Funny Mixture

Note: I count the mirror double, Dominion simulation, and Lethean dream versions of Garak as not him, so they’re not found here. I tried to include all shots where he’s either visible or speaking, except for where he’s just unconscious in the background. This whole thing is about 7hrs in total so I haven’t watched through beginning to end. If there’s any parts you think could be cut out, are cut choppy, or just general mistakes, feel free to let me know!

S1E03 Past Prologue   0:00:00

S2E05 Cardassians 0:08:14

S2E18 Profit and Loss  0:23:33

S2E22 The Wire  0:36:22

S3E05 Second Skin  1:00:32

S3E07 Civil Defense  1:09:12

S3E18 Distant Voices  1:18:14

S3E20 Improbable Cause  1:23:34

S3E21 The Die is Cast  1:53:36

S4E01-02 The Way of the Warrior  2:20:17

S4E10 Our Man Bashir  2:30:44

S4E22 For the Cause  3:02:34

S4E25 Body Parts  3:14:01

S4E26 Broken Link  3:17:47

S5E08 Things Past  3:31:10

S5E14 In Purgatory’s Shadow  3:52:39

S5E15 By Inferno’s Light  4:16:55

S5E24 Empok Nor  4:29:17

S5E26 Call to Arms  4:54:10

S6E01 A Time to Stand  4:58:18

S6E02 Rocks and Shoals  5:09:30

S6E05 Favor the Bold  5:16:22

S6E06 Sacrifice of Angels  5:19:13

S6E19 In the Pale Moonlight  5:23:11

S6E26 Tears of the Prophets  5:39:36

S7E03 Afterimage  5:41:21

S7E16 Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges  5:58:20

S7E21 When It Rains…  6:00:23

S7E22 Tacking Into the Wind  6:06:50

S7E23 Extreme Measures  6:21:23

S7E24 The Dogs of War  6:21:58

S7E25 What You Leave Behind Part 1  6:31:10

Here, let me translate Kyou Kara Maou to English since apparently it’s so difficult to understand:

A guy travels to another world gets engaged to a former princess. The moment he sees her, he’s completely taken by her appearance. When they have to fight he tries to make her panties drop to win the match. He spends his inner monologues continuously talking about her eyes and beautiful skin and features. How she’s an angel. A wet angel when she jumps into water. He calls her cute. He loves how straightforward she is, how she always tells him the truth. He holds her hand while trapped in a cramped area. He tells her: Wait, wait! You don’t wanna have sex with a sweaty guy and gets in the shower, when she throws herself at him. THEY START SLEEPING TOGETHER. No explanation , just boom, princess decides to sleep with the guy. You start reading about it 3 months after the guy decides to not lock his door and let the princess sleep with him every night. Guy adopts a child, child calls princess mommy. Child is not allowed to sleep with her parents. Princess saves guy’s ass continuously. Guy curves all other girls (and guys, but who cares about that, right?). He takes princess out on adventures, where they always sleep together. Other people also comment, oh I see you sleep together on trips, too? Princess almost dies, causing guy to react in a way he never has before, even though many characters have ‘died’ around him before. The trauma hunts guy forever. When he accidentally hurts her, he feels like literal shit. And crawls around princess trying to cure her, asking her if she hates him. Princess replies of course not, I came to the ends of the world for you. Guys friend dies, he gets into a fight with best friend and is exhausted, finally begging to get in bed with princess, saying to her: I’m so glad I have you. I don’t have the strength to pretend anymore. Cut to black. Guy and princess fight like a married couple. Guy asks princess if she wants a divorce. Guy tells princess he’ll give her anything she wants. Guy, writes 26 things he likes the most about princess in front of her while she does the same. Guy asks princess if she’d cry if he wasn’t there.

Now let me ask you…. do you still need the guy to confess his love for the girl? Do you wonder if the guy likes the princess? 

This show is fucking great.

Only 3 episodes in, and it was talking about gender inequality and whether something is universally wrong or culturally wrong, and how to make that distinction.

Some people have been damning it because its Seth MaCFarlane, and its not 100% si fi, nor is it 100% comedy.

I enjoy it because it handles deep issues with tact, and the humor just seems like friends joking with eachother.

