#cafeleningrad

[lucy-ghoul]

TOP 5 non-anglophone books 📚 TOP 5 romcom movies 📽 TOP 5 experiences out in nature 🏔

top 5 non-anglophone books:

se questo è un uomo & its sequel, la tregua (if this is a man & the truce) by primo levi (italian)

the neapolitan novels aka l'amica geniale/my brilliant friend by elena ferrante (italian)

the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux (french)

the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa (portuguese)

les misérables by victor hugo (french)

(damn this was hard! i've left out so many favorites)

top 5 romcom movies:

sabrina (the 1954 version is far superior but i really like the one starring harrison ford too)

the shop around the corner

the proposal

ninotchka (i don't care about the anticommunism propaganda, it was filmed in 1939 and tbh it made me laugh so hard i had tears in my eyes at some point)

it happened one night

top 5 experiences out in nature:

(oh god i live in a city and i don't touch enough grass - literally lmao - but i'll try)

everything about the beach. just... your feet in the warm sand, the water rushing over, the smell. everything,

walking in a gothic forest and breathing the fresh air

the snow! where i live it almost never snows, even in winter the weather is generally too warm

bird-watching + closing your eyes and listening to their singing

telling stories around a fire

thank you so much for the ask, dear! <3

#asks #cafeleningrad

[ante--meridiem]

the evil clown is a character from One Piece. In the promotional campaign for the live action adaptation apparently the character was set up on the dashboard.

Oh, huh, thanks!

....it's not a very effective promotional campaign if people mostly just end up confused though, I have to say.

#cafeleningrad #ask #idk I'm no marketing person #but if I were doing a marketing campaign I'd want a more efficient way than 'users in each others askboxes' for people to satisfy a passing #curiousity about it

[grimae]

5, 10, 16, 22? :3

5. least favorite thing to draw Accurate looking buildings are complete hell. I adore drawing ruins and destroyed things, but when the buildings actually have to look like they can still be used without being a danger to ones life I know I am going to suffer lol.

10. how many different sketches do you usually have until your piece is finished GOOD QUESTION. For commissions I usually give the client 2-3 sketches to chose from, for personal art my mantra really is just "fuck it we ball". One of my current wips I've been biting my teeth out on since March, which is very unusual for me actually, but I've been redrawing it from the ground on now multiple times. Other things are just ... one doodle and I know exactly what I gotta do.

16. favorite media to work with when drawing traditionally I'm not much of a person for traditional stuff, which is kind of wack because I actually got my german-equivalent-of-high-school-degree at an art school-ish thing doing only traditional stuff but if I gotta, it's just mechanical pencil with a very thick lead and a sketchbook with equally as overly thick paper nowadays.

Already answered 22. :>

#ask #cafeleningrad

[capsizedskeleton]

i’m going to be the slightly bigger person and not instigate a fight with someone over tumblr by telling them their interpretation of a story is absolute dogshit. instead im going to talk about it here

spoilers for black mirror s4 ep 1 (uss callister)

it is a very fun episode. very i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-esque except the god-like figure is a human asshole. the bait-and-switch on who’s the protagonist! the clear set and costume distinctions between the real world and the game world! the clearly defined universe/game rules and how the main characters use them to get out! shania!! nanette as a protagonist and how her passion for coding and friendly personality carry over from the real world but she takes on the role of a rebel and it doesn’t feel unnatural! the happy ending esp for a black mirror ep?

esp liked walton’s bit of im sorry i treated you this way (bc he was the guy who was most an asshole to robert daly irl) or i would be if you didn’t throw my child out an airlock in this universe. bc like 1. there’s a difference btwn being an asshole due to negligence/ignorance/for personal gain (all still not great) v. being an asshole in order to see people suffer? and specifically trying to hurt someone in the worst way? 2. robert obviously wanted that apology and you can see a bit of normalcy he used to have as like a human with feelings 

ok now in a half-response to one dogshit take what this human guy does when he is given power (literally take pleasure in being sadistic towards sentient clones of coworkers who have done. nothing that warrants this). it’s not hard sci-fi. it’s parodying star trek ffs! the clones are sentient in a computer and while it would be nice to have an explanation it’s not central to the story! the adventure is getting out of this guy’s power! and the guy is absolutely an incel and someone who would partake in fandom culture maybe some people are lucky to never experience that but those guys (sadistic “nice guys” who self-isolate and then become irate when no one takes an interest in getting to know them) exist

anyway deadly class was kind of a shit series but it was right about one thing which is a nerd in power can very easily become the worst type of person

