afewshortdays - Tumblr blog

[afewshortdays]

[afewshortdays]

update that no one asked for: my friend wrote a page of it " harrius pottus threatens voldemortus weiling a curse tablet"

you're welcome

that's awesome! can I read it? -A

feeling like shit so here's a shitpost :P hopefully this reaches a classics audience because I know you're in tumblr somewhere :)

so. picture the scene: it's ancient rome... or is it? nope, it's Hogwarts but make it Latin.

So I was thinking today (rare ik) about the gen z edition of harry potter, and how great it would be to have that, but it's just ancient Rome, not in the latin language, but set in Rome.

The great hall would be decked with couches so everyone lounges about eating food; the sorting hat would just be a superior toga, and harry would get locked in the baths. The chamber of secrets? more like the developed underfloor heating system they had going on.

and the best part? the duels... or curse battles if you will. it's giving Hamilton vs Burr, and they just stand there and inscribe curses on tablets and chuck them into nearby baths until one of them outcurses the other

and that's all I have left in my little Latin brain I reckon I'll add to this when the ideas return, but in the meantime I'll be trying to outcurse my nemesis

love, wren

I love this!! we should totally write it, only you'd have to do the latin bits because I stitll haven't learnt the 3rd declension - Anastasia

[afewshortdays]

Currently thinking about non-English translations of Jabberwocky, because it has to be so hard translating a nonsense poem.

And it’s not just making the nonsense words fit the translated language’s morphology, you have to have most of the nonsense words mean something for a later chapter in the book where Humpty Dumpty explains the portmanteau words. So in one Japanese translation, “frumious,” which is a portmanteau of “fuming” and “furious,” is translated as “takeburu,” which draws on the words “takeru,” fierce, and “keburu”, to smoke.

But I also just love the names of the Jabberwock in other languages. In French he’s le Jaseroque, der Jammerwoch in German, Barmaglot in Russian, and at least one Danish translation named him Kloppervok. It’s the one word you could very justifiably keep untranslated, but everyone wants to make the name fit, make it feel at home in the translation.

I have no point here, I just think it’s neat.

[afewshortdays]

feeling like shit so here's a shitpost :P hopefully this reaches a classics audience because I know you're in tumblr somewhere :)

so. picture the scene: it's ancient rome... or is it? nope, it's Hogwarts but make it Latin.

So I was thinking today (rare ik) about the gen z edition of harry potter, and how great it would be to have that, but it's just ancient Rome, not in the latin language, but set in Rome.

The great hall would be decked with couches so everyone lounges about eating food; the sorting hat would just be a superior toga, and harry would get locked in the baths. The chamber of secrets? more like the developed underfloor heating system they had going on.

and the best part? the duels... or curse battles if you will. it's giving Hamilton vs Burr, and they just stand there and inscribe curses on tablets and chuck them into nearby baths until one of them outcurses the other

and that's all I have left in my little Latin brain I reckon I'll add to this when the ideas return, but in the meantime I'll be trying to outcurse my nemesis

love, wren

I love this!! we should totally write it, only you'd have to do the latin bits because I stitll haven't learnt the 3rd declension - Anastasia

[afewshortdays]

something something snow!! *me trying to remember lyrics to any christmas song despite it being march* coincidentally i listened to a chrismas podcast episode and saw a christmas tree picture in school today

you can call me elsa because I'm fricking frozen

hot take: water is so much better when it freezes and is given cute lil eyes and arms

let me introduce you to aaron. aaron burr? more like aaron brrrrr *insert that cold sound effect bcs snow*

"do you think the tree will be okay if we take a twig" "we just need dirt for the eyes" "ah it's pretty solid" "tomorrow we can make a grave" (-indirect quotes)

those are all gorgeous

[afewshortdays]

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

[afewshortdays]

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

[afewshortdays]

I want to see a production of Wicked that ends similarly to Hamilton.

I want to see Glinda break the fourth wall at the very end.

I want her to look straight into the audience and gasp in wonder.

Because she realizes that she did, after all, tell Elphaba’s story.

Because she can see a theatre full of people who came to mourn the Wicked.

Because, among these people, she can see me. I’m blowing my nose. I’m ugly crying. I have make-up smudged all over my face. I will never be happy again.

[afewshortdays]

i wish you a production of your favourite piece of theatre you love so much, that you sell your soul to its recording and in return receive so much serotonin when you watch it that your brain becomes ragingly dysfunctional and unusable for days [lovingly]

[afewshortdays]

Me: *puts down book bc is tired of reading*

Me right after: *opens AO3*

[afewshortdays]

Wren just genuinely told me that they "don't have a claw" and now we're both in hysterics

[afewshortdays]

@use-a-bit-of-mustard I've been laughing for three hours

[afewshortdays]

(x)

[afewshortdays]

we're missing hadestown which is a travesty but i can't be bothered to fix it rn, so just know that hadestown is the winner in my heart

we're high on pizza and now we have an involuntary tier list. send help?

[afewshortdays]

there are some questions it's really just not appropriate to ask a lady.

questions like "how much yarn do you already have" and "don't you already have three projects" or "where would we store a blowtorch"

[afewshortdays]

we're high on pizza and now we have an involuntary tier list. send help?

[afewshortdays]

today's adventure consisted of me playing my first ever netball match and actually winning!?

so I'm having a pretty average day, got some stuff done, been to choir, the usual

at the end of the day I head off to history revision because why not?

we get as far as Edward III taking over France (and an avid conversation about whether France looks like pentagon or a hexagon)

then in comes the netball team, which a fair few people that I'm either friends with or friendly with play for

today however, they only have 5 players and need to either forfeit their match or find two more people

I go 'I could come if you guys want, but you've seen me play netball right'

they want someone to be wing defence and guess what position I play?

that's right. so I head off to the changing rooms to put on a very short netball dress, someone else's too tight shorts and some random trainers that kinda fit

my history teacher tells me that if I don't get the top grade this is why

we get on the bus and head off to the other school

during the course of the match I manage to fall entirely over, cut my hand and my leg, make my knees crunchy and bend my finger backwards

oh and we also have to stop because I have what is maybe an asthma attack (which i should really get checked out) and can't breathe

but we obviously still win, all thanks to my natural talent of course

I had no idea that you have to shake everyone's hand after a game

then they all start hip-hip-hooraying and I feel a bit like I've accidentally joined a cult but it's fine

I see my ex-girlfriend and say hi to her, then have to explain to the whole the team that she's my ex

we get to go back on the bus, listening to we are the champions

and then I walk home in the rain, kinda bruised, definitely bleeding, but oddly happy

maybe there's something to this team sport thing...