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don't make me wait | copia x reader

summary: you make copia wait, he’s not happy about that. or alternatively: "DOM COPIA BREEDING AGAINST A DOOR" (powered by @sweatandwoe)

content: 1.5k words, afab!reader, dom!copia, smut, 18+ only, MDNI or I block you, breeding kink, rough sex, p in v, some mild degradation, they're established

Masterlist – Ao3 link

You would keep Copia waiting. You knew you would. And yet you agreed to help a desperate Sibling study for their Latin test to avoid the wrath of Papa Secondo. You could not help it, not when they asked you with tears in their eyes, lips quivering, already shaking. And that is why you spent the past two hours in the library explaining grammar rules to a novice.

Only when the bells start chiming six do you realize that you’re not just ten minutes late to your… little meeting… but a whole hour.

There is no time to feel guilty about it. You run down the corridors in nervous anticipation, only slowing down when you reach the eerily quiet wing that houses the offices of the high-ranking clergy members. You enter Copia’s office without knocking, only to find him already waiting by the entrance. Startled, you don’t fight him when he immediately pulls you further inside and slams the door shut again. The harsh sound echoes in your head like an explosive and you squeal in surprise, almost stumbling over your own feet.

“I was coming to look for you,” Copia states and then he’s suddenly pushing you against the hard wooden door, flipping you around until his front is pressed against your back, caging you in. You have to turn your head so your nose won’t get crushed and impair your breathing. Cheek squished and one eye squeezed close, you try to catch a glimpse of him. But Copia is busy. The lock clicks, the familiar sound much closer to your ear than usual as he traps you inside of his stuffy office. You shudder in excitement. His breath is hot against your burning skin when he brings his mouth to your ear, lips grazing the shell.

“I want you,” he growls. “I’ve wanted you all f-fucking day. And you make me wait?”

You whimper as his teeth meet the skin of your neck, slowly wandering down the slope of your shoulder where he stops, taking a deep breath.

“Do you not want me?” he asks, biting you through the fabric of your habit. “Tell me, amore, have you grown tired of your Papa? Is that why you come late?”

You whimper pathetically, arching into him. He’s already hard against your ass, pushing in even more as his teeth dig into your flesh until it’s bordering painful. The thought of his strong jaw makes you suck in a sharp, lust-filled breath.

“Words,” he snarls. “Tell me, amore. Tell me you want me.”

“I want you. I want you so bad.”

He groans, dragging his hot mouth over your neck again, restless and hungry and searching. He bites the soft skin just below your ear, even harder than before, pulling at your skin before he releases. “Say it again, tesoro. Say it. Make me believe you.”

“I want you,” you whisper. “Please, I want you so much, Copia.”

He grunts, pulling back only to slam you against the door again. “It’s Papa.”

You cry out, fingers sprawled over the smooth wood for more support. “I want you so much, Papa. I want– I n-need you.”

“Again,” he growls. “Say it.”

“I want you, Papa, I want you. I need you.”

His hand finds yours and he weaves your fingers together, sliding your joint hands over your head only to grab your other hand as well, rendering you immobile as he traps them beneath his strong palm. The angle is uncomfortable, your breasts hurt from the way they are squeezed against the solid door and you know you’ll find purple bruises all over your body tomorrow.

“I’m going to fuck you now,” Copia says. “And I want you to repeat your words with every thrust, amore, you understand? You beg for me like a good little whore. You beg because you made your Papa wait.”

“Y-yes.”

He groans in annoyance. “Yes, what?”

“Yes, Papa. I’m sorry, Papa.”

You hear him work his pants open with his free hand, knuckles rubbing against your ass every few seconds without providing any sort of relief. It takes a while until you finally hear the buckle of his belt and then he’s hiking up your skirts so roughly that his nails bite into your soft ass cheek. You cry out when his hand finally meets your soaked panties, pushing them to the side only to slide two fingers into your dripping hole without warning. You keen, clench around him, unable to hide just how needy you are by now.

“Oh, you like that, sì? You’re so starved for your Papa.”

“Hmmm.”

“What did I tell you?” His voice has an unfamiliar edge to it, rougher, deeper, a timbre that has your whole pussy throbbing. “Speak.”

“Please, Papa, I n-need you. Need you inside of me, please.”

“Say that you want my cock, amore. Say it.”

You swallow, throat dry and scratchy from creating all these desperate sounds. “I want your cock, Papa. Please.”

He removes his fingers, giving you no time before his cock slides in, all the way until his whole length is buried deep inside of you. Two seconds to adjust, then he pulls out and slams back in, hard and relentless. You cry out, nails digging into the unyielding wood of the door until they hurt.

“So tight, fuck.” His free hand finds your hip, kneading the doughy flesh as he adjusts. Suddenly he gives you a hard smack to help you remember. The sound echoes in the otherwise quiet room just like the stinging pain lingers on your skin.

You speak without even thinking. “I want you so bad, Papa. Please, please fuck me.”

“That’s it. You learn, finally.”

