aaaahhh I don’t know how to respond to this but I love you?
also have you listened to
À La Volonté du Peuple from the original French concept album? because that has different lyrics than this but it is so good oh my god like the English version is good but I listen to that version and I feel so empowered
it’s my number one otp and they’re two of my favorite characters and my friends are currently trying to convince me to literally devote my entire life to Victor Hugo just because of how much I love them
You’re welcome!
hi I hope you’re okay? um I don’t really know how to answer this
I just looked up free or determined because I didn’t know what it meant and my understanding is you want to know if we have free will or if everything has already been caused/decided by prior actions going back forever so basically is destiny a thing? And I’m really not sure! I think about that a lot actually and it’s a really hard question. We’ve been talking about fate a lot in my mythology class and there are a lot of things to consider like if we try to make our own choices are we just making the prophecies come true even as we try to avoid them? In the Iliad for example the gods and the human soldiers take their sides and try to turn the tide of the battle but ultimately they have to submit to fate because the end of the war has already been decided. And in Oedipus Rex, Oedipus leaves home to avoid his destiny and ends up in a place he never would have gone otherwise and ends up fulfilling the prophecy. In the myths they have prophecies and gods and stuff so they know their fate, and it’s a question of can they change it, but for us it’s more complicated because we have no way of knowing if we’re playing into some pre-existing plan or if every action is unpredictable and our own choice. Personally I think that either every single moment and action is determined or nothing at all is, no in between, if that makes sense, like some people think that the general important events are determined but there’s a choice in between but I think that everything is so connected that can’t happen. I really don’t know though, it’s so complicated! There isn’t really a right or wrong answer though, so I can’t imagine your teacher penalizing you as long as you make a strong argument?
I agree about Enjolras and R though, Enjolras would absolutely argue for free will. And Grantaire is so familiar with Greek mythology he would definitely be familiar with people making fools of themselves or running into their own destruction when they try to fight fate, so he would try to argue that Enjolras is being blind and stupidly idealistic
I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help. Good luck on your exam!
it’s amazing what I’ll do instead of study for my final or clean my room
she’s not
I love that I always get either no questions at all or just like. all of them
ask me questions from this list (which for the record has 170 questions)
I’m putting this under read more because it’s a lot
2: What’s your dream pet? (Real or not) So when I was a kid I desperately wanted a chinchilla but I’m beginning to realize that even a cat or dog would probably be too much for me to handle taking care of… I guess I’d really like to have hermit crabs again, I miss mine
3: Do you have a favorite clothing style? I don’t even know
5: What three things/people do you think of most each day: Kate, Enjolras, and food
7: What is your opinion on [insert person/thing here]? You didn’t give me a thing
11: What’s your sexuality? ace
13: Are you a cat or dog person? I don’t believe this needs to be a choice and I do love both. that said. cats
17: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to? Maxine
19: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? I don’t know maybe kind of
23: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal [opposite of nocturnal]? Wouldn’t diurnal just be what humans already are?
29: Do you believe in reincarnation? I don’t know
31: Do you get scared easily? I don’t know about like really scared but I do get anxious? and I don’t do well with scary movies
37: What is your eye color? kind of that generic white person greyish bluish greenish color I guess
41: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now? @samanthathebard
43: Any piercings you want? Absolutely not
47: What is a sound you really hate? silverware scraping a plate
53: How are you feeling right now? ok
59: What three words describe you the most? I don’t know (is that me not answering or is that the answer who knows)
61: What makes you unfollow a blog? If I really consistently don’t care about most of what they’re posting? but it usually takes a lot. also it hasn’t happened yet but if someone posted something aphobic they would be Gone
67: Favorite meme: I liked the inappropriate audition song one and I like bode and I like all of the Check Please fandom memes
71: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most? either one of my various ace color outfits or my Darlingside shirt
73: Do you have platform shoes? no
79: Something you wish didn’t exist: Donald Trump
83: Favorite person to talk to: myself
89: What are your birthstones? aquamarine
97: How long can you hold your breath for? I don’t know a time but not very long
101: Favorite type of shoes: I guess boots
103: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why? yeah I’m not a vegan but I’m a vegetarian. my dad is a vegetarian and my parents just decided to raise me as one and I stuck with it. if I ate meat now I would probably get super sick and also I have the various moral reasons I guess. I don’t know I just generally find everything about meat gross?
