memecucker:

i remember when i took Latin in highschool we used these Cambridge Latin textbooks and for Latin 1 you had the standard thing where the characters are a Roman family and most of the book was normal language textbook stuff about basic vocabulary like “here’s vocabulary about the mother raising the young children, here’s vocabulary relating to the father going to his job as a banker” except they also decided the family was gonna be from Pompeii and the last chapter was Vesuvius erupting and took an incredibly incredibly dark turn because the vocab was now like “here’s words for volcano, ash cloud, darkness, fire, lava, death” and then almost all the main characters died