Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
post so bad tumblr offers 5 delete buttons and no post button
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This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
Obsessed with the fact that, in a show that got away with a ton of gore, swearing, and innuendo for something rated tv-pg, they still managed to push the butt jokes to a point where someone had to step in and be like "ok that's too much ass"
im making a list of media ive watched/played/etc this year with brief thoughts… perhaps reviews?
for the first time in like 3 years, i've finished working through my anime to-watch list (more or less). but i still have plenty of "ehh maybe i'll watch it" anime so i expect that to be most of this list again.
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January
1/ Suzume
yeah somehow im starting off with a movie!!! anyway, please observe this incredibly short review that completely sold me on this movie:
so is NephaCrystil correct? yes. this is extremely mushishi, but it's also heavily mixed with elements that are NOT very mushishi: action. modernity. i'd say it takes the focus of mushishi and uses that as an integral theme, but one of many. i think if i saw this in 2010 during my "must watch everything even remotely similar to mushishi" phase it'd be incorporated into my personality.
anyway, less meta talk: i'd say there are three themes here: people are kind, people live full lives, and places are animated by the people that live there. the lattermost theme is the mushishi-like, and the one that builds the movie. this is also the theme that's kind of tied together with a single line that i can NOT find (trying to skim through the movie again lol). but importantly, each theme reinforces each other theme. it's beautiful and makes me feel happy ok!!
i feel i should add... there are several annoying moments that could ruin the movie if you care too much about them. the "i'm fading into death... psyche!" stuff, you know the tropes. but i think they're fine. deployed tastefully enough that it doesnt detract from the overall etc imo. ive also seen a lot of "it's good ig but it's not Your Name" and yeah Your Name is better but this differentiates itself enough that the comparison seems odd to me.
April
2/ Interviews with Monster Girls (2017)
yeah that's a 3 month gap. ive been watching NOTHING this year. anyway:
a lot of uncertainty melted away over the course of these 12 episodes. yeah it's annoying sometimes, but it knows when to reel itself in. and most importantly, it has a heart. it's about supernatural kids but it's also about parenting supernatural kids. im about to dive into a sort of analysis that has spoilers:
an inherent property here is that each kid has some sort of supernatural characteristic unique to them. this could have been a show about telling them to embrace that power and rise above everyone else. it's not. this could have been a show about telling the kids to suppress the "disabilities" that set them apart, and making sure they fit into society. it's not.
the thesis, which is very very clearly stated multiple times, is that these kids are kids. their supernatural aspects are one facet: a facet that shouldn't be ignored, but also shouldn't be emphasized.
what im saying is that the show is woke and i love that
you know what's most shocking to me though? one of the "kids" was a 24-year-old succubus that tries her best to look uninteresting and live a normal life. and the show REALLY restrained itself from turning this into a train wreck of fanservice / jokes.
and, somehow, they flipped the concept on its head. through multiple B-storylines, the show explored what it means for a woman to struggle with her own relationship to lust as she considers starting a romantic life. it's insanely compelling imo, though it was never really resolved, and tbh i'm not sure that anyone has deft enough of a pen to draft the story i want to be told here. that's kind of an aside though
i want to emphasize that i was really impressed by this show and i'm surprised by the middling reviews i saw. well, ok maybe not that surprised: it's an anime that did reach into the bag of anime tropes to tell its story, and episode 10's technobabble is among the worst of it. but even with all these blemishes, the heart shines through. good shit.
May
3/ Gameoverse Pilot (2026)
something about this one beckoned to me, so i gave it a watch. i'm writing this after just finishing the episode and im mad at how good it was. no cut wasted. appeal off the charts. it captures a certain joy and fun of cartoons that aren't that serious but also yes they are.
i adore how it dropped you in media res without really explaining anything, then gave the answers later as the perspectives completely shifts. the shifts! that's another thing i really admire here. instead of brick jokes you get jokes that become serious points later. i'm in awe at how they set up Gobbles arc, both in-episode and for the future. possibly my favorite character??? how did this happen.
everything in this show feels so intricately designed. catnip for my brain cells.
4/ Frieren (Season 2) (2026)
i really enjoyed the first episode. it had that really fun pacing where they introduced a concept and then twisted it later, yknow? but the connections between each episode felt... none. it felt like a bunch of little vignettes and also one swordfighter arc. was the first season like this?? i honestly remember it feeling more cohesive but it's been a while. i walked away from this feeling pretty meh. it felt way more like baddie of the week show with a vague goal that's unresolved in ep1 and unresolved in ep10.
it's not even bad, just. meh. :\
June
5/ Among Us (the show) (2026)
owen dennis? hmm well. i guess i will give it a look. (immediately gets hooked and marathons the whole show at once)
i am surprised at how well they built a MASSIVE cast of characters that all feel unique and interesting and memorable despite just being. yknow. ඞ
granted, they did this with a lot of really clever solutions: each character has a pair that kinda halves the number of characters u need to remember, and everyone's name just being a color is a really efficient shortcut.
biggest regret: not watching this with someone else. the show's great but i think pausing to bicker with a friend about who the imposter is would truly elevate the experience. do that if u can.
owen dennis? hmm well. i guess i will give it a look. (immediately gets hooked and marathons the whole show at once)
i am surprised at how well they built a MASSIVE cast of characters that all feel unique and interesting and memorable despite just being. yknow. ඞ
granted, they did this with a lot of really clever solutions: each character has a pair that kinda halves the number of characters u need to remember, and everyone's name just being a color is a really efficient shortcut.
biggest regret: not watching this with someone else. the show's great but i think pausing to bicker with a friend about who the imposter is would truly elevate the experience. do that if u can.
