Crows My Beloved

Kestrel, he/him, secretly several crows in a trench coat

[tiredeldrichcrow]

If any of y’all are interested in more bird content I’ve opened a side-blog @queer-seagull so feel free to follow that one for exclusive bird-nerdery! 

[urie]

real nuance perverts when it depends

[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

[billiamdoor]

Ianthe Tridentarius the character of all time, shes a weird perverted sadistic bitch, shes a genius, shes immortal, she ate her cavalier because she wanted ultimate power and has absolutely no shame about it, shes the only person who left Canaan House having gotten exactly what she wanted and had fun while doing it, she called Harrow Daddy, fucking Daddy in the prologue of HtN, shes in love with Harrow, she helped Harrow give herself a lobotomy, somehow these two things are not in opposition to one another. I’m absolutely certain that she’s barely in the first book because if she said anything ever it would kill the gravitas of her villain monologue at the end because she’s such a weird perverted freak and she’s the funniest character in the second book for the same reason, I hate her, shes great

[almondcroissantsandink]

Gifts for the Savior of Erid! (one of them, at least. Rocky got a lot of new jewelry, too) <3

[heyhoneyfox]

Quick reminder that you don't need a solid sexuality! You can just be in love! Or not be in love! Or have a gender! Labels are a choice, not a requirement. All you need to do is be someone you like being! If labels help with that, great! But they are not required. You don't owe it to anyone, so don't feel pressured to choose labels if they aren't your thing!

[phlebasthebroenician]

Yahoooooooooo!!!!

[peach-paradox]

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

[ollielephant]

[cumonthevoid]

none pizza with left beef

[the-chocolate-chip-pancake-blog]

It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[orcboxer]

it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! 🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,

[arroscnleche]

soy yooo tu ángel de la guarda holiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 bueno. en como seis meses, vas a morir de hambre. 🥺 y si no te protejo, me van a: #¡despedir! 🫢 y eso No esta Chido 🙅‍♀️jajaaa Entonces. 🙏investigue acerca del tema y resulta que: ¡puedo prevenir tu muerte al 100%! 😯 ¡Uh oh! 😆 Hay más que suficiente comida para que sobrevivas sin que interfieras con la supervivencia de los demás, ¡pero no puedes teneral! 🤨 ¿Queeeé? 🤷‍♀️ Al parecer, tu muerte fue premeditada por miles de cosas llamadas "accionistas." Y bueno. 🙏 empeze a matar personas,

[tracing-rivers]

c'est moooi ton ange gardien coucooou 😇 bon 🙏 alors. dans genre six mois, tu vas mourir de faim. 🥺 et si je te protège pas, je vais me faire: #virer ! 🫢 et ça c'est pas Pas Super 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Donc. 🙏 j'ai fait mes recherches sur les causes de famine et devine quoi: Ta mort est 100% évitable ! 😯 Oh-oh ! 😆 Il y a largement assez de ressources pour te nourrir sans interférer avec la survie d'autrui, mais tu n'y as pas accès ! 🤨 Quoooi ? 🤷‍♀️ Apparemment ta mort a été préméditée par des milliers de trucs appelées des "actionnaires". Du coup.🙏 j'ai tué pas mal de monde,

[clockworkspider]

hiiiiii 😇 我是亲的守护小天使！okay🙏 嗯。您在差不多半年会饿死哈🥺 若我不能救您我会被#炒鱿鱼！🫢 那可不行哦🙅‍♀️ 哈哈。所以昵🙏我查了一下人类饿死的原因，然后发现：诶呀呀😯亲的死是可以避免哒！😆 这世上有足够食物给亲吃，一点儿也不需要影响别人的生存率哒！但不给亲！🤨 怎么会这样昵？ 🤷‍♀️ 原来，亲的死是被一帮叫“股东”的东西计算好滴！ 所以昵🙏 我杀了一些人，

[orcboxer]

y'all are doing some rosetta stone shit to me

[tokupidgeon]

