marchandeuse de sable

FR/ENG/JP + Mûre + call me by your pronouns + actually three @mure-sauvage in a trench coat

[questing-wulfstan]

#écrimûre : a masterpost of Mûre's fanfictions for The Sandman

+ What is a comb worth to a King ?

Dreamling | Teen And Up | 1377 words | Canon Compliant “... well, I would have expected the King of Dreams and Nightmares to have bed hair but you don’t actually sleep, do you ? How is it, your hair is as tangled as if you did ー and did not comb for several nights ? And how does it not look remotely the part ?”

+ Of dormice and teapots

Dreamling | Gen | 2391 words | Alternate Universe Hob Gadling used to not be so fond of dormice indeed; yet somehow or other and irremediably since he had started cohabitating with a creature who likewise relishes burrowing in paper, it has become his term of endearment of choice. There is much more than his sole typing cadence to Dream’s similarity with the small animal, after all. an ad lib of @nicolodigenovas's Reassurance

+ Of the manifold devices through which stories are told

Dreamling | Teen And Up | 2514 words | Canon Compliant #Hob wanders in the library of the Dreaming the night that follows his 1489 meeting with Dream #Dream has to deal with it In which a raven contemptuously picks on a worm and finds out there is more to his love for books than burrowing in their paper.

+ On the ductility of the constituent matter of bodies : an essay by Robert Gadling, PhD

Dreamling | Explicit | 2451 words | Canon Compliant Dream of the Endless is Shaper of Form, among a multitude. His own form above any other, for reasons diverse and counting pleasure among their number. Robert Gadling is a privileged witness of the phenomenon. an expansion of my ad lib on @lenreli Morphussy drabble

+ An EPIPHANY of POPPIES upon the BATTLEFIELD, or Robert Gadling and Delirium of the Endless' Adventures through No Man's Land

Gen | Explicit | Graphic Depictions of Violence | 27k words | Hob Gadling rescues Dream of the Endless from the Fishbowl April 1940, On a French battlefield, Hob Gadling doubts his will to persevere in being alive for the second time of his existence. He swallows morphine in the hope to soothe his horror-scarified mind, and summons a mirage of the stranger who occupied his thoughts as the patron of his immortality. In a Japanese psychiatric ward, Delirium of the Endless is alerted by Dream's irruption in her realm, who she found missing when she sought his company on her quest for the Prodigal. Disappointment overcomes her as she finds it was but an image of her brother conjured by a mortal, and so it does Hob when her eruption dismisses the vision. Delirium will not resign herself to her exponential loss of brothers however, neither will Hob Gadling withhold his aid from any entity in distress, whether the stranger or his younger sister ; they just might hold the might to liberate Morpheus between their four hands … written on the occasion of the @endlessbigbang 2023, with brilliant showstopping spectacular cover and illustration by the talented incredible amazing @mock-arts

[ranuunculus]

(OC)

[thirrith]

saw a photo of a fucked up sun bear on my dash

[thirrith]

despite the long hair on one of the parties involved this is not a heterosexual partnership.

[angstsplatter]

The more I sit with it, the more I get the ending of Bugonia.

SPOILERS

By her own admission, the Emperor became more and more selfish and angry the longer she spent on Earth. It's really striking to me, watching as the ending pans through just everyday, mundane scenes of all the people the Emperor just murdered, while she stands there, rather unemotional about it all. Scenes of a young couple in the midst of intimacy, a bride surrounded by family on her wedding day, children playing with toys and learning at the museum, a surgeon in the midst of either saving someone's life or trying to give them a better one. The first responders that came together to bring justice for the Emperor's own terrible experience. It's not scenes, as the Emperor would have you believe, of selfish, violent, and greedy humans fucking things up. It's everyday tender moments. It's moments of great joy or passion. It's moments of helping each other. And the Emperor ended it all because she stopped being able to see past her own desires and her own hurt.

[castlevolkihar]

i really love this shot in bugonia because there is something so dystopian and so weird about a shitty little osha violation of a warehouse having a framed portrait of the CEO in the center of the breakroom like she’s jesus. it’s such a small detail, but interesting to think about, ive been thinking a lot about it

more thoughts below, but HUGEEEE spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet—

it’s also really interesting how teddy’s hatred for michelle comes from him seeing her and her company as responsible for the state of his mother and while his belief that she’s an alien is genuine, it’s also kind of like some weird coping mechanism. at least that’s how i saw it— he can’t believe that a human being can be that evil and soulless, and he’s spent years falling deeper and deeper into conspiracy rabbit holes to try and cope and convinces himself that humans cannot do such evil things to each other. it has to be aliens working behind the scenes to torture us because if it isn’t and it’s just other humans who’ve sold their souls and stepped on the backs of anyone just to get on top, that’s no hero’s journey for him to take. that’s not humanity needing to be saved, it means humanity needs to be saved from itself.

that’s not to say at all that teddy is just “misguided” or “traumatized” and that excuses any of this— he still actively manipulates don and drags him along despite his hesitancy and his fears. teddy feels so out of control in his own life that having don at least makes him feel a bit more “in charge”, and in a way he becomes on a smaller scale exactly what he thinks michelle is; cruel, inhumane, silencing. let’s not forget him literally chemically castrating don after barely any conversation about it and not giving him the chance to say no, how does that make you any better than an evil chemist ceo experimenting on people? he doesn’t even let don speak for himself, the way michelle didn’t all those years ago when he was younger dealing with the side effects of the drug trial that his mom was under. teddy has become what he hates whether he realizes it or not, and ultimately it’s through his efforts to “save” humanity that he instead dooms everyone in the process. i think a lot of people fail to see teddy as being correct in his theory, not right or justified in his actions. when in reality, him and michelle are more similar than he can ever realize. teddy is an extremely tragic character warped by grief and mental illness in a world that doesn’t and never would care about him, and lost his humanity in the process of trying to save it long before he ever kidnapped michelle.

just my thoughts! i love a movie that really makes you think, definitely one of my favorite watches of this year

[muskoxen]

Went to see Bugonia knowing nothing about it other than it was probably going to be weird because of the director. And I really have to give the whole team a huge and heartfelt thanks, because right out of the gate, they made sexual assault and rape against the kidnapped CEO impossible. Genuinely, I was so so grateful for that.

