The watercooler: a place to chat

[Azifri]

Probably because of that rewrite of someone else's novel he posted, it was called Worm or something like that. Although it had a warning in the description, indicating it was another author's work that he adapted.

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edit:

This was the novel linked in his Tapas work: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

I haven't read it, just skimmed over the description.

[Kelheor]

Oh, that's how it is D:

[doriantorres112]

oh wow, no wonder he's been less active. i thought it was an issue he had deal to irl but this is something i'd never thought of.

[doriantorres112]

anyways, how's everyone doing? i've been stuck in my own home for two months due to quarantine but that's how my summer always looks like.

[Kelheor]

I'm somewhere in the middle of "look at me, being all productive!" and "I just want to lie in my bed whole day long doing nothing"

[TAMAnnoying]

I have a big enough back log of updates that I’m currently doing ref sheets for characters that I never did cause I didn’t think they’d have an appearance till my 50th rewrite where I said “guess I’ll give the plot a good kick in the rear.”

Didn’t do the quarantine tango for nearly as long as anyone else because my work is “essential” Being eyeglasses.

[Kelheor]

I got smashed into the bed, so now I am reviewing my Chinese and some "trying to remember characters" explanations are freaking hilarious

Come ooon

[doriantorres112]

the struggle of being ambitious but also lazy.

[doriantorres112]

i see. what's the story of your comic about?

[doriantorres112]

sounds hard. Mandarin or Cantonese?

[Kelheor]

Nah, it's like a basic grammar for 2 y.o., I just downloaded a lot of things on Memrise and look through them Mandarin.

[doriantorres112]

Ah, oh. May I ask why? Ah, Mandarin's hard or so I heard.

[TAMAnnoying]

It’s about a couple of things since is a long story covering several arcs (books?) but the first arc is about found families and The MC dealing with finding out his kind of racist but no Idea how to deal with it due to trama.

Also lizard people

[Kelheor]

I majored in Chinese language and culture, but I graduated 7 years ago and haven't spoke a word since So I wanna revive at least a bit of the language I know. I already forgot all French I know, it would be a waste to forget Chinese

[doriantorres112]

that's cool. self awareness. also lizard people. a tiny gecko jumped on my shoulder, maybe it's a sign that we were meant to meet this faithful time.

[doriantorres112]

that's an interesting course. why did you choose chinese as a college course.

[Kelheor]

Eh, I had to go somewhere after school. I was really afraid my exam results would be not so good and I had no idea where to go to study. My best friend decided to go to China, because we all know how everything soon will be China and Chinese interpreters will be making a lot of money (no). I was always pretty good with languages, so I went too
I also always dreamed of Japan, and to the girl from not that big Russian city China seemed pretty close to Japan in culture, as, you know, being Asia (yeah, I had no internet back then)

[TAMAnnoying]

Yaaaaaasssss the lizards speak to you!

It’s always been a subject that is Interesting to me cause it always bugged me that when a character finds out their rasist they magically stop being racists as part of their development, but I grew up in an unsteady environment Like that and it’s a very long road of self discovery and trying to understand why your brain thinks the way it does so you can stop it from continuing. I’m hoping the story will be helpful to those going through a similar road of self awareness but that would imply I’m talented enough to do that

[doriantorres112]

ah, i understand. i also thought japan and china were the same thing when i was kid, and i always wanted to wear traditional chinese clothes whenever it's UN day in our school and got jealous at my cousins since they were studying at a school where chinese (idk which one) was being taught (although, once the chinese teachers have left and was now being run by the locals, it now only teaches numbers and some alphabets in the elementary.)

because we all know how everything soon will be China

Q>Q this is scary to think about but you're right.

with how you fluent with english, that with chinese from your college year and hopefully soon, and i think it's going to be easier this time since you already experienced the language before, and french tho forgotten and also russian, your native. you are what i aim to be.

Have you went to japan?

[doriantorres112]

i understand. once a habit or a way of thinking has been ingrained it's hard to get rid of especially in a place where it's being practiced in a day to day basis. I experienced that and it's really hard when you're the only one questioning it, picking out the faulty reasons and beliefs as to why this thing is being discriminated. i also realize that i still have a long way to go with acceptance but i feel like im close.

Honestly, i think you're going to be fine. You have the experience and with enough research with racism and other people finding faults of their racist narrative and come to terms with it and etc., you'll do great.