#and I like getting books in original if I know the language

[amethyst-zephyr]

(My first post about PJO on Tumblr!! :D sorry for the awful English and possible grammatical mistakes. English is my third language 😅 I try my best))

Alright alright hear me out

Hear me out

I remember like, somewhere in the early PJO series Percy was a bit uncomfortable after being called 'Perseus'. I might be going crazy. That might just have been a dream... I'll just come back to this post when I find the evidence in the book... But anyways

What if Mr D calling Percy jackson is so much more than just a meme? What if it's a well written thing with a deeper meaning??

Hear me out.

Percy was not comfortable with being called Percy, right? And Dionysus, being the god of like, insanity and madness which originated from like, MIND, right? And I don't know, since nico goes to therapy sessions with Mr D in Trials of Apollo, Perhaps Mr D is also well versed with other matters of mind like trauma?? Perhaps he KNEW what Percy's triggers were?? I mean, this might sound crazy but he MIGHT have known somehow. And therefore never called Percy by even his right name.

Maybe this is why Mr. D keeps saying Percy's name wrong so as to not intimidate him???

If I find no evidence for this in the books imma just call this my headcannon.

Who knows, like, we know Gabe is lowkey abusive, right? I mean, I don't think lowkey is even the right word for it... And Gabe keeps calling Percy insulting names like 'Brain boy'. What if Gabe reserves the name 'Perseus' for like, super rare occassions (to let Percy know he really screwed up) like some manipulators do? And what if when Percy hears the name 'perseus' at first his Brain right away thinks he's in trouble for a moment because of that??

((Like, fr if I actually find the evidence I mentioned before, and get the confirmation that I'm not like, crazy, I swear I'll be so damn happy- but right now I legit think this was like, a fever thought at this point. I'll actually write this in a better language once I get the lines I'm looking for in the books.))

[just-a-little-hater]

god why is there never a perfect option, I have found two places where I can buy the Nimona comic book (yes only two and one is in a different country because idk screw availability of anything ig) but one is in Czech and shipping costs almost one half of the price of the book and the other place is fucking German Amazon where it is actually in English and I would get free shipping but it costs two times more than the one in Czech Republic and has those disgusting sticker graphics on it

[just-wublrful]

not to be obnoxious on main but classic literature is not global literature. it's western literature at best

[13reasonstoeatthatcake]

Has anyone read Fourth Wing translated into another language and did you agree with the Violet/Violence nickname translations in said language? Because I'm reading through the Bulgarian version rn and they. Fucking transliterated it??? With a FOOTNOTE??? Explaining what Violence means in English??? Even though it's not a one-time thing but a recurring nickname and the use of Sudden English Word in-text in what's meant to be flirty, charged and tender moments later is fucking jarring??? I am Shaking With Rage.

[fictionadventurer]

imaginary book: “The Ruined Idylls of Calomar”, low fantasy (quite obscure, authorship disputed; philologists suspect the first draft was written in a Celtic or Semitic language in the late 19th or early 20th century.)

The Ruined Idylls of Calomar by A.E. Mann

This haunting work of fantasy claims to be the journals of an unnamed scholar living in exile after the fall of the hidden lands of Calomar. Once a thriving, peaceful, highly civilized culture, its glory was brought low by the pride, greed, and wrath of kings, scholars, explorers and warriors who fought for glory, power, and honor, until its final destruction by a dark, nameless weapon left only a scant handful of survivors to escape and tell the tale. In haunting language, the narrator writes of Calomar's glory and intrigue, its final fall, and his irresistible yet doomed attempts to return to his lost homeland and learn what, if anything, has survived.

[britneyshakespeare]

don carlos by friedrich schiller is the most wild thing i've read all year and i'm only in act 2

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

How can I have started a book, read the blurb on the back, the title and 30 pages, but only when I’m tracking my progress on the StoryGraph and only finding an English version of the book when searching by isbn I realise that the book is in fact in English and not in Dutch as I’d been convinced?!?!

[protectcosette]

I think trying to tackle the whole book is the struggle. I had a Cosette picture book as a kid that started with her being dropped off and ended with her walking away with Jean valjean in her new clothes and carrying her doll. I loved it so much and then my mum told me it was part of a bigger book so I read all her bits in the book skipping any long descriptions. I was a kid so I only read to the end of her schooling in the convent. And then over the years I would go back and read more about fantine and then Cosette and Marius and then finally Jean valjean bits. And by that time I actually found the sewer descriptions interesting although I still skip the Waterloo lol

oh I've definitely read other chunks of the book! just regarding a literary white whale, reading the brick the full way through is something i DO want to do.

[ronnierosest]

To any slav who’s a fan of The Witcher

Try and enjoy a listen of the polish audiobooks, they’re just So Good (you can follow by reading the book in your native language)

I am having blast 7hours in

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[astrxealis]

i shut up abt ffxiv for now hii good noon u all take care :3 <333

[queseraphita]

Now it's time to actually read the adventures of pinocchio since I've never truly read it

[neotheater-kid]

I was like, recently years old that I found out Orpheus and Eurydice is Just Book OF LIFe????? Like what?/! That's

[julesnichols]

Y'know. There were several ups and downs when I was working for the mouse, and the downs were always really, really bad. But like also I'm glad for them because four years ago I absolutely would not have said SHIT about being given a shift that conflicts with my availability and just worked it hoping it never happened again. Now I will talk to all four fucking managers who work throughout the entire day I've been here until one of them listens instead of pushing back and getting pissy about me saying it's not my fault and sure, I'll try to find coverage to be nice, but not my fucking problem if I can't find it, can't work the shift, they can't mark me as a no show and they can die mad about it because they should've thought about it before giving me a shift I can't work 🤷

[arolesbianism]

Frye will forever be a history nerd to me idc. You offhand wonder how long Judd has been around and you enter an unskippable cutscene