[questing-wulfstan]

YES !!!!!

AND the chemical castration thing might seem rather inconsequential regarding the overarching plot otherwise, but the meta of it is actually so significant because it posits at least two things :

A) One doesn't need to rape their female character to traumatise them. Yórgos Lánthimos depicts an horrifying case of sequestration, and 'in spite of' the complexity and nuance of the characters that might make the viewer partially hold back on their sympathy for Michelle, she is depicted as thoroughly distressed and disturbed by the situation. At no point does she feel somehow 'less' traumatised because her sexual integrity hasn't been threatened. and

B) Violent behaviour in men isn't a fatality dictated by testosterone that they have no recourse for (or worse, that should be encouraged for the sake of masculinity). The movie has a field day initially depicting Teddy with this gentle, poised persona ; who has strong convictions, yet seems rather placid physically. Until he lets unresolved trauma and irrationality (admittedly provoked by Michelle !!) take the reins and lead him to extremely violence. While being supposedly free from testosterone-induced 'vile urges' ; belying them being at the root of the violence.

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[comment-day]

About This Event

You know when you leave a really long comment on a fic? Something that makes you go 'oh man if only I could bring this energy to my regular deadlines', but you just gotta tell someone how awesome their work is? What if we had a whole day celebrating that?

What is this event? Comment Day is a celebration of leaving comments on beloved fic, both to tell the author what their work means to you, and to appreciate reflecting on the parts of a work you enjoy! We all pick a fic (or maybe several fics, if you wanna go hard) that is our favourite, and work on a really detailed, fun, personalized comment, and on Comment Day we all go out and leave someone a comment that will make their day.

This blog will have tips and tricks about crafting a good comment, polls and graphics collecting stats for the event and a general celebration about how fun leaving comments can be. You don't normally get to tell the creator how awesome their work is with things like books or movies, we get to do that with fic, and isn't that fantastic?

Date: 15 September, 2024, whatever time zone that takes place in for you.

Tips on Commenting:

How to Embed an Image in an Ao3 Comment

Commenting on Fanfic Themes

Some Resources to help with Commenting

Comment Day Stats

Form

Form Responses

Ao3 Collection (so you can bookmark fics you commented on to a big collaborative collection).

Here

[transformativeworks]

[ranuunculus]

Sea Lion is up and free to read on Tapas!

Read Sea Lion | Tapas Web Community

Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!

[ranuunculus]

This is probably bold of me to ask but I'm French and always ridiculously giddy to see my native language in the wild, a fortiori associated to VK, so may I perhaps see the French assignment with the French you wrote for those pictures ? 👉👈

(Didn't send this in French as I didn't want to overwhelm you if that were above your French level but do reply in French if you'd like !! 🫶)

Thank you so much for the message; I totally understand where you come from… for me, coming across spanish-speaking vkei fans is a rarity! I’m glad the little silly drawings were nice to look at :,)

this is the full page! a daily routine…

[ranuunculus]

i was looking through my files and laughed a little at the french assignment i made again

[ashorterurl]

Uruha pspspsps

[themaybug]

"I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you."

-

i finished Gideon the Ninth yesterday, and oh boy. that ending 😭 please no spoilers for the rest of the series, i am going in blind and i'm very excited

[pinchinschlimbah]

Perceiving very attractive people while ace is such a silly experience, it feels like reading those tumblr tags where people are like “he’s so hot I need to **** *** ***** ******* *** *****” where you have no idea what words they’ve blanked out except despite me being the one writing it I also don’t know what the censored part says or what I want it to say my brain just kinda stops at the “they’re so hot I need to-” part and then ????? fuck if I know there’s just miscellaneous asterisks there instead of the rest of the sentence lmao

[grickle14]

Mondays were the worst.

[genderfluid-druid]

working on a theory of ballpoint pen disappearance using an equilibrium model.

problem: i bought a 36-pack of cheap ballpoint pens two months ago. I keep putting a new pen on the coffee table by my notebooks, and yet, there is never a pen there.

constraints: i live alone, so it's unlikely someone is stealing my pens.

hypothesis: there are many places where a ballpoint pen may be needed, and only one place where pens are introduced into the system. for example, when i take a notebook to the coffee shop to work, i put a pen with that notebook. in this way pens are dispersed to places where i use my notebooks. this is much like how gases expand to fill a container until they reach a uniform pressure, or water molecules pass across a semipermeable membrane until they reach a uniform water concentration, or heat passes between two bodies until they reach thermal equilibrium.

can we use such a model to predict the behavior of my ballpoint pen collection? what implications will that have? for one thing, it posits the possibility that one day my ballpoint pen collection will achieve uniform density across all the places where i may use a pen, and the pens will stop disappearing from my coffee table.

why is it that we have never observed such an equilibrium in practice? well, there are a few possibilities. perhaps the space my ballpoint pen collection is trying to fill is simply too vast, so that the ballpoint pen density at any one point is too low to be observable. perhaps the lifespan of a single pen is so short that there is, as it were, a leak in the system, due to pens dying and exiting the system (via the trash can). perhaps --

wait hang on. Fucking. Post cancelled. I just found three working ballpoint pens in the bottom of my backpack.

conclusion: there is a one-way ballpoint pen valve in my backpack.