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Discovered photobashing and of course I had to try it out with the Greek class
she bunny on my corcoran till i leave donne and walton on the shores of metahemeralism and wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore
The first autumn rains come without warnings ✨☂️
Hear the hums, feel the drums,
Make it joyful, loud and clear :
The Parade, old friends...
The Parade is here ❤️🔥
What was the general inspiration behind smoke? If I’m allowed to ask, why did you end the story the way you did? Is there anything you envision Adam doing after the ending or do you think the reader should make that up in their own mind?
Hi!
I think the general inspiration was my will to mix classic noir stories I enjoy (The Sicilian Clan, Goodfellas, The Power of the Dog [the book by Don Winslow], LA confidential...), a queer storyline I would have loved to see earlier in my life, and also a love letter to unifinished stories, things that were not meant to be.
Lalaland was one of my biggest inspo, and a movie that struck me to my core when it released. There is something charming to just know it could have been wonderful, and that sometimes, what you always wished for is not what will make you happy in the future, and all you have left is to cherish the time you had and move on. There is beauty in broken things, and all of them don't have to be fixed to be precious.
I feel like Jules story is a story of growth and resilience, and that learning to know who you are, and who you were afraid to be, and see yourself turn into that man... It is terrifying, but you move on, cause life goes on and for some it doesn't. I also appreciate the idea that your characters don't have to be good people. Jules is a terrible one — you just see the story through his lense.
Also, for the part about Adam : there will be an other story. More news soon ❤️🔥
Some ideal careers:
lighthouse keeper in the Scottish Highlands (I will become a selkie at some point)
ghost ballerina
calligrapher for a capricious but ultimately lovable member of the royal family
librarian of Alexandria
gondolier in Venice with a secret identity as a master jewel thief AND a mysterious masked pianist
vaguely mad scientist trying to invent love potions
sheriff of a small town where nothing big ever happens except for when it finally does
private investigator with a bomb hairstyle
sleepwalking astronomer
taxi cab driver who may or may not be immortal
cigarette girl in one of those 1920s nightclubs
linguist and translator who gets to travel the world
person who gets to train emotional support dogs and take them to cheer people up
caretaker of a secret garden in a goblin kingdom
author of cozy murder mysteries
proprietor of a haunted used bookstore accessible only through a secret passageway
medieval military strategist
fae harpist
ancient Greek shepherdess who maybe has the gift of prophecy
muse for a slightly crazy artist
fast-talking peddler of antiques who travels exclusively in a decadent wagon
the Loch Ness Monster
knight-errant caught in a time loop
anonymous woman in a mysterious ethereal portrait
small-town postal worker with an amazing stamp collection
spunky governess in a mansion for a man who may or may not be a vampire
sailor on a lonely freighter in the Arctic Ocean
florist who specializes in bouquets of flowers full of symbolic secret messages
person who tests water slides
1950s soda jerk in an ice cream parlor
hermit living in a lone cabin in the alpine woods accompanied by a pet wolf
artist who creates intricate miniature sets for movies
food critic who travels around trying delicious soups and sandwiches and desserts in small town kitchens
goddess of the things people lose in the sea
Mandalorian bounty hunter
philosophy student who stumbles onto a conspiracy at a centuries-old university
princess in a tower (with a cone-shaped hat)
gas station attendant single-handedly holding off the apocalypse
person who catalogues new animal and plant species discovered
wife of Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator (yes this is a career)
mermaid brought onboard a pirate ship
charcuterie board designer
mistress of the Labyrinth
recorder of whale songs (may or may not be an alien time traveler)
overworked coffeeshop barista who moonlights as a love advice columnist
gargoyle who comes to life in the moonlight
intrepid mapmaker and explorer
sexy dark academia professor / vampire hunter
