#13th year schooling in germany

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The Great Shift: Happy 30th (13th) Birthday

We've all had to adapt over the years, it's been 4 years since a bunch of random people were affected by the “the great shift” but we've all had to change a bit, including me.

- Hey pop! What time are my guys arriving?-

That huge shirtless muscular man 4 years ago was my little son Jaime and I couldn't be more proud of the man he has become, When Jaime was born we were so worried about his small size and how sickly he was, but now he's as strong as a fucking bull.

-Take it easy champion, all the parents assured me that they will bring your classmates at 3 pm-

But despite his colossal biceps and his great height, he still has the heart of a 13-year-old boy… even when legally He is 30 now. Since we woke up he had not stopped talking about his birthday party, even while we were having breakfast he did not stop looking at the clock and counting the minutes until his little friends arrived.

I hadn't seen Jaime this excited since it was Christmas, and he received his Nintendo Switch and that membership to the hottest new gym in town.

It was 9:00pm when I found out that my son had ended up on the other side of the world in the body of a bodybuilder named Joe, I was watching the news when the “the great shift” happened, It had already been 1 hour since I read him a story to sleep and I slept him in his bed.

The door of my son's room suddenly opened while the reporter on TV was talking about a strange cosmic event that began to affect thousands of people around the world. His eyes showed confusion and disorientation, but I reaffirmed my suspect when he said his first words

-wer bist du? wo zum Teufel bin ich?-

That was definitely not English and definitely that little boy was not my Jaime, I tried to communicate with him through the translator of my phone, but it was not easy at all, immediately the internet, electricity and lines phone lines began to fail due to all the chaos going on throughout the city.

I spoke to "Joe" who was now trapped in the sickly body of my 9-year-old son Jaime, with his help I was able to locate my real son thanks to Joe's cell phone, While Joe spoke with his squeaky childish voice in the kitchen of At home I was trying to calm down my little son who was now in a gym in Germany.

His voice was upbeat, his tone was thick and he seemed to be having a much better time than we were. We were on the phone for hours as Joe and I tried to guide him step by step to his bachelor pad for him to take refuge in, luckily the gym where Joe used to go.

Jaime would occasionally get distracted by how great it was to be in Joe's body, he wouldn't stop talking about his huge muscles and how tall he was now, he was very close to his old home, so it wasn't too hard for him to find his new house.

With the help of Joe's contacts we were able to help Jaime, his family was in charge of dressing him, feeding him and helping him return home. It took 3 long months of paperwork and bureaucracy to be able to exchange the names and lives of Jaime and Joe.

Before long the world government began to calm things down and try to return people to their old lives, although Jaime may never get his old body back, he seems to have fully adapted to his new body.

We have even started going to the gym together after school and my work, he has become the biggest man in the whole gym and the most popular guy in the whole school, Before all this Jaime was very shy and quiet, but now he has become a son a father can be proud.

Even though I wish he didn't leave all his dirty clothes and his stinky sneakers all over the house and his room stinks of sweat and chlorine…maybe it's time to give my boy the "birds and bees" talk or is it too late for that.

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Conrad Veidt

Actually Hans Walter Conrad Veidt, was a German-British actor, born on 22 January 1893 in Berlin. initially became famous in Germany, thanks to films such as: "Different from the others", "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" or "The Hands of Orlac". After a career in silent films, he became a best-paid star UFA.

As a child, he lived in the family home at Tieckstraße 39 in Berlin with his mother, Amalie Marie, and Philipp Heinrich Veidt, a former military man who became a government official. his father was strict unlike his mother who was caring and sensitive. He came from a Lutheran family in the Lutheran Church and was baptized on March 26, 1893. He also had an older brother, Karl, who died in 1900 of scarlet fever at the age of 9. two years after Karl's death, his father became seriously ill and required heart surgery. As Conrad's family was not wealthy and could not afford such an expense, the doctor only demanded the fee that the family could afford. Young Veidt was delighted with the surgeon's kindness and swore to follow the example of the man who saved his father's life, from that moment on he wanted to become a surgeon. Niesetu's dream of becoming a surgeon was thwarted when he graduated in 1912 without a diploma and placed 13th out of 13 students, and was also discouraged by the amount of study it took to get into medical school. However, a new career path opened up for Conrads during a Christmas performance in which he delivered a long prologue before the curtain rose. The performance was bad, but the audience thought that Veidt did really great. Conrad became interested in actors, but his father considered stage artists to be outcasts and often called them gypsies. Thanks to part-time work and pocket money from his mother, Veidt was able to afford to attend theaters in Berlin. After each performance he stood in front of the Deutsches Theater waiting for the actors or hoping that he would be mistaken for an actor. At the end of the summer of 1912, he met a theater porter who introduced him to the actor Albert Blumenreich, who agreed to give Corad acting lessons for six marks. He was given 10 lessons before auditioning for Max Reinhardt reciting Goethe's Faust. Reinhardt offered Veidt a contract as an assistant for one season from September 1913 to August 1914, with a salary of 50 marks per month. During this time he played episodic roles as spear carriers and soldiers. His mother attended almost every performance of her son. After a successful career, they decided to extend his contract for a second season, but World War I broke out and on December 28, 1914, Conrad was enlisted in the army. In 1915 he was sent to the Eastern Front as a non-commissioned officer and took part in the Battle of Warsaw. In the meantime, he contracted jaundice and pneumonia and had to be evacuated to a hospital on the Baltic Sea. While convalescing, he received a letter from his girlfriend Lycie Mannheim informing him that she had found a job at the Front Theater in Liepāja. This news prompted Veidt to apply to the theater. because his condition was not improving, the army allowed him to join the theater so he could entertain the soldiers. While working in the theater, his relationship with Lucie ended. In 1916 he was examined by the army again and found unfit for service; On January 10, 1917, he was granted full parole. Conrad returned to Berlin where he was accepted back into the Deutsches Theater. There he played a small role as a priest which earned him a favorable review - the reviewer hoped that "God would save Veidt from the cinema" but luckily this did not happen.