Today, on the 24th of August, as we all remember, is Agni’s birthday. A reason to remember once again what a pure, and kind, and gentle person he was. (Though I’m sure we have never forgotten.)

He was an incredible person even for the manga, which is overfilled with incredible persons. Being indeed the epitome of a butler, he had been certainly much more than a mere butler. Agni was just exemplary – in every way. He has set a great example of how the person could really change and become as better as it possible. He seemed to be an awful man before. Awful to that extent that he should have been hanged (probably for a murder(s)). And then – we see him as incredibly faithul, always eager to help, and most good-hearted man ever. And more – he was even trying to help others get better. He managed to go all this way from the culprit to the really nice person, so he is a great fighter in every sense of the word.

He have shown – to everyone of us – how it’s supposed to love your dear ones. He was so selfless for Soma – and he was happy to be so dedicated to him. And it has nothing in common with all the “debt of a servant”. His whole life, till the very last second, was filled with this love, and even whilst his very last seconds he was smiling – just not to hurt his loved one even more. (I’m pretty sure he wasn’t even screaming from pain – an enormous pain, by the way.) He did not deserve anything that was happened to him. But – he had accepted his fate with such a dignity that his name is now written in golden letters in the history of Kuroshitsuji.

You were truly a ray of light in this dark and cruel world.

prettier than god according to a guy who knew god personally

not interested in being polite or heterosexual

here to drink wine and call out Yuuri’s bullshit

can and will drink you under the table btw

and then claim you promised him something while you were drunk that you don’t remember and didn’t actually say but you have no way of knowing that (get rekd Adalbert)

actual bamf

just wants to get laid

constantly baffled by the English language

fascinated by tan lines

fell in the snow and hurt his back trying to look cool

ready to swordfight a room full of armed pirates in a bathrobe with a towel wrapped around his head

brags about his daughter to other dads

actually apologized for badmouthing Yuuri’s mom (like several books later but still RECOGNIZES AND CORRECTS OWN BIGOTRY)

he grows up So Much and I am So Proud

is a srs actor who takes his role as Predator in Yuuri’s Alien vs. Predator musical adaptation Very Srsly

somehow manages to sleep through important shit

motherfucker so confident he stops Yuuri from introducing him to the king of their biggest rival country who proceeds to spend the next five novels fucking them over not knowing they’re engaged

what’s good Saralegui

don’t worry Sara he’ll probably send you a wedding invite

stated his love and devotion to his fiance and king with impassioned sincerity right before punching him in the gut

carries a marriage registration form at all times

reads Yuuri’s diaries

has nightmares about sand bears

clingy sleeper

constant paranoia about giant squid

seriously every time they’re on a boat and something happens he’s like OMG GIANT SQUID idk if he’s been scarred for life after that one time or he just really likes calamari

reads the local tabloid gossip columns about him and Yuuri

gets mad when anyone other than him calls Yuuri a wimp

spent an indeterminate amount of time hiding in a box of oranges with Yuuri 

spends the majority of every story arc tracking down Yuuri and saving his sorry butt from whatever new mess he’s gotten into

will probably spend the rest of his life chasing Yuuri halfway across the globe to stop him from doing something dumb

Don’t adjust your screens, this is not a fanfic. This is an essay in defense of the word ‘henachoko’, I’m submitting to the MA-EVENT, let’s see if I can spread some awareness. @redglassesgirl-maruma

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First, the SCIENCE

You can argue with a person as much as you want, but you can’t argue with a dictionary.

Let’s look at the Japanese-English dictionaries:

1) Jisho.org

へな猪口 - Noun - novice; greenhorn - ​Usually written using kana alone, Derogatory

2) ejje.weblio.jp/ へな猪口 (with kanji) - novice; greenhorn

へなちょこ (no kanji) -duffer -a cub -a greenhorn -a tenderfoot 

I can already see all those fanfics with Wolfram yelling “TENDERFOOT”. Shakes head.

So perhaps, there isn’t a PROPER English word to translate henachoko! Maybe most people can’t understand untranslatability, but it exist- especially with Japanese- 

Let’s look at the Japanese-Japanese dictionaries:

1. Google: へな猪口意味 (2 definitions)

- 未熟な者をあざけって言う語。 「―が大口(おおぐち)をたたくか」

Word mocking an inexperienced/immature person.  (Sample sentence: Is that henachoko speaking all big and mighty?)

