#lms if you read

[strebcr]

Anyways I updated my rules! Please give them a read and like this post 👍

[strebcrarchivess]

Due to the situation I updated my rules

[diamondnokouzai]

mental health blogging under the cut (but im not like, suicidal or anything, just pondering)

ive been feeling more and more dissociated (<- how the fuck you spell that) lately in like, the split personality sense. and ive kind of identified a few specific 'aspects' of myself that are like, very separated in my head, but im not sure if thats because im psychotic or not. idk if psychosis & did can even overlap (or if i even HAVE any sort of DID related mental health issue) but its kind of upsetting when i cant understand why my thought patterns & behaviors are so different somtimes

[dottore-truther]

about me and this blog

Call me Myth or Nagi I use he/them pronouns and I’m in my early twenties I’ve been playing Genshin since it’s initial launch.

I’m Asian and indigenous. I speak/write English and Japanese. I use a translator for everything else.

I like the bad guys a lot in Genshin I just think they’re neat. I don’t condone what they do I just think they’re cool as characters.

I criticize Hoyoverse/Mihoyo because I know they can do better. I don’t condone Hoyo’s colorism nor do I spend actual money on this game. My criticism/venting at hoyo is tagged as #mhy critical and #hyv critical if you want to filter it out.

I like to speculate over possible lore and such I’m hyperfixating on Genshin Impact so blacklist #GI-info-dump if you don’t want to hear it.

I like to make edits of Genshin sprites and manga art and even do fan-art but I’m not sure I’ll post that here.

Game info:

playing through the Sumeru Quests. I haven’t been on Genshin since the 2.2 update tag my thoughts as: “#live Genshining”

C3 Kaeya, C4 Noelle and C4 Chongyun main AR: 55 Server: NA and DM for UID! This is a side blog so I cannot follow you back from here. If you want to talk about Genshin Impact or character/team comps DM me!

Boundaries and before you follow and such:

I’m an adult so if that makes you uncomfortable don’t follow me. I don’t post explicit content and I’m uncomfortable with it. I still prefer to talk to other adults.

I post a lot about villain characters, especially Dottore hence the URL. I don’t condone any of the character’s actions. Please no death threats

I don’t like works that includes with the following topics: dubious consent/non consensual, underage content, incest, very visible and prominent age gaps between characters.

[almond-gallery]

an enjolras because i miss him

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

[la-pheacienne]

I wish there was a way to actually convey in english the transition between the plural and the singular verbs used by Javert depending on who he's speaking to. In french (and in my own native language, greek) we have this thing where, if we are addressing someone important, or even someone we respect, we have to address them as if they're mutliple people? Idk how to explain this in english. In english we just have "you", but in french we have two words for "you": "vous" (plural of "you") et "tu" (singular of "you"). But in greek culture we don't care about this that much and it is very common to talk to the waiter for example or to a stranger who is your age, in a normal way, not addressing them as if they're multiple people. And this doesn't necessarily mean you disrespect them or that you consider them inferior to you, it's just a sign of friendliness and familiarity.

But in France oh boy this is such a no no. If you address a stranger without respecting this formality it is so so deeply impolite. It's the equivalent of calling your Professor "bro". You just don't do it. However, if a state officer does it it's not just impolite, it's extremely offensive, it's perceived as an actual attack, which it is. It's saying "you are inferior, a second class citizen, and I will treat you as such and the state will treat you as such". And guess what, it still happens, but it happens almost exclusively to homeless people, immigrants or just non white people, mainly arabs and black people. These groups of people are often being addressed by the police for example as "one person" (singular of you) and not in plural, and it may sound ridiculous a to someone who is not familiar with that formality but here, it is an insidious but very real way of asserting authority over marginalized citizens while stripping them of their value and humanity.

And yeah Javert of course is extreeeemely polite to Valjean when he thinks he's Madeleine, because he's the Mayor, so he's a superior, so he addresses him using the plural form and of course he uses the singular form when talking to Fantine and of course he switches to singular form when he talks to Valjean later, once he discovers his real identity. This small detail really conveys how Javert treats Fantine and Valjean like actual flies that he can just squash with his boot. Also it should be noted that while Javert has started addressing Valjean in singular form, Valjean still continues to respect the formality, addressing him in plural. Perfect depiction of class hierarchy.

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[pilferingapples]

OK there's definitely other things to discuss in this chapter but I gotta highlight this bit:

Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:— “Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o’clock in the morning.” Bahorel replied:— “What do you expect? There’s always a petard in a seminary fellow.”

especially because it's a bit where some translations I otherwise love and cherish Fail Me Utterly

Because yes on the one level it's a pretty standard "it's always the quiet ones" kind of comment

but also: Bahorel is straight up saying Marius is an explosive/carrying an explosive

you know. Like a powder keg, say

this is how Marius is going to show up at the barricade

Bahorel Knows The Future

(also I very much love that everyone really DOES sit around gossiping about Marius' love life, if only because Courfeyrac won't shut up about it XD)

[e-louise-bates]

Anne remembered that Miss Cornelia had given her a very different impression of Leslie’s mother. But had not love the truer vision?

