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I'm 55, a woman, and a poet. When I started publishing, back in the late 80s, I published as G.T. Alexander, and the critics loved me. They used words like 'robust' and 'courageous', phrases like 'a warrior-like embrace of rage' and 'crusade for justice' and 'the courage to be vulnerable.' In 1989, I started publishing as Gwyndyn T. Alexander, and my bio was changed to reflect my gender. The very same critics started trashing my work, calling the very same poems 'immature' and 'inappropriate', and magazines started rejecting my work, asking for something more 'nurturing and gentle.' My publisher dropped me, and my work disappeared. It's only in the past decade that I finally found another publisher. They published two volumes of my work, and placed my poems in multiple anthologies. And then I wrote a brutal poem about my experiences with pregnancy and abortion. I submitted it to my publisher as usual...and they removed every use of 'I' and 'me', changed it to 'one' and 'some' to make it more generic, to make it softer. They changed the entire tone by removing complete lines and switching from active to passive voice. The coup de grace was when they changed the format so it looked like the inside of a Hallmark card and put the whole thing in italics. All it lacked was a border of scrolls and flowers. They told me it was too harsh, too brutal, too...much.
That a woman my age should be 'past all this anger' and maybe I should try writing something more 'contemplative'. I pulled my poem and all my other work, and just...stopped submitting my work anywhere. I'll probably self publish at some point, but...I'm tired. So, so tired.
okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.
like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).
but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.
im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.
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dbf!Joel headcanons
warnings: big, though unspecified age gap, 18+ (as always)
note: Uni has been kicking my ass, so I’ve only had time for some headcanons lately. This Joel is very sweet, but I’m open to writing sleazy or dark Joel, too! If you have requests for any headcanons, I will be able to write them even during this stressful time. Full fics will take me a while longer. Enjoy reading, my loves <3 and feel free to add stuff!
He doesn’t really know how to cook well and mostly eats his faves every day but when you stay over more and more he makes an effort to learn and actually finds out he really likes it
Whatever pressure your parents put on you, he relieves it by accepting it rather than trying to fix it for you — you can just exist around him without expectation
He worries the age difference means you don’t have much to talk about, so he watches your favourite show that you mentioned and although it certainly wouldn’t have been his first pick, it lets him unwind. He likes watching something he knows you’ve watched and loved when you’re not around, it makes him feel closer to you
When he first starts looking at you differently he blue balls himself so as not to disrespect you — when he has sex with someone to relieve himself, he accidentally says your name to them
He keeps a polaroid of you in his wallet and cashiers wonder why he smiles at his debit card so much
He finds it hard to stay friends with your dad, because it makes him feel weird about this dynamic with you. He distances himself from your parents after they react badly to the news of your relationship, not because of guilt or cowardice, but because he doesn’t tolerate how they treat you
He thought he would hate the gossip after the two of you go public, but when you do, he finds himself imagining knocking you up just so everyone knows what he does to you. He opts for lots of hickeys until kids might be a possibility, but that doesn’t stop him from pretending you don’t have an IUD when he finishes inside of you
He loves when you wear his clothes, but when you forget your scarf at his place he wears it and enjoys that just as much — it smells like you and he likes the idea of people being able to tell it’s somebody else’s
When he figures out how much you like him talking to you during sex, he starts using the same voice/phrases in public to get you flustered & wet for him
He keeps everything that reminds him of you, like parking tickets etc. He doesn’t do anything with those things, doesn’t put them in a box, so they linger around his house, reminding him of you the way photographs would, except more privately
He starts “putting in an effort” for you when you start dating: styling his hair & wearing clothes he thinks you would prefer, until you tell him you like nothing more than his flannels and band tees and jeans, and although he doesn’t tell you, he’s beyond relieved. He realises you like him for him
When you tell your parents, Joel asks your father to hit him because “he knows he deserves it”. With time he learns he also deserves your kisses and smiles. Those things coexist within him, he thinks both are true
Despite completely supporting you in your pursuit of a degree & career, he likes when you’re on holiday, waiting around for him in his house wearing nothing but a pair of panties he bought for you & one of his hoodies. During those lazy weeks, he fucks you morning, afternoon, and night: before he leaves, when he gets home, and right before you go to sleep
He buys you a ring during the first week of dating because you mentioned how much you like it. He doesn’t give it to you until he knows you feel certain about him — he doesn’t want to freak you out. Still, even before that, he sometimes looks at it in its little black box and envisions it on your finger
During your first couple of “public dates” (neighbourhood barbecue where your parents are present etc.) he refrains from touching you much, although everyone knows about your relationship. You have to take his hand and initiate small touches for him to feel more comfortable
It takes him a short while, but then he loves being able to touch you in front of people: a hand on your lower back, an arm across your shoulder, his fingers lacing through yours, him pulling your back against his front and wrapping his arms around you. People stare sometimes (your Dad breaks one or two wine glasses in his hand), but Joel stops caring when he sees how happy it makes you
He tells you that you can change things about his home, that it should feel like your place, too and asks if you want to go shopping for “candles and stuff”, but you love being in a space that feels completely like him. It’s not how your apartment looks, but it makes you feel at ease, like you’re somehow living inside of him
Before he tells you he loves you, he whispers it in your ear when you’re sleeping, hoping your subconscious will somehow pick up on it. When he does tell you while you’re awake for the first time, it’s during breakfast. You stub your toe, and let out a string of curses you must have picked up on from him, and while he presses ice against your foot, kneeling in front of you, he smiles up and tells you: I love you.
The first time you sleep over at his house after he spent the night in your apartment, two brand new bottles of the shampoo and conditioner you use are in his shower. You thank him and jokingly ask why he didn’t buy your shower gel, too. He kisses you and tells you he likes when you smell like him.
