#Coup? Coupe? Cou? You know what I mean
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Hmm mm not a fan of the way the fandom saw the vaguest hint that a mother might be morally grey and jumped to her being the worst character in the show no, nope, nope, not a fan-
#lilith hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel#Here's your friendly reminder that like. Charlie was in her late teens at the YOUNGEST when Lilith disappeared#It's considerably more likely she was a fully grown adult#Still not ideal but very justifiable with the implication shE WAS PLOTTING TO KILL ADAM-#like. That didn't read as a 'she's involved and Lutes taking on Adam's role naturally' that read as 'guilt ridden coup member reports back'#Coup? Coupe? Cou? You know what I mean
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SEVENTEEN REACTIONS!
Paring: svt seungcheol ×reader
Requested: yes! By @instanttimemachinesoul
Word count: 0.588k
Request:So i want a reaction where their s/o(idol) doesn't want to public there relationship but the members want and they argue a little.
Member of @houseofincantations
Authors note: I'm so sorry to be posting it so late, I'll try to post all the other members slowly, as my pre boards are near so I cannot work at fast pace but I hope you enjoy it!.
Seungcheol
It was just another fine day with seungcheol; well, not quite actually.
His head was lying on the couch while he scrolled through the Sns.
One of the idol news caught his eyes as it wrote " SVT LEADER RUMOURED TO HAVE BEEN DATING THIS UNKNOWN FEMALE IDOL"
Going through the article, his face turns red; it was ridiculous! What was writing with people? He was dating you, not her.
You came with a snack bowl while sitting next to him.
Seungcheol seemed winieer than usual.
" Baby!"
"Umm?"
" Should we go public?" His question caught you off guard afterall it wasn't in the plan in the first place
" Wa-?.....
What do you mean ``coups?" You tried to reattempt
" I said let's go public with our relationship." He sternly says
" Bu-
Why? Like what's the hurry?" You tried to process it all
" Because the media seems to have got the hint that I'm dating; but they don't know whom? So they shamelessly targeted a female idol and I'm not happy about it.
Her career is at risk, mine too and the worst is that I don't even know her!"
"Calm down coups!" You said in a hurry while placing your hand son his shoulders
" You're not in your right mind. We must think this through. Let's contact her and the agency. We-" he cuts you off
" What man? You're always like this. Let's think it through! Would you ever be a little possessive? Man!," Seungcheol's hands turned into fists and he punched the wall to hear your ears and it took you by surprise.
"Cou-"
"Don't fucking call me" he slams the door and leaves.
Checking the article, you realized that anyone would have been angry after all the artists were slandered and the comments were slandering their names saying such ridiculous statements that you too couldn't handle either.
With some deep talks with jeonghan, seungcheol thinks of his actions and of how he could have acted differently and more maturely. Returning back home with guilt on his heart he called out
"Baby?"
"Umm?" You were back in the kitchen making soup.
" Sorry,......
About earlier", he back hugged you with his arms wrapped around your waist. Softly whispering to your ears
" It's ok. I get why you were so caught up on that but cheol! We must think it all through and take the right actions."
"Yea, you're right! But you know how I don't like people just saying as they please when they don't even know half the story!" He bursts out. Guess it was the rare time he's actually vocal about this thoughts
" Yes. But just because they say stuff doesn't mean you're gonna have to react to it right?.. Now go wash up." You said with a bright smile.
"Ok" he shouts loudly while entering the bathroom.
My personal opinion:-
I feel like Seungcheol is a very mature person but can easily be swayed by his emotions. He's a very grounded person but with a strong sense of anger, so his partner but be calm to be able to handle it.
He knows the depth of his actions so the other one has to take it easy on them.
The word for the relationship would probably be patience.
But the partner can rest at ease as nothing in the relationship will be one-sided! If you're patient with him, so will he be with you.
He'll probably express his feelings through actions even when he says " sorry" he'll probably hug you or intertwine your fingers with his.
#kpc.creators#scoups scenarios#seventeen fluff#seventeen scenarios#seventeen fic#seventeen scenario#seventeen oneshot#seventeen imagines#scoups fluff#seungcheol scenarios#svt fic#seungcheol fluff#seungcheol fic#seungcheol oneshot#scoups fic#seventeen au#scoups au#seventeen x reader
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Rainy Stage
Title: Rainy Stage
Words: 2.3K
Pairing: Sou/SVT Hip Hop Team; 8th Member of BTS
Summary: Sou performs with Hip Hop Unit, a lot is going on in one day.
Saturday the 15th of July 2017, it’s the second out of 3 Seoul concerts held in the Jamsil Auxiliary Stadium by none other than Seventeen.
It was Hip Hop teams day and It’s own Leader reached out to Sou himself, since they both are friends and have a 95liner group chat, just as the maknaes do. Sou was immediately up for it, the minute S.Coups asked her to join them for a Stage. It was their last day in Seoul before they head out to Japan, since they’re on a World Tour. It also matched with Sou’s Tour Schedule, since BTS had a break.
If Sou had to pick her favorite Rappers besides her own groups, she would immediately choose the hip hop unit. She has a lot of love and respect for sincere rappers, who understand what they are doing and who do it with passion instead of just doing it because they can rap fast.
Rehearsals, which were held in the morning of the same day the concert was, were going great and all of them were super hyped for this.
They were all working hard, one thing she loved about sincere people. They knew the importance and work hard. But they also were joking around during break, which was needed after the hard work.
Sou has always wanted to spend more time with them, but due to her schedule she wasn't able to, which makes this so important for her. To be able to find time and being able to do amazing things with great artists.
The time she spend with them made her relax and feel good, to just get out of her nonstop working box which wasn’t healthy. Sou knew that, she knew she was getting mentally bad, which was probably the reason she took Seungcheols offer. Even if this was work as well, she was able to breathe and have a good time with nice people.
During the break there was lots of laughter and talking, from the boys teasing her for winning billboard to her teasing Mingyu about his crush on her best friend. She knew all about it, she’s Sou after all.
"So Mingyu, I heard you like a certain someone?" She asked playfully with a raised eyebrow. The boys all started to laugh and tease him, like they always do.
"Hes so deep, he just won’t stop talking about her." Vernon said.
Wonwoo laughed and then started to mimic Mingyu.
“Guys Mia follows me on Instagram. Mia is so pretty i think i’m in love, her voice in the new song omg its heavenly guys.”
“Don’t forget about ‘i’m gonna marry Mia one day I’m telling you’.” Vernon chipped in again.
Everybody was laughing at this point and Mingyu was holding his face in his hands. He was used to the guys teasing him about Mia, but it happening in front Sou, who is, well.. Sou, he was ashamed to the ground.
“Do you know what he said to me after you confirmed that you can come to the concert?” S.Coups asked Sou withing giggles. She shook her head and listened curiously.
“He said, I quote: ‘Coups hyung, do you think you can ask Sou Noona if she can introduce Mia and me?”
Laughter was filling the room, Vernon was rolling on the floor and Wonwoo held himself up on Sou’s shoulders. Sou on the other Hand was raising her eyebrow at Mingyu, who now has a face in the color of a volcano. She noticed how embarrassed he already was, so she decided not to make him any more uncomfortable than he already is.
“Alright boys, as much as fun teasing Mingyu is, we still need to focus on a few things.” She smoothly changed the topic and got all back to work, to which Mingyu was very grateful for.
Some time later the boys had to leave to prepare for the concert and Sou had to get ready herself. During the concert she was watching it Backstage, waiting for her cue to go. She found herself enjoying it, singing along to every word. There was something about Seventeen that made her happy.
“Are you all having fun?” Vernon asked the Crowd to which they screamed at.
“Hyung do you wanna say something? I think S.Coups here has something to say guys” Mingyu told the crowd, bringing attention to his Leader.
“First of all, thank you for staying with us Carats, in this horrible weather” It was raining like crazy and Sou hated it. The fact that she was wearing 6 inch heels wasn't helping the Situation either, but her Outfit was on point and she wasn't going to change a thing about it.
“Second of all, since today is our Units day, we prepared a special Song, which will also be the last one. Are you all ready?” He screamed into the mic.
Sou took this as her cue and started to jump up and down, which is her way of getting ready,
Lotto Remix started playing and the boys wasted no time in pouring all their energy into the last Song. When it was Sou’s part, the lights went off for a few seconds and when they came back on, Sou was standing between in the middle of the Stage, Mingyu on her right and S.Coups on her left.
“Seoul are you ready?” She screamed into the mic and the fans were going crazy. The whole crowd was so hyped, including the boys and Sou.
It turned out to be a hundred times better than they rehearsed and all 5 of them were satisfied with themselves.
While the boys got ready for the next songs, Sou went backstage and made herself comfortable to watch the rest of the concert.
After the Boys finished and got ready to go home, Sou pulled Mingyu over to talk to him but before she could say something he beat her to it.
“Look Sou, don’t take the thing with Mia seriously. Its just a crush it doesn't mean anything. Please don’t tell Mia.” Mingyu was slightly panicking.
Sou smiled softly at Mingyu.
“Don’t.” She just said, which confused Mingyu.
“Don’t what? Don’t crush on her? Don’t-”
“Don’t give up. I know this might sound like a its straight from a fairy tale. But Keep trying. I know Mia very well, better than she knows herself. And I know you. I think you’d be good for her. So keep on trying, you never know what might turn it into.”
Mingyu was so shocked right now, he didn't know what to say or what to think.
“I- Are serious right now?” he asked still in shocked.
Sou nodded and laughed at his expression, she found it cute and adorable.
Usually she doesn't like being a matchmaker, even though she has the eyes for it, but she knew Mia. She wants the best for her and in this case, Mingyu might be the best. If there was any harm in this, Sou wouldn't be doing it.
Mingyu has the kindest Soul, he is funny and has overall a great character. Sou knows Mingyu could be good for Mia. He fits with her and Mia needs someone like him.
And since Sou’s past match makings never went wrong, she was positive for this to work as well.
“Just go for it. You might regret it if you don’t.”
“Thanks Sou, I’m just shocked that this is coming from you.”
“Why is it so shocking?” She asked with a raised eyebrow.
Mingyu was looking down, avoiding her eyes and probably raised eyebrows.
“Here’s a small secret Gyu, don't tell anyone but I'm actually warm hearted and care for my friends”
Mingyu immediately looked up and wanted to clear it up, because that wasn't what he meant at all
“I wasn't, Sou I-” he started to panick but was interrupted by her.
“Relax Hombre, I'm just messing with you.”
She decided to stop teasing, because the poor guy was so confused and almost close to tears now that Sou felt bad. Instead she gave him her warmest smile.
“Just do what your heart tells you to do, even if you're afraid. The best things come out when you are but decide to go for it anyway, so just do it.
I really hope it turns out well for you, so that at least one of us gets their fairy tale ending.”
He still didn't know what to say, so he just nodded and gave a warm smile back.
Sou then hugged him and wished him luck.
Wonwoo was watching them from the other side of the room, waiting for them to finish since he wanted to talk to Sou.
When he saw Sou making her way out, since she already said goodbye formally to the boys and thanked S.Coups for having her and that they definitely should do it again, he called her out and ran up to her.
“Wonwoo hey, what’s up?”
“I wanted to ask you something and I know this is probably the worst place ever to and you just wanna go home but-”
"you okay? she interrupted his rambling.
He took a breath and looked her in the eyes, it was very clear he was nervous.
“I know that you have a few months off from touring and we have to head to out to japan in about a week but I was wondering, If you want, maybe we could go out sometime?” he asked carefully.
It wasn’t that Sou wasn’t expecting it, because during the whole time they spent together she noticed his interest in her, so she was. But she always felt bad turning people down even if it was justified.
She was hesitant with her words because she didn't know how to break it to him.
“It’s not that i don’t want to Wonwoo, because you’re an amazing guy and i really admire you as an artist-”
“But you don't want to date? It’s alright Sou, I was just trying my luck with you.” Wonwoo smiled at her, letting her know he wasn’t upset or grudgy.
“She smiled at him, thankful that he wasn’t like every other guy she turned down but nice and understanding instead, so she decided to tell him the actual reason.
“Thank you, for being cool about it but, there is a reason for it.” Wonwoo didn’t know what she meant, so he just raised his eyebrows and waited for her to explain.
“I’m going through a bad break up right now and i’m just not ready to date again.”
His eyes went wide and became apologetic.
“I’m so sorry Sou I didn’t know. I-” he started to apologize but was cut off by Sou.
“It’s fine, you couldn’t have known.”
"Whoever it was, they don`t deserve you. I hope you know you’re awesome and deserve way better.” Wonwoo said, making her smile and nod in agreement.
“Thank you Wonwoo. I wish you well for your Tour.” she smiled at him.
“And you rest before you go back, you deserve it.”
“Thanks, can I hug you?” she asked him sweetly.
Instead of answering, he pulled her into a warm hug to which she immeadiatly responded.
“Could you do me a favor though? she asked suddenly.
“Yeah of course, anything.”
“Give Mingyu a break, the poor guy has already enough suffered from all of your teasing.”
He started to laugh and shook his head.
“No can do Senorita. He has to suffer through it.”
“Alright alright but we’ll see who’s still laughing when he eventually gets her while you got turned down by an older woman.” Sou defended Mingyu.
Wonwoo started to laugh more and mumbled a ‘fair enough’
They said their final goodbyes again and Sou made her way to her car.
While she was driving home, she waited for Mia to answer her call.
“Hola Chica, I hope you have a good reason to call me this late” Mia answered
“You know I always do babygirl. When are you free or rather squish me into your shedule?”
“Oh I feel really honored right now, the billboard winner wants to meet me? Mom I made it.” she was joking around, which wasn’t uncommon between the two of them.
“Oh shut up, I can gladly ask Baekhyun to meet me instead and spill all your secrets to him” she treathened Mia kindly.
“You don’t wanna do that Babe”, she threatened back.
“Just tell me when you have time, we need to talk about somethings and I need a spa day. I’ts been to long since our last one.
“Yeah I know, I’ll talk to my Manager to give me a day off next week, but I’ll get back to you alright?
“Yeah it’s fine, but I’m flying back home in 2 weeks or so, just letting you know.”
Sou had a few Months of from the Wings tour, to which she was forever grateful for because she missed home a lot.
“Copy that. Oh and also, how was the concert today? Seventeen right?” Mia asked curiously.
Sou started to laugh, remembering her talk with Mingyu.
“It was really good, but I’ll tell you all about it when we meet alright?”
“Anything you want babe, but I need to go or otherwise Chanyeol will burn the kitchen down.”
“Is he cooking again? Didn’t he almost burn your kitchen down last time?”
“Yeah, but hence the almost. He hasn't given up yet. I’ll text you, besos baby.” Mia hung up and Sou just shook her head laughing.
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Drive (Part 2)
"He said he doesn't trust DK. I'm telling you, Y/N, Seungcheol doesn't hate you, he likes you, but his pride gets in the way," Nayoung confessed.