One of his first and most important films was the role of a sleepwalker in "Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari" (1920) directed by Robert Wiene, which became a classic of German and expressionist cinema. The film also changed a lot in cinematography and was quite controversial for its time, but now it is well known to us and appreciated by every fan of cinematography. he also first starred in the film "Anders als die Andern" (1919) in which Conrad and Reinhold Schünzel played the main roles. All copies of the film were corrupted by the Nazis because the homosexuality depicted in the film was considered a disease at that time. Currently, only a small part of the film can be watched, that is, the part of the film that was saved. In 1924, he played in the film "Orlac's Hands" based on the book by Maurice Renard. It's time for Conrad's great success outside Europe. In 1928, he played the role of Gwynplaine in the film "The Man Who Laughs" based on the book by Victor Hugo (I recommend watching the film, it's really great. Conrad's role in this film influenced culture, Joker's appearance is inspired by the Veidt. Of course, it is worth mentioning roles in horror films, e.g. "Der Student Von Prag" (1926) and "Das Wachsfigurenkabinett" (1924). He also starred in the first German film with sound. "Das Land ohne Frauen" (1929). At the end of the 20s he went to Hollywood where he played a few roles, but with the advent of sound in films he had to give up acting in America and returned to Germany. During this time, he became a teacher for many aspiring artists, including Lisa Golm.Interesting fact: the role of Dracula was written specifically for Conrad, but Veidt was afraid that his English was too poor, instead the role of Dracula was played by Béla Lugosi, whose English was not better.

Veidt did not support the Nazi regime and sent funds to help the British during the German Blitz bombings. Shortly after the Nazi Party took power in Germany in March 1933, Joseph Goebbles purged the film industry of political opponents and Jews. In April 1933, a week after Cornad's wedding to Prager, a Jewish woman also known as "Lilli", they emigrated to Britain before any action could be taken against them. Goebbles imposed a "race questionnaire" in which every actor employed in Germany had to declare his "race" in order to continue working. When Veidt filled out the questionnaire, he answered the question about his race by writing "Jew." Veidt was not of Jewish origin, but his wife was, and Veidt would not abandon the woman he loved so much or cooperate with the regime, as many others did. Veidt was against anti-Semitism and showed it publicly and said it loudly. he supported Jews who were deprived of German citizenship in the spring of 1933. Conrad was informed that if he got a divorce and declared support for the new regime, he would still be able to operate in Germany, which he rejected because, as he claimed, nothing could cause him to divorce Lilli. After arriving in United Kingdom, Veidt improved his English and starred in the original anti-Nazi films The Wandering Jew (1933) and Jew Süss (1934). On February 25, 1939, he received British citizenship. During this time, Conrad made films in both French and English.

I think these are the key and important moments in Conrad Veidt's life.

Trivia

Conrad, through his lawyers, gave children locked in shelters in London 2,000 tins of sweets, 2,000 large packets of chocolate and 1,000 gift envelopes in the form of British currency. all to improve their mood during the Christmas :)

Veidt helped his parents-in-law from Austria get to Switzerland and in 1935 he managed to obtain permission from the Nazi government for his ex-wife and their daughter to move to Switzerland. He also offered to help Felizitas' mother ( his ex-wife's mother), Frau Radke, leave Germany. but she refused, saying "no damn little Asutrian Nazi corporal will make me leave my house." Apparently she survived the war, but Corad never saw her again.

"There are two different kinds of men. There are the men men, what do you call them, the man's man, who likes men around, who prefers to talk with men, who says the female can never be impersonal, who takes the female lightly, as playthings. I do not see a man like that in my mirror. Perhaps, it is because I think the female and the male attract better than two men, that I prefer to talk with females. I do. I find it quite as stimulating and distinctly more comfortable. I have a theory about this - it all goes back to the mother complex. In every woman, the man who looks may find - his mother. The primary source of all his comfort. I think also that females have become too important just to play with. When men say the female cannot discuss impersonally, that is no longer so. When it is said that females cannot be geniuses, that is no longer so, either. The female is different from the male. Because she was born to be a mother. There is no doubt about that. But that does not mean that, in some cases, she is not also born a genius. Not all males are geniuses either. And among females today there are some very fine actresses, very fine; fine doctors, lawyers, even scientists and industrialists. I see no fault in any female when she wears slacks, smokes (unless it is on the street, one thing, the only thing, which I don't like), when she drives a car... when men say things like "I bet it is a woman driving" if something is wrong with the car ahead - no, no. These are old, worn out prejudices, they do not belong in today"

~°~

Conrad died on April 3, 1943 from heart disease.

(Sorry for any mistakes, remember I'm not from an English-speaking country, the information comes from Wikipedia and various websites that you can easily find :)

[scotianostra]

Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen on May 19th 1895, he became a soldier and lay dead in a field in France in his 20th year.

The son of a William Ritchie Sorley, a professor of moral philosophy, Charles was a precocious and academically gifted child. The family moved to Cambridge when he was five, and Sorley attended King’s College choir school and Marlborough College, with some study in Germany. He began publishing poetry in the school journal and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. Sorley was in Germany in 1914 when World War I broke out, and he was interned for one night in prison at Trier.

Making his way back home, he enlisted in the Army and served in the trenches in France. Sorley was killed in action near Hulloch during the Battle of Loos, on 13th October 1915, shot in the head by a sniper. His last poem, When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead, was found in his kitbag, it is a heart-breaking piece of prose, and I admit the first time I read it in 2012 it brought a tear to my eye.

A collection of Sorley’s poetry was published posthumously as Marlborough and other Poems and went through six editions in the first year. Because of his time in Germany, Sorley’s attitude toward the war was deeply conflicted from its start. His small body of poetry is ambivalent, ironic, and profound. Sorley has been described as “one of the three poets of importance killed during the war,” the others being Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. His other works include The Collected Poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley.

Such, Such Is Death.

Such, such is Death: no triumph: no defeat: Only an empty pail, a slate rubbed clean, A merciful putting away of what has been.

And this we know: Death is not Life, effete, Life crushed, the broken pail. We who have seen So marvellous things know well the end not yet.

Victor and vanquished are a-one in death: Coward and brave: friend, foe. Ghosts do not say, "Come, what was your record when you drew breath?" But a big blot has hid each yesterday So poor, so manifestly incomplete. And your bright Promise, withered long and sped, Is touched, stirs, rises, opens and grows sweet And blossoms and is you, when you are dead.

[mads-nixon]

100th Bomber Boys: Major Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal: Pt. 1

Ahead of the show's release, I bought Donald Miller's book and am reading it! Here is a little bit about Major Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal (played by Nate Mann) from the prologue of Masters of the Air (pg. 13-14)!

