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@erastathalatta
Oh I’m so glad I got this extremely important official tumblr notice from their security team via being mentioned five times in comments to a post by someone with a username thats just a bunch of random numbers! And I love how creative theyre being by constantly changing their font even in the middle of a word!
All I have to do is send them my sensitive banking information within twelve hours! I better act fast!
Percy: So this is the first declension in Ancient Greek
Jason: Alright, a little more complicated than Latin’s, but still pretty similar
Percy: And here’s the second
Jason: Hey cool even more similar
Percy: And the last one
Jason: Oh it’s nice there’s only three, Latin has
Jason: Percy
Jason: Percy what the fuck is this
Is it ΕΡΑΣΤΑΘΑΛΑΤΤΑ as in Lover of the Sea.. or did google translate do me dirty?
FUCK YEAH SOMEONE ASKED ME ABOUT MY USERNAME!!!! Warning you Ancient Greek is one of favorite topics and I rarely get to talk about it so this may be a bit long-winded…
Google Translate can unfortunately only translate modern Greek, however even though they are quite different in grammar, the vocabulary has stayed remarkably similar! (Not perfect though—once someone translated something I wrote in Ancient Greek with Google and apparently γαμέω now means “fuck” instead of just being the stand verb for “marry” lol.) So luckily it was able to get those two words right.
ἐρασταθάλαττα is a compound word I made up meant to mean “sea [consisting] of lovers” (because y’know I mostly write smut), so you won’t find it in any dictionaries. However there are a few notes:
1) ἐραστής (erastēs) means “lover” in a strictly sexual sense, so you wouldn’t use it for something like “coffee-lover” (unless you’re, like, really into coffee like that…). For that context, you would use φίλος (philos) like in the name Φίλιππος (Philippos, origin of the name Philip, literally “fond of horses”). Ancient Greek has several different words which would all typically be translated into English as “love” but used for different contexts. I could go so much further into this because it’s such an interesting concept to me, but this wasn’t your question lol.
2) θάλαττα (thalatta) actually isn’t technically a modern Greek word. Attic Greek (the ancient dialect most classics students learn first, spoken in and around Athens—think Plato, Aristophanes, Pericles) usually morphs σσ from other dialects into ττ, so where in every other dialect (including modern) you’d see θάλασσα (thalassa), here you get θάλαττα. I went with the Attic spelling because I like how it sounds more.
3) I made this up pretty early on in learning Ancient Greek, and I didn’t do it very well! ἐραστής and θάλαττα are two words you’re likely to learn early on, and I liked how they sounded, so I wanted to make a compound word out of them for my AO3. Ancient Greek is similar to languages like German where you can slap almost any two words together and get a new one. But again, I made this early on and didn’t entirely understand how compounds work. Mainly, they’re typically formed by adding an ο in place of the first word’s case ending. I used an α for some reason, maybe because ἐραστής is first declension, but I don’t really remember my thought process lol. So I wouldn’t say it’s outright wrong, just certainly peculiar, though I’m pretty sure anyone who knows Greek (ancient or modern) would be able to figure out what it’s intended to say, which I guess is what counts.
Anyways, that was my very long and self-indulgent answer to your ask including a bunch of stuff you didn’t even ask for. Thanks for letting me nerd out!
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i crave asks 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Real men suck off their bros.
These plot twists I’ve been cooking up cannot be beat. Like I’m basically Shakespeare at this point.
I love thinking about Jason with a youtube channel fully dedicated to explaining the history of the roman empire and all the aspects of the life of a roman legionaire, the evolution of weaponry and armor, the daily use of classical Latin (he also speaks it in most videos), the different ranks and their jobs and importance to the civilization, all that stuff, in like- extreme detail, in a way so causal it makes it seem like it all happened just yesterday.
It gets to the point where his audience questions if he's some sort of ancient roman deity sharing their life story with the world. It's kind of a running joke between them and he does not help with disproving that theory
omg I love this so much. I also think in speaking latin, he would be using words that don’t exist in most latin courses — because new rome has had a living, growing version of latin whereas most latin studies now don’t really create new words for new things. (also, I’m curious about your specification of classical latin - I would assume he, and the population of NR/CJ, would speak vulgar latin in most situations, but if you have a reasoning for the specification of classical latin I’d love to hear it!!)
