#web lessons

[surflessonscomics]

Hi surfers! Do you remember the first time you went surfing? Here's my comic about how it went for me.

I'm posting comics on Fridays about learning to surf in Santa Cruz, California. Some comics are longer like this one, others are a few panels. I'm slowly figuring out surfing and story telling as I go. I'm really stoked to share my journey with you so I hope you'll follow along!

[pulledrounder]

Mitski, "I'm Your Man" // Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness // Andrew Kane, "How to Be a Dog" // // Soccer Mommy, Your Dog // "this is the last time i beg for devotion" by violenttradwife // Anne Carson, Preface to Hekabe from Grief Lessons

[lindoesntwin]

TOP MANHWAS OF 2024

Ranked from MyAnimeList

The greatest estate developer - 8.76 ⭐

+1 comedy +1 civil engineering

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+1 world building +1 art style +1 philosophical

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+1 emotion-packed +1 characters

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+1 art +1 character development

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+1 action

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+1 plotline

Seasons of blossom - 8.59 ⭐

+1 storyline +1 characters +1 art

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+1 characters +1 relationships +1 realism

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+1 characters +1 fight scenes +1 art

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+1 action

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+1 harem

The boxer - 8.49 ⭐

+1 writing

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+1 art +1 story +1 comedy

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+1 surrealism +1 charm

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+1 character growth +1 fitting art +1 angst

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+1 art improvement +1 world

[sorrydetka]

esteja alerta para as regras dos três. o que você dá, retornará para você. essa lição, você tem que aprender. você só ganha o que você merece.

severance (2022-) // silence by portishead

[topherwrites]

ELIZABETH & CALVIN

s1e4 / i had a dream about you, richard siken / s1e4 / the truth about grief, fortesa latifi / s1e8 / a ghost is a memory, gennarose nethercott

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Wendy Cope Summer Villanelle / Clementine von Radics Mouthful of Forevers / Pierce the Veil Caraphernelia / Erika L. Sànchez Spring; Lessons on Expulsion / Yves Olade Bloodsport / 방탄소년단 BTS 134340 / Taylor Swift All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] / pinterest / Mahmoud Darwish Memory for Forgetfulness (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) / Car Seat Headrest Happy News for Sadness / Amanda Rose I Don't Think People Love Me / Taylor Steele Shocker

[vinegar-rights]

The way i just like. Entered the wir fandom more than a decade late and im like just discovering more and more old fandom content i feel like im peeling back linoleum flooring just to find more of it

[vib-ri]

digital mascot design by Reiko Chiba

[sugaredoleander]

i just took my final ancient greek exam of the semester yesterday and have been avoiding studying for my microbiology exam all day. so let's talk about these three devastating lines from anne carson's translation of herakles

and by talk about i mostly mean here's a bunch of different translations

Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος - Herakles by Euripides, lines 1398-1400

c. 416 BC.

original text in Ancient Greek via the Perseus Digital Library

Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Heracles, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.

Herakles translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (pg 81-82) 2006

Internet Archive

H of H playbook by Anne Carson (not a direct translation but a reimagining of Herakles, 2021)

Euripides: Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh, Oxford University Press, 2001

Ian C. Johnston, 2020

Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith, from Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion (The Complete Greek Tragedies - Euripides III, University of Chicago Press, 2013 (Arrowsmith's translation itself is from 1956)

my own translation with notes under the cut

* everywhere that I have used [] I have inserted a word that does not technically appear in the original text.

Theseus Stop! Give [your] hand [to me], [your] servant [and] friend. 

*more literally: Stop! Give [your] hand to a servant/helper [and] friend.

* Ancient Greek uses different punctuation, though the : symbol is used roughly the same way as it is in English and exclamation points are not used, verb conjugation in English does not differentiate the imperative mood, which παῦσαι (sg.2.aor.imperat.med-pass) is in, and often the way we show imperative mood in written English is with an exclamation point. 

-The word δίδου (sg.2.praes.imperat.act.) is also imperative. 

-παῦσαι is said in reference to Herakles’ earlier lines, lamenting his - well, the plot of Herakles.

* The particle δὲ has been omitted from the translation. It’s usually translated as but, and, or then. 

* The possessive pronoun your - σός - does not appear but is implied.

