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@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

[dammitperseus]

my friend, if only you knew

[randomfandomteacher]

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

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Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

[wine-dark-sea]

#now I’m wondering how often my high school french teacher was silently screaming because of this little fact

Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.

[shamwowxl]

“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you: 

[i-wadako]

Omg, woah, Hi everyone! Idunno how to start here, so lets talk about the picture.

This is the last piece I did past year, was for a zine that at the end never came out, and I saved it for the beggining of 2nd season. I know it started while ago, but today I finally saw the first chapter (let me say It was GREAT)

This is a very special piece for me,hope you enjoy it and a bit of my love while I was working on this reachs you. Sorry for keeping myself so away of this fandom. This year was exhausting, the worst year emotionally and the most stressing I had in a long time.

And the only thing I really wanted was to… enjoy season 2 peacefully when it comes out, but the spoilers, OH MAN the spoilers where everywhere!!! So I took a step back, and now I’m ready to enjoy the chapters without knowing almost anything from them, and that pleases me a lot : > Be prepared, because now I’m back for real, and fully inspired by the new chapters. So, no more boring words

Ladybug and Chat Noir, is SO GOOD to see you again! Hope we have a new great season together ^^

[peonydee]

500 kudos THANK YOU! (aka Random Sixty Minutes Omake Nobody Asked For)

Some time after their heart-to-heart talk with the DJWifi, Adrinette are in the kitchenette, preparing some snacks for their guests

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Russian Imperial Court Dress on display at the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam.

[the-bluespirit]

THEY’RE JUST CARRYING THEIR DAMSELS IN DISTRESS.

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Rami Kadi Fall-Winter 2016-2017 Capsule Collection: Le Bal Enchanté

[aashiqaanah]

Elie Saab: Fall Couture 2017

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Georges Hobeika at Couture Fall 2017

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Fan Fictions You Should Definitely Read

Title: Satisfaction Brought It Back

Author:  siderealSandman

Ships: Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chat Noir/Ladybug, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Chloe Bourgeoise/Nathanael Kurtzburg

Rating: Explicit

Chapters: 23/?

Word Count:  188,252

Summary: Most people rekindled friendships with people from high school over Facebook or Twitter. Most people met for coffee, shared pictures of their bratty children, and sent old friends Christmas letters once a year.Marinette was clearly not most people as she had somehow hooked up with her former high school crush on a bondage dating website and didn’t know it until he was standing in front of her with an identical look of bemused embarrassment plastered all over his pretty face.

Title: Sting

Author: KryallaOrchid

Ships: Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chat Noir/Ladybug

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Chapters: 30

Word Count: 145,634

Summary: When Chat Noir inexplicably disappears, leaving Ladybug bee-hind to face Papillon on her own, a new wielder is chosen to keep the akuma from swarming. Ladybug is adamant she doesn’t want another partner buzzing around and why is this new-bee flirting with her?Meanwhile, Adrien just wishes Ladybug would stop bugging out and listen to him because his bee puns are fuzz-tastic.The repercussions of the bee are farther reaching than anyone realised.

Title: Back To Us

Author:  DarkReyna16

Ships: Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chat Noir/Ladybug, Sabine Cheng/Tom Dupain, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 35/36

Word Count: 423,381

Summary: After a reveal so shocking it rocks the core of Paris itself, the villain Hawk Moth is finally defeated…at a great personal cost to heroes Ladybug and Chat Noir. With the city safe, they go their separate ways, returning to the lives they were forced to put on hold since receiving their Miraculous.Now, seven years later, Marinette Dupain-Cheng is on the rise, studying at the fashion college of her dreams by day, working at her dream internship by afternoon…and occasionally moonlighting as Ladybug by night. This routine is set so firmly in place that, once it’s shattered by an old-yet-new enemy, and the reappearances of a cold friend and a hot partner, the whiplash threatens to send Marinette spiraling down into chaos.As Ladybug, she can do anything…but soon those limits will be tested, whether she is in or out of the costume.

Title: The Ladybugs and The Bees

Author: BullySquadess

Ships: Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chat Noir/Ladybug

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 37/?

Word Count: 160,134

Summary: There’s a thin line between humor and crack and I am snorting that line as we speak.

Title: Marinette’s Baby

Author: KandyKate

Ships: Chat Noir/Ladybug, Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 32

Word Count:  67,702

Summary:  After having successfully keeping her identity a secret as well as from her partner Cat Noir, Marinette/Ladybug gives into him one night . Not knowing the true identity of Chat Noir, Marinette struggles to keep an even larger secret. As the months go on Marinette worries that her secret could put her in serious danger, as well as the new life she is now obligated to protect.

Title: Anything For a Friend 

Author: rocknrollalien

Ships: Chat Noir/Ladybug, Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: General Audiences

Chapters: 10

Word Count: 30,320

Summary: Adrien would love it if fangirls left him alone for once in his life, but he knows that this will likely be a problem for as long as he’s single. Nino comes up with a potentially genius plan: just pretend to date a kindhearted classmate, and the problem will go away!Aka Adrien is oblivious and Marinette is too nice for her own good.

Title: Sixty Minutes

Author: mikochan_noda, peonydee

Ships: Chat Noir/Ladybug, Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Chapters: 4

Word Count: 13,443

Summary:  Alya Césaire, award-winning pursuer of truth, is honored with an intimate interview with Ladybug and Chat Noir. However, she doesn’t count on finding out certain things that are making her regret asking in the first place.

Hi everyone! Recently I’ve been running out of fics to read and I knew a few of my friends who did too so I decided to open this account with a friend to help you guys, who are struggling to find fanfics to read. I took the idea from jilyarchive, thanks so much to them! You can send us requests, we’ll try to help you as much as possible. Please don’t shy out and ask us!

