okay well it only took me [looks at clock] oh my god three hours to read my nine pages of french today but in my defense. how can i be expected to read sentences when there are Words. and they're all so fun to say and to think about. not my fault. anyway i was reading about nineteenth-century wedding traditions in berry (region of france) and someone please tell me that "coup de pistolet" has some meaning other than "gunshot" because i was very stressed out. i mean get a load of this:
J’étais assis sous le vaste manteau d’une antique cheminée de cuisine, lorsque des coups de pistolet, des hurlements de chiens et les sons aigus de la cornemuse m’annoncèrent l’approche des fiancés. (La Mare au Diable, Appendice)
this actually didn't alarm me that much. they're outside, it's like a twenty-one gun salute but with fewer guns presumably. i assumed it would be, you know, adults shooting these guns. little did i know what was in store.
Des coups de pistolet, tirés par les jeunes gens et les enfants, annoncèrent le commencement de la noce. On se réunit peu à peu, et l’on dansa sur la pelouse devant la maison pour se mettre en train.
okay so now we have children shooting the guns. WHILE people are dancing nearby?? is that wise though.
Les assiégeants, de leur côté, faisaient rage ; ils déchargeaient leurs pistolets dans les portes, faisaient gronder les chiens, frappaient de grands coups sur les murs, secouaient les volets, poussaient des cris effroyables ; enfin c’était un vacarme à ne pas s’entendre, une poussière et une fumée à ne se point voir.
this is about a tradition wherein the groom's party goes to the bride's house and they stage basically a siege where the groom and his buddies are trying to get in but the bride et al. have barricaded all the openings. i was like oh cute until i got to the part where they're LITERALLY SHOOTING AT THE HOUSE? WITH PEOPLE INSIDE??? oh also i just noticed this says "déchargeaient leurs pistolets" so yeah not looking good for some magical figurative meaning of "coups de pistolet" (it was a long shot anyway) (no pun intended)
L’énorme broche de fer fut tordue comme une vis sous les vigoureux poignets qui se la disputaient. Un coup de pistolet mit le feu à une petite provision de chanvre en poupées, placée sur une claie, au plafond.
now they're shooting inside the house which has caused some bundles of hemp hanging from the ceiling to catch fire. btw.
Puis la joyeuse cavalcade se mit en route, escortée par les enfants à pied, qui couraient en tirant des coups de pistolet et faisaient bondir les chevaux.
again with the children shooting guns! and this time they're spooking the fucking horses. HOW DID ALL OF THESE PEOPLE SURVIVE.
Ces jeux sont dangereux, et les accidents ont été assez graves dans les derniers temps pour que nos paysans aient résolu de laisser tomber en désuétude la cérémonie des livrées.
"these games are dangerous, and the accidents have been so serious lately that the peasants have decided to let [the tradition of laying siege to the bride's house] fall by the wayside." oh my god YOU DON'T SAY. SHOCKER. sorry i am being so judgy but i'm not an anthropologist which means i am allowed to side-eye people from 200 years ago for terrible gun safety practices.
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I skewed too far from the original request, (so you'll be getting another one with Es and this prompt soon) but for now have this 😂 It's based on that one sprinkler minigram, and uses @iris-drawing-stuff 's raincoat ideas for the other prisoners :3
When Es was told their duties would include watching over ten prisoners, they had expected escape attempts, lies and trickery, fights, or breakdowns. The reality was much worse. They had to keep ten morons out of mundane trouble. And the job was nonstop.
Today’s problem was a bit more intense than the usual stubbed toes and squabbles. Es had been surprised by the culprit behind the day’s stupidity -- after all, Shidou was usually the one stopping the others from causing mischief.
Though he would never admit to anything, Es was able to put the pieces together themself: Amane makes an offhand comment about missing the seasons. Someone with good handwriting anonymously requests a child’s raincoat and galoshes. (Unrelated, there was an issue with the request, and a dozen animal-themed raincoats had been delivered to the prison.) Then, burn marks appear around the sprinklers in Shidou’s cell, just the size of his little lighter. It wasn’t hard to see that he was the one that set off the major malfunction which was currently soaking every inch of the prison in sheets of freezing water.
At least they had extra raincoats.
Es made their way to the panopticon, toolkit in hand. They had swapped their cape out for one of the raincoats. They’d turned it inside out in an attempt to hide the animal features. It made them feel more mature, which was necessary seeing as they had no experience with fixing sprinklers. As it turned out, neither did the prisoners.