Ich bin's, dein Schutzengel hiiii 😇 okay 🙏 also, in ungefähr 6 Monaten verhungerst du🥺 und wenn ich dich nicht beschütze, werde ich wohl #gefeuert 🫢 und das wäre nicht gut 🙅🏼‍♀️ hahaaa also. 🙏 Ich habe mich mit den Ursachen vom Verhungern auseinander gesetzt, und stellt sich raus: Dein Tod ist absolut abwendbar 😯 ohoh 😆 Es gibt mehr als genug Nahrung, um dich durchzufüttern, ohne dass das das Überleben andere beeinträchtigt, aber die kannst du leider nicht bekommen 🤨 hääää? 🤷🏼‍♀️So wie's scheint wurde dein Tod schon von tausenden Dingen namens "Anteilseigner" beschlossen. Also. 🙏 Ich hab angefangen Menschen zu töten,

[fluidstatick]

դա ես եմ, ես քո պահապան հրեշտակն եմ, ողջույն, 😇 լավ 🙏, այնպես որ: Մոտ վեց ամսից սովից կմեռնես։ 🥺 եւ եթե ես քեզ չպաշտպանեմ, կստանամ. 🫢 եւ դա լավ չէ։ 🙅‍♀️ Ես 🙏 ուսումնասիրեցի սովի պատճառները, եւ պարզվում է. 😯 Հա՜հ։ 😆 Կա ավելի քան բավարար սնունդ ձեզ պահելու համար՝ առանց որեւէ մեկի գոյատեւմանը խանգարելու, բայց ձեզ թույլ չի տրվում ունենալ այն: 🤨 Ինչպե՞ս։ 🤷‍♀️ Ըստ երեւույթին, ձեր մահը կանխամտածված է հազարավոր բաների կողմից, որոնք կոչվում են «բաժնետերեր»: Այսպիսով: 🙏 Ես սպանում եմ մարդկանց,

[gemglowstyx]

jIH'e' 'angbogh Da QanwI'lI' jIH luq 😇🙏. qaSpu'DI' jav jar, ghungmo' bIHegh. 🥺 'ej qaQanbe'chugh, vaj vISuq: #fired! 🫢 vaj QaQbe 🙅 ♀️' ghu'vam. 🙏 ghungmo' meqmey vInuD, 'ej SIbI' HeghlIj toDlu'chu'! 😯 HIja'! 😆 DutaHmoHmeH yapbej Soj 'ej latlh taHtaHghach nISbe'lu', 'ach Daghaj net chaw'be'! 🤨 nuqjatlh? 🤷 ♀️ HeghlIj 'e' HeSlaw' SaD lang

[xyloid-devices]

niiii naiz zure aingeru guardako iiiiepa 😇 ongi🙏 ea. sei hilabete barru edo, goseak hilko zara. 🥺 eta ez bazaitut babesten, #kaleratu egingo naute! 🫢 ta hori Ez Dago Ongi 🙅‍♀️ karkaaar Beraz. 🙏 Goseak hiltzearen arrazoiak ikertu ditut, eta antza denez: Zure heriotza guztiz saihesgarria da! 😯 Hara! 😆 Beste inoren biziraupena oztopatu gabe bizi ahal izateko nahikoa janari dago, baina ez duzu hartzeko baimenik! 🤨 Zeeer? 🤷‍♀️ Antza denez, zure heriotza "akziodun" deitzen diren milaka izakik planifikatu dute. Beraz. 🙏 Jendea hiltzen ibili naiz,

