Fade / is on Nostr

Classicist & writer. Livetweets academia. She/they. @fadeaccompli in most other places online.

If I start talking about books, it's gonna be a long thread.

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2024-08-18 14:09:57

Did I remember to mention here that I have a new job?
<checks recent posts>
Guess not!
I am teaching Latin at a marvelous charter school—which is to say, a public school with a special focus—this coming year. I'm a 6-12 teacher, which in practice means I have eighth graders finishing up their Latin and seniors doing college-level Latin, so that'll be an /interesting/ split. But I'm very excited!
I am also very, very busy.

2024-07-31 22:31:32

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"I'll just take a break from this stressful research proposal for this extremely desirable fellowship," I told myself, "and work on putting together the course proposals. That'll be fun and easy! One of them can just be a direct copy of the course I taught in the fall, with the same reading list and everything!”

2024-05-26 17:10:46

I am once again confronted by the fact that if I'm gonna write stuff in Twine, I have to care about how, ugh, it looks.
I just want immersive historical interactive fiction for pedagogical purposes! ...which means I need to make it visually engaging for its purpose too. Sigh. Visual design is, shall we say, not my passion.

2024-05-01 19:53:51

Whispering "I will not add quality and durability stats to every garment owned by this subsistence farming household to adjust and track monthly" as I work on my Twine game.

2024-04-25 19:34:32

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Yeah "field" has long since stopped looking like a word.

2024-02-16 17:08:58

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@npub1gvl…6d75 It does not; there's some discussion of divination via looking at animal organs, though even that's extremely indirect if you don't make the choice to look more closely. All animal sacrifice involves animals raised for food/sacrifice purposes, and none of it is graphic beyond the 'look at organs', which is brief.

2024-02-15 19:49:52

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Also, please note the content warnings on each chapter. While there is no graphic description of sex or violence (and some sensitive topics are only briefly referenced), the ancient world has as much grim reality as the modern world, and these chapters deal directly and extensively with some issues.