#thanks to pp who translate in english

[souls-heart]

GUYYYYYS I FOUND THE WHOLE PAGE !!! THANK UNIVERS !!

Thank to @/knb-imagine-fr who translate it !!

(If I'm not mistaken...?)

I share them here ⤵️

(I'm an otaku for a reason hehe 😎)

[smokingasters]

PP Novels Resources (for my fellow deranged fans)

As a deranged PP fan, who was starving for dopamine I discovered some novel sources for the characters we all love! All novels/summary is in Russian (can be easily translated to English through Google Translation of the website. Use a VPN if the sites do not load)

If ya'll love the OG cast (Season 1), this is for you! I'm merely linking to the websites for your reading pleasure. I will try to link the ones that are complete, more under the cut.

*All due thanks to the dedicated translators who keep the fandom going* Psycho-Pass Zero

(Tumblr: Novel Translation *pending but I recommend reading this before the radio drama for plot coherence*) (Live Journal: Radio Drama Translation *complete*)

Content warning: Plastination case + Makishima is enough warning Timeline: Prequel to the Psycho-Pass S1 Kogami and Sasayama's bromance/outlines the gruesome murders in the Specimen case/follows the story of Touma Kozaburo and his obsession with Touko. Baby Kogami is so precious. Mitsuru Sasayama is the man, the legend. *sobs* Masaoka's whiskey persists + Ginoza the worrier.

Psycho-Pass Asylum: About A Girl (Live Journal: Detailed Summary *complete*) (Suggested Supplement: Yayoi/Shion Tidbits from PP Novel + Aoyanagi and Kozuki disaster)

Content warning: brutality against women, !pregnancy, !cultism, !infanticide. I'm not kidding when I mean it's brutal. Timeline: Post S1 with some flashbacks. Yayoi and Shion's relationship is the main focus. They investigate a case where pregnant minors are being sacrificed by a cult. Entirely from Yayoi's perspective, has many details about her past and how she and Shion feel about Division 1. I would encourage you to read this if you want a feminine/female perspective of the PP verse. Underlying themes of creativity, sex, romance, and hope + vital issues with the Sybil System. I added the supplement because it covers a bit more about Yayoi and Shion + explores the canon romantic relationships, I believe it is a good study of how PP handles canon relationships.

Psycho-Pass Asylum: Restaurant de Campagne Kagari Shuusei

(Live Journal: Detailed Summary *complete*)

Content warning: None, really. This one is quite wholesome as PP can be except for Sybil's shenanigans. Timeline: Prequel to S1 (Flashback) Kagari and Div 1 + 2 investigate a series of gastronomic malfunctions in Sybil's food preparation system caused by a criminal called 'Harlequin'. It involves a "natural food" supply company called Gusto and a restaurant owner. The novel explores Kagari's interest in cuisines and the impact of food in the PP world. Kagari's perspective is quite refreshing and light, compared to the complexity in other novels.

Psycho-Pass Asylum: Separation Ginoza Nobuchika (Live Journal: Detailed Summary *complete*)

Content warning: animal!cruelty, child!abuse, dogs. This one is a tearjerker. Timeline: Prequel to S1 + post S1 Inspector Ginoza, Kogami, and Sasayama investigate a case of rehabilitated animals/pets that are increasing the stress levels of Okutama, a remote place in the mountains. These pets were reintroduced and have gone feral. A doctor named Miyake was responsible for the reintroduction. Ginoza's calm yet poetic and wistful perspective is quite grounding. There's a sense of loss through this story, the theme of separation, and dogs being man's best friends. Any puns that made you think of Kogami are valid.

Psycho-Pass Asylum: Mungungwha Choe-Gu-Sung

(Live Journal: Detailed Summary *partial translation*)

Content warning: !torture, !mutilation, !castration, graphic, mentions of NK-orea. It's quite disturbing and angsty. MAJOR tearjerker. Timeline: Pre-S1 + follows the plot of S1. This follows the story of Choe-Gu Sung, Makishma's accomplice, and his entry and activities in Japan. Explores family life with his younger sister Suseon and his friend Guynthae. It covers a major portion of his backstory in N-K and his eventual friendship with Makishima. If you felt nothing for this guy in S1, believe me, you will be sobbing through this one. He deserved a better ending ftw.

That's all. If I find anything else, I'll add it in another post. Enjoy delving into the world of Psycho-Pass in-depth, and don't forget the words said by a certain Enforcer:

When it's all over, you can cry as much as you like.

[ineffable-opinions]

Ah meant scholarly sources, I have read your posts (well written!) but not watched the videos (it is hard for me to focus on sound). :) thank you

Hey anon, based on your previous ask and this one, here are some scholarly sources that I have saved on the computer I am currently using. [I have more on another computer which I will be able to share those in a week or so. Done!]

How to access these sources?

[For context: 'Problematizing the Problem' section of my post Seme/uke - long response is being discussed and scholarly sources are for the questions (given below) I raised.]

Why would ‘het people’ or any people for that matter think in terms of male-female / masculine-feminine binaries? Do they think in those binaries only and not other binaries such as wen(文)-wu(武)? Why think in binaries and dichotomies at all? Don’t they not think in terms of multiplicity of genders/gender expressions such as various kinds of masculinities and femininities) based off on their local contexts? 

Do queer people not make such/similar conflations? (Hint: they do.)

Is it a problem? While this seems to be the popular notion, plenty of scholars from across the globe has dismantled it.

I must admit that this was written following The Right Way to Be Gay - Who Can Tell? in a manner in which these questions would be treated as already answered. When read as a stand-alone, these questions would remain as food for thought at best.

seme uke - Japan

Cartographies of Desire: Male-male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 - Gregory M. Pflugfelder

Reimagining male-male sexuality: representations in Japanesemodern literature and gay manga by Nicholas James Hall

The Great Mirror of Male Love - Saikaku Ihara, Paul Gordon Schalow (translator)

Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan - Gary Leupp

In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Literature by Jim Reichert (199-208)

different takes on queerness from across the globe - LGBTQ+ and others:

Between Men, part of the ‘Key Population Series’, 2003 [link]

Hames, Raymond B.; Garfield, Zachary H.; and Garfield, Melissa J., “Is Male Androphilia a Context-Dependent Cross-Cultural Universal?” (2017). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 132.

Lambevski, S.A., 1999. Suck my nation - masculinity, ethnicity and the politics of (Homo) sex. Sexualities, 2(4), pp.397-419.

Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan’s Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World by Mark McLelland

Aneka, B. (2014). Jogappa: Gender, Identity and the Politics of Exclusion.

Stief, M. (2017). The sexual orientation and gender presentation of hijra, kothi, and panthi in Mumbai, India. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 73-85.

Gill, H. (2016). Kothi. The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies, 1-2.

Hossain, A., & Rahman, M. (2024). Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh. International Politics, 1-16.

different types of masculinities and femininities and queer people (conflations, adaptations, etc.):

Wijngaarden JW de L van. Male Homosexuality in 21st-Century Thailand: A Longitudinal Study of Young, Rural, Same-Sex-Attracted Men Coming of Age. Anthem Press; 2021. [link] [link]

Polmuk, C. (2023). Provincialising Thai Boys Love: Queer Desire and the Aesthetics of Rural Cosmopolitanism. [link]

Vasudevan, A. (2024). From Deficient Masculinity to Relational Plenitude: Language and Ethics among Thirunangai s in Southern India. Men and Masculinities, 27(4), 392-409.

Bakshi, K. (2022). Writing the LGBTIHQ+ movement in Bangla: emergence of queer epistemologies in Kolkata in the early days of queer political mobilizations. South Asian History and Culture, 13(2), 231–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2022.2067636

Halkitis, Perry N., '(Hyper) Masculinity', Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation (New York, 2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 June 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190686604.003.0007

Kong, T.S.K. (2010). Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203849200

Wang, S. (2020). Chinese gay men pursuing online fame: erotic reputation and internet celebrity economies. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 548–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754633

in relation to yaoi and BL:

Nagaike, K. (2012). Perverse sexualities, perverse desires: representations of female fantasies and Yaoi manga as pornography directed at women. In Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica (pp. 103-134). Brill.