cloistered nun who tends a vegetable garden and makes beeswax candles, soap, and lip balm
cherry blossom nymph
nighttime ferry operator
sketch artist and insect taxidermist
aquatic aerialist in the SeaWorld dolphin shows
isolated radio station host in a spooky town narrating the end of the world
spunky Egyptologist deciphering hieroglyphs on the pyramids
fortune cookie writer
paleontologist who discovers a fossil in a place it shouldn't be
sculptor with the power to bring statues to life
statue that comes to life
professional ice figure skater
garden fairy who lives inside a rose
girl cursed by the narrative and trying to find her place in it all
traveling marine park ranger who drives a mobile home, busts poachers, and saves local wildlife
medieval historian
borderline insane inventor who is determined to fly to the moon
remote bus station ticket agent
whimsical tea room hostess
horned queen whose profile is on the national coinage
marine biologist in an underground Antarctica bunker where I am super warm and cozy
curator of Ancient Artifacts museum
forest maiden with a siren song voice who transforms into a swan at daybreak
baker who makes tiny intricate gingerbread villages
circus mime on the run from gangsters
the Pied Piper of Hamelin
medieval manuscript illuminator and poet
aspiring ballerina at a centuries-old training school
World War II undercover agent at a European convent / monastery
candlelight storyteller who travels the desert and only comes out at night to warn protagonists about coming horrors
ghost haunting an abandoned but peaceful house succumbing to foliage
architect of dreamscapes
person who blows up balloon animals
oceanographer and seashell identification expert in a small seaside village
owner of a sunny villa and vineyard in southern Italy
moon goddess
extraterrestrial investigator in a remote forest
pirate captain whose fate is inextricably tied to the sea
temple zookeeper in an ancient Egyptian menagerie
teacher at a whimsical school for things like letter-writing and cross-stitching
curator of a haunted wax museum
chocolatier who creates seemingly impossible yet delectable masterpieces
lamplighter
plague doctor
bell-ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral (hump optional)
mysterious puppet-maker and puppeteer
vagabond with a knapsack and a train ticket to anywhere in the world
jewelry model with ties to the jewel-theft underworld
sassy butler with secret martial arts skills
undercover castle maid who falls in love with a member of the royal family
woodland apothecary
curator of a library of elaborately decorated dollhouses
small-town Alaskan hockey team manager
stained-glass window artist
member of a benevolent biker gang
actress in a perfume commercial
time travel agent who gets to wear awesome outfits and occasionally experience devastating heartbreak
Princess of Atlantis
astronaut stranded in space with a library of books to be read
owner and operator of a bakery in fairyland
birdhouse builder
ethereal Appalachian hollow bluegrass singer who is present at every mountain funeral
ice sculptor
lady-in-waiting caught in a time loop at a masquerade ball dancing with my forbidden true love
topiarist for a grand estate
brewer of unique perfumes and fragrances
tour guide at a bustling planetarium
enigmatic gunfighter who comes to town to settle a vendetta but ends up saving the town from trouble
Edwardian switchboard operator
cryptographer who works in the underground castle library
star-catcher living at the edge of the universe
archaeologist excavating the lost cities of Pompeii, Atlantis, Ys, Troy, etc.
carrier pigeon trainer
crime-fighting cyber assassin (with amazing eyeliner)
singing telegram on Valentine’s Day
court jester whose duties involve insulting the king, sampling the royal banquets, and spying on the king's trusted advisor
volcano spirit who can shapeshift into a phoenix
enigmatic singer at an otherworldly nightclub
fortune-teller whose shop appears at sunset and vanishes at sunrise
storm chaser
dragon rider
quirky fashion designer in 1950s Paris
person in witness protection program who ends up falling in love with the bodyguard
steampunk clockmaker
sleep-deprived hacker who gets to say "I'm in" all the time
the Lady of Shalott
𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔰
Can't wait for detention.
“you’re a writer, right?”
me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.
