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[sewerdraws]

what do you mean french music ? 👀(and experimental 👀)

Are you perhaps interested in discovering french music ?

Okay i'm a HUGE music nerd, not so much in terms of music theory or playing instruments, but more history of music, thematics, leitmotifs, relationships between musicians etc...

i also HAPPEN to be super into translating so i already have like... 4 or 5 french songs translated into english that i could be putting somewhere on a google doc for people to read as they listen to a song ? Artists i've translated so far include Orelsan, Feu!Chatterton and Klo Pelgag, but i'd like to translate a lot of Stromae and all the ones i'm about to list below as well...

Okay i'm gonna put a read more here because i'm gonna dump a shitton of thoughts and suggestions

Basically what fascinates me about french music and that i'd like to share is the ability and reocurring will to play with the language, puns, tricks, it's incredibly complex and awesome, but would be very hard to get for a non-native even with good french comprehension. Hence the translations, i try to carry over the wordplays and themes !

One of my fav french musicians called simply "Jacques" has english captions on a lot of his songs already and is an incredibly touching and heartfelt writer, it's a great introduction to what i mean. I'd recommend his single "Rien" but be warned the captions somehow have super fucked up timing :(((

More incredible songwriters that fit into this category are Thomas Fersen (whimsical short stories), Brassens (basically old french rural Tom Lehrer), Odezenne (old school french rap)

I'm very obsessed with Orelsan because he's a now nearly 40 yo that has been rapping since he was 16 and while he's always criticized societal topics, you can see how much nuance and wisdom he's gained over time, and his latest hits are PUNCHES IN THE GUTS in terms of storytelling and phrasing.

The band "La Femme" made a couple songs to make fun of how french they are, one is "Ciao Paris" and the other is "Foreigner" and if you're a native english speaker you'll get a kick out of the accent.

ALSO i'm nowhere near patriotic but if there's one thing i'm proud of France for is how much we fuck with electronic and experimental and how many french artists paved the way for current music. Check out "the little ships" by Jean-Jacques Perrey. You probably heard it in a meme or other before ! Well that's one of the historical first uses of sampling, using the Moog Synthetizer !!

Nowadays you still have french (or francophone by the way, Stromae and Klo Pelgag are belgian) artists breaking grounds in electronic music. Daft Punk of course, but there's also Justice, C2C, Woodkid, Apashe, General Elektriks, Caravan Palace and many more !!! You might have even known some of these artists without knowing they're francophone ! Ummm also the woman that literally created tektonik is french, she's called Yelle and she's still making awesome stuff !

AND the final note is that i love how "goofy" is so ingrained in our musical culture. Some of the most recognized artists are parody artists, pretty similar to how Al Yankovic was perceived. Phillippe Katerine makes absurdist songs with sometimes thinly veiled political messages (good ones, usually) and literally every french person knows his name !

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[chronicpaingirlie]

as much as i appreciate the intent of the “being disabled doesn’t make you a burden” type posts, i don’t really agree. a lot of times being disabled DOES make you a burden

& i think that maybe we should try to shift focus to the fact that even if you’re a huge burden on society and can contribute absolutely nothing, you’re still a human being who deserves to exist.

like. there’s nothing morally wrong with being a burden on other people. you aren’t a bad person for needing to rely on others. you’re allowed to be a burden & disabled people who are burdens on others, i love you

[dayvan]

some dogwashing doodling

[zillychu]

warmup doodle of @sorensouls ghost king Danny :)

[turtletoria]

the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid

[sharkuro]

the last 2 are so funny to me.. like.. girl what happened

[potato-lord-but-not]

….can u show us the arkayne drawings pls 👉👈

yknow what yeah I can I’ve lost all respect for myself

[wilsonmybeloved]

ive literally never interacted with the rats smp ever besides like once

but ren and martyn exist. and a lot of my other favorite creators. so we're going headfirst into rat yaoi. raoi, if you will. ratataoi?? ratatouille yaoi? ...ill work on it

[friedri-ce]

thought it'd be really cool if gabriel turned into a fallen angel...

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

wake up wintersberg nation

[foolsocracy]

u should draw garth and jason interacting. btw. pretty please.

shout out to when they were on a team together for about 2 issues

[xxplastic-cubexx]

apocalypse doodlings aka We Couldve Had Grey Hair Erik And Charles Is There Too I Guess

[cowardlykrow]

"Suck it, weeb-ass BEEETCH!"

Richie loses to Ruth. (She probably cheated)

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

girls i have loved

[giraffeautism]

The most common argument you'll hear against self diagnosis is that people will fake being [X] for attention. But every disabled person, physical or otherwise, knows this could only work in online spaces - the world was not made for us, and brandishing your disability as a badge of honor that gives you ~special privileges~ is such a funny idea.

Like, honey - that doesn't happen. No one gets anything from being disabled. Maybe extra accommodations if you're lucky - but nothing else. And the internet isn't as important as you seem to think - eventually it just feels hollow.

Ask disabled people how often they had to fight to get diagnosed so their medical needs could be met and their complaints would be heard. Doctors are just hardwired to delay this as much as possible.

I knew I was autistic since late 2018 - I got an official diagnosis 4 months ago. Knowing yourself and how you can make your own life easier is a lifesaver.

And this isn't even going into how many *cons* there are to a professional diagnosis, like being met with disdain at best and denied services at worst.

I don't care if a 16 year old who self diagnosed after taking 1 online quiz about autism is wrong. And honestly I think it's weird people treat this 'issue' with so much hatred.