Much love to this old lady whose reaction to Macron's Great Saucepan Ban of 2023 was to straight-up smuggle a saucepan in her purse past the police checkpoint to go clang it with a spoon near the president with renewed anger and determination.
Protesters today greeted the Prime Minister on an official visit by banging their shoes against walls to make noise, so I wonder how long we'll still be allowed to wear shoes.
(Joking about this is risky because after the saucepan protests on Monday, Le Gorafi (the Onion's French cousin) joked that the government would now take action to seize pans—and it became a reality on Thursday... We can't forget that our satirical news outlets are disproportionately affected by the bullshit inflation.)
Shuuchaku-kei Idol no S*x wa Ai ga Omo Sugiru - By Yomichi Ten (7.5/10)
The pressure is ON! A childhood friend returns all grown up. He's at the height of his success, so he finally has enough sway to ask for a break...and permission to date (and marry)! After years of waiting her idol lover is impatient and extra loving.
Aya is a high school teacher.
They boy she used to babysit is 18 now, and he's super famous.
She's a fan of him.
They're not as close as they used to be.
Kanaya used to have a crush on her. Everybody knew about it, but he was already a child actor. Nobody took him seriously. They barely saw each other. He was always away performing.
He announces his marriage. Aya has no clue that she's the wife. This is the first major yandere sign, because he's bulldozing through the proposal part like he'll die if he doesn’t marry her 8 seconds after he reaches adulthood.
He shows up before the TV special about him ends.
She's clueless so she asks him what changed. His marriage is so sudden. She has no clue who the mystery woman is.
She thinks he wants help planning the wedding at first.
She finally notices that she's about to sign her life away.
He confirms the obvious.
She tries to tell him...well...the truth. Getting married the day you turn 18 is
....insane?
Also getting married so young could mess with his career.
It looks like both sets of parents approve though, so that's out of the way.
He says yes. He'll wait. He does want to date his love before marriage.
The way Marine Le Pen cynically and relentlessly exploits every issue makes me want to throw up. She's all over this one, happy for the opportunity to side with her fellow far-right piece of shit politicians in Israel under the guise of caring about Jewish people, and denouncing the left for 'supporting Hamas'—which, yes, 1 far-left party made an inexcusable statement in that regard and it's not like there isn't antisemitism on the left, but still it boggles the mind to have Marine Le Pen smugly posturing as a moral authority on the matter, "these leftist hypocrites don't care if Jews die, unlike me and my fascist party funded by my Holocaust denialist father who speaks fondly of the Gestapo" CLOWN WORLD
Time & Space pages 1-2 ( This is the start || ao3 (not yet!) || next )
Starts less than 24 hours after the death of Willy Stampler. With the job done, there's finally time to sort some things out. They just need the right amount of space.