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[zukalations]

In this essay Hizuki Hana fangirls all over the 2013 production of The Rose of Versailles: Fersen.

[syubjim]

IZE Magazine: 'SUCHWITA' time to get drunk with SUGA, time to get drunk on SUGA

SUGA is a member of the group BTS that debuted in 2013. In the group of seven, he is in charge of rapping together with RM and j-hope. Fair and bright face with buccal corridor (the space on both sides of the teeth) that opens every time he laughs refreshingly gives out a cute impression, but the low tone that's contradictory to the anticipation given by his appearance creates another different vibe. This kind of paradoxical charm of his shines even more on stage. Through his charisma-overflowing rapping to his perfect lyric delivery he captivates spectators and audience.

SUGA, who has been interested in making music since elementary school, has his named listed as lyricist, composer, and producer for most of BTS albums. In 2016 when BTS started to gradually make their name known, under the pseudonym ‘Agust D’ he released his first mixtape with the same title. The following year, he provided other singers with songs he wrote himself, and he took charge of the producing too. Even in between BTS activity, he was not slacking off on his personal growth, along with the name SUGA who is a member of the group called BTS, he fostered another name with its respective identity. He is hip-hop artist ‘Agust D’ who lets people listen to a little more honest voice of himself that couldn't be released under the group, and he is producer ‘Prod.SUGA’ who does the external work outside of BTS and his own song.

While so far those have been the other names of SUGA for his external activity, there is yet another name that only ARMY (the BTS fandom name) knows. It is SyubD (DJ SUGA's pet name) who officially debuted(?) as a host through the content ‘BTS HoneyFM 06.13’ that was released in 2013 to mark the 100th days since BTS' debut. Since then, SyubD has shown off his outstanding hosting skill, in the ‘HoneyFM’ held to celebrate their first Christmas under the name BTS, in addition to the content of the same name that was released every year on BTS' debut day.

With his distinctive low tone, in a calm and yet skillful hosting he led the program among 6 members who are full of energy all over the place and as the years went by his hosting skill improved by leaps and bounds. As a result, many ARMYs even wished for him to be a host of an actual radio program and get a job as ‘real SyubD’.

Due to the cross-border busy schedule, it is not known when this expectation will come true, but at least there is one point where his hosting ability that's built up through ‘HoneyFM’ meets ARMY's wish. It is a Youtube content called ‘Suchwita’.

‘Suchwita’, which is released in BTS official Youtube channel ‘BangtanTV’, is a talk content where SUGA, who became the host, drinks together with a guest and has a sincere conversation. The title — that brings ‘Daechwita’, the title song of ‘D-2’ the second mixtape released by Agust D in 2020, to mind — is short for ‘time to get drunk with SUGA’. The difference from various drinking contents is that the invited guest brings their favorite liquor and as they have a drink, they have a talk. SUGA, the host, wholeheartedly prepares snacks that go well with alcohol and welcomes the guests.

The charm of ‘Suchwita’ is that it is one step away from the stereotypical talk show format. BTS SUGA, who on any show would be chosen as an invited guest, hosts and invites someone. Accommodating the guest, the host SUGA's flexible and yet stable hosting gives you the feeling of seeing a new program every time. On December 5th last year, ‘Suchwita’ — which announced its beginning meeting with RM who was releasing his first solo album in 9 years after debut — has since invited stars with each different profession and taste, including broadcaster Shin Dong-yeop, actors Lee Sung-min and Lee Na-young, and singers Tablo and Taeyang. Facing these people, SUGA is all ears listening to the guest's story, and sometimes leads the conversation in a comfortable atmosphere. You can also see him sometimes expressing his curiosity or concerns outside of the questions prepared in the script.

In particular, it is a big harvest for the BTS members, who announced their ‘Chapter 2’ and started their individual activities, to visit ‘Suchwita’ with a new start. This is because there were not enough channels to listen to their individual's thoughts, since BTS was rarely seen on broadcasts other than K-Pop music programs. RM and Jimin, as well as host SUGA as Agust D, appeared as a guest on ‘Suchwita’ ahead of the release of their solo albums (RM was the host when Agust D guested). Jin's honest story, which was recorded three days before his enlistment, is a special gift that can only be heard in ‘Suchwita’. They unwrapped a bundle of their stories in a comfortable atmosphere as they were talking to someone familiar and friendly. On it, they honestly expressed the pressure to fill in each person's time with their own strength alone after the seven of them had spent such a long time together, about the alienation in the past, and the expectation for greeting each other in 2025 after spending time on their own names.

