#i don't know how german works

[tardis--dreams]

Procrastinating my actual work by trying to formulate that stupid german summary. Every word hurts. Physically.

#Making us write this shit in german is an act of cruelty #'oh yeah air traffic controllers :) what are they called? oh. #i refuse to use the word Fluglotse. also Luftfahrtverkehrskontrollkommunikation #is probably not the word I'm looking for #please #i don't know how german works #it sounds so very wrong to me #(i need to. continue working on my actual thesis. otherwise this will crash and burn just like those planes in tenerife 1977 #i hate it so much but oh well #we gotta keep going #the pressure is finally high enough #my corona symptoms are nothing #i can work for 79 hours straight #i can finish this bitch of a thesis in time #and then I'll never think about it ever again #academic misery

[von-karmas-a-bitch]

pov you're franziska and you're 11 years old and you just started your first period and papa has NOT been helpful but your brother has conducted extensive research and is handling it surprisingly well

#i am never gonna finish this so have the wip lmao #do you have any idea how difficult it is for me a furry. to draw not only a human but a human with kinda yaoi proportions #by tracing him over eminem's lanky ass. of all people #im honestly amazed it didn't turn out a lot worse #i spent way longer on this than i thought i would #i didn't think it would even result in something i was comfortable posting lmao but here we are #also i thought abt looking up what people use in germany and/or finding the german packaging of products we have in the uk too #but with the god-awful-to-nonexist transparent png's online shops be uploading for their websites i can only assume are ran by boomers #i was like yknow what im just gonna use what im familiar with and consider high end and/or bougie #i would not be caught dead using nurofen and neither would most people i know on account of generic stuff is cheaper + works the same #but i imagine they must make their money somehow. probably from people who are well off enough to not really think abt that stuff #and being the perfectionists they are the von karma household are not gonna use the german equivalent of tesco's own version of anything #so. we've got what in my heavy period having opinion are The Only Acceptable Pads #then we've got expensive ice cream with a european-sounding name bc of course #then we've got the chocolate 11yo me was always craving but could rarely have bc ny dad was a cheapskate so. i assume it's expensive #the nurofen of course #and. i don't know much abt what paracetamol brands are considered bougie and was already soso tired #so i just. grabbed one that wasn't a generic tesco version and went with it #i was also gonna put a hot water bottle in a cute fluffy case but i forgor so just pretend it's there #fanart #shitpost #miles edgeworth #sibling brainrot #my art #my shitposts #im..... not putting this in the aa tag #not bc im embarrassed abt the art itself but bc im afraid that if the cis men catch a glimpse of it they'll clown on me and call me gross #bc cis men do not know how to be normal about periods #it's a fact of life grow up this isn't cursed it is incredibly wholesome and sweet to imagine miles reading several wikipedia articles #in order to better understand and assist his little sister through her first period. it's cute it's not gross fuck you

[joswriting]

First Lines Tag Game

I haven't seen these going around recently but I quite like them so why not bring it back.

Rules: Post the first few lines from one of your WIPs; this could be first sentences of the whole story, a chapter of your choice or just from the most recent writing session

I'm doing my newer WIP "On the end of everything + 25 ways to feel comfortable in your own skin" and I actually only have three chapters down so far so here's all of them. I'm not chosing, whatever. My rules (you can also do it like this if you want but you don't have to)

i. prologue

T.S. Elliot once wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper". The great detective Sherlock Holmes once, in faux delirium, brought forth the theory that the world shall be overrun by oysters. 5 month old Sara Smith from Toronto mused, the world would end when she closed her eyes, and be born again once she opened them. As it turned out none of these theories would be very close to the truth.

1. Get a job!

Like so many parents before you, you may ask yourself: "What went wrong". To understand this we must start with the concept of work. On many variations of, for example, the Earth - in such universes where it was present - existed a system in which one spent a third of ones life doing something one didn't want to do, so that one may be allowed continued existence.

ii. breathe

Celia blinked, confused. Or she would have, had she been able to feel her eyelids. The purple light engulfed her like a warm blanket and pierced her flesh like a thousand hedgehog spikes. She looked down on herself to find a dozen holes, but no blood. At those places where she had expected to find her insides bursting out she found vines and flowers growing.

