lemurious
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Katrina | most likely older than you, she/her, ace | AO3:lemurious | Classical Greece & Rome (esp. late Republic), Renaissance, Latin, Tolkien | writing tag: #lemur writes
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Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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The more familiar with Cicero you are beforehand, the more the Pro Caelio feels like being punched in the face. It can be so very easy to buy into one view of Cicero's character, because he's simply so good at projecting the image he wants us to see. One minute all we see is absolute outrage towards anyone vaguely associated with Catiline's conspiracy, executions without trial, righteous anger and passion. And it's so bloody effective that we buy into it wholeheartedly.
But when he has to, he sheds this skin in the blink of an eye. From bemoaning the Times and Morals, Cicero pleads that the judges be lenient with Caelius, since perfect virtue like that of the heroes of the old Republic is something you find only in books and rarely in life. The times and morals become an excuse. Being dragged into the wrong political circles is just an unfortunate consequence of youthfulness. Coming from Cicero, this is just unbelievable.
But fun uncle Cicero is as much a persona as Mister Republic '63. It's only when you see such radically different versions of Cicero that you realise just what a master of rhetoric he is, how effectively he warps even our impression of him and of the case, though we are looking back with fresh eyes 2000 years later. The real Cicero is an elusive mastermind. Hearing his voice booming his ire through the senate house would have been heart-stopping. But realising how much he's playing with you in order to have such an effect is almost... something more awe-inspiring.
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mark antony voice how does a balding lying son of a pleb and an eques
#this is genius#would run to the theater so hard#can we get cicero and also caesar and cato at the catilinarian conspiracy hmm?#and catiline's last stand on the side (okay yes i read too much sallust#learning latin is dangerous people)#and all! the! philippics!!#and all the increasingly desperate letters to brutus and cassius (our entire hope lies with you etc etc)#and the incredibly gentle letters to tullia and terentia#why do you write like you're running out of time?#!!! someone make this already
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“come, let us march against the powers of heaven, and set black streamers in the firmament to signify the slaughter of the gods” is such a raw line you’d think it’s from Shakespeare, but it’s actually from the slightly earlier Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe
#i am now reading about marlowe and he is Fascinating#also this is an incredible line#resonates with paradise lost in my head#thank you op!
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so I ugh I cleaned this up :D (this being Theramenes' execution)
now everyone pray that mr comic editor guy I have booked a review with will say turning plato's dialogues into comics is a fantastic idea and that i'm hired. pray. pray harder.
#wonderful art#theramenes#here's to the health of critias#hemlock toast#this is wonderful and more folks should read about theramenes#you can call him a turncoat or aggressively consistent with his own morals
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Roman senators are not apex carnivores (their natural predator is the underpaid centurion), but for enrichment's sake you should still provide prey targets like eels, dormice, unpopular ex-governors, tribunes agitating for land reform, and a letter of loan approval tied to the end of a fishing line.
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‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
#Come on Iron Maiden sing it#This is pure metal#Victorian poetry#The worm! The rich worm has a noble domain#Ok may memorize it#If I were 14 I would've totally memorized it#Poetry rec
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It's always
"When will fanfic writers update their stories?"
And never
"Does this fanfic writer have adequate enrichment to engage in writing behaviours?"
Fanfiction writers (Scriptor fictus) are intelligent animals who need plenty of enrichment as well as encouragement! If they're stuck in poor conditions (e.g. have studies, work, have to actually write to have something written) then they require the proper enrichment to engage in more healthy behaviours, like writing. Remember, due to poor breeding and socialisation, over half of all fanfic writers suffer from low self confidence and executive dysfunction so take care of them!
Give your fanfic writers proper care. Fanfiction writers are a life long commitment.
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You know I will actually
#Omg the ace flag!!!#It has an Owl and motifs of Rome and is so metal!#All things me in a nutshell#I want this flag in my office now entirely serious
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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
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