#latin paradigm

[interretialia]

Chīrōn / Χείρων

Chiron

(Fons Imaginis.)

#Chiron #Cheiron #Kheiron #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober23 #latin #latin language #latin translation #lingua latina #tagamemnon #latin fandom #paradigm #paradigms #latin paradigm #latin paradigms #declension #declensions #latin declension #latin declensions #Greek #Greek language #Greek translations #lingua graeca #Greek paradigm #Greek paradigms

[trueblueguide]

Word Formation - Etymology, Borrowing, Compounding, Blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, coinage, Derivation. Etymology Meaning

#Latin Grammar #Latin Prose #tagamemnon #latin fandom #latin #latin language #latin translation #lingua latina #writing Latin #Latin declension #Latin word formation #formation of Latin words #Latin vocabulary #Latin prose composition #writing the Latin language #Latin hints #Word Formation #paradigm #paradigms #latin paradigm #latin paradigms #declension #declensions #latin declensions

[althaeaofficinalis]

the way I simply refuse to participate in race discourse on this or any other website. please I am not arguing with white people about race or people of color who think all mixed people are just white. you cannot make me.

#this probably sounds really bad to you until you read this: I'm mixed indigenous latin-american diaspora #so my entire life has been racial discourse without the luxury of being able to stop it #I probably could have just passed for white in america and shrugged off all the people who clocked me as Something Else #but that means accepting the paradigm of whiteness and assimilating into it and that I simply will not do #so yeah I'm not gonna fucking argue with white twentysomethings about race in asoiaf or in general #if you ever catch me doing just that... I'm either in a really patient mood or I finally snapped

[globossum]

The crawling fear you experience when you’re studying Latin literature and you like an author a bit too much.

For a second life flashed before my eyes, picturing myself like my Latin literature professor that will physically fight you if you insult her beloved Seneca in front of her.

#ah catullus what are you doing to me! #then i remember i cant even say out loud a whole paradigm of a verb without crying cause latin is hard #so there is no risk i will study this demonic language more that i have to #sorry gaius #latin #latin literature #literature student

[maniculum]

scorpion in the 'buch der natur' by konrad von megenberg, alsace, c. 1440 (Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. med. et phys. 2° 14, fol. 243v). interesting detail: the german text starts with the typical description of the scorpion as a snake with a pretty woman's face. over this passage, somebody added in latin: "non est ita" = "it's not like that". lmaoo. a paradigm shift. to ME

[Image ID: an arthropod with some odd tripartite mouthparts, a sort of neck raising its head from a beetle-like body, eight legs that end in pincers, a row of nodules along its back, and a fishhook-like tail. It is shown in an outdoor scene that makes it look gigantic.]

(Sorry for the delay on this. I've had deadlines keeping me busy, but they're done now and I'm trying to catch up on various things that fell by the wayside.)

Some remarkable stuff here. I absolutely love someone writing "it's not like that" over the description, and I really have to wonder (not that an answer is likely forthcoming) about the context. On one hand, the idea that someone is just straight-up (correctly) disputing the claim that a scorpion is a serpent with a woman's face is pretty funny. On the other hand, I also like the idea that this comment is meant to be juxtaposed with the illustration: "hey, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the giant rampaging monster you've drawn here does not have a woman's face. it's not like that."

Also, I know the scale is often not meant to be representative in these illustrations, but wow that's a big scorpion. We're back to prehistoric vibes, but this time our scorpion looks more like an actual dinosaur than any other thing I can think of. I suppose that's just my only referent for an armored creature of that size. It looks like it's a serious challenge for 4-6 mid-level adventurers.

No idea what's going on with those mouthparts, also. They need to be acknowledged, but I don't know what to say about them.

Anyway, points:

Small Scuttling Beaſtie? ½, definitely looks like it scuttles but is not small in the least

Pincers? eight on the ends of its legs rather than as a separate pair of limbs, but sure, ✓

Exoskeleton or Shell? ✓

Visible Stinger? ✓

Limbs? 8

As for vibes, I am enjoying this one. I don't want it to be near me, but it has a certain majesty when observed from a distance. Like this:

Yeah, we're still on the dinosaur comparison. 4 / 5.

