Le Laid c’est le Beau

Βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ 🌀art here: @k_vily 🌀Interests: -the sublime -the grotesque 🌀hater of hegemonic media 🌀Letterboxd: @lafcadia

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this diva

my insta

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necromancer

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vautrin

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montparnasse

[sainteverge]

to les miserables fans i’m reading about republican militants in prison post june 1832 and there were apparently within the political quarters trials organised by the republicans to punish certain other prisoners who had been placed there by the police to “discredit” the republican movement. françois-vincent raspail (who presided over the société des amis du peuple until its dissolution) notably mentions one gay man who had been put in the political quarters of the sainte-pélagie prison by the police to essentially present the republicans as a bunch of sissy criminal faggots and was “trialed” by the republicans then “punished” (violently beaten) by the prisoners. the republicans were not united in their political trajectory either and often argued and sometimes fought among themselves, even within the members of the bourgeoisie. raspail himself was “trialed” for having calumniated the republicans and had to barricade himself in his (private) cell for several days. typically he supported traditional charity over organisation.

at least 2/3 of the republican political prisoners were working class, which is significant, but under the july monarchy they usually had short sentences—the bourgeoisie often served longer sentences which later served to present some of them as martyrs. while there being a vast majority of working class prisoners is logical, it’s also important to mention that the police would categorise infractions that were not necessarily political, committed by working men, as political, to discredit the republican movement, in order to depict republicans as hooligans. like smashing a streetlamp. those people were then placed in the political quarters for a short time before being transferred to other prisons with other common law prisoners. despite those brief stays, working class political prisoners still represented a majority of the incarcerated republicans. as witnessed by gérard de nerval who describes dormitories with 40 beds for the workers and costly private cells for the bourgeoisie.

all this information comes from jean-claude vimont, la prison politique en france: genèse d’un mode d’incarcération spécifique XVIIIe-XXe siècles (1993)

btw this is raspail in sainte-pélagie in 1833 lol does he remind you of anyone

[junglejim4322]

Haven’t seen the vampire lestat yet and I don’t need to because I know it’ll just be this

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jeanne moreau the inventor of nipple pasties

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every time i think of ana torrent, man. before the age of ten she had acted in not one but two of the best Spanish movies of all times…

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tagged by @sainteverge ! ty!!

the last book i read: last book i've finished was Ryan North and Albert Monteys' comic adaptation of comic of slaughterhouse five i think. haven't read the novel yet but it seems like a good adaptation to the medium! vonnegut gets kudos for speaking of yank war crimes in ww2, but his stance seems a bit laissez faire conformist in some aspects. i also love how he process flashback trauma as a sci fi device, definitely a writer to check out soonish.

a book i'd recommend: puig's la traición de rita hayworth. anythyng by gambaro/osvaldo lamborghini, plata quemada by piglia, cellini, idk my trash men classics. some nerval, some borel, it depends a lot on what the person likes and what they can parse, but those are some of the ones i usually rec/mention. bataille seems like a compelling thinker.

book i've read twice or more: the vautrin novels.

a book on my tbr: too many

a book i've put down: way too many, but the last was a piglia one. not bc i didn't ike it, but bc i couldn't focus much. respiración artificial. super enjoyed lots of it tho, and the concept of it. (although i admit i wish piglia had written more abt gay bandits!) looking forward to getting back to it.

a book on my wishlist: muños and sampayos' carlos gardel comic. barbebleue illsutrated by carlos nine.

a favorite book from childhood: asterix.

a book i'd give to a friend: depends, depends. i like to gift billy budd to people lol lol. a puig maybe

a book of poetry or lyrics that i own: a bilingual copy of les fleurs du mal that i have never read in full

a nonfiction book that i own: waay too many

what i'm currently reading: huxley's the devils. the trials of gilles de rais by bataille

what i'm planning on reading next: maybe slaughterhouse five

tagging: @saltedpin @datengokusensen @mariaending @parkgoth anyone else who wants to!!

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Tumblr is boring without uuuuu

;_; aaaw (thank you tho! i have been dealing with some muscular pain, so im avoiding recreational use of devices a bit these days. and working out, so hopefully i'll get super strong fast and be able to nerd out in an excessively impassioned manner over here again!!)(if you use discord i am somewhat more active over there, so if you ever wanna chat let me know!!)

[homochondriac]

The Hitcher, 1986 dir. Robert Harmon

There is something strange going on between the two of you. I don't know what it is. I don't want to know.

[pulsingvoid]

i can't do this anymore guys. dostoevsky never wrote this. please. can anyone hear me. if you do proper research the earliest version of this quote is from like a 2010 facebook quote with a magenta flower on it. it's gotten so bad that it's even credited to him on goodreads but nobody can source where he wrote it because he fucking didn't. i can't keep seeing this in your web weaves. dostoevsky the author of crime and punishment did not in fact write "you were destined for me. perhaps as a punishment". that is just simply not true. please nod and tell me you understand

[foggyeyes]

"this quote was attributed to me. perhaps as a punishment." -dostoevsky

[twinktorturer]

the best thing a man can be is gay and suicidal and miserable and utterly unlikable and unpleasant to be around and prone to addiction and abused and traumatized and not breaking the cycle and

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"This is not one of the hoaxes in vogue in the year 1830, when every author wrote his "tale of horror" for the amusement of young ladies." -> balzac in the prologue of his elixir de longue vie, just fun to run once again into the notion that women were the main consumers of horror stories in the french 1830's

(also, longue vie is a very good story that yes, reads exactly like a frenetic/romantisme noir. it's so young in the best way, and although the ending comes too abruptly it's very heavy metal album cover and i love it. it also lacks that annoying self imposed bourgeois morality that balzac adopted in later years, so you get some fun courtesan characters sans tragique deaths and all that crap. to the vautrin/lucien enjoyers, i found some useful information to extrapolate from the relationship between don juan and his father. it's also easy to see which elements derive from bazlac's own personal experience,a nd i honestly appreciate when a writer puts himself out there, no matter how bizarre. or especially then, his personal experience is)(the prologue also relates how the idea for the story was given to Balzac by a long dead friend, who probably read it in agerman almanack, i immediately thought of nerval, but he was alive at the time of that republication (1846) so whoo is the mysterious frenetic romantic long dead by 1846 friend!?!?? i wanna know)

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sick at home, watching plata quemada fan edits from cambodia, set to lana del rey songs. (just happily surprised to see how far the movie has reached, hope marcelo piñeyro knows abt this)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Josephine Sacabo.