Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney (Latin remix)

Below the cut is a vivid demonstration of why I should never, ever get bored.

A week ago, bironic wrote Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney, based on this poem by Wallace Stevens. For some reason, I decided it would be really great to translate them into Latin. No, even I haven't worked out why yet, but I'm quite pleased with the results.

I chose to translate them into Classical Latin, even though 'Ancient' in Stargate uses the various forms of Latin freely and interchangeably. Think of this as an early dialect.

Huge thanks to sepia_words, who untangled my grammar and made my adjectives agree with my nouns. There is a story to accompany these poems, here

( Tresdecim Modi ut Rodneius Videre Posset )

SGA Fic: Rodney's Poetry Months

This story is something of a labour of love, and has had input from some very generous people.

It started with bironic, who wrote Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney, based on these poems by Wallace Stevens. For reasons that are still not entirely clear, I decided it would be really fun to translate them into Latin. Except then I started thinking why would someone do that?. Someone who isn't me, I mean. And so the story below was born. I'm not sure if it's an expansion, a remix or a misuse of the original, but I had fun putting it together, and have learnt a lot along the way.

Huge thanks must go to:

bironic for writing the poems in the first place, and letting me play with them.
sepia_words who checked my grammar and made incredibly helpful suggestions for translation.
greyias who introduced me to the mysteries of Photoshop and then solved them for me.
donutsweeper who is always encouraging and stopped me drowning in commas.

All remaining deficiencies, howlers and logic-holes are my own.

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Title: Rodney's Poetry Months
Author: jadesfire2808
Rating: G
Warnings: Only for gratuitous use of the Latin Language.
Spoilers: From The Tao of Rodney through to Lifeline.

Notes: Contains small images. Transliterations available by hovering over the pictures. Translations at the end.

The full set of 13 poems can be found here: Tresdecim Modi ut Rodneius Videri Posset

Summary: Someone's leaving Rodney notes. Now all he has to do is work out how to read them.


( Rodney's Poetry Months )

Yoo-hoo

*prods flist*

Anyone alive out there? It's all gone quiet... Well, apart from on the building site next door where it sounds like they're banging Thor's hammer against the scaffolding.

But the sun is shining, I got my Latin fic done, I cracked and bought myself 'real' coffee so I don't have to drink fairtrade instant any more (*shudder*), I'm reading some fun genfics over at sga_genficathon*, there is hope on the horizon, my Big Bang story is coalescing into something writable, and Virgin radio are playing "Two Princes" which makes me feel 16 again. (they've followed it up with an hour of awesome tunes *sings quietly to self while dancing in chair*) ETA: Ooh, also, I'm happy because we've belated realised that Hotel Babylon is brilliant and fun and something we both like, and has Lucy Saxon in! We're so going to have to find the first two series now.

What's making you happy today?

Also - people who have friended me lately, drop in and say hello! I have coffee (see above) and biscuits and would love to meet you properly :) Tell me something random about yourself. What's your favourite ice-cream flavour? What's the craziest colour you've ever dyed your hair? Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Superman or Batman? And lots of other questions...

Geez...can you tell I'm bored?

*Go have a read! Author guessing is now open :D

Sorry for spamming...

...but just to say that I've posted 2 fics to amplificathon. It's taken me longer than I'd hoped, thanks to a severe case of nerves, for some reason.

They are:

One Door Closes by travels_in_time (Doctor Who, Jack; Gen)

Coffee With Lucifer (#7) by pwcorgirl (Torchwood, Jack; Gen)

Both links go to the amplificathon entries. More to follow!