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professional-termite · 9 months

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Mall Cop HM 2023 AU Characters List

(yes the 2 main stores, Hatbox Supplies and The Haunted Mansion Store, are in a mall. I'm keeping the name "mall cop au" because leota and harriet are security guards and I think it sounds silly.)

I might not actually write this thing, but I will talk about it and plan it and hyperfixate on it for a while. Anyways these characters are listed in the order of how much backstory I've invented for them in this AU. Also, I'm screwing around with the ages because I do what I want and canon can go die, this is my AU :D

Kent Owens (M54): The disgraced gay son of his hometown's priest, Kent has hit a rough patch in his life. Having just hit 54, he's decided to take a break from the constant scrutiny he was under as the "disappointment to the church and his family legacy" and drive down to New Orleans. Unfortunately, in the process he lost his job, his apartment, and the majority of his worldly possessions, which means he's now living in his car and constantly in and out of gas stations, making him a bit infamous in his part of the city. Despite this, he's managed to make quite a few friends, including Rea Soul, a German librarian who wakes him up whenever he spends the night parked by the library, in order to help him avoid getting towed, Jackson Lance, the local veteran-turned-scam-artist who's always willing to help Kent make a quick buck, and Eddie "E.W." Woodson, a new recruit to the New Orleans Police Department with a soft spot for middle aged guys down on their luck. Eventually, Jackson gets him roped in with Alistair Crump's plans to sabotage the Haunted Mansion Store, where he can make a quick buck--until he gets caught by Leota in the act, gets defended by and subsequently befriends Ben Matthias, and quickly gets roped into the drama of Hatbox Supply and Haunted Mansion's feud.

Ben Matthias (M45): Ben's entire life has been defined by tragedy. His parents died when he was 2 years old, leaving him in the foster care system for 3 years, until he was adopted by Professor Bruce Matthias, who became as good a father to him as any, despite his eccentricity. At age 12, Ben and his dad lost their home and had to move into a 2-bedroom apartment, where Ben stayed for the rest of his childhood, and all the way through college, as he went to the same college where Bruce taught. In his sophomore year, he met Alyssa Speir, whom he would eventually move in with and marry. However, after 13 years of happy marriage, Alyssa would get into a car crash and die, causing Ben to spiral into depression, quit his job, sell the house, and move back in with his dad at age 40. After 2 years of dealing with Ben, though, Bruce begins to encourage Ben to get back on his feet; and so, for the last 3 years, Ben has been bouncing between jobs, still unable to afford his own place. That is, until he meets Kent, and Leota, and slowly begins to make friends and pull himself out of the ditch he was in emotionally.

Bruce Matthias (M80): Eccentric, short, and surprisingly good with people, Bruce has spent most of his life feeling isolated. He's never given a straight answer as to why exactly he adopted Ben, although it may have had something to do with the fact that he had just broken up with another partner, or that he'd just gotten a raise, or that that he'd finally begun to acknowledge how quiet his house was. Either way, he'd become an adoptive father at age 40, and a darn good one at that. Even when he was getting evicted or when he was moving into an infinitely smaller apartment, he was cheering up Ben with wisecracks and jokes like no one else could. And when Ben told him he was planning on marrying Alyssa, he was ecstatic; Alyssa was just as much a daughter to him as Ben was a son. And when Ben called him in the middle of one of Bruce's lectures, sobbing, because Alyssa had gotten into a car crash and died, Bruce had dropped everything and driven the 3-odd hours to be a comforting shoulder to cry on. And when Alistair tries to force his history buddy William out of the shop business? Well. Bruce will make sure he doesn't come away unscathed.

Leota Curtis (F65): From a young age, Leota was obsessed with ghosts and the supernatural, and all of that junk. When she realized that that wouldn't make a viable career path in this day and age, she dropped all her crystal balls and mystical auras and trained from sunrise to sunset to be the greatest cop the New Orleans Police Department had ever seen. Local legend, hero, and arguably a godlike figure to many kids, some would be disappointed to know that she retired from the cop life at age 47 and has been working in security for the last 15 years. After losing her last job for being "too violent," she recently picked up work alongside Harriet Lee as a security worker in William Gracey's store, The Haunted Mansion Store, which has been harassed by local competitive grump Alistair "Hattie" Crump. She and Hattie have had a history in the force together, and after his seemingly harmless attempts at sabotage turn potentially violent, she teams up with what she can only describe as a group of idiots to finally put an end to Hattie's reign of terror.

Harriet Lee (F47): Harriet was always a fighter. Her older sisters often teased her for being "too rough" or "too boyish," but that was alright; someday, Harriet would show them all. Someday, Harriet would be a cop. Or so she thought. Because despite her skill in physical combat and the things she thought were important, she could barely pay attention during her law classes, and ended up flunking out of the police academy to work in security. Which is fine, completely, totally fine, at least in her book, because it ended up putting her in the same circle as Leota Curtis, as her hero's partner in crime solving, and surely that makes it worth it. Harriet sasses her way through every interaction, but secretly, she couldn't be more excited; just being near her idol is enough to make her run home every day and scream into her pillow out of pure joy.

Travis Hauss (M9): Travis has always had trouble making friends. Due to what himself and his mother recently discovered was undiagnosed autism, Travis isn't sure that the "help" he's getting is really helping. What does seem to be helping is hanging out in The Haunted Mansion Store, where Uncle Will and the sad man, Ben, will always stop by to say hello or play with his action figures. Travis spends almost all his time there, even more so since his father died; now that his dad doesn't live in his house, it doesn't feel like home anymore. However, being a kid has its perks, for instance, being in the right place at the right time, and being able to catch on to Alistair Crump's plans before anyone else. The only problem is getting the adults to listen...

Gabbie Hauss (F39): Despite being a widow, Gabbie is always strong. She's had to be her whole life; growing up relatively wealthy had made her constantly misjudged as someone who would buy their way through things. Nowadays, it's rare to see her spend on something more than the house she's bought and the groceries she buys from William Gracey. Now that her husband has passed, it simply doesn't seem right. And with Travis' recent diagnosis, the only thing she wants to do is work to improve the lives of herself and her son. But when Travis begins to insist that Hattie's originally harmless sabotage has become potentially deadly, she begins to reconsider her quiet lifestyle that she's built in New Orleans, and questions whether she should leave it behind entirely.

William Gracey (M48): Gracey is (slightly) more than a pompous rich freak. After losing his wife at a young age, and attempting several times to bring her back, he's given up and settled into the persona of the quiet, depressed store owner/surrogate uncle of Travis Hauss that everyone knows him by. Gracey loves his store almost as much as he loves his "sister," Gabbie, and "nephew," Travis, because that store is the one thing he has left that his wife bought specifically for him. To see it fall now would be a travesty--if he is to lose his store to Crump's meddling, he vows to go down fighting.

Alistair "Hattie" Crump (M67): Hattie is a miserable person. His mother died when he was young, his father abandoned him for being weak, and there's a few metaphorical and literal skeletons in his closet from his days as a party host, and his brief days as a cop alongside Leota. Now that he's older, he's begun to settle down...that is, until that meddling Gracey becomes involved. Stealing his customers, undercutting his prices, and deliberately sabotaging him--well, Gracey isn't the only one who knows how to play; Alistair has a few tricks up his sleeve. Of course, there's always the chance that once Gracey digs up a tiny bit of dirt on his past, the whole mountain of his wrongdoings comes into view...