Lt. Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal had not trained with the Hundredth's original crews. He and his crew had been assigned to the group that August from a replacement pool in England, to fill in for men lost on the Regens-burg raid. "When I arrived, the group was not well organized," Rosenthal recalled. "They were a rowdy outfit, filled with characters. Chick Harding was a wonderful guy, but he didn't enforce tight discipline on the ground orin the air." Rosenthal didn't fly a mission for thirty days. "No one came around to check me out and approve me for combat duty. Finally, my squadron commander, John Egan, had me fly a practice formation. I flew to the right of his plane. I had done a lot of formation flying in training and I was frustrated; I desperately wanted to get into the war. I put the wing of my plane right up against Egan's, and wherever he went, I went. When we landed, Egan told me he wanted me to be his wing man." Rosenthal had gone to Brooklyn College, not far from his Flatbush home. An outstanding athlete, he had been captain of the football and baseball teams, and later was inducted into the college's athletic hall of fame. After graduating summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School, he went to work for a leading Manhattan law firm. He was just getting started in his new job when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next morning he joined the Army Air Corps. He was twenty-six years old, with broad shoulders, sharply cut features, and dark curly hair. A big-city boy who loved hot jazz, he walked, incongruously, with the shambling gait of a farmer, his toes turned inward and there wasn't an ounce of New York cynicism in him. He was shy and easily embarrassed, but he burned with determination. "I had read Mein Kampf in college and had seen the newsreels of the big Nazi rallies in Nuremberg, with Hitler riding in an open car and the crowds cheering wildly. It was the faces in the crowd that struck me, the looks of adoration. It wasn't just Hitler. The entire nation had gone mad; it had to be stopped. "I'm a Jew, but it wasn't just that. Hitler was a menace to decent people everywhere. I was also tremendously proud of the English. They stood alone against the Nazis during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. I read the papers avidly for war news and listened to Edward R. Murrow's live radio broadcasts of the bombing of London. I couldn't wait to get over there. "When I finally arrived, I thought I was at the center of the world, the place where the democracies were gathering to defeat the Nazis. I was right where I wanted to be." Rosie Rosenthal didn't share these thoughts with his crewmates, simple guys who distrusted what they called deep thinking. They never learned what was inside him, what made him fly and fight with blazing resolve. Later in the war, when he became one of the most decorated and famous fliers in the Eighth, word spread around Thorpe Abbotts that his family was in a German concentration camp. But when someone asked him directly, he said "that was a lot of hooey." His family-mother, sister, brother-in-law, and niece (his father had recently died) were all back in Brooklyn. "I have no personal reasons. Everything I've done or hope to do is strictly because I hate persecution... A human being has to look out for other human beings or else there's no civilization."

Rosie was part of the 'Bloody 100th' Bombardment Group of the 13th Combat Wing, of the 'Mighty Eighth' Air Force with John 'Bucky' Egan and Gale 'Buck' Cleven (played by Callum Turner and Austin Butler) His plane was called Rosie's Riveters, and him and his crew were an integral part of the bombardment group.

On October 8th, 1943, the 100th went on a bombing run to Bremen, Germany, and Buck Cleven was shot down. Two days later, Egan and the rest of the 100th went on a supposedly "easy" mission to Münster, accompanied by P-47 Thunderbolts almost all the way to the target. Rosenthal and his crew were not flying their beloved Rosie's Riveters due to damage from their two previous missions in Bremen and Marienburg. Instead, they flew Royal Flush.

Rosie's crew was worried about flying a brand new plane, and became incredibly nervous. Bringing them together under one of the wings, he calmed the boys down and lifted their spirits. This mission proved disastrous, and Royal Flush was the only one in the 100th to make it back to Thorpe Abbotts (the 100th's air-base in East Anglia).

Needless to say, I love Rosie already!! I've read up to chapter 6, and I feel like my brain is going to explode with all the information I've taken in :3

lmk if y'all want more posts like this one or would like to be tagged in them!!

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Completed AO3 Fics Masterlist 2

Links Last Checked: April 13th, 2024

part one

1796 broadway (ao3) - rainproof, teaberryblue steve/tony, bruce/natasha M, 460k

Summary: Captain America respectfully requests that all complaints be addressed to him in writing. On paper, the nice old-fashioned way, because the computer screen hurts his eyes.

Put your phone down, Tony.

A Parent Apparent (ao3) - happyaspie pepper/tony T, 528k

Summary: In which the author indulges herself in some shameless Irondad/Spiderson with fluff, angst and everything in between because she needs more of that in her life.

OR

Just another one of those, oh so overdone, fanfics where Tony and Peter's relationship grows into more of a father/son relationship after an accident involving Aunt May (who lives)

cascades. (ao3) - orange_crushed steve/bucky, peggy/gabe M, 152k

Summary: “Holy shit,” Howard says, crackling through the speakers. “You alive in there?” Lying is a sin, of course, but Steve’s not sure what else he can do. He’s already lied to the government and Bucky and God Almighty; and himself, himself most of all. He ought to tell the truth. That he’s not quite what they hoped for. That perhaps they should put him back into the ocean.

“Probably,” he says, instead, listening to Howard’s tinny laughter; and waits for the blast doors to unlock.

Children of the Old Moon(ao3) - old_blue stephen/sam M, 78k

Summary: After an encounter with a supernatural killer goes wrong, Stephen is pulled into another world. There, he meets a very familiar face...

Now he just needs to catch the murderer, save the multiverse, and find a way back home.

Curious Scars (ao3) - Amerna darcy/steve M, 95k

Summary: Darcy Lewis’ first solo mission as a SHIELD agent was supposed to be easy: Get to Germany, retrieve the data, get out. With Captain America as backup nothing bad could happen, right? But when Steve and Darcy wake up two weeks later in a hospital in Brazil with no recollection of what happened, SHIELD ready to arrest them for going AWOL, and married to each other, things start to get weird. They struggle to piece together what happened to them: Where did they go? What did they do? Why can they not remember anything? And why on earth would they get married to each other?

darkness will be rewritten (ao3) - princessironspider natasha/tony N/R, 104k

Summary: Peter is Tony’s biological child.

Natasha Romanoff has been married to Tony Stark secretly for years.

What would the movies be like if this were the case?

Everything She Didn't Know She Wanted (ao3) - bluecurls bucky/darcy/steve E, 137k

Summary: Knowing she had two soulmates comforted Darcy Lewis during the toughest moments of her life.

Then she met them.

