#every scifi anything ever should have a character w that shit going on i think

[c0rpsedemon]

say what you will abt genshin but progenitor kaveh will never not have one of the coolest scifi designs ever

[handern]

Devy this is a weird question but you're my only mutual I know who speaks French. Do you have any recommendations for french language children's books? Especially geared at like 6-10 year old readers? I'm trying to practice my language skills, but my french isn't quite good enough yet to read the book reviews. There's "adult readers", but they have a startling lack of anything at all fun in them. I want dragons and spaceships and shit, not sad people buying groceries

Oh I'm going to pull out my list of french writers books I read when I was 7/10 but I'm not sure if it's really what you're searching for?

Even when they're aimed at kids french books by french authors can have a lot of very pedantic words no one uses on a daily basis

Also keep in mind that most popular books written in english out there have probably been translated into french at some point !

Erik L'Homme :

- Le Maître des Brisants (just read book 1 and 2, the 3rd one was a mistake sorry mister Erik sir) : Steampunkish scifi, I don't remember the whole plot but it was pretty epic and I think it was about a boy coming on a spaceship for an internship? Now I need to re read it

- Le Livre des Etoiles : a young boy training to become a mage in a world that was part of ours and is still linked to ours but through a very small gate. It has celtic themes and epic fights but in a more modern way than most fantasy books

- Phaenomen : four kids in a "hospital for children with special needs" realize they have some powers while they go searching for their favorite doctor who vanished one day without a word. Kind of a modern take on changeling kids, smh it gave me a coping mechanism for ADHD and sensory overload that I still use haha

Pierre Bottero : all his series are linked somehow so here's the publication order, which is not the chronological order

- Ewilan series : a girl finds out she has the power to cross from our world to another one, and also that she's the most powerful magic user born in that world. She goes in search of her biological parents trapped somewhere in that world along with a very eclectic band of weird people. It was some of my favorite books ever.

- L'Autre : set in our world, it follows two heirs of some 7 or so families of people who can use magic, they have to learn to control their powers and I also forgot the main plot but hey the girl can turn into a panther and at some point she murders someone which was very cool of her

- Elana : following my childhood hero, Elana from the Ewilan series. It starts with her as a toddler being raised in the jungle after her parents' death (the best book) then it follows her growing up and being trained as a Marchombre (less interesting but still good) which is a thing that would take too long to explain like, they could be assassins but they're not and they could be thieves but they are not but also they're both assassins and thieves for most of them except they're not, they follow a goal way more important than just assassinations and thievery, of spiritual and physical perfection. I started practicing climbing bc of these books.

Erik L'Homme and Pierre Bottero :

- A comme Association : monsters hunting monsters (4 first books are by both of them, the rest is Erik L'Homme alone). It's pretty fun but I didn't get the end at all. But it's pretty fun yes and makes me very emotionnal bc Pierre Bottero was my favorite author and he died right after the 4th book's completion. The characters are really cool and very fun, and of course there's some monsters befriending

Serge Brussolo : each of his series has like 10000 books, I have no idea how this man writes so much but I'm pretty sure his writing rate should be illegal somehow

- the Peggy Sue series : my grandpa gave me the second book instead of the first by accident and thank goodness he did because the first book absolutely TERRIFIED ME, the rest is really kids books but the first one is horror. It tells the story of a girl who can see ghosts and they make her life miserable for it like, literally try to murder her and her family. She ends up travelling through weird places/worlds, it's pretty cool but jesus christ the first book. Warning for graphic murders, mind control and cannibalism in the first book. Some kids get almost boiled alive to be eaten in the second book but you know what? That's tame compared to the impression the first book left on me! There are sheep who eat people in the 5th book also if I recall correctly

- the Sigrid series : A girl born and raised in a weird submarine realizes that something is wrong and weird, ends up travelling through very eerie worlds where she has to learn the rules very fast to survive, it's also kind of horror-like, but less horrifying than the first Peggy Sue book. There are some spaceships, submarines, ghost boats and a lot more

Fabrice Colin : this man is a genius but also sometimes a dirty little copycat man I love him so much. He wrote a lot and not all of his books are equal in quality but when it's good it's really excellent

