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baeddel · 6 months
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thoughts i've had while reading the Foucault biography by David Macey:
(1) Foucault was a bourgeois and his entry into the elite higher educational institutions involved a number of processes that were designed very specifically to select for the children of bourgeois, in a way that reminds me a lot of the recent post by gothhabiba (click). one example which particular concerns philosophy is that entering the highly competiitve ENS would require knowledge of philosophy (Kant etc.), which was only taught to highschool students at the fee-charging lycees. further, philosophy was taught at lycees by ENS graduates, who may also be on the comittee that selects ENS applicants. this—along with a few direct interventions of actual nepotism—is how Foucault got there in the first place, because some (FAMOUS) men (like Jean Hyppolite!) met him as a child and decided he was 'very intelligent'. the same story repeats when Foucault gets his first few academic posts, with recognizable names balancing the scales for him. this does not seem to be something special but rather how all applications were judged and posts filled. there is a more subtle example for which analysis would be possible, but the book doesn't offer enough information, which is in the explicit discussion about how the topics for the oral agregation (necessary for graduation) should be selected. Macey concludes the section by saying that "[t]he 1951 agrégation [when Foucault graduated] had been a ‘Malthusian’ process of elimination: fourteen candidates were successful, and five of them were normaliens [ENS students]."
(2) throughout his youth into his late 20s (ie. the part i've read so far), Foucault seems to only ever—with the exception of patients and prisoners he met at the clinic when he worked there—interact with other members of the French elite. even in the communist party he attends a special ENS chapter and so forth. this may simply be because only famous men leave information to posterity, so we know less about Foucault's non-elite associations, or even that Macey just has nothing to say about those relationships, but it is quite striking. the same is not true of Deleuze per François Dosse's dual biography of Deleuze & Guattari (i mean anyway we talk about him in the same breath as Guattari who was not part of this system at all).
(3) he loved serialist music and had a live-in romantic relationship with a serialist composer named Jean Barraqué who was taught by Oliver Messaien. isn't that cool? they would go drinking between classes, just like we did when we studied serialism... haah...
(4) the biography skips around in time quite a bit; when Foucault first meets someone who will become important to his life we get a sort of summary of their whole relationship in rapid diegesis which will reoccur in a slower, although still diegetic, pace later in the book. this reminds me a lot of the way the Norse Sagas are written; in his excellent introduction to the Saga of Hrolf Kraki, Jesse Byock remarks that the author makes clear that he is compiling fragmentary sources by "telling the audience when one sub-tale ends and another begins: ‘Here ends the tale of Frodi and now begins the story of Hroar and Helgi, the sons of Halfdan.’" the biography of course also does this by explicitly mentioning, either in the text or in a footnote, which sources (books, interviews, letters, personal correspondences) the story is compiled from. when i thought about the Sagas i had thought of it as producing a very strange literary effect, almost like a Brechtian distancing effect, freely dispensing of suspense to remind the reader of the structural components of the narrative, and i have written some stories which try to perform this idea. however, now i realize that we still do this quite often, only in that peculiar form of literature called the biography, where it appears quite natural and doesn't surprise the reader. i think one explanation for the strangeness in the Sagas is that the Sagas are primarily in mimesis, and the sudden episodes of diegesis during which the story and the plot become momentarily disimbricated are surprising to a modern reader.
(5) Foucault suffers a bitter quarrel with another gay man named Jean-Paul Aron he was previously friends with which they would never rapproach. the reason for this quarrel is, according to Macey, because "one of Aron’s young lovers fled and took refuge with Foucault." Macey discusses this entirely in terms of "sexual jealousy" and "envy"—i suppose Macey is heterosexual because oh my god. doesn't that sound like such a familliar story to us... the guy had to run away from his partner and go and live with someone else over it... and it caused scene drama for the rest of their lives... what was going on there?
(6) in discussing the homophobia of the official French Communist Party to which Foucault belonged until 1953 (which was explicitly homophobic) the principal example which Macey chooses is a case where they expelled a highschool teacher for propositioning a pupil. for Macey this seems to only have the dimension of homosexuality, and neither the power dynamics of teacher and pupil nor the fact that the pupil was presumably a child are mentioned at all. this biography was written in 1993. it made me think immediately of a number of other instances of an adult man having or attempting a sexual interaction with an underaged boy, being penalized or imprisoned in some way, and the response of, essentially, the legitimate gay movement was to call it homophobic. i don't remember his name, but there was one composer, i think an American, in the 40s or 50s, who was imprisoned for sleeping with a 17 year old boy, and people came to his defense and considered the prosecution homophobic; similarly this highly sympathetic article (click) on the GLBT Encyclopedia Project about NAMBLA (who's periodical Delany used to read and recommend, something which he gets and still responds to emails about today), which opens with mention of "a successful effort on the part of gay activists to thwart a move by then-Boston District Attorney Garret Byrne to ferret out patrons of teenage male prostitutes via an anonymous telephone tip line", paints a picture where NAMBLA were relatively mainstream until the mid-80s. while i suspect this article of being at least a little apologetic it does also talk about gay organizing around changing age of consent laws & a line on how unequal enforcement of the age of consent was a tool to enforce homophobia, listing some impressive names who engaged in this kind of activism like Kate Millet and Gayle Rubin. and we also have, very infamously, Foucault's own advocacy on precisely the same thing, around the time of the petition, signed by Foucault and virtually every other French radical intellectual, to abolish the age of consent.
what do you think? from here doesn't it all look like a catastrophic blunder, something we're ashamed to remember and frightened to talk about? even when we're coming from an anti-carcereal, reparative, critical kind of perspective, something about the kind of narratives, defenses and advocacy from back then on such issues leaves us feeling alienated. i tend to think of it like this: that there was a historical situation where 1. all forms of homosexuality were illegal, 2. homosexuality was primarily understood in society, by both the right and left, as a kind of pedophilia, and 3. the concept of the age of consent was being redefined, socially and legally, at that time. this third point is specifically what Foucault was discussing in that interview, but i was interested to see the same point come up in a Defunctland video (click)(!), because—get this—one of the songs performed by Disney's in-house rock band Halyx was called 'Jailbait', and he asks the writer about it. on relistening to the song she immediately laughs in embarassment and says "please! what was i thinking back then!" and she has to basically do her own kind of historical-juridicial-philological analysis to attempt an explanation (timestamp), saying that they had "just done this thing saying that if you're over 18..." and so forth. her song by that title was performed by a female singer, and watching the performance i got the feeling that the intention was sort of twofold; in the first case, to exploit the imaginary erotic power of forbidden love ("i want you, baby / but you're jailbait"), and, in the context of a live performance, make the teenage boys in the audience feel wanted. i am not sure if the same effect is intended in Motorhead's song by that title ("i don't even dare to ask your age"). by the 90s you didn't get songs like this anymore; Boogie Down Productions' '13 and Good' is both condemnatory and paranoid and explicitly names it "statutory rape."
this isn't really a good thread of argument; i am not comparing like evidence. and i'd like to investigate contrary examples from that period—the documentary on NAMBLA Chickenhawk for example shows lesbian groups attacking NAMBLA members at demonstrations, and Andrea Dworkin was famously critical of NAMBLA—but i am anyway kind of interpreting Macey's framing as a 'pagan survival' of an older approach to these issues when they arose in a very different polemical context.
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enquiringangel · 6 months
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Do you think the Boys have any long-term goals? Things that requite years to learn like languages, instruments, maybe mechanics? Do you ever think they'd leave Santa Carla - or what might MAKE them leave?
Santa Carla is home, it’s like this nexus where all these dispossessed teens are drawn together and where they made a family. It’s comforting and familiar and it’s the stage where they act out their performance of eternal youth. In the movie I get the impression that they very much live in the moment. Like, almost aggressively so. It’s like they are caught in a bubble of time where the past is meaningless and the future doesn’t exist. To an extent I think they are all avoiding the deeper implications of potentially living forever.
If something—say, the events of the movie—were to come along and burst the bubble, I think there would be a lot of navel-gazing going on. Which is something I will be exploring in my David Lives AU ;-)
So Big long-term goals: no. Leaving Santa Carla? Yes possibly, if there was a drastic shake-up to their way of unlife. During the events of the movie they’re kind of stuck since I can’t see Max allowing them to go wandering.
But despite all that meta talk they would get bored if they did the same thing over and over again, so they have made an attempt to keep stuff interesting.
Languages - I feel like they would go through periods of being really into this, listening to teaching cassettes and attempting to practice on native speakers and on each other, but also fallow periods where they drop it for ages and pick it up again later. I can see Paul wanting to learn French because it’s a romance language and he thought that it would be sexy. But he got unexpectedly into it and started learning other languages from there. He’s also the most willing to accost random humans to practice speaking with them, whereas Dwayne’s collection of half-learned languages is mostly written word focused. This is in comparison to David whose linguistic skills are pretty abysmal. (There is some very rusty Gaelic knocking around in that noggin’ though.) Marko is usually Paul’s guinea pig so he picks up a fair bit from him.
Instrument-wise Paul is the most musical but he taught the others to play guitar. (As a child he was made to learn violin. There is one gathering dust in the cave somewhere.) Marko is tone deaf and cannot tell the difference between notes of music to save his life. Dwayne is passable but lacks interest to commit to it, though he taught himself to play piano. David picked up the most from Paul’s instruction and is fairly good, actually. Sometimes Paul gets him to come and jam.