Rea Soul (F24): Rea moved from Germany to New Orleans only for a study, but ended up falling in love with the library where she now works. Despite being a bit young for the job, she quickly begins climbing the ranks--and calling a few more shots, including about the sad man living in his car in the parking lot. Even if the library is a public space, and technically under the city's jurisdiction, not hers, she makes sure he's never towed, because surely if she's good to him, then her kindness will be repayed in some way.

Jackson Lance (M57): Jackson has never once seen active duty, but he sure talks like he did when he was in the military. Of course, since he was dishonorably discharged (something he neglects to mention very often), he's become a crime boss of sorts, the kind of guy you go to when you've been framed for murder. Jackson gives out information, illegal job offers...but everything you ask of him comes with a price.

Eddie "E.W." Woodson (NB??): E.W. is the newest trainee at the PD, and everyone makes sure they know it. Every time they do something slightly wrong, they're immediately chastised, ridiculed, and mocked, and they're sick of it. Maybe that's why they're so willing to pull strings for Kent, the one guy who's ever nice to them...at least he treats them like a cop (as he should. E.W. could TOTALLY arrest them if they felt like it.)

(yes, E.W. is based on me. No, I don't care that self insert characters are cringe or whatever. Also, not revealing my age, cuz uhh internet safety yadda yadda. Also E.W. is way more childish than I am, so they're not really me, they're just a cop that I gave my name to. And Travis gets diagnosed with autism because why not.)

- The main events of this take place during the summer, which is why Travis can spend so much time at the store. He kind of helps out, restocking stuff or showing people around if they need help. Also, he wears noise-cancelling headphones because I wear noise-cancelling headphones and I said so <3

- Leota was famous for being one of the youngest cops on the force and yet being the most fearless, rushing into scenes and risking her life to save other peoples'. Harriet was a massive fan when she was a teenager, so meeting Leota as an adult is literally a dream come true for her.

- Ben is a bisexual he/they in this because. Look at him. And Bruce is supportive and literally teases him about looking in the direction of any moderately attractive person, it's like a running joke between them. Dad Bruce is a goofy goober and I love him.

- Rea is based on @creative-soul-22 because she's really cool and helped inspire this AU, along with @youngstarfishphilosopher (who I might also make into a character since they made the original inspiration for this, if they're cool with that...)

Anyways I might write more for this AU later, but for now I'm tired so. No more...

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Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

- Herbert von Karajan

The Soprano Christa Ludwig described him as ‘Le bon Dieu’, while scores of musicians, reviewers and listeners have long regarded him as simply untouchable in the art of conducting. There was, however, much about Herbert von Karajan that was distinctly ungodlike. Ruthlessly ambitious as a young man and grimly autocratic in his later years, his life story is marked by bitter rivalries, feuds and, most notoriously, membership of the Nazi party.

But then, just listen to the results. It’s fascinating to look at the career, the controversy and the achievements of a conductor who still intrigues fans and detractors like no other musician long after his death.

The early career of Herbert von Karajan continues to be swathed in controversy.

Was he an ardent Nazi or an ambitious opportunist? If he was a zealous party member, should we revere his recordings as much as we do? To what extent should any moral accountability weigh against Karajan’s musical achievement? And how much latitude can we extend to people who have artistically given so generously?

Karajan is not alone in occupying this uncomfortable situation during this era. Similar debate surrounds Richard Strauss, Carl Orff and Karl Böhm. Indeed, Wagner also evokes hostility in certain quarters with regard to his racial sentiments.

When Adolf Hitler swept to power in January 1933, the 24-year-old Austrian Herbert von Karajan had already notched up nearly four seasons as an up-and-coming opera conductor in the South German city of Ulm.

Born in Salzburg in 1908 into a prosperous family, he had demonstrated gifts as a pianist and conductor while studying in Vienna. After graduation, his debut orchestral concert with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra in January 1929, featuring works by R Strauss, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, caused a local sensation and helped to secure him the contract in Ulm.

Karajan seized on the opportunity to learn his trade in Ulm and cut his teeth on much of the operatic repertory from Mozart and Beethoven to Puccini and R . Strauss, including the opera Schwanda der Dudelsacker by the Czech Jewish composer Jaromir Weinberger.

Yet, after the Nazi take-over, Karajan’s future wasn’t assured.

In early 1933, German operatic life was thrown into turmoil as the regime hounded out musicians that were deemed politically and racially unacceptable, and also pursued a protectionist policy to limit employment for non-Germans.

Against this context, Karajan’s decision to join the Nazi Party in Salzburg in April 1933 should be understood as an opportunistic move which was probably designed to safeguard his position at Ulm. Whether it also signalled enthusiasm for Nazi policy is open to speculation, though he no doubt hoped that the strong-arm methods of the Nazis would bring cultural stability to Germany.

Karajan retained his Ulm job for a further season, during which he expanded his repertory to include a praised account of Strauss’s opera Arabella. But in March 1934 he was fired for professional intrigue involving a potential Jewish rival.

He did not have to wait long for a new post. Three months later he was made general music director in Aachen.

Working in a larger theatre enabled Karajan to tackle more ambitious repertory, such as Wagner’s Ring cycle, Verdi’s Otello and Strauss’s Elektra. He also consolidated his reputation in the concert hall, taking charge of Aachen’s annual season of orchestral and choral concerts. One pre-condition for accepting was that he should re-apply for membership of the Nazi Party, his earlier membership in Salzburg having lapsed. This was confirmed in March 1935.

Although in his denazification trial in March 1946 Karajan argued that he had joined the Party to further his career, he could not escape his obligation as Aachen’s general music director to provide the musical background for political occasions.

On 29 June 1935 he took part in a huge open-air orchestral and choral concert that celebrated the NSDAP Party Day and at a similar ceremony four years later he conducted the close from Wagner’s Meistersinger. But his concert programmes seemed untainted by political interference – works by Debussy, Ravel, Kodály and Stravinsky rubbed shoulders with German ones. In 1938 he flouted the law by programming Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Party authorities must have overlooked that Dukas was of Jewish descent.

Karajan conducts Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony No. 9, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

By 1937 Karajan’s achievements in Aachen were attracting national interest.

In a special edition devoted to Germany’s conducting legacy, the journal Die Musik singled him out as a man who ‘can lead the new organisation of our cultural life in the spirit and direction which National Socialism demands’. Concert engagements in Gothenburg, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels and Stockholm helped to spread his name beyond Germany.

Yet for all this, Karajan set his sights even higher by hoping to make an impact in Berlin. This ambition was realised in 1938 with a ‘Strength through Joy’ concert with the Berlin Philharmonic and engagement as conductor at the Berlin State Opera in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in October of the same year.

Karajan may not have anticipated that with his move to Berlin he was stepping into a political cauldron over which he would have little control.

