#milfbro

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

1, 4, 21, 25!

1. How many books did you read this year?

127 (according to StoryGraph), but I'm 70% through The Second Sex and will probably finish a handful more before January.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

I really loved Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant trilogy and am planning on checking out his other works. I also started reading Naomi Novik and am actively resisting her Napoléonic Wars But With Dragons series (Spinning Silver, her latest release, was really tight, but Uprooted was ... less purposeful? And I don't wanna commit to a ten-book series).

Otherwise, I actually did a lot more branching out to explore authors I've already read books by to confirm if it was a fluke or if I consistently like their work — Colson Whitehead (anything that isn't autobiographical is masterfully written), Donna Tartt (this woman has a chokehold on my SOUL), R.F. Kuang (great ideas though sometimes a bit ambitious for her abilities — but she's growing more powerful). I've read stories from Nghi Vo's Singing Hills series and have enjoyed all of them, but I haven't checked out their other works, so it feels disingenuous to say I love them as an author for now, but I'm certainly open to reading their other works based on this. Oh, and I finally read my first Discworld book, so you could say it's all over for me.

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

lol, not even familiar with those communities.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

My book club friends this year had soft, no-pressure goals of 100 books for the year, so I set that as a passive benchmark for myself. I guess ... reduce the number of books in my to-read pile on StoryGraph? I seem to keep adding more every time I read another book. ^^;

[rosesutherlandwrites]

wait is there an audio version of ASSOS???

Not YET but apparently there's going to be? I found out from the preorder links myself, that was fun surprise!

[violetganache42]

If it makes any difference you can still edit html and markdown via firefox mobile. I know it's not really what you want but yk. It's something.

Thanks for the tip! Yeah, at least it is better than nothing.

[polisena-art]

Got tagged by @milfbro to play a game!! So this is me giving each letter of my URL a song, LET'S GO!

P - Perdoa by Paulinho da Viola O - O que Será by Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento L - Lero-Lero by Edu Lobo I - Ive Brussel by Jorge ben Jor S - Se eu Largar o Freio by Péricles E - Enamorado Tuyo by El Cuarteto de Nos N - N by Nando Reis A - Amor, Amor de mis Amores by Ángela Aguilar A - Andança by Beth Carvalho R - Rosa by Marisa Monte T - Tú Sí Sabes Quererme by Natalia Lafourcade

Gonna tag @grantaire-foudroye, @manukebrine, @mr-cactis, @zerotwo and @bakerstreetlady

[pygian-weapon]

got tagged by @natykii to give a song for every letter in my URL (you fool! You activated my special move, being pretentious about music!)

P - Panama by Ivano Fossati

E - El Toro by Les Dynamites

R - Revenge by Mariah The Scientist

A - Angola by Cesaria Evora

E - Eat the Acid by Kesha

Q - Queen Bitch by David Bowie

U - untitled 04 | 08.14.2014 by Kendrick Lamar (hope this isn't cheating)

O - Ole by Nive and the Deer Children (Terror fans required listening!)

R - Reverie by Polyphia

A - Aoi Koi Daidaiiro No Hi by MASS OF FERMENTING DREGS

L - Literal Legend by Ayesha Erotica (the one and only)

I - I'm Just Ken

K - Kill Or Be Kind by Samantha Fish

E - Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac

S - Sun to Sun by Kaia Kater

T - True Babe by Gwen Stefani

H - High Hopes by Pink Floyd

I - I don't like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats

N - Nothing Without You by Tanerélle

G - gold by offonoff

S - Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran (I feel like this one encapsulates my experience of these months. Help)

And that's a wrap! Ooof! 'twas fun tho!

Tagging some mutuals (feel free to ignore) but also anyone that wants to do it too send me a message and I'll add you!

@milfbro @rbwannabe @annabelle--cane @vacueabissi @bite-my-grimy-fleshy-ass (we are companions of the long url curse) @raptorbricks @anhardchoice @the-mad-prince-of-denmark

bye everyone, have a good music trip!

