#Claires Fontaines

[whathehe11]

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

[milksockets]

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

[autismmydearwatson]

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

[badarchitecturesucks]

Claire Fontaine, Fontana Luminosa (Marco), 2023

[trulyatessfan]

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

[gh99st]

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?

[honeyxmonkey]

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.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Ils sont de retour à l'eau trouble

D D

Ibrahima Konaté

Furry’s come together.

[lasaraconor]

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[saturnniidae]

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

[cklein-studio]

À la claire fontaine M'en allant promener J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle Que je m'y suis baigné ........... Sous les feuilles d'un chêne Je me suis fait sécher Sur la plus haute branche Un rossignol chantait

(Photo C. Klein)

[fanficwolf105]

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 hard

[blacknarcissus]

B&W girls

[marcogiovenale]

22 gennaio, mattina, bologna: conversazione con claire fontaine

lunedì 22 gennaio alle ore 11, l’Aula Magna dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna (via Belle Arti 54) ospiterà l’evento Conversazione con Claire Fontaine. Claire Fontaine è un’artista concettuale femminista collettiva fondata da Fulvia Carnevale e James Thornhill a Parigi nel 2004, che dal 2017 vive e lavora a Palermo. Lavora con il video, la scultura, la pittura e la scrittura e il suo nome è…

[fixomnia-scribble]

Oh the nerve!