"Really, Nayoung? Is that why every race I go to, he glares at me, annoyingly calls me Strawberry, he always has to say something about the 'Socs','Preps' and 'Greasers'," Y/N put the phone down to look through her closet for an outfit.
"I'm telling he's mostly harmless. If it doesn't work out with DK, give S. Coups a shot."
Y/N contemplated, "maybe."
Y/N, who was doing her makeup, could hear Nayoung cheering on the other end of the phone.
"Hanging on you, Na."
"Tell me everything that happens! Love you!"
"Will do, love you too."
Beep.
Y/N decided on a simple cat-eye liner and her signature bright pinkish-red lipstick completed with a mid-thigh length dress with a light tan cardigan. As she was putting on her finishing touches, her phone buzzed.
The door opened to Y/N's room and she turned to see DK, holding a bouquet of flowers, wearing leather pants, a nice light blue polo and his signature dark green jacket.
"Wow," both said. DK began to blush while Y/N turned back to her mirror.
"I'll be ready in a second."
"Take your time, we have 2 hours before the movie starts. Woozi and The8, uhhh Minghao, saved us some spots in the back row and we have our own space. I also have my dad's pick-up truck," He said with his signature smile.
"Pulling out all of the stops, huh?"
"Well, I've been waiting to ask you on a date for a while, but I thought you were with S. Coups, like a fuckbuddy type of dating, or with Jun."
"Dear God, no to both of them," The girl said, laughing, "Jun is a friend, albeit a very flirty one, he does that shit with everyone."
DK looked at Y/N, "that's good news to hear. You ready to go?"
Y/N grabbed his hand, "let's go."
As DK pulled up to the drive-in, he saw some of the guys, Woozi and Jeonghan, waiting in the spots.
"Look, it's lover boy and his princess," Jeonghan nudged Woozi.
"Just because you don't have someone to fuck you on the regular doesn't mean you can give shit to DK for having one," Woozi says, pushing the older man off the car.
"Where's Wonwoo and The8?" DK asked.
"Snack bar," Jeonghan and Woozi said in unison. Jeonghan looked Y/N up and down.
"At least it's not a Soc. I'm gonna go help Wonwoo and Minghao," he mumbled, running off to the snack bar.
"If you two do anything, please be quiet. This movie is a cult classic and I don't want it tainted because Seokmin couldn't keep it in his pants."
"What's the movie?" Y/N asked.
DK grinned at his date, "'Heathers'. And it starts in about 30 minutes, come on, let's get comfortable."
The 3 guys came back to the group a few moments later, carrying with them hot dogs, nachos, cotton candy and the stereotypical junk food for a movie. Wonwoo handed some nachos and cotton candy to DK as Y/N cuddled up to him, as the movie begun.
"So."
"So."
"You're not with S. Coups?"
"I already told you I'm not."
"Good, because I'd like to take you on a few more dates."
"Maybe if this one goes well," Y/N winked at DK. The tall boy looked over at his friends to see if they were watching them or the movie. Jeonghan was, unsurprisingly, asleep, Woozi and Minghao were too engrossed by Veronica and J.D. poisionsing one of the Heathers while Wonwoo was reading a book on his phone.
DK positioned himself to where he was on top of Y/N, in between her thighs. He leaned in to start kissing her as the movie hid any moans from Y/N. The two laid there, making out for a good chunk of the movie until Woozi throw a box of candy at them.
"Keep it in your pants until you two get home, you asshat."
Y/N and DK were giggling in the back of the truck as Minghao started to whoop at the two. The movie ended soon after and DK drove Y/N home.
"So."
"Is that your favorite word?"
"I really like you, Y/N. But.."
"You're scared of the Socs?"
DK drove silent until a small little "yea" came out.
"Well, it's your choice if you do or don't want to be with me because some asshole with a pride issue says we can't."
DK smiled at Y/N, "give me a little time. I promise you I'll get over my fear of him, the big scary S. Cou-"
"DK, stop the car!" Y/N yelled.
DK immediately put his foot on the brake pedal, seeing the scene in front of him. A house fire, Y/N's parents outside as the firefighters were working to put out the last flames. Y/N unbuckled her seatbelt, running out to her parents, followed by DK.
"Y/N honey," her mother called out, hugging her daughter.
"What happened?"
"The next door neighbor was having a bonfire that got a little too much out of control, everyone's fine, everything's fine, the worst damage was to me and your father's room. We're gonna be staying in a hotel for the time being."
"Which one are we staying at?"
Y/N's dad walked over, "Your mother and I will be staying there, but you're going to Seungkwan's. I just talked to Seungkwan's grandma, she offered, seeing as you and Seungkwan have known each other for a while, said that while the house gets repaired, you're more than welcomed to stay in the guest room."
"Can I get clothes or anything?"
"Not until tomorrow, sweetie," her mother said, kissing her forehead, "oh sorry, you must be DK. I'm sorry to meet you like this."
"It's alright, ma'am. I'm just happy to see everyone's okay. I can take Y/N to Seungkwan if you'd like. I can also lend her some of my mother's clothes, I don't think she'll miss some old clothes."
Y/N's dad scoffed, looking DK up and down, "Betty, are we real-"
"Yes, Franklin," she told her husband, "thank you so much, DK, that would be very nice for you to do. Y/N, call me when you get there."
Y/N got back into DK's truck without another word, only hugging her parents, riding to her friend's house in silence.
"My mom keeps her clothes in the backseat, feel free to look through them."
Y/N grabbed a bag and looked through it, finding some old basketball shorts belonging to DK, or Wonwoo, or Jeonghan, or one of his friends, and a hair metal t-shirt.
DK drove up the parkway to see Seungkwan sitting outside, waiting.
"Y/N, I'm so sorry, it's gonna be okay, the hou-" Y/N walked past his best friend, finding the guest room right away.
"Sorry, Kwanie. I just want to sleep. I'll see you later, DK."
DK and Seungkwan were left awkwardly standing, no one wanting to say the first word.
DK spoke up to the younger male, "just make sure she's okay."
Seungkwan stared at him, "I'll let you know what's going on. She gets like this sometimes and it's not good. So, how was the date?"
A chuckle came out of the tall boy, "it was great. She's really amazing."
"Just be kind to her, Seokmin. I'm not saying this as a Soc, I'm saying this as Boo Seungkwan, Y/N L/N's best friend, no matter what Nayoung says about that. Y/N looks tough, acts tough, but really, she needs someone to lean on. Her parents are almost always gone and she's had to taken care of herself for a while now. I don't understand why that bastard, Seungcheol, hates her when she has done nothing to him."
DK stood in shock, "I promise."
"I suggest you get out of here before he yells at you."
The tall boy nodded, leaving the house of his "enemy", thinking about the girl he just spent the night with.
Y/N was sitting in the bed of the guest room, holding back the tears. She keeps telling herself it could've been way worse, but she still feels all this guilt. Her phone kept buzzing and she tried her best to ignore it.
Seungcheol heard what happened through Nayoung. She ran into his room, crying.
"Seungcheol, Y/N! Something happened! I lost my phone, I can't find it. Mingyu is downstairs, freaking out, Seungkwan texted him.”
"Fine," Seungcheol said, totally unmoved, "I'll text her, but I don't want any more favors for a month."
#seventeen au#seventeen#seventeen headcanons#seventeen reactions#outsiders!seventeen#seventeen scenarios#wonwoo#seungcheol#joshua#jisoo#jeonghan#scoups#woozi#dino#lee chan#seventeen imagines#jun#junhui#wen junhui#the8#minghao#dk#lee seokmin#dokeyom#seungkwan#vernon#mingyu#hoshi#my writings
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requested by @atnuka idioms + expressions list. mostly idioms. an idiom, as defined by the dictionary of cambridge, is a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own.
coucou! french idioms. it’s about all authenticity and truly investing yourself in the pathway towards fluency. you are going to get confused when you hear expressions like fat morning or to drink like a hole. that’s inevitable, confusion is a part of learning. making mistakes is a part of learning. you may be able to translate these expressions literally, but knowing the figurative definitions and fundamental meanings beyond a fixed group of words is much more important. i’m going to say this once, and i’ll probably say it again: when trying to reach fluency in a language such as french, do NOT translate everything LITERALLY, especially if you’re doing more complicated work. just don’t do it. it will lead to problems down the line, i can promise you that. french and english for example, differ in nature, structural systems, phonetics, many (many) aspects of grammar, basic sentence construction, syntax, semantics, rhythm, etc. it’s essential to realize what some languages require linguistically / socially, and what some do not.
i wanted to include so many more, so if you guys want a part two i’d totally be open to writing one.
resources of choice
wordreference.com
linguee.fr
if you’d like to search for more french idioms, google them in french “expressions idiomatiques en français”, not in english “popular french idioms”. you’re bound to get more accurate results that way as they’re more often than not written by actual french writers / authors / bloggers.
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idioms, a-z
au fur et à mésure - as one goes along
à l’eau de rose - sentimental, insipid, bland - usually refers to a book or movie.
à bout de souffle - breathless, out of breath; on its last legs
avoir l’air crevé - to look exhausted.
avoir d’autres chats à fouetter - to have better things to do
ah la vache - holy cow, oh my god
avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre - your eyes are bigger than your stomach
au pif - a general estimate.
avoir le cafard - to lack morale, to be so bored that you’re depressed.
avoir la banane (pêche, patate) - to feel happy, to be in high spirits.
avoir une faim de loup - to be extremely hungry, to be starving
avoir une peur bleue de - to be scared to death of something, to be extremely terrified of something.
avoir la flemme - to be lazy.
aller au droit au but - to go straight to the point
bourrer le crâne - refers to an ill-informed individual
bouge ton cul! - move your ass, hurry up
boire comme un trou - to drink heavily.
brève de comptoir - a one liner
boire un coup - to have a drink
croire dur comme fer - to firmly, strongly believe
ça marche - that works, alright, okay.
ça craint - this/that sucks
ca lui prendre au bout de nez - he/she’s got it coming
ca va barder - shit is going to hit the fan
c’est la fin des haricots - it’s the end, there’s nothing left
casse-toi - get lost
c’est nickel - it’s all good, it’s spotless
c’est casse-couilles, c’est coton - it’s a pain in the ass
coûter les yeux de la tête - to cost an arm and a leg, to cost a fortune
con comme la lune - particularly stupid.
devenir chèvre - describes a state of extreme anger, rage
dire ses quatre vêrités - to tell it like it is.
en avoir marre (j’en ai marre) - to be fed up with something, someone
en avoir rien à foutre/faire - to not give a shit, to not give damn
en avoir ras le bol - to be fed up with something, sick of something
être canon - to be hot, to fit someone’s standards of beauty
être crevé - to be extremely tired, exhausted
être en train de - be + ing
être paf, être ivre - to be drunk, to be stoned
être chiant - to be annoying
être à l’ouest - to be spaced out
être mal en point - to be in a bad state
en prendre de la graine - to take a page from someone’s book
fais gaffe - watch out, be careful
faire une nuit blanche - to pull an all-nighter
faire flanelle - to abstain from doing something, to do nothing.
faire un tabac - to be a hit
faire une croix sur - to write something off, to kiss someone goodbye, to give up on
faire la sourde oreille - to turn a deaf ear, to pretend to ignore someone
faire le pont - to take a long weekend
faire la grasse matinée - to sleep in
friser le ridicule - to be a laughing stock
faire la tête - to sulk
jeter l’argent par les fenêtres - to splurge, to carelessly waste money
(jeter) un coup d’oeil - to take a look, to glance at something
larguer quelqu’un - to break up with someone
manger sur le pouce - to eat on the go
mettre du piment dans sa vie - to spice up one’s life.
mise en abyme - the story within, a story within a story
ne pas y aller de main morte - to not pull one’s punches
ne pas sorti de l’auberge - to be well and truly in it, to not be out of the woods
n’y voir que de feu - to be clueless
pleuvoir des cordes - to be raining cats and dogs
pleurer comme une madeleine - to cry your eyes out
prendre la téte - to drive crazy, to give yourself a headache
prendre son courage à deux mains - to summon the courage to do something
point barre! - period, that’s that
prendre quelqu’un la main dans le sac - to catch someone red-handed
prendre ses jambes à son cou - to run for one’s life
poser un lapin à quelqu’un - to stand somebody up
quelque chose qui cloche - to not add up, there’s something wrong
raconter des salades - to talk bullshit, to bullshit
ramener sa fraise - to join a conversation without being invited to do so, get your ass over here.
revenons à nos moutons - let’s get back on topic
s’envoyer en l’air - to get laid, to have sex.
sage comme une image - quiet as a mouse
sur un coup de tête - on an impulse, on a whim
se casser la gueule - to hurt someone (/fall down), to smash someone’s face in [humor, loose translation]
sentir le sapin - to have one foot in the grave
se ronger les sangs - to be worried to death
se faire une belle jambe - to make oneself look good
s’en mettre plein les poches - to line your pockets.
ta gueule - shut up
tomber dans les pommes - to faint
tenir au courant - to keep up to date, to keep posted
tomber dans le panneau - to fall into a trap
tomber des nues - to be shocked, to be flabbergasted
tout craché - spitting image
tourner au vinaigre - to get out of control, to get nasty
tu m’étonne - tell me something i don’t know. [ironic]
un coup de foudre - love at first sight
un suppôt de satan - hellbound, a minion of the devil
un froid de canard - to be icy cold
une bouchée de pain - for next to nothing
y mettre de sien - to put one’s all into something
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Ghost companion.
“And being very tired and having nothing inside him, he felt so sorry for himself that the tears rolled down his cheeks. What put a stop to all of this was a sudden fright. Shasta discovered that someone or somebody was walking beside him. It was pitch dark and he could see nothing. And the thing (or person) was going so quietly that he could hardly hear any footfalls. What he could hear was breathing. His invisible companion seemed to breathe on a very large scale, and Shasta got the impression that it was a very large creature. And he had come to notice this breathing so gradually that he had really no idea how long it had been there. It was a horrible shock.
