Err... Lethal Cilium

Sometimes I wonder what sort of world I was born on. Then I remember Gallifrey and how I wasn't born on Earth. So it makes sense.

[marcysartbo0k-deactivated202301]

This made me laugh for a couple of minutes it is so hilarious and cute!

[mad4turtles]

This made my day:33

[randomrooroo]

being what I eat: rainbow cookies [British Library: MS 11283 f.54v] #medieval #history #medievalhistory #manuscript #marginalia https://www.instagram.com/p/BynHwS1gilC/?igshid=zi21soezziku

[osointricate]

In high school one of the common fund raisers was carnation flowers for a dollar during prom season and valentines and a couple other times of year. And you could “order” flowers to be delivered to kids during their homeroom times so it was always a big deal to get flowers and it was super fun

But one of these fundraisers I had a guy friend who commented he never got any because he was always single or his girlfriend always expected flowers but never gave him any

So my senior year valentines I decided I was going to buy all the guys in my homeroom (which he was in) a carnation and said they were from “Anonymous Girl in your homeroom”

So the day came and all the guys started getting flowers and they all realized they were from the same one girl and all got super excited and giddy and protective of their flowers and all day long I saw the guys in my homeroom wear flowers behind their ears or stuffed in their notebooks and they flaunted them around to other guys that didn’t get flowers. One guy tried to see if it would make his girlfriend jealous. A couple of them tried to play detective to figure it out who it was.

Then the next day apparently they all (or at least most of them) got together and bought all the girls in homeroom a carnation as a thank you to whoever it was so every girl in my homeroom got a bouquet of one from every guy (so it was a bouquet of about a dozen) and every single girl was smiling and happy and bouncy as the guys were the day before

And no one ever knew it was me but I was always super proud of that

[ruby-white-rabbit]

One simple act can have a ripple effect of kindness that grows as it spreads

[lovelyballetandmore]

[awfulbear]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen in my life

[happifying-things]

[primordialnoodlesoup]

Blep

[papillonnne]

ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG

ARTIST

[kenchannayo]

This Is everything

[arrghigiveup]

Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme

There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome. The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest. A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad. And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom. The results are super cute.

The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”

[source] [vid source]

This is legit the cutest and most wholesome meme omg

[quomododragon]

An assignment I actually wrote on the board this week:

In groups, write 2 sentences (in Latin) using only the vocabulary in your textbook. Make sure to include:

1 irregular verb

1 imperfect verb

5 cases

BEES?

I’ll elaborate in a minute, but I need to stop laughing first.

[quomododragon]

So I’d originally planned on a 20-minute grammar lesson, followed by a handout to be finished in pairs, but I’d made the mistake of telling this class about Latin Day in April and how we were encouraging them to come to school in costume. All they wanted to do was talk about costume opportunities (and since I would like to keep my job, I had to explain why staging Caesar’s assassination in the middle of the lunchroom would be a Bad Idea), so I shifted gears and decided to channel that creative/social energy into a different assignment.

After lugging them through a condensed version of the grammar lesson on irregular verbs in the imperfect tense, I split them into groups and pulled an assignment out of the air.

The requirements:

Write two sentences in Latin

Use ONLY vocabulary from the textbook

Include at least ONE irregular verb

Include at least ONE verb in the imperfect tense

Include 5 (out of 6, including the vocative) cases

The goal:

To write them on the board for their ‘rival’ groups to translate

They are a competitive bunch, so I knew this would be enough to encourage them to go All Out. But then one student raised her hand.

“Can our sentences be about bees?” she asked.

Bees. I swear this class has a thing with Bees. I hesitated. “There are no bees in your textbook.”

“Yes, but you taught us that word.”

I had, back when this same student had asked me how to say “the bees are suffering” for a kahoot she was writing. Granted, this same student is planning on coming in on Latin Day dressed as Caligula’s horse, so none of this surprises me.

I opened it up to the other ‘groups’. “What do you think?” I asked. “Should we let them write about bees?”

“No,” said one student with a heavy sort of solemnity, looking me dead in the eye. “We should all be required to write about bees.”

As the rest of the class eagerly cheered and nodded in agreement, three things occurred to me.

The word for bee, “apis”, is a 3rd-declension i-stem noun, which they could use more practice on.

They’re going to want to describe the bees, which means they will likely also be practicing noun-adjective agreement with a 3rd-declension i-stem noun, which they could also use more practice on.

This could be flipping hilarious.

And so I added “BEES?” to the list.

[quomododragon]

The results:

1. apes ingentes Hannibalis ad Romam ibant. Moenia vincunt et Romanis miserum dant.

