#maybe anne fleur is the main character in a way
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vogelmeister · 1 year ago
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merel being the netherlands-> anne fleur rejecting the netherlands-> anne fleur discarding merel is really interesting actually
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shipcestuous · 2 years ago
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Fabulous rec
In reference to this ask and then this one, I watched the French movie The Flower of Evil (La fleur du mal). It's a drama from 2003 about a wealthy family with a lot of secrets.
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We're introduced to the blended Charpin-Vasseur family. Gerard, the father, is a philanderer who doesn't approve of his wife's political career. She's running for mayor. He has married his brother's widow, Anne, and is a widower himself. He has a son, Francois, from his first marriage, who has just returned from spending several years in the US, and Anne has a daughter from her first marriage, Michele. So Francois and Michele are both stepsiblings and first cousins. And they're in love!
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But there's more!
Michele's father and Francois' mother were killed in a car crash together. (I'm not sure how old the kids were – old enough to remember them but still pretty young.) We learn that they were having an affair. And Francois quite literally overheard his mother tell Gerard that he wasn't Francois' father. So, like the anon in the ask said, it's strongly implied that Michele's father, Gerard's brother, Anne's first husband, is actually Francois' father too, and that he and Michele are half-siblings.
But there's more!
It's kind of hard to describe the plot of the movie. We're at the climax of Anne's campaign for mayor. Someone has put out a leaflet airing the family's dirty laundry and the kids suspect it may have been Gerard. The movie is also about Francois' homecoming. But I think the big idea here is that this family seems cursed to repeat the past.
The family tree still isn't totally clear to me. And I was paying such close attention! But there's a character, Aunt Line (short for Micheline), who I think is Anne's aunt. She was acquitted of murdering her own father, but is still strongly suspected of having done it. So the family in the present is really just the five of them – Gerard, Anne, Aunt Line, and Francois and Michele. Aunt Line is everyone's favorite, and is a sweet lady. But she confesses to Michele that she did kill her father. She had several reasons to hate him, because he worked with the Nazis during WWII and did some really horrible things. But the main reason seems to be that he allowed his son, Line's brother, to die when he joined the resistance. It's not fully explained but it's implied there's something he could have done to stop it. So Line was avenging her brother, who was also named Francois. But more importantly, we learn that Line and Francois were in love. She says that he loved her as much as she loved him. She tells this to Michele.
And then at the climax of the movie, Gerard is drunk and comes on to Michele. I'm pretty sure she's his niece but that's never commented on. He's really aggressive and she ends up hitting him with a lamp and I think he hits the corner of the desk on his way down and his killed. So Line helps Michele arrange the scene and is going to take the fall for it. We don't really see the consequences of all that. But anyway, we see the repetition in the family – another Francois, another father murdered, another incestuous set of siblings. That was my take, anyway.
Unfortunately we don't see Line and Francois, it's just older Line talking about it.
The main reason I'm confused about the family tree is because I felt like it was implied that the Charpins and the Vasseurs have intermarried before? Maybe not. But Francois says something about Charpins always loving Vasseurs, or vice verse.
This is a tough gray area, because we can't say for sure 100% that they're half-siblings, but it's certainly STRONGLY implied. I think I'll just run with it and say that they are.
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The Francois/Michele romance is truly a beautiful thing. They're totally in love and supportive of each other, and it's a really big part of the movie. Francois tells her that he has loved her since he was 13. He left for the US in part because of her, and she says she tried to date while he was gone but only wanted him. But they don't get together until the events of the movie, it was always just understood but not acted on. They're not very discreet.
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Anne might be too busy to notice, but everyone else knows they're together. His arm is basically always around her, and hours after he gets home the two of them run off to Aunt Line's beach house for the weekend.
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Also, I didn't know that lamprey was a dish. They eat it at the beginning of the movie. You learn something every day.
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fleurdeneuf · 5 years ago
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Such good questions, I am answering in a post!  :D :D :D  @onthedriftinthetardis, you MUST find a way to watch Gentleman Jack!  It is a wlw period drama based on a TRUE story!!!  You can read the actual book, too ( @asthewheelwills has read it, and it’s on my list: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister)!  There is angst and drama, but it has a happy ending!!!  The fashion is amazing!!!  The ladies are relatable!!!  THERE WILL BE A SEASON TWO!!!  Is that enough of a rec?  Haha
Yes, I have seen both!  I don’t remember if you’ve asked me or not, so we’re both forgetful, haha.  @asthewheelwills and I have been watching wlw stuff, and those were two of the first things we watched.  I loved Tipping the Velvet...it was a bit angsty, but it ended happy and I loved the story and the time period.  (It was a shock to my brain to see the actress who played Lulu in CE’s Othello as the main character, though...funny when an actor is SO ingrained in your mind as just one character!)  Fingersmith I’d heard of first, I think, and was amazed at how convoluted the plot was!  It was kind of difficult for me to take, tbh - a great story, but not exactly uplifting.  The book is on my “maybe” list...I’m not sure yet.  Have you seen them?
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fleur’s 800 followers sleepover weekend!
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strangesmallbard · 8 years ago
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1, 2, 7, 15, 25, 28, 37. you don't have to answer them all! I'm very curious and I love your fic!
ghfgGHF thank you so much!! this made me smile oh gosh. i’m sorry this is so late, i haven’t been on anything but tumblr mobile in a good while and i tend to only lurk on there.
