Hi i'm France, purple is a parasite/friend named Doldre, @kidnaps-you and I have a lot of lore together now lol 🦀 --- post limit has NOT been hit today :3
Dear gif makers: we are more than the eiffel tower, baguettes and Ratatouille (although in fairness those last two are pretty good...). There's other cities, and I think a lot if not most people outside of Paris don't like Paris. Don't worry the feeling's mutual, Parisians don't like us either.
I am France the Third! The first two Frances are @totally-france and @france-unofficial and now we have a younger sibling; @france-4-real! (hi siblings!!)
I have a parasite named Doldre who's my best friend! I don't really think parasite is the right word really, they're quite nice really, but the anon who gave them to me said that was their species
I'm your best friend?
Yup!
Anyways I use any pronouns and Doldre uses they/them. If you scroll through the lore you might notice a lot of she/they for me cause i hadn't realized i'm kinda transmasc ooc at the time lol but truly have fun with it
Most of my lore is with my love @kidnaps-you <3
Guillotine and ooc info under the cut :)
Warning: I think I swear decently frequently
Vive la fucking revolution, we got rid of our kings for a reason
THEY GUILLOTINED A MUPPET???
Hi! I'm the mod! I didn't use to have a name but since I changed names IRL I actually want to share my name here now lol so
Hello! ٩( ᐛ )و I'm Felix!
❁ I'm a 18 year old probably neurodivergent franco-american transmasc guy!
❁ I live in the North of France most of the year but every summer I go to my grandparents' in Ohio for two months!
❁ I like to yap about the French school system (that I did on hard mode), linguistics, things related to gimmick blogs, and queer stuff!
(I'm in art school [private school] now so I only know the french school system up till the end of highschool)
❁ I use he/him, IRL people who don't know me that well default to she/her, online people tend to do they/them, I don't really care that much tbh
yapping that is now irrelevant but that i'm leaving anyways:
(iel is the closest thing we have to they/them but unlike in english it's just a neopronoun and people find it hard + french is gendered as fuck so if you're afab you can ungender yourself a bit by removing the useless Es on the ends of words [grand= masc big; grande= fem big] but it just sounds like you're masc then) (oh also fun fact cause I did biology*: most words to describe a flower's organs are male, including the female reproductive system, and the like 2 words that are feminine are part of the male reproductive system. Our language is unnecessarily gendered in such a way that it doesn't even work right lol)
*pour les français: j'ai fait spé art pla et svt, et nsi en première
Transl: we have 3 i guess electives in 11th grade and 2 in 12th and I did "sciences of the earth and life" (biology/geology), art; and computer science/programming in 11th
❁ Most of the time I'll post in English, occasionally I'll slip into French but that happens so rarely that I'll usually translate it in the tags
On the topic of accessibilty, I try to write image descriptions when I post pictures but that takes a lot of spoons that quite frankly if I'm on tumblr i don't usually have so I apologize in advance
As for reblogging i don't usually have the energy for that or much tagging
-> semi related side note: if you want to use French in a fic but don't speak it, feel free to ask me for help translating! I've seen someone translate "pretty please" literally and expressions like that were not meant to be translated 😭 Any ship, any rating, gore or nsfw are fine!
❁ Naps's [@/kidnaps-you] mod and I aren't actually in a romantic relationship, I'm aroace-spec and I think they might also be? I don't remember for them though
on that: i may be aroace-spec; i have been told, a surprising amount of times, that i'm good at flirting, and since my friends like to be flirted with, i now slip into flirting very, very easily lmao (i have nearly accidentally flirted with both teachers AND MY MOM CAUSE I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION) --> if i accidentally do that with you and it makes you uncomfortable, please let me know!!
oh and for the record i'm rather dominant when it comes to that, so if you want me to act more submissive, i can, but chances are i'll end up slipping out of that lmao
❁ I use the tags:
#no tags leave me alone whenever I post something (because tumblr kept saying "post without tags?? Posts with tags are seen by twice as many peopl-" do i look like i care)
#demandes for asks (literal translation of the word "asks")
#truc de notes and #(notes thing) for posts I got summoned to by The List™️ (if you've somehow ended up on here without encountering it before, it's a list of all the geographical gimmick blogs + some random others I think who are willing to be tagged in posts to increase the notes- typically i use this on posts that are like "x notes and I do y" or posts that have been cursed with 10k notes and i don't use it so much on reblog bait)
#transl: for when i spoke french but then translated into English in the tags
#doldre's movies: currently just for sharing stuff i found on letterboxed; eventually it'll probably include ramblings on movies as i watch them lol {i will warn for spoilers!}
#france's ads and spam: for sharing ads or spam messsages i encounter - this happens less frequently now cause I've increased the amount of adblocker stuff I have
And unfortunately more and more frequently, #vent for, well, vent posts (usually about or related to friends who know my main)
If i'm complaining about school stuff (usually the Adobe suit), I don't have a tag for that cause i'm usually too pissed at Adobe to remember what tags i use lmao
In case you can't tell, I like over clarifying things lol (this is a surprisingly clear post from me), but in case anything isn’t clear, feel free to ask me what I meant!
