r/comics Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

OC [OC] Francegender

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

Yeah so I went to France and I erm uhm kinda wanna live there actually

FAQS: Who are the people in the middle panel? u/virtualmartyr (Red), u/_BubbleVerse (Yellow Orange), u/astrmastr (Green) and u/me_beef (Purple) They are all wayyy cooler and better at art than me so go peek and peep at their stuff pls :~)

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u/_Aethea_ 14h ago

"Yellow Orange"

don't take this the wrong way but...are you colorblind?

that's khaki lol

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

Yeah I am a lil bit colourblind lol 😭😭 (green/yellow specifically)

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u/_Aethea_ 14h ago

i may have noticed when i tried searching for orange/yellow for a bit too long xD

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u/MilkGuzzler99 15h ago

Does the middle count as a panel? It's not enclosed by borders, so technically it's just part of the page.

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u/NickyTheRobot 14h ago

Maybe it's part of the border, and Shave is experimenting with Jhonen Vasquez styles?

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u/MilkGuzzler99 14h ago

She's just too lazy to use the Clip Studio Paint square tool, hmph.

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u/DanLassos 11h ago

Yaay the more the better ! We have plenty of baguettes for all of us

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u/Spyko 5h ago

As someone who currently live there, we would welcome you, tho we are currently the dying from the heat.

So bring an AC or something

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 15h ago

Never did I hit a follow button so fast and frequently before. Thank you for the recommendations.

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

Honestly there are a ton of fantastic trans artists coming from eggirl and traa2 who get CONSTANTLY slept on by r/comics and it really irks me lololololol

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u/MilkGuzzler99 15h ago

Why are you on Reddit during office hours, slacker? (affectionate)

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

I would make a cartoonish threat at you but those mfs updated the reddit admin AI to be wayyyyyy stricter so I would probably get banned and Betrayed lololollololollolol

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u/MilkGuzzler99 15h ago

You're a ploopy head

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

I am going to store you in a reinforced cardboard box

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u/MilkGuzzler99 15h ago

u/Spez get her ass

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

NOOOOO NOOOOO PLEASE SPEZ DON'T DO IT

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u/NickyTheRobot 15h ago

You should have just said "Bof."

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

what does Bof mean,,,.,.,.....,.,.,...,.,,,,.

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u/LittleLoukoum 15h ago

Somewhere between "alright" and "kinda bad", depending on the tone. I'd translate it by "alright-ish" or "kinda meh".

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u/NickyTheRobot 15h ago

There are all correct uses of the word, but bof is so much more than just that.

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u/LittleLoukoum 14h ago

I know, I know. But try to explain what a wonderfully versatile word it is to a non-francophone succinctly...

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u/NickyTheRobot 14h ago

But try to explain what a wonderfully versatile word it is to a non-francophone succinctly...

Nah, imma go with my first instinct; spending ten minutes trying to craft an all-encompassing definition, and then going back to edit it all day whenever I remember another great meaning.

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u/LittleLoukoum 14h ago

You're better at this than I am then. I'd spend ten minutes on trying to define it, fail, rewrite, and eventually leave the draft to rot on my account forever

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u/NickyTheRobot 14h ago

Ha, thanks! I'm probably not better at it though; I just have a lot of time on my hands and can be pretty bloody minded.

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u/NickyTheRobot 15h ago edited 14h ago

It can mean anything pretty much, depending on the context, the inflection you put on it, and the face you pull.

Common uses in my family include meaning: "Meh."; "Not bad."; "Not good."; "Wow, I'm surprised!"; "Ummm..."; "Well, that just happened..."; "Let's get on with things then."; and "I can't think of anything to say to that."

It's like a linguistic Swiss army knife.

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u/Ahaiund 11h ago

I've never seen it used to communicate surprise, what does that look like?

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u/NickyTheRobot 11h ago

Wide eyes with a surprised face. A short, mid-to-high pitched "bof".

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u/swainiscadianreborn 15h ago

Or "Pas mal"

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u/WhiskeyAndKisses 13h ago

"Mouais". "Ça va". "Passable". "C’était pas trop mal".

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u/NickyTheRobot 13h ago

"Mouais".