Yaoi Ronsō: Discussing Depictions of Male Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics, Gay Comics and Gay Pornography Wim Lunsing

Williams, A. (2015). Rethinking yaoi on the regional and global scale. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 37.

Pužar, A. (2023). " BL"(Boy Love)," GL"(Girl Love) and Female Communities of Practice and Affect in South Korea. Družboslovne razprave, 39(102), 63-84.

Mizoguchi, A. (2008). Reading and living Yaoi: Male-male fantasy narratives as women's sexual subculture in Japan. University of Rochester.

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020) The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan’s rotten women, Porn Studies, 7:3, 279-290, DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2020.1726204

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In a recent post @dragonsandphoenix mentioned ‘Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China’ by Wu Cuncun. I haven't read it but, it sure looks interesting.

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Update! Sorry, it is unsorted.

Kazumi Nagaike - Perverse Sexualities, Perversive Desires: Representations of Female Fantasies and "Yaoi Manga" as Pornography Directed at Women [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42771904]

Akiko Mizoguchi - Male-Male Romance by and for Women in Japan: A History and the Subgenres of "Yaoi" Fictions [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42771903]

Mark J. McLelland - Japan’s Original Gay Boom [https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/145]

McLelland, Mark J., Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and the Heterosexual Public Sphere in Japan 2005. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/156

McLelland, Mark J., Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and the Heterosexual Public Sphere in Japan 2005. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/156

McLelland, Mark J., Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan's Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World 2003. https://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/152

Himanshi Singh and Pradeep Kumar - Hijra : An Understanding https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2020.15.01.6

Bithika Mondal , Sudeshna Das , Deepshikha Ray , and Debanjan Banerjee - “Their Untold Stories…”: Lived Experiences of Being a Transgender (Hijra), A Qualitative Study From India [DOI: 10.1177/2631831820936924]

Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker - Boys Love Manga and Beyond

Thomas Baudinette - Japanese gay men’s attitudes towards ‘gay manga’ and the problem of genre - doi: 10.1386/eapc.3.1. 59_1

Jungmin Kwon – Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies

Narupon Duangwises and Peter A. Jackson - Effeminacy and Masculinity in Thai Gay Culture: Language, Contextuality and the Enactment of Gender Plurality - https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/wjss

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020): The bitches of Boys Love comics: the pornographic response of Japan’s rotten women, https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2020.1726204

Yanrui Xu & Ling Yang (2013) Forbidden love: incest, generational conflict, and the erotics of power in Chinese BL fiction - https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2013.771378

Divya Garg & Xiaofei Yang (14 Feb 2024): Beyond a queer utopia: interrogating misogyny in transnational boys love media https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2314186

Bret Hinsch – Passions of the Cut Sleeve

Kristine Michelle L. Santos (2020): Queer Affective Literacies: Examining “Rotten” Women’s Literacies in Japan - https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2020.1825506

Tomoko Aoyama - BL (Boys’ Love) Literacy: Subversion, Resuscitation, and Transformation of the (Father’s) Text - DOI: 10.1353/jwj.2013.0001

Jungmin Kwon - The past, present, and future of Boys Love (BL) cultures in East Asia [Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture - Edited by Seok-Kyeong Hong and Dal Yong Jin]

Sulaiman TK 2017 - Sexuality Landscape of Modern Kerala: A Discourse on Male Social Gathering among Malabar Muslim Men

Filippo Osella - Malabar Secrets: South Indian Muslim Men's (Homo)sociality across the Indian Ocean - http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/casr20

Caroline and Filippo Osella - Men and Masculinities in South India

Lothar Filip Rudorfer (2023) - Homosexuality and Bara Manga in Japan – Representation of the Psychological State of Mind of the Contemporary LGBT+ Plus Size Men in Japan

Chapter 5 (Exploring Yaoi Fans’ Online Practices in an Online Community by Simon Turner) and Chapter 6 (An Evaluation of Physicality in the Bara Manga of Bádi Magazine by Thomas Baudinette) of Manga Vision – edited by Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou and Cathy Sell

Celia Rose Langford (2019) - Queered Time on the Page: The Micro-level Revolution of the Bishōnen in 21st Century Yaoi Manga

Febriani Sihombing - On The Iconic Difference between Couple Characters in Boys Love Manga – 2011

William S. Armour (2010) Representations of the Masculine in Tagame Gengoroh's Ero SM Manga - https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2010.527922

Zhang Yiyuan - Repressed Sexuality — Disguised Masculinity in Chinese Danmei Adapted Series – 2023

Poramate Parnpiamkiat - Expectation of Fans Towards Thai Boys’ Love Celebrity Couples (2019)

Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt, Porntep Kamonpetch, Ketsarin Sirichuanjun & Natthanont Sukthungthong (2024) Socio-demographics, lifestyles, and consumption frequency of Thai ‘Boys Love’ series content: Initial evidence from Thailand https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2307697

Charlie Yi Zhang & Adam K. Dedman (2021) Hyperreal homoerotic love in a monarchized military conjuncture: a situated view of the Thai Boys’ Love industry https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1959370

Xi Tian - Homosexualizing “Boys Love” in China DOI 10.1215/25783491-8163817

Aiqing Wang - Nonnormative Masculinity In Danmei Literature: ‘Maiden Seme’ And Sajiao https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2021.1.106123

Travis S. K. Kong - Sexuality and the rise of China : the post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China (2023)

Junqi Zhang - The Reception of Thai Boys Love Series in China: Consumption, Imagination, and Friction (2021)

Joanna Elfving-Hwang - Not So Soft After All: Kkonminam Masculinities in Contemporary South Korean Popular Culture (2011)

Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen - The Softening of Butches The Adoption of Korean "Soft" Masculinity among Thai Toms http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv7r429w.7

Ying-Chao Ka - The coloniality of queer theory: The effects of “homonormativity” on transnational Taiwan’s path to equality https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211047518

Sandeep Bakshi. On Decolonising Queerness with Dr Sandeep Bakshi. 2023 https://hal.science/hal-04183158

Adam Chen-Dedman - Tongzhi Sovereignty: Taiwan’s lgbt Rights Movement and the Misplaced Critique of Homonationalism [ doi: 10.1163/24688800-20221267 ]

[visualtaehyun]

today on- Random new Thai expressions I stumble upon ✨

🦷 เหยิน /yeern/ and other recent slang

So I realized I haven't had time to lurk on twt for the entirety of the Christmas season and all the way into the new year which apparently was more than enough time for me to miss a bunch of new slang expressions emerging. The most confusing upon first encountering it definitely was this tooth one though (no context yet, iykyk, otherwise just keep reading lol). Without further ado- context -> explanation, let's go!

Reminder: not a native speaker but a learner of Thai 🙏

Fig.1: A clip from New's most recent tiktok live, in which fans teased him and he teased back lol Sidenote: am I gonna have to finally give in and download the ticky tock just so I can hopefully catch a mumeow gaming stream live for once? 😭

^translatable auto-subs available if needed, I'm lazy today

✨ Confusion ✨ I had heard the associated คลินิกหมอฟันใกล้ฉัน /clinic maaw fan glai chan/ (=dental clinic near me) before but this clip is contextually confusing enough as is with how absent from socials I've been so off I ran to twt-

Okay then! Context? ✅ We're talking about Teacher's Day and this tweet about P'Zee's character Charan who is an art teacher. Also- the novel's first CharanKhanin NC scene famously has an 'art class/learning art' set-up if y'all didn't know already.

เหยิน /yeern/ though? ❌ I'd seen or heard the tooth meme, as I shall dub it, a handful of times now already so this felt like THE time to finally search it up 😤

/yeern/ means /yeern/ means teen slang /yeern/ what does it mean tooth /yeern/ means

Always good to know I'm not the only lost soul out here 👍 Always hilarious to see a familiar face pop up who's just as confused:

What does /yeern/ mean? Where's it taken from? What is it? What sentence, to do with what, do you use it in? Please help #FayePeraya

A kind fan in the replies helpfully shared this funny BKPP clip from a FEE:D interview (in full here) where PP provides a clueless but enthusiastic Billkin with new slang expressions to bless viewers for the new year with 😂 So let's go through them! By which I mean- let's steamroll through them, considering half of these are explained with even more slang expressions lmaooo

- BK: Any new words? Update? - PP: โฮ่ง / BK: โฮ่ง!