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not only did my school (...I guess ex-school?) pause access to Adobe for all of August, to much consternation, but we just got a message saying second year game and animation students won't have figure drawing anymore
(...I think that's the translation, it's model vivant in french, it's drawing naked people posing so you can practice drawing what you see + you get a sense of proportions + you learn some anatomy etc. Basically a really fucking useful class)
now that'd be bad enough as is, but the thing is. there's a third option at the school, it's not just game and animation. The message we got doesn't explicitly say the third section* will still have figure drawing classes, but it implies it pretty heavily
I can barely describe it in french, I doubt I'll succeed in english, but it's this thing called direction artistique; the only class I remember they had was typography, but I think it's a lot of graphic design and learning some marketing techniques (it's not specifically a marketing class but there's more overlap than in game and animation). we usually just call it DA
The message we got is from the figure drawing teacher, not the administration, and she sounds not super pleased with this decision, but she opens her message with "this is for the game and animation students". The DA students aren't mentioned at all, nor are they even in the group she created on teams as far as I could tell, but that seems pretty telling.
and as my friend @ch4briel [here have one of my sideblogs lol] (game student) just mentioned, "DA students dont even NEED live modelling like its the major with the least drawing involved"
In completely unrelated news I'm sure, when we* went to the school's open houses/other events before we applied, we were told we'd mostly be focusing on our specialties, so game and animation, with a few classes with everyone
*i'm using we to describe my friends and I, two of them are in the game section, the rest of us were/are in animation
Pretty quickly in the year, we did very much notice that we were doing a lot of posters, a lot of design, etc. Now I'm sure those are very important skills to have, but there was a week we had like 4 posters to make by the following week as well as an animation to do. if you've never done either of those things, both of those are extremely time consuming activities. At least one of the teachers who only assigned posters was also extremely strict with both his guidelines (even if they were usually frustratingly vague) and his grading [he very much had me re-print an A3 piece of paper cause one of the text zones was abouuuut 5 pixels off from what he wanted for example]
By mid year, most of us had gotten extremely tired of doing these graphic design classes when we were there for other stuff
And another, surely unrelated thing, I remember distinctly that we were told that if we were encouraged to switch sections, it'd be way more likely for animation students to be redirected to game studies (i'd say video game cause that's most of what they worked on, but they did have to design a board game at one point), and when I got told that maybe animation wasn't the right thing for me, they didn't even mention game studies, they went straight to "hey wanna do DA?"
anyways i'm sure all of this is totally coincidental and that the school definitely isn't putting all of its focus into DA when it was the class with the lowest amount of students, surely they would take into consideration all of their students and the fact that it's 8000€ per year to do stuff most of the students end up absolutely despising. totally, 100% just me being dismissive of this school, definitely not what's actually happening
(compared to american art school prices I do realize 8000€ might not sound like that much but it is definitely considered a ridiculously high price - oh and to tie in with my previous post about Adobe, I think a decent portion of the 8000€ is for Adobe licenses)
I've started looking into adobe alternatives, for a variety of reasons including but not limited to: ADOBE IS A PAIN IN THE ASS, my school announced they're pausing access to Adobe for like all of august, I'm not going back in September anyways (long story)
and I tried using Canva's Affinity for an Indesign alternative and like
this was free. It works just as well as Indesign, as well as having the equivalent to uhh... illustrator? (where you can create vectorial shapes and whatnot) in the same app, literally i just have to click a single button
it's taking me a little bit to adjust between Indesign and Affinity but they're relatively the same, I've managed to figure out most of the stuff I already knew on Indesign and we're very quickly approaching the end of my knowledge of Indesign anyways (i think we had like... 1 class on Indesign lmao)
i cannot state how much this is free, when Adobe is notorious for things like, say, this:
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you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not
if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean
well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker
if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better
As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t
AMAZING! based on this one specific individual’s experiences i will now safely assume that it’s possible for anyone to overcome hand pain & leave potholders behind for good!!! as long as you want it bad enough, anything is possible!! make this story go viral so that all those self pitying losers who still use potholders know that there’s no excuse
hey yall know that reclaiming slurs doesnt mean using the slurs against people as slurs right? like when normal people say "reclaiming slurs" what we mean is taking away the power of the slurs by using them for yourself or your loved ones who reclaim it so when youre called a slur your brain goes to "oh, all my friends!" and it doesnt sting so bad, we're not saying to just call people slurs because youre a bigot whos hiding behind your identity
I tell this story all the time but I'll tell it again! When I taught kindergarten full time, we had a working bee one weekend where we did a bunch of gardening/landscaping in the outdoor area. One of the dads put up a bit of fencing, then stood back and had a look, kind of frowning like he wasn't sure. His wife then came along, and the following conversation ensued:
Wife: GETMO?
Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO.
Me: GETMO?
Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On
Absolutely LIFE CHANGING acronym, friends and enemies.
genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself “why does Tumblr even have a ‘Best Posts First’ feature? why would I want to see good posts?” and then I had to stop and consider that for a second
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The wolf in the first picture is a traditional representation of the wolf who raised Remus and Romulus after the king they were related to saw them as a threat (he'd made his daughter - the twins' mother, Rhea Silvia - become a priestess to stay a virgin. The greek gods disagreed with that and she had kids anyways, though not from Zeus/Jupiter surprisingly, I believe it was Ares/Mars)
Normally there'd be the kids underneath her but OP's art school apparently thought that would be weird
And the rest of the post is a play on the popular saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day", used to tell people to be patient
one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.
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signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.
There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.
So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"
So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.
The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."
So I take a few deep breaths.
Then I lie to her.
I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"
Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.
"What did that error message say?" I ask.
"What error message?" asks Client.
I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.
I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.
I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.
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Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.
But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.
She was a computer programmer / analyst, a... Long Time Ago. Called in for a system she'd installed before, the office folk said they kept having problems where it Didn't Work Right (no error, a malfunction)
She investigated, and told them that could only happen if they did 3 specific things in a specific order, which they should not ever do.
So, she asked, did they ever do that?
No! Of course not, was the answer.
So she made a couple of small changes, packed up and said that should be fine, but they should call her if there were problems.
The next week
She had a call saying "We're getting a strange error message on the system, can you help?"
She said, of course, can they tell her the error?
And the message was:
"You Said You Didn't Do This"
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