It darted into his mind that he had heard long ago that there were giants in these Northern countries. He bit his lip in terror. But now that he really had something to cry about, he stopped crying. The Thing (unless it was a person) went on beside him so very quietly that Shasta began to hope that he had only imagined it. But just as he was becoming quite sure of it, there suddenly came a deep, rich sigh out of the darkness beside him. That couldn’t be imagination! Anyway, he has felt the hot breath of that sigh on his chilly left hand. So he went on at a walking pace and the unseen companion walked and breathed beside him. At last he could bear it no longer. “Who are you?” he said, barely above a whisper. “One who has waited long for you to speak,” said the Thing. Its voice was not loud, but very large and deep. “Are you – are you a giant?” asked Shasta. “You might call me a giant,” said the Large Voice. “But I am not like the creatures you call giants.” “I can’t see you at all,” said Shasta, after staring very hard. Then (for an even more terrible idea had come into his head) he said, almost in a scream, “You’re not – not something dead, are you? Oh please – please do go away. What harm have I ever done you? Oh, I am the unluckiest person in the whole world.” Once more he felt the warm breath of the Thing on his hand and face. “There,” it said, “that is not the breath of a ghost. Tell me your sorrows.” Shasta was a little reassured by the breath: so he told how he had never known his real father or mother and had been brought up sternly by the fisherman. and then he told the story of his escape and how they were chased by lions and forced to swim for their lives; and of all their dangers in Tashbaan and about his night among the Tombs and how the beasts howled at him out of the desert. And he told about the heat and thirst of their desert journey and how they were almost at their goal when another lion chased them and wounded Aravis. And also, how very long it was since had had anything to eat. “I do not call you unfortunate,” said the Large Voice. “Don’t you think it was bad luck to meet so many lions?” said Shasta. “There was only one lion.” said the Voice. “What on earth do you mean? I’ve just told you there were at least two lions the first night, and -” “There was only one, but he was swift of foot.” “How do you know?” “I was the lion.” And as Shasta gaped with open mouth and said nothing, the Voice continued. “I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you as you slept. I was the lion who gave the Horses the new strength of fear for the last mile so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.” The mist was turning from black to grey and from grey to white. This must have begun to happen some time ago, but while he had been talking to the Thing he had not been noticing anything else. Now, the whiteness around him became a shining whiteness; his eyes began to blink. Somewhere ahead he heard birds singing. He knew the night was over at last.
A golden light fell on them from the left. He thought it was the sun. He turned and saw, pacing beside him, taller than a horse, a Lion. The horse did not seem to be afraid of it or else could not see it. It was from the lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or more beautiful. Shasta had lived all of his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. And of course he knew none of the true stories about Aslan, the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-over-sea, the King above all High Kings in Narnia. But after one glance at the Lion’s face he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. He couldn’t say anything but then he didn’t want to say anything, and he knew he needn’t say anything.” —C.S. Lewis, The Horse And His Boy
À l'aéroport, j'ai demandé au chauffeur s'il pensait que je pouvais atteindre Blotzheim à pieds.
Il m'a regardée bizarre.
J'ai croisé une fille qui m'a dit : “Ouais ouais c'est pas loin, en dix minutes vous y êtes !” Alors j'ai marché au bord de la route, dans ces galets merdiques qui font perdre l'équilibre, comme quand t'essayes de courir dans le sable.
Au début je me sentais comme Bilbon qui part à l'aventure, toute excitée ; j'aime bien aller à des endroits où je suis jamais allée. Mais au bout d'une heure, quand la nuit est tombée, que j'avais mal au dos, mal au cou, mal aux pieds, j’ai commencé à sérieusement me demander si l'espace-temps était biaisé sur la route qui mène à Blotzheim. J'avais plus de batterie sur mon téléphone. J'ai pensé à Emy. J'ai pensé à ma vie. J'ai pensé à ma vie d'avant. Quand je voulais être missionnaire. Je me suis demandé si tout ce que je vivais, c'était pour un jour où je serais au fin fond de l'Inde ; si les galets d'aujourd'hui étaient une préparation pour un sol de plus tard. J'ai pensé à Moïse. Je me suis demandé s'il s'était senti pareil, avec ses brebis et ses sandales dans le désert. S'il s’était demandé si c'était pour quelque chose d'autre, ou si ce serait les cailloux toute sa vie. S'il s'était demandé où était Dieu, qu'est-ce qu'il foutait, pourquoi il ne faisait rien.
J'ai pensé à Jésus.
Je me suis dit qu'il allait d'un endroit à un autre sans jamais avoir de maison. Qu’il marchait aussi pendant des heures et des heures. Qu’il était aussi fatigué. Affamé. Solitaire. “Les renard ont des tanières et les oiseaux du ciel ont des nids, mais le Fils de l'homme n'a pas un endroit où reposer sa tête.” Je me suis sentie différemment tout à coup. Comme si j'ouvrais les yeux, pour voir qu’il marchait avec moi ; comme Shasta. Lui, il me voyait, et il comprenait ce que je ressens. Il savait. Il marchait avec moi. J'étais plus en mode “j’suis seule au milieu de nulle part, coupée du monde et au bout de ma vie.”
Je me suis sentie comme si j’étais exactement au bon endroit, comme je ne l'avais plus été depuis mille ans.
Peut-être qu’il fallait que je me retrouve complètement seule, au bout de mes forces, paumée au milieu de la campagne, en bord de route, comme une outcast, pour que je me demande enfin : “En fait, c'est quoi ma vie ?”
Je me suis demandé : “Qu'est-ce que je fais ici, dans les chardons, au bord d'une route, right here, right now ? Pourquoi je suis là, à valdinguer entre villes et villages, pourquoi est-ce que je m'use dans une salle de classe et sur des copies d'écriture ? Pour les enfants ? Pour moi ? Pour Toi ? “Pour Ton royaume” ? Pourquoi je fais ça ? J'ai même pas su trouver de réponse.
Pour rien.
Tout ce que je sais c'est que je fais ça. Et que je suis là. Et je sais pas pourquoi.
Mais je me suis rendu compte que j'en avais rien à faire. At the end of the day, all I longed for was to walk sur le bord de la route avec Jésus. Peu importe ma vie, du moment que c'est avec le Seigneur que je marche. C'est des mots bateaux, mais ça faisait tellement longtemps que je ne m'étais pas retrouvée avec Lui comme ça. Que j'avais pas ressenti combien cette présence me manque et comble tous les épuisements de mon âme.
Quand je suis enfin arrivée à Blotzheim, dans une rue, sur le trottoir devant moi à quelques mètres, il y avait un chat qui me regardait. J'ai pas beaucoup d'amour pour les chats. Mais celui-là, il n’est pas parti quand je me suis rapprochée. Il restait là, comme s'il m'avait attendue. Je l'ai regardé, et je me suis accroupie. Il a frotté sa tête dans ma main. Il me regardait, et poussait ma main, et appuyait sa tête contre ma jambe, et puis me regardait, et puis frottait sa tête contre ma joue. À son contact, je me suis rendu compte que c’était la première fois depuis des lustres qu’on me faisait un câlin. J'ai enfoui mon visage dans sa fourrure, et j'ai pleuré, comme une débile, comme si c’était Dieu qui me caressait le visage.
Sur ce trottoir, un souvenir m'est revenu ; j'étais ado et j'étais aussi en train de pleurer par terre, sur le carrelage de la salle de bain, pendant une période maëlstrom. Le chat avait débarqué pour venir se frotter contre moi. Et au milieu de mes larmes et de mon coeur d'ado ballotté par l’orage, j'ai pensé à Aslan. “J'étais le chat qui t'a rassuré au milieu des maisons des morts. J'étais le Lion qui a éloigné de toi les chacals pendant que tu dormais. J'étais le Lion qui a donné aux chevaux effrayés l'énergie du désespoir pour le dernier kilomètre afin que vous puissiez arriver à temps auprès du roi Lune. Et j'étais le Lion dont tu ne te souviens pas et qui a poussé le bateau dans lequel tu étais couché, enfant à demi-mort, pour qu'il s'échoue sur le rivage où un homme était assis, éveillé à minuit, pour t'accueillir.”
Sur le bord de cette route, je me suis enfin sentie rentrer à la maison. Sauf que c'était pas Blotz. C'était Toi, Amour.
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19.06.19
I feel myself travelled through by something flammable, down the mouth, but not ignited. I remember knowing that I was drilling my eyes next to her plate, and hearing only what I allowed myself to hear. “The desire to be needed?” I did the dishes like a murderer washes their hands, put up the laundry like a sociopath smiles. In the morning, the sky is gray and I cannot read.
20.06.19
An especially specific thing to do with a three year interval, participate in a study. I’m healthy enough that hospitals are a fascination. I ask about the make of the machines, and what work in the unit is like, about the roof gardens and the validity of measuring BMI. When I wrote about being picked up from a hospital by Akira Touya, I did not know how to say it. Now I am different than fourteen, and could tell you how these rooms are made, and look up who might be allowed to pick me up at all.
It was misty too that freshman year, I remember it more like myself than anything else from that time. Funny that, once again and exactly, I ordered the salmon, and noticed the drum flourish of the MRI scan, turned at the incongruous smell of the hallway cafeteria. I suppose this just means that I am still myself, in a way separate from the certainties I have and how I feel, that my eyes and senses are still the same as those that worried on the dirty floors of our Bingham suite. Or at least that they are enough like all human eyes that not much would have changed anyway.
Le musée par contre, c’est différent. On peut y aller pour pleurer. Je rejoins Millet sous le ciel et je déborde d’amour, mais j'oublierai les noms des impressionnistes, comme d’habitude.
21.06.19
I am preparing myself to go home, weighing the luggage of my person. I am practicing retorts to catcalls in my own language. I will leave the house on Sundays. I have stopped paying attention to New Haven. There is a transitory phase.
22.06.19
Retourner est comme une obligation. J’échange mes inventions du livre comme une exercise. Thumb the blue house of New Haven between the cracks of my phone. Je sens le pli de l’inquiétude dans mon sourcil, et je sais que ma prose en anglais est longue comme du français, l’as toujours été. Je retourne vers les femmes-mères de ma vie, les femmes-famille qui se marient, et laisse derrière moi les ébauches de mes femmes-amour.
23.06.19
I wonder how long I will last being happy to be home. With some grit, until the end. Right now, I have no reason to doubt it. Our candles match the pool chairs, the avocado the grapefruit salad, the water the sky. Children on the plane ask a million good questions, my mother reminisces that that is exactly how I was, I hope that is how I have remained. I look at my cat and think no wonder the Egyptians worshipped you, perfect thing, little piece of god, scarab-sniffer. I’m glad to be back.
24.06.19
Ça commence bien avec Marie. Maman me regarde dans mon costume masculin depuis le fauteuil et ne sourit pas. Elle veut bien, je fais ce que je veux, mais elle ne sourit pas. Marie me demande si je suis “entièrement lesbienne.”
25.06.19
Getting home and dropping into the pool is the kind of thing maharaja’s son does. I take the long way home. Eating fruit here is so much better. I forget my mosquito bites. The women on the metro are, god. Something about it. I smell the air deeply. I think how I would hold Eda’s face if she were here sitting on the banquette next to me, I grip the head of my hat, the woman’s bag on her lap looks like a stomach, I talk about Adrian’s sectioned jaw, Marie’s friend is studying to be a nurse, bonne maman is the eldest child who did not run away she said of earrings “there are things you have to get used to. I got used to my husband, thank God.”
26.06.19
The weather is an occasion for us all to wear sweat. Some things get especially sticky, like the kitchen table, and my computer charger. Everyday utilities gain the properties of an oven. We migrate out of our beds and into the ground for the night. I feel I deserve to live only in the morning, when the air is cool and clear like the first bite from a fruit.
27.06.19
Une brise clémente détend le cimetière du Père Lachaise. Comme les corbeaux je pends mon cou le bec ouvert, et je me crois intime avec les morts. Je verse la larme d’une femme dont le mari et la fille sont morts il y a cent cinquante ans. Les sépulcres sont C.A.P. Faire corps avec l’histoire plutôt que le présent est quelque chose que je dois aux BDs en partie. Adèle Blanc Sec, Corto le faisaient, et leurs auteurs... un cimetière n’est jamais une mauvaise idée, à New Haven non plus, certains coins se recoupent avec celui de la Côte-Saint-André, ca se sent à leur odeur. Un vent clément détend le cimetière du Père Lachaise.
28.06.19
Paris drunk is not the same as New York drunk is not the same as Paris drunk is not the same as New Haven drunk. New Haven drunk has the weight of all my questions in it: whose weight do I want on mine, what kind of love will I accept? Paris drunk has all my answers: not yours, not yours. Even if you are very polite, and you scout out mines on a ship of 26 for the government « secret defense » you are getting off here and I am not giving you my Facebook contact.
29.06.19
Grotte musée, j’en fais l’usage convenu, les yeux humainement levées dans la pénombre, je somnole dans l’abri indéniable. Et en le pensant je m’écorche sur les mots d’hier, peur très peur de l’arrogance. But what of it? If I were a man, I would have no qualms in seeing myself like Picasso saw himself, megalithic, and right, the figure-man in his cave.
Une nostalgie infinie pour la main sur le bois, sur l’os, les salles de cinéma où on s’enfouit, la poussière et le sable, le geste comme l’insecte, l’artiste qui pense, et comme tout au final se ressemble un peu, toujours.
30.06.19
Punition pour ne pas avoir écrit: un rêve qui me détruit.
01.07.19
Compliqué de décrire ce que c’est de parler à quelqu’un derrière un clavier. Grey et moi parlons dans un monde baignée de leur odeur orange, un soleil américain, le ton de la voix surgit des détails du textes, et du choix des mots. Je ris tout haut, oui je vous jure. Et avec Claire c’est l’argent, le violet, c’est une voix qui est comme grave même si je la sais aiguë.
Je peins n’importe comment, mais je peins.
02.07.19
Si je rate, j’écrirai
03.07.19
The idea I have of the metro north when I am away from it is just of a yellow line zipping down a glittering sea. Not much of that is true to what you see (red seats and yellow floors, complications regarding what you are eating or will eat, and who will take you where and how) but of the experience that is it: I am zipping down on an eyeless snake, and the light is always golden.
04.07.19
I haven’t found a way to describe this sky that isn’t electric blue. The air from the window feels like a classroom fan blowing on just some of the leg, someone across the street it seems is eating at a table alone, in an apartment being painted auburn, but I cannot see clearly through the balcony. I keep getting these feelings, dredged up like photographs of a childhood moment, and that way of seeing the world seems so much less complacent than how I currently see it. Not that I am unhappy now, or inattentive, but perhaps feeling for children is more, stronger, stringent and my mind has mellowed to a hum. Feel strongly, think right. Feel strongly.
05.07.19
You got up too late again. You eat like you’re choking and there’s something missing from your movements but licking the spoon of jam clean is the same as many times before bitter on exactly the same parts of your tongue, and reminds you what awakeness can be.
At the section of light before the airplane door all the colors are bouncing out: the raspberry pink of a woman’s dress, the orange chitin of the plane, the misalignment of the pilot’s teeth. Baldwin’s words are still in my head, categoric.
We pass by clouds that look sculpted by a frantic hand which still had in its terrorized tendons, all of herds crossing a path, broccoli and cloaked monks, a monstrous overgrowth of cotton on the stem, the photo-perfect disposition in ranges of mountains as if for a family photo, all of these, behemoths in flight, animals the size of maps, on which you find your way from the relief, shielding your eyes, and in this, smaller yet, I think of Claire’s Leviathans coming often to this playground, so tiny that they would need to shine like pin-prick mirrors to be seen at all.
