Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.
This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think “temu” is identical to “timor” (infinitive, “to fear”), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as “timeo” (“I fear”). “Temu” is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate’s part to turn gibberish into… something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.
Next, “die” does mean “day,” though nominative singular is “dies,” i.e. “dies irae.” It could be conjugated “die” if it was in ablative or locative case, but “die ad die” would mean something more like “day to day.” “Ad” is in a “to” direction and “ab” is from, i.e. “ab urbis,” and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, “by” is not really a way to translate “ad”; we might want “per” here? (Through, by means of, etc.)
Not to mention, it would be weird to put one “die” at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.
Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!
Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)
So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the “die”-s up that far, though “timeo” (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway (“die ad die timeo,” “day to day I fear” if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don’t super-hard quote me on this.
I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.
But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.
….oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.
isn’t it so crazy that 51 is divisible by 17. because 51 is such an ugly number that based on vibes alone i would 100% think it’s prime 😭😭 like who in the world would even WANT to divide that shit? 17 and 3 i fucking guess…… 🤷
reminder that “allies welcome” was once secret code for “those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk”, and for those who aren’t out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.
this is also important for queer people who don’t know anyone else there. let them bring their friend, even if the friend is cishet. many would rather not go at all, rather than go somewhere alone.
It is always better to let respectful cishets into our spaces than to try and police who is queer enough to be allowed.
Don’t you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
There were expectations placed on Lorde about how a girl becoming a young woman should act. It was another way she made herself small, trying to please the world and be good. But as she oozed, she redefined herself, and she saw that her gender identity could get bigger, too. On Virgin‘s opening track, she lays the tale of her rebirth bare: “Some days I’m a woman/Some days I’m a man.”
I ask her how she identifies now, what it means and what’s changed. “[Chappell Roan] asked me this,” Lorde recalls. The pair have become close friends over the past year. “She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’ And I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.’ I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”
Though Lorde still calls herself a cis woman and her pronouns remain unchanged. She describes herself as “in the middle gender-wise,” a person more comfortable with the fluidity of her expression. In some ways, she feels like her teenage self again, back when her friends were mostly boys and there was a looseness in how she dressed and acted.
In 2023, she went shopping at clothing store C’H’C’M’ and tried on a pair of men’s jeans. She sent a picture to Stack to get his opinion. “He was like, ‘I want to see the you that’s in this picture represented in the music.’ This was before I had any sense of my gender broadening at all.”
Toward the end of that year, she went off birth control for the first time since she was 15. “I’ve now come to see [my decision] as maybe some quasi right-wing programming,” she admits, presumably referring to years of far-right influencers pushing anti-contraception disinformation. “But I hadn’t ovulated in 10 years. And when I ovulated for the first time, I cannot describe to you how crazy it was. One of the best drugs I’ve ever done.”
She wrote the album’s opening track soon after, as well as “Man of the Year.” She felt like she had superpowers, like being off birth control had peeled a film off her life. But the “best drug” came with bigger crashes than she had ever experienced. She would be diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a severe form of PMS that causes debilitating mood swings, among other symptoms; she has since inserted the IUD visible on her album cover. The experience opened up an avenue of discovery she hadn’t anticipated. “I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she explains. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.”
When Lorde wrote “Man of the Year,” she was sitting on the floor of her living room, trying to visualize a version of herself “that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment.” What she saw once again was an image of herself in men’s jeans, this time wearing nothing else but her gold chain and duct tape on her chest. The tape had this feeling of rawness to her, of it “not being a permanent solution.”
“I went to the cupboard, and I got the tape out, and I did it to myself,” she tells me. “I have this picture staring at myself. I was blond [at the time]. It scared me what I saw. I didn’t understand it. But I felt something bursting out of me. It was crazy. It was something jagged. There was this violence to it.”
We talk about the Trump administration’s war against the trans community. While opening up about her own identity terrifies her, she knows she has less on the line than people whose gender identity does not match what they were assigned at birth.
“I don’t think that [my identity] is radical, to be honest,” she says. “I see these incredibly brave young people, and it’s complicated. Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I’m not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I’m, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.”