He likes making you come more times than you thought you could — something about moving in and out of you while you tell him you can’t do it again, that you’re done, and then watching you fall apart on his cock anyway, thrills him to the bone. It makes him feel powerful, but part of it is knowing you let him fuck you without expecting an orgasm, that him being inside of you is enough for you to feel good
He doesn’t tell you, but he adds your name to his car insurance, so that you can drive it whenever you want
When you figure it out you give him road head every time the two of you drive somewhere — until he almost crashes the car and he forbids you to tempt him while he’s behind the wheel
He’s so nervous he asks Tommy for help when picking out a birthday gift for you — Tommy goes overboard and the gift turns out to be something completely ridiculous like a pair of huge earrings you would never wear. You tell Joel you don’t need a big fuss to feel loved by him. At night, he gives you a present he’s been wanting to give you for a while: he plays you a song he wrote for you on his guitar. It’s quiet and simple and so perfect you cry for half an hour
He doesn’t sleep well when you’re not around, and loves being close to you at night. If he could, he’d sleep nestled inside of you after a round of lazy midnight sex every night
As much as Tommy annoys him, it makes him happy to see how well you two get along. When you become actual friends with Tommy and hang out with him on your own, he’s more than pleased: the two people he loves the most in the world have become close
He would never ask it of you, but when you tell him you have stopped masturbating because he fucks you so often, it pleases him deeply. He likes being the only source of your pleasure. When you are apart for a while because of work/collage etc., he buys you a toy he can control from his phone
He tells Tommy he thinks he’s going to marry you during the first month of dating, which you find out about only on your wedding day during Tommy’s speech
#joel miller x reader#mine#my writing#joel miller game#joel miller#joel miller x you#the last of us part 1#tlou1#joel miller x y/n#dbf!joel#dbf!joel x reader#joel miller headcanons#Joel miller smut#pedro pascal#pedro pascal characters
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->You're hyper independent || Ateez Reactions || Hyung Line
Genre: fluff, angst (because of the theme on itself), slice of life AU
Warnings: NONE
N/A: This is a very real trauma response that real people have. However, I tried to keep it light, humorous, and focus on the support and love the reader received from the boys in different contexts instead of the actual trauma triggering situation that cause the trauma response. If I, in any way, offend people who have this trauma response, I'm open to learning and editing this, if necessary.
N/A ²: This is a gender neutral! reader.
Ateez Masterlist
Kim Hongjoong (김홍중): You don’t let him pay for you, and he’s helpless
On your very first date with Hongjoong, just as casually as he wiped out his card to pay for the meal, you wiped out yours. That day, he learned you were as hardheaded as he was, which was an interesting surprise. There was no dance of “Oh, I pay. No, it’s okay, I can pay. No, I insist. Oh, if you insist, then…” as he imagined at first. If you said you were going to pay, then you would do so. In the end, you both agreed to slip the bill even.
That was a common occurrence at the beginning of your relationship, a spit-even bill no matter the cost of the meal or whatever you were doing together.
It wasn’t like he was flaunting his money, nor did he want to offend you in any way, which you didn’t think was the case, thank God. It just became second nature for him to be attentive to those around him, and if he had an opportunity to do something nice for people he cared about, why would he not? Why wouldn’t you let him? You thought he was adorable when he vented that to you on a 1 A.M. something call, like those thoughts plagued his dreams or something. You liked your man a little dramatic like that.
There were times when it was a given that he bought something for the two of you, and then you made sure to put your money on something else for you both that same day. He thought you would rather keep things “separated” at that stage, where things were uncertain, to not create any kind of “debts” with each other, it seemed, although he didn’t agree with that trail of thoughts at all, and it was a bit offensive to him. First, because he’d never be the type of man to expect anybody to owe him anything after dinner, and second, because he hadn’t any doubts about the relationship.
His suspicions weren’t that far off, honestly. You said plainly you rather avoid any discomfort or expectations at this stage of your relationship with him, and he could sleep well because you knew how caring he was even if he wasn’t the one paying for you.
It was lovely for him to know what you thought of him. A simple phrase made his day, and if that was your answer, then he wouldn’t push it. Even if he was desperate to know what those discomforts were for you and if they happened frequently in the past.
For now, he’d gladly wait for you while you met in the middle, even if he feels a little helpless.
Park Seonghwa (박성화): he isn’t allowed to baby you like you baby him, but mama raised no bitch
It wasn’t a rule per se, but the only 3 times he ever tried to baby you during your one-year relationship like you usually do with him, two of them made you almost become physically ill, and the last of them, you were, in fact, ill.
He never thought karma would hit him as hard as it did when he met you for the first time. His tsundere exterior was nothing compared to yours. It felt like he encountered another version of himself, one that he lost to instantly. It was safe to say your charm wasn’t cuteness. It was how attentive you were, how you cared for anyone around you in a quiet and practical way, and how you were honest above all. You were reliable, steady, and so so warm with those you cared for. He was down bad before he could say the word “tsundere”.
The first time was a mistake, almost an instinct. It wasn’t rare for you to be cute unintentionally, but just as much as one shouldn’t make any sudden noise to not scare a grumpy cat away after it laid near, he should not have cooed and pinched your cheeks while you tried some of his stew at a dinner night at his house, the first of many.
He didn’t move, his arms hurt from the position he was in. The sheer astonishment on your face made him freeze, but there was no way of reversing time. There was no running from this. It was done. He feared for his life as you slowly processed what was happening to you.
It was clear how deeply you disliked it, even if you didn’t say so, and Seonghwa always prided himself on being a great boyfriend, so he kept that in mind to never do it again.
But he is just a man at the end of the day, a very, very weak man, and your cheeks are really, really perfect to pinch. Still, he chose his battles carefully, and the last two attempts were successful because you always let him off the hook without much of anything. In all honesty, he was the cutest and childlike one in the relationship even if he didn’t show it after first, and you fell hard for that side of him. The way his pretty brown eyes shined with mischief whenever he got away with calling you cute or cooing at you melted your heart on the spot, so you let him.
If it was anyone else, you’d run as far as you could from whoever it was, even your own parents. You were just not a touchy person at all, because maybe you grew up without people giving that kind of love to you then, but you got used to it from Seonghwa. Of course, it was best if he never knew how much power he actually had, so you let him fear for his life for a moment or two.
Unfortunately, Seonghwa was a cute, silly man, but he was your cute, silly man.
Jeong Yunho (정윤호): You don’t ask him for help, but what else can he do with his acts of service love language?
You two have been friends for a good while now, that kind of friend who everyone thought would amount to something else yet never did. The time to risk for something more was the night you two met, but neither of you took any action then. Now, you two had a good friendship, and that was more than enough for both of you.
Yunho couldn’t lie and say he hadn’t thought of what ifs with you in the past, but in his mind, you were never interested in him like this, so the whole thing was pointless. You didn’t seem interested in a romantic relationship then just as much as you don’t now, and he was fine with it.
You had a nice future ahead of you. A lot of your time was spent on building a good curriculum for college and then a solid career for yourself in a predominantly male industry. It was a rough path, sometimes you wondered if that was the right choice or not, doubted your own capabilities because your colleagues did so all the time, but at the end of the day you had amazing people to remind you who you were, you had Yunho. Sometimes, you wondered if he was a mind reader of sorts.
