#random french things

[theaucaramel]

yoooo ! J'ai trouvé ce "script" ( en guillemets parce que c'est plus un détail de ce que je voulais écrire..) est ce que je devrais développer cette idée ou pas 🤔 ? Parce que, ça me plaît beaucoup mais ma motivation 😞...

(Tout le "script" est en bas !)

N.1 : goretzka et hernandez

Idées pour le titre :

-Bouge pas, chérie reste un peu

- Parce que t'es mon étoile

- Tu est mon monde

-Trouve-moi ( Et ne pars pas.)

-Bad Habit

- Im a Fool (For u)

- Meine Lieblingsmann.

-Liebe.

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TITRE FINAL : MEINE LIEBLINGSMANN💞

À poster sur : Wattpad, ao3 ?

Synopsis: amour. /nom.masc/

Sentiment vif qui pousse à aimer (qqn), à vouloir du bien, à aider en s'identifiant plus ou moins.

En le regardant, en l'écoutant, en lui parlant, Lucas se rend compte qu'un sentiment complexe s'est installé entre lui et son meilleur ami, Leon. Seulement, l'autre ne l'aime pas, il en est sûr mais, comment savoir ?

C'est l'histoire d'un amour florissant entre 2 personnes qui n'ont pourtant pas l'impression de pouvoir s'aimer.

Personnes : leon goretzka , lucas hernandez, benjamin pavard,leroy sané, joshua kimmich ,théo hernandez

chapitres : 10~15 ou one shot ?

IDÉES 💡 (début):

Lucas se rend compte qu'il sent quelque chose vis à vis de Leon, de plus, il passe beaucoup de temps ensemble et Leon est bien plus tactile avec lui qu'il ne l'est avec les autres ( Il n'hésite pas à faire beaucoup d'étreintes,des caresses par-ci par-là.... ).

Lucas va essayer tant bien que mal de se distancer de Leon, car il ne veut pas que son intérêt soit percé à jour. Leurs amis communs , Leroy et Benjamin, se rendent comptes du changement soudain qu'à eu leur relation. Ils demandent à Leon, celui-ci ne sais pas pourquoi et ça l'inquiète, Ils demandent à Lucas,et ils ont leurs réponses: Le français est amoureux. Ils l'aideront à se confesser à Leon.

Un jour, l'équipe sort d'un match, dont ils sont ressortis vainqueur donc ils se changent dans les vestiaires, ils sont heureux etc.., les 2 derniers sont nos persos principaux. Leon se changeait quant il remarque que son ami est assis sur le banc à faire ces lacets, il en profite pour lui en toucher quelques mots à propos du comportement bizzare qu'à eu Lucas ces dernières semaines.Il s'assoit à côté et parle à Lucas, Leon lui dit qu'il peut tout lui dire et qu'il aimerait savoir pourquoi il se sont éloignés. Lucas décide alors de lui faire un bisou au coin de ses lèvres. Leon ne le repousse pas et reste figer tandis que Lucas à complètement détourner son regard et tremble,puis silence. Pendant de longues minutes aucun des 2 ne parles; Puis Leon se lève pour finir de se changer, Lucas le regarde faire et pleure malgré lui avant de quitter le vestiaire, le cœur secoué. Leon ne le rattrape pas.

Du côté de Lucas, ses 2 amis(Benji et Leroy) s'attendant à le retrouver heureux sont confus quand il le retrouve chamboulé: Il en déduisent alors que Leon n'aime pas Lucas (c'est faux hein).

Du côté de Leon, celui-ci se questionne: pourquoi il ne l'a pas repoussé ? pourquoi il n'a pas réagi ? depuis quand est-ce que Lucas éprouve ces sentiments ? Et surtout aurais-t-il un sentiment naissant envers le français ?

Il se sentit mal de ne pas avoir réagi et de laisser Lucas partir en pleurs. Un froid s'installe donc.

