#im fetishing the french language

[miraclemaya]

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

#im fetishing the french language #i mean this is not a new thing and the reasons probably have to do with a long held idea of france being particularly enlightened #or whatever kinda racist shit but it does sound pleasant nonetheless

[dweemeister]

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Germany)

As a film buff, I retain a preference to reading a book first before seeing its adaptation. But with how many movies I see in a year – sometimes not realizing that a movie is a literary adaptation before starting it – and given how many original source materials are out-of-print or little-read (let alone how slow a reader I am), this is often too difficult a proposition. I make an attempt, however possible, to learn about the themes of an adapted book I was not able to read before heading into a film write-up. Strict fidelity to the text is not a requirement; yet a film adaptation should adhere to the spirit of the text. Any significant changes to that requires the change be done with artistic intelligence and sensitivity. Especially when the adapted book in question is significant in a peoples’ or a nation’s consciousness. Published in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a landmark novel in anti-war literature and remains – for its depiction of World War I on the bodies and minds of the young men sent to fight it – an important part of modern Germany’s sociopolitical identity.

Lewis Milestone’s 1930 film adaptation at Universal with Lew Ayres was the first cinematic masterpiece following the introduction of synchronized sound and the era of the silent film. Now steps in Edward Berger’s German-language adaptation for Netflix, starring Felix Kammerer, in hopes of reminding viewers that Im Westen nichts Neues (roughly “Nothing New in the West”) is, despite its universal appeal, fundamentally a German story.  Berger’s All Quiet is a stupendous technical masterpiece – harrowing visual and sound effects, overflowing with blood and mud. It is among the most technically accomplished war movies this side of Saving Private Ryan (1998). Along the way, Berger’s All Quiet tries for too much, and betrays the characterizations and the intent of Remarque’s novel. With some of its violent scenes shot too aesthetically pleasing alongside an offensive and disrespectful electronic score, 2022’s All Quiet casts the French civilians and soldiers as “the enemy” rather than fellow victims. It veers perilously close to fetishizing the violence within.

Before a brief synopsis, it seems appropriate to reproduce Remarque’s epigraph to All Quiet on the Western Front here:

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

It is 1917, and the Great War has been plodding along for three years. Along with his friends Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald), Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), and Franz Müller (Koritz Klaus), student Paul Bäumer (Kammerer) enlists in the Imperial German Army. They all receive uniforms that, unbeknownst to them, belonged to German soldiers killed in action. Skipping almost entirely over basic training, Paul and his friends deploy to the Western Front, on the French side of the Belgium/France border. There, they befriend Stanislaus “Kat” Katczinsky (Albrecht Schuch) and Tjaden Stackfleet (Edin Hasanovic), who are several years older and have been fighting since close to the war’s beginning. These young men muddle on in drenched trenches, freezing weather, and their comrades’ horrific deaths. Parallel to the plight of Paul and his fellow soldiers is German politician Matthias Erzberger (Daniel Brühl), who secretly travels by train to the Forest of Compiègne to negotiate with French General Ferdinand Foch (Thibault de Montalembert) an armistice.

Also featuring in this film are Devid Striesow as the so-villainous-he-must-be-a-moustache-twirler General Friedrichs, as well as Andreas Döhler and Sebastian Hülk as two German officers.

This All Quiet on the Western Front occasionally frames its violent scenes as too painterly, the combat infrequently choreographed too closely to action movies (e.g., 2017’s Dunkirk is sometimes more of a suspense movie than it is a war movie and Sam Mendes’ 1917 from 2019 is an aesthetic challenge and action movie first, war film second). The opening moments are a dolly shot that linger over a patchwork of corpses strewn about No Man’s Land, with the dull rattle of machine gun fire occasionally disturbing the soil. There is an almost gawking approach to how cinematographer James Friend hovers over the bodies. One character’s death is shrouded in a blinding angelic light – applying too picturesque a technique for a non-fantastical moment.  Some exceptions to this voyeuristic, perhaps fetishistic approach to framing warfare appears, including the frightening emergence of French tanks through a cloud of gas. Berger succeeds in displaying war for all its brutality. The film’s sheen, however, comes off as too aggressive and its camerawork reflecting a Netflix-esque polish.

The most glaring misstep from the screenplay by Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson is to include any perspectives not involving Paul and his most immediate comrades. Depicting the insights of Erzberger, Foch, and the fictional General Friedrichs removes one of the central pillars of why All Quiet on the Western Front was such a revolutionary piece of literature. Remarque’s novel, at a time when “anti-war” narrative art was in its infancy, was one of the first war narratives that concentrated entirely on common soldiers – not the officers that commanded them or the politicians that guided them.

Before focusing on Paul and his friends, let us get the officers and politicians out of the way first. The insertion of the armistice negotiations and Gen. Friedrichs’ beliefs over politicians selling the Germany army out – more on this fiction shortly – stunts Paul and his friends’ respective character growths. And despite a decent performance from Brühl, these scenes (except for the final time the elite appear) play out repetitively: Erzberger pleads to Foch for a ceasefire, Foch demands a conditional surrender that will heavily punish Germany, and Erzberger mulls over the terms of surrender. This is all distracting from the common soldiers’ experiences, and provides as much cinematic or educational value as an amateur historical reenactment.

Berger’s stated justification for including these scenes – and letting them drag on too long in the film’s second half – is reasonable. Over the last decade, the actions of far right political groups in Germany have become more visible. These contemporary groups espouse the myths that some in 1920s and ‘30s Germany used to justify the nation’s actions leading up to World War II – all which monolithized and exploited German WWI trauma to serve repugnant purposes. The emotional imbalance of the Erzberger*/Foch scenes paints France and the Allies as an unforgiving “other”, as well as the war’s eventual “victors” (the Allies did prevail in WWI, but Remarque sees no winners in warfare).  For a work never meant to be an accusation and written in between the World Wars, the proto-fascist Gen. Friedrichs spits out an early form of the stab-in-the-back conspiracy theory‡. His behavior and appearance, eerily reminiscent of Allied propaganda of Germans as “the Hun”, casts him as the film’s obvious villain. These decisions all provide Berger’s All Quiet with a juxtaposition of morality more appropriate in a WWII movie than one for the Great War.

Beyond the implications of historical morality, Berger, Stokell, and Paterson’s screenplay undermines, at almost every juncture, Remarque’s critiques of the nationalism that began World War I. The decision to have Paul and his friends join the military in 1917 rather than 1914 (as it is in the book) makes it more difficult to have Paul and his friends to have conversations about the nature and the origins of this war. Instead, the screenplay keeps such dialogue to a minimum. As a result, Berger relies on cinematographer James Friend (in his first motion picture of note) to show us close-ups of Paul’s face to reveal his thoughts. In his film debut, Felix Kammerer is doing all he can with his facial and physical acting, but after a certain point this take on Paul results in him being an empty vessel.

Indeed, in Remarque’s book, Paul Bäumer is very much a reactive rather than proactive character. But that does not mean he is without deep introspection, as he is in this 2022 adaptation. Rather than someone who slowly realizes the nationalistic folly of WWI (“We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see.”), muses on how wars begin, and is anything but resigned to war’s inevitability, Kammerer’s Paul emotes and says nothing about these aspects of the war. Any critique from nationalism comes not from Paul in this adaptation, but from Gen. Friedrichs’ cartoonishly villainous behavior and Paul’s teachers in the film’s opening minutes. Paul and his friends are no battlefield geniuses, nor are they intellectuals. But the monotony of war – in the absence and presence of violence – grants them knowledge no classroom can give, wisdom that no elder can impart.