#'''oh they're not real human people they're just clones in a game so it doesn't matter''' #bro they are still sentient beings and one's actions towards them are very representative of what one would do if given power irl. bro #i know that most people got the point of #uss callister #and that's why it's such a well-liked episode #but holy shit i haven't encountered a story interpretation so bad in like. years #fucked up sci-fi stories warm my heart in some kind of way when done with good intent #and this was! #oh and the user with the shit take is cafeleningrad. if anyone cares at all. ive never interacted w them at all #black mirror #sci-fi #science fiction #nanette cole #rambles

[historia-vitae-magistras]

@cafeleningrad tagged me to name 23 books I read in 2023 and my only coping mechanisms are sex and research so whoooooo I've got all 23 and they were hard to pick.

Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura.

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 by James Carl Nelson

The Sum of Us by Heather McGee

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by John D'Emilio and ‎Estelle B. Freedman

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 by Marc Morris

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45: Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War by Yorick Smaal

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

A History of New Zealand in 100 Objects by Jock Phillips

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa J. Fuentes.

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price

Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places by Beebe Bahrami

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer

1945: The Year That Made Modern Canada by Ken Cuthbertson

The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple.

A History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico by TR Fehrenbach.

A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes.

A History of Disability By Henri-Jacques Stiker

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War by Andrew Bell

Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature by Allen Thiher

tagging @elfpen an anyone else who'd like to participate! give me those fiction recommendations because i anxiety read non-fiction lmao.

#i should make more friends || tag games

[rainhalydia]

Thanks to @cafeleningrad for tagging me! I haven't done one of those (or been much on tumblr at all) in a while, but I always like them!

3 ships you like: I'm currently very into Moshang (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System), a little bit less so into Nieyao (MDZS), and I'm always a Throbb bitch.

First ship ever: I've always loved shipping even before I knew what it was, but the first I remember having intense feelings of 'oh, i want to smash them together forever' was with Sakura and Syaoran from Sakura Card Captor.

Last song you heard: This The Wind Blows cover.

Favourite childhood book: I don't think I had a favorite one, I hardly reread things, but I remember that The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley made an impression on me. Not a kid book, but I read it while I was a kid.

Currently reading: Putting myself through Incidente em Antares (An Incident at Antares, in a poor translation by me), by Érico Veríssimo. I'm about halfway done (read 130 pages or so) and I'm annoyed at how much I don't like it so far while it should be perfectly to my tastes on paper. This has been a trend lately. I don't like that author in general, but it was the closest fiction novel at hand and I wanted a physical book.

Currently watching: Nothing in particular. I want to watch The Terror just from how much I've seen it on my dash. And HotD again before season 2 starts.

Currently consuming: As in, food? Digital "content?. Neither, at the moment.

Currently craving: Energy :'(

I'm tagging @omgellendean, @salty-wench, @evax3, @st-clements-steps and whoever else wants to!

#tag games

[bigre-fichtre]

I was tagged by @cafeleningrad, thanks !

3 ships you like:

Going-Merry (Thousand sunny is cool too, but... i grew up with her)

Baratie (it's ridiculous i love it)

Moby Dick (it's a whale !)

Herm, sorry, if we talk about romantic relationships and not boats from one piece... not much lately (not much in general), but let's say :

Humphrey and Camille from Death in Paradise (nothing against Martha later, just not interested in her, but i still like Humphrey very much and love to watch him in situations, and he lives quite some with Martha so i guess thanks Miss)

... I could ship in Fall Out the little brother and the one-eyed pregnant lady?

I'm always happy to see Aziraphale and Crowley on my dash

First ship ever: For a long time i would have thought it was MonicaxChandler from friends. Later i realised, no, well before that, my first ship was... Bill and Caroline. A dog and a turtle. From the BD Boule et Bill (Also, i'm still mad since years ago i realised that Boule is the name of the human boy and bill is the dog... wtf!)

Last song you heard: Welcome to the jungle by Aerosmith.

Favourite childhood book: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman and [edit:] Jeu mortel by Moka

Currently reading: Just finished "Trigger warnings" by Neil Gaiman. Next will be my friend first ever novel ! (I've already read two version of the firsts chapter but he rewrote everything since other beta-readers and I made our comments)

Currently watching: Beyond Paradise (well i finished season 1 and have to find somehow season 2 that is currently out weekly), Fall Out and we still have to finish Tengoku-Daimakyo

Currently consuming: Nothing but i should really get up and consume some water.

