#my enchanté edits

[williamrikers]

Intricate Rituals The Series Part 2

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #3

Don't Say No ep 5:

Bad Buddy ep 5:

Enchanté ep 10:

Even Sun ep 6:

Vice Versa ep 8:

The Eclipse ep 8:

The Three Gentlebros ep 1:

The Eclipse ep 11:

A Boss and a Babe ep 4:

My Dear Gangster Oppa ep 3:

Middleman's Love ep 1:

[ohmybitna]

- I haven’t been able to adjust really well. Sometimes when I’m with him, I don’t know what to say or do. It’s like I’m always worried. I don’t know how to act. - Li Ming, you can just talk to him. Touch him. When he can’t hear, physical touch will make him feel like there’s someone next to him. Other than that, treat him as a non-deaf person.

Moonlight Chicken (2023)

[kissablelips-desireslure-vol1]

ONLY FRIENDS (2023)

KASIDET PLOOKPHOL (as Mew)

&

JIRATCHAPONG SRISANG (as Top)

[ynbabe]

Do you think you could write a smau with Yuki or Daniel with a male reader who is like 6'-6'4 and they kinda have a gay panic moment and reader is just subtly flirting with them through captions and comments...

If not than that's ok, have a great day/night

ahhhhh this is such a cute idea, I went with Danny ric for this one cause the yuki to 6'4 reader height difference would be too mean 😭

y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek new shoot coming out @/alphatauri

y/nfsnweek excited to meet all the cool guys at @/vcarbf1team

vcarbf1team we're excited to meet you!! username YOU'RE MEETING DANIEL AND YUKI?? y/nfsnweek perks of the job 🤷‍♂️

username HELLO??? father what do you mean you're modelling for an f1 team??

username girl they were a fashion brand first 😭

username omg does this mean Y/n's going to a race? He has to right?

username every time I find out abt this man's height I need to log off cause WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS CUTIE IS FUCKING 6'4???

username tall king

username imagine him next to Yuki 😂

username they wouldn't even fit in the camera screen together 💀

vcarbf1team

vcarbf1team our drivers through the eyes of @/y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek need a pass for every race pls

vcarbf1team we got you king 💪

yukitsunoda no comments, no one talk to me, deleting all social media

username omg yuki 😭 bbg it's not your fault y/n is just freakishly tall

danielricciardo finally someone I had to look up to talk to 😂

yukitsunoda Daniel you're blocked first

username daniel looks at y/n like he wants to eat him, Yuki looks at y/n like he's planning to steal his height

username Danny something you'd like to share with the class???k

Daniel was trying to be normal but there were only very few people he had to look up to talk too and even fewer people who looked like that.

He had accepted he was gay a long time ago but refused to be in a relationship due to the media and his job but there was no way he could ignore the way his heart began racing when he looked into your eyes. The worst part of it was he didn’t even know if you were interested in him, or guys.

One wrong move and his career would be down the drain… again and he couldn’t risk that but he couldn’t stop himself from thinking about you either. This was driving him insane. You were driving him insane and you hadn’t even spoken to him over 10 minutes.

He could always count on Max right? He had never told anyone about Daniel’s secret even when they had been fighting and he was his best friend obviously he was going to cry about this to him.

Why had Max sent him one of Y/n’s Instagram posts? Daniel was not in the mood to stalk his crush only to see him with women all over him.

y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek If you know what I did last summer pls let me know

Oh, okay, he liked guys, but did he want Daniel? Y/n was a model, he worked around gorgeous men 24/7 why would he want to be with Daniel?

Daniel couldn't do much more, he could pine and yearn like he had for years before or he could get on with his job and move on like he is used to.

danielricciardo

danielricciardo Enchanté orange edition 🍊

landonorris Papaya edition?

danielricciardo no comments

y/nfsnweek my favourite fruit 🤭

username bro??? username your favourite what 🤨 username oh?

maxverstappen doubles as MV1 merch

danielricciardo @/Landonorris defend your colour

danielricciardo

danielricciardo austingp my home away from home

ynfsnweek suddenly I'm very interested in America

maxverstappen 🤨🤨 ynfsnweek yee haw 😫

username that hat 😮‍💨

username max?? y/n??

username y/n being the first comment on this post is giving

username giving broke back mo-

daniel.jpg

daniel.jpg photo creds to @/lando.jpg

y/nfsnweek Lando needs a raise

lando.jpg it's all him y/nfsnweek fr mans fine asf

username Y/N????

username HELLO???

username if Daniel doesn't respond to y/n rn its going to get real embarrassing real quick

Daniels's head was reeling, what did Lando mean you were flirting with him under his posts? Weren't all those comments PR? Should he text you? but what if you didn't like him? But what if you did? Fuck.

Daniel texted you, why had he texted you? Did he not like you? Did your comments make him uncomfortable? You were not above crying till the sun rose and the tears were already ready.

But first you had to yell at the little gremlin that probably caused this, cause you may die of a broken heart and embarrassment but you weren't going alone.

Now back to Daniel, who was probably going to block and you were going to get your contract cut and-

Oh? oh? And where had that sudden burst of confidence come from?

On the other end, Daniel was losing his mind.

Oh

Oh...

HE LIKES ME?? HE LIKES ME!! He couldn't believe he was acting like a teenager right now but he was kicking his feet and giggling. You were the literal man of his dreams and you liked him back!

Daniel was going to die but at least it'd be from happiness this time and you? You were screaming into your pillow, stalking the man's Instagram, blushing thinking about the date.

[tribbles-the-lesbian]

💌Eddie Dear💌 Headcanon

(feat. ⭐️Sally⭐️!!)

So this thought has been stuck in my head for at least a month, soooooooo….

As I was learning French, my teacher would always ensure us that we didn’t need a “French” accent to speak the language, so long as we pronounce the words correctly we’d be fine! He would then demonstrate by putting on a heavy-ass country accent and talked a bit in French (it was hilarious)

This knowledge came back to me a while ago (more like it simply resurfaced) and I immediately thought of our country puppet man Eddie!!

I feel like he’d be fluent in French and speaks it in a veryveryvery heavy accent. But he doesn’t speak it often in the neighborhood since not many other neighbors speak it, so whenever he hears Sally say one of the very few French phrase she knows (feel like she only knows well known phrases like “enchanté” and “je ne said quoi” to sound fancy~) Eddie gets all excited and starts talking to her in French while Sally just stands there not understanding a word being said. But she unintentionally keeps the conversation going by nodding her head/saying “mmm” or “hmmm!” at the right times, thus getting stuck in a loop of one-sided french conversations that she doesn’t understand :)

This is the little comic(?)thing I did to go along with this⤵️

EDIT: I added alt text in case my handwriting is hard to read!!

⬇️sketch version under the cut⬇️

[apathetic-tortoise]

Couples that can now get married: Part 2 - Engaged edition

Rain and Phayu - Love in the air/Wedding plan

Pisaeng and Kawi - Be my favourite

Phupha and Tian - Tale of 1000 stars

Akk and Theo - Enchanté

Min and Jinta (kinda) - Cherry Magic

Puen and Talay - Vice Versa

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Hello again!

I've been making a TNV playlist of my own and over time I've gathered quite a few songs that I think fit the little silly quite well, and I'd like to share (and I'm pretty sure these arem't in your playlist)

First of all, a lot of songs by Dirt Poor Robins: Komm Jesu; Maximilian Von Spee; Furthest Star; It Tore Your Heart Out; But Never A Key (Deluxe Edition); Enchanté; Welcome to Lady Hell

And a few others: Curses (by The Crane Wives); Microwave (by Ricky Jamaraz); Disco! in the Panic Room (by Bug Hunter); A Happy Jam (by Fries On The Side); Sick On Seventh Street (by Sarah and the Safe Word)

Boy I sure hope none of these were already in the playlist that sure would be embarrasing

Anyway, can't wait to find out how Leo's habits in the prison dimention affect his life back at home, I'm sure it will crush me completely!

