#French personal pronouns

[chaoticreivingu]

I always found it funny that being indirectly compared to Pip is what caused Butters to tip over the edge here.

[azeofspades]

You can say whatever you want about U.S southerners but they really cooked with "y'all"

[amphibious-thing]

do we really think that Geneviève 'the pronoun on is stupid' d'Eon would be super stoked about people using they/them pronouns for her

[satirates]

It's funny because they went above and beyond to use ''il ou elle'' (He or she) in the new special to refer to the unknown masque person and I just know it will piss some French people so much !

Good

[biblicalhorror]

Thinking about one of the loser men I dated directly post-college who, after I showed them Dirty Computer [the emotion picture] by Janelle Monae, said they "prefer rap that has something to say"

[kinokoshoujoart]

this mf really can, without ever meeting you (since you can skip the town introductions now) show up on your doorstep exactly a year after you arrive with some kind of gigolo application. it’s entirely possible for this to be your first ever interaction with him.

[itstimeforstarwars]

The English language is fucking stupid.

[n-learns-ukrainian]

Oh, the Ukrainian word for "nightmare" is "кошмар" ("koshmar"). It's the same as in French, "cauchemar". How interesting!

[popcorn-plots]

y'all remember your direct object pronouns in french

I hate [this] = Je le deteste.

I hate you = Je te deteste.

anyways i messed it up and told my french teacher that I hated her, even though she's literally my favorite teacher and is the fucking best. Love her so much--

(I apologized once I realized my mistake)

[rayshiram]

arrgh I hate accidentally misgendering myself!!!! *stars setting stuff on fire*

[ryuuseini]

If i had a better relationship with my mother/she wasn't highkey homophobic, I would ask her to translate @insecateur french fics so i can understand the tu/vous obsession better but I do not want her to know I read gay fanfic about French men fucking

[girlwarlocks]

google: how do we send an ask with plural-first-person to a blog with a commonly-interactive following without a) having a stupid disclaimer of "'we' just means the plural sender of the ask" or b) sounding like we're trying to speak for the entire following of the blog time sensitive reddit

[homosexualcitron]

i use she/her as a man the same way Game BOY is a feminine word in french

[ironagefyxen]

couldn’t resist did the whole thing (Early Modern English style)

‘Tis ryghte, ‘tis good,

thou may’st say that we are noþing

tho’ thou knouw’st the truþ,

and lo, I, the fool—

vvith her armes out, as an angel, fallen far, forsooþ!

I beg thee not to call a halt, tho’ thou wyllst not avow thy loue,

thou deignest iust to be mine only lady!

Thou may’st court a hoste of men-at-arms,

Shoot a quarrell shot, pray, to stoppe thy feelyngs;

Thou mayest say ‘tis iust þe way thou art,

Makest thine excuse, another foolish rysoun—

good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe world, thus to stay thy feelyngs?

Good luck, maid! O good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe world, thus to stay thy feelyngs!

‘Tis oft-sayd, beware,

‘Tis þe moste vnseemly and vnchaste of loue affairs!

I do cry, ‘tis vnfaire,

as I lack in thine affection, starving too am I for ayre!

I beg thy leave to call a halt, euen vvhen thou sayest “loue”,

sore am I of seeking for mine only lady!

Thou may’st court a hoste of men-at-arms,

Shoot a quarrell shot, pray, to stoppe thy feelyngs;

Thou mayest say ‘tis iust þe way thou art,

Makest thine excuse, another foolish rysoun—

good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe vvourld, thus to stay thy feelyngs?

Good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe vvourld, thus to stay thy feelyngs!

When thou wakest near to him, in þe blackness of þe nyghte,

vvith thine hede in thine handes and with thine hande in his, tyght,

Mayest thou þynk then of me, thine maid of long ago,

and makest haste to brayce for, “I tolde thee”, o!

Knouw’st I hate to speak it, I tolde thee, o—

Tho’ I am loathe to say’t, I tolde thee, o!

Thou may’st court a hoste of men-at-arms,

Shoot a quarrell shot, pray, to stay thy feelyngs;

Thou mayest say ‘tis iust þe way thou art,

Makest thine excuse, another foolish rysoun—

good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe vvourld, thus to stoppe thy feelyngs?

Good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe vvourld, thus to stoppe thy feelyngs!

Thou may’st court a hoste of men-at-arms,

Shoot a quarrell shot, pray, to stoppe thy feelyngs;

Thou mayest say ‘tis iust þe way thou art,

Makest thine excuse, another foolish rysoun—

Good luck, maid! O, good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe world, thus to stay thy feelyngs?

Good luck, maid! O good luck, maid!

Stoppest thou þe world, thus to stay thy feelyngs! 🍀🏹��🔥

[magicalmanhattanproject]

Okay, so with Quackity Studios tweeting about adding new people and the need for tolerance and patience with people who don't speak English, let's just take a second and have a chat about what that's gonna look like.

First: you will hear things or read things on the translator that hurt or offend you.

This is inevitable. Do not immediately post about it. What you need tolerance for is hearing things that hurt or offend you and what you need patience for is figuring out of malicious intent was present or if this is a hill worth dying on right now.