It began with a review of his Tristan which appeared in the Berliner Zeitung. Under the title ‘Karajan the Miracle’, the critic Edwin von der Nüll lavished praise on the performance suggesting that in conducting Wagner’s score from memory the 30-year-old conductor had achieved ‘something our great men in their fifties might envy’.

This was calculated to offend the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler who had previously ruled the roost in the same theatre. Karajan was set up as a pawn in the struggle for control of Berlin’s cultural institutions between Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, a Furtwängler supporter, and Minister of Interior Hermann Goering, the patron of the Berlin State Opera.

In June 1939 Karajan conducted Wagner’s Die Meistersinger at the State Opera without a score. The performance collapsed when the baritone, a drunk Rudolf Bockelmann, made a serious error. Alas Hitler, in the audience, was furious, blaming instead Karajan’s insufficiently Germanic approach to Wagner by conducting from memory.

Further problems arose over his marriage in 1942 to the quarter Jewish Anita Gütermann, technically against the law.

Yet, despite this and the continuing hostility and suspicion of Goebbels and Hitler and Furtwängler’s jealousy, his career prospered during the war. He conducted Bach’s B Minor Mass in Paris for the occupying German soldiers in 1940 and returned to the French capital in 1941 to present his performance of Tristan with the Berlin State Opera.

From 1940 he appeared in Italy and gave concerts in Romania and Hungary. A major achievement was to secure popularity for Orff’s Carmina Burana, a score that had aroused some hostility from the Nazi hierarchy at its first performance in 1937 before Karajan’s performances in Aachen and Berlin during the early 1940s.

Driven by a fanatical love of music and a desire to advance his career, there’s little doubt that Karajan’s involvement with the Nazi regime was opportunistic.

Doubtless though there were also areas of Nazi policy that may well have chimed in with his own views. At the same time falling foul of the regime on occasions, his personal ideology can be best described as a montage of greys; nothing is ever clear-cut and nor perhaps should be our assessment of his work.

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Etzel / エッツェル and Ursula / アーシェラ

Etzel (JP: エッツェル; rōmaji: ettseru) is a traveling sorcerer who seeks to end the war that stole his wife's life in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem. Typically written in Japanese as エツェル (rōmaji: etseru), Etzel is the name the Germanic peoples used in reference to Atilla, ruler of the Hunnic Empire. He and his ever-expanding territory were dreaded by the Byzantine and Roman Empires alike. Contrary to the common warmongering image associated with him, Etzel would be depicted in Germanic legends as a benevolent and tragic figure. In the poems and legends of Dietrich von Bern, when he is exiled from his land of Bern (modern-day Verona) by his evil uncle, he finds refuge in the court of Etzel - despite the fact that the historical Theodoric the Great was born after the yoke of the Huns had been cast off the land. His most famous appearance would be in the Nibelungenlied, in which he took Kriemhild of the Burgundian royal family as his second wife years after the death of her husband Siegfried in a jealous feud with the queen. Some claim that Etzel married Kriemhild to claim the fabled treasure of the Burgundians; others say Kriemhild accepted the proposal to play a part in a scheme to exact revenge on her lover's killers. Regardless of the telling, the Burgundians would be invited to a banquet in Hungary, where a bloody battle would erupt, destroying both kingdoms.

Etzel's beloved keepsake of his wife, a ring, is likely based on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Though the character of Etzel does not appear in this adaptation of the story, among the riches of the Nibelung treasure is a magic ring that grants the wearer world domination. This ring would spark conflict for generations between the ring's forger, the gods, and their descendants, culminating in the ring returning to the Rhine River and the death of all parties involved.

Ursula was the wife of Etzel, killed by Dohlr soldiers. She takes her name from Saint Ursula, a legendary princess who sailed from Britain with eleven thousand women to marry. But before her marriage, she insisted on doing a continental pilgrimage. Joined by the Pope himself, she marched about Europe, until a fateful encounter with the Huns en route to Cologne. Ursula and the thousands of women accompanying her would be killed.

In Japanese, Ursula's name is written アーシェラ (rōmaji: āshera). This is a minor alteration of アシェラ (rōmaji: ashera), the ancient Semitic fertility goddess Asherah. She has been called the Queen of Heaven, interpreted as the wife of the Semitic, Judeo-Christian God in a time of polytheistic faith or a feminine aspect of him. The destruction of her temples and idols is ordered by God in the Bible, with King Josiah destroying some in the Book of Kings. The iconoclasm may be why the name of Asherah was used for a woman killed by war. Of course, this name had to be changed in localization given Tellius' Goddess of Order was named Ashera in Western releases.

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Journal - Chapter 3: Clemen’s Point

(This post is all of the journal pages and typed transcripts that were written specifically for this chapter. This post will not include stranger missions or side stuff.)

After A Strange Kindness

More problems have befallen us. More running.

Leviticus Cornwall. The oil, sugar, rail and greed merchant whom we robbed a while back had us ambushed in Valentine. Seems he has added to the price on our heads. We shot our way out of town, and narrowly escaped with our lives. The only amusing aspect of the horror was Herr Strauss getting grazed and acting like he

was preparing for his short trip down to hell.

After this, we fled the country and headed even further south and east, camping by a lake.

This is pretty much new country for me. Charles and I saved a family of Germans who were in the process of getting themselves killed.

He's a better man than me. He does not need to think to be good. It comes naturally to him, like right

is deep within as opposed to this conflict between GOOD <-> EVIL that rages within me.

If only we had fled west out of Blackwater, we could be free now, out where we belong beyond civilization with the savages and the animals.

Here, we won't ever be at home.

After The New South

So turns out we're holed up outside a town called Rhodes, deep in old cotton country. The place has not recovered from the war and those folks that is sober enough to think are still angry. The drunk, which is most of them, are angrier still but perhaps for other reasons.

Adding to the absurdity, we appear to be planning to deputize ourselves into the local law enforcement,

and have already taken down a major bounty on their behalf, but mostly to rescue slippery old Trelawny who had got himself arrested for some of his usual NONSENSE. A Seems like there is a long running BLOOD feud between two old families here, and both Dutch and Heosea believe they may be sitting on a lot of gold.

We shall see I guess.

After Further Questions of Female Suffrage

Mrs Adler, the widow we rescued a while back, might be the craziest one of all of us. She fights like a cornered pole cat, with a rage and a blood lust that frightens the hell out of me. I ever get on her wrong side, and I am a dead man! I don't intend to - she's a fine woman, amusing and good hearted and decent and angry. I took her shopping to stop her fileting old Pearson right in camp. After we got jumped she went insane and showed she can kill with the best of us.

After American Distillation

Finally, we have achieved a state of true insanity. For the first time in my life, I'm a deputized lawman. We went off with some moronic dupe Deputy, working for the alcohol drenched Sheriff Gray pursuing some moonshiners. Dutch is convinced this will somehow lead to riches beyond compare. Seems the one powerful local family, The Grays, ex Scots, is warring with another, proud English family, the Braithwaites, like some long running dispute from the border country.

Apparently there's gold or women or something at the root of this, and if it's gold, we want it.

