Buncha questions
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dhampyresaFrom eller
1. What's the last movie you watched, and how did you like it?
I'm not sure.
I think the last movie I watched in theater was Haifaa al-Mansour's Mary Shelley (2017). As the title suggests, it is a biopic of Mary Shelley. I found it quite interesting and I liked the photography a lot.
If not, it was Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) which is a movie about a young queer girl being sent to conversation therapy in the 90s. It is fucking brutal, but it's very well done.
2. Do you listen to music while you draw?
Yes and no. I tend not to listen to music when I do my daily evening drawing because I do those last minute before going to bed (or post last minute in a few cases, as I've sat up in bed several times going FUCK MY DRAWING I FORGOT). Otherwise, yes I listen to music when I draw. But then I'm pretty much always listening to music.
3. Sunlight or moonlight?
Moonlight.
4. What's more important to you in a story, the characters or the plot?
Both. Which isn't a cop-out, let me explain. I can like the characters all I want, if the plot doesn't grab me/moves too slow I will be bored and drop it (ex: Sense8). If the plot is interesting but I'm not attached to the characters, I will watch it but not come back (ex: Game of Thrones, which I dropped between seasons).
5. Do you have a favorite poem?
I have a poetry tag! Of the poems in it, I like Anjela Duval's Karantez Vro and José-Maria de Heredia's La Trebbia best.
I like to learn and recite poetry to myself while swimming and I return most often to Georges Brassens' Supplique pour être enterré sur la plage de Sète (Plea to buried on the beach of Sète), which (a) I should try my hand at translating one day and (b) is technically a song, I GUESS, but if Bob Dylan can be fucking literature, then BRASSENS IS GODDAMN POETRY.
Fromyhlee
1. What is your favorite saying/expression from French?
"Âme damnée". It translates to "cursed/dmaned soul" and is basically a fancy way of saying "top henchperson". Darth Vader is Palpatine's âme damnée, for example.
2. What cat color(s) do you like best?
All cats are best cats.
3. Which art medium makes you happiest?
Watercolours. I find them very soothing. But basically I love art a lot? Drawing and painting/pastelling/etc pretty much always makes me happy. And all medium have different "feels" so sometimes I am in a pastel mood and sometimes in an oil painting mood (it is a trap, I fail at oil forever). But yeah, whenever I don't know what medium to use and/or what something simple/relaxing, it's watercolours all the way.
4. If you could visit any one city, all expenses paid, in the winter, where would you go?
Any current city? Because if not, CARTHAGE HERE I COME. As for current cities, I think I'd like to go back to Seoul. I had an amazing time there.
5. Favorite Phoenician figure (historical or mythological)?
Elissa | Dido. I've talked about why at length here, but the short version is: she's so smart? And kind? and I LOVE HER. She was done mega dirty by the Aeneid though, like whoa.
Runner up mythological figure is Tanith. (There are a few sources that interpret Dido as an avatar of Tanith.) I find Tanith fucking fascinating. She's a goddess of fertility, war and FUCK YOU, (look at her symbol. This is not the symbol of a goddess who has any fucks to give).
Historical runner up is Hannibal Barca -- much tl;dr abounds. Short version: He's smart and that thing with him crossing the Alps was pretty baller. Also Cannae is a fucking work of art.
Can give questions to anyone who wants, just say so.
eller1. What's the last movie you watched, and how did you like it?
I'm not sure.
I think the last movie I watched in theater was Haifaa al-Mansour's Mary Shelley (2017). As the title suggests, it is a biopic of Mary Shelley. I found it quite interesting and I liked the photography a lot.
If not, it was Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) which is a movie about a young queer girl being sent to conversation therapy in the 90s. It is fucking brutal, but it's very well done.
2. Do you listen to music while you draw?
Yes and no. I tend not to listen to music when I do my daily evening drawing because I do those last minute before going to bed (or post last minute in a few cases, as I've sat up in bed several times going FUCK MY DRAWING I FORGOT). Otherwise, yes I listen to music when I draw. But then I'm pretty much always listening to music.
3. Sunlight or moonlight?
Moonlight.
