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ooH lil baby man (47 year old) has a new Temp ref with his new designnnnn
Now I just gotta "re-"write his backstory and then I get to redo Remus and Tipper from scratch... yay...
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Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)—Aline et Valcour [etching, aquatint, 1968]
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Hanns Ewers - BLOOD - Valcour & Krueger - 1977 (cover illustration by Steve Garris)
#witches#bleeders#occult#vintage#blood#valcour & krueger#hanns ewers#hanns heinz ewers#steve garris#1977
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Valcour Island July 4 2022 Wildflowers
#Valcour Island#Lake Champlain#flowers#wild flowers#wildflowers#DECL#down east circle#Original photography
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25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of
In the spirit of "Damn I really miss him," have a bit from Ambrose's book. It took forever to pick something because I just like so much of it.
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Some Fun Statistics
Characters who are not beating the gay allegations (highest 'yes' vote):
Dorian Gray - 93.6%
Sherlock Holmes - 89.5%
Grantaire - 87.8%
Characters with an unblemished record of heterosexuality (highest 'no' vote):
Anne Shirley - 74.1%
Jane Eyre - 44.6%
Holly Golightly - 34.9%
Pairings who are definitely making out sloppy style (highest 'yes, they at least kissed' vote)
Achilles & Patroclus - 89.2%
Carmilla & Laura - 84.6%
Gilgamesh & Enkidu - 79.4%
Pairings who are sitting 5 feet apart cos they're not gay (highest 'no, they're not queer' vote)
Anne & Diana - 71.3%
Emma & Harriet - 20.2%
Macbeth & Banquo - 18.4%
Most controversial (most even split between 'yes', 'maybe' and 'no')
Lady Macbeth
Bertha Mason
Guy Montag
Most niche (highest 'I don't know these characters' vote)
Valcour & Francisco de Paola - 68.8%
Sue Bridehead - 68.3%
Emily Grierson - 61.8%
#I'm bored and my queue is empty so here's a round up of all the polls so far#can't believe anne and diana have such high no votes. for shame#I guess you don't question it that much when you're like 12. but rereading it as an adult lesbian- fuck those bitches are gay#classic lit
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MAN RAY— "UNTITLED" | 1926 "ALINE AND VALCOUR" | 1950
#man ray#surrealism#dadaism#surreal#modern art#film photography#analog#painting#20s#50s#american#art#u
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Man Ray, Aline et Valcour, 1950
#man ray#surrealism#surrealist#surrealist artist#surrealist art#surrealist painting#american artist#american art#american painter#american painting#art on tumblr#modern art#art history#aesthetictumblr#tumblraesthetic#tumblrpic#tumblrpictures#tumblr art#aesthetic#tumblrstyle#beauty
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Hi, Sydney. I’ve read a little bit of de Sade, mostly out of curiosity, so I figured I could try to provide some context? I’ve not read Aline and Valcour specifically, but I did do a little reading on it.
I’m always pretty strongly in favour of reading books people have tried to ban and have burned or otherwise censored personally, so Marquis de Sade was uh. On that list for sure. He was imprisoned for rather quite a lot of pretty horrific sex crimes (as well as the blasphemy and pornography), though? So. Yeah. I’m glad I read it to draw my own conclusions, but it does still leave a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. (I think he actually wrote Aline and Valcour while imprisoned about them?)
Basically, Aline and Valcour is a lot of things apparently, but a lot of that is sort of social commentary. It focuses on a cannibalistic, religious dystopia in opposition to a philosophical utopia (de Sade was pretty loudly atheistic. Which is… I don’t know. I think it’s an interesting insight, considering it was the 17/1800s.) The main characters are ‘virtuous people’ whose lives are disrupted by ‘turbulence, turpitude, evil schemes and incestuous designs’ being worked upon them. I’m assuming some form of corruption or downfall. Also a bit of abduction, apparently, that’s fun.
It’s supposedly quite a bit less… Graphic than some of his other work, but de Sade will still be de Sade. Father of Sadism, etc. Apparently it has some pretty interesting social commentary on the time and the characters are pretty in depth and nuanced. It doesn’t sound like a bad read, but I’m still unable to help but side-eye some of the themes. You know. In the context of de Sade being the person he was… All of the torture, assault and real life abduction.