I agree with ur tags, I think he would call in friends from NR/CJ to talk about different aspects. I hc that he’s good in the senate, so I figure he could talk about ancient roman legal practices in depth, and could borrow some lares for videos since they were there (he’d probably have them as like an “anonymous phone-in”, for simplicity).
it would be SERIOUSLY funny if he randomly would post things like “roman aqueduct tour” and give tours of the internals of the aqueducts in NR/CJ which are 1. unlocatable by viewers, 2. completely accurate to ancient roman standards, and 3. fully functioning and not at all in ruins
@dogwaterdish
(Before anything I will warn you I'm no expert and I'm pulling all this info out of my head so take this with a grain of salt pls 🙏)
When I mentioned the use of "classical" Latin, I mean the overall pronunciation of words and the sounds of certain letters. I follow a guy on yt whose channel consists almost exclusively of the use of ancient dialects and languages (Scorpio Martianus, I've mentioned him before idr when, he's really cool tho) and through his channel I learned the existence of Ecclesiastical Latin ("evolved" pronunciation you would hear nowadays) and the classical Roman Latin (closest to the latin spoken naturally by the ancient Romans)
The main differences of the two, at least the most prominent of the ones that I noticed, had to do with the letters C, J and V. Ecclesiastical would attribute a [S] sound, a [J] sound and a [V] sound to each letter respectively, while in the Classical dialect, those same letters would produce a [K] sound, an [I] sound and a [W] or [U] sound (the fact that the letter U was written as V and J as I in ancient latin scripts only further proves this)
Given this and the fact that Jason and all the roman demigods are direct descendants of ancient roman deities, I always imagined that the latin they speak would be akin to that of the ancient romans, which means they would adopt the dialect native to their ancestors
Again take this with a grain of salt 🙏🙏 if you wanna know more abt this i recommend checking out the channel I mentioned before and MetatronYT as well, they're experts in this field and i love their videos :D
I love talking about Latin so bear with me: Latin was a diglossic language, meaning a different dialect was used for things like writing, teaching, orating, etc. (Classical Latin) as opposed to everyday speech (Vulgar Latin). So it would make sense that Jason would use Classical instead of Vulgar in his educational videos. Campers might speak Vulgar amongst each other, but switch to Classical for official senate stuff. However it is likely that Roman aristocrats only spoke Classical Latin even in casual speech, meaning that thats all Octavian wants to speak and everyone else thinks he’s a pretentious prick for it.
I love this addition 😭😭😭 and thank you SO much for your input I feel so educated rn 🙏🙏 so glad my posts are reaching the right audience :D
Ofc ofc, this was honestly just self-indulgence for me lol. But now it’s also made me start thinking which dialect of Ancient Greek Camp Half-Blood speaks…
I love thinking about Jason with a youtube channel fully dedicated to explaining the history of the roman empire and all the aspects of the life of a roman legionaire, the evolution of weaponry and armor, the daily use of classical Latin (he also speaks it in most videos), the different ranks and their jobs and importance to the civilization, all that stuff, in like- extreme detail, in a way so causal it makes it seem like it all happened just yesterday.
It gets to the point where his audience questions if he's some sort of ancient roman deity sharing their life story with the world. It's kind of a running joke between them and he does not help with disproving that theory
omg I love this so much. I also think in speaking latin, he would be using words that don’t exist in most latin courses — because new rome has had a living, growing version of latin whereas most latin studies now don’t really create new words for new things. (also, I’m curious about your specification of classical latin - I would assume he, and the population of NR/CJ, would speak vulgar latin in most situations, but if you have a reasoning for the specification of classical latin I’d love to hear it!!)
I agree with ur tags, I think he would call in friends from NR/CJ to talk about different aspects. I hc that he’s good in the senate, so I figure he could talk about ancient roman legal practices in depth, and could borrow some lares for videos since they were there (he’d probably have them as like an “anonymous phone-in”, for simplicity).
it would be SERIOUSLY funny if he randomly would post things like “roman aqueduct tour” and give tours of the internals of the aqueducts in NR/CJ which are 1. unlocatable by viewers, 2. completely accurate to ancient roman standards, and 3. fully functioning and not at all in ruins
@dogwaterdish
(Before anything I will warn you I'm no expert and I'm pulling all this info out of my head so take this with a grain of salt pls 🙏)
When I mentioned the use of "classical" Latin, I mean the overall pronunciation of words and the sounds of certain letters. I follow a guy on yt whose channel consists almost exclusively of the use of ancient dialects and languages (Scorpio Martianus, I've mentioned him before idr when, he's really cool tho) and through his channel I learned the existence of Ecclesiastical Latin ("evolved" pronunciation you would hear nowadays) and the classical Roman Latin (closest to the latin spoken naturally by the ancient Romans)
The main differences of the two, at least the most prominent of the ones that I noticed, had to do with the letters C, J and V. Ecclesiastical would attribute a [S] sound, a [J] sound and a [V] sound to each letter respectively, while in the Classical dialect, those same letters would produce a [K] sound, an [I] sound and a [W] or [U] sound (the fact that the letter U was written as V and J as I in ancient latin scripts only further proves this)
Given this and the fact that Jason and all the roman demigods are direct descendants of ancient roman deities, I always imagined that the latin they speak would be akin to that of the ancient romans, which means they would adopt the dialect native to their ancestors
Again take this with a grain of salt 🙏🙏 if you wanna know more abt this i recommend checking out the channel I mentioned before and MetatronYT as well, they're experts in this field and i love their videos :D
I love talking about Latin so bear with me: Latin was a diglossic language, meaning a different dialect was used for things like writing, teaching, orating, etc. (Classical Latin) as opposed to everyday speech (Vulgar Latin). So it would make sense that Jason would use Classical instead of Vulgar in his educational videos. Campers might speak Vulgar amongst each other, but switch to Classical for official senate stuff. However it is likely that Roman aristocrats only spoke Classical Latin even in casual speech, meaning that thats all Octavian wants to speak and everyone else thinks he’s a pretentious prick for it.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jason Grace/Leo Valdez Characters: Jason Grace, Leo Valdez Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Gay Sex, First Time, Sexual Inexperience, Dry Humping, Groping, Hand Jobs, if it counts as a handjob over the clothes, Clothed Sex, Coming in Pants, (x2), Premature Ejaculation, Accidental Stimulation, Kissing, Porn with Feelings, Emotional Sex, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Crying, Established Relationship, Character Study, i think, Self-Hatred, Horny Teenagers Summary:
“I said I’m not bothered by it,” Jason repeats. Then, in such a deep, quiet voice that not even a god could hear, only Leo: “That was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.”