For a very brief time, there was a drum set down in the cave. Very brief.
Mechanics-wise they are all interested in things that go vroom vroom but Dwayne and David are the most mechanically minded. They strip engines down together and reassemble them. Dwayne is more handy at fixing stuff but David can look at a car and know all the specs for that make and model. Sometimes he steals them to take them for test drives and rate their performance. In the cave there is a pile of tattered and soggy car magazines sandwiched between old editions of playboy and men’s ‘physique magazines’.
Marko is always knee-deep in some art project or another, which may or may not get abandoned before it is finished. He once tried to build a model of the hotel in its heyday using matchsticks.
Also Dwayne once introduced Marko to the theories of the Behaviorist B. F. Skinner, whose work in operant conditioning included training pigeons. One of the things they were taught to do was play ping-pong. Marko took a look at the wild birds hanging out in the hotel and immediately decided to try it.
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missazura · 11 months
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Okay sorry if it was a bit or something and you didn't want an infodump explaining this, but about Phillip sounding British when he's actually American... (Also I apologize if you already knew any of this, I'm not trying to be patronizing I just find it fascinating and I know a lot of people weren't taught this.)
So the Puritans (which he's heavily implied to be a part of) were an extremist Christian sect that overthrew the English monarchy in a pretty brutal civil war. They proceeded to crack down on civil liberties and rights on account of something something Jesus. They ended up banning stuff like theater, music, Christmas (not a joke), and heavily restrict the rights of women and minorities. So needless to say they weren't exactly welcome in England after their leader Cromwell got replaced by the King's son. On account of people hated their guts and were sick to death of their No Fun Allowed horseshit. As a result, they fucked off to the "New World" and became some of the first European colonists. So, many of them probably retained the accent but adapted to life in the Colonies. They are widely credited for spearheading America's evangelical Christian cult problem, our wack-ass beliefs about human rights and who is worthy of respect, and also were the main bastards responsible for the Salem Witch Trials.
So Stinky Phil may have been born in England, or even a first- or second- generation English immigrant. Or he was just raised by people who had that accent and picked it up despite being born in the Colonies. Many people at the time thought of themselves as British, and some even thought that after the Revolutionary War. (The Salem Witch Trials which were alluded to in the story happened in 1692, while the Revolutionary War happened in 1775-83.) I personally headcanon that Caleb and Phillip's parents died crossing the Atlantic Ocean or in some armed conflict (Local conflicts? French and Indian War maybe?) and that's why they were forced to roam around.
Also, a slight tangent: What we now think of as The English Accent TM was invented later in time by English aristocracy so that they didn't have to speak in the same way as commoners. It then became extremely popular and desirable to sound like that (classism ahoy!), so then many common people adopted it as well. The "original" English accent sounded closer to many American accents than the current one we generally think of. There's some cool info out there about it! To quote a BBC article, "Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home."
Source: I'm English-American (big yikes) and I love history :-)
WHAT THE FUCK IM GETTING MY MIND BLOWN RIGHT HERE AND NOW??? COOL, COOL
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alpaca-clouds · 7 months
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Castlevania Language Headcanons
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I spoke about language in Castlevania before. Like most media the series mostly just shrugs off the entire language barrier. People are just magically able to communicate. No matter from how far apart they actually are.
But personally I find it interesting to think about what languages the characters realistically would have spoken or been able to speak.
Trevor would probably mostly just know Romanescu (old Common Romanian). A language I might note that is a bit different than modern day Romanian, as it had a lot more slavic bits in there, than the modern language does. He might also have known bits and pieces of old Hungarian and Common Turkish, given the political situation at the time. Though I kinda doubt he would've been fluent. I do assume that his family once upon a time would have taught him Latin and Ancient Greek, but I doubt he would remember a lot of that.
Alucard meanwhile would probably know at least the ancient languages. I see Dracula as very intrested in teach him. So, I got to assume that Alucard will know Romanescu, Latin, Ancient Greek, but probably French, Hungarian, Turkish and maybe some Arabic as well.
Sypha seems to canonically just know all the languages. Given the effort was made to cast her with an Hispanic actress and having her speak with a Spanish accent, I assume Spanish is her mother tongue, but she clearly also speaks Romanescu and seems to at least be able to read a write a plethora of ancient languages. Given the fact she has travelled a lot, I will also just assume that she knows a lot of current languages at the time. Probably enough to understand most languages spoken in Europe.
It do assume the trio will use Romanescu to communicate with each other.
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Assuming that Dracula is in this timeline still Mathias from France, he will speak Old French, though the question remains whether he understands the Middle French spoken at the ime the series takes place. I do assume though. Given his entire think with knowledge and his almost obsessive collection of it, I just am going to assume he has learned a lot of languages throughout his life, probably being able to at least understand most languages spoken throughout Europe and Asia.
Lisa probably only knows Romanescu, when she arrives at the castle. Maybe some Latin, if she had tried to learn some medicine before. I am going to assume, though, that Vlad is gonna do some work polishing her Latin and Greek at least.
Still assuming, though, that they are going to hold most conversations in Romanescu.
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Hector and Isaac are a bit more complicated, of course. Because we know little about them.
It stands to reason, that Hector's mother tongue is Greek (given he grew up on Rhodes) and Isaac's is Arabic. Given he has probably consumed quite a lot of ancient texts and texts about alchemy, I think Hector will at least be able to read and write in old Greek and Latin. I also am going to assume that under Dracula he learned some Romanescu? He might also know some Turkish, given that during his childhood Rhodes was under Turkish control.
Isaac is a bit more complicated, because canonically we do not really know where he got enslaved and what not. In my headcanon I went with him being dragged all the way up to Italy, so he speaks Italian. Given he was a slave in a monastery and tried to help, I assume he knows Latin as well (and quite frankly, learning Latin, when you know medieval Italian is not that hard). I have him end up in Greece, due to the ongoing conflict with the Ottoman Empire, after he escapes. Hence, he speaks Greek as well.
Meaning that in all my Isaactor stuff, the two communicate a lot in Greek.
Given they end up in Austria, though, they do learn German soon enough. Speaking of which...
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The sisters are interesting in regards to their lannguages.
Now, Carmilla very probably is from Austria and always has been from there, so she would speak Old High German as her mother tongue. Given she was a vampire for a while, she probably learned a few languages, though. I gotta assume she knows Latin at least, especially given that at the time Latin was kinda the official language of politics in many regards. I am gonna assume she knows at least some Italian, Old French and Hungarian, too.
As I explained before: I assume that Lenore originates in Scotland. But given she was taken from her family as a child, she knows very little in terms of Scottish Gaelic and for the most part her mother tongue is old English. Given she was nobility, she has learned Latin, too. She also is the diplomat of the group, so I gotta assume she knows quite a few other languages as well, just to keep up her position. Very certainly Romanescu, too, given it is Vlad's main spoken language and he seems to be the big boss of vampires.
Morana, of course... Honestly, I am just gonna assume she knows all the languages. The woman is more than a millennium old. Depending on whom you ask even older than two millennia. She had the time to travel. She knows all the ancient languages for certain and if she knows Akkadian, Persian and Phoenician the other languages springing from that will be easy. I have her travelling Asia, too, so she kows at least Hindi, Chinese and Japanese as well.
Striga is a bit more interesting. She speaks with a Slavic Accent and her voice actress is from Croatia. Which made me put Striga there, too. She has to have travelled a bit. And of course she will probably speak Old High German with the sisters. I kinda want her to have learned old Akkadian to speak that language with Morana. Because that would be sweet.
I am going to assume that in everyday life the sisters speak Old High German with each other.
I am also going to assume that Lenore, to woe Hector, is gonna speak Greek with him.
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si1v3rtr33s · 1 month
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bungo stray dogs bilingual/multilingual character headcanons, barring the obvious ones (guild members = english and japanese, rimlaine = french and japanese, fyodor = russian and japanese, nikolai = ukranian and japanese) and the extra obvious one (everyone speaks japanese)
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akutagawa with french and chinese, because he used an oddly high amount of french in his stories and a lot of them had influence from chinese mythology. also i think it’d be sweet to see him learning french from gin who learned it from verlaine.
speaking of, gin and kyōka learning french from verlaine. i just think those three sitting in the basement together, teaching and learning, would be cute. and i wanna see atsushi and kunikida confused as to why kyōka can speak fluent french.
atsushi with chinese for similar reason as akutagawa. we’ve seen him reading in a library, so it wouldn't be far-fetched to say they had access to other languages. i also think that kyōka is teaching him french and lucy is teaching them english.
chūya taught himself some english in the sheep, which was reinforced by doc (who we are going to hear about later), and taught himself french after rimbaud’s death because he felt drawn to the language. a year later, he met his french brother and resented the language a little bit for a while but come meursault and he can actually talk to any of the locals they come across because he picked it back up after dazai defected.
ranpo speaks way too many to count. he got bored as a kid and they just stuck. english is most notable and most commonly used (mainly poe but also the occasional foreigner witness or run-in with fitzgerald), but i imagine him speaking some german, chinese, latin, french, and a bit of filipino. anyone can add on to this list with little to no reason and i would accept it.