107: Do you like spiders? I’m not afraid of them and I don’t kill them but I don’t want them near me. there are a bunch of daddy long legs in my house and I don’t mind them but real spiders belong far away. spider webs are pretty impressive though
109: Can you draw: I can draw pigeons
113: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach? sure
127: Something you love about Tumblr: there are plenty of things but my mind just blanked
131: What is something you love but also hate about yourself? I can do good work in a short amount of time. I love it because I can procrastinate and still get great grades but I hate it because procrastination is super stressful and I never learn my lesson because I don’t face consequences most of the time
137: Do you believe in karma? not really but I don’t know
139: What nicknames do you have/have had? none that people actually use but people have on occasion tried Zozo, Zoseph, and some other things I can’t remember but I Do Not like those
149: Favorite thing about your personality: I don’t even know
151: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose? the time with all the dinosaurs. I would die in about three seconds but I would see dinosaurs.
157: Something that makes you nervous/anxious: public transportation
163: Last time you cried and why: oh man I think it was yesterday or the day before over something really stupid I think there was a commercial?? I can’t remember what it was for but there was some kind of really weird creature they were saying was ugly and then it got to be loved at the end. I’m so fucking tired
167: Do you really care how the universe and world was created? I want to know but I can live without it impacting me I guess
Thank you!
hi! I’m having an ok day, thank you! I’m sick which sucks but basically all of my schoolwork is done for the semester and it was my last day of one of my classes so the professor bought us really good food.
That’s not stupid at all and thanks for being interested!
Rumi was a Persian Muslim Sufi poet in the 13th century who is the bestselling poet in the US today. My paper was about why he’s so appealing to modern Americans. There are a lot of really valid reasons like he was an innovative poet who used a lot of techniques that are popular now and he described what it’s like to be alive really beautifully and his work is full of love and tolerance. Also Sufism is really similar to Transcendentalism which Americans like. I also found though that the person whose Rumi collections really launched him to popularity is kind of controversial because he doesn’t actually do his own translations from the original language and changes a lot of stuff so a lot of the context of Rumi’s culture is lost. So it’s kind of like we want Rumi’s spirituality but not his religion? My paper was ten pages long so I can’t get into it all here, but it’s very interesting and I definitely recommend looking into it. (I would also recommend reading some of his poetry! I didn’t actually read very much believe it or not but the lines I saw in my research were lovely)
oh my gosh I don’t even know! definitely put a lot towards school. other than that though I would probably be really overwhelmed especially since I never spend money. I guess I would just find a whole bunch of charities and gofundmes to give to and also probably buy a bunch of fan art
Hi! I’m so glad to hear from you, I’m excited too!
My day has been pretty good. I had creative writing class and we just kind of sat and worked on our stories. I’m mostly done and I’m actually so happy with it. I think it might be the best thing I’ve ever written. I’m not really sure what I’m going to do for the rest of the semester though because the only other clear story ideas I have right now are for an E/R fic and the professor specifically said no fanfiction..
Anyway we watched a movie in my other class today so I didn’t have to listen to the professor lecture which was nice. It’s been a pretty unexciting day. It’s raining which is kind of gross but whatever.
I don’t really have anything fun going on. I have a group project due tomorrow (with my roommate and another person named Zoe, weirdly) and I am really not in the mood to be working on it, and I’ve been procrastinating a massive paper, but once those are out of the way my semester is mostly over so I’ll be able to relax. I’m in a pretty good mood though! I had an amazon delivery and my tv shows have been good 🙂
What about you, how are you doing?
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