#I love Albert Camus' books fr

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The Plague Exterminator - An outfit inspired from the famous classic novel by a Gaulish novelist, Albert Camus, "The Plague". These outfits has been tailored as such to give mobility and practicality to both archers of Armorless Union.

Something I did for Arknights Halloween collab in Twiter. Forget to post it here lol, happy belated Halloween!

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Get to know me

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Nickname: paintbox (after pink floyd’s songggg)

Sign: ♊️

Height: 171-173? cm (i don’t remember)

The last thing I googled: geocryology (this shit is interesting af)

Amount of sleep: it depends… 4-7 h usually

Dream job: artist/writer/musician (i already do all this things but it doesn’t brings me enough money to make it a full time job ;( )

Favorite song: that’s not fair, i can’t pick one… let’s say “golden brown” - the stranglers

Movie/Book that Summarises Me: movie- the secret garden (1993), book- moby dick

Favorite instrument: cello, all kind of guitars especially fretless, organ, mandolin, hammered dulcimer

Aesthetic: idk it’s complicated, i believe it’s a mix of whimsical/cottagecore stuff., i love vintage things and MAXIMALISM

Favorite authors: Paul Celan, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac and lots of others

Random fun fact: i play more than 9 musical instruments and all of them are in my bedroom 💀 i’m basically living in a music store fr

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February Reading Round Up! In reverse chronological order of finishing

Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India by Gail Omvedt

Been meaning to read for a long long time, was serendiptiously a reading groups' choice and on my tumblr dash. Very good, detailed tour of movements that have complicated "class first" - caste, gender, peasant, tribal and their evolution theoretically and historically. Enjoyed how obviously socialist and critical Omvedt is of regressive trends and fair to the demands of popular organising that trouble us. I made so many notes, and intend to revist her perspective later when I've studied more. Where I was familiar with secondary literature like, caste I think she did an excellent job illustrating the limitations and need for Ambedakrite movements.

The Final Question by Chattopadhyay, Sarat Chandra

Bengali literature written in dialogue with the anti colonial movement's understanding of the new role of the Indian woman, this book is angry in the best way. Something very Dostoyevsky like in the arguments between the characters, but, instead of a religious worldview you have a deeply modern, materialist worldview being sharply advocated for against revanchist cultural trends in the novel's heroine Kamal. It holds up really well for a book in 1936, and its tenderness in handling every character's hopes and despair is deeply touching.

The Play Of Dolls Stories by Narain, Kunwar

Tumblr Mutual Book Club pick! Short Story collection by Hindi experimental poet and writer. Very evocative stories that have the best onion like layers of thematic interests. Oft satirical but never bleak, with the exception of the last story which felt like an odd addition to the set.

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Machado, Carmen Maria

Short Story collection as well, feminist and queer themes. I'd already read the Husband Stitch and was interested in what else the author could do, unfortunately not a lot more thematically. The stories are tightly written and gripping, only that they don't reveal much to me.

Dumb Luck by Vũ, Trọng Phụng

Tumblr Mutual Book Club pick as well. Relentlessly, satirically bleak, also colonial writing. This one is set in Vietnam when it was in French Indochina. Tetra said that every character is an antagonist and FR. Vicious, and a little too bleak for my taste, this is a more traditionalist critique of Vietnamese elite aping the French. The gender politics are absolutely bonkers, the translation I read does a pretty decent job of transferring the text's humor to modern idiom.

Vita & Virginia: A Double Life by Gristwood, Sarah

Biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackwille-West, picked up on a whim because of my interest in Woolf's 'madness' and her romantic letters. Really enjoyed reading the complicated polyamorous love lives these literati had. Virginia's struggles with her illness are quite movingly portrayed. Illustrated with pictures of the beautiful homes and gardens the subjects spent their time in so fun for me! Enjoyed how conversant the author was with their literary output and its critical reception and impact. Made me want to finish reading my Woolf books.

The Stranger by Camus, Albert

I thought I'd like this more. The distanced narrator is very poorly executed, so the protagonist's redemption? revelations? towards the end of the novel kind of fell flat. Style over substance problem I think.

The Horizon (Sumer, #2) by Gautam Bhatia

Conclusion to The Wall, also one of those I wish I'd liked a lot more than I did. Very fast paced in its third act, well plotted but weakened by its repeated revelation of this character is ACTUALLY on this SIDE. Like, its done with every family member of the protagonist. Worldbuilding remains memorable if a bit predictable. Would make a better movie.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Personally I love an old man vs a fish, even if it does not have the gay content Moby Dick promised. Excellent use of the novel for investigating the interiority of a man. It's been a short story kind of month I suppose.

Lady Chatterley's Lover by Lawrence, D.H.

I have already complained about how fascist this book is. Why does modern commentary elide on its very violent racism and sexism and homophobia? I don't think its erotic worldview offers much to not fascist post sex liberation readers lol.

The Idiot by Batuman, Elif

Sorry. Girl at Harvard was not compelling as expected, but I did get a lot from the third act where the protagonist confronts her love interest for real - honest writing that doesn't shy away from difficult conversations.