[dykeology-201]

dekho main aapke guardian angel hoon namasteeee 😇 theek 🙏 tohh. kuch chhe mahene mein, aap bhook se mar jao ge 🥺 aur if main aapke rakshe nahi karta, main ho jaungi: fired!! 🫢 aur woh bahut Achha Nahi Hai 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Toh. 🙏 Maine bhook se marne ki vajat shogh kari, aur yeh sun: Aapke marna pure navarey hai 😯 Arey ma! 😆 Aap ke liye kaafi se aur bhi khana hai kisi aur se lene ki bina, par aap le nahi sakte! 🤨 Ye kya baat hai? 🤷‍♀️ Sun ye, aapka marna hazaaron se cheezein se pehle se vichaarit hai, ye cheez hain "shareholders." Toh. 🙏 Mai logon ko thora hatya kari vi hoon,

[yassalghul]

あたしだよぉ〜♡ アンタの守護天使でぇ〜す☆ ハーイ😇 ってゆーかぁ🙏 アンタさぁ、あと半年くらいで餓死しちゃうんだケド〜🥺 でぇ、あたしがアンタのコト守んないと、あたしマジで【#クビ】決定じゃん!?🫢 そんなんアリエナクナイ?🙅‍♀️ ウケるんですケド〜 あははっ んでぇ🙏 餓死の原因チョー調べてみたらさぁ? アンタの死、フツーに防げんじゃん!?😯 ヤバッ!😆 ってか、アンタが生きてくのに十分すぎるくらい食べ物あんのに、他の人の邪魔もしないのに、アンタにはダメなんだってぇ!?🤨 意味わかんないんですケドぉ〜?🤷‍♀️ なんかぁ、アンタの死ってぇ、「株主」とかゆー何千もの連中にあらかじめ決められてるらしーよ?ってコトで🙏 あたしさぁ、ずっと人殺しまくってるワケ、

[mundart-ch]

eeeech bes din schotzängel hoooooi 😇 okei 🙏 also. i öppe sächs mönet wersch du verhongere. 🥺 ond weni dech ned beschötze den werdi: #entloo! 🫢 ond das Wemmer Ned 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Also. 🙏 ech ha rescherschiert werom das mer cha verhongere ond es het sech usegschtellt: din tood esch extreem verhenderbaar! 😯 o-oou! 😆 s'hed mee als gnueg zässe zom dech am läbe phalte oni das öpper andersch zwenig het, aber dier erlaubets need das z'haa! 🤨 Waaaas? 🤷‍♀️ aanschiined esch din tood foorsätzlech veruursacht fo tuusige fo dengs wo "akzionäär" häisset. Also. 🙏 ech ben am lüüt morde gsii,

[occidentalist]

أنا ملاكك الحارس هايييي 😇 اوكيه🙏 بص بقى. بعد حوالي ست شهور كده، إنت هتموت من الجوع 🥺 ولو ما حمتكش أنا #هاترفد! 🫢 وده شيء مش لطيف🙅‍♀️ هَهَهَهَهَ المهم 🙏 قعدت أدور في أسباب المجاعة، واتضح: موتك كان ممكن نتفاداه بسهولة جدًا!😯 أوبا !😆 طلع في أكل أكتر من كفاية يعيشك من غير ما يأثر على حياة أي حد تاني أصلًا، بس مش مسموحلك تاخده🤨 يا نهار أبيض🤷‍♀️ واضح إن موتك مكتوب ومتخططله من آلاف الكائنات اسمهم "المساهمين." فا.🙏 بدأت أقتل شوية ناس،

[kochamregionalizmy]

to jaaaa twój anioł stróż hejkaaaaa 😇 okej🙏 a więc. za około pół roku, umrzesz z głodu. 🥺 i jeśli cię nie ochronie, to mnie: #zwolnią! 🫢 i to Niedobrze 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Więc. 🙏 Sprawdziłem jakie są powody śmierci głodowej i okazuje się: Twoja śmierć jest totalnie do uniknięcia! 😯 O rany! 😆 Jest więcej niż potrzeba żywności, aby zapewnić ci przetrwanie bez szkodzenia przetrwaniu innych ludzi, ale nie możesz jej mieć! 🤨 Cooooo? 🤷‍♀️ Okazuje się, twoja śmierć jest zaplanowana przez tysiące tych rzeczy o nazwie "akcjonariusze." Więc. 🙏 Zabijałem ludzi,

