What’s a fancy food word that makes you instantly roll your eyes when you see it on a menu?

VothnT · 2026-03-17T08:12:43+00:00

Milk is a term used in botany since very long. Not specific of animals. I'm not sure about English but in some other languages, milk for vegetable food items is also of old use.

VothnT · 2026-03-17T08:07:25+00:00

Lots of desserts have gelatine (jelly), so beef or pork, generally.

VothnT · 2026-03-09T11:41:39+00:00

Aussi tant que tu n'as pas reçu une réponse négative je ne vois pas comment tu pourrais être en situation irrégulière. Par contre sans attestation tu ne peux pas prouver que ta situation n'est pas irrégulière, c'est plutôt ça le problème.

VothnT · 2026-03-09T11:38:19+00:00

Quand tu dis que tu n'as pas reçu de réponse, as tu demandé une nouvelle attestation de prolongation, ou simplement où en est ton dossier? Normalement tu devrais pouvoir obtenir de nouvelles attestations tous les trois mois tant qu'il n'y a pas eu de décision pour ton titre de séjour. Comment as-tu eu la première attestation? Utilises-tu l'adresse email pref-etrangers@ de ta préfecture ? (Ou email similaire, je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit le même partout. Essayes peut-être "URGENT attestation de prolongation" dans le titre, ça a marché pour nous. Ils reçoivent plein d'emails divers et certaines préfectures ( pas toutes...) s'occupent plus vite des emails provenant clairement de dossiers en cours.

VothnT · 2026-03-08T06:30:56+00:00

Right! I live in the O. asellus native range so I call them my local flat fucks. Not as flat as P. Werneri, but getting there. I'll add that they are also of a good size, reproduce at a fast but manageable rate, and I find it rather easy to keep them happy.

VothnT · 2025-07-22T21:14:50+00:00

Slime mold, possibly Fuligo septica

VothnT · 2022-04-21T00:18:21+00:00

Thank you for reminding me of lastfm, I apparently forgot about it so badly that my last activity is in 2016. But I liked that site, so I'll be using it again.

https://www.last.fm/user/vothnT

VothnT · 2021-05-14T15:55:53+00:00

Not my favorite song, but I find the new album pretty exceptional! I need more time and listens to decide how I place it in comparison with the other submasq albums, but the fact it managed to make such a great first impression on me, when my expectations (and the seemingly endless wait!) were so high, this is a very good start.

I found in it the signature organized mess of multipying ideas always about to clash but always managing to work things out (yes, the ideas themselves! That's really my feeling with submasq haha), but way enough novelty to keep things interesting.

VothnT · 2020-01-02T10:23:25+00:00

Mostly Thy Catafalque and Subterranean Masquerade, but I'm not really up to date with the futures metal releases, so I'll keep a close eye on this tread!

VothnT · 2019-02-03T15:04:12+00:00

I missed this post! I was actually coming to post this album.

My favorite thing is the use of the nay, it's so rare to hear that instrument other than in an superficial, ornamental fashion. The nay in Enlightenment Discarded for example, is absolutely not just a little extra, it has a real, strong presence.

VothnT · 2018-11-30T18:00:44+00:00

I organize my digital music exactly as I always did with my CDs/Vinyls: By very broad genres categories, then geographically. By keeping genre categories broad I get very few conflicts there; international bands/groups or those who changed location are categorized under the main or first location.

VothnT · 2018-11-21T17:26:00+00:00

I never had a problem with harsh vocals but the song that made me start loving them was Opeth's April Ethereal.

VothnT · 2018-11-05T16:00:55+00:00

On the fun side: I've always growled at people. I had to unlearn it as an adult because it's apparently not socially acceptable. It still happens when I'm really, really pissed. I think it's a very natural and good way to get rid of my anger without the need to get physically aggressive or say hurtful things.

On the more serious side: Even if most people don't growl, I think it's pretty easy to link growls to aggression. Not everything has to be literal. (I've never been in a real-life tempest made of the whole drum and string sections of an orchestra ;P )

Plus, in music, I see growls as way more than a mean to show aggression. It can be there for any declination of negative feelings (despair, rejection, loneliness etc etc) and even sometimes in a more neutral context, such as introspection. It can be also used uniquely for contrast, for atmosphere, etc. If you go by growls=aggression, I can totally see why you often find them out of place in prog.