Life On The Farm (ao3) - BeenAsleepFor70Years clint/laura, bruce/natasha, steve/bucky, jane/thor, pepper/tony, scott/hope G, 101k

Summary: Set after Civil War. Stories about Team Cap (minus Bucky) and friends hiding out on Clint's farm.

maybe we can’t be okay (but maybe we’ll try anyway) (ao3) - impravidus, notapartytrick steve/bucky, pepper/tony T, 68k

Summary: The Avengers thought it would be a simple mission. Kill the giant, sixty foot worm monsters, head home and maybe take an hour long shower to get the worm guts off. But when they come across a hidden town in the depths of the forest, the last thing they’re expecting to find is a secret underground base and a fourteen year old boy sticking to the ceiling.

The team finds themselves becoming a dysfunctional family to the teen while he learns how to find a life out of captivity.

Featuring dolphins, puzzles, and frosting art.

On the Streets Where You Live (ao3) - secretkeeper karl/stephen M, 276k

Summary: When single parents Karl Mordo and Stephen Strange meet while bringing their children to school, a tentative bond is formed between the men and their children. But as time goes on, Karl's past as well as Stephen's secrets will challenge their families and their relationship in ways that neither imagined possible.

peter's stars (ao3) - IronPengu, parkrstark steve/tony T, 175k

Summary: Steve and Peter lose their apartment and are kicked out on the streets. Steve has to juggle between jobs to earn whatever money he can, take care of his son while resfusing to let him realize how much they're trouble in, and keep them warm and safe on the city streets in winter.

So, he really doesn't have time to date the billionaire that flirts with him everyday as he buys his cup of coffee. Even if he did, he can't let himself fall for the man. Because if he knew that he lived from a backpack and showered in a public bathroom there's no way he'd still want him...right?

pirate’s heart (ao3) - NotEvenCloseToStraight bucky/steve/tony E, 267k

Summary: The 1700s, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Captain Steve Rogers has all he wants: a ship, a loyal crew, Bucky at his side, and the horizon offering a new adventure everyday. But an impulsive kiss gone wrong leads to a marriage between Steve and Tony Stark, and now Steve doesn’t know what to do about ANYTHING. Steve loves Bucky, but something about Tony draws him in. Tony is too innocent for this life, but he picks up a sword anyway. Bucky is Steve’s, but when he offers his hand to Tony and now the three of them are something new. When the truth about Steve’s mission to ruin the Stark name comes out, Tony runs away, leaving Steve and Bucky behind in search of answers to the secrets hidden from him his whole life– about his company, about Uncle Obie, about his parents death.

Steve and Bucky cant abandon their mission against Stane and Tony cant deal with the answers he finds in New York. Is this the end? Is Tony gone forever? Or will he leave his old life and return to the sea and the Pirates that hold his heart?

rock me gently (ao3) - enigma731, invisibledaemon gamora/peter M, 479k

Summary: “She is our–She is Gamora,” Nebula says. “There is only one Gamora and I know her better than any of you do.” She pauses and glares at Peter, clearly challenging him to protest that. For once, he doesn’t dare. “This Gamora has jumped forward in time nine years, but she is the same person at her core. Just as you are the same despite not having experienced the last five years I did. We are all just–out of sync at the moment.”

show me what i’m looking for (ao3) - JamieB93 mj/peter, pepper/tony M, 381k

Summary: Peter Parker has spent the last year struggling to believe he has finally found a place he belongs. He has come a long way and whilst there is still a way to go, Peter begins to blossom and open himself up to the world. Which brings with it all the usual teenage dramas.

A touch damaged and more than a little rough around the edges, Peter is very often his own worst enemy. Still plagued by the scars of a traumatic past and newer challenges - it seems Peter’s happy ending might not be so easily in reach.

Steve Rogers Is A Child (ao3) - LagLemon steve/tony, clint/phil M, 290k

Summary: Tony gets into fights with Steve all the time and it's driving him insane. Sure, he's not the nicest guy in the world, but all he did was steal a little of the guy's sesame seed bagel - he didn't deserve to get yelled at for something stupid like that.

After drowning his sorrows in hot chocolate and complaining to Pepper about what happened, Tony gets a phone call from Natasha telling him to hurry back home. Something's happened - Steve has been attacked and he's not quite the same man he once was - he's been turned into a child.

With Steve out of commission, the team struggles with what to do and Tony finds himself filling roles he had never expected: babysitter and friend.

The Contract (ao3) - Laily loki/stephen M, 60k

Summary: An awkward dinner party brings Doctor Stephen Strange and Loki of Asgard together; though ill-at-ease, still they seek the company of each other, being the odd ones out. One wakes up somewhat rested, the other in the worst pain of his life.

Thor is not a happy camper.

The Puzzle that is Peter Parker (ao3) - Neuropsyche pepper/tony T, 279k

Summary: Peter is reeling from the after-effects of the spider bite and seeks out Tony Stark. If anyone can teach him how to be a superhero, it's Ironman, right? Tony isn't impressed at being stalked by an eight year old

Time After Time (ao3) - fancylances tony/stephen T, 47k

Summary: Tony Stark is unstuck in time. Stephen Strange might just be the only person in the universe qualified enough to help.

Two-Point Perspective (ao3) - FestiveFerret steve/tony E, 109k

Summary: Dear omega,

Congratulations! You've been selected. Alpha #95847872 has been assigned as your pre-bondee. A group bonding ceremony will take place on the 14th, unless other arrangements have been made by your alpha or their family. A valid bonding license must be submitted to Omega Services within 45 days of this letter or all services will be cancelled and any transferable benefits will not be applied to your alpha's package.

If there is some reason why you cannot be bonded on this date, please apply for an extension by calling 1-800-555-6827 within 7 days of receiving this letter.

Sincerely, National Omega Services

We'll Haunt This Place (The Two of Us) (ao3) - ElloPoppet clint/steve, sam/bucky E, 25k

Summary: Huh. Captain America showing up at his farm unannounced in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon with a suitcase. Somehow, not the strangest thing to ever happen to Clint. Not even the strangest way he had been woken from a nap, honestly.

[nomadicrogue]

BASICS

FULL NAME: WACHIRAPHON BUATHONG

» MEANING: Wachiraphon [ วชิรพล m Thai From Thai วชิร (wachira) meaning "diamond, lightning bolt" and พล (phon) meaning "force, strength, power." ]; Buathong [ บัว (bua) meaning "lotus" and ทอง (thong) meaning "gold." ]

VERSES: Paratime.

NICKNAME(S): War.

AGE: 31-years old.

DATE OF BIRTH: 1992 September 13th, Sunday.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bangkok, Thailand, Earth156.