Berger, Stokell, and Paterson have the gall to delete entirely arguably the most critical passage in the book: Paul’s return home after being granted time for rest and recreation. After a lengthy spell fighting in the trenches, Paul’s leave completes his development as a naïve and adventure-seeking student to a detached, disillusioned man. Nationalism manipulates his father and others – mostly older men – into believing the justness of the conflict, that serving one’s country in warfare is glorious.

By contrast, Lewis Milestone’s 1930 adaptation takes Paul’s reunion with his teacher a step further than the book. In that version, instead of a chance encounter at a parade ground, Paul visits his teacher during class, with his newest students a rapt audience. The scene that follows is not subtle. But in the context of Milestone’s adaptation, the film earns it. As Paul, Lew Ayres refuses to gift his former teacher the heroic narrative he requests – paraphrasing Horace, decrying nationalism, and simply stating: “We try not to be killed; sometimes we are. That’s all.” One figures these are the words, delivered in sullen fury, by WWI’s veterans. Berger’s adaptation again leans too heavily on Kammerer to relate any semblance of the above ideas. There is no analogue scene to juxtapose the behavioral and psychological differences between battlefront and homefront, no character or even a faraway figure for Paul to verbally challenge. Kammerer’s Paul does undergo a behavioral and cognitive shift by the conclusion of 2022’s All Quiet. Yet, his transformation is not nearly as dramatic as the narrative needs it to be. These failures all stem from a screenplay that might as well have been titled something else. It is damningly incurious about Paul and his friends.

Major movie studio film scores are moving in a particular direction: amelodic, electronic, experimental, metallic, and minimalistic. It seems, by how awards voting bodies and audiences are reacting to such music, what I am about to write paints me more of an outlier than ever.

Composer Volker Bertelmann (also known as his stage name Hauschka; 2016’s Lion) concocts an anachronistic score that includes all these elements. Devoid entirely of recognizable melody (droning strings), Bertelmann’s score has one repetitive three-note idea – I refuse to call this a motif, as it lacks any sense of development from its first to final appearances – that damages and dominates the movie. Inserted in strangely timed moments and meant to intensify dread, Bertelmann’s idea begins from the root note (B♭), up a minor third (D♭), then descends a minor sixth (F). Bertelmann plays these three notes fortissimo, with synthesizer mimicking blaring brass – trust me, you know the sound and you may know its worst practitioners. When recurring underneath the strings, the idea modulates. Memorable as it may be, this metallic sound is more appropriate for hyping young men before a battle or at a rave rather than suggesting dread. Even worse: this is disruptive music. There is a healthy balance to when music should or should not accompany the imagery onscreen. One should notice music in a movie, and it should empower – but not completely overshadow – the emotions and ideas in respect to a certain scene. Bertelmann’s interruptions appear mostly in calms before the proverbial storms. These are the moments the characters and the audience should collect themselves before the killing restarts. Thus, his three-note idea abuses and instantly overstays its welcome.

Is there a place for such colorless, obnoxious, and offensively manipulative music in film? Certainly. Just not in anything entitled All Quiet on the Western Front.

On its surface, a German-language film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front would restore a cultural and linguistic authenticity to Remarque’s text, one of the most important literary works in German history. To some extent, Berger succeeds. His All Quiet is a technical wonder, but its human interest is nil. Remarque’s prose is not the most accomplished, but his subjective descriptions of trench warfare and his characters’ philosophizing in moments of boredom and quiet were unlike anything almost any Western reader ever encountered. We, the readers, grow alongside Paul and his friends. In 1930, the viewers saw a small group of friends – Milestone’s adaptation is unique in that Paul does not truly emerge as the main character until halfway through the film – see their youth and optimism pummeled away with each shelling and charge. A humanity remains, but tenuously. Berger’s adaptation treads an easier path by inserting a reenactment of the armistice negotiations and expediting Paul’s characterization by immediately dismantling his inwardness and sense of hope.

As a document of a generation’s experiences, a critique of that era’s nationalism that led to the conflict, and a common soldier’s processing of the war’s origin and purpose, this is a poor adaptation of Remarque’s novel. It clears the hurdle in anti-war narratives by decrying warfare as ugly. Beyond this basic expectation, it accomplishes little else.

My rating: 6/10

* Erzberger was assassinated by the far-right terrorist organization Organisation Consul (OC) in 1921. The group was disbanded the year after, but its former members were absorbed into the Nazi Party’s Schutzstaffel (SS).

‡ This conspiracy theory was primarily associated with Jews, but the Nazis also extended it to the political elite that negotiated the surrender. And as if it weren’t obvious enough, one of our German characters is stabbed in the back in the film’s concluding minutes.

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

#All Quiet on the Western Front #Im Westen nichts Neues #Edward Berger #Felix Kammerer #Albrecht Schuch #Daniel Brühl #Aaron Hilmer #Moritz Klaus #Adrian Grünewald #Edin Hasanovic #Thibault de Montalembert #Devid Striesow #James Friend #Sven Budelmann #Volker Bertelmann #Hauschka #Lesley Paterson #Ian Stokell #Netflix #My Movie Odyssey

[jamiesresources]

shit my friends say on discord ––– rp meme ––– part 2.  ( some nsfw –– most shits and giggles ) 

its not my fault i wanna suck on his nips okay

im thinking about that guy who said the lord was coming and that the american dollar is a distraction 

its food if you suck hard enough 

spicy coochie 

my asshole puckered 

no i will save england 

guillotine can take away the head im about to give him 

suck on my big fat man titties bitches 

im gonna lick his stupid nose 

he can call me a bitch and id spread my legs open 

plus hes got the weird blood fetish thing going on and im on my period so win win 

i read pussy 

i lied its gay in my house 

hes up there im just fucking stupid 

sorry ladies and gentlemen but the snake stays during sex 

go swimmin in that pussy 

not in the pussy 

still crying about vagina diagrams 

instead of ‘there is a snake in my boot’ it is ‘there is a snake in my pussy’ 

it took me editing fourteen nipplies 

it makes sense because they balance each others eyebrows out 

i could snap him like a twig 

i am naked and wet gimme a second 

sometimes fingers just need to look like penises 

ceiling vagina 

its okay you can call me pissboi 

if boobie good why men sexy? 

thosewho shit together stay together 

im the main character im the one who eats mango

and the person reviewing your application is shitting mangos 

i cant you made me become illustrate 

living rent free in peoples heads for sending nsfw spongebob i guess 

what do actors do with the underwear they wear on stage? 

dont strangle yourself ahaha your pussy’s so big 

i keep autocorrecting personal messages to porn 

it’s such an anthony –– anthony?? who’s anthony???? 

i was gonna be beeltejuice for christmas 

the hoes gonna loooooove this 

i love how im just eating a block of cheese right now 

wasnt freud like ... a musician? 

did you know that theres a different between coke and cocaine? 

you know what man? fuck you! what’s with all the cats? why do you have a bunch of pussy? you got big pussy disorder? 

can you please stop trying to touch my nipples 

ill have a full break down if he eats my clothes, bro

me to my therapist: i think my friends are getting tired of me being sad 

its like a lima bean thing that starts with an e

i thought you were gonna say ‘do you wanna see me fuck a mountain?’

why is justin bieber’s chin so long? 

so they build the baby right? 

please dont jump us into something disgusting 

why is there ... seven oranges under the crib? 

opening my legs is a lot easier than opening up about my life story 

why do i have to chew with my hands 

she wants a pet chicken ... i cant believe this 

please for the love of god u cannot wear that dress to skateboard and i cannot stand and have a conversations here with you right now i need to take a massive shit 

dont you dare make that face at linkin park 

this is one of my favorite songs. if you shit on it, im shitting on your bed 

french is like .... a deep throated language 

#rp meme #role play meme

[frenchfrywrites]

Hm didn't know I'd have to say this but please when you write me an ask don't use transphobic language. Thanks.

