#Auguste Gilbert

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

Murder by Mail: Truth is Stranger than Fiction

Chapter 3: I Wish I Was Kidding. Ahead of widening her pool of potential victims, which forced her to switch how she delivered her poison pen letters and work out a way of keeping Tulle’s grapevine robust — Angele Laval made her most significant tactical change. After three-ish years of peppering the prefecture with anonymous notes which ultimately failed to secure her Mouray’s love or prevent…

[diioonysus]

objects in art: swords/daggers

[alloydia]

Just need Jakob Diehl as Ludwig now

[giovannadeltoro]

requiem pour un garçon

commissions / ig

[samwichitos]

Kaze to ki no uta gif collection in no particular order, part 1.

<- Part 5 || Part 2 ->

[pokophobia]

kaze to ki no uta, volume 4 chapter 4.

[windstir]

so i'm currently going through the serge backstory chapters in my re-read, and i got to the young auguste introduction.

↓ warning for mentions of csa / abuse ↓

first of all, he's described by other students in a similar way as gilbert: someone who never listens, who doesn't even wear the school uniform, someone who can do whatever he wants hecause his dad* makes big donations to the school.

(*adoptive father, who is said to enable pale's abuse towards auguste, the entire reason why auguste is the way he is nowadays. he brought auguste into the cocteau home just to satisfy pale's desires.)

he's also said to "always hang out around older students", supposedly for protection. i don't think he got favors from them (unlike gilbert, who slept with older students in exchange for homework) since he was a honor student but who knows ...

my point here is, i just find the way auguste uses the school's corrupted system against gilbert so interesting, because his first thought when sending gilbert away was "send him to laconblade, make donations and it'll be okay"

he was a victim of abuse, so he makes gilbert go through it.

he was a victim of the school's corrupt system, so he takes advantage of it and sets gilbert up for failure.

like, the need to reinforce and reenact that trauma through gilbert is so strong, and i genuinely can't understand why other than "it makes him feel good about himself because at least now he is in control of what happens."

his motives for doing this are so odd, because they can go from simple sexual pleasure (which i doubt because as far as i can remember he said he didn't really feel anything doing this to gilbert, he just did it because he could and because. who will stop him? no one. there are no consequences when you're rich and conventionally attractive.) to a textbook case of Victim becoming the Abuser ...

he knows the authorities won't do anything if the people around him don't do anything (i'm sure he makes this a point when he talks to the butler during the gilbert backstory chapters? but i can't remember exactly) so he's also using that corruption to his advantage, because he was never secretive about the way he treated gilbert (letting him run around drunk, the way he spoke to rebec about it, his whole talk to rosemarine, the "rumors" surrounding both of them when gilbert was little ... probably a lot more we don't know about) and knew they wouldn't give a fuck, and if they did he knew they wouldn't do anything to stop it.

one, because he has money!

two, because he can just push them away and pretend they never knew each other

i wonder if this whole thing has to do in some wat with the fact that anne marie chose to stay with pale instead of him but let's be so fr here he probably would've mistreated gilbert anyway if she stayed.

[burning-sol]

it's been a while since ive made a page where i draw a bunch of jrwi characters.. the last time i tried to draw the ferins it turned out not exactly how i wanted, but this time i think it turned out good! improvement!! hopefully u can see how jay and ayva take after their parents (also ive been thinking ayva had facial hair for a while but i only ever draw their canary au design which doesnt have that so LOL).

[paint-tastes-ok]

Laurent and Auguste sketches I did 5ever ago! I intend to clean them up one day but there are a lot of wips I need to finish before then so… here they are

[andreai04]

It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?

[anitaofsamothrace]

Tis time.

[tra5hg0blin]

feels like a switch has been pulled and suddenly its summer

[garadinervi]

Bloomsday 2023

(image: James Joyce, (1922), Ulysse, Translation by Auguste Morel and Stuart Gilbert, Text revised by Valery Larbaud and James Joyce, Adrienne Monnier / La Maison des Amis des Livres, Paris, 1929)

[samwichitos]

Kazeki shitpost collection

[dropoutbeatle]

Accurate Auguste Beau

[windstir]

found a parallel that made me stop reading aghhhh

(gilbert is 5 in the first one, he's 15 in the second one)