โฮ่ง /hong/ means เลิศ /leert/ (=fab, slay, amazing), ดีงาม /dee ngaam/ (=good, excellent)

- PP: สับ สับ สับ / BK: สับ สับ สับ

สับ /sap/ means ดูเลิศ /duu leert/ (=looking fab), ดูเฟียส /duu fierce/ (=looking fierce) -> addendum: สับ /sap/ = lit. chop, chopped; หุ่นสับ /hoon sap/ = snatched figure

- PP: เสิร์ฟๆ /serve/ - BK: I wish everyone to serve. สับ สับ สับ - PP: No! - BK: What now, huh? - PP: ชีเสิร์ฟๆ /she serve/ - BK: I wish she serves this year!

ชีเสิร์ฟ She served - ทำถึง /tham theung/, ถึงเครื่อง /theung khreuuang/ (=extremely good)

- BK: I hope everyone ฮ็อป's!

ฮ็อป /hawp/ - symptom of someone suppressing a smile, holding back on ฟิน /fin/ (=from the English 'finale' or 'finish'; super happy or fulfilled, on cloud nine, over the moon)

- PP: เหยินๆ - BK: And that everyone เหยิน's--

เหยิน /yeern/ - symptom of someone suppressing a smile with the teeth visible -> addendum: เหยิน /yeern/ = protrude; ฟันเหยิน /fan yeern/ = protruding teeth, buckteeth

- BK: And that everyone will be She served. ...this year-- - PP: มันจะไอ้นั่น - BK: What's that, what's it mean? What does it mean? - PP: It's that thing na~ It's, like, something like that. - BK: It's that thing na y'all. It is That Thing na kha!

มันจะไอ้นั่น /man ja ai'nan/ - phrase from "Auntie Tim Scoops Curry", said to leave out (what is meant) with a basis of understanding

- PP: End with She Served! - BK: She Served kha 💅

The End.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk chaotic post at the crossroads of Thai language acquisition, Thai QL fandom, and my NuNew goggles! If anyone managed to follow this stream-of-consciousness mess then congratulations, you've unlocked my way of 'learning' Thai 😂 ทำถึงมากนะคุณน้า

[thelunarfairy]

I don't understand the attitude of The Clock Keepers towards Tsukasa. It's like they don't know about him at all. Although in chapter 54, Shijima asks Tsukasa to leave, saying that his appearance will not lead to anything good and she has heard about No.3 (I hope you understand what I'm talking about, because tbh I couldn't find these pages in English on sites with manga--) So other mysteries are aware of him, but not the no.1?? (I'm writing with a translator, so I'm sorry for the mistakes. I love your blog, with love from Russia <3)

Well, they're not the only ones who don't know about Tsukasa's existence, number three didn't know either.

In reality, the mysteries don't seem to know much about each other, besides, Tsukasa is a yorishiro, the idea is that no one finds out what and where the yorishiro of the school mystery is, because it is a weak point.

Hanako doesn't know about the yorishiros in the other mysteries, not even the Tsuchigomori one. It turns out that Hanako's yorishiro is a human, Tsukasa, he can just go around making a mess, unlike the others, who were objects. Sumire, being the only human besides Tsukasa, couldn't leave the boundary alone, so not even Hanako knew she was a yorishiro.

In Shijima's case, Tsukasa went after her, not the other way around, there's a panel where she says she knew what he did with number three, and she prefers to avoid him. (I couldn't find the panels for some reason either XD)

Other than her, we don't know of any other mystery who knows about Tsukasa's existence (Mitsuba doesn't count), and she only knows because he went looking for her.

And because "someone" told her about what happened to number three, but who was it? those hands? There was no one there besides Hanako, Nene, Kou, Tsukasa and Mitsuba, who would have told her? Mitsuba only met her after Tsukasa went after her, Hanako would never talk about it with her, Nene and Kou didn't know Mei before entering the PP arc, there's a missing piece here.

Who told her?

Another important point, Tsukasa is working in the shadows, he used Hanako and the other two to do his work. Tsukasa may appear to them, but he is never where Teru or Akane are.

See that even now when he meets Teru, he doesn't say a word to him. Akane and Teru know about Tsukasa, but I don't imagine they knew he was Hanako's yorishiro, after all, it's contradictory, if he killed his brother, why would he be the yorishiro?

Anyway, I think Tsuchigomori knows about Tsukasa's existence, but he prefers not to get involved. The clock keepers preferred to stay away from Hanako from the beginning, so they wouldn't know anything about his history.

It's interesting, but that's exactly what it's about, Tsukasa is the youngest twin that nobody knows, nobody knows about his existence, and that's particularly interesting.

Aww thank you ♡ a big hug from Brazil \o/

[manjuhitorie]

Hitorie - daybreak seeker - Lyrics English Translation

Music: wowaka Lyrics: Shinoda 少年は路地裏で踵鳴らして A boy clacks his heels in an alleyway 静寂に火をつけるように遊んだ Playing as if setting the silence aflame 何処にだって行けそうな気がしていて Feeling as if he could go anywhere くだらないことばかりの街の一人だ Just a single man in an unremarkable city 頭の中だけが騒がしく Inside his head is where the noise is 眠れない僕たちのパーティーは Sleepless we are, as we throw a party 言葉や想いこそ通じないが We can’t converse via words or emotions but 誰だって欠伸の一つも立てやしないのさ Not one of us is letting out even a single yawn 雄弁なアイツが言葉をなくす程 The more the eloquent folk are at a loss for words 排水溝に飲み込まれてくティーンエイジ The more they get sucked into the drain, a thin edge 話せば長くなりそうだけれど Although this is probably a long story この曲だって5分足らずで終わるんだ This song will be over in less than 5 minutes 頭の中だけが騒がしく Inside of his head is where the noise is 眠れない僕たちのパーティーは Sleepless we are, as we throw a party 誰もが終わらないことを望んだ Everyone hoped this party would never end 誰もが終わらないことを望んでいた Everyone was hoping it would never end 彼の名前だけが、空中を泳いでいた。 His name alone, waded in the air あなたの手を引いてさ、抜け出そうとしたんだ I was trying to take your hand, and break free あなたの手を引いてさ、抜け出そうとしていたんだ。 I had been trying to take your hand, and break free. ラザニアの焼けるような匂いがして It smells like lasagna baking 空腹だったことに気付かされる That’s when we realized that our stomachs were empty あと少しだけ踊り続けよう Let us continue dancing for just a bit longer 僕の想像を超えない夜がダダ漏れになってく A night that doesn’t quite surpass my imagination, spills out into the world 空調の調子が良好とは言えないこのパーティールーム We can’t say that the air conditioning’s working well in this party room 様々な人間達の匂いが入り混じる The smells of a variety of different people all mix together その誰しもが口を揃えて And everyone here says the same thing 最高と呼ぶあの頃を僕は知らずに居る I sit here oblivious to the so-called greatest time ever いびつな形相のまま更けていく We go deeper into the night, ever in a twisted shape 夜に振り落とされまいとしている Striving not to fall out of the night 頭の中だけが騒がしく Inside his head is where the noise is 眠れない僕たちのパーティーは終わらない Sleepless we are, as our party never ends 彼の名前だけが、空中を泳いでいた。 His name alone, waded in the air あなたの手を引いてさ、抜け出そうとしたんだ I had been trying to take your hand, and break free. あなたの手を引いてさ、抜け出そうとしたんだ I had been trying to take your hand, and break free. そうやって迎える朝をずっと夢見てたんだ I had been forever dreaming for the break of day そうやって迎える朝をずっと夢見てしまっていた I had been forever foolishly dreaming for the break of day 消えない、消えない、消えない痛みが Pain that won’t go away, won’t go away, won’t go away 僕ら、僕ら、集わせてしまう Is unfortunately bringing us, us, together 消えない、消えない、消えない痛みが Pain that won’t go away, won’t go away, won’t go away 僕らを、僕らを、また踊らせる Is making us, us, dance again

少年が路地裏で鳴らした��は The boy who had clacked his heels in an alleyway 喧騒に飲み込まれて消えてった Was sucked up in the commotion and disappeared 何処にでも行けそうな気がしていた He had felt as if he could go anywhere 何処にでも行けそうな気がしていたんだ He had once felt as if he could go anywhere

Footnotes:

● Related segment from a Natalie interview for NOTOK's release (via https://natalie.mu/music/pp/hitorie08): ──「daybreak seeker」も「HOWL」の時期に制作されていた曲ということですが、冒頭のベースがめちゃくちゃカッコいいですね。 Mori Tomoyuki, interviewer: You said that “daybreak seeker” was written during the same time period as HOWLS. The bass in the intro is incredibly impressive.

