10/10/2022 is Finnish Literature Day 🇫🇮, World Homeless Day 🌏, National Kick Butt Day 🇺🇲, National Online Bank Day 🇺🇲, Native American Day 🇺🇲, National Angel Food Cake Day 🇺🇲, National Cake Decorating Day 🇺🇲, National Handbag Day 🇺🇲, National Hug a Drummer Day 🇺🇲, Indigenous People's Day 🇺🇲, World Porridge Day 🇬🇧, World Mental Health Day 🇺🇳, Italian American Day 🇺🇲

#WorldCoatiDay:

Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1627) Coati in un Paesaggio, c. 1620-40 oil on canvas Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Italy

Portrait of a South American Coati (Nasua nasua) wearing a red belled collar, presumably an individual from the Medici menagerie.

Nico di Angelo grew up in Italy.

It can only be assumed that he has an Italian accent. Over the years, his accent slips from him the longer he spends in North America. While Italian is his first language, after all those years in New York and even more in the casino, it's been put to the back-burner.

During his stay at the infirmary, he voices this in a moment of frustration. How camp isn't his home. How it's different and difficult to be in a place where no one speaks his language. How he has to slow down to speak English, even after all this time. How, sometimes, he knows the words in Italian, but not in English, so he has to change the entire sentence. How the formats jumble and his head spins. How the words have begun to feel weird on his tongue, like they don't know how to shape or how to be said.

He hasn't heard his home language in ages, up until people around his start to learn it to speak it to him. First Will, then Kayla, then Austin and then Annabeth, who is always on the quest for more information. Then, by default, Percy, as someone for her to talk to as she learns. Then Jason, who wants to understand the conversations. Then Piper, and soon enough, it's not uncommon for Nico to hear his home language. Suddenly, camp half-blood feels like home again.

Or, maybe, he's just found his home again, and he doesn't even know it yet.

The “Readers also enjoyed” feature on Goodreads (which GR says was created 10 years ago to “use people’s reviews, ratings and other data to make great personalised recommendations”) is still so bad when it comes to non-anglo books, it’s kind of funny at this point. I don’t understand how it continues being so useless when there are lots of people logging and rating books in other languages on this platform every day? It’s not breathtakingly accurate for anglo books either but the “See similar books” link will suggest at least some books that are somewhat similar in some way, whereas for non-anglo books after all this time it’s still like “I see you enjoyed this short French nonfiction book about literary salons in 18th-century Paris—I’m sure you’ll love this modern epic novel written in Romanian about a man who cheats on his wife with a ghost, since you're into the Foreign Books genre.”

Today I stopped to reflect about Nico's origins, on the fact that regardless of how you look at it, he's an immigrant in America. He was born in Italy like his sister, but they later moved.

This got me thinking about a rather weighty theme, wondering if others have ever thought about or written anything on it – namely, how Nico, once he discovered his identity, began to perceive things, and perhaps how people outside of the C.H.B., where - among many exceptions - it's a safe place, perceived him.

This intrigues and piques my curiosity a bit ~~ but I'm not sure if I'll really have time to dedicate to it. At the moment it's a nice idea, and if someone has already written something, I'd love to read it ♡

Happy everyone’s an Irish man day!!!

Posting late because I started drinking after I got off work if you couldn’t tell lmao

There are many benefits to being a librarian.

My colleague @nasak74-blog and I (known nerds who, among various things, started a d&d library group) decided to suggest some interesting summer readings...

https://rumble.com/v49x03x-lacuna-coil-one-cold-day-live-streaming-with-justjenreacts.html?mref=1t2sy0&mc=e0pra

Click link above for full video

Every time I think that it's a pity that I live in Italy and I never write anything set in my country (I love historical fantasy and mainly write that for my fully original works)... Every time I think that and then I try to research something historical/artistical here that's not the two villas in Pompeii, the Coliseum or the Uffizi Gallery, I spend at least one hour cursing like a sailor because everything is done with the apparent purpose of kicking people away and making finding informations difficult, and close everything like this:

Nessuno si salva da solo (2015) by Sergio Castellitto

Book title: L’eroe dai mille volti (The Hero with a Thousand Faces in English; 1949) by Joseph Campbell

#WorldSparrowDay:

Joseph Stella (Italian-American, 1877-1946)

1. Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds), 1924, oil on canvas

2. Study for Song of Birds, c.1924, silverpoint & crayon

from the 2023 “Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature” exhibition at Brandywine Museum of Art

“Stella assembles a classical temple of flora and fauna - in his own words, culled ‘from the elysian lyricism of the Italian spring.’ Flowers rise from a pink lotus at the base of a central column, culminating in the curious combination of a lupine and a longhorn steer's head flower, a floral form that resembles a bull's skull. Below perch three sparrows, the national bird of Italy* and a favorite of Stella's. He may have worked out this group separately in a silverpoint composition (on view adjacently) featuring the birds set among the branches of a winterberry tree rather than within a floral temple.”

🆔 Italian sparrow (Passer italiae)

I feel like an archaeologist unearthing ancient relics when actually I am just rediscovering late '00s-early '10s Lady Gaga songs

The most fucked up thing about Columbus Day that no one talks about is that it was created by president Benjamin Harrison to appease the Italian Americans so that we would not go to war after 11 Italians were lynched in New Orleans in 1892. It’s so massively fucked up and I question why this fact isn’t brought up more in discussions on why Columbus Day should not be a holiday we continue to honor.

Oh One Eyed Bastard is FUN

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every time i hear someone be like "im eastern european" and then they never talk about their home country or culture with any sort of pride or belonging im like are you actually an american bot thanks