Alex, 23. Bi and non binary, they/it. I love Janet 🐛 alexninn_art on insta, alex_ninn on twitter
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love seeing shit that romanticises Paris and its inhabitants online because it is a legit insult to call someone Parisian here
The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:
the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
oh, that hurt
I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
God.
for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”
core classes as undead :)
I'm so pleased to present ADAM & EVE, a short erotica story I made for @discordcomics's NECTAR anthology. It's the story of a monk who does not quite fit in with their brothers...
This is the first part, you can read the whole (NSFW) thing on twitter.
CW: Adults only, very mild eye-related body horror, good ol fashioned blasphemy.
disco elysium screenshots: skills & influences
Don't tell your wife about this game
He looks different every time I draw him how to fix this . Is this a bug help why is he impossible to draw consistently .
As someone who is trans and in love and goes to protest I had a lot of feelings about that art in disco elysium. It's so good
birds keep visiting me on my windowsill
been working on an original webcomic!
u can check it out [here] if u want! it’s about disco, murder, psychics and philosophy! it’s called red aura! i hope you like it ^_^
heyo! i have time to take some quicker comms now, so my ko-fi sketch commissions are open! for $12+ i’ll sketch monsters, people, animals, anthros, and anything in-between, just dm me beforehand :>
i’m trying out a bit of a different art style this time around, but i can work in my older style at request for the same price!
commission tos buy me a ko-fi? (and get a nice lil sketch in return!)
hờn anh giận em / jealousy
trying my hand at prints and illustration ! I want to make lgbt+ little stickers and charms, the name of this little guy is mango :)
Commissions open again!
5 slots total!
DM me of write to 📧al.norton2016@gmail.com to reserve a slot ☀️
City lights
It starts with再見 , a visual comic that was done in collaboration with @hellooitsjanet that I've worked on in my downtime since January.
translation 再見(zai jian)- goodbye/ see you again (i will) 你知道我是誰 (ni zhi dao wo shi sei)- do you know who i am (taunt, i am royalty) Ps: I will open my commisions soon so if you like what i do please consider sharing and getting in touch :)
It starts with再見 , a visual comic that was done in collaboration with @hellooitsjanet that I've worked on in my downtime since January.
translation 再見(zai jian)- goodbye/ see you again (i will) 你知道我是誰 (ni zhi dao wo shi sei)- do you know who i am (taunt, i am royalty) Ps: I will open my commisions soon so if you like what i do please consider sharing and getting in touch :)
no need to play jokes on april fools when u are the april fool…….
insp by photographer Jihoon Yang, 2020 also on twt
I am thinking about them (click for better quality!)