イガラシ　ありがとうございます。これは確か、スタジオで適当に弾いてたら「それで何か作りましょう」とwowakaが言い出したんですよ。で、その場で構成を考えて。オケも録り終えてたし、メロディラインもあったけど、歌詞だけがなかった。今回収録するにあたって、シノダが歌詞を書き足して歌いました。 ygarshy: Thank you. I remember this was from when I was just jamming in the studio, when wowaka heard me and said “Let’s use that to make something.” We then came up with the composition impromptu. The instrumentals were soon recorded and the melody line even devised, but the only thing missing was the lyrics. So the recording only involved Shinoda writing and singing them. シノダ　“ありもの”のメロディに歌詞を乗せるのはよくやってるんですけど、今回は相手がwowakaですからね。どうしたもんかな？と悩んだ部分もいっぱいあるし、結果的にけっこうな文字数になってしまいました。wowakaの曲に歌詞を付けるとこれくらいの文字数になっちゃうんだな、という謎の気付きもあって。前々から「すげえ文字数だな」って思ってたんですけどね。 Shinoda: I do have a lot of experience adding lyrics on top of finished melodies, but the melody I was working with time around was none other than wowaka’s. I stressed over how to handle things quite a bit, and in the end the letter count got pretty intense. Adding lyrics to wowaka’s songs is just bound to have a high letter count… that’s one enigma I came to notice. I’ve thought “damn that’s a lotta letters” when looking at his songs since way long ago, but, y’know. ──文字を詰めたくなるメロディなんでしょうね。 So something about the melodies beg to have many words infused into them. シノダ　それもあるし、展開させたくなるんですよ、話を。1��と2番で同じメロディであっても、違う言葉を置きたくなるし、そうしないとwowakaらしい曲の質量が生まれなくて。歌詞の内容としては、ヒトリエというバンドと聴いてくれる人たち、それを取り巻く環境、そういうものを俯瞰して書いてみようと。「ヒトリエってどういうバンドなんだっけ？」みたいなことを考えながら書いてると頭がこんがらがるわけですけど、それも含めてヒトリエなのかなと。うまく説明できないけど、とにかく大変でした。あと、荷が重かったです。 Shinoda: That’s also part of it, but something about them also just makes me want to expand on the universe as well. Even if the first part and second part share the exact same melody, I still want to put completely different words on that same melody. Besides, if I didn’t do that it wouldn’t have the essence of a wowaka-esque song. The lyrics themselves speak about Hitorie, our listeners, and the surrounding environment from a bird’s eye perspective. “What kind of band really is Hitorie?” was the question running through my mind while writing, and thereby was making my head spin. Yet that’s exactly what makes Hitorie so, Hitorie. I can’t explain it well, but all in all it was a tall task. Not to mention that it bore a heavy burden. ──ゆーまおさんは「daybreak seeker」の制作時、どういうアプローチをしましたか？ What approach did you take, Yumao? ゆーまお　wowakaが作ったデモに沿っていたというか、ほぼ変更点はなかったんです。シングルに入っている音源も6年前に演奏したものなので。今改めて聴き返して思うのは「尺が6年前だな」っていう（笑）。今wowakaがいたら、構成をめちゃくちゃ変更していたと思います。 Yumao: I had simply followed the demo wowaka had laid out, or should I say, we barely changed a thing. The audio used for the single is the one from 6 years ago. Listening back to it now, the length of the song feels so 6 years ago (laughs). If wowaka was still with us, he probably would’ve unearthed the entire structure of the song. イガラシ　そこはもうしょうがないよね、全部できてるんだから。 ygarshy: There was nothing we could’ve done about it now though, the song was practically already done. ゆーまお　「HOWLS」に収録される可能性もあったからね。6年を経てようやく出せました。 Yumao: It had been a contender for HOWLS after all. After 6 long years it’s finally released. イガラシ　俺らが出している音もだいぶ違うしね。 ygarshy: It sounds a lot different from what we make nowadays.

ゆーまお　そうだね。音像もかなり違うんですよ。ほかの3曲は「下（低音域）も上（高音域）も出しましょう」という感じの作りになっているんだけど、「daybreak seeker」はギュッと真ん中に寄ってるというか。 Yumao: That’s true. The stereo is pretty different as well. For the other 3 songs on the album we tried to make use of both low (bass) and high (treble) frequencies, but for daybreak seeker we leaned straight into the midrange. シノダ　サウンドの重心がちょっと高いんだよね。 Shinoda: The base instrumentals are a bit on the high side, so.

ゆーまお　その頃の流行もあったと思うし、自分たちのプレイやエンジニアさんも含めて変化しているので。そういう意味でも、記録物として貴重なのかと。 Yumao: The trends of the time did play a part, plus our playing and our engineers have changed since then as well. That’s exactly why it was so important to leave this song for the records. ──録り直さず、そのまま収録したほうがいいと。 So you decided not to re-record anything, and include it on the album as it was. イガラシ　この曲に関してはそうですね。 ygarshy: That was indeed the case for this song. シノダ　もう1つびっくりしたことがあって。ミックスの段階でエンジニアさんに「シノダくん、この曲のファイルを見たら、ギターソロが100パターンくらい入ってるんだけど」って言われたんですよ。そんなわけないでしょと思ったら、本当に入ってた。 Shinoda: There was one other surprising factor. At the mixing stage, our engineer came up to me and told me “Shinoda-kun, after opening the file, I found about 100 different versions of guitar solos…” I was like “No way that ain’t possible,” but there actually were about 100 versions. イガラシ　1000本ノックだね、ギターソロの。 ygarshy: He made thousands of cracks at it, it’s like the law of 100, but with guitar solos. シノダ　そう。「ここにギターソロを入れます。では、弾いてください」みたいな感じでいろんなパターンのソロを弾いて。曲のデータの中にその痕跡が全部残っていて、戦慄しました。 Shinoda: Yeah. I was probably told “I want a guitar solo here. So, please play one for me.” and just knocked myself out. Those remains were preserved inside the song data, and served to give me a real fright, I was so creeped out. ゆーまお　結局、100分の1に絞ったの？ Yumao: So in the end you managed to bring it down from 100 to 1? シノダ　順番に聴いて、「これはダメだな」「これだったらいいかも」みたいなことをエンジニアさんと話して。最終的に今の状態になりました。あと、シンセとかシーケンスもけっこう入ってたんですよ。中には「なんのためにこれを入れたんだ？」というものもあって。 Shinoda: The engineer and I had listened to them one by one, picking and choosing which were unfit and which would work. Thus landed on what we got now. There was also quite a bit of synthesizer and sequences in the file. There’s some stuff in there that made me go “I wonder why he had added this?” イガラシ　アイデアのラフスケッチみたいなものだろうね。 ygarshy: Maybe it had been like a rough sketch of his ideas.

[telomeke]

5 Songs Tag - QL Shows Edition

I was tagged by @recentadultburnout and am excited to play along; thanks for tagging me! 🥰

Before going further, I should clarify that @colourme-feral also tagged me on a different musical tag game, and I was just about to respond to that when this one came in. So am combining my responses for that one with this one as well; hope y'all don't mind! 😚💖

Credit to @troubled-mind for starting this off with their post linked here. 😍

Here are the rules:

When you get this, list 5 songs from the Asian QL shows that you actually listen to. 🎶They do not have to be custom-made for the series. 🎶Non-western tracks only. Let's support Asian music and languages! 🎶Feel free to tag anyone who may be interested in participating. 🎶Add #5qls tag to your post for others to find the new favourites!