The intermission is over. Wet, obscene sounds fill the silent office, orchestrated by Copia’s unrelenting rhythm. He fucks you like he’s been desperate to do so all day, rough, hammering thrusts that would hurt if it weren’t for the way he’s hitting you just right, dragging the tip of his cock over your sweet spot again and again. You give him what he wants, join in on his symphony with your cries and whimpers, followed by the occasional please and I need you, Papa, I want you so much. Ordinarily, you would be embarrassed that anyone walking by his office door can hear you, but you’re too far gone to care now. Every stroke carries you closer to your release and you can tell he’s close too by the way his grunts become needy and off-key.

You ignore the pain in your cheek, the pain in your fingers, the way your knees are giving out underneath you. All you can focus on is how good it feels and then he’s suddenly pulling your lower body into him with his palm against your abdomen, pushing in even deeper. You involuntarily arch your back into a painful angle but it’s too good, especially once his hand snakes under your habit, searching, warm and still wet with your juices. Once his thumb grazes your clit you come undone. Your muscles spasm and you start shaking violently as you find your release, crying in high-pitched whimpers. Copia lets out a string of curses, faltering in his rhythm.

“Beg,” he says. “Beg for my come, ask me to b-breed you like a bitch.”

You’re struggling to comprehend but another growl has you babbling. “Come for me, Papa. Please breed me, let me have your s-seed.”

Your words have him moaning desperately, a sound that makes you clench even harder around him, and suddenly he stops dead in his tracks. Another moan and he’s spilling inside of you, rope after rope, twitching wildly. You almost don’t hear his next words over your panting, even though his mouth is still right by your ear.

“I love you,” he whispers. “Oh, how I love you.”

You smile, completely spent. “I love you, too.”

Copia slowly unravels your bodies and you flinch when he pulls out, his come trickling down your thighs immediately. But you’re more concerned about your aching arms as you carefully bring them back down, your joints complaining with every centimeter. Copia reaches for your wrists, rubbing slow circles before he starts massaging your numb limbs to increase the blood flow. You can’t help but stare at his disheveled form, hair tousled and lipstick smudged, his wet, softening dick still out.

Copia presses a soft kiss to your palm before he drops your arms, inspecting your cheek instead. “Does it hurt bad? I know I went a little crazy on you, tesorino.”

“It’s fine, I like it like that,” you reply, but when he touches your bruised cheekbone you still hiss.

Copia hums but it’s not a happy sound. “I’m sorry, amore.”

You softly shake your head and pull him in for a proper kiss. He immediately sinks into your embrace, holding you like the most precious thing, and you’re happy for the support. His lips are cautious, soothing, providing all the softness he lacked earlier. You already can’t wait to return to your quarters and sink into the silky sheets of your shared bed.

When you break away, Copia rests his forehead against yours, nuzzling your nose. “You really should not make an old man wait like this,” he says. “I get so worked up, amore.”

You can’t help but grin. “Actually, my love, I think I should be late way more often.”

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ruhua-langblr · 3 months

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how does duolingo suck?

I'm going to assume this is a genuine question in good faith!

In general, I do not think that DL is effective for achieving linguistic fluency. However, fluency is not everything and is not everyone's end goal! It can be a great introduction to many languages and get people fired up about starting to learn a new language—all which are good things. Before I address the recent problematic changes to the app that make it "suck", I want to be clear that even before it really wasn't that great. It had a good UI, constant expansion, and a very enthusiastic marketing team, but none of those are really important to actual language learning. Outside of popular European languages (Spanish/French/German) the quality is incredibly hit or miss. When I started learning Chinese I checked out DL and it was just not good! It's pretty common knowledge that DL is not good for learning non-latin based languages. Not to mention that the levels in those languages do not get you far. I was able to do speed runs of the Chinese course for fun early on in learning Chinese because it tops out at about HSK 3. (If you're unfamiliar with the HSK system, real Chinese "fluency" is HSK 6+ depending on if you're going by HSK 3.0 or not.)

The reason the post I made took off now is a combination of profit-driven decisions made by DL in the past year, culminating with laying off actual translators—a field I happen to be in!

The major decisions I'm referring to above are the following:

The "pausing" of the Welsh course and ending the partnership with the Welsh government. The National Centre for Learning Welsh did wish to continue the partnership, stating "Should Duolingo change its policy the centre would be happy to help with the work of developing the Welsh course,". Languages that offer business partnerships, like High Valyrian, don't get paused.

Removal of Forums and Sentence Discussions. Because DL never truly "teaches" you grammar, you are expected to pick it up from pattern association and repetition. This would work fine if languages weren't complex and notorious for having exceptions. These spaces were places for people to better understand the language, but that's not a profitable thing! It's more profitable to charge people to have an AI "explain" a sentence. Also people liked DL for the community aspects! Native speakers could answer your questions and you could joke about how wacky a sentence was.