the tanizakis are learning english in school because y’know. school curriculum. i think poe is helping them study and that would be cute.
dazai learned german in the pm just to speak very aggressively at mori. i think it’d be funny to see him and ranpo, slacking off and holding a conversation in german. nobody can understand them and think they’re making plans or discussing a confidential case, but they’re just talking about something trivial like cats or candy or just gossiping. they also know a good bit of english, enough for him to hold conversation decently well with poe (which is an achievement in and of itself; poe speaks eloquent english and dazai speaks old man japanese) (see the first few chapters of the manga to see what i'm talking about because they said some of the most grandpa-type shit to atsushi there). i think it’d be nice to give him some down time.
jōno knows braille and japanese sign language. neither are spoken languages, but sign language is a language of its own with its own grammar and vocabulary. and braille because... he’s blind.
adding onto that, techō knows braille for jōno and sign language because (headcanon) he’s hard of hearing. and because he goes nonverbal (autism) and still has to communicate somehow.
you know what, all five hunting dogs (yes even fuckcoochie) know sign and braille. because they are a family (yes even fuckcoochie, but only before the doa arc) and they accommodate each other. and they need something to do on the day off but that’s a discussion for another time.
sigma is a funny one since we don’t know their author, but their name is literally just a greek letter so they know greek and their dad is russian so uh nikolai’s teaching them russian so they can communicate with fyodor easier. have at thee.
ango knew a little english, enough to hold a half-decent conversation. dazai tutored he and oda (pre-t homo teaches their homo dads english) when they had nothing better to do.
hhh time for white people.
fyodor and nikolai know the other’s native language because russian and ukranian are similar enough and fyodor’s japanese sucks ass (and nikolai hits on fyodor in russian/ukrainian so nobody knows what the fuck they're saying). fyodor also knows latin and hebrew because he’s canonically orthodox and he’s just devoted like that. and latin is pretty.
bram, other than irish gaelic and japanese because yes irl bram stoker was irish mhm potatoes red hair (catch me drawing bram with reddish hair and freckles), i think he’d know english because british people (`_´)ゞ (/pos) and a bit of french and german.
the younger guild members (minus lucy because parentless behavior /hj) know some spanish because of the american school system and i’m not going to bother looking up whether second language was required in the eighties and nineties. (future silver here, i asked my mom that went to high school in the nineties and it was but spanish was the only option so i had to rewrite poe’s section smh fuck the american school system’s history)
poe also taught himself french because they thought the language was pretty and got hooked and a pastime turned into passion and now they’re fluent ten years later. he’s silly like that. and they understand raccoons because karl is their son. yes raccoon is a language and poe, ranpo, lovecraft (see next paragraph), and kenji are fluent.
lovecraft knows irish gaelic because i’m pushing my (kuni)bramcraft agenda (multishipper behavior smh) and i think they’d know french because poe taught them and raccoon because karl was there too and i strive to put images of fluffy platonic domestic situations into people’s minds.
nathaniel hawthorn (that minister guy that akutagawa fucked up and shot sigma) knows latin and hebrew too for the same reasons as fyodor except he’s catholic.
you might think i’m gonna bring up fitzgerald and languages he knows but his entire character is what the fuck is a kilometer and capitalism (/j) so no he only knows 🦅🇺🇸american🇺🇸🦅 english and semi-fluent japanese with weird pronunciation because WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER RAAAAHHHHHHH (yes i am american and yes i am ashamed)
i think verlaine picked up a lot of different languages in his nine years of being the assassin king. english, german, italian, turkish, filipino, czech. you name it, he can probably hold a decent conversation in it. any time the pm gets a document they can’t translate for one reason or another, down to the basement it goes. he may or may not be teaching q his tricks…
and now dead people.
rimbaud also picked up a few languages, but forgot a lot in his amnesia. before the suribachi incident (in which they and verlaine were nineteen, aka not really adults, which not enough people know or talk about), he had english down fluently as well as a little german. rimbaud my beloved.
so the flags… a funny group that i’ve attached myself to despite them having about fifty pages of life. tragic. doc canonically went to med school here in the states, so he knew english fluently. i don’t think iceman knew anything other than japanese simply because i don’t think he saw any reason to. i’m on the fence with piano man and albatross because my brain says they didn’t know anything else but my heart says they knew something else as well. piano man is leaning toward latin because he’s pretentious and annoying like that and if he did then albatross knew it too just to fuck with him. i also think albatross, if he knew anything else, knew the languages of the surrounding countries because he was the head wheelman and often went on “excursions” with chūya. so korean, russian, thai, and filipino. maybe a little indonesian, as a treat.
lippmann gets their own section because favoritism. they were head of relations so they definitely spoke with foreign allies and enemies. they were also an actor, so i like to think they dubbed their lines themself. i’m thinking english, spanish, korean, and french because, again, they’re pretentious like that. and job requirements but whatever.
as for oda, i think he knew a little english but he was nowhere near fluent. he was a simple man.
shibusawa-sensei irl translated french works to japanese so add them to the list of french speakers. in real life he sucked in german class so no seltsam wütend language for them. and i think they’d speak latin because, and say it with me, they’re pretentious like that.
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Personally, I think it is very OOC but I wrote it at a time when not too much information was given to us about Vil.
"Could you perhaps write Vil trying to teach you some German in whatever format works for you!"
You ask Vil to teach you some German and lucky for you, he is in the mood to entertain you.
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Loud footsteps in a fast rhythm can be heard in the hallway leading to Vil’s personal room. Those steps are none other than yours.
You took a bit longer to finish writing down what is on the board so you were one of the last ones to get out of the classroom. There you nearly bumped into Rook, if he wouldn’t have the reflexes of a hummingbird. “Oh là là! Bonjour Trickster! You need to be more careful alas you will end up bumping into someone.” You apologize and ask him what he is up to since he is usually not hanging around the first-grader classrooms. “I need to pick up Monsieur Crabapple, we do have some things to attend to today, such as our French lessons.” Surprised by that, you ask him if this is included in your curriculums. “Absolument pas! But it would have been nice if our teachers also taught different languages besides the main ones...Maybe I would be able to take German and talk to Roi de Poison in German whenever we talk about a topic which he does not wish other people to hear.” ...Wait, hold on a minute, you think inside your head. Vil can speak German? Your boyfriend can speak German and you didn’t even know?? “Where is Vil right now?”, you interrupt him without a second thought. “Hmm...I think he should be in his quarter right now.” You turn and wave a quick goodbye, leaving behind a slightly confused yet amused Rook.
Having heard your footsteps, he turned away from his math homework he had sitting on his desk and looked at the door. Several seconds later he hears you knock, “It’s me! I have to talk to you!”. He told you to come in and close, not slam, the door, please. You look him dead in the eye and voice your frustration. “Why am I the only one who doesn’t know that you can speak German?”. Vil looked at you, at first he seemed surprised but then his usual poker face came back. “I do not remember you asking me what languages I can speak and considering the fact you cannot speak German, I did not deem it important enough to bring it up.”, he answered matter-of-factly. You stomped over to him, now facing him with only a few inches between your faces. “I am in a relationship with you, we are dating. Of course I wish to know as much as humanly possible about you, even if it seems of little importance to you, to me it is.” Finally understanding that you are genuinely upset, he tells you to sit down on the bed beside him. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to keep it from you. I just much rather talk about other things when we actually manage to spend time together, you know I do love you a lot and I cannot spend as much time with you as I wish. But let me know if there is anything you want us to do today? I do have a bit of spare time and I wish to make it up to you somehow.” At this, your eyes light up. “Yes! I want you to teach me some German words!”, you smile brightly. “You...want me to teach you German?”, he asks, unsure why that would be something you wish to spend on, especially since he needs to push you to do study more often than not. So you wanting to learn German is kinda surreal. After a bit of hesitation, he laughs and tells you he will do that once he finishes the math homework he has been doing before you barged into his room.
Several minutes pass with you browsing through the magazine which lied on his bed. “Okay, I’m done. We can start now. But beware, I am a strict teacher, even if it is my beloved I am teaching.”, he now sits beside you with his usual charming smile. You feel like melting whenever he does that but you really want to be able to learn some German words you can use and this is a perfect opportunity.