-外側に鬼、内側にお多福の顔を描いた楽焼(らくやき)の、上等でない杯。 Demon on the outside, ill-shaped cup with a 'good luck face’ drawn on it on the inside. A cup that’s not good at all.

(I love that demon is mixed in the definition here.)

2. weblio.jp/  (4 definitions) -へな ちょこ 未熟な者。取るに足らない者。また，そのような人をあざけっていう。 「 －野郎」 Inexperienced person. Insignificant person. Also a word to mock such person.

-へなちょこ 未熟でおかしな様子などを指す表現。ヘナヘナしている様子。または、そういう様子の人。 An expression that refers to the state of being immature or strange. The state of being flimsy or without power. As well, as a person in that state.

-へなちょこ -Pissing monk -ルンペン(in Osaka) - loafer, free-loader, tramp, unemployed person

-へなちょこ Being flimsy or weak (henahena); while also impertinent (chokozai).

3. http://gogen-allguide.com/he/henatyoko.html (it’s long, check the link for Japanese)

Henachoko is, an inexperienced/immature person, and a word to mock them.

It’s considered that “hena” represents the sturdiness of something; it’s the hena in henahena (weak/flimsy). 'Choko’ can stand for the choko in chokoma (restlessly; in continuous motion), or the 'choko’ that represents a small, hard to notice action.

Sometimes it’s written with one or more kanji corresponding to clay, in this case the meaning is 'small cup’ used to drink sake.

As for the etymology of henachoko, it can be traced back to a Meiji era reporter Nozaki Sabun who was at a restaurant in the flower garden of Kanda Myojin, drinking sake from a cup. Because it was poorly shaped thing made out of clay he called it a 'henachoko’ (strange small cup). This event seems to be described in “ The Old Ginza and Shinmashi Geisha” (unconfirmed). Theory states that the writing of “strange small cup” (変な猪口), was changed to へなちょこ later on.

However, despite these clear circumstances, the etymology of 'hena’ is unclear. The hena from weak/flimsy, seems to be unrelated to “clay” which was used in the Edo period. Because the 'impertinent’ comes from 'chokozai’, it’s hard to imagine the two parts of the word were conceived independently, are more likely it was conceived as a single term.

Summarizing, 

henachoko includes the meanings: inexperienced (needs experience), immature (needs to grow up), weird (original meaning of hena), weak and in constant motion. Dumb (small cup). AND THERE’s a FREAKING PHRASE FOR IT, that talks about being a demon on the outside and weirdly shaped cup with doodles on the inside . PLEASE READ ME *flails arms*

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SECOND, the usage

I have only ever heard this word being said in conversation between children, or grown ups talking to children. The word henachoko is 'cute’. Although it’s derogatory in nature, it’s not as bad as  aho, baka, boke, toroi and so, so many others.

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THIRD usage in the series

1) It’s an expression of love from Wolfram to Yuuri. In the MA-hon it was equated to “LOVE”, or 'I love you’. This is why no one else says this word (I can clearly remember Wolfram not allowing people to call Yuuri that in cds or something), and why Wolfram can’t stop saying it.

2) Yuuri doesn’t like to be called inexperienced/clumsy/weird, but when Wolfram calls him that in novel 2, Yuuri SMILES as he says 'don’t call me henachoko’, and that is one of the first times you see Yuuri 'getting’ the meaning of henachoko. And it’s beautiful. In Novel 2, he also accepts he’s a henachoko but also decides to become “an evolving henachoko”.

TL;DR

So let me be clear, henachoko is an UNTRANSLATABLE WORD. There is SO much DEPTH to this word than you’re not assigning to it when you use rookie or whatever. Also, the fact that rookie and novice connects so well with baseball really throws me off, because there’s no direct connection in Japanese!

Finally, I just want to point out that “Henachoko” (Wolf’s pet name for Yuuri), and Hachimitsuchan" -Honey-chan - Yuuri’s pet name for Wolf" both start with the letter H!