Final nail in the coffin:

Pivot to AI and laying off translators. For the record, I don't think AI is innately evil. I think in moderation it can be helpful and if an app's upgraded tier is just AI chat then whatever. However, as a translator, I can tell you that it just doesn't work well. Having done post-editing of AI translations, it just sucks. It makes mistakes humans would never make and trying to unravel them is a pain. When I edit a human's translation, I can figure out what they were thinking and how they got it from the text. AI translations frequently just... skip parts that don't make sense to it. DL had already integrated AI into the app on a premium content basis, but now it's fully hit users that never asked for it. I've seen a lot of people talking about how their language is having mistakes now. People want to use DL to learn a language, and if the app is teaching them the language wrong that is a huge problem. It is unlikely that DL will be satisfied with this, but rather continue to replace as much of its workforce as possible with AI.

In short: Duolingo's first priority is bringing profits and shiny objects like AI to dangle in front of its shareholders. That is what makes Duolingo suck.

#duolingo #langblr #language learning #question

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solradguy · 1 year

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hi! can you tell your whole process for learning japanese on your own? where did you start? what resources did you utilise? how did you find and manage your time and maintain discipline? also, how long did it take you to reach fluency?

I am sooooo far from fluent hahaha I'm stumbling through this language Gromit-style

Ok, so, circa 2014 I was studying Norwegian because I really wanted to learn a secondary language (thx American school system...) and I really liked the cadence/feel of Norwegian. That was my entire reason for studying it, I just liked how it sounded lol. But by 2016 I'd learned enough of it from Duolingo that it was time to move on to more difficult study materials.

Which I could not find for the life of me.

I got frustrated and decided it'd probably be best to pick up another language. Japanese was the one I saw the most since a lot of my favorite artists are Japanese, some of my best inking supplies come from Japan (with Japanese packaging), and there used to be a really good local Japanese restaurant too (RIP). Duolingo had just launched an absolutely shit Japanese course that motivated me to look for better practice materials.

I think I started practicing the kana through just writing them a whole bunch before finding out about Tofugu's hiragana and katakana mnemonics-based study articles. From there I did the three free levels offered by Wanikani. Wanikani is awesome, I learned a lot through that program and wish the full version one-time purchase was more affordable... It's worth it, I'm just broke haha

After a while I lost interest in studying Japanese because it's so difficult/time consuming and tried out reconstructed Classical Latin (HARD!), Norwegian again, and just barely dipped my toes into Esperanto. About a year before I got into Guilty Gear (2020), I picked up Japanese again by refreshing my progress on Wanikani. The Duolingo course still sucked but it had gotten a tiny bit better with its kana study tool, though I dropped it again before long. What helped the most this time were books. I tried out these:

Genki - Not bad. I liked how it broke down parts of grammar. However, it's definitely written for a classroom setting. The topics/vocabulary were all school themed and, on top of feeling like I was missing vital information by self-studying, it just got boring.

Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese - This has a physical version but I read it through the free app/website. Much more advanced than Genki, but made for self-study and as a grammatical reference tool. It went a bit over my head and was too fast-paced, I learn kinda slow... Now that I'm much better at Japanese, I should try it again.

Japanese From Zero - My favorite of the books I tried. Goes slower, made more for self-study, and has some free supplemental materials on their website.

While Japanese From Zero was working great, I was losing interest again because my brain CRAVES variety. Straight up translating stories has helped me more than anything else. Japanese Short Stories for Beginners by LingoMastery was a good investment alongside Barron’s Japanese Grammar by Carl and Nobuo Akiyama and Japanese Verbs & Essentials of Grammar by Rita L. Lampkin to help with grammar concepts Japanese Short Stories doesn't expand on enough. IMABI (website) is also a very good grammar reference guide. It can be a bit dry, but I like that. It doesn't waste time and is very direct.

Lingodeer has been invaluable too. The free version is smartphone app only, but that's fine since I usually study right before bed anyway. It has a 5 minute quiz that's just snappy enough to refresh my knowledge without being so long that my brain gets bored of the repetition. The lesson modules also do a really great job at explaining grammatical concepts. There are some other study tools, like specific ones for practicing grammar and vocabulary, that I like.

Then in 2021 I got into Guilty Gear. Boy, did I get into Guilty Gear. Translating GG books has helped me more than all of these other materials combined (except the Tofugu kana articles). HIGHLY recommend going a little crazy for a piece of Japanese media if you wanna learn the language.

I can't speak it for shit though, to be honest lmao. But I set out learning it to read things so that's fine; there are very, very, few Japanese speakers where I live anyway. What I mean by this is that I don't have any materials to suggest for learning how to speak it or to improve listening comprehension, sorry...

If I'm not currently working on a translation project (which counts as studying!!), I try to do at least one of these forms of practice each day:

10-15 minutes of Lingodeer

Do Anki flashcards until I get bored. There's a deck that's all 60 levels of Wanikani, though Wanikani itself is still better.

