☆ Starts playing football: At age 1. “Before I knew it, I was playing soccer.”
☆ Team before returning to Japan: レ・アール下* Youth FC.
☆ Favorite food/drink: Salted kelp tea (shio-kombucha). “Because I can go back to 0.” (meaning he feels refreshed after drinking it)
☆ Disliked food: French fries. “It’s deadly delicious but it’s deadly to my health.”
☆ Favorite animal: Seagulls. “I like migratory birds that doesn’t stay in one place.”
☆ Favorite season: At the end of summer. "It seems that the world is starting to get lonesome."
☆ Favorite football player: Álvaro Recoba. “The left footer that casts a rainbow (perfect curve) on the pitch.”
(Sae was referring to Alvaro quotes: “If today's game is on a rainy pitch, I'll draw a rainbow with my left foot.”. Álvaro is known for his curling-free-kick.)
☆ Favorite music: ‘Mercury’ by tofubeats ft. Seira Kariya. “I listen to this to cool down.”
☆ Favorite manga: Gegege no Kitaro.
☆ Favorite movie: Taxi Driver. “This De Niro is the coolest.”
☆ Favorite TV show: Chibi Maruko-chan. “It reminds me of home.”
☆ Favorite brand: “All of my sponsors. They know they're not crazy for betting on me, they have good eyes.”
☆ Hobby: Analysing data of football players and teams. “It’s easier to see the numbers in visualized data.”
☆ Mushroom shoots vs Bamboo shoots: “Depends on the mood.”
☆ What goes best with rice : Salted kelp (shio-kombu). “They don’t have it in Brazil, so I asked my parents back home to send some here.”
☆ What makes him happy: “A play beyond my imagination.”
☆ What makes him upset: Being forced to carry Japanese soccer on his back. “I’m talking about you guys.”
☆ What he thinks his strength is: He has flat ways looking at things. (meaning he look at things objectively) "People often calls me dry**, but who cares?"
☆ What he thinks his weakness is: The fact that he doesn’t know anything else other than soccer. “You guys shouldn’t live this way.”
☆ Favorite/Best subject: “I don’t know since I’ve only focus on soccer and didn’t pay attention in classes.”
☆ What made him cry recently: “Like I'd tell you, idiot.”
☆ Place he washes first when taking a bath: His bangs’ hairline.
☆ Fixation: Buttocks. “You’ll know an athlete's ability by the shape of their buttocks.”
☆ Number of chocolates received from previous Valentine: Around 2000. “That’s what my manager told me.”
☆ The first time he got confessed to: “I don’t remember which one was the first, octopus.” (here, octopus is just an insult like 'idiot' or 'fool', etc.)
☆ What will he do if received 100 million yen: “I’m not interested in such small amount of money.”
☆ At what age he stops receiving presents from Santa: At age 10.
☆ What was his last wish from Santa: “My own talent that I haven’t yet seen.”
☆ How he spent his holiday: Gazing at the sea.
☆ What will he do during his last day on Earth: Give the world's best striker the world's best pass.
*Not sure about the exact pronounciation but the most of the translation says 'Les Halles'.
** In Japan, there are terms called ‘dry person’ & ‘wet person’. ‘Dry person’ is someone who can think rationally without being overwhelmed by emotions and because of their calm demeanor, they are thought to be cold and unapproachable. ‘Wet person’ is the opposite of ‘dry person’.
note: i want to apologize in advance for any mistake made in the translation!
In front of the Journalists' Syndicate, Cairo, Egypt, on 15th January 2024.
The crowd chants:
مصر مشاركة في الحصار
معبر بيننا و بين اهالينا
الصهيوني متحكم فينا
طول ما الدم العربي رخيص
يسقط يسقط اي رئيس
عملوها احفاد مانديلا
و احنا فخوف و فعار و مزلة
عايزين المعبر مفتوح
Translation:
Egypt participates in this siege!
A crossing between us and our people!
Controlled by Zionists!
As long as Arab blood is seen as cheap,
Any and every president must fall!
Mandela's grandchildren have done it,
While we are seized by fear, shame, and humiliation!
We demand Rafah Crossing open!
It’s always funny when anglo writers looking to express a specific idea casually pluck a cool ready-made monosyllabic phrase from their language’s unlimited supply and Romance language translators just curl up in the fœtal position and cry. I'm reading a text in which the American author talks about ‘Haves’ vs ‘Have-Nots’ vs ‘Have-Mosts’ —the poor French translator translated this as ‘ceux-qui-ont’ (the French language: don’t worry I’m just getting warmed up), ‘ceux-qui-n’ont-pas’ (nice we’ve doubled the syllable count but we mustn’t falter), and the beautiful ‘ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres’ (300% expansion ratio let’s gooo! we did it great work everybody.) From 2 to 8 syllables—the minute I saw that bulky thing I knew it had to be Have-Mosts in the original and I was giggling. The anglo author happily proceeds to use the phrase ‘Have-Mosts’ 5 times per paragraph because why not! it’s so quick and wieldy :) we don’t actually need the word wieldy 'cause it’s just the normal state of our language <3 meanwhile you can feel the French translator’s desperation grow as she is reduced to juggling with “those” and “the latter” to avoid summoning her creature. Eventually she reaches the acceptance stage and uses ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres again like, it’s my monster. I shouldn’t reject it
i think it’s important everyone knows about the little roman girl who died at only five years and seven months old, and her grave reads "dum vixi, lusi" or "while i lived, i played"
another thing that gets me really emotional about annabeth's adhd in the show is how she so often gets sucked into her own brain, thinking 6 steps ahead, or trying to follow her plan which she has yet to voice out loud, and then unintentionally is a little bit mean on the outside. like, she put percy under the impression that they couldn't be friends because of how she was treating him. she was literally just so in her own head that she didn't notice. she was cold on the bus and snappy on the satyr path because she was working with a lot more context and understanding of the mythical world than percy... which was probably too overwhelming in her own head to sort out and express out loud, too. she was snappy at grover at the arch because they were still trying to find sanctuary from echidna and she was their navigator to the temple. she became conscious of her attitude only after she could somewhat get out of the headspace of navigating. you can SEE on her face that she doesn't even fully understand these moments and that she doesn't mean any harm. you can tell that she was really hurt when percy made that comment about never being friends. if she could control it, things wouldn't be this way, and that's exactly how disorders work.
