#tome 2

[maitresse-des-tempetes]

On en est au chapitre 5 dans la partie "Erylis" du deuxième tome des Mondes.

- Un mystérieux voyageur puant...(Et des gardes probablement très classistes)

- Je me souviens que la première fois que j'ai lu ce bouquin les mention du N'ralaï avant chaque chapitre ça m'énervait genre quel est le rapport (naïveté quand tu nous tiens !)

- Salim mate totalement Erylis devant Ewilan 🤣 (elle le prend pas si mal remarque elle est limite bisexuelle dans sa tête en fait)

- oh tiens l'incident qui doit avoir lieu à chaque cycle, des mecs relous viennent embêter des femmes dans une taverne (qui devine la suite ?)

- Ah rare moment de courtoisie il exclu Ewilan parce qu'elle est un peu trop jeune car quand même monsieur ne harcèle que des majeures.

- il a un truc avec les gens qui puent Bottero en ce moment...?

- ok donc la fameuse marchombres de 300 ans est pas juste immortelle et capable de soulever à main nue des barreaux de prison elle a aussi accès au chat privé de Salim et Ewilan.

- "Tant que tu ne te trompes pas de prénom en me murmurant des mots doux…" 😶😶😶

- Duom fait un cour sur la puberté à Ewilan (dépitée)

[crepuscule-pourpre]

[lire1x]

Retour à Portofino de J.P.O'Connell

Ces derniers jours, le temps est épouvantable : la pluie incessante a fait son come-back dans mon ciel. Des éclaircies fugaces ne font que souligner l’oppression des gros nuages gris. Les humeurs changeantes de la météo, combinées au retour à l’école, peuvent facilement nous plonger dans une profonde nostalgie de l’été. Heureusement, j’ai pu profiter pleinement de cette saison en prenant des…

[heroslitteraires]

Une enquête difficile…

Suzan Payne.

Valérie. Pour toi mon amour pour toujours. Tome 2. 415 pages.

Perce-Neige Éditeurs.

Valérie se réveille peu à peu. Elle frisonne et cherche instinctivement à remonter la couverture. Elle ouvre les yeux et balaie la pièce du regard. Elle ne reconnaît pas cette chambre. Elle frisonne une autre fois et cherche encore à se couvrir, mais ne trouve rien. Comme elle, le lit est nu.

Mon avis :

Une enquête difficile à faire pour les enquêteurs qui n’ont à peu près pas d’indice. Dès qu’il y a un indice, les recherches mènent nulle part. Certains personnages ont parfois trop d’attitude pour la scène, un peu exagéré, mais comprenable pour le bien de la lecture. La policière qui enquête sur la disparition commence en avoir assez e vivre dans la famille malsaine où elle vit. Dans la lecture, il y a un mix entre on suit l’enquête policière, la disparue et la vie personnelle de la policière. La fin finie en queue de poisson, donc il faut absolument lire le troisième tome pour comprendre le dénouement. Ce que je vais faire, car l’histoire est captivante malgré et je veux connaitre comment les personnages vont s’en sortir. Avez-vous déjà lu la trilogie?

[passionforwords]

On dit qu'entre l'amour et la haine il n'y a qu'un pas. Mais quand ces deux sentiments se mêlent, qu'est-ce que c'est?

They say that there is only one step between love and hatred. But when these two feelings mix, what is it?

The Hell's dog, Tome 2, Stan et Millie

[elgallinero]

Apprendre le Francais

youtube.com/watch

[delicourse]

i miss them a little if im gonna be honest

[metukika]

when ure apparently the only social person in your friend group

[cube-cumb3r]

part 2: What's the deal with Manneq- SIMULTANEOUS PARALLEL REALITY THEORY IM CRAZY IM CRAZYIM CRAZY IM CRAZY

This is the second part of me trying to make sense of the Mannequins in ENA. Read pt. 1 here, if you want. Or don't!

I'm not entirely satisfied with the explanation of "Mannequins are spawnpoints" because it doesn't really explain how the Mannequins got there in the first place. How did so many Mannequins coincidentally end up near locations where it just so happens that Ena is likely to respawn?