Tagging: @flintlockheart and @hippiewrites but also I wanna tag @cream-and-tea @gummybugg and @andromedaexists because I'm interested :^> (but you don't have to do it if you don't want to) Also anyone who would like to.

#also tell me if my tagging you is annyoing #writeblr #tag game #wip: oteoe #cw body horror #? a littol bit. Im always doing things like that idk when they enter triggering territory #went through this three times deleting auxiliary commas. the original german has few commas every sentence #we love the comma. we pray to the comma. English commas? don't even know how they work. no one explained it to me #i suspect you guys dont even know it yourselves

[nexus-nebulae]

so like. lately I've been feeling like there's some kind of Thing living in this house with me, like a spirit or creature or something, and i feel like it's been here a long time bc of how long things have been going missing in this house with no explanation. and i noticed when i got really badly sick i lost something and it made me like. sob uncontrollably bc it was important. and then i started Finding things in odd places. so i started thanking the mysterious entity. and now I'm finding More Stuff more often. and like i feel strange for believing in this entity bc I've always been told believing in pagan things is childish (??????) and feel awkward thanking it but also i Want To bc it's polite. anyway i wanna like. leave a little offering or something but don't know what would be appropriate bc i also dont know what entity this is

#first thought is like. house fairies #I've always thought it was something fae related i think? #but like i. don't really know a lot about real fairy folklore bc of all the Media I've consumed #i don't really know what's accurate and what isn't #like sometimes fairies are depicted as extremely powerful and like. human sized #sometimes they're just tiny little trickster guys #and also i don't know what folklore like. applies to me if that makes sense????? #im White™ and whatever culture my ancestors had was scrubbed away to force jesus in instead and i don't know how much my blood matters #I'm mostly german and welsh and was raised like. loosely catholic #and the word appropriation has been watered down so much by The Internet that i can never tell if I'm Doing That anymore #I'm just scared to do literally anything bc what if someone says i am #but also i feel very very drawn to certain myths and stories and entities and feel like letting that go would tear me apart in a way #like I'd just lose something and there'd be a hole that couldn't be filled by any other belief #I've TRIED to fit in other beliefs but they just don't click #i dunno. im scared of doing something wrong but it feels like home to me #anyway i want to leave an offering to this Entity in my house to thank it for returning some things #but dunno what i could use #do you think a fairy would appreciate lactose free vanilla coffee creamer. we dont have normal milk #i also wonder if candy would work. i have a ton of chocolate and caramel #though i also wonder if the Entity is stealing candy from the jars on my windowsill #i wouldn't mind that i don't mind sharing

[hydraxx]

i love (sarcastic) when i ask a very specific question ("do you knit the full back length of the ankle before starting the short-row heel turn?") and someone jumps in to give me a bunch of other advice

#especially when they explain the technique that i've already said i'm familiar with #I KNOW HOW SHORT ROWS WORK. I USE GERMAN SHORT ROWS. I ASKED ABOUT THE LENGTH BEFORE STARTING THE HEEL WHEN WORKING CUFF DOWN #knitting #don't give me advice on this post i've already asked friends about it with proper context

[lyxchen]

Had my first day at my first job today and it was great but also so exhausting. How do people do it??

#it's a pretty easy job tho so it's fun #but i Have to take my meds because it can sometimes get boring and without them i will get understimulated and get a headache #i love my brain it's so weird :) #anyways #the people were very nice though #and i think the guy who was showing me how everything works is queer but i don't really know #like a coworker asked him something about his 'freund' who lives with him which sadly in german can both mean #friend and boyfriend soo idk #and like it doesn't even matter but it would still be nice :3 #anyways i'm lying bed now but i habe dance class in like an hour :( #which would be fun if i wasn't tired #hello brain can i please have more spoons thank youuu #lea's random thoughts

