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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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.
Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.
Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)
Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet
Recirculate what you don’t need by sharing or selling onward
Refurbish what’s fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer
Repair what’s broken altogether
Repurpose what can’t serve its original function
Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing
What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.
@afterdarkafternight @biologynerd13 @niktokof @madd-hatter @thegayriley @tuekytail @smeefy-smoofy +open tags (I havent done a tag game in a bit so I forgot my usual tag list sorry!)
I just saw a pic of a heterosexual seeming couple making out and it's not even fandom related?? It's genuinely just straight people??? I don't think i've seen that in years on here
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Dear fellow loons & canadians. I was a fucking idiot and spent the whole day outside today, and only checked the air quality when i realised that it wasn't local fires. STAY INSIDE. use air filters & ac if you have them, wear masks if you need to go outside, make sure to change the filters of the above, and stay cool. It'll suck, i know, but it's better this than smoke inhalation.
Dear fellow loons & canadians. I was a fucking idiot and spent the whole day outside today, and only checked the air quality when i realised that it wasn't local fires. STAY INSIDE. use air filters & ac if you have them, wear masks if you need to go outside, make sure to change the filters of the above, and stay cool. It'll suck, i know, but it's better this than smoke inhalation.
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Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in.
If you can't afford a proper air purifier or can't find one in stock, these are sometimes cheaper to build:
Make sure you get the best rated furnace filters you can. If getting all those is too expensive, even one of those furnace filters taped tightly to a box fan (to force the air through the filters so it doesn't come in through the cracks) can help pretty substantially in a small room.
Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in.
If you can't afford a proper air purifier or can't find one in stock, these are sometimes cheaper to build:
Make sure you get the best rated furnace filters you can. If getting all those is too expensive, even one of those furnace filters taped tightly to a box fan (to force the air through the filters so it doesn't come in through the cracks) can help pretty substantially in a small room.
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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:
