"The Prophesied"

this!!! I was gagged when Another Story started with the TLHOD opening phrase...

best thing i've learned from UKLG currently is that you can reuse motifs across bodies of work, and people actually go crazy for that

tripleS <ASSEMBLE25> ‘Are You Alive’

sketchdump under cut

i love repression i love religious guilt and by god above all else i love jealousy

also! I just needed to look this up as a Hungarian, because yes, while the word sántál makes sense to me, it just sounds old school, we use sántít more nowadays

and ofc I needed to look it up in a Hungarian dictionary and let me nerd out about this one for a bit (bear with my English and the possibly wonky translation of this text)

so the word I looked up was sánta (lame), the noun from sántál/sántít

so basically,, Hungarian got the word from an old Slavic word group, possibly before the 11th century, when the Slavic nasal a still existed (btw if anyone knows about this nasal a, feel free to yap about it, I'm interested)

originally it used to mean something like to walk slowly, haltingly and then in Hungarian the meaning changed to to limp

and then some Slavic languages borrowed it back from Hungarian, apparently Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also have it as šantati

oh wow, I just had a szófosás here (basically a word for yapping in Hungarian, it literally means word-diarrhea)

Random Slovak š-words etymology:

Šajn (as in "nemám šajnu") — from German "(Geld)schein", the Austro-Hungarian banknote.

Šampón — from English "shampoo", from Indian "čāmpo" (to press)

Šanca — from French "cheance" (accident, luck), from Latin "cadentia" (falling) — used first for a good result when throwing a die.

Šanovať — from German "schön" (pretty)

Šantiť — from Hungarian "sántál" (to limp)

Šarkan — from Hungarian "sárkány" (dragon, virago, vixen, Xanthippe), from Proto-Turkic "siāŕgan" (carp, dragon)

Šarlatán — from German "Scharlatan", from Italian "ciarlatano", a blend of "ciarlatore" (chatterer) and "cerretano" (hawker), the latter coming from the village of Cerreto di Spoleto, known for its tricksters.

Šašo — from "šach" due to their clothes' black-and-white chessboard pattern

Šelma — from Middle High German "schelme" (plague)

Šovinizmus — from N. Chauvin, an excessively patriotic First French Republic soldier famous from the play "La Cocarde Tricolore"

Štamgast — from German "Stamm" (trunk, tribe) + "Gast" (guest)

Šuhaj — from Hungarian "suhanc", from "suhancár" (Swiss) since the Swiss often used to serve abroad as guards, mostly young men, hence the Slovak meaning

Le Guin on Estraven's death

this album may still not be available on spotify in the year 2025 but at least that means i continue to be gifted the pleasure of reading the youtube comments. here are the top three that i believe capture its entire essence. you don’t need to know anything more

ok. i think i've calculated the left hand of darkness characters' ages. a fair bit of this is me headcanoning but WHATEVER

(under the cut is sorve, genly, estraven, arek, ashe, and estraven & ashe's kids' ages)

sorve harth rem ir estraven: so we'll start with the only character we're given something adjacent to a canon age for: sorve. except the canon age is wrong. genly says he looks around 19-20, but this basically can't be the case because of ~textual inferences~ that can be made. we know that siblings are allowed to be kemmering partners until someone gets pregnant, and then they have to stop. we also know that vowing kemmering after said pregnancy is what gets you exiled. we don't know exact dates, but we can guess that estraven was exiled shortly after sorve's birth because of this (or maybe even during the pregnancy if you think arek is the one who carried him), and while we don't know the exact cause of arek's death, we can assume it was shortly after estraven's exile from estre because of how he always talks about the events together. so we can infer that arek died pretty much right after sorve was born, and we know arek died fourteen years before the events of the story. that puts sorve at roughly fourteen years old, and knowing genly, he probably overestimated because sorve was tall or something

genly ai: we know he's under thirty, at least as per estraven's assessment. estraven could be wrong about this, because genly definitely was for sorve, but i also trust estraven's judgement a little more here (and it helps that genly's the one translating the journal entries, so he could've just added a footnote if estraven was wrong but he didn't). now, estraven specifically says "not thirty", which typically means twenty-nine in formal english (think any of the austen novels, where "not two and twenty" means twenty-one). technically, he could be anywhere from like, 18-30, but at the very least, not thirty means he's in his 20s, and i think 29 works perfectly fine.