#dont use transphobic language ever actually #although it wasnt malicious so im going to assume the person didnt know #if it was pure ignorance: jsyk the term 'trap' is often used in a very negative/demeaning and sometimes fetishizing way against trans women #french fry talks

[seaquestions]

its so funny actually when yt recs me rlly unpleasant videos while im listening to french songs. like why r they all Bad lmao. surely there must be some Nice or Funny french-language youtubers u could push @ me but instead like. weird military fetishism or sexist nonsense.

#incoherent turtle noises #garde un mec est juste en train d'ecouter stromae et klo pelgag je m'en fous carrement de tout ça

[videcoeur]

OOC + Rules

Name: Julie

Nicknames: Julie or Vide

Age: 34

Pronouns: Any but It

Orientation: Ace (sex positive)/demiromantic

Birthday: 05/09

Zodiac: Taurus

Timezone: EST (GMT-4)

RP Experience: 20+ years

Triggers: Suicide/SH (IRL only)

Squicks: Fat shaming, (irl) Preg talks

Important Note: 18+ only

MORE ABOUT ME

My native language is French (Canadian). Typos and mistakes in English are common. If that bothers you, I understand and wish you the best!

I am no longer a freelance content writer but I still work 40 hours a week and have several hobbies that I try to keep up with and severly fails.I Know Not™ what self restraint is so I have 300 fantrolls, 100+ fandomless ocs and several canon muses.

DESPITE MY PROFICIENCY AT CREATING NEW CHARACTERS, I PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY CANNOT MAINTAIN MORE THAN ONE BLOG.I CAN FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT WITH OVER 500 DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES BUT NOT 2+ BLOGS, SUE ME.

I’m usually super friendly and welcoming, but I don’t talk a lot. I struggle with social anxiety, so I’ll talk to you through tags but most likely won’t initiate convos on Discord and stuff. I don’t ignore/hate you, social interactions just drain me.

I aspire to become an author and have begun to write several stories, but work+rp+art is stealing 99 percent of my time. Maybe someday I’ll sit down to finish them. All you need to know about me is that I LOVE WRITING.

I would love to go on and on but uh I’m not super good at talking about myself. And now, onto the rules.

DNI

MINORS.

ANYONE WHO HAS SKEWED, NON-INCLUSIVE VIEWS TOWARD THE LGBT COMMUNITY.

RACISTS.

TRUMP SUPPORTERS (yes, even if he’s out of office, and yes it matters even if this is just fictional barbies we’re throwing at each other)

IRL PEDOPHILIA APOLOGISTS

COMPULSIVE/PATHOLOGICAL LIARS, SUICIDE BAITERS, MANIPULATORS.

PEOPLE WHO POST A CALLOUT A WEEK. I DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN CALLOUT CULTURE, UNLESS A CALLOUT IS BUILT ON SOLID EVIDENCE.

General Roleplay Rules

Don’t feel obligated to pick a muse! If you don’t, I’ll pick one for you c: Just specify if you are interested in OCs or not in your ask, though, if you are a canon muse! If you specify no oc’s, I’ll pick a canon muse from your fandom if I have one available c: I am also SUPER THRILLED about crossovers and oc/canon interactions c:

No godmodding, no forced shipping, no killing unless discussed first, etc.

Mun =/= Muse

Don’t reblog asks for new roleplays, make a new post please! 

I rp on discord on demand. You have a direct link to my discord on the home page, but please, let me know before adding me.

I DON’T MIND ROLEPLAYING WITHOUT SPRITES/ICONS

I GREATLY PREFER PARAGRAPH/LITERATE ROLEPLAY to crack and one liners.

Good grammar is appreciated but English is not my native language so I’m not too picky. Just make sure you are readable.I usually give everyone a chance but I reserve the right to drop a roleplay/partner. I will politely notify you if that’s the case.

Shipping

I do not instaship nor do I do pre-established stuff. I just can’t. My muses are their own and will fuck up a perfect plotline no matter how much I want them to stay in their lane. I will try if we’re friends and you understand this might not work.

Due to past experiences that left me very uncomfortable, I will not practice ship exclusivity. If the thought of me being a multishipper bothers you, please do not attempt to ship with me. Thank you for understanding.

Triggers

There might be triggers appearing from time to time on this blog. Nsfw and triggers will be tagged/readmore’d. I do what I want, this is my adult blog in my adult space. Of course, if you want specific things tagged, let me know. I usually am pretty good with tagging, but if something I don’t tag need a tag, just ask/IM me about it.

PLEASE TAG IRL SUICIDAL POSTS, SELF HARM POSTS AND ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH SUICIDE IN GENERAL. I ALSO APPRECIATE TAGGING #PREGNANCY AND ANY DISCOURSE RELATED TO BODY SHAMING, BODY POLICING OR FETISHISTIC BODIES DISCOURSE WITH #BODYCOURSE, #JULIE DON’T LOOK, OR #VIDE DON’T LOOK. I MIGHT UNFOLLOW IF THESE THINGS ARE NOT TAGGED, FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH, AT LEAST UNTIL THE DISCOURSE IS OVER.

Following/Unfollowing/Blocking

IF YOU UNFOLLOW ME, I WILL UNFOLLOW YOU AS WELL.

Not out of spite, I just take it as a sign you are not interested in roleplaying with me and would rather keep my dash for mutuals! As a side note,

IF I BLOCK YOU DON’T BLOCK-EVADE TO ASK ME WHY I BLOCKED YOU.

I block for a multitude of reasons and I do not owe you an explanation. I block liberally and curate my experience, I encourage everyone to do the same. However, I don’t usually do that to people I’ve been interacting with for a while. I will always talk to someone first if something bothers me before blocking. If we never interacted and I block you…deal with it.

Drama & Callouts

Please don’t come to me if you have drama with anyone else, unless it’s serious claims that you can back up. I might be 30+ years old, but I’m credulous and I’m quick to act on emotions. I’m trying to fix that, but it won’t be done in a day. If you have beef with someone, don’t include me in it UNLESS IT’S SERIOUS AND YOU CAN BACK IT UP.

Thank you for understanding.

Reblog Karma 

never thought I’d put this down as a rule but PLEASE, DO NOT USE ME AS A MEMES SOURCE. Reblog Karma is a bitch and I will not notice if you occasionally reblog memes from me without sending anything, but if you do it for let’s say, 2 months straight and never try to interact with me, I will notice. Reblog from the source instead.