Hopefully that’s helpful??? Doesn't seem wholly like your thing, but. Info. Yeah.
~@crimson--phantom
Oh!!! Oh my goodness. That's... Oh, that's a lot. Thank you for letting me know, Clara! ^^'
Yeah, um... I don't think it sounds like my thing. Of course, ah, reading literature from people with differing views is wise and can give you a lot of insight into the world/other people's minds but I don't think de Sade sounds like someone I'm comfortable doing that with, considering everything... you told me.
In general, the concept of taking virtuous people and corrupting them doesn't sound like anything I want to be reading ^^'
Thank you again for looking out for me! <3
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I know I’m like…musing into the void here at the moment, but I’ve got all these thoughts and I need to put a few of them somewhere so-
Milady is def my new favorite of Eva’s characters, and MMMM even tho she doesn’t look like Meca this time around, (save for her Isabelle De Valcour Court disguise lol) the Vibes are impeccable. Esp for smth like ER Meca where it’s the situation of a woman who’s been deeply hurt by all the men and monsters around her, yet still resorting to doing their bidding while nipping at opportunities for revenge when they arise. ”My life has been their life. My death will be my death.”
Like…man…
#It’s 👏about 👏the 👏women’s 👏rage 👏MMMM#Someday the circles of “friend that knows about Meca” and “friend that’s willing to sit through French musket*ers movies with me”#Will overlap and I will have so much joy absbdbdb#As a side note#Meca’s love of her life never did anything…but die I suppose andbbdbd#Surgeon’s Oath || Mecaela Musings
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New Squit :) look at him I love him he orng he was designed by my beloved friend TeaBiscuits! He's a sorcerer named Valcour but he thinks it makes him sound evil so he just goes by Val, he was made to fit into my other friend @dreameaterdiesel (Teabuscuit's partner and also on Toyhouse) cyberpunky setting so he's a modern boy. He's incredibly smart when it comes to being an engineer but so very stupid in every other aspect, LOVES Greco-Roman wrestling and just building things. Exclusively wears muscle shirts that have "Suns Out Guns Out" on them.
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We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcour
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Valcour Island Sunrise July 4 2022
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Thinking about this again, so I pulled up the last query letter I sent out, to see what the "stakes" were there, since it did very well at the time.
It's this:
If the magic Ambrose relies on won’t come to his call, maybe something else will. Something Ambrose was charged with keeping under lock, key, and ward four years ago: wild, parasitic magic that could spark Witchhunts affecting more than a teenager desperate to save himself.
This is not an "or else" claim. Nothing about this is actually tied to Ambrose failing at what he's trying to do. In fact, it's actually indicating, "If he does this thing he's trying to do, terrible things could happen actually."
This is actually me going to potential readers like, "Hey, hey, look at the cost of success."
It's actually me going to readers and, "Look what my character has to struggle with."
I couldn’t sleep last night, but desperately needed to try because I had an early morning today, which sent my brain down various useless rabbit holes, one of which was: Story Stakes.
Generally, this is something very important to communicate in your queries/blurbs/pitches/cover copies. People need to know why anything in the story matters. But a lot of people interpret stakes as, “What are the costs if they fail?” and that just seems too limited to me. It’s always an “They Win, Or Else.”
And it feels fake. You can write “Or they’ll all die,” or “The rebellion will be quashed forever,” or, “The galaxy will explode,” as much as you want, but very, very few stories actually follow through on that. To me, it doesn’t hit me with much impact, because I know it’s not a real option or risk. This is a story. Stories almost never end that way, and many of those would be hard to actually accomplish.
So maybe they’re stakes for your character. But they’re not stakes for a reader. My emotional investment in the story isn’t going to be tied to fear they might explode the damn galaxy.
I have rarely written characters who were motivated by what would happen if they failed, or had them think often about the costs of failure. Most often, I write characters who are pursuing something more and think about what they might miss out on gaining. I write characters who are going to be emotionally destroyed if they cannot succeed because they weren’t good enough/didn’t try hard enough/made mistakes.