Also notice how even in their pet names they are equals: -Henachoko means something bad to Yuuri, but it’s a love word for Wolf -Hachimitsuchan means something bad to Wolf (gets very angry when Yuuri says it, because it’s a word for kids), yet Yuuri is all smiles and says it in a loving tone (AND IT LITERALLY MEANS HONEY! I love how sensei used the double meaning of this word in English- which is used for children AND partners - to give a double meaning to it in the series as well…. Sensei, saikou!!!ToT!)

Makes you food when you’re sad

Loves you even if your powers drive him 50 feet into the floor

Loves you even when you make shitty decisions

Will try and act as human as possible for you

Saves you from a city that is plummeting to the ground

Sees the best in people

Loves you for who you are and doesn’t care how other people see you

Just imagine it.

Thor, son of Odin, the Asgardian god, heir of the throne of Asgard.

Thor, who was wise enough to know about the danger that would lead the confrontation against Ultron.

Thor, who intervened in the conflict and took a crucial decision, helping to create the Vision, trusting him before anyone else, even before he was worthy.

Thor, who has a complex knowledge, more than others, who went from being a haughty and impulsive man, to be a wise, responsible, compassionate, respectful man.

Thor, who decided to have mortal friends, seeing in them their strength, their weaknesses, their greatness, their conflicts and problems.

Thor, who observes his human friends and try to mingle with them, knowing that he will always be more powerful, and possibly could never fully belong between them.

Thor, who is destined to live 5000 years, fell in love with a mortal human, knowing that if he decided to spend his life with her, it would only be a small fraction of what will be up to him to live.

Thor, who know creatures of ice and stone, and he not see them as creatures which have no soul or conscience. For him all be worth the same and are important, no matter what the differences could be.

Thor, who now sees the Vision, not as a machine without emotions, not as an object with robotic mind in a metal and plastic case. He understands that despite the different material of his body, is a conscious being, who has life, who can learn, who can make mistakes, and he must adapt and live among them, despite being a synthetic human being to live an almost immortal life, like him.

He did not present a different treatment towards him, he did not, he accepted him as part of the team, took him aside to talk to him before the battle, saw him as a synthetic human who could learn and understand how to live, even before knowing whether he was worthy of lifting the hammer or not.

Thor knows that it is very likely that Vision go through the same conflicts he spent whe he tried to adapt to the environment of humans; they will see him as a different being, both inferior and superior to them, he will be loved and feared.

Not only that, it is very likely that Thor know that in one point Visin will start presenting emotions to the humans that go beyond valuation for their lives. Frustration, fear, conflict, anger, and love, not because they are beautiful, or love for humanity in general; love for some humans, some more than others.

Imagine Thor giving advice to Vision, understanding his conflicts, or even identifying the crush he has for Wanda. Because he does not see him as superior being despite having great intelligence; It is a person who will go through a long period of adaption, and he will need a helping hand to guide him on his way. More now seeing their friends divided and in conflict with each other.

Thor, who appreciates the union and friendship above all, who loved his brother despite all the bad things he did, who appreciates the mercy more than anything else. Thor will come to Earth and will see the Avengers disbanded, some fugitives, others controlled by a government institution. His friends damaged and broken,, knowing that if they had remained united this may could never happened.

Just imagine the reaction of Thor will have if he begins to realize that Vision, of all the persons, is in love with Wanda, or tries to hide it because of the conflict between the teams, and even against Thanos in the future,

This synthetic being who sees the beauty of humanity and was born destined to protect them, who has begun to present a different treatment toward her, toward the strange human mortal.

Thor is perhaps the only one who could understand the magnitude of the conflict that Vision feels, and the only one (besides Wanda) that could treat him as a living being with a soul, which is vulnerable to his emotions even though not show it. Not as a machine or as a superior being free from doubts and problems. And if Vision feels confused by the feelings he is having toward her, Thor will tell him “do not waste time, this may be the only chance you get,” because he knows from experience what it feels like being in love with a mortal human and every second with your beloved is better than nothing.

Perhaps in the future we might even see him as a Best Man. (Or even officiate the whole wedding, he is the future King of Asgard, after all… if Ragnarok does not say otherwise)

Everyone: