#this is. too french

[leonardburton]

tagged by my beloved @swordfaery

Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then list 10 songs you really like, each by a different artist. then tag 10 people to do the same thing.

Shuffle:

Burn, Baby, Burn by Sea Power (song from disco elysium. that scene made me feel some sort of feeling or perhaps emotion)

Pasadena by La Femme (it's a cute song)

Trop beau by Lomepal (lyrics aren't kinda eh but it's a good song to put in the background while reading 27-page pdfs)

Maialen by La Femme (i Love this song. the way she says "las tormentas MÁS violentas" at 2:02. iykyk)

It's time to wake up 2023 by La Femme (they released it in 2013 so listening to it rn is p neat. very good to fall asleep to)

Souffle le vent by Odezenne (good song. yeah)

Decrescendo by Lomepal (good to read pdfs and fall asleep or staring out the bus window)

Drag by St Graal (it's such a bop. win for genderqueerness and non conformity everywhere)

The Adults are Talking by The Strokes (forever win. no need to explain)

Me Gustas Tu by Manu Chao (it's. so sweet. cures depression in 1 day result guaranteed refund if not satisfied* (*understanding of spanish language required for full effect))

10 songs i really like

Tatiana by La Flemme (huge win for sapphics everywhere. yes i know i listen to La Femme too much)

Caprice by Odezenne (i also listen to Odezenne too much. even though i only like like 6 of their songs)

Avant qu'il n'y ait le monde by Feu! Chatterton (it's a vibe idk what to say)

Fous ta cagoule by Fatal Bazooka (relistened to this absolute banger from 2006 over winter break. turns out my little brother didn't know it cos he's too young so i tortured him with it)

Parle à ma main (likewise except 2007)

L'Assassymphonie by Mozart l'Opéra Rock (my most beloved ahab mentioned it a couple of weeks ago and i fell down the rabbit hole again. i got the cds + bts dvd for my 10th birthday because i was too obsessed with it)

L'Enfer by Stromaé (he's so right)

Social Cues by Cage the Elephant (forever trapped in my brain)

À Peu Près by Pomme (it's a sweet song idk)

Tales of Dominica by Lil Nas X (banger.)

tagging @asticot i am curious about your taste in music, @krayonders hello old mutual @bookshelpwithmysocialanxiety @kirkwords @lasilhouetteinbianco @alfredolover119 @all-eternity @honorbound13 double tagging the neon fam hahahhaha. also anyone who wants to do it consider yourself tag fr. partake in the humble joy of sharing music

[automaticbreakfastmachine]

[cottagedreamy]

They're such a good duo...Pls let's talk about them more.....

[thethoriumreactor]

human alastor

(With a bonus baby al)

(Ignore whatever tf I did with the microphones idk how they work I’m sorry)

[isjasz]

[Day 246]

More background practice but it got out of hand goshdangit .png

They chilling :D

[thecmaly]

can't even cat nap in peace 😾

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more windbreaker comics

[french-toast-enjoyer]

being a symbrock fan who's friends with like, normal Spider-Man fans is so funny cause like. you get to hear their expectations for Venom 3. "I hope they have a canon Spider-Man!" "I hope it's rated R!" yeah well I hope they elope in Vegas at a 24-hour wedding chapel and their marriage is officiated by a Prince impersonator. their wedding rings cost no more than 400 dollars and when venom kisses the groom there's so much tongue that both Eddie and the court-appointed witness get lightheaded

[danceinthunder]

James Potter getting bored in a quidditch match whilst looking for the snitch deciding to fly round in loop de loops and Regulus panicking and yelling at him to stop in French.

[meltedmush]

I did a bunch of SVSSS doodles to cope while I was in the 2ha pit 😭

[finsterwalds]

Thinking about better call saul if the action took place in france just because I wanted to see them in cunty robes lmao. More thoughts under the cut!