You dreaded the simple thought of looking weak, even if it was something as little as asking for some space to vent. You grew up with the mindset that any kind of vulnerability was bad, which wasn’t healthy for you at all, but it feels like it’s too late to change, even if you want to. However, the thing about Yunho is that he’d never allow you to ask for anything because he hands you anything you might need.
Did you need someone to distract you after a rough day of work? That’s a given. His silly memes and TikTok’s were waiting for your reply. Oh, you actually needed space for yourself? It’s ok. He’s got the hint quickly, and he’d leave you be with a simple encouraging message to remind you to rest and contact him the next day.
The good stuff came when you had your weekend free because he remembered you wanted to shop for a new couch, and given the amount of work, it’d be great to have a helping hand, right? Oh, it’s rot-in-bed day instead? Well, it's a good thing he’s versatile.
You never really asked for an all-in-one man, but you got him anyway, so better enjoy it!
Kang Yeosang (강여상): You’re the only person he choose to chase and God forbid if that ever reaches San’s ears
He’s an idol, he’s been in this industry for almost a decade, so he understood being busy, and this overwhelming need to isolate yourself and forget about everything else outside your room. The key difference is that he couldn’t do that much. However, that seemed to be your favorite way to cope lately. It was a lose-lose for him because if you were not locked away in your own world, then you were busy with a million other things.
You’re the only friend from his childhood he still has a relatively stable relationship because of how close in stages of life you two always have been, even now, both working in very different industries.
It has been like this since the very beginning. You two always aimed to be something in the future when you were kids. What you two would be was a different question, and neither was ready to answer. In the teen years, Yeosang got his answer while you worked hard to get into a good college, hoping to find yours when you got there. That could’ve been the end of the friendship, but you were both so aligned still that it could only be fate. He took a chance at a smaller company, and you decided to study something different than you had imagined for yourself. You both had similar struggles, doubts, and accomplishments around the same time. It was a running joke at this point.
He had to remind himself of that sweet part so he wouldn’t lose it the moment you actually picked up his calls. He knew lately it’s been tough for you. Only you chose not to speak about it and went right into your suffer-alone mode.
The upsetting part of all this was the fact that these were your vacation days, you earned them and he wouldn’t be Kang Yeosang if he’d let you waste it in bed all day after he heard for months all about the places you wanted to go. It was a coincidence the fact that he also recently got some free days for himself.
He was nice enough. He gave you a last heads-up that he was coming. In another life, he could say he wasn’t taking no for an answer, but you wouldn’t say no to him in this lifetime.
It’s only been a while since he was slightly concerned with this “on my own” approach to coping with the pain because you decided not to include him in it. The why he didn’t know, neither was he interested in it. But looking back, you’ve always acted like this, like a little fortress of sorts, like you had to be strong for all to see and this was the first time he was taking an action against it.
#ateez x reader#ateez imagines#ateez scenarios#ateez fluff#ateez reactions#ateez headcanons#ateez masterlist#hongjoong x reader#seonghwa x reader#yunho x reader#yeosang x reader#hongjoong fluff#seonghwa fluff#seonghwa imagines#yunho angst#yunho fluff#yunho fanfic#yunho imagines#yeosang fluff#ateez fanfic#ateez fics
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can i just say that I am SO grateful for the accessibility options and assists in ultrakill? like, yeah i make my jokes about being dogshit at this game. but, like, honestly, i haven't played an FPS in almost 20 years. I've felt way too out of my depth to try, because I already have mobility issues with my hands, the learning curve seems so steep, and I really don't like the prospect of humiliating myself.
Watching playthroughs had me worried I would be too overwhelmed to enjoy the game, but being able to use things like aim assist? Being able to play on harmless and have slower enemies? I'm actually able to ENJOY this game, not just throw myself at the same level over and over until I feel embarrassed and stop playing entirely.
And the way that they're phrased--things like "minor assists" and "major assists" rather than "cheats"? talking about the easier difficulties with things like "for a less stressful experience" as opposed to making it seem like having an easy mode is for people who just ~aren't willing to put in the effort to get good~? It makes me feel so much less judged for not being familiar enough with this genre to jump right in on the hardest difficulty. It feels remarkably kind.
It's also been incredibly helpful! I've only been playing for a week-ish, but playing on harmless has helped me figure out the mechanics without just, like, dying every two seconds. I spent over an hour in the sandbox today just really focusing on how to move my hands in the right way to actually get around while being able to see where I'm going.
Today I was finally able to play through the whole prelude on lenient instead of harmless, and with 20% aim assist instead of 40%! And I only fell into three blade fans instead of, like, twelve! I got through Cerberus without resetting once! I've never even gotten to Cerberus before! The amount of improvement I have been able to make has literally been night and day. Am I good at this game? Without a doubt, I am not! And I'm fine with that. I take pride in being God's worst mistake. But I actually feel excited to play, and it just makes me appreciate this game and hakita as a dev so, so much.
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I see this all the time, and I always have to bring up the way the word "mule" is used as a slur. Donkeys themselves are treated as gross and second class(see Cranky Doodle), to the point that they are often used as the butt of jokes. Mules, however? The mere mention of them is enough to turn up snouts. Rarity breaks down when even briefly being compared to a mule, this vitriol is not seen with any other species. We never even get an actual named character who is a mule in the show. The only one I can think of with speaking lines is the one seen when Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Diamond Tiara all use phrases referencing mules as less than ideal("That pony is as stubborn as a mule"Applebuck Season, "Be cool or be a mule"Hurricane Fluttershy, "Too cool for mule"One Bad Apple). Keep in mind, these phrases they use are analogous to phrases we use, except for some reason MLP decided they should be racially motivated??? Stubborn as a mule is the only one that comes from day to day speech, the other two are derived from "Be there or be square" and "too cool for school"(this one doesn't even make sense to switch to mule). if it was just this one off joke it'd be one thing, but the writers decided to make it a running bit, creating phrases only used in MLP to create these scenarios. The scene is always "[phrase using "mule" derogatorily ]", the character saying the phrase goes "Uh, no offense"(except for DT) and we pan over to unnamed mule No.1(literally came up as Ponyville Mule when I googled it) and he goes "none taken". The audience knows it's ok to use his race as a joke, because hey, that mule is ok with it!(it's giving "no it's ok! my [insert minority here] friend said it was chill). Put that together with the fact that mules are a mix of horses(or ponies in this case) and donkeys, donkeys are seen as gross and not as good as ponies, and it's not hard to come to the conclusion that mules are seen as dirty because they are mixed race. No, that's not the explicit text of the show, but it really feels that way.
