Guapoduo is finally back YEAHHH
...Or is it?
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Hi! Can I ask you a question about France? How common or uncommon or weird is the use of coucou as a greeting? Especially between adults. Would it be super weird if I went to France and greeted someone like that?
I don't trust the click-baity articles that show up when I google this (I'm not even sure all of them were written by humans), so I'd rather ask someone that, you know, actually lives over there.
Thanks, have a nice day
Hi! Coucou is a pretty common greeting including between adults (though it's more often used by women as it does sound a bit cutesy), but I think it implies pre-established friendly relations, unlike the neutral Bonjour or Salut. I only use it with family and friends. Friendly acquaintances too—okay now that I think about it, it's hard to say where I draw the coucou line. I use it as a greeting when I enter the library if there's no one in there but the librarian because I know her well, but if there are other people in the room I say bonjour even if they're children. And of course if I knew the librarian very well but didn't like her she wouldn't get a coucou. You kind of have to follow your heart with this greeting.
But definitely don't use it to greet people in a shop or formal context or anyone you don't know well because that would be weird (in my view!) Coucou sounds affectionate, I often use it in writing to set the tone ("Hi I am an informal unthreatening email !") (also if a French person sends you a text that starts with Cc, that's textspeak for coucou)
To me "Salut !" is "Hi!" while "Coucou" is Hi :) <3
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so unlike yoda and obi-wan who both faded into the force and left no body behind, anakin left behind vader when he passed away, like luke struggled to move a very real, heavy, damaged body, and vader's corpse was a husk of a material form that carried all the scars of his life and his crimes. i honestly think that if luke hadn't forgiven anakin, and set him free by burning vader's body in a proper jedi funeral (whether he knew it or not), anakin might not have been released into the force to materialize as a ghost. i think he only got to be one because of the care of both luke and obi-wan, aka the son he never knew and the closest thing he had to a father, forming an inter-generational web of support and connection. the two of them both loved anakin so much that they helped him cross that final boundary into the force, whether he deserved it or not, that's not how love works. like fire purifies as it destroys, and luke's forgiveness and devotion with the pyre offered anakin the privilege of being made clean. as vader's armored body was transformed and consumed by the flames, the light of anakin's heart was liberated to shine out again into the force, and that light was the face that obi-wan greeted on the other side of death. so basically anakin couldn't have done it alone, not without the assistance both of the living and the dead, freely given, and sorely needed, and it makes seeing his relaxed, youthful face even more poignant. it's not only his own heart and effort that brought him there, but luke and obi-wan's too.
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multiple times now I've seen people genuinely claim that the solution to aphobia is for asexual and aromantic people to stop talking about their asexuality and aromanticism. if you think like this you need to be put in a meat grinder like actually
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showing off the commission i got from @ruporas for my fic, In the Next Life!
i'm still so incredibly excited about this. it's been some months since the story event that caused these scars, but i wanted SO BADLY to be able to see what they'd actually Look like... & Here They Are.
ruporas rendered the scars So Well, i just cant stop Looking at them... there's a Fresh & a Healed version, which ruporas was kind enough to give me without additional charge (Thank U Again😭😭) so i get to see what it looks like at different stages.
Lichtenberg Figures. in terms of actual scarring, lightning strikes that people survive don't tend to leave permanent scars, but the lichtenberg figures that they (usually temporarily) leave behind are just So Cool... Now, what happens when you get someone who can survive an amount of electricity/lightning that would be Frankly Lethal to any normal human person?
This :]
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If we are going to hold Aziraphale accountable for the things he has said to Crowley, then we can hold Crowley accountable for calling Aziraphale "stupid" and "idiot" because even if "he didn't mean anything by them" they are still fucking hurtful too.
"You idiot...we could have been us."
You think that didn't fucking hurt Aziraphale?
Seriously?!?!
Especially since Aziraphale had already been treating them like an "us" the entire season. "Our bookshop." "Our car." The shit that people try to claim is somehow abusive.
Once again, excusing Crowley's words and holding Aziraphale entirely accountable for his is just like when I was in Catholic school and they were like Eve ate the apple first so her sin was worse and we're just gonna let Adam's sin slide even though he ate the apple too because he only did it because Eve provoked him.
It doesn't work like that.
Double standards are so tiresome.
If Aziraphale doesn't get a pass for his hurtful words, then Crowley doesn't get a pass for his either.
It's that simple.
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https://twitter.com/spnjxnsen/status/1701141317596659939
The way he sits!😳 I'm who?
UH HELLO????
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