#northwest-by-a-train

[onenicebugperday]

Another ant pun in french for all your insect pun needs (the french being a sort of insect when you come down to it. The baguettes? That's our eggs).

La vache fait "Meuh"

(the cow goes "Mooooo")

Le chat fait "Miaou"

(the cat goes "Meow")

Et la fourmi ?

(And the ant ?)

La fourmi cro-onde!

(The microwave!)

Lol thank you I enjoy bug puns in any and all languages. Love the implication that new French people hatch out of baguettes btw

#northwest-by-a-train

[luthienne]

Also to comment on the previous asker's tirade: a very interesting thing about Sansa is that she's very genre-aware, but for the wrong genre. Like, in the books, it seems that the world-picture of a great many characters is jaded, cynical, "down-to-earth", "pragmatic". And whoever adopts this view gains power from it. Tyrion, Tywin, Littlefinger, the men of the Watch, the Knights of the Kingsguard, the Hound, the ironmen, Arya... They derive their power from their "awareness" of "how the world works" which revolves around selfishness, fear, greed, death... To an extent, Sansa's fault, to these people, is the fault of her father: thinking she lived in a better world.

She's still the girl raised on courtly love and virtuous knights, and they hate that she doesn't believe in "The Real World". They see her as too stupid to understand that world, or refusing to join it out of selfishness... In both cases denying herself power.

But it's part of what makes her a great character, 1) the tension between how she lives the world and how she wishes the world to be, something which a great many characters have all but given up on 2) the fact that she isn't really interested in power. She plays the game with Littlefinger because there's nothing else to do, but she'd rather be home with her parents at any given time. She wanted to be a queen, but now she wants something more human. And 3) that she's essentially Emma Bovary getting to live the stuff novels are made of, and she doesn't like that either.

But that makes her intolerable to men because she doesn't try to "achieve" stuff, she's not on a mission, she has no goals, not even pleasure. She's just a teenage girl trying to live after losing everything... She's "unproductive" she doesn't respond "optimally" to stuff, she doesn't care about "the grand design" of Littlefinger's schemes. These men think that if they were dropped in the world of Asoiaf they'd become rich warrior-lords from their jadedness, or change history. Sansa not "min/maxing" her life is an insult to them because she scorns their entire value system by existing as a teen girl.

To me, that makes her the most interesting character of them all, because she really is alien from all the other characters. She is watches them caught in the cycles of desire and suffering, ambition and self-destruction, and has yet to participate. Whether she ends up playing or stays removed, the journey to getting there will have been so interesting...

!!!!!! you articulated this so perfectly <3333

#northwest-by-a-train #replies #genuinely i appreciate you all so much for your thoughtfulness in adding to this discussion <333 #i especially loved your point about the way she inhabited the same world as her father. & tragically that world was not the world they #were thrust into. & i do think her continued insistence on believing in gallantry & virtuousness & fairy tale reversals of fate #is part of what makes her so interesting. bc she doesn't succumb to cynicism despite what she survives #basically — exactly what you said <3 #sansa stark defense squad 🤺 #asoiaf

[wellntruly]

In Petit Paysan, Swann Arlaud plays a small scale bovine farmer who lives alone. Then there's a lethal bovine flu going through the country. Despite the flu ravaging his neighbors' farms and the health and safety risk to the population (and himself) he keeps his flock alive. And of course, instead of doing farmworker in flyover country pathos, the film takes a decidedly gothic turn that would've made Shirley Jackson proud.

#Shirley Jackson u say #replies #northwest-by-a-train #Petit Paysan

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Ooooh if it's not there, the OG trans litfic book: Last Letters from Hav (1985) by Jan Morris! It was nominated for the Booker and everything! Morris was a real-life Tintin, she was the journalist who reported the Everest climbing, the Suez crisis, and hobnobbed with pretty big bigwigs pre-transition. Then she wrote excellent travel books once out. Last Letters from Hav is a travel book in her usual style, weaving the history of the city with her impressions, portraits of its denizens, from the ordinary to the baroque, and her welcome as a trans tourist. Only Hav does not exist, but not in the it-was-all-a-dream/metaphor/fabrication postmodern way. It's just a very detailed and comprehensive travel guide of a place you'll never go to.

Oh this sounds super interesting, thank you for the submission! I added it to the list.

