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this is a tumblr hug, pass it on to your ten favorite followers and mutuals💖 <3
thank you! passing it on to @chaoticstabby @the-hopefulpenguin, back to you @atticusfinchthelegend and whoever else wants it :D
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Hello! May I translate your beautiful fic series "The architect, the dreamer" into Korean? Korean fans will love them!
Hi! Sorry for the slow response, been taking a break - please be my guest! I would love that so much :D Just link back to it on AO3? Thank you so much!
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Okay, on a more intellectual note, since I got that rage out of my system, I do think Wanda is an interesting case study as to what kinds of atrocities make a Character At the Start of Their Arc and what atrocities make a Tragic Villain Who Has to Die to Show That the System Failed them. Wanda is allowed to kill and harm countless people, movie after movie, and is treated as a misguided person on her way to eventually being a hero. Loki (though I enjoy him) is allowed to do the same, with similar treatment. But Erik Killmonger (N’Jadaka), or Karli Morgenthau, both have reasons and points, despite their methods, and they both have to die as martyrs to the more moderate characters, who will enact the murder-free version of their ideology once they’re gone. Wanda and Loki have no ideologies, really; only self-serving goals and power to carry them out. Erik and Karli are initially powerless (acquiring power through leadership of like-minded people) and very passionate in their ideologies, yet for some reason they are beyond help, beyond redemption.
And curiously, the exact middle-ground here is the villain from Spider-Man: Homecoming, who has a point and a sympathetic reason for his villainy and definitely does murder but who ends the movie alive, in jail, and treated with respect (since the film goes out of its way to show that he’s honorable enough not to reveal Peter’s secret identity).
Of course, obvious difference is: Wanda, Loki, and Vulture are all white, and Karli and Erik are people of color.
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Mermay Day 13
Another one that's les mis adjacent, cause this mermaid is an octopus!
“These animals are phantoms as well as monsters. They are, because they exist; if they were not, reason would be justified. They are the amphibia of death. Their improbability complicates their existence. They border on the human frontier, and people the region of Chimeras. You deny the vampire, the octopus appears. Their swarming is a certainty which disconcerts our assurance. Optimism, which is the truth, nevertheless almost loses countenance before them.” - Victor Hugo
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Inktober 04 - Barghest
she protects this cemetery
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“enjolras killed his friends and was also dumb and wrong”
The interpretation that Enjolras was a “naive little rich boy who got all his friends killed” is…certainly not new to this fandom, but it sometimes pops up in such an atrociously misinformed incarnation that I feel obliged to address it.
This interpretation itself is of course completely wrong, though perhaps encouraged by certain adaptations. But the idea that the rebellion failed because Enjolras “had no idea how to organize a revolt” and he just “ran around wearing a sash and shouting slogans at people”, and particularly that he “thought he could tell the working classes how to live better” is, frankly, appalling.
Enfranchisement during the July Monarchy was severely restricted, as voting rights were only given to males over 25 who paid 200 francs in direct taxes a year. So only about 1% of the population could vote—considerably less than even just the population of Paris alone. Since the voting pool was limited to wealthy, landowning men, elections swung conservative, and the regime supported policies intended to enrich the wealthiest bourgeoisie.
Not only were Enjolras and his friends disenfranchised, but they lived under an authoritarian regime and faced political repression and censorship. Do you have something called “freedom of speech” or “freedom of assembly”? Republican publications were routinely shut down by the government, and clubs and assemblies such as theirs were illegal. Members faced police raids, potentially large fines and months in prison.
Republicanism in the 1830s was a primarily working class movement. The majority of insurgents in the June Rebellion were working class. Enjolras, apart from also being a fictional character, is not a major player in the movement. He is the leader of a very small group that is affiliated with a few other groups in the area, and becomes the leader of a minor barricade during the June Rebellion. He is certainly not the orchestrator of the entire revolt, and it is ridiculous to suggest that, even fictiously, the reason for its failure is his own personal naivety.
