#Are all latin teachers “just like that”?
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I've just found out that my favorite professor used to be a random student that they asked to teach in the university because he was good like that. He's been here for a couple of decades.
They even had to beg him to get a master's degree because he had no intentions to do so, and you legally can't have someone with just a bachelor's teaching university level in my country.
Honestly? Life goals.
#latin language#linguistics#university#life goals#professor#college#college stories#college student#Now I can only imagine the director going all “Can you pretty please go get your master's? We can't find anyone better. Name your price#Are all latin teachers “just like that”?#When will I receive this power?
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"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
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Crazy it took nearly 500 pages for Richard to realise the others don't give a fuck about university (or like anything else really) because they are rich kids 🤦
#the secret history#he just wanted to be part of the shitty elitist group at any cost#white boys are crazy#i knew to avoid these kind of people very early because they are full of shit (minus the murders hopefully)#i've spend the entire book being both disgusted and fascinated#because it's a great book with great writing#so congrats on the author for making me care about rich kids even though i knew since they first appeared they were shitty#and this includes Julian#like i've been insane when he praised him#these kind of teachers living in their own world is one of the things i hated the most about university#i still remember to this day the latin teacher who told us to go to Rome during our vacations#to me and several students who were eating one fucking meal a day#it really brought back all the memories of the rift between scholarship students trying to live and the rich kids#misc
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crying because why the fuck did i pick a three year course of latin i can barely string a sentence together in english and it's literally my first and basically only language
#('basically only' bc i did french for most of my life and spoke it with my grandma and great grandma as best as i could)#(and then quit it to do latin)#it's a three year course right#and i could choose to quit after the first year when i had four shitty teachers#(one never turned up. one was just a sub and knew nothing about the language. one was a math teacher who did it in school.#the last and best was an english teacher who did it in school and uni.)#anyways i was like “oh surely it wont be so bad with a good teacher and i can catch up”#so i didnt quit#and now i have to do latin for another year once this one is over#im crying i actually hate this#i dont hate latin but like#i really struggle with learning languages#and everyone in my course (12 ppl incl me) are super crazy smart#so no one asks non-intellectual questions#and at this point my façade of intelligence has been there too long and i cant ask for help more than i normally cant#i also have no friends or even people willing to say more than two words to me so uhhh#yeah not fun. at all.#except the war and blood and murder#that's fun
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That one poll reminded me of how one time in high school one Ms. Pease saw me quietly listening to my ipod in the hallway waiting for my next class and she just ripped it out of my hands. And I was staring in pure dumb shock for like 30 seconds and she was like "are you coming or not." She then proceeded to explain, once we walked the whole fucking school to her shitty little office she shared with 15 other people, that ipods aren't allowed in hallways. Which was news to me on account of everyone had them or cd players. She was known for being horrible for no reason but damn. I wish it was her who got arrested for cocaine
#it was a Spanish teacher. and not even the one I had whom everyone immediately suspected#let this be your sign that if you hate high school kids don't be a teacher#that was my one and only interaction with her miserable ass and I literally hope she died horribly years and years ago#a history teacher who caught me smoking once was sympathetic about my stolen ipod and helped me get it back and she was a literal angel#more of her and less of Pease in the world#people used to joke about the language department's food based names. Like Mr. Crabb and Ms Pease and Mr. Kofi#Mr. Kofi was a native French speaker from Cote D'ivoire. he was my French teacher and he was awesome. And they pronounced his name wrong#I was lucky I got him. We also had a teacher who taught French and Latin and spoke both with the strongest British accent ever#not to disrespect her or anything. She let us watch Gladiator in class. And I told her after like 3 weeks of class I finished the book#and she said ok here's the next one. if you get through that you can move up a whole year and go from Latin 1 to Latin 3/4#after winter break. and I did do just that and I got the best grades in Latin 3/4 too#at Latin day I was a junior so I didn't get picked for the kartamen team (sp?)#and they lost first round#meanwhile I took multiple choice exams all day. My favorite. and I got 1st 2nd or 3rd place for every single one#so I literally won 10 awards all my myself at Latin Day. Just by taking multiple choice tests. they must have felt so stupid#I received those awards onstage at school the same day I got like 3 or 4 medals for the National Latin exam and the state exam#and the mythology exam#so I went home with like 15 awards that day so fuck you everyone who didn't want a junior on the kartamen team. I destroyed your sorry asse
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whenever i hear a song that i would like if it weren’t for the fact that it was too long, i think about this:
like you can afford to write tangentially if you/your music is already popular and you know that people are going to listen to you no matter what and in fact laud your longer pieces as being genius etc but can you really be releasing 5+ minute long songs without a built-in audience?
