Cow Children

audio and video adventures in a wider west

[cowchildren]

Trans Theft Horso! A song and trailer for a game out now for Mac and PC.

Compelled to travel the West, you can fight admirals, pet the animals and seek gender gladness (or, GGs) for all!

[queerkhazad]

My friend Kit painted my shield for Belegarth and it came out so absolutely lovely!

Inspired by the patron saint of Seattle queers, Saint Rat, and this quote by Julian K Jarboe

[lightnessobeing]

have you seen this, @pride-knightess

[pride-knightess]

This is amazing!

[byjove]

I love calling movies films and I love purposefully overpronouncing it as ‘fehlim’ to be extra insufferable.

[cowchildren]

On one of The Duckworth Lewis's cricket concept albums there's a song about The Third Man with the incredible, and Irishly delivered, phrase: "I could make a killing / Like the villain in the FILum / Selling Fleming's penicillin to Vienna".

[cowchildren]

My first five faces in Blender!

Yes, I know I could turn on the subspace monitor and make them smooth, but where's the charm in that?

[transthefthorso]

Some bee costumes, seen briefly in Trans Theft Horso

(Somewhat inspired by the Menoptra from Doctor Who's The Web Planet)

[gailyinthedark]

I am not "ignoring my limits" I am full of knighthood it's different I swear

[transthefthorso]

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'Old MacDonald Had Sex with a Person', a song written by a skeleton.

from Trans Theft Horso, that non-binary western adventure.

[transthefthorso]

Trans Theft Horso - A song and trailer for a vibrant trans Western coming next week for Mac and PC.

Compelled to travel the West, you can fight admirals, pet the animals and seek gender gladness (or, GGs) for all!

[cowchildren]

Western always feels like a genre more than an era. A kind of fantasy, but with testosterone instead of magic and guns instead of women.

[cowchildren]

Save 30% on Trans Theft Horso on Steam

A colourful western fantasy adventure, to save trans joy! Adric Belfonte embarks on a happy nightmare into the wild and bewaffling West. Exp

Happy Non-binary Day! Trans Theft Horso is discounted all week on account of its nonbinary adventurer Adric Belfoné.

Tomorrow is also Trans Theft Horso's first anniversary! Gender Gladness upon you all.

See ample other games in the enby-coded games sale.

[cowchildren]

We are all pre-Hartnell Doctors.

[cowchildren]

Every time Tumblr speaks of 'hear me outs' I try and think if I have any. Earlier this week I'd finally got around to 'maybe Ann Widdecombe', though she vocally despised people like me, and also numerous vulnerable minorities.

She's dead now, alas, so I missed my window to declare her, which is maybe for the best.

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

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.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

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!

[qqueenofhades]

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.

[sekkitsune]

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.

[qqueenofhades]

....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.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[jtimu]

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

[cowchildren]

This is like when I asked google to translate 'I'm doing a poo' into German, but it didn't know what to do with one of the words, so gave me the wonderful but bogus 'Ich mache ein poo'.

[cowchildren]

Stupid GTA6 speculation: with such a high budget and a production length of over a decade, it could plausibly have Sean Connery and Roger Moore playing all the police.

[being-of-rain]

Season 3 rewatch continues! I have random collection of thoughts.

The Massacre is kind of a strange one, with the main plot of the Doctor's disappearance and his doppelganger's existence both happening for basically no reason, but the emotional beats are strong enough that it might be a contender for story I would most like to see recovered or animated. I'd certainly be curiously.

The tone whiplash from Steven travelling alone with the Doctor to travelling with Dodo is wild, I can practically see the studio note after The Massacre saying 'hey isn't this show supposed to be appealing to kids.' Even when the following few stories do darker stuff, it feels like its presented for a younger audience. Season 3 is a rollercoaster, its so unsurprising to learn it was chaotic behind the scenes.

My thoughts on The Ark are complicated. On one hand I feel like people don't give it credit for some of its innovative ideas. ...But on the other hand, how badly it fumbled its moral and social messages just gets worse the more I think about it. But also, I feel like you could say the same thing or worse for a lot of much higher regarded early Who, say for example The Daleks with their pinnacle-of-evolution aryan Thals. I dunno.

I watched The Celestial Toymaker animation, and enjoyed seeing it with my brother. Getting weird with it was absolutely the right choice for this one. The design for all the minor characters were so creative, and the little music break in part 3 getting a whole surreal music video was the best part.

Next ep is The Gunfighters! Honestly so excited to hear the singing again.

[cowchildren]

The weirdest thing about The Massacre is Charles Preslin, the French scientist the Doctor is so keen to meet up with. He's presented to us as a real, signficant historical figure, but he was entirely made up for the story!

I discovered he was made up when I attempted to impress a French microbiologist with my knowledge of his famous countryman. Embarrassing! Were there no real figures the Doctor could be keen to meet?

Bizarre to put someone like that in a historical - the most educational genre, in the most educational era of the show. He's also one of two characters in this story named Charles.

[byjove]

“god thinks drag is gross and yucky” - contemporary English version

[byjove]

my hypothetical transgender interpretation of this passage is that you should dress for the gender you you truly are and it is a sin to deny God’s will in that matter. not that you must dress as your biological sex but that you must express yourself as what he created you to be

[cowchildren]

I concur! Also, nobody wore trousers back then, so (I've heard) common men and women weren't dressed all that differently. I read once that this was based on resisting a particular cult practice, but I've no idea if that's the case.

(It is, in any case, unclear from the passage how non-binary folks shouldn't dress, so I'll play it safe and shop on both sides of the aisle).

[cowchildren]

Supposedly, GTA 6 had a production budget of 2 billion dollars.

Hundreds of Beavers had a budget of $150,000.

If I've done my sums right, GTA 6 could contain upwards of 13,333,300 beavers!