#Dr. Calvino

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UNRELIABLE NARRATOR BRACKETS

CLOWNS AND GHOULS WE ARE STILL CURRENTLY ON A SLIGHTLY SMALLER HATIUS! WE WILL BE BACK WITH A REVIVAL BRACKET SOON :]

Semi Finals

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Eugenides (The Queen's Thief)

Lemony Snicket (Series of unfortunate events) vs. Marvin (In Trousers)

Finals

Eugendies (The Queen's Thief) vs. Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events)

CONGRATS TO LEMONY SNICKET FOR WINNING THE WINNERS BRACKET!! However, there is one more battle for him to face. The winner of the revival bracket!

RULES

For tie sweeps, im giving each match up a 0.2% margin. Additionally, you have to convince me that these two character have something in common besides being unreliable goofiers

Propaganda is very much encouraged :]

Please be nice to each other :( At the end of the day, this is a silly internet bracket with way too many obscure characters to count. remember to touch grass everyone

Polls from round 1-3 will be one day! From there, all polls will be a week, including the finals

The winner of the loser's bracket will go against the winner of the winner's bracket and that winner will be declared the most unreliable

Main tag (with polls) will be #unreliable narrator battle

NOTE; I do NOT write the propaganda on each poll. It's the propaganda I collect in submissions.

List of all characters below (+their match ups and brackets!)

(im not sure how to make them face each other?? if that makes sense. so uh. have these 4, right facing brackets :') )

SIDE A

SIDE B

SIDE C

SIDE D

I tried to evenly match everyone, however, i also metaphorically live under a rock so my view on everything might be EXTREMELY skewed. sorry.

SIDE A 

Round 1

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) 

Neil Josten (All For the Game) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. Alcatraz Smedry (Alcatraz Vs The Evil Librarians) 

The Biologist (Annihilation) vs. Yukio Okumura (Ao no Exorcist) 

Briony Tallis (Atonement) vs. Tobias (Animorphs) 

Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) vs. Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative) vs. Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3) 

Jason Todd (DC Comics/Batman) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Narrator of Jane the Virgin (Jane the Virgin) 

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. Charlie Gordon (Flowers for Algernon) 

The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston) vs. Italo Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night, a Travler) 

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Rue Bennet (Euphoria) 

Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Kabuto) vs. Nishijou Takumi (Chaos; Head) 

Humbert Humbert (Loltia) vs. Ted(I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Brooke Page (Ever After High) vs. Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games) 

Round 2

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. The Biologist (Annihilation)

Briony Tallis (Atonement) vs. Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Mysterious Man (Into the Woods)

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Kabuto)

Ted(I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High)

Round 3

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. The Biologist (Annihilation)

Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Round 4

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Round 5

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves)

SIDE B

The Narrators (Ever After High) vs. Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)

Ulysses (Fallout New Vegas) vs. Phone Guy (FNAF) 

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) vs. Hamlet (Hamlet) 

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Joker (Joker) vs. Ted (How I Met Your Mother) 

Alex Eggleston (YIIK: A Postmodern RPG) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) 

Odokawa (Odd Taxi) vs. Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) 

Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue) vs. Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Dr. Money (Presentable Liberty) 

The Batter (OFF) vs. Sunny (Omori) 

Submitter (Real Life) vs. Every Fic Writer (Real Life) 

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Cale Henituse (Trash of the Counts Family) 

Wei Wuxian (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) vs. Beatrice (Umineko) 

Haruaki Fusaishi (Raging Loop) vs. Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) 

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Yoon Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) 

Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle) vs. Fukuide Kei (Ultraman Geed) 

Round 2

Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Phone Guy (FNAF) 

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Ted (How I Met Your Mother) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) 

Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. The Batter (OFF)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

Beatrice (Umineko) vs. Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) 

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle)

Round 3

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Hamlet (Hamlet) 

Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

The Batter (OFF) vs. Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

Round 4

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

Round 5

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

SIDE C

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Percy Jackson (PJO) 

Jonathan Sims (Mangus Archives) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) 

Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Goob (Meet the Robinsons) 

Jeramie Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King Ohger) vs. Noé Archiviste (Vanitas no Carte) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Highs) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)  

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Apollo/Lester (Trials of Apollo) 

Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) vs. Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye) 

Theo Decker (The Goldfinch) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon) 

Rosie Amo (The Administration Podcast) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) 

Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) vs. Josh Newman (SINF) 

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. The Maid (The House in Fata Morgana) 

Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief) vs. Grisia Sun (The Legend of Sun Knight) 

Round 2

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) 

Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Jeramie Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King Ohger)

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)  

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) vs. Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 3

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove)

Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi)

Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 4

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 5

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

SIDE D

Narrator of Death in the Forest (Death in the Forest) vs. Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) 

Guy Pearce (Memento) vs. Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) 

Joe Goldberg (YOU) vs. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Sixth Sense)

Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) vs. Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) 

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Gareth (Philadelphia) vs. Grace Marks (Alias Grace) 

Squealer (Animal Farm) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Katrina Kim (Liar Dreamer Thief) vs. Aislyn (The City We Became)