But I'm going to bend the rules a bit because I can't stick with just five. Here are my choices (extra details for the top five, and the more unusual ones listed after):

1. 遠い国/Tooi kuni sung by Ueno Daiki (上野大樹) – the closing theme to Bokura no Shokutaku (Our Dining Table)

This gently lilting song perfectly captures the essence of the hesitant, winsome waltz between Yutaka and Minoru as they orbit ever-closer to each other around radiant little Tane-kun in this heartwarming gem of a series. I can't listen to it without the tears welling up, sentimental fool that I am. The laidback time-signature (a somewhat unusual choice) and hauntingly plaintive key changes really set this one apart. If you'd like a glimpse into the meaning of the lyrics, @isaksbestpillow has a post linked here that translates them into English – the lines are poetically indirect and yet still find some way to pluck at your heartstrings in new and unexpected ways, just like the show itself.

Although the tempo is different, I find this song reminds me so much of the theme to the 70s family series The Waltons, with its old-timey 3-4 (or is it 6-8?) vibes of nostalgia and home truths being shared over steaming bowls of homecooked goodness (also calling to mind Yutaka and Minoru's meaningful exchanges during their many simple but oh-so-delicious meals together).

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2. เพลงที่เพิ่งเขียนจบ (Our Song) sung by Nanon Korapat – PatPran's theme in Bad Buddy Series

Nanon isn't one I would call a gifted singer, but his schoolboy tenor and unembellished vocal delivery suit the simple message of this piece really well. It's an unassuming little love song that sweetly encapsulates Bad Buddy's Episode 11 storyline and the theme of living the truth of your love (and by extension that of your identity too) without any need for great flourishes or grandiosity to glamorize the picture; you and your truth are enough, no matter what you may think or what others may tell you. (More write-up linked here.) 💖

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3. พรุ่งนี้ (Tomorrow) sung by Ford Arun – the closing theme for Moonlight Chicken

A quiet, hope-filled ballad that softly reminds us (as Moonlight Chicken did) how life will always be fraught with struggle, disappointment, sadness, bereavement and mistakes – and despite it all, the dawning of each new day is also an opportunity to cast off the burdens placed on us yesterday and reshape the present and the future in any way that we wish. We are more than just the sum of our past missteps, and we can find our way to a life of fulfilment when we move forward beyond the shadows of our immediate despair. Ford's rendition, set against an end-of-year Christmas backdrop, tenderly nudges us with the message that whatever it is (within reason) that we seek – happiness, purpose, love – the promise of it is wrapped up in the days to come, and is always ours to take and make real.

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4. รักติดไซเรน (Love Siren) sung by Ice Paris and Pearwah Nichaphat – from My Ambulance

My Ambulance isn't strictly a QL but it has a BL side couple played by Billkin and PP Krit, so I'm counting this one in (also because it's a relentlessly feel-good and catchy confection, everything you want in a breezy pop song). Everyone's really pretty, and you can spot some familiar faces dancing back-up. I've watched this so many times I immediately recognized the filming location when it popped up in Our Skyy 2 x A Tale of Thousand Stars and Be My Favorite. (Don't understand the unnecessary toilet break at timestamp 3.27 though. 🤷‍♂️)

Almost forgot to add the multilingual version – if you've not seen this before, get ready to have your mind boggled at the different languages they sing in, and maybe watch out for your own to make an appearance: 👀😍

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5. ไหล่เธอ (You’ve Got Ma Back) sung by Fourth Nattawat, Ford Arun, Satang Kittiphop and Winny Thanawin – from My School President

A cheery teen anthem to togetherness and the support of friendships, very much like My School President itself. You can't help smiling and singing along because you know it's all about positivity and living worry-free when those around you care and protect you too.

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And for the also-rans – these are not in any way inferior (some are even arguably superior musically), but they're not up above simply because they don't have as heavy a rotation on my playlist (and I'm listing them here to spread awareness): 🤩

ไม่ยอม (Be Mine) from TharnType, the Kaownah version (very strong melodically, and this performance converted me into a fan of Kaownah who's excellent here; the song, singer and actor deserve to be associated with a better series).

รักคุณยิ่งกว่าใคร (I Love You More Than Anyone), from Cutie Pie 2 You, sung by NuNew Chawarin (hopelessly, somewhat ironically and unapologetically cheesy, this paean to the pageantry of Thai country music or luk thung is so joyful I can't help loving every jangly, bedazzled melisma; I love it as much as the Build Jakapan cover and the Got Jakrapun original – all so addictive, like too‑sweet candy).

คนที่เสียใจคงไม่ใช่เธอ (The One Who Will Be Sorry Is Probably Not You) – theme from Bad Romance The Series (amazingly this works either as the hard-driving original replete with wailing guitars and screamy rock-god vocals by Pete Pitipong, or the soft ballad cover by Tul Pakorn – both have a grip on my heart).

The theme to KinnPorsche by Slot Machine – this is like the theme to Bad Romance but with no brakes at all, racing to the cliff edge and you don't care; with soaring, almost operatic vocals and a relentlessly pounding rhythm that shifts unsettlingly offbeat midway, the Thai original (เพียงไว้ใจ/Just Trust) is already so many kinds of amazing, but the English version (appropriately titled Freefall) is surprisingly not only more than credible, it also screams primally with lyrics that embody the full-blooded, breathless, all-stakes-committed rush of KinnPorsche's action sequences and darker dramatic moments (when the series wasn't unfortunately tripping over its own shoelaces or galumphing about in a clown car).

นิทานพันดาว (Theme to A Tale of Thousand Stars) – but it's the Torfun version sung by Aye Sarunchana that's won me over. 💖

ฟัง (Listen) from My School President, sung by Lookwa Pijika, Fourth Nattawat, Ford Arun, Satang Kittiphop and Winny Thanawin – you can give this treatise on love so many readings, but my favorite is when it incarnates the love that Mrs. Ratchanee has for her little Gun of a son; the original by Sin Tosaporn Achawanuntakul (featuring โอม Cocktail) isn't half bad either, with the music video also dallying with LGBTQ+ themes, but Winny absolutely does a better job of the bridge in the MSP cover.

คิด(แต่ไม่)ถึง [Same Page?] by Tilly Birds – not too sure this counts as a song from the world of QL because it was only in the original, not-quite-canon Bad Buddy trailer but not in the series itself (except for the one line Pat sings on the terrace of his apartment during his Ep.12 drinking game with Pran); still I'm including it because it's an aural experience like no other, starting out hollow, off-kilter and dissonant before its various polyphonies interweave into a delightfully solid pop song.

Inwza by Panpan Yeeyee – once again, not sure this counts as a song from QL but the made-up word Inwza (not so much the song itself) was mentioned as part of Pat's chat ID in Bad Buddy Ep.1 (significance explained here); nonetheless looking up the word got me connected to this wistful little synth-heavy indie pop number that makes for a refreshingly quirky listen.

เพื่อนเล่น ไม่เล่นเพื่อน (Just Being Friendly) – the My School President version by Fourth Nattawat, Ford Arun and Satang Kittiphop is just as good as (and maybe even slightly better than?) the original by Tilly Birds featuring Milli, but this flawless mashup of the MSP version with NuNew's is also amazing and I rotate between all three. No favorites here; all so boppy and guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. 😍

เลี้ยงส่ง (Farewell Party) by So Cool – this is what Pran references during Bad Buddy's Ep.12 drinking game as the first song he learnt the chords to; totally old-school (dates from 2005) and makes me think of a pre-teen Pran struggling to learn guitar, practising the chords on a song that was already a Thai rock classic at the time.

Stand by หล่อ by New Country – this wasn't in any QL as far as I can tell but the MSP boys performed it in their Prom Night concert and Bas Asavapatr also confirmed having danced to it during one of the Be On Cloud games, so I'm including it because it's so infernally catchy, has roots in Thai luk thung, and the dance video is really SHINee-slick.