IDÉES 💡 (millieu):

Les jours aux clubs passaient,Lucas et Leon ne s'addresaient pas la parole,l'un avec le cœur blessé et l'autre, indécis. Une fête fut organisée le jour de l'an, tout le monde fut invité. Lucas voulait à tout prix oublier sa douleur donc il décide de boire(beaucoup lol)Et s'amuse énormément quant à Leon, lui n'a pas le cœur à s'amuser mais voir son français préféré sourire depuis longtemps lui fit chaud au cœur. Joshua fait alors son apparition et décide de tenir compagnie à Leon,voyant cela Lucas bois encore PLUS. La fête finit et Lucas est totalement W.A.S.T.E.D, il ne peut pas rentrer chez lui et Leon se porte volontaire pour le ramener.

(Il faut savoir que Lucas ne sais pas du tout qui l'accompagne.)

Lucas part avec Leon et il n'arrête pas de murmurer à quel point il aime Leon. Celui-ci se rend compte doucement de quelque chose...Arrivés chez Lucas, Leon le fait coucher dans ça chambre, même endormi, Lucas n'arrête pas de murmurer des mots d'amour vis à vis de Leon. Leon regarde le français endormi et lui fait un bisou sur le front avant de s'en aller, quelque chose était certain, il semblerait que Leon savait comment il se sentais après ce soir.

Le lendemain matin,Lucas se réveille avec un mal de tête et ce souvient peu à peu des événements de la veille.Il se souviendra même du bisou sur le front ; problème : Qui-est ce qui la emmené ? Il devra attendre le jour d'après,il demandera à ses coéquipiers et obtiendra sa réponse via Joshua,c'était Leon. Il sait qu'il à probablement fait une douille mais il sait aussi que le bisou vient de l'allemand: ça le mettra dans tous les états, avait-il une chance ..infime soit-elle ? Suite à ça , les 2 vont se reparler doucement mais sûrement.

Quelques matchs amicaux commencent et une petite tendance s'installe dans l'équipe : Les gages.Lors d'un match, c'est au tour de Lucas d'avoir un gage, si ils perdent,Lucas devra chanter aussi fort qu'il le peut une chanson très embarrassante (du style…"Tu veux mon zizi ? Oui, oui ,oui…", TMTC..) et si ils gagnent , il devra embrasser quelqu'un choisi par l'équipe pendant au moins 30sec.

Ducoups ils gagnent et l'équipe choisi Benji. Même si les gages font rire à Leon, celui-ci se sentira..mal quand il à vu les deux s'embrasser .Pourtant, Leon et Lucas arrivent à retrouver leur ancienne proximité et leurs sentiments envers l'un et l'autre sont réciproques. Mais il y a quelqu'un qui n'aime pas ce rapprochement soudain , vous l'aurez devinez : Joshua. Les jours passent et le rapprochement est évident, Joshua a décidé de faire quelque chose à propos de ça . Après un entraînement,Leon se dirige vers le vestiaire et Joshua aussi.Entré, Leon le remarque et essaie de parler avec lui, il remarque aussi une lueur étrange qui scintille dans ses yeux et soudainement : KABEDON !!!

(plus sérieusement..)

Il se retrouve plaqué au dos d'un casier par Joshua. Joshua le regarde avec insistance et se confesse finalement sauf que Leon est gêné car il ne l'aime pas et donc.... Joshua l'embrasse de force et laisse ses mains se balader autour du corps de Leon.

(warning!! Faire un avertissement début du chap car le non-con c'est très mauvais !!)

Leon n'aime pas du tout ça et repousse violemment Joshua; Une tension s'installera entre les 2 puis Leon sortira du vestiaire énervé et surtout blessé. Quant à Lucas il sera plus tard visité par Joshua, qui lui dira des choses méchantes et très blessantes à Lucas, il dira également que lui et Leon sont ensembles.

Joshua menacera Lucas, lui dira de ne plus s'approcher de Leon. L'espoir qu'avait Lucas s'effacera et cette fois ci, les propos de Joshua l'ont totalement détruit, il n'approchera plus Leon (:/). Lucas ne se sent vraiment pas bien et demande si il pourrait prendre 1sem de repos, ce que le coach accepte. Lucas décide alors de partir à Paris.

