#the superfluous man

[sits-bound]

Bound: The Superfluous Man by peu_a_peu

Okay, whoops, I forgot to take good pictures before I sent it off to the author.

I wanted to bind this, but it's fairly short, but I also wanted to test out the double fan method of making a paperback, so that's what I decided to do. I used @maleekamolscreates's tutorial and it worked great!

I did end up making three copies of this bind - the first I cut too much, the second I printed the cover in black and white, and the third was the one pictured. (Plus I'd put a border around the text on the back, and it kept getting cut off a bit, or it make it obvious that my cut wasn't perfectly straight.)

Oh. The cover. THE COVER. Of course I had to make it look like Potioneer's Guide to Conception and Gestation, Vol 2. Of course.

It was super fun to make. I printed the cover on my inkjet printer, then ran it through the laser printer just to add the title so I could use toner foil on it.

The art inside is by @the-forbidden-forest. SO GOOD.

(And yes, I did make a podfic of this. Naturally.)

[sweatersinthesummer]

[Podfic] The Superfluous Man by peu_a_peu, E, 2.5 hours

A child for Harry Potter is a miracle of magic. And it's the second act of Draco Malfoy's sorry little life.

I had to repost now that creator reveals have come out for the HD Tarot Fest. But honestly, who didn't know immediately that this funny, clever, smart, and witty fic was theirs?!?

[vimbry-moved]

I really need to finish "disco elysium" bc it's an incredibly well-produced game, but I accidentally created an immersive experience of starting it up last november when it was cold, grey, wet, and I'd just gotten the first job of my adult life, which was a physical 2-9:30pm shift I'd be so wiped from, and now I have a glum association with it lmao

[ivo3d]

'the superfluous man's anger' (being redundant is a kind of a revelation recently, originally this clip was made for the next piece (oh, russland, territorium), but it seems to be unnecessary as well)

[we-love-morioh-cho]

Oooohhh ok ok ok I am a little crazy for these panels, the first is legit such a good reveal and genuinely unsettling/scary and the second is creepy but beautiful????

[skrunksthatwunk]

not me spending like three hours on a late assignment (it's only like 5 days late) only for the submission box to be closed 💀💀💀

[freebooter4ever]

good morning, saw the WORST slip up in my post at like midnight last night lmao pretend that didn't happen 🤣

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Just a few days ago I was at a dinner party and a nice lady, whom I did not know, cornered me and, for some reason unknown to myself, began telling me in superfluous detail of the manifold achievements of her son.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[nudelherz]

well at least the terrible fear of being to needy and attention seeking keeps me in check. at least i got that going for me. coolio baboolio.

[elizabethrobertajones]

I think Modern AU Halsin should wear my Does A Bear Shit In The Woods socks

(Don't worry about my anatomy, I'm just taking advantage of being one of the few people who can show off the sole and leg of a sock in one go... This is nowhere near stretched enough to hurt myself :P)

[vampir4te]

Honestly the way Angel acts makes so much more sense when you start reading nineteenth century Romantic literature. And when you imagine spending decades holed up eating rats not talking to anyone or doing anything but reading nineteenth century literature

[clovercloverclover]

You cannot tell me, you cannot teach me what it is that I want, give it all to me so that I — and as for tenderness - you can find it anywhere!

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Just thought that Sergey Razumovsky is in some ways like a superfluous man: rich and intelligent young man, disillusioned with society, hedonistic. Apart from being rich, very much traits I relate to.

But in some ways he's the opposite of one. Especially in his ambition and being hardworking, traits I envy in him. Though the rags-to-riches story and becoming a vigilante aren't typical either lol, but not incompatible with being a superfluous man imo.

Now it's even funnier that my fic title is from Lord Byron's poem (One virtue and a thousand crimes) since superfluous man is derived from the Byronic hero.

[persephoneggsy]

.... do i want to change my inquisitor’s subclass....

[brasideios]

“'What's the matter with you?' the captain asked me. 'You don't have to worry, it wasn't a dangerous wound. He'll be able to go dancing tomorrow if he wants to. Or are you sorry you didn't kill him? In that case, don't bother: he's an excellent chap.'

'Why did he spare me?' I muttered eventually.

'So that's it!' the captain remarked quietly. 'Oh, you chaps who like to make up stories!'”

- Ivan Turgenev, from The Diary of a Superfluous Man (in First Love & Other Stories)

[archenarsetara]

Picture : Konstantin Somov 

“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.” - “Diary of a Superfluous Man” by Turgenev