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alethioschronicles · 1 year

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Locke: If land is not used to its full potential, then its considered waste and one should take over the territory to use it properly

Ppl: But we still respect common land and land left to nature right?

Locke: ...

Locke: bUt LaNd WhErE fRuIt Is LeFt To RoT (...)

#philosophy #philosophy slander #locke #john locke #this man argued that colonising the British plantation in Carolina was justified #smh #philosophers these days #looking at you aristotle #i hate aristotle

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magpiesketchins · 1 month

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As a little Terry Pratchett tribute today I wanted to draw the two fictional men that have inspired me to create more than anything has in a long time.

And also a little tribute to the community surrounding these books that makes me want to share my creations instead of hiding them away. It's meant more than you know.

#sam vimes #vetinari #discworld #Terry Pratchett day #gnu terry pratchett #lord vetinari #Night watch #the glorious 25th of may #And if you squint #vetvimes #Just a couple of guys on an evening stroll #What of it #Or maybe this is us strolling along and talking about Characters like we're ancient philosophers

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redbuddi · 9 months

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yall will never know the whiplash of following a decent tmnt blog and suddenly seeing them post like "man i cant believe how many ppl believe in evolution don't they know the bible says x?"

like buddy. pal. friendo. you do know where the word "mutant" comes from right...?

#also on a more philosophical note while im not religious i always figured the whole #on the second day he made man thing was like #a metaphor #i mean its not like god theyselves wrote the bibble #i think there's some room for interpretation there pally

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hedgehog-moss · 4 months

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Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

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gearbroth · 1 year

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who put all these owls in my house smh

#owl house #toh #hunter #eda clawthorne #raeda #raine whispers #toh oc #ironstar gordon #toh deja theus #myocs #my ocs #a lot of these look slightly off sorry sdkhffsd #i was tryin to figure out how to art again after a couple weeks askdhdas #deja's my lil guy i love them #im more fixated on my other toh oc but yknow i still love deja too sdfkjhfsd #i be like- in love with raine and eda and makes an oc to have polyamourus epic gay love #and then a day later i hyperfixate on belos and then never stop fdskhjfhlkfsd #my bro (who introduced me to the show) was trying SO hard to get me to obsess over the wittebanes fdskjhdsf #it did not click for me until a solid week after binging the show x'D i was soley focused on raeda until FINALLY my brain just went *philip*#and now we're just obsessed and rant to eachother like every night like greek philosophers about the wittebanes and other parralels asdkhsa #anyway dies #belos is gettin his own post(s) later bc yknow #myart #-i was gonna post these tomorrow but new teaser screenshots got me hyped so sdfkjhsfd #posting these so i have time to post more doodles that are gonna get inspired x'D

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rotisseries · 2 years

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I'm bursting at the seams to talk about mike to anyone who will listen, but I feel exhausted just at the thought of explaining will

#mike wheeler #will byers #byler #stranger things #st4 #stranger things 4 #it's like at this point if you need detailed analysis on will you've got more problems than I can fix y'know?#explaing mike's queercoding to someone feels like you're socrates gifting the youth of athens with philosophical enlightenment #whereas being asked to explain why will is gay feels like you've spent the past 10 minutes #explaining something that someone should ALREADY understand #AND THEN you realize they weren't paying any attention and you've got to repeat literally everything #anyway this is a little bit related to my post from a few days ago about me rambling to my friend about mike #bc I know if she'd said ''explain will'' i'd've been like ''in the nicest way possible are you fucking blind?''

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bonefall · 6 months

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Does leopard still have 3 lives in her final battle? Or was that changed?

Yep. I think she drowned her once, then Leopardstar lunges up refreshed, and she gets the upper paw on Mistyfoot with 2 lives to go.

(MAYBE tw gore, but I really did try to be tasteful about a head being smashed on a rock.)

On her back, splashing and thrashing furiously against Leopardstar's claws dunking her head under, Mistyfoot glimpses a wave breaking just over the tip of a stone-blue rock. Her only chance.

