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1. Me, at the ao3 nomination approval interface: "YOUR CODE IS A HAMSTER AND SMELLS OF ELDERBERRIES"
It has several times lost part or all of my approval slates. >:[
2. I am reading Alain Damasio's La Horde du Contrevent, which I ironically enough got recced while in the middle of an online discussion/argument with someone who seemed to think that there was no such thing as French fantasy tradition. (This was apparently a misunderstanding/mismatch in definition.)
Anyway, La Horde du Contrevent is actually pretty good so far! I'm only on Chapter 3, but I'm really enjoying the worldbuilding so far. It's about a group of people in a planet continually beset the wind regularly so powerful and destructive it levels entire cities. The wind only flows in one direction and the Horde is going upwind to Etrême-Aval, the mythical source of the wind. That's the goal of every Horde and none have managed it. This is the 34th Horde. It will be the last.
Also weird creatures who can do stuff like turn organic matter into bone come out of the wind. Or possibly they are the wind? It's unclear.
I predict: at least half the cast will die, there is no Extreme-Upwind.
Also it has a soundtrack (although it apparently has 17 tracks in CD form instead of the 5 here).
3. I am also reading Magali Ségura's Le Prix d'Alaya. I grabbed it at semi-random off the shelf -- a random fantasy book written in French by a woman -- and it had people riding a sabertooth tiger on the cover so I was like FUCK YEAH! I am also enjoying it so far.
4. Sometimes I want to write posts about stuff relating to Brittany (fun tidbits about Breton, characteristic of Breton names, Anne de Bretagne etc) but then I'm like "no one caaaaaaaaaaaaaaares".
5. I recently saw both Annihilation (2018) and Le Chat du Rabbin (2011) and they are both good movies in vastly different ways, even though they both feature talking animals in some capacity.
Annihilation is a live-action horror sci-fi movie about an all-female group of scientists exploring a one where the laws a reality are... distorted. It's got a lot of body horror and some really pretty cinematography and raises interesting questions about what it means to be human/a specific person. To say more would be spoilery, but if that sounds like your sort of thing, it probably will be.
Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat) is an animated historical slice of life movie. In 1920s Algiers, a rabbi's cat gains, then loses, then regains the power of speech as the following happens: the cat attempts to convince the rabbi that he (the cat) should have his bar mitvah, the rabbi takes a test in French ("to preach in Hebrew to Jews who speak Arabic. They're crazy!" sayeth the cat), the rabbi's cousin and his lion come to visit, the rabbi finds a Russian Jew escaping in a crate of books, the rabbi and his friend the cheikh attempt to visit the tomb of their common ancestor, and then they're a roadtrip through Africa with the rabbi, the cheikh, the Russian Jew, a non-Jewish Russian, the cheikh's donkey and the rabbi's cat. It's really really sweet and I heartily reccomend it.
It has several times lost part or all of my approval slates. >:[
2. I am reading Alain Damasio's La Horde du Contrevent, which I ironically enough got recced while in the middle of an online discussion/argument with someone who seemed to think that there was no such thing as French fantasy tradition. (This was apparently a misunderstanding/mismatch in definition.)
Anyway, La Horde du Contrevent is actually pretty good so far! I'm only on Chapter 3, but I'm really enjoying the worldbuilding so far. It's about a group of people in a planet continually beset the wind regularly so powerful and destructive it levels entire cities. The wind only flows in one direction and the Horde is going upwind to Etrême-Aval, the mythical source of the wind. That's the goal of every Horde and none have managed it. This is the 34th Horde. It will be the last.
Also weird creatures who can do stuff like turn organic matter into bone come out of the wind. Or possibly they are the wind? It's unclear.
I predict: at least half the cast will die, there is no Extreme-Upwind.
Also it has a soundtrack (although it apparently has 17 tracks in CD form instead of the 5 here).
3. I am also reading Magali Ségura's Le Prix d'Alaya. I grabbed it at semi-random off the shelf -- a random fantasy book written in French by a woman -- and it had people riding a sabertooth tiger on the cover so I was like FUCK YEAH! I am also enjoying it so far.
4. Sometimes I want to write posts about stuff relating to Brittany (fun tidbits about Breton, characteristic of Breton names, Anne de Bretagne etc) but then I'm like "no one caaaaaaaaaaaaaaares".
5. I recently saw both Annihilation (2018) and Le Chat du Rabbin (2011) and they are both good movies in vastly different ways, even though they both feature talking animals in some capacity.
Annihilation is a live-action horror sci-fi movie about an all-female group of scientists exploring a one where the laws a reality are... distorted. It's got a lot of body horror and some really pretty cinematography and raises interesting questions about what it means to be human/a specific person. To say more would be spoilery, but if that sounds like your sort of thing, it probably will be.
Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat) is an animated historical slice of life movie. In 1920s Algiers, a rabbi's cat gains, then loses, then regains the power of speech as the following happens: the cat attempts to convince the rabbi that he (the cat) should have his bar mitvah, the rabbi takes a test in French ("to preach in Hebrew to Jews who speak Arabic. They're crazy!" sayeth the cat), the rabbi's cousin and his lion come to visit, the rabbi finds a Russian Jew escaping in a crate of books, the rabbi and his friend the cheikh attempt to visit the tomb of their common ancestor, and then they're a roadtrip through Africa with the rabbi, the cheikh, the Russian Jew, a non-Jewish Russian, the cheikh's donkey and the rabbi's cat. It's really really sweet and I heartily reccomend it.