Practice kana stroke order for the ones I still sometimes struggle with （ツ、シ、ン、ソ......）and at least 5 kanji

Read something in Japanese. Lately this's been Japanese-English Translation: An Advanced Guide by Judy Wakabayashi

There's a page on my Neocities with some study tools but it needs updated with a few things I've since found that work better:

#asks #long post

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si1v3rtr33s · 2 months

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bungo stray dogs bilingual/multilingual character headcanons, barring the obvious ones (guild members = english and japanese, rimlaine = french and japanese, fyodor = russian and japanese, nikolai = ukranian and japanese) and the extra obvious one (everyone speaks japanese)

(this is gonna be really long, almost 1400 words, so under the cut it goes)

akutagawa with french and chinese, because he used an oddly high amount of french in his stories and a lot of them had influence from chinese mythology. also i think it’d be sweet to see him learning french from gin who learned it from verlaine.

speaking of, gin and kyōka learning french from verlaine. i just think those three sitting in the basement together, teaching and learning, would be cute. and i wanna see atsushi and kunikida confused as to why kyōka can speak fluent french.

atsushi with chinese for similar reason as akutagawa. we’ve seen him reading in a library, so it wouldn't be far-fetched to say they had access to other languages. i also think that kyōka is teaching him french and lucy is teaching them english.

chūya taught himself some english in the sheep, which was reinforced by doc (who we are going to hear about later), and taught himself french after rimbaud’s death because he felt drawn to the language. a year later, he met his french brother and resented the language a little bit for a while but come meursault and he can actually talk to any of the locals they come across because he picked it back up after dazai defected.

ranpo speaks way too many to count. he got bored as a kid and they just stuck. english is most notable and most commonly used (mainly poe but also the occasional foreigner witness or run-in with fitzgerald), but i imagine him speaking some german, chinese, latin, french, and a bit of filipino. anyone can add on to this list with little to no reason and i would accept it.

the tanizakis are learning english in school because y’know. school curriculum. i think poe is helping them study and that would be cute.

dazai learned german in the pm just to speak very aggressively at mori. i think it’d be funny to see him and ranpo, slacking off and holding a conversation in german. nobody can understand them and think they’re making plans or discussing a confidential case, but they’re just talking about something trivial like cats or candy or just gossiping. they also know a good bit of english, enough for him to hold conversation decently well with poe (which is an achievement in and of itself; poe speaks eloquent english and dazai speaks old man japanese) (see the first few chapters of the manga to see what i'm talking about because they said some of the most grandpa-type shit to atsushi there). i think it’d be nice to give him some down time.

jōno knows braille and japanese sign language. neither are spoken languages, but sign language is a language of its own with its own grammar and vocabulary. and braille because... he’s blind.

adding onto that, techō knows braille for jōno and sign language because (headcanon) he’s hard of hearing. and because he goes nonverbal (autism) and still has to communicate somehow.

you know what, all five hunting dogs (yes even fuckcoochie) know sign and braille. because they are a family (yes even fuckcoochie, but only before the doa arc) and they accommodate each other. and they need something to do on the day off but that’s a discussion for another time.

sigma is a funny one since we don’t know their author, but their name is literally just a greek letter so they know greek and their dad is russian so uh nikolai’s teaching them russian so they can communicate with fyodor easier. have at thee.

ango knew a little english, enough to hold a half-decent conversation. dazai tutored he and oda (pre-t homo teaches their homo dads english) when they had nothing better to do.

hhh time for white people.

fyodor and nikolai know the other’s native language because russian and ukranian are similar enough and fyodor’s japanese sucks ass (and nikolai hits on fyodor in russian/ukrainian so nobody knows what the fuck they're saying). fyodor also knows latin and hebrew because he’s canonically orthodox and he’s just devoted like that. and latin is pretty.

bram, other than irish gaelic and japanese because yes irl bram stoker was irish mhm potatoes red hair (catch me drawing bram with reddish hair and freckles), i think he’d know english because british people (｀_´)ゞ (/pos) and a bit of french and german.

the younger guild members (minus lucy because parentless behavior /hj) know some spanish because of the american school system and i’m not going to bother looking up whether second language was required in the eighties and nineties. (future silver here, i asked my mom that went to high school in the nineties and it was but spanish was the only option so i had to rewrite poe’s section smh fuck the american school system’s history)

poe also taught himself french because they thought the language was pretty and got hooked and a pastime turned into passion and now they’re fluent ten years later. he’s silly like that. and they understand raccoons because karl is their son. yes raccoon is a language and poe, ranpo, lovecraft (see next paragraph), and kenji are fluent.

lovecraft knows irish gaelic because i’m pushing my (kuni)bramcraft agenda (multishipper behavior smh) and i think they’d know french because poe taught them and raccoon because karl was there too and i strive to put images of fluffy platonic domestic situations into people’s minds.

nathaniel hawthorn (that minister guy that akutagawa fucked up and shot sigma) knows latin and hebrew too for the same reasons as fyodor except he’s catholic.

you might think i’m gonna bring up fitzgerald and languages he knows but his entire character is what the fuck is a kilometer and capitalism (/j) so no he only knows 🦅🇺🇸american🇺🇸🦅 english and semi-fluent japanese with weird pronunciation because WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER RAAAAHHHHHHH (yes i am american and yes i am ashamed)

i think verlaine picked up a lot of different languages in his nine years of being the assassin king. english, german, italian, turkish, filipino, czech. you name it, he can probably hold a decent conversation in it. any time the pm gets a document they can’t translate for one reason or another, down to the basement it goes. he may or may not be teaching q his tricks…

and now dead people.

