What’s your score?

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Feel free to play along and put your number in the tags. Remember, it's a point for something you've NEVER done (not the other way around...kind of confusing.)

Anyway, I've done them all, so I got 0.

In appreciation of bodyguard Demerzel.

backshots from a positronic robot

On Dors Venabili's name and surname: echoes of antiquity

So, it's finally ✨ Venabili Wednesday ✨ and, as already anticipated by my previous post, today I'd like to take some time to muse about her name and surname. Namely, on how they aren't explicitely neither Ancient Greek nor Latin, but they carry some suggestions.

As jokingly put in an older post, if you're familiar with Classic Literature (and Roman history), you may found the name of her supposed home planet, Cinna, familiar somehow. Cinna was, in fact, a Roman cognomen, most notably worn by the conspirator Lucius Cornelius Cinna and a friend of Catullus, Gaius Helvius Cinna, whom the latter celebrated in one of his poems. for a planet that's described as "boring and full of cattle, both two and four-legged", to bear the same name as two people who, by now, are usually ignored in history, if not downright forgotten. It doubles as a genius move if you consider that Prelude to Foundation's timeline is meant to mirror the late Roman Empire, and both the Cinnas have lived in the late Roman Republic. But Dors' planet might not be the only element about her that bring those sweet, sweet Greek and Roman echos to the table.

In Prelude, it looks like the characters' names have various sources of inspirations: for example, Emperor Cleon's name is an actual Ancient Greek name worn by an Athenian general, while others seem like a distortion of common English names. Dors' name is a unique case, because it could fit in both boxes: one one hand, it could be read as a distortion of evolution of the given name "Doris" (which still has Ancient Greek roots). On the other hand, though, since its canonical meaning is "gift of spring"; "Dors" could come from Ancient Greek "δῶρον" (doron), meaning "gift", with a change of suffix (probably to better fit English phonetic rules?). Either way, the Greek influences here are strong.

And what about the surname "Venabili"? On a fanart, I once saw a tag asking if he (Asimov) had named her "huntable". I guess the user was thinking on the Latin verb "venari", meaning "to hunt": if you're familiar with constellations, the "venatici" in Canes Venatici comes from this verb! Also, there's a number of adjectives in Latin (and Italia) with the -bilis/bile suffix, meaning "[something] which is possible to [verb]". (For example, "potabilis" means "something you can drink".) Sadly, the adjective "venabilis" (as in "something you can hunt") does not exist in Latin. But I do have another explanation: walking around Rome, I've seen the word "venerabilis" sometimes shortened into "venbilis", especially in marble inscriptions. Maybe Asimov took notes from that? I don't know, but it would be extremely funny if he did: we would have a Greek sounding name + Latin sounding name combo, fitting like a glove on the resident historian character!

Please, note that those are only speculations by a well-meaning idiot who has five years of high school Ancient Greek and nine of Latin on her side. If someone has alternative interpreations on her name, I'd love to hear more opinions!

Finally got my cunty Head of Staff/First Minister pin 🤭

Just finished a collab with the amazing @cringe-but-freee !!!!! I did the Mule and she did Daneel!!

Thank you so much Amy and I hope we will collaborate again someday 💗

It’s his day (April Fool’s)!!!!

Foundation "Long Ago, Not Far Away"

maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth

bleeding

trans guy who doesn’t realize he’s turning into a werewolf because he assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting testosterone

trans girl who doesn’t realize she’s turning into a vampire because she assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting estrogen

post paused, let’s talk about this now

which gender is that one

stuck in a timeloop called i just have to get through this week

My favorite post is one that shows up in the Daneel Olivaw tag for no clear reason that I can discern. There are no tags. There is nothing related within the post itself. The url is something about Vegeta. All the post is says is, simply, "He sucked that old man scary." There's a singular note, an untagged/uncommented reblog which doesn't appear when I try to see who reblogged it. It's fascinating it's funny and I don't care enough to know anything more about it or the poster but I'm glad that He, whoever he is, (presumably Daneel Olivaw?), sucked that old man scary

gonna be honest i cant think of a single older man in the robot series he wouldnt fuck scary