And that means that this is officially the Best Scorpion So Far, coming in at a total score of:

8.3 / 10

Our bestiary illustrator was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (They absolutely should.)

#medieval scorpions

[spanishskulduggery]

Is there any functional rational behind the Spanish language’s use of the same preterite conjugation for both the verbs “ser” and “ir”?

It has something to do with the original Latin, not a grammatical reasoning in Spanish at least

Although I should first mention that this is technically "Vulgar Latin", not classical Latin

Vulgar Latin is an extremely broad term but it means the kind of Latin spoken by the common people, while classical Latin was more upper class and religious. But the Roman Empire was very big and there were many people in different places that used Latin differently, like dialects, so "Vulgar Latin" encompasses all of those until they became what we now call the Romance Languages

This was originally from the University of Virginia

QUESTION: Why do ser and ir have the same form in the preterite? First, it is really the perfect (= Spanish preterite) conjugation of the Latin verb ESSE “to be” which came to be used for both ser and ir in Spanish. In Spoken Latin, the preposition IN (> Spanish en) used with a location came to mean “movement toward”. Also, ser and estar did not have the same restrictions in Old Spanish that they do in modern Spanish and consequently ser occurred at times where one might expect estar. Thus FUERUNT IN CAMPUM, for example, originally meant “they were at the countryside”, but later “they were moving/in route toward the countryside”, and eventually came to mean “they went to the countryside”. Therefore, this paradigm, fui, fuiste, etc., eventually became associated with the infinitive ir “to go”.

As far as I understand, there was a verb for "to go" in Latin, but this specific phrase in older (Vulgar) Latin became more common in some places

It's something to do with how their idea of "at" was interpreted and it eventually changed parts of Spanish

I'm not sure if this exists in other Romance Languages, in particular Portuguese (which seems to mirror Spanish more closely than Italian or French)... so I can't say if this is a thing that happened to all Romance Languages, Iberian Romance Languages, or just Spanish

#asks

[callmeleomercury]

i’m all about being a classics major and learning latin and greek until it’s 11:45 on a friday night and i’m writing paradigms for verbs…

#original post #sorry i’m a classics major #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #classics #ancient greek #classical greek #latin #classical latin #university #college #classics major

[ghnosis]

songs that mean something @ IU Bloomington 2/29/24

notes from my talk at Black Metal is for Everyone. yes I know LI is not black metal. I also don't care! get off my dick :)

IF THE POISON WON’T TAKE YOU MY DOGS WILL 

Condensing everything I love about Kristin Hayter into 5 minutes. 

Quotes by Kristin Hayter herself come from 4 interviews – 1 following the release of All Bitches Die (2017), 2 following CALIGULA (2019) and a Reddit AMA after Sinner Get Ready (2020); Hayter refers to these works as a trilogy, and I’m thinking of all three while I talk about this song off CALIGULA. Hayter has since completed the Lingua Ignota project and now makes music under her given name. 

What’s important to me about Lingua Ignota/Kristen Hayter are her ideas of female ecstatic/religious speech/glossolalia (speaking in tongues) paired with what she has to say about “darkness,” trauma, and extreme music.  

Hayter describes the idea that “there is something intrinsically feminine about oracular or ecstatic experience.” My academic work has to do with ways that the marginalized interject themselves into unwelcome space, sometimes through invoking Satan or dark powers; I see female mystics in a similar vein, but on the side of lightness. 

Lingua Ignota means “unconstructed/unknown language,” an alphabet attributed to medieval mystic/composer/oracle Hildegaard von Bingen, one of Hayter’s influences. 

“Poison” is “meant to evoke the ambience of the Jonestown death tapes,” Hayter is directly quoting Jim Jones in the line “I am the best friend you’ll ever have” – this is something she does throughout her work. On Sinner Get Ready she quotes Jimmy Swaggart, a televangelical involved in some public sex scandals and defrocked. 

Aileen Wuornos was “one of the world-building motifs” of Hayter’s work. Although she is commonly referred to as one of the only female “serial killers,” Wuornos herself alleged that her actions were self-defense; the men she murdered had raped or attempted to rape her. Hayter's choice to sample Wuornos on her first album All Bitches Die was a reaction to male extreme metal musicians sampling [male] serial killers as a signpost for “evilness;” Hayter feels that this is overused in the genre to the point of banality. Further, these men are playacting in Hayter’s opinion; they aren’t actually familiar with human cruelty in a real sense. She is interested in “flipping the paradigm” of extreme music, to instead make heavy music for people “upon whom dark shit has actually been visited” - people who, like Wuornos, might have considered homicide as a survival mechanism.  

“Poison” opens with “Kyrie eleison,” literally, “Lord, have mercy.” One of the notable times this phrase appears in the Bible is in the story of the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21); she asks Jesus for mercy and he is so moved by her faith that he heals her possessed daughter. The mercy of Jesus/God for the faithful and specifically female divine retribution appears throughout Hayter’s work; I had a hard time choosing between this song and “I Who Bend the Tall Grasses,” which is a song in which Hayter herself demands God kill her abuser, hissing “I’m not asking.” 

Kyrie eleison is also often the first sung prayer of the traditional Latin Catholic Mass; Hayter referred to CALIGULA as “golden Catholic bullshit” - Sinner Get Ready is more Appalachian evangelical, experimenting with Christian/Catholic faith in its varied forms. 

“Abandon your body/make worthless your body” I’m really interested in the idea of rebellion through deliberate warning symbolism or deliberate ugliness – like Britney Spears shaving her head in 2007, what we as the traumatized can do to take power back or break rules, transcending your body as a definition of yourself, making your body “worthless” to those who might use it to hurt (or define) you. 

Hayter describes going “from situations where I was being totally controlled to total autonomy, and it seems crazy but thinking about stuff like — what colors do I like? What clothes can I wear? Has been pretty huge for me." - ideas of self-reclamation, making one’s body worthless to anyone but the person inhabiting it. 

#lingua ignota #not ghost #dissrelated #getting a phd in ghost #Spotify

[fatehbaz]

The War of the Pacific (1879–1883) looms large in the history of Peru and Chile. Upending the prevailing historiographical focus on the history of conflict, Beyond Patriotic Phobias explores points of connection shared between Peruvians and Chileans despite war. Through careful archival work, historian Joshua Savala highlights the overlooked cooperative relationships of workers across borders, including maritime port workers, doctors, and the police. These groups, in both countries, were intimately tied together through different forms of labor: they worked the ships and ports, studied and treated disease transmission in the face of a cholera outbreak, and conducted surveillance over port and maritime activities because of perceived threats like transnational crime and labor organizing. [...] Savala reconstructs the circulation that created a South American Pacific world. The resulting story is one in which communities, classes, and states formed transnationally through varied, if uneven, forms of cooperation. 

Text above from “About the Book” section provided by the publisher (University of California Press, 2022) describing Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean World. Book authored by Joshua Savala.

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What was much more interesting to me than the well-documented and discussed nationalism that developed (in part) out of the war was the possibility of people who either did not care about such things or who actively organized against the nationalism of the era. [...] And [...] [revolutions] remained real options for many port and maritime workers across the first decades of the twentieth century. [...] In the larger manuscript, I expand on the place of maritime and port workers, looking more closely at their laboring conditions, their lives, and the politics of masculinity and sexuality at sea and at port. Another chapter examines medical cooperation during the cholera outbreak of 1886-88 in Chile. And the last chapter centers the police and their efforts to put new criminological methods into practice at home and transnationally. The broader project, then, sticks to this idea of transnational solidarity, mutual aid, and cooperation [...]. I wanted to avoid the diffusionist narrative, whether that be from a European center or from central Chile. [...]  When we are researching and writing about [labor] [...], clearly many [...] sought to organize transnationally, to reach past state borders and [...] do away with borders. [...] But they were also intensely concerned with national politics and labor laws. [...] This is why [...] I try to push a dual transnational and comparative approach, to combine scales of analysis. [...] One of the other challenges to transnational history is simply the vast literatures one must read. Studying one place is hard enough [...]. The reward of such a venture, though, is pulling together debates and strands of the literature [...]. The Latin American Pacific has been largely overlooked. But thankfully in the past decade or so, we are beginning to see a number of new works that speak to the role of the Pacific. This shift in geography and analytical perspective, I would say, comes in large part from the transnational perspective -- a perspective that influenced the building of the Atlantic world paradigm as well.