1. Describe your comfort zone– a typical you-fic.
swan queen LMAO. anything with a lot of women tbh, i haven’t completed a fic with a dude narrator in so long. romance could probably be considered a comfort zone even though it’s not irl. i love writing one-shots, and they’re either in a short prose style w/ more humor and attention to dialogue or long-winded, almost stream of consciousness. i usually write aus these days for ouat lmao, but i also like working w/ canon if there’s something interesting i want to expand on. i’m also trying to get more comfortable writing multichaps w/ longer plots! it’s challenging bc my brain is a mess, but v fun.
2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?
hmm, nothing super in particular comes to mind. maybe best friends to lovers? snowed-in? i’ll keep thinking on this one. i recently wrote a meetcute in the airport, and that was really fun.
3. Share a snipped from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
hoo boY i think this section from “there’s always love if you need it,” which is a year in the life fic post emma breaking up w/ ho0k. i like this bit bc i feel good about the descriptions, imagery, and i feel pretty solid about the characterization which is rare bc i’m always nervous about that.
winter,
After Emma leaves Killian, she considers leaving Storybrooke. It wouldn’t be forever, she reasons, just to get her bearings, walk along once familiar streets in the skin of a once familiar life. She used to be a lot of someones and no-ones, and now she doesn’t know what shape tomorrow will take.
But she doesn’t leave. She finds herself driving to 108 Mifflin Street and ringing the doorbell. Regina answers and Emma is brought back to her last someone, when nervous, confused energy burned in her belly and something like hope burned equally bright in her chest. She didn’t know it was that word, then.
“Emma,“ she says, not Ms. Swan. “I heard.” Concern curves the end of the consonant, and Regina shifts her weight from one foot to the other. Her hand grasps the door frame, maroon nail polish catching cool porch-lamp light.
Emma wants to say, I was ready. Emma wants to say, I felt hollowed out like a pumpkin during halloween, all my everything somewhere else and I don’t know where. Emma wants to say, I’m tired.
She says, “Still have that glass of the best apple cider I’ve ever tasted?”
(regina’s smile is like sunset along the maine coast; gradual, soft, picture-worthy but you don’t want to spare a moment looking away.)
“Of course.”
15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
god “when in the chronicle of wasted time.” regina saving emma w/ true love’s kiss. can you imagine. GOD
25. What do you look for in a beta?
oh man i haven’t Officially Looked for a beta in a long time. usually i pass it off to trusted friends and i’m like PLEASE TEAR THIS APART. what i would look for though is someone with a similar style?
28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.
oh gosh!! i love so many that i’m gonna expand this a little bc even in swen i have so many. so here’s three swen, two non-swen.
amycarey, deemn, skywideopen, wagyubeefy, and montparnasse! 
what i love about amycarey’s fic is that emma and regina (and their relationship) are still so recognizable in every single au. like, no matter what the premise is, it’s like AH YES THERE THEY ARE. and all of her aus!!! some of my favorite sq fics. down the rabbit hole was such a beautifully written and healing fic, it’ll stay with me always.  
deemn’s fics are like…gosh every single word she puts together in a sentence. i feel SO much. if you like swan queen and haven’t read who needs shelter yet please read who needs shelter please let that fic be part of your life. 
skywideopen wrote an AMAZING sw!dw fic that was absolutely everything i ever wanted out of a sq!dw fic, it was so emma and regina i cried, and it was also so true to the dw universe! spark is absolutely amazing.
wagyubeefy writers wicked fic and it’s !!! wicked was my first fandom and i always wanted a modern oz au, and boy does wagyubeefy have modern oz aus! they translate the issues of wicked to a society that also deeply reflects ours and has an incredible take on elphaba, glinda, and every character and have such a seamless, clear way of telling stories and !! so awesome.
montparnasse writes for hp, dragon age, and other fandoms and their narration/use of language is so gorgeous, like. i can’t even convey. they write rarepairs for hp like tonks/fleur and ginny/luna and each fic has just so much beautiful imagery and description and characterizations. GOSH wow.
37. Talk about your current wips.
aah!! unfortunately they are Very wips bc i have no time until the summer to work on any of them. but! here they are.
“one step, not much (but it says enough)” is my first tentative step back into multichaps, and one chapter is released already! the premise is that henry goes away to college, and emma/regina suddenly are confronted with their feelings w/ each other and It’s a Mess, also someone is trying to destroy sb, so that’s a mood. it’s also solidly in the romcom genre w/ some very sharp/sad moments, and i’m having so much developing sb into the hilarious mess it should be. the parks department hates the charmings. lesbian nights at the rabbit hole
unnamed as of now but i lovingly call it the “disaster road trip au” even though the road trip is only half the fic. it’s a college au and the basic premise is that emma and regina dated in highschool, they break up, emma moves away, years later in college she runs into zelena and they miraculously start a wild friendship. over winter break they take a road trip and end up having to pick up regina along the way and it Is A Mess and i’m excited to write it.
unnamed parks and rec au. if you’re on twitter u might have heard of this one, but regina is leslie, emma is ben, marian is ann, mm is chris, and hook is jamm.
that x files au i think i’ve been working on since last summer OH boy. regina is mulder and emma is scully but they’re also both mulder and both scully. one day i’ll figure it out.
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