#3.3.3

[cliozaur]

Marius in Madame de T.'s salon

[the-wraxall-illustrations]

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Requiescant, LM 3.3.3 (Les Miserables 1925)

Madame de T.’s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were in Madame de T.’s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Lévis,—which was pronounced Lévi,—Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child’s mind with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms.

[dolphin1812]

The light imagery in this chapter is fascinating:

“These antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child’s mind with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms.”

Light often represents progress in this novel, so it’s not surprising that the conservative royalist salon is shrouded in shadow. The “dying fire” points both to their dim, limited vision of the world and the fact that their ideology (in Hugo’s view, as his idea of progress is linear) is dying out. With the exception of Marius, everyone at this salon is elderly (”their gray or white hair” points to this) and dressed in “gowns of another age.” They’re out of touch with fashion and politics, but Marius - who has only seen shadows - doesn’t know that.

The idea that they’re “phantoms” further stresses their connections to a past period, as if they were ghosts from the ancien régime. However, that supernatural tie also adds in Marius’ fear and respect for them. Fearing phantoms isn’t surprising, nor is listening to them out of that fear when they appear. 

Marius himself, however, is full of light because he’s a child, making him an almost contradictory blend of brightness (his youth) and darkness (his politics, learned from Gillenormand). In many ways, he’s similar to the time period of some of these salons:

“Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past.”

Gillenormand’s influence is a “shadow” on Marius, who himself becomes gloomy and “severe” because of his upbringing. At the same time, he may maintain some “light” because he has the potential to change, just as France did.

The ideas on teaching presented here are intriguing as well. Marius’ education makes him a “pedant,” but we’re not given much detail besides the fact that it’s classical and that he then goes to law school. We also know that he was made to learn the Old Testament “by heart,” and while religious education may have been distinct from his studies, combined with the use of “pedant,” it implies that all of his studies focused on memorizing and reciting what was told to him (just as he repeats Gillenormand’s political opinions). His perspectives, then, may not have been challenged in his studies, either. Ironically, the “ultra” attitude of the salon may have been the best argument against royalism, but Marius is ill-prepared to think about that.

Also! A brief note on the galleys:

“M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.’s salon, and by dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon.”

Although this story was told with the intention of cursing the French Revolution, it also speaks to its failure to truly change the criminal justice system. Perhaps aristocrats and bishops hadn’t been the targets of the monarchy, but the galleys were unjust regardless of who they were punishing. The guillotine, in a similar vein, is horrific regardless of who it targets; the detail is difficult to find in this large block paragraph, but the details about the blood do make it stand out a bit more, showing both how these stories could have affected Marius as a child (this is pretty gruesome and would easily make him hate and fear enemies of royalism) and the genuine violence of the Revolution and the systems it left in place.

[missy-hissy]

Mod Updates ~ Summer 2024

This is the Summer 2024 Mod Update post. This collection of updates includes small fixes for the smaller mods, a new addon for an existing mod and some content updates for some of my bigger mods.

Content Updates

🔵The Personality Mod ~ Version 1.3.1.3 ~ Aspiration Addon – Fixed the satisfaction point cost for secondary traits ~ New whimsets for Sims with unique combinations of traits. ~ All occult related wants have been removed from the Knowledge Sim whimset, unless the Sim also has the Paranormal Hobby (from The Hobby Mod).

🟣The Custom Wants Mod ~ Version 2.6.1

~ Updated all images to work with the new DX11 update. ~ Added the following new Wants:

Have a Dream Date With {2.SimName}

Buy Dew Collector

Buy Solar Panels

Ask {2.SimFirstName} To Be Prom Date

Hire a Gardener

Have Coffee With A Friend

Argue About Cleanliness

🟡The Hopes & Fears Mod ~ Version 3.0 Fixes: ~ Illness now generates a reactionary whimset. ~ Illness-related wants now have proper strings showing up. ~ Many of the For Rent wants got missed when I tweaked them, so they’ve now been edited to use the new fulfillment and satisfaction systems. ~ Solve Hard Problems want has been disabled for children since the interaction isn’t available to them. ~ The Hug {Toddler} want should now complete properly. ~ Recreated a Get Famous want which has apparently been deleted by EA. ~ Fixed missing strings for the following wants: Swan Dive, Backflip and making Holiday and Seasonal crafts. ~ Updated all images to work with the new DX11 update. ~ Includes new Wants from The Custom Wants Mod.

New Features: ~ Fear of Vampires ~ After several months, the Fear of Vampires is finally here! More information on this fear can be found on it’s new page. ~ Life Fulfillment ~ A brand new Life Fulfillment feature has arrived, making things a little more interesting for your Sims. Details on the new system can be found on the dedicated Life Fulfillment page.

