"Hazelthorn" by CG Drews, i've read "Don't let the forest in" and loved it, especially the writing. Like yes, thats how i want to write.
Also "An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth. I'm writing about musicians and just chose this book by instinct, not to mention i have a similar couple - a violinist and a pianist so i got curious.
Genuinely this is one of the most beautifully animated things I've seen since the golden age of animation. I could actually cry for how much love they put into this jfc what a beautiful homage
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The AI issue is what happens when you raise generation after generation of people to not respect the arts. This is what happens when a person who wants to major in theatre, or English lit, or any other creative major gets the response, "And what are you going to do with that?" or "Good luck getting a job!"
You get tech bros who think it's easy. They don't know the blood, sweat, and tears that go into a creative endeavor because they were taught to completely disregard that kind of labor. They think they can just code it away.
That's (one of the reasons) why we're in this mess.
It's a love story in reverse. A platonic passion between two people. On the one side, there's Ana, a charismatic woman in her sixties, former mayor newly retired, a wife and a mom. A fighter with a big heart commanding respect. On the other side, there's Zeno, a confirmed bachelor, bookseller close to retiring and PhD student whose thesis took him forty years to write. A free spirit and traveller, as charming as he is mysterious.
Over the years, they have woven together an impossible and inexhaustible love. While going through the excuses that prevented it to happen, we rewind the clock on this romance, with all its twists and turns... Until its origins.
I bawled my eyes out when I reached the last page, it was amazing.
It was probably the most touching and beautiful love story I've read since... forever, maybe. The art style and the colors were what drew my attention first, and what was inside was just as beautiful as the cover.
The backward narration timewise was a really interesting way to tell Zeno and Ana's story because we know that something happened for them to lose touch and miss each other throughout the years, but we're left wondering what until we get there. It also means that some details come back at different points in time and we only understand where they come from later (the lilies were my favorite). It feels like we're being rewarded for paying attention to what's being said and drawn.
Anyways, much much love for this graphic novel, I'll borrow another one by Jordi Lafebre at the library as soon as possible.
French version under the cut
C'est l'histoire d'un amour à rebours. Une passion platonique mais éternelle entre deux êtres. D'un côté, il y a Ana. Sexagénaire charismatique, ancienne maire tout juste retraitée, mariée et maman. Une battante au grand coeur qui impose le respect. De l'autre, il y a Zeno. Célibataire endurci, libraire proche de la retraite et doctorant en physique qui aura mis quarante ans pour terminer sa thèse. Un esprit libre et voyageur, aussi séduisant que mystérieux.
Au fil des années, ils ont tissé ensemble un amour impossible et intarissable. Tout en égrainant les excuses qui ont empêché qu'elle ne prenne forme, on remonte le temps de cette romance et de ses méandres... jusqu'à sa source.
J'ai pleuré comme une madeleine quand je suis arrivée à la dernière page, c'était incroyable.
C'est probablement l'histoire d'amour la plus touchante et la plus belle que j'ai lu depuis... peut-être toujours. Les dessins et les couleurs sont ce qui a attiré mon regard en premier et l'intérieur de la BD est aussi beau que la couverture.
La narration à rebours était un moyen super intéressant de raconter l'histoire d'amour de Zéno et Ana parce qu'on sait qu'il s'est passé certaines choses pour qu'ils se perdent de vue et se ratent au fil du temps, et on se demande comment ça s'est produit jusqu'à ce qu'on y arrive. Ça permet aussi d'avoir des détails qui se répètent et dont on ne comprend l'origine que plus tard (les lys étaient mon détail préféré). On se sent récompensé quand on fait attention à ce qu'il se dit ou ce qui est dessiné.
Bref, gros gros gros coup de cœur, j'emprunterai une autre BD de Jordi Lafebre à la bibliothèque dès que possible.
obsessed with watching behind the scenes clips of hyper-realistic cgi movies like lion king 2019 or avatar 2 and the director or whatever is talking about how since they used mocap or a fancy virtual reality camera the expressions and movements are extremely realistic and better than anything before, , and then on-screen it shows the most absolutely dead-eyed character i’ve ever seen lmao . like these side-by-side comparisons …man
its like theyre ashamed of it being animation so they have to try get it as realistic as possible, especially the d*sney remakes have this vibe*, .… and then everything looks absolutely soulless. also like immediately dated somehow?
and then you compare that to cgi animation like in arcane or spiderverse that isnt trying to be hyper realistic and its extremely expressive, like huge attention to micro-expressions and faces that are absolutely full of life., like look at this!!!! ⬇️
shaking n crying please realise that realism and cgi as close to live-action as possible isnt the final purpose of animation in cinema
(*sidenote, remember when lion king 2019 came out and the guy who made it was going around saying it was live-action for some reason.. that was wild . girl it is fully 100% animated)
For people who don't know who the Chevalier St George was:
- he was the son of a french aristocrat and an enslaved Senegalese woman called Nanon
- he actually had a relationship with his mother, which was pretty usual for children in his situation. I haven't been able to establish whether she was later freed or not, but I think she was because she left a will, suggesting she owned property
- his father legally wasn't allowed to make him his heir because of racist laws at the time, but he acknoledged him as his son and gave him a rich person's education and opportunities
- he was one of, if not the, greatest violinists of his generation, played first violin for the Paris opera and was violin teacher to the queen before the revolution
- he was in line to be composer and director of the opera but a famous dancer who was pissed off he didn't want a relationship with her started a petition to get his appointment blocked
- he knew Haydn and commissioned the Paris Symphonies from him
- Mozart's father tried to make him go and see St George perform because he thought it would be good for his musical education but Mozart was (it is speculated) jealous of there being another young music prodigy, and refused to go
- he was ridiculously handsome . Look at this, my guy is pulling off a powdered wig, do you know how hard it is to look good in a powdered wig?!
- he was considered one of the greatest duelists and swordsmen in france
- he fought a duel with the Chevalier D'eon, who at the time was living as a woman (we have no idea if D'eon was afab or amab but they made their reputation as a man and then later switched to presenting as a woman)
- he wrote incredible concertos and unbelievably terrible operas. The longest any of his opera's ever ran before being shut down was a couple of weeks. Some one lasted 1 night. He kept writing them.
- he joined the revolutionaries to otherthrow the king because they (falsely) promised to abolish slavery and emancipate all enslaved people
- he was a fantastically successful soldier and lead the first all black regiment in europe, which came to be known as the regiment st George in his honour
He's legitimately one of the most interesting figures in french history, and certainly one of the most romantic, and I'm so glad he might finally be getting the recognition he deserves!
I can't believe I'm shipping my own OCs, where one is the guitarist and lead singer of his own rock band that he organized with his girlfriend, and the other is a musical nerd/violinist with severe amnesia.
Guess who has a crush on who
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