Blessings Of The Moon - Baudelaire, Translated By Beverly Matherne

I’ve recently been following @bluandorange and that gave me a bloody burst of motivation to come back to this thing I has started before final hell.

Mx. Stark I don't feel so woke

This is my fucking sister y’all. Our dad’s suck and if I or she ever get famous I will do my goddam best so he can’t speak anywhere. Like he’s obsessed by us being his legacy and I swear to god I will erase his name from goddam history if I can

got called trashy by my dad earlier lads

okay, so my dad - who I have no semblance of a relationship with, jsyk - just called me out of the blue to let me know that: 1. he didn’t like my ‘new look’ (which i haven’t changed, but never mind),

2. my makeup wasn’t ‘appropriate’ for a phd student + university teacher, 

3. if i wanted to use that kind of makeup, i should get a classier wardrobe,

4. my thesis supervisor would probably feel uncomfortable working with me because she doesn’t wear makeup (she does, but never mind #2),

(and my absolute favourite:) 

5. THAT MAKEUP IS A ‘SENSITIVE ISSUE’ IN FEMALE SPACES/COMMUNITIES (!!) AND THAT WEARING SOME MIGHT END UP PITTING US AGAINST ONE ANOTHER???!!!?!

i’m fucking floored, y’all. like, woah - i’m actually speechless rn. 

(this from the man who admitted to my face that he hadn’t been around for my sibling and me between ages 3-18 because we weren’t ‘interesting enough’, mind you.)

Stan kaki fruits

No thought Wei Wuxian in homo sweatshirt

end of year meme

tagged by the @feoplepeel (thank youuu It’s been so long !)!

Rules: tag 9 people you would like to know/catch up with

last song: Moses by Gene Kelly and Donald O’Conor but I just added it to the playlist the last song I actually listened to was probably BLACKPINK - 'DDU-DU DDU-DU' 

last movie: The Holiday and that was mid december :[] . I don’t watch movies that often.

currently watching: I don’t watch Tv or shows so instead i’m going to do youtube channels :

- Nostalgia, Cop Propaganda, And Brooklyn Nine Nine | Mia Mulder - Marvels Avengers - What Did Art Cost?  by That Jess - Why the Music in Cats (2019) is Worse than you Thought by Sideways (for the 7th time) -  I’m going through Dianxi Xiaoge  and  냥숲nyangsoop  ‘s channels during lunch breaks usually when I work

currently reading: For fun-- I’m only starting Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and I want to start reading whatever translation I find for the Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty afterwards. For work - I’m knee deep in exam revisions right now but I need to get my hands on the Student’s companion to Social policy chapter 6 and The Changing Disability Policy system ( active citizenship and disability in Europe) volume one asap. Oh I also need to read about the impact of machine learning on the prison system but idk what yet.

currently craving: I got sencha tea this morning and I’m thinking of it ! Persimmons and dried mango. Also hibiscus tea in orange juice (I want to try but I can’t get my hand on the tea) and some chili oil ! Also my bubble tea that got cancelled by covid.

Tagging:  @ladynoblesong  @divorcedwife @hotlikesriracha @marcvscicero @al-norton @punkrockgrantaire @bobigleux @mikkeneko but legit there’s 0 pressure feel free to brush this off as if it never happened (but also if anyone else wants to do it feel free :D I

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

" But it doesn’t hurt, and once Lan Wangji gets used to it, he actually doesn’t mind. It feels… exciting, maybe? It feels like half of a dance, an invitation to move with Wei Wuxian through unknown steps in order to make something beautiful together. Without really thinking about it, he tries to match the steps a bit, to take Wei Wuxian’s invitation, and—"

Art inspired (loosely) by A Curse of a Different Color by nickel710

I nearly forgot here are clara’s in fucky mondern (?) outfits

Hamilton, the musical Act 1 (Hamilton Minimalist series screen saver 1/2)