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The Doctor loved Cecil. He made no sense. It was utterly fascinating. She could never get a good luck at him. It was like his whole being was a perception filter.
From Mostly Void, Partially Stars by writing_regen on ao3 in which the Doctor is a frequent visitor to Nightvale
Still pending official confirmation but here are Part 6′s character design profiles.
Bonjour, Mamon! Do you know anything about Wicca? If so, could you make a post with some witchy terms in French?
Hello, i’ll do my best :
Wicca : la wicca, le wiccanisme - paganism : le paganisme - pagan : un païen, une païenne - witchcraft : la sorcellerie - witch : une sorcière - wizard : un sorcier - wisdom : la sagesse - mythology : la mythologie (grecque, latine, slave, nordique, celtique) - nature : la nature - a ritual : un rituel - a mystery : un mystère - a spirit : un esprit - gods : les dieux (m) - demons : les démons (m) - the devil : le diable - deity : une divinité - the occult : les sciences (f) occultes - a shadow : une ombre - divine : divin-e - sacred : sacré-e
Mother goddess : grande déesse/déesse mère - horned god : dieu cornu (horn : une corne) - law of threefold return : la règle du triple retour - tradition : une tradition - the wheel of the year : la roue de l’année - sabbat : le sabbat - esbat : l’esbat (m) - equinox : l’équinoxe (m) - the solstice : le solstice d’hiver, d’été - druidism : le druidisme - druid : un druide/une druidesse
Spell : un sort, un charme - potion : une potion - incantation : une incantation - stone : une pierre (précieuse, semi-précieuse) - herbs : les herbes (f) - a crystal : un cristal - a circle : un cercle - a cauldron : un chaudron - a wand : une baguette magique - a pentacle : un pentacle - plant : une plante - incense : de l’encens (m) - runes : les runes (f) - a candle : une bougie - a tree : un arbre - a forest : une forêt - moonlight : le clair de lune - the cup : la coupe - amulet : une amulette - colours : les couleurs (f) - mushroom : un champignon
To heal : guérir - to summon : invoquer - to meditate : méditer - meditation : la méditation - black magic : la magie noire - white magic : la magie blanche - tarot : le tarot - cards : les cartes (f) - tarot cards : les lames (f) “blades” - a priest : un prêtre/une prêtresse - gathering : un rassemblement - initiation : une initiation - environment : l’environnement (m) - purification : la purification - reincarnation : la réincarnation - subtle energy : l’énergie subtile (f) - clairvoyance : la voyance
« An'ye Harm None Do what Ye Wilt » : « Si nul n'est lésé, fais ce que tu veux »
My posts about astrology, mythology, natural elements, space, flowers, Harry Potter (two posts), materials fabrics etc, colours…
(Note : I didn’t find a proper translation for coven, we seem to use the eng word)
Hope this helps! x
Wiccan Vocabulary in French - Vocabulaire wiccane en français
La Wicca - wicca
Le Chamanisme – Shamanism
Le Néo-paganisme - Neo-paganism
La Mythologie – mythology
gréco-romaine – Greco-Roman
slave – Slavic
celtique – Celtic
nordique- Norse
Un culte à mystères – mystery cult
Un wiccan – a Wiccan
Une sorcière / un sorcier – a witch
Un coven- Coven
La pratique solitaire (de la Wicca) – solitary practice (of Wicca)
Les dieux païens – Pagan Gods
La Grande Déesse – The Mother Goddess
Le Dieu Cornu – The Horned God
La Charge de la Déesse - The Charge of the Goddess
Le Panthéon - Pantheon
Le credo wiccan – The Wiccan Rede
Fais ce qu'il te plaît tant que cela ne nuit à personne - An it harm none, do what ye will.
La règledu triple retour – The threefold law
☸️La réincarnation - Reincarnation
Les éléments – The elements
🔥Le feu - Fire
🌊L’eau (f.) - Water
🌍La terre - Earth
🌬L’air (m.) - Air
👻L’esprit (m.) - Spirit
📓Le Livre des Ombres – Book of Shadows
⭐️Un pentagrame (droit/inversé) - Pentagram (upright/ inverted)
Un Pentacle - Pentacle
Une baguette magique - wand
Le rituel - ritual
Le cercle magique - magic circle
🎉Les fêtes (fpl.) wiccanes – Wiccan festivals
🔄La roue de l’année - The wheel of the year
Le Sabbat – Sabbat
the switch to online courses is killing me but oh well! doing my best and that’s what matters. hoping that things get better in a month or two. i miss my friends and i hope they’re all doing ok at home
• working on some french lit notes, i’m super behind on content and have been getting swamped with work in my other classes for the past week and i feel bad bc i could barely answer any of my prof’s questions the other day :( yikes hopefully i pull it together soon
hope u all are doing ok in these confusing times!!