Words of Joshua Savala. As quoted in the transcript of an interview conducted/posted by Sean Mannion. ‘Interview with Joshua Savala, author of “Ports of Transnational Labor Organizing: Anarchism along the Peruvian-Chilean Littoral, 1916-1928.”‘ HAHR Online (by Hispanic American Historical Review). 13 November 2019.

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People in both countries occasionally made jokes about the other [...]. But [...] there was something beyond the one liners. [...] [T]he War of the Pacific (1879-1883) acted as the structuring event in the modern history of both countries, with conflict at the center. While certainly a reality, conflict [...] could not be the only way of telling this history, could it? [...] Labor and working-class history is at the core [...]. Maritime and port workers [...] lived and labored in a cosmopolitan Pacific world. Some did see and even engage in nationalist discourses. But many also had no interest in the nationalism of the day, and some analyzed it as just one more strategy by the state to divide the working class [...]. Addressing fellow Chilean workers in November 1924, one [...] wrote that it was time to show their Peruvian comrades that “patriotic phobias have not contaminated us.” This was the politics that animated radical workers along the coasts of Peru and Chile to organize around both local and transnational issues. Of course, maritime and port workers were not the only ones engaged in this type of thinking and acting. As I read reports from port cities, I started to read more and more about cholera in the 1880s. I followed letters from different institutions within Chile and Peru and medical journals and finally came across the case of Dr. David Matto. Born in Cusco, Matto would be sent to Chile to investigate the spread of cholera. His published letters back to Peru revealed some of the intricacies of the Chilean state’s response to the epidemic, useful information for thinking about the history of medicine [...]. The letters also showed that he worked closely with Chilean doctors, [...] and in the process built [...] a science without a nation. Beyond Patriotic Phobias builds parts of the South American Pacific to argue in favor of a more collaborative history. In addition, I also take time to think through laboring in the Pacific, constructions of masculinity and sexuality, and the history of policing. These are all parts of the equation required for understanding the transnational and oceanic history of Peru and Chile.

Text above by Joshua Savala. “A look inside Beyond Patriotic Phobias.” UC Press Blog. 23 May 2023.

#abolition #ecology #imperial #colonial

[viadescioism]

Viadescioism

Overview

Viadescioism is a contemporary spiritual and philosophical system rooted in the synthesis of various religious, spiritual, and magical traditions. It is a path that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all things, the practice of ritual, and the pursuit of understanding and enlightenment. The system draws from a diverse range of sources, including but not limited to, traditional pagan, shamanic, and esoteric teachings.

Etymology:

The term "Viadescioism" is derived from Latin, combining elements that translate to a deep understanding of one's path or way. "Via" means road, way, highway, or path; "de" signifies "of" or "from"; and "scio" translates to "I know". The suffix "-ism" implies a practice, system, or doctrine. Collectively, Viadescioism means "The way of 'I know'", reflecting the teachings of the religion and the self-knowledge obtained through this path. The word Viadescioism is pronounced as vī-ah-de-shi-oh-ism​​.

Historical Context and Development:

Viadescioism emerged in the early 21st century, synthesizing elements from various historical and cultural traditions. Its development reflects a broader trend in contemporary spirituality that emphasizes eclectic, personalized spiritual paths. Viadescioism was founded by Jackson E. Thomas, also known as Jaxa, The Wolf of Antimony. Officially established on December 10th, 2017, it marks the beginning of a new religious movement, integrating elements of religion, philosophy, and practice. Since its inception, Viadescioism has evolved and expanded, encompassing a broad range of concepts and practices. It is recognized as a religion of existence, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all beings, wisdom, and divinity​​.