Obviously the action and the whole premise of bcs/brba wouldn't work in france (legal system aside, the whole cartel and walter white storyline would have to suffer major changes due to social security and the mexican cartel well. not existing here stricto sensu). But let's talk about the real Important Stuff : their names

I think Howard Hamlin would work well as Edouard Hamelin. He looses the cool HH initials yes, but it works really well as a genuine french name imo, and Howard/Edouard are pretty close phonetically

Chuck could still be called Charles without any realism issue, but he'd be nicknamed Charlie rather than Chuck because that's what a french person would go for... nicknames don't work the same, yeah

Kimberly Wexler and James McGill, I have no idea lmao. James when translated becomes Jacques, but it's such a boomerish uncool name that I cannot resolve myself to call my boy like that. It's also one generation too old. Jimmy being born in '60 could technically be called Jacques, but it'd be old-fashioned, as it's a name mostly given to the kids of the decade that came before him. McGill is an irish name, so something funny could be making Jimmy a breton with a funky last name like Gall/LeGall ? That's hilarious to me. But who knows.

Saul Goodman is a pun, so this is even harder for me to conceptualize. Saul's marketing would definitely not work in france at all, as no one would realistically hire a lawyer with a puny name and such chaotic displays (+ I think ads for legal démarchage are illegal mind you). However, let's have a crack at it. It would have to be a pun based off an expression similar to "it's all good man", or implying something positive and familiar... I need to think on that one.

[losttranslator]

me when people ask me how to say "I don't care" in french

(description:)

The IASIP meme of Charlie Kenny gesturing wildly at a conspiracy board, with the second picture added to his papers - the second picture being a table with 7 columns classifying an exhaustive number of ways of saying "I don't care" in French, based on how common, vulgar and funny they each are.

Column 1: Socially acceptable and common: -Je m’en fiche -J’en ai rien à faire* (*less formal variation of “Je n’en ai rien à faire” which still belongs to this category)

Column 2: Vulgar and common enough to not be shocking: -Je m’en fous -(J’en ai) rien à foutre

Column 3: More vulgar, and common with a ‘teenage’ connotation: -(Je)* m’en tape -(Je) m’en branle -(Je) m’en balec’ -(Je) m’en bats les couilles -(J’en ai) rien à battre -(J’en ai) rien à branler -”Balec’” (* omitting “je” is frequent and makes the expression even less formal)

Column 4: ‘Familiar’ (only somewhat vulgar, completely informal) and uncommon enough to be considered somewhat funny: -J’en ai* rien à carrer -J’en ai* rien à cirer -Je m’en tamponne (le coquillard) -Je m’en balance -J’en ai* rien à péter (* can be replaced with “Je n’en ai rien à …” to give it a formal connotation, in which case the expression belongs to category 6)

Column 5: Socially acceptable and uncommon/formal enough to be considered funny: -Je m’en contrefiche -Je m’en soucie comme d’une guigne -J’en ai rien à fiche

Column 6: Vulgar and uncommon, somewhat formal: -Je m’en contrefous

Column 7: Socially acceptable and very uncommon / very formal, enough to sound snobbish (and therefore a bit funny): -Peu m’importe -Il m’importe peu -Je n’en ai cure -Je ne m'en soucie guère

[mangysah]

Revolución 🐦‍⬛

— Reference: ‘Liberty Leading the People’ by Eugène Delacroix, 1830

[monstermoviedean]

if you took a language class in school (any level, any language) did your instructor assign you a name from that language? like, when i took french in high school i was assigned a "french name" that i had to use in that class. did anyone else experience this?

[kk1smet]

“Sometimes I think back to my twenty-fourth birthday, when you asked me to make a wish. It was the first time in my life I didn't make a wish for myself; I made it for you.” The Boy From The Piano Shop by @soliblomst

je suis heureux de vous connaître. je trouve ton âme belle ♡

[erlkink-heatcliff]

git him! ooh git him !

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extra doodles too

[fjordfolk]

i never really liked the formulation that puppies and young dogs 'push boundaries' because i feel like it suggests a kind of intent i haven't seen in our dogs, and it kinda feeds into that adversarial relationship that some trainers have been shilling for decades where you're always expecting your dog to challenge your authority or whatever.

my nephew has a puppy rn, and they described it as 'throwing out behaviours and seeing what happens' which i liked a lot better?

because at least it doesn't suggest that this semi-sentient bag of bones and slop has a crystal clear picture of the laws of conduct and is hell-bent on testing them, and it doesn't suggest they already know exactly how their behaviour affects the world. they're just behaving. and learning.