[longagoitwastuesday]

you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

#I talk too much #I wanted to say The tragic sense of life by Unamuno and Philosophy and Poetry by María Zambrano #but I thought maybe they'd be hard to find in translation. They're both approachable texts of philosophy beautifully written though #Unamuno's essay Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (translated as Our Lord Don Quixote in English according to Wikipedia?) is also beautiful #I adore Schopenhauer and Nietzsche but I'm not sure I'd recommend them to anyone. Probably you can't go wrong with Kierkegaard though #I know what some of these books look like (like Wittgenstein's Tractatus or Cantor's Foundations) #but I swear they're approachable without specific academic background. The last line of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of my favourite #lines ever in the history of anything‚ philosophy or literature‚ but to be as hitting as it is you need to reach it at the end of the book #I think despite what it looks like both Cantor and especially Wittgenstein have an aesthetic intent in their writing #Wittgenstein in particular reminds me of Kierkegaard and Rilke and also of Unamuno and Zambrano. And of course Schopenhauer et al. #The Tractatus is very similar in my opinion to Huidobro's Altazor which is just amazing but I don't know how it would translate #These books I like in form and not just in content (although form is content like I think happens in Wittgenstein's Tractatus) #so when possible I'd read them in their original languages.I myself can't read German and know but very little of Russian and Ancient Greek #and a bit of Latin so I must be missing a lot of those. Nonetheless they're great in what I can get through translation #Perhaps you'd have the chance of enjoying them in full #If you can't read Russian I am actually quite specific with the translation of Crime and Punishment haha There's a concept #Razumikhin develops through the book at several points and often translators aren't consister with the word which makes the readers lose #the view of this development. And I happen to think the development works alongside the narrative of Svidrigailov #and also with what happens towards the end with Porfiry and Raskolnikov so I think it's important #In English there are several translations that maintain the coherence such as the one by Pevear and Volokhonsky #(the only one I can remember right now but I could check the rest). Garnett's translation is everywhere but that one doesn't do it #Hmmm Pedro Páramo in English takes some liberties and La Regenta isn't as funny which is what happens with Wuthering Heights #and The three musketeers in translation even when the translations are more accurate #I haven't recommended Wuthering Heights because I take you've read it but that's my favourite book #And I haven't recommended Pandora Hearts because that's a manga and you asked for books but it does some very interesting things #that I think are in line with many of the books listed here (as I said‚ I basically like the same few things retold over and over haha) #There are many books I am itching to recommend but that I can't do freely without some knowledge of the person asking #Like Steinbeck's arthurian novel or idk Gone with the wind #I hope this list is enjoyable enough. I'm not sure if I've been able to avoid being too partial #I suppose one has to bear the conditions of their existence and can't ever entirely get rid of themselves haha

[running-in-the-dark]

watching Buffy with my niece (11) and just had to explain what it meant when Xander said that Willow's phone was ringing, so she wasn't online. I feel old 😬

#there's actually a lot that I have to explain lol #but most of it is just US specific things that she doesn't get #I remember how confusing I always found that when watching american shows as a kid/teenager #and now rewatching some of them as an adult it's like ooooh okay now that makes sense #a lot of healthcare stuff. people not getting time off work. things like that that you don't get without context #also lots of things that are translated VERY badly. so badly that they don't make sense in german but you can tell what they originally said #once you know enough English. so I have to explain those things too #would've been useful to have that when I was a kid myself haha

[redfeathered]

The Spatort fandom is no joke, jesus christ.

Right now there are 1744 fics in the Leo/Adam tag

Found the first great author. BOOM. 156 fics. Wow. That's impressive!!

Found the next author. 144 fics.

The third I found, has over 200 under their name...

Da fuq?!?! Like, I'm used to a few authors carrying small fandoms... But this is insane!

#I've read so many fanfics in the last few days #Haven't watched one episode so far :') #And by now I'm afraid #My partner is very confused. Usually he gets the general gist of fanfics. But Tatort fanfics... He doesn't get #It's okay honey #You read for plot. I read for feelings and character studies. We don't enjoy the same things #No it's not just like a tatort episode only written out #There's a lot of bed sharing. Yep. #Pssst I love all of you #Also like... I genuinely enjoy these German works. Which is rare #I know a lot of German speaking English reading will know how much this equals a lottery jackpot. #(never ask for my first German fanfics. Never) #tumblr is my diary and you can read along

[stoertebeker]

Yeah I'm thinking about the rift the Nazi regime left in the literary landscape of the German 1930s / 1940s again. No it's probably gonna be all day