Influences:

The development of Viadescioism has been significantly influenced by various spiritual and esoteric traditions. It primarily draws from New Age, Neo-Paganism, Chaos Magick, and other forms of occultism and esotericism. The influence of the Dominic Christian culture of the 2000s, both Protestant and Catholic, is also notable. Viadescioism is a part of the Western esoteric tradition, which includes streams of thought from Chaos Magick, Wicca, Thelema, and Ceremonial Magick. This heritage informs many of its concepts, including the use of spells and magical practices ("magick" with a "k"). While it has numerous influences, some extending beyond the Western paradigm, the core structure and essence of Viadescioism are rooted in the Western esoteric tradition​​.

Yamasa, Divinity, and Divine:

Yamasa is a term used in Viadescioism to denote aspects of divinity and spiritual entities. It is a gender-neutral term that encompasses the traditional concepts of gods and goddesses, reflecting the inclusive and broad perspective of the Viadescioic system.

In Viadescioism, the concept of divinity centers around Oxakna, which is the primary divine entity of the religion. Oxakna represents the entirety of existence and serves as the starting point for all aspects of Viadescioism. It is described as the main divine, and its significance is such that it interpenetrates everything, essentially forming the foundation of the religion's cosmology and philosophy​​.

In addition to Oxakna, Viadescioism recognizes other divine entities, which include Damakna, Dasakna, Madaqa, Ladaqa, Sadaqa, Ukna, Nakna, Shakna, and Dakna. These divines are seen as emanations of Oxakna and collectively constitute the existence as understood in Viadescioism. They are to be honored in the same way Oxakna is, reflecting the interconnected nature of these divine forces within the religion's framework​​. Central to Viadescioism, these terms refer to the ultimate reality or the source of all existence. Unlike traditional concepts of a gendered deity, 'Divinity' in Viadescioism is gender-neutral.

This structure of divinity in Viadescioism is integral to its understanding of the cosmos and the role of individuals within it. It emphasizes a harmonious existence where the divine is both a part of and beyond the individual, guiding the principles and ethics that shape the practice of the religion​​.

Kna:

In Viadescioism, a philosophy and religious practice, Kna is a central concept, embodying the idea of energy or life force. It is a key term within the treatises of Viadescioism, replacing more conventional terms like "energy" to align with the unique perspectives and teachings of the practice​​. Kna is not just a passive force; it is seen as an active principle that permeates existence, influencing and interconnecting all things. This term reflects the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, that determines its character in Viadescioism.

Rites and Ritual:

Practitioners of Viadescioism engage in various Rites and Ritual. Just as a single goal can be achieved through different rites, each rite can include multiple rituals, each offering unique pathways to the desired outcome. This diversity allows practitioners to tailor rituals to their individual needs and circumstances. The relationship between rituals and rites in Viadescioism can be likened to the process of cooking soup: making soup (the rite) represents the overall objective, while the various recipes (rituals) represent different methods to achieve this goal. These rituals often involve the use of symbols, chants, and the manipulation of kna. The use of divine masks in rituals is a distinctive practice, allowing practitioners to connect with and embody different aspects of the divine.

The Viadescioic Virtue Ethics:

These ethics are utilized in Viadescioism as a guide for resolving conflicts in complex situations in a harmonious manner. The ethical system of Viadescioism encompasses 10 specific virtues, namely xaoxa, najaar, umao, a'jau, laarda, tau, vadaska, davaabt, xaeua, and abtgha. Each of these virtues represents a mean between two extremes, which are considered vices. These vices are characterized by either overindulgence or deficiency of the virtues. In this system, virtue consists of correct reasoning guiding actions, while vice is seen as faulty reasoning. This emphasis on virtues is a central way of understanding one's current state, and the avoidance of vices helps in making better decisions​​.

Lajava Ona, The Sacred Script:

Lajava Ona is a significant aspect of Viadescioism, serving as its lingua franca. This term refers to a language adopted as a common means of communication among speakers of different native languages. In the context of Viadescioism, Lajava Ona fulfills this role for its practitioners, uniting them in a shared linguistic framework.

