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Antoine Daniel vous a apporté le croque-monsieur

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🍎🐮🎩

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cringesnail · 15 days

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With every French lore reveal it becomes increasingly funnier that Étoiles may be the only French who’s not involved with the Federation and that he truly was just some French guy on the plane who was supposed to be collateral. And then he proceeded to destroy every enemy thrown his way and now the Feds have to figure out what to do with the unkillable cucumber on their island

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having Antoine as a neighbour is very Känguru core.

the guy knocks at Pierre's door to introduce himself and asks for eggs for a cake he's baking. Pierre just stares at the naked guy, lets his eyes wander towards the pile of dirt that has appeared behind his house for a sec, and back to the antoine who's still smiling before shuffling back to the kitchen and giving him a full carton of eggs. Antoine thanks him profusely and Pierre goes 'what are neighbours for haha am I right' before closing the door. Two minutes later Antoine is back with a big smile saying he also realised he doesn't have any flour left. Pierre stares again and goes to get it. 'Nice weather huh?' The floating guy asks. It's nighttime. And it's raining. '...sure' Pierre is too tired for this, but keeps a smile. He doesn't want to be the one to put a damper on the chipper guy's mood.

Pierre is already at the door the next time Antoine goes to knock on it. Says he needs milk too. He still has his big smile.

Out of politeness Pierre asks if he needs anything else.

'yeah actually, thank you for asking! I also need sugar, baking soda, chocolate chips, half a pound of butter, and vanilla extract.'

Pierre stares. His eyes must be the size of big melons currently. Antoine is still smiling brightly, probably not realising how he just listed off all the ingredients he needs for a cake. There's no way he would know and still ask.

Surely he just didn't realise.

Pierre goes back into the kitchen and carefully adds an extra spatula on top of all the ingredients.

Once again for the third time tonight, antoine profusely thanks him, looking at Pierre like he's some kind of deity, but still with that, well, now unsettling smile. Pierre watches him go back to his dirt pile in silence, still too shellshocked to understand why a floating guy is robbing his pantry and why he's letting him.

It's been three hours, three hours that aypierre could've spent sleeping, when antoine shows up again. He doesn't need to knock, the door is already open, and Pierre is already going to the kitchen asking what he needs.

"Well I noticed I also don't have a mixing bowl. Or an oven. Or a kitchen"

the neighbour smiles.

Pierre is going insane.

Five hours after Pierre should've gone to bed he is sitting at his kitchen table opposite a tentacled floating guy who smells of dirt, eating the cake he made after taking over from his truly clumsy neighbour with his own ingredients in his own kitchen. Antoine is going on about how it's important to help each other out as neighbours and to properly introduce yourself with cake.

He is saying 'my cake'

They both don't mention the first try sitting in aypierre's bin.

After having finished the cake, the sun starting to rise, antoine yawns and says he'll be going now.

Pierre is staring at his fork, not believing any of this to be true.

It doesn't really come as a surprise when twenty minutes later Antoine is back.

"I'm so sorry to disturb you again dear neighbour, but it has come to my attention that I also don't own a bed"

he says it like it's news to him, smiling and looking at Pierre expectingly.

Pierre cries.

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Updated QSMP AO3 Work Language Stats-- as of April 1st, 2024 (no, this is not an april fools' joke)

June 6 2023 stats, July 9 2023 stats, August 13 2023 stats, December 3 2023 stats

Hello! I meant to get this done around the year anniversary of the server, but that ultimately didn't end up happening, so we have it now about a week late-- considering the growth rate for the fandom, this shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Before we get into it, I want to say that the last year of QSMP fandom has been amazing. There's been a lot to deal with, but there's also been plenty of amazing fanworks, and I really do want to celebrate that along with the multilingual nature of the fandom.

Fun tidbits/disclaimers to start:

QSMP has 8739 works as of today!! That's about 6x as many works as it had in June of 2023, when I started doing these stats.

AO3 has 12,750,000 total works as of today (this is a rough estimate that displays on the front page when you're logged out, not an exact number).

There's a few more languages since my last update, including new languages on the server!

I've mentioned my methodology on previous stats posts, but just as a reminder, I gather this data manually by filtering by language within the QSMP tag. On occasion I miss a new language, but on the whole the significant numbers should be accurate.

