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Ravenclaw ㅁ Pisces ㅁ INFP ㅁ i love the HP fandom. and slytherins. i just hv a lot of feelings. nice to meet you. im also supper awkward and shy but u can talk to me anytime. i try.

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The 1st DECLENSION

Nulli nocendum est: si quis vero laeserit, multandum simili iure fabella admonet.

Vulpes ad cenam dicitur ciconiam prior invitasse et illi in patinā liquidam posuisse sorbitionem, quam nullo modo gustare esuriens potuerit ciconia.

Quae vulpem cum revocasset, intrito cibo plenam lagonam posuit: huic rostrum inserens satiatur ipsa et torquet convivam fame.

Quae cum lagonae collum frusta lamberet, peregrinam sic locutam volucrem accepimus: «Sua qua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.» (Phaedrus)

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You should never harm anyone: the fable teaches that, if someone will cause harm, they should be punished in the same manner.

They say a fox made the first move and invited a stork for dinner, and offered her a liquid broth in a plate, which the stork, although hungry, wasn't even able to taste.

But when in turn she invited the fox over, she offered her a bottle full of minced food: sinking its beak in it the stork both eats and torments with hunger the guest.

And we learn that, while that one licked the neck of the bottle to no avail, thus said the bird: «Everyone has to bear with serene disposition the pains they themselves inflicted.»

the 1st declension includes many feminine words and few masculine ones

its thematic vowel is - a → nominative singular ending in - ă;

genitive singular ending in - æ

Pay attention!

feminine adjectives of the 1st class follow the 1st declension too

some desinences are the same

-ă of the nominative may be confused with -ā of the ablative, because vowel quantity is not usually marked in the texts → you should be able to extrapolate from the sentence which case you're looking at

The 1st declension has few exceptions and particularities that we'll see in another post

A LIST OF USEFUL WORDS of the 1st declension

Feminine

People

ancilla, -æ handmaid

dea, -æ goddess

discipula, -æ student (girl)

filia, -æ daughter

magistra, -æ teacher (woman)

matrona, -æ married (noble) woman, matron

puella, -æ girl

Animals and plants

alauda, -æ lark

ciconia, -æ stork

luscinia, -æ nightingale

olea, -æ olive

vulpecula, -æ little fox

Ideas and concepts

aerumna, -æ pain

avaritia, -æ stinginess

cura, -æ worry, concern

diligentia, -æ attention

fama, -æ news, fame, reputation

forma, -æ beauty

fortuna, -æ fate

gloria, -æ glory

historia, -æ history

industria, -æ industriosness

iniuria, -æ insult

invidia, -æ hate, envy

iustitia, -æ justice

laetitia, -æ joy

memoria, - æ memory, remembrance

natura, -æ nature

patientia, -æ patience

prudentia, -æ wisdom, experience

sententia, -æ opinion

Things, facts, places

aqua, -æ water

ara, -æ altar

arca, -æ strongbox

armilla, -æ bracelet

casa, -æ hut

cena, -æ dinner

espistula, -æ letter, correspondence

fabula, -æ fable, fairytale

hora, -æ hour

insula, -æ isle

lagona, -æ bottle

margarita, -æ pearl

ora, -æ coast

paeninsula, -æ peninsula

pecunia, -æ money

poena, -æ pain, suffering, disgrace

procella, -æ storm

pugna, -æ battle

scapha, -æ boat

silva, -æ woods

via, -æ way, method

villa, -æ farm, villa

Masculine

People

advena, -æ stranger (tourist)

agricola, -æ farmer

conviva, -æ tablemate

íncola, -æ inhabitant

nauta, -æ sailor

perfuga, -æ deserter

poëta, -æ poet

Feminine adjectives

aequa, -æ just, equal

beata, -æ happy

bona, -æ good

clara, -æ famous

grata, -æ appreciated

magna, -æ great

mala, -æ bad, evil

misera, -æ unhappy

multa, -æ many

parva, -æ little

plena, -æ full

proba, -æ honest

pulchra, -æ beautiful

sacra, -æ sacred, holy

saeva, -æ cruel, violent

EXERCISES:

Try and decline some words of your choice of the 1st declension, chosen from the lists above then

with the help of the English translation insert the missing words from the following sentences, using the terms from the lists