Have a good day!

OMG I gotta check these out!! I haven’t heard of any of these I’m excited!! Hehehe thank you so much! 🎶💞

And ya poor Leo is going to need a long, long while to readjust for sure

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 12th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part III of Chapter 5: “Suite de « La Loge N° 5 »” (“Box 5 Continued”), and Part I of Chapter 6, "Le Violon Enchanté" ("The Magic Violin").

This section was first printed on Saturday, 9 October, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 5 at Moncharmin's line, “I'm sorry to hear that, my good woman” and goes to the description of Christine and Daddy Daaé in Chapter 6, “They slept in barns, in preference to a room at an inn, snuggling up next to each other in the straw just as in the old days when they were so poor in Sweden.”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition text. In this section, these include (highlighted in red above):

1) Compare the Gaulois: des soirs, je retrouve même des fleurs dans la loge

To the First Edition: des soirs je retrouve même des fleurs dans ma loge

Translation from the Gaulois:

"some evenings, I even find flowers in the box"

Translation from the First Edition:

"some evenings, I even find flowers in my box"

This may have been a typo in the First Edition, since it seems odd that Mme Giry would refer to Box 5 as her box after establishing it as belonging to the Phantom.

2) Compare the Gaulois: ...se jeta dans une voiture, qui, quelque diligence qu'elle y mit, le déposa trop tard sur le quai de la gare Montparnasse...

To the First Edition: ...se jeta dans une voiture qui d'ailleurs le déposa trop tard sur le quai de la gare de Montparnasse...

Translation from the Gaulois:

...he jumped in a cab, which, although it made haste, deposited him too late on the platform of Montparnasse station...

Translation from the First Edition:

...he jumped in a cab, which by the by deposited him too late on the platform of Montparnasse station...

3) Compare the Gaulois: Il passa une journée maussade...

To the First Edition: Raoul passa une journée maussade...

Translation from the Gaulois:

He spent the day in a foul mood...

Translation from the First Edition:

Raoul spent the day in a foul mood...

4) Compare the Gaulois: Le père de Daaé ��tait...

To the First Edition: Le père Daaé était

Translation from the Gaulois

Daaé's father was...

Translation from the First Edition:

Father Daaé was...

5) Compare the Gaulois: Il jouait du violon comme pas un ménétrier de toute la Scandinavie

To the First Edition: Il jouait du violon et était considéré comme le meilleur ménétrier de toute la Scandinavie

Translation from the Gaulois:

He played the violin like no other fiddler in all of Scandinavia

Translation from the First Edition:

He played the violin and was regarded as the best fiddler in all of Scandinavia

6) In the Gaulois, the Swedish town of Ljungby is spelled Ljmby. In the First Edition, is it spelled Limby.

7) Minor differences in punctuation and italicization.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 9 October, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[williamrikers]

Akk + criminal side-eye

[lunas-otome-blog]

Luna's Review: Café Enchanté

Official Summary:

When Kotone inherits her grandfather’s Tokyo café, she discovers the shop holds more secrets than anyone could imagine.

The café is a meeting spot for beings from multiple, mystical worlds. You’ll meet the king of demons, a humanoid beast, a fallen angel, and more.

And when government agents monitoring non-human activities show up at your door, your new café is about to become a lot more colorful.

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(Spoiler Free) Luna's Thoughts:

(Just as a reminder, I'm writing this for myself to keep track of my thoughts and leave a record of the games I've played. Others are welcome to read and feel free to provide your own thoughts, but please, no hate! They're just my opinions, nothing more.)

I was excited for this game. The premise sounded amazing: a cute cafe full of magical beings from other worlds? Sign me up! I love the colorful cast of characters, and the art is undoubtedly gorgeous.