Currently craving: Some water, sleep and more content with Kris Marshall/DI Humphrey Goodman (Death in Paradis, Beyond Paradise)

I'm tagging : @jamiebythesea @la-vie-en-lys @orphanage-body @bidonica and anyone who wants to do it

#tag game #tag meme #i can't exactly explain what is about DI Humphrey Goodman... expect I'm rotating him in my mind these last weeks #like Death in Paradise is very correct Agatha Christie like murders #Beyond Paradise is okay #but him... he is so much I want to squeeze him hang him by the feet but also cuddle and kiss him

[bengalaas]

Get to know the blogger

Hey! I got tagged by @serial-chillr​ and @fandomn00blr​, and this was fun, so I’m tagging @cafeleningrad​, @sausagesquirrel​, @blackeyewhiterose​, @dafan7711​ and anyone else who wants to, if you want to :D

Share your wallpaper: my favourite colour in roses, this kinda peachy pink

Last song you listened to: Take Me to Church cover by Sofia Karlberg

Currently reading: The Child In You by Stephanie Stahl. Psychology stuff!

Last movie: Spiderman: Far From Home. I hadn’t seen it before, and lemme tell you, in light of all the recent AI developments and the potential for deepfakes, it left a rather bitter taste in my mouth. Both the illusions by Mysterio and the ‘plot twist’ in the post-credits scene revealing that the Fury in the movie was never even the real Fury. Yuck.

Last show: Rewatching Daredevil S3 :}

Craving: Another two months of freedom instead of starting a new job XD

What are you wearing right now: Dark grey sweatpants, light grey hoodie and khaki green tee saying ‘stay wild’

How tall are you: 170 cm

Piercings: Just ears

Tattoos: Nah, I could never decide what I want and where. It’s a Big Decision, ya know.

Glasses? Contacts? Glasses.

Last drink: Some leftover red wine lol

Last thing you ate: heart-shaped pryaniki. um, glazed soft gingerbread kinda cookies

Favorite color: Fir green!

Current obsession: Attempting a plot for a Kastle fic. I have an idea and a vibe, but not much of a plot, and I’ve never written in a modern setting, and this is set in US and basically aaaaaaaa! (in a fun way)

Any pets: I have a kitty:

Favorite fictional character: Thorin Oakenshield.

The last place you traveled: I went to Ķemeri bog trail!. Awesome place any time of the year

#bengruminations #:)

[mrs-storm-andrews]

Picrew Time!

The shadows under my eyes are on point!

I'm tagging

@cafeleningrad, @jessthebooklover, @ladyinrosso, @motherofkittens94, @hellmothereva, @milverton, @selkiewife and @spaceradars

for this one: https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/626197/complete?cd=s9WWeLMsCp

#stormy stuff #tag meme #picrew #you know that I love this stuff

[incblackbird]

I was tagged (like a month ago, oops) by the amazing @cafeleningrad to share my Your 9 favourite movies.

So here they are, in all their glory

I’ll tag a few people myself: @moviestorian @janiedean @takoyaki-ball @like-a-word-on-a-wing

#hereditary #the evil dead #das cabinet des dr. caligari #old boy #a clockwork orange #naked lunch #a ghost story #sleepy hollow #a bay of blood

[lucy-ghoul]

For the ship bingo: Ere/min, Guts/Casca?

about eremin: already answered in the previous ask!

guts/casca:

tysm!!! 💜💜

#asks #cafeleningrad

[ante--meridiem]

🍓 + 🥬

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Bluntness/directness will get you a long way to befriending me! Once you've been direct I feel safe being direct right back, and from there I can skip the hours of second guessing and strategically planning what I should say and engage in some actual communication.

(Vegetable emoji I can't find)

Sometimes if you're talking about something I have things to say about to someone else/a general audience, I will bring it up to you excitedly along with my things to say. That is me trying to befriend you.

#Ask game #cafeleningrad #Feel like these asks are revealing how bad I am at making friends. Oops.

[janiedean]

aaand nine favorite movies meme tagged by @cafeleningrad, thank you!