With a surge of power, her claws sink into her leader's golden shoulder and they tumble and roll to the right. Before the tyrant even realizes what's happening, she's yanked up, and then whipped backwards with a wet CRUNCH

And then again

And again

And again, until Mistyfoot can't even make out what's left of her leader anymore. All she can see is that it's a red, brown, and yellow blur, because her eyes burning with salty tears and her whole body is trembling.

She drops the corpse onto the stone and it slides into the water, lifelessly. After a moment it spasms aimlessly one last time, like an insect does after its head is bitten off, unlike the deliberate, agonized throes of Tigerstar suffering through his doomed lives. And then it's still.

There's only the tranquil sound of bubbling water, and Mistyfoot's frenzied panting. Her pounding heart makes it hard to hear either.

The blood is carried off by the shallow water in scarlet swirls, but the lake runs pale red as if it's washing it away. Some were aware of this prophecy, but Mistyfoot was not.

It isn't closure to her, or a fulfillment of divine decree. It's just blood that should be on her paws, slicked away by the complicit river. She wished it could feel like it's over, but she's smart enough to know the truth. Has been through enough terrible events like this to understand what comes next.

Her body will move foward. Her mind will need to consider her deputy. Her paw will come down on code-defying cats like Blackclaw and Greenflower. But her heart will stay here, next to the remains of Leopardstar, the same way another piece of it remains at Stonefur's side across space and time.

#Tw gore #Juuuust in case but I did try to stay tasteful #While also trying to write it as gut-wrenchingly violent as I imagine in my head #Because it's important that it haunts her #The kill wasn't pretty and clean. It was awful. She didn't want this. It wasn't heroic #'Why did you do this to me? Why did you make this so cruel?'#'Why was the last thing you ever did to me such a horrible command as a leader?'#'And why did I obey your orders until the bitter bitter end?'#'How could you turn my defiance into a new kind of cruel obediance? Did I not suffer ENOUGH for you?'#'And now there is no head to bury with your body. I am cursed with the last memory of your face. I alone will know how you looked at me'#'That the last expression on your face wasn't pain or confusion or realization.'#'It was all fury. For me.'#OF COURSE tho I will continue to make funny rock jokes until the day I die lmaoo #Duality of Bones #Hmm maybe when I get to this in BB!TNP I'll be quick and objective about it and save the Misty Emotions for like...#I miss how the field guides used to have stories told in 1st person.#It would be fun to have a BB!Mistystar Speaks #Because I do LOVE writing Misty's verbose and philosophical speeches.#As you can see from the tags lmao #BB!Mistystar #Better bones au

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superfallingstars · 8 months

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Snapetober Days 13 + 14: Ephemeral + Perpetual

I liked that these two time-related prompts were one after the other. They're seemingly opposite, but really, they're two sides of the same coin. Through the act of memory, the ephemeral becomes the perpetual...!

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there-are-4-lights · 9 months

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from here

#this has been living in my head the past few days because all you ever see in debates is 'there are 2 positions (trans v conservative)'#and sometimes you get '3 positions (rightwing v trans v 'some feminists)'#and its so interesting to think 'which positions are made invisible here and why'#when debates are like 'youre pro trans or you're a rightwing nazi' then its obviously a 'nice dichotomy whats outside it' situation #but even with 3 positions this has made me more conscious of the secret 4th thing #like how rfsl in their opinion statements are very queer constructionist #but in their practical activism they are trans ideological #and they flipflop between those two positions #and whenever u call them out on it they just go 'we dont care about philosophical wibble we just want trans ppl to live their lives!'#your organisations core opinions are incoherent with eachother and we're pointing it out #jane clare jones

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yinyuedijun · 15 days

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I wish I carnally desired sunday . I keep on having delusions about a fic where he ascends to aeonhood and traps you in his mind palace and despite his character having religious heavenly imagery on a surface level, it's just dante's inferno in his brain (at least where you are) . maybe you make it to purgatory by the end of it lol