But, while I enjoyed elements of this game, the setting falls apart almost immediately, and has very little to do with any of the routes, with the exception of the true end. The whole game is actually incredibly dark, complete with bloodshed and death in every route, which is normally not a bad thing, but it feels a bit misleading here.

You're told almost at once that the cafe is somehow sustained on payments from only a handful of romanceable characters, none of which use human currency or seem to have jobs that would involve payment, with the exception of the one human bachelor Rindo. This is nitpicky, I know, but I found it frustrating because it would have been so easy to write a way around this.

Let me be clear that I don't necessarily mind a game with a ridiculous premise. I love Mystic Messenger, and the entire game hinges on the fact that you have moved into a stranger's apartment and have somehow remotely taken on party planning for a charity group of people you haven't met. But the thing about Mystic Messenger is that the ridiculousness is upfront, right at the beginning, and once you get past it and accept the game for what it is, you can enjoy it.

This is not so with Cafe Enchante. There are many times in this game where just a little more thought could have made things make more sense. To me, the whole game was plagued with sloppy writing and baffling plot details that could have easily been avoided or explained in a different way — not to mention the litany of literal editing errors. It's also not translated very well in places — or maybe it is, and just written poorly in its original Japanese. Either way, it reads awkwardly a lot of the time

Overall, I was not impressed with this game. It just goes to show that pretty artwork and a fun initial premise do not necessarily make a good product.

Below are my thoughts on each route in the order I played them.

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(SPOILERS BEGIN HERE)

Ignis Carbunculus Route

This is the route I got first, without trying. I actually did not want to get Ignis first, because I figured he was the tsundere character in this game, and I like to do those a bit later. He's actually not particularly tsundere at all, just hypermasculine and therefore not great at expressing emotions other than rage.

This is one of the darkest and, in my opinion, one of the laziest-written routes in the game. You're expected to believe that Ignis went on a rage, literally killed and ate many of his own people, including his family, forgot about it and then just continues on with his life, only to be conveniently reminded of his dark past at the right moment to advance the game. And the rest of his clan has been tolerating him because they're afraid of him, and for whatever reason, Ignis has never noticed everyone hates or fears him??

Ignis is also the only member of his species who can eat. The rest don't need to because they're born with all the calories they need for the rest of their lives apparently, meaning the beasts of the literal beast world don't kill each other for food, just sport. And oh, yeah, that's somehow also Ignis' fault.

I felt like this route could have been simplified in a way that made more sense. Instead, the writers had a vision and manipulated many small details to make the rest of the game work within that vision, resulting in a lot of strange decisions.

I'm aware this game isn't meant to be realistic, but Ignis' whole plotline seemed very contrived. It's like they had something written already but realized certain elements weren't congruent with other aspects of the game, so they just...manipulated elements of Ignis' route until it kind of fit.

Overall, I think Ignis' route was my least favorite. It felt the most rushed, the least polished, and assumed a lot of things conveniently went unnoticed for years in Ignis' life. There was just too much coincidence in this route for me.

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(SPOILERS)

Il Fado de Rie Route

This was the second route I played, and overall my favorite route. It felt the most cohesive out of all the characters, and it was the longest aside from the true end.

That doesn't mean I don't have my gripes with it. My biggest one is that Il, who has apparently based his entire personality, including his name, on an otome game character, makes the baffling decision to tell Kotone about the game and literally recommend she try that character's route first, only to immediately regret it when he realizes she's going to notice something is off.

Like, I could understand it if the personalities were just similar, but he took the name, too. I cannot believe he would be so stupid as to forget the game that he stole his persona and name from and then just freely give away that information. What pisses me off so much is that Kotone could have so easily encountered this information on her own. Have her buy the game independently to surprise Il, and then discover the overlap herself. Why on earth would he just give her that information? It's lazy writing.

I did really enjoy how angels are basically human androids and god is a supercomputer. That was rad as hell and is a brilliant explanation for why angel magic is math based. I'd say this route has the best worldbuilding, including the gorgeous pretty-boy side characters.

