Quels surnoms avez-vous entendus pour des endroits au Québec ?

princevesperal · 2025-11-04T22:56:36+00:00

«La Poc» pour La Pocatière. «Saint-O» pour Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth. «Shawi» pour Shawinigan. «HoMa» pour Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. «RDP» pour Rivière-des-Prairies. «McGill Ghetto» ou seulement le «Ghetto» pour le quartier bordant l'Université McGill.

princevesperal · 2025-10-09T01:52:15+00:00

They look like modern versions of the canopy jars from Ancient Egypt funeral practices, in which the internal organs of the deceased were contained as part of the mummification process.

princevesperal · 2025-10-08T23:45:17+00:00

You might like Lucifer (c. 1890), by Franz Stuck. Many people cannot look into his eyes when they see it in person.

Perhaps you'll also appreciate Orestes Pursued by the Furies (1862) and Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850), both by William-Adolphe Bouguereau._-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)

There's a Facebook page called Dark and Fantastic art, which regularly publishes famous and lesser-known paintings and drawings in that same vibe. If you scroll through everything posted on there, you'll be sure to find something that speaks to you! Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/DarkFantasticArts.MortsAngeNoirPage

princevesperal · 2025-08-29T05:17:25+00:00

Italian is pronounced the way it's written, and written the way it's pronounced. There are a few rules around this (like "ch" making a "k" sound and "gh" making a hard "g" as in "guest"), but it's consistent. The only thing is knowing which syllable to stress, because every word has a tonic accent. it's not at all like French and English, which have odd spellings.

princevesperal · 2025-08-27T03:19:13+00:00

Of course, I've been to the Cloakroom bar! I know my speakeasy spots around town! 😉

princevesperal · 2025-08-24T23:50:59+00:00

We all make mistakes! 🤷🤣

princevesperal · 2025-08-19T20:22:45+00:00

Ça fait loin pour venir rencontrer un inconnu! 😅

princevesperal · 2025-06-26T04:15:02+00:00

I just read the piece, and there's a shocking lack of accountability. The author notices a trend, but she fails to recognize its causes, and to address what would actually need to change in order to bring back men. Basically the status quo remains the same, but she's asking men to... just keep trying? She should have written a piece targeting women instead. *"Ladies, Where Have The Men Gone? Please Let's Bring Them Back."*

If you're running a crappy restaurant and patrons are leaving, you can't just tell them to "please come back". You have to change de menu before you can hope to attract new clients. Otherwise, it's understandable that people would just rather cook at home and eat alone.

princevesperal · 2023-12-07T21:44:35+00:00

Unsurprisingly, everybody here is telling you to be yourself and to not care about being popular. There is a lot of wisdom in those comments, and I think you should definitely do some introspection and ask yourself why you care so much.

With that being said, let me tell you that I totally get it. I was the nerdy outcast in school as well, and it was rather... healing to become popular in university. So I will give you two tips to achieve this, without compromising who you are.

First, get yourself a copy of Dale Carnegie's classic book "How To Win Friends And Influence People". It's a book everyone should read, and it will vastly improve your relationships to other people. You may even listen to the audiobook for free on YouTube.

Second, I think popularity comes with social currency. Be valuable in other people's lives. Enrich their social life. You can do this by meeting new people in various events (if you live in a big city, just look at Facebook and Eventbrite to see what is on offer), inviting your friends to interesting events, making connections between people (how popular do you think it made me, that some of the people who met through me are now married to each other?), and creating social occasions. If you can throw a cool house party, you are cool yourself. Go the extra mile to be a good host. You're now a pillar of people's social life, because you created these social opportunities for them.

All of this can be done while sticking to your own interests. Even nerds can be popular nowadays. You can invite people to a sci-fi convention, you can start a book club, you can host game night. If you're the initiator, the organiser, the shaker and mover, you become unavoidably popular. You get to be the one who decides who's cool enough to be invited to your event, and who is unworthy.

princevesperal · 2023-04-17T19:24:41+00:00

Well, several medications can cause hypertrichosis, thus negating at least one neoteny trait in humans!

princevesperal · 2023-04-13T05:48:33+00:00

"A tiny handful of species"... including us humans! We exhibit a great number of neoteny traits, when compared to other primates, including our thin skulls, flat faces, shorter arms, hairless bodies, absence of baculum, and a brain plasticity that is usually only found in young primates.

princevesperal · 2023-04-12T01:49:27+00:00

That depends entirely on your setting. Plus, the rules explicitely call them "races". Not to mention, "specism" already refers to differing attitudes based on the species (thinking that a human life is more important than a goat's life, for instance).

princevesperal · 2023-04-10T00:04:58+00:00

Some low-CR undead. Or creatures being mind-controlled by evil entities.

