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yukidragon · 2 years
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After I had so much fun making a silly little poll on twitter about which SnaccPop Studios character readers would like to see me write in a reader-insert fic, I decided to make a poll for everyone here as well. Since tumblr posts allow for more words and options, I decided to add a little twist to this version of the poll.
Surprise! It's not just SnaccPop bachelors involved this time. Everyone's favorite ocean boy Cove Holden from Our Life Beginnings & Always is also an option, along with Jack's female counterpart, Funshine Jill!
You can also vote whether the writing style will be 1st person (staying in a neutral narrator's head for a reader-insert experience) or 3rd person (getting to see both characters and their thoughts).
I joked that if the twitter poll got at least 1000 votes I would for sure write a story about the winner, knowing that I wouldn't reach that many, but the actual amount wound up being a lot more than I expected. So this time I'm actually committing to the bit.
This poll is going up for an entire week. Not only I write a 1000+ word flashfic about the winner, but if I reach 1000 votes, I'll make two short stories about the winning option instead of just one.
If you're interested in a different sort of story than any of the options presented, feel free to leave a comment. I won't guarantee that I'll feel confident enough to write the suggestions, but I am curious to know what you're interested in seeing me write. Maybe I can have different options if I do a poll like this again.
I also won't guarantee that I'll write a teaser paragraph based off the poll leader for every 100 votes like I did over on twitter. Though you never know. It was fun leaving silly commentary and incentives on the twitter poll as it went along.
If this poll goes well, I might do something like this again in the future. Maybe I'll even feel bold enough to hold a contest of some kind when I hit 1000 followers.
If you want to check out stuff I've written to see the difference in the writing styles of 1st person vs 3rd person before you make your choice, feel free to check out my writing tag for my rough drafts or my AO3 account for my polished works.
Thanks in advance to everyone who participates, and to everyone in general for following a silly writer like me. You're all wonderful. 💖
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ian-galagher · 2 years
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TAG GAME TUESDAY
Thank you for tagging me Evie! 🥰🧡 @energievie
something you drank today: water, it's very boring but I like it and it's all I drink 💦
something you ate today: SOUP my beloved <3 chicken noodle!
something you watched recently: Taaaaskmaster and WILTY, I'm into funny shows atm
something that brings you joy: chapter six of my fic 😏 I want to go live inside of it and never leave
something you’re excited for: Alice's art for said fic 😁 it's going to be AMAZING 😍
something you’ve never done but want to try: I'm doing it! I've never written before in my life but always wanted to and I finally started!
something you’re good at: crying 😂 that's terrible! I'll say cooking, I like to cook 😊
something you’re learning: not to get upset with the things I can't change and are out of my control
something you want: to be completely alone for about 3 weeks so I can WRITE 😁 was just googling hotels today, not for some holiday but just to lock myself away and tell people I'm unavailable but I'd just be sitting in a room writing 😂 such a shame hotels are so darn expensive!!
As a kid I read the original Dr Dolittle stories and the main character, Dr Dolittle, was a writer and he looked into what crimes he could commit that would land him in prison where he'd finally have time to finish his book. That always stuck with me.
something you need: sleeeeeeep
something people don’t know about you: that in real life I'm quiet as a mouse and prefer not to talk, which is funny because I will not shut up while writing 😂
Tagging in turn to do this if you like to or else accept a HUG! 🐸
@sickness-health-all-that-shit @look-i-love-u @sweetbee78 @tomorrowillmissyou @sleepyfacetoughguy @xninetiestrendx @axhicleos @suchagallabitch @stocious @shameless-notashamed @vintagelacerosette @mikhailoisbaby @creepkinginc @francesrose3 @nyhmeriah @gardenerian @gallagher-milkovich @gallavich-headcanon @darthvaders-wife @depressedstressedlemonzest @trans-alpha-male @ianandmickeygallavich
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heymacy · 2 years
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i’m late i’m late for a very important date! i was tagged by my beloveds @creepkinginc, @surviving-maybe, and @gardenerian to do this comfort tag game 🫂 (this was much needed 🥺💛)
song: “Lean Into Life” by Petey 💫
band: Bring Me The Horizon 🌅
movie: Addams Family Values 🥀
actress/actor: sorry, celebrity-obsessed macy can’t come to the phone right now. why? oh, ‘cause she’s dead 😌
tv show: That 70s Show and Brooklyn 99 📺
concert video: i haven’t the foggiest!
