#ANYWAYS. LATIN

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[thoodleoo]

list of ablatives with rankings

ablative of separation: classic. simple but elegant. she knows what she's about and we love to see her. 7/10

ablative absolute: queen of the ablatives. expressive. versatile. dare i say sexy? she has the range. 10/10

ablative of source and material: it's fine i guess. kind of a pain in the ass to remember when it wants a preposition

ablative of accompaniment: haha you said cum 8/10

ablative of agent: holding hands with the passive voice. they're girlfriends to me. love wins 9/10

ablative of place where: i miss the locative 3/10

ablative of degree of difference: i'll be honest i just like saying this. but that correlative comparative? chefs kiss 7.5/10

ablative of price: what the fuck is this shit? -1/10

ablative of means: love her. another classic, simple ablative. she encompasses so much and doesn't even need a preposition. 7/10

ablative of manner: wishes she was means. also i keep forgetting about her ngl. 4/10

ablative of respect: greek did it better with the accusative 2/10

#tagamemnon #latin #brought to you by me being kind of insane. anyway #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[futuristicharmonything]

#vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #les memoires de vanitas #so many tags for this piece of madia and this is only with latin keyboard #vnc vanitas #noé archiviste #this scene #mb everybody have redrew it #but anyway #anime art #redraw #vnc

[notacluedo]

all this pyrrhus talk got my thinking about that scene in the Aeneid where Andromache meets ascanius

#Vergil was EVIL for this one #And her giving him symbols of his culture as the last Trojan heir so he remembers his heritage #And then Trojan culture getting forcibly assimilated into the Latin (Roman) one at the end anyways?? Kill me #This woman has been THROUGH IT #andromache #ascanius #iulus #the aeneid #my art #roman myth #greek myth

[sylvies-kablooie]

the fact that loki took latin as an elective and thor took groot says so much about their characters and i think about it frequently.

#no idea what an Asgardian education contains BUT we know thor took groot as an elective #And we see loki speak Latin in s1 so I’m assuming that is how he knows it as well #Unless he just picks up languages for fun which tbh could also be in character #silvertongue and all #but anyway. Thor taking the most niche language to talk with the tree aliens. #and Loki choosing the noble dead language of emperors #there’s poetry in there. i’ll sort it out eventually. #loki #mcu #thor #marvel mcu #marvel cinematic universe #thor odinson #loki laufeyson

[earthtooz]

just found out that one of dr ratio’s idles is an apple falling on his head whilst he is deep in contemplation.

i know this is a jab at isaac newton and now he discovered gravity, but may i just raise:

since dr ratio is greco-roman inspired, an apple being thrown at someone in Ancient Greece is also a proposal or declaration of love. so the apple that fell on his head was actually because of me, not isaac newton, thank you and have a blessed day.

#i learnt this in my Latin class #fun fact i took latin and maybe one lesson of Ancient Greek #i do not remember anything from latin all you need to know is that cicero means chickpea #so there was an iconic roman politician fully named Cicero in the senate #anyways #earfsmercury

[once-in-a-blood-moon]

You know how Solomon's group chat names with the others are written in Latin, (Diavolo's, Mammon's, and his chat with Barb and Asmo)? It got me thinking about if he uses a Latin term of endearment for us.

I feel like he'd use something like mea vita - my life, mea lux - my light, meum solatium - my comfort, mea stella - my star, or deliciae - darling/favorite/pet.

#soft solomon hours cause i'm sick and he's my only source of comfort in these trying times 😔 #anyways i love that he canonically knows latin is it weird that i find it kinda hot? #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #obey me solomon #jo’s thoughts

[ostropest]

#can you believe i got to use my latin knowledge in *real life*? 😂😂 #anyway #warrior nun #avatrice #ava x beatrice #ava silva #sister beatrice #incorect warrior nun #warior nun crack

[zu-art]

-chu chu chu-

#zu art #latin hetalia #brarg #lh: brazil #lh: argentina #sometimes i think. am i portraying these two properly #people who know brarg through me probably think theyre just very tender and wholesome #and i think of them as two assholes who are also very cuddly #they like PDA. Luciano is especially clingy #anyway drawing the torso from this angle almost killed me

[r-truth]

#wweedit #lwo #latin world order #carlito #rey mysterio #cruz del toro #joaquin wilde #zelina vega #wwe #i think cruz hits zelina by accident in the third gif aksdjaskdj poor zelina </3 #anyway short gifs sorry :( i just rlly wanted to gif carlito and rey's hug #IT'S SO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE rey jumps on him like nothing . im jealous #* #*lwo

[maiteo]

the idea that european teams are invincible and set the standard when it comes to football needs to die immediately

#like the ‘shock’ the ‘horror’ whenever a non euro team beats & outplays a euro team…literally only those w a bias are shocked #to look down on teams in africa asia…fuckin latin america!!! as if they don’t make up all the talent in european leagues #as if they don’t play the most entertaining games #we’ve had this narrative shoved in our faces our entire lives im sooooo sick #anyways lemme not get myself riled up…again! #world cup #wc22 #tx #mine

[anglerflsh]

les mis can be a commedy. To me.