The members of BTS say that SUGA may be grumpy and indifferent on the outside, but out of sight, he is attentive in taking care of other people. As if to refute this, in the first episode of ‘Suchwita’ SUGA made it clear, “I'm just aiming for a talk show that is accompanied with alcohol”, adding, “I don't want a show that gets carried away under the influence of alcohol”. Even then, he said that if there is a guest who can't drink alcohol, they can drink tea instead (in fact, Taeyang prepared sikhye (traditional rice punch) and sujeonggwa (traditional cinnamon punch) on his appearance). Although it has the color of drinking content, alcohol is used as an accompaniment to create a comfortable and soft ambience, not as an essential element.

Therefore, for those who are new to ‘Suchwita’, the program may feel smaller than expected and may seem trivial. However, it is a content that allows you to lend an ear to someone's words and to simply enjoy a conversation without forced laughter, and that is enough reason to get curious about ‘Suchwita’. What is certain is that SUGA's natural charm is reflected in the program as it is. Like tvN's ‘You Quiz’, which he thinks of and is aware of as a competitive program, I hope it will be a content that is consistently unburdened, consistently warm, and we can see for a long long time. Let's get drunk with SUGA who is drinking, and get drunk on SUGA's new charm that is revealed every time, I highly recommend it to those who don't know ‘Suchwita’ yet.

—fin.

A little note as I just feel like it may get confusing, the article uses two particular "drunk" phrases:

1. to get drunk with; as in being drunk together with (in this case SUGA)

2. to be/get drunk with/on; as in getting intoxicated with (SUGA) as if he's the alcohol

Any mistake is purely my own, please take this nicely xx

[ithadtobeyouforever]

[soracities]

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

[hichter-art]

THE SONIC X DC CROSSOVER IS OUT!! (And I love it!!!!)

SONIC, my dude, my guy, please never change!

The pseudo beef between these two😭

Also I love how you get so much dialogue between the characters when they are all fighting or getting to know each other and for Batman and Shadow it’s mostly:

*understanding silence*

[i-swim-best-free-for-the-team]

The new Flowers magazine will come with Banana fish poster!

(Their 40th anniversary wedding)

Link

[exhaled-spirals]

« To mention the global loss of biodiversity, that is to say, the disappearance of life on our planet, as one of our problems, along with air pollution or ocean acidification, is absurd—like a doctor listing the death of his patient as one symptom among others.

The ecological catastrophe cannot be reduced to the climate crisis. We must think about the disappearance of life in a global way. About two-thirds of insects, wild mammals and trees disappeared in a few years, a few decades and a few millennia, respectively. This mass extinction is not mainly caused by rising temperatures, but by the devastation of natural habitats.

Suppose we managed to invent clean and unlimited energy. This technological feat would be feted by the vast majority of scientists, synonymous in their eyes with a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions. In my opinion, it would lead to an even worse disaster. I am deeply convinced that, given the current state of our appetites and values, this energy would be used to intensify our gigantic project of systemic destruction of planetary life. Isn't that what we've set out to do—replace forests with supermarket parking lots, turn the planet into a landfill? What if, to cap it all, energy was free?

[...C]limate change has emerged as our most important ecological battle [...] because it is one that can perpetuate the delusional idea that we are faced with an engineering problem, in need of technological solutions. At the heart of current political and economic thought lies the idea that an ideal world would be a world in which we could continue to live in the same way, with fewer negative externalities. This is insane on several levels. Firstly because it is impossible. We can't have infinite growth in a finite world. We won't. But also, and more importantly, it is not desirable. Even if it were sustainable, the reality we construct is hell. [...]

It is often said that our Western world is desacralised. In reality, our civilisation treats the technosphere with almost devout reverence. And that's worse. We perceive the totality of reality through the prism of a hegemonic science, convinced that it “says” the only truth.

