#Claires Fontaines

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Claire Fontaine, Detail from Change, 2005. Twelve twenty- five cent coins, steel box-cutter blades, solder and rivets, approx. 900 × 400 × 400 mm. 

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Claire Fontaine, Brickbats (Taccuini Di Guerra Incivile, 2007)

at Fondazione Bonollo, 2024

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I think I have found a song that perfectly fits Crowley and Aziraphale after the ending of season 2. It’s called à la Claire Fontaine and is about the singer listening to a nightingale singing while missing for their longtime friend to love them again.

I am currently obsessed with Good Omens (I know, total shocker) and it just hit me that this song my mom often sang to me when I was little fit surprisingly well.

Anyways, long story short I put the lyrics below the cut and I translated them in English (I tried to match the rhyming scheme and stuff but I’m not perfect)

À la claire fontaine at the pretty water fountain

M'en allant promener, while i was on a stroll

J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle, I found it was so pretty

Que je m'y suis baignée. That I went for a swim

REFRAIN

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, It’s been so long that I’ve loved you

Jamais je ne t'oublierai. Never, will I forget you

Sous les feuilles d'un chêne under the leaves of an oak tree

Je me suis fait sécher, I laid myself to dry

Sur la plus haute branche, up on the highest branch

Un rossignol chantait. A nightingale sang high

REFRAIN

It’s been so long that I’ve loved you

Never, will I forget you

Chante, rossignol, chante, sing, nightingale please sing

Toi qui as le cœur gai, you with your heart so light

Tu as le cœur à rire, you have the heart to laugh

Moi, je l'ai à pleurer. All mine can do is cry

REFRAIN

It’s been so long that I’ve loved you

Never, will I forget you

J'ai perdu mon ami I’ve lost my very best friend

Sans l'avoir mérité, without having earned them (him/her)

Pour un bouquet de roses, for a bouquet of roses

Que je lui refusai. That I refused to take

REFRAIN

It’s been so long that I’ve loved you

Never, will I forget you

Je voudrais que la rose I would’ve had the roses

Fût encore au rosier, still perched on the rose bush

Et que mon doux ami and for my dearest friend

Fût encore à m'aimer. To still love me deeply

REFRAIN

It’s been so long that I’ve loved you

Never, will I forget you

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urs fischer + claire fontaine in unmonumental: the object in the 21st century - phaidon (2007)

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I'm reading the Trollhunters book and I'm in love with book Claire <3 in the show she's a thin white Hispanic girl called Claire Nunez and she's badass but in the book she's British (a step down tbh) and her name is Claire Fontaine and she's FATTER and punk rock enough that she's not accepted by the popular kids I dearly dearly want to hear more

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Claire Fontaine, Fontana Luminosa (Marco), 2023

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256. “She’s been missing since Friday and you’re not worried?” Jlaire?

Thank you, kind anon, for going above and beyond by giving me the prompt associated with the number from the 390 Prompts

This takes place in a version of my De Morgan's Law AU, which means that Barbara is a changeling, Jim is a shadowmancer named Jennifer "Jen" Lake, and Claire spent the age of 8-16 as Morgana's amnesiac apprentice. Claire has since reclaimed her identity, hence why she's Claire and not Fontaine de Morgan.

This takes place at the end of the season 2 equivalent of this AU.

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Quietly Claire and Jen stepped from the portal and into her room. She didn't want Jen to be making portals right now, but this was the fastest way back to Claire's room. Jen didn't want to go home right now. Not after the Janus Order.

"Could you check my house? See if my mom's," Jen had swallowed, looking like she was trying very hard not to cry. "I know it's a coward's way out-"

"Jen, I wish you were more of a coward," Toby had said to her. Jen had been living with Toby after his mom had been exposed as a changeling. She hadn't answered any of Jen's calls since they had found the massacre at the Janus Order.

"I'll check out your house for you, see if Dr. L is laying low there," Toby had continued. "Just don't pull any more stunts like what you just did."