#[.art] #the last few chapters have been a riot. And by that I mean the implications are terribly interesting but it is also a bit funny. #anyways this book is a joy to read and doing so by a chapter daily is making it a lot more liveable than it would otherwise be #this way I'm also not restricting my french literature to Dumas and Baudelaire and a Camus and a few others #jean valjean #cosette #javert #and the gardener whose name I cannot spell nor pronounce and who will therefore be called The Gardener #you'd think that being right next to france and all I would pronounce it well but that's how latin languages get you. #les mis #I'm as always so sorry for maintagging it. Curses upon me etc etc being percieved. You know

[askblueandviolet]

Tú, alcalde. ¿Hablas español? Eso sería genial :D

"Yes, I know many languages! Mandarin, cantonese, english, brazilian, french, italian, and of course, spanish!"

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#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk mayor #monkie kid mayor #lmk macaque #monkie kid macaque #blue and violet #I'm so sorry I had to use google translate for this 😭 #I am unfortunately not fluent in spanish #but the Mayor probably is! #I mean they did spend like 500 years looking for the skeleton key and went around the world #they picked up many languages #many more than the Mayor lists here #they probably know a few asian languages too like indian and japanese and maybe vietnamese too #Idk about russian but they might know a bit #over time they have probably learned and forgotten languages #they might have been fluent in latin once but forgot when people stopped using it #the reason Mayor knows Cantonese is because my family is from that general providence of china that speaks it #so yeah its a little self indulgent #actually if any of you realised all of the Chinese food I mention in the blue and violet series and especially in colours- #-is probably from the Guangdong province in China or Hong Kong #dim sum as mentioned in the latest chapter is a thing that came from Guangdong haha #and the egg tarts too in the egg tart chapter #funny huh? #anyways sorry for the rambling I got a little carried away #Macaque is very confused

[notacluedo]

Aeneas get ur ass to Italy

#I hope the Latin is the correct line I did some crazy mental gymnastics cross reference #I do not know latin but I recognise the word blood #But anyways this scene is so horrific thanks virgil #And then the tree is like why did u did u tear off my flesh aeneas #And then the tree is a guy?? #Does Aeneas need more trauma #im meant to be revising for my world of the hero test and I’m here drawing aeneas #It’s revision technically #my art #The aeneid #aeneas #greek mythology #greek myth art #aeneas art #the iliad #Fanart #roman mythology #U can tell I used myself as reference bc of the bad posture

[shytimelady]

So I'm back on my Latin bullshit (I was never off my Latin bullshit) because I got a new textbook for spring semester and I'm going through and brushing up on some stuff, and I'm also back on my Critical Role bullshit so I'm now in the process of being struck by the auditory similarity of the name Orym to the noun ending -ōrum. For reference, -ōrum is the genitive plural inflective for masculine and neuter nouns, which essentially conveys the idea that whatever proceeds it and its noun belongs to multiple other things (the girls' book, the trees' leaves). Anyway, I'm not the most deeply invested in CR lore but the general gist I'm getting from my casual listening and my interaction with some of the community is that Orym's whole thing is self-sacrifice for the sake of others and I think the belonging to multiple other things connotation of the name is great regardless of whether it's intentional. anyway.

#critical role #critrole #campaign 3 #cr campaign three #orym of the air ashari #bells hells #latin #linguistics #anyways

[skitskatdacat63]

"Non paeniteo potitus."

+ details & process

And, process !!

The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️

What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:

I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!

There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!

#TL: 'I don't apologize for winning' 🤭🤭🤭 #^ was gonna find some old latin quote to put but was like. oh yeah of course !!! #noy sure if its entirely correct. kinda wanted to email my hs latin teacher to ask but i finished this too late at night #anyways please dont let this flop SKDKLGLVLV #im really proud of it okah 😭😭😭 it was actually so much fun and enjoyable and nice etc dtc #i questioned to myself earlier abt why my chibi art always gets more notes than my detailed art #and i realized. like unless youve been following the lore of my blog. this isnt even recognizable as f1 fanart SJFKLVLV #but thats okay because its my niche brainrot au and i will do what i want >:) #the hair and the relics are def my proudest part of this #i mentioned before but i have trouble yknow translating irl stuff or complicated stuff into drawing #but all of this came really smoothly to me in a very unexpected way #god his hair is just sooooo its ssoooooooo!!!!!!!!! i wanna pet him 🥹 #but i think it def helped that i kept posting the process on my close friends #and my two irl friends(as well as some friends on here! ty!!) encouraged me a lot abt it so :D #but anyways yep pls take my brainrot art 🙏🙏 it took me 13+ hours in the span of like 3 days basically #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #catie.art. #boy king au