Also while nonbinary people can also identify as cis, I can’t help but wonder if her saying her identity isn’t “radical” is some internalized exorsexism. Like, Lorde my friend Lorde, you are describing a very raw and real genderqueer experience, you don’t need to add a disclaimer that you aren’t Really Radical because you are still comfortable being a woman as well. The answer “I’m sometimes a woman and sometimes a man” IS a satisfying answer to people who care about multigender folks.
Also this is a really good example of why I as a nonbinary person really dislike defining “transgender” as “not identifying with your identity assigned at birth” because it’s a definition that really prioritizes binary trans people above all else, as opposed to the older definition which emphasizes genderqueerness in all forms.
Anyways! Really cool to see!!!! We are in such desperate need of mainstream multigender representation.
also it’s so incredibly cool and swag to see lorde not just calling out anti-contraceptive right wing propaganda as being what it is, but also saying that going off birth control made her realize she’s also a guy. given how there’s whole conspiracies around how the rise in BC is using artificial hormones to warp good cishet girls minds into scary leftist dykes it’s soooo cool and sexy to say that ovulating for the first time in years “cut the cord” of regulated femininity. what a great fuck you to the people who think that the “natural” state of the “female” body is heterosexuality and cisgenderism.
sorry ALSO i love seeing her talk about going out and buying men’s jeans. its a little detail but people still act like crossdressing doesn’t mean anything for people assigned female. i love seeing people talk about wearing men’s clothes and the freedom and intensity that it can create.
Scientists have just discovered some rocks at the bottom of the ocean can make oxygen… and they do it in complete darkness!
These aren’t magic stones, they’re polymetallic nodules, potato-sized metal lumps packed with manganese, cobalt, and nickel.
But here’s the twist; when seawater flows over their surfaces, they generate tiny electric currents that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, just deep-sea chemistry creating breathable gas in the pitch black.
This “dark oxygen” could explain how deep-sea creatures survive in low-oxygen zones far from the surface. What’s even wilder is that if this can happen on Earth, it could be happening right now in the hidden oceans of Europa or Enceladus, two icy moons that scientists think might host alien life.
1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase
sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways
that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t
prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by
it.
2. Injectible estrogen: is
more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear
needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.
3. Estradiol
Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol
valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they
do the same shit.
4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that
has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride.
The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.
Are there HRT medications that don’t increase blood clot risk? I’m already at risk because of my blood pressure, and my doctor won’t prescribe HRT that increases clot risk while I’m on the medication - and I may never not be on the medication.
Absolutely.
The concerns surrounding venous thromboembolic events as a side-effect of hormone replacement therapy can mostly be traced back to one particular study known as the Women’s Health Initiative. This study was an enormous undertaking which, unfortunately, demonstrated significant adverse effects of the hormone therapies studied. As a result of this the use of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal cis women was dramatically reduced as the medical community began to question whether or not the therapy caused more harm than good.
Naturally, trans women have been suffering from this fall-out ever since.
What physicians seem to fail to recognize is that the study examined a very specific hormone regimen which was, arguably, outmoded at the time the study was conducted: It examined the use of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) with or without the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate. Neither of these drugs is regularly used for the treatment of transgender women.
The estrogen most commonly used to treat transgender women nowadays is 17β-estradiol either in pill form or in the form of a sticky patch that you apply to your skin. Esters of estrogen (e.g. estradiol valerate) are also sometimes used either in a pill form or as an intramuscular injection.
Transdermal estradiol patches are the gold standard when it comes to treating women who are at high risk of a venous thromboembolic event. It simply does not increase the risk of developing a venous thromboembolism. The only thing you should keep in mind is that patches are not always well tolerated because of the lifestyle changes required to keep them from falling off and the fact that they tend to irritate the skin.
It’s difficult to find hard numbers regarding the relative risk of venous thromboembolic events with regards to hypertension. The best I could find after an hour or so of searching was this study regarding VTE in lung cancer patients. Hypertension increased the risk by a factor of 1.8.