4. What's more important to you in a story, the characters or the plot?
Both. Which isn't a cop-out, let me explain. I can like the characters all I want, if the plot doesn't grab me/moves too slow I will be bored and drop it (ex: Sense8). If the plot is interesting but I'm not attached to the characters, I will watch it but not come back (ex: Game of Thrones, which I dropped between seasons).
5. Do you have a favorite poem?
I have a poetry tag! Of the poems in it, I like Anjela Duval's Karantez Vro and José-Maria de Heredia's La Trebbia best.
I like to learn and recite poetry to myself while swimming and I return most often to Georges Brassens' Supplique pour être enterré sur la plage de Sète (Plea to buried on the beach of Sète), which (a) I should try my hand at translating one day and (b) is technically a song, I GUESS, but if Bob Dylan can be fucking literature, then BRASSENS IS GODDAMN POETRY.
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yhlee1. What is your favorite saying/expression from French?
"Âme damnée". It translates to "cursed/dmaned soul" and is basically a fancy way of saying "top henchperson". Darth Vader is Palpatine's âme damnée, for example.
2. What cat color(s) do you like best?
All cats are best cats.
3. Which art medium makes you happiest?
Watercolours. I find them very soothing. But basically I love art a lot? Drawing and painting/pastelling/etc pretty much always makes me happy. And all medium have different "feels" so sometimes I am in a pastel mood and sometimes in an oil painting mood (it is a trap, I fail at oil forever). But yeah, whenever I don't know what medium to use and/or what something simple/relaxing, it's watercolours all the way.
4. If you could visit any one city, all expenses paid, in the winter, where would you go?
Any current city? Because if not, CARTHAGE HERE I COME. As for current cities, I think I'd like to go back to Seoul. I had an amazing time there.
5. Favorite Phoenician figure (historical or mythological)?
Elissa | Dido. I've talked about why at length here, but the short version is: she's so smart? And kind? and I LOVE HER. She was done mega dirty by the Aeneid though, like whoa.
Runner up mythological figure is Tanith. (There are a few sources that interpret Dido as an avatar of Tanith.) I find Tanith fucking fascinating. She's a goddess of fertility, war and FUCK YOU, (look at her symbol. This is not the symbol of a goddess who has any fucks to give).
Historical runner up is Hannibal Barca -- much tl;dr abounds. Short version: He's smart and that thing with him crossing the Alps was pretty baller. Also Cannae is a fucking work of art.
Can give questions to anyone who wants, just say so.
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Date: 2018-10-06 11:05 pm (UTC)The "acirc;me damnée" is such a great expression; thank you for introducing me to it.
I need to reacquire that French children's Phoenician stories book that you recommended to me. (Flood casualty.) I never did finish reading it and I'd like to sometime, in my infinite free time. *wry g*
I hope that you get a time-traveling pass so you can visit past Carthage!
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Date: 2018-10-18 09:53 pm (UTC)2 What historical character do you want to meet and why?
3 Why watercolours?
4 What do you like best about where you live?
5 Do you have a favourite type/genre of comics?
I will send you postcards (pastcards?) from Carthage!
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Date: 2018-10-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-06 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-18 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-06 11:37 pm (UTC)Also, ah, so that's what âme damnée means. I came across it a few times in the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries and picked up that it shouldn't be translated literally, and that it implied being some sort of henchperson/doer of dirty work, but the part about top henchperson is enormously clarifying!
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Date: 2018-10-18 09:58 pm (UTC)2 What's some music you discovered recently?
3 What's your favourite soup?
4 Can you do pushups?
5 Favourite museum/exhibit?
Glad I could be of service!
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Date: 2018-10-07 02:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-18 10:25 pm (UTC)1 Favourite KDrama(s)? Either of all time or just right now?
2 Where does your username come from?
3 What's a sculpture you like?
4 Is there a song that's guaranteed to get you to sing along?
5 Thoughts on cake?
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Date: 2018-10-18 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-10-07 05:43 am (UTC)That is great.
Runner up mythological figure is Tanith.
YEAH TANITH.
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Date: 2018-11-29 11:14 pm (UTC)YAY TANITH!
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Date: 2018-10-07 04:12 pm (UTC)I'd love five questions, if you have time.
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Date: 2018-10-08 11:24 am (UTC)Oil painting is so permanent! with watercolours, there's a slight illusion that you could change everything.