#The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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Went back and reread some of Master and Commander again and goddamn is that book rich with detail...truly I did not know how to appreciate it on the first (or second) read-through...

#19-year-old me was very silly but also there's just too much there for one reading #i'm now resigned to my fate (actually learning how ships and sailing work) and the previous owner of this book left very neat notes #so i think i'm going to try to follow in their footsteps and disentangle a bit of what's going on #plus go through it all more slowly i read way too fast and then i miss things #but yeah. like that one and i think also post captain and hms surprise are really just bottomless pits of historical detail #trying to write fic for it again and i'm realizing even more what an incredibly talented writer he was. just constantly in awe of mr. pob #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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This is probably Bush and also Pullings's native dialect (though I have many MANY doubts about what exactly the methodology being used here was)

#they have texts and they have informants and they have the informants read the text but i'm not really sure how that's supposed to work #anyways this is definitely the dialect pullings grew up speaking since afaik he's the son of hampshire farmers #apparently chichester is in area 5 as well so also falls under this categorization #this is very unrigorous research btw. please take everything i am saying with a grain of salt i'm just fiddling around with an old book #i'll look for a good basic primer on history/dialectology of english at the library at some point perhaps #i do not have the historical context/cross-references to verify any of this guy's claims #i just really like dialect and english-language ones are so much fun what with all the crazy vowel combos #and apparently lots of rhoticity??? he's claiming this accent was also rhotic which is a little insane #would love to read a history of rhoticity in english tbh #perce rambles #adventures in historical sociolinguistics #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #if you go to the source there's a lot of texts in this section i just picked one

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Trying to write Hornblower in the style of Patrick O'Brian truly one of the most harrowing experiences I have subjected myself to ever

#harrowing in a good way though #i am learning a lot about hornblower aubreyad and just how to write in general #it's just very difficult and honestly unclear if it can even be done at all #idk. i do weird things with my excess brainspace sometimes and this is one of them i guess #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #percy yells at cecil scott #(not yelling at him too much here although in general the exercise does go to show that he can't hold a candle to mr. pob)

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Every time I have to use the canon-consistent name for places in the Iberian peninsula which are not the official name I lose ten years off my life

#okay fine i will write lerida because you put it there. but is that even what you wanted mr. o'brian sir #honestly stephen is writing in his diary i might just keep it lleida #for the roses fic i just gave up at one point (<- evidenced by this sentence. it's gulf of roses why did he call it rosas bay) #but i don't respect cs forester and he doesn't understand catalanism so whatever #pob would know better so i can only assume it's period-accurate for talking in english :/// but grrrr i don't like it #(i am keeping figueras/rosas/etc bc that's consistent w period catalan spelling from there) #(but lerida??? no. no please no please don't make me do that) #(also ampurdá i can do but ampurdán get cancelled) #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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Very funny how neither CS Forester nor Patrick O'Brian were buried in England. Guys really said yeah I'll write about it but I don't like it that much

#it makes sense for both of them they seemed to like their adopted countries better and pob seemed halfhearted about englishness anyway #but it is very funny that they spent a whole lot of their lives in the united states and france respectively #this re: discussion of the guys' graves and whether or not to visit #i'm going to go to cotlliure this summer though my parents refuse to believe me but i'll make it work #french can't stop me it's just badly pronounced catalan and i'll only speak to old people if i have to #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #going to go to sleep before my powers of speech get any further disjointed goodnight

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He fet un intent de traduir-lo al català :')

Wittgenstein va girar la barqueta i va poder dirigir-la cap enrere fins que xoqués contra el moll. L’Esteve s’aixecà, dubtà un segon, es llençà a un amarrador amb un sergent dret al costat, i no va poder agafar-lo. Va caure entre el moll i la barqueta, i en tornar a sorgir, va cridar en catala: —Traieu-me d’aquí. Cagoendena. —Ets català? —va exclamar el sergent, sorprès. —Marededeu, i tant que ho soc —reblà l’Esteve—. Treu-me. —Quina sorpresa —va dir el sergent, i es quedava allà parat; però dos caporals del costat van llençar el fusells a terra, es van ajupir, i van agafar l’Esteve de la mà per treure’l de l’aigua. —Gràcies, companys —va dir quan ja tocava a terra, i al seu voltant hi va haver una gran clamor de veus que li demanava que d’on venia, que què feia aquí, que si algunes noves de Barcelona, de Lleida, de Palamós, de Ripoll, que si el vaixell portava res, que si portava vi—. Ara digueu-me, on és el Coronel d’Ullastret?