As far as the anti-androgen is concerned: The primary use for spironolactone for cisgender people is as an antihypertensive.
Even if the risk of thromboembolism was truly significant with modern hormone replacement therapy it wouldn’t justify what your doctor is doing to you. The fact is that mortality in the transgender community from suicide–caused in part due to the lack of access to hormone therapy–is substantial. The quality of life lost when a trans woman is denied hormone therapy is substantial. The fact that your doctor does not appear to be taking this into consideration when they weigh the risk of thromboembolism against not receiving necessary medical care is deeply concerning.
I strongly recommend that you seek a doctor who is more sensitive to your medical needs as a transgender woman.
Edit: Fixed a minor, but embarrassing, error.
oh wow this is so helpful & good info
Everyone who cares about transfem people please reblog this
this was really fucking helpful
I know a lot of trans women dont have acess to information like this and its very helpful.
A speech balloon was found deep in the wilderness hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement bobbing half deflated with its tail tangled in the branches of a douglas-fir. There were also micro plastics that had been there already for like a hundred years
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hi op i really liked this imagery i hope its okay that i drew it
demon’s souls being pitched originally as a competitor to oblivion is so funny. imagine being sony and you swing by the fromsoft offices to check in on the tes killer they’ve got in the works for you only to find you they’ve given the keys to the armored core 4 guy and he’s got them cooking up some sort of unplayable mutant and this fucking thing is the version of the project that’s actually shippable
after that you don’t publish their next game because, obviously. you’re not going through that shit again. they’re letting the fucking armored core 4 guy direct again. anyway his next shot at the unplayable mutant defines the next ten years of games discourse for some reason
all the trans bathroom bans have this awful tendency to push the overton window of even trans advocacy by trans people to the right
so many trans people now are focused on pleading to let trans women use women’s restrooms and to let trans men use men’s restrooms that I feel like the demand that was much more prominent even 5 years ago to construct non-segregated accessible bathrooms for everyone is almost nonexistent
I remember when trans advocacy around bathrooms involved points like:
the issue with sexual assault is the sexual assault, and it’s wrong no matter where it takes place and no matter what genders of people are involved
not every trans person is a man or a woman and they also need places to relieve themselves.
people of all genders need assistance with relieving themselves and the people who assist them may be any gender. this applies for babies, young children, disabled people of all ages, people who are incapacitated by substance use, sickness, or injury, etc. It is ridiculous to expect people to only be able to relieve themselves if the person they trust to help them is their same gender
gender segregation of public space tells men that they are not expected to treat women with respect. this does not reduce misogynist sexual violence, it further naturalizes it.
people in the notes are discussing this same trend happening with discourse around sexgender segregated sports and legal sexgender markers on ID. absolutely.
this is also happening with trans healthcare. puberty blockers used to be a compromise! the original demand was for adolescents to have bodily autonomy over what kind of puberty to experience. then cis people fearmongered about kids not being old enough to know their gender, and so there was an effort to be like “okay well for kids who need more time before puberty, we can use this already existing treatment to delay puberty.” now cis people fearmonger about the puberty blockers.
there is no way to meet in the middle and have that result in any move to the left. discourse around every single trans issue has moved to the right. this strategy of compromise is actively failing.
I ain’t a wimp when I get writers block I STRESS ABOUT IT FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT, and not to ChatGPT like a coward. I face writers block like a man, laying in bed hours crying.
i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery
The Barbie movie will be the only exception
barbie doesn’t wear makeup those are tattoos
Those are her chromatophores, how dare you.
we don’t talk about barbie’s chromatophores stop blowing her cover
“#why is barbie a cephalapod” hard outer shell, jointed inflexible limbs, capable only of sharp scuttling movements, what more do you want from me
it turns out i do NOT know the definition of a cephalopod, this is the most humiliated I’ve ever been in my existence thus far. and i went to MIDDLE SCHOOL so that’s a doozy
i should be cracked open on a catherine wheel and rotated through the streets
update: it transpires i also do not know how Catherine Wheels function. thought people got wrapped around a wheel and rolled down the streets looney tunes style. this post has been one long endurance race of humiliation
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