#idk. thinking about this because of the new lana album and i think i’d like a lot of these songs better if they were shorter lol#some of these songs drag so much especially when she includes these long sections of like one repeated line over and over again#or like when taylor swift releases the extended version of all too well and everyone freaked out#that’s all good and well but she HAD to release the shorter version first#and she knows she has this huge fanbase that will eat that shit up no matter what she does really#part of it is nostalgia admittedly but i also think the shorter version is just a better song#that song is on the longer side to begin with but 10 minutes???? why#(i did listen to both songs back to back to make sure my opinion was still the same as when the 10 minute version was released & it is lol)#idk! obviously i’m bad at this myself because i write so fucking much to express a simple point but it is more skillful to be able#to say things as effectively and precisely in a more concise way#not saying this ONLY applies to mitski because she’s the one this article is about but she is a good example of it#like being able to express a feeling in just a couple lines that would probably take a less skilled writer like a novel to express#it also reminds me of how my high school latin teacher described how in college he took a class about museum design or something like that#and their first assignment was to write a description of an artifact to tell museum visitors what it was#and every time he submitted a draft the professor would tell him to make it shorter while still communicating the necessary information#until he literally could not make it any shorter than it already was#because you have to assume that people are not gonna read all that! because they won’t unless they have some kind of external motivation to#idk there IS something to be said for including ‘unnecessary’ parts of writing etc obviously there’s nuance#but a lot of the time i think if there isn’t a reason to include something then why include it!
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Me currently rereading all of touch starved so I can mentally prepare for the horrors—
As you should
#I’ll probably finish writing it this week#if not for school it’d be done today#I’m honestly thinking abt trying to stay home just to finish this since all my classes rn r kinda useless#like Ik everything in lit#bio rant gonna be useful in the real world and the teacher kinda sucks#I finished everything in engineering (a class that I didn’t wanna take in the first place… my schedule got messed up)#and Latin kinda suck rn cuz if the ppl in it#but Ik I can’t convince my mom to let me stay home just to write so yknow#fuck school#rick and morty#morty smith#evil morty#rick sanchez#idk what else to tag
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in preschool i stopped playing with other kids because the adults kept saying shit and i thought it just wasnt worth it. and im realizing i mightve kept those beliefs until now.
#no amount of socializing is worth some 3 decades overgrown fuck child being a bitch to me about. sorry.#also really wild seeing all this blame the kids its ok that teachers arent doing their job shit.#i will not say my controversial views on teachers + the education system here. but god. ugh. i hate. grown ups. so much. i think they shoul#all. i think lost should happen in real life.#but also man. other people. who needs them. theyre just like us.#^my mom thinks my only friend should be the rab#fuck punjabi really does not translate into latin letters. but i cant read or write punjabi oTL. yknow#god. god should be my only friend. she genuinely thinks this. like when she thought i was fr possessed cuz i didnt want to go to the gudwar#(i was actually. surprise surprise. pretty tired and self isolating (no friends. havent made any since) and her. well. what she did didnt#help. at all.)#i understand that religious people can be. nice. apparently. according to religious people. however in my experience they want me dead.