Tagging @pandasmagorica, @isaksbestpillow, @colourme-feral, @dudeyuri, @ranchthoughts...

...@chickenstrangers, @lurkingteapot, @airenyah, @dribs-and-drabbles and anyone else who wants to play along. Apologies if you've already been tagged!

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[sorryimananti-romantic]

hi! i know this may sound a little weird and random, but i have two questions that i’m honestly really curious about. and as i don’t know anyone who reads fanfiction in real life and you’re literally the only blog i consistently follow, i figured i would ask them here.

the first one is what’s your setup for reading? like the atmosphere and circumstances you have to be in. for me, i can only read at night with all the lights off while laying down for that full immersive experience (and honestly the darkness also helps in being a little in denial about what i’m reading). not only that, but also a movie or tv show playing in the background at a low volume.

and the next question is what language do you imagine the characters speaking in? i personally always imagine them speaking in korean and so when the author writes a line that very clearly implies they’re speaking english, i’m always like ‘woah, wait a minute’. and that also kind of goes with ocs with non-korean names. it pulls me out of the stories a little because i honestly don’t like it when either of those happen.

that’s not to say that the stories are bad. the vast majority of those stories are very well written and well thought out, it’s just for me personally that i don’t prefer it that way. (btw, congrats on releasing another story! i haven’t gotten the chance to read it yet, but i’m sure it’s just as great as your other ones!)

(pps, i am very grateful for all writers. you guys keep me away from rotting from boredom, so thank you!! hopefully what i wrote doesn’t sound insulting.)

hi, thanks for popping by!

to answer your question, i usually scroll tumblr at late night and i prefer reading on laptop as opposed to phone (but sometimes i use phone too). i usually have music playing in the bg. if i know i'm gonne be bingereading a series or a long fic, i usually switch to phone. dim lights at night, sure. sometimes i'll read during the day whenever i get a break from real life.

the second question is sth i haven't really thought about until you pointed it out AHAHA hmmm i gotta think about this. i learned 3 languages at once from birth so the brain is frankly a mess (english is one of them), plus now that i know avg korean i guess i do hear some phrases in korean while reading? especially the phrases that are easily translatable into korean?

i guess when i first started reading fanfics, that's when i might have focused on the language i hear while reading. i've consumed a lot of english literature so it's usually english for me while reading, and with fanfics it did feel weird in the beginning (esp when some korean terms are kept which sometimes also icks me and there's some weird switching going on but to each their own) but i learned to ignore it and simply enjoy. when it starts to play like a movie in the head, the language does not remain the focus (at least for me)

i don't mind ocs with non korean names when you have korean idols that go by english names LOL but yeah sometimes i find a few things weird but honestly, if the story is good? i don't really mind those things and i can keep going on. it really does come down to personal preferences i guess.

thank you so much! it was random and got me thinking in a good way ahaha but it's not insulting, don't worry <3 i hope you like star 1117 when you read it hehe

[frankie-bell]

"

Thank you! The response so far has been really encouraging. I guess there are more Mika fans out there than I originally thought.

As for the scene of Mika confessing to Ginoza, it can be found in Psycho-Pass 3: Official Profiling. In addition to character stats and trivia, the book features several short stories, one of which is set after Sinners of the System: Case. 1. In it, Mika reveals that she was the one who gave away Aoi Tsunemori’s location, but Ginoza had already guessed as much. To make her feel better, he admits to experiencing similar feelings of guilt over the way he treated Masaoka. He then urges Mika to keep the truth to herself rather than reveal it to Akane, because he knows that Akane will eventually forgive her, and neither of them deserve easy absolution for their sins. Instead, they should have to carry the weight of what they’ve done with them for the rest of their lives.

I really wish they’d been able to fit this scene into Sinners of the System, but I guess they just didn’t have time. Still, it’s another great moment that highlights the similarities between Mika and Ginoza." //

Thank you for answering.

Oh, that makes more sense. I never had access to that information. I'm just an idiot who can't read Japanese, only English and French. I came across a few excerpts about PP3 the official profiling but these didn't appear. And regarding the SS, I could only read the translated version of the novel on case n°3.

You're welcome! Happy I was able to was able to shed some light on the issue.

And I'd hardly call being fluent in two languages stupid. If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat, only with English and Spanish. The only reason I was able to read this particular story -- or any of the other stories in Official Profiling -- was because of online fan translations. The PP fandom is lucky to have so many passionate, invested fans willing to do the legwork for the rest of us.

[zumpietoo]

What Happens When the BB

"buys" (for $1, total, inclusive) paid media for their kween.....from clearly a verrryyy third world nation, with a "writer" for whome English is seemingly their 4th language and they're 6 years old....

(oml, lmao!!! The "article" is linked and screenied further down....can't decide if this is utterly heelarious or truly pathetically sad)

Ummm......again.....the "article" (and Silly endless $$$$ obsession):

For everybody who wishes to not:

A) give them clicks

B) possible have a virus slowing up their hardware, I have screenied everything......complete with the mennyyyyy, klassseee ads on whatever TF this site even IS:

Note for your bad Walmart Google translator knockoff: "elusive" wouldn't be a plus here....

"Star -studded", huh? PP and some dude I don't even know doing the same stupid shit? Oooohhh....

Ummm.....PP isn't the face of T-mobile, she's in one IG campaign. She most assuredly is the lead for IPhone 15, because that's Apple.

they sure do like the term "enchanting", huh? And "extensive details"? About 15 second spot?

Adding a cut now, cuz only getting started, sorry dudes:

Yes, folks, a "table of contents/outline" about the Peepster in a bad commercial, repeating the same bullshit everywhere. And a Temu banner ad (dw, there are lots of the last!)

I don't think even the target for cremation services "adore" the PP....and yes, it definitely "knows bounds", cuz it's why her shit doesn't perform all that well....

It's super basic.....and who knew you needed to recap a commercial???

PP's thoughts race? How can her thoughts race when her hed is completely empty? Also----she's reciting lines....

Ummm......where??? Also, didn't you just review it?

Did you, AI/7 year old with a translator knockoff program in a far flung verryyyyy third world country? In exchange for a ciggie? Maybeee????

Umm......so we're not smart enough to get the most cliched concept everrr??? The "mixed reviews" are cuz it's dumb and abysmal across the board, dude....

Well......I guess it's an experience in cringe, just like this "article"....

Yes....one for shaking her ass, the other for moping cuz she'd fucked up her relationship with Cole, AGAIN, and started the countdown to the final endddd.....

She took the risk and failed/couldn't handle not finding pants...

Scientastic!!! LOLOLOLOL!!! Tho, TBF, her acting's better in it than we see these days....

You already mentioned Hustlers, dude.....And OCD....

A minor one, on a relaunch that failed miserably, ditto Cover Girl....and really? Her book? Duuuuudddeeee.....

No, she practices being a wacky cult and talking to ghosts thru the ether......

She likes to whine for attention....

Ummm......who knew you needed to be told how to pronounce T-moble.....

Thank you, Jeebus.....and PP is anything BUT "holistic" (given how wasted she is 99% of the time).....

However, yeah, Silly/janASS, we sure were schooled by this!!!

[journeytothewestresearch]

Oh, that's super neat! Thank you for bringing this story to my attention. I don't recall reading about it in the past. It certainly helps fill in the blanks of Zhu's literary origins. I especially like how the villain is called the "Black General" (Wu jiangjun, 烏將軍). This is no doubt related to Zhu's dark skin, which is likely influenced by the color of wild pigs and possibly his association with dark stellar deities. As a reminder to those taking part in the book club, his description in chapter 18 reads:

When the violent gust of wind had gone by, there appeared in midair a monster who was ugly indeed. With his black face [hei lian, 黑臉] covered with short, stubby hair, his long snout and huge ears, he wore a woven robe that was neither quite green nor quite blue. A sort of spotted cotton handkerchief was tied round his head (based on Wu & Yu 2012, vol. 1, p. 375). 那陣狂風過處，��見半空裡來了一個妖精，果然生得醜陋：黑臉短毛，長喙大耳；穿一領青不青、藍不藍的梭布直裰，繫一條花布手巾。

@ryin-silverfish can I have permission to quote your synopsis on my article? It's definitely due for an update. I will of course link to your socials (just indicate which ones).

