DNI: zionist, antikin, ableist, lgbtq+ phobic, proshipper, support ai art, general bigotry. sorry once again I am too lazy to make a proper dni
RB > LIKES on art, preferably!
ok new pinned time finally
hello!! I'm fester, awoo, or scav! feel free to alternate names (aka pls pls pls pls/nf)!! I go by it/they/thing, but I'm also okay with he/him. I am neurodivergent (autism, anxiety, probably adhd, I'm a triple a battery) please be clear about things,, my mental health also is not the best currently so I might not be in a stable mood sometimes. i am also a minor, and I love microscopy, indie music, Fe (EA), and Rain World. :3
I am also otherkin/fictionkin, and my identities are here.^^
about my tw tags: I tag the word itself. if "geko" was a trigger, I would simply tag the post "geko". you can always ask me to tag something!
tags + info:
#scavs silly misc: miscellaneous posts/original posts. I upload random shit sometimes🔥
#scav finally draws something: drawing that I'm actually proud of! a good amount of art is in misc though
CHANGED TO: #festers fuckery dont ask/silly
#dark pearls: dark topics, vents. formerly #scav feels shitty.
#happy scav: positive vents mostly
#pearl treasury: asks and polls! formerly #scasks.
#scavs favorite pearls: gifts! at least I think that was the tag
#scav is serious: announcements mostly
#scavcanons: headcanons, ocs maybe
#scav rejects humanity: kin^^
#fester finds: things I find/find to be cool, usually music !
#fester friends: posts w/ friends ^^
alt acc: @scavssupersecretaltacc
spam acc: @i-like-to-explode
fe sideblog: @fe-enjoyer
heavy vent: @d-arkpearls
music sideblog: @woflester
elite rp sideblog: @elited-scavenger
ohh i made a cohost also
old pinned, for more info (outdated kinda)
btw, I love being tagged! I love being asked! I love getting doodle requests, though idk if I'll get them all! these are basically always open!! unfortunately I am a horrible procrastinator so I might not always answer timely :']
probably gonna add more if I forgot, which is very likely. ty!
notes below!!!
NOTES:
-if I change my PFP from your art to something else that doesn't mean I don't love it and cherish it forever!!!!! thank you so fucking much for every gift you make I love them!!!!!! seriously why do people keep making me things helppp/pos
-sorry I haven't been answering asks often:(( still don't mind asks though!
-please don't make jokes on my vent posts or anything unless I say you can btw. should have said that earlier sorry
-also, this explains a lot of why I don't respond sometimes
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Merobiba's Etymology: A Classical Discussion
The most likely place you've seen the word 'Merobiba' is Drawfee on Youtube - which has coined it as the name for a goofy little puppet-Merida from the hit film 'Bwave'.
Fig. 1: A screenshot from the original Drawfee video, posted Feb 2, 2023.
They pulled the word (among others) from the twitter account Weird Medieval, which posted this (Fig. 2) on Dec 6, 2022.
Fig. 2, the original 'merobiba' tweet, accessed via proxy
Weird Medieval sources the word (and others in the thread) to The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght, written 1490? - 1546, according to the University of Michigan Library [via the Early English Books Text Creation Partnership].
But where did syr Eliot acquire the word?
Fig. 3: the cover of Plautus' Curculio: Revised Edition, With Introduction and Notes by John Wright, which is what I'm currently using for class.
It was likely in a contemporary transcription of Plautus' Curculio, a Roman comedic play published around 200BCE. - Specifically act 1, line 77 (though different versions have slightly different numbering):
Transcribed from Plautus' Curculio: Revised Edition, With Introduction and Notes by John Wright:
77 - PH. nomen Leanaest, multibiba atque merobiba.
78 - PA. Quasi tu lagoenam dicas, ubi unium Chium
79 - solet esse. PH. quid opust uerbis? uinosissuma est;
The two characters - Phaedromus (PH), a young man madly in love, and Palinurus (PA), his sassy, unimpressed slave, are discussing an enslaved woman in the supporting cast (ancilla). Merobiba references her ability to drink very strong wines, and multibiba references the amount. As T. H. M. Gellar-Goad translates it in Plautus: Curculio: "she's a super-drinker and stupor-drinker" (pg. 10) [multibiba atque merobiba]. Phaedromus goes on to state uinosissuma est, which Gellar-Goad translates to "She's winetastic" (pg. 10). Phaedromus may not have game, but he has... a way with words...?
Gellar-Goad goes on to state that "Plautus has coined [multibiba and merobiba] by smashing together smaller, familiar words. ... Plautus' plays are chock-full of this sort of inventive, fast-and-loose wordplay, and it's a challenge for translators to keep up" (pg. 11).
Given Plautus' propensity for creating weird, cognate words for the sole purpose of sounding silly, it's highly likely that this is the truly first use of the word 'Merobiba'.
So, next time you hear "I'm merobiba!" and chuckle sensibly, remember:
You are keeping a 2200 year-old word alive. Thank you.
Note: If you've read to this point and think you've got an even earlier version--probably also in the colloquial/comedic Latin literature tradition--please rb with your findings!! And if I forgot a source pls lmk.
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