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there is no coherent line that can be drawn without exception between art that makes you feel physically ill (good) and art that makes you feel physically ill (bad)

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disco enjolras out of context

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i love how gavroche thinks bahorel goes through life calling himself a beautiful man and thinks this is a logical thing

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Writing historical fiction is always like I think I hauve to read several more 700 page nonfiction books before I can write this paragraph

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le miserable. there's just one of him

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1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPING

brother john, brother john

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hii i saw “degree in ancient greek tragedy” and “writes minecraft youtube fanfiction” and i am peering politely over here. how do you do

Taking this opportunity to do some egregious self-promotion and direct people towards my ‘degree in Ancient Greek tragedy’ blog @achillessulks and my ‘Minecraft Youtube fanfiction’ blog @lorefulgood I suppose haha.

My degree is in something super specialised that I usually summarise in professional spaces as ‘Euripidean and post-Euripidean theatrical interpretations of Homeric canon’ and casual spaces as ‘got a good grade in reading the Iliad’ but that’s the gist of it really. I did my time in the translation studies mines as well. I wrote that one negative review of The Song of Achilles and that one essay about Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation and probably some other things.

I also like Les Misérables (best book in the entire world).

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i adore being confronted with the staggering breadth of what individual people can get obsessed with. there's nothing better than having That One Mutual with an advanced degree in ancient greek tragedy who writes minecraft youtube fanfiction to remind you that anyone can love anything

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1930s Bucky being unsure if Steve is having sex with him because Steve likes him or if Steve is having sex with him because its technically illegal and Steve gets off on law breaking.

look friends we all know i’m not really a stucky shipper but this is LEGIT THE FUNNIEST AND MOST IN CHARACTER HEADCANON I’VE SEEN ALL WEEK I’M YELLING

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Happy Valentine's late gay my friend today i remembered your Minecraft fic and wanted to say gay gay gay

Okay well, let’s be accurate here, folks: bi bi bi, surely.

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You fic did something to me i didn't know i would enjoy Martyn getting fuced by gods and a jealous ren

Thank you >:)

If you enjoyed that, you’ll probably also enjoy a similar concept that @lorefulevil and I are working on... watch this space!

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People have been very mean to Emily Wilson online lately. I’ve been on record as saying her translation of the Odyssey (or Iliad) wasn’t my favourite, but do I agree with the accusations of oversimplification or inaccuracy? (Spoiler alert: no.)

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Achille Devéria, Portrait of Alexandre Dumas, 1829

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This is a famous and extremely rare daguerreotype of the barricades on the Faubourg du Temple, captured in the early morning of June 25, 1848. Just look at how small these barricades are! They are certainly far from the monstrous barricades described by Hugo in 5.1.1. I suppose they are more like the ones people began to build on the morning of June 6, 1832 (as described in 5.1.13) and were quickly suppressed by the National Guard.

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What is your Hogwarts house?

I am an adult.

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FMA translation:

Javert smiled and advanced into the open space that the Thénardiess had staked out with her eyes. "Don't come any nearer! Get away," she cried, "or I'll crush you!" "What a grenadier!" said Javert. "Mother, you have a beard like a man but claws like a woman." And he kept walking toward her.

Original:

Javert sourit et s’avança dans l’espace vide que la Thénardier couvait de ses deux prunelles. – N’approche pas, va-t’en, cria-t-elle, ou je t’écroule ! – Quel grenadier ! fit Javert ; la mère ! tu as de la barbe comme un homme, mais j’ai des griffes comme une femme. Et il continua de s’avancer.

Very weird mistranslation!

There's a moment in the Brick where Javert says "I have the claws of a woman" but in the Fahnestock/MacAfee translation the line is incorrectly MIStranslated as "you have the claws of a woman." And when I think about that translation choice my brain goes "I can't believe the translators Declawed their Javert...that's just irresponsible Javert ownership... if your Javert keeps ripping up your curtains you need to provide him with more Enrichment bc declawing is never the answer"

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ok an actual french speaker, explain the pronunciation of Enjolras to me. Because - listen, I’m Canadian, I minored in French language in university, my accent is pretty good, I’m like - conversational, okay, my french is pretty mediocre but I do speak the language.

I was always taught that most ‘s’es on the ends of words don’t get pronounced except when bridging with a word that starts with a vowel. so why is this name an exception? because I’ve heard that audiobook clip in official actual french and they say it with the S and that seems so weird to me? with the education I do have?

like I’m genuinely asking I??? it goes against the rules I was taught and I’d love to know why.