I don't feel completely satisfied with how Il's route was resolved, as there's still some question to how much of his personality is his own, but ultimately it was the most solid route in the game. I didn't think I would like Il as I don't particularly enjoy his character archetype, but in the end I was pretty attached to him. His characterization in the true end route was adorable as well, and I adore his friendship with Misyr.

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(SPOILERS)

Kaoru Rindo Route

Rindo was my second favorite route in the game. I think it's super funny that Kotone keeps talking about their age gap even though he's the second youngest character in the game at 42 years old.

His route is also (to my knowledge) the only route that lets you just straight up kill the person you're trying to romance, although it does dead end the game if you make the choice not to save him when you can.

The worst part of this route for me what the treatment of Rindo's sister, Shizuku. She doesn't get a proper sprite in her human form, so you have no idea what she looked like, and it makes it kind of hard to feel anything for her. I did like the utter horror of watching Mikado feed her with his blood with no explanation.

This is one of the darkest routes and the only one where a side character with a sprite actually dies. And when he does, you feel bad for him because he was just trying to protect the woman he loves.

It did feel a little predictable to have Rindo become non-human after oodles of conversations about whether or not humans and non-humans can have relationships. Honestly the game writers are cowards for not making Rindo look more extreme as a non-human. Make him a freak!!

I do appreciate that he remains non-human at the end, though. I feel like forcing him to become human again would have eliminated any of the growth he made during the route.

Personality-wise, Rindo is one of the cuter characters IMO. He's flirty but as soon as things get serious he backs off. Super adorable!

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(SPOILERS)

Canus Espada Route

This route was...ok. Just ok.

Honestly, I was bored through most of it. I can't really say why. It just didn't appeal to me that much.

Right at the beginning it annoyed me by assigning a gender to Vennia. Like, he could have just been left nonbinary. It's canon in this game that fairies don't have genders anyway, so it would have been fine to continue using they/them pronouns. I guess otome games haven't gone that way yet but it would have been nice.

I did like Vennia's relationship with Titania, and in the end, when he betrays Kotone, it felt natural. You can't hate him because you know he just wants to protect his sister.

I thought maybe his headlessness would be plot relevant but on the contrary, we get literally no explanation for why he's headless and nobody else is. I get that they wanted to make him an interesting character, but we know his ancestor was not headless, so why is he? Aren't there other dullahans in Medio?

I do think it's hilarious that we don't ever get to see his face. The implication is that he does in fact have one, so I had predicted it would be revealed as part of his route, but they stuck to their guns and kept him headless throughout the entire route.

Idk why I wasn't impressed with this route. Worldbuilding-wise it was one of the more solid storylines. It just wasn't particularly shocking or interesting to me, so I didn't love it, but I suppose I didn't hate it either.

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(SPOILERS)

Misyr Rex Route

This route was, quite frankly, absolutely ridiculous. This was the most obvious case of having an overall idea and not having the skills to execute it well.

So many things happened just because Misyr willed it to. For example, he gains magic powers and a semi-human form simply because he wanted to visit a four-year-old on earth? How does that even happen? This is already ignoring the fact that he transformed into an ash monster through forced evolution or whatever, which is already a stretch, mind you.

And if that's not ridiculous enough, we then get introduced to Noah, who is somehow an entire world. I actually found him to be more interesting of a character than Misyr, now that we know that Misyr's entire life consists of going to one cafe and doing nothing all day.

The most disappointing part of this route was Asmodeus, who was largely not relevant at all other than the initial shock of realizing Misyr wasn't the demon king. Why bother making such an annoying character for a brief gag? He could have been so much more but instead he's reduced to an unlikable flirt who kidnaps Kotone in order to provide an excuse for a cute CG, and then we barely see him ever again.