Changed my mind about this. I’m so little online that it really doesn’t matter anymore if you rb from me without sending anything. It used to bother me but not anymore considering I don’t have as much time as before to rp.

Interactions & Replies

Activity will vary according to my schedule. If it’s been more than a month since my last reply, feel free to notify me because sometimes it’s tumblr not showing me replies. I can take a while to reply though, fair warning.

Please do not flirt with me OOC, I’m happily taken and it kinda makes me uncomfortable.

ALL MY MUSES, EXCEPT HITOSHI SHINSO FROM BNHA, ARE 18+. Shinso also has a verse where he is 21 because I highly prefer roleplaying adult characters. The reason I age him up is not for NSFW, but because I am more comfortable thinking of my characters as adults. However, since he is underage in his canon, I will not be having any NSFW interaction with him, even in his adult verse.

ONE LAST RULE, IF YOU ARE A MINOR, PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW ME.

I have nothing against you as a person, I would just prefer not to interact with someone who's over a decade younger than me. Just like a 30+ years old wouldn't hang with teens IRL, I don't do it online either. I also do not interact with people whose age (or adult status) is not indicated on their blog. To understand what I mean when I say no interaction with minors, please read THIS POST.

I don’t think I have any more rules. And I don’t have a password so if you are reading this, thank you for reading my rules!

#don't mind this #I'm doing it so I can add it to my pinned posts #long post tw

[studylustre]

learning korean anon- also i really want to be respectful, i saw people in the langblr community that white people should be careful especially when learning korean or japanese bc there's fetishization in the community sometimes, especially with things like kpop. again, when learning english french or hebrew it wasnt a problem but im aware this is a different situation! but your blog is really helping me with everything

hello bb!! sorry, i only got this part of your messages - i think tumblr ate the rest of it 😔 i think as long as you are being respectful of the culture and its people. to put it simply... just don’t be weird abt it and don’t fetishize any of it or use the language as an accessory or anything. as long as you do that you have nothing to worry about ^^ there’s nothing wrong with learning a new language as long as you go about it respectfully, so don’t stress and just go for it!

#answered

[princeberrie]

25 Questions

tagged by: @hypnoscissorsghostnerd

 rules: answer these questions and tag 20 blogs you’d like to know better!

Nickname: Nalry

zodiac: pisces and aries! <3 (because im born in that weird cusp time uwu)

height: 5’3-5’4? UwU somewhere around that so like 162-165 cm or smth

Time: Currently 5:26 but will probably be like way past that when I post this :) (it is actually 5:57 now)

favorite band/artist: I dont really have favorite bands or anything I just like mixes of music. I like all genres :)?

song stuck in my head: None as of now!

last movie I saw: Spider man into the spiderverse (soooo good I cri) but before that I saw Your Name. (WHCIH IS AMAZING)

last thing I googled: 5’3 in cm (TuT)

other blogs: not really hmm

do I get asks:  lol no :(

why did I choose this username: well my indian ringneck’s (bird) name is Booberry and I thought oh oh his human name would be Berrie and and he is my prince bc i love love love him so… princeberrie uwu

Following: a ton of blogs but like they’re all like overwatch or BNHA based :).

average amount of sleep: hmmm it is either like 5 hours or 15. :) <3

lucky number: 3 uwu

what am I wearing: a baggy pink shirt, v short shorts (jean shorts), cherry earrings, and a red scrunchie.

dream job: Probably a vet, but to be specific an avian vet.

dream trip: I don’t really have a dream trip, but if I had to pick something… I would go to Japan or a v v v pretty beach.

favorite food: shepherd's pie, creamed ham (I know it sounds gross but please, trust me…), or uhh maybe like strawberries.

play any instruments: No… But I really want to learn one! Like ukulele, guitar, and or piano!

eye color: My eyes change color sometimes. They can be like green, blue, gray, etc…

hair color: Brown! :)

describe yourself as an aesthetic: Describe myself as an aesthetic or an aesthetic I like??? Ahhh I dont know what I would be ahh. I like plant aesthetic or like pastel stuff idk aaa!!

languages you speak: Some french and spanish, but I only fluently speak english…

most iconic song: ICY GIRL, by Saweetie or like Toxic by Britney Spears.

random fact: aaa this is harddd…. Oh oh I think hands are so good looking and pleasing to the eye. It’s like my fetish?? I think??

tagging: @myhoero @tacticalvisor76 @toxsbnhastuff @bnhaworld @bnhascribbles I cant do 20 bc I don’t know that many people :((

#challenge #game #20 #20questions #20 questions #owo #fun? #fun #bnha #writers #?

[brokendave]

21 questions tag

my baby @jeffshikingbuddy tagged me :)

1. nickname: hails or literally 1000 different things pegged by my girl @thinkaboutdobrik

2. zodiac sign: sagittarius ♐️

3. height: 5”1

4. hogwarts house: actually no idea

5. last thing i googled: bubble wands for my fish tank

6. favorite musicians: the 1975 forever and ever

7. song stuck in my head: i wanna fall into the floor by kennedy walsh (LMAO)

8. following: i think like ~100

9. followers: i think like ~1.5k (thank u???)

10. do you get asks: yes and i love talking to all of u babies

11. amount of sleep: if i don’t get 12 hours im useless

12. lucky number: 7

13. what are you wearing: my ex boyfriends homeschool basketball shirt (sksks) and shorts

14. dream job: professional dog trainer tbh or a writer or a therapist

15. dream trip: amsterdam

16. instruments: is mayonnaise an instrument

17. languages: english and some french :)

18. favorite songs: heartache fetish by young & sick, robbers by the 1975

19. random fact: i’ve only ever thrown up 4 times in my entire life

20. aesthetic: loud music, fairly lights and lots of animals everywhere

21. dogs or cats: i can’t pick :/ even tho i’m a dog trainer, probably cats because they’re less maintenance and my cat, max, is my entire heart and soul i would die for that dude

i tag any of my babies that wanna do it 💕💕💕

[skullssales]

Costume: The Language of Fashion

Welcome to the unending Knot! As we put together for Halloween, lets take a appear on the customized of costumes. Costume and customized are eventually the identical word, costume being only the custom of how one dresses, however these two varieties of the phrase got here into English by way of extraordinary paths. Each are from Latin consuetudo which means custom, dependancy tracing its source back to a Proto-Indo-European root which means oneself, which also offers us the words self, suicide (killing oneself), idiom (ones possess means), and ethnic (a band of people dwelling together). At bottom, then, costumes and customs are approaches we outline ourselves. So Im going to take a seem at one of the most language of fashion, and also at how trend can perform as a language, communicating your status, background, identity and more to the arena round you. Customized came into English first, in the 13th century, through Anglo-Norman French within the feel of ordinary apply. Costume however came by means of Italian after which French to arrive in English within the seventeenth century as a technical time period within the quality arts to consult the type of portray or sculpture of a unique historical period.

Costume step by step came to refer to garb rather, now not handiest in the basic experience (as in bathing costume), but in addition the specialized feel of apparel of a special tradition or time (think custom), as in a national costume. Of course the feel of costume we are inclined to believe of first is the outfit worn for specific events reminiscent of Halloween, Mardi Gras, or a fancy gown celebration. A further contemporary phenomenon is cosplay, a eastern portmanteau of the English phrases costume and play, where contributors dress up to recreate characters from a sort of media including comics, video video games and films. Cosplay is extra than just hanging on a dressing up, thoughit has developed right into a highly complex tradition with specified subgroups, in which the choice and variety of costume indicators allegiance to a certain fandom, may also be an outlet for creativity and for difficult stereotypes and cultural norms, and also can point out facets of your price method to different contributors of the group.