Lesbia ______ ______ est → Lesbia is a beautiful girl

Aquae ______ ______ sunt → the water bottles are full

Poëta ______ ______ laudat → the poet praises the beauty of the girl

Vulpes _____ ______ est → the fox is the stork's guest

Poëta ______ ______ donat → the poet gives the girl a bracelet

Dominæ _____ _____ laudant → the matrons praise the handmaidens' industriosity

______ per mare navigant → the sailors sail across the sea

______ ______ in _____ sunt → the bracelets of the matron are in the strongbox

[aqua-regia009]

The Souls of Acheron (1898) - Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

[hadrian6]

The British Museum : Exhibition - Troy Myth and Reality. Nov. 2019 - March 2020.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[kashuan]

absolutely obsessed with this statue of hector and andromache I found out about the other day… the tender Content is SO good

[merakinotes]

hey ! i procrastinate way too much but i’ve been trying to stop lately, so i put together this little guide on how to develop discipline. hope this helps!! :]

[+++] transitional words | school organization | bullet journaling | motivation | essay writin | gr8 powerpoint | get ur life back on track | homework tips | more !!

[smalltownboymp3]

What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you [on dates]?

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[benafflecks]

The Great Gatsby (2013) production design Designed by Catherine Martin

“One of Baz’s main design directives for the look and feel of this particular movie was that he didn’t want a nostalgic, sepia-toned New York City of the 1920s. He wanted the New York we created to feel as vibrant, modern, and cutting-edge as it would have felt to Fitzgerald in 1922.”

[whelvenwings]

if harry potter means a lot to anyone else out there, too, and you're hurt by jk's transphobia today: your idea of hogwarts is your own. the castle and its magic are things that she can't take away from you or lock you out of. they're yours. you do belong in that world and hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

[tlirsgender]

I think realizing that canon is fake is very freeing actually

Like genuinely all fiction is equally fake and real simultaneously. The author is dead and I'm getting my inheritance

[ms-demeanor]

The author is dead and I'm getting my inheritance.

[x7x7x7x7x7]

my first & second half of 2019 felt like two different years

[hungwy]

fuck fuck fuck just ate 4 vitamin gummies instead of 2. well good bye

[404not0und-deactivated20230313]

You can keep your Golden Trio. I’ll take my Silver Trio any day.

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Drawn with Procreate on my iPad

[all-drarry-to-me]

I am in love with this. 😍

[qusm]

Okay so what if Harry’s just different after the war. But it’s not the different people would expect. It’s not trauma and pain and silence and loss … It’s this strange sort of normality, where he’s Harry … but not quite Harry.

At first Draco can’t pinpoint what it is. He can see Granger and Weasley haven’t figured it out either, from the way the former always has a little worried half frown when she sees Harry joking or laughing with that slightly wrong expression. Weasley on the other hand seems to be hurt by Harry’s ability to carry on life like none of it had ever happened. His face darkens when Harry casually skips past mentions of the brother he lost and Draco can’t help thinking the behaviour is very … un-Harry.

It takes him two months to figure it out. Two months of watching Harry - watching almost everyone around him accept this new smiling, laughing - shallow Potter. It’s not just that he’s happy … he doesn’t have the same sarcastic quips. He doesn’t eat his food so fast you’d think someone was about to take it from him. He doesn’t have that same razor awareness of his surroundings … he barely ever catches Draco watching him.

It’s the fact that they share a common room now that leads him to the secret. He sees Harry come out of his room one night, sadness floating across his face in a way Draco hasn’t seen all year - that depth of world weariness in his eyes. He’s got his cloak over his arm and the moment he leaves the room, Draco slips into his bedroom, determined to find whatever it was that had brought back a trace of the old Harry.

It takes half an hour of searching and multiple spells before he finds the chest hidden inside the window seat. He hesitates before opening it. He doesn’t really have any right to be spying on Harry … but this isn’t Harry. Not really. And he needs to know why.

When he cracks it open, he just stares, breath caught in his throat. It’s bottles … hundreds of tiny bottles, each glowing blue with a whisp of curling memory. He picks one up to read the tiny tag.

The words make his breath catch.

Punishment for ruining shirt. Iron burns. 8 yo

He puts it down as though it’s burned him and picks up another.

Locked in cupboard. Three days. No toilet. 7 yo

He feels bile rising is his throat as he picks up another.

Dropped breakfast. Ate off floor. 4 yo (?)

He scans the bottles. There are twenty or thirty of similar ages and he feels a horrified shock running through him. He wonders distantly if Weasley and Granger know this. Then he looks again at the bottles, more labels jump out at him.