#quin desastre en temes del lèxic. segueixo així i em treuen fins i tot el pobre c1 :') #si hagués donat més atenció la setmana que rodamots feien paraules de mar......no digueu res de la traducció de 'stern-board' #o sigui que tampoc tinc ni punyetera idea de què és en anglès i al final he inventat coses #(ho he buscat però fins i tot amb la definició no tenia gens clar què feia la barqueta shdfkjdf) #vull també traduir coses del primer llibre però aquest ja està traduït al català #aquest no. que és com la tragèdia més tragèdia que no s'ha traduït la sèrie sencera #però res les tonteries de sempre no em feu gaire cas correccions benvingudes et cetera ja ho sabeu <3 #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #sa caigut a la iga :( el meu pobre marrameu xop :(

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I know that this is an act of the most extreme hubris and I expect to be struck down for it sooner or later, but what if....I attempted to write Hornblower in the style of Patrick O'Brian....

#just because that quote that i posted a few days ago has really been making me think about things #mostly due to the brilliant notes on it which have all been very insightful especially re what makes the aubreyad so damn good #anyways i can't write this is why it's an act of hubris but i did write a thing so i'm going to share it anyways #ship of the line was fine. it pissed me off a tiny bit less than beat to quarters #but also like mr. pob loves the mediterranean so unbelievably much and it infuses his writing and i miss that #so therefore mediterranean be upon thee <3 #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #percy yells at cecil scott #<- personal hornblower tag since that's what it amounts to mostly

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Necessito un bon diccionari de terminologia marinera (tant en l'anglès com en el català, per ser sincers)

#intentant d'escriure coses en català i/o traduir-les i soc aquí pregunant-me com diantres diries 'stern locker' en català #hi ha un parell de diccionaris al termcat (estimadíssim <3) però necessito una cosa més bàsica i senzilla #i preferiblement visual perquè tampoc sé on coi trobar totes aquestes coses o què hi passa #cada dia baixa el meu nivell de català....salveu-me irene solà i eva baltasar....irene solà i eva baltasar salveu-me..... #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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So I didn't actually write any more of 4-3-3 (aka The Creative Endeavor) in December, but I just went back and read through some of the stuff I was writing for this draft and it goes SO hard, it's crazy what working on a project consistently for a year will do for its quality

#also i miss it i'm going back to working on it #i do understand now why i was clinging to this like a drowned cat for the worst year of my life :') #seratonin is in fact stored in the 4-3-3 (the fic not the football formation or the song although it is stored in those too) #but no unironically i have somehow actually managed to write really good stuff for this and if i can pull off the narrative it'll be great #it's very different from writing hornblower. hornblower is like what if i was Unwell for a bit #this is like what if i had to think about people and life and being silly! and i love that for it <3 #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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Hmmm...there is a little voice in the back of my head that is already planning an Aubreyad Places Tour when next I go to the Catalan Countries and I think it should Not

#no but like. what if i went to cotlliure and paid my respects to patrick o'brian. normal guy behavior #also tempted to go to visit my professor in mallorca and then if i did that it would be SO EASY to hop over to menorca too #and visit all the places from the first book 🥺🥺🥺 #and then i'd like to visit lleida and like sure i'd go back up ullastret-wards just to be completionist :') #i think my uni should fund this and pay for me to visit my friends too #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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OH HECK YES I JUST FOUND A FULL HERBARIUM OF PLANTS FROM THE PYRENEES CA. 1840 WITH FULL LABELS AND DESCRIPTIONS AND TERMS FOR THEIR MEDICAL PROPERTIES LET'S GOOOOO

Airy Gras, Teresa Garnatje, Neus Ibáñez, Jordi López-Pujol, Neus Nualart, Joan Vallès. "Medicinal plant uses and names from the herbarium of Francesc Bolòs (1773–1844)". Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 204, 2017, p. 142-168, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2017.04.002.