QSMP Numbers:

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English has 7305 works and 83.71% of total works in QSMP.

Spanish has 893 works and 10.22% of total works.

Brazilian Portuguese has 452 works and 5.17% of total works.

French has 47 works and 0.54% of total works.

Korean has 0 works and 0% of total works.

German has 2 works and 0.02% of total works.

Russian has 7 works and 0.08% of total works.

European Portuguese has 5 works and 0.06% of total works.

Mandarin has 4 works and 0.05% of total works.

Polish has 2 works and 0.02% of total works.

The last nine languages, Latin, Esperanto, Malaysian Malay, Filipino, Vietnamese, Turkish, Danish, Finnish, and Swedish, all have 1 work and 0.01% of total works respectively.

Observations:

English has maintained 80% or above for the last year; the current percentage (83.71%) is the highest it's been at that I've observed. Spanish has been at a slight decline since the start of the server, with its high happening in June (again, from my observations) at 17.73% and the current percentage (10.22%) being the lowest. This could be attributed in part to a steady decrease of active Spanish speaking members over the course of the server but I wouldn't want to assign causation. Brazilian Portuguese works have stayed around 5% since December, French is at 0.5%. Korean is at 0, which isn't surprising to me; Korean has low numbers on AO3, and I assume most Korean speakers use other fanfiction websites. German is at 2 works, which I believe have been there for a bit (as in, since before Hugo was added).

European Portuguese obviously makes sense to be on here, as do Russian and Chinese (two of the most used languages on AO3 aside from English), and their numbers don't surprise me-- they haven't changed much over the course of the server's history. The other one-work languages are interesting, and to me demonstrate the growth of the server & fandom along with the way the fandom incentivizes and encourages creating fanworks in one's native language(s).

AO3 Numbers Across the Site:

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To repeat, AO3 has 12,750,000 total works across the site as of today.

English has 11,180,000 works and 87.69% of total works in QSMP.

Spanish has 154,900 works and 1.21% of total works.

Brazilian Portuguese has 35,980 works and 0.28% of total works.

French has 61,620 works and 0.48% of total works.

Korean has 2,957 works and 0.02% of total works.

German has 26,170 works and 0.21% of total works.

Russian has 266,200 works and 2.09% of total works.

European Portuguese has 1,150 works and 0.01 % of total works.

Mandarin has 766,200 works and 6.01% of total works.

Polish has 18,270 works and 0.14% of total works.

Latin, Esperanto, Malaysian Malay, and Danish have 95, 125, 116, and 344 works respectively and 0.00% of total works.

Filipino has 9,665 works and 0.08% of total works.

Vietnamese has 8,354 works and 0.07% of total works.

Turkish has 3,400 works and 0.03% of total works.

Finnish has 2386 works and 0.02% of total works.

Swedish has 1,039 works and 0.01% of total works.

All these numbers come from AO3's Languages page.

Observations:

The only changes I see here from June that I find interesting are that English has gone down over a percentage since last year-- I'm not a statistician, so I'm not sure if it's a super significant amount of change, but since English is by far the most tagged language on the site, I think any notable change is interesting. Mandarin is up slightly, but again, I'm not sure how to go about measuring what is a significant amount of change. Otherwise there's not a ton of changes I've seen over the last year, at least not in regards to the languages I've been tracking.

QSMP Changes Since June 2023:

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Biggest thing of note here is just the amount of languages-- we've gone from eight tagged languages to 19 tagged languages, more than doubling the number of languages from June. Super impressive! I hope we continue to see more and more languages used in fanworks.

Brief personal opinions time

In previous stats posts, I talked about reasons as to why these languages break down like this and what makes people interested in various characters. I think those points are all still pretty true, particularly the ones about interest in certain characters because of roleplay skill and centrality to the narrative, along with the usual reasons people like certain MCRP characters (hot creator, existing fondness from prior series, etc.) but I think the ways the server has changed and the characters people have latched onto as time has gone on have shifted somewhat, which is interesting to me.

This is less related to AO3 numbers and more the general fandom, but it's interesting to me to experience the fandom on Tumblr, Twitter, and AO3, where the language usages and focus on certain characters differs so much across platforms. We've all talked about this before, but the lack of an autotranslation feature on here really prevents a lot of multilingualism, whereas I've noticed a decent amount of people reading fic in various languages, probably bc the level of interactivity is very different on AO3 versus here.