Either way, we are so deep in the swamp and so entirely lost ourselves, I hope it will take the Pinkertons and their like a long while to find us. We shall see. In the mean time, a new career path in law seems to await. Seems like amongst our other perils a gang called “THE LEMOYNE RAIDERS” won't take too kindly to outsiders or anyone who ain't living in the distant past.

After The Course of True Love & Advertising, The New American Art

I've met some charming women in my time. Catherine Braithwaite, the mother hen to that particular bunch of roosters ain't one of them. A sourer old jug of piss and bullshit I ain't never met. Even Hosea's charms were lost upon her. She refused our offer of selling her back her shine and instead got us to give it away to annoy the saloon owners in town.

Hosea put on quite a show until we got interrupted by the bastards we robbed when grabbing the stuff. We just about escaped. On the other hand, I met this poor bastard Gray boy - BEAU -

and his forbidden love - MISS PENELOPE - quite the most alive creature we have met down here.

Suddenly, I'm marching as a suffragette. The looks of loathing on the faces of the locals delighted me, while their leader - a Mrs Calhoun amused me. I don't know much about good causes, nor the joys of democracy, but I enjoyed my little experience riding alongside them.

World is certainly changing fast.

After Magicians for Sport

Charles and I went looking for Trelawny, who was staying in Rhodes. He'd been accosted by some bounty hunters who was looking for him and a means to getting to us.

Whole thing turned nasty and he'd been treated pretty bad but we got him out of there. He seemed worried that there might be more following in their wake, so came back to camp with us.

There always seem to be more, bounty hunters, Pinkertons, lawmen.

Everywhere we go, there's more and more civilization. Perhaps this is it from now on. We shall see, I guess.

This whole place is beginning to give me the creeps - I want to get back in the open country of the West or what's left of it, but even that ain't the way I remember it.

After Horse Flesh for Dinner

We went horse thieving, our greed getting the better of us.

Believed a yarn spun us by one of that Gray family, the patriarch, Tavish, a particularly unpleasant one of what seems a reasonably unpleasant family.

He had us believing that the Braithwaite woman owned some highly prized English thoroughbreds or Arab chargers or whatever they was supposed to be, and imagined we

was going to be wonderfully rich. At the end of it, we felt like prize idiots, so I guess at least some prize was being handed out.

After Blessed are the Peacemakers

I have been recuperating after an interesting encounter with Colm O'Driscoll.

Dutch got it into his mind to meet the bastard, to somehow end all this lunacy.

Only Colm did not share Dutch's sense of honor amongst thieves. Whole thing was a set up to kidnap me, then lure all of the rest of us into a trap so we could get arrested and Colm could disappear away, us somehow carrying off his sin

along with our own to the gallows.

Seems like Colm is enjoying this modern world even less than we are.

More by luck than judgement I escaped and somehow got back here, more dead than alive, and collapsed into bed for a few feverish days – after much nursing from Miss Grimshaw and Miss Tilly and much guilt ridden apologies from Dutch over his stupidity, I survived okay my shoulder where I was shot

ain't come down with gangrene and I will live, if even uglier than before.

Things is getting even more insane with the local population. My sense is neither the Grays nor the Braithwaites have a pot to piss in, but I ain't spent too much time with the landed gentry.

Whatever else they is, they don't make one believe in the nobility of the aristocracy.

After A Short Walk in a Pretty Town

Sean has been killed. I'm more sad than I can admit. I loved that little loud mouthed wretch more than I knew - he was like an annoying little brother to me. What fun we had riding together - and now, he's dead. His head shot half off in an ambush. What a goddamn mess we are making of things.

Still NO Confederate GOLD, but a shit load of trouble.

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[Fic] Cowboy From The Books

Summary:

Luke is the frontman of the up and coming local band Sunset Curve. Their most popular song happens to be about Reggie Peters - a country-loving boy from his school that Luke can’t stand. Which is why the song he wrote about him is less than flattering. Reggie isn’t one to keep his mouth shut, though, and their feud is legendary in the whole school. It all changes when Sunset Curve’s bassist Carrie breaks both her hands and is unable to play their most important gig to date and the band needs to find a new bassist, and quick.

Or, the enemies to lovers fic we all need. Based on a German movie called “Systemfehler - Wenn Inge tanzt”.

Pairing: Luke/Reggie

Rating: T

Read Chapter 1 on AO3

A/N: helloooo, friends! @psyduckappears and i have teamed for this fic, and we're super excited to share it with y'all. it's been super fun to write so far - even though we didn't quite make the @jatpbigbang deadline. our posting date IS today, but we're gonna do it chaptered to do this story the justice it deserves. we'll post a chapter every thursday for now, but might change it to bi-weekly along the way. the song was written by jackie, so give her loads of love for it. i've written luke's pov, jackie's written reggie's pov, and we made sure it all fits together with the help of the wonderful @reggiepetersbass 🖤the whole thing is inspired by and based on a german movie called Systemfehler - Wenn Inge tanzt. if you're in germany, you can find it on amazon prime. it's definitely worth a watch.

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Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Happy Thorsday - Egill Skallagrimson, The Poet Berserker Runecaster Well here we are another Thor’s Day and another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic) mythological characters. This week it’s Egil / Egill Skallagrimson mentioned in the Egil’s Saga that included a mythical telling of the life of the real man.

Hi name has been translated to ‘Awe’, or ‘Fear’, or ‘dread’ combined with ‘edge’ or ‘point’ of a weapon. Which unlike the farmer Giant Egil who shares his name, where the meaning had the context of being afraid of the sword. Egill here is meant to imply the use of the sword, and that others should be afraid of his blade’s edge.

With his last name being not a family name but the name of his father. The name meant Skull, or bald skull from Skalli /Skalla and Face masked Helmet from Grimr. All together implying a head like like a helmet.

His father was Skallagrím Kveldulfsson and mother Bera Yngvarsdóttur, with a very large and well documented family line that’s too big to go into here beyond mentioning his brother Thorolf Skallagrímsson and that he had 5 children, most prominently his daughter Thorgerd Egilsdottir.

He was described has having an overly large, misshapen, and hard head, that has led many today to believe he might have had Paget's disease.

Egill's quick temper and Berserker nature lead to many violent interactions when he felt insulted or done wrong.

The first instance of this when he was a child, some local boys cheated him badly which led to him taking bloody vengeance on their heads with his axe.

And when his wife was denied her inheritance he challenged, fought and killed everyone responsible, down to the last one who he killed by biting into his neck.

He also after feeling insulted and killing King Erikr and Queen Gunnhildr's friend launched a long running feud from her and her family that saw her sending assassins' after him and lead to Egill eventually killing members of her family, including her son who came after him. Which led Egil and his brother, who had been a friend of the Queens' up until that point, to be exiled once her family member Erik Bloodaxe becomes king as well.

On leaving, he curses the land and it's people using a Nithing or Nidstang Pole that combines spoken spells, and rune magic, with a horse's head on a pole. The curse would make the people unsatisfied and have troubles until the King and Queen are dead or exiled. But Gunnhilder curses him as well to feel restelss and unhappy until they meet again. Both these things happen, and the King and Queen are forced to leave in exile themselves, while Egill is miserable in his wandering.