[hereticprideful]

나야ㅏㅏㅏ 님의 수호천사ㅏㅏㅏ ㅎㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇ😇 ㅇㅋ🙏 그. 여섯달 후에 님은 굶어 뒤짊. 🥺그리고 제가 님을 보호하지 않으면 저는: #해고 당함! 🫢 그리고 그건 나 쁘 다. 🙅‍♀️ 하하ㅏㅏㅏ 그래서. 🙏님이 굶어 뒤지는 이유를 알아봤는데: ㅊㅋ 님 안 뒤질수도 있어! 😯 하 지 만! 😆 세상에는 남에게 피해 안 주고 님이 살기 위해 필요한 음식이 차고 넘치는데, 님이 가지면 안된데! 🤨 어 라 ? 🤷‍♀️ 내가 알아봤는데, 님 죽음은 "주주"라는 무언가들에게서 계획된 범죄래. 그래서. 🙏 내가 조금 사람들을 죽이고 다녔는데,

[trelobalaki]

Εγώ είμαιιιι, είμαι ο φύλακας άγγελός σου, γειαααα 😇 οκ. 🙏 λοιπόν. σε κάνα εξάμηνο, θα πεθάνεις από πείνα. 🥺 και αν δεν σε προστατεύσω θα με: #απολύσουν! 🫢 και αυτό Δεν Είναι Καλό. 🙅‍♀️ χαχααααα Άρα. 🙏 Έψαξα τις αιτίες του λιμού και αποδεικνύεται ότι: Ο θάνατός σου είναι τελείως αποφευκτός! 😯 Ωχ! 😆 Υπάρχει υπέρ αρκετό φαγητό για να σε συντηρήσει χωρίς να παρέμβει με την επιβίωση κανενός άλλου, αλλά δεν επιτρέπεται να το έχεις! 🤨 Τιιιιιι; 🤷‍♀️ Από ο,τι φαίνεται, ο θάνατός σου είναι προμελετημένος απο χιλιάδες πράγματα που λέγονται "μέτοχοι". Λοιπόν. 🙏 Έχω αρχίσει να σκοτώνω κόσμο,

[tutsduckies]

Это я! Я твой ангел-хранитель, привет! 😇 Ладно, 🙏 Итак. Примерно через шесть месяцев ты умрешь от голода. 🥺 И если я тебя не защищу, меня уволят! 🫢 А это никуда не годится 🙅‍♀️ ха-ха-ха. Так вот. 🙏 Я изучило причины голода, и оказалось: твоей смерти можно было избежать! 😯 Ой-ой! 😆 Еды более чем достаточно, чтобы тебя прокормить, не мешая выживанию других, но тебе нельзя ее есть! 🤨 Что? 🤷‍♀️ Оказывается, твоя смерть предопределена тысячами существ, называемых «акционерами». Так вот. 🙏 Я начало убивать людей,

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[i-give-you-a-fish]

See him shmoove

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[casgirl]

Characters who are like “let’s run away together let’s get away from all this” when it’s already too late!!!!!!!

[alexanderwales]

I was reading through the U.S. Copyright Office's "What Does Copyright Protect?" page, mostly to make sure that I wasn't being wrong on the internet, but I absolutely love that this is part of their FAQ:

How do I protect my sighting of Elvis? Copyright law does not protect sightings. [,,,]

There are only 12 questions on the FAQ, and this is one of them.

[reggiemess]

A lot of media these days wants to be The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and the thing is that The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny already exists and would not be improved by realistic cgi and three hours of lore and self-aware smirking.

[reggiemess]

Disney wants SO BAD to have a moment where Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight and Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader, Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan all come out of nowhere lightning fast and kick Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass but they can't. They will NEVER have that moment. So instead we're just going to have Avengers Lego Pixar Princesses crossovers forever.