06.07.19
Il fait gris ce matin. Poppy doit être en train de flipper. Je rythme des sabots au pas est quelque chose auquel on n’est plus habitué. Si je voulais l’écrire il faudrait le décrire plutôt que d’avoir confiance de le trouver dans un esprit ka-pok ka-pok ka-pok. On s’extirpe d’une région sonore à l’autre, oiseaux, grillons, cloche d’église. Je partage le hamac avec deux mouches et au final je vais quand même choper un coup de soleil.
Moment cinématique de la soirée: je m’éloigne de la fête pour regarder l’horizon violet hors du terrain de lumière. Le DJ, fils du propriétaire, pas clairement fille ou garçon au premier coup d’œil, est assis et nous regarde comme le personnage principal fumant, le misanthrope magnifique.
La grande tente a attrapé un frelon. Tout le long du repas on le trouve toujours là, changée à peine de coin. J’y vois un mauvais augure, chiante que je suis.
07.07.19
Fantasy maps tend to be like bowls: a valley of the known hugged into certainty by mountains. I was seated, slouched and film-able, in monoliths
The gravel driveway, too, was a circle of light. Darkness waited at the gate, knowing itself to be charming, and did not speak to me.
The fact I was well dressed matters. All that femininity can be, staring like only jaded men who know they are of adventure’s mettle, out the lip of this great shivering bowl.
08.07.19
Mon impression de la Poyat est comme rayée. Je sens les choses une fois (l’eau de la piscine qui monte au nez, le hall de la maison en odeur de béton et de carrelage, les pages de livres pour enfants qui s’affinent et jaunissent comme la peau d’un rat âgé) puis, plus rien. La musique de mon telephone est une petite voix microscopique sur ma couverture. Les personnes âgées parlent de la maladie comme de plans de vacance. Mes cheveux sont rêches, je ferme les yeux et je vois une forêt noire aux troncs nus et propres.
09.07.19
I’d like to think all of us do this, go up to the attic to sit on the side of the bed and look at Stephane, photo paper stare phasing through our own which traces smile-crinkled eyes and heavy eyebrows, a fringe which would certainly have disappeared by now. I wonder if that is what cuts through my mother’s mind: what he would have looked like now, where he would hang in the house instead of like a funeral mask on a wall of the attic, what it would have looked like to see his face next to ours rather than in them.
10.07.19
La lune est à Demi dans le ciel poudré, je trimballe avec moi une boîte chantante, le chat est là, mais je me teins les mains comme un ancêtre avec des baies mauves. Le ciel n’as jamais été le nôtre, nous n’avons fait que grouiller dessous, heurtés toujours par les mêmes choses: l’eau, l’odeur de viande cuite, la capacité à peindre nos corps, à se sentir être là. On s’entoure de nos créations dans un jardin en perpétuelle construction, mais le ciel n’as jamais été le nôtre.
11.07.19
Le soleil me cuit lentement, et miroite à grandes volées sur la plaine. La peau rougit comme une question posée, répond du doigt pressé comme un photon sur la rétine.
12.07.19
Media is the perfect litmus test for maturity. I watched Breaking Bad having honestly no idea how to follow, what meant what, what was real and what was fanciful, how adults act in hospitals, at work, at home... now I’m an inside interpreter, more or less, I’m keeping track of the script. It’s funny to see Adrien make these assessments, I have no way to tell if they correlate to understanding. It’s like when we trap a wasp under a glass and he asks “do you think it knows it’s under glass?” and I tell him there’s no real way for us to know: our best bets would either be observations of its anatomical function, or tested behavioral response, but the proof that it can conceptualize as we do, that we will never have.
13.07.19
There’s a cat in heat outside. I have my period. I told my grandmother that no one I was sleeping with had the ability to make me pregnant. I say to Max and Adrian “that’s why it’s easy to substitute the idea of entropy for the idea of death, and life for what goes against entropy.” I wear the bathing suit that hides my body the most. I wear a white dress and a pad. I tell them “wait, I’m going to change my mood.” I don’t want to fold napkins with you old women. I want to write about religion and autonomy and women who are in love and make the case for complexity and the risk in having a conscious mind. I’m wrong in thinking these activities preclude one another. I try to think through clamorous music. I want to hit myself to accompany the fact that I cannot be a student of every subject. I want to stay up and write. I will likely fall asleep.
14.07.19
Il n’y a que le quatorze juillet où l’on se surprend à être dehors en robe d’été alors qu’il a commencé à faire réellement frais. Le vent est aussi inutile que les foulards que l’on se pose sur les jambes. Le chat passe, oui gris. Et le feu d’artifice on l’a déjà vu. Ce qu’on remarque peu c’est le rouge attrapé par le ventre du nuage, et la lune qui nous regarde, la nuit qui fuit volontiers à nos yeux tous les soirs, et nous qui si rarement nous éloignons de nos propres lumières.
15.07.19
On s'arrête au long de la ligne, une excroissance routière où les camionneurs passent leurs vies. Petit royaume tout de même, j’y trouve l’abandonné (un terrain de basket), l’explorable (échelle de la station service), l’histoire (coquilles d'oeufs durs, rib blanchi) et une colline d’où tout voir. Les champs, comme toute surface vue de si près, restent infinis. Ils sont disponibles pour s’y perdre, même si ça ne se fait plus beaucoup. Et moi, mon humeur j’en veux bien: je chante comme jamais.
16.07.19
I refuse to tear the weeds out of fear they might be saplings. The stem is too tender not to feel like murder. So it is perhaps with my crying teenage self, who I let possess me, out of fear she had not lived as she deserves.
17.07.19
Lever les yeux dans le métro pour voir les yeux d’un acteur se baisser. Toucher pleinement l’arme flic à Opera. Cette ville que je croyais me scruter à présent c’est moi qui la tourne, mes yeux sur la foule qui danse, et moi dedans. C’est avec Jack que j’y danse, c’est mon visage qui s’ouvre sur la porte de la pharmacie. J’ai la dépose d’un gamin et du lévrier sur la scène, le regard qui ne se rompt pas. Les miroirs, j’y suis, je porte un costume d’esprit. La ville, c’est moi qui l’aime. Je suis acteur, j’ai vue sur la scène.
18.07.19
It’s late, and I’m making use of a moment of outsider eyes I’m being granted by rereading my own writing, my site’s curation. I test my mouth, considered cutting into my tongue to speak more slowly, comment on deep voices, try on a beard. I lean into the mirror and try “I’m gonna fucking kill you.” I draw looks on and off my face. I wonder if I will ever be depressed again (which would mean I have learned nothing). I consider feelings had weeks ago, picking them up and examining them. I dreaded going back, now I dread going home. I wonder if I can be depressed again. I can do things like love Jesse, although not quite the same. I suppose it’s up to me.
19.07.19
The man in Saint Eustache I suppose he is praying, knee-leaning, alone-eveninged, humbly day-rumpled. He is as serious, as husky as the nave-drawn lights, gold folding on skinny shadow. He sighs, or at least it is as if he does. He has as much to say as the church’s Igor, the Latin mass, but as incense he says none of it.
When I pray, because I do pray in holy-water-sampling, pretty-moved, starwards-gazed and history-guessing, it is not for the lovely waitress and the kir, not for my mother counting change, my grandmother and her therapist, the piss and cracker on the street, the fire set to oil or the motorcycle-kicking kid, the woman stroller-helped over over the fence. It is for nothing if my own wonderment, if for the light itself.
20.07.19
The day I leave the weather is unbearably pleasant. The wind is the kind you personify on the mosaics of a villa-home, passing low to bless the living. You are the kind of hand awoken by a clean damp cloth. And the day I go home, the shower-fawn is still there yes, her color has changed with the towel behind the tile. Storm coming like an undertow.
21.07.19
The more I think of it, I haven’t landed in America, idea of itself as a loud city and wide upset nature, America thing, but home, my home in a different kind of air to breathe. I’ve returned to the place I named myself, the place that saw me different, the beast I saw insane across the valley and touched of my own knowledge-less hand. America has kept a piece of me in it, more than the other way around, more perhaps than good old continent.
Through the windows of the Whitney the world itself is diegetic. Circle ‘round or stare through, the wind is installed for now, I placed this tarp just here, ordered the leaves and printed the sky. Can you tell what it is I wanted to make? What the making of it was like? Take care how you look at it, or you’ll be missing out.
I want to be with you, lullaby-flat, baby-funny, rub-the-face. There’s no shame, no shame at all, when tenderness is in the game— if the note is soft and so is your skin, why in the world should it matter what we listen to, what we look like? We’re children, monkeys, old ladies with Alzheimer all at once, we paw and glance and try the world in our hand— hold me won’t you? It just seems it’d make sense.
22.07.19
Everyone in my part of the train is sleeping. The Paleocene outdoors barely watches us go. A strange world is better than one I should get. Storms are uncertainty I’ve come to adore. I’ll go get the mattress, I’ll call up a friend, eat something untimely from the fridge or the table. We are hacking through tropics up to alien machines, weirder and weird but delightful.
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What is their name?
Fuck if I remember his who!e name! I’ve just been ca!!ing him Teags!
Relationship with them?
We’re bros! Mischief buddies! A coup!e of dudes being pa!s!
What do you view them as? (family,friend,other)
Potentia! best bud! Ever since my homeboy Ma!atte sp!it!, I been in the market for a new bad inf!uence!, and he fits pretty we!!!
Do you feel attracted to them in any way?
He!! yeah! I wanna get hit by that!, front to back! Most!y back because I don’t got shit in the front but my dick!, but I’m working on getting a !itt!e something extra once I find a good p!astic surgeon!
>> The mun proceeded to threaten him with a bucket of ice water to shut him tf up and stop being nasty
What’s one thing you’d like to do with them?
Ya know!, I’m not that sure! Besides wanting him to raw me!, I kinda a!ready do what I want with him! We pu!! pranks on each other!, I try my new recipes out on him!, I worked out and sparred with him once!
Tell us one memory you have with them.
I dared him to bitch s!ap the next tro!! he saw!, and it wound up being his moirai!! That cou!dn’t have been more hi!arious! I mean!, she threatened me !ater!, but it was worth it!
Anything you’d like to ask them or state to them? If so, say it now, please!
Hit me up so we can hang !ater!
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Son expression se durcît quand Yoongi vit au live cette fille s'installer sur les genoux de Jack. Elle était trop proche de son homme. Et elle lui chantait une chanson d'amour d'une voix si douce. Jack rit amusé quand elle lui tendit la main en se relevant.
« You owe me. » fit-elle doucement
« I will not duet with you. » fit Jack « I'm not putting myself on a pyre, unless August comments I will not take any song requests except from him »
« Malia, Morganna do something » fit la jeune femme
« I'm not seeing any of August's comments that can force Jack... » dit Malia « So you won't have anything of him Lucie. »
« Ahh whyyy ? For this one time I can sing with you... » marmonna la jeune irlandaise
« Ohhh August commented... 'I feel honoured that Jack only recieves my requests.' ... You've got a catch Jack » fit Malia doucement
« I hope I do. » dit Jack, il savait que Yoongi ne ratait aucun live quand il était là. « Does he request a song ? » demanda-t-il anxieux
« Actually he's gonna sing for me. » fit Elrick, en se penchant sur le cou de Jack pour l'embrasser avec tendresse, faisant grimacer Yoongi. « Ain't ya bro ? » fit Elrick en tirant la tête de Jack en arrière pour lui rouler une pelle
Yoongi serra les poings alors que Jack repoussa Elrick d'un coup de coude dans les abdominaux puis de son pied, qu'il leva très haut surprenant par sa souplesse il poussa le blond dans un fauteuil.
« For fuck's sake behave. » grogna Jack « Ewan tie that idiot up. »
« I'm not coming close to that thing, sorry my dear. » fit Ewan en s'asseyant à côté de Jack
« August just commented 'That was an assault.' » lut Morganna « Jack, my darling dear, how about we sing something together, to clean you from Elrick's Filth ? »
« Nyah nyah Elrick's filth ... Just caus' that guy got a crush on Jack doesn't mean he can have what's mine. » fit Elrick avec un grand sourire.
« I challenge you in a rapbattle Morganna. » fit une petite blonde en se levant
« Ohhh we can do that. » fit Morganna en prenant le bras de Jack « Who's gonna team up with you Lisa love ? » demanda Morganna
« I'll take Wilhelm. » dit Lisa doucement en tapotant l'épaule du grand homme
Yoongi fixa Hoseok et Jimin qui avait le regard sur le live après qu'il ait copieusement insulter Elrick
« Y vous prend quoi ? » demanda Yoongi
« J'ai coucher avec elle. » fit Hoseok en montrant la blonde
« t'as coucher avec Lisa Valois ?! Mec comment t'as pu souiller une fille si pure... » fit Jimin
« Et toi pourquoi tu bug ? » fit Yoongi blasé
« Oh... » Il montra Wil et Morganna « J'ai coucher avec eux... »
« Bien les gars... » fit Namjoon
« Mais tout le monde il a tirer son coup ou comment ça se passe ? » gronda Jin
« C'est une longue histoire » marmonna Jimin
« Y sait rapper ton Jack. » nota Namjoon
« Vos gueules. » fit Yoongi
Et il se concentra sur la rapbattle. Jack fit un Bert très charmant jouant sur son accent gallois et Morganna une Mary Poppins des plus classe, Lisa une Mrs Claus adorable et Wil un Père Noël pas très convainquant.
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Quelques jours plus tôt, Jimin avait été boire un verre dans un bar londonien pendant leur série de concerts... et son regard avait était capter par une sublime créature. Une femme aux cheveux noirs dansant avec un homme plus grand, aux cheveux sombre et à la peau mate. Jimin s'osa sur la piste et fut attraper dans les filets des deux créatures. Plus la soirée avançait, plus l'alcool coula dans ses veines. Il se fit convaincre sans bien grand mal de prendre un peu de temps ensemble. Et Le voila quelques heures plus tard nu sous la douche avec le géant à la peau mate et la petite dame aux cheveux noirs. Sa main traçait les courbes de la belle, ses lèvres étaient capturés par celle du grand homme musclé. Passer des lèvres vorace de l'homme a la douceur de celle de la femme... Jimin profitait réellement du meilleur des deux mondes. Les mains de cet homme sur son corps le guidant dans le corps de cette dame. Le plaisir de se sentir dans la chaleur et l'étroitesse d'un corps de femme, et celui de se sentir rempli a cet instant il gémissait plus que de raison, se nourrissant des soupirs de cet homme contre sa nuque et des lèvres de cette femme gémissant contre les siennes. Jamais il n'avait eu de jouissance comme celle-ci. Le plaisir l'avait envahi et si il sentait l'homme se crisper dans l'orgasme, la sensation du corps de la femme pulsant sous lui, se contractant dans l'orgasme l'avait envoyer dans un tout autre monde.