(is anyone surprised? no) (does this absolutely encapsulates the fact that I can’t do top twenties with movies post-2000? probably)

anyway tagging (if they want) @octopuscato @lodessa @moviestorian @randomingoftherandomness @majorheelturn @blueagia @bidonica <3

#about me #movie meme #no one is surprised probably

[hyraaeth]

Thank you @cafeleningrad for tagging me 💜

sunshine or moonlight? fairy wings or angel wings? gardening or and baking? velvet or silk? flowers or succulents? black coffee or milky coffee? road trips or hiking? mermaids or dragons? 

Tagging (feel free to join): @itsmeimcathy @selkiewife @hasitsclaws

[historia-vitae-magistras]

@cafeleningrad 9 people tag ★

Last song: Into the Woods by Phildel

Current obsession: House of the Dragon.

Last film: Kingdom of Heaven, 2005.

Currently reading: Libraries: A Fragile History & The Polar Bear Expedition: America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia 1918-1919.

Currently watching: kind of on a video essay kick right now.

next nine in line: @paperbarks @needcake @oumaheroes @elfpen @bubbleteahime @gremlins-hotel @ego-meliorem-esse

#ask box games || chaos coming soon to an inbox near you

[rainhalydia]

Hello huni,

Please talk me through you Johanna Westerling Lannister head canons. Also do you want her to appear in HoTD?

♥️♥️♥️s

Hi, darling! Thanks for the ask!

First of all, I have to give credit to @cafeleningrad for making me interested in Johanna for the first time. That was pre-HotD, when Fire & Blood was released. I had not read most of the book, but I had read about her, and the more I thought about her, the more she became this super detailed character! I'm almost at the point of claiming her as my OC, tbh, that's how fleshed out she is in my mind.

First of all, I think she's extremely proud. She's from a time before the name Westerling had fallen into poverty and married a merchant in, and not that long before her time, a Westerling was selected as queen by a Targaryen king, never mind that he was, hmm, not all there, mentally. Her lineage is very proud at that point! She's a from a noble, rich house! Married into to the most powerful house of the west, to the lord! I think she's very aware of how high in the class scale she is, but in a way that she feels entitled to her power, not aware that it's a privilege. She sees it as her right.

I think tied to that, she's very good at her job of running the house, and has consciously expanded that power by kinda... I guess usurping is not the right word, but her husband is not very smart or hardworking, I think it's super easy for her to convince him to let her be the brains behind the operation. Like, oh, dear, why don't you go hunting, you seem to stressed, I can deal with the vassals and the staff and the smallfolk, go visit your mistress or the brothel, you deserve to treat yourself. In practice, she's the lord. And I think he's dependent enough on her, or comfortable enough with the situation, that she's not too miffed about having to play more traditional roles when in court or something. She's not exactly pleased, but he's dumb enough that she finds him cute. He's her pet.

I also think that she enjoys sex a lot! I think it's pretty self-evident that she was aimming for a male heir to secure her own position should her husband die - which he does, so kudos to her preparedness - but to me someone who's so proud and has her husband so under her control would not be satisfied by a lackluster sex life. Especially because, when we meet her in the text, she's not that young? She's not old by any means, but she's well out of the blushing bride phase. And though he has an official mistress, her husband has more kids with her than with the woman he keeps strictely for lust/love. Something was going right for those two in the bedroom.

I tend to think that she was more annoyed than worried during the Dance, especially with the Greyjoy invasion. She was perfectly safe behind her walls, her kids were safe, she lost her husband but he didn't do much anyway, and her brother-in-law is too far away to cause her any trouble. The raids, btw, were a good excuse for why she couldn't send more men or offer more to the war campaign, and that's pretty good for her when committing too hard to one side gets you killed. Officially they were team green, but not in a way that truly would step on Rhaenyra's toes. At the same time, I think she was very pissed about the Greyjoys destroying her lands and kidnapping her smallfolk. Not in a sympathetic way, though I think she was disgusted by the rapes, but because those were her people, that should serve her and her family. They're not for other lords to take. And for me, that's why her revenge is so brutal when it comes.

I'd LOVE for her to appear in HotD! I'm rooting for it, in fact! As much as the Targaryen are messy, they're not my favorite mess. If they fleshed her out and made her interact with Dalton, I'd forgive them anything, even their poor lighting. And tbh, I don't think that's out of the realm of the possible, given how they transformed the relationship between the other characters, especially Rhaenycent.

#ask game #johanna westerling lannister #headcanons