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I haven’t seen anyone comment on how many Bunny & Charles parallels there are in The Secret History…
Them both being the first ones to actively go against Henry— Bunny for the Battenkill murder and Charles for Bunny’s murder. Both for what we can assume are moral reasons, at least to an extent. While everyone claims that Bunny’s disagreement with the murder has nothing to do with the actual immorality of it all, it always appears that he does, especially with the whole scene where Julian says that Bunny’s been questioning him about Sin and Forgiveness, and that he thinks he’s going to go to church, when Bunny has stated to be one of if not the least religious out of the whole group.
Dare I compare the desperation and borderline insanity of Bunny and Charles towards the end (if we believe that the written note actually was from Bunny, because I’ve seen people argue it’s not and it’s actually a pretty convincing argument). Both of them thinking that Henry was going to kill them, both of them trying their hardest to live (Bunny being found with dirt under his nails because he was grabbing at everything while he fell; Charles trying to kill Henry).
Francis calling Charles an old friend just like how Charles (and Henry himself) described Bunny/Henry… okay… (pages 192, 62, and 457)
Also Camilla saying she knows Charles better than anyone just like how Henry says he knows Bunny better than anyone. (Pages 484 & 192)
Charles, after everything happens with Bunny and Camilla, bursting into rooms without knocking just like Bunny used to. (Pages 515 & 455)
Charles falling away from the intellectual/academic aesthetic they all have going on, the one that Bunny never fit, after everything happens. Especially on page 520 when he’s yelling at Henry…
Henry pointing out the he wouldn’t use the word “kidnap” when talking about Charles, just like he said the whole “I prefer to think of it as a redistribution of matter” when discussing Bunny.
At the end, Marion marrying Bunny’s brother (who looks just like him) and Francis marrying a blue-eyed blonde (just like Charles).
These are only the ones I can remember off the top of my head, but I find it very interesting!
Could you elaborate on the nobody pun in Greek? You got me curious
hmm i’m actually not sure if i can but we’ll see!
the first important thing is that ancient greek has two negative particles, μή (mē) and οὐ (ou), and they vary depending on the precise nature of the verb/clause (οὐ is used with indicative verbs and μή with imperatives, οὐ negates fear clauses and μή negates conditional statements, οὐ goes with negative natural result clauses and μή with negative actual result or purpose clauses, etc).
the second important thing is that the ancient greek for “no-one” or “nobody” is built by combining one of those negative particles with the word τις (”someone”, “somebody”), so you would use either μήτις (mētis) or οὔτις (outis) depending on whether μή or οὐ would be the fitting negative particle in that context.
and the third thing is that capital letters, punctuation, and spaces between words, in homeric greek, mean nothing because homer 1) is oral poetry and 2) was initially written down, when it was written down in all caps with no spaces, punctuation, or diacritics.
odysseus tells the cyclops Οὖτις ἐμοί γ᾽ ὄνομα, “Nobody is my name,” using the form οὔτις.
and then here’s the exchange later:
ἱστάμενοι δ᾽ εἴροντο περὶ σπέος ὅττι ἑ κήδοι: “τίπτε τόσον, Πολύφημ᾽, ἀρημένος ὧδ᾽ ἐβόησας νύκτα δι᾽ ἀμβροσίην καὶ ἀύπνους ἄμμε τίθησθα; ἦ μή τίς σευ μῆλα βροτῶν ἀέκοντος ἐλαύνει; ἦ μή τίς σ᾽ αὐτὸν κτείνει δόλῳ ἠὲ βίηφιν;” τοὺς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἐξ ἄντρου προσέφη κρατερὸς Πολύφημος: “ὦ φίλοι, Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν.” οἱ δ᾽ ἀπαμειβόμενοι ἔπεα πτερόεντ᾽ ἀγόρευον: “εἰ μὲν δὴ μή τίς σε βιάζεται οἶον ἐόντα, νοῦσον γ᾽ οὔ πως ἔστι Διὸς μεγάλου ἀλέασθαι, ἀλλὰ σύ γ᾽ εὔχεο πατρὶ Ποσειδάωνι ἄνακτι.