* χεῖρ᾽ is the short version of χειρός - hand

* ὑπηρέτῃ φίλῳ are both nouns in dative, here answering the question to whom? The word and - καί - does not appear between the two, likely because poetic language. The word ὑπηρέτῃ can also mean rower, an underling, servant, attendant, assistant, and is often translated here as helper. The word φίλῳ is a form of φίλος - friend, loved, beloved, dear

Herakles No, lest I wipe off blood on your garments.

* Word order changed slightly. The first word is ἀλλ᾽ - poetically shortened version of ἀλλά - usually translated as but, however, here: lest.

* ἐξομόρξωμαι (sg.1.aor.med-pass.) means wipe off or wipe away, but stain is, in my opinion, not an inaccurate translation in regards to the meaning conveyed.

* ��έπλοις means any woven cloth, here usually translated as garments, robes or clothes. 

* αἷμα means blood and is grammatically either nominative or accusative, probably accusative, μὴ means not and σοῖς is a second person possessive pronoun in plural dative.

Theseus Wipe it off, spare naught: I [do] not refuse [you].

* ἔκμασσε (sg.2.praes.imperat.act.) - wipe it off - is imperative again, so is φείδου (sg.2.praes.imperat.med-pass.) - spare.

* μηδέν I translated as naught as in nothing, οὐκ means not

* ἀναίνομαι is in sg.1.praes.ind. - so present tense would be the most literal translation, ie. I do not refuse you, but the meaning might best be conveyed in English with the use of future tense, ie. I will not refuse you. The word can also mean reject, deny, renounce and disown, or be ashamed. Possible other translations: I don’t deny you; I won’t reject you; I am not ashamed; I won’t renounce you.)

That's all on Herakles, the rest is me rambling about Ancient Greek grammar for interested parties (mostly myself). If I could put a second cut here, I would.

Some further notes on the grammatical cases and verb conjugation. You'll have noticed that I've followed verbs with parentheses with some abbreviations. I'll break those down a little for those not in the know: unlike English, Ancient Greek has different endings to denote the person in verb conjugation - 1.sg being first person singular as in I, and so on with 2.sg - you, 3.sg he/she/singular they, 1.pl - we, 2.pl - plural you, 3.pl - plural they. There's also technically an extant dual form in some texts (when speaking of a pair of two) but it's rare. Ancient Greek conjugation also varies a lot by the temporal tense, the ancient greek times are present (praesens - praes.), future (futurum and futurum III), imperfect (imperfectum), strong and weak aorist (aor. - this one doesn't exist in any modern languages and is a bit of a jeremy bearimy but is usually translated as either present or past, depending on the context), perfect (perfectum), and pluperfect (pluscuamperfectum) - all of these except imperfect and pluperfect (which only have indicative forms) then have various forms - indicative (ind.), infinitive (inf.), imperative (imperat.), optative (opt.) and conjunctive (coni.). Verbs also have an active (act.) and middle and passive or active and mediopassive (med-pass.) form, except some verbs only have mediopassive versions and are thus translated as either active or mediopassive depending on the context. This is as complicated (and fun!) as it sounds. (editors note: the fun! was not sarcastic - i am a medstudent who hasn't had to take two semesters worth of classes on this, nor do i have to keep taking ancient greek next semester but i'm going to)

Nouns in Ancient Greek also have grammatical cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative, as do adjectives. They also have genders, and adjectives of course have positive, comparative and superlative (good, better, best) forms.

Ancient Greek also uses a lot of participles, which is like a noun-ified verb. Participles are also a concept in English, just - a lot simpler in English, and also I think in English a participle is a verb that has some characteristics of an adjective or noun, whereas in Ancient Greek participles and verbal adjectives are separate concepts. Participles are derived from verbs and have the same grammatical cases as nouns, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative, and singular and plural versions, and have three genders, masc., fem. and neut. - they also have active and mediopassive forms, and differ based on the temporal conjugation of the verb, retaining its augment, reduplication, characteristic added letters (for example σ in the future tense, and θη + σ in the passive future) or lack thereof, also they can have different endings or roots based on the tense. So, yeah, "conjugate and translate this verb in part.fut.pass.sg.masc.gen. and II aor.part.act.sg.acc.fem." is what a test question might look like at my level of studying ancient greek.