[sofyarostova]

thanks for the tag @mr-saavik :D

last song: after midnight by chappell roan

favourite colour: if i have to choose, orange

currently watching: currently i'm keeping up with d20 fantasy high! i want to rewatch some older seasons (crown of candy my beloved) but first need to find something to do while i watch

sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet! one of my favourite dinner foods is pannenkoeken (inbetween pancakes and crepes)

relationship status: single. however, in the last week i have been asked whether i was in a relationship with a specific person two times, about two people. the consequences of being a flirty drunk i guess

current obsession: a song of ice and fire, as you might have noticed

last thing you searched: telegraphy! i read about it in my modern history textbook an was curious as to how it works. now i realise i closed the wikipedia page before actually reading how it works...

i'm tagging @milfbro @iwillstealyourpotatoes @strrenmeisje @emt00 @goodiebluebox

[pilferingapples]

Tagged by @milfbro to post a song for each letter of my URL! My URL is so long oh no Let's see what I can come up with off my tragically outdated ipod! (also if anyone knows a good windows itunes substitute that'll let me put music on and off my ipod please tell me, I don't need editing I don't need video I just want to update my playlists whyyyyy fate) under a cut bc my username is loooong let's goooooo

Paradise, Allegiance I Should Be Allowed to Think , They Might Be Giants Loser, Garfunkel and Oates Freedom, Anthony Hamilton & Elana Boynton Errand of Mercy, Five Year Mission Ready Steady Go, L'arc en Ciel I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive , Hank Williams (this is not actually the version on my playlists but it's Hank ,it's solid) Neighborhood Girls , Suzanne Vega Garden Song, Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger AWOL Coffee, AWOL Position and Positioning , from The Slipper and the Rose Pay Me My Money Down, Rambling Sailors Look Down (1832) , Les Miserables (2012, bc it has Gavroche's whole Bit) Estrellas , Los Miserables , THE ONLY VERSION. THE ONLY VERSION OF THIS SONG THAT MATTERS ANY MORE. TO ME. Sale El Sol, Los Miserables -- listen just be glad this whole list isn't Les Mis variations but also GO WATCH THIS I LOVE THIS CAST SO MUCH

[milfbro]

how the FUCK was the url milfbro still available

[polisena-art]

My parents like to remind me that when I was very small I wanted to be a painter, singer and dancer, all at the same time mind you, because I said it in a funny/incorrect way (pintora, cantora e dançora). Also, veterinarian was my to go choice for a long time in elementary school.

@wehavethestarstoguideus @dauntleroy @milfbro @endeavour12345

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter

[thenineofus]

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your mutuals <3

Thank you, Alice!!! Keelhauled - Alestorm Flood I - The Sisters of Mercy Sail on Sailor - The Beach Boys The Ship Song - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen It's a playlist I have been adding to since 2013 and it's just songs that remind me of the ocean and sailing, if anyone is interesed.

[rosesutherlandwrites]

the last ask reminded me to check my app

LETS GOOOOOOO

Hahaha LETS GOOOOO (and I hope you enjoy!) Thanks for sharing , Im really digging seeing the audiobook getting so much love!

[rosesutherlandwrites]

'little red riding hood but make it gay' you can say that my interest had been piquéd 👀

We'll see if I ever find time to write this thing given how many ideas I'm chasing down but the vibe is LIVING in my head and pulls heavily on my summer spent living in a tiny village in rural France, and the mountan/ravine landscape I spent probably an inadvisable amount of time exploring as a random non-local woman with a not-entirely-fluent grasp on the language travelling entirely solo because I didn't know anyone except for the staff at the bakery where I was staging. There were a lot of ancient shepherd's paths with perilous drops, and times I found myself caught out in low places by the dark when the sun dipped behind hills earlier than I expected, or I ended up further afield than planned because a path called my name.

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

well les mis and multiples of 5 for the ask thingy

5. Out of all your fanworks that include Cosette, which is your favourite?

Even though it's one of the first things I wrote and I've grown out of a lot of the characterizations and am a much stronger writer now than I was, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for my Web Series AU.

