On The Steps Of The Gwaith-i-Mírdain.

The Three Musketeers (1993)

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C’est toujours étrange de se dire qu’on est des milliers à pleurer en même temps.

Cet incendie est à la fois un drame et en même temps… On reconstruira, on rebâtira. Il n’y a pas de morts. On a pu sortir le trésor. Ces pensées se chamboulent dans ma tête pour rationaliser. C’est toujours étrange de voir l’immuable disparaître.

C’est aussi un peu étrange pour notre période qui aime patrimonialiser mais rappelons nous que nos vieux bâtiments sont pour la plupart du temps des agrégats de différentes périodes. Notre Dame n’échappe pas à la règle: la construction s’est étalée sur deux cent ans environ,  la charpente est d’origine mais les gargouilles ne le sont pas, elle a subi des restaurations… Un bâtiment est le résultat de tous les bâtiments composant son histoire. Pourtant c’est ce résultat de cathédrale, notre contemporain et avec lequel nous avons vécu qui est en train de voler dans les flammes et avec lui, peut-être, un certain rapport au temps. D’un point de vue historique, c’est peut-être triste. Ou peut-être que ce n’est qu’une nouvelle pierre à l’histoire de l’édifice, une pierre pour le moment non encore advenue, et c’est cela qui fait si mal.

Il ne faudrait pas non plus réduire la cathédrale a des vieilles pierres. Elle est un symbole qui charrie plus qu’elle même dans nos mémoires. Quand on dit Notre Dame, on pense Victor Hugo, comédie musicale, film. On pense aux maçons, architectes, tailleurs de pierre, au Moyen-Âge, à ses cours d’histoire, à des gros clichés. On pense à l’art. On pense à Paris. On pense à ce qu’on a ressenti en y mettant les pieds, croyant ou non, chrétien ou pas. Cela part aussi un peu avec les flammes. J’en oublie surement. Chacun doit avoir son ressenti (ou pas, aussi).

Je ne sais pas comment vous vous positionnez face à l’incendie, si vous pleurez la perte ou pensez au lendemain, si vous faites des blagues à coup de Sacré Cœur pour garder le sourire, ou si vous n’êtes pas touchés. En tout cas, je souhaite le mieux pour vous.

Fluctuat net mergitur, parait-il.

New chapter up for Climbing to the Light!

PSA: Stuff You Maybe Didn’t Realize You Can Back Up To AO3, And How To Tag it

Tumblr seems to be in potential death throes or at least, incredibly volatile and unreliable lately, but we’ve done some pretty good and informative work on canon analysis and reference guides so I was looking for ways to back it up without losing it…and the solution became obvious to me: Archive of Our Own, aka AO3.  “What?” you might ask if you are less familiar with their TOS. “Isn’t that just a fanfic archive??” No! It’s a fanWORK archive. It is an archive for fanworks in general! “Fanwork” is a broad term that encompasses a lot of things, but it doesn’t just include fanfic and fanart, vids etc; it also includes “fannish” essays and articles that fall under what’s often called “meta” (from the word for “beyond” or “above”, referencing that it goes beyond the original exact text)! The defining factor of whether Archive of Our Own is the appropriate place to post it is not whether or not it’s a fictional expansion of canon (fanfic), though that is definitely included - no, it’s literally just “is this a work by a ‘fan’ intended for other ‘fannish’ folks/of ‘fannish’ interest?”  The articles we’ve written as a handy reference to the period-appropriate Japanese clothing worn by Inuyasha characters?  The analyses of characters? The delineations of concrete canon (the original work) vs common “fanon” (common misconceptions within the fandom)? Even the discussion of broader cultural, historical, and geographic context that applies to the series and many potential fanworks?  All of those are fannish nonfiction! Which means they absolutely can (and will) have a home on AO3, and I encourage anybody who is wanting to back up similar works of “fannish interest” - ranging from research they’ve done for a fic, to character analyses and headcanons - to use AO3 for it, because it’s a stable, smooth-running platform that is ad-free and unlike tumblr, is run by a nonprofit (The OTW) that itself is run by and for the benefit of, fellow fans.  Of course, that begs the question of how to tag your work if you do cross-post it, eh? So on that note, here’s a quick run-down of tags we’re finding useful and applicable, which I’ve figured out through a combination of trial and error and actually asking a tag wrangler (shoutout to @wrangletangle for their invaluable help!): First, the Very Broad: - “ Nonfiction ”. This helps separate it from fanfic on the archive, so people who aren’t looking for anything but fanfic are less likely to have to skim past it, whereas people looking for exactly that content are more likely to find it. - while “Meta” and “Essay” and even “Information” are all sometimes used for the kinds of nonfiction and analytical works we post, I’ve been told “ Meta Essay ” is the advisable specific tag for such works. This would apply to character analyses, reference guides to canon, and even reference guides to real-world things that are reflected in the canon (such as our articles on Japanese clothing as worn by the characters).  The other three tags are usable, and I’ve been using them as well to cover my bases, but they’ll also tend to bring up content such as “essay format” fanfic or fanfic with titles with those words in them - something that does not happen with “Meta Essay”.