IDÉES 💡 (fin)

Leon est perdu. Lucas le manque et ça se voit, il part voir ses amis et leur raconte ce qui c'est passé avec Joshua et surtout que lui aussi il aime l'autre. Il ne comprend pourquoi il ne veux répondre à ces appels ou ses textos,ça le ronge de l'intérieur. Leroy le propose de partir à Paris pour pouvoir régler les choses, ce qu'il pourra faire grâce à l'aide du coach et ses 2 amigos.

Lucas se sent misérable,il ne mange pas trop, ne dort pas trop, ne souris plus trop, son frère,Théo, essaie de l'aider à aller mieux et il y arrive plutôt bien. Cependant quelque chose chamboule son train de vie.

Un jour, alors que lui et Théo parle d'une histoire farfelue, quelqu'un toque chez Lucas. Théo vas ouvrir et fronce les sourcils : C'est Leon. Théo est fâché,évidemment, c'est lui qui à blessé son grand frère. Leon lui explique qu'il voudrait vraiment parler avec Lucas, lui supplie. Après quelques minutes et un "c'est qui ?" De Lucas,Théo le laisse entrer mais lui fait une menace toute gentille...Disons qu'il n'a pas intérêt à encore blessé Lucas..

Théo dit à Lucas, qu'il part pour un petit moment et qu'un invité l'attend. Sur ça, Théo pars.

Leon apparaît et les 2 se regardent. Leon à mal au cœur quant il voit les cernes notables et l'air triste de son français préféré. Lucas détourne les yeux assez rapidement. Leon s'assoit à côté de lui et demande à Lucas de le regarder. Leon soupire car il ne veut pas,il promet à Lucas de ne pas lui mentir, il raconte seulement ce qui c'est passé avec Joshua, ce qui arrache un petit soupire à Lucas, qui se retourne enfin. Il demandera si lui et Joshua sont en couple , car il est confus. Leon répond que non, il ne l'a jamais été et il demande à Lucas , si Joshua lui à dit des choses. Lucas ne répond pas,et des larmes tombent encore une fois ; Leon le prend directement dans ses bras, lui chuchote des mots réconfortants. Puis tout s'arrête et Lucas serre Leon en lui disant tout ce que lui à dit Joshua. Leon devient de plus en plus agacé, s' il croisait Joshua, ils allaient avoir une petite discussion.. Leon déverse une marée d'excuses envers Lucas, celui-ci l'enlace encore une fois en lui disant que ce n'est pas grave. Ils décideront de se changer les idées en regardant un film.

Plus tard,Théo viendra pour voir comment Lucas va et trouvera à la place Leon et Lucas endormis l'un sur l'autre, il décidera que tout est bon et partira pour laisser les 2 (futurs) amoureux ensembles.

Le lendemain, Leon se réveille en premier et tente de partir, mais Lucas le retient et lui demande de rester avec lui. Léon, ne pouvant dire non à son français préféré, reste. Alors pendant le reste de la semaine, les deux resteront ensembles, et vendredi, ils seront à Paris et ils passeront le reste de la journée là-bas et le soir ils partiront dans un grand huit.(qui montre l'entièreté de Paris) Alors que l'attraction s'arrête un moment pour montrer la belle Tour Eiffel,Leon regardera Lucas, en souriant; Lucas sourira aussi et lui demandera "qu'est-ce qu'il y à ? :)". Suite à ça, Leon déposera doucement un bisou au coin des lèvres de Lucas et se reculera pour lui dire :"Je t'aime.". Lucas sourit et embrassa Leon avec tout son amour et lui dit "Moi encore plus. ". Ils se tiendront la main devant la Tour Eiffel éclairée.

Leon murmure : "Du bist meine lieblingsmann.."

Et Lucas répondra avec : "Auch bist du.."

(merci au LV2 Allemand que je suis presque en train d'oublier 🥲👍🏾)

Et......FIN DU LIVRE 🤗😌

+ addition du chapitre spécial !!

