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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 108
Message ID: 17
#17, RE: GG 3/I: Nuits à Paris
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-18-20 at 02:46 AM
In response to message #15
LAST EDITED ON Nov-18-20 AT 02:27 PM (EST)
 
Hmm, that's pretty. I don't know at this moment whether it'll fit, but I like it, so I might just give it a go. Also, by a weird coincidence, I just recently read a doujinshi that featured a(n unusually sane, for doujinshi) version of Flan whose hobby is making stuffed toys. She mentions to Marisa (who is slightly amazed by how good she is at it) that she gives them to Sakuya for her birthday, which is a thoroughly adorable image.

Edit: Found the operative page.

(Note that in this doujin, as in GG, Sakuya doesn't know when her actual birthday is. In UF, of course, she observes it on March 30.)

I'm not very familiar with Babar, for whatever reason, although I knew of the character. From the Wikipedia page, it seems like he's sort of the French equivalent (culturally, if not literarily) of Paddington Bear, which is kind of cool. (The Wikipedia page also contains an excellent illustration of one of my personal maxims of academia, If a thing is worth thinking, it's worth overthinking, in re some critics getting het up about the implied imperialism in a book where an African animal aspires for his people to live like middle-class Frenchmen. :)

Also, just as an aside, it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that M. le Président refers to Flan's Teddy bear, and you were not suggesting that she take the actual President of France Gallia along with her. :)

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