#I Like That

[borzoilover69]

I like when people draw him with just the glasses and no visible pupils. Like the facade is so strong you cant see into the windows of his soul aka the most sincere parts of him. Constant smile except when he feels just a LITTTLE silly.

[aroaceloverofgarlicbread]

i think you deserve to get some notes spammed.

anyone reading this should spam her with notes :3

What-

No. No one should spam me with notes. Nope.

What did I do to deserve this??????

Except spamming @kianf1sh with notes but that doesn't count.

[happyheidi]

[rollersfataft]

I m is my wh irkfriend come back to me ambassador of lo ve

[growmydarling]

god you've gotten fat...

i like that.

[marithlizard]

(original tweet)

[theromaboo]

The Third Day of Julius Caesar

What was Julius Caesar's *real name*?

People often think that Caesar's name is just Julius Caesar, nothing more nothing less. His first name is Julius and his last name is Caesar. And that makes sense in a culture in which Julius is a valid first name.

But was Julius a valid first name in the time of Julius Caesar?

Usually not!

Generally, Roman men at the time of Julius Caesar had to have at least two names, a praenomen and a nomen. A praenomen is like your first name, your given name. A nomen is like your family name, it showed which gens (your extended family) you belonged to, and it usually ended with an -ius (like Claudius, Valerius, Vipsanius, Vergilius, Flavius and... Julius!)

There was a third type of name, called a cognomen. It was like a legal nickname, or it could also be a name that showed which branch of your gens you belonged to. Not all Roman men had one (such as Marc Antony!), but many did, including Caesar.

Generally, the order was like so: praenomen, nomen, and cognomen (fun fact: Maximus Decimus Meridius probably should've been Decimus Meridius Maximus. But who can trust Gladiator to be accurate?).

So we know Caesar's nomen, Julius. And we know his cognomen, Caesar. Wait, what about his praenomen? He needs one!

Julius Caesar actually had three names; we just don't usually call him by his first name. His full name is Gaius Julius Caesar. His father's name was also Gaius Julius Caesar, and his father's, and his father's! (but Julius Caesar's great great grandfather's name was actually Sextus Julius Caesar)

So yeah, Julius was not Caesar's first name.

I've met a few people who say "Actually, no. Julius Caesar's *real name* was Caius Julius Caesar with a C instead of a G!"

Nope!

The reason we sometimes see Caius for Gaius (and why Gaius was abbreviated as C.) wasn't because Gaius was actually Caius or the ancient Romans pronounced Gaius like Caius. It's because in earlier Roman history, those poor guys didn't have the letter G! They had C, K, and Q (which all made the exact same sound) but they didn't have G. They had to spell Gaius with a C and they had to abbreviate Gaius with a C because they had no G.

This was because the Latin alphabet came from the Etruscan alphabet, and Estruscan didn't have a distinction between the C and G sounds and therefore they didn't need two separate letters. Latin, meanwhile, did have a distinction and did desperately need two letters.

Anyway, Romans later got the letter G and then they could write all your favorite G words, like Gay and Gaius. They still commonly abbreviated Gaius as C. because old habits die hard.

If you say that we should write Gaius as Caius because that's the original way to spell it, you might as well say we should write Gaius as CAIVS. Don't cherry pick your archaisms!

[yesjejunus]

the cow eyed siblings

[spirit-of-a-kiger]

I love how right after being censored and told that that was gonna happen every time she tries to swear, Pomni's first instinct is to just... test the system out of curiosity. XD

[another-goblin]

After playing some more Unknowable Domain (and actually even reading some of it), I'm even more convinced that the dichotomy between Knowable (predictable, calculateable, giving an illusion of free will) and Unknowable (allowing for true free will, i.e., "choose your own path") Universe might have factored into why Ratio wasn't invited into the GS.

On the other hand, I kind of got the impression that, roughly speaking, the intelligence range in the game's world is not a spectrum but rather it's two discreet categories. You are either a genius or you aren't; there can't be in-between, and no matter how much you try, you will never be able to be on the same level as a genius unless you've been born special. So it's not "Ratio isn't smart enough" or "his discoveries weren't revolutionary enough," it's "he never got a chance." Which I'm not the biggest fan of, but I hope they'll elaborate on this.

That's where Ratio's "fools" as opposed to geniuses come from, with him including himself among the "fools".

Also, it seems that when the Council of Mundanites first appeaped, it was seen as a group of young rebels and contrarians, a new blood. I wonder what their role is in modern-day Guild.

Speaking of the difference between a normal scholar and a genius, research teams fought over 1/10000th of a scepter's computational power being allocated for their research as something that could make or break their work. Patavia managed to get access to thousands of scepters and still was only able to propose a theory. It took a young genius Herta to actually solve it. So the difference between the intelligence of a normal scholar and a genius isn't several times, not even a couple of orders of magnitude; it's tens of millions of times, at least. Which seems a bit hursh. It's not a divide you can breach.

BTW, I wouldn't mind having some characters who are just normal humans who achieved great power through hard work. Because many of the most powerful characters (both in-universe and in terms of gameplay) are special in some kind of way - born special, are emanators, or have received some power from an Aeon in some other way, had their bodies enhanced, had centuries to train and hone their powers, were experimented on, and so on. Which is not to say they didn't work hard, but can we please have some normal people too? 

[wishmemellon]

Not having art block is actually the best thing ever

[gunsatthaphan]

"please make it clear."

[ofswordsandpens]

oooooh I do like how the lantern illuminates the side of Luke's face with the scar that's a nice touch

[dummybirdnero]

The goofy Bumblebabies are so precious!!! Does Whiterose have a lil bouquet of goofy Kidroses too???

There’s only one wolf surrounded by a bunch of buns.

Ruby did not know that bunnies can multiply…

[sh4d0wstep]

Vlad: If there's going to be a big dramatic scene, wait until I get back.

Danny: Of course. I can't flip this table by myself.