This, believe it or not, is a ficlet project story. The last ficlet requestor, brewsternorth, pooled hir request with ansketil_rose and
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The canon is occasionally anti-semitic and racist (more often the latter than the former); the earlier comics are far worse on this score than the later ones, although Hergé never entirely gets past the racism even as the comics' politics become more leftist.
the way you make them "sound French"
Oooh, this fills me with delight! I really wanted to capture as much of the tone of the French original as I could (such as Tintin's correct and slightly formal speech) and at least not to make them sound exactly English or American. It's tricky working from one language to another, as I'm sure you're very aware.
I also like the way the Captain does NOT stop drinking
He does keep drinking in canon until A Spoiler happens, but after the Moon books his drinking isn't usually so disastrous in its consequences. My take is that he finds his alcoholism more manageable once he's settled with Tintin (in canon they do start living together at this point) and thus happier.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, especially since this isn't even a fandom you know.
the way you make them "sound French"
Oooh, this fills me with delight! I really wanted to capture as much of the tone of the French original as I could (such as Tintin's correct and slightly formal speech) and at least not to make them sound exactly English or American. It's tricky working from one language to another, as I'm sure you're very aware.
I also like the way the Captain does NOT stop drinking
He does keep drinking in canon until A Spoiler happens, but after the Moon books his drinking isn't usually so disastrous in its consequences. My take is that he finds his alcoholism more manageable once he's settled with Tintin (in canon they do start living together at this point) and thus happier.
Thanks so much for reading and commenting, especially since this isn't even a fandom you know.
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