This all ends when Egill, asks for forgivness for himself and his brother, while all are in exile. Presenting two epic Drapa poems, the first an short apology, and the second one a long, complicated and impressive one that priases the King and Queen, and tell their histories, stories, deeds and majesty so impressively that they felt he could not be harmed. Leaving Egill and his brother being forgiven and all curses lifted from all involved.

He then fights for the English King Aethelstan, who compensates and pays him two chests of silver, after his brother dies in the battle.

He was a successful raider of the Eastern route through Scandinavia and Rus gaining him a lot of wealth earlier in his life. On returning home with his silver, he built up his farm and fortune and became a powerful politician, poet, and rune caster. He also used his magic to block poison, remove curses, and to heal others. Writing poetry throughout his life which is considered to be some of the finest ever written of the type and time. Growing to be a respected elder who was a force of nature even after he went blind.

After his death and his body was moved, it's said that in the process, an axe struck his skull, but made no damage, adding to his legend.

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an academic andreil headcanon

so they both go to the same uni

Neil lives with Stuart, Andrew moved to Germany with Nicky when Nicky got custody of them

it’s Edinburgh uni, sorry but I gotta work with what I know

also Neil is Scottish sorry I don’t make the rules, he is from Largs, tell me otherwise. that accent? wonderful

Neil is in his first year, Andrew his second.

Neil works at a local cafe called Hula, and that's where he meets the upperclassmen, a rag tag group of vegans who love to protest the climate crisis outside of Holyrood building

Neil studies maths and French, Andrew studies sociology and German

they first meet in the library, first floor, where all the cubicles are. Andrew is hogging a whole cubicle for himself, and Neil and a weirdly friendly classmate want to study and talk. neil doesn't really want to talk but he also promised matt he would make friends in his classes

Neil sees the cubicle and shoves all his stuff down on the table before seeing Andrew reading in the corner of it.

Andrew gives him a ferocious glare to scare him off that usually works but Neil just grins and says sorry, could they have the cubicle

Andrew the little shit he is, says no. Neil calls him an entitled American.

thus their feud begins

Andrew works at the local cafe called Salut, run by a lovely couple (abby and Wymack hehe)

the upperclassmen take Neil there every Friday after the climate rallies to warm up

Neil orders an Americano

he receives a hideously sweet concoction with whipped cream, and a side biscuit.

Andrew finds it ridiculous anyone would want to drink something as ghastly and boring as an Americano

Neil tracks down Andrew in his usual cubicle, and sits in it with him, blatantly disregarding the death Andrew is promising with his eyes.

he does his math while listening to his music, which potentially might be on full volume, and it might be hideous songs that Allison insists are “cultural resets”.

Andrew does not agree with the sentiment

it escalates from there. there were rubber ducks involved at one point. and ice cream. and Neil is never trusting anything he orders from uber eats again.

the studying together continues though. except Andrew isn't studying, he's reading, which is what some people do for fun Neil.

Neil joins cross country, where he finds Kevin, who happens to be Andrews best friend. duh.

Neil gets invited by Kevin to a flat party, and lo behold, there is Andrew.

seeing Andrew wearing a grey sweater instead of his usual black get up makes Neil’s stomach grow flowers that continue to bloom every time he looks at him.

Andrew looks bored to be there. Neil doesn't know anyone else, with Kevin being extremely preoccupied with a certain Jeremy Knox. so he goes to talk to him.

and it turns out they actually like talking. they have a lot to say. Andrew likes calling Neil names, and Neil likes taking the piss out of the fact Andrew calls biscuits, cookies.

they talk about their subjects, and that next year Andrew will be out in Germany due to his degree, and he will be able to see his cousin again, and why is he telling Neil this, of all people.

Neil is a very good listener. he's even better at asking questions that make Andrew have to think about an answer.

they keep talking, and they exchange numbers, to keep talking. to keep each other from slipping away.

they share cigarettes, and secrets, and their feud turns into something much more scary. it turns into a relationship.

#aftg #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #all for the game #exysource #aftgficlet #creations #nainasfam #aftg au #Kevin day #soft boys here

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Streaming on Plex: Best Horror Movies and TV Shows You Can Watch for FREE in October

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When October hits, the folks at Den of Geek almost exclusively consume horror content. Any spooky story that has ghosts, ghouls, goblins, or any chill-inducing monster that doesn’t start with a G is fine with us. Whether it’s a campy B-movie or “prestige horror,” we embrace all horror subgenres and relax with old favorites and new cult classics in the making alike. Now that Spooky Season is in full force, we are grateful that Plex TV is here so we can stream all of the creepy content that our black hearts’ desire for free!

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DEN OF GEEK CRITICS’ PICKS

The Ninth Gate

Though director Roman Polanski is a horrific figure himself, this 1999 neo-noir horror film, The Ninth Gate is superb. Thirty years after Rosemary’s Baby, Polanski conjured the devil once again and injected it with some of the pulp from his noir classic Chinatown in a movie that finds Johnny Depp as a man in Satanic Detective mode. Depp is a classic book authenticator hired to authenticate De Umbrarum Regis Novum Portis (The Nine Doors To the Kingdom of Shadows), a book believed by cultists capable of raising Satan to Earth.

The Ninth Gate doesn’t provide cheap thrills; it tightens the suspense like a noose. Polanski subtly creates an uneasy atmosphere using minimal effects. The director knows where evil lives and lets the settings and sound make the invitations with subliminal references to recognizable horror and cinematic danger, using framing and music similarly to Stanley Kubrick. The Ninth Gate packages its scares with classy style that the characters deliver with sexily provocative intelligence. Dean Corso may be Johnny Depp’s greatest spiritual transformation, from odious to ultimate evil and the audience cheers on his descent, happy to ride with him straight to hell.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Perhaps the world’s first horror film and a go-to example of early German Expressionist filmmaking, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has been unsettling audiences for over a century.

The film’s main story centers on two young friends, Francis and Alan (Friedrich Feher and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), who, while jockeying for the affections of Jane (Lil Dagover), visit a local traveling carnival. There they take in the act of the mysterious, top-hatted and wild-haired Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss). As they watch, Caligari awakens his somnambulist subject, Cesare (the great Conrad Veidt), who under hypnosis answers questions from the audience. When Alan jokingly asks when he will die, Cesare responds “Before dawn.” We’ll let you guess the rest.

The film isn’t remembered much for its story, but for its arresting visual style, featuring painted backdrops that make the entire production feel like a fever dream. The painted townscape is filled with curved and pointed buildings teetering at dangerous angles, almost as if they were alive and shrieking. Roads twist and spiral to nowhere. The perspectives are deliberately mismatched and inconsistent, with the props and sets sometimes being too large for the characters, and others too small. The result is a transgressive, deeply influential film that has been unsettling audiences for over 100 years.

