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Magister et Linguae et Ludi 🏺🎲. Tiro armorum artium ⚔️🔨. Co-Chair @centralindsa.bsky.social . Anti-stoicist.
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Refusing to hear that I don’t make a habit of celebrating my birthday, my students ambushed me in my room to give me a cake and sing happy birthday to me in Latin.

I later learned that they found my birth date by through my voter registration information
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Infinitesimally closer
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We’re getting there
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My hold came in just in time for a weekend at the forge 🐋
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thinking abt this but from Phaedrus’ speech in relation to the endings of NGE and End of Evangelion, as phantoms and punishments. It’s interesting to me also that this version of the story is only found here in the Symposium
September 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Incredibly funny thing to get this mad about
September 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today’s character from Latin 1, the emo elephant, Eland
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
At least two of the knives in the last pic started as attempts to make the knife in the first pic. Finally catching up on comms. Only 14 months behind!!!!
August 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I just got some of the first art back from my artist, a former student in art school, and oh man it’s looking so so so good
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
August 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Frank Lloyd Wright ass sink
July 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The guy at the shawarma place gave me a free baklava for the road
June 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I got to hold an original kylix today

They wouldn’t let me hold the sling bullet bc it’s lead 😔
May 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Finished my first commission, a graduation gift for a student from his parents

Type XII
5160 blade, etched wrought iron guard and pommel
Wood and leather grip and matching scabbard.

33 1/4 in blade
40 1/4 in total

Weight: I don’t own a scale, but it feels really nice ⚔️
May 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Baby’s first fuller
May 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Alii [Galli] immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.16
May 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
every year, ch 5 of LLPSI is a dud, and we end up just doing a semi-related story ask for our anchor text instead. This year, the kids really brought it.
May 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I learned a new skill today
April 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So glad they finally added an emoji for tfw Carthage must be destroyed
April 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
April 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
it’s tough out there for beautiful latinists like myself
April 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
my book arrived, feat. @themountaingoats.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So. The AP Latin numbers for 2024 are horrific. The average score is a 2.77, compared to a 3.4 for Spanish and a 3.2 for French

But the really shocking one is

**20% of Latin testers got a 1 and another 23% got a 2.** Only 56% scored a 3+. In ESP only 3% got 1;
March 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
happy ides
March 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
He’s a Hoosier!!???
February 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM