#les pays

[livesunique]

Château du Lude,  Le Lude, Pays De La Loire, France

[vivalamusaine]

Has this been done yet? (original)

[zivazivc]

when you pass a payphone and you decide to stop and call your brother to ask what's up, and you learn that in the couple of weeks since you've last heard from him you've become an uncle

[insert image of les sitting on the ground in front of the payphone after putting down the handset, bawling like a baby]

[hedgehog-moss]

I was woken up last night by a sound like a machine gun being fired... loud clak-clak-clak that went on for like 10 seconds and I sat in bed completely bewildered because my brain couldn't come up with a plausible explanation for it. Then I remembered about the thunderstorm warning and thought oh shit, the greenhouse. It could possibly be the sound of thick glass cracking and breaking after a branch fell on it...?

I ran outside in my pyjamas and found the greenhouse intact—then thought oh shit, the chicken coop. Had no idea how a chicken coop could produce such a noise but I ran there anyway, and the coop was fine. It was a dry storm, lots and lots of wind but no rain or hail and I stood there uselessly for a moment, trying to think of other explanations with my 3am brain (not easy), then went to check on the llamas just in case, and I found all three of them standing with very alert ears, staring at a fallen tree—one of the four very tall wild cherries in their pasture.

So that was a relief ! From where I was I couldn't see if the tree had crashed on the fence and destroyed a chunk of it, it seemed possible but I decided that was a problem for tomorrow-me, and in any case it could have been worse. The fact that Pampe was still here boded well (for the integrity of the fence)—but seeing as the llamas were lined up in front of the tree like mourners paying their respects at a funeral, maybe she just felt that taking advantage of the tree's misfortune to immediately escape via the opening created by its prostrate body would be inappropriate.

First thing I saw this morning when I opened my bedroom window was the fallen tree, and I started feeling less optimistic because from afar things really didn't look promising for my poor fence.

(And from up close either)

But the tree missed the fence by just a few metres!

Its branches were tangled up with the other trees' branches and I think some of them slowed its fall until they broke one by one, which would explain the prolonged cracking noises, it wasn't just the trunk. But only 1 branch fell on the fence and it wasn't a large one, so there's no damage!

The God of Fences was on my side last night. :)

Consulted on whether he had been frightened by that loud sinister noise in the middle of the night, Pirlouit declined to comment, as he has more tragic problems right now. Our neighbour made hay recently which means Pirou now has several tonnes of hay staring at him and taunting him just outside his pen, out of reach. He is in a bad mood for reasons that have nothing to do with a stupid tree. It's like if you had to live right outside a pastry shop's window, except worse because you're a donkey (they already find life unfair as it is.)

I wonder if the wild cherry tree will soldier on...? Its roots + part of the trunk are still intact, and there are fallen trees in the forest with only 1 toe still in the ground who take their fate pretty philosophically and just start growing perpendicularly, like okay I guess we're sending our branches in that direction now. I'm going to leave it here and see if it rallies. I think it actually looks pretty breezy right now, it kind of looks like this:

Good luck, wild cherry! Let's see if you still have some life in you...

Oh and since we had a new obstacle, I tried to check if Pandolf remembered the word "Saute !" (Jump) and he does! We did it a bunch of times because I was trying to make him understand that I wanted 1 majestic jump and not his lazy 2-steps solution, but I didn't manage to explain it.

Maybe if I said "no :/" instead of "good great what a dog!!" he would think harder about how to improve his technique, but I'd rather fluff up his ego. Even that ridiculous failure at the end was met with a "yes amazing!!" response from me and he felt like an agility champion instead of a bumbling bag of fur. I'm going to try and get him to find his balance and walk on this part of the trunk, so I expect to see a lot more of his "argh, oops, wait" facial expression :)

[syrupsyche]

Have any of the teachers forgotten that they're teaching until the night before? :O

Sometimes not even then.

[gay-impressionist]

LES REPUBLICANS SONT ARRIVÉS 4e AUX LÉGISLATIVES ET C'EST EUX QUI ONT LE POSTE DE PREMIER MINISTRE ???

ENVIE DE HURLER

[guzhufuren]

Lele being the biggest hater of Huaien moodboard

[nats-uvi]

Jax peruano mi querido

Can we pls start a trend where we draw our fav tadc characters with our own nationalities pls? Cause this was really fun to draw,,,

[navybrat817]

I came back to work this week with 12 meetings and training requests over a 2 week span starting next week. It has since been increased to 16.

Send help, lovelies. Please. 😂😭❤️

[that-butch-archivist]

Making a birthday cake for a friend tonight (something I haven't done for a while), and I forgot how much I love baking & cake decorating. I'll post pics when I'm done, I'm very excited. 🥰

[tulpamancers-prosopagnosia1]

@yellowmellow841 your dumb gay French person musical has been drawn /j

[starleska]

oh dear…every time a new picture of Maxime drops, i'm even more certain that he's going to cause a diabolical sort of brainrot 🙈💖 watch this space guys, the bug man's gonna get me bad…!!

[handsomelyerin]

aaron tveit for the bushnell - "an evening with: aaron tveit"

[syrupsyche]

HAVE I ASKED WHAT TEACHER AU COSETTE DOES YET?

ohohoho thank u for asking me about Cosette!! 😈

She isn't a teacher in the AU!! Though I did age her up a bit, she's still quite young; she works as the admin for the school with Valjean, and it's through that that she gets reconnected with Fantine!

Her household then gets a bit complicated from there...

I cannot stress enough that this is NOT an enjolsette siblings AU, this is just some random guy living with them. Why? Enjolras just needed a place to stay and Valjean & Cosette were wayyyy too kind. Fantine is just happy there's so much youthful energy around!

[sinvulkt]

— Vanitas no Shuki (book 10, chapter 53) by Jun Mochizuki

Tumblr post with whole scene here.