#clavdia

[noxaeternaetc]

Felix Hoffmann (1911-1975) illustrations for Thomans Mann's The Magic Mountain.

"As for me, you know, I love freedom above all else - especially the freedom to choose my place of residence. I can hardly expect you to understand what it means to be obsessed with independence. It's in the blood, perhaps. "

[chicago-geniza]

Virginia Woolf 🤝 Thomas Mann

Going full Orientalism and indicating that a character is androgynous/sexually ambiguous by describing them as having "Chinese" or "Kyrgyz" or other Asian-epithet eyes

[stalinqrad]

and hans and claudia (?)

yayy a magic mountain couple, i think they had potential to be very fucked up and weird but unfortunately they were just kind of blah. they Were terrible for each other though so there’s that at least

[stradithebird]

The wonderful Frau Clavdia Chauchat from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

I love her smmmm!!!! She's so cool ahhhhh!!!!

[miscellaneous-art]

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447-1500), Claudia Quinta, c. 1490-1495. National Gallery of Art

«Lower center on the tablet of the pedestal: CLAVDIA CASTA FVI NEC VVLGVS CREDIDIT AMEN / ET TAMEN ID QVOD ERAM TESTIS MIHI PRORA PROBAVIT / CONSILIVM ET VIRTVS SVPERANT MATERQVE DEORVM / ALMA PLACET POPVLO ET PER ME HVNC ORATA TVETVR (I was Claudia the chaste, but men trusted not in my troth. And yet that which I was, the prow proved as my witness. Prudence and virtue triumph, and the Mother of the Gods [Cybele], she, the gracious one, is pleasing to the people and protects them when invoked through me)»

[owlservice]

Partial The Magic Mountain fancast. I chose not to add actor names where I didn’t know them, to provide insight into the slightly muddled interior of my mind.

Starting out on the wrong foot perhaps with Paul McGann as Hans Castorp and Richard E. Grant as cousin Joachim, reprising the same look as their characters in Withnail & I. McGann has the bumbling milquetoast naivete of Hans Castorp, with a veneer of flatland manners, while Grant’s resonance is more visual, he has the gaunt, cachexic, maggoty eaten away quality of the tubercular cousin Joachim who longs to desert to the colours. Joachim and Withnail are rather opposite in character.

Director Behrens - Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers. The bulging purple eyebags, the sallow skin with a clammy sheen, the bloodshot sclera, the protruding vertebrae, the fatal rib resections and barking at patients to die, Jeremy Irons in the blood red scrubs as the world’s worst gynaecologist is a sure stand-in for Switzerland’s worst pulmonary specialist.

Dr Krokowski - Donald Pleasence. Again, this is a specific Donald Pleasence, the Donald Pleasence of Dario Argento’s Phenomena, and the phenomenal line about it being well known that insects are slightly telepathic. Phenomena was a frankly disgusting film, but it really had that sense of otherness, a subconscious extension that palpated the unknown. And Dr Krokowski, likewise, palpated the subconscious through psychoanalysis and misguided seances.

Clavdia Chauchat - the wife of the patriarch Offred serves in The Handmaid’s Tale TV series. She has the chilliness, the knife edge cheekbones of Clavdia Chauchat, but perhaps not the famous eyes.

Herr Settembrini - Mike Wozniak. This is quite a strange one, nothing could be further alienated from the Freemason, humanist, atheist, chauvinist and Italian Herr Settembrini than the freeform substitute teacher vibe of the comedian Mike Wozniak. But it fits... the yellow check trousers, the oafishness behind the lucidity, the lewd song he sings to a passing peasant girl. There is something both funny-haha and funny-peculiar about the pedant. 

Naphta - Toby Jones. Toby Jones encapsulates both the insignificance and the sense of genuine malice in this frothing communist revolutionary Jesuit, and his belief in the fundamental evil inherent in human beings. You can imagine him reclining in his silk draped boudoir longing for the apocalypse.

Mynheer Peeperkorn - Donald Sutherland. Far from the ideal picture, I know, but I had a very vivid vision of Donald Sutherland in a white hat and suit, rather like Colonel Sanders, with a moustache flowing into his white beard, and a cane. Donald Sutherland has the kind of face made haggard and ragged by the kind of life that caused Mynheer Peeperkorn to be lost for words so often.

I didn’t mentally cast more minor roles, such as the tablemates, the family members, and so on. Here are a few minor ones I did cast, essentially at random:

Ellen Brand, the ghost medium - the girl from Spoorloos. 

Hermine Kleefeld - a character I once saw in an episode of Father Brown.

Frau Stohr - a toned down Nanny McPhee

[merge-conflict]

music name game

rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people (waaay too long to do that haha)

Tagged by @wistereia :3 Since I spent 6 hours writing a report yesterday I thought I'd make a list of mostly instrumental stuff that I like to listen to while writing (for work or pleasure). Spotify link under the cut.

Movement III - Linear Tableau with Intersection Suprise / Sufjan Stevens El cielo no es de nadie / ela minus Rest / El Huervo Gloomy Sunday / The Toxic Avenger Escape Artist / Zoë Keating

Call to Arms / The Huntress and Holder of Hands On Reflection / Max Richter Nunovo Tango / DVA Fortune Days / The Glitch Mob Legions (War) / Zoë Keating Insomniac Olympics / Blockhead Clavdia's Waltz / The Dreadnoughts Tailspin / Antti Paalanen

tagging @luvwich, @gamerkitten, @corpocyborg, and anyone else who wants to share music.

[rustbeltjessie]

The Dreadnoughts - "Clavdia's Waltz"

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[noxaeternaetc]

Felix Hoffmann (1911-1975) illustrations for The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann.

"[...] she turned, her hand still at her hair, and looked back over her shoulder at the assembly. And Hans Castorp caught a fleeting glance of her broad cheekbones and narrow eyes - and at the sight, a vague memory of something or somebody brushed over him. 'But of course - a female !' Hans Castorp thought, and again muttered it so emphatically to himself that the teacher, Fraulein Engelhart, understood what he had said."

Image source: https://imgur.com/a/magic-mountain-woodcarvings-by-felix-hoffman-uACnoNl

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

C for the ask thing

“Clavdia’s Waltz” - The Dreadnoughts

“Captain Kidd” - Great Big Sea (fun fact: this 1701 ballad shares a tune with the 1811 American hymn “What Wondrous Love Is This”, and this pirate/hymn dichotomy is used to great effect in Bear McCreary’s score for Black Sails (the latter serves as the Max/Eleanor love theme in season 1) (listen: CK, WL). For all you folk music nerds out there, this song is Roud 1900/5089.)

“Carmen Miranda’s Ghost” - Leslie Fish

“Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy” - The Cambodian Space Project (cover, originally by Ros Sereysothea)

“Come, sinner, tonight’s the night” - perf. Samuel Ramey, from Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah

(bonuses: “Come, Wayward Souls” perf. Samuel Ramey, “Cake By the Ocean” by DNCE shut up it slaps)

[stalinqrad]

no one gets her (clavdia chauchat) like i do...

[macaron-n-cheese]

Game time! Go to Spotify (or equivalent) and shuffle your liked songs, then post the first 10! Include the title, artist, and genre!

I came up with this idea when thinking "wow, my music tastes are so specific and weird." XD

This is a folk/traditional song is about an English girl to game to the American colonies with her family. She wants to go home. The narrative perfectly describes my nerdy interests! I haven't listened to it for a while.

This is a sea shanty! It is a classic shanty. The narrative is unclear to me but it might be about prostitutes-

This is an instrumental rock piece. Imagine classical but it's tavern music. It has a pretty gothic feel to it!

What can I say? This song is beautiful! I love Les Mis and this is definitely one of the best ones. I went through a huge Les Mis faze in early 2020 and I listened to this on repeat.

YES. Haha let's bully Thomas Jefferson into writing. I love 1776, of course. This song is cursed and amazing as always.

I was surprised that there was another 1776 song! >:0 I have about 275 songs on this playlist. Here we get some wholesome Adams' moments. :3

This Irish folk song was on a shanty playlist I found and it's very relaxing! I've found out that I like Irish music. It's pretty!

This is a British patriotic song from WWI! I find it very catchy and a good song. I tend to like the shanty/patriotic music type of music. They are quite similar!

Lovely musical! Everything about it is great! Anatole has evolved into a huge inside joke with my friends.

I've been obsessed with rock-shanties lately and this is a great one! It has a pretty mix of tempos and instruments. :)

Tags! Have fun! @alexanderxbetsey @battleofbunkerhill @sarcasticrevolutionarist @queenbottomless @pixilotol @lafsyetre @i-like-old-things @stinkydeadmen @waitfor-vienna and anyone else! <3

[gothclavdia]

I'm 41, nerdy, into video games and stuff. I never really did "social" well or anything like that.

So I have to ask, "Is Goth Clavdia" a satirical naming convention or social meme?

gerard way, who i am a fan of, briefly changed his twitter name to "goth claudia" a while ago. my name is claudia. so i thought it would be kinda funny to name my account after it. the "v" instead of the "u" is just because someone already took that url.

[lewisrockets]

OCs (or OTPs) as a song from your 2020 spotify top songs

Tagged by @lildrawsart​ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Inner Turmoil it is then! 

♦ Ty Riley - Aruvn : Again ♣ Miles - Prozzak : Pretty Girls 😂😂😂 ♠ Sunny Thompson - The Dreadnoughts : Clavdia’s Waltz ♥ Shady Jones - My Chemical Romance : Bulletproof Heart ♦ Renley Corvus - Bear Ghost : Haunt, the Cartoon Heart ♣ Liam “Bolt” Choven - Cobra Starship : Guilty Pleasure ♠ Quincy Retro - The Unlikely Candidates : Novocaine

there was a more suiting one for Miles, but the prozzak song made me laugh cuz’ it’s also true for him so 🤣

Because I don’t know who’s still active here, whoever sees this should do it and tag me so I can see your taste in music :D