And while we're on the subject of chapter 18, I think an additional source might be an episode from chapter 5 of the Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan, 水滸傳, c. 1400). Both works include:

Beautiful daughters in unwanted relationships (Green Orchid vs the unnamed maiden).

Elderly fathers worried for their daughters (Mr. Gao vs Mr. Liu).

Evil spirit-turned-Inhumanly strong, hot-tempered, heavy metal staff-wielding martial monks who come to their aid (Sun Wukong vs Lu Zhishen).

The monk takes the place of the woman in a darkened room.

The villain is beaten (Zhu Bajie vs Zhou Tong).

I am in a hurry at the moment, so here are some quick pictures of the specific pages from the English translation:

(Shi & Luo, 1993/2021, pp. 109-113)

@journeythroughjourneytothewest

Source:

Shi, N., & Luo, G. (2021). Outlaws of the Marsh (Vols. 1-4) (S. Shapiro, Trans.). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. (Original work published 1993)

Chapter 18: What a Swine!

-A few pages into the chapter, and I found the first hook to go on a giant tangent: according to Gao Cai, Gao Village is located in the Kingdom of Qoco. I have no idea why Yu translated it as such, since the original Chinese name——Wusi Zang(乌斯藏, a transliteration of dbus gtsang) sounds nothing like that, but in short, it's the Ming dynasty name for Tibet.

-However, a quick glance at this map would show you that the real Xuanzang didn't cross Tibet during his journey; rather, he went the long way around the Himalayas, travelling on the Central Asian Silk Road. In the Ming dynasty, if you wanna go to India, you could actually take the route through the Himalayas and Nepal, but it wasn't there in the Tang dynasty (because there were a couple of hostile kingdoms in the way; Tuyuhun, Tubo, etc.)

-Sidenote, I absolutely love how JTTW '86 adapted this chapter, with SWK getting his flirt on and the legendary "Pigsy Carrying His Bride" sequence that had made its way into many subsequence adaptations.

-JTTW Research had written pretty comprehensively about Pigsy's origins, from the Daoist deity Marshal Canopy to his ties with Marici, an import deity with a boar mount who's also associated with the Dipper Constellation. As such, I only had one tidbit to add about possible inspirations for his character in folklore that predated the above.

-The earliest tale about a lusty pig demon could be found in the Tang dynasty Xuan Guai Lu(玄怪录). Guo Yuanzhen, a historical general during the reign of Gaozong and Wu Zetian, came across a mansion in his youth during travel. The whole place was lavishly decorated, as if preparing for a wedding banquet, but eeriely empty save for one crying woman.

-Turned out, she was the unwitting soon-to-be bride of a god called "General Wu"(乌将军), who demanded a beauty as his wife every year from the locals, and because they would pay a hefty sum to "buy" said bride, her own father sold her out to be this year's sacrifice. Furious, Guo disguised himself as a guest, pretended to offer General Wu some venison, then cut off his hand with the meat knife.

-Wounded, the General fled, and his severed limb turned into a pig's hoof once the sun came out. Soon, the bride's family and village elders came to the manor, ready to collect her body for the funeral, and were so freaked out by what Guo did that they were ready to sacrifice him to General Wu too, since the "god" was known to summon storm and hails whenever he didn't get his bride.

-Guo scolded them for being so damn guillible because no real gods would demand human sacrifices or, y'know, have pig hooves as hands, before gathering the young men of the villages and following the trail of blood to the pig demon's abode, where they proceeded to smoke it out and kill it with an assortment of arrows and farming tools.

-The woman, after calling out her terrible parents, pledged herself to Guo and became one of his wives, and all was well.

-Honestly, Pigsy's evolution from his folklore origins to JTTW Zaju to JTTW novel seemed to be one in which he became increasingly sympathetic; from basically being a more lusty version of Guanyin's goldfish, to an opportunistic kidnapper who took advantage of a pair of star-crossed lovers' family feud, to an ex-deity turned reformed demon who kinda got screwed over by his in-laws.

-Final note: Pigsy bragged that even if they could get the "Monster-Routing Patriarch" to come down from the Nine Heaven and exorcise him, he could still claim to be an old buddy of the guy. Which…wasn't wrong, considering that "Monster-Routing Patriarch" was the title of Emperor Zhenwu, Lord of the North, who was worshipped alongside Marshal Canopy as one of the Four Saints of the North Pole.

@journeythroughjourneytothewest

[eretzyisrael]

The link between the anti-Rushdie fatwa and Islamist Sayid Qutb

14 February 1989 was the fateful date when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran pronounced a fatwa, or  death sentence,  on Salman Rushdie, author of the supposedly blasphemous work, The Satanic Verses. Rushdie lies critically injured in hospital following an attempt on his life 33 years later. ‘Blasphemy against Islam’ has  long been a favourite pretext for persecuting Jews in the Arab world, dissident Muslims and western satirists. But with its doctrinaire adherence to, and aggressive advocacy for, sharia law,  the forces of political Islam have declared lethal war on freedom of expression in the West. Sephardi Ideas Monthly points to the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayid Qutb:  From Egypt it is a little-known fact that Qutb’s ideology has travelled to Iran, where four of his books have been translated into Persian. (With thanks: Edna)

Salman Rushdie, sentenced to death by the Ayatollahs

Sephardi Ideas Monthly traces the little-known but very consequential line of influence that transcends the traditional Sunni-Shi’a divide and connects Sayyid Qutb to the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR). Qutb met with and encouraged Iranian revolutionaries and his writings played an important role in the Iranian Islamist revolution.

The current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, translated four of Qutb’s books into Persian! One scholar summed up the issue concisely: “The influence of Sayyid Quṭb on the Islamist movement and the revolutionaries of Iran is still not acknowledged sufficiently and remains largely unknown in the West.” (See: “Sayyid Quṭb in Iran: Translating the Islamist Ideologue in the Islamic Republic.” Yusuf Ünal, Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (November 2016), pp. 35-50).

Qutb’s connection to Shi’ite activists dates back to the early 50s, when Iranian cleric Navvab Safavi, leader of the Iranian “Fedayeen of Islam,” visited him in Egypt. Safavi was impressed by Qutb, took his ideology back to Iran, and promoted the vision of an Islamic state among Iranian revolutionaries. Translations of Quṭb’s works soon followed. In many cases, the Persian-language translators were also activists who went on to play important roles in the Iranian revolution, the most prominent being Safavi’s student, Khamenei. Among the books that Khamenei translated was, The Future of This Religion, a work in which Quṭb:

…argues for the political supremacy of Islam, which will lead to the future submission of all humanity to Islamic ideology, and calls upon all Muslims to fight against the imperialist powers.

In order to honor Qutb’s thought and influence, in 1985 the Iranian regime’s postal service issued a stamp showing Qutb behind bars during his 1966 trial in Egypt. That trial ended in Qutb’s hanging.

It’s true that, in recent years, Qutb’s writings have inspired revolutionary Sunni jihadi groups that mercilessly target Shi’a. The difficulty in reconciling Qutb’s influence on both the Iranian revolution and anti-Shi’ite jihadis was examined at a February, 2015, conference held in Iran dedicated to “Re-reading and Re-viewing the Views of Sayyid Quṭb” (See Unal, p. 36). The willingness to re-engage with Qutb’s writings in such a charged geo-political context testifies to the depth of their impact in the IR. In addition, it’s important not to overstate the problem: other Sunni Islamist groups influenced by Qutb are more than happy to maintain positive relations with the Iranian regime, the most obvious example being Hamas.

Why isn’t the Qutb-Iran connection more well-known among Western observers of the MENA region? Perhaps the answer is connected to a related question: How is it that there isn’t a single English-language biography of Khamenei? Sometimes written off as “the chief apparatchik backed by the Iranian deep state” Khamenei has ruled Iran for thirty-three years. That’s a long time in a very unstable region. It’s reasonable to wonder if Khamenei is more competent than often perceived, and if his political acumen is connected to Qutb’s influence. Either way, if we wish to prepare for an extended conflict with the forces of Political Islam, it would be prudent to wonder how much of the revolutionary energy that animates portions of the Iranian regime is still being generated by its encounter with Qutb.

