#french country side

[thephantomofanastasia]

HOME, LOVE, FAMILY

"The deepest desire of Anya's heart was to have a home again, love, to have a family, and they gave each other just that. They brought each other peace and healing until the end of their days."

I wrote a new short Anastasia story on AO3. I hope that you enjoy it.

[imiging]

by une-valse-pour-rien:

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Bah

[punctuation-completionist]

since today is punctuation day, i figured i'd talk with you about my favorite punctuation that is sadly not in unicode

(my apologies if these crop weird)

these six marks were invented by french writer hervé bazin in his essay plumons l'oiseau (or 'let's pluck the bird')

while the essay also had aim to switch the french language to a more phonetic writing system, it also gave us six new punctuation marks!

from left to right and top to bottom these are, the acclamation point, the authority mark, the conviction point, the doubt point, the irony mark, and the love point. so let's go over what these all were supposed to convey! (or at least what i expect they were supposed to)

the acclamation point was meant for praise, goodwill, and enthusiasm (ie "Well done [acclamation point]")

the authority mark was meant to be used in situations where the exclamation was serious and involved a degree of command or urgency (ie "Get in my office right now [authority mark]") i think this— along with the love point and irony mark— shows how a lot of these punctuation marks were a bit like early examples of tone tags, i'll get into it more later

the certitude point was used to show sureness in a fact. (ie "It's absolutely positively true [certitude point]") i think this might be the most useless of the bunch but whatever. i digress.

the doubt point is kind of the opposite of the certitude point, used when you aren't sure of something (ie "It should be done tomorrow [doubt point]") also it should be noted that the example used above is not the only way you'll see the doubt point, some also have it looking like this

the idea of irony marks has been widely suggested, for example the poet/art critic/song writer (i think, this guy's only wiki page is in french and i am guessing a bit on the word 'chansonnier') alcanter de brahm suggested an irony mark that resembled a backwards question mark (not to be confused with the percontation point which indicated a rhetorical question) and belgian inventor (among other things) marcellin jobard suggested a point that looked like an upwards arrow (this △ on top of this |, i can't paste it)

^ de brahm's mark

all that to say, bazin's mark was based off of the greek letter psi (Ψ) which some of you may recognize if you are familiar with the greek language or comics that shall not be named. it's used in situations of irony (ie saying "Wow, that sure was brilliant [irony mark]" if someone did something stupid)

and our last point is the love point, known for being so adorable, and indicating love or affection after a sentence (ie "Thanks a lot bud [love point]")

now we can obviously see that some of these are very similar to tone tags! the love point could be like a /pos, the irony mark is kinda like a /sarc, the authority mark could be like a /srs . i just thought it was interesting i guess. i don't have a point (heh) here exactly except that i guess people might actually need these punctuation marks ? so unicode? give me the love point or give me death

anyways so that's some fun niche history for y'all! hope you enjoyed

[machinatings]

Whyyy did the next generation writers see sir Patrick Stewart and go ‘oh I need to see this bald man go through every trauma’ 😭😭

[imiging]

by Ulco Proost, @joepie49

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Dordogne, France

[frenchie-fallen-angel]

J'ai vraiment l'impression que le point de non retour est atteint. L'extrême droite s'est trop immiscée dans l'esprit des gens... elle est ancrée.

Je suis tellement en colère et démunie.

[livetogether--diealone]

are they gay or just european fe edition

[touchlikethesun]

okay so this is not about anything specific just a response to some back-and-forths i've been been seeing recently but it can be true that some americans are entitled and ignorant when encountering other cultures AND that some europeans have a superiority complex towards americans that make them hair triggered against any comment from americans about their experience in europe. like trust that i really try hard to see both sides, but sometimes, when an american talks about their experience in europe or (god forbid) complains about it, some europeans will respond with such vitriol and condescension that really isn't warranted in the slightest. in the end, we really are so much more alike than we are different. people are the same everywhere, they really really are. everyone complains, everyone shit talks, everyone has their own form of ignorance. it's just that the particular flavour changes from place to place. everyone is so defensive and i don't get why we have such violent reactions when talking about cultural differences. please, can we stop the fighting it's so pointless.

[valy-gc]

Wendigo, bigfoot, Nessie, Mothman, capybara, swamp monsters and other sea serpents... so many badass cryptids around the world!

Meanwhile, our French cryptids...

It have legs shorter on one side to fit the montains... but that also mean it can always go the same way, never turn around or it just fall.

[lanceinwonderland]

The English pug and the French poodle / Le caniche français et le carlin anglais

(Note the word order)

“The cultural distance between English and French Canadians” / « l’éloignement culturel entre canadiens français et anglais »

[imiging]

by une-valse-pour-rien:

Daily original photographs and creations selected by the imiging team!

Crosville la Vieille (Eure)

[mylastundeadbraincell]

There is way too much blue in the EU parliament for my comfort. And Macron dissolved the National Assembly so now the far right is going to have even more power on a national scale.

[lunasilvis]

Do you think you’ll ever find anyone like her again?

I don't know. let's hope so

[hematomes]

a 17yo arab kid was killed by a cop a few days ago in france and people are writing fanfiction on facebook about his friend mourning him. im going to get so fucking violent

[serenagaia]

A dreamy provençal property on the Côte d’Azur.

[frenchie-fallen-angel]

Si vous n'avez pas honte de notre pays ce soir, c'est que vous faites partie du problème.