Claire was about to tell Jen to make herself comfortable when she heard her parents talking.

"She's been missing since Friday and you're not worried?" her mom said.

Oh. Right. The Gunmar-possessed Draal had broken her phone, and after that Claire had been too distracted to have Jen or Toby call her parents. It still didn't come easy to her, knowing that she had guardians who cared about her and couldn't spy on her using magic.

"Of course I am," her dad said. "But you know how hesitant she is to involve us. We couldn't protect her back then. We'll just get in her way, now."

"You should go to them," Jen half-said, half-yawned. "Let them know you're okay."

While you still can, was unspoken.

"I'll text them, or something, but I'm not leaving your side," Claire said. "Not after the amount of dark magic you used. Even I haven't ever tapped beyond my resevoir and into my life force that much. Probably because I was taught to drain the life out of other things, but still."

Some part of Claire wondered if Decimaar functioned in a similar way. She wasn't sure if that was any use, though. Morgana hadn't taught her much about how to put the life force back into a creature, much less a soul.

"Is it really that bad?"

"It's a miracle you're alive. And I don't trust miracles." In Claire's experience, miracles were just the product of meddling wizards, ones more powerful than Claire and Jen.

It had been some sort of miracle that the amulet had chosen her, a seeming human, and called her by her true name. (It had been Merlin using Morgana's apprentice against her.)

It had been a miracle that a fairy was walking the streets of Arcadia despite the centuries of exile after the war with the pixies. (It had been eight years of Morgana's meddling.)

"Okay, then when I see my mom again she can explain why it wasn't a miracle." The way Jen's voice wavered spoke volumes about how much of a miracle it would be for Dr. Lake to still be alive.

"I just hope the Lady hasn't sunk her claws into you."

"You don't call M -" Jen cut herself off at the look Claire gave her. "You don't use her other names anymore. Why now?"

Claire had refused to call Morgana by any of her titles out loud ever since she had come to terms with the knowledge of what Morgana had done to her. She had had parents who loved her. She hadn't been abandoned at the mouth of Morgana's cave. She had had a name, and for eight years Claire had had no name when Morgana had so many names. Even the false name she had been given, Fontaine de Morgan, still had been a way to lay claim over Claire. A fountain of Morgana's magic.

"Names can have power when spoken aloud. You used her staff. I don't want to take any risks."

"I think if her staff was that powerful, it would've been a lot harder for you to fight Angor Rot. You have more of a connection than me, between her hand in your amulet and being raised by her. The magical genetic manipulation is something we both have."

"Please don't take any more risks."

Jen leaned foward and kissed Claire. She began to lean into the kiss before pulling away. "You can't just kiss me expecting that to make me not worried about you."

"We're at war. I don't think we can get away with not taking risks."

"I know, but you know what I mean. No unnecessary risks. You really scared Toby."

And me.

"Okay, okay, no unnecessary risks. Dark magic isn't like a concussion, right?" Jen half-asked, half-yawned.

"What do you mean?"

"Can I go to sleep? Or will I not wake up again?"

"I'll watch over you, but I don't think so."

Jen pulled out her phone as she made herself comfortable on Claire's bed. "Tell your parents."

Claire waited for Jen to fall asleep before unlocking Jen's phone.

This is Claire, she typed. That was the easy part. She kept on typing and hitting the backspace button, trying to figure out what to say. This was why she had considered not going home again, staying Fontaine the Trollhunter instead of becoming Claire once more. Her parents had already lost her once. At least if she hadn't become Claire again, they wouldn't have known it possible to lose her again. The fact that Jen was tossing and turning wasn't helping Claire's concentration.

Jen was likely having a nightmare. Was it induced by the dark magic? Claire having been sent to the Deep with heavy chains binding her wings? The Janus Order?

Out of the corner of her eye, Claire saw Jen's eyelids move. At least whatever nightmare she was having couldn't hurt her here in Claire's room.