it's not just some superpower that she can think so quickly and critically--she also pays the price in other ways because this thinking is constant. the reality she experiences is then different from what's going on outside, and that can be so confusing and exhausting to manage. it's a toll on her, and so many of leah's little facial expressions make it easy to believe that annabeth's had her moments of "my brain is broken" too.
It's the end of the year and I'm feeling the need to give out some awards! We talk a lot about best show, best actors, best writing, best directing, blah blah but I gotta be honest, these are the categories that really spoke to me this year. In no particular order:
Best supporting garment: Porsche’s sweater, A Boss and A Babe
Did I create this entire list just to have an excuse to post about this sweater one more time? Maybe so.
Best performance despite a terrible wig: Daou, Love in Translation
This man managed to perform one of the hottest scenes of the year with that bowl cut monstrosity on his head. Respect must be paid.
Best new terminology: BGP, Bump Up Business
BUB gave us so many gifts, but I will always be most thankful for the business gay performance concept (BGP), a term that is highly relevant in discussions of the bl industry.
Best advice: "Unfuck it," Tien in La Pluie
It's not only the succinct phrasing, but also the delivery method.
Best ex who deserved better: Alan, Moonlight Chicken
Yes, I will be staying on the Alan apologist beat in 2024, thank you for asking.
Best unexpected needle drop: Wetter, The Eighth Sense
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The moment this show captured my full attention.
Best WTF ending: The End of the World With You
You can probably still hear my scream of "WHAT" echoing in the hills. (Actual ending not pictured in case y'all decide to watch).
Best gut punch line: "Have you been well? Without me?", Our Dating Sim
Sure Shin Gi Tae, Lee Wan deserved it, but did I??
Best adorable child: Tane, Our Dining Table
Need I say more??
Best weapon: sparkle murder dust, Khun Chai
Truly the MVP of this show. I can't find an actual gif of the dust in action (too violent to be depicted) so enjoy these pretty men instead.
Best great character trapped in a bad show: Boston, Only Friends
My beloved, I will seek vengeance in your name.
Best use of music to fuck me up: Plumeria, I Feel You Linger in the Air
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Cocktail and Tee Bundit, you know what you did!
Best meal: Chicken curry and cheese naan, What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Yes, this category is kind of a cheat so I can mention WDYEY on this list. And what about it!
Best unhinged energy: Nawin, Laws of Attraction
He may not have succeeded at stealing back his man but he certainly stole the show.
Best bl horror: Grand Guignol
I just need to make sure all you jbl fans know that this movie exists and that Issei fucked Mr Unlucky!!! IYKYK.
Best character comeback: Phupha, Our Skyy 2
From boring stoic love interest to actually compelling and kinda funny leading man! See what a little flirting with Pat Jindapat can do for you?!
also something i was thinking about constantly in erasmus because we had a few native english speakers and i was thinking how weird must it be that you travel somewhere and everybody speaks your language but they speak it badly and with a weird accent and use strange sayings and grammatical constructions and yet they understand each other perfectly but struggle to understand you. how strange must it be to be a foreigner to people speaking your native tongue
Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane—two brothers, many years apart in age—who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! Yutaka soon finds himself having a change of heart as he looks forward to the meals they share together.
Surprise! I started subbing this show last year because the official subs were incomprehensible at times, but I was heavily struggling with undiagnosed endometriosis at the time and eventually my situation got so bad I was unable to complete the project, missing the last two episodes. However, having an unfinished project started bothering me, so I decided to sub the last two episodes now. Here they are!
I've also revised the previous subs (font size, line breaks), so I'm uploading the subs for all ten episodes as a single .rar file.
As for the raws, I'm only providing them for episodes 9 and 10 since I didn't upload them last year. If you've missed or lost any of the previous episodes, you can easily torrent them on nyaa. Subs for episodes 1 and 2 were originally timed to my screen recordings but I've lost those files so I've re-timed the subs to the web rips.
Please do not reupload my subs to any streaming sites or share the links in public outside of tumblr.
Episode 10
RAWS
Episode 9
Subs for episodes 1-10 (.rar, please extract using Winrar or similar)
Joya no kane: A bell that is struck at midnight of December 31st as part of Japanese Buddhist rituals. Most temples ring the bell 108 times.
Notes for episode 9:
Kotoshi no yogore wa kotoshi no uchi ni/Get rid of this year's dirt within this year: This is originally the slogan of a detergent commercial
Notes for episode 10:
Many Japanese couples start calling each other Mom and Dad after becoming parents, but Ueda-san still calls his wife Mika-san which I think is romantic!