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the tired sleepies have claimed two victims 😔
Did you guys know I wrote three books and I'm working on the fourth and final one? I think they're pretty cool.
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They’d come into an enormous hall, with great arches carved into the stone walls and a ceiling so distant the damp, chilly air almost obscured it. Snowflakes danced in the cold light from soaring windows on the north wall, illuminating the wall opposite, made up of uncountable carvings and scripts, diagrams and reliefs, blocks of unreadable text, glyphs, and scratches.
Ruyak’s hackles were up, and he was fixated on something on the wall behind Kaelin.
She turned and looked up… and up, and up. What she’d thought were two great pillars on either side of the entrance were actually the stone arms of an enormous four-eyed bear, peering down at them with open jaws big enough to fit Ruyak’s head inside. Its face was split by a wavering crack, top to bottom, and long icicles had formed wherever the crack ran across an overhang, giving the impression those huge jaws were dripping with icey slaver.
“Wow,” Kaelin murmured, admiring the ancient stonework. When she turned back to Ruyak, he was still staring at the statue as though at any moment it was going to lunge forward and bite his head off. “It’s not real, Ruyak,” Kaelin chuckled. “It’s made of stone, it can’t hurt you.”
“It’s so big…”
“Ha! Now you know how we feel.”
[closeups under the cut]
Die temu ad die
Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.
It accidentally is latin
Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.
Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
@theshitpostcalligrapher
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
how dare you say we error on the scribes
this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu
i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember
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From Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, trans. Anne Carson
TMatB book IV wordcount today:
66,471 words!
You will never understand the mental torture of being 12 years old and having a debilitating crush on Hugo Weaving Elrond & having to lie to ur friends and say you like Legolas Orlando bloom like all the other girls so you don’t get fucking bullied
Now I’m 35 and I have a live sized cardboard Elrond who lives on my stairwell & I kiss him every time I go upstairs so anyway the moral of the story is never kill yourself
No hate on you because you’re braver than any US marine for that but I think we might have been having wildly different experiences
This sketch may be about 10 years old but it feels like the perfect encapsulation of the degradation of expertise under the premise of “everyone has a right to their opinion”
“Taxpayers don’t pay for life boats, if your opinion is that they do, you don’t have a right to that opinion.”
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i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did
You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette
minors on social media will be like so this is my full medical history, my ethnicity, my micro— nay, nanolabel, every single trigger i have and if you ask nicely you can have my social security number 🌸 IN THEIR BIO
if any minors happen to follow me or see ths post: i know the state of privacy and personal data on the world wide web is fucked but please don't make it easier for people with bad intentions. you're basically providing a list of all the things that make you more vulnerable. even if you think you're too smart to fall for anyone's hidden agenda or scam.
i wasn't stupid at 15, and yet the only reason i didn't end up meeting with a random 50+ y/o stranger who i'd been talking to for months, at a concert in a dodgy area of a city is because my sibling got wind of it and decided to buy a concert ticket too. as soon as he heard about this change, he ghosted me. the reason i trusted this man? he'd told me he was gay and autistic, we had been chatting about a shared interest and i had an okay track record of being a good judge of character. it wasn't enough.
THIS! @leonkennedysprostate
scanned. :)
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hey writers this is something I've struggled with too but whenever you're inclined to write a sentence in past perfect tense (eg -he had thought- or -she hadn't been- or -they had never-), I want you to be bold and ask yourself these questions:
Is it absolutely essential for the reader to have this explicit information right now spelled out for them in the story? (If no, cut it. Kill your darlings. If yes, continue)
Can I convey this information through some other means? such as a scene of dialogue, behavior, or a flashback? (If yes do that. If no continue.)
Are the events or facts in question actually before the before, needing to be specifically in the double-past? Or can they just be in the same tense like the rest of the stuff? (If no just write it like you would write the rest of the narration. If yes, well...)
If you simply must use past perfect, keep it crispy and brief and for heaven's sake don't write a whole scene in it, please for the love of god
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what if I don't want to experience the phenomenon
firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.
hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t