rimbaud also picked up a few languages, but forgot a lot in his amnesia. before the suribachi incident (in which they and verlaine were nineteen, aka not really adults, which not enough people know or talk about), he had english down fluently as well as a little german. rimbaud my beloved.

so the flags… a funny group that i’ve attached myself to despite them having about fifty pages of life. tragic. doc canonically went to med school here in the states, so he knew english fluently. i don’t think iceman knew anything other than japanese simply because i don’t think he saw any reason to. i’m on the fence with piano man and albatross because my brain says they didn’t know anything else but my heart says they knew something else as well. piano man is leaning toward latin because he’s pretentious and annoying like that and if he did then albatross knew it too just to fuck with him. i also think albatross, if he knew anything else, knew the languages of the surrounding countries because he was the head wheelman and often went on “excursions” with chūya. so korean, russian, thai, and filipino. maybe a little indonesian, as a treat.

lippmann gets their own section because favoritism. they were head of relations so they definitely spoke with foreign allies and enemies. they were also an actor, so i like to think they dubbed their lines themself. i’m thinking english, spanish, korean, and french because, again, they’re pretentious like that. and job requirements but whatever.

as for oda, i think he knew a little english but he was nowhere near fluent. he was a simple man.

shibusawa-sensei irl translated french works to japanese so add them to the list of french speakers. in real life he sucked in german class so no seltsam wütend language for them. and i think they’d speak latin because, and say it with me, they’re pretentious like that.

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fangirlsovertoomanythings · 2 years

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Sherlock Holmes being a polyglot in such a time as the 1880's and mastering ALL of the languages he speaks is so nuts to me that I simply refuse to believe that he spent so much time and effort in learning what he knows he'd only use on occasion, because come on, it's Sherlock Holmes we're talking about

What I propose, based on the languages I believe he'd be exposed to, is:

French: Excellent, almost native-like. Knows every idiom, expression, slang and saying known to man. If vérlan was a thing back then, he'd be ingslay it. If he switches to french he sounds like a very angry peasant in a deep, bloodthirsty head-chopping mod mentality

Latin: He learned it for school and ended up enjoying it and putting far more effort than he cares to admit into learning it. He sounds like he's speaking Spanish, and all of his sentences are denotative with no double meanings because why would he put himself through the pains of learning double meanings for school. B1 is for Basic Bitch One

German: His grammar is excelent. His vocabulary is immense. He learned most of it by reading various books in German. His Achilles heel? He sounds like Satan. Native speakers tremble everytime he says anything with an Umlaut or any word that has too many consonants together. They sell their souls to Mefistopheles just so they can guarantee they will never hear how he pronounces EU or EI ever again. They take deep breathes because he pronounces ß as a forbidden variation of B

Italian: He knows the basics of it, and sounds like he's speaking Spanish but he eats vowels for breakfast and lunch. He switches to French and Latin all the way through. Everybody hates him and everytime he pronounces CC or ZZ the italians try very hard not to scream

Spanish: He sounds like he's speaking Latin and Italian, switches to English often and NO ONE IS CAPABLE OF ANSWERING WHY, and he has the vocabulary of a toddler. He quivers everytime he sees Ñ despite being relentlessly told how it sounds. His grammar is so broken the Spanish speakers constantly say "ay we can switch to English bro please cállate gringo"

Portuguese: He says he speaks it, but in fact he speaks yassified Spanish. Nobody knows what the fuck does he mean, because his accent sucks, his grammar is terrible and he falls for false cognates often. He still doesn't know why portuguese people and brazilians stare at him when he describes a bald man as "tarado" or "pelado"

Hindi: Namastē

Chinese: He's too afraid of the chinese characters to even be confident enough in lying that he knows something

Greek: He sucks so hard, but Professor Melas is too nice to tell him

#sherlock holmes #acd holmes #my headcanons #its highly probable that i listed the native languages of most of my followers lmaooo

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blackghostm2o · 5 months

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Man… I fucking love Petronius.

So today we did and exam on Petronius’s Satyricon (basically translating Latin to Italian and answering some questions regarding the grammar of the text, probably fucked it up because I suck at it) and that story was hilarious.

The text was one of the 5 stories with a second grade narrator: the narrator here was a Liberto (a man who once was a slave and now is free) who probably was wasted on wine; in the story he and someone he knew (who was a solider) where outside late at night and there was a full moon. The two then went on a cemetery and the solider started pissing on some gravestones while the narrator was sitting and singing, then the solider went crazy and started undressing himself, pissing on his own clothes and then became a fucking wolf and run away. The narrator was so scared that returned home while swinging his sword and there all the sheep were killed by said wolf, which was hit in the neck. The next day the narrator went to the house of said solider and saw him getting medicated on his neck so got the fuck out and stopped meeting him.