🟢The Hobby Mod ~ Version 3.3.3 ~ Reduced the frequency with which Hobby Development popups come up. ~ Added Jewellery Crafting as a Fashion & Beauty activity. ~ Fixed some Relbits not showing when Sims share a hobby ~ Made Film Preference Traits visible, ready for future feature ~ Updated all images to work with the new DX11 update. ~ Added basic Blogging Skill (more to come in the next update) ~ Added Travel To Stadium interaction, ready for future features

🔴Teenage Interaction Reactions ~ Version 1.1.2 ~ Added a trigger for a Fear of Vampires if you have Hopes & Fears V3.0 installed. ~ Updated all images to work with the new DX11 update.

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Small Fixes

Boasting Conversation Category ~ Fixed images for DX11 Announce Engagement Overhaul ~ Fixed images for DX11 Ask Blessing To Marry Overhaul ~ Fixed images for DX11 Check Out Venue Overhaul ~ Fixed images for DX11 Plan Wedding Outfit On Mannequins ~ Fixed images for DX11 Ski Lodge Lot Trait ~ Fixed images for DX11 Occult Holiday Traditions ~ Fixed images for DX11 High School Years Club Activities ~ Fixed images for DX11 Pickpocket Club Activity ~ Fixed images for DX11

[johandev]

audacity STOP

pls i beg companies to stop. offering. AI. tools. that. no one. asked!!!!!

nobody asked for them. it's more like companies are pressuring everyone to use it bc they have invested so much money on it that they NEED ppl to use it, otherwise it's a failed investment and i WANT THEM TO FAIL AND LOSE MONEY, FUCK

i've been using Audacity since i began my game dev work and i cannot believe audacity joins the AI train now, why

it's such a good tool but

ughhh

im gonna use an older version (3.3.3) and i'll stay with it bc STOP

(it's fucking everywhere plsss stop)

[fireandslate]

3.3.3 - Vadelok

A tenuous order reigned in the Healing-Hall. My wish for Dermot’s presence had been presumptive; we found him just inside the Viisp-akad storehouse with a loose tunic around his shoulders and a stormy expression on his face.   Astrid Fuller joined us at a run, having completed a circuit through the Beast-Hall. She nodded to Dermot with a winded half-smile. Raven Lake was quiet at this hour, and…

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Aulus Gabinius

date: 54 BCE, postulatio by Sept. 20; nominis delatio Sept. 28; verdict reached on Oct. 23 charge: lex Cornelia de maiestate (restoration of Ptolemy contrary to SC) defendant: A. Gabinius cos. 58 advocate?: M. Calidius pr. 57 prosecutor: L. Cornelius Lentulus (Cruscellio?) pr. 44 praetor: C. Alfius Flavus jurors: L. Aelius Lamia pr. 42? Cn. Domitius Calvinus cos. 53, 40 (voted A)3 C. Porcius Cato tr. pl. 56, pr. 55  witness: M. Tullius Cicero cos. 63 (Crawford, Orations 64) other: praevaricatio suspected

Cic. Att. 4.18.1; Q. fr. 2.12.2, 3.1.15 and 24; 3.2.3, 3.3.3, 3.4.1-3, 3.7.1; App. BCiv. 2.24; Dio 39.55.3-5, 62.3; Schol. Bob. 168St

[sexyirish7]

Dachshund String Lights

This cc includes 36 swatches of string lights of a dachshund silhouette. It will appear as 2 items in buy mode, the only difference being the direction in which the dachshund is facing.

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[idiotic21]

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[cliozaur]

After pausing to explain who Georges Pontmercy was, Hugo returns to the royalist salon (as if one chapter was not enough). It's torturous to read about it, let alone imagine what it was like being a part of it! And it goes on and on! The endless name-dropping. Sketches of peculiar royalist characters (some of them rather amusing). Though I quite enjoyed the part about the evolution of such salons: from ultras and doctrinarians. Surprisingly, some of the doctrinarians' reasoning is sound and even aligns with historiographic heterodoxy today: “Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N’s. That is our patrimony. To what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? Why not love the whole of France?”

Taking young Marius to the royalists’ salon is a crime against humanity! A grisly story from the Toulon galleys (Hugo spent a considerable time there collecting all kinds of stories, that’s why we have so many of them about the Toulon galleys) about the collecting of heads and bodies of guillotined individuals is enough to shock a child. Moreover, Marius had to spend hours in the company of “phantoms” or “mummies” from the previous century. “There were some young people, but they were rather dead” –there was a risk that Marius might become one of them. Just look at the result of their influence at the end of the chapter: “He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe,” and “a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, religious, enthusiastic lad” (“enthusiastic” as a synonym of “religiously fanatical” used by David Hume et al.) Luckily, we know that Marius still has a significant resource to learn and internalize new ideological doctrines.

[cimrp]

Crash Into Me. New JCINK RP site. 3.3.3. Fantasy meets sci-fi in original lore and world setting. Coming to a website near you... soon.

