#me reading baudelaire

[thegoblinwitch]

time for you to hear me speak french.

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

I want whatever Lemony Snicket was on when he came up with the phrase “Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity” like I just know he was pissing himself laughing as he wrote a baby saying it

[anglerflsh]

les mis can be a commedy. To me.

[titan-god-helios]

y'all executive dysfunction sucks ass. THE ENTIRE DAY, all that's been going on in my head is a series of things that i reallyreallyreally want to do but i just c a n t. i wanna read ? nah not allowed to, stuck compulsively scrolling through youtube shorts i wanna write ? i have tons of motivation for writing ? so many ideas ??? all i need to do is walk a couple steps n pick up pen and paper and sit down but NO, i must play this game even though the prospect of writing is so much more appealing at this very moment ITS SO FUCKING STUPID and the fact that executive dysfunction occurs so frequently and not just for things that sound so boring or tedious or anxiety inducing and make my brain want to melt and my eyes gloss over BUT ALSO FOR THINGS I really WANT TO DO I JUST

d u d e .

[androgynous-bhajipav]

y'all I did it. I wrote an asoue fanfic it's called 'it's you, it's me, it's us' and it's on ao3. If reading that sentence didn't give you a heart attack, please head over and check it out! The fic is an AU so you don't have to be familiar with the story. Plus, it's GAY.

[rodjanikov]

Baudelaire would be soooo disappointed in me, I've traversed the horrors of human existence without drinking a sip of alcohol, smoking a single cigarette, snorting a single gram of opium honestly what kind of Decadent am I

[ghoulierstudio]

A new favorite from the little bit of reading I managed to get done while waiting to get tattooed yesterday. I love Charles Baudelaire.

[king-spite]

i'm having a bit of a username crisis right now so this a PSA so my mutuals recognize me 😭 used to be @/king-spite, now i'm @/godscursedd ! (for now🫠)

[somewhat-bored]

Let’s say, hypothetically, one did not finish a book series due to the 13th book being unavailable in their local library.  Let us also hypothesize that they watched the live-action adaptation of the series to finish the plot.  Now, hypothetically, they do not particularly want to read the final book of the series because they heard that it had a far more depressing ending than the live action adaptation and they still can’t find it in their local library.

There is no point to this hypothesis.  It’s all hypothetical.

[silkhy-john]

ASOUE was really funny and really sad reading it the first time, and the second time round it’s been even funnier but way way way WAY more sad for me.

One of those cases where knowing exactly what’s coming to pass just makes it so much sadder.

[never-wake-up]

Get you a man that loves you like Lemony loves Beatrice

[icypiece]

Le Mort Joyeux, Charles Baudelaire

Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark), Unknown Mortal Orchestra

[herblay]

I like. Wanna figure out a graceful way to put honorifics in my English writing. And like this frustration is so near and dear to my heart because my first language has a formal/informal tense that is fucking. Impossible for me when I'm writing in English because I so desperately need it there. And it works the same vice versa, I struggle translating English to my native language because when and how do you take a decision to change a text in that way and when is it appropriate?

Ack. It's so. It's so difficult because English is not made for that and for me the swapping to the other language just ruins the sort of suspension of disbelief. It takes you out of the immersion. And when you're translating it's always good and proper and I love it when there's long appendices detailing those things out but when you're writing original/fanfiction that is in a different language than the setting or source work it's just such a difficult editorial decision to make.

I've kind of landed on. When you're writing your own thing you should follow the conventions of the language you're writing in (ie, no formal tense/honorifics/specific conjugations if you're writing in English) but still making it clear within the linguistic context of the setting what it would be otherwise.

This is a nuance that's hard to capture and I don't think I'm good at it yet? This is also why I genuinely feel that all translation is impossible without some degree of loss, like there's always a little bit of the original sense you're going to miss. And that's okay, and I accept that, but it SUCKS as a writer. Like I once wrote a short story set partly in Russia and it's INCREDIBLY HARD to capture the sense of familiarity in nicknames and patronymics in English, even if you just use them straight up. My friend who is a native Spanish speaker INSISTS that magical realism just does not work in English because there's an inherent loss. I can't enjoy translated poetry. It's one of those things.

Anyway all of this is to say I am rocking back and forth on the floor because man writing is so hard writing convincingly within a setting where you don't speak the language is hard writing in your second language is hard translation is hard everything is hard.

Just don't write I think.

[icarus-suraki]

Why am I reading so much 19th century French poetry in translation lately?

[sapphodryad]

started reading les fleurs de mal by baudelaire and the preface says the collection was originally supposed to be called les lesbiennes (the lesbians). absolute perfection, no notes, why did he ever change it

[bateauivree]

not gonna lie, I came a little