step the f up!

multi. Exo, kpop, X-Men, Marvel, Spn, Teen Wolf, the magicians 27 she/her

[lesbianjoong]

BIG BOSS happy birthday beloved @noctilucentminki <333

[murdercore-powerfuneral-deactiv]

We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn't an algorithm here you just make bad choices.

[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

[levitonin]

Haven't you had enough of gojo satoru ?

[catkola]

Bitches wanna buy their boyfriends the latest consoles but when was the last time he CONSOLED you? ps 5 years ago

[drueginger]

Folks, it has happened again on another job I applied for.

[discoursedrome]

[strange-aeons]

FATHER WE MUST HAVE MORE BALD BIGLES

[strange-aeons]

Clearly you don't own an air fryer

[another-kkutabaaree]

what i'm getting from this is that Kai basically won eurovision

[yonasuki]

noragami week day 2: emotion

Love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

[janinegregory]

[thanasphere-deactivated20160117]

[cybunni-deactivated20180924]

Fuck blue lives let them meow

[marvelgifs]

Steven Grant ft. food

[toomucharitime]

Eliot, Eliot, Eliot. Why do you care about him so much? Because I do. You kill him, and we are done. I swear to God, I am serious. I will abandon you and I will die trying to burn you to the ground.

[toomucharitime]

Eliot, Eliot, Eliot. Why do you care about him so much? Because I do. You kill him, and we are done. I swear to God, I am serious. I will abandon you and I will die trying to burn you to the ground.

[fairweathermyth]

I said, “Honey, I don’t feel so good, don’t feel justified. Come on, put a little love here in my void.” He said, “It’s all in your head.” And I said, “So’s everything.” But he didn’t get it. I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy.

FIONA APPLE // Paperbag

[atiny-for-life]

Today, seven years ago, Hongjoong went emo on main, because Wooyoung hadn't uploaded a photo of him using the phone case Hongjoong had painted for him...

But the verification photos just aren't showing up... 😭😭 Wooyoung! If you happen to see this tweet, please post a proof shot as soon as possible! ^^^^^^^^😛

The phone case in question btw:

[refinery29]

The psychiatrist who wrote the criteria for narcissism just made an extremely important point about what’s wrong with diagnosing Trump with mental disorders

Dr. Allen Frances says in speculating about Trump’s mental health, we are doing a disservice to those who do suffer from mental illness. In a series of tweets, he explained why he doesn’t think Trump is a narcissist — and how harmful it can be for us to keep assuming that he is.

[vigilantsycamore]

Wow, a post where a qualified professional explains why it’s bad to misuse clinical terminology and equate mental illness with authoritarianism. I’m sure the comments don’t contain any people defending to the death their right to misuse clinical terminology and equate mental illness with authoritarianism