Hey folks, here are some commonly used phrases in italian that i see in fics that arent properly translated sometimes and as someone who speaks decent italian, lives in rome + assassin's creed fan I'd like to give some italian that might be helpful for fic writing (based on convos i have daily):

(note, contemporary italian, i know almost nothing abt 15th century florentine italian)

my love -amore mio

che cazzo - what the fuck

che cazzo vuoi - what the fuck do you want

mamma mia - yes this is actually used often and unironically, a similar expression to saying "jeez"

ma - but (ex. "Sure we could have dinner tonight, ma...")

vaffanculo - fuck you

mannaggia - damn

porca troia - lit. "Fucking bitch" but can also be used to cuss like saying "fucking hell"

di nulla - "it's nothing" (other possible response to "grazie")

in bocca al lupo - old way of saying "good luck," the literal translation is "get it in the wolf of the mouth." the response is "crepi," meaning something akin to "i'll kill it!"

and yeah dw, translations online can be confusing sometimes so i get it TT hopefully this small compilation helps somehow :") happy writing!

edit: more vocab in the reblogs and someone also put their own additions in the replies!

whenever I go to the restroom and can’t piss immediately I get so mad because all I can think about is that weird sexist John Updike passage where he’s like “the pee got lost inside her mysterious Woman Body”

Me drunk as fuck & easily physically distracted knowing logically I have to piss sitting on a bar toilet mad as hell like IF I DON’T PISS RIGHT NOW JOHN UPDIKE WILL HAVE BEEN RIGHT

I love nonfiction that I simply cannot relate to at all. "it's easy to get addicted to buying fast fashion! I used to spend thousands of dollars on it a year!" okay. you're a space alien.

"survey finds that the average person in the UK only wears a piece of clothing 7 times" what are you talking about. what are you fucking talking about. who are these people and in what world are they average.

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

English added by me :)

This is what the vertical video format was invented for

Found this yesterday as I was walking between classes and thought I should show everybody

CRINGE POSTING ON MAIN

Wait sorry I forgot there was another flyer put up

Every time I think college can't get more wild, it does

Wait really that's what you guys did

Yeah! Turns out it was a part of the anti-cinema cinema club's way of trying to get new members. It was wild

i’m sorry did you say the anti-cinema cinema club

so they have a webbed site

Cooking up my SwapAU

Refs! Feel free to use them for your aus (with credit) The gist of this au is Shroud leads SDN. Z-team are a bunch of mediocre heroes who fucked up in one way or another. Roberts gets captured and is offered a deal to become a part of the phoenix program. He's hired as Z-team's dispatcher (totally not as a way to torture him) and given limited freedom.

You're welcome to ask me some questions!

- God, you’re really warm.

- Wow, what a fcking observation Bob. Did you have to use all your brain cells for that?

- Shudup.

Oh my god they look so cozy!!!!!

it's NO-vember. Don't ask me for shit

Guys I just realized something

I’m reading Return of the King, and have just reached the chapter called “The Tower of Cirith Ungol,” in which Sam makes to rescue his master.

Something notable about this is that Sam has put on the Ring not once, but twice so far - and both times, his experience has been markedly different than Frodo’s.

Firstly, his vision is impaired. Everything he sees is somewhat obscured by a dark fog. It’s unclear whether this is an effect of the Ring entering Mordor, or if that’s just what it does to him specifically; after all, the Ring acts differently for each Wearer.

It’s the second effect that’s really interesting. You see, for some reason, the Ring improves his hearing. In both instances, he can hear orc-chatter from afar, as well as tumbling rocks and the foaming of Shelob. But what’s really wild about this is that the same never happens to Frodo.

Because the Ring reflects the Will and Strengths of the User, I can only assume this means one thing.

The One Ring empowers Samwise Gamgee’s eavesdropping.

Sauron

It's come to my attention that some of you didn't know the photos of the lotr cast t-posing exist so I'm here to bless ur feed with more

Frodo in this one giving 'fine🙄 u can have a hug':

Then Pippin the exact opposite 'where's my hug at >:(' :

Don't forget these ones of Legolas and Frodo staring you down like sleep paralysis demons:

These two as well (aren't t-posing but so silly goofy had to include):

Aaaaand never forget these guys:

You're welcome pt2

I've had a bad day and would like to remind u that these photos of the lotr cast t-posing exist because it always makes me feel better:

Don't forget this one of Frodo giving side eye like a diva:

And this one of Sam always makes me giggle:

And Saruman giving bat wings:

And these guys:

You're welcome <3

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Reblog and you’re guaranteed to be successful at whatever you do next!

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