(Théo Hernandez/Adrien Rabiot)

[mxtxfanatic]

Reasons Why the 7seas MDZS is the Inferior Translation

I recently had the misfortune to get my hands on all the 7seas mdzs volumes, so I wanted to make a list of some reasons why I will not be using this translation for any meta unless it is in comparison:

Reason 1: whoever tf's idea it was to translate "rogue cultivator" as "knight-errant":

The founding father of the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng, Jiang Chi, came from a knight-errant background.

—Vol. 3, Chapt. 12: Sandu: The Three Poisons

Reason 2: the fact that I was made to read French with my own two eyeballs in an English translation when the word "title" was perfectly serviceable as a translation:

But recently, he’d gotten used to using his venerated sobriquet every day.

—Vol. 1, Chapt. 7: Morning Dew, 7seas

Reason 3: this reason has been paywalled due to my personal belief that the compensation for inflicting this kind of psyche damage onto myself should be monetary

[random-dragon-exe]

Okay, MAJOR SALT COMING! Also a long post!

So I have the Disney Villains tarot deck but before I go into the salt part of the post, let's go into the positives.

The cards have stunning art and each card is appropriately themed to the villain generally speaking about 98% of the time. (IMO).

Another positive is the roster of villains included. Seeing even a few minor/underrated villains is pretty cool and impressive.

Some examples of these villains include Bowler Hat Guy, Madame Mim, Madame Medusa, and possibly Yzma.

Now onto the salt.

As impressive as the span of villains is, two villains are absent who (IMO) deserved a card.

King Candy

Frollo

First, there are other villains absent, but I'm sticking to these two since I've seen these movies. Now going in order, it is an absolute SHAME (IMO) that King Candy doesn't have a card, but I have an idea of which card suits him best.

The King of Swords. Although this card is given to Scar, and I do love how it looks, I believe that King Candy deserved it.

Plus, Scar appears on like three other cards, so I think it's okay for him to appear three times (sorry Scar, I do love you too).

Anyway, I'm going to go into some detail as to why I believe King Candy/Turbo deserves the card by going into the meaning of it and how it relates to him.

I'll admit, I have a lot of points and can talk about this for days, but I'm going to condense them to 3-ish. I'll do the same for Frollo too in a part 2 post.

Going for a two in one here: The card is about being an authority who uses reason and their intelligence for good. while the reverse of this is being cunning to deceive people.

After Turbo hijacked Sugar Rush, he was very methodical about his approach to make it sound like he's their rightful ruler. He locked up their memories, then he fabricated the lie that she was a danger to their game. Turbo did his best to make sure nothing went unchecked and made sure to make the lie sound convincing to protect them (but mostly him). He's very strategic, and was able to come up with a plan to manipulate Ralph with 16 manipulation tactics in one go. He was even able to feign being concerned to play on Ralph's attachment to Vanellope.

I think the best line that best captures this aspect of the card is "Doing what's right, no matter what." AKA: He recognizes that it may sound harsh, but he makes his lies sound reasonable to protect his subjects and game.

The card also represents enjoying structure when upright. But it's controlling and oppressive in a need for order when reversed.

Turbo needs everything to be to be going his way, as he's a control freak.

Inserting the test animation here, he even says "You are a threat to my game, to the order I have maintained. And if there's one thing I can't abide, it's anything out of order!"

Also, the split-second something isn't in his control, he starts to fumble and break into either rage or nervously laughing. He's capable of coming off as cool and composed, but he's scared of being caught and it can cause him to lash out in anger (another aspect of the card).

Just as mentioned in the previous point, he made sure nothing went unchecked and made an entire world literally revolve around him. He can and WILL happily use all of his resources of excessive force he has like the cops, the Sugar Rush equivalent of S.W.A.T., and the fungeon to detain someone who stands in his way.

As a minor note, there's a line in the tarot guidebook that states the reverse of the card can represent "someone who needs to win at any cost." Which describes Turbo to a T. He not only wants attention but he's also extremely competitive. It's part of his programming, and it ties to his love for racing. To always come out on top and be #1. No matter who or what stands in his way.