#not a poll #ask #northwest-by-a-train

[toastling]

Re: song asks. Curious about your 5, your 11, your 14 and your 24!

5: "Cold Loud Dark" by The Classic Crime. It's even in the title. It's made for blasting.

11: "Today" by Q

14: "Colour Me In" by VUKOVI

24: "Don't Stop" by Innerpartysystem. That band was so ahead of their time. Super anticapitalist. They would've done huge numbers in recent years, and I miss them dearly every day.

#Ask Box #Answered #northwest-by-a-train #Music

[thegorgonist]

Haunted Country Just nice to see this developing series together... Maybe some locations from the Midwest next? My shop

#pacific northwest gothic #haunted country #ghost train #moving truck horror #gas station #liminal space

[antonivs]

pretty queer(coded) men directed by alfred hitchcock stop giving me insane amount of gender envy challenge

#farley being there twice because he's superior #rope 1948 #strangers on a train #the lodger #north by northwest #alfred hitchcock #phillip morgan #farley granger

[seabeck]

Split in two

#abandoned train #nature #landscape #artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #photography #photographers on tumblr #Washington #vsco #pacific northwest #p #forest #beauty #aesthetic #pnw #westcoastbestcoast #art #explore #travel #cottagecore

[thehitchcockbrunette]

Hitchcock + Trains

The 39 Steps (1935)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Suspicion (1941)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

North By Northwest (1959)

#the 39 steps #the lady vanishes #suspicion #shadow of a doubt #strangers on a train #north by northwest #alfred hitchcock #oldhollywoodedit #mine: gifs #mine** #choo choo

[thethirdman8]

Strangers on a Train - Robert Walker gets pounded by Farley Granger in 1951

North by Northwest - Martin Landau gets his block knocked off by James Mason in 1959

#strangers on a train #north by northwest #alfred hitchcock #william ziegler #george tomasini #1959 #1951

[xoverit]

Seattle and SeaTac, Washington. (February 2023)

#seattle #seatac #washington #washington state #pnw #pacific northwest #2023 #my photo #rca voice and photo recorder #rca rp5055a #sound transit #public transportation #train #skyline

[akayna]

Took the train to Canada for my vacation 🚉🇨🇦

#train #amtrak #west coast #pnw #Pacific Northwest #tracks #railroad #sunset #crochet #ride #border crossing #fun #vacation #skyscapes #Vancouver #british columbia #Canada #usa

[nukelearblues]

Hitchcocks at work. I may not be obsessed with murder the same way but I sure am obsessed with wasting office supplies and company time

#my art #alfred hitchcock #rope 1948 #strangers on a train #north by northwest #rear window #vertigo 1958 #rebecca 1940

[newmosbiusdesigns]

Next Depot by TIA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Via Flickr: Seattle, Washington, USA. Please enjoy a long exposure photograph featuring some exciting light trails produced by the traffic that flowed past me that evening. My fascination with light trails was what originally catapulted me into night-time photography several years ago, on a very cold night in Gastown in Vancouver. I’ll never forget that moment as I ultimately think it’s what led to everything I’ve done in photography and the people I have met since, including many of you. If some of you are familiar with the Gwyneth Paltrow movie, “Sliding Doors”, I think my discovery of light trails was my “Do I get on the train or off the train?” moment in photography. I think I’m still on the train, traveling to as many destinations as possible, always waiting for the next depot. I don’t create such photographs nearly as often anymore, so this image is essentially a tribute (and personal reminder) to why I love and continue to experiment with photography. TIA OFFICIAL WEBSITE / VUE ATYPIQUE / TIA TWITTER / TIA OFFICIAL BLOG / TIA INSTAGRAM

#Seattle #Washington #Pacific Northwest #Downtown #cityscape #city #city centre #city center #skyscraper #Avenue #Street #lamp post #light trails #light stream #blue hour #evening #dusk #sunset #traffic #King #County #train #Station #clock #tower #campanile #Business #District #rush #long exposure

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Would like to Submit How to get over the end of the world and Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve !

Thank you for the submissions, I added them to the list :)

#not a poll #ask #northwest-by-a-train

[strathshepard]

The Seattle Monorail, 1962 rendering

#seattle #northwest #PNW #yellow #trains