book: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 👼🏼
author: i don’t think i have one tbh 👀
poem: the summer day by mary oliver 🌤
character: mickey milkovich + ian gallagher ✨
piece of clothing: my tattered gray t-shirt that’s hanging on by a literal thread 🤏🏻
meal: grilled cheese 🧀
snack: strawberries or trail mix 🍓
drink: iced coffee with pumpkin & oat milk 🎃
animal: otters 🦦
room: my bedroom 💛
i’m tagging @iansfreckles, @greggster, @metalheadmickey, @whatwouldmickeydo, @heymrspatel, @sunoficarus, @mishervellous, @7x10mickey, @y0itsbri, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @vintagelacerosette, @energievie, @howlinchickhowl, @thisdivorce, & @oatmilkovich ✨
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vintagelacerosette · 2 years
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I posted 37,054 times in 2022
That's 553 more posts than 2021!
448 posts created (1%)
36,606 posts reblogged (99%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@roughentumble
@creepkinginc
@winged-fool
@gaydhdstiles
@erdsthenerds
I tagged 11,152 of my posts in 2022
#gallavich - 2,444 posts
#soft & sensitive husbands - 700 posts
#mickey milkovich - 607 posts
#ian gallagher - 527 posts
#gallavich fanart - 513 posts
#my beloved - 436 posts
#gallavich fanfic - 381 posts
#gallacrafts - 303 posts
#sweetface - 283 posts
#ask game - 222 posts
Longest Tag: 140 characters
#mickey is a bit tipsy and he’s sitting in ian’s lap with his head on his shoulder and stroking ian’s beard softly while saying all this btw.
I sent 1 gift in 2022
My Top Posts in 2022:
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Gallacrafts theme 7 - C'mere
Happy Gallacrafts day my lovelies!! 🥰 I'm pretty happy this is my first time participating in the ever amazing @gallacrafts 💕 hope you guys like 💝
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Gallacrafts theme 12: You're under my Skin, Man ✨️
Happy @gallacrafts day my sunbeams & it's a special one at that, as it is our one year anniversary being all crafty as a incredible fandom! Hurrah!!! 🥳🎊
Well, with this prompt I decided to wove them into each other so that they'll be under each other's skin... Get it? Ba dum tis! 🥁 I'm sorry it's 3am here & I have gone a lil bit over board lmao 🤪
I cannot wait until y'all see our magnificent zine as well. ❤️❤️❤️
But I love you all & here's to many more crafting years with all you wonderful, amazingly creative, encouraging & talented people I have the honour to call my friends 🥹😘💕💕
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Gallacrafts theme 11: I'm fucking gay ✨️
Happy @gallacrafts day & happy PRIDE my dearest doves 🌈🥰🌈
I have used Mickey's iconic quote for various LGBTQIA+ identities as an affirmation for love wins & there's no need to be ever ashamed.
Like Mickey say it loud. Say it proud. Say it with your whole chest ✨️
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Gallacrafts theme 9: Deleted Scenes ✨
Happy gallacrafts dearest hearts!! For this theme I simply could not choose so I picked them all haha! I made a waterfall heart card with images of the iconic & criminally deleted gallavich scenes. Thank you to @gallacrafts by the spectacular Rhys @smokey-mickey , magnificent Leah @whatwouldmickeydo & to all of you those who shared creations or shared other's crafts! I'm just so grateful to be a part of y'all 🥰🥰🥰
✨️💖✨️❤️✨️💛✨️💚✨️💙✨️💜✨️💗✨️💖✨️❤️
Behind the scenes under the cut
Here are stills of each heart ❤️
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My #1 post of 2022
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A huge thank you to Alice @darthvaders-wife for making such a mesmerising commission!!! 🥹💕 I am just so in love with them 💙💙💙
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heartsbreaking · 2 months
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this is an 18+ high activity & mutually exclusive MULTI FANDOM MULTI MUSE as loved by NICO (he/they, 22) !