I would now like to bring up Scootaloo, our one recurring character with a disability. Early fandom joked that Scootaloo was an orphan because she was the only one of the CMC who never had a parental figure shown. She was called "chicken" due to her inability to fly, was actively bullied in the show for it, and had multiple episodes dedicated to her feeling ostracized/inadequate for her disability. The show did work hard on providing her with ways she could feel included, and it definitely helped that neither of her closest friends could fly, but it was never something she gave up on trying to accomplish or stopped feeling bad about. It was also something she was never able to overcome.
Disabled people deserve representation, and that representation should not always be about "overcoming" their disabilities. That being said, Scootaloo isn't disabled. Sure, compared to other pegasi maybe, but on the whole? She can do everything an earth pony can do plus walk on clouds. Scootaloo is seen as inadequate because she doesn't perform to the Pegasi Standard, a standard known and upheld by everypony. In fandom Scootaloo may be depicted as having a disability when she is drawn as human, but in the canon of MLP she is perfectly normal in Equestria Girls. We don't get many focused scenes on the CMC, but none that we do get have her showing any physical limitations(yes, not all disabilities are visible but her pony analog's is). It's strange that her human counterpart doesn't have that aspect of her character. The CMC in the human world doesn't face the same discrimination they do in the pony world, because there are no cutiemarks in the human world. Much the same, no one can fly(without Equestrian magic) in the human world. Scootaloo's underdeveloped wings are only a hinderance and an inadequacy in the pony world.
In S9E12, The Last Crusade, we finally meet Scootaloo's parents. Her mother is a pegasus and her father, the other half of her genetics, is an earth pony. No the show does not say this is why she can't fly. No, none of the characters even bat their eye at this pairing. But(as far as I'm aware) this is the only time we see a mixed ponykind couple with a kid. Her parents are always traveling, always leaving her behind at her aunts' place, and generally just being neglectful of her needs and wants. We know that unicorns need guidance in learning how to use their horns, it's highly likely that pegasi also need help in learning how to fly. So here we have this kid being left behind in her formative years so her parents can go off traveling the world catching other species, all while she's left with another mixed couple who we never see until 9 seasons in! Scootaloo is left to her own devices for the majority of the show. Any time she pulls something dangerous that could potentially harm herself or others, it's treated as a CMC issue and dealt with by Applejack/Rarity, or by Rainbow Dash. The kid idolizes Rainbow Dash, and it is incredibly sweet that she was willing to take Scoots under her wing and treat her like a sister despite them having no relation. I'm not even referring to blood relation- RD is literally just some random adult Scootaloo looks up to who decided that she would be there for this kid because it didn't seem like anyone else was. She's not a family friend, nor is she the family member of a friend, she's just Some Pony. Stranger Danger was huge in the 2010s, so the fact the show decided to just let this kid run off with this adult that no one knew without any regular interactions between the adults caring for her and RD is crazy. It's irresponsible at best, and setting the child you're caring for up for some heavy trauma at worst. So not only does this kid have a deformity and is having to battle with that discrimination, the only authority figure she has is an adult who felt like Scoots had no one else.
My point is, any character we see that has a mixed heritage is implied to be and is actively treated as "lesser". The pairing of 2 creatures of different species is implied to be irresponsible and reckless, and their kin are born defective/unattractive. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic implicitly supports eugenics with this writing, the racism in the show is a byproduct of that, as the ponies legitimately feel justified in their beliefs because mixing of species results in negative traits in their children.
i'm gonna be honest i don't get why they say everypony instead of everybody in mlp. it's not like the word everybody is human-specific. the ponies have bodies. the word everypony, however, is pony-specific in a world where ponies are not the only people in their society, which means it would be more accurate and inclusive to use everybody instead of everypony. it all makes no sense to me
#mlp#mlp fim#i have so many thoughts on the horrendous way mlp:fim enforces a hierarchy in its creatures and even just within ponies#i will rant about this at some point
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One day more or Sale el sol? Los Mis 2010
Okay so yesterday I made a post about Los Miserables 2010 and discovered there's more people who love it??? Someone asked me about the spanish translation of les mis and it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me to finally make a post. You have NO IDEA how long I've wanted to talk about this. Anyway, today I'll be talking about the 2010 spanish translation BUT I already have in my drafts a post comparing the spanish 1992, spanish 2010 and the original english versions. Without furhter ado, here are my thoughts about Sale el sol:
First things first: the title. "Sale el sol" means "The sun rises". I didn't use to like the translation because they could have gone with "Un día más" (as they did in 1992). It means exactly "one day more" and fits the music almost perfectly (you just have to pronounce it a little bit weird but nothing that isn't a common thing to do in songs). But then I saw this tweet:
"The phrase the sun rises instead of one day more to speak about resilience in a country in which the sun was used by fascists makes one feel mental peace, feel justice, feel art and revolution, it feels like recovering the light and coming out of the shadows"
A little bit of context: Spain was in a fascist dictatorship until 1975. There is a famous song from that time called "Cara al sol" ("Facing the sun"). It was the anthem of the Falange, a political party, but it's still used today by fascist groups. In this context, claiming the sun for a message like the one this song sends is really poetic justice and I just love it.
They also use the idea of the sun rising in "La canción del pueblo/Do you hear the people sing?" (I'll make a post about that one too) so it really links the two songs together in a very beautiful way. I could speak about the title for hours, but let's go to the lyrics:
On the left you have the original english lyrics, then the 2010 spanish ones and then the translation to english so you can see the differences. Pretty similar tbh
Marius being so dramatic in every langauge
Éponine's verses are always so sad but there is something about her feeling like she doesn't even exist for Marius that breaks my heart even more 💔
There's a lot I could say about Enjolras' part related to the 1992 translation but that will be a different post. Now take a moment to appreciate how Daniel Diges sings this lines pls look it up I love him
As you can see, in the translation we sadly lose the repetition of "one day more" 😔 Also Javert saying that the revolution will be born dead conveys to me the certainty that he had that it was not going to work. The army won't have to do much because the revolution will die by itself (and he was right, the people didn't join 😔)
Honestly I don't fully understand the Thenardier's part in english so I can't properly compare it, but they're so caothic in both languages, this part is so funny.
My favourite part of the song 😭 In english "Do you hear the people sing?" is the title of another song but since that one is called "La canción del pueblo" ("The people's song") they couldn't keep the verse exactly the same. But it's the first verse of The people's song
Just Javert's part bcs it's different, the others are kept the same than previously if I'm not wrong. Once again, there's no repetition in spanish 😔
I find it funny that since the original one talks about dawn at the end they translated it to "un día mas", doing the opposite of what they did with the title. It made me wonder for years why didn't they use it for the whole song since it fits the music. But now I know and you know too.