Two chairs had been precariously stacked within Shidou’s cell. Kotoko, wrapped in a wolf raincoat, stood on her toes at the top. She twisted the valve this way and that. Standing directly underneath, she avoided the brunt of the downpour. Kazui and Shidou stood at the base, one squeezed into a fox coat, the other, a shark. They both crossed their arms, offering Kotoko all of their observations and tips and suggestions. She ignored everything. It didn’t deter them from ‘helping.’
“Comin’ in hot!”
A black cat-clad Yuno hurried around the corner with a shout. Es stepped out of her way. She carried an armful of towels to stop up some of the deepening puddles. Mikoto flew by in the opposite direction to do the same. His dog ears flopped as he ran. Amane stood near the guard’s tower, entirely enveloped in her frog raincoat. She stood in perfect, calm silence, as if she were above all this nonsense. Es couldn’t agree more. Next to her, Muu openly sobbed within her calico cat coat.
No one seemed to notice as Es cleared their throat. “That’s enough,” they tried, “I can handle it from here.”
Kotoko didn’t even glance their way. “Let me just try one more thing. I’ve almost got it.”
“I’m telling you, it just needs a little twist,” Kazui urged her.
Es was bumped aside as Fuuta dragged another set of chairs into the cell. His raised voice was undermined by the mouse raincoat pulled over his head. “I told you, you’re doing it all wrong! Lemme at it.”
“I’m serious. As warden, I --”
Their protests were drowned out by Mahiru’s voice from behind. They turned to find two bunny raincoats bouncing along.
“This way, Haruka ~!” With much enthusiasm and grand hand gestures, Mahiru directed him to set down some industrial sized buckets at regular intervals. “Perfect…” They quickly began to fill.
Shidou pointed. “Right there, can you move that piece?”
“I already told you,” Kotoko grit her teeth. “I don’t need to touch that.” She wobbled atop the chair.
Fuuta had climbed onto his own stack. “You guys aren’t fucking listening.” He reached out, but Kotoko swatted his hands away. “Hey!” It was his turn to teeter.
“Yuno, I need more towels, stat!” At Mikoto’s urgent call, Yuno came sprinting past.
Es opened their mouth to stop her, but it was too late. Her foot slid through a puddle. With a cry, she was thrown flat on her face.
Mahiru gasped. Trying to run to her aid, one of her uniform straps hooked on a bucket near Muu and Amane’s feet. She yanked it forward.
The splash rose up and soaked their uncovered legs. Muu sobbed harder.
Haruka, of course, wanted to help. He immediately ran into another bucket, sending him stumbling and splashing to the ground.
“Oi, Yuno! I said I needed another towel!”
Kazui made another comment on the sprinkler. Fuuta leaned in real close to get a better look. With a huff, Kotoko tugged on the valve. It jammed around so that the wide spray converged into a single, high-pressure stream.
The jet aimed directly at Fuuta’s face.
His sputtering cursing followed him the long way to the ground. Shidou and Kazui leapt to catch him as he fell. Both miraculously forgot that their shoes rested in several inches of water, because their arms flailed wildly for each other and the fallen chairs as they slipped.
Es’ frown twitched.
“Idiots. They’re all idiots.”
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Feeling nostalgia rn
Today honestly reminds me of the time in *let me check the date* 2022?!?!?! HOW WAS THAT SO LONG AGO??😭😭
Well, anyway- Today reminds me of the time when I was supposed to be sleeping, during a night of the return to my home from visiting family (it is a very long road, and I'm coming back after this night too-), back then I found @genshinluvr 'Not What You'd Expect' and stayed up to 3/4 am reading the chapters!
Ever since then I was checking up on them everyday, and then started checking them every Sunday, not skipping a week FOR MONTHS (I think I started a bit before 'By The Seashore' until around 'Happily Ever After?'), and reading everything with such a fascination. Later on I also started reading her HSR x Reader, and got super into it too!
So I wanted to share with everyone thede amazing pieces of art, a literal masterpieces that I want to thank greatly for lots of memories and good moments! Seriously, her writing is so professional and good! I'll never forget this work, it's truly one of a kind, thank you for writing it!
PLEASE go check it out!
Time to repeat history with reading and re-reading new things from Aaliah on the night before my return to home! (And being tired the day after-) Love you!
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