The way this is narrated makes it much better also the fact that you usually don’t expect to study stuff like that at school makes this better.

Also the episode in which Trimalchio, while they are talking about death, brings out a whole ass skeleton made of silver and with working joints and throws it on the table where they where eating is great, lmfao.

Also the story of the protagonist who is in love with another man and then another dude comes out who loves the second dude and then also another one comes, all this chaos is so freaking funny, pure chaos and parody of your usual ancient novel (a FAITHFUL etero love story)

I really enjoyed those snippets of the Satyricon, maybe I’ll read all of it, but I need to find a good translation.

I also love how his death is described (not by him obviously). If you studied a lil bit of Roman history you know that Nero wasn’t a really good fella, after finding out of a plan to take his power he obliged some people to kill themselves (like Seneca and Lucano). Nero did the same with Petronius, but Petronius didn’t just hill himself: he slit his wrists and then opened and closed his veins whenever he liked it while talking with some friends about erotic stuff and then, when he wanted to, let himself die. He didn’t even do this to show courage, he just wanted to fuck with Nero and I love this soooo much. Maybe it’s not true, but I really like this story.

Sorry for the long post

#long post #latin literature #roman literature #satyricon #petronius #latin language #ancient literature #ancient rome #sorry for the rant #I just really liked this author #for now he is my favourite #probably he will not be surpassed by any of the others that we will study

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daisybellejpeg · 9 months

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hi! this is regarding dr. shaw and the bright situation, so don't feel forced to answer this at all ^^ asking about 2 things

do you plan on rewriting the scp 963 article with dr. shaw? i know a lot of people say it's already not written the best, and i'm wondering if you'd give it some major rewrite or just sort of replace the character and leave it

the character dr. bright has been mentioned to be jewish, is dr. shaw as well? i'm not jewish personally but i know that, especially because he was such a well known character, a lot of jewish people (that i know at least) appreciated seeing that representation. ofc i understand that they're 2 separate characters so i don't expect them to be the same, but i'm curious because i've definitely seen mixed feelings on that aspect specifically

sorry for any poor grammar! i'm a bit sick atm but i wanted to send this ask in because i'd forget if i put it off. again, feel free to delete this if it makes you uncomfortable due to the situation, i've been through something similar and i get how hard it is to work through. wishing you the best!

Hey hey! Dw about asking, I don’t feel forced to answer any of my asks and love talking to people!

Onto what you’re asking:

1. As of now there is an article being made! Unsure if it’ll replace the original’s slot at the moment. I’m sure you’re aware kaktus put me on board with the project, he proposed strong arming staff into the article getting the original slot but I have no updates as to how that’s going as of now. It is to note that I’ve lost contact with him since late April. None of our mutuals know what’s up with him either. I’ve both quintupletexted him and asked around;;

I’m making my own version of the proposed article, once he pops up again I’ll cross ref with him and probably ask for help with formatting because I suck at computer stuff.

2. Ethnically Shaw is Mexican, specifically Chicano-Indigenous. I’m latine myself and live in a community with a Mexican kind of majority (lossa Haitian people too, unsure which demographic is more prominent). A ton of family friends are from Mexico with indigenous roots and I only have two other Mexican characters so I have the advantage of being able to ask my pals from my former parish alongside my usual deep dive research. As for the Roma aspect of his character I’ve been doing research on both Caló and Chicano Romani peoples for him and his mother (https://www.tiktok.com/@florida.florian?_t=8eDhq1agf51&_r=1 here’s a link to my favorite mainstream Romani content creator. His informative videos have been of major help for writing them as well as Dr. Carina and their mom. He even has vids on how to write Romani characters!!)

I don’t have a religion for him or Ansel yet? His mom, Dr. Soraya Zugasti, however, is a Muslim convert and is actually hijabi, not presumed hijabi like Evelyn was. At the end of the day to my knowledge Judaism is an open religion with the exception of some ultra orthodox communities and Shaw is the kind of person to be pretty open minded when it comes to spirituality. Statistically, as Ansel and Soraya immigrated from Mexico, the country has a Christian/Catholic majority, especially in the time that they lived there. There’s always the possibility that Shaw could be a convert like how his mother converted to Islam from being mostly agnostic. I’d have to think more on it but it’s a good chance that I’ll write that in!

I also have more Jewish characters if that gives you and your friends reassurance! Most notably Carina’s wife Commander Jezebel Diamandis and her kids, Dick and Rachel, as well as one of Carina’s Uncles, Agent Hannemann Charles. I’ll have to draw em up soon but I’d like to think they’re pretty cool 😎

Hope that answers your question! Feel free to pm me or reply to this if you have anything else to ask!