#i'm going crazyyy. whole generation of authors that got prohibited at the peak of their career! or worse at the start of it! #yes we know brecht remarque kästner and the manns today but think about how many we don't remember? #authors whose work got snuffed out before they even had a chance at success #ugggh i wanna read them all they deserved better #talking literature #german literature

[cryingyetcourageous]

[TEXT: Lettland] Hallo... I forget the word in English, but we call them Geschrei in German, and I heard that you have them. Or do you make them? Are they a culinary art? [TEXT: Lettland] They look like Ö but they sound like AAAAAA! (allesistrund)

[TEXT: nezināms tālrunis]: shouts or screams. if you know German, then we should be texting in that because my german is very much better than my english lol [TEXT: nezināms tālrunis]: also who is this??? @allesistrund

#ic #allesistrund #please note that mun does not know German and we'll have to write in English but PRETEND it's German lol i don't trust Google Translate #I really should learn. I work with so many books/magazines in German and Yiddish. #also fun fact: every austrian magazine we get is so very aesthetic yet so very forgetful. Fancy photography or intricate art for the covers #BUT NO CONSISTENCY IN NUMBERING. hOW DO ALL OF THEM FORGET WHAT NUMBER THEY ARE ON IN THEIR OWN MAGAZINE?? #WHY ARE 3 DIFFERENT ISSUES LABELED BAND 32 HEFT 3??? #i find that fitting for Kugel. numbers are restrictive and unmoving. Aesthetics are art. #THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK: TAG EDITION!!!

[lookingforfairies]

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#not posting my top posts bc they were just replies to asks lol and you don't neeed that on your dash #also yeah it's in german idk how to get it in english but eh you understand the different categories anyway #also that appaperently longest tag is about voltron lol. thanks tumblr for having a character limit and then choosing my worst long tag #also i got some feedback that i should use tags more to let people know about my stuff bc i only tagged 46% of posts.... #tumblr honey i already know how this website works do you think i would've tagged over 2000 posts if it was otherwise?? #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

[anaalnathrakhs]

Heute ich habe gegessen eine Schokolade der Morgen, Mittagessen war mcdonald’s medium Pommes da mein Lehrer ist gegangen dort und ich und meine Mitschülerin geteilt, und das Abendessen war eingefroren Pommes und vegetarier Nuggets, da ich versuche mein Fleisch Verbrauch reduzieren. Ich zudem habe zwei Brot Stücken gegessen und ein Ice Tea getrinken.

#two birds with one stone: i register what i ate for the sake of mental health and i improve my german skillz #i barely even register as an A1 so feel free to correct the mistakes you see #but i'll show this to my teacher to fix the obvious grammar issues and all #i don't feel like i'm improving a lot using her methods #which are like. throwing us a german paragraph and asking us to pick up the crumbs of meaning we can find #she explains things in german and then never like. translates them. or writes them/spells them out? #which i mean. we are supposed to be speedrunning seven years of classes in two but yknow. i dont UNDERSTAND the mechanic behind the language #so i'm doing some duolingo on the side and now this i guess #what would work for me (i think based on the way i learned english) is blind idiot translation under every sentence #to get the hang of the grammar and vocabulary #cuz i'm shit at categorizing grammar in every language but i'm fairly good at instinctively using it so familiarizing myself is my best bet #but i don't know how to go about finding that except asking someone to prechew it for me #and since my teacher is all ''never even look at google translate or a dictionary or anything just ✨start from the french word✨''... #yeah #broadcasting my misery

[ukulelegodparent]

Apparently I'm feeling very strongly about language once again atm. Like just. I have to eat it. I have to let it wash over me and through me. I need to read good opinions on like. The connection between the heart and the soul and the language they are expressed and the language they developed and grew up in. Like. it is so intricate and so complicated and so personal and yet so simple and such a universal experience.