“The giant bees of Hannibal were going to Rome. They conquer the walls and give misery to the Romans.” In hindsight the noun miseriam would have been better, but still solid. Mentions bees AND misery. Implies an AU where Hannibal brought giant bees across the Alps instead of elephants. Carthage wins the Punic Wars. 10/10

2. Argus ignem sui amoris dare volebat ieiunis, ieiunis apibus. “Arge!” apes dicunt. “Nolumus accipere ignem tui amoris.” Argus desperat et se in mare conicit.

“Argus was wishing to give the fire of his love to the hungry, hungry bees. ‘Argus!’ the bees say. ‘We do not want to accept the fire of your love.’ Argus despairs and hurls himself into the sea.” Descriptive. Tragic. Mentions fire. Has something for everyone. Also 10/10

 3. regis magna apis volabat, et volebat occidere regi. “Beeyonce,” inquit, “uxor es. Ama me.”

“The great bee of the king was flying, and he was wishing to kill for the king. ‘Beeyonce,’ he said. ‘You are my wife. Love me.’ ” 100/10 for Beeyonce.

Guys, I’m getting paid to do this.

[dogmatix]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Yeah, I’m kind of obligated to reblog the Bees post for the third time.

[randomrooroo]

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

[julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated]

the most depressing quote from her diaries:

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”

[randomrooroo]

What I don't get is why Voldemort would spend ages coming up with a name only to not want people to use it

[fallforwatsonmoved-blog]

[theshells]

I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.

[lunapics]

….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would aparate to Neptune to get away from her.

[lightspeedsound]

Hermione Granger also: 

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot 

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous) 

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”) 

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry 

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else

in conclusion: Voldemort wishes he could be as awesome as Hermione, that’s why he wants to kill her so bad. 

[manybodies]

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist. 

[a-resilient-heart-deactivated20]

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist. 

[gidguard]

[agatha-eir]

Reblog all day err day

[anauthorandherservicedog]

I would watch these movies forever.

[randomrooroo]

People go on describing how their friends all have lives with partners and stuff but lemme tell you I'm engaged and still spent my evening alone eating twiglets dipped in mustard.

[petr1kov]

rest in fucking pieces, mr. darcy

[buckyonthelam]

paintedtapestry THIS SCENE

[lionlass7]

#imagine being a woman reading this for the first time and throwing her bonnet on#racing as fast as she can down the street to pound on her friend’s door#WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON DEAR HELEN#NEVERMIND I SHALL SIT WITH YOU UNTIL YOU REACH IT#IT IS MOST DIVERTING (via buckyonthelam)

[stephrc79]

Well, I didn’t see THAT coming.

[lizziekeiper]

Still one of my favorite things on the internet. 

[goodinthestacks]

get him

[breelandwalker]

SLAAAAAY

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

I’M HOLLERING!

[randomrooroo]

Can you imagine being a neighbour of the Dursleys though?

Year One: A massive flock of owls start nesting around your neighbourhood, and your next door neighbours mysteriously disappear for a week, after which the owls vanish.  And one of the neighbour boys.

Year Two: One of the neighbour boys who has been away all year, apparently to a group home, returns back home.  One day you overhear the boy sarcastically say he’s planning on setting a tree on fire while spouting gibberish... and his cousin runs away screaming.  As a result your neighbour installs bars on the boy’s bedroom window, but the boy still disappears in the middle of the night.

Year Three: Apparently this neighbour boy, who is presumably now only spending the summers here, has acquired a pet owl.

Year Four: More birds appear this time, a little less than three years ago, but this time they are wildly exotic.  You hear a lot of screams and bangs from inside the same neighbours house the same day the neighbour seems to leave, this time a little earlier, for the school year.

Year Five: You hear a single gunshot outside your house and stick your head out the window to see your neighbour is arguing with the owl-boy who has apparently been lying in the flower beds.  A week later the boy leaves, and the rumour is that he disappeared with a motley cleaning crew when left home alone for one day.

Year Six: This summer has been suspiciously quiet.  The boy is around but you only catch a glimpse of him once or twice.

Year Seven: Your neighbours move.  The owls disappear.  Apparently the motley cleaning crew were back again.  You give up on ever understanding what the hell was going on with that family.

[stydixa]

I turned to a friend for comfort, and instead I found everything that I’ve ever been looking for my whole life. And now, here we are, with our future before us, and I only want to spend it with you; my prince, my soulmate, my friend.

[bumblebeebats]

It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-

[kvothbloodless]

Hermione ghost wrote this