OCCUPATION: Well known parallel worlds criminal by the Organization - suspected of various crimes; currently employed by the Organization to pose as the late Officer War from Earth001.

RELIGION: Non-practicing.

ORIENTATION: Bisexual; Biromantic.

GENDER: Cisgender male.

PERSONALITY

STRENGTHS: Loyal, Analytical, Hardworking, Practical, Organized.

WEAKNESSES: Stubborn, Restless, Manipulative, Deceitful, Cheater.

APPEARANCE

FACE CLAIM: Zee Pruk Panich.

HEIGHT: 6'0 ft. [182.88 cm]

WEIGHT: 154 lbs. [70 kg.]

BUILD: Lean, toned.

GAIT: Relaxed.

HAIR COLOR: Black.

EYE COLOR: Dark brown.

BIRTHMARK: 

OVERVIEW: » SCARS: Some scars. » TATTOOS: 

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: Bangkok, Thailand, Earth156/Earth001.

RESIDENCES: Bangkok and in various countries. Currently, in Germany.

NATIONALITY: Thai.

ETHNICITY: Asian.

FINANCIAL STATUS: Middle Class.

EDUCATION LEVEL: War Earth156 is a high school drop out. His counterpart is a university graduate in Bangkok and was trained by the Organization through their academy in space.

DEGREES: Degree in Forensics.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: War is fluent in Thai, English, German, Japanese, and French.

RELATIONSHIPS

PARENTS: Deceased.

SIBLINGS: Yes, younger siblings.

CHILDREN: None.

PETS: None.

SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS: » War from Earth001 work closely with Hari Schütz.

HISTORY

War was born on Earth156, a rather very rough and tougher version of Earth001. He had a challenging life and struggled to survive by working various odd jobs while growing up until he got involved with one of the dangerous gangs in the area where he lived. This group terrorized various businesses and people and as they grew and became powerful, they expanded, posing threat to other parallel worlds.

The Organization began work on disbanding such criminal groups within various Earths however, due to other well-known criminals acquiring ways to travel to other Earths, it became easier to form bigger groups making the Organization's job a bit harder.

War from Earth156 became a prominent figure, almost as successful as his parallel self in Earth001, a parallel worlds officer who hunt down criminals like War Earth156.

Earth156 War was added to the most wanted list of the Organization after skipping multi-Earths and causing imbalance in the parallel worlds. At the same time, Earth001 War who was one of the officers leading a big investigation into these parallel world groups was ambushed and unfortunately killed during a mission. The incident caused a ripple effect in the parallel worlds, pushing War from Earth156 into the lap of the Organization. The Org realized that without their own version of War, the investigation and mission to bring down the parallel world criminal groups won't succeed so they made a deal with War156; in exchange for a lighter sentence, War would pose as War from Earth001 under the control of Lead Investigator Hari Schütz.

War accepted the deal deciding that for now, it's his best chance of staying out of intergalactic prison and began devising a plan to escape...

ROMANTIC HISTORY: There were lovers in the past but none at the moment.

PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS: To be added.

THOUGHTS ON LOVE: "None."

HEALTH

PHOBIA(S): None.

HANDICAP(S): None.

MENTAL DISEASE(S): Depression, anxiety.

PHYSICAL DISEASE(S): None that he is aware of.

PREDISPOSITION(S): Alcoholism.

[bangtanhoneys]

Backstory/Timeline

Chu Grace was born to a Korean father and a British mother in Manchester, United Kingdom. Her father was part of a technological company and travelled the world as a salesman, meeting Grace’s mother in London where they both married and moved to Manchester as part of his job. 

Chu Grace was born on 14th May 1990

Aged 2, she began ballet lessons at her mother’s instruction

Homeschooled from the age of five to combine Korean/British curriculum together

Began ballroom dancing around the age of 6, just before moving to Germany

With her parents, Grace moved to Berlin at the age of 7 (1997)

Began to learn the basics of German along with her normal studies and continued her ballroom dancing lessons with ballet dancing

At the age of 10 (2000), the family moved to Suwon-Si to be closer to her grandparents as well as part of her father’s job and that’s where they settled for a year. After a year, they moved to Seoul and remained there ever since. 

She was homeschooled until the age of 13 when she joined the middle school at Dulwich College Seoul and completed high school there. 

She finished her education at the age of 18 in 2008 and joined Big Hit at the age of 19, a year later.

While she originally auditioned at Big Hit for her dancing and her singing, she was hired as more of an assistant which was her first paying job, her background vocals then later used. Her English skills came in useful for other idols and other staff

In 2010, RM was signed to Big Hit and BTS or BPB as it was known, was started. Bang Si-Hyuk asked Grace to mentor Namjoon, especially in English even though he was already proficient at it. These two would be the first members of BTS, though Grace was added to the line-up after Jungkook.

Yoongi joined just before J-Hope in December 2010 and therefore the rap line was complete.

Grace, during this time, began learning rapping to further the background vocals that might be needed. 

Seokjin and then Jungkook were added to the lineup and finally, Grace was introduced as a member - solely for background vocals, sub-rapping, her dancing and then finally, visuals. The contract for her was signed separately as Big Hit were worried a hip-hop group with a female member wouldn’t work and so they signed her for only two albums. 

Taehyung then Jimin were added to the line-up and the eight members of BTS were complete. 

June 13th 2013 - BTS officially debut with their first performance of No More Dream. 

[reikomania]

Today's "ChronoXAngel" spotlight is "Nonami Ise", actual name Maria von Orlok. Nonami is 273 years old at the start of the series, born October 13th, and is a member of Vampire high society. Despite her lofty status she still devotes much of her time to protecting both monsters and humans as a member of GARDNA, a peacekeeping organization founded with just such a goal. Nonami's current partner within the organization is Rei Kobayashi, a Red Oni. The pair meet Usoko when the young girl is being hunted through her school after hours by a Blue Oni. Nonami faces the Oni 1v1, and momentarily defeats her but is tricked by an illusion and sent flying.

Nonami's main weapon is a cross-shaped spear known as the "Breakdown Spear", which can split into smaller copies to incapacitate or restrain an enemy via crucifixion. She also has some magical abilities such as flight and limited energy projectile powers.

Nonami in her human form is 4'11, with pumpkin-orange hair and iridescent blue eyes. In her Vampire form she is 6'1, with jet-black hair and glowing red eyes. In both forms her skin is quite pale, though more akin to porcelain in her Vampire form.