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maximum mischief: tricking your friend into having 5 chocolate milks instead of 3
#melonposting#just some more latin class shenanigans...#so this friend (m) always asks us who wants chocolate milk before class starts and then he goes to the lunch room and gets it#and he always gets 3 for himself#but today my other friend (a) came to class before m. and so he decided to be the chocolate milk man of sorts#and so by the time m comes to class a has already placed the milk:#one for me - two for a - and one for m#and a tends to only drink one milk so after jokingly giving himself one more puts his extra one on m's desk#but m is like no you can have it. i'll just get another#so m leaves class to get the milk#and so m has 2 cartons of chocolate milk on his desk when he leaves right (cuz a put his extra one with m's)?#well we all hide the milks among his belongings (one in his lunchbox and one in his backpack's side pocket)#and so m comes back with another carton and sees his milk gone; a says he took it#so then m leaves again to get 2 more cartons - at which point we put the one he just got behind his lunchbox (which is on his desk)#and so m finally comes back again with his milk cartons and is so confused - because at this point we're barely holding back laughter#(not helped by the fact that our latin teacher is also telling us a personal college story about nesquik mischief)#and so m puts his two cartons of milk on the desk. sees the one behind the lunchbox#he's already incredulous#a admits to hiding one in his backpack side pocket#m retrieves that milk carton. 4 chocolate milks on this guy's desk#then he opens his lunchbox. takes out everything very solemnly. including another gosh darn milk carton#and we all burst into laughter#this guy with 5 cartons of chocolate milk on his desk#as we were leaving the classroom a and i came to the conclusion that we could probably hide 15 chocolate milks on m's person
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Like another day of doing fuck all and not going on my phone might fix me. But I gotta study at least a little. Killing n violence
#considering jusr like. only studying 200 or so lines of the aeneid instead of rhe full 350#bcos theres only youtube vids on the first 200 lolllll and i might bank on the first 200#and then also study the history n art n architecture n scansion n vocab#likr i genuinely dont know how to study it wituout the youtube vids. lol#i have the latin text n the English text n some tl notes but it just goes over my head unless its in the youtube formst#n i could ask my teacher to go over it in youtube format but i dont know how well thatd go over#bcos ibe. been meant to be studying it proper all this time and its like. a week and a half to the exam#like i dont think shell be mad but she mihjt be disappointed and thats worse#i might downplay it in my message to her n hope she helps#bcos i usually dont ask for help i just flunk and go lol#but something something friendshop is magic
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random thing i noticed in my spanish class:
my spanish class is full of people who like. dont care about spanish in general and just took it because they knew a little already or their parents wanted them to. or they hate the teacher. or they just dont like the way we're learning it.
and like. you'd expect people to be playing games. but theyre just DOING OTHER LANGUAGES ON DUOLINGO!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GIRL NEXT TO ME IS DOING FRENCH!!!!!!!!!! SOME GUY IN THE FRONT IS DOING JAPANESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE OF MY FRIENDS IS DOING YIDDISH AND HEBREW AND ANOTHER IS DOING RUSSIAN!!!!!!!!! I'M DOING GERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just think thats pretty interesting. not sure what its saying but its probably saying something
#fun fact about my school#my dad went here and according to him the school actually used to have 4 languages instead of the usual 3#so pretty much all schools in this area at least have spanish french and latin#(everyone does spanish)#but apparently they used to teach german#and the teacher just. died#and they never replaced him#so they dont teach german anymore#i feel like the few days of german duolingo ive done + what i got from my dad is more than all the spanish ive learned in the past 3 years
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AH VERY IMPORTANT EXTERNALS DID BETTER THAN I EXPECTED YIPPEPEPPE
#strrambles#idont know why i was aiming for that high#bc now it feels like im wasting my marks#99.6 HOORAY i actually won for chem so badly#98 external mark!!!!!!!!!!! lets go!!#i kind of failed latin tho :( ext didnt count#and also my maths????? e2 maths actually flopped my teachers gonna cry#HHAHA YAYYYYY#even though my dream course needed 98#i feel like a god but then i remember those first in states#im so mad at the dude who first in coursed all 4 latib and green suvjects THAT SHOUKDVD BEEN ME THAT SHOULDVE BEEN ME!!!!!! bbbbbbb#hohohhrohohoehrohhhoeh gonna self learn greek next year hooray#ok thats all im gonna crlebrate today!#obviously im not yaknow as perfect as i used to be but j worked just as hard with the biological (dis)advantages i had in this life#honestly im proud of myself!