#ngl I’ve been also considering him following La Santa Muerte maybe following the theme of death and rebirth his character has going on #if anyone has suggestions lmk #I’d also appreciate Jewish scp fans chiming in #scp #scp foundation #elias shaw #tw//bright #scp doctors #dr shaw #scp fandom

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spanish, 2 months in

so i've been learning spanish for 2 months or so now 🥳 i know that i'm still in that honeymoon phase where im acquiring a lot at once and every small victory feels like a huge thing, but overall i'm really enjoying it. anyway, i wanted to write up a little post because i think in a few more months or years i'll be interested in seeing how i started learning, as well as what did or didn't work out for me.

fwiw, here's what i'm personally doing. everything is free btw:

daily flashcards - i'm using this anki deck for general vocabulary, and i also have a custom deck that i add slang or rare words to. i also plan to start this one to drill verb conjugations. this is probably the biggest time sink, i do it every day for ~25-30 mins.

grammar textbook - i print out and do the pages by hand. the only thing that sort of sucks is that i'm doing the exercises in order, and they introduce conjugations at like the midpoint, which probably could have helped me earlier on? fabulous book so far though! it's all in spanish, but the examples are very clear, and you pick up more vocab/sentence structure this way imo

language transfer spanish - i'm about 4/5 through this and definitely recommend it for general grammar/listening practice. it's not a traditional language course where you learn how to say "hello/goodbye/my name is" in the first lesson... it really guides you into naturally constructing language instead of just memorizing it and spitting it back out. there are a lot of little tricks you learn too, like how english can be "converted" into spanish using their shared latin roots, the host has a ton of linguistics knowledge so it's really rather fun!

audiovisual/written input - this is the part where i get to WATCH STUFF yay!!!! but then i actually have to pay attention to it, boo. i do actively learn from 31 minutos since i have dual subtitles, but otherwise i kinda just vibe and try to learn from anything i'm into that happens to be in spanish... so other shows and song lyrics, etc. im also verrrryyy slowlyyyy reading this introductory bilingual reader, and i try to pick up things from posts on spanish-speaking subreddits like r/mexico, r/argentina, r/chile, etc... i find reading contemporary posts online is a great way to pick up slang and usually if i find a word i don't know i'll put it in my custom anki deck so i learn it 👍

so where am i at after all of this? UM well it's hard to say but i feel comfy saying i'm advanced beginner... i know most of the simple verb tenses (present, future, perfect and imperfect past, conditional, subjunctive) and maybe like 1000-1500 words? and i definitely have a sense now of what parts of speech should look like. i don't explode anymore when seeing se/me/te before a verb either. i think i could communicate with a (patient) native speaker without losing my mind -- my reading is way better than my listening or speaking, but i think this is somewhat common.

some areas that i could improve on:

i don't get nearly enough listening practice sighhhh like i do want to watch stuff but moving has made it very hard. hopefully i can work on it in the winter

same as above, i need more speaking practice... i am actually doing all this for a reason (going on a trip to a spanish-speaking country next year) so i don't really want to be put on the spot. i might try to find some local clubs or cultural exchange groups for this?

i know it's a meme but i can not roll my Rs very well. it's bad out here

one last resource: if you would like to learn a language but are totally overwhelmed by what to do or how to do it, i heartily recommend this guide. it's entirely about how to learn a language, but it doesn't have tips for specific languages, it can be applied to anything. it's also free, open-source, and pragmatic in its approach, which i like. that's all i got for now but thanks for reading 🙇‍♂️ hopefully i return to this post in a few months with more progress!

#this was originally 'spanish 1 month in' and then i had to revise the entire thing because it sat in my drafts and i progressed a lot #so now im posting it NO MATTER WHAT 🔫#ennisposteando

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archduchessofnowhere · 9 months

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don't you just hate when you can't read a certain book or watch a certain documentary on royalty because it isn't translated in a language you know/ has no subtitles in a language you know 🥲

This is my constant struggle! Books about the Habsburg translated into English (and Spanish, my native language) are limited, and about the Wittelsbachs are almost non-existant (excepting Elisabeth and Ludwig II, but even their historiography in English and Spanish is very outdated).

I do want to learn German one day but as of now my main goal is to get better at French, mainly because I took French as one of the mandatory language courses in my university and now that I'm done I already fear that I'm forgetting everything I learned. I used to be really good with languages (I learned English through exposition to media and sheer force of goodwill when I was a teenager) but I just suck at French, truly the most devious latin language.

Also since we are at it: I often use machine translations to overcome the language barrier, but that's because I just want to learn about dead royals I found interesting and share the info in this little blog with you all. By no means I think the work of a translator can be replaced by a machine, that's why I always add the disclaimer in my posts. Sometimes the translation is quite smooth, but others (specially when translating a 19th century letter, which probably used a different grammar to today's) it's very obvious that the stiffness of the text is a direct result of the machine doing a poor job. This is also why when I quote a translated work I also add the name of the translator, despite not being always the convention in academia: their work is just as important as the author's, and I think it deserves to be recognized.

