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this is my personal blog! i do post a lot about my interests and thoughts and so on. if you only want to see my art, you can follow my art only blog
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i've been really into almond butter and jam sandwiches lately
look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat
solidarity for everyone who was born on the day of the cistern or the watering can or something like that
my birthday isn’t on there #erasure
all birthdays are there, don't give up! troubleshooting :
when looking for your birthday, make sure to read the small grey italicized number, not the big orange numbers ; january 14, for example, is on the 25th day of the month of nivôse.
there are three months for each season ; if you're on mobile, you may need to scroll sideways to see the third one.
some birthdays in september are in a special section. that is because the first day of the year is september 22nd, and the last few days of the year before that are special holidays. see :
also, i know i joked about some days being less cool than others, but that's also the point of the calendar : replacing worship of saints with appreciation of the tools and plants that allow us to live. don't feel bad for having topsoil as your day, where would be without topsoil?
love your url :)
thank you :-) i will never change it, unless i get a better idea and then i will. but i like that's not tied to any fandom or interest, as i rotate through those every three weeks or so. i admire people who can blog about one topic for years on end, all the time... i always feel a little bad when someone follows me for one specific thing, cause who knows when you'll get more of it. the dragon age fans will have to hear about napoléon's embarrassing romantic blunders and the napoléon fans will have to hear about how star wars 1977 is the niciest movie of all times
any thoughts on a particularly good translation of notre-dame-de-paris for someone who really wants to read it but alas does not know French?
i looked up a couple recommended translations, and i think i would suggest this one by julie rose or this one by catherine liu! i read a bit of liu's and i found it good, i think it's faithful enough to hugo's voice. i havent been able to read through rose's because it's very recent (came out this year!), but the fact that it has the correct title makes me biased towards it (+ i read a bit of her misérables translation, and i like it). victor hugo was never happy with the translation "hunchback of notre-dame", and im with him on this. the closest this book has to a human main character is frollo, and even then, not really! the original title is an important part of the philosophy of the book. a cathedral is as anonymous as a project can be : the people who started building notre-dame never saw it finished. she stood there through centuries of deaths, executions, massacres. from her towers, you can look at all of paris in one glance, and see all the streets and houses and people as one, you lose sight of details. and that's how this book is written, with the detachment of someone who has seen this before, who is looking at these characters from a high tower, who thinks they have very little lives whose details will be forgotten, and are already dead. when victor hugo is mad at the justice system here, it's with cold irony, not with the humanist compassion he has for jean valjean. the characters exist to tell a story about notre-dame, and aren't really people, they're more symbols. esmeralda of purity and innocence, frollo of repressed humanity twisting love to hate, quaismodo of obedience, phoebus of selfish hedonism, gringoire of victor hugo. that's not to say that they're badly written, they're written beautifully and serve their purpose well, but giving quasimodo the title is absolutely wrong. notre-dame can be a tough read cause of the ugliness driving a lot of the book (all these grown men obsessing over a teenage girl, and the constant fetishization/hatred of her being roma ; frollo's evilness is so incredibly chilling and disturbing, it's so vivid), i still recommend it for being such a singular and powerful book. it really feels like if a novel was an incomprehensibly massive, ancient cathedral, i've never read anything else like it
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love interests for my historical dating sim project! takes place in a fictional country in 1793. the idea is that depending on who you support (kiss), different political events happen. virgile wants to become the new monarch, augustin supports a revolutionary france-allied republic, lise wants a constitutional monarchy aligned with england, and camille wants to create an uprising of the most oppressed and powerless. true love may fix them but that remains to be seen
there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against
“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”
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feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought
the skills i personally admire most are dancing, playing instruments, and medical skills. all equally important and admirable in my mind
people, the game i haven't mad yet that only exists in my head is so good
the role of mayor of paris has a surprisingly hectic history. the role was created the very day after the fall of the bastille, when a group of parisians spontaneously named one man mayor and told the king to deal with it ; there wasn't one until then. that first mayor was later guillotined, and the second mayor killed himself. the third mayor resigned on the day he was elected because he was afraid for his life. the fourth and fifth resigned, while the sixth was guillotined. after that, the role was considered to be too much trouble and we had only a few mayors here and there until the 1970s. the current mayor is seemingly alive and not in jail, so i think we've made great progress
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top 3 authors :)?
oh, very tough! i could be safe and say people like balzac, hugo. writers who are like cathedral builders, whose works were read by and influenced just about everyone who came after them. now that im reading dickens, i'd include him there too. if i had to name three authors i think everyone should read, i'd say these three. for balzac, i think eugénie grandet is a good place to start ; for hugo, notre-dame-de-paris. i think a lot about 19th century literature makes more sense when you've read them!
for myself, hard to say. maybe i would say emily brontë, and baudelaire, and then dostoyevsky. hard to say because emily brontë and my good friend charles only published one book each, so it's hard to rank them against someone as prolific and consistently good as victor hugo. and dostoyevsky is someone i can only read in translation, which makes me question how much i can claim to like his writing. from speaking about his books with russian-speaking friends, it's clear that im getting a very different experience. alas! still, his characters, his psychology, his weird structures... i hope i still got the message, despite the letter being different.
but it's also easy, cause wuthering heights and flowers of evil are the books i'd bring with me to a deserted island. flowers of evil completely changed my life and my approach to art, i read it in total disbelief that simple words printed on paper could make me feel so feverish and disturbed and fascinated, it's not an exaggeration if i say i fell in love with this book. to this day, i still have a few poems memorized, cause i like knowing i can carry their beauty with me everywhere i go. and wuthering heights had the same effect on me, reading it was electric and sickening. crime and punishment also, to the point where i couldn't read it a second time because it made me too sick and nauseous. i love it!
have you read the memoirs of the comtesse de boigne? it is non-fiction. by adèle d'osmond. i believe they would interest you 🥳
« Marcel Proust en fut un lecteur enthousiaste et s'inspira de leur auteur pour forger le personnage de madame de Villeparisis dans La Recherche. » omgggg well if my good friend Marcel liked her works! i must acquire them
Whenever I see some anon asking an artist if it's "okay to take inspiration" from their art it makes me want to make some kind of manifesto or billboard or PSA or skywriting campaign to undo whatever damage strange litigious illustrator types inflicted upon the most basic foundations of the creative process. We can't let them get away with this
hi, do you have a bluesky? i don't think the link you shared earlier works
i do have one but i dont use it, i just made one to save my name and in case tumblr suddenly dies on us. i have never liked using twitter even when it was "good", it's kind of the worst of both instagram and tumblr to me 💀 but everyone DO follow me on instagram i need to get to 30k to impress people
Her breast is fit for pearls
Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" — Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest. Her heart is fit for home — I — a Sparrow — build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.
― Emily Dickinson
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my 18th century people... it's so scary to have characters that are entirely mine. i feel like a mom sending her kids to school for the first time whenever i show them
do u have a favourite book on Napoleon?
i haven't read many yet, no, but i've been enjoying "l'empire des mots" by charles-éloi vial (a historian i don't really like but i do respect this book specifically), a book that came out this year and tells his story through retelling specific conversations he had over his life. im finding it to be well written and rigorous, always noting when something is dubious or apocryphal. that's a thing with napoléon, the research on his life is still changing. many things that i learnt as facts have since been debunked, just in the last few years. so that does make me enclined the trust the veracity of the quotes he does share, and some of them paint such a funny picture to me... example
"napoléon is talkative, he wants to speak in aphorisms and for everything he says to be remembered." while he enjoyed having the fascination of those around him, the eagle mostly relished in saying unkind things. (...) his rare moments of wit consist mostly of cold irony : "when one wants to dine well, one should dine at cambacérès's ; when one wants to dine badly, one should dine at lebrun's ; when one wants to dine quickly, one should dine with me." he often targeted his courtiers, accustomed to being humiliated, but held back by etiquette and unable to retaliate : "oh, such ugly an ugly hairstyle! who did this to you?" he always acted even colder to those who tried to influence him, only affording them a couple of banal remarks, leaving only the most foolish to feel chosen by the master. as did deputy charles de rivaz, a young politician, who exchanged six trivial sentences with him at a salon of the tuileries and thought himself "on the path to earning his favor".
^^^ see, that totally coheres with what i've heard about how unpleasant he was. seeing it like im there, it's so vivid