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i had an ability to make teachers want to hit me with hammers just by existing
#ok an example: i had a teacher who had a problem with my (lack of) organization#so he would throw all my stuff in the hall and make me pick it up on my hands and knees#and another teacher brought me to the corner of the room and loudly asked me 'what's wrong with you' in front of the entire class#just because i wasn't doing my homework#oh and i had a like blood feud with my latin teacher but i did antagonize him somewhat so that was understandable#also once in (catholic) elementary school i got publicly shamed/detention for having 9 books in my backpack#bc i liked reading during class#its kinda sad that this is just like 1% of the stories i have
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first chapter of my rewrite is done only *squints* at least 40 more to go
#❄.txt#definitely more than 40#but i have no idea how much more#i finally decided that the pov will go aph -> dante -> vylad and then repeat#i need to remember to include aaron's existence as aph's tumblr friend lmao#i also. got rid of basically all the teachers. and replaced them with ppl based off of ocs/friends#bc. why were 90% of the teachers male except for the english(?) teacher#a little bit goofy and wacky if you ask me!#anyways guys gene canonically forced dante to take latin just like i did to all my friends ❤ /j
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There's an entire category of languages teachers whose genuine reaction to someone struggling to learn a new language is to be like 'well, have you tried to be fluent in the language? It really helps 😊' and that's so profundly useless that I don't even know to react to that tbh
#i spent my middle school years miserable as fuck and not learning any english while my english teacher was like#'well...have you tried becoming better or something?' and now i'm stuck with the same kind of bs in latin#like bro i can't do it 'instinctively' I don't even have an instinct related to latin at this point#thanks god he's not actually the one teaching us them material he's essentially just there to help us review the material and practice#but honestly he stresses me out more than he helps#he also have a tendency to hit his desk for emphasis and even if i know damn well he's not actually being agressive#it still makes my brain automatically shift in fighting mode like agressive man!!! There's an aggressive man here!!! Maximum threat level!!#so it really just sucks all around lol
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#finals start today and i'm already feeling sick af#like... today i have a latin exam that i'm supposed to do good at but this time i can't use my beloved wiktionary :(#and it isn't even cheatin bro we all should be allowed to use it we still have to translate which is the bigger pain in the ass#but el padresito will find out i'm actually an impostor so...#anyway#then the literatura colonial exam on wednesday and i just don't want to study for it because i hate that class it's boring af#i just hope arlette can sell me her study guide or else i'm going to fail rip lmao yikes#then i have to write an essay on don quijote and part of me wants to write something nice & impressive but i'm just so tired#reading don quijote was just so meh i didn't even finish the book he he he#and finding out we also have a literatura barroca exam was the worst thing ever i have zero notes wtf#so i just hope leo can also sell me his study guide pls god#then having to do a presentation for mr stupid ass idiot bitch i want to puke just thinking about him and his class ugh#like that one doesn't make me as anxious but i just hate the idea of having to do that project it's so stupid#he taught us nothing who does he think he is he shouldn't even be a teacher just give me a 10 and call it a day#then the sintaxis exam will kill me and my people the devil will end us all rip#like i still have my hopes up in case i don't have to do it but i'm 50/50 just tell me already if i have to worry about it or not pls#and finally the nene's essay which is the only thing i don't fully hate because that's easy and fun#and i wish we all could go back to the museum because that was a very fun activity regardless of everything#anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy#i'm just ranting because i woke up too early and i don't have to leave yet he he he#talking to the wall
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