Il se réveilla seul dans le lit de cette chambre d'hôtel. D'un côté une carte de visite, une écriture d'homme... de l'autre côté un trèfle à 4 feuilles en origami. La carte de visite était froide... comme l'homme de la veille. Le trèfle sentait bon la rose sauvage, ce parfum enivrant de cette femme aux regard vert. Elle lui avait écrit quelques mots et laisser son numéro signant son prénom d'un trèfle.
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Jimin regardait maintenant le Live ou ces deux êtres qui depuis cette nuit fatidique hantait ses rêves. Elle était assise entre les jambes de Jack et ne semblait pas autant le draguer que l'autre petite blonde. Elle était là, plus comme on est avec un frère, un père. Et Jack surveillait Elrick.
« Oh they're asking if someone want to try singing in another language than english. » fit Malia
« We can sing in french. » firent les trois blondes
« I can sing in german. » fit Elrick
« I can rap in dutch. » fit Wilhelm en s'étirant
« I can sing in Korean. » dit Morganna
« So do I » fit Ewan
« And I. » fit Jack en souriant
« Oh guys... Miracles in december. » fit Élisa en regardant les trois
« My voice doesn't suite it. » fit Jack navré.
« I can change the key. » fit Ewan en s'installant au piano « Who takes what part ? »
« I'll go with DO » fit Jack
« Then I take Baekhyun's part » fit Morganna en s'installant
« And I'll sing Chen's part. » dit Ewan
La chanson changer de ton fut chanter par les trois aux voix plutôt graves... Ewan était peut-être l'exception mais il compensait en puissance. Yoongi admirait, quand Jungkook fixa Jimin.
« ça va Jimin ? » demanda le plus jeune
« Elle est sublime... » souffla Jimin
« C'est qui qui a coucher avec Jimin-hyung ? » Fit Taehyung en se joignant au visionnage
« La fille aux cheveux noirs. » dit Jin blasé
La chanson s'arrêta et les trois souriaient quand une fan commenta.
« They're wanting Seesaw. » fit Malia en riant
« Allez Jack, donne leurs ce qu'ils veulent. » fit Elrick avec un sourire mauvais
« Mais t'as décider de me casser les couilles aujourd'hui ou comment ça se passe ? » soupira Jack
« For those who don't know yet, Jack majored in Korean and music, so did Elrick. » expliqua Malia
« As for me. I'll take my leave now. I have some work left. » fit Jack calmement
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Elrick fixait Jack alors qu'il faisait sa valise. Le blond restait les bras croisé alors que le gallois soupira en fixant le blond.
« Don't make that face. » dit Jack
« You're really going to leave... » soupira Elrick
« I am not owned by you Elrick. The fact that you stayed with me when I was sick doesn't allow you to dispose over my life choices. » dit Jack
« Come on Jack... » soupira Elrick « You're not gonna leave in the middle of the night. »
« My plane takes off in an hour. Ewan is coming with me. » dit Jack en sortant
« You asked Ewan to go with you ? » siffla Elrick
« And he was willing to follow me accros the world for my sake. » fit Jack « You should reflect on your actions Elrick. You're becoming more and more like you're mom. A straight up bitch. I'm not staying with here a minute more, you crossed too many lines today. »
« You're mine. » fit Elrick
« I'm not. I belong to the man I love Elrick. That's not you. That the guy for which i'm crossing the world in the middle of the night. Now, move or I'll kick you. » fit Jack acerbe
« Jack come on... » fit Elrick en retenant le gallois
Le coup était partit. Et Elrick était a genoux dans l'entrée. Jack lui était partit.
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Jack regardait son téléphone et décrocha. Ça le calmerait de lui parler...
« Yoongi... » souffla le gallois
« T'as quitté le Live. » dit Yoongi inquiet « ça va pas ? »
« Je suis dans l'avion. » expliqua le gallois en s'asseyant
« Tu pars pour combien de temps ? » Yoongi avait eu un tremblement dans sa voix
« Je ne suis pas le propriétaire de l'avion. » dit Jack en riant « Dieu seul sait quand Ewan aura fini de chercher l'inspiration. » fit-il en regardant le roux
« Et il va la chercher ou ? » grogna Yoongi
« On arrive a Incheon airport dans cinq heures » fit Jack calmement
« ... Tu passeras me voir ? » demanda Yoongi
« Si t'es à ton studio, je te ramènerais à manger. » dit Jack
« It's a date ? » demanda Yoongi amusé
« If you want it to be one. » dit Jack en riant « Mais je dois emmener Ewan... si je le laisse seul dans Séoul on ne le retrouvera jamais »
« J'suis sur que les gars seront très content de rencontrer Ewan. » dit Yoongi
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Yoongi n'arrêtait pas de tourner en rond dans le salon. Namjoon arqua un sourcil. Il avait à peu près compris que Jack allait débarquer avec un invité mais il ne savait pas qui. Alors quand on sonna, Yoongi se précipita vers la porte. Dans l'entrée se trouva Jack, deux grands sacs de bouffe dans les mains, derrière lui juste une touffe de roux qui avait disparu derrière des paquets.
« Aigoo.. » fit Yoongi « Tu aurais du m'appeler. » gronda-t-il
« Je sais je sais... Ewan, still alive ? » demanda Jack
« Still living. » confirma Ewan calmement
Yoongi les aida a rentrer le tout et il observa Jin aider Jack a ranger les courses. Jack n'avait pas commander a bouffer tout fait. Il comptait cuisiner. Ewan lui resta un peu en retrait.
« Pourquoi avoir fait tout ce chemin ? » demanda Namjoon au roux
« Il est rare qu'il me demande quelque chose... cela faisait bien 7 ans qu'il ne m'avait demander aucun service, alors quand il m'a demander de lui prêter mon avion pour venir ici... » Ewan sourit « Je n'ai pas réfléchis. » fit le roux « Et je comprend mieux pourquoi. » dit-il en montrant Yoongi regarder Jack. « Jonathan, may I ask you a favor ? »
« You may my lord. Please call me Jack. » fit Jack en riant
« Don't call me my lord... » marmonna Ewan en riant
« So what's up ? » demanda Jack en levant la tête
« Keep that smile... I missed it. » dit Ewan
« And make a less spicy tteokbokki for you. Allrighty » Jack rit et aider de Jin se mit a cuisiner.
« Monsieur... vous pouvez faire confiance a Jack.. » fit Ewan en s'adressant à Jin
« Monsieur ? Oh moi ? » fit Jin en se montrant
« Aurais-je mal prononcer ? » fit Ewan
« Duude chill. » fit Namjoon en riant
« Ewan... on est pas à Greenhall. » fit Jack en riant « Tu peux me laisser Seokjin, j'ai bosser dans un restaurant en tant que cuisinier. »
« Oh wow... T'as un copain cuisinier Yoongi. » fit Jin en s'asseyant
« Il est parfait. » dit Yoongi en riant
« La perfection c'est le petit rouquin, là. » fit Jack en cuisinant
« Puis-je être en désaccord avec toi ? » dit Ewan « Je ne suis pas parfait. Pour preuve je ne sais cuisiner. »
« You speak like royalty. » fit Namjoon amusé
« He's a Lord. » dit Jack en découpant le kimchi
« Oh bro like really with the titles and castles ? » fit Namjoon
« Yes. » Ewan soupira « Can I please ask for kindness concerning my korean it might be a little rough ? »
« Ewan. Pense a Elisabeth. » fit Jack en riant
« Oh oui ! Ma sœur est une immense fan de vous. » fit le roux
« OH COMMENT CA SENT BON !!! » cria Taehyung en entrant « Oh shit ! »
« Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe ? » demanda Jungkook.. « oh... »
« Hein de quoi ? » Hoseok arriva derrière les plus jeune « Oh wow... »
« Jimin ! Enchanté » fit Jimin en serrant la main d'Ewan
« Moi de même très cher. » fit Ewan
« Il parle comme anciennement. » fit Taehyung
« Plaît-il ? » fit Ewan
« Mec... détend toi. Tu parles comme un roi. » fit Jack en riant
« Oh... Il faut dire que c'est ce que j'ai étudier. » dit Ewan « Je suis Ewan Winchester, enchanté. » fit-il en serrant les mains des nouveaux arrivants. Son regard s'accrochant dans celui de Jungkook « ravi... » marmonna-t-il en baissant les yeux
« Tout le plaisir est pour moi. » fit Jungkook avec un sourire
Et les images que lui avaient montrer Élisa refirent surface dans son esprit. Ewan rougit et décida d'aller... tenir compagnie a Yoongi près de la cuisine. Il était toujours rouge et évitait de croiser le regard de Jungkook, qui lui ne se gêna pas de détailler le rouquin.
« Vous étiez avec Jack quand il était à l'hôpital ? » demanda Yoongi
« J'y passais toutes mes soirées avec ma sœur. » dit Ewan
« On a toujours été très proche, Ewan me connaît depuis qu'on est enfant. » dit Jack « Il se trouve mon cher Yoongi que moi aussi j'ai de la noblesse dans le sang... d'où mon nom de naissance Jonathan Arthur Atkins... Nom que j'ai fait rayer et changer pour le nom de ma mère. Officiellement je suis Jack Watson. » Il tendit une cuillère a Yoongi « Goûte çà »
« C'est ... » Yoongi resta sa voix « ... je peux en avoir plus ? »
« Donc elle est réussie. » Jack reprit sa cuisine
« Il n'aime pas parler de cette époque. » dit Ewan
« Je le comprend. » dit Yoongi « Mais il m'avait parler que peu de ses amis étaient restés à ses côtés pendant sa maladie. Vous n'en faites pas partie. »
« Élisabeth ne m'aurait pas pardonner si je n'avais pas été là. » dit Ewan « C'est ma petite sœur. »
« Que tu ne cesse d'oublier alors je vais le faire. » fit Jack en riant. « De toute façon ça doit cuire. »
Le gallois prit son téléphone et appela Élisa. La rouquine décrocha un peut endormie.
« Élisa Winchechter.... » marmonna-t-elle
« Eli, darling... I'm with BTS » fit Jack amusé
« WHAT TH FUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! » on entendit de bruits de chutes. « You kiddin' »
« Get dressed Élisa.. » fit la voix d'Ewan amusé
« I wear pamajamas... » fit Élisabeth
« Good. » Jack alluma la caméra et montra BTS assis dans le salon
« Are you cooking for them ? » fit Élisa
« Yes. » Jack rit « Ewan is talking like a Prince again.... »
« Don't blame Ewan... he has never learned common korean. » dit Élisabeth en souriant « est-ce que tu peux me ramener un autographe ? » murmura-t-elle
« Pourquoi ne pas l'inviter elle aussi ? » demanda Taehyung
« IIIIIIIIIHHHH !!!! EWAN CAN I ? » couina Élisabeth
« I'll call James to get you on a plane for Seoul. » soupira Ewan avec le sourire
« You're the best brother ever !!! » et elle raccrocha
« Je crois ... que je vais devoir me dépêcher d'appeler James. » fit Ewan blasé
« Je le fais ? » demanda Jack
« Non sans façon. Je suis assez âgé pour appeler mon majordome. » fit Ewan en riant
Le rouquin s'éloigna et Jungkook se posta près de Jack.
« Dis-moi qu'il est gay... » marmonna Jungkook
« Il l'est. » dit Jack en riant « Et je le connais. Tu lui plaît. »
« Il fuit ma présence. » murmura Jungkook
« Oh ça... mécanisme de défense. Il a de la noblesse dans le sang et c'est mal vu d'être gay. On a commencer à l'y habituer... Il le vit déjà mieux. » dit Jack « Bon courage. »
« Merci. » Jungkook sourit alors que Yoongi se rapprocha de Jack
« Maintenant dis-moi ce qui ne vas pas.. » fit Yoongi en enlaçant Jack
« T'inquiète pas... » fit Jack « J'ai besoin de me changer les esprits. »
« D'accord. » Yoongi recula quand il fixa Jimin regarder le Live « Alors ? »
Jack et Yoongi rejoignirent Jimin devant le live et fixèrent l'écran. Morganna chantait une version sublime d'Open up your eyes. Elle chantait et y mettait tellement d'émotion.
« Elle est tellement belle. » dit Jimin
« Tu serais son genre. » balança Ewan en s'asseyant.
« Oh Ewan se détend ! À la bonheur. » fit Jack en riant
« Suis-je si coincé ? » remarqua le lord
« Assez. » Fit Jack en riant « essaie de te détendre... »
Malia commença a chanter 'Tale as old as time' sur une version Jazz et Jack rit doucement.
« C'est la chanson d'Eli ça. » fit Ewan en souriant
« Elle nous a tellement casser les pieds pour cet arrangement » dit Jack
« Tu joues quoi comme instruments au final ? » demanda Yoongi
« Batterie, guitare, basse, piano. » fit Jack
« et trompette quand il est bourré. » releva Ewan
« Ouais.... » Jack sourit « Bourré je joue de tout » fit Jack amusé « mais je préfère la guitare et la batterie. »
« Et vous my lord ? » fit Namjoon amusé
« Piano, violon, contrebasse, trompette, orgue....flûte traversière... » Ewan s'arrêta « Et je crois que c'est tout. »
« C'est déjà beaucoup... » fit Namjoon
Quand Morganna commença a chanter 'Can't help falling in love with you', Jack se leva et tendit la main a Yoongi pour danser. C'était un slow tout en tendresse. C'était la douceur et l'amour qui brillait dans les yeux de Jack et toute la passion et dévotion de Yoongi. Jungkook fixa Ewan, lui tendit la main... et le roux, en homme bien élever se laissa invité. Il dansa doucement avec Jungkook, fixant ses pieds. Jungkook leva la tête du roux et qui rougit furieusement. Quand la musique cessa. Jack embrassa la joue de Yoongi et retourna a ses fourneaux et Ewan... fuit vers la cuisine aux côtés de Jack.
« Ce que je fais est mal... » marmonna Ewan en français
« Dans quel sens ? Te laisser draguer ? Ewan... il serait temps de vivre pour toi. » dit Jack en remuant son pot-au-feu coréen. « Bouge toi un peu... » Jack leva les yeux « He's long gone. He won't stop you, he won't hurt you anymore... »
« Maybe I should..... » Ewan fixa Jungkook « Start living for myself... just like you do. »
« Coming close to death make you cherish life. » dit Jack « And my life has finally start to feel right. Since Yoongi is in my life everything takes it's place. »
« I envy your confidence... » soupira Ewan « I'm not that handsome or goodlooking... or even twice as good as you when i sing. »
« Oh boy. I'm gonna kick you. » soupira Jack « You have a soft, yet strong voice... and heaven knows how good of a dancer you are. Stop hiding behind curtains of self-loathing and hatred. » Jack attrapa un plat et fixa Ewan « You are an amazing person, kindhearted, sweet, caring, a hell of a businessman and I know for a fact, that Jungkook likes you. » dit Jack
« How ? » Ewan leva la tête
« Because the boy asked me if you were gay. » dit Jack en souriant « Now get the table ready. »
« Yes ... »
Ewan commença a mettre la table. La soirée se termina dans le calme et la douceur. Jack et Yoongi se montrant plus amoureux que jamais... Ewan ouvrant petit à petit son cœur et Jungkook qui saisissait toutes les occasions pour draguer le Lord... Demain Élisa se joindrait a eux...mais ce qu'ils ignoraient c'est qu'elle ne serait pas seule.
