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Nothing more irritating than narrow-minded people who wish to pretend they are knowledgeable intellectuals.
#this is about my father fyi#if he ever read something that doesn't come from people who share his biases he would die instantly i fear#like he wants so badly to be perceived as knowledgeable but he is so blatantly ignorant (and willfully so!) about other stuff...#who are you performing for. not your sons not your wife. bc we all are more naturally curious and culture oriented than you?#i feel i should remind him more often that one time he couldn't wrap his mind around the cyrillic alphabet descending from...#...the greek one and not the latin#yeah. that's his goddamn level. i don't know what to call it. latin-centric???#also god forbid he adopt something other than black and white thinking and admit spain did commit atrocities in the colonial era!#part of me thinks it's just his raging inferiority complex that is aggravated by the belated realisation that his...#...wife&kids are more culturally knowlegeadble than he is#like he feels like he should be as [pater familias] the most knowing. and he just. Isn't.#he needs to feel like he is teaching us something and he just can't#that's his tragedy. but he could at least be a little dignified about it.#anywayssss here ends my personal rant lol#me.txt
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Ok I understand why sparkling ocs are so popular designing one is addicting
Alt forms/ adult designs under the cut
So when he's littler he can be a Nissan atla, they're pretty cute, but reaching adulthood he'd be a Nissan big thumb, and getting a mod to have a trailer too.
Optimus only has a flat bed so Im doing the old reliable transformer design of putting stuff u don't know how to fit into the back. If he diddnt have a trailer, the bed sides could just be a part of his legs but he modded to have wings so he can get used to the weight distribution easier.
Big thumbs are 12 feet tall, G1 Optimus is a Freightliner making him also 12 feet, and G1 Ratchet is a Nissan cherry vanette, which are almost 6 feet (5"10 to be exact)
I thought that the big thumb would be a bit smaller then Optimus but damn, Ratchet is gonna have to deal with 2 giant trucks.
#sorry nothing silly today boys i have a project due for my robotics class funnily enough#me drawing ratchet constantly challenge: IMPOSSIBLE#its the horns I love them but my god am i not good at drawing them#i was thinking about when starscream gets revealed in accidental war criminal acquisition Ratchet goes to Optimus and is like “hey#want a way to guarentee a sparkling isnt a decepticon stuck as one? Get me pregnant.“#I can name the kid something latin and from the Greek mythos or i can name him wretch#uhh Cygnus Aux??#I just googled latin word for healing and chose a constellation close to orion#the third drawing is really rough#i wanted to keep oc stuff in one post haha#im not really an oc creating guy#transformers#ratchet#optimus prime#optiratch#optimus x ratchet#tf fanart#transformer oc#tf sparkling#implied mechpreg#transformers g1
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I stg if I see one more "Justice for medusa's TRUE story!" post I'm gonna kill someone.
(TW: Assault mention)
The medusa is assaulted by posidon then cursed by athena for being assaulted in her temple only appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is written as a purposeful subversion of Greco-roman myths. most are reframed or rewritten from just kinda a thing that exists or a black and white moral tale of why you shouldn't be hubristic to full on tragedies on the part of the person often getting their comeuppance or the monster. Heck in book 13 we get a love story starring Polyphemus, the cyclops from the Odyssey.
In general mythology, Medusa is just another monster. Ovid revises the myth to turn it into a tragedy. I absolutely love ovid's work, he does so many clever things with the myths, but for the love of the gods its the furthest from the real version you can get
#And yeah obviously its greek mythology so theres no set canon and you can kind of pick and choose tellings#but Ovid's one isn't a tradition of belief its just literature#its damn good literature but in terms of religion its like claiming good omens is part of the christian canon#classics#ancient history#tagamemnon#ancient rome#greek mythology#medusa#ovid#latin literature#ancient greece#mythology
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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
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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
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vash the stampede sitting on the ground like a loser compilation
#if theres one thing i know how to draw its vash being pathetic#there are more of these im sure of it#but idk where they are#these are all school sketches by the way#if you cant tell already by the fact that theyre drawn in notebooks and have latin around them#latin and ancient greek#trigun#vash the stampede fanart#vash the stampede#trigun fanart#tri98#trigun 1998#eriks trigun#my art
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Etymology of Dinosaur names
Tyrannosaurus rex: Directly translates to 'king tyrant lizard'. Tyrannosaurus came from the Ancient Greek túrannos, meaning tyrant, and saûros, meaning lizard. Rex was borrowed from the Latin rex, meaning king.