Claudia (Monday’s Not Coming) vs. Marvin (In Trousers) 

Mars (The Honeys) vs. Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) 

Rachel (The Girl on the Train) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

The Mother (Pumpkin Eater)vs. Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. Taylor Herbert (Worm) 

All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon) vs. Wayne Booth (The Rhetoric of Fiction) 

Christopher (The Curious Incident o the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Round 2

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento)

Joe Goldberg (YOU) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) vs. Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart)

Gareth (Philadelphia) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Aislyn (The City We Became) vs. Marvin (In Trousers) 

Mars (The Honeys) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

The Mother (Pumpkin Eater) vs. Leshy (Inscryption)

All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Round 3

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Marvin (In Trousers) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon)

Round 4

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart)

Marvin (In Trousers) vs. Leshy (Inscryption)

Round 5

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Marvin (In Trousers)

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Tagged by @sofa-king-lame let’s do this

🎧 Last Song: Red (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

🖍️ Favourite Color: all the shades of blue

📚 Last Book: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

🎥 Last Movie: Anyone But You

📺 Last TV-Show: Doctor Odyssey

🍜 Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Sweet

💕 Relationship Status: Single

🌐 Last thing I googled: Dr Jens Zimmermann

💓 Current Obsession: 911 but also German Politics

🔮 Looking forward to: this fucking election being over with a decent result. Also my birthday party at the end of the month 🥳

No pressure tagging:

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The most incredible example of sadist-surrealist fantasy is to be found among the representations of the various phrases of childbirth and gynaecological operations. A complete model of a patient undergoing a Caesarean section lies with her eyes wide open, her face distorted by pain, her hair impeccable, her calves tied together, dressed in a long, lace nightgown, which is open only at the part of her body which has been cut open by a scalpel, where the baby appears. Four male hands are placed on her body (two operating, two holding her waist): fine wax hands with manicured nails, ghostly hands since they are not supported by arms but adorned only with white cuffs and with the ends of the sleeves of a black jacket, as though the whole ceremony was being held by people in evening dress.

-- Italo Calvino on Dr. Pierre Spitzner’s life-sized wax model of a caesarean section, from his essay ‘The Museum of Wax Monsters’, in Collection of Sand.

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Great women in paleontology: Diana Mussa | Grandes mulheres na paleontologia: Diana Mussa

🇬🇧 Diana Mussa, born in Campos dos Goytacazes on January 19, 1932, and passed away in Rio de Janeiro on May 8, 2007, was a renowned Brazilian geologist and paleobotanist, globally recognized for her expertise in Devonian flora. She was a trailblazer in this field in Brazil and also a respected professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

The youngest of five siblings, Diana was the daughter of Lebanese parents. Since childhood, she harbored the dream of becoming a naturalist, driven by her deep interest in nature and natural processes. In 1952, she moved to Rio de Janeiro to study Natural History at the National Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters of the University of Brazil (now UFRJ), where she also pursued Geology. During this time, she had the opportunity to intern under renowned researchers such as Dr. Fernando R. Milanez at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and Dr. Calvino Mainieri at the São Paulo Institute of Technological Research.

In the late 1950s, she joined the Convent of the Poor Clares to volunteer with underserved populations, and she was sent to Manaus. Between 1958 and 1961, she lived in Tefé, conducting research on fossilized woods and participating in missionary activities. After returning to Rio de Janeiro for health treatment, she joined the National Commission of Nuclear Energy and commenced her postgraduate studies in 1973 at the Institute of Geosciences of the University of São Paulo, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Rocha-Campos. Her thesis, defended in 1982, on the Permian Lignitafofloras of the Paraná Basin, Brazil (States of São Paulo and Santa Catarina), was approved with distinction.

Diana became a researcher at the National Department of Mineral Production and later worked at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, where she became an Adjunct Professor of Paleobotany in 1993. Throughout her career, she described approximately 30 genera of fossilized plants, leaving behind an important legacy in the form of her collection of fossil wood slides. Additionally, she was a founding member of the Brazilian Society of Paleontology and a member of various other international and national organizations in her field. Her name inspired the naming of the genus Mussaeoxylon seclusum Merlotti 1998, for Gondwanan fossil gymnosperm wood from Brazil, and the species Glossopteris mussae Ricardi-Branco et al. 1999, for new Permian fossil leaves from São Paulo.

🇧🇷 Diana Mussa, nascida em Campos dos Goytacazes em 19 de janeiro de 1932 e falecida no Rio de Janeiro em 8 de maio de 2007, foi uma renomada geóloga e paleobotânica brasileira, reconhecida mundialmente por sua expertise na flora do devoniano. Ela foi a pioneira nesse campo no Brasil e também uma respeitada professora na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Filha de pais libaneses, Diana era a caçula de cinco irmãos. Desde a infância, cultivava o sonho de se tornar naturalista, devido ao seu profundo interesse na natureza e nos processos naturais. Em 1952, mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro para estudar História Natural na Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade do Brasil (atual UFRJ), onde também cursou Geologia. Durante esse período, teve a oportunidade de estagiar com renomados pesquisadores, como o Dr. Fernando R. Milanez no Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro e o Dr. Calvino Mainieri no Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas de São Paulo.