Jen's glowing eyes snapped open. This wasn't the first time Jen's eyes had glowed; it was a side effect of her changeling side.

But her eyes weren't glowing blue. Oh, no, they were glowing gold. The same gold that Claire had grown up surrounded by as long as Morgana wasn't ignoring her. The same gold that Claire had once wished her magic had been the same color as, the same gold that Claire had always been thankful that Jen's magic didn't manifest as.

Claire summoned her armor at the same time that Morgana summoned the Skathe-Hrün to Jen's hand. Claire barely raised her shield in time to block the sharp points.

If Jen was controlling her body, Claire wouldn't have been able to dodge what would have been a non-lethal blow in an impromptu sparring session. If Morgana was truly focused on killing Claire, then Claire would probably be dead by now. (She needed to work on her reaction time.)

Claire did the calculations in her head. She couldn't let Morgana take Jen away. Morgana would be more powerful with a physical host, meaning that she probably wanted to take Jen back to the cave to more easily possess her. She was likely more focused on having a host than using her puppet as a lethal weapon.

They wanted to protect her.

"Mom? Dad? Help!"

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My part of the art trade I did with @cheesecakeguy88! They asked for Charlotte Fontaine and Claire Cambridge!

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You know what trollhunters is missing? A smarmy little bitch called jack sturges, he's such a great character and I wonder what would've happened if he was added

Or if toa had more book original stuff, becaue draal was supposed to be (BOOK SPOILER) Steve's changeling form,

Would jack still be Jim's uncle? Would Jim live with his dad instead? Milk carton epidemic? Scottish trollhunter claire Fontaine?

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Final thoughts on Trollhunters!

(Spoilers for the book)

ARRRGH!!!'s death seems very cathartic to me. Kind of like closure in an odd way, and it makes sense to the story.

Claire being literally the most badass Trollhunter is such a Claire thing. I love her.

Toby. Just Toby.

Jim getting that moment with his dad after the final battle was such a sweet thing. Just Jim in general. Book Jim was like S1 Jim if S1 Jim had S3 Jim's attitude.

Jack Sturges, hello yes I love you. He's like Douxie but physically younger and more bloodthirsty. Just his whole "I'm actually in my 50s but I still look and act 13, I'm very tired" thing. I love that.

Jack and Jim sharing that crazed love of the hunt and being invigorated by battle was one of my favorite things. Jim realizing that he's only good at Trollhunting and absolutely loving it. Has my whole heart.

Blinky, ARRRGH, and Jack being family to eachother???? It made me think that the showrunners took inspiration from that to give us Jim and Blinky's father/son duo and I'm living for it.

BLINKY AND JOANNA M. ARRRGH WERE IN LOVE AND YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. Yet another thing that was translated into the show and I love it dearly.

It was really nice being able to see which things were clearly taken from the book and put into the show. I loved it with my whole heart.

Jim and Toby were in love in this book.

"My ninja."

"My trollhunter."

If that's not gay-coded then I don't know what is.

Claire with a Scottish accent. Yes I love it. I want more of it.

This book is one of the best I've ever read. I might be biased, but I don't care. It's a good story, and I kind of wish there had been more than one book. I would love a series of just these characters.

Claire and Jim at the end tho. The jlaire was so real.

Also, literally ending the book by all of them murdering Steve upon finding out he's a changeling was so funny to me.

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Ils sont de retour à l'eau trouble

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Ibrahima Konaté

Furry’s come together.

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Jlaire (or just Claire as a character, tbh) wouldn't be any be anywhere near as popular as it is if Claire was chubby like she is in the book.

Anyways, I love both book and show Claire with my entire heart, but I'm still kinda salty with how much they slimmed her down in the show

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In celebration of Furina and Charlotte's drip marketing yesterday, I made some fankid concept art

Might redesign Claire since I have a hard time designing her

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B&W girls