Velociraptor: Directly translates to 'swift thief', from the Latin vēlōx, meaning swift, and raptor, meaning thief.
Stegosaurus: Directly translates to 'roof lizard', from the Ancient Greek stégos, meaning roof, and saûros.
Triceratops: Directly translates to 'three-horned face', came from New Latin, from the Ancient Greek treîs, meaning three, kéras, meaning horn and ṓps, meaning face.
Allosaurus: Directly translates to 'different lizard', from the Ancient Greek állos, meaning different or other, and saûros. This is because at the time of its discovery, the allosaurus was the only known dinosaur with concave vertebrae.
Spinosaurus: Directly translates to 'spine lizard', from the Latin spīna, meaning spine or thorn, and the Ancient Greek saûros.
Brachiosaurus: Directly translates to 'arm lizard', from brachio, meaning relating to the arm, from the Latin bracchium, meaning arm or limb. This is because its forelegs are unusually longer than its hindlegs.
Ankylosaurus: Directly translates to 'fused/bent lizard', from the Ancient Greek ankúlos, meaning crooked or bent, and saûros. This may be in reference to ankylosis, a condition in which bones fuse together, since the dinosaur has some rear ribs fused to its vertebrae.
Iguanodon: Directly translates to 'iguana tooth', from the Spanish iguana (iguana) and the Ancient Greek odṓn, meaning tooth. This is because of the resemblance of its teeth to those of an iguana.
And my personal favourite (it's just so cute!), Micropachycephalosaurus: Directly translates to 'small thick-headed lizard', from the Ancient Greek mikrós (small), pakhús (thick), kephalḗ (head) and saûros. It was originally described as a pachycephalosaur, hence the name, however it has since been re-identified as a member of the Ceratopsia, as it lacks the thick skull roof of the the pachycephalosaurs.
Feel free to suggest your favourite dinosaur and I'll research the etymology of it :)
#dinosaurs#linguistics#etymology#latin#ancient greek#dinosaurs were my special interest as a kid#and i just know that it could become one again if i let it
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Got to thinking today, about some cartoons I watched when I was a kid, called the Saints and Heroes collection( great stuff), and how it's all, y'know, saints! St. Bernadette! St. Francis Xavier! St. Nicholas! The Fatima story! Yeay! They're great 30 min. episodes for kids to learn a bit about catholicism's greatest saints! And in the heroes sections, they got Columbus: which is fine, they mainly focus on navigation and how he worked hard to achieve that level of education, lots of catholic stuff floating around in that one. They got Ben-Hur; classic jewish/early christian story, though not real, per se. Really good stuff. Great for christian kids.
Then we got the bloody ODYSSEY?!?!? Like, Greek pagan Odysseus running around the seas, killing monsters and suitors and tricking his way across the Mediterranean, all narrated by a Grandpa Owl?!? telling the story to his grandson owlet?!?! Very princess bride style... super weird in this context. None of the other films are narrated by animals. I'm not saying that kids shouldn't know the story of Odysseus, I'm just saying you can get serious whiplash watching chill saint movies for kids and then coming across The Odyssey, with no catholic connections, ( at least that's easily grasped by a child), getting thrown in the middle of the list and once you're done, brother you feel like you been in a fever dream. It's so bizarrely disconcertingly different in style to the rest of the films, too.
But at least they keep the fact that Odysseus 'slept around'( for lack of a better term), during those years at sea completely absent from the story. So it does have that in it's favour.