- I’ve also found by poking around in suggested tags, that “ Fanwork Research & Reference Guides ” is consistently used (even by casual users) for: nonfiction fannish works relating to analyses of canon materials; analyses of and meta on fandom-specific or fanwork-specific tropes; information on or guides to writing real-world stuff that applies to or is reflected in specific fandoms’ media (e.g. articles on period-appropriate culture-specific costuming and how to describe it); and expanded background materials for specific fans’ fanworks (such as how a given AU’s worldbuilding is supposed to be set up) that didn’t fit within the narrative proper and is separated out as a reference for interested readers. Basically, if it’s an original fan-made reference for something specific to one or more fanworks, or a research aid for writing certain things applicable to fanworks or fannish interests in general, then it can fall under that latter tag. 

- You should also mark it with any appropriate fandom(s) in the “Fandom” field. Just like you would for a fanfic, because of course, the work is specifically relevant to fans of X canon, right? If it discusses sensitive topics, or particular characters, etc., you should probably tag for those. E.g. “death” or “mental illness”, “Kagome Higurashi”, etc. 

Additionally, if you are backing it up from a Tumblr you may wish to add: - “ Archived From Tumblr “ and/or “ Cross-Posted From Tumblr ” to reference the original place of publication, for works originally posted to tumblr. (I advise this if only because someday, there might not be “tumblr” as we know it, and someone might be specifically looking for content that was originally on it, you never know) - “ Archived From [blog name] Blog ”; this marks it as an archived work from a specific blog. And yes, I recommend adding the word “blog” in there for clarity- Wrangletangle was actually delighted that I bothered to tag our first archived work with “Archived From Inu-Fiction Blog” because being EXTREMLY specific about things like that is super helpful to the tag wranglers on AO3, who have to decide how to categorize/”syn” (synonym) various new tags from alphabetized lists without context of the original posting right in front of them.  In other words, including the name AND the word “blog” in it, helps them categorize the tag on the back end without having to spend extra time googling what the heck “[Insert Name Here]” was originally. 

Overall, you should be as specific and clear as possible, but those tags/tag formats should prove useful in tagging it correctly should you choose to put fannish essays and articles up on AO3 :) Oh, and protip sidebar for those posting, especially works that are more than plain text: you can make archiving things quicker and easier for yourself, but remember to plan ahead for tumblr’s potential demise/disabling/service interruptions. The good news: You can literally copy and paste the ENTIRE text of a tumblr post from say, an “edit” window, on tumblr, straight into AO3′s Rich Text Format editor, and it will preserve pretty much all or almost all of the formatting - such as bold, italics, embedded links, etc! But the bad news: keep in mind that while AO3 allows for embedded images and it WILL transfer those embedded images with a quick copy-paste like that, AO3 itself doesn’t host the images for embedding; those are still external images. This means that whether or not they continue to load/display for users, depends entirely on whether the file is still on the original external server! As I quickly discovered, in the case of posts copied from the Edit window of a tumblr post, the images will still point to the copies of the images ON tumblr’s servers. What this means is that you should back up (save copies elsewhere of) any embedded images that you consider vital to such posts, in case you need to upload them elsewhere and fiddle with where the external image is being pulled from, later.  Personally, I’m doing that AND adding image descriptions underneath them, just to be on the safe side (and in fairness, this makes it more accessible to people who cannot view the images anyway, such as sight-impaired people who use screen readers or people who have images set to not automatically display on their browser, so it’s win-win)

Rilwen I wrote more of the thing and I decided to dump it here because it’s too big to dump on Skype

and probably knowing me it’ll end up being a series of minifics that I dump here based on the same reincarnation au

oH WELL ??

under a cut, because it’s gotten damn long (cries)

Sobekhotep and Nastasen.

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Langon/Sauron, holding hands even in their sleep \ o /

I will probably draw a shitton of these two don't test me this is my otp to end all otps

again, original design for Sauron is by reforgedmairon

Warmth.

((HAHAHA THIS TOOK FOREVER BECAUSE I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON))

It is the first snow day they have had in months, which means that instead of classes, Joly should be dragging Montparnasse out into the snow to make snow angels and violent snowmen à la Calvin and Hobbes. They should be having mock-fights with icicles. And then maybe singing along to “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” which should be a delightful prelude to Other Things.

Instead Joly is wrapped up in a ball of blankets, shivering violently and sneezing while ‘Parnasse fumbles with the kettle.

"Look, I dod’t eved care adybore. Just get over here, goddabbit."

Montparnasse shoots him a look. Joly glares back with red-rimmed eyes. “I’b cold. You’re warb. Ad you’re better thad a mug of hot cocoa adyway.”

"You’ll just give me your cold."

"Do I look like I care?"

A staring contest for about four seconds, broken by a rather loud sneeze from Joly. He sniffs pathetically and gives Montparnasse puppy eyes. “Please?”

Montparnasse huffs and goes over to Joly, wrapping his larger frame around the other. Joly snuggles up into him. “Thadk you. I would kiss you except I should dot.”

"If you give me your cold, I will kiss you with phlegm," ‘Parnasse says conversationally.

Joly shudders and buries his head in ‘Parnasse’s neck. “Please dod’t.”

After a while the shivers go away, and they fall asleep wrapped around each other.

Fëanor and Fingolfin, yeah.

reference: (x). original Fingolfin design by eehn.

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