However its no longer simplest what we think of as costumes that can participate in this operate. Fashion has continuously been principal in marking ingroups and outgroups, equivalent to whether youre a part of a unique social, religious, or political motion, if you happen to belong to a unique subculture, or effectively how cool you’re. One severe example of this is the macaroni. In and across the 18th century it used to be fashionable for younger guys of way to go on the so-referred to as Grand Tour to Europe to absorb the finer features of European culture and history. Within the 1760s a bunch of such vacationers grew to be enamoured of Italian tradition, as a result the macaroni membership, and took to carrying outlandishly exaggerated patterns of apparel and fashion, with bright colours, much lace, gold embroidery, and comically oversized wigs.

In succeeding generations there was once both an outgrowth and a backlash to this trend known as dandyism, led partly by way of essentially the most noted dandy Beau Brummell, which used to be equally obsessive about matters of sort, however as an alternative moved closer to a incredibly refined look with dark colours, exquisitely tailored clothes, long trousers instead of breeches, and difficult neckties. This kind set the trend for the formal mens go well with that we still know at present. These trend traits grew to be immortalized within the track Yankee Doodle, wherein the uncouth American, most likely not part of the ingroup, rides into city on a pony as an alternative than a horse, and considers the mere ornament of a feather in his cap adequate to qualify him as macaroni making him a Yankee Doodle dandy! Now, its no accident that costume and custom come from the same root, as we are able to inform by means of watching at a parallel pair of words, habit and addiction. That is, dependancy meaning custom and dependancy that means clothing, as in a nuns dependancy. The phrase, which etymologically means what one has, comes by way of French from the Latin verb habeo that means to have.

Both the English addiction and the Latin habitus might refer to the outside, so ones appearance or in different words garb, and to ones interior or persona, and from this develops the feel of ordinary behaviour. Latin habeo goes back to a Proto-Indo-European root this means that to provide, acquire (observe the reciprocal nature of this phrase), and correctly gives us the phrase give, though fairly not the phrase have, although the 2 roots do share a an identical semantic development indeed behaviour, concerning have, mirrors addiction within the sense of routine action. While the word dependancy used to consult clothing frequently, today its customarily restricted to the apparel of monks and nuns.

Another detail of a nuns dependancy that used to be fashioned to ladies mostly was the wimple, a form of material that covered the pinnacle and neck as much as the chin, as it was once viewed immodest for a lady to show her hair. Of course trend changes and the wimple was once dropped by means of every person except nuns, and instead different adornments had been observed for the necks of females, such because the gorget or gorgias, a style of throat protecting which derives its name from the French phrase for throat. This new apparel used to be considered so fashionable that we get the word gorgeous from it. Unless you consider the alternate conception that the phrase is a reference to the Greek thinker Gorgias who used to be apparently really into luxurious and displaying it off.

He was mainly recognized for praise rhetoric and wrote a reward piece for Helen of Troy, whose gorgeousness kicked off the Trojan conflict, exonerating her from any blame. A further neck masking that became standard within the later core ages and early today’s durations was once St Audreys lace, so known as in view that it used to be offered at St Audreys fair. St Audrey, or to offer the long-established Anglo-Saxon variant of her name thelthryth, used to experience necklaces in her early life, and when later in life she bought a horrible tumour on her neck, she took it as divine retribution for her self-importance, a story acknowledged through the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical historical past of the English persons. So i suppose these St Audreys laces have been thought of as modesty preservers. Best as soon as again, trend alterations and by the 17th century these laces came to be inspiration of as inexpensive and gaudy, and so St Audrey used to be shortened to our pejorative phrase tawdry. Bad Audrey, what a legacy! But getting back to those wimples, the source of the word wimple will not be distinct, however it’ll come from a Proto-Indo-European root this means that to turn (as in a cloth wrapped around the head), a root which also gives us the words wipe, whip, and vibrate.

This root additionally gives us the word gimp. No no longer that gimp, however a kind of braided twine used for trimming fabric and in lace–like St Audreys lace, I suppose. Although speakme of that other type of gimp (to not mention whips i assume), this would remind us of yet another part of fashion, apparel fetishes, though perhaps the less stated about that the simpler, notably within the context of nuns! Getting back to these nuns, at the same time they had been covering their hair for modesty, the monks were doings whatever altogether distinct with theirs.

Tonsure, from the Latin for barber, is the shaving of some part of the hair in order to exhibit religious devotion. Extraordinary devout traditions have different patterns of shaving, like for illustration in the Roman church where the very prime of the top is shaved. The Irish church within the medieval period, alternatively, had another pattern of tonsure, a point of so much competition. Certainly the Venerable Bede (don’t forget he wrote about Saint Audrey) connects this difference to the corresponding change between the Roman and Irish approaches of calculating Easter, and the fine climactic second of victory in his historical past is when the English definitively adopt the Roman practise over the Irish. An instance the place coiffure rather did make a decision ingroup and outgroup! No person now really knows what that Irish tonsure used to be like as descriptions are vague, however one suggestion is that the hair was shaved at the front ear to ear however allowed to grow at the back.

So business within the front, celebration within the again? Genuinely there may be a different candidate for the medieval mullet. In the 6th century Procopius wrote of this coiffure in Constantinople where it used to be known as the Hunnic appear. Incidentally, the modern day word mullet for the hairstyle seems to go back best to the Beastie Boys 1994 tune Mullet Head, although some sources additionally point to the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke wherein the time period mullet head is used, though its not absolutely clear that this is a reference to shaggy hair. The expression mullet head goes again to the 19th century within the feel a silly individual, and springs from the fish mullet, whose title can most likely be traced again to a root that means black. So clearly hairstyle like garb is an essential marker of fashion and thus costume and custom. There had been of path many top notch hairstyles over time, many with fascinating etymologies.

Famous might be are sideburns, named after the the united states Civil warfare normal Ambrose Burnside. Within the seventeenth century when King Louis XIV of France started to lose his hair very likely as a result of syphilis, his donning of a wig kicked off a trend for wigs. Even folks who werent thinning on prime began to put on them. That is what we could now call a celeb fashion pattern. A equivalent trend trend sparked through sickness round that equal time was once the fashion for wearing synthetic beauty marks, at first to hide scars left through smallpox, however soon as a fashionable item in itself. An additional superstar hair fashion was once the pompadour, named in honour of Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis the XV. This trend trend would ultimately return some 200 years later on the heads of the greasers in Nineteen Fifties the united states, most famously exemplified by way of Elvis Presley. Well developments do come and go. Of direction clothing as a marker of tradition has been around ever on the grounds that it moved beyond the in basic terms realistic, however the swiftly moving fashion pattern had to wait except the late core a long time and early modern day period to relatively take off. Official tailors commenced to appear in Europe in the 14th century.