The Exorcist III

Based on his 1983 novel Legion, writer-director William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III arrived 17 years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Despite the still-looming pop culture presence of the original, The Exorcist III is sneakily the most interesting film in the series. Less a horror movie than a psychological thriller with supernatural and spiritual overtones, The Exorcist III takes place 17 years after the events of the first film, and with no reference whatsoever made to the events in the second. It finds Lt. Kinderman confronted with the apparent reappearance of two figures from his past who had supposedly died. The first is father Damien Karras (Jason Miller), who had died after bouncing down an endless flight of steps while performing an exorcism in the original movie, and the Gemini Killer, a serial killer loosely based on the Zodiac Killer that had been executed 17 years prior. However, there’s been a new string of murders around town carrying all the hallmarks of the Gemini.

While the studio famously mangled Blatty’s original cut of the film, there’s still a lot to like here, including a terrifying performance from Brad Dourif. Blatty is fantastic at creating dread-inducing atmosphere and has a keen attention to character and detail. It may not be as exciting as the original, but it’s a smart-slow burn film worthy of the Exorcist mantle.

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The Devil’s Rejects

An homage to sleazy ‘70s C-movies, Rob Zombie’s sequel to House of 1,000 Corpses will leave you in the need of a shower, but it’s delightfully demented and the musician turned filmmaker’s finest effort. The shock-fest finds the Firefly clan, Otis (Bill Moseley), Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) – on the run from die-hard determined sheriff Wydell (William Forsythe). What unfolds is a nasty thrill ride full of twists, turns, and more gore than most audiences are comfortable with. How Zombie still manages to make such repulsive content entertaining, how he manages to get you to almost root for the despicable Firefly clan, is inexplicable magic trick, but indebted to Zombie’s use of black humor and deep knowledge of genre conventions that he sometimes subverts, but often gleefully leans into.

Train to Busan

The overused and increasingly predictable zombie genre got a shot in the arm with Train to Busan, a South Korean film from director Yeon Sang-ho about a young father desperately attempting to get his little daughter to her mother via train as a zombie pandemic breaks out all around them. Even if it veered close to outright sentimentality at times, Train to Busan differed from most of the films and TV shows we’ve seen in this genre due to its genuine bond of love between its main characters, and the flickers of empathy and humanity found therein.

And on a technical level, Yeon crafted his film with a kinetic energy that had been missing from the genre as of late. Train to Busan was not just a monster hit in its native land but amassed an international following as well, along with critical acclaim across the board. It’s easy to see why given the film’s well-drawn characters, subtle social commentary (some on the train feel they are more worthy of survival than others) and frightening action sequences that add up to a thrilling and emotionally powerful ride.

More Horror Films Available to Stream FREE on Plex TV

The Descent

Train To Busan

The Ninth Gate

Rec

Coherence

Night Of The Living Dead

The Host

Hannibal Rising

The Devil’s Rejects

Nosferatu

Monsters

I Spit On Your Grave

Eden Lake

Wolf Creek

Day Of The Dead

The Collector

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

Red Lights

The Wailing

Grave Encounters

Colonia

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse

Diary Of The Dead

Black Death

Alone In The Dark

The Descent: Part 2

Maggie

Teeth

Ginger Snaps

After.Life

John Dies At The End

Black Christmas

The Last House On The Left

Nosferatu the Vampire

Splinter

The Void

Deep Red

Phantasm

The Changeling

Feast

Hatchet

The Prophecy

Pulse

Fido

Open Grave

Cell

The Blob

The Exorcist III

Vanishing On 7th Street

House On Haunted Hill

Penomena

Eye See You

Cooties

The Werewolf

Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow

Sugar and Fright Collection

Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies

All Cheerleaders Die

Another Evil

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Bad Milo

Better Watch Out

Bitter Feast

Cooties

Corporate Animals

Crimewave

Dead Snot 2: Red vs. Dead

Deathgasm

Deep Murder

Drive Thru

Excision

Fear, Inc.

Feast

Fido

Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary

Hansel & Gretel Get Baked

Hatchet

Hell Baby

Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

Hobo with a Shotgun

John Dies at the End

The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu

Lesbian Vampire Killers

The Love Witch

Night of Something Strange

Nina Forever

Office Uprising

Shrooms

Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror

Stan Helsing

Stitches

Suburban Gothic

Survival of the Dead

Teeth

Turbo Kid

WolfCop

Yoga Hosers

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weird shit that would probably have something to do with me in a horror movie

no one wanted this but i’m bored and found a bottle so you’re all getting it. yes these are all true. check the tags, if u think i’ve missed something please let me know!

there was a murder (technically, i don’t really count it as a murder) next door when i was four years old on christmas morning

the weird antique glass bottle i found half-buried in the woods in the woods yesterday with living bugs in it that made no attempt to leave it once i uncovered it

there is a local cult in the next town over. this is not the same as the local cult that was in the other town over where my mom grew up

random completed animal skeletons in the woods behind our house, i’m talking prey and predator, both laid out like in a goddamn scientific diagram. for a while there’d be ones in the middle of our yard, always the same type of animal, always just the bones and nothing else, laid out like it was posed. this has been happening for over half a decade and we have no fucking clue how, why, or who is doing it

the screaming from the woods that i’m going to assume is a fox

my sister almost dated a murderer. his niece or something is in my class

there is a house that is now part of a “local ghost tour” that belonged to my great+ grand parents during the civil war where my great+ aunt died allegedly murdered by her husband who is actually blood related to me. family history says she died of childbirth, which given that it was the 1800s... probably is true

there was an actual murderer in our family a few generations back but he married in and killed his wife and her sister. they didn’t find out about it until they read his journals after he died where it apparently told everything he did and they decided. “well, that wouldn’t look good for the family, and they’re already dead anyway” and just kept it hidden??

the fact we have my great great grandmother’s dress from probably 1890s or 1900s. even more so the fact that i fit in it. if this was fantasy horror (vampires, some immortal thing or ghost) i’d be fucking dead or cursed

fairly certain i was possessed by the ghost of a puritan as a kid

my family seems to have a curse with babies and nurses? my great uncle died when he was born because long story short, hospitals were the new hot thing, he was perfectly healthy, then a nurse dropped him and he died instantly. my sister died when she was a toddler and the hospital actively tried to delete her hospital records to cover it up and ended up getting fined by the state for it. the nurses responsible were not arrested or punished in any way.

my family all has fucked up connective tissue, in my brother it was bad enough he had to get a steel bar in his chest so it wouldn’t cave in.

