In which I am a Horrible Person, and there are cupcakes.
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I've started writing poems in Latin. I think this is generally known as the point of no return, "abandon hope all ye who enter here"* territory. Thanks to the Perseus Tufts website, I give you a poem written in Latin with a vaguely haiku format. It's all about the multiculturalism, really.

(And now we have poem mark II, hopefully now sans mistakes ( Read more... )

What it says on the tin: icons about Latin, mottos made up by me (except for number 1, I haven't progressed that far yet). Comments are love, credit nice but not necessary, suggestions for more mottos is awesome.

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Hear me, ladies and gentlemen! On Wednesday the Second Day of the Month of April, my uni physics club is holding its infamous Liquid Nitrogen Day, and I need your advice! Tell me what to bring to this most excellent event so that we may see it frozen and shattered upon the ground! There are but two limits upon your suggestions:

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Guys, if I ever make an archaeology/classics playlist (and I totally will one day), this will definitely be on it. Along with Walk Like An Egyptian.

Well, this is what happens when you have errant muses and an impending exam for Ancient Greek and Roman Culture. The exam was tolerable, and the fic almost wrote itself. I seem to do humour better. Apart from uni subjects, the thing that inspired me was Greywing's hilarious fic Mistaken Identities - go and read it.

Title: Mythic Grandeur
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You know what a good day is? A good day is taking the train all the way to the beach, and walking along the shore as the clouds drift across the sky. A good day is eating delicious wedges and chai. A good day is hugging every statue that you pass. A good day is having a long conversation with someone in pirate talk (we missed Talk Like A Pirate Day ( Read more... )

Prometheus the Emo, anyone? I can just see him playing A Simple Plan and wearing terribly thick eyeliner as the eagle tears out his liver. (Alright, perhaps he has an excuse. But still!)

Zeus is a playa with all his ladeez, although he'd be broke in the modern world with all the child support payments.

Apollo? Apollo is the hillbilly cow farmer who ( Read more... )