10. What's your favourite piece of fanart for Cosette?

Another fave is this piece by @everyonewasabird !

15. Have you noticed your style change over time?

Oh, DEFINITELY.  As I alluded to in a previous ask, I entered the LM fandom from the fanon end, and it was the only way I'd ever experienced the sort of "genre" that is fanfic, so I started a lot more with fics that explored that style and those tropes, rather than the themes and characters from the story itself.  Once I started doing more outside research and forming my own opinions and understanding of the characters and the events of the book and their themes and meaning, I think you can see my work diverging away from classic fanfic tropes and toward an even split of "explorations of the themes/messages on my own terms" and " ha ha wouldn't it be funny if."

20. When did you first join Tumblr? How long was it between that and finding the Les Mis fandom?

(answered this here)

25. What's your least favourite thing Cosette said or did?

... Marius?  Really??

[sofyarostova]

@milfbro tagged me to name a song for every letter of my url, which sounds very fun so here we go!

Silence is golden - Trash Boat

Onbezonnen - Froukje

Figaro - Lordofon

You in everything - Gang of Youths

All gone - Mother Mother

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are fucking dead - The Rentiers

Over de muur - Klein Orkest

Smile - Jann

Title pending - issa (@blackcatarts)

Onion boy - Isaac Dunbar

Vent'anni - Måneskin

Als de zon opkomt - Prins S. en De Geit

For the people I'd like to tag: firstly Issa, whom I've already tagged, @gayfrasier @gothiclit @fifthlydoyoudream @mr-saavik and @nikolajrostovz. And @sofiarostova, I want to see what songs you come up with with almost the same url

[pygian-weapon]

Post 10 songs you have on repeat

was tagged by @milfbro to expose in public my REAL taste in music -_-" everyone is an intellectual until Olivia Rodrigo starts playing. I'll limit myself to the last 3/4 months (Deezer doesn't let me see my most played songs, so these are in no particular order)

I'm Your Man by Mitski (her last album... it murdered me)

If You Seek Amy by Britney Spears

Moby Dick by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

John the Revelator by Depeche Mode

Olvídame y Pega la Vuelta by Pimpinela (...it's fun)

bad idea right? by Olivia Rodrigo (also a fun one)

Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones

Le Rane by Baustelle (T_T)

Oklahoma Smokeshow by Zach Bryan

Captain Hook by Megan Thee Stallion

(I put a link to the songs I thought were less well-known)

Thank you for tagging me! Burying myself underground now! I'll tag some moots who might have fun making their own @natykii @vacueabissi @raptorbricks @poptartmochi !

[correlance]

There's a lot of speculation and claims in @bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss' reply that lack full context. Why would Camilla Parker-Bowles, who literally married King Charles III, and is an aristocratic descendant of royalty herself, have "more good reasons to hate him than any other single human being alive"? She is not less complicit than Charles is in defending and preserving the British monarchy; if anything, she is more complicit, because she chose to marry Charles, the future king.

If art is inherently subjective, then that would also mean that the "authorial intent" argument made here would be useless, because the interpretation of a work of art is inherently dependent on the individual viewer, and not the original intent of the artist. As there are an infinite number of individual viewers of a piece or work of art, that also means that the art can be interpreted in any number of ways; and, due to the inherent subjectivity of art, those interpretations may be widely varied, but not necessarily "inferior" to authorial intent.

For example, a singer might say, "well, I intended to convey the message of [insert X thing here] in [insert Y song here]", but once the song becomes popular, listeners may interpret the song and lyrics in any number of ways, or even re-interpret it, deconstruct it, etc...my point is, whatever the author may or may not have intended (and that is a very big "if", as this entire interpretation of what the artist may or may not have intended with the piece comes across as a conspiracy theory, proclaimed to be "fact"), those who adhere to the "Death of the Author" (or Artist, in this case) school of thought entirely disregard "authorial intent" to focus on the the individual art piece itself.

In that sense, I think that @milfbro has a very solid interpretation.

I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10