#paris things to do

[teaboot]

Any tips for being a suicidal 15 year old?

When I was a suicidal 15 year old everyone told me “it gets better”, and it sounded like bullshit. And frankly, it still sounds like bullshit. Like oh, what, I’m living in hell and you’re not gonna help me or *do* anything or give me any useful advice and I’m supposed to just hang in there on the nebulous, pithy promise that things are just gonna work out on their own? And you can’t tell me how or why, I’m just supposed to take it on the faith that I don’t have that something might change in ways I haven’t considered?

But yeah. It does. And it’s frustrating as hell.

Yes, things are gonna get better, and they’re gonna get better in ways I can’t describe even after experiencing it myself. Things you don’t even know CAN be different WILL be different. One day you’re just going to step outside and realize things got better somewhere and you didn’t even notice it happening.

And there’s really nothing I can say that makes that sound even a little bit believable.

I guess all I can tell you is that you have to want to believe it.

[deadbaguette]

Dear children of Priam, were you doomed all along?

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

have you ever stood in front of the Eiffel Tower crying on the phone to your mother?

[cescalovestowrite]

I used to be one of those basic bitches who think Odysseus is the only character in the trojan cycle. The only man ever.

Now I've changed, and even though my blog is about Odysseus, because he will always be my favorite character, I now have so much love for all the others.

Paris? You mean the arrogant farm boy who caused a war because he was horny? Love him to bits.

Menelaus? The sad hubby who has never done anything wrong ever? Protect him at all costs!

Agamemnon? The incompetent general who is whiny and petty but would do litterally anything for his little brother? I will give him a hug (but I will also rejoice when his wife slaughters him)

Ajax the Great? He is so cute and dumb, leave him alone (and give him Achilles' armour before he does something really stupid)

Helen? She is so chaotic, you will never understand shit with her. She will swear she's on Greece's side, but then will imitate your wife's voice while you are hidden in that damn horse, just for funzies. What a queen!

And the ultimate yapper? The father figure of all the Achaeans? The one and only Nestor?

Gosh I even love Idomeneus, he is so kind, and Ajax number 2 don't you dare disrespect him ever again!

I could go on.

[alibonbonn]

Helenus and Cassandra

[apoptoses]

Armand, Haussmann, and Paris:

The thing about Paris that's not really discussed in the VC books themselves is the Haussmann project.

In 1853 Napoleon III commissioned Haussman to completely renovate Paris. The plan was to tear down all of the old structures and rebuild the city; reorganizing the streets and reshaping them to accommodate more green spaces, and replacing smaller buildings with taller apartment blocks in more uniform style.

The Paris Armand knew when he arrived as the coven master and which he came to know as the theater leader would have looked something like this:

Dark, winding streets leading off wide boulevards and short, leaning buildings.

The Haussman project would see all of these places systematically torn down, occupants removed to other areas of the city while new buildings were put in their place. In some areas workers were destroying and rebuilding things 24 hours a day.

At this time Armand would have been living at the theater on the boulevard du Temple, Paris's street of theaters:

This dagguerotype shows the boulevard in 1838. This painting, in 1862, looks much the same:

But by 1863 all but one theater on the street had been destroyed, and that was only because that theater was on the opposite side of the street shown in the painting. How and why it wasn't pulled down, I don't know- no information on it seems to exist, just like no explanation for the very small handful of other old structures that were left untouched.

That theater, the Théâtre Déjazet, still exists today. But it was established in 1770 by Comte de Artois, so while it could have been Anne's inspiration for Armand's theater it's not the 'rickety wooden rat trap' that seats 300 that Lestat describes in TVL.

Anyways, knowing all of this, I think it makes even more sense why Armand so quickly grabbed onto Louis and was ready to run away with him at any cost.

Armand, who'd been kidnapped from the monks, who'd had his palazzo torn out from under him, who'd established something of an existence under Les Innocents and was then ripped out of that world when the cemetery was destroyed. Who was watching the city he'd finally come to know get systematically torn apart. Everything that was familiar to him was being taken again.

So why not let Louis burn the theater? He arrived in Paris in 1870, just as Haussman was dismissed. But the work of destroying and rebuilding Paris was set to carry on. Chances were the Theatre de Vampires would be next, and if that were the case there's no way the crypts beneath the place would remain safe and undiscovered.

And if he'd stayed where would they go during the renovation? What would they do? What would the point be in continuing trying to run a coven he was bored of and a life he didn't care for in a new location?

Armand was going to have to begin again somewhere- better that be with Louis, out in the world, than roaming a now unfamiliar Paris. And even though he didn't burn the theater himself, allowing/instigating Louis to do it still gave him more control than letting a stranger come in at some unpredictable moment to demolish things all over again.

(And what of Lestat, what does he feel about these changes? He never could have shown Louis the Paris he knew and loved, which existed when Louis was still mortal- that Paris was largely gone)

Chances were Anne might not have known most of this at the time she wrote interview or even TVL. But I think it still makes a lot of sense and brings up a point about Armand and immortality that I don't see brought up much- that not only do vampires lose every mortal they've ever known, but with time they also see the destruction of every place they've ever known or loved.

(ps: I'm not an expert on this topic or anything, so if anyone does know why some buildings were unchanged or has any interesting historical info to add by all means please, reblog and add it on!)

[bellamysgriffin]

A GIFSET FOR EVERY TAYLOR SWIFT SONG The Man [15/243]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

was talking to my brother the other day after i rewatched dark phoenix and he was like 'why is everyone so mean to charles in this movie?? were they always this mean to him ?? is it cause he's bald now- he lost his pretty privilege??' and i fear i havent recovered

[calciumyum]

Since Agamemnon showed up on one of the comics, do you have a design for Menelaus in your modern au

Yep! Idk if I've posted him here but here he is! :D Odysseus gifted him the tie :]

Also a little joke au where Menelaus had a 'drunk' fling with Priam when he was still in a band HAHAHAHA

[rysgil]

Musée Jacquemart-André

[mybuginette]

i have more of this

[sultryana]

do u think i’m a trashy girl ?

[paris-in-space]

When your husband forces you to come outside even though it’s freezing.

[part-time-pixie]

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[hotluncheddie]

Steve: …Eddie we’re in Paris and all you seriously care about is the 4ft Garfield we saw outside some cafe?

Eddie: :]

[prettypinkdork]

Future’s End where everything’s the same except when Tom’s trying to distract Sarah Silverman he leans against a wall and says “hey, um” deep breath, “uh, eg-eggplant emoji?”