brief introductory post before I figure out the coding for a better one :>

• call me loui pt/eng/fr

• I like the french revolution, the american revolution (formerly), enlightenment history in general, les mis (the brick mostly), the terror, herman melville, cinema, aubreyad, 19th century brazilian history and romantic/realist/modernist literature

• I also REALLY like álvares de azevedo and am working on a translation of his “noite na taverna” (night at the tavern) that you can find >here< (and my askbox is always open if you want to ask abt him, or anything else really)

• tag me in posts about whaling or moby-dick

• my pfp is an illustration of werther from the “sorrows of young werther” and my header is “eugene onegin’s duel” by ilya repin

• sideblog where I rb and talk about art -> @marblegauze

(was once astronaut-oxylotl and effeuiller-la-marguerite)

someone new follows me and i quickly delete all the embarrassing text posts like a child sweeping their mess under the bed

the little bitch of valley forge

i remember when I went to paris (i was eight years old) and the concierge at the hotel and I asked him if I could let my stuffed cat ride in the baggage carrier and he was like “desole… non… girl” and he was sighing and shaking his head like it’s okay man it wasn’t that serious

my dad (despite I believe being from a different flavor of protestatism than theirs) is obsessed w huguenots and he seems to have this aesthetic fantasy where he’s about to die in the saint bartholomew’s day massacre but before he needs to see his beloved or something HE’S JUST TOLD ME THIS

joining the revolution to become someone’s boybestfriend