[sanini-panini]

3.3.3

today's chapter of karai's chosen (link here) is basically a 12k compilation of You Need Therapy moments for mateen and jinal. and also a mateen teenage yearbook cringe compilation but we don't need to talk about that

[id in alt]

[callilouv]

GUSY IM NOT OK KAFKA IS SO/......3.3.3..4.

[wearebackbagels]

All mutations from the X-Men Wiki( with some explanations)

Here are all powers from the X-Men universe along with some explanations at the more confusing ones) so you guys understand what we are talking about.

1 Transportation

1.1 Flight 

1.2 Teleporting 

1.3 Portal Generation 

1.4 Energy Field Propulsion

1.5 Wall Crawling 

1.6 Lightning Travel

2 Body Transformation

2.1 Organic Metal Transformation

2.2 Organic Diamond Transformation

2.3 Organic Ice Transformation

2.4 Solar Form 

2.5 Fat Growth

2.6 Shapeshifting 

2.7 Self-Duplication

2.8 Wolf Transformation 

2.9 Adaptive Evolution 

2.10 Elasticity

2.11 Aquatic Adaptability 

3 Energy Manipulation 

3.1 Energy Absorption

3.2 Energy Blasts    

3.3 Kinetic Energy Absorption

3.3.1 Age Reduction 

3.3.2 Kinetikinesis

3.3.3 Superhuman Reflexes

3.3.4 Superhuman Agility

3.4 Force Field Generation 

3.5 Self-Detonation 

3.6 Explosive Energy Charges

3.7 Shockwaves 

3.8 Molecular Acceleration(”The ability to take the potential energy stored in an object and convert it into kinetic energy, thus charging the object with explosive results”)

3.9 Seismic Energy (aucoustic waves that passes through the earth, think earthquakes)

4 Elemental Abilities

4.1 Fire and Heat Manipulation

4.1.1 Pyrokinesis 

4.1.2 Ash Mimicry

4.1.3 Ash Breath

4.1.4 Solar Absorption 

4.2 Ice and Cold Manipulation 

4.3 Aerokinesis

4.3.1 Cyclone Spinning 

4.4 Weather Control? 

4.5 Plant Manipulation 

4.6 Electrokinesis  

5 Superhuman Attributes

5.1 Superhuman Speed 

5.2 Superhuman Strength

5.2.1 Super Leaping

5.3 Superhuman Agility

5.4 Superhuman Dexterity (being able to control one's feet more than the regular human, Beast)

5.5 Super Acute Senses

5.6 Superhuman Durability (This one means that the person can endure/resist bodily damage better than what is the norm.) 

5.7 Superhuman Stamina

5.8 Superhuman Reflexes

5.8.1 Adaptive Reflexes (having superhuman reflexes on command, kinda like the one above just not all the time, like Apocalypse in his fight with Quicksilver) 

5.9 Sonic Scream

5.10 Healing Factor 

5.10.1 Immortality 

5.10.2 Longevity

5.11 Superhuman Marksmanship ( being skillful with guns)

6    Mental Abilities

6.1 Telekinesis

6.1.1 Disintegration (Being able to break up people or objects into molecules) 

6.1.2 Telekinetic Weaponry (Being able to create weapons out of thin air( like Psylock and her whip)) 

6.1.3 Advanced Telekinesis

6.2 Telepathy 

6.2.1 Abilities

6.3 Illusion Generation 

6.4 Animal Manipulation 

6.4.1 Animal Empathy 

6.5 X-Factor Detection (The ability to sense when another mutant is near)

6.6 Technopathy (Being able to control electric devices) 

6.7 Power Bestowal and Augmentation (The power to give or enhance a mutants power)

6.8 Power Negation (someone with this ability will wipe out the abilities of any mutant that is within a certain range, this is not permanent and the powers will return if the mutant keeps a safe distance from the mutant with Power Negation) 

6.9 Death Perception 

6.10 Magnetokinesis  

7   Bone Protrusions 

7.1 Claw Growth

7.2 Razor Sharp Teeth

7.3 Spike Projectiles

7.4 Bone Growth

7.5 Quill Protrusion

8   Contact Based Powers

8.1 Phasing ( The ability to pass through solid objects)

8.1.1 Chronoskimming (The ability to send a person's consciousness into their older/younger self  or into close ancestors/descendants 

8.2 Life Force Absorption 

8.3 Power Mimicry

8.4 Tactile Hypnosis 

9   Unique Physiology

9.1 Wing Growth 

9.1.1 Wing Blades

9.1.2 Mutants

9.2 Snake Physiology

9.3 Prehensile Tongue

9.4 Prehensile Tail

9.5 Impenetrable Skin 

9.5.1 Slime Spit

9.6 Mutant Tattoos 

9.7 Acidic Saliva

9.8 Acid Spew

9.9 Unstoppable Momentum

[hockeylvr59]

Using that big boy frame to get his teammate a goal // 3.3.3 UMass @ Maine