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one thing it is imperative to know about the television show Widow’s Bay is that it was created by katie dippold whose name you may not immediately recognize but whose tweet from 10 years ago you definitely do:

To anyone interested in translation and/or poetry, may I recommend this excellent website? On each page you’ll find the original French text of a poem from Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal, along with five or six translated English versions of that poem. The translations are all in verse, but run the gamut from unrhymed and fairly literal to tightly rhymed with significant departures from the original. Not only are some of the translations quite good English poetry in themselves, the project as a whole demonstrates how poetic translation works and what choices a translators make to try and get across the spirit of the original.

the mods are asleep post the velvet goldmine gif

Family in Buffalo genuinely just asked me if I would rather go to “Adolf’s” or “Nine Eleven” for lunch and they were being completely sincere