Ilona Chavasse

Miss Doom works in publishing, translates Russian, reads, parents, naps, finds the odd moment to reason and snark. “Miss Ada Doom Reads” on Litalist

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

If you’re not into the Strugatskys, the first 8 minutes heavily feature my shitbag puppy. I talk a bit about translation, and as always, my grandma makes an appearance. Thanks @BacklistedPod for having us!

[John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson]

Stave off autumn's chill with the new @BacklistedPod - join Jennifer Lucy Allan (@JenniferLAllan) & Ilona Chavasse (@MissAdaDoom) @i_am_mill_i_am @birchos and me as we explore one of the great SF novels - Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky.
https://t.co/RriunSO4vj

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

We’re all in it for the books, but really we’re all in it for the people - a lovely way to celebrate an enchanting book by a an author of great charisma. Not to mention taste in clothes!

[𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖑 @rinathepublicist.bsky.social @rina_gill]

Welcoming Pakistani author @FaiqaMansab to
@unboundsocials London offices to raise a glass to her remarkable novel, #TheSufiStoryteller @NeemTreePress. Here with author
@AAChaudhuri & agent Annette Crossland. So many worlds to discover within the pages of this literary mystery.

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@NoContextBrits A piss alley

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@BorisDralyuk “what I would do”

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

Where’s the context of translators @tomgauld ? 😊 Otherwise spot on as usual. #translation #translator

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

MAGA is making the claim that if you watch the entire 50 minute video, Zelensky is the antagonist.

This isn't true. At all. I was with Zelensky before this meeting and it's important to know his mindset heading in.

1/ A short 🧵on how the entire ambush went down.

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@ATRightMovies That scene in Audition, you know the one.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen.

IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@acnewsitics @DecodingFoxNews maga word salad is a superpower

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@YelenaFurman I knew it was Ayn Rand from the words “hated since I read her in hs”… I has no idea she was on school curricula!

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

what even is weather wake up people its all a coastal elite plot maga forever some kind of word salad maga maga

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

BREAKING:

12,000 employees work at NOAA.

Their annual budget is $6.6 BILLION.

Why are 12k people needed to tell the weather?

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@MilaLovesJoe @AOC @MilaLovesJoe I heard it was a GAJILLION. Or - BREAKING: maybe I made that up.

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

An episode with my blazingly smart ex-colleagues @alex_christofi and @Arifa_Akbar and podcasting crush current colleague @johnmitchinson and also Fyodor, hard to fall in love with, impossible to forget.

[John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson]

Today's @BacklistedPod is a re-run classic from 2021 featuring Dostoevsky's novella, Notes from Underground, the founding text of dystopian fiction with writers @Arifa_Akbar, @alex_christofi, @i_am_mill_i_am and me plus a new intro from @birchos. "Enjoy"
https://t.co/c7prFf1zva

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

The weekend earworm, Jacques Brel existing through every phrase of Ne Me Quitte Pas as though he’s only just thought of it and it’s about to end him.

#chanson #amour #jacquesbrel #earworm

https://t.co/utI2O6zt4u

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

No one’s going to see this, but - joys of the season to dog owners everywhere.

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 “…stepped into the quantum leap accelerator - and vanished.” … “Oh, boy.”’

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

Hello darkness, my old friend - it’s night by 4 pm again. #sadd #winter

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@atrupar when they elected him king, yup

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

So here’s a quick look at the headlines
It looks like everything is fucked
The world is ending, we’re all done for
And now the weather with Christine

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

Literally a death cult now. Against women. Against the planet. For the rich getting richer, which is not the satisfying “fuck you” to the liberals you might think it is. Throwing up is an appropriate response, yes? Going to go do that.

[Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom]

@MicheleBerdy Was watching Channel 1 in my hotel - anthropological interest - while at the Frankfurt book fair last week. Absolutely mind-numbingly deliberately crazy. Zombie-rage level stuff.