Monk Toucher

like, never trust the word "servant" in a translation of an ancient text--that servant is inevitably a slave. if anyone says "God" singular, with a capital g, they are lying to you.* if they spend too long on particular features of a woman's body, proceed with caution.** if something sexual is being communicated via euphemism, consider that it may have been much cruder and/or more explicit in the original, especially if you're reading comedy or elegy. etc. etc. etc. learning to recognize common ways in which translation is affected by the morals and standards of a given time period is really useful.

*with the caveat that plato does sometimes reference "the god," and to be fair, plato does have the vibe of a guy who really really wanted to be monotheist and also serves as a blueprint for a ton of christian thought so i do concede that "God" may be a valid translation choice there.

They're often in addition to bigger things, but just bruises on their own are amazing too. The painful way they were inflicted, the evidence of what happened.

Just a Whumpee with a black eye is great.

Bruises around their wrists. Hidden on their ribs. Tighs, side, stomach.

Bruises on their throat, clearly showing what happened.

Also great for whumperless whump! From a fall, an accident, a crash, etc.

Like. I think often about how everything James does ends in disaster and everything he sets out to do, he fails, usually due to hubris. Putting LW in a vault, finding the GECK, getting trapped by Strauss, killing himself with radiation to kill a man who is totally fine, etc.

You would think that his only child surviving the mess he made would be a win right. Like, if One thing James wanted worked out, that one thing being the LW having a life past 19 would be a good one.