1 in the morning, the best time to work on french lit notes!!!
my sleep schedule is horrendous at this point and i should be ashamed oops. oh well
hello everyone!! i’ve been on hiatus as i’ve been working more often and school has been very demanding this semester, though my language skills are improving :) i decided to take a french literature class and i really like it.
also, a little update, i got into my dream uni!!!! i’m really excited abt it and i know it’s going to be a good place for me to grow and improve. the profs at my current uni are super nice and helpful but i’ve hit a plateau and i think it’ll benefit me next year to start fresh.
hope all is well!! don’t know when i’ll be posting again because things are getting hectic between my senior year of hs and my classes at uni, (who knew hs physics could bring somebody so close to losing their sanity??) though there’s a chance i might post next week when spring break comes around. unfortunately i have to get my wisdom teeth pulled that same week so idk how up to posting i’ll be feeling, but we shall see
// getting ahead a little before the semester starts next week!! i finally made it to the bookstore and got my textbooks, i even had the opportunity to meet my french prof! he happened to be in and we had a great conversation about romance langs and the weekdays deriving from planets (yknow, the norm nerd stuff i like to talk about.) i'm looking forward to class with him on monday, it's gonna be a great semester!!
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also considering making a little advice post about the first week of uni, maybe it'll be useful?? it might only help a few ppl out there bc im dual enrollment in the u.s. and every experience is different, but i can share what advice i can compile together over the next week and maybe someone will find it helpful idk, will update later on that!!
Thank god for Russian dash cams to bring us wonders like this
they’re saying it’s 3am and they’re so tired and lets just drive and get out of here and then it happens and they’re like ‘well that woke me up”
That’s what his no driving ass get
life update!! finally started summer break after a very stressful year! i'm planning on taking up a summer job and i also have a couple skating competitions to prepare for, but in my downtime i'll likely start posting more on here again. i'm planning on starting an "early university" program next year so i can further my french + italian studies more seriously, but in order for my schedule to work out i decided to take both english and psychology at university too :") so i'll probably be spending whatever free time i can get over the next few months improving vocab and learning new grammar concepts, and as for psychology i want to look deeper into psycholinguistics, from what i've read so far it seems really interesting. also, i've started reading Madame Bovary for an essay assignment in a class i may or may not be taking yet (i don't schedule my classes at uni until july fhsjdjsks) it is an interesting book so far though (esp the historical + cultural aspects) so i'm not really complaining there. also my dummy self decided to sign up for the july ACT because my math + science scores were kinda ugly ngl and the university i'm going to long term is going to make me p poor! unless i have a better composite score on this exam so uhhhhhh the exam it is i guess
whenever i get my life together enough to clean up my workspace and make some nice looking notes, i'll be back to posting!!
mămăliga the real drug
if you're looking for an explanation i can't give one, except for the fact that this image clawed its way up from the dark depths of hell
ah yes, my favourite foreign language feel, “I know what all of those words mean individually but not together like that”
not to forget its twin “i know (roughly) what you’re saying, but what are those words?”
Plus the secret triplet “I managed to get your drift but I don’t know how to answer you”.
If 2018 taught me something, is that sometimes you have to be a fucking dumbass in order to start learning something. Embrace your dumb self and realize it’s only up from here. One day you’re gonna look back and you’re going to be like, damn, I was a diddly darn fool, but I sure as hell grew from it. Neat.
a very slurry guide to why french is Like That, Actually
SO
yall remember that post that went like…… “why is french… Like That”?
well, time for An Education from ur local french literature student
SO, BASICALLY, WHAT HAPPENED
first of all, well, it’s like the 9th century and the king is like…… hey what if….. and bear with me on this one but….. what if…….. we wrote………. the things about our country………… in the language……. actual people living in this country….. speak?
and people were like “holy shit youre the king so okay” and then the king was like “i want YOU to write this laws and THINGS in FRENCH!” and the monks were like “aw okay” so they started doing that
EXCEPT
that they had a big fucking problem. what was that problem, you may ask? well, the problem was thaT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE AN ALPHABET TO WRITE THIS FUCKING EXCUSE OF A LANGUAGE
lemme explain. all they knew was latin and the latin alphabet. bc like knowing latin was the whole thing when u were a monk. also latin was like… the Serious Language. but french doesnt sound like latin like at all. french sounded like some bitch ass demon had bitten their tongue and was trying to order a latte in the middle of an exorcism incantation. and i say “sounded” on purpose bc their pronunciation was wild, man. like ultra wild. like even WORSE than what we have to deal with now. and it had NOTHING to do with motherfucking latin.
so what did the monks do? well, they were like “aw this is a mcfucking embarrassment of a situation, ay” and had a choice. basically, they could invent a whole new mode of transcription for french weird ass sounds… OR they could do their best to try and adapt the latin alphabet to its demonic sprouting.
which is, pretty sadly if you ask me, what they went for.
so they started planning strategies that were complex at shit bc like how tf are you gonna write “cheval” with a fucking LATIN ALPHABET??? so basically they all went with whatever felt best to write in the moment and there were no rules and it was a weird fucking mess of a situation lemme tell you, ive seen the manuscripts, those men went APE SHITT
and like…. some of them never used the same spelling twice. also there were like no accent and punctuation and things that allow you to write like a fucking normal human being so jot that down
so, that was a big fucking mess and they started adding letters e v e r y w h e r e like……….. ok some of them were actually smart like they did their best to add letters that no one pronounced but it made it look like some latin thing. like basically they put up a pink hairband on a fucking DEMON CHILD and went “aaaawww look how CUTE it is, looks like its mommy so much!!!!” and prayed to god it would end up well (spoiler: no. no it didnt. bitch)
so you got things like “veult” for “veut” bc the “l” made it look a bit like the latin “vult” or something. but then as i said some of them went APE SHITT and were like, WOOHOO FREE LETTERS and started adding weird letters to words that had literally no etymological link to that letter. so they were writing “peut” like “peult” just because….. idk they felt like to??