That core drive (pun intended) was the cause of his villainy in the first place and earned him his infamous status in the arcade.

Okay, I don't want to sound too salty, but you can imagine my disappointment when King Candy didn't get a card.

Oh well, Its fine, I still love and use this deck.

So I guess we can call this the thrilling conclusion to the 3 part saga of including King Candy in Disney Villain merchandise.

Also as a sidenote: hypothetically if he did get this card, what would the imagery be?

I feel the card has the potential to get creative with the glitch effects. For example make it so that he's glitching between the Turbo appearance and the King Candy appearance. If we want to be a little cheeky, we could have it set in his castle, and out the window, we see a the cybug Ralph initially sent to SR flying outside a castle window. (similar to Hook's card as the crocodile is seen outside)

So basically, my interpretation would be a mix of these images and Captain Hook's card:

But, if anyone else has really cool ideas, I'd love to hear them! If you want, you could also draw it out to illustrate your point (pun intended) Honestly please do, I'd love to see other people's interpretations of this card for him. The possibilities are endless!

Join me in my antics next time when I analyze Frollo and and the card I think he should've gotten.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

making a fantasy world where everyone has french names is overly complicated andsofore we shall be adding in unrelated influence. yes

[coquelicoq]

adskfh i forgot i turned the viki captions on my roku to french yesterday when the english ones weren't working (the french ones didn't end up working either) and now i can't figure out how to turn them back to english. this is fine because i can actually read french at speed now, it's just funny because for a second i was like wait is he speaking french? if he's speaking french why does it not sound like french oh wait that's chinese okay i remember how subtitles work now 👍 but it definitely took me a second lol

[praisethelorde]

Okay but nuns ATE with the title 'Mother Superior'.

[brick-van-dyke]

If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

since i’d already played the original trilogy approximately seven million times in french, i finally got round to playing french apollo justice instead. just finished it and hoooo boy was this localisation just as interesting

just like in the og trilogy, the entire thing now takes place in france (presumably paris, though they didn’t specify in this one). at least there aren’t earthquakes this time so it doesn’t feel quite as surreal.

apollo’s “i’m fine!” catchphrase is now “tout va bien !” which means “everything’s fine!”

some of the names have been translated again. for example, trucy is now called “Vérité” which not only is the french form of the english name “Verity”, but it also is the literal french word for “truth”, which gives some dialogues a double meaning whenever they’re discussing the truth. “Vous dites... la vérité... Apollo Justice... ?”

they did not change lamiroir’s name. they did however change machi tobaye to “Tomas Kashkash”, make of that what you will

in the first case, phoenix and kristoph use formal pronouns when addressing each other in court, and informal pronouns outside of court, which is fun. by the final case they’re exclusively using formal pronouns since their friendship has pretty much ended. (it’s a similar case with klavier and daryan, who switch to formal pronouns when they’re trying to be serious/professional and when their friendship starts to splinter.) (apollo and trucy use informal pronouns on each other pretty much the whole way through.)

trucy says “Mééééééé !” a lot

she also calls apollo “Pollo”

wocky kitaki (”Willy” in french) is my fricking favourite oh my god. he speaks in such verlan-ified slang i had to painstakingly decipher every single thing he said. i love him. when he said “sakom” i felt that 😔✊ he’s nigh-incomprehensible just like he was in the english version. absolute king.

in order to make wocky so iconic they apparently had to sacrifice klavier though, because in this version he is english. ENGLISH. AS IN, FROM ENGLAND. usually the french localisation takes its cues from the english version so i thought they’d keep him german, and then when he started calling people “miss” instead of “Fräulein” i thought maybe they’d made him american, like he was in the original japanese version, but NO IT TURNS OUT HE’S JUST ENGLISH??? LIKE FROM ENGLAND????? U WOT M8 JOLLY GOOD OLD CHAP CHEWSDAY INNIT????? I’M FROM ENGLAND, THIS IS THROWING ME OFF TOO MUCH

and they didn’t even commit to the englishification!! he barely says any english stuff at all! he sometimes says “miss” or “mister” and that’s... about it? he doesn’t even have any “Achtung, baby!” equivalent!! he calls apollo “M. Grand Front” which yeah means basically the same thing as herr forehead but it’s entirely in french so what’s the point?? god if you were gonna curse him by making him from freaking england then at least go all the way?? at least his “Objection !” sounds cool i guess...