Scripture:

"The Divine Treatises Of The Emanations," also known in Lajava Ona as "Ja Yamasa Lausha Iba Lajava," is a central text in Viadescioism. Initially composed of multiple treatises, it was later recompiled into a single comprehensive volume. This text is pivotal in laying down the fundamental principles and establishing the knowledge base of Viadescioism.

#Viadescioism #spirituality #occultism #religion

[interretialia]

Hecatē / Ἑκάτη

Hecate

(Fons Imaginis.)

#Hecate #Hekate #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober23 #latin #latin language #latin translation #lingua latina #tagamemnon #latin fandom #paradigm #paradigms #latin paradigm #latin paradigms #declension #declensions #latin declension #latin declensions #Greek #Greek language #Greek translations #lingua graeca #Greek paradigm #Greek paradigms

[cfoley]

Productivity Check-In: 10/31/23

Classes:

Age of Pericles

Early Chinese History

History of Communism

Work:

Finish and submit paper on Clara Zetkin's writings

Start reading Wu Cheng'en's Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley

Read Aeschylus' Persians, translated by James Romm

Edit podcast episode

Latin exercises and paradigms

Thoughts:

Submitting the paper felt great. It's a weight off my shoulders but not very excited about the next project I need to work on.

#studyblr #history major #productivity challenge #study blog #study motivation #studyspo #classics major #classics student #history student #ancient history student

[granulesofsand]

"""obviously there's no cliche baby sacrificing black cloak wearing magical satanists out there programming kids""" 🤝 "theres no government organization abusing and experimenting on young children in the US"

the joke is both of us not being believed because our traumas are "too stereotypical" and "too out there" (despite physical evidence of our traumas existing)

mind control existed in the USA before WWI (project artichoke/bluebird). after WWII, many of the mind control projects were merged into MKULTRA. there are many rumors and misinformations out there, but what i will say with certainty, is people are fucking idiots if they truly believe the american government has stopped trying to mind control its people.

🤝

Yep. It’s a slap in the face to hear that people genuinely believe that giving no consequences and continuously admitting to more unethical behavior means surely everybody gave up and walked away and it all got better.

We read one of the CIA documents for MKultra and Bluebird turned Artichoke. The names do not help with grounding these projects in reality, which is semi the point. It mentioned the ancestry of Artichoke, tracing it back before mentioning another project that took over.

And they publish it online. Not whatever they’re doing right now, but certainly during periods they claimed they’d stopped. They’re creative about shifting the blame when they get caught, always a few unqualified scientists or a project lead who just wasn’t up to snuff.

One of the RA books I was reading described wearing a black robe and chanting in Latin to the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter, because onlookers will just pretend they didn’t see. There were a few quotes on that page, all dismissing ritual abuse on account of it being ritual abuse, no further investigation required.

Government sponsored torture is the same. We have proof, witnesses, a testimony out of the horse’s mouth, but it disturbs people’s happy little hearts when they realize extreme abuse exists. It’s hard to keep that just world paradigm up when children and hospitalized people are intentionally hurt, so they turn around and pretend we’re not here.

It was maybe the same book that told a story of a woman who had received word her husband had died, rushing to her friend and telling her what happened. And the friend goes “Do you have proof? Your marriage certificate? His death certificate?” And it illustrates that people who ask those kinds of questions outside a courtroom are not good friends.

I know threatening people is very bad, but every time someone finds out where we came from they have questions, and those questions could be easily answered with some mandatory empathy. Trauma can be done to anyone. Torture can be done to anyone. Disability can be done to anyone.

This is why I don’t make friends. I tend to forget where the line is when people joke. Still got my violent survivor friends though, and those’re some ride or die relationships there.

I hope you find someone who believes you, or at least doesn’t disbelieve you. It’s not your fault what was done to you, and you should be able to talk about it if you want to. We’ll get there eventually, but we can support each other in the meantime.

[psychologeek]

So, I decided to get some done on the "Narrative Paradigm" fanfic

(Core Skills AU, 4th sequel.)

Anyway, have fun thinking about this :)

ID: a phone screenshot, a notification from "GoonionOffical" app

!!Red Alert!! "Attention everyone! We have Red Alert tonight. Resources say they are out for blood. If you can, stay inside and avoid reasons to be tracked down. If you can't, Remember to wear your Goonion (TM) pin on a visible place and avoid... " (three buttons under: Read More, Ignore, Cancel)

the Icon of the app and the photo of the notification is the Goonion Logo, from PandaRed.