If you made it this far thank you for reading the post. If you liked it, there'll be more and if you didn't like it I'm sorry but there'll be more because I have a lot to say ✨
#los miserables Spain#<< I'll tag all the posts about it like this#les mis translations#les mis#los mis#los miserables#los mis 2010
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About how different are modern and ancient greek? Like, what rly changed ? (Is it mostly the grammar, or the pronunciation, or vocabulary, ect...)
Would it be hard for you, a native speaker, to learn/understand ancient greek?
That is a very good question. Well bear in mind that it is the same language through and through but of course several changes occured throughout the centuries and plenty of things got inserted to Greek language from other languages or many uses of the language got abandoned with the centuries and all. For once we do know that ancient Greek had a slightly different accent than we do now and it had a more sing-a-song way of pronouncing it which has turned much flatter and generic nowadays.
Forgive me this is gonna be suuuuuper long but I am gonna give you a few examples of changes and then a small historical timeline to have an idea. Bear in mind I am no linguist and many things of what I say are very crude or simplified but I hope they help!
Several words changed their meaning as well in due time. One of my favorite ones for instance is the word Αργός (Argos) in homeric Greek that means "fast" or "quick" but in modern day Greek it means exactly the opposite! "Slow". Other such as Μήλον (Milon) which in Homer means "sheep" in modern day Greek it means "apple" etc.
Certain forms of grammar have left our dictionary such as infinitive. The infinitive even if we use it nowadays as part of the ancient phrases that we quote, it doesn't exist the same way in modern Greek. Other forms of speech such as "dual form" aka plural that is exclusive for two things has stopped existing (again we just quote it as part of the ancient phrases that we use) The dative form is also given its place to the form of object that we have nowadays.
Generally even if the grammar of Greek has remained the same for these millennias and the same complicated it has become more simplified than the days before.
Accent-wise many letters have lost their original accent thus we have many different ways to write the sound "i" or "e" or "o" which makes no sense on modern perspective but in ancient times they were pronounced differently. For example the letter itta Ηη nowadays is pronounced "i" but back then it was pronounced as "ee" double "e", which we can hear Aristotle speaking on how the word ήθος aka "morality" and έθος aka "habit" are having similar meaning because they sound the same.
Interestingly you can find many essences of the ancient Greek accent to modern English. An example is the name Heracles. Nowadays in modern Greek we write Ηρακλής (Iraklis) but back in the day it was probably pronounced "Heeraklees" thus the day's accent in English and it was written so after the reformation of the Alexandrian philologists: Ἡρακλῆς
Which brings us to the polytonic system. You see those little tones you see in ancient Greek οξεία/okseia (′) βαρεία/vareia (‵) and περισπωμένη/perispomeni (~) which are abandoned nowadays, signify the accent of the tongue. Since in later years in 20th century they were still used but had no practical value to the language, they got abandoned. Others that are called πνεύματα "spirits" ψιλή/psili (') and δασεία/daseia (‛) that you see on top of vowels in ancient greek letters do not exist anymore. Back in the day of the ancient Greeks they were used as an accent helper. Both seem to be emanating from a Mycenean time letter that was called Δίγαμμα (digama): Ϝ and ϝ which existed before the homeric times and was not at use at his time but it was still pronounced and actually is responsible for many latin words later. One of my favorite examples:
The word for wine in Greek was οίνος but if someone adds the digama is written Ϝ οινος. The digamma was often pronounced as "v" or as "w" so the protoelladic accent would be woinos aka "wine"
The digamma was often but not always, declared by the "spirits" I mentioned before. Either way even if one can say that modern Greek has become a more...simplified version of its old self it is still the same principles of grammar and the same dictionary in various occasions. Of course we have plenty of loan-words from other countries and civilizations that passed from Greece (for example we use the italian "porta" instead of the greek "thyra" θύρα to speak on the door) but the same goes to other countries as well with Greek.
Now to a small historical timeline:
So the first actual Greek scripture is said to be Linear B of the Mycenean civilization of the Bronze Age, which is deciphered and proved. That makes Greek language around 4000 years old on estimation given that the oldest tablet of Linear B that we have is, to my knowledge, dating back to the 1600s BC so that means the language must have been fully established at least that long. Now we do not know much on this form of extremely archaic Greek but the principle seems to be syllabic. And the syllables seem to have different value as compared to modern Greek for example remember my post here:
So for example the name "Achilles" in mycenean Greek is spelled A-ki-re-u, in later Greek it would be Αχιλλεύς (Achillevs) and in modern Greek Αχιλλέας (Achileas). Unfortunately we have no idea what the Linear A was like so we cannot double confirm whether it was or wasn't Greek language which is why I am not including it here until it is deciphered but either way the Linear B language is arguably going already far back in time! Now this form of Greek is really archaic and of course you need to be an expert to understand. The difference between this language and modern Greek seems to be a person from hieroglyphic time trying to speak to someone who lives to Alexander's Alexandria and worse. One can of course recognize words given how it is the same language but it requires plenty of training to understand
8th century BC is when this system of writing no longer seems to be useful and the Greeks establish their first and last alphabet by the Phoenician one and also adapting it to their own language (arguably I heard somewhere that the Greek alphabet is the first known alphabet that includes both consonants and vowels). Now of course the alphabet itself has evolved to its form over the centuries but the essence of it is the same. The first known sample of this alphabet being in use seems to be a finding that was called "Nestor's Cup" which has a written scripture in this first alphabet
It is this time that Homer also synthesizes his poems. Homeric language is a language of an Ionian dialect and we do have other dialects as well rescued by small written pieces. Now Homeric language we know more or less how it was pronounced thanks to the philologists who lived in antiquity which seems to be close to this "sing-a-song" manner that I mentioned up to my introduction. This language seems to be for modern Greek a bit more difficult than Shakespearean English is to modern English. One still needs translation to fully understand given as I said above the different grammatical phenomena no longer in use but with a bit of training I believe one can understand the general meaning without much of a problem. For me, I still need to translate but it feels to me like if I know a latin-born language, understanding more or less another Latin born language or now that I speak a bit Swedish that I can catch some Danish. I still need to practice and translate but I can grasp the meaning, if you get what I mean but I can still understand.
Now we hop over to classical times aka around 5th century BC and even if we have different dialects going on (Ionian, Doric, Attic and Aetolian) the text is already more understandable than the homeric Greek. If Homeric Greek feels like more difficult than Shakespearean language to english speakers this seems from Shakesperean till old Charles Dickens or Doyle's time English. Again one needs to translate given the grammatical phenomena such as infinitive or some forms of adverbs that are used a lot but the meaning of the phrases is clear enough.
