September 2012
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August 2012
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chansondevictoire:
I propose a day where we all get to stand in a line and punch England in the face
Portugal probably won’t participate so I get two punches
I second this motion.
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July 2012
25 posts
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→ day thirteen
13.) What does your character’s bed look like when he/she wakes up? Are the covers off on one side of the bed, are they all curled around a pillow, sprawled everywhere? In what position might they sleep?
[[MORE]]Francis likes to lounge around in bed most mornings, but once he’s up he’s up. His bed is usually neatly made and it doesn’t take much effort to keep it that...
School for Danger (1947) →
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→ day twelve
12.) How is your character with technology? Super savvy, or way behind the times? Letters or email?
[[MORE]]France is fairly savvy with a computer and with a cell phone. He doesn’t cling to outdated technology or methods of communication—if anything, he’s one of those people who keeps their entire life in their cell phone. He schedules everything via phone and can always be...
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→ day eleven
11.) Is there an animal you equate with your character?
[[MORE]] Was there ever going to be another answer?
(But in all seriousness, no particular animal comes to mind, save lazy house cats maybe, and only for a gist of personality and fluidity of movement.)
(Francis would make a gr8 lazy house cat though.)
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You know what's kind of beautiful?
timorleste:
In French, you don’t really say “I miss you.” You say “tu me manques,” which is closer to “you are missing from me.”
I love that. “You are missing from me.” You are a part of me, you are essential to my being. You are like a limb, or an organ, or blood. I cannot function without you.
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→ day ten
10.) Can you define a turning point in your character’s life? Multiples are acceptable.
[[MORE]]In keeping with the idea of a nation’s life following along the edges of their history, I’m inclined to list the French Revolution as one, because it did function as a turning point, not only in French history but globally—it marked the end of kingly rule in France and changed the...
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→ day nine
9.) Who does your character trust?
[[MORE]]This is an answer that would fluctuate between extremes, I think, both on the basis of Francis’ personality and on the nature of nations—it isn’t so much his own life he’d be trusting anyone with as it would be the lives of his citizens or the state of France as a country.
(To elaborate, because I don’t think I phrased...
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→ day eight
8.) Day of Favorites! What’s your character’s favorite ice cream flavor? Color? Song? Flower?
[[MORE]]Ice cream: Francis’ sweet tooth runs more to the lines of baked goods, but he can enjoy a bit every now and again. He prefers gelato though, on the grounds that it’s generally richer and creamier, and likes vanilla the most.
Colour: He’d never have an answer for...
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→ day seven
7.) Is there one event or happening your character would like to erase from their past? Why?
[[MORE]]I really don’t think so. There are things that, given the chance, he would do differently—but not erase. He is very much aware of the fact that he isn’t human, and that his life and livelihood, in a very literal sense, revolve around the state and history of the nation he...
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Scheduling sex makes it into an obligation. Terribly unromantic for something that’s supposed to be an act of love.
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chansondevictoire asked: BROTHER BROTHER BROTHER IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. WE ARE INCREDIBLY OLD BUT EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL.
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→ day six
6.) Describe your character’s happiest memory.
[[MORE]]This one is—difficult, mostly because history is big and complicated and suchlike, but it comes down to a tie between the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and the Normandy landings.
The first because it was the 100th anniversary of the storming of Bastille and, quite essentially, a celebration of culture during peacetime—it was...
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javedan:
knezojadransko:
You lot, complaining about hearing that screaming from across the globe?
Imagine what having to live next to it feels like.
Your hair is that of a mullet
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Bon anniversaire, Alfred!
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Joyeux anniversaire, Canada, albeit somewhat belatedly.
June 2012
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oslusiadas replied to your post: oslusiadas replied to your post: [[Because driving…
…the image of them all on the side of the road picking up trash for community service comes to mind LOL }
[[Or traffic school, oh my gosh. Can you imagine how awkward it would be to learn about all the laws they’ve been ignoring all these years?]]
latersonsonafrote replied to your post: [[Because...
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oslusiadas replied to your post: [[Because driving headcanons are relevant at the…
IT’S NOT RIDICULOUS, IT’S PERFECT I think it’s just a Western European curse to drive badly.}
[[NOTHING GOOD WAS EVER GOING TO COME OF THIS. One day all those traffic violations are going to catch up to them, and then it’ll be a real nightmare.]]
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[[Because driving headcanons are relevant at the moment—
[[MORE]]Because the turn of the century involved a good deal of snowballing in terms of technology and technological advances, Francis turned more towards the politics of the time, and prioritised those over say, making sure he was keeping up appropriately. Given the older generations’ disapproval surrounding automobiles when...
serge gainsbourg
initials bb
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→ day five
5.) What’s your character’s ranking on the Kinsey Scale?
[[MORE]]Francis is a three, undoubtedly. It isn’t so much an issue of “anything with a pulse”—and he’d be offended if anyone implied such—so much as it is an issue of being unable to commit himself in any particular direction in regards to the subject. Choosing one would mean losing the other to some...
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Anonymous asked: Antonio died.
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→ day four
4.) How vain is your character? Do they find themselves attractive?
[[MORE]]It almost goes without saying that Francis is fairly vain—he knows he’s good looking and isn’t afraid to use that to his advantage. He attributes it to to long spent dealing with European politics, but he’s not one to neglect anything that might gain him favour.
That said, he doesn’t...
Brigitte Bardot- Ne Me Laisse Pas L’aimer
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→ day three
3.) Name one scar your character has, and tell us where it came from. If they don’t have any, is there a reason?
[[MORE]]Headcanon states that the scars of nations, while obviously varied in acquisition and nature, are most typically gained from civil conflict and war that does great damage to the land; they also will, with time, begin to heal, as normal scars are wont to do. As such, Francis...
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→ day two
2.) What are your characters most prominent physical features?
[[MORE]]Francis is a good looking guy, and he isn’t one to deny it. He takes care of his appearance, and is generally quite well groomed, but doesn’t go to any particular excess regarding his looks.
Longstanding headcanon is that his nose is somewhat crooked nowadays, broken once too many times in an era where it...
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[heavy in your arms] au - @souvenez
piningforantiquity:
“I don’t want your sympathy.” The bite in his voice is lost, but the expression on his face, the set in his jaw and scowl shows vividly, tells everything that his eyes and voice does not. Arthur hates the weakness in his voice, all raspy words and choked sounds. He turns into himself, presses harder against his stomach in hopes to suppress the churning and twisting, and when...
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@zimoi-obiteli
zimoi-obiteli:
It scarcely mattered to him to know and understand the ways of the European powers, and though old Peter had spun him tales of beautiful, warm lands and women with skin of ivory, he never bothered to memorize them in his fit of rebellion. And why should he, Ivan reasoned, that he pay any mind to their tenacity when they never cared for him before his victory over the...