#plus idk like. me writing this in English on speak your language day. instead of German. #idk I guess the 'a language different from my native language is spoken around me' got me once again #I really would've liked to stay in prague tonight. I feel like I would've had a very good time #but as they say. all good things must come to an end. und man soll ja aufhören wenn's am schönsten ist #plus halt das buch das ich gerade lese das auch die interaktion zwischen sprachen als großes Thema hat #und. like thinking about europe once again. the european idea. the european project. the flaws inherent to it. #and the flaws that have hope. but that are not being worked out at the moment. #I'm so fucking tired of all the stereotypes. and all the east-west conflict. it's so extremely stupid. #we have so much to learn from each other. if only us in the west would manage to get our fucking heads out of our asses #and be open to it. the whole idea of europe is so very doomed continuing on this path. #maybe bc we live in political systems that mostly encourage people who think they have it all figured out and that everyone else #must be doing something wrong can really make it to the top of power #it doesn't allow for nuance. and I don't know how to fix it. I'm not sure it can be fixed or if this is just part of the human condition.

[david-watts]

feels weird that I might be moving out of this room today... if so, fucking finally

#own room. OWN ROOM. #anyway I also found out that one of my old toys that had a voicebox and no way of replacing batteries that I've had since kinder or prep #STILL WORKS. it's NUTS #yes I. I remembered to take my stuffed toys with me on hell day but I forgot my shoes. #I had to wash my german shepard toy (called lily) and I literally said sorry to her as I washed her face #she got covered in gunk somehow which is weird because that stuff wasn't on the toys on top of her and I don't know how it got there #still have a lot to do though lol

[silasbug]

fondly thinking about my best friend.

no idea how she's managed to stick it out with me this far but i'm amazed that after over 6 years she still has enough patience to tolerate me.

when i don't feel like i'm good enough, she reminds me of who i am. when i make mistakes, she doesn't treat me any different. when i'm highly dysphoric, she just /gets/ it and shows me unrelenting support and encouragement. she's my #1 hypeman, and i am hers.

there isn't another person in the world that's been able to make me feel even.. remotely okay in my own skin, about how i look and how a body feels (i would also say about who i am, but i'd be lying).

i realize that i've always had a bit of body dysmorphia and generally don't enjoy looking at my own face because it's.. very uncanny to me. i don't have a proper sense of style. but she always just?? has something nice to say and she does it so genuinely that you can actually believe that she means what she says. because she's the same.

i'll go out looking like a 12 year old boy and she's just. fucking. there for it. she'll cheer for it. do it with me. and then we'll walk around the block looking like two lil' dudebros together because we own the same clothes. and fucking hell.

this girl is too good to me. i absolutely don't deserve her.

sometimes it's hard to believe that someone like her exists.

and that i get to be witness to it.

there's caveats, of course. we talk so rarely (we go weeks without), the interests we share are few and far between and there's.. so many things i could never tell her because i will never get over that fear of losing her.

there is no right moment and there isn't a time and those are things i neither need nor want her to know, because it would change the way she sees me.

and i guess that seems callous and detached and dishonest.

but we are there when it matters. i am there when she needs me and i will always pick up her pieces.

i want her to have a good thing. she sees me as a good thing.

so i'll let her have me this way.

#the one person i've not yet managed to hurt and i don't think i ever fucking will #i'd throw myself off a damn cliff first #this girl just saw me one day when i showed up to school. decided i /seemed/ too cool for school and adopted me over the summer. #like what. how. i am THE lamest guy™ AND SHE somehow STILL thinks i'm cool what a nerd UGH #it's just sad that we're at the point where we have little to tell each other because our lives are so different & we live far apart #at least we can take naps with each other and just chill out when we meet. we can just.. be in the moment together and enjoy it. #and that is still. everything. #also like. i generally don't take selfies but i did a few days ago because i thought i looked kinda cool and i told her about it and #she really wanted to see & she is the only person i'd ever send selfies to and she just... #'bug those last three could work as a hot fuckboy tinder profile' LOL bless her that's the funniest shit i've ever heard #IDK IT'S that thing where you love and care so much for someone that they become infiniely more attractive than they are at first glance? #but she's the only person that i'd ever actually be able to believe. because she is so fucking genuine. #i'll also never get over the fact that she is the smartest and most studious person i know but listens to the most anti social german rap #like LMAO okay girl! you go! i hate it but i love you #it's just a funny contrast that she listens to the filthiest shit imaginable hahaha #personal