Hey! I’m taking Latin 101 this semester at college! Any tips for starting out in the language? :)

omg excited for you!!! i hope you have a good time! oh boy you shouldnt have asked cuz now i wont shut up, ill try to be concise

my kinda cop-out advice is to get to know your professor and listen to them first before any outside help in translating. latin is a dead language, so even the most knowledgeable scholars will never have the grasp on it that native speakers of it did. we can never truly find out if we are using the language right or not, so a lot of the time things are up to interpretation! my teacher used to encourage us to challenge him when we thought we were right in something he marked as wrong - sometimes we convinced him! its best to have an open mind and not be scared of messing up or getting rules right, if your prof is good theyll take mistakes as teaching moments and discussion starters.

my less philosophical advice:

-keep all your notes and look at them often there is no shame in it. a lot of latin is working with big charts and once you know one chart you learn bigger charts and it never ends lol. write cheat sheets and then rewrite them and rewrite them again, dont let it intimidate you. i used to just stare at mine until i found a pattern that made them easier to remember or less chaotic looking.

-honestly, take too many notes. i used to label every little thing, and id write in margins the helpful things hed say while we went over it, or what mistakes i keep making, whole epiphanies scribbled in there. the fun thing of latin is its easy to romanticize it, so be extra with it if it helps!

-go back to square one a lot, its easy to forget some of the day 1 stuff once your brain gets over loaded with the day 100 stuff, go back to boost confidence and restart your mind. we used to joke about how often we would all obsess over trying to do something like figure out a ~fancy latin 4 verb~ just for us to realize it was like,, 1st person present singular that we learned literally in the first class lmao

overall - latin is DEAD which takes the pressure off imo. you can take all the time in the world to understand a part of it if you need to. your professor is probably dying to have those fun conversations with you while you figure it out! get to know your teacher, take good notes, get comfortable with all those damn charts, and have an open open mind. if youve only studied alive languages, its a whole different approach to get used to but it is definitely as fun as you think it is!!

I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

Red riding hood comic collab with the wonderful @yeehawpim (go check out their blog for loads of great comics!) 🌷 See the layouts he did here!

Larian Studios in 2029: As always we continue to improve the romance experience in Baldur’s Gate 3! See below for some of the changes coming with Patch #43:

— You now have the ability to argue about your tax returns with your spouse

— Fixed an issue where the game would freeze while you & your partner were shopping at the IKEA in Baldur’s Gate

— If you opted to have children, you must now pass a DC 30 check in order to have the energy to stay awake past 9:45 pm

— If partnered with Gale and living in Waterdeep, you can now discuss whose family you will be spending next Waukeentide with (*note, not an option with a Dark Urge character)

GOOD OMENS SEASON 3 IS HAPPENING SO I SHALL REPOST ALL OF MY GOOD OMENS ART IN CELEBRATION!! 🥳❤️

WAHOO!!!

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

Howdy Limey!

You are so sweet, I appreciate you and Aniketos wanting to attend my and Jim's wedding on the 28th; we're excited to have y'all and already have seats and party favours reserved for you two ♡

Speaking of you two, I'd love to hear what you two will be wearing! There is no set colour we want our guests to wear, just not to wear-- white and gold are reserved for myself as the gnc bride. There will be complimentary green laurel leaf crowns as part of our party favours so I hope you two will enjoy them!

Tex @tex-treasures

Howdy Tex!

We got our outfits ready for your big day! The laurel crowns are adorable and honestly perfect, thank you for such lovely party favours.

We're both deeply excited to be part of your celebrations, and once again extend gratitudes for being invited. Our gifts to the lucky wedded shall be set aside for you in your own personal time. For now though, we'll take our seats. It will be a fine day today for certain.

you can tell that the barbie movie is going to be iconic because it's already generated two "recreate this with your favourite character(s)" trends despite the fact that it isn't coming out until july

getting older can be so amazing? you get more familiar with yourself. learn tips & tricks for troubleshooting your own brain. trial & error helps you build routines that minimize discomfort, maximize reward. your preferences/interests don't get set in stone, but you do find out which ones are going to stay with you in the long-term, and which ones are fun but transient joys to appreciate in the moment.

you learn that the world is so much more complex than you were taught, and that that's okay, and that there's an endless supply of things you can learn or watch or experience or think about if you want to. if you're lucky, you loosen up, stop putting so much pressure on yourself. if you're lucky, you learn to recognize that negative inner voice, and whack it with a baseball bat until it hushes up. if you're lucky, you learn to treat yourself gently, not because you are fragile but because you are worthy of gentleness. (i hope you are lucky.)

and some things will change. some things will get better. some things will get good. and maybe you start to recover from the dehumanizing stress of childhood/education. maybe you learn the power of your own autonomy. maybe you learn how to walk away from bad situations (which is a superpower even if you don't realize it yet). and you get to choose your own clothes. and your own food. and which relationships to pursue! and what you do with your free time. and with your life (but don't worry you get to choose that gradually). and that's crazy! and sometimes scary. and extraordinarily, indescribably precious.

when i say “yippie!” i’m doing this

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

*genders your bent*

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!