Still lots of fun to watch!
#ccc cartoons#catholic cartoons#christian cartoons#saint stories#the odyssey#odysseus#yes I use the greek version of his name not the latin one that they had in the cartoon I like it better#ben hur#wacky cartoons
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How do you feel about Marcille Dunmeshi probably being Fantasy Italian
It's great she is so milanese coded to me. Va' che workflow questo dungeon etc etc. The one character I can think of that would survive italian school canonically. 10/10
#anonymous#[.asks]#shes one of Those liceo classico students unfortunately... but i can forgive her for that#i think she'd help other students who are struggling with ancient greek or latin classes#ALSO. look up stereotypes for people who live in Milan. you need to know why i say she is Milanese fr
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i think if more people understood that latin is very much more than a language, and it’s practically a lifestyle, they would be so much more inclined to learn it. in this essay i will-
#genuinely want to make this a real essay/article if or when i get a journalism job one day#latin#greek#greek tumblr#classics#junior classical league#actually don’t really know if lifestyle is the right word#but ykwim#i’m also very tired#and just yappin#so yah#philosophy#ancient rome
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Letter from Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria to her niece, Countess Théodolinde of Württenberg (née Princess of Leuchtenberg):
Munich, 20 April, 1846
... I would not have thought of taking on a sub-governess, as I have an excellent nanny for the younger girls, with whom my Charles [Karl Theodor] is still with; but Hélène's character makes me wish to separate her from her sister Elise [Elisabeth]; without being mean, she has nevertheless influenced her sister, who is much gentler and of a very conscientious nature, but the elder one undermines her, and I am convinced that it is necessary to separate them as much as possible. My intention is: that the governess should manage the education, but so that she can take care of each one separately, I would like to take Mlle Richelle for fear of detouring from one to the other during this time. Also to take charge of French entirely, and to convey the lessons of M Zesage [?]. These are my intentions, but I can't make up my mind until I've heard back from the lady to whom I'd like to entrust my daughters. In the meantime I forgot to mention the reason for all these changes, which is that Miss Nembald is marrying Count Spreti, and will be leaving my daughters in the course of the summer! Thank God I always have good news from Louis [Ludwig Wilhelm], who is in such good hands! It's a great reassurance, and the 5 [children] I have left give me, as you can see, no shortage of work. For my Charles, I have the good fortune to have an excellent nanny capable of teaching him German, French, arithmetic etc. like a man, and who imposes more on him than a governor ever did on his brother, because he loves her very much - but it is not a small thing to rule this world! because other than that I have 2 teachers attached to our house who follow us on the campaign, one teacher of religion and the other, universal, for everything, because he teaches everything we can ask including Greek and Latin, for the boys and music. I kept him when Louis left, as he had only been with us for a few years. If he had had him earlier, he would have taken his education in a different direction, which would undoubtedly have been more successful...
#how did elisabeth became the wild child and helene the quite one in pop history howwww#anyway interesting letter because it shows ludovika was the one in charge of her kid's education#and it also shows it was a pretty conventional education for the time. note how greek and latin was only ''for the boys''#and also how the nanny can teach ''like a man'' because she *check's notes* knows maths#btw the letter was in french! this doesn't seem to have been usual for ludovika since all the other letters are written in german#with the exception of this and two others for theodoline. you can take a beauharnais out of france but not france out of a beauharnais#ludovika of bavaria duchess in bavaria#theodolinde of leuchtenberg countess of württenberg#empress elisabeth of austria#karl theodor duke in bavaria#helene in bavaria hereditary princess of thurn und taxis#duke ludwig wilhelm in bavaria#house of wittelsbach
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[Image 1 ID: A seven striped flag, its colors going as follows, ashen black, deep dark indigo, deep dark purple, purple, dark red, deep dark red, ashen black. There is a shadow around most of the flag, turning the stripes more a darker hue, except for a spotlight in the center, which contains an altered ashen black allion symbol. The the circle typically in the center of the symbol has changed to a Fibonacci spiral, and there are various lines throughout the six petals.]