Hellenistic time Greek is the closest possible to modern Greek. This form of Greek is used even nowadays in church. One does not need translation to understand and they can follow pretty well. There still is a need for some explanations in certain words with archaic meaning but more or less everyone can understand very efficiently what the words say. It is THIS time that the Alexandrian philologists began use also small cases of letters because before ancient Greek was using capital and it is then when the several tones and spirits were beginning to be invented because the philologists needed to take notes of the ancient accents of the texts they were copying or teaching. This form of Greek remained and evolved throughout the times of Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire.
Now of course individual accents, dialects etc remained and remain to this day. Around the mid 19th century there seems to be a new "language" invented for books and schools called Καθαρεύουσα (Katharevousa). Basically it is a made-up greek language that tried to mimic certain aspects of ancient Greek language to be taught at schools. This form of language was official language continued to exist even till my mother was in elementary school. That system though caused a lot of confusion given that children had to literally speak a different way at school and a different way at home so the system was abandoned. Quite frankly I have to read katharevousa only when I studied old greek literature at school or university. It is slightly more incomprehensible than the hellenistic greek exactly because it was a made up system and didn't fully correspond to the natural process of language evolution but one can still understand efficiently well with some practice.
So I will not torment you anymore with this. In short yes it is the same language even if, as one can expect has changed quite a lot as a system throughout the millennias it exists and of course the closer to the present, the more understandable to modern day Greeks it is. All kids do ancient greek at school (usually from gymnasium till high school) so that we can understand the roots of our language but of course understandably only someone who constantly practices can understand all of it especially stuff such as homeric Greek. For Mycenean Greek is very difficult. I for once cannot understand everything but I can catch a few words or small phrases. with some effort.
I hope this helps! I will be open for questions reblogs or suggestions! ^_^ Thank you for the intriguing question and thank you for the patience!
#katerinaaqu answers#tagamemnon#greek#ancient greek#ancient greek language#greek language evolution#evolution of language#greek post#greek tumblr#greek culture#ancient greece
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I’m surprised that malleus’ age is still debated/argued about?? 🤔
He’s a 178 years old fae 😂 and that’s that?? Why try to put him on a timescale of humans when…he’s not??
He’s a fae at the end of the day. Equating him to human ages/developments seems rather strange to me.
Especially when time moves different to a fae, everything related to faes/types of fae are not human in anyway so why equate it to humans??
I don’t know?? Is it just me?? Lol
Maybe I’m just too used to reading/watching/etc stuff about elves/faes/other long living creatures that it never made sense to do that to me.
Honestly I’ve only ever seen this “debate” in twst. 😆😂
#not putting this in the tags#hanas thoughts#I just don’t get it#it’s like…comparing two different animals??? for like of a better phrase#faes and humans are different so I don’t see the need for it 🤔#I would say the same thing about Lilia and the whole 700 = 70 thing to#he’s 700 not 70 lolol#he might act like peepaw in terms of how he acts#but is that really because he’s old or his magic waning#is that a fae still trying to learn humans and not come of as modern or someone that sounds old?#after all fae culture is still different than humans#and Lilia did not learn it the traditional way either#yes he has back pains and signs of age#but that can also be other things too#yes he could be old too but that’s in terms of fae not humans
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what they are trying to do is follow this gameplan:
first they exploit loopholes and un-regulated practices (doing something that should be illegal but isn't yet because nobody has done it quite like that yet).
the loopholes let them drive the existing providers out of business, because doing things that should be illegal but aren't yet gives you an advantage.
They like to call this "disrupting the market"
And so they become the new biggest provider. Then they sell the successful business for millions
Then (and only then, if the start up monkeys get their timing right) the loopholes get closed because they're usually at the expense of everyday people and employees, and eventually the court system and the state governments and things catch up.
With the loopholes closed they have to raise the prices and lower the convenience.
Often the service or product is now both more expensive and worse than it used to be, because the companies they put out of business might have also been shitty capitalist pigs, but at least they spent several decades trying to find the most efficient and cheapest way to get the public what we want.
Sometimes the start up will actually be finding a brand new way to provide the same experience, the first two Netflix models showed a real example of the phrase "disrupt the market" ...
but what streaming companies have done in general is re-create cable, but more expensive and harder to use.
it's like Uber. Used to be cheaper than a cab, but now it's more expensive than a cab, but you can't get a cab instead because a lot of the cab companies went out of business. Because it turns out there are reasons taxis cost what they used to, reasons like wear and tear on the car, and that has to be paid for no matter who's car it is, and that money has to come from the customers (uber's loophole was they were making the drivers pay their own wear and tear... among other things) -- and the taxicab business model had spent like 100 years figuring out the cheapest ways to get those costs down as an industry, which practices can't now be matched by the model that threw away all that functionality in their disruption.
and it's happening to every industry the tech boys can get their grubby little hands on
I’ve realized over the years that a lot of startups are trying to do things you can already do for cheaper and for more convenient through other methods and I’m not exactly sure why it took me so long to pick up on that
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👗 SHADOW!!
she wears whatever the vibe for that day is and that's anywhere from early 2000s punk to generic sundress/sunhat combo
#shadow the hedgehog#second chance au#art by sea#sea answers#i don't remember the specific phrasing of this ask game prompt but it was something to do with aesthetic#anon(s because there were two of you asking the same thing in two different ask games) please understand#if i tried to draw every outfit second chance shadow owns now we would be here for eternity#but i will say dresses make up a majority of his wardrobe at this point#he likes to match his sister#whenever he even bothers to wear anything but his braces anyway#clothes are a suggestion just like gender
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#this question brought to you by: me writing 'thats all she ever seems to be in this body' and then going 'wait no wait no thats not right'#like. okay. if i say. she wants his body. im clearly talking abt two different..........physicalities lets say#she wants his body bc its unlike hers#but thats sort of like comparable to if yuo met future you and theyve been on hormones for years like#you want their body but thats still one and the same body you get me#or even just like. when youre 50 and you wish you had your 20 yo body or smth like that#you know what i mean?#its the same body it just changed#but if i phrase a phrase like 'in this body'. then it seems im separating them out#like this body is smth different from previous regenerations body#which. id ont think it is. i think its all the same body#but anyway. not sure what the exact difference here is that im putting my finger on#or Not putting my finger on#sticking my fingers IN#might just be semantics#but like. dont semantics matter sometimes#when words mean things#who knows#anyway swapping out 'body' in that initial sentence i wrote with 'regeneration' baaareeelyyy seems to solve the problem too#like i can get away with it. but its cheating. im not REALLY getting away with it#im still i think almost making the same claim i dont believe in re the bodies#anyway#can literally solve the problem by replacing 'body' in that sentence with 'lately'#fairly sure that fixes it#but not 100%
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Thank you for answering my ask and thank you @sunsetsover for your addition!!
Such a good point about the emptiness of the pool and Style being laid almost completely bare in relation to his honesty with Fadel. Even when he had started actually lying he was repeatedly offering Fadel outs so that Fadel could confess to him about being an assassin. And also about kantbison's relationship involving a lot more deception but the one of the few instances of honesty being weaponised to put Kant to trial for the deception T_T
The point about the sets paralleling Fadel and Bison's intentions are so interesting too. "bison wants to hurt kant but he knows he can't, whereas fadel wants to want to hurt style and knows he can't. and those are two very different things." !!!!!!!!!! So well observed especially given how each scene ends? With Fadel and Style in the same car and on the same team, at least for now until Fadel finds his brother, he even stops pointing the gun at him and takes a nap in the car. With Kant having jumped off the boat into the ocean and Bison still on the boat calling after him.
I feel like there's also something here in relation to the pretty common tropes in BL of the escape to the beach and the underwater pool kiss? To me at least they read as escapes from the outside realities of the characters' lives and the external consequences of their feelings for each other, retreating into/finding refuge in their feelings. But here, at the empty pool and at the ocean, it is an extremely uncomfortable reveal of the truth, downright traumatic for one person. There is no refuge here for Fadel and Bison, they've been made to feel at their most vulnerable because of the hurt they've been caused and their trust being broken, and in response are at their most guarded and determined to not be blinded by their feelings anymore. Style and Kant who are at their most vulnerable but their declarations of love are being met with hostility. One of them is asked to shut up and the other is asked to prove it no matter how painful it is.
And sunsetsover's beautiful beautiful point of the water being a representation for want. Fadel wants the pool to stay empty so he asks Style to shut up. Bison wants his ocean but his want was used to hurt him and make him an accessory in hurting his brother too, so he asks Kant to jump in and prove that he wants it too. I've not stopped thinking about the phrase "prove to me you're willing to let it drown you the way it's drowning me" since I first read it and I doubt I'm going to stop soon.
Thank you so much again for both of your insights this has truly been so lovely <3<3
Hi!! What are your thoughts on the confrontations at the empty pool vs the ocean? Obviously the ocean is relevant to kant's past but the juxtaposition of the two is so interesting to me but I can't really figure out if that was just an aesthetic choice or if there's actually something to it.
Looking forward to your thesis about the boat scene!!
omg thank you for asking and i will absolutely be writing an in depth post about the boat scene probably later on cause it was sooo chock full of things and first kanaphan deserves every fucking award possible for that scene
i will say, i think when it comes to analyzing media, there are so few things that are done and chosen "just for aesthetic." i've had other people comment on that when i've talked about the religious imagery, and while yes, aesthetic is important in media and often times can be reason enough for directors and designers to choose them, i would say more often than not there is also meaning behind big choices like set. they put fadel and style in an empty pool for a reason, just as they put kant and bison on the boat for a reason.
now, the boat was likely a very obvious choice for bison because like you said, it's relevant to kant's past and kant told him on their first date that he was scared of the ocean. so, of course tying him up and putting him on a boat surrounded by water to confront him would be the exact sort of psychological torture bison would want to inflict on kant.
but when you compare it to fadel and style, i think it's also a way of representing openness, and in a way it's a representation of each couple.
because fadel confronts style in an empty pool, and he's stripped style almost completely naked. style is laid almost totally bare, and that's true in a literal sense as well as a metaphorical sense, because fadel knows he's a "snitch." and the thing about fadel and style is that while yes, there's been lies and deception there, style has also been very earnest in every way he can be. it was only more recently that he had to start lying for real, and even then he still sneaks in as much truth and openness with fadel as he possibly can. and it's exactly what he does here - even with a gun to his head and fadel telling him not to say he loves him, style still says it because it's true and style doesn't know how to be anything but open and honest with fadel.
and then when it comes to the bison and kant of it all, there's a lot more lies and deception. kant is not laid bare in the same way - bison even has him in essentially a costume by putting him in the patient scrubs. but at the center of it all is the fact that even with all the lies, even with the murky waters, kant has been honest with bison. he's been vulnerable with him. and that's how bison knows putting kant on a boat and telling him to jump overboard is the cruelest thing he could do to him. it's fair game to bison because of what kant did to him, but it also shows that even if bison thinks everything was a lie, there was always some amount of truth to it. because kant never had to give an assassin his biggest fear, but he did it anyways.
i also think the empty pool vs the ocean says a lot about bison and fadel's intentions in the scene, even on a subconscious level. i don't think fadel at any point planned to actually hurt style. maybe he told himself he would, but i think deep down he knew he would never be able to go through with it. so, he puts him in an empty pool where yeah, he can get hurt if he pushes style into it and he hits the floor of the pool, but those injuries likely won't be serious enough to kill him - and he won't drown.
whereas bison, despite likely also knowing he can't actually hurt kant himself, took him somewhere he could make kant do it for him. and even then, it's clear he regrets it as soon as kant hits the water, because he's calling out to him as soon as he jumps off, as if he didn't expect him to actually do it. bison wants to hurt kant but he knows he can't, whereas fadel wants to want to hurt style and knows he can't. and those are two very different things.
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I don't rlly trust those ppl who wholeheartedly believe that cats r better than dogs or you can trust cat people more because "cats have boundaries and you know who will respect boundaries if they like cats" because that just proves to me you Don't respect dogs boundaries lol
#i knooooowwwww thats not why they say it and im hearing it in a cant read exagerations way#but if you think dogs dont have boundaries that you need to respect you Will get bitten#have you ever seen a chihuahua??? they are not even people just dont respect their boundaries#same with 'problematic' dogs like bully breeds german shepards etc etc#hell my younger brother got bitten by Our golden retriever growing up for not respecting his boundaries#all animals have tells and no matter whether youre a dog or cat person you must learn to read and respect those tells#if you want to continue to be around those animals#theyre all different ! two cats can have different boundaries the same as two dogs can have diff boundaries#ugh#idk i HATE hearing that phrase as someone who has grown up not just with dogs#but Reactive dogs#like you say that and i know i dont want you around sophie kind of thing
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I keep thinking of how I want to taxonomize Siffrin and Loop bc it feels significant to me that Loop and Siffrin both have inherently diverged from the same Traveler Mold they came from. But because I am like a 7 year old I keep sagely nodding to myself going "ah yes... just like mega mewtwo"
#do u understand me. do u understand my vision#they're both siffrins they are just two pathways of how the same one guy develops through their experiences in timeloops#that are the same in basic structure but different in how they affected them#so like siffrin and loop are distinct people. but they're also just branches of preloops siffrin. much like mega mewtwo x and y are distinc#but they are also mewtwo#<-(said like this is somehow profound and not stupid)#liek do you guys get me... i think loop and siffrin are very much in sync#to the point where as seen in canon it's pretty easy for loop to divine what siffrin's thinking down to the phrasing#it's really striking how much loop talks and siffrin fullass does not reply but loop keeps on rollin just fine#but fundamentally they don't think the exact same way when it comes to bigger things#like how loop never fully accepts the idea of talking to the king as something reasonable to do#or how act 4 siffrin is in their own damn world while loop is left going. Stardust what the hell are you on (morose edition)#i think it's fun to find the gaps between them#i've always thought it would be fun. in a postcanon timeskip scenario#for loop to be. flatly worse at reading siffrin than they expect to be. because siffrin has been healing and trying to get better#while loop has been becoming steadily bitter as they tried and failed to cut the rope on their own attachments as some kind of last measure#of self defense against the pain of paving over their old relationship with the party with a new name new role new personality new stardust#to exist alongsides#likewise i think it's fun if siffrin overextends his new understanding of loop as being another self and the feeling of recognition for loo#is simultaneously comforting and Tremendously grating coming from Fucking Stardust#especially if siffrin just assumes shit wrong cuz for as much as hes the only guy who can relate 2 being trapped in a timeloop for months i#was not exactly the same now was it.#isat spoilers#Sorry this is a lot of thinking outloud on a post where i call loop and siffrin mega mewtwo x and y
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Don't play dumb, Daniel says, and Louis can feel his face scrunch and wrinkle upon contact from the other's foot. Perhaps if he were less tired he might be more inclined to mask the sour response, but the time for propriety passed about a quarter hour ago, when Daniel had stripped down and into his pajamas right in front of him.
"I'm not playing dumb, I want to know," he assures Daniel, because truly Louis cannot fathom the things Daniel must have thought of him. On a fundamental level he understands the allure of the vampire, the swoon between predator and victim during those few moments when the blood is drawn.
But Daniel has always been a special case, hasn't he? The boy who had Louis de Pointe du Lac's fangs in his flesh and lived to tell the tale. A mortal, strung along by immortals. Two centuries, and Louis has never had anyone quite like him. Oh, his victims always love him as he closed in for the kill, but Daniel...Daniel had loved him before the fangs ever came out, and Louis never could quite figure out why.
He wonders, sometimes, if Armand ever caught such thoughts from Daniel's mortal mind. Wonders if Armand's fangs felt different in his neck. Wonders if Daniel's blood tastes the same now, or if there are traces of Armand, and what the two of them would taste like together...
There are a lot of things Louis wonders about, when his mind is tired.
"That's all." He echoes the final words with a small, amused smile at the rosy pink flush of blood that suddenly burns in Daniel's cheeks.
So typical, to bury the intensity of it all beneath a casual modern turn of phrase. There's so much more he might say, so much more he wants to know, but the first rays of sun always seem to come for Louis sooner than anyone else. With a sigh, he closes his eyes and tucks his feet under the bedsheets like a cocoon.
"Goodnight, Daniel."
There's a thousand smart-ass answers he could give about how if Louis had meant to kill him he'd done a half-hearted job, but Daniel bites them back. He knows enough about Louis and his struggle with killing, hell, with feeding in the first place, that he figures that for once in his life he might as well try to have some tact.
And anyways, he's too busy squirming as he tries to find his way out of the corner he's backed himself into. Daniel's too aware of his ears burning hot, the blood pumping in the fine veins that lace his cheeks and, in life, drew dark circles beneath his eyes. He regrets feeding now. If he hadn't gorged himself he wouldn't be lit up like a christmas tree.
"Come on, don't play dumb," he says and, in a fit of childishness, kicks Louis' ankle.
He'd be embarrassed about that too but then he's never been the smooth type, has he? That's probably what won him his interview with Louis in the first place. His utter lack of a poker face, his so-called 'easy' nature. And sure, Daniel has forever been easily won over by pretty eyes, easily convinced to listen to even the most inane stories from just about anyone, easily backed up against the wall by Armand.
He wishes Armand was here now. He'd know exactly what oddly charged words to say to get everyone on the same page and settled down to sleep.
But it's just him and Louis now.
"It was- I dunno, I thought about it a lot. After. All I'm saying is that by the time Armand got to me I was into the idea of it happening again," Daniel says and shrugs. "That's all."
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#Doodles#Wander Over Yonder#Commander Peepers#Emperor Awesome#Lord Hater#As always check the tags first but hgggg Roundabout is so gooooood <3 <3#Absolutely the fic that convinced me that Awesome was worth thinking about more than he initially appears lol#The™ fanon interpretation to me <3#Like the Eyesome stuff obviously (also the thing that convinced me to try out Eyesome and ended up loving it :D)#But also the Death Glare stuff! It's terribly cute the way Peepers and Hater go bouncing off each other haha ♪#Plus there's just a lot of fun phrasing like the one I put in the caption of Peepers curled up haha#Everyone's characterized so fun!#Plus there's just something very fun recalling my first reread lol - I don't actually remember my first reading experience#But I do remember getting fic-hungry for it later down the line at a local Mexican restaurant and reading it on their wifi lol#It's so fun to finally be at a point where I can confidently draw them and then to come back to the story and ahhh <3 <3 Very enjoyable#The first two aren't tied to anything specific other than the basic concept of those two drinking together lol#Same size glasses but very different alcohol-to-body-size proportions lol ♪ Buying drinks for Peepers saves hand over fist!#We all know he could put it away like no one's business so really it wouldn't matter in the end lol#It was so fun to doodle him curled up ahh <3 His silhouette <3 <3 Toss a blanket over him!#And the Drama! The deliciousness of Peepers keeping Secrets from his Lord Hater! Ah!#It feels so in-character of him to have alone time away from the ship that Hater doesn't even notice until he's been away awhile ♪♫#They're both adults ♪ They have aspects of their lives that aren't Entirely intertwined ♫ Until they do hehehe#Love 'em ♥#Hater was fun to draw there too lol slowly getting used to him! I like his PJs haha
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