#jeux de

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PARIS 2024🗼 Bonne cérémonie de clôture des jeux olympiques 🇨🇵

[clove-pinks]

Le chevalier de la triste figure by Paul Gavarni, 1838.

I hate when I come back from a long business trip, only to find an unfamiliar pair of men's boots in the room, and a man's coat suspiciously draped over a woman's dress on a chair!

[a-poet-within]

Watching the Olympics Ceremony with so much pride.

A collection of masterpiece.

A reminder of our history.

A reminder that sports unite us.

[forasecondtherewedwon]

Hey, you see that Swede go whoosh whoosh whoosh BOING twaaaang (set the new world record in pole vault)??

[imaginal-ai]

"Follow Me to the Games"

[harmonysanreads]

Trivia - Jeux de Vagues

I suppose this is the somewhat ‘lore’ of the aforementioned fic. I recommend reading the fic first before diving into this as this contains spoilers :> I normally wouldn't do this but per the vote of @verridaiya I was encouraged to regardless. Something to note would be that even though this is what I had in mind while writing, readers' personal interpretations are equally valid!

“Jeux de Vagues”

I mentioned this in a reblog already but the title comes from the second movement of the symphony “La Mer” by Claude Debussy, a French composer. It literally translates to ‘Play of the waves', quite fitting for a leisurely tea-party with Neuvillette, no? I also highly recommend listening to the piece in general, it might take some patience but if you love daydreaming about watching the sea waves away from your struggles as well, this is the music for you!

“6 to 12 O'clock”

Before I tell you why I'm showing this particular line, I want you guys to take a guess on what I meant by the 'noon to evening and midnight to dawn' part :>

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One of the rules of afternoon tea etiquette is that when you stir the tea, the appropriate motion to do is a 6 to 12 O'clock (so towards yourself and away from yourself) instead of going in circles. I thought just outright saying it wouldn't be fun so I instead used the four time indicators of 6 and 12 ! But of course, this could also symbolize the duration of Reader “scheming” since the beginning of the marriage.

“Fin de siècle”

Fin de siècle is a French term meaning “end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom “turn of the century” and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. [Taken from Wikipedia]

I kept on thinking about how to incorporate the ‘Isolation’ theme for Yandere!Neuvillette while also respecting his ideal of fairness. In one of his voice lines, he encourages to speak-up against grave injustice. With that in mind, this idea of “Keeping Reader isolated but giving them a chance to gain freedom by debating against Neuvillette once every century” was born. If Reader can successfully prove that Neuvillette is a terrible husband or their marriage is unjust, they can leave. But obviously, that's just false hope.

“Mon trésor”

Mon trésor is a gender-neutral French term of endearment which means “My treasure” in English. Huge thank you to @/cerulean-castle and @/iceunhie for responding to my cry of help for this one as I was puzzled about French terms of endearment for a while. @/iceunhie gave me the link to a post of gender-neutral French terms of endearment which I found really helpful <3

As for why I chose Mon trésor as what Neuvillette calls Reader, it was due to the specific connotations between dragons and their treasures. Or in Neuvillette's case, Reader is his treasure. Hence, after sufficiently provoked, he doesn't flinch from referring to them as ‘abandoned property’.

“The words unspoken are the flower.”

Directly quoted from Neuvillette's [About : Wriothesley] voice line. According to him, it's an Inazuman proverb which means “Some words are better left unsaid.” which is Neuvillette's answer to his subconscious question of why he goes to such lengths for Reader.

Now, you can interpret this in a variety of ways and I'll say some of the “possible” ones. Perhaps he refuses to verbalize the causes because doing so would force him to face the hypocrisy and irrationality behind his actions. Perhaps he truly doesn't know, as there are many things he's on the path to understanding. Etcetera.

I might add onto this post if anyone has more questions from the fic itself. Writing Jeux de Vagues was quite difficult because I had a deadline of sorts but I was determined to finish it. Although there might be room for further improvement, I'm still happy that I pulled it of :') I hope that at least, my love for Neuvillette's character can be felt through the fic <3

[frenchlitclub]

Les livres montrés dans le tableau "Liberté" lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des jeux olympiques 2024, ce vendredi (liste à la fin):

Romances sans parole, de Verlaine, 1874 On ne badine pas avec l'amour, d'Alfred de Musset, 1834 Passion Simple, d'Annie Ernaux, 1992 Bel-Ami, de Maupassant, 1885 Sexe et Mensonges, de Leïla Slimani, 2017 Le diable au corps, de Raymond Radiguet, 1923 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, de Laclos, 1782

Le thème commun à tous ces livres: les relations amoureuses (souvent interdites, adultères), la passion, la sexualité dans la littérature française. La scène suit 3 personnes flirtant à l'aide des livres qu'ils se montrent dans la bibliothèque nationale de Paris; on peut y voir une référence au roman "Jules et Jim" d'Henri-Pierre Roché, et à la pièce "Caprices de Marianne" d’Alfred de Musset où l'on retrouve des trios/triangles amoureux.

[wolfsnape]

En vrai si le dernier porteur de flamme c'est l'homme au masque de fer c'est hilarant parce que c'est une ref incroyable et le mystère ultime de l'histoire française et on valide fort

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Est-ce que c'est prévu pour le 11 août

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<3

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Paris 2024 ✈️ La patrouille de France 🇨🇵 à la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux paralympiques

Source: Ministère de l'intérieur

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Gardien au square des Grès, Paris 20e – crayon noir aquarellable, extrait du livre 2006 (L’Association).

[maluron]

Noël : Jésus a pris chair

Pâques : Jésus a pris cher

[pigeonneaux]

Commission for a DnD campaign 🎉