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solenelanza · 5 years
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Some told me : Resolution #2 Not to fall in love (with some you shouldn’t’ve) But with the Blur night routine, I don’t know anymore. As I saw some ghosts in central London.
Il y a quelqu’un qui m’a dit : Résolution n°2, ne pas tomber amoureuse (de quelqu’un qu’il ne faudrait pas). Mais en suivant les habitudes nocturnes de Blur, me voilà incertaine et douteuse, surtout après ma rencontre avec les fantômes du passé au centre ville. 
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Some deaths mean more than others so when the Buzzcocks singer disappeared, I felt sad and lonely but deeply focused on one question : What do I get? I mean in London. A Message in a Bottle to complain about loneliness ? No way. As Paris is the city of love, London is the town to forget your boredom with this ton of activities, couples are not the kings here. So get it deeper, I took this unpopular Blur Song, Bang. This hustle and bustle song by Damon Albarn and co. is a melancholic but frenetic way to discover the city surrounded by good mates and nocturne times.
Certaines morts sont plus révélateurs que d’autres, alors quand le chanteur des Buzzcocks s’est éteint, j’ai ressenti non seulement la tristesse et la solitude, un peu comme pour la disparition de Bashung, mais aussi le devoir de répondre à une question : Est-ce possible de vivre un Vertige de l’amour, à Londres ? Est-ce une bouteille à la mer pour se plaindre d’un quelconque isolement ? Absolument pas. Car comme Paris est la ville de l’amour, Londres est la cité pour oublier ses contrariétés dans des tas d’activités où le couple ne règne pas en majesté. Pour le sentir au plus près, j’ai écouté cette chanson mal aimée de Blur, Bang. La ritournelle du tohu-bohu de la bande à Albarn est la manière artistique mélancolique mais frénétique pour découvrir la ville la nuit avec de bonnes amies.
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Shootings always start at home for makeup and costume times but Kelly (the clever creator of Atelier K) wanted to freeze for a while her guitarist moves ukulele play on the floor with some music memories (or some coming up). Her imitation of Graham Coxon is just stunning !
Les photos-shootings commencent toujours à la maison, pour régler les points costumes et  raccord de maquillage mais Kelly (la charmante créatrice d’Atelier K) voulait cristalliser à jamais le moment avec sa gratte mon ukulélé par terre, avec des instants musicaux communs ( passés ou à venir…) Son imitation de Graham Coxon est à tomber !
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Then things cracked down a bit. Because I met Alex. Bang, bang, he shot me down. Not Alex James. But Alex the mannequin. I am not sure he was fond of cheese but he is soft like THE Blue Monday (not the song, the cheese!) He was the star of the night, fiddled by strangers in the night … He even stole the limelight from Lisa, lovely French friend, creator of fantastique ceramique who took the shadows.
Puis il y a du coup de foudre dans l’air. Parce que j’ai rencontré Alex. Vous connaissez la chanson, il a les yeux révolver … Attention pas Alex James. Alex, le mannequin. Je ne pense pas qu’il soit vraiment fan de frometon, mais il est doux comme un Blue Monday (pas le tube hein, le fromage !) C’était le soleil de mes nuits, diablement affriolant pour les passants. Il a même volé la vedette à Lisa, ma pimpante pote parisienne, qui aime la céramique et tous les jours les boules de Noël.
Kelly: Tartan suit by Bershka– Black top by H&M – Glasses by Ace & Tate– Watch by Obaku – Shoes by Fenty Puma 
I wish I could dance like Damon in the street but paying tribute to the bassist (yes now it’s Alex James.) with his bermuda. But the only garment I found is my tiny skirt. Jumping into a skirt in a windy night was not the best idea ever. Especially with all the accessories, hint to others music videos of the best Britpop band. (Yes I dare saying that, take that Liam Gallagher.) in silly, heavy, noisy Soho.