“Okay, is there any word you have in mind or even phrases?”, he asks while taking a paper and a pen, to write down the words for you. “Hmmm, for starters I’d really like to know what ‘potato’ means, you always call certain classmates that, so I want to say it as well but if I say it in German they won’t know.” He chuckles, “That’s a really weird reason, but okay, whatever you want!”. He writes down ‘Kartoffel’ and then pronounces it slow so that you can hear how you say it correctly. Finding excitement in that, you write down a lot of words you describe Vil as so that you can call him those things in German. Like hard-working - fleißig, beautiful - wunderschön, attractive - anziehend, regal - edel, neat-freak - Putzteufel, and so on. “Hmm. that was fun, but how about you call me in all kinds of nicknames you give your lover in German”, you smirk. Vil barely called you by any pet name, so you just had to use this chance to get pampered with love-filled nicknames that you can now also call him in the hallways because no one will know what you just called him but Vil himself. He thinks for a moment. Then he gets closer to you and looks you deep in the eye and starts calling you “Liebling...Süße...Bärchen...Maus...Hase...Schatz...Mein Ein und Alles” in a hushed voice, almost making it sound sexy if he wouldn't have started laughing so hard after he finished. “Hahahaha, this was so cringy, I just can’t take it anymore! Haha...but hey, maybe that will be good acting practice, calling you all those pet names or you calling me those pet names, since this was your plan all along, wasn’t it?” Now looking at you again, with his beautiful light violet eyes. He smiles and puts his hand on your cheek before leaning in and giving you a sweet kiss. He loves his lips to your ear and nibbles softly, whispering in a low voice “Ich liebe dich so sehr, du bist die einzige Person, die es je geschafft hat mein Herz zu erobern...mein ganz persönlicher Schutzengel.” He then stands up abruptly as his smartphone alarm goes off. “Wait! What does that mean? What did you say??”, confused you ask him but he only gives you one more quick kiss, telling you with a soft smile “That’s for you to figure out.”, and leaves the room with his smartphone in hand.
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(Except it's mostly me freaking out about Lithuanian Kaz.)
Kazimieras
Kaz is Lithuanian! Inspired by his name, which is the Lithuanian variant of the name Casimir. Interestingly enough, Casimir comes from "mir/u" [peace] and the other half could either stem from "kazać" [to preach] or "kazic" [to destroy]. Basically Kaz's name could either mean "bringer/preacher of peace" or "destroyer of peace". Symbolism!
Most Lithuanians are Catholic, thus why he has so many siblings
They immigrated to the US when Kaz was a baby. He can speak Lithuanian, specifically the western Aukštaitian dialect, but ONLY if he doesn't think about it. Oliver asks him how to say a word in Lithuanian, Kaz just shrugs, then has an entire conversation with his mom in the language.
EDIT: Kazys is a diminutive of Kazimieras, so his family calls him that.
Oliver
Bridget definitely made him take French lessons as a child, so he knows basic French.
Skylar Storm
""Calderan"" doesnt exist the same way "Human" or "Terran" doesn't exist. I headcanon that Skylar & her kind, including the lava creatures that raised them, aren't actually native to Caldera. The lava creatures taught Skylarkind English, though over time it evolved into its own dialect with lots of loanwords/grammar from the native languages of Caldera. Earth is sort of the galactic hub of the universe, thus why the lava creatures chose English as their language.
It's Calderan humor to describe things as their complete opposite, i.e calling candy "diarrhea". Over time the jokes stopped being jokes and just became their name (like non-plussed, which means both "unsettled" and "undisturbed").
Gus
Speaks the most obscure languages in the world for no particular reason.
Horace & Alan Diaz
Horace speaks Old Castilian, Mexican Spanish, and Classical Arabic. He mashes them up in amusing ways.
Alan was raised thinking that's just How People Talk, and so will casually drop Spanish/Arabic words into conversation and then call people stupid when they don't understand. He also knows bits & bobs of a few alien languages.
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Right trying this again cause I accidentally posted it halfway through writing it so 💀 scarlet Headcanons.
Bare in mind this is not for all the characters, there's a limited amount of them that I actually have solid headcanons for.
Paul Metcalfe
I get he's the main guy but I have zero headcanons for the guy, probs the only one being bi but that's literally all the characters to me. I see a lot of Scarlet and Blue stuff which is fun but my brain sees Scarlet not really wanting a relationship with anyone, guys just happy as is and working on his mysteron self.
Adam Svenson
Born and raised in Sweden with his first language being Swedish.
Can also speak French.
His mother lives in Sweden whilst his father moved to America when Adam was a teen.
He has 2 younger sisters, Lena and Johanna. His favourite colour weirdly enough is blue, but he tends to like darker shades.
He has a mix of European and American music taste. Some of his favourite musicians are Great Van fleet, Poor man's poison, Ghost and Käärija.
Freckly guy
NCS Blue, bulky and short, OCS Blue, tall and less bulky, slightly slimmer than his NCS counterpart.
This probs goes against my statement in the Scarlet section but despite Scarlet and Blue never being together, Blue did have a crush on Scarlet in the beginning, which since they r good pals, they spoke about, Adam learning that Paul wasn't really the relationship guy, they both laugh about it now and overall it made their relationship stronger.
Bisexual
Bad relationship with father. Very good relationship with his Mother.
Patrick Donaghue
Like blue his first language isn't english, He was raised speaking Gaelic. He learnt when he moved to America where he was taught by schools but also his long time best friend Maria Moro (Uh oh sounds like Mario Moro, guess who's rlly not that incentive).
Can also speak Italian and French.
He is gay but only realised it in recent years. He has a Child (with Maria) who was an accident after a night out together, called Rosa Moro-Donaghue.
Patrick and Maria were never in a romantic relationship, they remained 2 friends that raised Rosa, well mainly Maria due to Patrick's criminal life. But she ended up getting a boyfriend, Stephen, who she ended up getting engaged to. Patrick stills remains good friends with Maria and stays with them when he's off duty.
Is in a relationship with Ochre. They hated each other in the beginning, a cop and a criminal ya know how it is. Despite Ochres faked death and change of appearance Magenta recognised him pretty quick.
Their iffy start is why White placed them together, he wanted them to learn from each other and grow and they did. They started spending more and more time together and sometimes Ochre joined Magenta on his trips to see his family (Maria, Stephen and Rosa).
He has a rocky relationship with both his parents and doesn't speak to them anymore.
Still has ties with his criminal background, despite them being criminals still many of them were close friends. They are also useful with information if there's mysteron sightings in NYC.
A short guy, slim, moles, a lot of scarring.
Richard Fraser
Is quite quiet, he tends to keep to himself, until he is on duty.
He suffers from depression, mainly due to his fake assassination meaning he couldn't see his family whom he was very close with.
Is bi, something he realised very recently. He spoke with Magenta about his feelings and together they had a deep conversation leading to him working out his identity.
Tall, a bit of fat with muscle.
He likes to read on his time off. He goes through books very quickly, he always reads before bed unless he is exhausted.
Conrad Turner/Lefkon
This one is kind of a mix between both versions because the headcanons kinda work for both but I edit them to match each version but overall r the same kinda headcanon.
Has cat(s). Conrad Turner picked up a stray when he was Mysteronised, the cat stays in the same area and if he can he goes to see it, when the mysteron war is over, the cat is still there, around 6 years old. Turner picks it up and adopts it as a little companion for his recovery. Lefkon has 2 cats, gin and tonic, he got them when he was in his mid twenties when he was recovering from war related injuries, he was staying with his dad at the time. The two cats stay with his dad whilst he is on duty.
Lefkon is close with his father, and was close with his mother before her passing when Lefkon was 23 years old.
Suffers with depression and PTSD due to wars (and his mother's untimely passing, in Lefkons case)
Can speak English, Russian, Greek and french.
U would think I'd have loads of Cap Black headcanons but shockingly I vibe with most of canon for this rat.
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“Another may have to do with the volumes of information we have and have had for a long time about the various countries and regions in Europe where as Africa was mostly split up between the desert and not the desert, learned some German history in High School but did you learn about Chad or Kenya. That's a thing that's getting better too. “
Yeah that the thing (thanks social Darwinism) for decades we had bare minimum information about Africa in the Americas which cause a identity crisis among
Now for claiming Africa, well for centuries black Americans were told that Africa was only a shithole by white supremacists and the only “African” empire that was known was Egypt
Though an extremely fetishized as AC Origins discovery tour pointed it Egyptmongy was very different to what it is now.
Actually tangent, Dave from here posted a video of black teens selling cornstarch on tik tok. I pointed it out that that been happening in my family for generations
Then he found an article saying a lot of central Africas eat mud.
…Also did my research and learn black Americans especially in the north eat corn starch because we couldn’t make the same conditions for eating mud.
Well at least I know it genetic!
Now after women king came out, I think you posted a screenshot where dna ancestry can show us what tribes black Americans with slave ancestry came from….tbh I should have realize that because Assassins Creed is based off pseudo science inspired by dna ancestry
But I notice in general that black Americans are taught a 60’s pan Africa style of African history (almost like our education system is shit) which is why a lot of native Africans complain about the look of Wakanda and why Americans think their living in 600 bc
Because…that how we were taught in public school systems. Only vauge references to African kingdoms beyond Egypt
Do you really think we would have lionized the Dahomey if the fact they are reasons my people were slaves much like Jews know about their dispora cause by Hadrian?
Are there any African tribes that worked with the French to stop the Dahomey? I got a idea
Now for claiming Africa, well for centuries black Americans were told that Africa was only a shithole by white supremacists and the only “African” empire that was known was Egypt.
Ethiopia gets a mention here and there too, been around a long time but they're just a stones throw away of the Arabian peninsula they didn't get too far south cuz malaria and such though, even Egypt didn't go too far south.
We don't get a lot about the history of SubSaharan Africa because nobody knows what it is.
MENA, most of Asia, and Europe we have written records for, stuff we can cross check with other written records if people want to start in on 'oral history' stuff which there's no concrete way to prove.
That dirt thing was new to me, if it works though why not.