You can debate the causes of the failure of the June Rebellion—of the insurgents to not march on the Hôtel de Ville or of the National Guard to not join the insurgents, or the brutality of the government’s reaction—it was not the failure of “the People” to rise, of whom an estimate of almost 400 were killed or wounded. Nor was the cause naive students running around inciting complacent workingmen to riot—rather a cholera epidemic that killed thousands, exacerbated poverty, and killed two prominent politicians.
If the failure of any people to rise is to be blamed, it might be the bourgeoisie, whom Hugo suggests were content with the gains of the liberal July Monarchy.
Enjolras is a highly effective leader. He’s a logical commander who takes care to not sacrifice more resources or men than necessary and is an exceptional (and most likely experienced) street fighter. His fictional barricade is inspired by the famous battle of the Cloître Saint-Merry in the same rebellion, which was used as symbol of republican martyrdom by later republicans. Hugo wrote it that way in order to illustrate what he saw as the sublimity of these men and the moment—he certainly did not see it as pointless or “ridiculous”.
Finally, the idea that Enjolras was responsible for the deaths of his friends or “dangerous to himself and his compatriots” is my most beloathed fandom invention. They were grown ass men who were just as devoted to the cause and just as willing to die for their ideals. Combeferre explicitly expresses his and the group’s willingness to die, and Grantaire obviously chooses to die with him. They were all capable of making their own decisions and it is weirdly infantilizing to suggest otherwise.
Why are people are so eager to make a mockery of Enjolras and his ideals?
Sources:
Ballots and Barricades, Aminzade
Barricades, Harsin
Proletarian Nights, Rancière
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if-fortunate · 2 years
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Reading the Brick be like
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'Grantaire, you're incapable of believing or thinking or willing or living or dying.' Enjolras looked scornfully at him.
'You'll see,' said Grantaire gravelly. "You'll see."
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One time a friend told me that if she wanted to have a chill night she would come to me and ask for tea and a book to read. I didn’t like tea at the time, but I always made sure my cupboards had them in case she needed a quiet night. One time I told my boss that I loved oranges, but couldn’t peel them because of my nails. For a year he made sure to peel me one at least once a week. Once my friends gave me a made up superlative of “most likely to have a pen they could borrow” and ever since I’ve made sure I always carry a pen with me. A long time ago, my high school librarian told me that no one would care what my grade in my sophomore chemistry class was if I’m bringing them doughnuts and asking them about their day.
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We do bones, motherfucker 💀💀⚔⚔
A Gideon inspired photo because it was sword shenanigan day (with shoutout to @if-fortunate because this is also her fault ;) )
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(gulls screaming in the distance) oh no
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I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.
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sometimes i really love my fics. i wrote that because i wanted to read it. i love it. nobody visits my fics more than me. they remind me that i’m a hard worker, that i created something. it’s mine and i cherish it and love it because it’s exactly what i wanted so i made it.
and other days i’m crippled by self criticism and hate everything and can’t bear to look at my own work because i know it’ll never compare to the greats
but i live for the days i love my work. because it’s mine, and i made it. i didn’t wait for somebody else to make what i dream about. i went and did it myself.
so don’t feel like your work is awful
it’s the stuff you dreamed about. it’s the stuff you decided to make a reality. it’s not about quality, or poetry, or how perfectly your sculpt your words or keep it so deeply in character; because it’s what you dreamed and it’s what you wanted to see, so you made it.
keep writing; it’s yours, and you made it. and if you want to continue to sharpen and improve yourself? then do it. it’s all yours and you can make it whatever you want.
keep writing.
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“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.
which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”
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death first to vultures and scavengers 🖤⚔💀 (all due credit to @chaoticstabby because this is entirely their fault 🖤)
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if-fortunate · 2 years
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english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
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"Sir" not in a masculine way but in a "heavily armored knight with an ambiguous gender and a very large sword" sort of way.
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