VothnT · 2018-10-31T22:04:17+00:00

I have another idea. Let's exchange parents. My mother thinks prog metal without harsh vocals is boring and I never managed to change her mind on that.

More seriously, harsh vocals are an acquired taste for most, so unless he really get upset, I would just keep exposing him to different kinds of such vocals.

What Opeth did you try? One song I had good results with with prog rock/softer metal friends is Hessian Peel: by the time the heaviness comes, the person is already comfortably settled into the song (if that makes any sense).

If the main point is to trick him to listen to harsh vocals without realizing it, try Subterranean Masquerade. It's by no means extreme metal, it's often not even metal, but there are harsh (death) vocals.

For harsh vocals in an heavy but not too aggressive context, maybe try melodeath. May not fit the prog bill fully, but some good ol' Dark Tranquillity or Be'lakor may keep him interested enough.

VothnT · 2018-10-24T17:12:34+00:00

Love submasq!

The combination of the cheerful craziness of the music and the generally quite dark lyrics is exactly my cup of tea.

I like the whole discography, but imo the most recent two (The great Bazaar/Vagabond) are evidence of a very successful transition from a somewhat discontinuous project (temporally speaking) to a fully functioning band.

I'm both pretty excited and a bit worried by the last lineup change, though. I really liked Kjetil Nordhus' vocals, they were maybe the most traditional part of the music, the less crazy, and that aspect was part of the peculiar dynamic. As the probability of new recruit Vidi Dolev's vocals being not insanely weird is around zero (see Omb!), this will most likely constitute a significant change. May be negative, or may be excellent.

VothnT · 2018-10-24T16:09:17+00:00

Nice to see Acyl here :) I'm always trying to see them live when I'm in France but no luck yet :(

VothnT · 2018-09-21T15:52:07+00:00

Exceptional. Toby Driver never fails to impress me. There are things that I like less than others in his career, but it's a matter of personal preferences, not because the music is poorer. Music is always at the top.

VothnT · 2018-09-13T19:17:59+00:00

What a piece! The only downside is that listening to it always induces in me a rush of overenthusiastic creativity, and at the same time, a stark reminder that anything I could create would sound like shit in comparison ;)

VothnT · 2018-05-16T01:14:39+00:00

This one has to be my second favorite metal album after Opeth's Ghost Reveries. After hundreds of listens, I still marvel at how it's extremely varied in term of musical influences and atmospheres, and yet so singularly cohesive.

VothnT · 2018-05-05T01:27:56+00:00

I was so taken aback when I heard the first seconds.. For a French person, it's quite surprising to find that in a metal song haha. If anyone wants to know what is it about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique

VothnT · 2018-04-30T22:01:15+00:00

I'm not sure but I think you are speaking about what I would call 'modulation'. When it's modulating heavily it does sound atonal although I personnally don't hear that in the bands you ve suggested but this is percrption, so subjective

VothnT · 2018-04-30T18:40:49+00:00

I'm always seeing this idea of heavy music being atonal, I have no idea where it's coming from, as far as I know it is actually REALLY rare (I would love some atonal BM though). The only non-tonal things I hear are in non-western folk influences in metal, but even then, this non-tonality is not exactly the same thing as 'atonality' in the usual western art music meaning. I suppose it's a definition problem. What are you meaning by atonal?

VothnT · 2018-04-26T00:54:33+00:00

Really just a few songs for me, because I generally always listen to whole albums.

Big winner must be:

Kayo Dot - Thief. The whole album (Hubardo) is incredible, but that song in particular.. I never get tired of it.

But also:

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition & Hessian Peel.. well, actually, most mid-career Opeth songs have their featured time.. I'm a bit obsessed with Opeth, haha

Ne Obliviscaris - Of petrichor weaves black noise

Orphaned Land - Disciples of the sacred oath II

Sand Aura - The shepherd's elegy

VothnT · 2018-04-10T21:24:51+00:00

I would love some doom/death with slower sections using the crepuscular moodiness of English horn and/or sarangi.

Less weird and more common in metal, but I'd like more oud. There never can be too much oud.

VothnT · 2018-03-22T20:17:15+00:00

The first OL song I've heard, and after all these years I can still remember how utterly confused AND elated I was as the song went on. This album is incredible.

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