the many times i have almost drowned, sometimes due to intentional actions by humans (my dad, it was my dad)

this in addition to the other fucked up shit he did before the divorce when he still lived here, including but not limited to: killing my mom’s favorite pet goat, hanging its skull in a tree, and leaving the body in the woods. not letting his kids learn how to cook. anytime someone asked him to cook he’d put as much pepper/hot sauce in as he could (even for like, scrambled eggs) and give it to the youngest person, usually a toddler. this was me at times. taking his kids out to the woods and threatening murder. taking his kids out to the woods and threatening burning. purposely locked the basement from the inside so we couldn’t get the gaping hole in the stairs leading to one of three kids rooms fixed. tearing up pictures of the kids whenever my mom did something he didn’t like. i had more here but i tried to cut it down a litttle

people have threatened to murder me before. one time a girl didn’t threaten, and actually acted like she was starting to like me, but her cousin read her diary or something and found out she was planning to commit a lot of murder, and told her parents and she got sent to a psychiatric ward for a couple weeks

my mom lived down the street from a family that got axe-murdered by one of their two sons when she was a kid. the murderer did get out on an insanity plea and is still in the area. also their neighbor’s mom “lost her mind” (how the story was told) when she had to protect their kids while her husband went over to try to protect the non murderer son when he got home from school and ran over screaming about his brother trying to kill him and had killed their parents

also she knew a girl who almost got kidnapped by this really fucked up traveling serial killer that has his own wikipedia page that is,,, lengthy. the girl had [alleged] mafia ties, and the guy ended up dying shot by police despite them being told to bring him in, which sounds kinda suspicious

long story short i’d probably be the sequel where one comes back

apparently i go to the “bad” school, which i found out in a coffee shop when i overheard two girls talking about how one’s dad went there and how horrible and dangerous it is

school fights are weird. either they don’t happen or they come freakishly close to murder. people slam heads into lockers, stomp on bones, drag people by hair along the ground. one time in my brother’s class a 4′9″ girl sent a 6′2″ football player to the hospital. there was video of a fight a couple years ago that’s still around. it was brutal, but also one of the girls fighting was taking one for the team in it and got the other kicked out

we don’t have a ceiling in all of the third floor, and the cafeteria has 2. this is not relevant in any way, but it’s important to me that you know this

also the guys kept ripping the heating vents/radiators/whatever off the walls in their bathrooms and got almost all the bathrooms locked. including the girls’ ones.

also everyone kept punching holes in the walls so on some of them it’s just,,, metal sheeting down the whole hallway

there are so many fucking shootings in the next town over. literally five years ago it was this nice place where kids would go on history tours, i did when my sister worked for that group. now there is pretty much one business that has not been held up at gunpoint, and if u look up to the serial killer bullet point, it is for v similar ties. it’s a pizza place and if u ever stop by u gotta try it

women in my family have weirdly good intuition but every couple generations we get doubtful. my great grandma didn’t want a hospital birth but decided “hey it’s the hot new thing for a reason”, my mom switched churches based on nothing but intuition and it turned out someone was a pedophile there (found out years later), i instantly could tell my friend’s boyfriend was a pos and wasn’t surprised later when he told her he’d murder and dismember me in front of her, and upon meeting him told him he was a fucking coward and couldn’t do it. he broke up with her a month later.

i was really good friends for a while with two guys that burned a building down. yes they were arrested. i was friends before and after the fire. they’re pretty nice, but this girl they used to date (at different times, they were brothers, yes it was fucking weird and uncomfortable for everyone involved except her but that’s it’s own thing) said some fucked up shit and it was the closest i ever got to starting a fight. anyway i’m still friends with both on facebook. one of them shares a lot of king of the hill memes

speaking of that fight, i 100% would’ve tried to kill her in that moment. u know that john mulaney quote like “i didn’t understand how a person could want to kill another person. then i got cheated on, and i was like ‘oh, okay.’”? that was me, but replace “cheated on” with she told me it was good my five year old sister was dead because she was a waste, and told me she hoped i’d die of covid”. it was mainly the sister thing. i couldn’t move because if i did i’d start a fight with the [way] above mentioned shit.

my family has a literal feud with a local farming family. i mean, we keep farm animals (sheep, goats, chickens), these people have that, pigs, and crops too. the feud was because their great uncle (or great grand uncle, i’m a little fuzzy on the details) published an autobiography (despite not being anyone famous/important) and in it talked about when he was friends with my grandfather and how creepy my great grandfather was (this was the one with the dead firstborn son) because he kept newspaper clippings of the Lindbergh baby’s kidnapping and murder pinned to a board on the wall of his office/basement. also because he was a child of german immigrants who wanted to fight against nazis in WW2 (how suspicious [sarcasm]). members of their family are in my grade. they charged my sister for almost half an extra pound of goods, too, which just revitalized it.

i live by corn fields. i am surrounded by cornfields. (joke one)

i was friends for a while with this girl whose baby teeth,,, didn’t really fall out completely? she was 17 the last time i saw her in person, she’s probably 19 now and judging by her facebook pictures they’re still Like That. she had a very symmetrical mouth/teeth, which made it weirder. just to clarify, she had some of her baby teeth pushed forward and up, so they kind pointed out a little? and all her adult teeth. she was literally so pretty.

a teacher who is v sexual with his female students came into my english class (he is a science teacher) to demand why i wasn’t signed up for his class. we then both became increasingly passive aggressive and he told the whole class where i live with specific directions and landmarks. the guy sitting next to me had to try to tone things down despite being obviously confused as to why it was even happening (me too buddy). he lives down the road from my sister. when my niece had her birthday party at our house i was outside setting things up and he slowed his car down and honked at me. fuckin creep

#tw child death #tw animal death #tw arson #i guess?#tw shooting #tw murder #a lot of that one actually #tw child abuse #tw violence #let me know if u think i should tag anything else #no one wanted this #except for me #tw cult

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The Origins of the Hamburg Left

“With some 14,000 members in 1922, Greater Hamburg – which was organised within the party district of Wasserkante – was one of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands ’s local strongholds. Its radicalism was shown during the so-called ‘March Action’ of 1921, when Hamburg was the only major city outside of central Germany to join the uprising. The outcome of what amounted to a communist putsch produced an acrimonious feud within the party.

Some party leaders, most notably Heinrich Brandler and Ernst Meyer, now supported the Communist International’s (Comintern) ‘united front’ policy.... Thälmann, however, did not. At the Third Congress of the Comintern in the summer of 1921 and at the ensuring KPD Congress in Jena, he represented the Left’s continued adherence to a policy anticipating imminent revolution, opposing even tactical co-operation with the leadership of the Social Democratic Party. However, unlike in Berlin, leftists in the Wasserkante party leadership, including most notably Thälmann and Hugo Urbahns, submitted to what the Comintern termed ‘international discipline’ and, into the second half of 1922, set out to put the policy into practice.

At this time, Thälmann presented the ‘united front’ as a means of strengthening the KPD for the next revolutionary ‘offensive’. At various meetings of party officials and activists in early 1922, for example, he reminded those assembled that, after the disastrous impact of the ill-fated ‘March Uprising’, the ‘united front’ policy had revived the party’s campaigning, increased the membership and allowed the KPD to become a strong minority in the workforce.

