latin phrases worth knowing:

bleachclla:

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

  • ad astra per aspera – to the stars through difficulties 
  • alis volat propriis – he flies by his own wings 
  • amantium irae amoris integratio est – the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 
  • ars longa, vita brevis – art is long, life is short 
  • aut insanity homo, aut versus facit – the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 
  • dum spiro spero – while I breathe, I hope 
  • ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem – with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 
  • exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior – I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad
  • experiential docet – experience teaches 
  • helluo librorum – a glutton for books (bookworm) 
  • in libras libertas – in books, freedom 
  • littera scripta manet – the written letter lasts 
  • mens regnum bona possidet – an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 
  • mirabile dictu – wonderful to say 
  • nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit – there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 
  • omnia iam fient quae posse negabam – everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 
  • poeta nascitur, non fit – the poet is born, not made 
  • qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit – let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 
  • saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit – often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 
  • sedit qui timuit ne non succederet – he who feared he would not succeed sat still 
  • si vis pacem, para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war 
  • struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat – when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 
  • sub rosa – under the rose 
  • trahimir omnes laudis studio – we are led on by our eagerness for praise
  • urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit – he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 
  • ut incepit fidelis sic permanet – as loyal as she began, so she remains

ina-gartens-weave:

v1als:

ina-gartens-weave:

v1als:

v1als:

not to start drama in the history fandom but some of yall out there have really bad opinions and also no critical thinking skills

also while I’m here: historical figures aren’t your fandom faves. they’re real people who had profound and often terrible effects on other real people. you can’t apply fandom logic to them. you can’t fill in the blanks with no evidence other than you like the idea. you can’t vilify some of them while simultaneously stanning over “”misunderstood babies”” who committed equal atrocities. and perhaps most importantly of all, you can’t treat real history as “canon” and develop AUs where your fave is exactly how you want them to be with none of the nasty bits attached. that’s not how you read history. that’s how you get a painfully obvious bias which makes your conclusions and contributions useless.

it’s ok u can say hamilton

full disclosure i was talking about the soviet union idk what’s going on in the hamilton sphere and i wanna keep it that way

you’re talking about what

ojiisanholic:

facingthewaves:

“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

a thing for one of my favorite posts on this site