#Impossible Is Not French

[r-aindr0p]

was passing by on your blog and saw the newest rollo "comic"

I saw this and for some reason, I thought it was a mini rollo squished in some bread- 😭

I would never stuff a mini rollo in a pastry

[hellish-cruelty]

Spiral Staircase in Films

A Very Long Engagement (2004), The French Dispatch (2021), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999) (×2), Split (2016), Colette (2018), Home Alone (1990), Besieged (1998)

[starleska]

i knew the second i laid eyes on him that i'd develop a crush on the silly French bug man 😳🐜✨

[the-bibrarian]

We french really are that “become ungovernable” meme, huh?

After years of strikes and riots we’ve finally managed to democratically gridlock the country (with considerable help from macron but still)

[orgyofthedamned]

the more i parse clips from tender dracula the more i find myself baffled and fascinated by whatever the movie is trying to say to me. just what was the director cooking

[cryingweasel]

I’ve seen a couple of posts about people being hesitant and not really wanting new players joining the qsmp soon + more languages being added, and I understand, but the posts mostly seem to be made by English speaking people and I don’t think they understand how big of a deal this is for some people. The internet is really focused on anglophone creators to the point that if you’re bicultural and living in the US, you will never get recommended a channel that doesn’t speak English, despite English speaking channels getting recommended everywhere else. The trending tab is only filled with English speaking creators. You have never had a problem finding content that’s in your language. That’s not something you have to do. The fact that there might be French creators added to the qsmp is so exciting for me because I will finally have a starting point to discover French creators, I will finally be able to watch content that is in my language. The qsmp is bringing non English speaking creators into the orbit of English viewers and that is so cool. People have started watching the Spanish streamer despite not understanding most of what is being said, they’ve started learning Spanish because they want to be able to interact with the Spanish community. If people are trying to learn French/Portuguese/German they’re going to have access to creators who speak that language!!! I have faith in Quackity that he won’t make the introduction of new players overwhelming, this is going to be so sick.

[housefreak]

[id: a colorful cross stitch sampler that reads "Bad Vibes Only" across the center. It's densely packed with different motifs, some include: a death's-head moth, ghost, mushrooms, potions, a skull made of smaller motifs, a starry sky, and a large gnarled tree /end id]

finished bad vibes sampler :) was such a fun stitch except for me misplacing the coffin 5 times T-T

[thelesbiancitizen]

"Beautiful muscular women in the grass, happy and ferocious, saw their body hair glisten with a thousand scintillae when the memory came to them that surfaces, deep down, gave birth to the consciousness of space (with them)."

Nicole Brossard "The Aerial Letter" trans. Marlene Wildeman

[mahiloo]

Préavis de grève du 4 novembre jusqu'au 30/31 mars dans l'enseignement

C'est en rapport avec les suppressions de poste à venir dans l'enseignement (En mode 4000 postes en moins ça va pas foutre le bordel)

Je suggère qu'on rejoigne l'initiative pour gueuler contre tout ce qui va pas dans ce pays.

Et aussi contre l'escroquerie "démocratique" qu'on nous a fait bouffer.

Et la grosse anomalie bipède qui casse les couilles à tout le monde depuis tant d'années, là.

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

[tourmalinedreams]

I STAND WITH MY CANCELLED WIFE

[the-physicality]

https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/watch-montreals-full-pwhl-free-agent-signing-press-conference

i hope this is as new and wonderful to you as it was to me :)

[zenlesszonezero]

Join Zenless Zone Zero with Tsukishiro Yanagi, the deputy leader of Hollow Special Operations Section 6! Beneath her ordinary office lady exterior lies a meticulous, emotionally intelligent big sister to the team.

[jahanmp4]

Hang on hang on where does the info that Pomme hates scratched glass come from ? I've seen it in both the French and English Wiki pages about Pomme that when q!Baghera showed her scratched glass she immediately buried herself in the ground saying it was "cursed"

If those freezers in the timer room were indeed where the eggs were originally preserved, would that mean that maybe Pomme momentarily gained consciousness while still trapped in there and tried to claw her way out ?

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

le monde soudain s’est abrité dans l’ombre parce qu’il ne reconnaissait plus sa lumière ; l'éclatant a pris des motifs de discrétion et le labeur de vivre s’achève aux sons des cris des armes qui frappent l’innocence ; la méprise des hommes ne peut achever la blessure qui s’ouvre sans fin sur l’impossible frontière des croyances

© Pierre Cressant

(lundi 25 mars 2024)

[worthlessclericbuild]

BRITAIN BEING AN AUTHORITARIAN POLICE STATE YET A-FUCKIN-GAIN

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/joint-press-release-by-editions-la-fabrique-paris-and-verso-books-london

So incase you haven’t heard, yesterday French citizen and radical leftist Ernest Moret, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique as well as science fiction author Alain Damasio were arrested in England on their way to the London Book Fair. They were taken aside by police under Schedule 7 of the UK’s terrorism act of 2000 (this act basically allows a pig to stop and question anyone entering or leaving the UK).  The reason given was that Ernest Moret had participated in France’s recent protests. He was not allowed not allowed to speak with a lawyer, was detained and allegedly demanded to give up his phone and passcodes. He has now been officially arrested and tranferred to a police station for the olden goldie of “Obstruction”! Remember, just because the british pigs can’t shoot you, doesn’t mean they aren’t also the absolute worst ever and will do everything to protect the interests of the status quo, including the arrest of a man expected to meet the FRENCH AMBASSADOR in london.

