#French basics

[yuukirita]

He's doing hand talk :'D Cute and Sad.

[camilleflyingrotten]

[decepti-geek]

actually i do really like reading tf one as the earthspark backstory cause. earthspark has all that Divorce Energy between megs and soundwave. can you imagine what it is like for Soundwave, finally prying megatron away from the spectacularly mutually toxic situationship he's been clinging to for millennia just cause Starscream was his kink awakening once upon a time, he starts to appreciate you more, you settle into something good....... only for megs to ultimately fuck back off to the dude who Starscream stole him from in the first place.

[cloudy-whales]

It’s basically Halloween now, right? 🎃

[canisalbus]

at least as far as french goes, learning the genders of things is entirely memorization. and yes, learners of the language struggle with it.

in fact, if you're writing and want to convey that the person doesn't speak french too well, you have them misgender inanimate objects.

there's no rules to determine a thing's gender, not even vibes; in fact, the opposite is true: for native speakers, which gender a thing is will then color the vibes that they associate with that thing. this is why i will forever associate spiders with cunning and motherood.

and finally, i've saved the dumbest for last: in 2020, there was debate if COVID is male or female.

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[wrenkos]

year of the dragon!

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible chap 3 pt 5

Time to meet the first boyfriend in Robespierre's long string of failed relationships- that's right, it's Pétion 💔

[vorbarrsultana]

i finished rereading the first four vorkosigan books (+ "the flowers of vashnoi" because ekaterin!!!), and you really have to feel for piotr vorkosigan because what a nightmare life, truly.

imagine you are born just in time for your world to be unified by dorca vorbarra and rediscovered by people from wider galaxy. things are finally looking good, for the first time in 600 years of isolation there is no more feudal infighting, and the promise of galactic medicine and technologies being available lightens everyone's perspectives. sure, your grandpa is called count pierre "le sanguinaire", but who doesn't have terrible relatives?

then you are 15, and suddenly your planet is attacked by the aggressive eugenecist space empire hell-bent on subjugating your people and turning them into disposable material for unethical genetic experiments. you flee into the mountains, away from your family, and create guerrilla forces from locals sworn to your dad, and it's really terrible for a very long time. you have no high-tech weapons and no food, you sleep in a cave in the dead of winter, and the cetagandans try everything (from carpet bombing to chemical weapons) to murder you.

but hey, at least you now have your bff ezar vorbarra, and (from the bff's words on his deathbed) it sounds like you two had so much fun between unimaginable horrors and despair, and it's not surprising, since no one really believes in death after life at 20. then the emperor makes you a general at the tender age of 22. fortunately for him, you & bff make a frighteningly competent dream-team, and the joke's on cetagandans.

then, several years later, you ask the emperor for weapons, because you still sleep on the bare cave floor, there are little resources, and every ghem on the planet is trying to murder you. he offers you the hand of his granddaughter instead, like it's some sort of twisted fairytale, but you grow to love your olivia more than anything, and the tide of war is finally turning, and you allow yourself to entertain the idea of peaceful life, and then...

the space eugenecist empire nukes your hometown, killing your mom, dad, surviving brothers, and two hundred thousand of your people. plus your bff (ezar) gets a radiation doze large enough for it to cause severe cancer thirty years later. great.

but you win! your district is in shambles, your capital is an irradiated crater, your castle is in ruins, but you win! the old dorca dies, and yuri ascends the throne, but politicking is secondary to the fact that you are alive.

yes, you are probably not entirely sane, and you've long forgotten what the peaceful times look like, but you are alive, just under 35, and your entire life is ahead of you. olivia is alive too, and ezar, and you now have three wonderful children, and the extended vorpatril-vorbarra family that hosts regular get-togethers. sure, your mom-in-law is a betan with all sorts of crazy ideas in her head, but she is not pierre vorrutyer. small mercies.

but then the new emperor goes mad, and decides to murder your entire family overnight. your brothers-in-law are gone, one of your sisters-in-law too, and all your nephews and nieces except little padma. but all of this pales in comparison to the facts that olivia is murdered, and that your heir and daughter lay dead beside her.

all you have left of her, of your house, of the family you've lost in vashnoi not a ten years ago, is aral, whom you keep by your side throughout the bloody civil war to put your bff on the throne.

but you win again. you are 43, and ezar vorbarra is now the emperor. you are responsible for the imperium's entire ground forces. you are also responsible for a severely traumatized boy of 13, and the only children you've interacted with without olivia's genle guidance were little messengers of guerilla companies.

what a mess.

[imeriayapping]

Valentino Rossi in hands of other man? Likely place for him to be

[honeyhive65]

First time drawing jjba characters and it’s this…

Hello jjba fandom I’m in the middle of the anime in part 4

Also not important but under the cut is a colorized image of a doodle I did of glass Joe from punch out

[diogeneswannabe]

This tweet is peak French culture lmao

"We're not even hyped up for the sports we just want to see how catastrophic it's gonna be, it's gonna be peak entertainment lmaoo"

[marzipanandminutiae]

a book series that makes use of "anachronistic" language in a way that really feels organic for the period, IMO, is Piratica by Tanith Lee

set in an explicitly alternate universe c. 1810, the first book managed to include the sentence "Well, groovy, thou art a klutz," and make it sound 100% Golden Age of PiracyTM. even though the author used words from wildly different eras, she captured the cadence of 18th/early 19th century working-class/criminal slang so well that I literally just had to look up whether "groovy" was an older word than I previously thought

god those books were so good. I should reread them

[my-pjo-stuff]

I'll never get over the fact that Rick wants us to see Thalia as this like, super rebellious punk type of character and then wrote LUKE CASTELLAN in the same breath.

Like I'm so sorry Thalia but wearing all black and being grumpy REALLY falls flat when your childhood friend is currently reviving Titans and starting a revolution a few pages over XD And the same goes for ANY Percy Jackson character that's supposed to be "rebellious" in my opinion. Like yeah Percy is snarky at times, BUT IT AIN'T EXACTLY MUCH COMPARED TO LUKE'S FULL OUT REVOLUTION.

Just- it's so funny to me how most "rebellious" characters are still following the rules relatively well and then you have Luke who just went nuclear 💀

[aedesluminis]

So, my uncle has just sent me the trailer for this game:

It's set in a sort of steampunk alternate universe and the player seems to be able through various alliances to influence the events starting from 1789 onwards. From this short trailer, it doesn't seem to be very historically accurate, but, oh boy, I'm too eager to conquer the world with my army of mechas 👀

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

Yes I did it

[tabooiart]

post i made last night actually got me Thinking about what on earth i'm gonna do with the nationals so i did some doodles to get my ideas out. the concept is that they all still represent their countries but i completely removed the flags from their designs and just based them on real trains. these are subject to change but the base idea is there