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 any pronouns, IRL people who don't know me that well default to she/her, online people tend to do they/them and my friends do they/he cause none of us are huge fans of 'iel'
(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 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!}
And unfortunately more and more frequently, #vent for, well, vent posts (usually about or related to friends who know my main)
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!
What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”
Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.
Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.
Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/
Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄
Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.
“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.
In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.
“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”
“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”
Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.
“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”
Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.
Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.
oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age
it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.
Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago
These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least
Day 167/365 of listing something good I saw today:
A gorgeous well-kept old vintage (if not antique?) sports car. I'm no good at identifying cars on sight, have no idea how to look up different car types by looks alone, and I only saw a glimpse of it in traffic, but it looked something like this:
The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes
honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
i love my friend who, while trying to figure out why i'm so adamant that i don't have anxiety, managed to say "i feel like the anxiety decription is just daily life?" without questioning what that meant for him
meanwhile my other friend
"[anxiety] can also present itself in autistic people as a strong feeling that you don't wanna do something"
"Especially since one of the symptoms of autism can be the absence of fear/a seriously lower registration of the feeling of fear by the brain"
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council
my best friend is currently setting up a therapy appointment for me and he mentioned off hand that he thinks i have anxiety and i was already like "what no i don't"
but then i asked my other friend and he replied like IMMEDIATELY that i do
me: "Since when do i have anxiety"
friend: "Since you do like idk how to explain it but its obvious"
[a set of a reply and what he's replying to; my message says "....i'm in more denial about this than i am about the photographic memory thing (he's convinced i have a photographic memory, i'm not)" and his reply is "You're too anxious to admit you have anxiety"]
(his name's not actually Karl that's the name of his stuffed raccoon i just found it fun to call him that)
well then
i have apparently been gifted anxiety by the council