today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:
“you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you”
This text post is in my real actual anthropology text book for real actual college
IF YOURE AN ENGLISH SPEAKER HERES SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:
IN THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN, DANTE’S INFERNO RHYMES. THE ENTIRE THING.
THE ENTIRE DIVINE COMEDY RHYMES.
HEARING MY ITALIAN PROFESSOR READ THE FIRST CANTO OUT LOUD IN THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN WAS A FORMATIVE EXPERIENCE FOR ME.
I COULDNT UNDERSTAND A WORD OF WHAT WAS BEING SAID BUT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE ROOM WAS HIT WITH THE SUDDEN AND INTENSE FEELING THAT THE PERSON WHO WROTE THESE WORDS WAS A MASTER OF THEIR LANGUAGE.
IT IS FAIR TO CALL THE DIVINE COMEDY TRANSCENDANT IN ITS BEAUTY.
* not just rhyme its uhmm all lines have 11 syllabes and it rhymes like ABA BCB CDC etc etc etc for EVER very good
ITS A POETIC FORM CALLED TEZRA RIMA THAT IS FAMOUSLY DIFFICULT TO USE WELL
AND MOST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS DO KEEP VERY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL 11 SYLLABLE METER
NEVERMIND POST CANCELLED
NOTES OF THIS POST:
50% AWESTRUCK ENGLISH SPEAKERS
40% BAFFLED ITALIANS
9% PEOPLE WHO DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RHYME AND VERSE
1% HUMAN PET GUY
… are u telling me that English translations don’t follow the original rhyming
TRYING TO MAKE THE DIVINE COMEDY RHYME IN ENGLISH WOULD ABSOLUTELY BUTCHER IT
MOST ENGLISH POETRY IS BASED OFF ALLITERATION AND STRESS RHYTHMS BECAUSE ENGLISH IS A FRANKENSTIEN LANGUAGE WITH SO FEW RHYME GROUPS THAT RHYME OFTEN COMES OFF AS AWKWARD AND SING-SONGY
ITS WHY SHAKESPEARE IS SO IMPRESSIVE HE ROUTINELY MANAGED TO BEAT ENGLISH INTO SHAPE LONG ENOUGH TO RHYME FOR TEN WHOLE LINES WHILE MAKING IT SOUND PERFECTLY NATURAL
Although, to be fair, Shakespeare often did this by making up new words. Because, fuketh iteth
Sometimes, to beat something into shape you have to make new tools.
Oh yay i couldn’t find the original but this is fine.
Here we can actually see that his butt is still pretty similar to itself–once again, if you understand anatomy a little bit. You see, where you THINK the curve starts is actually still the curve of his lower back, and if he were standing the slope is not the same. His actual butt starts near the hem of his shirt, and most of that plumpness is actually thigh. A perfectly lovely and grabbable tush, but by no means cake.
The main difference from then and now is 17 years of fat distribution and muscle definition. Because that Dean shot is from softboy season 1! Jensen worked hard for his SB body, boy, and got broad and ripped. Thick muscled backs and thighs make butts appear smaller; so too does muscle definition on glutes, because there’s less fat.
He is simply a white man with a perfectly proportional ass. (Unlike half the white people I know.)
Condolences to everyone’s worldview, but if you’re angry or mean about Jensen’s body, I hope you never see a naked body again. Especially if you’re one of the people who’s been demanding to see it like you’re freaking entitled.
I’ve made basically this exact post before, but I’m genuinely begging white Americans on Tumblr to stop trying to perform allyship to people of color by acting like white people are a monolith, all colonizers and oppressors, and have no worthwhile culture beside mayonnaise based foodstuff.
Please realize that there are so many varied white ethnic groups with rich histories and cultures that are indigenous to the places in which they live, and many of those people are actively being oppressed, assimilated, and eliminated. Imagine calling those people colonizers. Like, you are embarrassing me.
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