Here is the promised best-of of the Pomme/Antoine portal stream ! It's my first time doing a best-of, so I did my best to keep it understandable while cutting unnecessary stuff. Red subtitles are for Pomme's sign.
Some slang and translation comment under the cut because I'm a bit of a language nerd :D
Pomme uses a lot of slang on her signs. The most common thing she does is using verlan. Verlan is when you inverse a word, but I keep the same meaning.
For example, she says, "c'est tipar" for "let's go." But "tipar" is not a french word, it's just "parti" switched over, but the word keeps the meaning of parti -> to go.
Obviously hard to translate, but Pomme also just writes things wrong for the funsies. I don't mean just grammar mistakes, I mean just plain wrong : "comment on fait" becomes "comment kon fait" because it's sounds funnier, no other reason. I wrote "how do we do" for my trad because I think it also sound silly but understandable.
She also does something we do in spoken French when two or three words kinda squish together to become one : "tu as vu" (literally "have you seen") becomes "tavu". In this context, to keep the feeling, I translated it to " ya know" because it has the same vibe for me
Antoine is way easier to translate in general, he has an easy French. Only thing hard thing to translate is that he uses a lot of French meme/reference and often punctuate his phrases with "là" , "bah", wich says a lot about the tone and intention of the sentence but sadly translate to nothing in context
And one last dumb thing : COMMAS. In comparison to written French, they are so many (too many one may even say) commas in English. I had to basically cut almost half of the sentence with a bunch of commas to make it understandable.
nightmare's gang but they're one of those youtube family channels that extorts the kids. HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT
i mean cmon man managing his multiversal takeover scheme must take a lot of money. nightmare needs a source of income. so what better than to torture and extort his gang even more. he makes them behave and act entertaining for the camera because if not they get beat and punished. he has cameras everywhere in the castle for content and to monitor everyone. people online are worried about the "kids" on the channel because they are CLEARLY being abused and exploited. nightmare gets a feast of negativity from these peoples' worries. now do i think that he would be cruel enough to force his gang to act like children for this channel?? i dunno,,,,,,,, perchance (YOU CAN'T JUST SAY PERCHANCE)
idk there's definitely a lot more than could be done with this stupid idea. but i just think,,,,,, i just think it would be funny,,,,, think about it,,,,,,,,,,
as much as i love traditionally married dreamling - and do i - i also have this bruised softness in my heart for 'what we have is outside relationship constructs, define it at your own peril' dreamling, for 'drifting in and out of each other's orbit with each other as perennial anchor point' dreamling, 'i haven't seen you in sixty years but what's that to an immortal, you are always in my heart' dreamling, 'our lives are not quite one but neither are they apart' dreamling. drop in on me, i am always ready to welcome you. and i will always let you go.
hob as a fixture, a constancy, a hearth, and dream as a wild creature coming in from the cold. it cannot be kept, and you would commit no such sin of trying to, but it can be held, warm, before the fireplace for a while. let it go, and trust that it will come back.
hob as a wanderer, life to life to life, and dream as an ancient, enduring kingdom whose protection is reachable just by closing your eyes. continuance impossible in the waking world but offered as easily as a kiss on the cheek.
there is no keeping a dream, is the thing. and dream does not want to be kept, but he does want to be held, held and let go and held again with those arms always open to him. there is no keeping an adventurer, either, and hob is an adventurer at heart, always ready to see, do, the next thing, but adventurers need a home, too, one that doesn't mind when they come back a little bit different.
go where you need to, when you need to. carry my love with you. and come back to me.
Just wanted to say that I'm so happy I found you here, used to follow you on the bird platform and GOSH I had missed Dandelion SO MUCH I love him with all my heart, thank you for sharing your disaster son with us 🤍🖤🤍
you are so kind, this is so kind, THANK YOU!! hearing people like my disaster son lights me up, warms my heart, puts the birds in the trees, makes my whole dang day, thank you thank you thank you!!! hello again!
“Brandon,” Connor says with a sigh. “There’s no baby in there.”
“Not yet,” Brandon says. Connor feels his stomach twist, almost like what he would imagine a baby kicking to feel like.
in these trying times of dewvorce, may i offer you 8k of pwp inspired by @stillfertile’s wonderful art which i had. several breakdowns about 🫶 anyway please enjoy!!!
This is my second fic to get this popular, but it took months after finishing it for the blonde dazai au to get anywhere near this
Considering the soulmate au is still ongoing, this is absolutely insane
I'm so grateful to everyone who's been reading, this really did start off as a self indulgent idea that I wasn't sure I was ever going to follow through with and now I have actual friends so :D crazy what fanfic can get you huh
I don't know if this is actually as big of a deal as I'm making it, but I'm so happy and so glad that people have been liking it as much as they have