The problem is that technology is based on a very strange principle, so deeply ingrained in us that it remains unexpressed: no brakes are acceptable, what can be done must be done. We don't even bother to seriously and collectively debate the advisability of such "advances". We are under a spell. And we are avoiding the essential question: is this world in the making, standardised and computed, overbuilt and predictable, stripped of stars and birds, desirable?

To confine science to the search for "solutions" so we can continue down the same path is to lack both imagination and ambition. Because the “problem” we face doesn't seem to me, at this point, to be understood. No hope is possible if we don't start by questioning our assumptions, our values, our appetites, our symbols... [...] Let's stop pretending that the numerous and diverse human societies that have populated this planet did not exist. Certainly, some of them have taken the wrong route. But ours is the first to forge ahead towards guaranteed failure. »

— Aurélien Barrau, particle physicist and philosopher, in an interview in Télérama about his book L'Hypothèse K

[clanslist]

Last year, in what appears to be a celebration for the translated Warriors series hitting 3.5 million sold copies, some spots in China sold Warriors-based ice cream!

They came in vanilla, strawberry, and dark chocolate. It is currently unknown if they still sell these tasty treats, but it is unlikely.

[sfthvnfanpage]

Translating SFTH’s Puns 😵

Puns are true nightmares to translate, and SFTH has loads of them. Do you want to know what’s been keeping me awake at night? If yes, check out this post. I will list the puns by how much I’m satisfied with what I delivered, so the last one is one of my proudest achievements when translating SFTH’s jokes :D

Usually with a pun, you have three options:

find the equivalent pun in the target language, which barely ever happens.

come up with a new pun that has nothing to do with the original pun, but retains the humour

if all else fails, ignore the pun and go cry in a corner

I’ve been defeated once by the triple “bar” pun in the Change - Mediocre Pub video. It may sound impressive, but that’s only because I only finished exactly 50 SFTH videos at the moment I’m typing this post. More defeats are on the horizon, I can sense them all the way from here 😱

Spectre vs Spectator

This one was quite impossible to translate, and I’m not too happy with the “solution” I found.

“spectator” is “khán giả”, “người xem”, “người quan sát”…

“spectre” is “bóng ma”, “hồn ma”…

Without knowing Vietnamese, you can still see those words have nothing to do with each other.

After racking my brain and scouring the Internet, I settled on “người xem” (watcher/spectator), and “người âm” (“people” from “down there”, which is just ghosts). I don’t think anyone would mistake “người âm” to “người xem”, but “spectre” and “spectator” are not easy to be mixed up either. So… let’s blame AJ 😶‍🌫️

“The kid was dense”

Apparently, AJ doesn’t know what “dense” means, but that doesn’t spare me from translating it 🫠

The “dense” used for AJ can be translated to “dốt đặc”. Concidentally, “đặc” also is the “dense” used for the Rolex watch. However, the “đặc” alone wouldn’t mean “stupid”, “dốt” is the keyword here, “đặc” is just there to emphasise and give imagery. The solution is to put “dốt” in brackets:

Thằng nhóc (dốt) đặc. Đặc như đồng hồ Rolex bị nhồi quá nhiều tính năng.

“I don’t know to from fro” - “I don’t know if I got a fro”

This game is one of the most popular SFTH videos to date, it helped launch the group to their current level of international popularity. I love this video so much.

“Fro” is a hairstyle of black people, and we don’t even have a word for it in Vietnamese. “To and fro” would be “tiến và lùi”, which of course has nothing to do with hair.

Lucky for me, right before that, AJ said “I don’t know left from right”, so I don’t actually have to stick with “fro”, but I still have to ensure Luke’s “You’re bald” make sense. The solution is “I don’t know if my hair is parted right”, which I think fits perfectly for the scene.

Wedding vs Wetting Catalogue

This is a mistake, an unintentional pun, but this time it’s Tom and not AJ.

Tom mispronounced “wedding”, and it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal, but of course, the man had to turn it into a whole nother (NSFW) joke.