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[mendozasolano]

i hope this account is alive and well :pp do u k ow where to watch betty la fea?? i’ve been dying to watch it

hiiiii, thank you! well, if you want to watch it with english subtitles there's this person who's doing the translation, there are some free episodes there but you need to pay to watch the rest of them i think, the novela is still not complete but she's doing a great work! link: https://www.patreon.com/claudilla83/posts now if you want to watch it with spanish subtitles or normal, you can watch it on telegram or facebook! links: https://t.me/ysblf_sub https://t.me/ysblf_original

[sunsetmoonlight]

Billkin won ‘The Best Leading Actor’ in Nataraja Awards, where Billkin and PP Krit were both nominated.

This video is part of his speech where he thanked PP.

Translation:

BK : Last, I want to thank PP. Actually for me, in every scenes, PP and I are always together. We started to do hard and new stuffs. For me, I feel that in addition to the ITSAY team, there is PP who travels and grows up with me. I feel that ITSAY is another big step in my life that I had a chance and still got PP to walk by my side and we support each other until we could complete this. Actually, it’s a kind of energy that without PP, I believe that I wouldn’t have done this thing this good. On the day we saw that we got nominated to the same award, I believe that it doesn’t matter who receives it. The award belongs to all the ITSAY team.

(English Translation by BKPP International on twitter and video source: Nadao Bangkok Youtube)

[plague-of-insomnia]

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard, Manga, Volume 1, Ch 1, pp 4-5 — Translation & Vocabulary - Part 3

Sorry this took so long to get out. I had some issues with tumblr. Just an FYI that Part 4 may take me longer to release as I’ve had to put my Japanese study on hold due to health issues.

However, I do plan to continue this series even after the English translation releases, since it’s good learning practice for me. TYSM to everyone who has reblogged these posts. I hope you continue to find them helpful!

— — This is a series —— {Part 1 | Part 2} ——

Continuing my reading of 「宝石商リチャード氏の謎鑑定」.

Right Page

Narration (Seigi’s Internal Monologue):

酔っ払い？

一体何して... って

まさか

SFX 1: シャッ

Seigi: おまわりさーん！ こっちですよー！

Seigi: はやくー！ひとが襲われてるー！

Drunks: チッ

Drunks: 行コーぜ

SFX 2: カン

Seigi: 大丈夫ですか

Richard: ......助かりました

My Translation:

Drunks?

What—what the hell are they...?

No way...

SFX 1: Splash

Seigi: Police!! Over here! Hurry! Someone’s being attacked!

Drunks: Tsk!

Drunks: Run!!!

SFX2: clang/clatter

Seigi: Are you OK?

Richard: ......I’m unharmed, thanks to your assistance.*

*the expression Richard uses has several meanings, implying being saved but also being unharmed, so even though he doesn’t technically say both “thank you” and “I am unharmed/you saved me,” I think a fair English translation considers the grades of meaning in the context (the ellipses could also imply an unsaid “I’m fine,” using the spoken part to imply “thanks to your intervention”) so that’s why I settled on my version

Left Page

Seigi: うわ

Seigi:とっ とりあえず警察行きましょう

Seigi: 被害届出したほうがいいです

Police: リチァード... ラナ......?

Police: ごめんもう一回

My Translation:

Seigi: Woah. F—for now, we should go to the police station. You should file a damage report.

Police: Richard... Rana....? I’m sorry; could you say that one more time?

Vocabulary

酔っ払い (よっばらい) - (a) drunk (person)

一体 (いったい) - (what) the heck, (why) in the world, (who) on earth

って - casual quoting particle (they said...); if...then (indicates supposition); do you seriously think that... (かって; indicates a satirical/rhetorical question); I already told you, you should know by now that, of course {see dictionary for more definitions}

まさか - you don’t say!; something unexpected, an emergency; currently, for the time being, for now; indeed, really, truly; unexpectedly

おまわりさん - policeman

こっち (こっちですよう is an inflection with -です & -よ) - this way (direction close to or toward the speaker); here (place close to or where speaker is); this one (something physically close to speaker); I, me, we, us; this person (someone physically close to the speaker & of equal or higher status)

—->Note: also こちら, こち

はやく - early, soon; quickly, swiftly, rapidly, fast

襲う (おそう) {襲われてる is an inflection with -わる & -てる} - to attack, hunt down; to succeed someone (in a role, post, etc); to make a sudden visit

大丈夫 (だいじょうぶ) - safe, all right, OK

助かる (たすかる) {助かりました is an inflection with -ます, polite form + -た, past tense} - to be saved, rescued; to survive; to escape harm, spared damage; to be helped, to save trouble

行く (いく or ゆく; see dictionary for variations in kanji) {行こ is the volitional form “let’s go”} - to go, to move (in a direction or toward a specific location), to head towards, to be transported towards, to reach (see dictionary for more possible meanings)

—->行きましょう - ます + しょう = polite volitional form

うわ - wow, yikes, oops, etc

とりあえず (usually written in kana) - at once, first of all, for the time being, for now

警察 (けいさつ) - police (can also be an abbreviation of police station or police officer)

被害 (ひがい) - harm, injury, (suffering) damag

届出 (とどけで) - report, notification

ほう (報) - information, news; report (suffix)

いい - OK, fine, no problem (indicates permission or compromise); sufficient, enough, ready, prepared; beneficial, profitable (business deal, etc) {see the dictionary for some more definitions}

ごめん (usually written in kana) - your pardon, sorry, no thanks {see dictionary for more definitions}

もう - further, more, again, another {see dictionary for more definitions}

回 (かい) - counter for occurrences; chapter, episode, installment {see dictionary for more definitions}

For resources used, see Part 1.

[thelunarfairy]

Okay, this is a really small question, but I was wondering if you HD any theories about the hand that appears in one of the latest chapters and the accident It mentions.

I've seen people say its Tsukasa, but personally I think It might be a new character or something similar.

What do you think?

Wow, you read my thoughts, I had planned to post about this today hahahaha XD

This hand reminded me of this one

Do you remember her? it is Amane's hand in the PP arc.

So let's compare

They're similar, don't you think? This similarity makes the hypothesis of it being Tsukasa make sense in some way (since he and Amane are twins) and after that Tsukasa without the seal appeared, so it could be him. (It's a hypothesis but I don't know if I'll bet on it, because it seems too obvious)

But why would he say that?

"Hey, what do you think will happen in the play? Yeah, there's no way, not after that accident."

What did that person mean by that? That there's no way Yashiro could know because of "that accident" she may have had? Or was it about not knowing what is going to happen in the play because some accident happened before it started?

After that the big clock broke, was that the accident the owner of this hand was talking about? or something from the past?

So, this hand is very mysterious, there is absolutely nothing, hints, clues, signs, nothing about who it could be. But it turns out it could belong to someone from the past or future, as Tsukasa said that the flow of time will become unstable.

The owner of the hand talked about an accident, which suggests that it has already happened and that it will happen again.

But I noticed something interesting in the translation, in the English translated version it looks like this

"Hey, what do you think is going to happen in the play? Yeah, there's no way, not after that accident."

In the version translated into my language (Portuguese) it says

"Hey, what do you think will happen in the play? Oh yeah, since that accident everything has been…"

Small difference but it can change everyting.

This confused me a little because I don't know which version is closest to the original. The English version implies that something won't happen because of the accident, the Portuguese version implies that since the accident happened everything is… what?

I need to analyze it better because this confused me hahaha

An interesting bonus, the second image of the mysterious hand makes me think it's a female hand. This is because Aidairo usually draws different shaped hands for boys and girls.

Girls have delicate small hands and rounded fingers, boys have larger, more robust hands and squarer fingers, we can compare them using Amane and Nene.

So, it could be a girl's hand (based on the second image) in the first image the hand is similar to Amane's.

So I still have no suspicions other than Tsukasa and Amane owning this hand, but they're not my first definitive answer.

I hope you liked it, thanks for the ask!