#casanova calvino

[toribookworm22]

Happy STS, Tori!

For your characters in non-platonic relationships, do they have any cute/unique pet names for each other? Do any have strong opinions about or a strong dislike of certain pet names? (Ex. if you call Emmett "baby" just order your tombstone now.)

Hey, love! Thanks for the ask!

So, small chance that someone could consider this spoilers. But not really.

Edward and Casa from my Animatronic Saga and especially my secondary series have a complex relationship. It goes through several iterations. But by the time the secondary series rolls around, they're the only people allowed to call each other silly names.

Casa calls Edward "boo."

Edward calls Casa "babe."

[amor-barato]

Hoje, remexendo na memória, tenho outra dúvida: ou sou eu que não sou capaz de entender uma mulher, se ela não esconde nada de si; ou era Sofia que aplicava uma tática muito refinada para não se deixar capturar por mim, manifestando-se justamente com tanta prolixidade.

Ítalo Calvino, in: As memórias de Casanova

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E mi dico: tra tutte, proprio lei è riuscita a sfuggirmi, come se non l'avessi mai avuta. Ma l'ho davvero avuta? E poi mi chiedo: e chi ho avuto davvero? E poi, ancora: avere chi? che cosa? che vuol dire?

Italo Calvino, In Le memorie di Casanova, da Prima che tu dica «Pronto»

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

E mi dico: tra tutte, proprio lei è riuscita a sfuggirmi, come se non l’avessi mai avuta. Ma l’ho davvero avuta? E poi mi chiedo: e chi ho avuto davvero? E poi, ancora: avere chi? che cosa? che vuol dire?

Italo Calvino, Le memorie di Casanova, in Prima che tu dica pronto

[girlboccaccio]

Ok so,

to startIt’s from this early summer that I’m thinking of take part to the Tumblr book club initiative and, because I’m italian, partecipate in it with a classic piece from Italian literature (I’m also well navigate in spanish and french lit but I want to play at home).

Because I’m a Master’s degree working students, anything that had nothing to do with with university/work/all the time left for me to go outside and touch some grass has always been postponed, but now I finally managed to pick up this idea and try to make it happen.

So still in June I brainstormed some ideas about lit classics all in public domain and if I not started yet is because I’m pretty indecise; I hypothesize that the newsletter on substrack could start next year and, accounting to the amount of material, I still have to decide if do it daily, weekly, monthly.

Considering that the idea of a Divine Comedy Weekly has already been taken by @lefthandedleague and if you’re interested you can find the link here, the other ideas that come to my mind are:

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, yes the original novel, there are actually 36 chapters so I could made it weekly, there’s a movie coming out each year about it and the novel is of course public domain, so still a pretty popular piece. Is children literature but still a smart novel and so easy to read in a newsletter framework. Finally, I have decided for this one, at least only to start and see how it goes. You can find the link here.

Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, this was actually my first idea lol but I debunked at first because organize a newsletter of 100 precise novels + interludes isn’t the easiest job and I’ll need help. If done weekly it could take approximately two years no stop to complete, if done daily I don’t know if it could be too much. In any case, Netflix is planning a series about it and it could be still possibile or at least interesting.

Michelangelo poems, ok this idea came to my mind only because I have two different editions of Michelangelo’s poems in ita/eng. It isn’t the greatest poetry imaginable, but both the editions do a great work to match the sonnets with Michelangelo’s artpieces, so I thinked about a substrack newsletter with each mail that have a poem + artpiece from the artist put together. The poems collected are roughly 300 (yeah he was pretty prolific), it could be done daily covering a year or weelky with 5 poems maybe (or less) for each mail.

The Facetious Nights by Giovanni Francesco Straparola or the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile, for those who don’t know there are considered the first European storybooks to contain fairy-tales, I actually thinked about the collection by Italo Calvino at first, but there aren’t of public domain so idea cancelled. Both the collections contain old stile fairy tales with dark themes and some of them are an early version of worldwide famous tales, like Cinderella, Rapunzel or Puss in Boots. There are various novels so daily or weekly is pretty free the choice.