And although the button had been round when you consider that ancient instances, believe or no longer it wasnt unless the thirteenth century in Germany that the buttonhole was once invented, permitting the button for use as a fastener. Both of these traits, the tailor and the button, resulted in extra form fitting garb, as a substitute than the loosely draped type of earlier eras, and this used to be the real impetus for trend trends. Moderate variants in reduce and form would exchange quickly, going inside and outside of type. Maybe the primary first-class runaway trend craze is slashing, in which cuts are made in an outer garment to disclose the lavish materials of the garments underneath. This development began off with Swiss squaddies, after defeating the forces of Charles the bold, duke of Burgundy, threading bits of material taken from the tents and banners of their enemies by means of the holes in their possess ragged clothing.

After they again home, the kind caught on and soon unfold by way of Europe. This displaying off of additional fabric is an example of conspicuous consumption, essentially showing off your wealth, like the prominently displayed fashion designer trademarks of at present. Of path to be competent to show off by means of clothing you had to be of the higher classes. Actually throughout the core ages and early present day interval, legal guidelines have been handed to prevent curb class men and women from dressing above their stage.

You see right now there used to be the upward thrust of the middle type all of a sudden non-nobles had disposable earnings, made out of alternate and manufacture as an alternative than the land owning of the noble classes. So these so-referred to as sumptuary legal guidelines have been handed proscribing what people might wear at one of a kind levels of society. This wasnt of direction the first time such restrictions existed. In ancient Rome, for example, best Roman citizens, in different words free-born Roman men, were allowed to wear togas. It used to be a marker of repute and rank. I someway dont think these Romans would approve of the toga celebration! Speaking of which, that institution tradition started it appears in 1953 at Pomona tuition, and later grew to be noted within the movie country wide Lampoons Animal residence. Nevertheless, before this there is a narrative of First girl Eleanor Roosevelt throwing a toga party to spoof the criticism of her husband FDR as being like a Caesar. As soon as once more, the politics of trend. As for apparel as a marker of repute, even after those sumptuary laws were dropped, it wasnt relatively unless the advent of competent-to-wear clothing, with standardized sizing that you would purchase off the rack with out want of tailoring, that fashion really started to be democratized.

Eventually the center category could be trendy as well. Despite the fact that those outstanding clothier trademarks of today, and the whole haute-couture world, show us that fashion and status are quite still a factor. Getting back to France, the dwelling of trend, a further fashion-setting elite used to be Marie Antoinette, spouse of King Louis XVI, who is the ultimate illustration of excessive extravagance.

It seems that she preferred being known as the queen of trend to the queen of France. Her designer Rose Bertin, who is the primary noted fashion clothier, created the trend doll as a way to disseminate the in trends to Marie Antoinettes loved ones and friends, and this was form of a precursor to the fashion magazine as we know it at present. Really the very first fashion publication was once Castilgliones The guide of the Courtier from the early 16th century, which dealt with etiquette at court docket. The magazine Mercure Galant from the late seventeenth century began to offer advice concerning the trendy tendencies, and by means of the late 18th and early nineteenth century there have been numerous such publications in general with trend plates demonstrating the styles. Marie Antoinettes successor as fashion pattern setter was once the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rejecting the lavish styles of Marie, Josephine took a web page from the neoclassical developments of the day and wore attire an identical in variety to the peplos of old Greek females, cinched excessive above the waist.

We now comprehend of this because the empire waist in honour of Empress Josephine. Additionally to being belted on the waist, the old Greek peplos used to be fixed on the shoulders with broaches often called fibulae. Without a doubt the fibula is similar to the modern day defense pin. The protection pin was reinvented in ultra-modern instances by using a man named Walter Hunt, whose other important fashion declare to fame is inventing the lockstitch mechanism that makes the stitching desktop viable. The stitching machine is honestly the mixed work of a number of different inventors coming together. The one to quite make it sensible, viable, and popular was Isaac Singer, who put into practise the today’s manufacturing facility creation approaches to mass produce the machines. Singer was subsequently sued for the patent by way of inventor Elias Howe, who had designed his own lockstitch mechanism, Walter Hunt having declined to patent the thought as he used to be afraid it might put seamstresses out of labor.

But in the end, it was Singers stitching machine that helped to democratize trend, not best making manufacturing of garments more cost-effective and less complicated, however making it possible to do the work in the home. As for Elias Howe, his other fashion claim to status is developing with the primary automatic, steady clothing closure in different phrases the zipper. Unusually, Howe made so much money from his lawsuit in opposition to Singer that he on no account stricken to market his zipper, and it wasnt until the thought used to be later reinvented by way of Whitcomb L. Judson at the finish of the nineteenth century and additional developed by using Gideon Sundback that the general public got the zipper as we know it today.

Incidentally, the word zipper initially talked about the boot it was once designed for, no longer the fastener itself, but the term soon transferred over. At present the zipper is the fastener of alternative on many other forms of garb, such as jackets and probably on trousers, besides on buttonfly denims, the place the button remains as a quaint holdover of days previous. Speaking of jeans, this staple of brand new trend was invented for the nineteenth century gold rush, as the miners wanted tough durable trousers for working in. The tailor Jacob Davis had the proposal of setting up trousers with rivets to make stronger the seams. He bought the hard denim material from wholesaler Levi Strauss, and eventually the 2 went into trade collectively, and Levi denim denims were born. However the language of this fashion predate this invention and is derived from far afield. Jean is an ancient sixteenth century word that comes from the city identify Genoa, and came to consult a rugged variety of fabric that came from there.

The word denim is derived from the French de Nmes meaning from Nmes, a city in southern France. And to high it off, dungaree, one other identify for jeans, comes from the identify of a village in India, Dungri. So this icon of american fashion actually comes from far and wide the sector! And indeed as the globalized 20th and 21st centuries have become more and more fragmented and uncentred we can now not speak a few single trend, and there are some distance too many trends, styles and subcultures to say right here. But probably one of the most hanging that borrows from the prior is the goth style.

Combining retro Victorian patterns with the gloominess of gothic horror fiction, the development used to be taken up via these feeling isolated from and wishing to rebel in opposition to mainstream tradition. And that brings us properly back to Halloween costumes. There seem to be a quantity of traditions that contributed to dressing up in costumes at Halloweenwhich I discussed in some element in my video on Jack-o-Lantern. One part of this practice is that it offers licence to misrule, dressing up in taboo costumes, and breaking average social boundaries. In additional latest years there’s the unfortunate pattern of dressing up in the (regularly stereotyped or caricatured) country wide costumes of other cultures, decreasing these cultures to a type of costume that may be placed on via any individual. Additionally theres the sexualized costumes, chiefly where it creates a pointy contrast, as within the attractive nun costumes. Far from that modest wimple! If trend is a language, might be we should feel about what we’re saying with these costumesand no longer make a habit of it! Thanks for observing! If youve loved these etymological explorations and cultural connections, please subscribe to this channel or share it; you can also signal up for electronic mail notifications of recent videos within the description under.

