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[calqkey]

my sun and stars

[narnour-momo-007]

Late night at the office + Movie night sketch :]

[clownleys]

i’ve been training my entire life for this (flirted with people using facebook poke feature in middle school)

[christiangeistdorfer]

henri toivonen explaining... i don't know something to a lancia mechanic [x]

[pride-of-storm]

goals 😍

[katabay]

When you say you have thoughts about the 2023 movie, are you talking about the one with Eva Green and François Civil? If so, I would loooove to hear those thoughts :0

that's the one! I fucking loved it. on a technical/artistic note, it's been a hot minute since I've seen a movie understand how to use a wide shot properly, and the way it uses the camera feels so genuinely enthusiastic about the story being told that every minute is a visual delight (my main critique is that I mostly wish that it was more colorful, but eh)

on a personal note, it gave me EVERYTHING. I'm going to be thinking about aramis kissing the crucifix during the torture scene for YEARS

[questwithambition]

Weekly update - 26/02/2024

Maybe bringing these back? We’ll see how it goes - but she’s back in London! Only partially moved in with the most chaotic of weeks as everything seemed to happen at once (and a feeling of being behind), but am leaning into the accepting what is and doing what you can about it now. Which seems to be working fine; we’re focusing on the making sure my life is working and adding tiny improvements as and when I can. Oh, and hopefully catching the exposition on fantasy at the British library before it ends!

[shadowbannedthehedgehog]

born to be a vlogger forced to be a tumblrina

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[melodybottles]

happy august the 30th! i have an update for everyone that is not, for once, a real life life update & might actually appeal to you all as followers of my art blog, for art:

i think i’ve fixed my clip studio paint problem! i uninstalled the program & reinstalled it under my second hard drive, which so far seems to have fixed the lag (which was likely caused by coolranch [my main drive] getting overworked because of how CPU-heavy CSP is as a program). despite backing the folders up, none of my materials seemed to have saved though 😅 so currently i’m manually redownloading and sorting them. which is ummm… probably a good thing, since it turns out i apparently have about 2500 of them and by doing this i can cut back.

once i’m done with that, i can actually return to art! :-) i plan on doing a bunch of style studies as i figure things out, so i’ll be posting those as i go along. stay tuned for the near future!

[tamagotchikgs]

maybe i should do duolingo again,, i could start polish

[dolphin1812]

I’m not an expert in late 18th/early 19th-century French history, so I’ll leave most of the analysis of this chapter to those more familiar with the material than I am, but I do want to add this link:

http://thesiecle.com/supplemental11/

The Siècle podcast read aloud this chapter and included a version with links and annotations below if anyone`s interested!

For the material I am a bit more familiar with:

“Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha.”

A former soldier in Napoleon’s army, Colonel Selves (Sève) converted to Islam and went to live in Egypt, where he worked in the military. Egypt’s relationship with France during this period was complicated. Napoleon had occupied Egypt in 1798, and although he was soon driven out by various forces (the Ottomans, the British, local Egyptian forces), the impact of that invasion on Egypt remained. In the aftermath, Egypt’s governor gained a lot of power by eliminating many of his political rivals and began implementing reforms in various areas, including the military. He used Europeans (especially Frenchmen) to train his men in these fields (hence the presence of this colonel in Egypt). Many of them ended up getting Ottoman titles like “pasha” as well.

I don’t remember many references to French imperialism in this novel off the top of my head, but I’d be curious to look for them. Les Misérables covers a pretty crucial period for French colonialism in North Africa and the Middle East in particular: while alluding to Napoleon’s invasion here, it’s also notable that France invaded Algeria in 1830 (so during the time covered by the book). I don’t really trust Hugo to deal with this history well, but I’m curious about how present it will be. Here, this was more a contextualizing comment than anything else, underscoring how turbulent 1817 was for France. 

Other notes:

“What separated two men more than an abyss was to say, the regicides, or to say the voters; to say the enemies, or to say the allies; to say Napoleon, or to say Buonaparte.”

The way people talk about Napoleon is going to continue to be important, so it’s good to remember it. “Buonaparte” is the Italian version of Napoleon’s last name (Bonaparte), and it was used to insult him because of his Corsican origins. We’ll see it employed by characters who particularly hate him (namely, royalists and really radical republicans).

I also like how Hugo ends the chapter with a sign that there will be plot-related stuff next:

“In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged “a fine farce.””

I don’t want to say this digression is unimportant, especially since Hugo specifies that history “neglects” these details and that it’s unfair to call them “trivial.” However, it’s funny that he spends the chapter on something completely unrelated to what we just read and ends with a single sentence suggesting that something will happen in the next chapter, with just a few signs telling us that we’ll be dramatically changing the scenery. First, we’re moving on to Paris. We’re reading about some young people there, so we’re no longer following Valjean. And the only connection to anything familiar so far is the year. I’ll miss Valjean, but the presentation of this is kind of hilarious.

Spoilers below:

It would be more hilarious if I didn’t know what the farce was and that Tholomyès is about to appear, I hate him so much that I’m actively dreading the next chapters.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 28

"Je Suis Malade" by Lara Fabian

[al-norton]

That feeling when I explain, in the most broken french possible, my opinion on whether I think science or religion is the better way to explain the universe to my french teacher and he replies with 'je comprend ton idée, je pense' instead of 'oui je suis tout á fait d'accord!!' :/