This whole route stinks of worldbuilding with no consideration for how certain elements would affect the rest of the world. You know how sometimes worlds in fictional programs (ie: Black Mirror) build their entire concepts around one aspect of society and don't bother fleshing out everything else? That's basically this whole route in a nutshell. It falls apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.

To top it off, the good ending of this route, and therefore the whole game, involves Kotone becoming the world herself, largely losing her human form, now cursed to live for eternity as a realm that turns people to ash????? Who decided this would be a satisfying ending for an otome game?

The one element I did like was the explanation for why non-humans look so much like humans. I think it's super cool that humans used to have superior technology and lost it and everything else grew from that. I like the biblical references as well.

Ultimately, though, this was a disappointing way to end the game for me.

[hils79]

Hils Watches Enchanté - Ep 2

I mean when you say it like that it sounds stupid

Is he going to mention Paris in every episode? I mean I guess if I'd lived abroad for years I'd talk about it a lot too

I love the absolute nonsense reasons they're coming up with to have them touch each other. Apparently Akk couldn't feel his phone vibrate in his own pocket but Theo could hear it and the reached over to touch Akk's thigh to confirm.

Oh no he got fired for running off to save Theo

Theo doesn't look like he hates the idea tbh

It's product placement time!

Yeah, if my teenage bestie showed up to pick me up in a shiny brand new BMW that would pretty much be my reaction too

I love that I am halfway through the second episode and there has basically been no angst or drama so far. It's just these two idiots being besties and semi flirting with each other. It's a nice way of easing back into watching dramas after a break.

Wait, is that Dan from Not Me?? Oh my god it is! I didn't know he was in this!

Good lord apparently Dan's actor is called Fluke, and another of the support actors is also called Fluke, but neither of them are the Fluke who was in Until We Meet Again. That is too many Flukes!

Oh I know him too. Now this feels like a GMM drama where I recognise half the cast from other dramas

I feel like I've seen both of them in something too

I've been trying to work out what Theo's dad's job is. I knew he was someone important at the university. I thought maybe he was the Dean or something. What does a Chancellor do?

Edit: According to my friends who work in academia this basically means his dad is like the CEO of the university

Yep, time to woo the new hot rich kid with some product placement juice

Ah, I guess this is where the drama starts. All the boys are hitting on Theo but they don't know him like Akk does! Don't worry, Akk, I'm rooting for you!

Is Theo just going to spend his whole first day at uni having meet-cutes with other boys?

Boy literally just met these two dudes and he already seems to be stuck in the middle of a love triangle

Well, he doesn't waste any time I'll give him that

That just sounds creepy. Theo please don't date your stalker

I'm pretty sure he did not mean write in one of the library books

This is why Akk is my favourite

I don't like him

Please just kiss

I love that we're a whole two episodes in before we get to the actual plot of the drama

[chilling-seavey]

Is there a fic you wish had gotten more attention?

Omg, anon, will you judge me if I say most of them?

No, but really, it's so hard to get proper engagement on here - comments and interest - and I've spoken to many, many writers who say the same. Enchanté is the only fic that REALLY got the attention I was hoping for and that's the only one that I feel satisfied with the engagement through comments and reblogs.

Most/all of my Daniel Seavey fics flopped. I was lucky if I got 40 notes. Selfishly, part of me has debated editing them and reposting as F1 fics just for a chance to feel people getting as excited over them as I was when I first posted them. They have such strong plots, in my opinion, and I wish they gained more traction. That fandom was/is just so small back then.

