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Nicolas Maupas - Il conte di Montecristo (2025)

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Something something Fitzjames and Hodgson are two of the most dandy-ish characters in The Terror but they're also two of the most dangerous; they've both been to war, both do the greatest damage to Tuunbaq using the weaponry they were trained in by the navy (Hodgson with the cannon and Fitzjames with the congreves), and Hodgson is also the one to kill the Inuit family, directly connecting the violence of imperialism with the gentlemanly facade it likes to use.

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does anyone know if we have fun tomorrow?

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you could say that the world’s richest man was stupid and impulsive enough to do a nazi salute on stage twice without considering the backlash, but really what I think happened is the world’s richest man implicitly or explicitly calculated that in the current political and medial environment he could do a nazi salute on stage twice and not suffer any adverse consequences. which is worse. a lot worse.

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you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you're lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website

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The only acceptable ads should be shit like "groceries on sale" and "free event at the local library"

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tobias menzies is very familiar

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ameircans talking about red note like they have never spoken to anyone from another country ever about anything

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Photos ~ Pinterest

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Do not go gentle into that good knight. He likes to be fucked much harder than that.

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Instead, this abuse and the ghosts become intermixed, to the point where Miss Giddens can see manifested trauma everywhere she goes, and her need to declare it destroys the children. (Brenna Goodwin-McCabe on What These Horrors Want: Infectious Thought in The Innocents)

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Some pre-1980 and/or non-Anglophone genre fiction recommendations:

The Shadow Book of Ji Yun - Weird "anomaly" stories collected/written by an imperial librarian in 18th century China, Yi Izzy Yu's translation is great.

We by Yevegeny Zamyatin - Written in 1920, a big influence on Orwell, but more morally interesting than Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Mira Ginsburg translation is quite good.

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - If you've already read this one, their other novels Monday Begins on Saturday (satirical quasi-urban fantasy) or Hard to Be a God (is the Prime Directive immoral?) are very good too, but harder to get copies of.

The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare - Published 1981, set in a fictionalized Ottoman Empire, follows a man working for a government ministry that surveils the dreams of the populace.

Tainaron by Leena Krohn - Published in 1985, the novel is made up of letters written by a recent immigrant to a city inhabited by insects.

Dhalgren by Samuel Delany - Published in 1975, a man wanders into a midwestern American city where reality is crumbling, the plot is hard to describe beyond that.

Have already read Roadside Picnic and We, but all the rest of these sound absolutely fascinating (and Delany is one of those names that's been vaguely on my list for a while) thank you!

All going on the list. But especially I now desperately need to see how much of a pain getting a copy of Ji Yun is going to be.

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saw a middle-aged man in a tshirt sobbing into his phone in a language i don't know. an ambulance pulled away from his building, the lights off on the empty roads. no one else in the park save for another errant wanderer and a laughing teenager with her dad, making mini-snowmen. there's nothing like the silence of fresh snow

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