Je voulais tellement me trémousser comme Damon sur la grande rue mais pour rendre hommage au bassiste (oui cette fois, il s’agit d’Alex James) avec son non moins célèbre short! Mais le seul cotillon ressemblant dans ma garde robe a été cette jupe bien légère. Et je peux vous l’assurer, courir dans les rues avec cette étoffe si mince n’est pas l’idée du siècle ! Surtout affublée de tous les accessoires dans un Soho fou, sonné et sonore pour faire des clins d’oeil aux autres clips de la meilleure formation Britpop (oui j’ose ! Prends ça Liam Gallagher ! )
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Lisa: Coat by Jodhpur – Bag by & Others Stories – Sneakers by Adidas
Yes, the area hasn’t really changed from the 90’s like others monuments of the city. St Paul is now the best perspective of a not so secrete (and free) rooftop. Tower Bridge is the beloved picture for future married couples and romantic tourists. And the social centre Central Point transformed itself as it is now the classy nest of a top notch new restaurant.
Le quartier n’a pas tellement changé depuis 30 ans, un peu comme tous les autres monuments de la ville. St Paul est toujours le meilleur vis à vis d’un rooftop à moindre frais (et plus du tout dissimulé). Tower Bridge reste ce paysage de carte postale pour les futurs mariés et touristes un peu trop fleur bleu. Et le centre social Central Point est depuis devenu l’un des nids douillés les plus désirés de la ville.
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From Tower Hill to Regent Street, you have to be on the move, never give up your energy to embrace the whole city. And when things are exhausting, you have to find your time to slow down in the empty main streets and meditate in the dark. Who couldn’t wish to have a (music) tour of the city ? (MP if you are interested 😉 )
De Tower Hill à Regent Street, il faut toujours être dans la course, et ne jamais céder à la fatigue pour combler la ville de son énergie. Et quand tout devient plus fatigant, vous devez adopter votre propre tempo, plus lent et doux pour remplir les rues désertes de vos pensées obscures. Qui ne voudrait pas tenter d’y faire un tour pour entendre toutes les mélodies enfouies ? ( On s’écrit ? 😉)
Solène: Jacket by Zara (thanks Shop My Closet!)- Blue Navy Skirt by Zapa – Socks by Le Slip Français – Shoes by Clarks 
Texts: Solène L. Models: Kelly & Lisa Pictures by ©Alice Menguy 
Pour d’autres histoires musicales à Londres, suivez-moi ou contactez-moi 😉
  Love life is BLURry in London, do you need anyone? Some told me : Resolution #2 Not to fall in love (with some you shouldn’t’ve)
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laststops-a-blog · 6 years
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ok  so  the  muses  on  this  blog  officially  are  :
alice  dubois  ,  beloved  and  world  renown  oc freddie  redchester  ,  more  annoying  oc todd  gallagher  ,  angel  that  we  don’t  deserve  (  wwg  ) connor  lassiter  ,  when  i  get  icons  (  unwind  ) chell  ,  redacted  (  portal  ) aaron  schultz  ,  gross  (  lb  ) markus  ,  selectively  (  d.bh  ) two  ,  whom  i  cherish  (  dm  ) georgia  nicholson  ,  oh  my  god  please  let  me  write  her  consistently  (  cogn  ) ango  ,  yall  already  know  (  taz  ) davenport  ,  ditto  (  taz  )
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sciencespies · 4 years
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Father Reginald Foster Used Latin to Bring History Into the Present
https://sciencespies.com/history/father-reginald-foster-used-latin-to-bring-history-into-the-present/
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The death of Latin has been greatly exaggerated.
Of course, Latin is no longer the default language for European learning and diplomacy, as it was from the Roman Empire through the early modern period. Since the implementation of Vatican II in the early 1960s, even many priests don’t speak the language in a meaningful way. Still, despite Latin’s decline in political and ecclesiastical circles, hundreds of folks around the globe continue to speak it as a living language—and no teacher is more responsible for the world’s remaining crop of latineloquentes (“Latin speakers”) as Friar Reginald Foster, the Carmelite monk who served as Latin secretary to four popes from 1969 until 2009, translating diplomatic papers and papal encyclicals into Latin, which remains the official language of the Holy See. Foster died on Christmas Day, at the age of 81.
