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hi, i'm tao. i do art and write fic. in my sxf era❕my art can be reposted with credit ❕

art tag. fave pieces so far fic + fic ideas tag gif tag

i also made a tumblr choose your own adventure game loosely based on the doggy crisis arc

#spy x family art #mykunst #spy x family #loid forger #anya forger #becky blackbell #twiyor #meldon #melinda desmond #donovan desmond #all i draw is beautiful women and donovan desmond it appears #steal this to pinterest pls actually #damian desmond #sylvia sherwood #alt text

kissingonclouds

My rayray

based on @cantareincminor beautiful idea

#yuri knowing a touch of a woman #no way #wouldnt call this situation dating tbh 🤭#but he'll learn to enjoy it #melinda desmond #yuri briar #melinda x yuri #spy x family #spy x family crack #mykunst

cantareincminor

Fic idea: Melinda/Yuri crack fic

I was looking through the main SxF tag on ao3 and misread a Melinda/Yor tag as Melinda/Yuri, thus spawning this crack idea...

Premise: Melinda Desmond is in love with Yor, but accepts that she's in a loving marriage and won't ruin her friend's happiness. So she settles for the next best option and tries to seduce Yor's little brother.

Cast reactions:

Jeeves: passive aggressively jealous, constantly warning Madam Desmond of the risks to her reputation and the family name should the affair be exposed

Chloe: "wait...Yuri is dating the FORMER FIRST LADY? When I told him I was proud of him for letting his sister go I didn't mean he should move on to an even older woman!"

Lieutenant Curtis: highly annoyed by the amount of paperwork and questions from the higher-ups he has to deal with due to the extremely sensitive nature of his dumbass subordinate's affair

Twilight: "should this be Plan D? No, wait, it's too risky all around! If the primary target Donovan Desmond were ever to discover this affair, he might have Yuri Briar's entire extended family arrested!"

Yor: appalled that the baby brother she raised to be an upright citizen is now a homewrecker

Damian: "what the hell, my mom's boyfriend is only a few years older than Demetrius!"

Anya: *Gaaaaang!* "Now Mama AND Unkie are both my rivals for Opera-shun Stix!"

Becky: *Gasp!* "There's hope for my relationship with my dear Loid! Age gaps don't matter! Maybe I should ask Master Yor's brother to be my new Master!" (@macaroni-cannoli's idea)

Wilker: "aw, would ya look at that, puppy dog's grown into a hound dog!"

Yuri: extremely confused as to what's happening, wrongly assumes that this is some kind of S-class honeypot op he's supposed to pursue

#Whoa what a vision. GAHSHSHHSHS #Melinda picking Yuri by the scruff of his neck #like hmmm Yor didn't lie #you practically have the same face. Yes you will do just fine #Yuri: 🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪 (for the glory? of the motherland?)#Donovan: siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh #Jeeves: double jelaous bc being the good dog was his job 😡#Loosing it at the idea of melinda just casually adding yuri to her blunt rotation

confusedstudent98

My prediction for the future: when they meet, Donovan annoys Anya and she kicks him in the shin.

#LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST #anya beating up desmonds agenda brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

itadoriahh

listening to pluto projector and tearing up over this beautiful boy oh my god 😭😭😭😭

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

taxi-boi

every time someone treats Feeling Love™ as Political Praxis i want to beam this whole Moses Sumney quote into their head

aromanticofficial

official aromantic post

futurebird

The "B" is *not* for "buses"

Via mastodon(aka the fediverse)

invisible-goats

it's so fun for me every time this appears on my dash because not only did i walk past it irl several times, it's on what is widely considered the busiest bus route in europe

lionofchaeronea

I welcome all my bussexual and trainsgender friends.

(Sorry--couldn't resist.)

starlight-wakuwaku

Start of a bromance. Imagine Donovans amusement, reading Twilights mind. Teasing him. And still being surprised by twilights quick thinking and often erroneous conclusions.

#OMG BROMANCE OF THE CENTURY SAY IT LOUDER OP #this summer everyone is COOKING #loid forger #donovan desmond #spy x family au

#Eden! AU secret archives

#i was pressured into showing these ok #meldon #melinda desmond #donovan desmond #spy x family #mykunst #spy x family art #jeeves sxf #Eden!AU #meldonjeev #clarification jeeves does not go to eden #he snuck in

mercutao

cursed! meldonjeev. Everything is absolutely the same as in canon. Except...

"This is unfortunate," Donovan mused. "Not unexpected, though."

"No," Jeeves agreed gloomily, the two men leaning over the desk in the master study, heavy smoke in the air, files on Forgers, Melinda's psychiatric notes and her personal diary between them.

They arrived at an understanding, a while ago.

He might not agree on everything with Master Donovan, but this? her? Melinda wouldn't be abandoning Ostania for some other country, would never dream of divorcing Donovan, wouldn't leave them. Oh, she would never leave.

And he will be so soft to his mistress, never dare to frighten nor harm her, her loyal knight. The one she could trust. Steadfast by the boys' side, more than their actual father. And she will stay where he can see her, safe and as loved as she'd let him.

They'll keep her forever.

mercutao

Jeeves agrees to help her leave, promises to take her to a safe place... But when they arrive there, Donovan is already waiting.

Did he outsmart them? How could he know?

Then, they step side by side, two imposing figures. She has nowhere to run.

"Are you afraid of us, my dearest?"

Donovan whispers, stepping closer to her. She can't say a word, terror gripping her throat. She's alone. She has nowhere to run. Her body attempts to shift back, trying to avoid the danger. She is met by a familiar wall of muscle, strong arms come around her waist securely.

There's a voice whispering in her ear, "You know we would never hurt you." as her husband completes the embrace.

She stifles a sob.

She really has nowhere to run :3

#reblog bc this is getting a sequel #whereuhhhhh uhhh hhhhhhhh things Happen

roguedeer

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism