Vivre libre ou mourir

Tagged by my moots @fabienlaguna & @eww-raymondwaldo Thank you :)

Tagging: @susurrusilously @schwarznummer1 @some-lasombra-bullshit @sorrowfultales @lucyacid @bloody-vampire-dyke @vampemoqueen @arrant-knav3 @maxmuldoon @misery-loves-vtm

Last song: Narc - Interpol

Currently watching: Mmm not gotten around to it yet but want to watch The Vampire Lestat

Current obsession: VTMB2 and my own work lmao

Currently reading: A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (I fucked up my libby loan and started over on ebook, at 40% or so atm. I read it on the train ride to work. It's fun).

Currently working on: Sabbatical, Weaver Rouge & the one shot fic for the fledgling from VTMB1 in the Sabbatical-verse lol (Only one is getting any action lets be fr - I stg I will have the others done sometime)

There's also an X-men fic in my A03 that needs an update sometime soon as well lol.

Also also my vampire battle jacket. There's an alt picnic market thing in a fortnight and I want to wear my lovely work 😍

Low-key no pressure tags: @theamazingmurderrocks @sparvverius @my-deer-friend @chaotic-history @essaytime @stalinistqueens @will-theclockwork @emilieduchatele @le-vieux-cordelier @sherdnerd

Last song: Dance Macabre by Ghost

Currently watching: Subscribed to the NT at home and saw an adaptation of The Seagull with Emilia Clarke in it. Feel slightly unwell about it. Safe to say it will stay with me for a long time

also, need to see more adaptations soon, so if anyone has them? 👉👈

Current obsession: The Odyssey kick (still debating whether I should see the movie or not). Also started playing Pentiment and it's so good.

Currently reading: staying true to my fiction + non-fiction at one time to switch between: re-reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (a beloved favourite of mine) & Robert Darnton's The Writer's Lot

Currently working on: my future? Maybe? Vagueposting as ever but wish me luck please <3

So here’s what you have to do if you want to have perfect skin while keeping that alpha grindset:

Wash your horses first even if you are caked in blood and dirt

Wash your mighty arms

Don’t use Perfume, rub yourself with manly olive oil only

Don’t do make up, don’t even look into a mirror, you already have a chiseled jaw and flashing eyes

Instead run 120 laps around a racetrack to give your face a natural blush

Comb your hair with a golden comb

— Journals of James Boswell (1778)

I'm sure there are many perfectly valid reasons for which to criticise Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

I'm also convinced that much of the criticism directed at her work online is rooted in misogyny.

Again, going back to the earlier point about statements a & b both being able be true at once.

For me, it's usually the difference between criticising the work of a female translator (more than fair, any work should be open to criticism) and criticising the work of a female translator with the core arguments being tied to the fact that she is a female translator (here the m-word usually applies imo).