chroniques de l'ennui

I love hearing Connor speak French. It is impressive how many Quebeçois words he was able to deduce. I'd say he did quite well.

I learned French all through grade school. I also did 4 yrs in University. Learning Parisian French, like Connor did, I found though is quite different than learning Quebeçois or even Acadian which is found in New Brunswick. They are quite their own languages. I remember it was quite a shock when we did an Acadian night at Université de Moncton when I spent a summer there on a bursary.

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

Oscar’s new character Joshua is not only a toxic, condescending dick, a country club manager, and an expert orange juice maker… but you’re also telling me he’s a DJ?!

like, for me the heart and soul of lotr is the hobbits, and it always bemuses me to see how underrated they can be in fics or fandom like?? you have these funky little fuckers who are really brave and kind and loyal but also have oddball forms of government and eat and party a lot and get into scrapes and have all these hobbit pals and there's all sorts of shipping options and they have interesting nuanced social politics and second breakfast and pipeweed and they give presents on their birthday instead of the other way around so they're always getting presents and they're hilariously weird about their family trees and they led full-scale guerrilla warfare against these bastards who invaded their homeland but also all they want to do is chill and have nice gardens and probably judge vegetable growing competitions and have pretty dances