and his name is “Konrad” in this version. that’s fine because “clavier” means “keyboard” in french (like the thing you type on) so i get that it would have sounded silly. but imo they should have gone in the opposite direction and picked a random english word to name him then. they should have named him Stapler or something. why’d they give him a normal name. he is Stapler Gavin in my heart

ema calls him “minet pailleté” btw which yeah pretty much just means glimmerous fop. (she studied in england too in this version WHY THE FRICK IS EVERYONE ENGLISH)

there were some fun french puns, such as calling phoenix apollo’s “mentor” (french for “mentor”, if you couldn’t guess) and then calling him “menteur” which means liar and sounds very similar

“I killed a man named “Smith” with a bottle because I am an evil human being.”

[backpackingspace]

I know we make fun of odysseus for getting so lost on his trip home but like guys do you think he had maps of (to the acheans) uncharted, unexplored, and unknown waters??

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

huh. you know maybe I just live under a rock or something but I really wasn’t aware that so many people make fun of the way different languages and dialects sound outside of like. certain british dialects (classism), AAVE (racism), and mockery of any language asides from English (also racism).

…ok so maybe I did know but it’s still a bit disappointing. making fun of languages and dialects really isn’t funny.

[brb-on-a-quest]

The Toxic relationship between America and England As Told by Me Which Will Have Many Questionable Oversimplifications Due To the Lack of Time I Currently Have Before My Last Final Paper For A Different Class is Due: a story told by me. Tagging @igotthisaccountunderduress bc she asked for this specifically and now must suffer the consequences

Source: My history notes and a chat where I have infodumped all this to my best friend who has somehow still put up with all of my ramblings. If people would like I can and will make a series out of this with more actual research because Damn History is so much more interesting when it's not for the grade and stress and finals (like I love the tea, love the reciepts, but to memorize all of it on top of other things? *stress ensues*

((Under cut))

There was a war. There have been many wars. But during this period of like literally forever ago England, Spain, and France really just couldn't stop bickering at each other like siblings. This became more problematic when Spain started getting Colonies in this New World after the whole Christopher Columbus shenanigans (Fun fact: Isabel and Ferdinand really only sponsored like 20% or 30% of Columbus' original costs; Columbus still had to like find the other major chunk of it through sponsorships and donations). But anyway Columbus Task Failed Successfully and discovers Not India/Spice Islands but ~a whole new world~ (so many more shenanigans with that Columbus had to straight up lie to his crew multiple times to stop mutinies from happening I want to read his diaries at some point bc the more things I hear the more intrigued I get). But anyway Spain gets a lot of shiny new income in plenty of resources, spices, diseases, tomatoes, chocolate, etc.

England and France get jealous. France is like "omg I want some" and they go to Not The Spice Islands via the fabled "Northwest Passage" and get to canada and make bank off fur trading. England however in true Chaotic Sibling Fashion originally goes "why would I need to go over to America when I can just steal from France and Spain"

and thus PIRACYYYYYYY yo ho ho ho and a bottle of rum for meeeee

Spain and France are (unsurprisingly) Not Cool with this whole "sharing is caring" attitude of England and again more wars start. England in the meantime decides it wants to get its stuff together and allows the prototypes of corporations called Joint Stock Companies (basically a bunch of people would share the risks and the reward of running a business) that lead to the Virginia Colony. There were also people who were cashing in royal debts in exchange for land in the new world (the Calverts who started Maryland who wanted to Bring Back The Feudal system and that went so well for them *cough cough*/sarcasm) and a bunch of people who wanted to ability to Practice Their Religion Better than Other People (there was religious persecution when Queen Elizabeth was reigning during the Great Migration of people to America but from my understanding it was more like she didn't care what you did if you were loyal to England but also that is literally only from my professor and I have heard conflicting stories with other professors soooooo take this with a heavy grain of salt).