The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail

Stalin era Soviet satire (its a month for it!) Very conversant with Faust, which I had not read so that I think diminished my understanding of the book. Absurd, very Christian and very funny about the comedic aspects of Soviet life. Loved the ending, almost Tolkein like in its hope for pretty broken characters.

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism by Majumdar, Nivedita

Postcolonial Lit: The Takedown. Incisive, excellent, gave me a lot of books I want to try that the author points to as bucking the trend of compliance to particularist, oft parochial and usually defeatist understandings that dominate the genre.

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

also Bookclub pick. Devastating. Very effective use of the limited POV to illustrate the way shame damns love. Every few pages wrecked me. Tight and sparing with characterisation + description, but delirious with how emotionally close you ride with the protagonist. Best book I have read in a while.

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27 for the ask meme!

27. What’s your favorite book? Or just one you’ve read a few times?

aaaaaa i am incapable of picking just one so here we go,,,,, i really really love the secret history by donna tartt!!! the goldfinch was super good too but ppl generally seem to prefer tsh between the two and i get it, tgf can seem to drag on at times. the picture of dorian gray, carmilla, the stranger and the metamorphosis are some classic books i've reread several times (because they're quite short) and absolutely loved. yes i'm one of those people who made liking kafka and camus their entire personality in middle/high school lmao. scifi is actually another genre i enjoy and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and the martian are some of my favorites! other than that i must recommend this is how you lose the time war because it's just. chef's kiss. no words. if you take nonfiction recs as well (honestly i read like 90% nonfiction when i was younger) i have to say cosmos by carl sagan even if it's cliche. changed my life fr. speaking of books that changed my life, the myth of sisyphus by albert camus too. oh my god i miss reading books and i miss talking about them

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TONIGHT AHHH

my friend, my tc, his wife, and i went to dinner together and it was so fun !! we talked ab a ton of random stuff and it was nice to hang out outside of school . a couple random moments ::

- my tc and i bonded over this youtube channel we both love and we got so hyped lol it was so fun

- he recommended a book (the stranger by albert camus) to me so i’ll prob read it at some point

- we were planning to do a little board game thing at lunch and were talking ab what day to do it and my tc was like “well on friday we can’t bc i’ll be at scholar bowl with A” ((scholar bowl is a trivia competition typa thing)) but i was just like heheheh it’s our thing now

- i was talking ab my height and how short i am , and i said something about how at least i’ll be a cute old lady bc i’ll be even shorter AND HE FR SAID “you are a cute old lady” AND JUST HIM SAYING “YOU ARE” AND “CUTE” IN THE SAME SENTENCE RLLY GOT TO ME YALL AHHH

overall it was so nice and i hope we do it again :)) also my tc and his wife paid for everyone’s food and i lowkey felt bad bc they’re both on an awful teachers salary i totally would’ve paid for myself 😭😭

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Hi!!! 👁👅👁

You dont have ti answer evrrything i picked the ones that seemed the most interesting to me

5,6,8,11,12,18,20

I'll answer everything because I like to talk about myself!! Thank u so much!!! <3

5. Do you have a favourite film soundtrack?

I believe it would be Wolfwalkers (or the entire Irish Folklore Trilogy tbh but I've watched Wolfwalkers the most recently so I remember it the most vividly), and an honorary mention to X-Men: First Class as well.

6. What does your dream home look like?

Okay so I'm not great at the whole, uh, creating my home space, so I probably wouldn't know how to make my home more homey, but I enjoy small and cosy living spaces (growing up in a 19th century tenement which had ceilings at the height of 4,2 meters gave me a fear of large spaces. Humans aren't meant to live like this, Jesus Christ). When I was staying on my university's research vessel for a few days I fell in love with its cabins - it had bunk beds except every bed had a curtain so you could close yourself off from the rest of the world in this coffin-like space, and there was a tiny lamp inside so you could read a book in there or something, and honestly I would like a teeny tiny space like this in my home.

8. What are your top three films/books?

I'm going to talk about books because as you know I'm not a big cinematography kind of person. I have no idea as to in which order I would put these books on the podium, but the top three would be: "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Plague" by Albert Camus, and "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.

11. What character archetype or trope is your favourite?

Ooh okay so I do like the trope of like. A redemption arc presenting itself in front of the character, and the character going "lol nope ✌️" and actively deciding to refuse the chance for self-improvement. Especially if this decision is really well motivated. (looking at you, brick-verse Inspector Javert)

As for character archetypes, this is very basic, but I've always enjoyed the 19th century tragic romantic archetype. I'm a bit better now, but in middle school my emo phase manifested primarily in me reading ungodly amounts of romanticism-era literature and going "he's just like me fr <3".

12. Do you prefer baking or cooking?

Well, I don't really enjoy either of those, but I prefer cooking if only because I need to cook for myself regularly to like, not die, and I pretty much never bake for myself.

18. Chai tea or hot chocolate?

Chai tea ☕ because to me hot chocolate is nice for the first few sips but then it gets much too sweet much too quickly.

20. If you were to cultivate a fruit orchard, what would you grow?

Plums and apples :>