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Dax. 30. Queer. Nonbinary (they/them). https://linktr.ee/mxdax

[lintwizardly]

[sudanese]

[wildemoth]

Gender is a performance and it’s time to play the music it’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppets show tonight

[teratomarty]

[athelind]

Guy & Brad Gilchrist, 1984

[luntfontanne]

go birds fuck ice free palestine thank you

[thesluts2004]

From the BBC live reporting of the Emmys

[trekraider]

Y'know after three years of it, I've been starting to wonder if Polyamory is still the right path for me. I love my partners, but I spend most of my day feeling single and lonely anyway. The long distance is hard too. I just... I want someone to hold. To wrap my arms around. Someone to love. Someone to choose *me*. I'm tired of having my heart split between people who can't be there for me.

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

hi. just a reminder it’s easy to forget which parts were you and which parts were armor that grew skin

but if you’re wondering you’re not gone you’re just buried under who you had to be.

love, someone still unzipping the disguise

[halondrus]

[fujoshifrasier]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Tumblr user circa 2020: there has to be something wrong with you if you think cartoons are sexy. anyone who can get turned on by a drawing is a fucking loser lol touch grass.

Normal guy from 1932 talking to his coworkers: Betty Boop makes me so fucking horny I'm going to shoot myself in the mouth

[rustmarty]

will graham stepping foot into hannibal’s office for the first time

[trekraider]

My fucking Meta account got suspended today! My Facebook of 15 years gone. My personal Instagram of 12 years gone. My business Instagram for my jewelry gone. My spicy insta with 24k followers gone.

FUCK

[were--ralph]

me at the uncut orc village

[were--ralph]

people in the comments asking what these are like they've never seen these before

[verkomy]

I get that executive dysfunction makes you not want to do the things that you don’t want to do but making you not want to do the things that you want to do? actually evil

[fagcreaturer]

when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

[ellisillus]

bringing my art blog back from the dead to share this because OP inspired me

[lovestereo]

Visit Original Link

[trekraider]

(I'm not in danger) but a part of me keeps wondering what the point of trying is and why I keep living in spite of everything that keeps happening to me

[cannibalchicken]

[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.