#mothmvn

[inkyami]

Hey, do you have any recs for learning beyond the basics of Slavic mythology? Особенно украинской, хотя оно всё, конечно, в какой-то мере перемешано. А то я знаю ровно то, о чем читал еще совсем маленьким, сказки-былины и всё такое, а в подробности и пантеон как-то никогда не вдавался. Хотелось, но в сети (да и в книгах) не всегда понятно, каким вариантам/источникам можно верить, а какие - чушь собачья. Так что any recommendations на предмет "с чего начать"? типа "baby's first second Slavic mythos"?

Recommendations? Их есть у меня! First, a classic: Вездесущий В.Я. Пропп  С.В. Максимов “Нечистая, неведомая крестная сила” Ф.С. Капица (очень простой язык и структура, мои первые книги). Д.О. Шеппинг “Мифы славянского язычества” A focus on parallels and origins. Some of the theories are rather bold, but a helpful read for general understanding.  А.В Гура “Символика животных в славянской народной традиции.” Специфическая тема труда, но в качестве отправной точки и в принципе удобного инструмента в исследовании.  W.F. Ryan “ The bathhouse at midnight” (Райан, Баня в полночь) A rare occasion when the foreign author is praised by all who’ve read.  Важный совет касательно нахождения собачьей чуши. Always check who you’re reading, the sources and opinions of several researchers on a subject. 

[inkyami]

привет - просто хотела сказать, что ваши иллюстрации жутко нравятся, и те что к книгам, и те которые сами по себе. очень-очень приятно видеть иллюстрации славянской мифологии, особенно такие невероятно красивые! на (англо-)интернете ТАК много английской/греческой, а славянская - как будто какая-то новинка, обнаруженная сериалом "Американские Боги")))

Гейман, или ведьмак, или вовсе какие нибудь советские стереотипы. Книги/сериалы классные, но мало. С другой стороны, это только больший мотиватор делиться родной культурой. Ибо не греками едиными XDСпасибо за добрые слова!) 

[sumerianlanguage]

hey again! completely separate from the previous ask, since you mentioned that you're up for translations INTO sumerian, would you mind translating my name, Anna? it allegedly means "favour" or "grace" or "beautiful". And, if 2 in 1 is acceptable, the germanic name "Henry/Heinrich" (home-ruler). If not, just one of the two is fine, I hope this is okay! Thank you in advance!

Hi there, Anna, and thanks for your questions!

I’ve previously answered about “grace” and “favor”, so I hope it’s ok I just link you to that answer. By far the most common word for “beautiful” in Sumerian is sag, which also means “(to be) beautiful, good, pleasant, sweet”; it’s written several ways, most often 𒆗.

“Ruler” in Sumerian is barag 𒁈, and “home” is tush 𒆪, so I’d translate “home-ruler” as baragtusha 𒁈𒆪𒀀, “ruler of the home”.

[findmeinthealps2]

do... do d20s work different in German DND....?

there’s a sort-of DnD equivalent in germany called DSA that’s very popular. rolling a 20 in DSA is a critical failure. so most germans would not consider that post good luck lol

[marsdetective]

i saw your tags on a Shape of Water post about how SLs have no pronouns - I'm wondering, is there a difference between referring to a person and to a thing? i.e. "he" vs "it", animate vs inanimate? maybe that's the difference that was attempted?

i’m not gonna claim to know a ton about ASL - i took like a year of it in 8th grade and also went to this queer ASL event last year and that’s it. but if i understand correctly, when you talk about someone, you’ll sign their name and then point to them OR (if they aren’t there) point to a spot next to you and for the rest of the conversation, when you talk to them, you point at that spot. it’s more complex than that but i’m struggling to explain, especially when i don’t know too much about it. but that’s the gist.

to answer your question, I don’t think there’s a difference? like, to my knowledge it’s just a matter of pointing/signalling with your hands and I don’t know if she changed how she pointed or if she used a different sign before. i’d love to talk to someone fluent in ASL who’s seen the movie, to see if they noticed. plus there’s the whole issue of ‘was the movies using ‘50s ASL and if so how different is that than modern ASL?’

there’s also the possibility that she was using SEE (Sign Exact English - hearing ppl forced d/Deaf kids to use this in classrooms bc it was considered superior to ASL). This would have pronoun differences I think but 1.I don’t think she was based on the gifs - it looked more like ASL (more fluid  - not a sign for every word and more like if she was creating an image with her hands). And 2. it’d be historically inaccurate bc according to wikipedia SEE was only implemented in the ‘70s. so. idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Why is the Canadian arms deal with Ukraine a bad thing, exactly? I see people commenting on it being a "fascist" decision - what on earth does that mean??

Probably referring to the fact that there’s a neo-nazi Ukrainian battalion, and people are uncomfortable with weapons getting into their hands:

Growing number of German & intl fighters join Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion – report

US Congress Quietly Enables Funding for Ukrainian Neo-Nazi-led Azov Regiment

The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda

[dykeclea]

mothmvn replied to your post: i’d like to be proven wrong about incredibles 2 &...

yeahh… it would’ve been so good if they’d done a time jump. guess it’s to appeal more to kids, since kids wouldn’t be able to “relate” to a movie all about adults, or something

i’m sure that’s part of it but tbh i still would have been leery if they aged the kids up (probably at least a few years/mid-late teens) i’m just iffy about all these sequels coming from pixar in general. like i don’t blame people for wanting incredibles 2 b/c i know they’ve waited forever but in the time it took pixar to get this underway, we’ve had cars 2 and 3, finding dory, monsters university and toy story 3 and out of all of those i would say only toy story 3 was up to pixar’s standards. like i just think they’re becoming carelessly money-seeking and i don’t think it bodes well for the future of the company not to be That Gloomy Bitch

[bogleech]

Hey, any news on the cryptid pins from June?

Yeah I was just told they’re on the way to me, it unfortunately takes 2 weeks to get kickstarter money and another 2.5 weeks for pins to get manufactured so every time I do one of these I’m looking at over a month waiting period :(