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An Introduction

Hello!

I'm L.

I go to university in Austria and am studying pharma.

I am very interested in languages, books, science and history. I play the harp and organ, and sing in a choir.

I'm open to helping anyone with German, English, and basic Latin/ancient Greek, as well as studying Italian together.

If you stick around, you might find posts about my cat Salomona disrupting my studying.

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seraphim-eternal

Because I live, you will also live.

John 14:19

not my sister trying to write a book and using chatgpt to help.

ugh

#anti ai

shakespearesdaughters

hephaestusshield

juliaxyn

c0ff3-m0nst3r

The urge to ignore every responsibility I might have for the sole purpose of finishing a book.

academic-vampire

𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔫 𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔫 𝔞 𝔩𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱

seconddoubt

can we speedrun ISU accepting same-sex teams and then convince Kaori and Wakaba to return as ice dancers together next quad. for the good of the world.

rikakihira

MEI OKADA, Space Table Symphony at JGP Riga 2025.

01libra

Blackfriars college library, Oxford

dailyclassicart

Georg Achen - "Interior" (1907)

approaching-the-scrungularity-d

I think I may never be sad ever again. There is a statue entitled "Farewell to Orpheus" on my college campus. It's been there since 1968, created by a Prof. Frederic Littman that use to work at the university. It sits in the middle of a fountain, and the fountain is often full of litter. I have taken it upon myself to clean the litter out when I see it (the skimmers only come by once a week at max). But because of my style of dress, this means that bystanders see a twenty-something on their hands and knees at the edge of the fountain, sleeves rolled up, trying not to splash dirty water on their slacks while their briefcase and suit coat sit nearby. This is fine, usually. But today was Saturday Market, which means the twenty or so people in the area suddenly became hundreds. So, obviously, somebody stopped to ask what I was doing. "This," I gestured at the statue, "is Eurydice. She was the wife of Orpheus, the greatest storyteller in Greece. And this litter is disrespectful." Then, on a whim, I squinted up at them. "Do you know the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?" "No," they replied, shifting slightly to sit.

"Would you like to?"

"Sure!"

So I told them. I told them the story as I know it- and I've had a bit of practice. Orpheus, child of a wishing star, favorite of the messenger god, who had a hard-working, wonderful wife, Eurydice; his harp that could lull beasts to passivity, coax song from nymphs, and move mountains before him; and the men who, while he dreamed and composed, came to steal Eurydice away. I told of how she ran, and the water splashed up on my clothes. But I didn't care. I told of how the adder in the field bit her heel, and she died. I told of the Underworld- how Orpheus charmed the riverman, pacified Cerberus with a lullaby, and melted the hearts of the wise judges. I laughed as I remarked how lucky he was that it was winter- for Persephone was moved by his song where Hades was not. She convinced Hades to let Orpheus prove he was worthy of taking Eurydice. I tugged my coat back on, and said how Orpheus had to play and sing all the way out of the Underworld, without ever looking back to see if his beloved wife followed. And I told how, when he stopped for breath, he thought he heard her stumble and fall, and turned to help her up- but it was too late. I told the story four times after that, to four different groups, each larger than the last. And I must have cast a glance at the statue, something that said "I'm sorry, I miss you--" because when I finished my second to last retelling, a young boy piped up, perhaps seven or eight, and asked me a question that has made my day, and potentially my life: "Are you Orpheus?" I told the tale of the grieving bard so well, so convincingly, that in the eyes of a child I was telling not a story, but a memory. And while I laughed in the moment, with everyone else, I wept with gratitude and joy when I came home. This is more than I deserve, and I think I may never be sad again.