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Suddenly all those Hinterlands quests to go round up a random farmer’s druffalo don’t  seem so silly.

Dragon Age Inquisition - doing something right.

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[sunderlorn]

#war in pre-industrial societies was *very different* from what many people imagine#i keep seeing calls for ‘realistic medieval huge military battles’ and im like#yon average feif could maybe afford like 10 guys tops

YES. This whole thread is the best thing and betterbemeta’s tags (above) are on point. I would love actual ‘realistic ancient battles’ where like ten actual fighters and whatever serfs they can persuade to accompany them posture and try to intimidate each other, or have an Official Scrum on a mutually beneficial day. That and just…cattle raiding.

I guess in post-collapse terms it’s theoretically different because your whole raider gang exists to nick other people’s shit so doesn’t need to cultivate or craft much except perhaps to make them more self-sufficient in weaponry, armaments, and other logistical things that’ll enable them to raid harder and more often. That’s exactly why, on the other side of things, as many citizen’s as possible in your vulnerable good-guy farming commune might need to be militia members to protect themselves from people who can dedicate their full-time everyday energy to Being Raiders.

I say in theory because, even if you’re nicking other people’s shit, why not treat that as a bonus? Why not look to history’s peoples who placed a particular import on raiding as a way of life, and notice that none of them were just straight-up predators. They had enough agricultural or pastoral or pescatoral (is that a word?) infrastructure to subsist, and then the luxury, the surplus, came from attacking other people part-time, very occasionally. Look at norse folks going viking; look at the invasive pastoralists of the Eurasian steppe. Just in terms of the caloric requirements and risks inherent in combat, you’re not gonna want to do that full-time. Training to do it well will take more calories and they need to come from somewhere. You pick your battles. You take without fighting at all where you can – so intimidation and making enemies surrender without having to fight is important here; c.f. pirates of the Golden Age – and you fight rarely and only when you know you can a) win, b) benefit hugely from it.

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THANK YOU

[vastderp]

i think this post has changed my world. literally. 

[aashiqaanah]

Astha Narang Collection 2017

[nalciel]

Nier Automata AU (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Because we’re all not suffering enough ~

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[runwayandcouture]

Oscar Carvallo Couture Fall 2013

[necrophilofthefuture]

my cat figured out how to open the cabinets so he made a nest in his favorite one. he’ll only come out if he hears the fridge open.

[breeeliss]

I'd just like to say: Chloe coming into the Dupain-Cheng bakery specifically when Marinette's on cash register duty and asks the names of pastries she already knows but just wants to hear Marinette talk, and eventually Marinette catches on but does nothing because she enjoys talking to Chloe

………………………

….goddammit

Words: 1968

Sabine smirked as she pulled a tray of croissants from the oven. “Marinette. I think your favorite customer is here.”

Marinette finished tying her apron behind her back and was pulling her hair up and away from her face as she got ready for her register shift. “Who now?”

Sabine jutted her chin towards the front of the bakery and Marinette followed her gaze, allowing herself a sigh and a small smirk when she saw who was meandering near the counter. “Stop teasing, maman.”

“It’s not teasing,” Sabine said. “She comes only on the days when you’re working and seems rather enchanted with all of our palmier flavors. Moreso than anyone else I’ve ever seen…”

“Oh hush, maman!” Marinette blushed, gently tapping her mother’s shoulder. “It’s nothing like that.”

“Don’t keep the poor thing waiting,” Sabine smiled as she carried the croissants to the counters in the back. “She must be eager to see you if she came right when your shift started.”

Marinette puffed her cheeks out and headed to the counter where Chloe Bourgeois was waiting, leaving her mother laughing and grinning behind her. 

It started when Chloe had to come into the bakery to order a huge commission of mini-cupcakes for a dinner she and her father were holding. Because Chloe loved being difficult, Marinette had to take out all of their sample books, explain all of their flavors, all of their frostings, all of their fillings, and all of their options for garnishes for close to twenty-five minutes before Chloe was satisfied. Marinette thought Chloe was making her explain herself so much for the sake of being annoying until she came in the next day asking for detailed descriptions of all the chocolate cakes they had on display for no other reason aside from her being “curious about your selection of dark chocolates.” Marinette’s father was too close by at the time for her to tell Chloe to buzz off, so she humored her for twenty minutes before Chloe settled with just buying a regular old palmier and left without buying a single cake. 

It was maddening, and for the next couple of weeks Chloe would come into the bakery when Marinette was working and ask her to rattle off all that she knew about their pastries, breads, cakes, rush orders, and catering plans….only to leave without having bought anything she had shown such a deep interest in. 

It was ridiculous to think Chloe had a passion for baked goods, otherwise she’d bother her parents about this. It wasn’t as if Chloe was using this as an opportunity to make fun of Marinette seeing how she was oddly quiet and attentive whenever Marinette spoke. It wasn’t until last week that Marinette had finally picked up on the obvious. 

Chloe came just to hear Marinette talk. 

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[nubbsgalore]

according to legend, the mountains in the andes once walked and acted like humans. one of them, tunupa, was a female who lived with her husband and three children. when one of her children died, her husband left her, taking with him the other children. tunupa cried so much that her tears mixed with her breastmilk, flooding the area and creating the salar de uyuni.

at 10,582 sq km, the salar de uyuni (meaning ‘islands of salt’) is the world’s largest perennial salt flat. the salt crust sits atop a vast lake of highly saline brine that contains 70 percent of the world’s lithium reserves. the salar’s salt reserves estimate is 10 billion tonnes. using pickaxes and shovels, workers scour the salar for halite (salt crystals), which they pile up in pyramids and leave to dry in the sun.

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