In 2007, Foster himself lamented to the BBC that he thought the language was on its way out altogether. He worried that a modern world, illiterate in Latin, would lose contact with crucial portions of history, and half-jokingly recommended that then-Pope Benedict XVI replace Italy’s traditional siesta with a two-hour daily Latin reading.
The Pope never took up Foster’s suggestion, but the irony is that Foster had already managed, almost single-handedly, to reverse some of the trends that so troubled him. His deepest passion was teaching Latin at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, starting in 1977, and running his famous spoken Latin course nearly every summer, beginning in 1985. Through these courses, Foster launched multiple generations of classicists who have used his techniques to bring their students into closer contact with a past that, until recently, had seemed to be vanishing.
Foster is well remembered for his boisterous, generous presence in the classroom and on field trips. He was beloved among students, and distrusted by Vatican grandees, for his eccentric habits, which included dressing in a blue plumber’s suit and issuing caustic statements about church hypocrisy. When he was teaching—in Rome until 2009, thereafter in Wisconsin—he often nursed a glass of wine. Known by the Latin sobriquet “Reginaldus” to his legions of pupils, who in turn refer to themselves as “Reginaldians,” Foster was a hero and a jester, a pug-nosed provocateur with a satirical streak who would have fit right into a comic epistle by Horace or Erasmus. “Like Socrates, his default mode in public was ironic,” says Michael Fontaine, an administrator and professor of Classics at Cornell University.
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A portrait of Foster by artist Lucy Plowe
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Fontaine, who first met Foster in the spring of 1997, makes no bones about the extent of Foster’s legacy.
“Reginald Foster succeeded in reversing the decline in living Latin. He actually, really, genuinely did it. Reggie’s success is total: There is a burgeoning movement and critical mass of young people who have now learned Latin [as a spoken language]. Reggie taught some, his students taught some, those people are teaching some, and on and on. Some of the best Latinists in the world are in their 20s or early 30s”—a remarkable development that Fontaine credits squarely to Foster’s peerless influence.
Leah Whittington, an English professor at Harvard University, who first met Foster during a summer Latin course in 1997 when she was 17, recalls the friar’s “phenomenal, ebullient energy.” “He never sat down, never seemed to need rest or eat or sleep,” Whittington says. “It was as though he was fueled from within by love for Latin, love for his work, love for his students. I had never been pushed so hard by a teacher.”
Like all of Foster’s students who spoke with Smithsonian, Whittington recalls his visionary dedication to preserving Latin by keeping it alive in everyday conversation.
“For most classicists trained in the United States or in Great Britain, Latin was a learned, non-spoken language; it was not a language that one could converse in, like French or Spanish. But for Reginald, Latin was an everyday functional language that he used with his friends, his teachers, his colleagues, with himself and even in his dreams.”
Foster went to extraordinary lengths to make sure he was keeping his students as engaged as possible with their work outside the classroom, which the friar referred to not as homework but as ludi domestici—”games to play at home.” This playful approach often proved a revelation to students used to more staid ways of teaching a language they’d been told was dead. “It’s so rare to have an immersion experience in Latin that it couldn’t fail to improve and deepen your knowledge of the language and history,” says Scott Ettinger, a Latin and Greek teacher in the Bronx, who attended Foster’s summer course in 1996.
Daniel Gallagher, who in 2009 succeeded Foster in the Latin section of the Vatican Secretariat and today teaches the language at Cornell University, still marvels at Foster’s “extreme dedication to his students.”
“He told us, ‘Call me at 2 in the morning if you’re stuck,'” says Gallagher, who began studying with Foster in October 1995. “He said, ‘I’ll even come to your house to teach you Latin.’ And I learned that he wasn’t kidding—he really would come to my house.”
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Foster launched multiple generations of classicists who have used his techniques to bring their students into closer contact with a past that, until recently, had seemed to be vanishing.
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Classicist Jason Pedicone recalls his first course with Foster in 2004: “He made me feel like learning Latin was a key that would unlock endless beauty and wisdom of history, art and literature.”
“Studying Greek and Latin with Reginald was spiritually enriching,” he says. “I don’t mean that in a doctrinal way; it was just really life-affirming and made me stand in awe of humanity and civilization.” In 2010, Pedicone co-founded the Paideia Institute with Eric Hewett, another of Foster’s students; the organization offers immersive courses in Latin and Greek.