[helyiios]

WAIT NO Benthan + “you really are extraordinary” instead

One thing about Benji Dunn is that he likes to talk. No, not even talk, he likes to speak.

Which, honestly, isn't his fault, not entirely : he's been brought up in a rather distant environment, and none of his achievements got his parents' saying more than a 'good job,' or getting him a handshake. A handshake !

So yes, to make up for this crippling need of approval, Benji Dunn likes to speak, to say anything and everything, and hopefully then someone would like what he has to say. Maybe.

Which leads him to now, walking in the middle of Paris with a bleeding Ethan who had a concussion, resting on his shoulder and his unrelenting need to fill in the silence.

"And then I was like, hum. Well, okay I don't exactly remember what I said, but it was not nice, and the guy looked at me really meanly, and I—"

"Benj," his friend softly interrupts, barely conscious, "someone's walking up to us."

"Huh ? Oh, shit. Avert your eyes."

"Don't think I can even keep them open."

"L'est pété ton pote ?" (Is your friend drunk ?) one of the guys who was walking towards them asks, something like mockery in his tone, "ça fait toujours la teuf, à votre âge ?" (Still partying at your old age ?)

"Don't look at them, don't look at them..."

Ethan's bodyweight is affecting him a little more than he'd like to admit, and he's doing his utmost best not to collapse. The mission had him getting a nasty cut on his left arm.

"HÉ OH, J'TE CAUSE !" (HEY, I'M TALKING TO YOU !)

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Thing is, he knows Ethan can speak French, because he's read his file and he's heard him do it before. And it was really attractive. But right now, Ethan isn't in any shape to do anything else but fight for his survival, so it was up to him to manage.

"Vous savez comment c'est, Pigalle..." (You know how it is, Pigalle...) he blurts out with a gulp, the small trace of an English accent in his voice. Maybe those intensive courses in Oxford did find their usefulness. "On a peut-être trop bu." (Maybe we had too much to drink.)

"L'a l'air en bien mauvais état ton poto," (your buddy looks in bad shape,) another man adds, eyeing him from head to toe. "Si j'te disais de vider tes poches là, tu f'rais quoi ?" (If I told you to empty your pockets, what would you do ?)

Okay, this was getting really fucking ridiculous. They were NOT getting mugged right after a shitty mission. He did not have time for that.

"J'sais pas," (I dunno,) Benji carefully replies. "Non, je pense." (No, I think.)

"Tu penses ? Il se prend pour qui, le rosbif ?!" (You think ? Who does the Brit think he is ?!)

"Allez mon reuf, fais c'qu'on te dit," (c'mon bro, do what we're telling you,) the first man grins, taking a small pocket knife out of his puffy jacket. "Sinon..." (Or else...)

"Benj ? We need to go," Ethan is mumbling against him, and the blood is still pouring and coating his hair. "What..."

"Allez, file ta thune !" (C'mon, give us your money !)

"Non, j'ai pas envie," (no, I don't wanna,) Benji replies with a loud sigh, clearly irritated. "Dégagez." (Get lost.)

"FILS DE—" (SON OF A—)

Suddenly there's a gun in the agent's hand (his own, actually,) and he's brandishing it annoyedly at the three men in front of him.

"Non, sérieux. Dégagez." (Nah, for real. Get lost.)

"Les gars—" (Guys—)

"J'ai passé une soirée de merde," (I just had a shit night,) Benji continues, and Ethan's looking at him with stars in his eyes, "alors sérieux, barrez-vous." (So seriously, get the fuck out.)

There's a few seconds where the men seem to gauge him, but then their apparent leader just turns on his heels, taking off in the darkness, the two others right behind him. He lowers his weapon.

"Okay, we really need to get you to the van," he mumbles as he puts it back in his pants, "you're going to lose all your blood at this pace."

"I didn't know you could speak French," Ethan simply notes, completely dazed. "You really are extraordinary."

"Sure, mister-I-speak-15-languages."

"You sound hot when you speak French," his friend grins, his smile slightly loopy. "Very attractive, you should do it more often..."

"Je prends note," (I'm noting that down) Benji snorts before making him rest against him more comfortably. "Learnt it at uni, with Russian and Italian. I wanted to sound cool."

"Well, I like discovering new things about you."