Aeolidis tumulum festivae
cerne catellae,
quam dolui inmodice
raptam mihi praepete
fato.

Behold the tomb of Aeolis, the cheerful little dog, whose loss to fleeting fate pained me beyond measure.

Raeda[r]um custos
numquam latravit
inepte. nunc
silet et cineres
vindicat um-
bra suos.

This guard of the coaches never barked unsuitably. Now he is silent and his shade protects his ashes.

Quam dulcis fuit ista quam benigna
quae cum viveret in sinu iacebat
somni conscia semper et cubilis
o factum male Myia quod peristi
latrares modo si quis adcubaret
rivalis dominae licentiosa
o factum male Myia quod peristi
altum iam tenet insciam sepulcrum
nec sevire potes nec insilire
nec blandis mihi morsib(us) renides.

How sweet and friendly she was! While she was alive she used to lie in the lap, always sharing sleep and bed. What a shame, Midge, that you have died! You would only bark if some rival took the liberty of lying up against your mistress. What a shame, Midge, that you have died! The depths of the grave now hold you and you know nothing about it. You cannot go wild nor jump on me, and you do not bare your teeth at me with bites that do not hurt.

Portavi lacrimis madidus te nostra catella,
quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.
ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis osculla mille
nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.
tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem
et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis,
morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam;
perdidimus quales, hei mihi, delicias.
tu dulcis, Patrice, nostras attingere mensas
consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,
lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas
quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,
accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter

Bedewed with tears I have carried you, our little dog, as in happier circumstances I did fifteen years ago. So now, Patrice, you will no longer give me a thousand kisses, nor will you be able to lie affectionately round my neck. You were a good dog, and in sorrow I have placed you in a marble tomb, and I have united you forever to myself when I die. You readily matched a human with your clever ways; alas, what a pet we have lost! You, sweet Patrice, were in the habit of joining us at table and fawningly asking for food in our lap, you were accustomed to lick with your greedy tongue the cup which my hands often held for you and regularly to welcome your tired master with wagging tail.

Source: Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

i love when cats make that face when they lift their head to bump it into sometihng

sorry no post today i am engaged in dionysian madness

oh my god... I looked up at the YouTube video my father was watching, thought “hey is that Kurt Cobain?” and instinctively opened iNaturalist in an attempt to identify him

this is probably my favorite disney related criticism ever

Defunctland is such a good youtube channel. The showrunner has the remarkable ability to make you care about obscure, random theme park attractions you have never heard of and his storytelling is top notch. It’s a very comfy YouTube channel to put on in the background when you’re working on something else. 

That and he casually drops one liners like this and "a POWERFUL rat...named Charles Entertainment Cheese."

oh btw also when it comes to fatphobia one of the most insidious lies that society tells fat people is that losing weight is “easy” and “totally doable” if you just commit yourself to it. literally nothing is harder than losing weight when your body doesn’t want you to. the entire act of weight loss is based on the idea that you need to burn more than you consume, essentially that you need to be starving yourself for a number of weeks or months to get yourself down to a weight that is often unnatural for your body to maintain. the people telling these lies are mostly skinny people who have never even had to lose weight to fit into society’s standards of an acceptable person in their lives. to them, “it’s easy to lose weight” really means “it’s easy to be skinny, because i am skinny and i didn’t have to work at all to become this way.” i can tell you rn there is not a fat person alive who hasn’t attempted to lose weight once in their lives and realized it is one of the most difficult, unhealthy, and unnatural processes you can try to put yourself through. skinny ppl would do well to remember this when lecturing fat people on their supposed “health” while having to make no real effort to maintain their own size due in large part to genetics alone.

just found out the fbi & usa gvt has admitted to influencing elections in brazil nd being responsible for bolsonaros rise to power... not doing good lads

fbi officials are linked to their participation in operation car wash which was an anti corruption investigation that only targeted left wing parties & politicians. it was essencial to the destruction of the workers party, brazils strongest left wing party and the anti constitutional jailing of the ex president lula.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-department-brazil-car-wash-lava-jato-international-treaty/

please read this if you can. it's really enlightening. imperialism HAS NOT stopped. listen to latine people when we talk about it and do not derail the conversation.