Bull in the Heather

For a one time (?) event

I like planning these movie quartets to fill a month with, but have gotten myself into the pickle of planning out too much and not having a lot of time to cover. So decisions need to be made! And what better way than to solve them via poll.

We have four contenders competing to be the basement of July.

Here are your candidates!

B(asement) movie!

It's not the cream of the crob, but it sure is entertaining! Movies without a serious focus, intentional or not. I have only seen Spice World of these before, but am very curious about Snakes on a Plane.

My friend might tag a "B-Sides" onto these screenings with short films!

De Kelder

It's all Dutch! But okay, these are good films. Depending on availability Oeroeg might be swapped for De Aanslag. I've seen two of these in full and if there is one that you definitely have to seen, it's Spoorloos (The Vanishing).

Oops! All Sequels!

Second time's the charm! Sequels that are at least on par and sometimes even better than the first installment. Knowledge of the first film isn't a requirement per se to enjoy these.

Hey there! For those that like a retro feel, I made an Ao3 site skin that resembles that OS. Everything should be okay to see for everyone in terms of icons. Big thanks to this css and this icons archive for the icons used. Whole thing is a bit big top paste in here, but you can find the doc via my website here.

Some extra tweaks:

Custom logo, mini-icon, and kudos image

Darkened author notes sections

I'm making a full dark-mode version of this, but that will be for later.

Basically build up from the Reversi skin. Since I didn't work with the default light-mode Ao3 for the Win98 Light Mode, that one may not be perfect with some of the text being in either a light or dark font color.

Dark Mode is better in text but I couldn't figure out a color palette for the header bars that both suited the dark mode of it and the win98 feel. Still, it's much better on the eyes at night, and that't the most important for me.

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion, (this is what the termination email is warning you about)

sharing content without content labels isn't either

( from : la times)

hannaheinbinder

he had so much sex his biographers straight up gave up trying to document all of his sexual partners. he was reported to fuck up to 3-9 times a day. He had a secret sex diary written in code. He had “official” and “unofficial” mistresses. One estimate was that he had ~200 sexual partners in two years. 

Many articles make similar claims to those above. However, much of this information circulates without a clear source, and I have struggled to find reputable/high level sources for some of this information. Therefore, keep in mind that some of this may be exaggerated or potentially unreliable.

Obviously, I cannot account for the sexual of history of every human who has ever lived, but evidence does suggest that Victor Hugo had a… lively sex life.

From Medium: ‘Sex was so involved in Hugo’s daily life that one biographer wrote the following while describing a typical day in Hugo’s life:

“It was not unusual for him to make love to a young prostitute in the morning, an actress before lunch, a courtesan as an aperitif, and then join the also ­indefatigable Juliette for a night of sex.”

[…] Hugo claimed that on the wedding night, he and his wife had sex nine times.’

His encoded sex diary is referenced on Wikipedia, but when I found an English translation of the source, I couldn’t find where in it they were sourcing.

From Wikipedia: 'He systematically reported his casual affairs using his own code, as Samuel Pepys did, to make sure they would remain secret.’

The source is listed as: 'Hugo, Victor, Choses vues 1870–1885, p. 529, ISBN 2070361411, pp. 371, 521 (n. 1).’

I’ve found Choses Vues here in the original French and here translated into English. If anyone can find anything in here about the encoded sex diary, please let me know!

His 'official mistress’ is likely in reference to Juliette Drouet.

From EBSCO: 'Since 1833, Hugo had maintained a liaison with a beautiful female actor, Juliette Drouet, who for twelve years followed a cloistered existence relieved only by six-week summer holidays with her lover.’

His 'unofficial mistress’ is likely in reference to Léonie d’Aunet Biard.

From The Common Reader: 'Overlapping was a seven-year affair with travel writer and Arctic explorer Léonie d’Aunet Biard, whose husband finally brought a police officer to the Paris hotel and caught them in flagrante.’

I have found articles that circulate the '200’ claim, but none that give a source for the information.

From Medium: 'Not only that but he bedded 200 women in this hotel in just two years.’

The claim that brothels were closed on the day of his funeral is again circulated frequently without claim. The only sourced part of the claim I can find is a second hand report that sex workers had 'draped their gentials in black crepe’.

From The Guardian: ’[…] when Hugo died the brothels of Paris closed down for a day of mourning, allowing all the city’s sex workers to pay their last respects to a loyal client. Literary critic Edmond de Goncourt claimed a police officer told him that sex workers even draped their genitals in black crepe as a mark of respect.’

And an estimated 2 million people attended his funeral procession.

From Funeral Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century France: 'Two million people came to see Hugo’s body lying in state at the Arc de Triomphe’