BILL THE MOTHER FUCKING PONY IS THE MOST BAD ASS PONY TO EVER PONY.
SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
BILL WAS AN OLD FUCKING PONY, AND WHEN THEY BOUGHT HIM IN BREE, EVERYONE SCOFFED. “YOU’VE PAYED TOO MUCH FOR THAT PONY.” THEY SAID.
BUT THEY WERE WRONG.
BILL FUCKING MADE IT WITH THE FELLOWSHIP ALL THE WAY TO THE MINES OF MORIA. AND THEN THE WATCHER IN THE WATER ATTACKS, AND SAM THINKS BILL IS DEAD. BUT IS HE? NO THIS BADASS MOTHERFUCKING PONY HOOFS HIS BUTT ALL THE WAY BACK TO BREE ON HIS LONESOME, WHERE HE FUCKING WAITS FOR SAM, AND THEN HELPS THEM AT THE BATTLE OF BYWATER BY GIVING HIS FORMER ABUSIVE MASTER A SWIFT KICK IN THE BEHIND.
BILL THE PONY FOR PRESIDENT OF MIDDLE EARTH.
Bill The Pony is. Important. OK? I WILL LEGIT FIGHT ANYONE TO DEFEND BILL’S HONOR.
Rohirrim probably have their own version of the common story where a young bride’s betrothed comes to her at night and they go for a ride together on a pale, silent horse. later she learns that he has died recently, perhaps the very night she rode with him, and it was his ghost she was riding with.
many believe there are fairy lights at fens that supposedly show the place of an ancient treasure on certain nights. however, if you go to follow these fairy lights, they are more likely to lure you to your death than actually reveal some treasure.
some have also seen phantom horses near some of the fens. they appear in the shape of one of the mearas, but you can always tell them for what they are by the ghostly light in their eyes. if you try to ride such horse, it will invariably take you into the fen. (compare to Scottish Kelpie.)
in autumn, there is one night (like All Hallows’ Eve) when the dead are believed to be on the move. particularly there’s a belief about an éored of phantom riders racing through the fields of the Mark during this night.
In Edoras, there’s a story about a washerwoman who sometimes appears on the banks of Snowbourn, washing bloody clothes in silence. her appearance is believed to be an omen of woe and death.
it is said a figure like Banshee wanders the lands of the Wold.
Rohirrim avoid places where a large battle has taken place and blood has been spilled. they say the earth remembers the blood and grows hungry for it. it is not advised to settle on such land, unless one is prepared for misfortune. there are some rites than can be used to cleanse the land.
there are naturally many spooky stories about Dwimorberg. people have been known to go missing if they go too close to it. some have returned (though none of those who approach the Paths of the Dead), but they are driven mad by nightmares and phantoms they see even with their waking eyes. similar stories are told of the wood of Lórien.
some believe Helm Hammerhand’s ghost still wanders near the Hornburg on cold winter nights. there are those who claim that on those nights, a voice may appear behind your door, asking to be allowed inside from the cold. but even if you do heed to it and open your door, there is no one there in the darkness.
Yes, this will be a post about translation but fear not – it is not a correction, but more of an expansion. Because this is an accurate translation and I think it’s important to understand why it’s so big and beautiful.
So let us dive right into what he said in Japanese.
Let me break this sentence down into pieces in order to make sense of it and explain it as well as I can.
だって、アイツの事好きっすもん
Datte aitsu no koto suki ssu mon.
Both datte and mon are (casual) ways of giving an explanation, they are words used to give a reason. Datte kind of implies something obvious to the speaker, but not to the listener. Mon is, to my best knowledge, just a casual word used to give a reason for something, but according to this dictionary, it is apparently also used to emphasize emotion.
With that explained, we’re left with:
aitsu no koto suki ssu
Let’s get to ssu then – ssu is a shortened form of desu, which I’m sure many of you know. It’s what we call a copula – a way of saying that something is something (that’s an oversimplification but that’s all you need to know here). In this case, it is just used to express politeness in regards to the listener.
And now we have:
aitsu no koto suki
Ah yes, the juicy bits.
Aitsu is a casual way of saying “he” (or in this case “him” – Japanese grammar is simpler than English), and suki is everyone’s favorite word – it means to like, or in this context (and 90% of the time when people use it while talking about other people), to love.
You’ll notice I didn’t explain what no koto is. Don’t worry, I’m getting there. The thing about no koto is that it’s a pretty weird grammatical thing that’s difficult to explain because there is no English equivalent for it. But regarding its use in here – some may wonder why it’s aitsu no koto suki and not just aitsu ga suki, and the vibes I get here is that no koto suki is pretty much always used in romantic contexts and ga suki can be somewhat ambiguous (though again – if it’s said about a person then that’s basically a confession of love).
I dug around the net a bit about the aitsuno koto suki issue and found this interesting discussion, where the answers come from Japanese native speakers. No koto can mean all things pertaining to the noun it is used with, and I would go as far as to say that in this context, it can be interpreted as “I love him and everything about him”. But I think a person from the post I linked above also gives a very interesting explanation:
[…] these two definitions [of no koto] from Daijirin match up with my observation:
“abstracting”: (2)(ア) ある物事に関連する事柄。 Things related to a particular thing.