Burned Quirrel’s face - first meeting with V. 11 yo

Accused by school. Spat at and hexed. 12 yo

Hunted by Basilisk. Bitten. Thought I would die. 12 yo

Draco feels a gut wrenching sadness run through him as he looks over the bottles. There are so many more. Years worth. He sees a larger one, the size of his clenched fist and picks it up, cradling it. At least twenty memories swirl around inside, mingling and then separating.

The tag simply reads, Sirius.

He’s sitting there when Harry comes back. The bottles are placed neatly around him and he’s seen the spread of Harry’s fear and doubt and sadness and loss and pain. He feels paralyzed by the magnitude of it.

When Harry asks what he’s doing, he doesn’t look up from the tiny vial in his hand.

The tag reads, My death, seventeen years old.

Harry doesn’t shout or hex him or do anything Draco would expect. Instead he picks his way through the bottles to sit down beside Draco, leaning back against the wall.

‘It’s better this way,’ he murmurs.

Draco does look over then, and Harry’s face has that look he’s had all year. And Draco realises why it bothers him so much. This is Harry without his childhood, without the trials he’s overcome, without the losses that have shaped and forged him. He still has shadows of the memories, sure, but he doesn’t feel them anymore.

This is not Harry.

‘It’s not better,’ he says, voice intense, not even questioning why he so suddenly needs to convince the boy in front of him.

Harry frowns then, breaks Draco’s gaze. ‘It hurts too much to hold all of that,’ He gestures at the bottles that litter the floor and his voice holds a trace of bitterness.

Draco doesn’t know what to say to that. Who is he to ask Harry Potter - Saviour of the Wizarding World - to live with the trauma the wizarding world forced on him.

Then he thinks of the bottles he could make - the memories he could shed. He thinks of the Mind Healer his mother arranged for him over the summer break. He rubs his forearm absently as he thinks of tears and rage and shame … and the beginnings of healing.

He looks across at Harry. ‘This,’ he says with the same gesture at the bottles. ‘All of this - is you. You overcame it. You grew from it. You learned from it. You - you probably wouldn’t have done what you did without it.’

He looks down at the bottle he still holds.

My death.

'Remembering is hard,’ he says looking across at the bottles marked Sirius, Fred, Lupin, Dobby, Hedwig. He remembers what the Healer told him as he’d mourned his father.

'Forgetting the bad bits though, means you forget the good as well … it means you forget the person.’ He looks at Harry and sees the same sadness from earlier echoed in his eyes.

'I know it’s none of my business, but I don’t think you should forget them.’

Harry reaches out with shaking fingers to stroke over each of the bottles in turn. 'I’m scared to remember,’ he whispers.

Draco looks at him and the words are on his lips before he can think.

'I could help you?’ he offers.

[sirussly]

A reminder about JK Rowling, for those of you who need it today.

[impossibletruths]

“Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.”

— Henry Jenkins (Director of media studies at MIT)

LOVE THIS.

(via flootzavut)

[tanoraqui]

#tell me more about the reparative potential of the sharing economy #then let me KISS UR FACE

[thefourteenthdoctor]

If you ever read any scholar about media, you want to read Henry Jenkins. 

“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn’t fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn’t frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”

[miracul0us-multishipper]

Well damn. He’s… right.

[fanonical]

JK Rowling has publically sided with a TERF who got fired for being transphobic.

[fanonical]

the “debate” — as if there ever was one — is over. this is the smoking gun. JK Rowling is publically a terf. never again can somebody say Rowling doesn’t hate trans women.

[eltehdork]

So jk Rowling is:

Transphobic

Homophobic

AND an antisemite. Don't forget that last one that ones been obvious for years now

[bellehatesme-deactivated2020011]

+ the nagini mess and the johnny depp mess so we can tack on racist and misogynistic on there as well.

i'm tired of people being flabbergasted this late into the discussion. if you were really that attached to her as an author then you were well aware of all of the other shit she did, plus the fact that she liked a "men in dresses" tweet, literally last. year.

[fanonical]

just so we’re clear i agree with all that is said here, but i think it’s important to not just brush past her alignment with terfs and just say “add it to the list” -- the fact that the most famous author in the entire world has publically stated her agreement with a hate movement & a hate group to her millions upon millions of followers is terrifying, especially for the British public so soon after the results of the general election

[8kblog]

like/reblog.