#retracing

[onmywaytofanfic]

Sometimes we need to change

So, I have been readign and trying to amend a little bit eveyrthing that I have done so far with Reina and the village (Kagenogure). I can only feel that I do need to change it drastically. I do feel that I need to sit again and really work properly on it, it feels as fi it is not well fitting in the narrative not to mention my necesity to practice it more. All this thoughts have come to my head after working on Ibiki and Eiko, a history that I do feel so far what I have in mind and how I am protraying the character have much more sense. Not to mention also that I do think that what I have bulletpointed in my stuff about them as more sense and looks better.

I feel that I have to do this because I do love hte character of Reina I adore her and I feel that I do need to make it justice to her since I have created her and all her people, I do feel that I must do that. This short time that I have been here in this media , I do want to think that it has help me grow as a person and as a creator. However, I need to prove that to myself, therefore I need to make changes on her and her history.

The same goes with my drawing skills, I would not make private ro erase my awful drawigns the same with my writings, I personally used Tumblr as a way to see if I have made any short of progress, and I do like sometimes to go back and see what has changed or not. I do feel like my writing hasn't a lot, but I am starting to feel that towards my drawing skills even though it stills need a lot of working.

I know that all of this may seen as just a huge mess and nonsense, yet I do want to dump this here for myself. To go back to this day when I decided to make changes, to go back to every otehr day that I ahve written or draw something and trully feel that I am fucking mackign some short of progress at least on this. It is just a lot of nonsense I know.

Thanks to those that have read this and have enjoyed my content. <3<3<3<3<3 You lot have a huge room in my tiny heart.

[dunhamegor]

SOL is still retracing support

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[release-by-eileen]

Square One

It seems like I am always trying to break through the same old cycle. But I have noticed something. Although the tests feel the same, I always approach them as a new person in a new way. And bit-by-bit, I seem to chip away to the core of it all.

[moonsun2010]

4 August - The captain of the Demeter makes his last stand

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[unpretty]

is there a movie or comic where a demon or whatever gets a human face stitched onto their face but the face still has the original soul in it so it's constantly trying to scream and wail while the wearer goes about their business, or did i make that up for my dream?

[gomzdrawfr]

[angst, panic attacks, implied MCD]

disclaimer: methods of overcoming panic attacks are based on my own experience and not from licensed professional medical people

Do it for him

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[fuctacles]

That deal with the devil/fae post where they want the summoner's first born in exchange, and the summoner goes "ok when do we start" BUT STEDDIE WITH STEVIE

She hasn't given up on that 6 nuggets dream but it's became quadruple hard now that she's transitioning, both because of dating and the technical stuff. So she figures, I'll ask a magical being for the right plumbing and it'll all be smooth(er) sailing from there.

Eddie the Banished is the demon, and he's like "of course sweetheart, but I get dibs on the first off spring".

And Stevie gets all red and stuttery at first but she is desperate and she figures, the sooner the better, and since he's already here and offering, she asks "Would you want to do all six?"

[ellstersmash]

Indomitable Focus

Redraw of these (x x x) and continuation of the series.

[esteemed-excellency]

currently pondering Hiram's terrible horrible not good very bad self abstraction... this is just a first draft but I have to share my vision

[hedgehog-moss]

Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

[skunkes]

[mixelation]

ohhh my god tori clone... shes gone! goodbye. u cannot contain her. shes like 'well tori prime can't get out of her obligations but i can haha'

she's technically a kage bunshin so everyone is like "well, how long could she really last" but in giving her free will, tori cut off the memory transfer when popped. who knows where clone tori went or how long she goes for???

[fokron]

I need a Pandora hearts anime reboot so bad its unreal. you dont understand u dont understand. I need "your hands were empty from the start" animated and voiced, i NEED "you just need to be oz" animated and voiced. i NEED "they too hold within them the proof that i am me" animated and voiced. i feel crazy i feel insane i need it so bad i need everyone animated and voiced so bad. Oz my boy. Also Gilbert, i know they would love him. its the era for wet and pathetic men i KNOW they will love him pls pls it's its time PH needs to be fully animated im begging im pleading im barking at the moon.

[handwrittenhello]

happy fugue feast, @geminison! i chose "karnaca days" and "corvo/daud in canon/some au setting" from your prompts :D hope you enjoy!

some closeups:

[stuckinapril]

How the fuck do I think more like a physicist

[existingtm]