Sentence constructions also differ from English, some of the most common ones are AcI, NcI, genitivus absolutus. accusativus duplex and nominativus duplex. They also will often skip words (particularly the verb to be they often deemed unnecessary) and poetic language is its own can of worms with its own theoretical dialects and prosody.

All of this is like, barely scratching the surface, there's also a bunch of different dialects, stuff varies by era, all of the noun cases have like, a Bunch of different uses, and it's all terribly interesting.

[eternaloptimistsphere]

you are the result of the love of thousands

[surflessonscomics]

Hi! I'm a new surfer (nearly two years this summer) living in Santa Cruz, CA and I write a comic called Surf Lessons about my journey to not be an awful surfer forever. I drop a new comic every Friday so if you're a surfer or just like funny comics, please follow along!

[orvdiscrepancies]

Discrepancy #5

Dokja refers to his life in different ways.

(this one's really long, I'm sorry)

When Dokja zones out, he’s thinking about if his life were a different genre. He determines at the end that his life is realism/nonfiction and says that he’s just the reader.

Realism and non-fiction aren’t the same thing. In the novel, he says realism which is defined in the Mariam-Webster Dictionary (cause I’m American) as:

Concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. The theory or practice of fidelity in art and literature to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization.

In the webtoon, he says nonfiction (same thing as non-fiction), which is defined as:

Writing or cinema that is about facts and real events.

So what does this mean? Am I just crazy and obsessive for focusing on the definitions? Actually, no, it matters a lot. Let's break down those definitions.

Realism is typically a word used to describe art. There was a realism art movement in the mid-19th century beginning in France. The main characteristic of realism was focusing on everyday life and typically working-class life without idealizing or romanticizing what the world really looked like. It was a response to romanticism, which focused on turning finite things into infinite beauty. It can describe more than just paintings, but that's the basic idea.

Meanwhile, nonfiction is used only to describe writing or cinema. If a painting is "nonfiction," then it's realism. Photographs could technically be nonfiction, but that's a debatable topic that I'm not qualified to talk about. But it's something that documents facts.

So damn it, what does it mean?! Using the context of the definitions and what they mean, we can see how Dokja sees the world.

N!Dokja uses the word realism. He sees life as only defined by the boring day-to-day nature of a person. You could argue that he sees the world as a work of art, but that's debatable. It adds more weight that he is working-class. This is all his life has ever been. Just the cycle of going to work and coming home. His life is only illuminated by the web novels he reads. They are his fantasy; they are what he romanticizes. His life of realism is a response—a juxtaposition—of the romanticism of his life. He leaves room for something more in his life.

Meanwhile, W!Dokja uses nonfiction. He's defined his life as one thing: facts. Nothing could ever be different. He is a man who is working class and reads web novels. This is an undeniable fact.

I don't know. The word realism adds more to his character in a way I can't explain. It just makes him feel more connected with his perception of the world. It makes the transition from "oh silly conversation on the subway" to "brutal apocalypse" smoother. It makes his easy acceptance make more sense. Using the word realism to describe his life, he acknowledges the small things that make up his life. He acknowledges his life is made up of dull moments that he finds no interest in, but it leaves room for romanticism. He sees nothing of his life, but his life can be beautiful in the same places where it was boring. His life can become fiction simply because it is so finite. Ways of Survival coming to life starts his romanticism. It marks the beginning of something so big and expansive that realism is all that's left of his previous life.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into it :D

(I stg I’m never leaving chapter 2. Im trapped here)

(Also, I tried something new and combined my discrepancy and analysis to get more exposure for the analysis. Idk. How do y'all feel? I'm still new to Tumblr lol)

[worstloki]

Fortesa Latifi, We Were Young

[dlzdrz]

She's my angel

[topherwrites]

ELIZABETH & CALVIN

s1e2 / "in the kitchen" - renee rapp / s1e3 / "in the kitchen" - renee rapp / s1e3 / quote by unknown / s1e3 / quote by @/metamorphesque / s1e3 / great expectations, charles dickens

[whatididtomakeitbetter]

i find myself crying a lot these days.

it seldom comes from nowhere at all.

am I proud of what I've done? what i'm doing and what i continue to do?

do i carry on or constantly change?

how do i get through this, whole?

do i need to be whole to get through this?