#paris burning

[a-personiftranslator-moved]

all people who personify human collectivities (except mutuals i’ve already seen yours) tell me how your personifs work (or tell me where i can read about how they work) NOW. i’m trying to come up with More Terms to categorize these systems and i want to find commonalities in those systems and i need more reference data

[a-personiftranslator]

i mightve run a poll like this before but i don’t remember

did you like history before joining your personification fandom? are polities people?

liked history before, polities are people

liked history before, polities are not people

did not like history before, polities are people

did not like history before, polities are not people

Voting ended onMay 12

explain why/why not in tags

[forever-a-lake-effect-kid]

its soooo hard to talk about this without doxxing myself but like. okay so. like many new england towns my hometown is named after a city in the british isles. the city its named after is a lot bigger and more well known then my city but my city is the biggest city of its name in the us. and the people of my city really like the city we're named after, take a lot of pride in the heritage it implies, etc. and the feeling, to some extent, goes both ways— a couple from my town's namesake came all the way here for my town's 250th anniversary!! and anyway. i just feel like. not in all cases necessarily, but certainly in cases like these, cities might think of the cities/towns named after them as their kids in a sense. and when that couple came to visit, it was like my town's mom sending a birthday card 🥺

[chaoticfandomthot]

@thecitysmith

Is this too specific

[bundibird]

“I want to save you!” Grantaire burst out. “I wanted to introduce you and Combeferre to Athens. I wanted Bahorel to drink with Edinburgh, and Feuilly to finally meet Warsaw. I wanted us to travel to America and Asia. I wanted to show you everything, to give you everything, to see you argue and win over every City, to meet Madrid and Lisbon and London- alright- maybe not London- but-” he laughed wetly.

We've entered the "every second line of this fic from here on out will make you cry" stage of things.

(Paris Burning by thecitysmith on Ao3)

[bobafish]

Oh my gosh I'm actually speechless right now. WHY HAVENT I HEARD IF PARIS BURNING EARLIER????? THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST POETIC FICS IVE EVER READ AND IM JUST AT CHAPTER 6??!?!?? AJDGAJDVDAJDVAAAACAGDFVFGBRIRVWIDBSIRNSKWLP

No seriously it's guy wrenching, it's so good, this is just art. Like are you kidding me there are literally historical references???!!!!! I'm so obsessed

And like the sun, she had burnt.

And like Icarus, he had fallen.

DHDGFHAHRJSOFJISHEQIEH

[sentientcitysmackdown]

ROUND 1, MATCHUP 11

[ID: The cover of The City & The City, by China Miéville, and a picture of a crowd in Paris taken from Les Miserables and with fire drawn very badly on it. The letters "VS." are between them. End ID.]

Two of the most interesting entries, in my opinion! Beszel and UI Quoma, from The City & The City, are actually two cities in one, somehow existing as separate, unique city-entities in the same physical location due to Weirdness. And a spy agency might be involved? Paris Burning originated as a Les Miserables fanfiction, in which Paris is alive and personified as Grantaire, and then from it sprung a fandom of its own and a whole universe of personified cities! Both exciting competitors in their own rights: but who should proceed?

Beszel and UI Quoma or Paris?

Beszel/UI Quoma

Paris

Voting ended onApr 9, 2023

[irrealisms]

turgon & gondolin | paris burning au!silmarillion

'Let Tuor,' said he, 'be your guide and your chieftain. But I Turgon will not leave my city, and will burn with it.’