I pondered a little bit about the role of Mannequins in the Youtube series as well, and if I could tie that into their role in the game. To my knowledge, there's only one episode where the Mannequins make an appearance, and that's Temptation Stairway.

I don't think about Ulysses often. The most I think about him is the fact that the song that plays when Ena talks to him is such a peculiar banger. But, given that he's the first character in the Youtube series to mention Doors before their existence got fully elaborated on in the game, perhaps more of his dialogue isn't just ominous and strange nonsense.

One of his lines is (paraphrased) "But heed this warning: desires are never fulfilled, nor quenched. You will fail. Like the rest of them."

So who is the rest of them? (other than Moony?) Taking the video at face value, the answer seems pretty simple, it's the Mannequins. They can be seen climbing the Great Runas in the beginning of the episode, and then later on her way, Ena walks past some lifeless ones in various places in a similar manner they are found in Dream BBQ, or they're... lamenting? In this strange space?

Other than that, without any further context, there doesn't seem to be that much to say about the Mannequins in Temptation Stairway, they seem to just be Mannequins. They're these sort of anonymous and ambiguous figures that also seem to have the same goal as Ena, reaching the Great Runas. All of which are failing, it seems.

After Ena meets Ulysses, she of course meets the Shephard who says her infamous "Arghh... another ENA troublemaker." line, which has of course been interpreted to mean millions of things. That being said, literally moments after this scene, we see other Enas when Ena enters the holy code. It seems sensible to assume these are the Enas she's talking about. (Because of Species Theory TM, no one ever really asks how they got here, why they look nearly identical to our Ena, and why they're unmoving. But that's besides the point.)

Most importantly for the purpose of this post, for some frames, they glitch into Mannequins.

(I would be remiss if I did not mention that right after this sequence, there's a data matrix on the wall that when decoded says "FORGET YOUR PAST". Make of that what you will.)

We already know there are multiple simultaneous instances of Ena in some manner, given that the Shepherd has met multiple of them. Given where the Shepherd is located and based on her dialogue, it's likely too that the Enas she met were also attempting to reach the Great Runas as well. That's another set of individuals that are attempting to reach this divine being, other than the Mannequins (and Moony).

So, when Ulysses says "You will fail, like the rest of them", maybe he's talking about the lifeless Mannequins that Ena walks past on her way to the Great Runas. Or, maybe he's talking about the other Enas that can be seen in the holy code. Or you know, both.

Or, perhaps, there's no difference between the two.

Time and reality seems to be a bit weird in the world of Ena. When talking to the remnants of the former Genie, she will offer her memories, to show Ena a reality where Ena did succeed. And this "reality" is (presumably) the reality where Ena had successfully reached the Bathroom, and the events play out the same as if you had done so.

This seems to imply that despite the fact that the sequence of events that led to Ena successfully reaching the Bathoom was not something the Ena you're currently playing as ever experienced, given that the Genie describes it as "her memories", from her perspective, it still happened. Both realities seem to co-exist.

What does that have to do with Mannequins? Well,

Here's my crazypants Theory. Rather Mannequins being a "spawnpoint", they're rather sort of... glimpses of other realities or timelines.

This Mannequin is found on the path that Ena was quite literally walking on before she stops, and she nearly gets caught under the falling structure from above. Perhaps in another alternate sequence of events she didn't stop, and kept walking. And that's what that Mannequin is.

Or this Mannequin found on the other side of the bridge, underneath the floating platforms leading up to the Orb. Perhaps in alternate sequence of events, Ena did end up falling while attempting to ascend to the Orb.

In fact, you can even experience this in-game. If you fall while attempting to climb up, you will "teleport" back to various checkpoints at different points of the ascent. So what if it's not "teleportation" that is happening, but rather you are being "transported" to a version of reality where she didn't fall. Whatever you just experienced did not happen to this Ena. But, you can still see evidence of this having happened, in some version of reality, when you look at the tops of these buildings.

(edit 5/5/25:) A new patch came out today which added a new interaction with the file compressor, where you can compress files more and more until they explode, causing Ena to stumble backwards after which you "respawn" in the center of the roundabout again.