- Les Enfants de la Lune : set during WWII, a child who lives with his grandmother finds a letter adressed to his grandfather who died 10 years ago, he goes to the meeting to announce it to the people who wrote the letter and ends up meeting the last elves trying to leave our world before the last portal closes. It's very bittersweet and has absolutely amazing characters including a crocodile who probably ate a nazi at some point, evil pterodactyles and a mechanical kraken in the Seine. I spent 10 years hunting for a copy of this book, I would borrow it ten times a year at the local library

Eric Sanvoisin : I was absolutely obsessed w the atmosphere of his books. Horror but not scary? Kind of intriguing and creepy but in a very cosy and familiar way?

- Les buveurs d'encre : vampires but they drink books ink

- Les chasseurs d'Ombres (type in the author's name or you'll just get the Moral Instruments in the results) honestly it's been so long I don't remember much except that I harassed my parents until they bought me the book after I read it at the library. I think it has vampire-y vibes too with investigations

I also read every single book of the "Autre Mondes" collection by the Mango editor, which has really cool scifi books but there are so many it would make this list way too long so I'll just recommend "Les Abimes d'Outremer" which is about space whales being spaceships, but this collection is a goldmine if you want well wrapped together short-ish novels

[possibilistfanfiction]

aight i kno u busy n shit (also props to you, get them jobs, live that life) but have you seen g*ypsy? i fucking hate they titled it that, like they could've picked ANYTHING but a slur, fucking idiots, but jesus christ the chemistry between the 2 actresses is BEYOND space and time and the slow burn is the best kinda pain and the lead is a nice antihero after a sea of man pain antiheros. just wonderin if you plan to watch??? hate the title but ugh, it's so good i;m so ashamed. have a nice day

ok so. i have seen part of it & when i talk to ppl abt it i honestly think it feels like. rly good terrible tv lol. i felt like the pacing was terrible bc its so slow & everyone is awful to ea other & like i get 100% that women should be able to fill any space possible but idk it just like. the episodes ive seen (im halfway through) havent been at all enjoyable to me, even tho i love naomi watts. i feel like theyre trying to do w psychology what house of cards s1 did w politics in a creative sense & i think a) thats hard af to live up to; b) claire underwood is arguably one of the best antiheroes ever; c) psychology isnt as compelling or fucked up as american politics (thank god). so yah i mean. i just couldnt rly get into it? 

the big thing (other than the fact that it doesnt hit its mark w pacing) is that like. im v v wary of the sort of ‘revenge sexuality’ & these related obsessions that drive jean. i get that there are antiheroes but making queerness a specific antiheroic trait is like. i just rly rly dislike it, whether they meant for it to come across that way or not. personally i think queer ppl are already seen this way too often, esp bi ppl, so to kind of be like ‘well its ok if we show it like this bc its exploring psychopathy for Entertainment’ is just like. blegh i rly rly disliked that aspect

ALSO i think that so much good, female-led tv has dropped recently (handmaids tale, the bold type, wynonna earp; degrassi: next class, even) that its a rly bad time to put out a show that doesnt hit every mark, bc theres rly no room for beautifully shot, less-than-compelling characters, bc there are beautifully shot, incredibly compelling characters (w better pacing & storylines) out there. for me, especially this summer, its not enough to just have queer women in tv, but u have to make them like. heroes. in whatever way that means—waverly is brave as hell in this funny campy scifi world; ofglen/elizabeth in handmaids tale is arguably the person that rly starts ofred/june’s push toward active resistance + moira is just fucking incredible; kat from the bold type is literally who i want to be when i grow up; even on degrassi they go into islam & sexuality w rasha & found family w zoe & they have a nonbinary character etc. & its that not queer women shouldnt be antiheroes, bc queer women should get to be everything. its just that i felt like jean’s queerness is used as a shitty psychopathic plot device, & idk. theres just much better female-driven tv w queer leads out there rn that portrays sexuality in a much better &, for the time being, more important light, w actors that have amazing chemisty 

but if u like it like do it up thats cool too do it up