As an example, we're pretty sure at this point that Korean is gonna be the next language added. The second person pronoun in Korean sounds a lot like the n-word in English. The n-word in English, if you're not aware, is like the single most offensive slur we have. It's not something that you want to hear unexpectedly. But also, if we get Koreans, they're gonna be using the word for "you" and English speakers are gonna have to be able to tolerate that.

On the other side of things, Korean has a complex system of honorifics and addressing someone without an honorific would be considered very forward and intimate at least if not very rude. None of the QSMP languages have honorifics though and only French really retains formality* so no one else is going to address them with honorifics unless they specifically explain it to people and walk them through it. That will probably be weird and uncomfortable for them and they're going to have to be able to tolerate that.

*Spanish and Portuguese do technically have formal vs informal but it's disappearing quickly in both of them.

These natural cultural clashes and pain points are going to be harder to overcome since we also know that at least some of these creators won't speak English at all so they can't just switch to English to helpfully explain things to us easily in a way we understand. We're going to have to deal.

So here's the thing: just because there can be cultural miscommunications and mistranslations, that doesn't mean that people can't also be assholes. How do you distinguish between the two?

Step One: Assume good faith. Assume that everyone in a given encounter is trying to communicate respectfully and compassionately and that a failure to do so can be overcome

Step Two: Don't get involved. Especially not in Twitch Chat. Two or more people trying to communicate through a language barrier does not get easier when they're also trying to wrangle hostile viewers.

Step Three: Are you sure you heard what you thought you heard or saw what you thought you saw? Did the translator fuck up? Is it a word that just coincidentally happens to sound like another word? If this is the case, the streamers can ask for clarification or use another tool and get it cleared up. Keep watching and see if they do.

Step Four: If they did say what you thought they said, are the streamers handling it? We had a thing a while back where Bad called some friends, including Bagi and Etoiles, uncultured because they didn't get a reference he was making and Etoiles was like "bro I'm French" and Bad apologized. That should have been the end of it, but I had to see people arguing about it for weeks. The problem was solved in 10 seconds.

Step Five: If the person is doubling down, are you sure this is something you can fix by yelling about it on Twitter or Tumblr? Would it be better to let people who actually know them talk to them behind the scenes? Pierre made a few missteps in the beginning of the server, Quackity said they had a chat, Pierre hasn't misstepped since. It's just easier to sort things out in private, one on one conversation than yelling at someone in public.

In short: it's fine to take note of behavior in case patterns start to emerge in it, but yelling on social media about how so and so is the worst person possible is not constructive.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

*strolls into tumblr and falls on my face pretending I haven't been missing for like a month I was out getting the milk hello maggots*

Doctor Who But I've Never Watched It 2.0

For those of you feeling deja vu YES I HAVE MADE POSTS ON DOCTOR WHO BEFORE OKAY but back then I was a young uneducated lad, just a fresh blossom unfucked by tumblr. Now I am surrounded by you lot and by god do y'all love Doctor Who. And I am Educated. My DW virginity is deflowered. All that.

SO HERE WE GO, EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SHOW I'VE NEVER WATCHED:

The show started in 1963, and then was rebooted in 2005 and the showrunner was... Robert de Neiro? Idk all I know is he gives Pedro Pascal vibes. Like his name. His name is Robert.

There have been 15 Doctors so far. One is a lesbian and it is not Jodie Whittaker, it is actually the 12th doctor.

There's someone called the Master. I don't know what that means, or if it's some kind of BDSM thing, but he has intense sexual tension with the Doctor.

He's also emo and has bleached hair and is kinda babygirl. And is called Missy.

The Doctors all have intense trauma and the 15th Doctor kind of girlbossed it by leaving David Tennant intact when they binary-fissioned.

Donna is a person played by Catherine... Tate? Not Hepburn. And she knows less about Doctor Who than I do. And Donna is in a QPR with the David Doctors (there are two of them).

David Doctor loves Donna very much. And then he kills her. But doesn't kill her. And then they have dinner together with her husband and kid.

The original show had shitty effects. The new show does too, and everyone is happy about this.

Rose is someone the David Doctor is in love with and then she ends up with a human AU of him and he leaves and the fans are very divided and passionate about this.

The human AU is called Tentoo because y'all hate using W's. What the fuck is Tentoo. What is Nuwho. Why isn't it New and Two. Help me.

THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED THE TARDIS, IT IS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE, I HAVE HAD WEIRD DREAMS WHERE IT WAS A FUCKING AUTO-RICKSHAW WITH RIBBONS FOR SEATBELTS, AND IT IS BLUE AND NOT YELLOW BUT IT WAS YELLOW IN MY DREAM. Because of a Drarry fanfic that I misread.

The 15th doctor dances homoerotically with someone during the French Revolution.

The 9th doctor kinda vibes with like his head jiggling idk I've only seen one gif of him.

The 13th doctor keeps forgetting she's in a woman's body.

It is all very gay.

David Tennant's arms are too long.

The sexiest person is a head.

The Meep's pronouns are Meep. Meep is not friend. IF NOT FRIEND THEN WHY FRIEND SHAPED??????

A buttcheek skin talks or something yeah this is all I got.

have at it y'all @robinprinceofchaos @multidimensional-trashcan @wispedvellichor @queermarzipan thanks for the second hand brainrot

*sneaks away under the cover of night* i was never here