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rosalind-of-arden · 4 days
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jess brightwell being so full of love and loyalty without ever knowing it from his family is my roman empire
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Umberto Eco "On Memory" (2015), interview transcript.
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rosalind-of-arden · 9 days
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Names
yes i am procrastinating essay due Friday, how did you know?
Have the following fun waste of time: everyone's name transliterated from roughly how they would natively pronounce it into the Greek alphabet as shown here (sometimes I have just fucked around with the transliteration for fun, like using ϲ for [s])
all corrections welcomed.
Τομαϲ Ϲρειμπ (note, the Koine Greek version of this name is apparently Θωμᾶς, so now I finally understand the h in the English spelling)
Τζεϲ Μπρειτουελ
Κριστοφρ Oυολφ (note, I have decided that Wolfe's actual first name is the Greek Christophoros (Χριστόφορος) and no-one can stop me)
Νικολο Ϲαντι (note this also has a Greek version, Nikolaos. Maybe I can get the Archivist calling him it or something lol)
Γλειν Oυαθν
Δαριο Ϲαντιαγο
Μοργαν Ωλτ or maybe Χωλτ, i'm not sure what they'd do with an initial 'H'.
Χαλιλα Ϲειφ (note, she started the whole idea because I was excited to do a language which unlike English at least recognised that her name doesn't natively start with a /k/). Oh also here is Khalila Seif in Arabic i think??? forgive me I don't know which way around it goes: سيف خليلا
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rosalind-of-arden · 9 days
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please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!
gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.
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SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:
diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.
non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.
the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.
now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.
if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.
if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.
this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.
it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.
but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.
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rosalind-of-arden · 9 days
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When the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger and the mask slips, it's great.
But when the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger, and the mask DOESN'T slip.
Because they understand they need to be calm and unflappable now more than ever; if it protects them, it will certainly protect the person they care about. So their voice doesn't waver, their hands don't shake. They don't panic. From the outside looking in, they're as calm as could be. They handle it.
But after it's over-when the person they care about is safe, and the unflappable character is alone-they completely shatter. Gasping breaths, sobs, barely holding it together because someone they love almost DIED, and it was far, far too close for comfort.
(Optional: Character that they care about finds them in this state and comforts them.)
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rosalind-of-arden · 9 days
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god it is genuinely fascinating how my fanfic daydreaming and idea production changes when I'm off the antidepressants.
(Note, by off I mean "forgot to get them re-filled again fml" but hey, we're finding silver linings here)
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rosalind-of-arden · 11 days
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Blitzø to Angel Dust, probably
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rosalind-of-arden · 12 days
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Caretaker sitting behind a very weak and semiconscious whumpee, holding their limp body upright against their chest. To get food or medicine or water into them, or to help fight off a chest infection, or to provide some comfort and stability while a wound is stitched...I will never not love this image
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rosalind-of-arden · 12 days
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things people do after having a nightmare that isn’t crying
struggle to catch their breath
grab onto whatever’s close enough to ground themselves in reality
become nauseous / vomit
shake uncontrollably
sweat buckets
get a headache
things people do to combat having nightmares if they occur commonly
sleep near other people so they can hear the idle sounds of them completing tasks
move to a different sleeping spot than where they had the nightmare
leave tvs / radios / phones on with noise
just not sleep (if you want to go the insomnia route)
sleep during the day in bright rooms
things people with insomnia do
first, obviously, their ability to remember things and their coordination will go out the window
its likely they’ll become irritable or overly emotional
their body will start to ache, shake, and weaken
hallucinate if it’s been long enough
it becomes incredibly easy for them to get sick (and they probably will)
add your own in reblogs/comments!
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rosalind-of-arden · 13 days
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Share a headcanon for one of your favourite ships:
Bucking my usual topics and going for what was actually my first Library ship despite how little I write for it: Jess/Thomas. Their idea of dates/couple time is to go and look at impressive architecture. Thomas gets inspired to create something related in some design or function way, and Jess plots how he could break in. They come away extremely mentally stimulated and happy and what do you know they both find the other way being mentally stimulated and happy a big turn on.
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rosalind-of-arden · 13 days
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My favorite thing to do to characters is give them chronic pain and hugs <3
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Gold and emerald necklace, Ptolemaic Egypt, 200-30 BC
from The Yale University Art Museum
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rosalind-of-arden · 13 days
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[dreamily] not only is he amoral cruel violent and manipulative, he’s also extremely annoying in his day-to-day interpersonal conduct
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rosalind-of-arden · 14 days
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If the only valid queer rep is explicit queer rep, that's a huge problem. There are lots of old books that simply could not include explicit rep. There are lots of new books that it wouldn't make sense for the rep to be explicit. There are a lots of settings where they're not going to take a moment and go "by the way, I'm bi, not gay."
There has to be room for subtextual and interpretative queerness, even when discussing a canon where queerness is never acknowledged as existing.
There also has to be room for people to disagree with those interpretations, and of course some interpretations will be more supportable, canonically, than others, and sometimes we simply won't be able to say "this character is that rep (as opposed to some other rep)" conclusively.
There has to be space in our readings of books to be comfortable with this ambiguity, and there has to be a minimum good-faith acceptance that if someone says "that book was queer to me," even if the book isn't explicit queer and doesn't read queer to someone else... that doesn't change the nature of the queerness.
Some of y'all really need to accept that there's not only one way to read a book, and there never will be, and that's okay.
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rosalind-of-arden · 15 days
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"the average scholar's postulants commit 73 acts of treason" is incorrect. library sedition wolfe, whose postulants stuck together for multiple years, were chased across several countries, broke into and out of prison multiple times, evaded assassination by the library several times per member, independently invented the illegal printing press twice and built at least four copies, deserted from the military and other contracted employment, stole classified documents, consorted regularly with smugglers and burners, committed identity theft, reneged on multiple deals, hijacked library property, built weapons of mass destruction, and staged a coup against the library involving armies from multiple countries and 2/3 of the library's own forces, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
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rosalind-of-arden · 16 days
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the dudes !!! redraw of this post from april lol
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