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[1hoseokie]

hi! sorry if this is late but i just saw your post. i was wondering how someone fetishizes a language? do you mean like the people who use oppa or noona as kinks in like fics and stuff? cause i just recently signed up for a foreign language in college and i chose korean cause 1 i wanted a completely different alphabet 2 its not as hard as say japanese or chinese and 3 i would like to be able to truly understand my favorite artists and songs. is it too much to be studying it? 1

2 i would love to eventually be able to learn other languages like french, japanese, whatever else catches my eye. i just feel like people will think im too into kpop since i want to study korean. but i dont use oppa/noona or anything like that unnecessarily cause like im not speaking korean or in korea so why would i? idk i saw your post and didnt think it applied to me but i feel like people will get the wrong impression

no learning a language is not fetishizing it!!! what is, is using a language as an aesthetic, so like people that use (for example) Japanese characters on their aesthetic edits solely bc they think it looks cool~ or have korean in their bios bc of the novelty factor of the language to them 

also people that call their faves/korean people they know, oppa/noona etc. with out understanding the cultural significance and cultural context fetishize the language (esp when they do it out of context / inappropriately) (this also works for people that use romanized korean to sound “cool”)

this also just generally applies to people that use korean words in their everyday speech (that aren’t learning it) because they think it’s cool or cute or whatever 

never feel bad for wanting to learn korean bc you like kpop! signing up to learn it is not fetishizing it. just be constantly checking yourself and making sure youre not fetishizing it and realize when it’s appropriate to use it and when youre using it bc it’s “””different”””

#ask #Anonymous

[prettyhyungjin]

question!

so westerners have a long history of looking down on/mocking asian people speaking accented english while others will fetishize, infantilize, or end up mocking without intending harm. bc of this racism, westerners (especially white ppl) should really keep aware of how we talk about asian accents

compared to language usually surrounding european accents (”french accents are so sexy! british ppl sound so smart!1!” kinda thing) what do ppl think is appropriate/inappropriate language for westerners to use regarding asian accents?

pls comment, reply, tag, message any thoughts im really just curious?

#bts #bangtan #anime #kpop #racism #korean #japanese #social justice #this question totally stems from me thinking jimin's accent is cute #but i realized it also extends to anime fans #but mostly kpop #best case scenario some asian american spills some tea on this post #tryina start som constructive discourse #watch me get absolutely no replies on this post lmao

[yoongster-blog1]

Wait using hangul is appropriation? What?? I'm confused did op mean throwing random Hangul into an otherwise English sentence is appropriation or just using it in general? Because I'm really interested in Korean and have been learning for awhile, I'm a bit shocked that people might look on that as appropriation. Does that mean I should boycott my French classes in school too, should I unlearn my second language?Maybe I totally misunderstood idk but that seems over the top to me

SIS CLM DOWN FR A BIT DNT WORRY. i dont think they meant jst using it in actual korean sentence. like while youre speaking entirely korean. when its necessary. but im not them so idk, but i interpreted it as them talking about the romanizations of the words like ‘’oppa’’ nd ‘’annyeong’’. most of th post was about people using it to sound cool therefore accessorizing the language nd disrespecting it as a whole. this is in regards to any other language too, tho ud sound more pretentious than anything if u used french in an english sentence. plus, theres a difference between using french nd languages like korean nd even japanese. theyre languages that are mostly appropriated because people wnna be korean nd japanese because of media such as kpop nd anime so theyre literally fetishizing the cultures. op was referring to kpop/kdrama fans which means most of th people appropriating th language is because they ‘’like koreans’’. u knw wht i mean? nyway if u jst wanna learn th language go ahead sis, i dont think you need their or anyones approval. 

#UITS LIKE HALF 4AM SIS I CNT GO POLITICAL

[strangeauthorarchive]

joltzer

its a french otome game and has been translated in other languages. it's not racist or gross. it has minors because the setting is at a high school and you play as a teenage girl. that anon is probably bitter they didn't go very far in the game and completely misunderstood what's going on in each episode.

“anon doesn’t like a game that fetishizes young girls and is made by someone not japanese so im gonna call them bitter and prove them even more right that the game is gross”

#author makes a speech

[allurascastle]

i didnt understand like half of that im apparently having a stupid day. or week. wait so people dont switch between languages usually? my stepmum who is chinese, i dont think she does this anymore, i havent heard her do it since she came to australia, but when i was in china with her, one time she accidentally started speaking chinese to me and english to the store clerk we were talking to. is that sorta what you mean??

Yeah! But let me add onto that, because I want to make sure that, like, I’m clear. Though somehow I think I may just end up more confusing.

Like, if my Spanish teacher said something in Spanish, I’d respond in Spanish (or try to; words I didn’t know or remember, it was fair to substitute bc it was a beginners class - but only at first. She wanted us speaking in ONLY Spanish, even if it was bad Spanish, eventually). If a classmate spoke to me directly after in English, it was natural to respond in English, like it was my reaction to speak in Spanish (though, speaking in Spanish took more effort bc I wasn’t fluent).

So, using them both is often, but - and here’s what I’m trying to say - Lance and other characters who are fluent in multiple languages wouldn’t have problems switching between languages the way a lot of White Writers (and I’ve been guilty of this in the past) like to portray it. (The word here is portray. We’ll get more to that.)

And the whole littering of dialogue (any English fanfic that still uses Japanese suffixes is a fair example of this, given they never explain why Japanese suffixes are being used in the place of English prefixes (like the dubs do; Mr. and Ms./Mrs. instead of -sensei/-san, Lord/Prince and Lady/Princess instead of -sama, and there’s not really a suffix equivalent of -kun or -chan. For someone younger “Little [name]” would be the equivalent, but otherwise - nicknames - Soul Eater fanfic is the most prominent culprit of Japanese suffix abuse in awkward places that I’ve ever seen bc it’s not even consistent on whether or not they’re using the suffixes or prefixes) even though the characters may not even know Japanese and are fluent in English, but that’s a convo for another time. Back to Spanish and dual-languages)…

Littering of sentences randomly with Spanish when speaking English doesn’t happen unless you a) forget a bunch of words and are speaking w another person who speaks Spanish/English (more likely, you’re stopping your sentence to ask “wait, what was the word for example?”), b) there’s no equivalent (the Korean concept of kibun comes to mind, our closest equivalents in English being “pride, dignity, honor” -  if you hurt someone’s kibun, you hurt their pride, damage their dignity. Also, mistranslations caused by improper localization - Japanese express “I love you” with the (translated) phrase “the moon is beautiful” (with the implication that it is beautiful bc you are there with them), or c) you’re trolling or making a pun (which is very common, but mostly done w someone who can truly appreciate it), d) those are the actual names of stuff and not, in fact, random words at all (implication that they have no name in English. Quesadillas, for example).

So, there’s context for switching languages.

Like, me speaking Spanish with my Spanish teacher, practicing Spanish with classmates - but speaking English with my family. Like, Lance would use English (fluently, mind you) with the Paladins, because English was what they all spoke, and have very little reason to use Spanish unless he was teaching them Spanish or they knew it.

He wouldn’t just slip into Spanish talking w people he usually talks to in English anymore than I’d have used English talking to my Spanish teacher (noob exceptions aside).

Which is where I get back to the portrayal bit.

It is so painfully common in Voltron fics for Lance to just slip into Spanish for no discernible reason, whether it be phrases (90% of the time google translated), random words (and I do mean random), or just, you know, the author wanting to throw in more (google-translated) Spanish bc…? fuck if I know??