Anyway now with income coming in from the Americas both Spain and France and England are doing relatively well for themselves. And then guess what happens. Ah yes, more jealous and fighting. In this case, it's over the Ohio Valley Area because both countries wanted to expand their holdings in the new World. Basically this area touched Canada and France is like "C’est à moi" and England's like "GET YOUR TOASTY BAGUETTES AWAY FROM MY LAND" This leads to what we call here the French and Indian War (also called the Seven Years War in Europe I think, a lot of wars have American Names vs European names). Despite being called "The French and Indian War" here, it was fought by England and their Indian Allies and French and their Indian allies. England wins but at what cost?

The cost is money. It's always money. Now everyone has super heavy debt as a sum of like four(five?) wars that are fought in this period of time. England is now trying to raise funds to help get themselves out of the mess they put themselves into. Their solution: make America Pay Rent. Kind of a "we fought this war for *you* actually now give us money for it.

Note: they were only trying to raise part of the money for it via Direct Taxes which are taxes added on top of the price (which btdubs they were paying taxes to England already they were pay just English Version of Taxes which are built into the price so you don't know how much if it is taxes. They were fine with that. They just didn't want extra taxes. So this made them reevaluate their whole relationship with England. It didn't also help that England was starting to revoke some of the major perks like support past the appalachian mountain range, and among other things).

this tulmultuous period can be summed up with (an overgeneralization):

England: *tries to control America over much by being like 'you have to pay taxes on this this and this*

America: fine *just doesn't buy anything from England period until England recants and is like fine you don't have to pay this tax*

England: *plays the jealous girlfriend card* "you can only trade with England!!! No one else!!!

America, the two-timer: *increases smuggling* Also radical terrorists//the sons of liberty start crying for independence (Takes a Long Time For anyone to Listen to them Because Why Would They Rebellion is a stupid idea)

The East India Company thing was such a whole thing that kinda highlights this to an extreme. East India Company was part of the joint stock company that was about to go under because they had taken loans from like literally almost every bank in England. Which if they failed would be REALLY bad news for England. So in an attempt to lower cost, England told East India company that they could bring their tea from india to America directly instead of having to go through british ports as was custom. America took one look at the now So much Cheaper Tea and was like "mmmm sus" and didn't buy it in favor of dutch tea so RIP east India Company. Also Terrorist Group from before burned several of the ships while being disguised as Indians (no one was buying it) and that's what we call the boston tea party. England shut down Boston as they should and basically war ideas were spreading really quickly through new england and further onward (south was less so but they came around).

Anyway. I realize this comes off as very-anti American and it's really not meant to be, both countries were really annoying to each other throughout this whole process. But yeh then theirs gunshots and a declaration of independence and then we barely win by the skin of our teeth (that's mainly bc british merchants were like stop this we can't make money if you're fighting with our best customers at the end) and things get only stranger from there. First modern Democratic Republic so things were bound to get...very wonky.

[ot3]

i'm a big proponent of the idea that the best products often have the worst websites.

[caiusmajor]

I wonder if human furniture kink hits different in a gendered language. Like, in English Dorn as a table is "it", but in French "la table" is feminine so he would be "elle" (she), and I imagine that would feel different even if you're used to using gendered pronouns for inanimate objects.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

I might not like the french but I gotta give it to ya. le petit prince? probably the best "children's" book ever written

so real and true. lucky am i to own a copy. {:

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

based french turnabout airlines fixed the time zone problem by just straight-up inventing an overseas territory of borginia in the pacific ocean called "nouvelle-borginie", which is where the plane takes off from, thereby solving the otherwise ridiculous problem of a plane taking off from a european country, flying to a country in asia to refuel, then turning around and landing in france, a different european country