But I notice in general that black Americans are taught a 60’s pan Africa style of African history (almost like our education system is shit) which is why a lot of native Africans complain about the look of Wakanda and why Americans think their living in 600 bc
I know we covered the Zulu's when I was in school, but again they're easy since not only are they kind of recent, as kingdoms go, they also were interacting with the European powers, and getting their asses handed to them at Rorkes Drift, one reason the whole we'd have had wakanda if not for colonialism dies really fast, one of the main things Europeans traded to Africans was guns and other bits of technology that they didn't have.
The Americas were still basically in the stone age portion of the global technology tree, not a lot of metalworking going on.
Iron swords and armor were a superweapon at the crossover point of the bronze and iron ages and we showed up on the continents with steel.
On the information front it would be interesting to get the oral histories collected, not that it could be taken as factual information, Bible is fairly accurate but has its issues as well, mostly embellishing the size of armies and such, but getting stories from there would be nice I think get that tossed into the world history courses.
Do you really think we would have lionized the Dahomey if the fact they are reasons my people were slaves much like Jews know about their dispora cause by Hadrian?
might have had a tougher time selling it, but remember it was a white woman that put that film together so it may well have still happened.
If they want something good with a group that actually fought for freedom against those who were enslaving them, you have to step out of Africa and into Mexico but the Yaqui Indians, the federal government of Mexico was scoping them up and selling them for $1 or less to sugar plantations that would literally work them to death.
This is after kicking France out mind you, and they were doing this up into the 20th century, because the Yaqui refused to submit to Mexican rule at least that's one reason they were sold to farmers. ___________________
That's another thing they don't teach in school for you.
Many Yaqui were sold at 60 pesos a head to the owners of sugar cane plantations in Oaxaca and the tobacco planters of the Valle Nacional, while thousands more were sold to the henequen plantation owners of the Yucatán.
By 1908, at least 5,000 Yaqui had been sold into slavery. At Valle Nacional, the enslaved Yaquis were worked until they died. While there were occasional escapes, the escapees were far from home and, without support or assistance, most died of hunger while begging for food on the road out of the valley toward Córdoba.
At Guaymas, thousands more Yaquis were put on boats and shipped to San Blas, where they were forced to walk more than 200 miles to San Marcos and its train station. Many women and children could not withstand the three-week journey over the mountains, and their bodies were left by the side of the road.The Mexican government established large concentration camps at San Marcos, where the remaining Yaqui families were broken up and segregated. Individuals were then sold into slavery inside the station and packed into train cars which took them to Veracruz, where they were embarked yet again for the port town of Progreso in the Yucatán. There they were transported to their final destination, the nearby henequen plantations. ____________________
There's more of them in the US than Mexico, in a twist of irony they came to the US to escape slavery and ethnic cleansing.
Are there any African tribes that worked with the French to stop the Dahomey? I got a idea
Ya whichever ones the Dahomey were using for slaves likely linked up with the French on that one, much like with Mexico it was Cortez and 300 Spaniards as well as 30,000 pissed off locals who were tired of having their children hauled off to be human sacrifices.
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The week before Pulp began their French tour to promote the newly released His 'n' Hers LP, Jarvis was interviewed by a journalist from a French newspaper in what sounds like a busy London café. The following is edited from the transcript of their 45 minute chat. Complete interview transcription: Here
Could you describe the other musicians in the band and tell me what kind of people they are?
Well, I'll have a go. Russell has been in the band the longest apart from myself. He joined at the end of 1984 [actually end 1983!]. I'd say he's probably the most intense person in the group as people will probably guess because of his stare. He's always had a piercing stare. It was always his method of getting girls. If he liked someone, he would just stare at them until they got so intimidated by it they'd come up and ask him why he was staring at them. And then they'd start talking! But because he's so intense, he's not the easiest person to get on with. I think sometimes people find him difficult, but he is a father now and I think that's calmed him down a bit. You can't stare at your child or it'll start crying! So it's kind of smoothed the edges off him a little bit.
He is quite unique - I've never met anybody else remotely like him... ever, so that's quite good. He's also a very good cook. He's unpredictable. I think that's the main thing he provides in the group - he's quite a random factor. Sometimes he'll play things completely out of tune, and you'd think 'what are you doing?', and then other times he'll play something that nobody else would think of playing. Like everybody in the group he's self-taught, so none of us know anything about scales or which notes should follow which, so it's always a bit of a lottery. But I think you get more interesting things that way otherwise you might just follow a formula. So that's Russell.
The next person to join was Candida. I think it's very important that she's in the band because she's a girl. I think often with bands if it's all boys together then no matter what you're like, it tends to get a bit kind of rugby club mentality. You know like when you hear men talking in a pub, most of what they're talking about is a load of crap. They just brag-off to each other, and most of it's lies. And it can get like that in groups sometimes so it's good to have a female influence. People always used to think Candida was a child because she's so small. She's probably the most stable person in the group - she's very reliable. Well, she's not very reliable in things like turning up on time, but you can always rely on her to be even-tempered and level-headed.
She also collects very bright things. She's quite funny because she gets a bit self-conscious at times. We were doing a video yesterday and she doesn't like being photographed or anything, so she drank a bottle of gin just to mime playing the keyboards, which was funny! She didn't even seem drunk either. Again, she's unique as well because I've never met another person like her.
So the next person to join was Nick. I suppose Nick is most normal person in the group - being the drummer - and he's strange in some ways in that sometimes he seems to want to put on this exterior of being a gruff northern man who's just interested in eating pie and chips. But he isn't really like that - he's quite well educated. He worked as a teacher - design and technology or something like that - and I suppose he's probably the most cagey person in the group in that you don't know what he's thinking about a lot of the time because he doesn't volunteer information about personal things. He prefers to talk about football and things like that.
And then there's Steve the bass player who was the last one to join in 1988. He used to be in a very bad heavy metal band. Well it wasn't heavy metal - they kind of missed their time because they were a bit like the Stooges and stuff like that. But since then there've been lots of groups that have tried to do that kind of thing, but no-one else was really doing it at that time. But he left to come down to London. I'd say he's the most efficient person in the band. He's good at being organised. When we make videos he produces them because he can phone people up and organise things to be at certain places at certain times.
He's currently homeless and living in a hotel. I think his life's in a bit of disarray at the moment which I feel a bit sorry for him about. He's probably the best looking person in the band and lots of girls like him. And I don't blame them! He's also the tallest member of the band - he's about an inch taller than me. I suppose I kind of know him best because we both live in London and so we tend to see each other more than the rest of the group who still live in Sheffield. So we go out to concerts together and things like that.
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Is there a reason no one talks about swing kids (2018)? I feel like it should almost be required viewing for foreigners (especially American) to recontextualize koreas recent history like yes both koreas are so much more than what the Americans did there but when the extent of media about the Korean War is quirky American medical sitcoms from the 70s and everyone and their mom is watching kdramas these days, it was very eye opening to see. A lot of dramas talk about the effect of Japanese occupation but the American occupation is very much still going on and rarely do we get commentary on it in mainstream Korean media
omg anon I love swing kids!!! truth be told I've only watched it once because it made me cry soooo much but yes it was very eye opening as I had no idea at the time I watched it that the us had had such presence and authority in korea (and I also found it interesting that it depicted a solidarity between korean prisoners in their own country and a black soldier living in a segregated society). btw the camp that the movie is set in was a real camp which saw many uprisings from prisoners happening (led by communists prisoners) that were violently repressed by the us military and it was really turned into memorial camp (as you see in the last scene of the movie when the us soldier comes back as an all man and puts his hand on the stage where they old danced together and he's the only survivor - I was bawling my eyes out at this point).
it's mainly by following @commajade that I was introduced to the reality of the us presence in Korea (historically and today) because as you said it's just never discussed wether it's western medias or kdramas. I really recommend going through their korean politics tag as you'll find many ressources on the us role in the peninsula (from the violence during the height of the korean war, to the support of the dictatorship regime, to blocking the peace negotiations between the two koreas and even their role before the japanese occupation), the massacres committed by the us army (and how they tried to erase them from history) and on the reality of the us having military bases on korean soil. as they explain, it informed the various wars that the us took part in afterwards. I was pretty shocked to learn how strong the US authority still is over the korean army (for example the singer Youngk from the band Day6 did his mandatory military service in a unit working for the US army to fill in various positions)
Discussing the reality of what the us did in korea would mean recognising that they are not indeed, and have never been, a great exemple of democracy and defendor of freedom, it goes against the core of their national storytelling concept (which was disproved, not just in korea, over the decades and is very much disproved by their current support of Israel in its destruction of the palestinian people - but they still get to present a narrative in which their violence is justified against savagery and only they know the truth of what the world needs bla bla bla) may the us regime rot. I don't know what Americans are taught about the war and their role in korea (probably something about how they saved the country and brought democracy) but in France, we barely talked about the korean war at school (I think it was mentioned as part of the lessons in the cold war? like the various ongoing conflicts between the west and the east although we did talk a little bit about the japanese occupation linked to the end of ww2 but it was a long time ago so my memory is definitely fuzzy) and it was actually through a korean friends that I learned that french soldiers had been involved and their actions were still commemorateed today in korea
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Grizione: 1, 16 (I mean ofc we all know it’s Antoine - but how exactly would the dragging go *wink*?), 19, 23, 27, 30, 33, 37
Kloppinho: 10, 34
God is that too much? Sorry I only realized it’s this much after finishing typing :3 just do the ones you feel like doing, and enjoy Prague (and noblerice)!!