[bonitamusic]

Tracklist : 

Asal Hazel - About it (ruff)

Jayd Ink - Stuck on earth

Iaingotacluebruh - Playing games

Jordan Ward, Joyce Wrice - Sidekick

Amaka - Cruisin'

wntr. - Blind

Terri Walker - Finally over you

Full Crate - The Blk Lt$ - The river

Kennedy Rd. - Do it

Enny - 2am in Central

Enny - U shld Heal

Bri Steves - GAF ft. Guapdad 4000

FTP - Snooze in the rain (SZA edit)

King sis - Day 1

Jaz Karis - Therapy

Duncan Gerow - Ari Lennox + South Circle = Waste my time

Kiezin - Heyyy Tems

Jean Deaux - Comin over

Jean Deaux - When I dip

Jaz Karis - Side of you (Soulchyld edit)

Ginge - Sololove

Hunter Rose - What you wanna do? (Remix)

Tayah - Hotel suite 31

Sholah Ama - Not us

Kaisha - Crossroads

Kaisha - Back to me

Enchantée Julia, Astronne - J'apaise

Ntjam Rosie - Space of you

Peter Somuah, Latanya Alberto - Moonlight

Merges - Cool

[circuscl0wn]

Our Skyy 2 😋

I really hope the theme for MSP/Tinngun in Our Sky 2 isn’t body switch😭 I absolutely despise body switching shows/movies. That was the theory fans had made when the pictures of them filming came out, Gemini even tried to deny it in a live stream LMFAOO, but why do I feel like the trailer is confirming it. Hopefully I’m incorrect, hoping it’s just a role reversal and not a body switch. Edit: I watched a bit closer it’s def giving role reversal, we escaped the curse of a body switch 😮‍💨

I’m glad they understood that Enchanté was not it and decided to give us GunCher. When they released the first OUR SKYY 2 trailer during the GMMTV2023 showcase I thought I was gonna skip the ForceBook episode only for ABAAB to deliver. Forcebook deserved better and got that. ❤️

I’m really on the fence about watching the bad buddy/patpran episode. Idk, I unfortunately have a bad taste in my mouth which isn’t letting me separate the art from the artists *heavy sigh*. Hopefully that’ll change when I see people’s gifs when it airs.

When it comes to akkayan and phuphaTian: PREPARE TO BE SICK OF ME 😮‍💨😮‍💨

I don’t think I watched the other shows so I have no thoughts on those💀and if I did watch them I truly don’t remember anything

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 14th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part III of Chapter 6, “Le Violon Enchanté” (“The Magic Violin”).

This section was first printed on Wednesday, 13 October, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 6 at Raoul's inner dialogue, “She’s staying at the Setting Sun Inn, must be, it’s the only one!” and goes to the description of the old church at Perros, “The sacristy door opened onto this gruesome rampart, a feature of so many old Breton churches.”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition. In this section, these include (highlighted in red above):

1) Compare the Gaulois text:

Cet anniversaire et votre apparition si subite l’autre soir dans ma loge, tout cela m’avait reporté loin, bien loin dans le passé, et je vous ai écrit comme une petite fille que j’étais alors, comme une petite fille qui joue et qui serait heureuse de revoir, dans un moment de tristesse et de solitude, son petit camarade à côté d’elle…

To the First Edition:

Votre apparition si subite l’autre soir dans ma loge, m’avait reporté loin, bien loin dans le passé, et je vous ai écrit comme une petite fille que j’étais alors, qui serait heureuse de revoir, dans un moment de tristesse et de solitude, son petit camarade à côté d’elle…

Translation from the Gaulois:

"That anniversary and your sudden appearance in my dressing room the other evening, all that took me back, far back into the past, and I wrote to you as the little girl that I was then, as a little playful girl who would be happy, in a moment of sadness and solitude, to once again see her little friend by her side..."

Translation from the First Edition:

"Your sudden appearance in my dressing room the other evening took me back, far back into the past, and I wrote to you as the little girl that I was then, who would be happy, in a moment of sadness and solitude, to once again see her little friend by her side..."

2) Compare the Gaulois text:

Le jeune homme veut la prendre dans ses bras

To the First Edition:

Le jeune homme veut la saisir

Translation from the Gaulois:

The young man tried* to take her in his arms

Translation from the First Edition:

The young man tried* to catch her

* Note: I have translated Leroux’s use of the historical present using the past tense, as is more common in English writing.

3) Minor differences in punctuation and italicization.

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