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Du Black album de Metallica à Paranoid de Black Sabbath, voici les albums les plus appropriés au headbanging
Avec un coup de tonnerre, des cloches d’églises menaçantes et l’un des sons de guitare les plus bruyants de l’histoire, un nouveau genre musical est né un vendredi 13 au début de l’année 1970. Ses racines remontent à la fin des années 1960, lorsque des artistes comme Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly et Led Zeppelin ont augmenté les ampères pour produire des sons rocks agressifs et mélancoliques. Ce n’est cependant qu’à partir de ce jour fatidique où Black Sabbath a sorti le premier album sacré du heavy metal (leur premier album éponyme) qu’un groupe a maîtrisé le son de ce genre. Presque 50 ans plus tard, il résonne encore.
Même si les membres de Black Sabbath se sont moqués de l’étiquette metal au fil des années, leur musique pesante basée sur la vitesse surdimensionnée de la guitare, sur les sons acrobatiques de la batterie et sur des puissances vocales (dont l’objectif originel était d’être l’équivalent rock des films d’horreur), a été copiée d’innombrables fois, décennie après décennie. Le groupe Judas Priest l’habilla de jean et de cuir. Metallica la fit tourbillonner à s’en tordre le cou. Korn lui donna un nouveau peps rythmique et Avenged Sevenfold la décora de mélodies accrocheuses à vous faire tourner la tête. Entre-temps, elle fut réarrangée en sous-genres d’avant-garde comme le death metal, le black metal et le grindcore. Au début des années 1980, le genre musical entier était devenu un mouvement culturel capable de dépasser les morceaux pop dans les classements des meilleurs albums.
Les groupes de metal n’étaient pas les premiers à adopter l’imagerie sombre dans leur musique. Cette tradition remonte aux compositeurs classiques comme Richard Wagner et aux artistes blues comme Robert Johnson. Cependant, leur approche était unique, avec une force hyper-masculine qui donna au genre son propre langage musical. Peu importe que l’approche soit digne d’un virtuose ou primitive, elle était toujours bruyante. Cette codification, associée aux comportements de dur à cuire de nombreux groupes marqués par leurs regards et leurs vêtements noirs, a aidé le metal à devenir un style de vie qui transcendait les groupes sur scène.
Les fans du genre, que vous les appeliez des metalheads, des headbangers ou autre, sont passionnés, charismatiques et audacieux, impatients de débattre, de définir et de défendre bec et ongle chaque nuance de la musique de leur groupe préféré. Le metal étant devenu si diversifié depuis que Black Sabbath a pour la première fois enchanté ses auditeurs qu’il est difficile de satisfaire tous les headbangers.
Lorsque pour Rolling Stone nous avons commencé à choisir les 10 plus grands albums de heavy metal, nous nous sommes fixés des règles de base. Même si les ancêtres du genre de la fin des années 1960 et du début des années 1970 (pas seulement les géants comme Cream, Zeppelin et Deep Purple, mais aussi les groupes de heavy moins iconiques comme Mountain, Captain Beyond et Sir Lord Baltimore) ont créé certains moments les plus fous du metal, leurs LP ont souvent dévié vers des sons folks et blues, s’éloignant du maximalisme qui a plus tard marqué le genre. Nous les avons donc exclus de cette liste. Nous avons fait de même pour les groupes spécialisés dans le rock & roll intense comme AC/DC ou Guns N’ Roses, mais auxquels il manque quelque chose qui ne les répertorie pas comme des groupes de metal. De même, avec du recul, certains groupes que Rolling Stone considérait comme étant des groupes de metal dans les années 1970 (parfois péjorativement) et qui ont enregistré des albums classiques comme Kiss, Alice Cooper et Grand Funk Railroad, ressemblent davantage à des groupes de hard rock. Ils sont donc absents de cette liste. Puisque nous ne cherchions que les albums metal parfaits, des indicateurs du genre comme Skid Row, Practice What You Preach de Testament ou Metal Health du groupe Quiet Riot (le premier album metal à se hisser dans le classement des meilleurs disques), ne font pas partie de la liste car tous leurs morceaux n’ont pas été des tubes. Il restait donc de la place pour un plus grand nombre de très bons LP. (On s’est rapidement rendu compte que 10 est un petit nombre.)
Nous avons dû faire des choix critiques et difficiles. Nous avons même dû demander l’avis de certains artistes illustres du metal comme Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford, Lars Ulrich et Corey Taylor. Nous avons finalement réalisé une liste qui reflète la diversité, la puissance et l’héritage du metal. Elle classe les albums par artistes les plus puissants du genre aux côtés d’un duo norvégien aux visages peints (Darkthrone), de britanniques (Napalm Death) dont une des chansons est inscrite au Livre des Records comme chanson la plus courte au monde et d’américains (Deafheaven) qui ont fusionné Pink Floyd et Mayhem pour créer leur propre son. Cette liste contient également quelques albums que Rolling Stone a soit évoqué dans ses critiques d’albums ces dernières années ou complètement négligé. C’est l’occasion de nous faire pardonner.
Sans plus attendre, enfilez vos gants cloutés et faites « les cornes du diable » car voici les plus grands albums metal de tous les temps.
10. Pantera, « Vulgar Display of Power » (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3JSbOt7CLo
Après avoir passé une grande partie des années 1980 comme groupe régional du Texas, Pantera s’est redéfini comme groupe de proto-groove-metal vulgaire avec Cowboys from Hell sorti en 1990. C’est cependant avec leur album suivant très bien nommé qu’ils ont vraiment atteint leur apogée. « La mentalité que l’on a utilisée pour Vulgar Display of Power… [c’était] de prendre l’argent et de se tirer », a expliqué Phil Anselmo. Et c’est ce qu’ils ont fait. Dans cet album, le groupe perd les derniers vestiges de son passé flamboyant (notamment le hurlement d’Anselmo qui ressemble à celui de Rob Halford et qui est encore présent sur CFH) et distille son son pour se retrouver avec l’essentiel (les rythmes en dents de scie et les solos grinçants de Dimebag Darrelland, le jeu du batteur Vinnie Paul et du bassiste Rex Brown, la voix rauque d’Anselmo), consolidant l’approche que ses membres suivront plus ou moins pour le reste de leur carrière. De la puissance antagoniste du premier morceau « Mouth for War » à « This love » en passant par « Fucking Hostile » et « Walk » (plus tard reprise par Avenged Sevenfold et Disturbed), Vulgar contient un grand nombre de titres plus ou moins devenus des standards du genre. Re-spect! R.B.
9. Ozzy Osbourne, « Blizzard of Ozz » (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoPYv0Kq-0
Après avoir quitté Black Sabbath, le stock musical d’Ozzy était tellement bas qu’il a rencontré des problèmes pour signer un nouveau contrat d’enregistrement (même ses plus grands fans n’auraient pas deviné qu’il était sur le point de démarrer un retour majeur avec son premier album solo). Sorti au Royaume-Uni en septembre 1980 (et six mois plus tard aux États-Unis), Blizzard of Ozz est un album remarquablement fort et net dont les temps forts (comme « I Don’t Know », « Crazy Train » et le titre controversé « Suicide Solution ») sont plus modernes que tout ce qu’il a fait avec Sabbath tout en restant sérieusement métallique. « L’album Blizzard était une belle évolution du metal des années 1970 au [metal] des années 1980, s’est souvenu Steve Vai dans une interview en 2011. Il avait une attitude complètement différente ». Une grande partie de ce changement est due au défunt guitariste Randy Rhoads dont les acrobaties sur le manche de sa guitare ont profondément influencé une génération entière de guitaristes de metal. « Pour le premier album, aucun d’entre nous n’avait joué ensemble, a-t-il déclaré en 1981. On était en train de former le groupe, d’écrire les chansons et on était en studio à l’époque ». D.E.
8. Megadeth, « Peace Sells … but Who’s Buying? » (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSk9gpgCY8g
Trois ans après avoir quitté Metallica, Dave Mustaine est encore la rage incarnée sur le deuxième LP de Megadeth, Peace Sells … but Who’s Buying? Le groupe avait planifié une fureur d’un autre monde pour son premier album Killing Is My Business … and Business Is Good sorti en 1985, un équilibre entre thrash et les plans de guitare jazzy de Chris Poland, mais ses membres dépensaient tout l’argent prévu pour l’album dans la drogue, ce qui a mené à une mauvaise production. Peace Sells était leur rédemption : sept déclarations de mépris pour l’humanité et une reprise de « I Ain’t Superstitious » de Willie Dixon. Entre les deux albums, ils avaient mûri en tant que musiciens et avaient réussi à obtenir un son de qualité. La chanson titre met en valeur l’esprit mordant de Mustaine (« What do you mean I’m not kind?/I’m just not your kind ») et elle a été assez entraînante pour devenir la chanson d’intro de MTV News pendant plus de dix ans, reflétant le clip de la chanson au milieu duquel un adolescent défie son père en mettant une vidéo de Megadeth et en déclarant « This is the news » (« Ça c’est les infos » en français). « A l’époque où j’ai écrit « Peace Sells », je vivais dans un entrepôt, a récemment déclaré Mustaine à Rolling Stone. On était sans abri et j’ai écrit les paroles sur un mur. Je n’avais même pas de papier. Je suis sûr qu’une fois qu’on est partis, quelqu’un a probablement découpé ce mur et l’a emporté ». Le reste de l’album présente la capacité de Mustaine à réaliser des compositions complexes mais frappantes. « The Conjuring » contient un vrai sort de magie noire dans ses paroles (selon Mustaine) à l’attention d’une des futures petites-amies du chanteur, tandis que « Wake Up Dead », dont les paroles parlent d’infidélité, explique pourquoi il n’est pas si gentil avec les femmes. Musicalement, « Good Mourning/Black Friday », « Bad Omen » et « My Last Words » sont bourrées du triomphalisme wagnérien. Quoi que ce soit qui ait inspiré l’album cette fois-ci, c’était quelque chose de personnel. K.G.
7. Motörhead, « No Remorse » (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2S9rwyQkJE
Le heavy metal n’a jamais été un genre à singles et la plupart des artistes ont marqué leur croissance et leur développement dans des albums. Motörhead est cependant l’exception qui confirme la règle. Au fil de ses 40 ans d’histoire, le groupe (essentiellement le chanteur-bassiste Lemmy Kilmister, quelques guitaristes et quelques batteurs) s’est dirigé vers une formule plus simple : des paroles aboyées sur une ligne de basse hyperactive, de la batterie et une guitare à rythme. Comme l’a déclaré Lemmy à Sounds, « Chuck Berry n’a jamais changé. Little Richard n’a jamais changé. Je préfère être comme ça et me cantonner à une formule avec laquelle nous sommes heureux ». Il semble donc plus approprié de représenter Motörhead avec une anthologie. No Remorse offre 29 versions de la même chose et pourtant, chaque morceau est singulièrement incroyable : les cris perçants, le refrain de « Ace of Spades », le grondement de « Overkill », la guitare sur « Bomber », la stupidité de « Killed by Death » ou la grande vitesse de « Motorhead » en version live tirée de No Sleep ’til Hammersmith. Parfois, une bonne formule est tout ce dont vous avez vraiment besoin. J.D.C.
6. Slayer, « Reign in Blood » (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_zsJ8KPP0
Reign in Blood commence à 210 temps par minute avec la chanson « Angel of Death » et diminue à peine pendant les 29 minutes suivantes. Ses 10 chansons sont construites sur les riffs de guitare rigides et les solos de Kerry King et de Jeff Hanneman ainsi que sur la batterie de Dave Lombardo et sur la voix du chanteur-bassiste Tom Araya. Cependant, ce qui différencie le troisième album du groupe de Metallica, d’Exciter, de Venom et de tous les groupes de cette époque, c’est la façon dont le producteur Rick Rubin, qui s’est fait un nom dans le hip-hop en travaillant avec les Beastie Boys et LL Cool J, a retiré la réverbe de l’album et l’a remplacée par un son qui semble vous donner un coup dans le ventre. « Avec leur articulation super rapide, tout devient flou, a déclaré Rubin en 2016. Ce n’est donc pas clair. Slayer tenait beaucoup à cette machinerie de précision ». C’est ce qui rend des déclarations vrombissantes comme « Necrophobic » et « Criminally Insane » encore plus impactantes et « Raining Blood » (le dernier morceau de l’album avec son intro menaçante) encore plus terrifiante. « Angel of Death », une chanson sur un docteur nazi appelé Josef Mengele, contient des paroles qui auraient été incohérentes avec la production rock typique de l’époque. Elles ont scandalisé les survivants de la Shoah et ont coûté au LP un accord de distribution avec Columbia. C’est pourquoi il est sorti sous la maison de disques Geffen. Le parolier Hanneman a affirmé que la chanson était une « leçon d’histoire ». Elle a tout de même solidifié l’héritage de Slayer en matière de controverse et leur besoin de vitesse. « On était jeunes, on avait faim et on voulait être plus rapide que tout le monde », a déclaré Araya. K.G.