No final dos anos 1950, ingressou no Convento das Clarissas para realizar trabalho voluntário com populações carentes, sendo enviada para Manaus. Entre 1958 e 1961, viveu em Tefé, onde conduziu pesquisas sobre madeiras fósseis, além de participar de atividades missionárias. Após retornar ao Rio de Janeiro para tratamento de saúde, ingressou na Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear e iniciou sua pós-graduação em 1973 no Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Rocha-Campos. Sua tese, defendida em 1982, sobre as Lignitafofloras Permianas da Bacia do Paraná, Brasil (Estados de São Paulo e Santa Catarina), foi aprovada com distinção.

Diana tornou-se pesquisadora do Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral e, mais tarde, passou a trabalhar no Museu Nacional, no Rio de Janeiro, onde se tornou Professora Adjunta de Paleobotânica em 1993. Ao longo de sua carreira, descreveu aproximadamente 30 gêneros de vegetais fósseis, deixando um legado importante na forma de sua coleção de lâminas de lenhos fósseis. Além disso, foi sócia-fundadora da Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia e membro de diversas outras organizações internacionais e nacionais ligadas à sua área de atuação. Seu nome inspirou o batismo do gênero Mussaeoxylon seclusum Merlotti 1998, para madeira fóssil gimnospérmica do Gondwana brasileiro, e da espécie Glossopteris mussae Ricardi-Branco et al. 1999, para novas folhas fósseis do Permiano de São Paulo.

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100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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Asks (Favorite Things)

Nearest thing to me that is also my favorite would be the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's the book that got me back into reading after a long dry spell.

OH! Signs from M. Night Shyamalan. I've probably seen it at LEAST 50 times. One of those "everything has its place" kinda movies. After that, maybe Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and Dog Day Afternoon. They're all kinda stationary movies, I guess (other than Truman). I love love love movies! I have way more movies that I'll watch if I get the opportunity but I could go on and on. ok i'm gonna go on and on. couple more. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Jaws. The Truman Show.

Favorite soup is a toughie, uhhhh, ooo, maybe ramen, or tomato if I got a grilled cheese. I'll take just about any soup, I'm a broth bitch.

I haven't gotten to play many classes yet (only Warlock, Bard, and Barbarian), but I'm going to guess it's always going to be Warlock purely due to the flavor. I love a sold soul, I love to explore conditional love and loyalty. I'd like to try a GOO Warlock sometime! I haven't gotten to play Paladin yet, but I think I may dig that too purely for flavor reasons. Generally, I'm gonna like something with magic and a promise involved haha

cactus cat

I work almost exclusively digital, so I guess digital is my favorite (program: Clip Studio Paint). Though I've been getting into acrylic paint, sorta, at least to make fake anime cels. My least favorite is probably oils. I'm just not patient enough.

Snack, oh man, I became full of lust for poptarts recently.

Something cool I saw recently... the sun. I live in the pacific northwest so the sun is a rare sight.

Thank you so so much!

oh god, okay, my music taste is. eclectic.

I'll just list off some artists I've been listening to a lot. I think I like a lot of old stuff, lotta folk.

The Turtles, Stevie Wonder, Townes Van Zandt (i really like outlaw country music and specifically Townes), The Coasters, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Otis Redding, so so many musicals i love musicals, spaghetti western soundtracks, Childish Gambino, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Beatles (my mom is obsessed with The Beatles so I inherited it I guess), The Jones Sisters, Kid Cudi, and again a LOT of musicals.

honestly a lot of it is "does this remind me of one of my characters/stories?" and if the answer is yes i become obsessed with it

Thank you so much for sending me these asks!!!

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AU pairings:

Tony/Seymour Lionel/Nick Edna/Johnny/Frankie Daws/Zane Mr. Black/Devon Gregorio/Lindsey Roger/Alfonso Joel/Alfonso Dexter/Dwight Wayne/Dan Carina/Rex Flake/Patrick Fausto/Armando Floyd/Harry Bob/Jack Bob/Dennis Bob/Jack/Dennis Lindsey/Cookie Felix/Troy Kostas/Dan Kostas/Ned Flanders I Tattoo Annie/Lyle Legs/Louie Luca/Carmine Calvino/Jack Raphael/Dave Don Vittorio/Dr. Budgie Shotgun Pete/Frank Ormand Mason/Gil Joey the Scar/Ferdinand Fernando/Clyde Russ/Ray Russ/Kyle Kyle/Angelica Ashton/Rowan Robert/Zachary

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A letter on what's new at the Graziadio Center

Dear Friends of Il Postino,

Welcome to the Spring 2024 semester!

It is already March, and things are in full swing here at the Graziadio Center.

