lil_tank [any, he/him]

My teachers at uni often said “To translate is to betray”. All translations have to make choices about what they want to preserve from the original and what to dish out. If you want to convey the exact meaning of everything you end up fucking up the rhythm and structure by breaking down each term into sometimes a whole sentence. If you preserve the length, which movie subtitles have to do, you have to use terms and expressions that match around 50% of the original meaning

Cool word salad Paul, now explain how being trans is teleological

From what I know you’ll have to compose with a mix of Krita GIMP and Inkscape because those are the three most reliable and feature rich FOSS image editors at this time. In the current capitalist mode of production, free software will hardly be on the level of paid software, however enshittified, because of how many devs get to work full time on it.

Keep in mind that I say this while operating fully on a FOSS environment, because the relative increase in features and reliability doesn’t justify going from free to an absurdly high subscription