therem harth rem ir estraven: estraven's age is a tad bit more complicated to calculate, but still doable. we're given the ages of his mom, esvans (who's 70+), and his son, sorve (who, as i've explained, is roughly 14). this is complicated because it's said that gethenians generally stop having kids and start using contraceptives at about twenty-four, and have all their kids young. if you calculate back from esvans's age, that puts estraven at roughly 46, but if you calculate back from sorve's age, that puts estraven at thirty-eight MAX. you could use either of these calculations and you'd have enough textual support to do so, but i'm going to choose to use sorve's age for a few reasons: - it's more plausible to me that genly's data point about gethenians mostly choosing not to reproduce past twenty-four is based on recent data and not esvans's generation (especially because this choice is facilitated by contraceptives, and it would make sense for that to be a more recent scientific development) - estraven has two kids with ashe (more on that later) who are ten at oldest, and if he is 46, he would've had to father them at 36. if gethenians generally stop reproducing after 24, this is a bit too much of a stretch for me. so, like i said, that puts estraven at a maximum of 38 years old, but i actually think he's even younger than that. as mentioned earlier, estraven has two other kids with ashe. he and ashe vowed kemmering ten years before the beginning of the story (they were partners for seven years and have been separated for three), and although it's possible that they had their children before that, i doubt it just because of how estraven talks about it ("we were kemmerings for seven years and had two sons" at least kind of implies that the sons were born during the duration of that seven years). so with all that, if gethenian reproduction doesn't tend to happen past ~24 and estraven's kids with ashe are ten or younger, he'd be around 34, and would've had sorve around 20 (which is very plausible to me). hell, if his kids with ashe aren't the same age, the math probably means estraven is EVEN YOUNGER and sorve was a teen pregnancy baby, which also tracks imo.

arek harth rem ir estraven: this one is easy, arek is canonically a year older than estraven, which puts him at roughly 21 at the time of his death (potentially younger).

ashe foreth rem ir osboth: again, by assuming ashe's kids are ten or younger, ashe is 34 max, likely younger.

estraven & ashe's kids: all we know is that there's two of them, and they both could be anywhere from 3-10 years old (realistically, 5-10 years old, because the youngest kid being 3 or 4 would mean that estraven had sorve at thirteen or fourteen, which is very implausible even for a "sorve was a teen pregnancy" headcanon). we don't know if the kids are the same age or not either

ok there you have it, thank you for coming to my TED talk

I recommend József Attila fr! he is controversial but interesting, sometimes a bit too overused but summarizes an era well and has that edgelord vibe imo (and I think Ján Smrek did a lot of pretty good translations of his works)

AND PRESSBURG! I need to watch it finally - my sister kept talking about it and how there are some inaccuracies and just unrealistic cringe stuff, but it's good that it exists and talks about things like these

Nebudem ťa volať "bráško", Nebudem ťa volať "kamoš", Oboch už v živote mám, Tak mi s tým trochu pomôž Ako voláš niekoho, S kým zdieľaš ťarchu zrady, S kým padal si vo vojnách, S kým staval si tie hrady S kým vymenil sis' slová, No komu viac nerozumieš ? Bol si tu celý ten čas, Tak povedz mi: čo o nás vieš? Ezer év együtt, Hogy történhetett ez meg? Különböző szavak, De ugyanaz a természet Próbáljunk meg nem határokat Húzni egymás közé Ne nézzünk egymásra, Nézzünk együtt előre! Még mindig ugyanazt a folyót ünnepeljük, Még mindig te vagy az én igazi északom, Igyunk hát mindkettőnkre, Nőjön a boldogságunk, Lássuk egymást napról napra többet, És ne féljünk többé attól, Ami közös bennünk

Pál Utcai Fiúk Headcanonok

(mert tavaszi szünet van és olyankor ez a brainrotom)

Csónakos első szülött egy 5 gyerekes családban, és az egyetlen fiú

Cselének "gyerekes" interestjei vannak (rovarok, dínók, bolygók, barbiek, pónik)

Boka és Nemecsek szombatonként piacra járnak

Gerébnek van egy sündisznója

Boka szenzoros és egy nagyon nagy controlfreak mert kényes a rendszerezésre is

Nemecsek szeret fára mászni

Barabás fél a madaraktól mert kiskorában megcsípte egy tyúk

Csónakos szemüveget hordott az érettségi szóbelire hogy okosabbnak tűnjön

Csónakos és Nemecsek tényleg próbálkoznak táncolni justdance közben

Nemecsek próbált cigizni hogy bekerülhessen menő társaságokba de annyira utálta hogy inkább feladta

Bokát érdekli a keresztény vallás és nagyon sok mindent tud róla, viszont nem hívő

Kolnaynak volt egy typology korszaka amibe a Csele avatta be

Boka színész szeretett volna lenni, de nem gondolta magát elég tehetségesnek ezért inkább hagyta és inkább tanár lett

Csele biosz és kémia faktra ment és könnyűnek tartotta

Barabásnak jó a kézügyessége, és szeret agyagozni

Barabás iszik de nem cigizik, Kolnay pedig fordítva, és össze vesznek rajta hogy melyik a jobb

Nemecsek nem tudja használni a tömegközlekedést

Csónakost 14 éves kora óta senki nem látta kőbányai nélkül a kezében

Nemecseknek van egy macskája amit a 3. osztályos crush-áról nevezett el

Nemcseknek rohadt nagy attitűdje van ha nincs jó kedve vagy fáradt

Csele balettozik és nem tudta hogy tánc vagy valami reálos egyetemre menjen

Csele divatmagazinokat gyűjt és fanolja a diort

Nemecsek és Csele kedvenc ünnepe a karácsony, és télen el szoktak menni a bécsi adventi vásárba

Geréb egy poser malemanipulator

Boka a demokráciában hisz viszont szívesen kerülne diktátori pozícióba, és a jegyzeteiben van egy manifeszto arról hogyan javítaná meg az országot

Boka és Csele nem szeretik az x faktort, Csónakos és Kolnay viszont mindig megnézik az elejétől a végéig

Bokának szezonális depressziója van januárban és februárban, és olyankor nagyon depresszív verseket szokott írni

Boka azonnal kritikát ír minden filmről amit megnéz, van accountja az összes népszerű movie ranting oldalon

Csele fanteóriákat készít minden médiáról amit szeret, és tumblrre posztolja őket

Csele kedvenc filme a dogma

Nemecsek nagyon jó emberismerő és ha valakit nem bír arról előbb utóbb kibukik hogy tényleg bunkó

Nemecsek nagyon célba tud találni ha inzultálni akar valakit, csak nem teszi gyakran mert nem szeret megbántani másokat

Csónakos kislányos rajzfilmeket néz a hugaival, és hercegnőset játszik velük

Nemecsek kedvenc együttese a msi és a nirvana, Boka klasszikust hallgat, Csónakos, Kolnay és Barabás magyar rock együtteseket, Csele musical dalokat, és Geréb deftonest

Nemecseket nagyon könnyű felhypeolni

Nemecsek, Csónakos, Kolnay és Barabás aktívan fenn voltak discordon 2020-ban és az összes tipikus drámát átélték

bárki aki a gittegylet tagja volt, az rágózik, és kiskorukban közösen no-borax-no-glue slimeot próbáltak készíteni

Csele elcsórja a nővére smink cuccait

Csele és Csónakos is szőkítette a haját gimnáziumban, viszont Cselének szép naturális árnyalatú és ápolt lenne, Csónakosnak pedig sárgás, töredezett, és valahogy mindig 5 centis lenövése lenne

(tudom hogy ez canon de mindenképpen említenem kell hogy Cselének selyemhernyó tenyészete van, és Nemecsek szedi neki az eperfa leveleket, mert ő nem mászik fára)