[Image 2 ID: The same flag but without the shadow.]
[Image 3 ID: The same flag but without the shadow nor the symbol.]
Ephamousallion:
An allion term related to House of Leaves' use of love as consumption.
@radiomogai
#Ephamousallion#mogai#mogai coining#mogai orientation#allion#beyorientation#liom#liom coining#liom orientation#aelius coining#i am starting to get the feeling my interpretation of house of leaves is not the traditional one#etymology is éphagon + amor + domus. btw. had to break out the butchered latin (and greek) for this one sorry
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To follow up the full art, how about a full name?
#[for fun]#[identified]#ancient greek? ancient greek card?#i knew the hebrew one but just cuz one of my only mtg buddies is jewish#there's also latin arabic and sanskrit one-off promos from 2001#is there a reason for that?
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Worst part of having ocs you made when you were 12 that you still use: changing their names is like pulling teeth.
Wanting to experiment with name meanings or what culture they're from feels impossible when you already have certain sounds associated with them...
#mascon and caldera were named that bc i loved the names as names for siblings since taking an astronomy class in middle school#ameba used to be an ameba boy so I tried to make ame stick.. and I think i just liked the name tsuki in middle school...#this all sucks because the four have increasingly become more and more Chinese over the years..#((at least with mascon and caldera they are second generation immigrants. they both have moon inspired names so they might be easier))#((ame and tsuki tho?? they're plant humanoid experiments. they'd have to be named something for a /reason/ by their creators))#might just bite the bullet one day and pay someone to help me name them#((maybe because i care a lot about name sounds and meanings.. it is a lot easier for me when i only have to look at latin or greek rootword#me being able to write 5 essays on Vera's name meaning meanwhile the name 'deci' gets cricket noises
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Long shot, but if anyone here knows Latin and would be willing to check over my google translated phrases for the fic I would be forever grateful!
Pulmones exinanire, nec alium spiritum ducere. Empty your lungs, and do not breathe. Obdormisco per fornicaria. I fall asleep during sex
Obedientia fortitudo. Obedience is strength. I don't think the second one is quite right, but I'm more concerned about it sounding like the last, because it's for a joke about a poorly translated Netherese tattoo.
#towards tyranny#fanfic#latin#latin translation#netherese#bg3 fanfic#all netherese is latin in the fic because the spell voice lines are in latin and I think it's a nice touch#when we get into loross idk if I'll make that also latin or maybe use ancient greek?#either way it will continue to be google translate#because a talent for languages is one aspect of Tav's character that is most def not self-insert-y
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Good morning I was going to make a post about how Granblue robbed us of yet ANOTHER big sword dragon man that could have had lizard eyes but doesn't (SOL BADGUY GUILTY GEAR STRIVE), but then I kept scrolling
They at least glow :) I'll take it
#textpost#Sol's eyes glow SOMETIMES in Strive. If you Heavy Mob and catch it in the right lighting on the right frame you can see his pupils#light up first before his eyes go entirely solid yellow. It's really cool actually#I learned about the perpetuity ring today after seeing the ring icon on my one friends' Azusa and googling it#You can marry them....#SOMEHOW I do have exactly ONE perpetuity ring#I don't have Siegfried though lol I also STILL don't know his lore the entire way lmao#But I know Siegfried Nibelungenlied's lore and I can't imagine it being toooooo different from that#The other knights' lore seems to more or less align with their source material#Going to be so soooo so upset when I get to Gawain and it's not Sir Gawain & The Green Knight Gawain#(it won't be. it's never that gawain because honestly why tf would it be rofl there are so many other gawain stories)#It should be the Gawain from that Latin language story that has the functional recipe for Greek fire in it /s#(De Ortu Waluuanii Nepotis Arturi)#*opening granblue fantasy and pushing everyone else out of the way* Show Me The Knights
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