Interestingly enough, with this new interaction they also a new lifeless Mannequin, which can be found dismembered exactly where Ena would've been blown up by this zip bomb. Even more interestingly, this dismembered mannequin is already there even before you've interacted with the zip compressor. As if it's already happened. But not to you. (Yet.) (end of edit)

(Now, I am aware that it's an absurd claim to suggest every single Mannequin here is parallel Ena. That might not be plausible. But I think it's sensible to assume at least some of the Mannequins we see across the series and game may be.)

When the broken Genie shows you a different reality, if you talk to Unforgiven Frank next to the ship, he will still recall your earlier interaction, despite the fact that in the reality where you succeeded in reaching the Bathroom, you would've never encountered him in the Lost Village.

So, it seems these are not distinct and separate realities, but somehow both true at once. Similarly to how the realities where Ena fell in a river or a pit, and the realities where she didn't, are both simultaneously true. And similarly how the Shephard has already met Ena, even if this Ena has not met the Shephard.

Does she retain anything across iterations? Does she collectively experience all of them at once, or just one at a time? It seems for the most part, Ena does not have information that she would've obtained in any parallel iteration of herself, because she needs to ask for it, this is the case in both Temptation Stairway and Dream BBQ. But it seems in some cases she does have information from sequences of events she herself has not experienced, like how she can aspire for Frank's forgiveness despite never having met him (though of course, maybe they already met prior to the events of Dream BBQ.) Perhaps it's as the Shaman said, while perhaps she can, if she were experiencing all of them simultaneously, she would be lost in her own mind.

This theory is not rock solid, there's some things that still don't quite make sense. If you're up on the Orb Island after ascending, you can quite literally jump down all the way to the bottom and be fine, so why would another iteration Ena not make it from falling during her climb? Or, if Mannequins are supposed to represent Ena from other versions of reality, wouldn't you expect lifeless Mannequins to be found at, say, the bottom of the rivers and pits, rather than hanging off the edges? Though, since the Mannequin "inside" Ena seems to be able to "emerge" from her body, perhaps that could be the explanation for this conundrum.

With all this said, there seems to be a natural conclusion to this theory. Under the assumption that the Enas we see suspended in the holy code in Temptation Stairway are Enas that "failed" in their task, like the rest of them (like the rest of them) like the rest of them... What does that actually mean for Ena at the end of Dream BBQ?

I'm sure everyone has noticed the shot we see at the end of the game is nearly the exact same as the one in Temptation Stairway. There's other Mannequins as well, also suspended in the holy code. The conclusion of this theory seems therefore to suggest that the Ena we see at the end of Dream BBQ never actually made it out of Uncanny Streets at all. She got stuck behind the Lonely Door. Failed, like the rest of them, alongside the other Mannequins we see floating in that space.

It's a sensible assumption that the hand that reaches out and grabs this Ena-Mannequin is "taking" her and "placing" her back in the body of the Mannequin in the hub. But what if even that isn't true? What if the Ena "emerging" out of the Mannequin in the Hub isn't her "respawning", but rather, she is an entirely different instance of Ena that never left the Hub in the first place? Whatever happened to the Ena in the Lonely Door still happened, but not to this Ena.

Which seems to prompt a question that no other theory would need to ask. Where is that hand taking this other Ena?

[maitresse-des-tempetes]

On en est maintenant au premier chapitre de la partie "Erylis" dans l'Oeil d'Otolep, T2 des Mondes.

- Vaudra que je me souvienne de la vargelite ("métal souple plus résistant que l’acier que seuls les maîtres forgerons d’Al-Chen savaient travailler et qui valait mille fois son poids en or.") parce que autant Bottero c'est de la gnognote par rapport à Tolkien ou R.R. Martin au sujet du worldbuilding mais j'aimerais bien retenir ce que je peux de ce qu'il a construit (et si j'arrive à me souvenir de l'entièreté de l'arbre généalogique Targaryen, je peux le faire !!!) au cas où ça peut servir pour mes fanfics

- ça me paraît dommage et un peu bizarre que les rêveurs soient des reclus et pas genre des fonctionnaires de l'Etat qui précisément ont une proximité avec voire vivent dans les endroits les plus peuplés de Gwendalavir (donc dans les villes). Le recueillement et la séparation marquée avec la vie courante des moines dont les rêveurs sont inspirés fait plus sens parce que ben c'est des religieux !

- cue les fascinantes pensées philosophiques d'Ewilan (14 ans et demi) sur l'amour et à quel point la monogamie est un carcan sociétal qui enferme tous et nous empêche d'être heureux

- Les Faëls c'est tellement des jedi purée

- Ewilan est dans tous ses états à propos de Liven et puis t'as Salim tranquille il est touché par Erylis dans "chacune de ses fibres masculines." (Je suis légèrement irritée j'avoue). Enfin bref ils sont ados donc quand on y pense...(Ewilan et lui finissent même par s'embrasser à la fin c'est trop marrant quand on pense à l'état second dans lequel il était cinq minutes avant en apercevant Erylis)

- Illian qui veut apprendre la conjugaison à Chiam ça remet parfaitement en perspective à quel point les langues dans l'univers de Bottero c'est un peu du n'importe quoi. Illian vient d'un autre continent, Ewilan a vécu dans notre monde toute sa vie mais ils parlent la même langue que les Alaviriens absolument pas de problème d'accent par contre les elfes wish qui vivent en Gwendalavir parlent une toute autre langue. Vaste blague !

- putain pas Chiam qui dit à Salim qu'Ellana et Edwin s'engueulent parce qu'ils peuvent pas baiser 😭😭😭

- un autre subtil rappel qu'Edwin n'est pas le père biologique d'Ewilan mais que quand même il est un peu son père de coeur

- Je suis en train de réaliser que si Ellana est la "sœur" d'Ewilan, Edwin a l'âge de sa mère (une minute j'ai pensé "ben quand ils auront révélé qu'Altan est un connard il pourra enfin se mettre avec Élicia 😄" avant de me dire "ah merde Ellana")

[crepuscule-pourpre]

[lire1x]

Les heures hostiles de Carole Declercq

Après les prémisses du Second Conflit mondial dans le très réussi « Les heures insouciantes », Carole Declercq nous emmène au cœur des « Heures hostiles », celles où l’Europe résonnait sous les tirs des armées, où les hommes mourraient sur tous les fronts et les femmes réinventaient la société pour joindre les deux bouts et pallier aux multiples manquements. Comme pour le premier tome, j’ai…

[yesyesyesyea]

They better give this man a good amount of screen time.

[grahamdolce]

Hannibal 1.08 Fromage | 2.12 Tome-wan

[saltycharacters]

[ID: Digital sketches featuring characters from mob Psycho 100. The 1st depicts Ritsu, Shou, and Tome sitting at a table, with materials scattered about as they draw. It's shown that they're all making characters from different media, such as Ritsu drawing a warrior cats oc, Shou a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic oc, and Tome drawing an Invader Zim oc. They all use different materials and art styles to express their vision. The following image features Teruki, an obscene amount of merchandise from shows and video games of all kinds littering his self. He poses casually, looking straight at the camera as he asks, "What's a fandom?". The final drawing is a parody of the "it is pride month walter white, you know what that means" comic, with Ritsu as Walter White and Shou as the other character. This iteration reads, "It is pride month Ritsu. You know what that means". "Huh- What- Do you want us to like. Beat up your dad while gay. What", and the final thought bubble coming from Shou depicts both boys holding hands with the gay flag over them as they kick Shou's dad in the chest. End ID]

MP100 kids being silly

Don't forget, help Palestine:

-> arab.org <- Click once a day for free

-> gazaesims.com <- Instructs how to donate esims

-> gazafunds.com <- Randomly selects a fundraiser for you to support

-> Fundraiser spreadsheet <- Lists Gazan fundraisers

-> Operation Olive Branch Spreadsheet <- Lists other ways to support

-> Resource link google doc <- Has tons of information and links

[onethousxndvoices]

twm tomeposting for today (ft. old as hell doodle frommmmm 2022. i think)