When writing a character who’s bilingual, it’s good to know the context in which they’d use a different language (Lance is Cuban, so if you told me he speaks to his mom in all Spanish, I’d believe you, but if you told me he just starts slipping into Spanish with, say, Pidge who doesn’t (for our purposes) know Spanish at all with only the excuse “sorry, it’s hard to switch (to English)” and no context as to why he’d suddenly start doing so when he never has before…? No event or special train of thought?? Just opens his mouth in middle of conversation that was all-English and starts using Spanish (I’m going to once more emphasize google translate Spanish because this has been such a common phenomena of White Writers being completely fuck-all with Lance and Language, L&L, and this isn’t even getting into Lance talking dirty in Spanish, but I will mention the phrase “pass the queso” which was an official “add some dirty Spanish to vocab” thing from forever ago, I don’t even remember if it was on a book, magazine, or an add anymore - ‘queso’ meaning cheese, so, fail there) for literally no discernible reason than the author felt like it and had no understanding of the kind of context that’d prompt someone fluent in two languages to switch languages.

(Another note: I do, personally, say no bueno when something really bad or cringey happens. I picked up the habit from a friend from Arizona - but there is the context, huh? No bueno as a response to something cringey.)

Shockingly, I haven’t seen as much of the (well, if I got into the attempts about Lance’s dirty talking, I wouldn’t hesitate to call it fetishizing, because that also happens a lot and the same writers who throw in random bits of other language, google translated 90% of the time (because the people who ask for an actual speaker of the language to help them usually don’t do this randomly and then the use of the second language feels, you know, like the person actually cares about the language and isn’t using it as a throwaway in an awkward spot - but I’m not getting into the dirty talk bc that means getting into a ship that I’d rather not bc it’s since been ruined for me by it’s fandom, so we’ll go with a gentle) misuse of language with Shiro or Keith? Eh, I’ve probably just missed it.

I forgot my original point here, so,

tl;dr I think I was trying to say people do use multiple languages, but not randomly. There’s usually a reason they use one language over another. A native Spanish speaker might speak Spanish with their family and English at the work place and French with a friend who’s learning French and German with someone else in private (or not), and they might mix up the rules (understandable and not unusual) or forget a word and substitute OR get mixed up when Spanish Mom and French Friend both talk to them (,, it can be HARD to keep conversations straight I send people the wrong message all the time when it was meant for someone else, so, like, UNDERSTANDABLE) if that makes sense

edit: and that there are Voltron writers who should probably do a little more research and ask themselves if there’s an actual reason for inserting Spanish (or Japanese, or Korean), or if it’s just there so they can say they have Spanish in their fic even if its use doesn’t make a lot of sense at all.

edit 2: but it’s almost 2am so anything else that makes me feel like I need a more in-depth answer (even if partially for my own sanity and not bc I think the other person actually *needs* it, fine line there - what I do for myself and what I do for others/based on my opinion of others) will have to wait until tomorrow. Maybe even after I get off work in the evening

#language stuff #my aunt tara speaks like 9 languages #it's really hardcore #RUSSIAN IS ONE OF THEM AND IT INTIMIDATES ME #i only ever here her speak English to me tho bc I'm an English Person #so it's her response to speak English w me unless there's a special circumstance

[okwilliamson]

bored in class finna answer some questions

also hi, dont know if these words are actual french im here for the Q’s

ange (angel): what’s your opinion on religion? do you believe in anything? - heres the thing, i like the stories of religion but i do not believe in a god who decides who is going to be in my life and how my life will be played out, theres no way in my mind that that could be possible. I feel like while certain things probably are supposed to be the way they are I dont believe in an all knowing power who made it so. 

bisou (kiss): what’s your favorite place to be kissed? - im not gonna be mad at any kind of kiss tbh, i enjoy them all. the neck is fire tho- 

brûler (to burn): what are you most passionate about? - i think the things im most passionate about is my school, like i hate this shit and it annoys me and i cant afford it but its the only thing in my life i wanna be doing, i love everyone who im around at school all my friends bring me so much happiness, idk learning all about these arts and being around my homies who make me so happy is the best part of my life. I really am happy despite all the fucking bullshit i deal with on a daily basis

câlin (hug): who was the last person you hugged?- ummmmmmmmmmmmm i think seany i dont casually hug my friends very often even tho i should 

chaleur (heat): what are your favorite kinks? L M A O i dont have any fetish kinks i dont think, if so they havent been discovered yet- im pretty basic i think i like what every sad girl likes, being submissive tbh. same shit everyone says i feel like, choking, fingers in the mouth, being held down, tied down, being told what to do in bed, idk nothing super special 

chatoyer (to shimmer): what is sure to make you cry?- if im being really 100 if i think about life without my sister i start to cry like even typing this made me teary im dead ass in class with watery eyes lmfao 

chaussettes (socks): what do you misplace the most?- headphones, lip balm, lipsticks, and a lot of the time socks 

citronnade (lemonade): what’s your favorite beverage?- i should say diet coke since i have an addiction to it, i love coffee, tea, drink hella water, juice idk just do not come at me with milk bc i hate that shit 

coquillage (seashell): what’s your favorite sound?- i love the sounds of coffee shops, like the espresso machines and shit and the ambient sound of people talking and the cash register opening and closing. it feels yellow in coffee shops to me 

croquis (sketch): are you artistic? what’s your favorite medium?- i like to think im an artist in training, dont love all of the shit i create but also dont hate it. Im a photographer for sure. no other mediums make sense to me, 

doux (soft): where do you feel most safe?- when im at home its in my room idk i feel safe anywhere when i know i dont have to drive if im drunk or high and if im with someone i trust. its more about the people for me. I also like being alone to just not talk i need that sometimes. 

écarlate (scarlet): is it easy to make you blush?- yes its so ugly 

éclatant (dazzling): what was your first favorite song?- omfg i have no idea. when i was little i loved aaron cater and shit like that and disney songs 

étoile (star): believe in astrology?- i dont base my life choices on it or consult it every day but i like to read about it and i do believe that as far as personality your horoscope is usually accurate. 

floraison (bloom): do you believe in love?- i do & im ready for some

libellule (dragonfly): what’s your favorite super power?- my dad told me a story when i was little that when he was asked this question he said that if he could have any power it would be to be able to speak any and every language. and that always stuck with me. thats probably what i would choose if i could too 

luciole (firefly): what was your dream job when you were little?- i wanted to be a diner owner, like a traditional diner with rollar skates and big hoop skirts and shit for the servers. but that dream faded away and kinda just stayed in my childhood. 

nuage (cloud): what is your dream job now?- i dont know yet, i want to somehow be involved in the makeup community and also do my photography. I also love fashion photography?? idk not sure 

orage (thunderstorm): are you scared of storms?- not really honestly, i just dont like driving in any stormy weather. 

papillon (butterfly): any allergies?- to cats n dogs and grass and shit like that. but nothing severe. 

parapluie (umbrella): favorite kind of weather? when its gray and cold but comfortable enough to be outside. 

péripatéticien (wanderer): believe in ghosts?- yes i think but i never really decide 

piscine (swimming pool): do you like swimming?- meh 

plaisir (pleasure): your favorite dessert?- im not sure. i like all kinds except pineapple upside down cake i hate that shit 

pleuvoir (to rain): do you blow dry your hair or let it air dry?- my head is buzzed so i dont do anything to this jawn 

sirène (mermaid): any tattoos? If not, do you want any? - i have 3 and want about 40 more

soleil (sun): all time favorite concert you’ve been to?- probs twenty one pilots with my sister and annie. it was just so pure. 

tournesol (sunflower): favorite flower?- ummm peony i think 

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