i’ll translate it once from polyphemus’s perspective, with his understanding of what everyone is saying:
standing around the cave, they asked what could be troubling him: “why are you shouting so much, polyphemus, as if you’re in pain, and keeping us awake at night? nobody is driving off your sheep! is nobody killing you with trickery or force?” strong polyphemus addressed them from his cave: “friends, nobody is killing me with trickery, not force!” and they replied and spoke winged words: “if nobody is hurting you and you’re alone, well then it’s impossible to escape zeus’s sickness, just pray to dad, lord poseidon.”
but the other cyclopes have a very different understanding of the conversation:
standing around the cave, they asked what could be troubling him: “why are you shouting so much, polyphemus, as if you’re in pain, and keeping us awake at night? is someone driving off your sheep? is someone killing you with trickery or force?” strong polyphemus addressed them from his cave: “friends, nobody is killing me with trickery or force.” and they replied and spoke winged words: “if nobody is hurting you and you’re alone, well then it’s impossible to escape zeus’s sickness, just pray to dad, lord poseidon.”
when they say ἦ μή τίς σ᾽ αὐτὸν κτείνει δόλῳ ἠὲ βίηφιν; they mean it in the sense of “is someone killing you, either by trickery or force?” (a question of whether injury is happening), but he hears it in the sense of “nobody is killing you! is it by trickery or force?” (a question of how the injury is happening). and he answers by saying Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν, which he means as “Nobody is killing me by trickery, not by force,” (an answer to how the injury is happening) but they hear it as “nobody is killing me, neither by trickery nor by force” (a negative answer to whether injury is happening). but the greek is the SAME and the scene plays with ambiguities in greek that kind of have to be resolved in translation.
the pun is made more complicated by the fact that all the time the other cyclopes use μήτις and μή, since those are the forms that fit their sentences, and polyphemus uses οὔτις and οὐ, which are the forms that fit his sentences, but he’s actually using οὔτις as a name, not because it fits. so they say “nobody” and he says “no, Nobody,” and they respond, “yeah, nobody,” because of the two different ways of saying “nobody.” not sure if that makes any sense but. it is very clever in greek. it does work incredibly well in english, especially if you play with the capital N of Nobody that a reader would see but would know the cyclopes can’t hear. but there are more things going on in the greek.
Words to describe blood without saying crimson or blood?
Blood—the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body
Arterial - relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills
Body fluid - a fluid or fluid secretion (such as blood, lymph, saliva, semen, or urine) of the body
Carmine - a vivid red
Cerise - a moderate red
Claret - a dark purplish red
Clot - a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood
Cruor - obsolete: the clotted portion of coagulated blood
Ensanguine - to make bloody; crimson
Geranium - a vivid or strong red
Gore - blood, especially: clotted blood
Hematic - of, relating to, or containing blood
Hematoid - resembling blood
Hemoglobin - an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after surrender of its oxygen
Hemoid - resembling blood
Ichor - a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge
Incarnadine - bloodred
Juices - the natural fluids of an animal body
Maroon - a dark red
Plasma - the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material
Puce - a dark red
Ruddle - red ocher (i.e., a red earthy hematite used as a pigment)
Russet - a reddish brown
Sanguine - bloodred; consisting of or relating to blood
Scarlet - any of various bright reds
Vermilion - any of various red pigments
Word Lists ⚜ Blood ⚜ Exsanguination ⚜ On Blood ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs
new chapter of Sunny Ithaca out and proud here! will this odydio sketch buy me forgiveness for not having updated it for over a month i wonder
Don't you guys find it incredibly poetic how Odysseus got wounded and scarred by a boar and ended up having a perfect field chemistry with Diomedes who is a descendant of a person known to be associated with the symbol of a boar?
Food for thought
Ita vero, cibus cogitationi!
Diomedes kicked Ares' ass.
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