5. Black Sabbath, « Black Sabbath » (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYgBOVoLI6U
Quelques années après que les guitaristes ont pour la première fois commencé à augmenter les ampères pour atteindre des volumes à vous exploser les tympans et que les chanteurs ont commencé à gémir à propos de Valhalla, le heavy metal comme on le connaît aujourd’hui a été ratifié en 1970 sur le premier album de Black Sabbath. Le groupe, qui a débuté comme groupe de blues en 1968, a tiré son inspiration des films d’horreur giallo (comme Black Sabbath sorti en 1963 et dans lequel joue Boris Karloff) et s’est dit qu’il pourrait offrir la même expérience excitante et terrifiante à travers le rock & roll, ce qui l’a mené à écrire « Black Sabbath ». Le morceau, inspiré par une expérience terrifiante qu’a eue le bassiste Geezer Butler (« Je me suis réveillé et il y avait ce truc noir au pied du lit qui me fixait », a-t-il un jour déclaré), contient certaines des paroles les plus menaçantes d’Ozzy Osbourne (« What is this that stands before me?/Figure in black which points at me » ainsi que « eyes of fire » et Satan qui rigole) et un riff de guitare inquiétant du guitariste Tony Iommi qui utilise un accord autrefois évité par les compositeurs et connu sous le nom de diabolus in musica (« le diable en musique »). Les effets de pluie, d’orage et de sons de cloches ne sont que la sombre cerise sur le gâteau. Quelques titres plus tard, sur « N.I.B. », Osbourne, dont la voix de stentor avec cette modulation distante a un timbre dur, assez fort pour surpasser la guitare de Iommi, chante à propos d’un pacte avec le diable sur un riff lourd qui prédisait « Cocaine » d’Eric Clapton. Le groupe démontre sa technique blues sur « The Wizard », sur le morbide « Behind the Wall of Sleep » (« Sleeping wall of remorse/Turns your body to a corpse ») et en particulier sur « Warning » qui contient un long solo criard interprété par Iommi. Sur le plus jazzy « Wicked World », présent sur l’édition américaine, Osbourne chante à propos des hommes politiques qui envoient des gens à la guerre et d’autres qui meurent de maladies, des sujets qui sont depuis devenus un cliché du rock mais qui, à l’époque, représentaient une vision du monde d’une franchise à faire froid dans le dos. « On passait ces auditions pour des maisons de disques et elles partaient après la troisième chanson, se souvient Butler à propos des jours qui ont précédé la sortie de l’album. Je me souviendrai toujours qu’un producteur nous a dit de partir, d’apprendre à jouer et d’apprendre à écrire des chansons décentes. On était rejeté encore et encore, maison de disques après maison de disques ». Mais une fois l’album dans les bacs, Black Sabbath a mis en marche un mouvement. K.G.
4. Iron Maiden, « The Number of the Beast » (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o
Quand Iron Maiden s’est rendu en studio en 1982 avec le producteur vétéran Martin Birch pour son troisième LP, le quintette britannique était déjà sur le devant de la scène de la prétendue New Wave du Heavy Metal britannique. Ayant remplacé le chanteur Paul Di’Anno par le charismatique Bruce Dickinson, la scène était prête pour une percée créative. Il n’y avait qu’un problème : le groupe avait épuisé son stock en matière de chansons. « Ils avaient utilisé toutes les bonnes choses qu’ils avaient et ils étaient depuis sur la route, a déclaré Dickinson au biographe Mick Wall. C’était donc plutôt bien parce qu’on n’allait pas me demander de chanter des paroles qui avaient déjà été écrites par Paul ou des chansons que Steve [Harris, le bassiste et le parolier en chef] avait écrites en pensant à lui. … On avait le temps pour penser aux chansons avant tout ». Harris et ses camarades (y compris Dickinson, non crédité pour des raisons contractuelles) ont saisi l’occasion et ont écrit des chansons complexes et des paroles entêtantes qui allaient parfaitement avec l’univers dramatique du nouveau chanteur. Le LP qui en a résulté, enregistré et mixé en seulement cinq semaines, est l’une des plus grandes pierres angulaires du metal de tous les temps : le single rapide « Run to the Hills » s’est hissé dans les classements des meilleurs titres pratiquement partout aux États-Unis où le clip est devenu un élément de base de MTV. S.S.
3. Judas Priest, « British Steel » (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6Qev04QyQ
Dans les années 1970, le metal britannique était une question de force et de lourdeur, mais comme le montre la pochette de British Steel, Judas Priest était sur le point de changer cette métaphore en quelque chose d’aussi tranchant qu’une lame de rasoir. « Quand on est arrivés pour la première fois, nos albums étaient très impliqués et nos chansons étaient très pré-arrangées, a déclaré le musicien Glenn Tipton à Musician, mais on a raccourci les chansons, on a augmenté l’excitation et le tempo, on a fait quelque chose que personne ne pensait qu’on pouvait faire, qui n’a jamais été acceptable dans le heavy metal : on a introduit une mélodie ». Malgré le rugissement déformé des guitares et l’agression intimidante de la voix de Rob Halford, l’écriture de British Steel a été aussi difficile et mélodieuse que pour une chanson pop, depuis le refrain de « Living After Midnight » jusqu’à « United ». Le moment le plus étonnant de l’album est cependant « Metal Gods », une évocation des robots déchaînés conduits par un groove de batterie et de basse qui ne peut être décrit que comme étant funky. J.D.C.
2. Metallica, « Master of Puppets » (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm71Khu5-Lk
L’album commence comme un western avec des guitares acoustiques menaçantes qui jouent une mélodie triomphale, mais l’intro de « Battery » n’est qu’un préambule aux riffs sombres et rapides que l’on entend pendant l’heure suivante. Du début à la fin, Master of Puppets est un chef-d’œuvre. Seulement deux ans après avoir introduit de plus belles mélodies au trash sauvage qu’il a aidé à lancer sur Ride the Lightning, Metallica a perfectionné ce son sur Master avec des chansons finement arrangées un peu plus longues et couvrant plus de terrain musical. « Master of Puppets », une mélodie que le chanteur James Hetfield a écrite après avoir été dégoûté en voyant des junkies s’évanouir lors d’une fête, s’étend sur huit minutes et demies et mélange des paroles trashs et hardcores avec des solos jazzy et un psychodrame hystérique. Elle reste la chanson du groupe la plus demandée et interprétée lors des concerts. « The Thing That Should Not Be », de son côté, est une chanson rock. « Welcome Home (Sanitarium) » est la One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest des ballades de metal et « Orion », cette longue chanson instrumentale qui contient des lignes de basse rugissantes interprétées par Cliff Burton, décédé lors de la tournée pour promouvoir Master en 1986, ressemble tellement à une composition classique pleine de drame musical que des paroles auraient été superflues. « Leper Messiah », ce morceau lourd et à moitié rock dont le titre fait référence à « Ziggy Stardust » de David Bowie, annonce le chemin plus orienté vers le groove et plus adapté à la radio que le groupe emprunta sur le Black Album en 1991. Seulement trois ans après Kill ‘Em All, ils ont même perfectionné le pur son du trash : « Battery » commence à 190 pulsations par minute, le dernier morceau, « Damage Inc. » prend de court les auditeurs avec des rythmes très rapides et « Disposable Heroes » est comme l’incarnation du trash avec ses rythmes militaristes et Hetfield qui grogne « Back to the front! ». Master of Puppets est le son du groupe au meilleur de sa forme. C’est aussi l’album qui a façonné Metallica. « Quand j’écoute Master of Puppets aujourd’hui, je m’assois et je me dis « Putain, comment est-ce qu’on fait ça ? », a déclaré en riant Lars Ulrich en 2016. C’est vraiment de la musique qui a des couilles ». K.G.
1. Black Sabbath, « Paranoid » (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w
Il est impossible d’imaginer ce que serait devenu le heavy metal sans le riff sombre et iconique d’« Iron Man », sans l’épaisseur de « War Pigs » et sans le halètement rapide de « Paranoid ».
« Paranoid est important parce que c’est un projet pour le metal, a déclaré Rob Halford, chanteur du groupe Judas Priest, dans les notes d’accompagnement de la réédition de l’album sortie en 2016. Il a mené le monde vers un nouveau son et vers une nouvelle scène ». Du premier morceau jusqu’au dernier, la voix tranchante d’Ozzy Osbourne expose les grandes lignes de tous les sujets qui seront traités dans le metal par les générations suivantes : le destin tragique imminent, les victimes de la drogue, la guerre nucléaire, la brutalité, les autocrates insensibles, l’amour voué à l’échec et les désillusions générales. La musique est sombre avec des riffs de guitare inspirés du blues et que d’autres groupes ont copiés maintes et maintes fois. L’album contient même un solo de batterie.
D’après les membres du groupe, ils sont arrivés au son de Paranoid après avoir donné de nombreux concerts avant d’être célèbres, donnant plusieurs représentations par soir à Hambourg et à Zurich devant très peu de personnes. Ils ont étiré un morceau comme « Warning » (le morceau blues de guitare sur Black Sabbath), jusqu’à créer le riff principal de « War Pigs » (un morceau dont le titre original était « Walpurgis » et dont les paroles évoquaient une masse noire). « Rat Salad » contient le solo de batterie de Bill Ward et pouvait durer 45 minutes. La ligne de basse menaçante de « Hand of Doom » jouée par Geezer Butler, qui a également écrit la majorité des paroles lugubres de Paranoid, a été improvisée et le funky « Fairies Wear Boots » est librement inspiré d’une vraie bagarre incroyablement violente qui a opposé Black Sabbath à un groupe de skinheads après un concert dans le nord de l’Angleterre (l’insulte « fairy » avait pour but d’émasculer leurs agresseurs, qui portaient des bottes). Butler a écrit à propos de ses propres désillusions dans les paroles d’« Iron Man » (qui n’a rien à voir avec le personnage des bandes dessinées Marvel).
Pour le bassiste qui, comme le reste du groupe, a grandi dans un environnement d’après-guerre lugubre (la ville britannique de Birmingham bombardée), il était facile de décrire les contre-utopies comme celles évoquées dans « War Pigs » et dans « Electric Funeral ». Il a même donné à la chanson d’amour « Planet Caravan » (avec ses bongos et sa ligne de guitare jazzy) des paroles froides et distantes qui évoquent le sentiment d’être perdu dans l’espace. Sur « Paranoid », une chanson écrite à la dernière minute pour remplir une face du LP, il a simplement décrit sa propre dépression avec aplomb grâce à des phrases comme « Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry ». C’est pourtant devenu un grand succès et l’une des chansons les plus interprétées par le groupe.
Paranoid était le son de la réalité de Black Sabbath, un appel à la compréhension qui parlait à des millions de personnes qui ressentaient le même mécontentement. Beaucoup d’entre eux ont ensuite formé des groupes comme Metallica, Pantera et Slipknot, des groupes qui ont changé le visage du metal, qui ont changé le monde. « Pendant le Ozzfest, des groupes me disent que Sabbath les a grandement influencés, a déclaré Osbourne. Je les écoute et je me demande « Quelle partie de Sabbath les a influencés ? ». « Pour moi, ça ne ressemble pas à du heavy metal, a un jour affirmé Butler, mais il vaut mieux être qualifié d’inventeurs plutôt que de suiveurs ». Quoi qu’il en soit, l’album a été l’appel aux armes du metal et on y répond depuis avec passion. K.G.
Divers / Traduit et adapté par Mélanie Geffroy
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Revons Plus Grand, Chapter 29
Revons Plus Grand
Chapter 29:
Amar Pelos Dois
Gab, the loyal cat tracker that followed Georgette Lemare and Sadako Shimohara on their work and personal affairs, relaying them to the rest of the Brave Witches in Petersburg, could not believe what lay before her on a warm Saturday morning at the apartment. "Oh...nyaow...oh my..." A bowl of sweet cream, a bowl of high quality albacore...and a bowl of roasted dormice. "Mice, fish, milk...master, this is amazing!" A loud meow, and she chose to indulge in the mice.
"I didn't know cats actually liked mice," Sadako said. "I thought that was convoluted lore."
"The Ancient Romagnans used to eat dormice as a snack, even stuffing them with all sorts of nuts and stuff, roasting them and eating it as a habit," Jose said, watching the Persian find her peace of gastronomic heaven. "I succeeded in replicating the ancient technique of cooking edible dormice but adapted it to modern times. I think she likes the dormice stew I made."
"And the sweet cream made from Jersey cows..."
"There is no region in France that does dairy like my home region. When I give my pet cats milk, it has to be from Jersey cows. The Channel Islands and Denmark are the gold standard by which I compare other regions' dairy products." A loud, sustained purr from Gabriel. "See what I mean?" She stroked Gab's chin, slightly stained from the richness of the cream as the cat continued to purr like a pimp in the shade before returning to her sumptuous meal.
"And fancy her being a big eater like you, Jose," Sadako mused with a sly look on her face.
"Dormouse are also known in Brittania by their Latin name, glis glis. They are eaten regularly in Corsica and Calabria and the fat is used in the same manner as lardons."
"She likes it so much she ate it all."
"Oh?" A wide smile from Gab, the sideways three telling no lies. "As for the albacore, a nod to you my dear, it's bluefin imported from Fusou. Some bits of caviar added. Just to show off."
"Just to show off?"
"Just to show off."
"Just?"
"Just."
"Oh, if you must..." Sadako smacked her shaking forehead. "You truly go the extra mile in your cookery. At this rate, the lives and worth of the establishment of Michelin star chefs is in grave and serious danger."
"I prefer quiet confidence and leave the cooking mastery to the home kitchen. I don't intent to make other chefs kill themselves. I did recall reading the story of someone who did due to a wine scam, or rather, what the modern world calls a ponzi scheme. I can't believe that actually exists. And I also saw stories of violence and hazing in the kitches of different restaurants. If I were to have to go through such things I would make sure they go out of business and the owners are put into custody."
"Such words, such true words..."
"Therefore, the only violence I will allow and encourage is that used for defeating our common enemy, the Neuroi, at which we are anticipating a massive assault since they...have tracked us. And I also don't believe in operating restaurants because cooking good food for those you love..." She came in closer and lifted Sadako's chin. "...is not worth dying for."
"U...Understood." In the background, the winning Eurovision song, "Amar Pelos Dois" by Salvador Sobral, played.
"Se um dia alguém perguntar por mim
Diz que vivi p'ra te amar
Antes de ti, só existi
Cansado e sem nada p'ra dar
Meu bem, ouve as minhas preces
Peço que regresses, que me voltes a querer
Eu sei que não se ama sozinho
Talves devagarinho possas voltar a aprender
Meu bem, ouve as minhas preces
Peço que regresses, que me voltes a querer
Eu sei que não se ama sozinho
Talves devagarinho possas voltar a aprender
Se o teu coração não quiser ceder
Não sentir paixão, não quiser sofrer
Sem fazer planos do que virá depois
O meu coração pode amar pelos dois..."
Saint-Etienne were put to the sword by Paris Saint-Germain 5-0 away at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. However, due to Monaco hammering Lille 4-0 at the Stade Louis II, the boys from the principality would have a chance to wrap it up with only a draw against the same Saint-Etienne side. PSG would also lock in on second as a result of Nice's 2-0 shock defeat at home to Angers SCO.
As for the women, a 3-0 loss at home to D1 Feminine champioins Olympique Lyonnais meant that they would not be able to qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League, meaning that massive changes to the list and perhaps coaching staff would be necessary to maintain balance and challenge Montpellier and Marseille. Montpellier also qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League by winning their last five games and having identical form to OL. Here was the training schedule for the men and the women.