It’s quite impossible to connect “wedding” and “wetting” to make the joke work in Vietnamese, so I switched the word “catalogue” to “menu” and dealt with that instead. In Vietnamese, “menu” is “thực đơn”. “Thực” means “eating”, but it doesn’t work alone as a verb, we don’t say “I thực rice.” However, oddly “xực”, the “mispronounced” version of it does, and it’s quite crude and can be used for suggestive or sexual activities, so it fits incredibly well in the context.

Reverse translation:

The wedding xực đơn here is good, isn’t it? Although I’m really looking forward to the day we xực each other.

Wales vs Whales

I love how Tom’s limits are tested in this game 😂 Sam was ruthless.

The Wales - whales pun is quite clever, and it turned the whole story into a new direction. It also turned my sanity against me 🫠

Unlike “England” (Anh), or “America” (Mỹ), there’s no Vietnamese name for “Wales”, we just write “Wales”.

“Whale” is “cá voi” in Vietnamese, which is a funny word because it literally means “elephant fish”, but I digress.

“Whale” doesn’t work here, so I switch to “dolphin”. “Dolphin” is “cá heo” (which is “pig fish”; why? I have no idea…). I altered it to “cá hêu”, which sounds close to Wales (pronounced as “guêu”). You see the “êu” sound? It’s close enough to rhyme :D

Nymphs vs Nymphomaniac

This pun is so clever, hats off to Tom. For this section, I’d say “Children, turn away”, but SFTH chose to post this video to their whole audience, so what much could I even do? 🤷🏻

A “nymph” is a mythological spirit of nature. We don’t have a specific translation for a nymph, but the “fae” group can be all translated to “tiên”.

A “nymphomaniac” is someone who’s… crazy about sex. The closest translation I could think of is “người nghiện tình dục” (sex addict), or “người cuồng dâm”, nothing to do with “tiên”.

There’s a cool language trick called spoonerism, it’s when you swap the consonants and vowels between syllables of a word, or words. In Vietnamese, spoonerism is very common, way more common than in English. Maybe it’s because of how our words are constructed, with separated syllables, and a word usually only has one or two syllables, four max.

I took advantage of this, turning the word “điên tình” (crazy about love) into “tiên đình”, and put the original word in brackets. The word itself is not sexual, but that can be implied, and it works so well for the joke.

It’s been a long post, thank you for still reading. There might have been more puns but these are all I remember for now. There will be a part two, at some point, because SFTH throw puns at me constantly, intentionally or not.

The next episode will be about something very peculiar about Vietnamese: Pronouns :D

[dxl44]

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[zukalations]

Since Saki's first retirement ceremony is today, here is a feature where she presents a few of her early foundational roles.

(Also I know I messed up one of the titles this is what I get for formatting things at 3am so I will fix it after the livestream)

[ferperss]

It is driving me nuts that I cannot access the photo in the middle because the article is behind a paywall 😭

But they’re saying the Canadians are partying in Stockholm lmao, not sure how accurate it is since I CANT READ THE ARTICLE

[0nsyu-archive]

Horii goes into Pirate Yakuza’s end card in detail (I'm inconsiderate)

[dontforgetukraine]

The animated film "I died in Irpin" won the main prize in the "International Competition: King of Trauma" category at the LINOLEUM festival. The 11-minute film was drawn with charcoal on paper. The director, Anastasia Falileieva, tells her story of the time she and her boyfriend decided to visit his parents. They spent 10 days in the besieged city of Irpin. She was able to leave with the last evacuation column.

On February 24th in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse.

Watch the trailer below, and be sure to click CC for English subtitles.

Sources: Detector Media, Maurfilm

[lexiepaprika]

2,500 Ganguro Girls Gather! The masterminds behind the dynamic event

Photo by Shinji Hirai for FOCUS magazine, 2000

[lesbiancarat]

every once in a while I'm struck by the urge to make a 5 hour video essay on the history of Pledis bc I remember that most people don't know random obscure facts like how han sung soo (Pledis founder and the original CEO for many years) originally sent his resume to SM but never got a reply

so this man parked his car and just stared at the SM building lost in thought over 30 times in the span of two months before eventually LYING to an SM employee to get lee sooman's phone number and he called him directly and somehow landed a job as BoA's manager 🧍‍♀️