#c'est tout

[nevacorrea]

neva_correa : thursday night

[je-suis-ronflex]

J'ai une histoire courte mais drôle à vous raconter : je suis officiellement en vacances et je suis tombé malade

[perduedansmatete]

demain je vois mon super ami mais il m'a aussi dit "demain je profite de toi." du coup je sais pas mais je crois qu'on est pas encore tout à fait dans les clous de l'amitié mais bon, prenons ce que la vie nous donne, tout ceci n'est qu'une expérience sociale sur les limites des convictions profondes entre deux personnes qui font beaucoup trop bien corps ensemble pour pouvoir se séparer en deux

[danielwizs]

[fauxcreche]

I’m a melancholic, and knowing it has allowed me to live more authentically.

[girafeduvexin]

Merci au compte fan_de_jjg sur tiktok d'exister, qui d'autre pourrait poster des sketchs des Enfoirés de 2004.

[captain-jale]

French leftist Mood

[asofterepilogue]

macron qui d'un côté dissout l'assemblée avec une victoire du RN pratiquement garantie, et qui de l'autre nous assure depuis des années qu'il faut absolument voter pour lui pour faire barrage au RN 😂 guillotine poison écartèlement astéroïde death note etc.

[gay-impressionist]

Je suis non-violente mais j'ai envie de casser tous les abris-bus de Paris avec des conneries pareilles sérieux

(c'est une députée modem)

[a-random-fandom-friend]

Jamy c'est un seigneur du temps, Fred et Sabine ses compagnons, et Marcel c'est le nom de son TARDIS deguisé en camion qui ne communique que par des bruits de klaxons

[vanyaliful]

this is very niche out there but this is for you Starmania (1979) lovers

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

TR English translation wishes it could be as fun as the French one

[vhscorp]

Aimons-nous, c’est tout, tout le reste, on s’en fout…

V. H. SCORP

[tealviscaria]

Ça y est ! 

L'animatic Bloqués :)

L'audio original:

[hedgehog-moss]

Do you have any advice on picking books for readers with limited time? I love to read, but in the past couple years I've been dissatisfied with almost everything I've read and I've purposely been trying to pick a variety: obscure, best-sellers, internet-recs, vintage, recents and I can't seem to pick well. I know the key to finding more good things is to read more quantity, but I've only got so much free time and can only read so fast.

Oh I feel you! There was a whole period of my life when I was desperately trying to find some alchemical formula to ensure that most of the books I read are good-to-great rather than okay-to-good. I had this scientific process where I tried to log a lot of details about the books I read and then look at the numbers year after year to find a common denominator. Is it a matter of reading more, or is it reading more older books vs. recent ones, male vs. female authors, books from my to-read list vs. impulsive reads, books recommended by friends vs. books I find myself? etc. etc. I made line graphs.

In the end the only factor that seemed to correlate with how many good books I read in a year was the number of unfinished reads, so the one piece of advice I have is to not hesitate to give up on a book you're not enjoying. I read multiple books at a time so it's easy to see if there's one that I keep neglecting in favour of the others; and I get most of my books for free or very cheap (from my local library, or OpenLibrary or Zlibrary, or secondhand bookshops where they're like 50cts apiece, or swapping books with friends), the ones I buy new are mostly books I've already read & enjoyed, so I don't have qualms about giving up 20 pages in if I'm not feeling it.

Other than that, I've kind of made my peace with the fact that finding a good book is a mysterious serendipitous process and most of the books I read will be just okay, plus a few bad ones and some great ones.

That said if most books you read end up being unsatisfying rather than at least okay, maybe you're not sure what you're looking for? It helps to identify what you want from a book at a particular time (fun escapism, learning more about a given topic, immersion in a specific atmosphere and if so, which one...) I tend to start a new read with a precise idea of what it would take for this book to be satisfying, e.g. "rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" or "a story set in the 17/1800s with flowery prose, interesting female characters, focused on intricate social shenanigans rather than romance or adventure" etc, so it allows me to narrow things down and eliminate potential reads where too many criteria are missing.

And I like to read a few 1-star goodreads reviews—some prefer to focus on 3-star reviews which are more balanced; personally I figure, if the people who hated this book the most cite reasons for disliking it that aren’t dealbreakers for me, that’s a good sign. And if the worst reviews cite stuff I'm actually looking for right now ("too long, too many digressions, long-winded prose, too quiet / not enough action", etc) then it’s a book that comes recommended both by 5-star and 1-star reviewers :)

[lepalaisdeslarmes]

K&M - Promoteur véreux.

C'était une belle journée d'automne qui s'annonçait, enfin, ça c'était ce que Marius croyait. Alors qu'il se rendait à l'épicerie pour quelques courses, un de ses voisins l'interpela. Et, Marius ne s'attendait absolument pas à ce que lui révéla l'homme.

"Alors comme ça, Kaliska a accepté de vendre son domaine ?" A ces mots le blond resta interdit. Il n'était pas au courant et était persuadé que tu lui aurais fait part de cette... décision. Cela lui semblait trop gros pour être vrai et pourtant... le voisin était catégorique c'était pratiquement acté selon les rumeurs et les dires qui traînaient en ville !

Une fois ses courses terminés, Marius se dépêcha de venir au ranch, plus soucieux que jamais. Il y avait surement une excellente explication à tout ça... Il devait.