Reading manga fan translations and it drives me crazy every time they say "read the atmosphere" like I know they're literally saying "read the air" but we have an English idiom for the same thing and it's "read the room" just use "read the room" it'll work like 70% of the time and not sound so strange
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Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.
I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.
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