#also when i started to watch anime at 12 i tried to learn japanese (as one does)#and while it did not prosper i did learn hiragana and katakana and some very basic kanji #and to this day i can read them. i wish i hadn't abandon it tbh i was actually good at it #asks

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marcholasmoth · 1 year

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OSRR: 3042

i took my brain meds late, so i knew i'd be awake late. but this? this is ridiculous. it's 3:36am and i just finished my paper. i had to change the spacing, but it's 4 pages exactly. i have two pages of sources. i emailed it and the other one i did to my professor. i checked my group's section to see if i could easily integrate it, but i cannot. i have a lot of work to do on it, but i started with grammar and basic formatting for the citations. the rest i'll do tomorrow.

that's basically all i did today, was write that white paper. it's pretty though. aesthetically pleasing. if i'd made it double spaced, it would've been six pages. i had to change the spacing if i wanted to be as comprehensive as i wanted to. and i even cut an entire section, and i wasn't happy about that. oh well. it's still better than my classmates' papers.

i took a nap in the middle of the day and tried to pay attention in class this evening. to this day i have never understood habeas corpus because no one has explained it in plain terms. until today, when i asked my discord children what it meant, and i finally got a clear and concise explanation. means you can't be thrown in prison for shits and giggles and if you're gonna be charged with somethin you need to be seen in court. i looked it up and it literally means "you have the body" in latin. like, yes, they do.

anyway. things you learn.

anyway i'm tired and finally lying in bed. joel's passed out, which is cute. im finally warm, which is nice.

oh, one last thing.

so because hand has been broken, i haven't been driving, im still not driving, and i don't have my car. im kind of broke because i haven't been to work in three or four weeks. fucking sucks.

anyway, around 10:30, joel and i had already gone through the "what do you want to eat" thing bc neither of us had eaten. joel decided to ignore it. i fetched my computer and decided to solve it. i ordered us mcnaldos, but i didn't tell joel until about ten minutes before it arrived. he was happy to not have to cook.

food arrives, and there's two bags, one for hot food and one for the ice cream sundae i got for me and the chocolate shake i got for joel. i didn't tell him about the shake. so when i pulled it out of the bag and walked over to him with it, his eyes sparkled with joy. like a kid on christmas day. like he'd won the lottery. sheer, unadulterated excitement and happiness. that image is burned in my retinas and im so happy to have witnessed it. i wanna see sparkly-eyed joel again. it made me really happy.

that picture, that moment, lives rent-free in my head now.

#molly rambles #operation srr #osrr #3000s #3040s #sunshine boy

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queen-of-weird-girl-nation · 2 months

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classes and how I feel about them

music: 6/10 nice tunes, lotta group work which can suck, I don’t get music theory so that sucks

maths: 5/10 can be good or bad, doing ok this term and I can revise well, but it can REALLY SUCK SOMETIMES

DT: 6/10 last term actually sucked because I can’t do crap with my hands but this term is so good bc its architecture and actually rlly fun

French: 5/10 I’m so bad at language so I suck at this and can’t write an essay in French but I did well in French grammar

Biology: 9/10 great! We Stan! I didn’t do very well last term but I ATE THIS TERM 92% let’s goooooooo! Love it so much.

Art: 9/10 not an artist by any means but it’s just a chatting and drawing and listening to good music time I loveee (and my teacher slays)

German: 6/10 sooo boring, and hard. Got a test coming up and I’m scared but it’s not that bad and I did ok last term. And also, my German book is so cute that it makes it better. But it’s boring

Philosophy and Religion: 8/10 I made a great essay in there and that really made me happy . And I’m getting a lot better at it. I think I’ll get a great grade

Geography: 8.5/10 actually slayed. I wrote a great essay (you can see what gives me serotonin and it is essays) and I’m not that bad. Test is coming up and I’ll think I’ll be ok.

English: 8/10 it’s ok. I love books and creative writing and I won a poetry competition . But I’m not that good at English essays, or am I ??? Essay coming up and I’m not sure???

Computer Science: 2/10 hate hate hate ahhhh! I used to enjoy it but our new teacher SUCKS and my violin and counselling clash a lot so I literally have barely have any knowledge I HATE SO MUCH AHHH

Physics: 6/10 it’s ok. It can be hard . Rlly hard. But I enjoy it sometimes. Literally so basic nvm

History: 9/10 did a great comprehension so I love and it’s rlly fun and I love it

Latin: 2/10 I HAT EIT SO MUCH ITS SO HARD AND FRICKING USELESS! DEAD LANGUAGE! AHHHH! I HATE!!!!! IM SO BAAD AT IT AHHH

PE (1) : 7/10 it’s ok. Like the triple period of running and jumping and ext but still fun.

PSHE: 8.5/10 honestly a vibe but oml, it’s such uncomfy when we’re talking about… you know. Gross. And it can be pretty boring.’

PE (2) : 7/10 we do 2 sets of PE, we’re weird like that. Anyways, can be fun, or boring.

Drama: 9/10 I kinda struggle at acting (too self aware) but I find it soooo fun!!!! And I’m getting better at acting so it’s great.

Chemistry: 5/10 HARD! HARD! Don’t get to. But fun sometimes. Occasionally.

Violin: 2/10 this is like a voluntary lesson. Extracurricular. I hate. I hate so much I wanna quit so bad AHHH. (You have to pay money to quit in the middle of term)

#School #school work

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