If I have any more interesting analysis/theories/opinions/etc. I'll rb with those.

Final disclaimers:

Fics often get deleted from the archive for a myriad of reasons, and in the last several months there have been a lot of things that could and have led to works being deleted. This means both the growth rate for the fandom (which I'm not numerically tracking but do keep an eye on more casually) as well as these specific stats are impacted by these deletions. Not to get on my soapbox, but as someone who finds fandom history and archiving really important, I want to encourage people to orphan works rather than delete them. Here is the AO3 FAQ section on orphaning.

Languages are manually tagged by users; they are not double checked by the archive nor by me (I am not looking through almost nine thousand fics to check if the language tagged is actually accurate). Sometimes people tag the wrong language for various reasons, I can't do anything about this and on the whole most works are tagged correctly.

People sometimes tag for the wrong fandom, either on purpose or by accident, or works are wrangled into QSMP even though they don't necessarily involve the server. Wranglers make decisions based off usage, but if you genuinely feel there is some error in how something is wrangled, you can make a polite request for it to be fixed with Support and Feedback.

I am a volunteer tag wrangler for AO3; this does not give me any extra data-gathering capabilities nor do I agree with all actions/statements the org makes. I am disclosing this, and always disclose this, to make sure people are aware of any bias I may have. This is not free reign to harass me or any other wranglers who disclose their volunteer work.

If I did any math wrong, please politely let me know and I will fix the data. Again, I am not a statistician nor particularly talented at math, I'm just a nerd about languages and I enjoy looking at stats. Also sometimes people post or delete works while I'm in the middle of doing stats (this has happened, without fail, every time I've done these), so the numbers are inevitably a little off. I've learned to live with it.

#not doing my part because i write in english

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I'll maybe translate clips of antoine's stream tomorrow because it started STRONG

#soirée du lundi #antoine daniel #i am 5 years old when it comes to humour

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French news media Le monde has published an article on the QSMP situation.

Headline can be translated as « Minecraft : in the shadow of the stars of QSMP, volunteers under pressure are trying to see their rights be recognised »

For reference, « Le Monde » is the number one biggest newspaper in France.

I can’t share the entire article publicly as you have to pay to access its entirety. However, to summarise, it’s mostly about everything the admins revealed so far : how they weren’t paid much or at all for their work, the intimidation and pressure they faced, the abusive NDAs, the lack of communication, their sudden dismissal…

However, it also mentions that the union and the ex admins (at least the french ones) still haven’t heard back from Qstudios. The article also mentions that Le Monde’s journalists tried to reach out to Quackity, without success.

The union’s representative also says that they’ve organised and are organising meetings between lawyers and ex admins, shall some admins eventually want to start a legal procedure in front of the Prud’hommes court of law (the court specialised in labour law in France). Theyre saying that the goal would be to impose a dialogue with Qstudios and try to obtain financial compensation for the admins free labour.

Link to the article :

#LE MONDE ???? ? ??

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French Sniper

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I love all the lullabies Baghera ever sang to Pomme, but this will always be my favorite one. :')

Tu vas nous manquer Pomme, notre Manzanita. 🍎💙

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Thank you so much for your translations! It's definitely some much work...

I don't speak French and I can't learn it right now (I'm learning another language, which is really important to me right now), but I'm a big fan of French streamers but unfortunately I can't fully enjoy their streams when there are no working subtitles. And because of this, I miss a lot of amazing moments, but I'm doing my best to keep up.

Moment when Antoine showed Etoiles his "escape" through the ceiling of the cell with the silly emote(on qsmp). I missed it but with your clip i laughed my ass of.

Or your clip where Baghera bring up topic of breast milk... excellemment✨

Thank you again for your updates and posts in general ^^

I'm glad you enjoy them! They're really funny, especially when they're together and i think more people need to know that

#ask #anonymous #unfortunately when they stream together its chaos 90% of the time and if youre not fluent in french youre lost pretty fast #and even when i translate clips i have to cut out a LOT because its untranslatable or private jokes

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"Now you see the power of a qwertz keyboard"

- Baghera (she's the only one who doesn't need to rebind her keys to play microworks)

#soirée du lundi #context: in france we use azerty keyboards which is annoying when you play games that use wasd)#swiss people use qwertz (like germans)

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