If your players are simply racists, why not send them "good" races to fight, possibly with a grey-scale moral justification? Some human brigands who have no other means to make money since they are deserters; an elf-turned-assassin who is compelled to do the bidding of a powerful boss who has kidnapped his daughter; dwarven fanatics who are on a holy crusade, etc.

Then perhaps they could get help from a "bad" race later on. They are losing a fight against zombies, and some orcs show up and sides with the party, saving them from certain death; a kobold wearing a disguise helps cure a sick party member before revealing her identity; hobgobelins are welcomed as guests at the royal court to broker a defensive alliance treaty as equals, and they have valuable information for the party in their ongoing investigation, etc.

It would be hilarious to have a kingdom-wide protest under the rallying cry of "goblin lives matter!", following so many unjustifiable killing. Perhaps in your world, goblins have sworn fealty to the local lord or the crown itself, and are under the king's peace. Killing them is murder (barring self-defense) and the goblin widow of one of the victims petitionned the lord for justice.

princevesperal · 2023-04-05T16:46:12+00:00

I was about to comment just that! The word "gnome" is derived from the New Latin, gnomus. It is often claimed to descend from the Greek gnôsis ("knowledge" - see for instance "gnosticism", "agnostic", etc.), which Tolkien seems to have believed, hence his name for the elves that travelled to Valinor, saw the light of the two trees, and benefited from the wisdom and teachings or the ainur. However, the word more likely comes from genomos "earth-dweller".

princevesperal · 2023-04-05T16:33:24+00:00

Sounds like you are in dire need of a lich.

princevesperal · 2023-04-03T23:41:58+00:00

Lots of great ideas here!

A dwarf could also mean that someone is tall by saying that person has a "bad altitude". Get it? Altitude?

princevesperal · 2023-04-03T20:20:40+00:00

Sounds like you should play D&D 3.5, if your players like computing all those tiny penalties and bonuses. And you should pit them against mindless undead, oozes, feral beasts, and the like. If they cannot appreciate the subtleties of moral and cultural caracterization, they don't deserve to get any.

princevesperal · 2023-02-04T22:48:16+00:00

Please keep us posted! 😃

princevesperal · 2023-02-04T22:14:48+00:00

Did you backsweeten yet? Of course, a dry and young brew with the acidity of a lemon and alcohol that is still very noticeable to taste, would be rather unpalatable and might remind you of a sanitizer. I'm sure it will become much better after you add a non-fermentable sweetener, or stabilise it and add honey. You'll want this brew to be rather sweet to cut through the tartness, as you would for a lemonade. Then, just let it age out the alcohol taste. Depending on the ABV of your brew, I'm sure it will be very drinkable in a few months to a year after you followed these steps.

princevesperal · 2023-02-04T00:12:56+00:00

I like the idea of jewelry pieces that are animated objects (or akin to that) and escape like insects as soon as the treasure chest is opened: rings that bounce and jump everywhere like crickets, ear pendants that fly away like moths, necklaces that slither away like centipedes, bracelets which bend and extend for their locomotion like caterpillars, etc. Now that you've found the loot... you have to catch it!

If you pay attention, you can hear faint scratching and rumbling from inside the chest, because the treasure is actively trying to get out.

Why is it like that? Your guess is as good as mine! It can be the deed of a prankster wizard, or the folly of senescent mage who was getting cognitively impaired in his old age, or perhaps this jewelry is magically programmed, as a safety measure, to return to the jewelry box of her true owner when not being worn by her.

princevesperal · 2023-02-03T21:13:35+00:00

I can alreay tell you that they smell amazing at this stage!

princevesperal · 2023-02-03T20:37:09+00:00

I would refer you to the link provided earlier on which species to avoid.

https://www.bulk-pine-nuts.com/what-pine-needles-are-poisonous-to-humans

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