Thank you!! Hopefully there will be a good amount of NobleRice haha 👑🍚
1. Who most initiates PDA?
I would say Cholo simply because Antoine would not want to put pressure/embarss Cholo. Also Cholo is more...dominant? powerful? So he can say "Fuck everything, I want the world to see how much I adore him".
16. Who stays up way too late and who tries to drag them to bed?
Hehe Antoine is totally the siren trying to drag poor old Cholo into bed with his puppy eyes and attitude - just saying "Come on, Diego, you can do whatever you do tomorrow. You wouldn't want to miss me lying in bed (only in my pyjama bottom/socks/nothing)" 🥺 on the other hand, if Antoine is in his worrying phase, Diego would totally be the one persuading him to go to sleep, but there it would literally be the sleeping, maybe a bit of cuddling, that would be on Diego's mind.
19. How do they deal with being away from each other for a long time?
It's very difficult, because they are both somewhat stubborn and don't want to pressure each other too much etc. When Antoine was in Barca, the initial everyday contact slowly died away because Antoine didn't feel like sharing his struggles and Diego didn't want to pursuit him like crazy. And they both felt sad and somewhat betrayed/alone because of that. but maybe this taught them a lesson?
23. Who overthinks the most?
Antoine is usually - when he is his usual self - very happy-go-lucky, easygoing, and relaxed. I think Diego is more of a worrier naturally because of his position as a manager, and also because he's been in love with Antoine for a long time before actually doing anything about it (or responding to Antoine's flirting) simply because he was overthinking the situation a lot and didn't want to hurt Antoine in any way.
27. What random everyday object/activity makes them think of each other?
Highlighters definitely remind Cholo of Antoine's hair 😅 also I think Antoine would randomly sing along to songs on the radio, so whenever Cholo hears any of the songs that Antoine has ever sang, he will be reminded of the French prince.
Antoine would definitely think of Cholo when he sees black clothes, and he would probably even joke about being dressed like Cholo if he was to wear a black shirt + black jacket/blazer.
30. What is their favorite place to kiss the other? (Cheek, hand, closed eyelid, neck, nose, etc.)
THE. EYEBROWS. of Antoine. 🥺 Cholo can't get enough of the softness in Antoine's face, so he always touches, caresses and kisses the eyebrows and Anto's closed eyelids. And of course in the hair, on top of head.... And the hand - the back of it, the palm... Anything that shows his devotion.
Antoine would be very silly and do a little 'boop' to kiss Diego's nose. Just randomly. Maybe it's not even the favorite place to kiss him, it's just exactly the type of silly soft kiss that would completely kill Diego off. And make him blush in a way that no blowjobs ever would.
33. Who has the most nightmares and how do they deal with them?
I think Antoine would speak about them eventually, which would make Cholo stay with him overnight (but then he would be better and not suffer from them). Cholo does suffer from nightmares - maybe when Antoine is away, maybe once he learns about how bad his life was in Barca - and the recurring theme of losing or failing to protect Antoine, his little bird, would appear in his dreams. Once again, Cholo would never want to be overbearing for Anto, but he would just need to make sure that Antoine is alright, although he would try to do it in a sneaky manner without confessing his nightmares.
37. What do they like the least about each other?
I think if we REALLY have to find something, Cholo would dislike (strong word) it would be how badly Antoine can be affected by his "failure" at Barca, how deeply he let all the drama around it affect him, and how he ...wallowed in his suffering? (With the mentality of I deserve to suffer becaus I left).
I don't think there's anything Antoine dislikes about Cholo, but I think he can sometimes doubt his very black-and-white seeing of some things/people (ehm ehm...Felix).
Kloppinho
10. What are some non-sexual activities they do together? 
I genuinely think in the early days, Klopp would teach him some English. Not like a lecture, but just...in between of the conversation, maybe when he gives Phil a lift. I get a strong "teacher/tutor" vibes from him haha, and I'm sure he would want to help in the early days, to nurture the best in Philippe.
Tbh I think there would be maybe a slight hint of fetishization of "the hot young Brazilian twink who needs to be educated" from Klopp's side oops.
34. Do they give each other nicknames?
Do we count Daddy as a nickname
I put this in the With or Without You fic - that Jurgen would use the Portuguese endearement "fofo" and it would scare Philippe because he wanted his language to be sort of a safe space where Jurgen cannot enter. This is the early toxic/fetishizing sign. I don't think Philippe would dare to give Jurgen a nickname.
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13, 14, and 19 for the writing asks!
What feedback did you receive for your writing that stuck with you?
This is going to sound very stupid, but what haunts me is the importance of making your work readable.
How well or shittily you write doesn't matter if your work is an ugly wall of text that no one will read. I was taught about that in detail when I was around 11 (harsh teachers...), and then I was told how to do it a bit better when I was 13. As you know, I'm 20, so... yeah never forgetting that.
But yeah, learn from me (and my French teachers) and fix your format. Prescriptivism is inherently wrong and all but if you want to listen, or at least know the rules before you break them, it's easy.
A new idea is a new paragraph. Dialogue is a new paragraph. Use the right quotation marks for your language. Use the right dialogue format too. Free Indirect Speech or Thought is a new paragraph unless it actually fits into the idea you're developing (and italicise that shit, for the love of god, unless you're intentionally making it unclear). Use your tenses correctly (English literally has two. Just pick one and stick to it, or if you want to switch it up, do so only if it actually adds to your storytelling).
This is like, some basic Writing Format 101, and I have a lot more things to say (especially as someone who has corrected, proofread, and reviewed a fuckton of writing from their peers) but that would take hours.
What is something that you feel weird/uncomfortable writing about?
Plenty of things, actually.
We all know that I only write sex scenes if I'm paid to do it, so there's that. I may fit the "all aces write good smut" cliché but I am not willing, okay.
But also writing very emotional characters is out of my comfort zone. For Open The Door, I wrote from Virgil's (the literal embodiment of anxiety) POV and through the whole thing I was like "what does severe anxiety even feel like... i think i'm actually writing sensory overload there let me fix that... oh no that's PTSD... eh, that works" because I'm simply not a very anxious person. And I struggle with big emotions in general for the same reason - I'm just a very repressed rational bitch.
I also have a hard time writing empathy, comfort, and all those complex... social things. I'm not talking in terms of skill, or ability - I mean that I'm honestly just not having a great time with those things because it takes so much effort (but I balance it out with more fun stuff! like heartbreaking angst <3).
Show us the line you want readers to remember from your story.
I'll answer this for Staring Contest, obviously.
It has to be one of those two:
"Baldroy does not like many things about many people, but today he decides that he particularly hates the way Sebastian Michaelis looks at their young master."
"There’s something fragile and worn, a breath away from breaking, bubbling under the surface but ready to cool down in a second."
Obviously, Staring Contest has no dialogue (except one line from Ciel, because I simply couldn't be bothered to change it) and a very honest focaliser, which kind of restricted my ability to hide the truth in a bunch of lies so I had to work a lot with omissions.
With the first line, I think what I'm implying is obvious (even the second, more disturbing layer of it also is. i mean we've all read the manga. canon seb is a creep), and I want the reader to keep that in mind, for reasons similar to the second line. For the second one, I wanted it to be a sweet, memorable line with just a hint of carefully sprinkled pain.
For both of those, what you should remember is that appearances or suddenly developed feelings of paternal affection don't matter - this is still a dangerous demon whose sole intent is to get that dinner. The affection is fragile not only because it's new, but also because it can and will be crushed if needed. Both of those line highlight, in different ways, how fucked up this all is. But yeah it's all hidden in the fluffy dadbastian vibes.
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Medieval Europe and SW Asia in One Post
Fun fact for those outside the US: Americans are mostly taught the history of our own country in K-12 schools. (In some states, badly.) We get 9-10 years of US history, 1 year that’s divided up between Civics (how the US government works) and the history of the individual state you’re in, and 1-2 years of World History that does NOT cover anything in Europe or SW Asia after the fall of Rome. Which means that to learn that stuff, you either have to take those history courses in college/university, or do a lot of independent reading.
I did a lot of independent reading.
So here’s a brief overview in very broad strokes of Europe and SWA from roughly 450 - 1600 CE. If you want to know more, I highly recommend the YT channel Extra Credit Extra History. It is well-researched, worded in a way that isn’t as horribly dry as the Durants’ books, and comes in bite-sized pieces that you can enjoy on the go.
(History behind the cut.)
The Fall of Rome and the Early Middle Ages
OK, first of all, only the western half of the Roman Empire actually fell in the fifth century CE. Everything from roughly Greece on eastward stayed Roman under the new capital of Constantinople. Constantinople had its own large library and was a center of learning and culture to rival Rome in its heyday. (This is important to remember for later.)
In Europe, you mostly had a bunch of tiny kingdoms under feudal lords, with the Catholic Church being a sort of cultural glue holding everything together. Most people were illiterate, but the Catholic clergy kept as much ancient knowledge preserved as they could, all in Latin. Most people could speak Latin as a result of the Roman Empire taking over their country a few centuries back, so it made sense as a universal language for Europe.
