#especially the french one

[izzy140105]

Top 3 favourite movies fr!!

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

[kerizaret]

Taming

[Quotes from "Le Petit Prince" (French original) — English TL in ALT and below cut]

* the original text says "[couleur du blé]" which is translated to "[color of the wheat fields]". For the sake of the context fitting Tsukasa and Rui more, I changed it to "[color of the stars]" ("[couleur des étoiles]")

[oldtvandcomics]

Frankly, if you like classic literature and/or fairy tales (and speak well enough French), then this book is a Must. It collects four stories written by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat, one of the 17th century noble ladies who were writing fairy tales in France. They used those stories to engage with their lived realities, for example, speaking up against arrange marriages was a recurring theme.

Anyway, one of them was a lesbian. That is Madame de Murat. The stories in this book are not explicitly queer, for the obvious reason of being written in the 17TH CENTURY, but the subtext is definitely there, plus you get a biography of the author.

It is a short book, interesting read, and I love it SO MUCH to see one of the conteuses get some recognition. It is beyond time that we start reprinting the stories of these women.

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » the astronomer philosopher, the earth and the moon

[logstl]

I’m on page 786/1071 of general merthur fics (with a little bit of sorting) chronological order and I will say there’s definitely very specific eras of merthur fics. there will be entire months i basically skip through without reading cuz they’re all essentially the same thing that i just don’t wanna read. sometimes it’ll be months of basically just modern era, other times all reveal fics, sometimes just pure crack.

the no f/m is cuz i hate fics where only one is genderbent (unless it’s for f/m for trans reasons) and also cuz / and & are often mistaken so this takes away the fics that are arthur/gwen MAIN ship with merthur as friends (i couldn’t remove gwen/arthur as a whole cuz that would get rid of the fics where he’s married to her for whatever or like some where they break up and merthur get together or the poly ones)

this has taken me 2/3 years so pls don’t assume that i’m like spending all my time reading merthur fanfiction i have more of a life then that 😭

Also i have no fic recs cuz i do NOT bookmark cuz i forget 💀 my bad i wish i could find some of the ones that i really loved but it’s okay

[lordofthesoups]

Links to films I have hanging around

Most of these are either sci-fi or horror.

Please bear in mind the age of some of these films when watching they will not be 100% cohesive to modern views.

Most of these are links to internet archive. There are also links to wikipedia and youtube.

1920s- mainly german expressionism:

The cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

The man who laughs (1928)

Nerves (1919)

Nosferatu (1922)

Metropolis (1927)

Genuine (1920)

The phantom carriage (1921)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) <- oldest surviving animated film 

Die Nibelungen (1924) -> i warn you it is 6 hours long. Has the first dragon ever shown on a screen though

Different from the others (1919) 

This is one of my favourite films and also the saddest film I have ever watched. It is the first film to show homosexuality in a positive light. 

The majority of the film was destroyed by the Nazis.

Definitely worth a watch if you are interested in LGBTQ history.

30s horror:

Frankenstein (1931)

The bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dracula (1931)

M (1931)

Freaks (1932)

1940s:

The mark of Zorro (1940)

Sci-fi B movies:

The green slime (1968) <- my favourite 

Fire maidens from outer space (1956)  <- worst film i have ever had the pleasure to watch

It came from outer space (1953) <- a classic

Animated:

La Planète sauvage (english version) (1973)

Akira   (1988)

Janos Vitez (1973)

Ballerina on boat  (1969)

Experimental: 

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Musicals:

The rocky horror picture show (1975)

Little shop of horrors (1966) <- i am being slightly sneaky putting this here since this is actually the original film that inspired the musical 

Cabaret:

Joel Grey live (1988)

Movie (1972)

Alan Cumming at the Donmar warehouse (1993) <- my favourite 

A google drive of over the garden wall i found while getting these films

[tragicotps]

Marisa coulter + ART (part 2) [Artwork from French comic book illustrator Jean Pierre Gibrat]

[shakeskp]

are we in february yet

[spittingspite]

Heard Sonic Boom is 10 years old today so in its honour here's an edit of the Sonic Boom intro we all deserved

[openphrase123]

got my passport photo taken today and i legitimately look the butchest i've ever been. i'm about to get my drivers license renewed this week too i wonder if i can just do a butch sweep on all my government documents

[oneminutefiftysixseconds]

just got around to watching the algarve finish and HAH. but seriously everyone involved riders and crowd both were so lucky it wasn't so busy

[morelikeravenbore]

A work in progress:

Sebastian paused; there was a thread of memory caught on the branches of the oak, fine like spiders silk, a moment he thought he'd forgotten until it pulled loose and unravelled at his feet:

'Does the pain ever stop?' she asks, her face dappled in sunlight and shade beneath the tree.

'No,' he answers honestly. 'You just get stronger.'

'What if I don't?' He barely hears her over the rustling leaves. 'What if I don't get stronger?'

As the ending of Villain draws nearer, I find myself dabbling with the next year-long hyperfixation 🙃

yes the tense change from past to present is intentional no I'm not sure if I'll keep it that way but it makes sense in the context of the sorry no Im not overthinking it you're overthinking it *exits*

[revolutionarywig]

i sometimes do wonder what my life would be like if i instead chose to study Robespierre

[coquelicoq]

i love it when i look up a french word i don't know in a french-english dictionary and the english equivalent given is. a different french word. for example:

diane = reveille (military wake-up call)

blanc-seing = carte blanche (free pass)

the relationship between french and the language that borrowed half of its vocabulary is something that can actually be so comical.

[lavenderspence]

you know that hotch fic i've been complaining about for a week? It just got good, it just got good. I'm over here grinning like a horny hyena and I-

ps: I drafted this last night and I just finished it. I love it I love I love it