Vivre libre ou mourir

20s | she/her | obsessed with the French Revolution, Ancient Rome, and the Enlightenment | history, philosophy, lit, classics & 18th-century drama enthusiast | most likely haunted by Rousseau's ghost

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spill for me, Muse, the wine-dark tea on a problematic man

[classicalcanvas]

Seascape, Night Effect (1866) by Claude Monet

[diosapate]

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the ultimate Freudian slip

[amberkendslacy]

tag 10 people you'd like to get to know better

Tagged by my moots @fabienlaguna & @eww-raymondwaldo Thank you :)

Tagging: @susurrusilously @schwarznummer1 @some-lasombra-bullshit @sorrowfultales @lucyacid @bloody-vampire-dyke @vampemoqueen @arrant-knav3 @maxmuldoon @misery-loves-vtm

Last song: Narc - Interpol

Currently watching: Mmm not gotten around to it yet but want to watch The Vampire Lestat

Current obsession: VTMB2 and my own work lmao

Currently reading: A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (I fucked up my libby loan and started over on ebook, at 40% or so atm. I read it on the train ride to work. It's fun).

Currently working on: Sabbatical, Weaver Rouge & the one shot fic for the fledgling from VTMB1 in the Sabbatical-verse lol (Only one is getting any action lets be fr - I stg I will have the others done sometime)

There's also an X-men fic in my A03 that needs an update sometime soon as well lol.

Also also my vampire battle jacket. There's an alt picnic market thing in a fortnight and I want to wear my lovely work 😍

Last google search: 'Which instrument is playing first in Dracula 1992 - The Beginning' Like I know it's the cello but I need confirmation for fic purposes lol. I got no results and had to guess :/

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Thank you for the tag @theghostofbean ! ✨ I'm on the same boat with THOD...

Low-key no pressure tags: @theamazingmurderrocks @sparvverius @my-deer-friend @chaotic-history @essaytime @stalinistqueens @will-theclockwork @emilieduchatele @le-vieux-cordelier @sherdnerd

Last song: Dance Macabre by Ghost

Currently watching: Subscribed to the NT at home and saw an adaptation of The Seagull with Emilia Clarke in it. Feel slightly unwell about it. Safe to say it will stay with me for a long time

also, need to see more adaptations soon, so if anyone has them? 👉👈

Current obsession: The Odyssey kick (still debating whether I should see the movie or not). Also started playing Pentiment and it's so good.

Currently reading: staying true to my fiction + non-fiction at one time to switch between: re-reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (a beloved favourite of mine) & Robert Darnton's The Writer's Lot

Currently working on: my future? Maybe? Vagueposting as ever but wish me luck please <3

Last Google search: Disregarding the weather forecast, I looked up wedding cards ideas for my friend's wedding

[chaotic-history]

the girls are fightingggggg

[thoodleoo]

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

[janellefeng]

le 14 juillet

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katabasis but it's returning to work on Monday after a nice, chill weekend

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Guys! Athena’s beauty routine finally dropped! source

So here’s what you have to do if you want to have perfect skin while keeping that alpha grindset:

Wash your horses first even if you are caked in blood and dirt

Wash your mighty arms

Don’t use Perfume, rub yourself with manly olive oil only

Don’t do make up, don’t even look into a mirror, you already have a chiseled jaw and flashing eyes

Instead run 120 laps around a racetrack to give your face a natural blush

Comb your hair with a golden comb

Now you’re ready to compete for a golden apple

[eisbecherovka]

History is so good for nosy people

[yellowbelliedtoad]

"MONDAY, 12 JANUARY: Should have laboured. But time just elapsed, know not how."

— Journals of James Boswell (1778)

Me too, buddy. Me too.

[the-quasar-hero]

Assign an aspect of nature to prev

Waves at the beach

Rushing breeze through leaves

A crack of thunder

Flow of a river

The shine of a gem

Dancing embers of a flame

Torrential rain

Slow falling snow

An emerald sea of grass

Austere cliffside

A maze of roots

The endless oceans

Voting ended onJul 11

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I'm sure there are many perfectly valid reasons for which to criticise Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

I'm also convinced that much of the criticism directed at her work online is rooted in misogyny.

Both of these can be true at once.

[most-sane-classicist]

i feel like the fact that so much of the so-to-speak 'hype' around her translation being because she's a woman is quite annoying, because now any criticism can be labelled as misogyny, which is rather unfair to be honest.

Shame we dont recognise the actually great female translators and all of this 'woman translator' stuff got centred around wilson and wilson only.

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Labelling *any* criticism as misogyny is unfair, and only serves to stifle the discussion. That, in my view, doesn't mean it's always unfair to point out that some of the criticism directed at Wilson stems from misogynistic bias.

Again, going back to the earlier point about statements a & b both being able be true at once.

For me, it's usually the difference between criticising the work of a female translator (more than fair, any work should be open to criticism) and criticising the work of a female translator with the core arguments being tied to the fact that she is a female translator (here the m-word usually applies imo).

I'm definitely all for uplifting female translators. (Would die for D. L. Sayers). But surely we can celebrate them without the need to tear other women down.

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I'm sure there are many perfectly valid reasons for which to criticise Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

I'm also convinced that much of the criticism directed at her work online is rooted in misogyny.

Both of these can be true at once.

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[my-deer-friend]

If you ever wondered why writing a dissertation/thesis takes so damn long, this has been my day so far.

Me: Okay, I should probably add a paragraph about the contextual late-18th-century understanding of republicanism. Let me read over a key text to make sure I'm being accurate. [downloads a 42-page book chapter] Me: Hmm, okay, on page one of this chapter they're expecting me to know some nuanced things about civic humanism. Better just brush up real quick. [downloads 9-page primer from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Me: Okay, cool, but there's some stuff in here about Machiavelli that I really should read in its annotated source context, because that's what my history guys were working from. [downloads 283-page book on Machiavellian political philosophy with source texts] Me: Oh, for fuck's sake-- [downloads Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics]

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how it feels like doing research:

[7pleiades7]

La muse de la Poésie pleurant la mort de Voltaire (The Muse of Poetry Mourning the Death of Voltaire) (1785) by Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (French, c. 1770 – 1815), oil on canvas, 93 cm (36.6 in) x 73 cm (28.74 in), Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, France