Nonami sleeps in a coffin filled with dirt from her homeland of Germany, and so sleeps in the nude as to not dirty her nightgowns. She is not supernaturally bound to do so, she simply finds the dirt comforting.

Read more about Nonami in "CHRONOXANGEL", a novel series written by yours truly!!

Images provided: Promotional Art of Nonami with her Vampire form in the background.

Emote art of sleepy Nonami.

Nonami's design in books 1-4 (right), and in books 5-6 (left)

Nonami's original drawing. She was the first character designed for "ChronoXAngel".

Nonami's finalized design from 2013

Nonami's Magical Girl form.

[sifu-kisu]

From a bad translation, Russian to English. Unedited because I’m too lazy.😁🤷🏽

SOHEI - BUDDHIST WARRIORS OF ANCIENT JAPAN

Sohei ( дат Sohei, literally "monk-soldier") - Buddhist warrior monks of feudal Japan. At certain points in history, they had considerable power, thus forcing imperial and military governments to cooperate.

They were similar to the mountain ascetes of yamabushi, but unlike the yamabushi hermits, the soheis were usually organized into large armies or units. Most famous is their Enryaku-ji Monastery on Mount Heei, not far from Kyoto.

Many common traits the Soheis had with warrior monks from Germany or other religious orders (for example, such as participating in a crusade; the Soheis did not operate as individuals or even as members of individual temples, but rather as warriors of the Great Brotherhood or monastic order).

Warrior monks first “claimed themselves” in the late 10th century, in the Heian era, during fierce political disputes between Buddhist temples and sects over receiving various titles from the emperor. The main confrontation took place in the area of Kyoto and Nara cities, in Japan's 4 largest temples - Todai-ji, Kofuku-ji, Mii-dera and Enryaku-ji.

The first armed encounter occurred in 949. , when 56 monks from Todai-ji came out to the Imperial Palace in Kyoto to protest against their inconvenient assignment. These kinds of performances lasted throughout the 10th century and often ended in a murder.

Since 981 Clashes began between the 2 main temples of the Tendai Buddhist sect - Enryaku-ji and Mii-dera. Armed clashes between these temples lasted with breaks throughout the 11th century and early XII. Along with the armies, violence has also increased. Sometimes it even came to the burning of an unfriendly residence. Other temples were also gradually involved in conflicts, joining forces with yesterday's enemies to confront other temples.

A prolonged civil war began in Japan at the end of the 12th century. Temples distracted themselves from constant windows, observing events happening in the country. Hostile houses of Minamoto and Tyra tried to persuade warrior monks of Kyoto and Nara to replenish their samurai armies. The Sohei claimed themselves in 1180, when the Mi-dera monks along with the samurai of the Minamoto house tried to protect the bridge across the Uji River from the invasion of Tyra troops. During this battle, known as the Battle of Uji, the monks disassembled the pillars of the bridge so that the horse samurai could not cross the river.

After the Gampay war, many monasteries began to reform. Their political power grew generally in peaceful ways, and the Soheis almost did not participate in the battles of the 13th-XIV centuries. During the wars of the Nambokuteo-era, Mount Hyei gave refuge to the rebellious Emperor Go-Daigo. With his son and soheis, he tried to gather forces for a short-term rebellion against the Kamakura shogunate. After this, another military government, the Asikaga shogunate, came to power, bringing an end to the restoration of Kammu. The new shogunate supported the Zen sect more than others, and therefore attracted the wrath of warrior monks. From 1340 to 1360, many clashes occurred between the temples of the Zen and Tendai sect.

The Onin War, which began in 1467, dragged on more than a century-old civil war in Japan and forced warrior monks to reform again. In contrast to the turmoil of the Jekyu years and the invasion of the Mongols in the XIII century, the main theater of the Onin war became Kyoto, and therefore the Sohei could not stay away. In addition, new sects of warrior monks appeared in the country. While monks from Mount Hiyei were adherents of the Tendai doctrine, the newly-baked monks, who were given the collectively name ikko-ikki, followed the rules of the jodel-sinsu (True School of the Pure Earth). This practice was followed, among others, by many fundamentalist priests, peasants and houses, who were ready to fight for their beliefs. In 1488, their leader, named Rennyo, raised a rebellion against the power of the samurai, and warrior monks seized the province of Kaga. From this direction they began to expand, capturing the temple of Isiyama Hongan-ji in Nagashima (sovr. Mie Prefecture). A little later, part of the land in Mikawa province (part of the sovr.) came under their control. p. Haiti). Their power and influence drew the attention of some of the mightiest princes of the warring provinces, Oda Nobunagi and Togukawa Ieyasu. They considered the warrior monks as the enemies of the samurai laws and a threat to their power. Yeyasu attacked the monks of Mikawa in 1564, but failing to defeat them in battle, he returned later with the monks of his friendly Jedo-syu school, winning and taking almost all of the possessions from the losers.

While the power of Oda Nobunagi was strengthening and expanding in the late 1560s, the Enryaku-ji monks were gaining military strength and clashes were resumed on the streets of Kyoto, now with the new Nitiren Buddhist sect. After defeating the enemy, they began to look for allies among the dimes. To their misfortune, they contacted the houses of Asai and Asakura who were sworn enemies of Nobunag. 29 September 1571 The 30 thousand Oda army stormed Mount Hyei and burned down the Enryakudzi Monastery. Although the temple itself will be restored later, there were no more warrior monks in it.

Then Oda Nobunaga fought the ikko-ikki in their forts of Nagasima and Isiyama Hongan-ji. In the summer of 1574, with the help of the old pirate Kuki Yoshitaki, Nobunaga blocked their forts and began to starve the monks. 20 thousand people were burned along with their homes. Two years later, Nobunaga returned to Isiamu Hongan-ji, a temple he failed to conquer last time. In two maritime battles under Kidzugawaguti Nobunaga, the house of Mori, whose fleet was still considered to be the strongest in the region. Finally, the Soheis were forced to surrender in 1580.

Between 1580 and 1590, not only warrior monks, but all of Japan was divided into two camps: supporters of Toyotomi Hideyoshi or his opponent in the struggle for power - Tokugawa Ieyasu. When was the last one in 1603 finally will gain full power over the whole country, the Sohei era will end forever.

The Soheis had quite a variety of weaponry. Although most commonly associated with naginata, warrior monks also often used bows, tanto (daggers) and wakidashi (short swords).