Because most educated people were in the clergy, the Catholic Church became not just a major religious power, but a huge political power as well.
Meanwhile, the Arabian peninsula was mostly a bunch of warring tribes until the late 7th century CE, when this guy named Mohammed united the Arabs under a religion he called The Way of Peace, or as most of us know it today, Islam.
The Muslims proceed to not only form a pretty strong nation known as the Caliphate, but to take over almost all of SWA (Constantinople and a bit of modern-day Turkey held firm), the Sahara Desert, and the Iberian peninsula (modern-day Spain and Portugal) within 100 years of Mohammed’s death. This is one of the most rapid expansions of an empire in history. Everybody was taught Arabic, and the Caliphate took a strong interest in learning and preserving as much knowledge as they could. In terms of cultural advancement, you could think of them as basically Rome 2.0.
In the 9th century, this guy known as Charlemagne the Frank is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope and proceeds to take over France and most of central Europe. He stops the expansion of the Caliphate from going past the Pyrenees mountains too. The Holy Roman Empire (which still doesn’t actually include any of Italy, much less Rome itself) remains a major player for like 900 years.
France itself has two French languages by this point, named by how you say "yes." Langue d'oui will become standard modern French. Langue d'oc, also known as Occitan, is still spoken to this day but is slowly dying out.
Britain and Ireland are, at this point, minor insignificant little islands that nobody in mainland Europe cares about, except for the Vikings, which do a lot of pillaging and also establish quite a few towns and territories in Ireland, Britain, and an area of northern France that gets the name “Normandy” from all these Northern invaders.
Meanwhile, a bunch of feudal lords are expanding their holdings into little kingdoms, bringing about the High Middle Ages.
The High Middle Ages
Then in 1066, a couple of centuries after the Vikings settle in Normandy, a Norman named William decides to conquer England. All of England’s royalty for the last 1000 or so years have been descended from William the Conqueror.
Meanwhile, the Ottoman Turks have taken over the Caliphate and called it the Ottoman Empire. This empire will stand until WWI (no really).
“Oh No,” says Pope Urban VI, “Muslims have taken over the Holy Land! That’s where Jesus lived and stuff!” So he begs the nobles of Europe to go on a crusade to take back Jerusalem. This goes horribly. There are ten Crusades over the next couple of centuries. They are mainly notable for how sadistically cruel European knights were in their butchery of the Jewish and Muslim people living in the Levant. None of them succeed at retaking it.
Meanwhile, Eleanor of Aquitaine, a French noblewoman, marries King Henry II of England. If you know the Robin Hood story, then you know her 2 kids: Richard (the Lionheart) and John II.
John II was disliked by the people because he was very, very bad at making war. So the nobles came up to him and had him sign the Magna Carta, which established the British Parliament.
Traveling minstrels called troubadours are totally the latest musical craze at this point. They mostly write in Occitan and are the source of a pretty big chunk of the European secular music that's survived from the Middle Ages.
In the 12th century, the Ottomans finally do what they’ve been trying to do for centuries and take Constantinople. And one of the first things they do is start translating all the ancient books into Arabic so they can learn lots of Cool Stuff.
Traders then bring this Cool Stuff, including new numerals they adapted from the ones used in India, to Europe, where it gets translated again into Latin and the educated classes go gaga for all the new old knowledge.
But wait, time out, says the Catholic Church. You can’t use those new Arabic numerals. The Roman numerals are what we’ve been using for centuries and we’re pretty sure that it’s like, blasphemy or something to not use Roman numerals. A bunch of cities actually banned Arabic numerals for years until the Church came around and realized that God probably doesn’t care how you write numbers and also Arabic numerals are way easier to work with.
The Late Middle Ages a.k.a. The Renaissance
So now we’ve got good times in Europe. Kingdoms have been gradually expanding, so there are fewer tiny little fiefdoms dotting the land and more moderate-sized kingdoms. Traders are getting Cool Stuff from Asia. Crops are doing well. Yeah, things still suck if you’re Jewish, but for the Christian majority, things are going pretty good.
And then the plague happened.
The Black Death killed off about 1/3 of Europe’s population at the time, and kept coming back in waves from 1352 all the way to 1666. Nobody knew exactly how it was spread, except that it might be through the air. It’s terrifying for everyone, because unlike famines, the rich can’t buy their way out of a plague.
At the same time, things are heating up in England and France.
You know how Eleanor of Aquitaine was a French noblewoman? That technically, according to France, made the English king a vassal, or subject, of the king of France. And Edward III was all "No way, bite me" and France was like "Yo mama" and they started the Hundred Years' War.
(It was technically 119 years long, but when the war's that long already, what's a couple of decades, amirite?)
England ended up taking over most of France at one point, a French peasant girl named Joan wore armor because she believed she'd gotten a message from God, and by the end, France owned France again.
Meanwhile, England had just gone from "a tiny insignificant country on some island that Europe doesn't really care about" to a major player. They fought a war against France! And held their own for most of it! And France had been a big deal pretty much since Charlemagne!
The Bohemians in what is now the Czech Republic tried to start their own church and their own democracy in one fell swoop, and the Church came down hard on them.
The Cathar Christians in the region of France known as Albi caught the Church's attention as well, and since the Cathars were essentially heretics, the brutal Albigensian Crusade wiped out entire villages.
Meanwhile, the Church's view on witchcraft has changed.
See, for most of the Middle Ages, the official view was that if you accused your neighbor of witchcraft, that meant you were a heretic, because you believed in supernatural powers other than God and the devil. So people didn't do a lot of accusing people of witchcraft.
But with plague going on, and people needing easy scapegoats, and a lot of medieval people really hating on women (see: Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and the dude who wrote the Malleus Malificarum), you had a recipe for Bad Times. Jewish people, people with leprosy, and Romani were blamed too, because they got blamed for most everything. But now, people were very focused on the idea that the devil was making trouble by tricking women into practicing the Dark Arts.
Thus, western Europe began hunting "witches." This is not the same thing as the Inquisition, although they happened at the same time. And no, most of the accused were not actually witches, nor were they Pagans. Wicca didn't exist yet either. Please stop stating these things as undisputed fact. I am begging you.
This also meant that a lot of zealous would-be witch-hunters were killing cats, and since cats keep the rat population down, and the plague was spread by the fleas on those rats, you can imagine how well that went.
Anyway, despite all the doom and gloom, Italy was having a Renaissance of ancient art styles, featuring cool people like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and a bunch of other dudes who didn't have Ninja Turtles named after them but were still pretty great.
In the Holy Roman Empire, this dude named Gutenberg figures out movable type, and immediately uses it to print out Bibles in both Latin and German, so that everybody can read the Bible and you don't have to go all squinty reading hand-written copies in the church that are so expensive that they have to be chained down.
And then there's Spain.
The Reconquista and Why It Ruined Everything
Spain, as you'll recall, was mostly ruled by the Ottoman Empire. There was a lot of splitting up and reshuffling of kingdoms there for a while, but in the late 15th century, the young rulers Ferdinand of Castille and Isabela of Aragon decide to take Spain back. And since they're Catholics, this Reconquista (literally "reconquest") basically meant "kick out all the Jews and Muslims from Spain and take all their stuff."
So now the royal couple has a ton of stolen liberated gold in the treasury, and they want to trade with the Indies and get even richer. And when this dude from Genoa comes along saying he thinks the earth is smaller than everybody says it is and you can totally just sail west to get to the Indies, Isabela's like "Sure, I've got money to burn. Here are 3 ships."
And that is how Christopher Columbus ruined everything for the Native Americans, and as an added bonus, introduced syphilis to Europe and ruined things for a lot of people there. But the Spanish got rich AF and that's what matters, right?
Meanwhile, because Spain is Catholic now, it gets permission from the Church to run its own special Inquisition in order to find any remaining Jews, Muslims, or heretics in Spain. If you know anything about the Spanish Inquisition other than the Monty Python meme, then you understand why this is a Very Bad Thing.
The Sixteenth Century
At the same time, Spain was also fighting England and France over Flanders.
Not Homer Simpson's neighbor but the region of Flanders, which is now Belgium and parts of the Netherlands. Everybody basically wanted to take over Flanders and get hold of its awesome natural resources.
Everybody also wanted to take over as much of the New World as possible and send expeditions over there, especially since there was a chance there might be a Northwest Passage to Asia so they can get those sweet, sweet Asian spices without having to travel overland. Unfortunately, the Americas go north as far as the ice caps, and south almost to Antarctica (which the Europeans still don't know exists yet), so that's not happening.
In Rome, the Catholic Church is using money from the sale of indulgences to build some church or whatever. Martin Luther, a German monk, is Not Amused and nails up 95 reasons why, thus starting the Protestant Reformation.
In England, Henry VIII is busy having a lot of wives, starting his own church, and basically being a rather poor king, overall.
The Portuguese are mad because they feel like they've gotten the short end of the stick. So the Pope decrees that everything east of a certain latitude in South America goes to Portugal, and everything west of the line goes to Spain. Which would be awesome except that South America has a lot more land west of the line than east of it. But the kings of Spain and Portugal are bound by the Church's decree, and there are no take-backsies.
Spain has the most powerful navy in Europe at this point. It's even called the Invincible Armada. Until 1588 when Queen Elizabeth I raises up the new most powerful navy in Europe and kicks the Armada's collective ass.