so its Like That in the middle ages and then people started thinking about french as a language and they went like….. MAAAAW THERES A WEIRD FUCKING STRAY WRITING OUTSIDE!!! MAAAAAAAW!!!! IS THAT EVEN A FUCKING LANGUAGE???? BLINK MOTHERFUCKER!! AAAAAAAAAAAA and everyone was losing their shit alright
so like english students started going to college in france and they were like “bitch you live like this??” and the french were like :/// whelp
and like they did their best to like help non-native writing french but it had no rules so it didnt work out well and like….. in the 1500’s some guys were like “okay guys this makes no sense from now on well use a RATIONALIZED WRITING i built MYSELF” and their idea was basically to write french as they spoke it which i know SOUNDS like a good idea but actually AINT
bc first of all there are a shitton of words that have the same pronunciation in french and you need those weird spellings to actually know what the word is there for like….. they wrote like “me” for “mai” and “mais” and “mes” and “met” and basically that was wild
and some of those guys who knew a lot about grammar went like “ooookayyyyy so were removing those letters we dont pronounce buuuuuuuuuut its not alwayyyyyys like thiiiiiiiiis” and like…. right-wing people like the 1550 equivalent of republicans or some shit went like, foaming at the mouth like rabid fucking dogs when they saw “pe” instead of “peult” “oooooohhhhhh but you DIDNT and its not EVEN REALLY RATIONAL” and like they had a ton or arguments and it actually became a kinda linguistic war and all
plus they didnt pronounce the same things everywhere in france so in paris they wrote “otr” for “autre” and in lyon they wrote “aotr” and they were like……… “we got a problem here” bc the whole thing was to get a language that was the same everywhere in the country basically
so u got those reformist guys on the one side and the reactionaries on the other side and honestly, reactionaries’ arguments are so fucking funny they were like…
“okay so some of the letters are useful bc it helps understanding that the word comes from latin” this ones rational alright
“also some mute letters are used to link the words from an identical background together and create semantic links like “sang” (blood) does have a mute “g” bc it links it to “sanguin” (sanguine) and other words like this” alright cool
but THEN you got some weird fucking ideas like
“but actually writing IS the standard bc written things Are More Noble, Actually” which is like……. weird flex but ok
“yes, it makes it harder to learn, but so it repels women and non-educated people who would soil The Language if they could write it” like DUDE are you FUCKING SERIOUS
and finally – their main idea –
“bUt iT loOkS FaNcY” aka #aesthetics and thats basically it
also. the printing press workers were like……… guys are you SURE you want to get us to COMPLETELY CHANGE AND UNLEARN OUR WHOLE JOB LIKE C’MON so it kinda weighed in favor of the reactionaries
also the reactionaries won in the long term
tl;dr so french is Like That because 1. its a demonic language that monks desperately tried to tie back to latin and 2. old white men with bizarre aesthetic tastes hated women and The Poor
thanks for coming to my ted talk my language makes no sense and neither does its history
Here are some French YouTube channels I enjoy that you could check in order to practice and improve your understanding of French ! I will describe them a bit if needed, and I hope this post will be useful !
History
Les Revues du Monde - A channel about history and archaeology, more precisely about mysterious events
Horror Humanum Est - Animated videos about horrifying and bloody events in the world’s history
C’est une autre histoire - Deals with mythology and arts, I would say
Nota Bene - Very interesting if you want to know about French history (but it is not the only thing the channel deals with !)
Sciences
Balade Mentale - The channel deals with many many things related to sciences but the thing I prefer about it is the fact that it deals with things related to the universe (among others)
Dirty Biology - It’s in the name
Dans Ton Corps - About health, health issues, human body !
Tu mourras moins bête - Animated channel about biology, physics, and much more
Languages
Linguisticae - About linguistics
Le monde des langues - About language learning (you might find some tips to help you !)
Society (my absolute favorite category !)
Antastesia - Feminism, veganism, literature, travels… I also remember her talking about the LGBTQ+ community (my favorite channel e v e r !)
Data Gueule - Animated channel that teaches/proves you things about ecology, politics and so much more using A LOT of data
Antitésie - Education, feminism, books…
La Carologie - Feminism, spirituality, some videos deal with the LGBTQ+ community if I remember well
Esther - Weight, veganism, self love and just… Life I guess ?
Marinette - Femmes et féminisme - Feminism
Et tout le monde s’en fout - Humans, and their world
ASMR
PARIS ASMR
Elya ASMR
Tom ASMR - Might be interesting because he is from the south of France and has an accent
NEED TO ACTUALLY WATCH FR YT