It's a Balaclava-face, and around the phrase "FACERE MALUM STERCORE TUTO"

(Latin for: DO BAD SH!T SAFELY.)

#batman #jason todd #batfam #core skills #core skills au #fanfic #my fanfic #goonion #notifications

[felipeandletizia]

Felipe and Letizia retrospective: February 3rd

2004: Conference ‘An economic paradigm for Latin America’ by President of the Interamerican Development Bank, Enrique Iglesias, at the Comillas Pontific University in Madrid.

2005: Visit the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Vallbona with the Hungarian president and first lady.

2009: Attended the meeting of the Patronage of the Company and Growth Foundation

2011: Military audiences

2015: Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Theater Foundation

2016: Attended the “Por Un Enfoque Integral” forum at the Telefonica Foundation in Madrid.

2020: Opening of the Parliament

2022: Inaugurated the expansion of the IESE Campus

2023: Visit to the Gestamp production plant, on the occasion of the Company’s 25th anniversary

F&L Through the Years: 1127/??

#King Felipe #Queen Letizia #Princess Leonor #Infanta Sofia #King Felipe of Spain #Queen Letizia of Spain #Princess Leonor of Asturias #King Felipe VI #Princess of Asturias #King Felipe VI of Spain #F&L Through the Years #February3

[tricitymonsters]

Ahhh I don't want to be rude and if Amir identifies as a famine entity feel free to ignore this, but if they mainly identify as a masculine entity (as I assume since I rarely get on Tumblr! Sorry of it's wrong! Demon genitalia is not my strongest suit 😭) Then their designation would be incubus instead of succubus.

Anyway, I've backed the Kickstarter and everyone should too, and don't read my msg if I'm making a buffoon out of myself YIKES

(They can identify as whatever they want I'm just being nerdy I love all of the stinky demons I will give my left nut for them <3)

I also just realized I wrote "famine entity" instead of feminine, but. We thirsty for 'em so we're keeping it unedited.

LMFAO no worries! I actually get asked this a lot so I totally don't mind answering- someone else is probably wondering why he's a succubus too!

The short answer is: the contextual succubus vibes and the image it conjures up just suits him better.

The in narrative answer is: Amir is technically a kind of qarinah, another night time bed-sharing demon that is pretty similar to a bog-standard succubus. In the world of TCM, however, when you get turned into a demon, there's no one to explain what you are. Succubus is the word Amir chooses to describe himself basically as a vibes thing. Similarly, Mori could just as easily call himself a werecat but instead uses bakeneko as a nod to monster stories he heard as a kid.

The longer nerd answer is: So neither word was used in English until the late 14th century but the latin roots show some critical differences between them. The word Succubus is two separate Latin words, succuba, meaning lover, and sub (under) + cubare (to lie) whose differentiation blurred over time and became the single word we know today. The word incubus has more muddled origins and loses its succuba/lover context to simply be in (on) + cubare (to lie) which is also the exact same etymological path the word incubate comes from and I don't really love that associated with his super sexual nature just as kind of a personal thing.

Another complication is that a few noted scholars of myth make the case that Incubi are strictly heterosexual and taking male victims is detrimental to them in some way and while this isn't a tremendously popular cultural paradigm these days, it just made the word harder to fit the vibe I wanted. In the sort of collective modern mind, there's also the hazy conception that Succubi are more prone to creating thralls with their powers and Incubi seek to make more demons by impregnating their victims.

These two reasons are a big part of what I felt "mismarketed" Amir and I didn't want to fight against deeply ingrained preconceptions by trying to trim up more subtle nuance to a word everyone is familiar with. So as a designer and contemplating all of these angles, I felt it was important to distance Amir from some of the expectation we have about either side of the horny night demon coin. And since he fits the succubus vibe much more closely than the incubus, I decided to go with that wording instead.

#I hope that sheds some light on the succubus mystery! #thank you for asking! #amir