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Le Plaisir du Texte, R. Barthes, 1973
[The text is a fetish object and this fetish desires me. The text chooses me, through a whole arrangement of invisible screens, of selective chicanes: vocabulary, references, readability, etc.; and, lost in the middle of the text (not behind it like a machine god), there is always the other, the author.]
#roland barthes#le plaisir du texte#the pleasure of the text#french philosophy#french philosopher#french writer#french criticism#literary criticism#post structuralism#literature#writing#quotes#book quotes#mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora
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Every day we inch closer to finding out what the hell the German dub of the Mighty Nein cartoon is going to do about Caleb.
#critical role#the mighty nein#they’ve excitedly stated that Caleb is going to be speaking more German in the series#because they’ll have time to script it and Liam can practice his phrasing#but the point of it is that Caleb is a character primarily speaking his second language#and his first language is one the other characters don’t understand#so. what does the dub do?#is he French? Swedish?
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the dynamic names in critical role are so good and funny
for beau and caleb you have the empire siblings because they are both children of the empire who seek to right the wrongs of the place they were born and the systems they were placed into and who have become found siblings after struggling to understand each other for so long
for beau and fjord it is brjeaus because they are bros™️ and their names are spelt stupidly
#critical role#the mighty nein#m9#cr2#beauregard lionett#caleb widogast#fjord stone#empire siblings#brjeaus#(i know beau is spelt like that because it is french)#(but as a native french speaker this language is stupid as hell
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posting the transfem cad (and jes too but i already do that always anyway) stuff eventually! here's 1 thing so far but im very tired and need to sleep asap
#the style of it feels like they shuold be speaking french in the speach bubbles. idk why. but see them. theyre so cutie#critical role#jester lavorre#critical role fanart#caduceus clay#cr2#myart#2024#team cleric#described#ill think of a trans fem art tag i think#ok . bed time bed time frrrrrrrrr#the tag - >#girl cad
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The Problem with the League of Villains
this is just me ranting after reading many people say that the lov deserved a better ending (i agree with them don't worry). most of that stuff has already been said but i'm bored and need something to write
so why is everyone disappointed?
by definition, an antagonist is someone that goes against the main character(s) and a villain is someone who does immoral and/or illegal things (wow, shocking)
so by definition, the league of villains is aptly named. shigaraki and dabi are mass murderers, toga is a killer too, and even if the others are 'less dangerous' they're all guilty of terorism and kidnapping a teenager.
not nice, right? then why would anyone would want them to have a good ending?
long story short: horikoshi made the league too sympathetic and relatable
when horikoshi has decided to make them funny, he's decided to make them likeable. that's not enough though. you can find a fictional villain funny and not root for them (for some reason the examples that comes to my mind are the disney villains. captain hook is hilarious but no one wants him to win)
the cause of everyone's disappointment is the relatable part. everyone in the league has gone through stuff viewers can relate. touya, shigaraki and toga have been abused; twice has mental health issues (and stuggling to get a job is relatable too lmao); spinner has been discriminated against... you get the idea
and even without knowing their backstory, most of the league's fights can be considered noble: they want to change society and make the world a better place. to take a more precise example, the league kidnapped bakugou because they thought he had gone through similar struggle as them
(this is mr compress talking in chapter 85) as far as i've seen, most of the fandom either think bakugou being chained and muzzled at the end of the sport festival was just comic relief or agree that it was fucked up
so yeah, you can't put a group of people rejected by society, who just want a better world and expect people to not like them
and that's why their ending is disappointing (the rest contains heavy spoilers of the last few chapters of mha)
they're all either in jail or six feet underground. we rationally could understand it, they're all criminals/villains so of course they wouldn't get a happy ending and face consequences for their actions. the only one who could have gotten away with it is shigaraki because of all the grooming/brainwashing he's gone through and maybe toga because she's a child
but if you relate to a character, you want them to get a happy ending. of course fans would want dabi to be at peace, but instead he's forced to spend his last moments being stared at by his abuser). of course fans would want shigaraki to be free from afo (but instead his only freedom was death). of course fans would want toga to be understood and cared for (but she never had that opportunity)
that's not very 'save to win' out of you horikoshi
maybe it's just a shortcut made by the fandom, but the league are seen more as victims of abuse than actual criminals. i mean, what's more important in dabi's story? the fact that he burned himself alive after overworking himself to get his abusive father's attention, or the fact that he's burned people alive? probably both, but there's more focus on the first element.
and obviously we would want abuse victims to get a happy ending
basically, their ending isn't coherent with what we've seen of them, and that's why people are disappointed
btw, the same logic applies to stain. some fans agree with stain's reasoning bc he's fighting against corruption. of course, his logic is stupid and he's delusional but he's introduced not long after we've discovered shouto's past. you can't say "one of the most popular heroes is abusing + all he wants is to get n°1 to satisfy his own ego" and then follow with "see that guy fighting against corruption? he's bad, don't do that"
the clever way to make sure no one would agree with stain would have been to make the heroes fight against injustice with good methods. i live for the fanfics in which izuku takes down the hpsc
okay i'm done ranting thanks for reading
#mha#my hero academia#bnha#boku no hero academia#bnha spoilers#mha 430#league of villains#shigaraki tomura#mha dabi#touya todoroki#toga himiko#mr compress#spinner#twice#hero killer stain#excuse my grammar#my french ass is to lazy to make sure i haven't made mistakes#bnha critical
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laura in critical role one-shots* (part 2)
#critical role#ygifs#laura#these oneshots had Everything: werewolf. raccoon. headmistress dm. sexy french bear. hot irish monk. MANCUBUS. hot hot evil druid.her power#they need to stop playing and give me farriwen back actually......
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Y'all wanna know about a gender-non-conforming knight from 13th century France? No? That's okay- I'm fine with talking to myself.
I'm obsessed with gender performativity in early medieval texts- so obviously I had to know everything about Le Roman De Silence.
To preface-
So, long before there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe- there was the interconnected works of the Arthurian Legends. The original superheroes- King Arthur, Merlin, Morganna le Fey, and the rest of the cast. However, one of the lesser known (only arguably canonical) interconnected texts of the Arthurian legend hails from France. People argue over whether or not to include these texts as part of the cannon of King Arthur because it's technically french- and the french-english divide between characterization of all the main players of Arthur's court is remarkably different. Much research on this suggests the discrepancy of characterization is largely due to distance between where the stories originate, and sociopolitical tensions between the French and the English. Either people were too far apart to share stories- thus too far apart to keep characterization uniform, or they fucking hated each other enough to mess up the characterization on purpose. For example, many of the French portrayals of King Arthur paint him to be a rather terrible person, where English portrayals are generally more kind to him.
All that aside- many people will disagree that Le Roman de Silence should even be part of the Arthurian legend canon anyway- because it only mentions Merlin at the end of the poem and because it's a super french poem.
The main storyline is about this character named Silence. From the Old French Poem- Le Roman de Silence.
Gender? No- Never heard of it.
The latter half of the story in this poem is predicated on a complex mediation of Nature vs Nurture. What happens is that a baby is born into a wealthy family, and for sociopolitical reasons, the family decides to raise the girl baby as a boy. They name this child "silence." Silence grows up with full access to an education, as was typical for the boy children of aristocratic medieval families- this education becomes important later as Silence wrestle with where they fit into the larger social structure after maturing into adulthood. Essentially, they find the idea of marriage too boring and would like to be a Knight or Explorer instead. (I love them.) Anyway, it's fascinating to me that the conceptual ideas of nature and nurture are personified into being something like "deities" which are overseeing the growth of Silence through the ages- and so we get these deities commentary.
Silence wants to be a knight- so Nurture brags about being right that gender is more performative than it is biological. Then, later Silence grows up to be remarkably "pretty" and according to the deity of Nature- they brag about being right that biology and gender are intrinsically tied. It's such a thought-provoking mediation on gender as either performance or pure biology that I forget it was written in the 13th century- long before Freud or Lacan or any of the others who became hyper fixated on human presumption of gender as either a social category or a biological necessity.
I argued in a paper, once, that the narrative itself does actually finally end on the note that Gender is a performance, and it is tied into social roles only so the ruling class can have control of the population. That is why the stories ending shifts into horror-genre-esque of Silence marrying into the upper-ruling class.
I also have a strong urge to write a Fanfiction of Silence as a knight- who does not meet a sad fate but rather lives happily as a knight and eventually marries a princess. Okay- Okay? fine I said it. I said it-
Social pressure to marry?
The story takes a dark turn, however- when the King demands Silence to reveal themselves in front of the court. Obviously, even the author of the story was aware that misogynistic social standards would not allow for people to ever really be free of gender stereotypes and roles. So, Silence is then forced out of the adventurous lifestyle of a knight and into a marriage. Also, this is the place in the story where Merlin makes an appearance (I have a theory that Merlin is representative of the devil, and the author really hated that all AFAB people were forced into marriage back in 1200's. So that's why the devil shows up when all the bad shit is happening to Silence).
Inevitability and dismay-
What I find particularly interesting about this poem is the fact that the end, as Silence is forced into marriage and back into "proper" social roles for their assumed biological characteristics, is the fact that it is written like an early attempt at gothic horror!
So, one of the stipulations for something being a "gothic horror" is 1.) old, archaic, twisted buildings. (this blog is indeed named after my fixation with gothic horror elements, it's interplay relation to social reform, as its emphasis on decay as the tonal necessity for social indemnification). Anyway, the other most important aspect of gothic horror- is an overwhelming sense of desolation, isolation, and loneliness.
Sure, Silence is forced into marriage- but even with the forthright writing style of the author, we, as readers, are struck by Silence's loneliness. Thus, the "happily ever after" part of the storyline wherein the characters get married, as it traditional to chivalric romance, is recriminated against in subtext. Now, we have a moment in which the "happily ever after" is a creation of horror rather than peace.
Ending the narrative with marriage as equivalent to a loss of freedom and a sense of evermore-present loneliness, cumulating in the edifice of horror-struck fear in Silence at their own new future, is a remarkably bold social statement coming from a 13th century author.
I just think it's a really interesting text on the thematic points of negotiating Gender identity, in broader terms of performance and social roles, as much as it is a critique on the total social control that the monarchy held over the people of 13th century France.
Edit: I need to add that Silence themselves consistently rejects the idea that they are AFAB and instead only ever refers to themselves as "Silence" or "the knight"
#le roman de silence#medieval literature#13th century#manuscript#nature vs nurture#traditional gender roles#gender roles#france#french literature#french poetry#classic literature#academia#dark academia#gothic horror#marvel cinematic universe#king arthur#merlin#arthurian legend#arthurian mythology#arthurian literature#knight#medieval knight#gender#agender#nonbinary#chivalry#romantic literature#literary criticism#literary theory#poetry
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#tone indicator slash lighhearted or whatever it is you guys say when u wanna criticize the qsmp and not get harassed#qsmp#qsmp fr#qsmp french#its only like the 10th time something like this has happened it surely cant be a pattern or anything#tiggady tags#qsmp neg#< tagging this so i actually dont get harassed tho#(genuinely dont believe its malicious or anything but at this point i wouldnt blame people if they did start suspecting that like-#these type of things happened so many times specifically to the french speaking ccs/fans that it does kinda appear as tho its purposeful)
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guys. edwin canonically speaks multiple languages. george rextrew speaks multiple languages.
what if in season 2 they meet someone who only speaks like, french (for the sake of this scenario) or something. and none of them know what to do, and edwin just bursts out in PERFECT FRENCH and when the client has left he just goes "my french is a little rusty so it might be a bit wrong here and there but i think i got it :)" and everyone just dies because how on earth did that just happen
#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#edwin payne#crystal palace#pushing my edwin payne speaking/understanding a bunch of languages agenda#hello fic writers#this idea is litteraly right here#when they get together i need edwin to refer to charles as mon coer or mon amour or something at least once#excuse the fact that i've had to use only french here because that is my only other language#it would be cute#and every time he calls him a french pet name charles' brain fails to compute#straight up *error 404: charles not found*#and edwin just does that little smirk#my obsession levels are reaching critical guys
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Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) by Louis-Michel van Loo. Musée du Louvre.
#denis diderot#diderot#louis-michel van loo#musée du louvre#louvre museum#louvre#18th century art#18th century#painting#oil on canvas#oil painting#male portrait#portrait#portraiture#art#artwork#1767#1760s#europe#art history#french art#french artist#french painter#encyclopedia#philosophy#philosopher#art criticism#art critique#literature#writing community
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Ashley saying she has Fearne wear a bit of everyone's clothing because that's how she herself feels love for her family whose clothes she's wearing, now I'm picturing Yasha absolutely not fitting in any of Beau's outfits cause you could fit two Beaux in one Yasha, and settling for borrowing like a scarf or jewelry lmao
#beauyasha#yasha nydoorin#beauregard lionett#critical role#ashley johnson#french plural cuz beau is a french word
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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724-1805) "Love Consoling Painting from the Critics of her Enemies" (1781) Oil on panel Located in the Louvre Museum, Paris, Francec
#paintings#art#artwork#allegorical painting#allegory#louis jean françois lagrenée#louis jean franccois lagrenee#oil on panel#oil on wood panel#fine art#french artist#love#criticism#emotional distress#dispair#pain#anguish#comfort#comforting#reassurance#support#supportive#1780s#late 1700s#late 18th century#putto#female portrait#portrait of a woman#a queue work of art
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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Please, do poetical justice to your soul.
Albert Camus gets existential about writing, 1959.
#camus#albert camus#quote#french#intellectual#philosopher#inspiration#thought#critical thinking#soul#ideas#smoke#smoking#fear
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Adam and mortal lute (louanne) lore
#I heart them#I think he asks lute to talk dirty to him in French and she just starts reading a phone book and that does the trick#art#Hazbin hotel redesign#Hazbin hotel critical#guitarspear#platonically#Adam Hazbin hotel#lute Hazbin hotel#quotidianish
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