Men's Team
Monday, May 15th 2017
No training session
Tuesday, May 16th 2017
No training session
Wednesday, May 17th 2017
Training session closed to media
Thursday, May 18th 2017
Training session closed to media
Friday, May 19th 2017 - Ooredoo Training Centre
11:00 AM: Training session opened to media for first 15 minutes
01:30 PM: Press conference with Unai Emery (live on PSG TV)
Saturday, May 20th 2017 - Parc des Princes
09:00 PM: Paris Saint-Germain - SM Caen
Ligue 1 - Week 38
Sunday, May 21th 2017
No training session
Women's Team
Monday, May 15th 2017
Training session closed to media
Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - CSLBF (Bougival)
12:30 AM-02:00 PM: Scheduled interviews with Paris Saint-Germain's players
02:30 PM: Press conference with Patrice Lair
03:00 PM: Training session opened to media for first 15 minutes
Wednesday, May 17th 2017
Training session closed to media
Thursday, May 18th 2017 - Espace FCL (Lorient)
06:00 PM: Training session opened to media for first 15 minutes
Friday, May 19th 2017 - Stade de la Rabine (Vannes)
09:00 PM: Olympique Lyonnais - Paris Saint-Germain
Coupe de France Féminine - Final
Saturday, May 20th 2017
Training session closed to media
Sunday, May 21st 2017
Training session closed to media
"Sigh...we couldn't win the league meaning the match with my home team Caen is a dead rubber," said Georgette, stocking up on dry goods and mustard in anticipation of a safe return home to the other side by the end of the month. "At least I can look back on this journey and say it was all for the best."
"Mmm-hmmm," said Sadako, a frown on her face. "This is an above-average team we're assisting, Paris Saint-Germain. Not good enough for the best in the world, but not terrible either."
"I think I will take this time to congratulate AS Monaco and salute them for a good season, a good race, but this last week will simply be for show. Oh, I realized something."
"What?"
"Caen are 17th on the ladder. A victory over Malherbe could mean that they are relegated if Lorient and Bastia both win."
"But Jose, Lorient are at home to Bordeaux and Bastia are away to Marseille," Sadako said. "So even if Caen lose, they can still remain safe for next year. It's AS Nancy Lorraine that are in trouble because they face Saint-Etienne to close the year. Even if they win, they still have to hope for help and the best they can do is make the playoffs."
Georgette had to laugh. "Oh, well now that you mention that..." Another forced laugh, even more hesitant than the last. "I have to say that...it really is quite a season we're having."
"You also forgot that last week was my birthday."
"I...did?"
"Yep...it was on two Sundays prior, the seventh."
Georgette was silent for a bit. Then a flash of light, an idea, come to her mind. "Well, since we're off, and the boys are getting their awards..." She dragged Sadako to the bed and she straddled her, quickly taking off her clothes and tossing them, causing her lovers mons to swell and stiffen.
"Jose, what are you...I mean, I am...I...!" A deep blush radiated as her eyes began to mist.
Georgette playfully sucked her right index finger as her cat ears and tail sprouted, causing Sadako's rabbit ears and tail to pop out as well. "I am sorry I forgot to let you indulge in my love, Sada. So, I need to make up for it by letting us melt together." Gab was watching from a distance after finishing her meal. A purr of disappointment in her master ensued before she chose to take a nap on the floor. "Sada, I truly regret not making you happy. But at least PSG remembered and won, so, there's that..."
"Jose, please, don't be so hard on yourself baby, I forgive you, because being with you and seeing you is enough for me," Sadako whispered, brushing away a tear.
"...!" Georgette slowly unbuttoned Sadako's shirt and took off that and her pants before lifting her top and sucking her milky endowments, the moisture of her tongue triggering a stiffness dripping with desire and intimate satisfaction that caused Sadako to point to her crotch and allowing Jose to bury her face between her legs.
Jose's body starting to heat up and she purred like a Persian as her tears of soulful shame meshed with the fluids coming of Sadako flower, the amalgamation of mixed honeys leaving a redolent glow, a scent as brilliant as a wild rose crying for the comforts of mercy. Sadako could her Jose's restrained sobs of despair transforming into sounds of passionate, blissful hunger, her wish to melt into her lover's body to ease the pain of forgetting an important date in both their lives, a date which will live in each other's memory forever.
"No more, Jose, just let us...ahhhhh..." Sadako ran a finger up Georgette's smooth spine, allowing her to slide into her arms. She wrapped her arms and legs around a now-nude Georgette Lemare and she delicately massaged the soft, sensitive parts of her frame, including the most beautiful backside that craved to be assuaged, to be assured, to be ever mindful that to worry over little things is to stand to lose everything meaningful to her own existence.
Georgette's teary eyes were close. "Haaah, haaah, Sada...taste...me, I, I want to taste you, I...I have been a bad girl..." she confessed thought her mindless, thoughtless stutters as she allowed her forgetfullness to swallow her whole, if willingly so that Sadako could play the role of a naked lady knight with no armor to speak off and save her from her own choice to melt into oblivion. Their tongues and lips touched and they both shared a long, deep, rich velvety kiss that seemed to go on forever as Sadako jiggled the squishy mounds of Georgette's heavenly backside, causing their breasts to press on each other, their nipples grinding on each other as if they wanted to fuse in orgasmic fashion.
"That's what I am here, baby," Sadako whispered to Georgette and her hitched breathing, her hands running through her brown twintails. I purify bad girls by turning their misery into ecstasy. I'll complete you now, so that my birthday wish of making you come inside is fulfilled." She put two hands inside Georgette's clit and pressed inward, reaching the G-spot within seconds.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!' cried Georgette as her juices splashed out. Sadako went deeper and deeper into her spot before she thrashed her head back. "HYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" screamed Jose as she gave up the ghost and fell into a deep sleep, shivering ever so subtly as Sadako withdrew her fingers and sucked the sweetness clean, licking her lips triumphantly.
"Haaaah, ha...ppy...bir...day...Sa...haaaah..." sighed Jose, who ran out of energy as her ears and tail withdrew so that she could recharge by sleeping in Sadako's motherly embrace. There was a smile on her face now, to go with some moans of contentment.
"Thank you, Jose, my baby," Sadako said, kissing Jose on the head and breathing on her a little so that she let out a purr. "If you forget my birthday again I will have to punish you. But when paying the price...I am always nice. And if I forget, I want you to punish me the same way because I want it all from you, my love. Eheh."
A few more tongue flicks and Sadako fell asleep, her saliva from drinking too much coffee destined to saturate the two of them and their bed and leave a very sweet odor indeed going forward. Georgette and Sadako would not be needed to report to the Camp des Loges until Wednesday. In any case, they were young adults now and their maturity and trust with each other would be valuable for them going forward, especially with a tough battle looming ahead at the end of May.
END CHAPTER 29
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Kitschy Metaphors
A Literacy Narrative exploring my life in Forensics, written for University Writing course.
I had always been destined to speak competitively, but no betting man would have ever pegged me for Extemp. Even I resisted the pairing. The first Extemp my mother had me give was preluded by an hour of me hunched over in her bathtub, fully clothed, surrounded by files and newspapers, trying to decide between figuring out who the hell Qaddafi was and prying open a second-story window. I don’t quite know how I ended up in the tub. The cold marble and safe seclusion helped, but I had made the drowning metaphor physically inescapable. What intellectual masochism convinced my 13-year-old self to ever indulge in that traumatic process again, I cannot say. But thank God I did.
The language of Extemporaneous Speaking had always been a well-kept secret. Extempers were elite, travelling in gangs with giant tubs of files resting on sleek dollies, Italian leather clacking along a foreign high school’s hall tiles. If you sat and observed them long enough, you’d notice a tendency for them to walk like a backslash, \, leaning back against each step and leading with their hips. No one very much liked the Extempers, who were too dry for the Interpers and too cocky for the Debaters.
I still remember the laughter from Mr. Rocca when I asked him if I could try my hand at Extemp at an upcoming tournament. If a fat, greased, pot-bellied pig were magically made human and forced to coach a high school forensics team, that would give you Mr. Christopher Rocca. Wait, no. The pig might be less sexist. When Rocca heard my request, he boomed out a laugh so forceful that the two flecks of pasta in his beard became crossly dislodged. He did me the favor of explaining that as a freshman girl competing as the sole Extemper from her team, I would never ever stand a chance against the hordes of boys from Durham Academy and Ardrey Kell. I was better off sticking to an event better suited for my “demographic,” like Children’s Literature or Storytelling.
It was then that I decided to succeed in Extemp.
As much as I hated to admit it, Rocca did have a point—competing as the only Extemper on my team meant I would have to figure this thing out from scratch, and I certainly would not be using him for help. My mother was one of the best Interp coaches on the East coast, but as the bathtub incident had proved, she and I were not a compatible fit for Extemp coaching. So, I set off to coach myself. I spent weeks on extempcentral.com, reading and rereading the rules. Thirty minutes before speaking, you draw three current events-based questions, choose one, and return to your seat. The questions could be anything from anywhere with no warning, from a Congressional fiscal sequester to a migrant crisis in Malaysia. The next half hour is for preparation, using files, magazines, and news sources all saved preemptively—no internet. Then, at thirty minutes, you walk to a room, present your topic slip before a judge, and give a 5-7 minute memorized, fluent, sourced, theoretically entertaining speech that, above all, answers your question. No big deal.
For my first tournament, Southside, I stumbled into the prep room armed with two issues of The Economist, one Time magazine, and a travel dictionary. First round I got lucky, drawing a Libya question I could tie back to Qaddafi from the bathtub. By lucky, I mean I recognized the name. It was still an atrocious speech, but the easy room yielded me second place in the round. Second round was not so kind. My entire question read “David Cameron: friend or foe?” One issue—I had no clue who the heck David Cameron was. Now, in retrospect, I realize how incredibly English that name sounds, and that I probably should have started with my England articles and would have in doing so immediately discovered that he was the prime minister, but, alas, I was panicking. See, when I began competing in Extemporaneous speaking, my strength was my ability to craft kitschy metaphors that made these big, scary political concepts fun and comprehensible. Granted, that only worked if I found them comprehensible. My greatest weakness was my total lack of the knowledge foundation needed for quicker connections and deeper analysis. Needless to say, I placed last in that round and the one after it.
As the season continued, I got better—not great, but better. I started actually reading the magazines I was toting along, and my file tub began to grow rapidly. I wasn’t winning, but I wasn’t losing, which was enough to unsettle Durham boys. Through the winter and spring months I established my presence as an Extemper on the circuit. My cheesy, fun metaphors were getting attention, some supportive, some hostile, but all publicity is good publicity. By the time the third day of the state tournament came along, they all knew my name.
A dedicated Extemper, I had invested in my own dolly—my own hot pink dolly—and had wheeled my supplies into the corner of a Marvin Ridge computer lab being used as our elimination rounds prep room. I unloaded my stacks of magazines, placed my lucky stuffed dolphin at the edge of my workstation, and opened my padfolio to a fresh page. “STATE FINALS: AFRICA,” I wrote at the top, forever thankful that the round topic had been released in advance. Draw began, and the clock ticked by. I was sixth and final speaker, so I had 35 minutes to wait. I flipped through The Economist, arranged and rearranged my color coded highlighters, and nervously binged on winter fresh mints. At last, I was called up to draw.
As I stared down at the three topics I was to choose between, every muscle in my body tensed up. It was David Cameron all over again. Two of the three had specific names of people I could never place, no familiarity, zero, zilch. The third was not much better. I carefully turned over the first two, picked up my little slip of paper, and began the mental preparation for another crash and burn. This time it would be worse. This time there would be a whole panel of judges and student observers. Everyone would see.
I didn’t know how I would do it, but I realized that I had to make this work. I gave the topic another reread. “Has the AU responded appropriately to the coup in Mali?” I had two initial questions—what is a coup, and who is the AU? Relieved, I remembered the travel dictionary I still kept at the bottom of my tub. I unburied it, cracked the spine, and found the COU-s. Cougar, Country, County, Couscous. Couscous. My dictionary had “couscous” but not “coup?” It was time for every lesson I had ever learned on context clues to kick in. I searched through my Africa files and found two, short Economist articles about Mali, one of which discussed the coup. It wouldn’t define it for me, but I had enough information to gather that it was some sort of government redistribution, a rebellious takeover. Now that I had made this uncanny conclusion, I had only 12 minutes left.
“Think, think. What do you know about Africa?”
Africa. Africa had had a lot of violent overthrows lately. Libya. Okay. I could talk about how the AU could not possibly have responded to the coup appropriately because the most appropriate response would have been to prevent it in the first place, to look at what was happening everywhere else and take proactive action instead of coming in afterwards. I could tie it together with a metaphor—cookies! If you’ve got a child who is set on having a cookie, and I mean downright determined, the appropriate response is to get the child to exhibit some good behavior and reward them with the cookie. If you simply refuse the request and leave them alone in the kitchen, they’ll find a way to knock the cookie jar off the shelf, sending porcelain splinters all over the kitchen and leaving you with a dangerous mess to clean up. If the people of Mali were set on a change in government, the AU should have incentivized and facilitated a peaceful transition. Instead, no help came to Mali and a violent coup occurred.
Two minutes. Two minutes left. Now I had only one final question—who the hell was the AU? AU… AU… AU… One minute. Screw it, I knew who the EU was, and this was the Africa round. African Union. I would say African Union. My speaker code was called and I rose to leave the prep room, stepping into my heels and petting the dolphin for luck. Down the hall, I entered the competition room. Time froze for about seven minutes as I gave my speech. I barely remember what actually happened in the room, but I will never forget what happened when I left it—I stopped the first Extemper I saw, asked him what the AU was, and when he said “African Union,” I swear I heard the African Children’s Choir sing me a hymn.
I ended up placing third, which was shocking and awesome, but it wasn’t the best part of that day. The grand, unforgettable moment was in prep, with my stupidly cheesy cookie metaphor and context clue dependence, when I realized that I didn’t have to be some uptight know-it-all to give a powerful Extemporaneous speech. It is irrefutably important to be politically smart in the event, yes, and I have continued to work at that in the years since. But it doesn’t matter how deep your analysis is if no one can understand it but you. That’s what my judges wrote on my ballots that day. That even if my depth was lacking, my speech made sense. They got the cookie jar metaphor, and it made the speech fun, “waking them up” after having already watched five Extemps in a row. That it was worth watching.
In my senior year of competition, sometimes I forgot. My speeches were highly analytical and extremely well sourced, but I forgot to have fun with a particular round, or didn’t use a metaphor in the next. Whenever that happened, I would think back to the cookie jar. The fun. The look on Rocca’s face when I held up my third place trophy, or the young freshman girls I saw braving the prep room the next year. In my senior year state finals, I compared Robert Mugabe to Taylor Swift, with the “blank space” on his VP ballot, the political “haters” he needed to “shake off,” and how he and his party were “never ever ever getting back together.” At nationals, Indonesia’s government was Batman, Putin a zookeeper. The metaphors and spunk that week in Texas carried me to the top 12 in the nation. Rocca congratulated me afterwards, some new pasta dish woven into his mustache.
After these years of competition in Extemp, I think it is the things that are hardest to do that are the most important. Even if you have to start by gripping the side of a bathtub, swallowing back the nerves lodged in your windpipe, you must start. Otherwise, the Roccas and the Durham boys and the clock all win. Beat them! And do it with kitschy metaphors. That is what I tell the Extempers I coach today.
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