Tales of Foster have long been common among anglophone classicists. Even those who never visited him in Rome had often heard something about this eccentric priest who gave free, immersive Latin lessons.
“I had heard for some time that there was a priest in Rome who spoke Latin and gave free summer courses where you actually spoke Latin,” says Alice Rubinstein, a now-retired Latin teacher living in Virginia. “I remember some woman telling me he was like a priestly version of Don Rickles.”
“[Foster] reminds me of the humanists I study in the 15th century, especially Lorenzo Valla,” says classicist Chris Celenza, a dean at Johns Hopkins University who took courses with Foster in 1993 and marvels at the friar’s unerring ability to bring the past into the present, to make old texts new. “Foster could almost ventriloquize the authors we were studying. He was a living anachronism, and I think he knew it and kind of delighted in that.”
In his obituary for Foster, John Byron Kuhner, who is writing a biography of the friar, sounded a similar note about Reginaldus’ uncanny ability to make ancient writers seem intimate and accessible—a closeness that he fostered in his students: “The writers and artists of the past seemed to be equally [Foster’s] friends. He loved them in a way we could see, the way we love our living friends who happen to be far away.”
Foster’s famous summer Latin course was full of day trips. Traditional jaunts included the site in Formia where Cicero was assassinated by Mark Antony’s men in 43 B.C. (“Reginald would weep while reciting Cicero’s epitaph,” Whittington recalls); the gardens at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s summer residence, where students sang Latin songs to “papal bulls”—that is, cows grazing outside the Pope’s house; to the port town of Ostia; Pompeii and Naples; the spot at Largo Argentina in Rome where Julius Caesar was assassinated; the castle in Latium where Thomas Aquinas was born.
“Walking with Reggie through these Italian sites made Rome come alive in a way that it couldn’t have without someone of his encyclopedic knowledge of Latin,” says Alexander Stille, a journalism professor at Columbia University, who profiled Foster for the American Scholar in 1994.
“Foster used to tell us that ‘Reading Augustine in translation is like listening to Mozart on a jukebox,'” Stille says, “and that being in Rome without access to Latin was to see an impoverished version of it. He made the city come alive.”
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Foster is well remembered for his boisterous, generous presence in the classroom and on field trips.
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There are many classicists (I am one of them) who never met Foster but who benefited from his teachings by studying under his protégés, many of whom use techniques pioneered by Foster.
“When I led student trips to Italy, I modeled them on the field trips Foster used to take with us,” says Helen Schultz, now a Latin teacher at a private school in New Hampshire. “On one memorable occasion, he joined me and a group of my students to talk about their studies and his work at the Vatican. He didn’t just love Latin; he also loved and cared deeply about every one of the students who learned from him and were inspired by him to do our best to keep his legacy alive.”
Like many of Foster’s students, Ada Palmer, a European history professor at the University of Chicago, says the friar opened up a whole world of post-Classical Latin literature for his charges. Rather than falling back on the typical, and almost entirely ancient, canon taught in most classrooms, he introduced scholars to the Latin of St. Jerome’s autobiography, or medieval bestiaries, or Renaissance books of magic, or rollicking pub songs from the 17th and 18th centuries, Palmer says, and thereby widened the possibilities for Latin studies across the world.
“Reggie’s enthusiasm was for all Latin equally,” Palmer says, “and he encouraged us to explore the whole vast, tangled and beautiful garden of Latin, and not just the few showpiece roses at its center. He trained scholars who have revolutionized many fields of history and literary studies.”
Celenza agrees, referring to the millions of pages of Latin from the Renaissance onward as “a lost continent” that Foster played a central role in rediscovering.
Foster was famous for many of his one-liners, perhaps none more so than his frequent reminder to students that “Every bum and prostitute in ancient Rome spoke Latin.” (In one variant on this line, “dog-catcher” takes the place of “bum.”) His point was that one needn’t be an elite to appreciate the riches of a language that began, after all, as a vernacular. But Foster’s interest in bums and prostitutes was not merely rhetorical. “He did a lot of good for the prostitutes of Rome,” Ettinger says. Foster was known for giving what little money he had to the city’s downtrodden, even though, by keeping his classes free, he ensured that he had practically no income. (He was also known sometimes to pay a student’s rent in Rome for a semester.)