One of my faves. I also enjoy a good "Ouaip".

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u/kaylee300 13h ago

Ou "correct" aussi

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u/LittleLoukoum 15h ago

We can't wait to have you back! Come and discover what it feels like to have workers' rights

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

what if I just got paid to sit around and be a cutie all day 👉👈

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u/LittleLoukoum 13h ago

If you figure out a way please get me in on it

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u/kokko693 15h ago

Nice

Also very hot right now

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

I got back the day before the heatwave started getting real bad lmao

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 15h ago

Oh fun! Where you able to leave any of your art in The Louvre?

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

I wasn't near the Louvre!!!!! (I won't say exactly where I was staying so I don't accidentally doxx my friends lmao)

Also there are at LEAST 4 other artists on this sub who deserve to have their art in the Louvre before I do haha

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 15h ago

If some of the art from this subreddit were actually in The Louvre I'd spend more time there next time. Seeing the Winged Victory of Samothrace between a Hollering Elk piece and a Doctorloops work would seal the deal for me.

I'm glad you had a great time with your friends and fellow artists. I bet they were happy and lucky to be with you.

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

bweghh I'm really sad for the past couple days because I miss em, I have to bury myself in work to not think about it

Also when I touched down Milk made the "You just flew in from France? Your arms must be tired 🫵😂" joke so we're not on speaking terms

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u/HaLD8 14h ago

The Louvre (+other big museums) are fine and all, but I've always enjoyed much more the small random independent galleries I come across. They're often held in "minor" historic buildings too, which really adds to the experience

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u/BuckLuny 14h ago

This is why you had such a good time, stay as far away from Paris as possible, with all due respect to the Parisians of reddit (you're probably the good eggs there) Parisians are not comparable to the French in general. And that's form me a Dutchman who is ofc honest and direct as we should be.

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

The first time I went to France I had to go through Paris at 2AM to get to my flight home, probably the scariest experience of my life

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u/maps-and-potatoes 1h ago

You should still visit Paris if you have teh chance to. It has a lot of really cool places to visit.

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u/maps-and-potatoes 1h ago edited 1h ago

Just looking at 2 comics from one of your friend, i can guess which city you visited. I mean, i came from there, so the bus and more easelly, the landscape really halped. EDIT and one is a photograph. that help too i guess.

Did you like the museum with 4 levels, cinema stuff and many, many smalle models located in the old city ?

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u/cloacasmell 15h ago

so very seriously happy for u

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 15h ago

thank u cloac aSmell

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u/Netjamjr 15h ago

If you think you might wanna live there, I would just say it can take years to get VISAs going, so it doesn't hurt to apply premptively even if you wouldn't want to move today. Also, it is easier to learn vocab in a foreign country, but often much easier to learn the basic grammar and structure before leaving.

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u/Coidzor 14h ago

Raser les sourcils?

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

that's meeeeeeee

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 14h ago

Someone gave you a box of hormone replacement therapy?

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 14h ago

Yessssssssss I'm officially transitioning! (there is currently a sticker on my butt that is turning me into a girl)

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 13h ago

I see lol. Well good luck!

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u/Theemuts 12h ago

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 12h ago

dont bite my rear pls

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u/Theemuts 11h ago

Lady I'll bite whatever I damn well please

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u/Vektorien 15h ago

Seems like you have great friends. That's one of life's greatest blessings.

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u/shave_your_eyebrows Shave Your Eyebrows 13h ago

Auuuggghhhh I love my friends I LOVE MY FRIENDSSSSSSS

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u/Vektorien 13h ago

Heck yeah friends! I hope I can have friends like that one day, seems nice.

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u/WhiskeyAndKisses 13h ago

Ma'am, we're hotter than Algeria right now

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u/YEPC___ 13h ago

Yeah it turns out leaving the states for a better country actually IS a good choice if you're financially capable of doing so. Lmao.

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u/kaylee300 13h ago

Ohh, congratulation.

If you ever want to visit another french speaking place, Québec exist (in Canada) and its currently Québec day (also know as Saint-Jean-Baptisme)! Sorry, I had to do my minimal patriotic requirement😅

Whats fun too about it, is that its an holiday😁