And to me, that’s much more engaging. Will the character lose much but time and an opportunity? Maybe not. But how do you go back to the status quo when you were a fingertip away from something better?
The status quo is losing. Remaining how things were is the price of failure. You don’t have to backslide from the book’s opening for the characters to have lost. I don’t have to write an Or Else.
And I think it’s also much more likely as an ending than horrific catastrophic failure. A character losing out on something they wanted and having to emotionally confront that and move forward is actually reasonably common. A story with a bittersweet ending where things are in some ways better and some ways worse but not what the characters were hoping for are reasonably common—and they often hurt a reader worse than watching everything fall apart does.
I give characters hope and desire and if the reader doesn’t truly believe they won’t really get what they wanted, they’re at least likely to follow along for the emotional catharsis of seeing them win instead of for fear that they lose.
I’m still tired and still haven’t slept. Maybe this doesn’t make sense to anyone but me. But I prefer to lead with carrots and not sticks, especially for readers who don’t have to invest.
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Masterlist of Previous Polls
And Then There Were None - Philip Lombard
Anne of Green Gables series Anne Shirley Anne & Diana
Arthurian Legend Lancelot du Lac Arthur & Lancelot Morgan le Fay Guinevere & Morgan Gawain The Green Knight
As You Like It - Rosalind & Celia
Beowulf - Beowulf
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly Golightly
Brideshead Revisited - Charles & Sebastian
Carmilla - Carmilla & Laura
The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield
The Chronicles of Narnia - Edmund Pevensie
The Count of Monte Cristo - Eugenie & Louise
Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov & Razumikhin
Dracula Count Dracula Jonathan Harker Mina & Lucy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Jekyll/Hyde
The Divine Comedy - Dante & Virgil
Emma Emma Woodhouse Emma & Harriet
The Enchanted Island of Yew - Prince Marvel
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh & Enkidu
Eugene Onegin - Onegin & Lensky
Fahrenheit 451 - Guy Montag
The Famous Five series - George Kirrin
The Fate of the Crown - Valcour & Francisco de Paola
Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Victor & Henry Captain Walton
The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway Nick & Gatsby Jordan Baker Daisy & Jordan
Hamlet Hamlet & Horatio Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
The Haunting of Hill House - Eleanor & Theodora
Herbert West–Reanimator - Herbert West
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Huckleberry Finn
The Idiot Myshkin Rogozhin
The Iliad - Achilles & Patroclus
The Invisible Man - Jack Griffin
In Memoriam A. H. H. - Alfred Tennyson & Arthur Hallam
Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre
Jasper Jones - Charlie & Jasper
Jeeves and Wooster series - Jeeves & Wooster
Jude the Obscure - Sue Bridehead
Julius Caesar - Brutus & Cassius
Les Misérables Enjolras Enjolras & Grantaire Javert
Little Women Jo March Laurie Lawrence
Lord of the Flies - Piggy
The Lord of the Rings series Frodo & Sam Galadriel Boromir Fingon & Maedhros (The Silmarillion)
Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
Mansfield Park - Fanny & Mary
The Merchant of Venice - Antonio
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck
Moby Dick - Ishmael
The Most Dangerous Game - General Zaroff
Mrs Dalloway - Clarissa
Much Ado About Nothing Benedict Beatrice
Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist
Orlando - Orlando
Othello - Iago
The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis Johnny & Dally
Peter Pan - Peter Pan
The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray Dorian & Basil Henry Wotton
Pride and Prejudice - Charlotte Lucas
Richard II - Richard II
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio
The Secret History - Richard Papen
A Separate Peace - Gene & Finneas
Sherlock Holmes Series Sherlock Holmes Sherlock & John James Moriarty which adaptation is the most queer?
The Talented Mr Ripley Tom Ripley Tom & Dickie
The Tempest - Ariel
To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout Finch
Twelfth Night Viola Corsino Olivia
Ulster Cycle (Celtic Mythology) - Cú Chulainn
Waiting for Godot - Vladimir & Estragon
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Gale
#I'm going to keep this updated and link it on my pinned post#(if any of the links don't work pls let me know)
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