“In one’s life, if you’re lucky, you’ll meet a certain number of people who are genuinely extraordinary and who try to change your life in some way. Reggie was one of those people in my life,” Stille says. “There were few people on the planet who have the relationship to Latin that he did.”
In his final weeks, Foster’s friends say, he was as boisterous as ever, even after testing positive for Covid-19: He continued working with Daniel P. McCarthy—a Benedictine monk who began studying with Foster in the fall of 1999—on their book series codifying Foster’s teaching methods. And he maintained lively conversations with protégés, often in Latin, via phone and video calls.
Today, classicists, philologists and anyone else who wishes they had taken a Latin immersion course with Foster can console themselves with several options offered by his former students. Each summer, you will find Ettinger helping organize the annual Conventiculum aestivum (“summer convention”) in Lexington, Kentucky, an 8- to 12-day immersive program that welcomes 40 to 80 attendees a year. Other Foster protégés, including Whittington, Gallagher, Fontaine and Palmer, have taught immersive classes through the Paideia Institute. Foster may be gone, but his dedication to Latin as a living language, one that puts us in direct conversation with our past, continues to thrive against all odds.
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I posted 37,054 times in 2022
That's 553 more posts than 2021!
448 posts created (1%)
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#gallavich fanart - 513 posts
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#gallacrafts - 303 posts
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#mickey is a bit tipsy and he’s sitting in ian’s lap with his head on his shoulder and stroking ian’s beard softly while saying all this btw.
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Gallacrafts theme 7 - C'mere
Happy Gallacrafts day my lovelies!! 🥰 I'm pretty happy this is my first time participating in the ever amazing @gallacrafts 💕 hope you guys like 💝
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💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕💘💕
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Gallacrafts theme 12: You're under my Skin, Man ✨️
Happy @gallacrafts day my sunbeams & it's a special one at that, as it is our one year anniversary being all crafty as a incredible fandom! Hurrah!!! 🥳🎊
Well, with this prompt I decided to wove them into each other so that they'll be under each other's skin... Get it? Ba dum tis! 🥁 I'm sorry it's 3am here & I have gone a lil bit over board lmao 🤪
I cannot wait until y'all see our magnificent zine as well. ❤️❤️❤️
But I love you all & here's to many more crafting years with all you wonderful, amazingly creative, encouraging & talented people I have the honour to call my friends 🥹😘💕💕
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Gallacrafts theme 11: I'm fucking gay ✨️
Happy @gallacrafts day & happy PRIDE my dearest doves 🌈🥰🌈
I have used Mickey's iconic quote for various LGBTQIA+ identities as an affirmation for love wins & there's no need to be ever ashamed.
Like Mickey say it loud. Say it proud. Say it with your whole chest ✨️
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Gallacrafts theme 9: Deleted Scenes ✨
Happy gallacrafts dearest hearts!! For this theme I simply could not choose so I picked them all haha! I made a waterfall heart card with images of the iconic & criminally deleted gallavich scenes. Thank you to @gallacrafts by the spectacular Rhys @smokey-mickey , magnificent Leah @whatwouldmickeydo & to all of you those who shared creations or shared other's crafts! I'm just so grateful to be a part of y'all 🥰🥰🥰
✨️💖✨️❤️✨️💛✨️💚✨️💙✨️💜✨️💗✨️💖✨️❤️
Behind the scenes under the cut
Here are stills of each heart ❤️
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A huge thank you to Alice @darthvaders-wife for making such a mesmerising commission!!! 🥹💕 I am just so in love with them 💙💙💙
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not many thoughts and this edit is meh but alice and joaquin could really be it.
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IN WHICH I SLAP A PRETTY PASTEL PSD OVER A SUPER TOXIC SHIP FOR THE AESTHETIC
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MATTLICE!!!!
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ALICE GALLAGHER & EDDIE BROCK
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