On February 7th, the Graziadio Center, in collaboration with the Clorinda Donato Center, RGRLL, and Università Roma3, organized a one-day event on the Telecollaboration program entitled Empowering Language Learners: Multilingualism And Motivation In Telecollaboration Programs. Professors Diego Cortés Velásquez and Elena Nuzzo (Roma3) gave a presentation and a hands-on workshop on telecollaboration. A roundtable with former participants enlightened our audience on the benefits of this pedagogical approach and a second roundtable, led by our instructors, focused on the future of this collaboration that started some six years ago. The event gave us food for thought and a clearer vision for the program’s future iterations. Meanwhile, it has been decided that our students of ITAL 100B, a class taught by Joanna Tatro, will participate in the Spring 2024 Telecollaboration.

On March 7th at 5:00 PM, Dr. Ilaria Tabusso-Marcyan (ASU) gave a talk entitled, “The Feminine Aspect in the Cultural Roots of Slow Food” in LA1-204 and via Zoom.

Dr. Tabusso-Marcyan examined the feminine aspects of Italian farming culture within recent Italian history and their influence in shaping the cultural foundations of the international movement of Slow Food. Ilaria’s presentation covered parts of her recently published book, The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance (Lexington Books, 2024).

Our last event for the semester will be a talk by renowned scholar Serenella Jovino (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) on Italo Calvino’s animals and the Anthropocene, the date and other details will be shared soon.

Last summer, some twenty students took advantage of our summer abroad program in Recanati and spent four full weeks of class in this beautiful, little town in the Marche region. They enjoyed the experience enormously and came back galvanized and ready to continue their studies in Italian at CSULB. The importance of the Recanati program cannot be overstated, as it has historically helped us increase the number of our minors.

Program Assistant Diego Brol Batres is working to ensure that the new cohort will be as numerous and satisfied as the previous ones. He has toured high schools and community colleges to recruit students and has given presentations here at CSULB to prepare students for their time in Italy. It looks like another 20 students will go to Recanati this summer!

This issue of Il Postino features interviews with our Majors, MA students, alumni, and, for our Faculty Spotlight, alumna and instructor Jaclyn Taylor.

All of them have spent time in Recanati or in Italy (Lesly Valtierra is currently studying at the Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice!). They are our best ambassadors in that they can share their experiences and passion for all things Italian. They all have their own personal perspective and a unique background, and it is a pleasure to have them share their thoughts and enthusiasm on the pages of our newsletter.

Thank you all for your contribution to Il Postino–we wish you the best for this semester and your overall academic career!

Next semester, we hope to have up to eight new BA students. Which means, if everything goes as planned, and we are doing our best to achieve that, we will have a total of 14 Italian Studies majors in Fall 2024! This is a sign of a positive trend that started last year and hopefully will continue for the semesters to come. Showing growth is a good sign, especially when many language departments struggle and are under scrutiny all over the country.

Club Italia is another tremendous asset for the Graziadio Center, as it works tirelessly to promote Italian on campus. We thank you for all your work!

With Lesly Valtierra studying in Italy, Club Italia was in need of a new Treasurer; their new lineup of officers is now:

Antonina Campbell, Ailyn Saavedra, Nikki Jerman, Alberto Sanchez Alonso, Maria Gabriela Tapia, and Josue Mendiola

To find out each officer’s role, look for the Club Italia section below! 

In addition to hosting Tavola Italiana (every other Wednesday at 5 in AS-384), they are also preparing an event to showcase how a BA in Italian can help you in your post-CSULB life (and perhaps change it)!

We will provide details on this exciting event soon; please check your inbox and your social media accounts for flyers.

Buon semestre e a presto!

[lamilanomagazine]

Reggio Emilia, raid vandalici no-vax contro le istituzioni: denunciate 5 persone

Reggio Emilia, raid vandalici no-vax contro le istituzioni: denunciate 5 persone. La Polizia di Stato, con personale della D.I.G.O.S. della Questura di Reggio Emilia e del Centro Operativo per la Sicurezza Cibernetica della Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni di Bologna e della Sezione Operativa di Reggio Emilia, a conclusione di una complessa ed articolata attività investigativa coordinata dalla Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Reggio Emilia diretta dal Dr. Calogero Gaetano PACI, ha eseguito 4 perquisizioni personali e domiciliari, denunciando 5 persone. Queste ultime sono ritenute responsabili di danneggiamento aggravato per aver imbrattato, con scritte e simboli del movimento no vax “Vi_Vi”, numerosi beni immobili riconducibili ad istituzioni cittadine, nel periodo da marzo ad ottobre 2022. Identikit dei denunciati Gli indagati, tutti sconosciuti alle Forze di Polizia poiché mai emersi in contesti informativi e/o investigativi, sono come detto 5: 3 donne e 2 uomini, 4 di Reggio Emilia e uno residente nella provincia di Como, aventi età compresa tra 45 e 56 anni, rispettivamente casalinga, dipendente di un’azienda agricola, insegnante, dipendente della pubblica amministrazione. Il quinto indagato per gli episodi criminosi perpetrati in questa provincia è residente a Como e dipendente di una ditta privata. Le azioni vandaliche I predetti, approfittando dell’orario notturno e travisati anche con mascherine e parrucche, hanno vergato numerose scritte con vernice spray di colore rosso sui muri e sulle vetrate delle sottoelencate sedi, a firma del movimento no vax Vi_Vi, così grandi ed invasive, tanto da causare dei veri e propri danneggiamenti degli immobili colpiti. Dalle indagini della Polizia di Stato è emerso che i partecipanti, prima degli eventi criminosi, effettuavano accurati sopralluoghi per verificare la presenza di sistemi di video sorveglianza. 12 episodi criminosi L’attività investigativa svolta dalla D.I.G.O.S. reggiana iniziata da circa un anno e incentrata sulla visione di numerosi filmati estrapolati da sistemi di videosorveglianza, appostamenti e pedinamenti, ha permesso di attribuire ai presunti autori 12 episodi criminosi dei 31 commessi in questa provincia: Marzo 2022 14 marzo 2022 danneggiamento sede CGIL di via Roma; 4 marzo 2022 danneggiamento sede CISL di via Turri; Maggio 2022 16 maggio 2022 danneggiamento sede CGIL di via Bismantova 7; 16 maggio 2022 danneggiamento plesso scolastico “Italo Calvino di via della Canalina; Luglio 2022 18 luglio 2022 danneggiamento sede dell’Ordine degli Infermieri Professionali di via Montefiorino; 18 luglio 2022 danneggiamento sede dell’Ordine dei Medici Chirurgici e degli Odontoiatri di via Dalmazia; 18 luglio 2022 affissione manifesti presso un Ambulatorio dei Medici di Base di viale Olimpia; Settembre 2022 5 settembre 2022 danneggiamento sede Ispettorato Territoriale del Lavoro di via Paolo Borsellino; 5 settembre 2022 danneggiamento sede Agenzia delle Entrate di via Paolo Borsellino; Ottobre 2022 15 ottobre 2022 danneggiamento sede CGIL di Scandiano (RE); 16 ottobre 2022 danneggiamento sede SPI CGIL di via Emilia Ospizio; 18 ottobre 2022 danneggiamento di due pensiline delle fermate degli autobus del trasporto urbano (SETA) di viale Timavo e parcheggio Zucchi. In alcuni dei suddetti danneggiamenti, oltre alle vistose scritte, sono stati affissi manifesti ritraenti le immagini di alcuni politici e sindacalisti tra cui il Presidente della Regione Emilia Romagna Stefano Bonaccini e il Segretario Generale della CGIL, Maurizio Landini, con svastiche sulla fronte seguite da scritte. Una delle svolte determinanti delle indagini si è avuta la notte del 19 ottobre 2022, quando 3 dei perquisiti, 1 uomo e 2 donne, in viale Timavo e nel parcheggio Zucchi a Reggio Emilia, sono stati colti in flagranza, mentre scrivevano con una bomboletta spray di colore rosso, sulle vetrate delle pensiline del trasporto pubblico urbano SETA. Le perquisizioni effettuate nelle abitazioni, nelle autovetture e presso i luoghi di lavoro degli indagati, hanno permesso di acquisire elementi investigativi che completano il quadro indiziario, in particolare sono stati sequestrati radio trasmittenti, parrucche, indumenti scuri, alcuni dei quali macchiati di vernice rossa ed altri con simbolo ViVi, bombolette spray e secchi di vernice di colore rosso, adesivi e altro materiale riportante la simbologia del sodalizio,  cellulari e computer che saranno analizzati da personale del Centro Operativo per la Sicurezza Cibernetica della Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazione di Bologna. Sono stati sequestrati anche due adesivi, uno ritraente Il Presidente della Regione, Stefano Bonaccini con una svastica disegnata sulla fronte e uno raffigurante l’ex Presidente del Consiglio Mario Draghi vestito da ufficiale delle SS. Sempre nell’ambito delle indagini sul movimento no vax Vi_Vi, il 13 gennaio 2022, la D.I.G.O.S. della Questura di Reggio Emilia aveva denunciato altri due giovani reggiani resisi responsabili di danneggiamento aggravato, per aver vergato con bombolette di vernice rossa alcune scritte, sempre a firma del gruppo Vi_Vi, sui muri dell’Università di Reggio Emilia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxVRBLOOGow Read the full article

[virtualmemoriespodcast]

Episode 523 - Dawn Raffel

Author Dawn Raffel rejoins the show to celebrate her wonderful new book, Boundless As The Sky (Sagging Meniscus Press), a gorgeous series of stories & a novella that take us from Invisible Cities to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. We talk about how Dawn's previous nonfiction book, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney, led into this new book, how she became obsessed with the Century of Progress World's Fair (and how she wishes she could have asked her parents about visiting it in their youth), why Chicago was always her Emerald City, and how NYC has transformed over the decades she's lived here. We also get into the strong influence of Invisible Cities on her book and how she felt about writing a feminine/feminist response to Calvino, how the two parts of Boundless As The Sky — stories, novella — talk to each other, the twin writing-joys of unexpected resonances and sentence-building, and how incorporating Yoga Nidra offers new approaches to writing workshops. We also get into her recent trip to Kenya for International Literary Seminars, her pandemic Zoom writing-accountability partners, how she finally got around to reading Moby-Dick (and what she made of it), and a lot more. Follow Dawn on Twitter and Instagram and go listen to our 2019 conversation • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

Check out the new episode of The Virtual Memories Show

[cloobert]

More things to read like this (if you're willing to track down copies): Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani is a work of theory-horror-fiction centering around the work of the fictional Dr. Hamid Parsani, who has become convinced that oil--sentient, cruel, and crude oil--is the true architect of the War on Terror. It plays in similar epistolary space as House of Leaves at times, but is a beast all its own. Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer (and translated by Ursula K. LeGuin) is a beautiful book of stories told in and about a vast and ancient empire, tracing from its founding to, nominally, a modern day of sorts. Gorodischer and LeGuin are careful to maintain the voices of the various storytellers telling about empresses, generals, and abandoned cities, so each line is genuinely a delight and fascination to read.

The Solar Cycle by Gene Wolfe is mostly talked about in terms of the first work in it (Book of the New Sun), but the entire thing is genuinely some of the most moving and fascinating fiction I've had the pleasure to read. Each book feels like magic, and acts on the reader as magic. Where New Sun covers the journey of a torturer as he finds a kind of redemption, Book of the Long Sun tells the story of a haruspex (and youth pastor, of a kind) who is forced to dive into the metaphorical and literal underworld of the colony ship he inhabits to save his beloved community center. Book of the Short Sun, maybe the best of the set, bears too many spoilers for Long Sun to pitch, but mingles science fictional and theological arguments that brought me to tears with some of the coolest shit I've ever read. The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria is a book that feels like a curse. Every word of this story about the subtle and insidious creep of fascism feels like poison, and some of the images and phrases have genuinely haunted my nights since reading it. More than any of these other books, it feels like it describes and thus contains real, pulsing evil. Finally, anything by Roberto Calasso. An Italian writer and critic (and colleague of Italo Calvino, for any Calvinoheads out there), Calasso writes vast and meandering books about myth, sacrifice, kings, and society. The Ruin of Kasch, his first book, is nominally about Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, but weaves in everything from Vedic writings to the titular story of the ruin of Kasch. I'm currently reading The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, his retelling and exegesis of Greek mythology. Every page has some incredible new phrase or esoteric construction. Calasso, more than a philosopher or literary critic, feels like a sorcerer.

I'm not tryna pen any raw as fuck quotes but I do want to read books that will make me feel better than the people who are, any recs?

level 1: read any anne carson poem. i think we all had a phase and got sick of her a few years ago but shes interesting because shes doing successfully what us tumblrinas usually fail to do, the perfect, concise, casual profundity rendered in plain language. i personally like her translation of the bacchae/the bakkhai but i know a lot of real classics people are annoyed by it lol im just a regular reader.

level 2: things me and retro and the dragonfucker have spammed each other with over the years

inanna's descent into the underworld

exaltation of inanna

the kalevala

the gods of pegana by lord dunsany

thunder perfect mind

im gonna be honest probably also your aleister crowleys and your madam blavatskys and shit. i like atlantis: the antediluvian world by ignatius donnelly. all those 19th century crackpots. you cant contain yrself to the 21st century man.

level 3: stop bugging me and get off of tumblr and find stuff around the internet and go to the real life library and read some shit thats been out of print since the clinton administration

[makethosenarratorsfight]

SIDE A FINISHED! WINNERS ARE

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) 

Neil Josten (All For the Game) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. Alcatraz Smedry (Alcatraz Vs The Evil Librarians) 

The Biologist (Annihilation) vs. Yukio Okumura (Ao no Exorcist) 

Briony Tallis (Atonement) vs. Tobias (Animorphs) 

Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) vs. Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative) vs. Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3) 

Jason Todd (DC Comics/Batman) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Narrator of Jane the Virgin (Jane the Virgin) 

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. Charlie Gordon (Flowers for Algernon) 

The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston) vs. Italo Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night, a Travler) 

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Rue Bennet (Euphoria) 

Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Kabuto) vs. Nishijou Takumi (Chaos; Head) 

Humbert Humbert (Loltia) vs. Ted(I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Brooke Page (Ever After High) vs. Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games) 

[gryfon-spanish-werewolf]

Frozen(Elsanna)xPrey AU Snippet

Little piece that came to me while I was writing down notes about the au as a whole. @themountainsays since I tagged that I’d post it I figure I’d @ ya. Oh and @junglekiing too, since you said you were also curious

For context: Anna has severe memory-loss related to removing a device called a neuromod that previously gave her beyond-human abilities. Bellamy is the head scientist responsible for the procedure of injecting and removing neuromods. When Elsa references “’taking that too” she is referring to Anna’s memories. Dr. Calvino works in the Hardware Labs on an advanced video-tech system called Looking Glass, and Danielle is his chief assistant. Jenni is a deceased npc by the time the game really starts. All of these are characters canonically in Prey

This would be a brief moment of quiet amid the chaos of the station. Finding a little corner or lockable room (after checking it for Mimics) to put up their feet and rest before moving on to their next escape attempt. The topic of their relationship (familial, sisterly, more) comes up and Elsa is open about who was courting whom

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“You kissed me first you know.” Elsa says, tossing a can of green tea to Anna. 

“I.... did?”

Elsa’s smile is bitter-sweet. “If Bellamy took that too, I’m going to have to find his body, revive him, and kill him again.” She looks at her own can before popping it open with a hiss. “But yes, you did. It was back when we still lived with everyone else, before I got promoted. It was late, I’d gotten off a difficult work day with Dr. Calvino on the Looking Glass tech. He and Danielle had been fighting again, and their hostility put the whole lab on edge. I finally got back down to my pod and you were there, the reading light on, sitting with your legs dangling off the side. Every once in a while you’d bump the closed door below with your heel, which you knew Jenni hated but she’s an ass so we didn’t care.” This time Elsa’s smile is genuine, and she takes a sip with that glow on her face, that fondness. Anna leans forward, enthralled hearing about herself, as if it was someone else.

Maybe it was.

“You ducked beneath the low ceiling and hopped down to the ground, gesturing to the bed with a flourish. You joked that you were keeping it warm for me.”

“Don’t the pods have heating and cooling controls?” Anna interrupts, confused.

“Yes,” Elsa grins back.

“Oh.” Anna scratches her head. “So I was corny.”

“Don’t hang up too hard on that past tense,” Elsa returns, amused, though there is a sadness in her eyes that reduces her words’ cheer. “But yes you were. Are.” She lowers her drink, cupping the bottom with her other hand. She seems lost in the memory, the faintest dusting of pink emerging across her cheeks. “We exchanged some pleasantries --you asked how my day was, I asked about yours-- but you could see I was tired. You gave me a hug and said the next day would be better. But you… lingered.”

“I wanted to kiss you.”

Elsa’s head shoots up as the words leap from Anna’s mouth.

She remembers. Anna remembers.

Not perfectly. Anna scrunches up her eyes, trying to keep the memory stable in the darkness behind her eyelids. “I-I wanted to. You looked ready to drop but you also looked so beautiful. Your hair wasn’t perfect and you smelled a little like the burnt, sooty smell from welding and Calvino’s dark roast coffee. He never drinks anything else. But you also felt small - you fit so neatly in my arms that I just didn’t want to let go. I…” Anna thinks hard, stitching the scene together bit by bit as the pieces threatened to float off into the gaps in her memory. The holes in her life. “I wanted you to know that I was there for you. That I supported you like you always supported me, way back before. And I was feeling braver because everyone was asleep. It was just you and me. And when you pulled back from the hug the light from your bunk spilled onto your face and caught in the corner of your eye and I just stopped holding back.”

Anna mimes the motion in front of her, trying to remember the feel of Elsa’s body beneath her hands. “My knuckle under your chin, my fingers at your waist, and I just reeled you in, before I could second guess myself.” Anna feels her cheeks color. “I… think I was hoping I’d guessed correctly… about you…”

Anna opens her eyes to find Elsa hastily wiping hers. “It was very romantic,” her sister says, but upon seeing Anna catch her, Elsa adds, “well, it was, until you added tongue.”

Anna cringes, choking on her tea she’d been in the middle of drinking. “I did?”

Elsa laughs, a little watery chuckle. “No, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist.” She smiles. “It was sweet.”

“Good,” Anna nods, more to herself than Elsa. “I’m glad I… remember that, even if I’m not sure what all that means now.”

Elsa looks like she wants to comment, but decides against it. Too soon. “It also means we don’t have to find Bellamy’s corpse and resurrect him so that I can murder him again,” she says instead, a handful of snowflakes dancing around her fingers before disappearing. “So considering how the rest of the day has been going, I’m going to count that as a win.”

[fenharel-archived]

If Starfield will even just have a Tiny bit of the atmosphere Prey has... I'll cry my lil heart out

[writeforget]

References in Salman Rushdie's "The Golden House"

Lady Chatterley's Lover- D.H. Lawrence

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Goodbye to Berlin

Moby-Dick

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Mémoires d'Hadrien- Marguerite Yourcenar

Woodcarver Steiner- Werner Herzog

Pina- Wim Wenders

The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler

Two Philosophers Deep in Meditation - Rembrandt

The Longest Journey - Forster

Auto-da-Fé - Canetti

Wired

The satyricon - Mennipe

Cyclops - Euripides

The Net Fishers - Aeschylus

The trackers - Sophocles

The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus - Tony Harrison

The Golden Ass- Aesop

Rain Man

Sad- Eyed Lady of the Lowlands- Bob Dylan

La Belle Dame sans Merci

The Man who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton

Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Spamalot

Oklahoma!

West Side Story

Dr Mabuse The Gambler - Lang

One Thousand and One Nights

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Privilege of Owning Yourself- Nietzsche

Tokyo Monogatari

Orfeu Negro

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Water Lilies - Claude Monet

Adoration of the Magi - Peter Paul Ruben

Wild is The Wind - Bowie

Famous Blue Raincoat-Cohen

Under the Bridge-RHCP

Pierrot le fou

Arthur Schlesinger

Gayatri Spivak

Baba Yaga

Green Eggs and Ham- Dr Seuss

Twilight

The Silence of The Lambs

The Hunt for Red October

Metamorphosis- F Kafka

The Graduate

Mansoon Wedding

The Deer Hunter

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The Princess Bride

Yellow Earth- Chen Kaige

The Godfather- the trilogy

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives- Apichat Pong

Rosemary's Baby

Fedorovskaya icon of the Mother of God

V for Vendetta -Wachowski

The Great Gatsby- FS Fitzgerald

Jeeves series-PG Woodehouse

Odyssey

Six Feet Under

The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman

Hannah and Her Sisters

Flash Gordon

Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino

Closely Observed Trains- Jiri Menzel

Sanjuro- Kurosawa

Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn

Amarcord- Fellini

L'argent de poche- Truffaut

The Hustles- Rossen

L'année derniere à Marienbad- Resnais

Knife in the Water- Polanski

La belle noiseuse

Breathless

Le mépris

The Jungle Book- R Kypling

Aguirre, the Wrath of God- Herzog

Funes the Memorious. L Borges

The Dignity of Man- Pico della Mirandola

2001: A space Odyssey- S Kubrick

Birdman

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Marx Brothers comedy

Reservoir Dogs- Q Tarantino

Within You Without You. Tomorrow Never knows. Norwegian Wood. Love to You- The Beatles

The Inheritors- Golding

Alexander Nevesky. The Battleship Potemkin- Sergei Eisenstein

Seinfeld

Le feu follet- Louis Malle

The Best Bits

La La Land

Arrival

Manchester by teh Sea

Oedipus the King

Sheppey- Somerset Maugham

Night Watch- Rembrandt

Madame Bovary- Flaubert

Beetlejuice

Age of Innocence- Edith Warton

Poetry & Aeroplanes

Mars Attacks!- Tim Burton

The Court Jester

The Golden House (the film)

Citizen Kane

Porky's XXII

Dumb FucksXIX

Titanic

Rear Window

I Confess- Montgomery Clift

Bombay Talkie

Kuch Nahin Kahin Nahin Kabhi Nahin Koi Nahin( Nothing Nowhere Never Nobody)- Maratha Mandir

Company- Raj Gopal Varma

Shootout at Lokhandwala- Sanjay Gupta

Once upon a Time in Mumbaai (1&2) - Milan Luthria

Shakspeare in Love

Psycho- Hitchcock

Ran-Akira Kurosawa

Pather Panchali-Satyajit Ray

The Outcasts of Providence Street/the Exterminating Angel- L Bunuel

Some works might have been missed.

[aauditoree]

ohohoo looks like I've been double-tagged! thank you so much @ass-sass-sin-o and @zarks-wisdom for the tag ❤️

my tags are: @fryesbian and @marshmallow--3

dogs or cats? I love both, but I'm a slave for cats.

youtube celebrities or normal celebrities? Normal. I follow like two channels on YouTube...

if you could choose to live anywhere, where would it be? I'm happy in Venice. If I had to move though, my choices would be either Florence or Edinburgh.

disney or dreamworks? Dreamworks!

favourite childhood tv show? Uhh I didn't watch much TV as a child, so the only show I remember liking was Urusei Yatsura.

the movie you are looking forward to in 2020? I'm not looking forward to any in particular this year.

favourite book you read in 2019? Au bonheur des ogres by Daniel Pennac!

marvel or dc? Neither? Though I love Vertigo, so I'll say DC.

if you chose marvel, favourite member of the x-men? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ i like Charles tho

night or day? Night.

favourite pokémon? Charizard, cause I'm boring like that.

top 5 bands/artists? Breaking Benjamin, Bastille, Jesper Kyd, Radiohead, Muse

top 10 books? The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost (Wilde), Au Bonheur des Ogres (Pennac), L'Étranger (Camus), La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh (Claudel), Lucy (Kincaid), Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, Il cavaliere inesistente (Calvino), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson), Pensées (Pascal)

top 4 movies? Requiem for a Dream, Mr Nobody, Shutter Island, Lord of War

us or europe? Europe

tumblr or twitter? Tumblah

favourite vacation destination? I like the Tuscan countryside. 

favourite youtuber? Markiplier

favourite author? Aaaaa I can't pick one

tea or coffee? Tea.

otp? I'm Altmal trash, nothing new there.

do you play an instrument/song? I don't play much anymore, but I used to sing, play the guitar, the piano and a litttttle bit of cello and ocarina.