The Soheis, like other Buddhist monks, wore kimono-like clothes, usually white at the bottom and beige at the top. They wore traditional Japanese sandals on their feet (this one, Varaji, etc.) ). The head was covered with white scarves or a hatimaki bandage.

The attire of the Ikko-ikki monks was a little more diverse due to their peasant origins, ranging from simple rural attire to various types of bras and helmets. In addition to the aforementioned armament, the icco-icca monks had a small number of arkebuses.

[winekid-halfblood]

About me

Biographical information

Name: Maxine Rosewell

Nickname: Max

Age: 23

Gender: female

Pronounce: she/her (doesn't mind they/them)

Sexuality: queer and polyamorous

Godly Parent: Dionysus

Mortal Parent: Fallon Rosewell (deceased)

Best Friend: Oliver Cobblestone (Satyr - OC)

Lover: Oliver Cobblestone and a clear sighted mortal (Had a relationship with Ethan Nakamura before he died)

Enemies: Luke Castellan (deceased)

Affiliation: Camp Halfblood (betrayed) / Titan Army (destored) / The Hunters of the Underdark (current)

Abilities and Tools

Chlorokinesis: I can grow, control, and summon plants, but I prefer grape and rose vines.

Madness Manipulation: I can cure madness which not even nectar and ambrosia could cure.

Alcokinesis: I can manipulate alcohol but i’s not really strong. I can only change water to wine. But it is a good party trick! I also don’t get easily drunk.

Empathy Link: I have a telepathic connection with my BFF a Satyr named Oliver.

ADHD: Like most demigods, I possess inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses.

Dyslexia: My brain is hardwired for Ancient Greek lol. It sucks!

Kopis: a heavy knife with a forward-curving blade made of celestial bronze. I named it Dornfelder (after a german type of wine)

Notebook: I like to write things down and I like to doodle from time to time.

History

I grew up relatively normal. My mom and I lived in a small apartment on the outskirts of the city Early on, she would reveal to me small details about my origins, both divine and mortal.

My mom originally came from Germany, from a family-run winery. However, she moved to the USA to study and eventually met and somehow fell in love with my dad at student parties. My conception was an accident, a one-night stand. Yet, my dad stood by my mom’s side throughout the entire pregnancy, promising to help her whenever she needed it.

However, it wasn’t until a month before my 13th birthday that I personally met my dad. He protected me when my first monster attacked, gifting me his sword after using it to defeat the creature. Then, he promised my mom that I would be taken to camp the following summer.

True to his word, a few months later, a blond young man picked me up. A satyr, as I soon learned. His name was Oliver, and to this day, he remains my best friend.

Every summer, I attended Camp Half-Blood and trained, while the rest of the time, I lived with my mom and now Oliver in our small apartment, attending school. Until my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. There wasn’t much that could be done, and it took half a year until I lost her. Since then, I’ve been living at the camp year-round.

Trivia

Masterlist

I met Ariadne once. I like her.

I can speak German.

Don't you dare and call me Maxie. I will kill you!

Find me under #Max wine talk

Find Oliver under #oliver takes over

[scotianostra]

Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen on May 19th 1895, he became a soldier and lay dead in a field in France in his 20th year.

The son of a William Ritchie Sorley, a professor of moral philosophy, Charles was a precocious and academically gifted child. The family moved to Cambridge when he was five, and Sorley attended King’s College choir school and Marlborough College, with some study in Germany. He began publishing poetry in the school journal and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. Sorley was in Germany in 1914 when World War I broke out, and he was interned for one night in prison at Trier.

Making his way back home, he enlisted in the Army and served in the trenches in France. Sorley was killed in action near Hulloch during the Battle of Loos, on 13th October 1915, shot in the head by a sniper. His last poem, When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead, was found in his kitbag, it is a heart-breaking piece of prose, and I admit the first time I read it in 2012 it brought a tear to my eye.

A collection of Sorley’s poetry was published posthumously as Marlborough and other Poems and went through six editions in the first year. Because of his time in Germany, Sorley’s attitude toward the war was deeply conflicted from its start. His small body of poetry is ambivalent, ironic, and profound. Sorley has been described as “one of the three poets of importance killed during the war,” the others being Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. His other works include The Collected Poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley.

Millions of the Mouthless Dead.

  When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you’ll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is a spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore.

[birdofmay]

Ok, because there's been some confusion regarding my university post, I'd like to briefly explain the German education system in a (hopefully) screen reader friendly way. No diagrams and stuff because I wouldn't know how to describe that...

In German schools it's possible to skip a year or repeat a year, so that's why I'll be talking about the average age, because it can vary a lot.

Primary education:

Grades 1 - 4

Average age when entering 1st grade: 6

Average age when leaving 4th grade: 10

It's not possible to leave school after primary education, and home schooling is forbidden in Germany.

Lower secondary education ("Sek 1"):

Grades 5 - 9

Average age when entering 5th grade: 10

Average age when leaving 9th grade: 15

Leaving after 9th grade is possible. This is the lowest possible leaving cert. Vocational training is mandatory.

Upper secondary education ("Sek 2"):

Grade 10

Average age when leaving: 16

Leaving after 10th grade is possible. You can either start vocational education of any kind, or you can continue to go to school if you did well enough in school.

Special education can end after 10th grade too, but in most cases you can't change to 11th grade of a regular school because the curriculum was very different.

Grade 11 - 13 (sometimes 12, depending on the federal state)

Average age when entering 11th grade: 17

Average age when leaving 13th grade: 19

Graduating now means you can go to college/university. This leaving cert is called Abitur.

(I just realised that my screen reader pronounces Abitur "a-bitch-uh" and I can't stop laughing, uh, it's pronounced something like ah-bee-two-ah)

(Special education sometimes ends after 12th or 13th grade, but normally you don't have Abitur (ah-bee-two-ah) because the curriculum was very different)

Now here's the exception in my case:

Sometimes it's possible to study music or other arts after 9th or 10th grade if there's an audition and they think you're good enough. This is possible because Abitur (ah-bee-two-ah) knowledge isn't necessary for a music-only subject for example. University then replaces the required vocational training/education.

So I can study music because

they thought I'm good enough and

I have a shit ton of accommodations and honestly I'm glad that my parents can take care of that and not me... It sounds very stressful...

Oh btw, very often it's possible to study something without Abitur (ah-bee-two-ah) if you've worked in a related job for at least 3 years. If you've been a nurse for over 3 years, you could study medicine for example. If you're lucky. Just saying because I like that. Former nurses have a totally different approach to everything than people who studied medicine right after 12th or 13th grade, that's very nice.

