#Once the update appears

[technijianravi]

Critical Windows Update: Apply Patch Now to Prevent Black Basta Ransomware

[somegrumpynerd]

Neko Sansume cat petting archive

Come here to pet any previous cats any time c:

Click here to pet Classic

Click here to pet Fell

Click here to pet Fresh

Click here to pet Blue

Click here to pet Color

Click here to pet Epic

Click here to look at Nightmare

Click here to pet Dust

Click here to pet Cross

Click here to get bitten by Killer

Click here to pet Horror

Click here to pet Dream

Click here to pet Geno

Click here to get a commission from Ink

(Other cats will be added once they leave the garden. Feel free to let me know if I've forgotten someone or anything doesn't work!)

[loganslowdown4]

August 2024 Update: andddd headed to LA to actually be on Um, Actually! That was the quickest turn around I’ve ever seen lol; met with and filmed with Brandon Rogers; got a haircut; more workout progress; very demure very mindful ❤️💙; filming game night with friends; August playlist lmao; planning and day 1 of Dragoncon in Atlanta…

[stormvanari]

“class” doodles

[b1rdthieves]

rooks

[science-lings]

I'm sorry they need to give Battinson a Robin, I'm tired of the live-action batmans not having the tiny little guy following them around to do flips and violently juxtaposing the whole Dark Knight thing the guy has. He is easily the least equipped to do it too, he's like the embodiment of Depression he needs a brightly colored child climbing up his legs and perching on his shoulder like a little bird. He needs a ten-year-old hiding beneath his cape.

I know the whole vibe of modern batman movies is so dark and edgy but I think there should be a child there and everything else is so fucked up that it doesn't even change the tone. Give Battinson a child to impulsively adopt and recite all of his emo monologues to. I think he should very seriously discuss morbid cases that he's working on with a kid who is hilariously correct sometimes and hilariously Not most of the time. I think they should be an extremely competent duo despite literally everything.

[akirakirxaa]

Me: Hmmm, I want to play Stardew Valley but I'm hyperfixating on Emet-Selch FFXIV.

Modders: Emet-Selch Custom Romanceable NPC

[cassynite]

A Sparrow I finished while watching the new video essay

[evilmagician430]

who up sinning their fest

[hauntedkeys]

being obsesssed with a minor character sucks in most aspects but at least I can say that nobody understands her like I do and nobody can dispute it.

[dandyshucks]

wait also i think he would be a little embarrassed at first if I braided his hair but then he'd see how happy it makes me and he'd like. ask me to braid his hair again another day. and then more and more often until it's a regular thing. esp bc he would probably find the whole process kind of soothing. also WAIIIIT.... i just thought about him learning to braid my hair (<- i am currently growing out my hair for the first time in like... 8 years so that i can wear it in braids for cultural reasons! i am excited :3) and now i gotta go lay down.... i feel like an anime character getting a nosebleed when they see their crush.... OUGHHHHH (/positive)

[coolguycore]

mafia 2 ocs!! outdated refs but i just thought id share them here...

anyways!! theyre identical twins!! totally cool guys.. ill be honest and say that i actually havent gotten that far in mafia 2 so they dont have much actual real like?? info snd stuff.. sorry about that..

i have given them more.. time period accurate oufits... which i will give them once i get to remaking their ref sheets... later!! im doing my bestest!! i promise

and im developing them as i go!! my insta p.nstripe has like.. all of their lore and stuff.. im thinking that i might as well write an independent thing about them seperate from mafia 2 because of how much ive got about them already?? itd be cool.

anyways!! bye bye tyank you!!

[pancakeke]

a couple weeks back dev made a big update to one table. it really pissed me off because it's used by almost everything I write, and I have to filter it by excluding what I know I don't need rather than including what I do since everyone has permissions on our site to silently add rows to this thing.

one guy in dev made a comment about my complaints saying that if their update was such a big problem then maybe I should be writing more robust queries. but then also he said all I needed to do to exclude the new data was to filter by one column. which did not exist before this update. so how could I have future-proofed anything dude.

I think he was implying that I was filtering by names rather than IDs, which I wasn't cause that's nuts. but also our forecast tables show component inventory locations as names only. no mention of location IDs. these aren't views too, they're actual tables. knowing the inventory location is critical and needs to join to other tables to make anything of value. don't talk down to me if that's how your dept is setting things up.

[lilmeowmeowsagelesath]

snorts.

[wildkitte]

Let’s talk about Creusa!

Hooray @aeneiddaily has finally reached my favouritest blorbo of the Aeneid, Aeneas’ wife Creusa. I just finished my bachelor’s thesis about her (specifically what Maurus Servius Honoratus says about her character, also comparing to R. G. Austin’s commentary) and she’s been a special little brainrot of mine for the last couple years even before last schoolyear’s deeper dive into madness.

For now I want to just talk about some basics when it comes to Creusa, and then some more text based analysis later (probably tomorrow and the day after, I suppose?). Please note that my information on the topic is still limited - I only got as far as a BA thesis can go (around 33 pages overall), and I mostly used articles written in English and whatever was accessible through my university’s library.

Let’s start with a little introduction, and once Aeneid Daily gets to the Juicy Bits (aka lines 2.768–795) I’ll get to some deeper discussions of her character and what commentators, both modern and ancient, have said about her.

(And, uh… spoilers for the ending of Book 2? If that is a concern?)

SO, Creusa! Who is Creusa? Well, she is Aeneas’ wife and the mother of their son Ascanius, and she dies at the end of the Book 2, these are the basic facts. But are they? There’s actually some interesting stuff relating to her tradition.

Aeneas’ wife appears in earlier tradition, in both art and literature. In the famous depiction of Aeneas carrying his father and the penates out of Troy, he’s occasionally accompanied by a woman (or sometimes two) depicted with him, assumedly his wife. Sometimes she tags along with Aeneas to Italy, and in some traditions, she is saved and swept away by Venus or Cybele. To my knowledge she is never captured by the Greeks (like poor Andromache and Cassandra). For some reason Vergil decided to create a version where she dies (and I will get to the possible motives of this in another post), and that became the popular tradition after Aeneid was published.

One fascinating thing about Creusa (that drives me ABSOLUTELY INSANE) is actually her name – and specifically that it might not be her name at all.

She has been called Εὐρυδίκη (Latin spelling often Eurydica), and the name later changes to Κρέουσα (lat. Creusa). It is not certain when or why this change happens exactly. Pausanias talks about this in Hellados periegesis and explain that Creusa (Κρέουσα) is “naturally Aeneas’ wife” (εἶναι γὰρ δὴ καὶ Αἰνείου τὴν Κρέουσαν γυναῖκα) but that i.e., the author Leskheos has also used the name Εὐρυδίκη (Paus. 10. 26.1-2). But suddenly in the 1st century BC, Livy, Vergil and Dionysius of Halicarnassus start using the name Creusa – I have not been able to find an explanation as to why this happened. Austin speculates that it might have been some new finding of the antiquarians of the time, or perhaps one of the authors came up with the name first and it caught on (Pausanias certainly sheds no more light on this).

But hey why is the name important at all? Well, you might have picked up on the familiar name Eurydica there and maybe even made the connection to Vergil’s Georgics – and you would be absolutely correct to do so! While Vergil is partially creating his own tradition with Creusa, he references his own passage on Orpheus and Eurydice in the 4th book of the Georgics (4.453-527), down to direct quotes pulled from this previous work. There are some pretty obvious similarities between Aeneas and Creusa and Orpheus and Eurydice, which I found to be an interesting add-on to the character of Creusa (I’ll also come back to this later – let’s talk about PARALLELS BABY). In a way Vergil’s Creusa carries with her the earlier tradition of Aeneas’ wife, and Vergil is able to connect all these versions of her into one while also reinventing her for the purposes of the epic. (I am very normal about this) (trust me)

Her being Ascanius’ mother is actually something that has been contended as well. Servius mentions that it has been called into question – there are some who think Ascanius is Lavinia’s son (he mentions Livy as one; see Serv. Aen. 1.7) rather than Creusa’s. In Vergil’s version Creusa is very explicitly Ascanius’ mother, and this actually has a deeper reasoning than just a matter of taste. I probably don’t have to explain to anyone the importance of connecting Aeneas and through him Iulus to emperor Augustus, but it is indeed connected to that. Not only is Iulus of divine origin (being the grandson of Venus) but he is also descendent from the royal family  of Troy – Creusa is Priam’s daughter, Hector’s sister, and Vergil brings this up a lot (as does Servius, he’s really into proving the point). The Trojan royal family line brings even more legitimacy to gens Julia‘s right to power. Here Vergil creates a political myth (like Tarrant (1997) puts it) to emphasize Augustus' legitimacy and Creusa being Ascanius’ mother is an integral part of that.

But hey so, Creusa’s death, what’s up with that?

Once we get to her disappearance, I’ll talk about this a bit more because there is actually a lot of interesting discourse there, both in modern research as well as Servius’ commentary (Commentarius in Vergilii Opera, from c. 4th and 5th century (I include both Servius and Servius Auctus and use them interchangeably)). It all starts from today’s entry, lines 2.675-678, but I’ll talk about it more once we have full context.

So here’s my little introduction to Creusa, I have a lot more to say (I had 33 pages to say, actually, and would’ve had more if I didn’t have to narrow my research topic down, boo).

Oh Creusa, Creusa, you mysterious creature, most loyal of wives and yet another tragic female character who must die for Aeneas’ fate to be fulfilled. She’s a wife, she’s a mother, she’s chosen by gods and even… immortal? More to come tomorrow!

(Edit: the rest of my posts on her can be found in my creusa-tag)

[kindahoping4forever]

Will you comment on the Peru situation? Twitter is saying a lot of craziness and I just want to hear what's true

As always, I would advise against using Twitter as an informational resource and suggest relying instead on official channels for insight and updates.

At this point, the available facts are that tonight's show was cancelled by the local government because the promoters failed to obtain the permits necessary to hold the show. According to fans that spoke with authorities, this was a known issue weeks ago but the band and their team were not made aware until they were turned away when they arrived at the venue. The decision to cancel the show was completely out of their hands.

There's not much else to report at this point, it's just an unfortunate situation that was poorly handled by the promoters/venue and I feel bad for both the band and the fans that were looking forward to the show. 💙