Because my choir was performing Carmina Burana, I went and used the original manuscript to make a new translation of all the texts in the piece, including footnotes..... It's also what convinced me to go back to school this fall for Classics so I can do mediaeval studies

Knitting needles and yarn..... Or crochet hook and yarn

I was there a month or two ago and was DEEPLY disappointed that I couldn't see them 😭

Of course, the moment I see this post I notice a minor error in the transcription....I somehow missed the very least letter 😂

(7/7) And I don't know how to better express it to people than to say that it's more comforting than most things, knowing that 800 years ago, if I were to explain my worries and problems to this stranger, they would understand. No matter our distance in time or space, they were like you and I.

(6/n) The language is unfamiliar, and some of the details are different, but even after 800 years, the people who wrote it are still so recognisably just like you and I. There's this picture on one of the pages, and if I didn't know where it was from, I would believe it was drawn yesterday.

(5/n) And the concerns the texts are talking about are also so familiar: The vagaries of fortune, the joy of spring, young lovers rolling in fields of flowers, the mischief that goes on in a tavern, the caricatures we make of our "superiors", the joys and sorrows of life. They're the same as now.

(4/n) We've all done it before, writing in pen and our hand gets ahead of our words and we have to cross something out to go back and include what we missed. There's other spots in this same manuscript where the scribe has doodled in the margins, or used a ^ mark to insert a missing letter or word.

(3/n) The scribe was writing out the lyrics to this song (the dots and squiggles around the text are musical notation) and missed a word, and so he had to cross out the partial word and write it correctly.

And the thing that I find so deeply moving about that is the familiarity of it.

(2/n) The second picture, as an example, the last line reads:

"[-]batur pelaguſ aquiloniſ ortu."

Except that's not quite what it says. Instead it reads "[-]batur -aquil- pelaguſ aquiloniſ ortu." with the partial word "aquil" crossed out the first time.

There's a small mistake in the alt text for the first image: While the text is usually quoted as "Veni veni venias ne me mori facias" the text actually reads "Veni veni venias me me mori facias". The original is almost definitely meant to read "ne me mori facias" but it definitely is written "me me"

That being said, I'm singing bass, so no one's gonna notice if I fuck up anyways 😂

It'd be easier if I had actually heard more of the songs, but I've only played one FF game, so most of my knowledge of the music is just from the cultural Zeitgeist 😅

Instead of stuff from VI (the one I've played), there's.... 5 medleys, 1 from VII, 1 from VIII, 2 from XIV, and 3 from XVI

Lierne vaulting will always be one of my favourite things <3

If you're all right with it not being D&D system, then I'm pretty sure my partner would be down to DM stuff if you were looking for something local (I'm think you're local to me? I'm not sure though, come to think of it)

I find it difficult to articulate how much I hate both that that's an entirely reasonable phrase describing our world, and that I understand fully what you mean without any further elaboration or research 🫠

one must imagine artists happy

What sort of combinatorial koolaid do you have to have drunk to come up with that batty of a definition for your graph representation..... I went and read the actual definition multiple times, thinking that I was missing something before finally realising that, no, combinatoricists are just crazy 🫠