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vox-anglosphere · 8 months

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British railway posters from a century ago evoke a bygone era.

#Edinburgh #Loch Ness #Scottish Highlands #British Rail #UK #romantic travel #artistic #old world nostalgia #vintage posters

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razzberry-rain · 4 months

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Old animal crossing just hits different

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sameold-world · 5 months

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odd page from 2008

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lanalove2012 · 19 days

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animalcrossworld · 11 months

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Old and forgotten animal crossing wild world (2005) website...

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youre-dreaming-302 · 8 months

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Sega world

#sonic the hedgehog #sega #sega world #y2k #y2k aesthetic #y2k style #y2k nostalgia #y2k icons #2000s web #old web #2000s #early 2000s #2000s internet

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hedgehog-moss · 3 months

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Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

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anaquariusart · 4 months

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Heat Haze Days but TwewyNeo!

(Still really proud of this one so I'm posting it here)

#digital art #illustration #digital illustration #drawing #my art #art #old art #twewy #neo twewy #rindo kanade #shoka sakurane #hazuki mikagi #the world ends with you #the world ends with you neo #fanart #heat haze days #vocaloid #kagerou project #nostalgia

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lilsageart · 7 months

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zeffdakilla · 6 months

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#art #nostalgia #old internet #old web #2010s #2010s nostalgia #tf2 #team fortress 2 #digital art #tf2 fanart #tf2 sniper #2000s #2000s nostalgia #scott pilgrim #scott pilgram vs the world #tf2 art #scott pilgrim fanart #crossover

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soldrawss · 1 year

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My perfect son got such a glowup im so proud of him💙

#my art #professor layton #luke triton #professor layton and the new world of steam #im so excited for the new game omg #ive been watching old game playthroughs while i pack #the nostalgia #is so 🤌

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undeadcourier · 9 months

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thinking about how the theme of letting go (and the related motif of critically examining long-held beliefs/relationships) appears with the companions.

there's arcade and veronica, who were raised in insular environments and surrounded by enemies their entire lives, who fundamentally disagree with the politics of those groups, and who have to find a way to reconcile the love and loyalty they have for the only families they've ever known with their personal ideologies and goals.

while cassidy and crimson caravans aren't major factions in the vein of the ncr/enclave/brotherhood, cass' quest also revolves around whether she upholds the legacy of her family or follows her own path.

boone is disillusioned with the ncr after the bitter springs massacre but still wears his first recon beret, perhaps as a sign of lingering loyalty, or perhaps as penance. he participated in a horrible war crime because he was following orders, because that mindset was drilled into him since he joined the military. he's not as ideologically opposed to the ncr as arcade and veronica are to the enclave and brotherhood, respectively, but the similarity is worth noting.

what makes these companion quests so memorable is that we're meeting these characters at critical crossroads in their lives, where they have to come to terms with complicated attachments, where they'll define themselves by whether they choose to hang on to a legacy or strike out on their own.

#there's also revenge as a theme but that's another post #and that's to say nothing of how the dlc handle this theme—there are some great posts circulating already #to which i don't have anything substantial to add atm. though at some point i want to dig into that revenge element as well #it's obviously tied up with the inability to let go but there's the old world blues nostalgia vs. elijah & joshua's power hunger #vs. ulysses desire for justice #and there's benny and his ambition and the courier and their myriad motives #it's a good game #arcade gannon #veronica santangelo #rose of sharon cassidy #craig boone #for auld lang syne #i could make you care #heartache by the number #i forgot to remember to forget #fallout: new vegas

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cutewebgraphics · 10 months

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I was browsing and discovered Divide To Zero by Tom Murphy's full collection of FreeType fonts that completely defined my childhood & exists as the source of most, if not all of my typographic inspirations! You can find all of them from 1993-1997 on his website here with an 88x31 button you can link back with, but check out the rest of his site too, and his blog going since the year 2000! An incredible collection of work as well as fantastic web design that transports me back to a different time... :)

#Old web #web graphics #typography #nostalgia #fonts #static #Does anyone else remember their world being completely dominated by these fonts?#I haven't been this excited to find a webpage in such a long time...!!! <3

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thisischeri · 5 months

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#I’m back!#this photo alone bring me so much happiness and nice nostalgia #it was my escape from shit school experience #and my welcome into the design world bc I hated the clothes so I downloaded paint shop pro to redesign them at age 9 haha #but also I wish my life is a simulation bc I still can’t comprehend things that happened to me #the sims 2 #the sims #sims #cybercore #y2k #old internet #old web #cyber y2k #00s #2000s #moodboard #tech #cyber core #tech blog

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angelwngd · 4 months

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thevalleyisjolly · 10 months

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Hikaru Sulu solved the ‘jock vs nerd’ debate by being both at the same time. He’s a master fencer who loves 18th century French popular literature. His leisure activities include xenobotany and judo. He enthusiastically infodumps about his hobbies to his friends and daydreams about antique weaponry and aerial combat. He likes to start his day with a cup of tea in an actual teacup and saucer, and he ends his day almost flying his ship apart and deliberately drawing fire from a cloaked Bird-of-Prey. At any given time, he’s one polywater infection away from stripping off his shirt and going full cackling musketeer. Truly no one is doing it like him.

#star trek #hikaru sulu #listen; in a fairer world; sulu could and would be the star of his own show #this is not me expressing a wish for an actual spin-off though because i don't trust that paramount would actually do a good job with it #also; in general we do not need more spin-offs of old media properties. explore some new stories instead of relying on nostalgia!#but you know george takei would have absolutely killed it as the star of a stand-alone star trek movie or even a limited series

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