#something something he exposes his ugliest sides to you #i think you met in the like confession booth and you gave him a woefully meowmeow backstory and #and it was a bad day for him so he posed some philosophical questions to you and you basically gave him #a response that is a speedrun of the gay science by nietzsche and he becomes obsessed with you #yueshuo

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urfavtwat · 8 months

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We need to compliment one another more. Tell that person they look nice when you see they made and effort for work that morning, tell someone their food smells good when they got out their homemade meal. It takes literally 2 seconds and it could sit with someone all day and make them smile like why dont we do this more?

#look at me bein all philosophical #me chatting shite #someone told me i look smart today #that shit stuck with me all day long #even though my day went to shit #i still remembered #its that easy #me

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skinnypaleangryperson · 4 months

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#I don't understand how mentally ill people claim that they hate work #And don't come out of literally every single shift with about 5 #with every single new shift with about at least 5 #000 #New thoughts about how wrong this all is and how detrimentally painful it is and why #I've literally started writing a multi-million word along philosophical rant #to certain fictional characters that I pretend are my partners because I'm in so much pain every day that I have so much to say #that not even ranting about it on the internet comes close at this point #it relates back to that whole philosophy about how mental illness naturally creates creativity #because I'm not even meaning to write this damn novel or philosophical paper.#it's just the fact that I literally have to or I feel like I'm going to implode

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palatinewolfsblog · 10 months

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"The deep critical thinker has become

the misfit of the world,

this is not a coincidence.

To maintain order and control

you must isolate

the intellectual,

the sage,

the philosopher,

the savant

before their ideas awaken people."

Carl Jung.

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carrythatwayt · 11 months

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Endverse destiel, my beloved.

#endverse!cas #my philosopher king #endverse!dean #has a whole lot on his plate #destiel #destiel text post #destiel crack #dean winchester #castiel #i had no tumblr for 4 days and this is what happened

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quantum-bliss · 15 days

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If you must betray someone, don't betray a close friend. Friends love deeper than lovers, they share more easily, they go into the ocean of dispair with you, they make inside jokes with you, they cry with you, they go out of their way for your birthdays, they put smiles on your face, they convince you bad isnt that bad, they make life easier to live, they ride around going nowhere with you and they ride around going everywhere with you. To betray a true friend is to seek death, for what gain is it to lose your deepest memories and laughter to the night?

#life quotes #love quotes #writers on tumblr #quotes #spilled tears #spilled ink #poetry #heartbreak #philosophical quotes #quote of the day #love #unrequited love #friendship

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code31-onthedancefloor · 1 year

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dont get me wrong while uli learning disco dancing and other horrifically outdated ways to pick up dates with harry is absolutely fucking hilarious i feel as if he would naturally gravitate towards kim more. not just because of the nilsen parallel but because he wants to be taken Seriously. and here is this very Serious (lonely) man who is Serious (repressed) about the way he loves and he drives a car despite being legally blind (stubborn) and has beaten the odds of survival time and time again (at the expense of others; which he feels as if he does not deserve). ulixes will learn Something from kim but it certainly won't be related to how to get steban to like him.

#kim probably wouldnt let uli anywhere near his gun so shooting's off the table #their interactions are more akin to 'estranged uncle drives you to a pretty place and #you both stiltedly philosophize on whether the love is worth the grief'#and then he shows you his cool camera and maybe get into photography since ampoules are cheap #and then maybe you build a collection of pretty photgraphs. you're an amateur but surely steban will see the beauty of them. right?#countless nights and days. whenever kim's free to drive you around to places you've seen a picture in #and then you place a photograph between each page of a new book of theory and gift it to Steban.#what comes next? uh... i'll write this fic someday 🧍‍♂️🏃‍♂️#disco elysium #echo maker #ulixes bücher #txt #steban the student communist

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