurt comments ;).)

[woobloo]

I unfollowed several of the main posters, just for my own sanity.