If there’s anything I’ve learned from watching Once Upon a Time… Man and Once Upon a Time… Space for the past two months here, it’s that basically any show with Barillé at the helm is going to be capital P Problematic. Literally two episodes into Once Upon a Time… Life and I was already hit with literally osteocyte settler-colonialism… I would’ve never in a million years thought of presenting the growth of a fetus’ bones as analogous to cowboys manifesting destiny, but what can I say, Barillé’s just on another level.

Once Upon a Time… Life was actually a French-Japanese coproduction between studios Procidis^[1] and Eiken^[2], so it kinda is an anime! — enough of an anime to have its own pages on MAL and Anilist, at least.

But yeah, the director and original creator was a Frenchman.

It’s almost showtime, get your butts in here if you don’t want a penalty!

One hour to Innerspace Maestro

I have updated my copies of the taglist and asked carcharodonna, wombat and grebgreb to do the same.

11½ hours to Innerspace Maestro

This is a very early time to notify people

Sometimes I wonder what drives a person to be like this. Sometimes I also wonder if every single person who’s like this is actually the same person using different accounts.

We’ll be starting shortly, so hop in the chat ASAP if you’re interested in this documentary

Do you think my dog knows gender? That mutt doesn’t know meatloaf from cigar ash, it’s one a them… constructions, y’know.

♫ TU TU TU-RU! SAILOR BIRTHDAY! ♫

Nuclear doc in 3½ hours

Hmm, the Wikipedia article for The Weight of Chains says that the movie basically presents the Srebrenica massacre as Bosniaks killing their own in order to justify NATO intervention in Serbia. This seems really wee-woo and distasteful to me.

14 minut do starta

One hour to the Diminutive Odd-Toed Ungulate in Her Own Time and Space

Awww!!! Dogby pubpuy

Hope to see you next week, then!

8 hours and 15 minutes to AUTISMHORSE, yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaw

I think partially it’s that people’s eyes just sort of glaze over when they see a foreign language, because they’re afraid a false friend or wrong context-based assumption will screw them over, or because they’re otherwise just expecting it to be harder.

Not to mention that being able to parse French like this for me is making use of knowledge of several different languages which loaned different French words at different times and might use the same loans differently; as well as making use of my past exposure to French; so a text like this might be harder to parse for someone with less exposure to French, and fewer other (esp. Western European) languages under their belt.

I think it says something like “Together with our Italian friends, let us make use of the Vatican leader’s absence to launch a special operation in the city, abolish the absolute monarchy and proclaim the People’s Republic of Vatican” but I don’t actually know French

14 minutes to showtime, get your butts in here! If you’re late, there’ll be a penalty!