“focusing”: (2)(イ) ある人物が動作・心情の対象であることを示す。 Indicates a person is the object of an action/emotion.
They also say that these two can both exist at the same time.
And both of these make sense in this context, too – Hide is talking about Kaneki and things related to him (in the abstract, non-literal sense) and that he is the object of his emotions – with the latter being emphasized.
And again, considering that no koto is used alongside suki and the noun for which suki is used is a person pretty much erases any and all possibilities of any platonic love. This phrasing is pretty much always used for romantic love and confessions of romantic love and it was very clearly used to invoke those thoughts, which means that the “Because I love him” translation is 100% accurate.
I also find it quite amusing that some people insist that this is an expression of platonic love or friendship or “bromance” when there is a different, much clearer phrase that is always used to express strong platonic feelings that could have been used here: “Because we’re friends”. Manga are known for the use of the “power of friendship” as the main driving force and motivation for characters and not without reason – the idea of “nakama power” came from the overuse of reaffirmations of friendship in the face of distress or powerful enemies or literally any adversity.
But that’s not what we see here.
And true – the power of friendship trope is mainly used in shounen manga and that’s not what Tokyo Ghoul is, but these sort of “why are you going so far for him?” scenes are just begging for those stereotypical answers.
But that’s not what we get here.
What we get is a large panel featuring a simple but genuine confession of love that takes up almost the entire page for a reason and chalking it up to “friendship” sounds like a laughable attempt at dismissing the truth.
TL;DR: Hide did actually say that he loves Kaneki, with the strong implication that he also loves everything about Kaneki. Words like datte further suggest that it is something that comes naturally to him and something painfully obvious, which helps explain why Amon easily accepts this reason – because it’s such a clear and genuine expression of romantic feelings.
Do with this information what you will – I’m not in the fandom and I’m very behind in the manga (like… volume 7 of the original TG, not even re) but I do think this deserves to be known.
This is beautiful. Thank you so much for posting this.
Hey guys I just want to remind you that, while I was in middle school, a friend and I wrote a 255 page fanfic about the FellowShip of the Ring playing basketball at rivendell
IM NOT PUTTING THIS UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE YOU ALL NEED TO SEE THIS SHITSTORM half these lines are shit half of them are iconic but the whole thing is memorable
and let me tell you something
they only actually play basketball for like 2 pages
i hate basketball and don’t know any of the rules
“aragorn” and “boromir” were shortened to “argon” and “boron” while “legolas” was shortened to “lassy” to save typing time as we did this on middle school level mobile devices
for some reason faramir was there
NONE OF IT MAKES ANY FUCKING SENSE
oh yeah it inexplicably becomes a downtown abbey crossover fic for like ten pages beause my friend put that in there
(frodo check ur PRIVLAGE)
(thorin is there for one line??? inexplicably???)
ANYWAYS THIS ENTIRE THING IS A GOD DAMN FEVER DREAM THAT HAD NO RIGHT TO EVER EXIST IT’S SO HORRID AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHY I DID THIS TO MYSELF AS A CHILD
this reminds me too much of my immortal
oh, and it was part of a three-volume series (the other one is over a thousand pages)
Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil
its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies
at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes
FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS
AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT
DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER
FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY
*Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe
1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)
1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)
½ cup – 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.)
After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.
^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent
WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!
Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.
Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.
Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.
Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)
Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.
I see some of y’all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.
I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one
– everyone answering “no, i’m fred” to “are you [insert Y/N]” even hermione
– everything draco does ever
– calling blast ended skrewts “power bottoms”
– calling newt scamander bad variations of his name like nerd sandwicher etc
– colin creevey using that one picture he managed to get of hermione punching draco as a reaction image
– shouting “spank me daddy” at the whomping willow
– [pointing at random object] that’s a portkey
– every single cat is professor mcgonagall
why
– POTTER
– ever since snape’s “bottle fame, brew fortune” speech students just go on and on with it – “flambé success, bake brilliance” “Can you tutor me in charms?” “TUTOR you? I can teach you how to SAUTÉ EXCELLENCE.”
– [random object] is totally a hufflepuff
– remember that game where someone yells “SHATNER” and you have to overact? same thing except it’s “TRELAWNEY” and you have to use whatever you’re holding to make a ludicrous prediction
– a more popular variation is “LOCKHART” to make up a pompous story about using whatever you’re holding to drive the [monster] out of [town]
– calling hippogriffs “leggy birbs”
– “Our beloved headmaster Albert Dumpsterfire/Aqueous Disillusionment/Aberdeen Decapitation…”
– shitty incantations ( “The Graying Hair Charm? Make-me-bloody-ancient-osia.” )
reblogging for albert dumpsterfire xD
-the dumbledore one, except you keep adding incorrect names, like albert pensive wallace herbert richard flamingo sherbet tango luthor…
-*peeves appears* IT DAT BOI
-”i’d rather be petrified”
-”so a shack gets to scream and it’s all normal and haunted, but when i do it i’m disturbing class and a nuisance”
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