NO, Anne, for heaven’s sake, no. Even taking into account Miss Cornelia’s bias, there is no way Rose West comes out of this story as anything but the villain of the piece. Even in other versions of this story as told in short stories (i.e, Only a Common Fellow, Four Winds), it’s never a mother who sells her daughter into sexual slavery so she can stay in her house. There’s no way to paint that as anything less than horrific.

Still, it *was* selfish of Rose West to make her daughter marry Dick Moore.

I’m glad you can at least admit that much, Anne! I do love your desire to think the best of people (as shown even in your younger years in your attempt to defend the women who raised you prior to Green Gables as meaning to be kind), but there are limits.

It’s amazing to me how I could read Anne’s House of Dreams as a kid and recognize the inherent tragedy of Leslie’s story without in the least understanding its implications, and then read it as an adult and realize that Rose West made her daughter marry an abusive r@pist so that she wouldn’t have to get kicked out of her house—granted Leslie claims that Rose never knew how bad Dick was, it’s still appalling.

(As a kid it was the bit about Kenneth that hit me the hardest, especially Leslie having seen his face as he was killed and never being able to forget it. I wonder if naming her own son Kenneth was an attempt to replace the old horror of that with new memories?)

[frnkiebby]

HIGH QUALITY PHOTOZ OF FRANK

UGH PLS

fucking love late lm frank

i love all lm frank

fuck~🎃

[incomingalbatross]

@thatscarletflycatcher @brambleberrycottage I would love to talk more about Cranford, but I've been having trouble coming up with anything more eloquent than "it's Good." Because it IS.

I'm really glad it seemed to be a hit with our book club (mainly composed of my family + one other). Multiple people mentioned specifically that for a while they felt like it wasn't going anywhere in particular (which was fine) but then it DID! I think everyone, rightfully, loved Miss Matty. There were also a lot of laughs about the funny parts of the book, especially the hosting/manners-related humor.

Personally I had a pretty good idea of the book's virtues going in (which may be why I had a hard time coming up with commentary - you guys know all this already! I heard it here first! :P). But I loved the pathos and the humor and... really, the tenderness for little, quiet lives, that can acknowledge their ridiculousness and obscurity and seeming futility but still paint them with love and dignity.

The quiet tragedies are heartbreaking - but so are the kindnesses. These ladies are all absurd sometimes - because they're human. It's just. It's very much about human dignity and goodness and the worth of every human life even at its pettiest.

[diamondnokouzai]

being transgender is crazy because youll be wondering whats a polite way to come out to your mom when youve been out of the closet for the last 10 years

the question has never been 'is my mom transphobic'. the question is 'does my mom hate ME for being transgender, or does she just hate the fact that i AM transgender'. there is no way that i can explain it to her that she will handle well because she is not interested in handling it well. she doesnt care about transgender people, which means she cant care about me no matter how bad she might want to. she woul rather have me dead and cis than alive and trans.

and how am i supposed to explain that to my dad? how am i supposed to tell him that i dont think my mom has loved me since i was 14? how am i supposed to say that without him hating me?

i wish i knew why at least. i wish she could tell me what part about me she hates so much so that i wouldnt die wondering. as if i have to.

[iilmunchkiin]

STRAWPAGE DOODLES!! + asks

That is honestly so real of you, this is me but with the stupid metal pipe. I have an option on my keyboard that makes it when ever I type something it makes the metal pipe sound effect so you'll just hear *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* (i LOVE IT)

THE RAT ANON!!! YOU'RE BACK!!!!

HELP I LEGIT CACKLED WHEN I SAW THIS HELP ME WIYGASDSDAS HE LOOKS SO DUMB I WANNA WJASHDJ I LOVE HOW STUPID THIS LOOKS wait why is he bald

No I'm prettttyyyy sure I have an idea who you are... a certain oc x dalv shipper perhaps... ( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧

LET ME IN. LET ME INNNNN!! I will be the president of the club. I have so much proof of me legit tweaking over him.

Oh my god no way dalv x decibat fan child lets go /j I love how the rat is presenting it like it's the nurse that helped them give birth to it "Here's your healthy baby!" *fucking throws it*

FUcking RAT

WHoaaa the martlet I just realized how little I draw martlet when I have such a cute design for her.. hm. I should draw her more.

"So cool" -Sandal Underwear Thank you btw ur cool too <3

HE'S SO CUTE I WANT HIM DEAD Oh this reminded me when I was talking to him in character AI and I called him a goofy goober, istg he sent the funniest fucking response ever like "Pardner, what in the rootin' tootin' hell is a GOOBER!?" I was cackling broo, I should draw our convo like I did when he said asked in that one comic if they knew what bleeding was when clover was, idk, DYING? This comic btw hihi

shut the FUCK UP!! IM GOING TO COOK YOU!!

[lillipad72]

I love college, I really do. BUT, my least favorite thing is how all my reading becomes purely academic. Like even when its not assigned there I am with another giant nonfiction book. Because I love what I study this is still fun for me, however, I wish that I would take the time to pick up novels and other types of literature I have been wanting to read. It is just so hard to get my head out of academics during the semester.

[fagsex]

equinox show of devotion + altar alterations updates 🩷