#i am being so normal and rational about stephen maturin right now #the citation is somewhat of a lie as i believe it might be paywalled but i'll try to put up a non-paywalled version when i have time #this is a veritable goldmine i am losing my mind #have a few very unhinged projects planned. not sure when/if they'll ever get done but they are turning around in my brain rn #article is in english btw! so it is accessible to non-catalan speakers #aubreyad #catalunya #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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Time to begin Creative Round 2: Electric Boogaloo :)

#see you all in like a year with more updates shdjfhsjkdfsf #no but it is funny how i was posting an unhinged amount about this gotdam fic back at the start #and then forgot to even say anything when i finished the first draft shfjsdfhsdjff #btw i don't know if i ever mentioned it here but the actual working title that all my documents are saved under is 4-3-3 #which is because it's an excellent song about football that's not actually about football (just like the fic. hopefully) #but also it's very entertaining because jack would never ever ever in his life touch a 4-3-3 he's too english for that #presenting 4-3-3: the fic in which you'll only ever see a 4-4-2! ✨ #anyways i know i say this at the start of every version. but i'm feeling quite happy with this #also it's just the second draft so like whatever #if there's still a schrodinger's football season going on by the end that can be a problem for third draft me :') #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense

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Not me writing a thesis-length liner notes booklet for a mediocre playlist of very obscure songs I found that made me think of Stephen Maturin

#actually i'm doing IMPORTANT RESEARCH #i am PREPARING FOR GRAD SCHOOL #it's bad though because i have a catalan section and an irish section #and the catalan section is okay because i kind of know what i'm talking about (only kind of though :/) #but the irish one is going to be a dumpster fire and i know it #anyways expect this to appear on my main sometime in the next 20 years #what should really happen is that the o'brian estate should pay me to curate an album with all the versions of these songs that i need #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #perce rambles

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Pullings and Mowett as midshipmen U18s making their first team debuts

#aka i was testing watercolors for my father's christmas present and got a bit carried away #wish i understood human anatomy and physiology. we're working on it but we're still a bit confused #anyways! the uniform is supposed to look like the colors of the nelson chequer #featuring actual croatia-style checks on the socks because i was dumb and until very recently thought that the boats were fully checked #i did like the sketch of pullings better :// but such is the nature of pencil and paper that i must accept the final result as is #i am enjoying my entirely un-digital art-making but i need to find a better way to scan the pictures #anyways i continue to forge ahead with my silly little project don't mind me #perce rambles #aubreyad #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #scribblings & such

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So ready to fill my brain with facts about early 19th century Catalonia to write Aubreyad fanfic, so unready to actually write said fanfic

#i wanted to do the canto jo i la muntanya balla one but also i think i overestimated how much catalan history i needed #might just write that one now (i say as though i'm not already working on two others) #ho hum i will have to think on this #if anyone has any requests please let me know! i would love to write things that people want to read :) #i just can't stop thinking about the fricking. the one about the sin-eater and james dillon #that one made me insane it wasn't even a fanfic it was basically original historical fiction #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #posts that made more sense in my brain and less sense when i typed them up sorry

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In other news, my first-impression editing notes for the Creative Endeavor are a fun time

#on the plus side there were several parts that were quite pleasing #on the minus side 'several parts' in a first draft of like 70k words is perhaps a less than desirable ratio #i did absolutely keep flip-flopping between what division they're in and what place they're in on the tables to a horrible degree #so editing will definitely be an uphill battle #but as i said before. if i finish this before i finish my phd dissertation then i'll be happy #perce rambles #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense