#but also not Astérix

[filosofieke]

Sweet comments have motivated me to share my writing more… I also want to start sharing my original stories again, but I’m not too sure on the platform yet. Since you all adore Romans, it might be snippets here, for starters…

Behold, my two favourite Romans of all time, dear Marcus and Optio Biancus:

[jihef03]

Astérix & Obélix : Le Combat des Chefs | Teaser officiel VF | Netflix Fr...

Okay I'm hyped

[calimera62]

Astérix (mais surtout César) text posts

Joyeux anniversaire @istadris 🎉

[skopostheorie]

There are a great deal of books and academic papers about Astérix translation for this very reason but TL;DR (or IF;DR In French Didn't Read) no matter how difficult and mind bending you think it is I promise it is even more so. Some highlights from Complete Guide:

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

Me: I'm just gonna summarize the basic plot points from Asterix pov after he got hurt in God save Britania so I can get to what I wanted to write. Like in my whump fanfic based on mansion of the gods.

Also me: Includes every Asterix scene in the second half of the movie as a soft rewrite with his injuries and him not being able to deal with his own emotions.

I finally reached the fight against the romans at the end of the movie. Which means I am not done with my soft rewrite of the movie plot part yet. I have over 5k words now. I'm debating if I should have just rewritten the entire movie from Asterix pov at this point.

I am nowhere near writing the scenes I wanted to write. TT

Anyway. The Oneshot now turned into a two shot. Not for pacing reasons, though it makes sense for pacing at this point as well, but so I actually have reason to return to it in case of a writers block. This just turned way longer than I thought it would.

[dubiusstatus]

I really love that nefarius purpus never entirely gives up on the fact his men might pull themselves together last minute or he might be able to make them/seems to still have some expectations- and as a result gets his comically shocked or angry reaction whenever the men do anything they're not supposed to. and then dubius status, who gave up about fifteen pages ago, is just beside him looking like this

[official-lauchzwiebel]

Le Gâteau Empoisonné of Astérix et Cléopatra fame voted song of the year for the 56th time in a row

[satellite-blossom]

HOOOOOOLY FUCK

[ancelineonline]

Truly rude making me pick between two objectively perfect things. So distressing!

high time we settled this (also, feel free to put your nationality in the tags!)

[hasnomoxxie]

MORE ASTÉRIX ART DUMP

Because I'm SOOO normal ab them okokok hold on

BAM GAYLOIS CONTENT CAUSE I LOBE THEM SO AUGH THEY'RE RHE QPPS EVER AND THEYRE SO CUTE AND AUGHNDNFNFNDSNSNDNDND

Also second fav duo in the village has gotta be these two-- sorry I also ship fulliautogenix. Tbh I don't mind Fulliauto's hair being darker, personally I just plan on flipping between the two depending on how I'm feeling :]c

SO COOL SO COOL AUGHXNCNXNNDXNX this series brings the joy no other has

Also a redraw because I still wanna experiment w how I'm adapting Asterix in my style. Cause his sword is so cool??

Slowly giving them headcanons but I feel like I'm turning the series into some dark fantasy Steven universe type thing (Asterix angst coming soon probably maybe)

ILY ASTÉRIX MY STINKY LIL GUY

Extra things:

[bdslab]

Seeing folks be outraged about different name changes makes me wonder what folks think is the worst overall, also I’m focusing on main characters here.

Also Bonus mention: Tintin (jeune reporter) -> Tintin (French boy). The name isn’t changed, just the title (apparently he lost his job and moved to a new country in that translation).

THIS IS A BD POLL!! It is for comics originally in the French Language (with weird wiggle room for other eurocomics that get published in French first but may be written in another language)!!! Anime, manga, and video game localizations do NOT count for the “other” category.

If you do not read BDs and want to vote, please just use vibes. All these names are ridiculous as it is.

[punctuation-completionist]

here are some fun (ish) facts i learned today while reading snails & monkey tails: a visual guide to punctuation & symbols!

the abbreviation of pound to lb is because the word libra pondo is where the word for pound comes from and lb is short for libra

this is also why this -> £ is the sign for pound if i understand correctly

the letter w is (was?) an orthographic ligature just like the letter œ or æ

not only that but the ampersand is a ligature of the letters e and t (though you can't really see it anymore) because et was latin for and

the word ampersand comes from the phrase, "and per se and" and it in fact... was originally a mondegreen (not as cool as that jimi hendrix one though)

ampersand in french is esperluette which comes from the phrase "es per lou et" in old french, aka "c'est pour le et" which means "this is for the and"

the ampersand used to kinda be a letter? like it used to be in alphabet songs?

the plus sign is also a simplification of et

an asterisk can be used to signify birth date, as well as the dagger being able to signify death date

a single dagger can be called an obelisk and a double dagger can be called a diesis

the obelisk and asterisk are the origins of the names for the characters astérix and obélix? or maybe they just inspired them? wild

the reason we indent at the beginnings of paragraphs is because originally space was left for people to put a pilcrow to indicate the start of the paragraph but then even after we lost the pilcrow the indent still stays

at sign is the worst word for the thing possible. english is slacking. it's very sad

some of these may have been obvious but i thought they were interesting. also, you should really check out this book the whole "visual guide" thing is super cool. it's a good book.

[calimera62]

#also I am fascinate by the character design choice#of Ceaser and Cleopatra's kid having blond hair#considering both of them have black hair

Fun fact! In a previous edition of Astérix en Hispanie (Astérix in Spain) and Le Domaine des dieux (Mansion of the Gods), and also maybe La Zizanie (The Roman Agent), Caesar had blonde hair! I don't know if it was intentional, since Caesar had white hair in the albums prior to these ones; they coloured his hair white again in these albums in the recent edition.

Proof? Here you go:

Best of Asterix Round 2-3

Asterix the Gladiator vs Asterix and Son

[skopostheorie]

Anyone wanna figure out what the fuck is wrong with me

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

Just randomly thought, hey what happened to the Netflix Asterix show they announced an eternity ago? I've never heard about it again.

Well we at least got a release year now. Finally new content about my favorite blonde gaul with anger issues

[calimera62]

Tagged by no one myself to share 9 books I want to read in 2025. I just couldn't resist when I saw this "tag game" on my dash.

There's also the next Astérix book I couldn't put here since the cover wasn't revealed yet.

I'm not sure if I'll read all of them this year since they're the books I want to read now, it can change throughout the year, but I'll read to read some of them!

Tagging: @flo-nelja, @andersssandrew, @mustakrakisch, and whoever wants to do it (I can't remember who love to read the most amongst my mutuals/followers ^^;;)