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Jakabfy Károly (康明智)

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Sinology MA student. Interested in the Far East, ancient cultures, literature. (Hobby-)translator. Languages: 🇭🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪一点🇨🇳和文言、彬彬君子，霸王最忠之臣子近平十三年，昭和百年 My website: https://juewangshidai.neocities.org/

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · Jan 5

You can find my website here:
juewangshidai.neocities.org

It contains my articles and translations, usually on topics related to Asian culture.

Juewang Shidai - The Hopeless Age

A Website about Asian Studies in a Hopeless Age

juewangshidai.neocities.org

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 1d

I had this weird dream, where I just cut my veins really deeply with a blade, a torrent of blood shot out, and when I woke up, I felt strangely at ease, as if something stopped weighing down on me.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 1d

Chasing trends…
(”China and the geopolitics of rare earth”)

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 1d

This is where I buy my books

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 1d

Roughly halfway done with the first season and watching this is so weird, because it's giving me that exact feeling of melancholia I used to feel as a teenager, and I thought I was incapable of feeling that any more.

That exact same feeling Dazai, Dostoevsky or Evangelion would give me.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

Five episodes into this and IT’S LITERALLY JUST LEGALISTS VS MOHISTS????

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

Five episodes into this and IT’S LITERALLY JUST LEGALISTS VS MOHISTS????

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

I’m surprised. Genuinely. It’s a cheap reprint of an important book and it’s actually good? Has all of van Gulik’s notes and everything? Wow.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

I like it when books aren’t afraid to give readers the important questions, no punches pulled.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

Kungfu panda eat your heart out

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 7d

How the HSK5 monkey looks at you when you've been slacking off with your anki deck

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone looks devilishly good even by anime standards. And I sorta feel guilty looking at it, as if I'm making some sort of transgression by indulging in something that's both so pretty yet so lowbrow in essence.
I guess I'm just way more Catholic than I give myself credit for.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10d

I'm going to try to properly articulate this but reading this manga just feels wrong, mostly because of the art. The art is pretty. It's basically the artist taking the original designs of an idealized JRPG and then turning the dial up to 11.

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 10d

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ayanami Raising Project

Asuka in a witch outfit and holding an apple

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 11d

Submitted my thesis topic for the MA.
The professor I asked to supervise it accepted my request by just replying "okay." in an email and that was it.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 13d

”Yes, the number of births is declining, the market will respond by creating an environment and media landscape actively hostile to the remaining children.”

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 13d

Reading this felt like getting punched in the gut honestly.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 17d

“Warrior spirit” is for when you can’t get enough thingamajigs out the factory and you have to tell your guys “sorry your country can’t give you the tools you need to succeed, make up for it with chutzpa!”

And in my reading the US was never that kinda country.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 17d

I’m not an American so I know it doesn’t matter but I don’t get the stress the US military places on “Warrior spirit” when I think it’d be better to hear as a soldier that “you serve in the army that developed a pizza MRE”, that is, a force that stresses material superiority.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 17d

Jumped out to the store to buy a lightbulb and I saw this on clearance for 4 bucks and I was like, why the fuck not?

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

Finished another thingamajig in Hungarian. Too bad the Chinese original wasn't exactly high art to begin with. But it's a fine way to get back in the saddle.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

I feel like I'm very close to losing it by including this in the list of sources

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

“To my younger brother, Sándor, as a “parting gift” – but with the hope that he soon visits the “accursed“ house at Szeghalom. 1921.05.20.❤️”

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

If I had a cent for each time someone tried to give me a Lin Yutang novel for free this week, I’d have two cents. Which is not a lot but it strange that it happened twice.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

In a sudden upset they‘ve decided to approve my application for a social stipend.
A “pitiful sum” (as if I had the right to denigrate an alm…) but coupled with the academic stipend it’s enough to “pull my own weight” at home and not bother anyone.
必勝！

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 21d

Interestingly enough the article collection had a newspaper clipping in it from the 70s, containing a review of the book titled "Soviet Article Collection about the Years of Maoist Upheaval" in Magyar Nemzet. (Or at least I assume it's Magyar Nemzet, based on the font.)