In the shipyards, Thälmann worked with Hans von Borstel, a railway worker and senior figure in the Hamburg party, to win over Social Democratic workers by pursuing a more vigorous defence of pay and conditions than their own leadership; the outcome was the KPD taking ninety-two of the shipyard’s 148 works councillors in 1922. Similarly, at public meetings organised to show solidarity with Soviet Russia, which also attracted Social Democrats, Thälmann moved resolutions in support of the Comintern’s ‘united front’ policy. These meetings were drenched in an atmosphere of loyalty to the Bolsheviks, with collections for ‘Aid for Soviet Russia’ and the omnipresence of the symbols of the communist movement, from Soviet flags and banners and the singing of revolutionary songs to speeches by international guests from France, Italy and Britain, as well as Russian sailors passing through the harbour. Thälmann’s famously theatrical speeches aimed to serve this cause fully. However, the Hamburg KPD was increasingly aware of mounting hostility to the ‘united front’ among party activists and officials. At one meeting, an official stated that the full-time, salaried party leadership had become divorced from rank-and-file workers, who did not want co-operation with the SPD, however tactically, and especially not in parliament.Another party official opposed the Comintern’s slogan ‘To the Masses’, stating that, ‘A thousand good members who are loyal to their principles are worth 100,000 wavering comrades’. Party activists even organised a protest rally in the hope of influencing the leadership before the Fourth World Congress of the Comintern met at the end of 1922.20 Already in the spring of 1922, Thälmann had informed a meeting of the district leadership that local officials and rank-and-file members feared the ‘united front’ was leading to ‘reformism’. The ‘Monarchists Danger’ The issue making the KPD’s stance towards the Weimar Republic and its self-proclaimed ‘party of state’, the SPD, acute was the vast upsurge in far-right ‘nationalist’ violence against the new political regime and the labour movement. The wave of attacks hit Hamburg in May 1922. A memorial to the German Revolution was bombed, the offices of the KPD press and the Comintern publisher, Hoym, suffered arson attacks, a hand grenade exploded outside the Thälmann’s ffamily home, and other prominent local Communists received death threats.

In line with the ‘united front’ policy, Thälmann called on the SPD in the city parliament, the Bürgerschaft, to act against the forces of monarchism by banning their highly public commemorations of battles and regimental days and purging them from all state offices. The Hamburg SPD, however, rejected the KPD ‘united front’ offer and refused to take legal action against these public shows of anti-republicanism.

However, precisely this issue returned at the national level with the assassination of Foreign Minister, Walther Rathenau on 24 June, by the Organisation Consul – a secret organisation of former army offers. In the minds of the völkisch Right, Rathenau – as a politician ‘fulfilling’ the demands of the Versailles Treaty, an intellectual, and a Jew – was a symbolic hate figure. For the workers’ movement, however, the assassination brought about a rare moment of spontaneous cooperation in many localities, including Hamburg and Berlin.

Under Ernst Meyer’s leadership, a joint declaration was signed with the Social Democratic parties and unions, the ‘Berlin Agreement’, which foresaw making common cause against the enemies of the Republic. However, following a letter from Zinoviev to the KPD leadership on 28 June, which insisted on maintaining ‘independence of agitation’, the party ended the most significant ‘united front’ action since the general strike against the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch in March 1920, which had attempted to sweep away the new democracy.28 When the Reichstag voted for the ‘Law for the Protection of the Republic’ on 18 July, the KPD’s parliamentary fraction now voted against it, arguing – not without some reason – that this was a weapon against communism.”

- Norman LaPorte, “The Rise of Ernst Thälmann and the Hamburg Left, 1921-1923.” in Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918–1933. Edited by Ralf Hoffrogge and Norman LaPorte. Part of the Studies in Twentieth Century Communism Series. Chadwell Heath: Lawrence & Wishart, 2017. pp. 131-133.

#hamburg #wasserkante #kommunistische partei deutschlands #communist party of germany #left opposition #ultraleftism #putschism #shipyard workers #shipyards #working class politics #spd #comintern #united front #weimar germany #weimar republic #academic quote

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Shorts: Jungle Adventures #47

"Madman's Trek" (1950) by R. C. Walker * Plot: Father Francis Dill, a British missionary in Kenya, is warned by his servant that one of his parishioners has given birth to twins, and that the girl's grandmother is journeying to kill one of them. Father Dill can get to the village first if he chances the grassy plains where the pythons are feasting, but it is the only way he can get there in time. On the way, he is ambushed by a python, and spends hours fending it off, and finally succeeds. On arriving at the village (later than the grandmother) he christens the newborn children and boasting of the power of God, who saved him from a python. The grandmother, impressed by the love for the black boy shown by the white man, relents. * Story: A missionary must journey to a village to save the life of a newborn baby boy. But he must cross a wide plain where pythons are hunting, and fight one in a duel to the death. * Notes: A modest story, well told with a minimum of fuss.

"The Red Trail to Zanzibar" (1950) by John Starr * Plot: Bruce Kerman, a hard-bitten African trader, kills a tribal chief. He has been hunted in Africa for four years by a man named Corony. Corony catches up to him, to kill him, but Kerman denies his culpability in some crime. Corony rejects the denial, but the two men are attacked in their hut by a tribe, and team to repel the advance. Bruce is wounded, but Corony renews his accusations and threats. Kerman shows Corony proof in the form a note that he (Kerman) did not kill Corony's brother. The two join forces to track down the real murderer. * Story: Kerman wants to escape Corony, who is trying to kill in him revenge for a wrong. But both men must join forces to fight off a tribal siege. * Notes: Fights are used as distractions in order to stretch out a mystery plot—why does Corony want to kill Kerman?—until the whole story is revealed as an idiot plot.

"Matto Grosso Fury" (1950) by Gordon MacCreagh * Plot: David Carey is collecting orchids in South America on a plantation when he learns that a neighboring plantation owner, Laredo Garcia, with a bad reputation wishes to "court" his beautiful hostess. He turns away the emissary with soft words, but as he and the foreman are traversing a river they are captured by Garcia. Garcia means to take them prisoner but relents and releases them after Carey saves him from a pit viper. The next day, as Carey is out collecting, he is recalled to the plantation by gunfire and finds the gunman dying and his hostess kidnapped. He tries to get ahead of the kidnappers by shooting some rapids, but is pitched ashore on the opposite side of the river. However, from that vantage point he is able to snipe and kill the gang, including Garcia. * Story: David Carey wants only to collect orchids in South America, but is drawn into a feud between neighboring plantations. * Notes: The protagonist has no real goal, and is only dragged unwillingly into a fight. Some good prose, though.

"Blood for the Juju" (1950) by Alexander Wallace * Plot: Buckland is guide in east Africa. He is hired by an archaeologist, Hurst, to lead an expedition to find a lost temple. But Barahona, the corrupt local trader won't rent men for the expedition. Buckland (who has a bad history with Barahona) fights him, then hires men. During the expedition, Buckland learns that Hurst is actually a British agent trying to find who is selling guns to the natives. The expedition is captured by villagers who are out of their territory, and Buckland realizes they are the lost caravan of Memdome, a German officer who fought Buckland in the War, then disappeared into the bush—it appears that Memdome is the source of the guns. They are taken to the Memdome, but Hurst puts him off with a story of himself being German. Barahona arrives and denounces the expedition, and they are dragged to the temple (which really exists) to be sacrificed. But they are rescued by Buckland's servant and Memdome's daughter, who knows that her father is dying and cannot stand to be given over to Barahona, who will inherit his rulership. They fight off the natives and kill Barahona before rendezvousing with a relief column that Hurst arranged to shadow them. * Story: A safari guide is hired to lead an archaeologist into the jungle to find a temple, but the expedition is only cover for an attempt to root out an armed column of Germans who vanished into the jungles during the previous War. * Notes: Splendid pulp adventure with nice development and surprises.

#reading #adventure #pulp #jungle

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