Meanwhile, a fringe sect of Christians in England believe that the Anglican Church is too much like Catholicism. One group believes that it needs to be "purified" of Catholic influence. The other believes that they need to just completely separate from the Church of England altogether. Because these are views that could easily make you a head shorter (if you get my meaning), they move to the Netherlands, where there's freedom of religion. This is unusual. In most of Europe at the time, you had to be the same exact kind of Christian as the king, or at least pretend to be. Anyway, this is a fairly small group of people, and I'm sure they'll have no real influence on events in the future--
Ohmygod, they just settled New England. And rather than wanting freedom of religion, they want everybody to follow their church. Whoopsie.
So that's the Middle Ages in a nutshell, or at least the parts of it that I know about and can remember off the top of my head. Please read more about this stuff instead of relying solely on this post. It'll get you a bit of knowledge, but it's hardly the equivalent of taking an entire course on medieval history.
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3,4,5,9,10,19,29,34,35 for chrysi and/or azure? u can pick and choose..!!!
3. weapon of choice? any particular reason they chose their weapon?
chrysi’s is a quarterstaff… or a scythe… she gets to whack ppl rlly hard OR she gets to feel like she’s harvesting :3 also a bow and arrow on occasion because she feels vv satisfied w hitting her target frm a distance.
azure’s.. hmmm i always imagine him w a rapier. it’s light, it takes a lot of skill to wield, and he likes the challenge of it. vv classy. 
chrysi likes to use his rapier at times too, but she does it jst to jab at ppl. stab stab stab, she’s awful!! (she’s actually p gifted at using it, but i feel chrysi’s fighting style is more practical in the sense that she knows that sometimes you’ve jst got to whack ppl to get stuff done! no need for flashiness! azure doesn’t realize he’s being flashy because that’s jst how he was taught 💀)
4. how crafty/resourceful are they?
chrysi’s been in Situations and she sure has gotten out of them!! she’s very quick on her feet and quick to assemble cockamamie schemes to get out of a rough situation. sometimes, though, she’ll fashion a way to escape a situation that is.. very very dangerous in retrospect. azure will yell at her for it later, to which chrysi always responds with, “but did we DIE?” he has no argument <//3
azure’s less prone to coming up w batshit escape plans, but he’s p decent at coming up w a reasonable response. he’s less resourceful than chrysi because of his practical he can be though!! and also because his brain doesn’t make the connections that hers does. 
5.  how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?
azure’s outfits tends to be nice slacks and a nice sweater or dress shirt.. he starts wearing band t-shirts after chrysi starts getting them for him, but he’ll always being wearing nice slacks w them, which. hm! that’s a decision! if he HAS to wear jeans, then they’ll b black jeans of course. his outfits do tend to be more practical, except for his fucking shoes. he’s always always always wearing dress shoes, even when chrysi once had to take him on a hike to investigate something. she wouldn’t stop teasing him the entire way up. altogether though, azure’s fashion sense is classy, even when casual. 
chrysi’s also p practical in her outfits, if a lot more casual. lots of off-the-shoulder shirts and shorts and ripped jeans.. okay, the off-the-shoulder shirts are a bit impractical. and her dresses are also not practical either—BUT I CAN BLAME JACKS FOR THAT! ITS HIS FAULT!!… chrysi’s a bit vain tho, so it’s also a bit of her fault too….
9. favorite food? least favorite? are they a picky eater? do they have any dietary restrictions?
azure’s fav food is. good question. juno said baguette or croissant 💀 but jokes aside, i genuinely think he would love crêpes <3 get some fresh fruit on that bitch and he’s having an excellent time. as for least favorite.. he is french, but escargot is awful horrible disgusting <3 he’s not a picky eater (literally was thinking abt how he’d enjoy bone marrow tbh…. ) nor does he have any dietary restrictions :) 
chrysi’s fav food is chocolate strawberries 🖤 tastey!!!! she jst likes strawberries a lot in general :> least favorite ughfjdksls hmmm she doesn’t like fish that much rlly…. seafood in general isn’t her thing :/// she’s not too picky besides the seafood thing, BUT. might project my banana and honey allergy onto chrysi.. it’s okay, her mouth jst burns sometimes whenever she eats stuff w that haha, don’t worry abt it! 
10. if they wear jewelry, what kind? do they prefer silver or gold? do they have a favorite gem?
CHRYSI WEARS RINGS, CHOKER NECKLACES, EARRINGS, BRACELETS, ANKLETS……. everything 🖤🖤🖤 she prefers silver + her fav gem is probably any type of quartz.. srry to be basic <//3 
azure starts wearing bracelets because chrysi got them for him + now they match :) then he wears a ring for their engagement and then their marriage, and they match chrysi’s ring sets :) he also prefers silver + his fav gem is probably ruby…? matches chrysi’s eyes !!! 
19. are they quick to anger? what sets them off?
i wouldn’t necessarily say either of them are quick to anger. chrysi’s definitely quicker in situations (when ppl don’t LISTEN TO HER and also when they’re already infuriating.. rlly it’s not HER fault 🤷‍♀️), but what sets her off are ppl being mean to those she cares abt + they mention her parents negatively. alright, roll up your sleeves, she’s gonna pummel you!!
azures not quick to anger at EXCEPT FOR when ppl threaten chrysi or otherwise be cruel about her. he’s very ruthless when it comes to her… :)
29. are they associated with any particular element (air, earth, fire, water)?
chrysi’s defs fire, whereas azure’s more.. hm. he’s defs more earth and air. 
34. how would your character describe themselves? it doesn't have to line up with how they really are.
azure would describe himself as withdrawn, lonely, impersonal.. chrysi would describe herself as super cool and pretty 😌… but does she mean it? honestly, she’d call herself a bitch and leave it at that.
35. do they ever return home?
.. their home is each other. they return home, but they’re always torn away from it again. there’s no rest. 
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EVEN MORE ATHF HEADCANONS + SLUDGE LORE
(CW: Mentions of cannibalism.)
(Mostly baby-related hcs this time because cuteness...although some of them are actually very disturbing as well)
1. On the same subject as the whole “Frylock not being able to levitate until he was 2 years old or so” headcanon, another headcanon of mine that’s connected to that, is that for the first few years of his life he had very little control of his laser eyes, so sometimes he would accidentally zap things...or people. Sometimes he’d even manage to zap himself and wind up full of static electricity, which would make various things stick to him...among other side effects. He was especially prone to having these uncontrolled laser bursts if he was startled or scared, or otherwise upset.
And unfortunately, when he was a baby, a LOT of things scared him. Like, you’d never guess from how he is as an adult, but he was afraid of a ridiculous amount of things when he was really little (he doesn’t even remember any of this time period ironically).
The scientist who created him (who isn’t Dr. Weird [although he was heavily involved as well] as I came up with my own backstory for the trio that I honestly like more than the official one...if you’ve read my fanfictions on AO3 you can get a little bit of an idea of said backstory. The show doesn’t have much in the way of continuity so anything goes, really) literally couldn’t leave the room without Fry FREAKING THE FUCK OUT. New people scared him. Loud noises scared him. His own shadow. The stapler (for some reason). Coffee mugs. Fucking PIGEONS. All of these things (and more) were things he was absolutely terrified of...which meant they were to be avoided lest someone or something get hit with a blast of eyeball lasers.
To be fair, the world is a big, scary place when you’re the same size as an actual McDonald’s kids meal serving of French Fries.
2. Shake, on the other hand, was definitely not a skittish baby. On the contrary, he was fearless to the point of it being dangerous...to be fair, from what little I know about infants, most of them have little to no fear of things that can actually hurt them...I think? Again, I don’t know much about infants. Anyway, he was basically borderline FERAL as a baby. Destructive, temperamental, he even sometimes HISSED at people if he was sufficiently pissed off.
This, combined with his rather gluttonous appetite at that age, led to some rather awful incidents...and by that, well...
He was one of a group of beverage-based creatures (so is Sludge, let’s just stick her in this because why not), mostly based on milkshakes of various flavors. He was actually the first one made after Sludge (who came out defective...she was supposed to be a Slushy but something went wrong), so in essence the ones made afterwards were his younger siblings....
Yeah, he ate two of them. When he was less than a year old, HE ATE TWO OF HIS SIBLINGS.
The rest of them, sans Sludge, are all dead now due to unrelated backstory stuff that I will eventually explain. But, yeah, Shake literally had to be taught not to try and cannibalize his brothers and sisters. Is this extremely disturbing? Yes. But in the show, Shake has been depicted on multiple instances EATING HUMAN FLESH and apparently liking the taste. So eating other milkshake-monstrosities doesn’t seem too far from possible with him.
Lastly:
3. BABBY SOUNDS
Before he was able to talk, Frylock made similar sounding vocalizations to those of a kitten. Meeps, chirps, high-pitched mewling...like, if you need a specific example, watch the original “Hi Herbert” video. That’s what he sounded like as a lil tiny baby. He also sometimes sounded like an angry desert rain frog.
Shake, meanwhile, made horrifying noises. Screeching. Hissing. Snarling.
And Meatwad? Honestly, with him, I have no idea. I don’t have a lot of Meatwad headcanons honestly.
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