#french thing

[maxessence]

Straw hat April's fool headcanon:

Sanji going around, sticking cut-out paper fish on the backs of his crewmates on the first of April.

The rest of the crew being like ???

(In France, we say "poisson d'avril"—April's fish—which is the epitome of fun. It consists of slyly sticking a fish to someone's back so they go around, not knowing they have a fish on their back. We also pull pranks, but fish—mainly fish.)

[l0rd-kromer]

I love how you defend Artful tooth and nail.

[mask131]

IT IS SO ANNOYING!

Since a few years, advertising societies have been using songs from the first season of AHS for their ads. I don’t know why they thought using these songs would be good? Maybe they saw it was trending and did not realized it was because they came from a horror show? But the worst thing is that they use it as supposedly “happy” songs when they are not particularly...

The latest example is an advertisement about fruit juice to drink in the morning, showing a happy family drinking it to the “Tonight You Belong to Me” song. Okay, this one was happy and cheerful before AHS took it, this can be excused.

BUT THE WHISTLE SONG! Bloody hell, no! The whistle song, the theme of Tate Langdon, is now reused for... everything! I have seen it in two different ads for two different cars, in an ad for school bags and in another ad about a meal you can share with your family. Here they have no excuse, because outside of AHS the song was used only in Kill Bill for a murder scene - AND THE SONG ORIGINATED FROM A HORROR MOVIE TO! It was composed for Twisted Nerves, a movie about a murderous stalker. They have NO reason to mistake it for a happy song about cheerful families or someone going on for a walk by the beach... 

But they did because those stupid ad people saw it was popular and trending and thought “It sounds cheerful. Doesn’t mind what it comes from, let’s just use it!”

...

In France it is not the first time they do that - they turned a lot of respectable, honorable or sad songs into commercial jingles or advertisement songs, and it is so sad because when you discover the original and you want to appreciate it, you just can’t help thinking of a pot of sugar or a perfume. 

[dealwiththefeel]

Sometimes I really feel the irony of being a french les miserables fan.

I can't go watch the musical. Maybe one day I'll have enough money to go to the UK or USA to see it, but it's only a maybe. I am french, and I might never see the Les Miserables Musical.

And I never met someone passionate about it, no matter the format: brick, movie, musical, ... This fandom seems almost dead in France. France.

I don't know if I want to laugh or cry.

[captain-jale]

Guyyyyyyyyyys !!!!!! There's a François Fillon filter !!!!!!

[todd--chavez]

[seeasweetsmile]

Oh my god, I was on my bed, thinking about fanfiction idea scenes, and I’m just realized the “pun” about Mrs Bustier’s name.

Her name is “Caline Bustier” right ?

And in French, we can say about a person that she’s “câline” (or “câlin” if it’s a man), it’s meaning “cuddly”.

And “Bustier” mean, well, bustier, a woman's garment, but don’t forget that the word take root from word “bust”, torso or chest.

So, basically, if we only take the “bust” part on her name and that we put these together, Caline Bustier meaning “a bust cuddly” ... x)

[just-a-little-unionida]

Not my mother asking me if I've a pan lid and anti-noise earplug when I'm checking if I've saltine and ffp2 masks 😭