#ninety three

[la-pheacienne]

Top 5 literary works written before the 21th century

I'll answer with my faves so this is highly subjective of course:

Les Miserables because I would have been someone else if I hadn't read that book at 14

The Great Gatsby because we stan delusional men with a pretty smile trying to repeat the past

Le Cousin Pons because old gay neurodivergent artists doomed by the narrative

For Whom the Bell Tolls because I need a room full of health care specialists before even attempting to talk about that book

Ninety-three (Hugo) because I cried for a week after finishing it

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

My eyes are a different mood. I have been repurposed to live for someone else.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins + Ship of Theseus by Rodney Gomez

x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x

[castratedvader]

He never let us kiss his hand. And to be so familiar with him as to kiss his cheek – was altogether unimaginable. Besides, I doubt I would have ever dared to touch him. But I did manage to steal a pair of gloves, which retained the creases of his fingers and even a mysterious smell of perfumes. At night I sneaked out of bed and I buried myself in these gloves, reveling in this dying echo of an aroma, I couldn’t separate my lips off of them – night after night I would spend hours praying like this.

Ninety-Three, Stanisława Przybyszewska (transl. by @hhorror-vacuii)

My true God was my father. At communion it was my father I received, and not God. I closed my eyes and swallowed the white bread with blissful tremors. I embraced my father in holy communion. My exaltation fused into a semblance of holiness. I aspired to saintliness in order to conceal the secret love which I guarded so jealously in my diary. The voluptuous tears at night when I prayed to God, the joy without name when I stood in his presence, the inexplicable bliss at communion, because then I talked with my father and I kissed him.

Winter of Artifice, Anaïs Nin

[the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever]

round 1, part a

[the-underrated-marius]

I painted La Tourg from Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo. You can see Michele Flechard in the foreground looking at her children in the window. It makes me sad. This was such a powerful scene. I loved the drama in painting this.

[claireverlasting]

Google is being a little shit so I’m asking here and hope someone sees it: Which English translation of Ninety-three and The Hunchback or Notre Dome do you recommend?

[janellefeng]

Some non-Robespierre pieces that I haven’t shared here aaa

[front-facing-pokemon]

[gl0wist]

She drives at ninety by the Barbie’s and Ken’s

[yamirexic]

dyeing my hair cherry red

expectation:

what it looked like the first time dyeing:

what it looks like after the second time:

[castratedvader]

Ninety-Three, Stanisława Przybyszewska (transl. by @hhorror-vacuii) // Winter of Artifice, Anaïs Nin

[la-pheacienne]

“In short, between men and women you want…" "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I said equality. I didn't say identity.”

Hugo was writing this in the year of our Lord 1874 and nobody is even talking about that book do I have to do everything on this hellsite

[possible-streetwear]

[lzrusrising]

sorry i cant go five minutes without mentioning 91w as if its my fault

[bishopmyrielfundraiser]

Offer #10 -- translation of Hugo’s writing by thearrogantemu

@thearrogantemu I’m offering a new English translation of Hugo’s writing, up to ~1000 words. Got a favorite passage you want to see a new take on, a poem, a letter, a chapter?

For background, I’m one of the people working on a Ninety-Three translation; we presented “The Limits of the Inexorable” at this year’s BarricadesCon. For an example of my work, see this translation of the beginning of the ‘loose cannon’ sequence from Ninety-Three.

Once the winning bidder sends me the text they want translated, I’ll send the translation back in about a week.

Opening Bid: $15

(See rules for bidding and offering here)