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CommonMugwort

@CommonMugwort@social.coop

Literary translator and under-employed actor - at the crossroads, looking for ways to survive the coming collapse of industrial civilisation. Generally in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter only older and less irate)

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I don’t content warn food, nor anything else you might see on any newsstand.

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napalousa, to random
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Washing and drying the rose petals from the garden to make rose syrup.

CommonMugwort,
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@purplepadma @napalousa I’ve just been looking it up, seems very straightforward. What a lovely project for a summer Sunday.

CommonMugwort, to random
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Dear Australians, please help me settle an argument: who are your famous performing arts Greeks? Actors, directors, comedians, singers?

CommonMugwort, to random
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Thanks for waiting. Your call is a nightmare from which we cannot awaken. Please continue to hold. An advisor will answer your call as soon as hell freezes over. Just so you know, we have a website where 90% of the idiotic questions you people call to ask are already answered. We paid a lot of money to set it up so we could fire as many helpline staff as possible. Thank you for continuing to hold.

CommonMugwort, to DoctorWho
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Ncuti Gatwa is very engaging and the young woman is okay, but all the puns and the meta televisual stuff feel a bit shoehorned… and I don’t really care about any of it. Delightfully performed villain in the second episode, though.
Still…I dunno.
And the song was unpardonably bad.
Wait and see I guess.
(Wait for the telegraphed twist?)

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@BenCotterill @craiggrannell
Yes, I gather I was meant to recognise some people at the end, but I don’t watch much television

purplepadma, to random
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I’ve had a much better day today ☺️

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@purplepadma That’s great news 😊

purplepadma, to random
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Another night of waking every hour or so. I guess technically it’s my birthday now. Happy birthday me, I made to 50, who’d have thought. Once again I feel absolutely fine during the night, neither up nor down. The Goldilocks zone 😁

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@purplepadma Happy birthday!

CommonMugwort, to crochet
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Yarn people, textile people : I have found these amazing works. The woman who made them has died, and she never explained what her technique was. Embroidery? Crochet? Can any of you suggest one? Right and wrong sides shown #YarnCraft #TextileCraft #crafting #crochet #embroidery #textile

The same rooster as above, from the back. It looks almost exactly the same, but a bit messier, with the thin lines almost disappearing
A snake of flat knotted crochet
The snake from the back. It looks almost exactly the same, but a bit messier, with the thin lines almost disappearing

CommonMugwort,
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@sheepnik The one piece of information I have in that she used fabric, though I see no trace of it

StillIRise1963, to random
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In 1968, at the age of 5, I was immersed in American white culture. At 16, I participated in an exchange program in Tunisia and lived with a family. During college, I studied abroad in Spain and have lived there on and off for 40 years. I’ve met a lot of different types of people from a lot of different cultures and socio-economic groups. All of this has given me a clear understanding of the fact that PEOPLE ARE JUST PEOPLE.

CommonMugwort,
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@StillIRise1963 @KatLS There’s good food in England. Immigrants brought it.

gutenberg_org, to books
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English poet Rupert Brooke died in 1915.

He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Rupert Brooke’s promising literary career was cut short when he died in April 1915 from sepsis resulting from an infected mosquito bite while he was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

Books by Rupert Brooke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/148

Cover of The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke. The cover of "The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke" by Rupert Brooke, featuring a blue background with abstract pink lines and the Project Gutenberg logo on the bottom right corner.

CommonMugwort,
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@gutenberg_org It always struck me as ironic that he was buried in Greece, on the island of Skyros, blessed by the waves of the Mediterranean

CommonMugwort, to random
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Cassandra facepalming Apollo’s come-on.

CommonMugwort, to random
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Okay folks, another translation question: You can have “shit for brains” in English, but not shit for a soul. How would you say something like that, that someone is a garbage person, down to the core?

CommonMugwort,
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@kissane It’s very vulgar in Greek. Shitstain might do it. Thanks!

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@kissane It’s a person who, enacting vengeance for admittedly great wrongs, manoeuvres a father into bringing her his small children and murders them in front of him.

CommonMugwort,
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@kissane 😊Not quite… it’s Hecuba, with greater wrongs and a more obscure story (Polymestor of Thrace).
Yes, I wondered about cunt… I do lean US in my idiom, because I went to school there.

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@kissane I’ve already used bitch, so I might go that far (I think you’re mixing her up with Hecate, though. Which nicely supports my point to the writer that she’s not known almost at all in the English-speaking world).

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@kissane Oh! I didn’t know this at all, thanks.

The play I’m doing is a modern take on Euripides’ Hecuba, which is quoted at your link. It’s from the point of view of one Trojan servants, “the slave girl in line 890” as she describes herself, and doesn’t go up to Hecuba’s death.

I don’t really know Athenian Tragedy well, having been mostly educated in English. I learn it by translating, and am always getting things wrong.

purplepadma, to random
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I feel absolutely awful this morning and Tom isn’t being very sympathetic. He is saying stuff like, “Right, you’ve got to push on through and do things, build your mental resilience.” TBH that makes me feel like he thinks it’s my own fault for not being “resilient enough”. I feel like he is running out of patience with me

CommonMugwort,
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@purplepadma That sucks, and I’m sorry to read it. I feel it’s difficult for the abled to understand that chronic health issues are … chronic. I hope you continue to have the support you need.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to folklore
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of the day:

Reading a legend about how emperor Franz Joseph's wife was a witch who used to turn him into a horse and ride him every night.

As a reminder that traditional storytellers often used everyday spoken language, here is what the wise advisor says when the Emperor confides in him about the matter:

"F*** hell, Joe..."

:D

CommonMugwort,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy This is Elizabeth/Sissi? She was very eccentric and got unusual independence for a royal wife - I can see why she inspired witchcraft stories.

CommonMugwort, to bookstodon
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Anyone else having trouble posting to @bookstodon ? Is it an instance thing, or…I dunno. Not technologically-minded. Book-minded. Which is why I’m sad to lose their boost. Especially when pure self-promotion posts seem to have it.

purplepadma, to keto
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Starting today. I’m kind of bamboozled by the idea of no bread or granola at breakfast. But I have to give something new a go, I feel I can’t go on being so unstable and there’s not much wriggle room in my med regimen

CommonMugwort,
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@purplepadma Best of luck! Having sone something similar for many years, my advice is always have chicken breast on hand. Brined, and cooked briefly at high temperatures, they can stay very juicy, and you’ll be surprised how quickly you come to think of them as analogous to bread - the bland thing with which stronger flavours can be paired.

CommonMugwort, to random
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England, 2024. A conversation.

Them: Oh, you’re from Greece. My parents went last summer. To the place they filmed Mamma Mia.

Me: Skopelos.

Them:
Them: They said it wasn’t as nice as it looked in the film.

Me: Well, it’s been ruined by the Mamma Mia tourism.

Them: That’s what my parents said.

Me:

Da_Gut, to bookstodon
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The Many Colored Land by Julian May.... from back in 1982.

How is it?

@bookstodon

CommonMugwort,
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@Da_Gut @bookstodon I read a a coupe books in the series at the time, and enjoyed them - but I was a much more forgiving reader in my tweens and tees than I am now. Sprawling, large cast of characters, I even still remember some bits… but I know I didn’t finish the sequence, so maybe not that enjoyable…?

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@bookstodon Can anyone recommend an entry point to Wuxia for a middle-aged European steeped in Western Historical Fantasy - a great story, well-translated and easily available?

CommonMugwort,
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@BillySmith @bookstodon Thank you. I’m not sure what a web-novel is. I’d really like something I can download, ideally.

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