Some work by Emilio Salgari, to anyone who don’t know him, he is basically the Italian Jules Verne, in Italy some of his stories are national folklore, is pretty know in hispano-speaking countries but in the anglosphere he is basically nobody :( sad to consider that I grew up reading both Verne and Salgari at the same time. Daily or weekly I have to decide which work take for him, some pieces aged badly according to contemporary sensibilities and could be seen slighly problematic, others I think could be understood still today (Sandokan for example).

Other ideas that came to my mind but I’m :/ about it:

Vita by Benvenuto Cellini, he was a renaissance artist who knowed many ppl of that era like Catherine de’ Medici and this is his autopiography, they also made a lot of films about it. Still I don’t know really how much it could be interesting, still isn’t too long done it weekly.

Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova, same thing as above (+ I’m not the greatest fan of Casanova, I’m almost from the same city which he grew up and in Venice his myth is strong but still I’ve never been interested in his predatory sheningans).

I have some editions of Leopardi’s works at home including the Zibaldone and his letters translated in eng, but is too much for a newsletter so idea:cancelled.

Other epistolaries that comes to mind apart the Leopardi one are the one of Salvator Rosa (another painter from baroque who was actually pretty punk) or the one of Artemisia Gentileschi, it could be interesting but I have still to read it.

If someone from italian tumblr could have other ideas or take part to the project is free to collaborate :)

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E mi dico: tra tutte, proprio lei è riuscita a sfuggirmi, come se non l’avessi mai avuta. Ma l’ho davvero avuta? E poi mi chiedo: e chi ho avuto davvero? E poi, ancora: avere chi? che cosa? che vuol dire? Italo Calvino, Le memorie di Casanova, in Prima che tu dica pronto  Ellen Rogers.

[toribookworm22]

hey Tori, happy STS!! if you were to write a separate story centered around one of your secondary characters, who would it be and why? what kind of story would you want to tell about them?

Hey, Cee! Thanks for the ask!

If I ever write a full-length spin-off novel for any of my Animatronic Saga characters, it will probably be Casanova Calvino.

She rises from a secondary character to main supporting cast-- even debatable that's she's main cast by the end.

But she's my only character to actively choose to be a part of the mission and the life that demands. She chooses to join my characters, to protect them.

It'd be really interesting to write both a prequel and a sequel from her perspective.

[toribookworm22]

Happy STS! I arrive with a character ask this week! If one of your characters emptied their bag/satchel/purse, what would we find among their personal effects? Crumpled receipts? Forgotten snacks? Wads of cash? More knives than they'd care to admit? Tell me about it!

Hello, love! Thanks for the ask! ♥️

Pulling from The Animatronic Saga cast--and from later in the series:

Maybelle: wads of paper, including any notes she's been given ever, wire scraps, and probably a whole ass transmission device

Jade: one knife, three or four apples, a half-eaten bag of cereal, two more knives, a pen

Javon: a couple of old rags, a fancy bracelet he does not remember taking, someone else's wallet

Cass: hair ties, a couple extra arrows, wire cutters, a pack of tissues

[toribookworm22]

what decade of music would fit your characters the best?

Hey, darling! Thanks for the ask!

Hmm, let's see what comes to mind...

1940s - Jade. A kind of timelessness that changes once we hit the 50s.

1960s - Javon Midori. Unironically loves the peppiness.

1970s - Casanova Calvino would live and die for some disco and roller skates. But alas.

1980s - Emerson Haryl. Boys just wanna have fun.

1990s - Maybelle Clark. In another world, she's a grunge girl with anger issues instead of just... a... sci-fi girl with anger issues, I guess.

2000s - Edward Sundune. This boy was built for sad ballads.

2010s - Gwenevieve Hampshire would eat bubblegum pop of the 10s up.