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A slip, and Leo thinks he's let it end too soon. Jason proves it isn't an issue.
Nico in his 20’s who started eating and sleeping consistently and got fucking ripped x Will in his 20’s who can never say no to second or third helpings of Nico’s cooking.
it should be illegal for things in drawers to accumulate dust. you were IN the drawer WHAT is your problem
ça devrait être illégal pour des choses dans les tiroirs d'accumuler de la poussière. tu étais DANS le tiroir QUEL est ta problème
illicitum esse debet rebus quae in scriniis sunt pulverem accumulare. IN scrinio eras QUID est problema tuum
παράνομον εἴη τοῖς ἐν ἀποθήκαις κόνιν ἀθροίζειν· ἐνὶ δὲ τῇ ἀποθήκῃ σ’ ἦσθα, τί οὖν σοι τὸ πρόβλημ’ ἐστιν;
Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan Rating: Explicit Warnings: Underage Sex Relationships: Jason Grace/Percy Jackson/Leo Valdez, Jason Grace/Percy Jackson, Jason Grace/Leo Valdez, Percy Jackson/Leo Valdez Characters: Jason Grace, Percy Jackson, Leo Valdez Additional Tags: During Canon, Explicit Sexual Content, Shameless Smut, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Threesome - M/M/M, Bisexual Male Character, Bisexual Percy Jackson, possibly bisexual Jason Grace and Leo Valdez, Gay Sex, Sexual Experimentation, First Time, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, First Time Blow Jobs, Sexual Inexperience, Exhibitionism, Mildly Dubious Consent, because Leo didn't know he wanted a tongue up his ass until it was already up there, Come Swallowing, Hyperspermia, why isn't THAT a canon tag??, Foreskin Play, Multiple Orgasms, Rimming, Scent Kink, Musk Scent, Body Hair, Chest Hair, Pubic Hair, I like hairy guys okay, So sue me, Bonding, Sexual Tension, but they're already having sex, Banter, Author Is Sleep Deprived Summary:
“Percy,” he said, “What’s going on? It’s not like you to act like this.” Percy hesitated, too embarrassed to admit what he was about to admit, but with what he just did to Leo, he figured he owed it to the both of them. “It’s my empathy link with Grover.” His voice was low, barely audible. He couldn’t bear to look at either of them as he spoke. “I didn’t think it would still work while we’re so far apart, but…” “Oh.” Jason blushed. “Huh?” Leo looked confused. “Why would the empathy link make Percy act so…?” “Leo,” Jason said, struggling to keep his usual cool. “Satyrs go into ruts.” “So you mean…” Leo blushed even deeper than Jason. “Oh.”
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Some things are personal, private. But sometimes those things are better shared with friends.
I click on ONE anti-ship tag out of curiosity and now I got posts on my feed calling Sharpwolf disgusting. I mean, Sharpwolf?? That’s only, like, the third circle of problematic ship hell, if that.
it should be illegal for things in drawers to accumulate dust. you were IN the drawer WHAT is your problem
ça devrait être illégal pour des choses dans les tiroirs d'accumuler de la poussière. tu étais DANS le tiroir QUEL est ta problème
illicitum esse debet rebus quae in scriniis sunt pulverem accumulare. IN scrinio eras QUID est problema tuum
Kinda disappointing that I have yet to read a Solangelo fic in which Will refers to Nico’s dick as his “Italian sausage”.
Shit wait Will would actually never say that.
He’s a Texan. He would say “eye-talian” instead.