[adarkrainbow]

Pierre Dubois: Lucy-Cinderella-Sleeping Beauty

If I took such a long time introducing Pierre Dubois, it is because I want to talk of his take on fairy tales - takes which, given the huge success of his books in the 90s and 2000s in France, is bound to have had an impact on media and tastes of the time.

And I want to begin with his Great Encyclopedia of Fairies in which he gives an article titled “Saint Lucia, Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauties”. The article starts with the description of a beautiful woman sleeping in a bed of frost, looking alive but abandoned, and from whose dream are born the shining shapes of the “maids of the dawn”. From this initial description, Dubois goes on to talk about the identity of this “sleeping beauty”, or rather her MANY identites.

Dubois  starts by describing the character of Saint Lucy, that he identifies as both a “winter witch” and a “spring fairy”. He first describes her more “witchy” aspects, reminding that in Bohemia she haunts the snow-white nights as a petrifying woman of frost, snatching children away in her basket before dragging them under the earth where she splits their belly open, fills them with straws and adds them to her “doll” collection - he adds to this first gruesome description how in Bavaria and Austria she can also appear as a flying goat or a bird-headed witch. He then moves on to Alsace and describes how this region “softened” the figure into a pale and blond woman with a crown of roses and candles, becoming the “Lady of Christmas” who wakes up the spirits of nature with a silver bell. He concludes this primary description with a mention that in northern countries she usually is said to appear out of the forest dressed in white, with a crown of holy and light, bringing food and fire to every home. 

This initial portrait of Saint Lucy is further consolidated with additional otes, such as how “Lucy” contains three different aspects: the primal witch, the spring goddess, and the saint ; how in winter she appears as a frost-ogress but in spring she becomes a lovely blond woman with flowers and seven candles in her hair. He adds how the female saints are in truth the “daughters” of the Fées (Fairies, as in Fairy-Ladies, because the French Fée is not the same thing as the British “fairy”), and thus that Saint Lucy is just a Christianized form of a more pagan Lucia “nymph”. He explains how she is found in Germany, Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia and Alsace (plus the north of Italy and the most northern regions of the world) ; he explains her role as being “she who brings back the spring, who wakes up nature and makes it fertile”, and he adds a Swedish legend according to which during a great famine Saint Lucy saved the country a 13th of December by bringing a lot of food, and so each year at this date, schools and churches chose a young girl who will play the role of Lucy: she becomes the “Queen of light”, all dressed in white, with a belt of poppies and a leafy crown with seven candles on it - and she goes around the town offering coffee and a type of brioche known as “crowns of Lucy” or “cats of Lucy”.

So far, so good, this is the Saint Lucy legend and feast you might have heard about.

Now we get into the second part of the article, in which Dubois “expands” the Saint Lucy character. He explains that she actually appears in many forms from mythological tales to legends, from folk tales to fairy tales. She is always a young girl locked in some sort of underground domain by an avatar of the “ogress of winter” (ogress who also manifests in the renowned figures of Berchta, of the Befana, or of the Cailleac Bheur). Sometimes the imprisoned maiden escapes on her own, other times it is the son of the wicked imprisoner that will help her flee out of love ; but most of the time, it is a brave “prince charming” that, after fighting many dangers, ends up waking her with a kiss and takes her away in a “castle of light”. And as soon as the maiden is out of her prison, as soon as she puts her feet onto the groud, then nature wakes up and the ground becomes green, then rivers are not frozen anymore and the sun shines, then flowers bloom and birds sing. This is the “wedding of saint Lucy”, or the “marriage of Saint Lucy”. 

To illustrate this archetypal myth that he identified, Pierre Dubois lists a series of various “names” under which the “Saint Lucy” character was known throughout history and cultures. And as you will see, there is a mix of mythological tales AND of fairy tales. He identifies as avatars of Saint Lucy:

# Persephone from Greek mythology.

# Little Red Riding Hood (from the Brothers Grimm version)

# The MANY incarnations of Cinderella: French Cendrillon, German Aschenputtel, Russian Chernushka, Serbian Pepeljuga, Netherland Assepoester, Askepisker from “Guldskoen/The Golden Shoe”), the Catalan Ventafoches... 

# Sleeping Beauty in all her variations, from the French to the German story, passing by Talia from “Sun, Moon and Talia” ; Zellandine/Zélandine from “Perceforest”

# Snow White 

# La Gatta Cenerentola, from the Pentamerone

# Rondallayre, from popular Catalan folk songs.

# And two French names I couldn’t identify the trace from, “Salie” (given it means “dirty” in feminine form I guess another Cinderella variant) and “Florissante”. And there’s also a “Lalie” whose origin I do not know either... 

But you get the idea. And ALL those characters, Dubois explicitely identifies as both “Sleeping Beauties” AND “Queens of May” (a reference to the May Queen and the traditions of the May Day in Europe). He even explicitely describes in one sentence “Cinderella leaving her cocoon of ashes to become the Beauty of May”. 

And now we reach the third part of the article... The Perrault hate. In my introduction to Dubois I mentionned he was a “folklorist” fairy tale enthusiast, not a “literary” fairy tale enthusiast. And it shows here with his GREAT dislike of Charles Perrault’s work. Already he starts by describing how the Sleeping Beauty tale is “enough in itself” to actually teach people the “seasonal liturgies”, how this “cult of the fairies” open ups the way to the “primordial enchantment” - he clearly presents all these “Sleeping Beauties” as the manifestations of a primordial myth about the cycles of nature and the passing of seasons. Ad then he adds how Perrault “turned away” and “denatured” the strong and beautiful original message of the tale by adding a “dull and unfit moral” and “reducing the seasonal Fairies to “brats stuffed with principles and devotions”. 

To express his strong dislike of the Perrault fairytale, he actually quotes for a very long time the words of Lucie Félix-Faure-Goyau (of her real name, Lucie Faure, a French woman of letters from the Turn of the century - aka the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century). Lucie was visibly a HUGE fan of Perrault, and if Dubois quotes her, it is only to take the very opposite side later. In Lucie’s own world, Perrault actually took back the old character of the fairy and dressed her in refined clothes, brought her to the marquesses and the salons of the upper-class society. Lucie had a lot of fun comparing the French “Belle au bois dormant” to the Italian Talia, and she concluded that were Talia’s story was “clumsy, rude and very primitive”, Perrault’s story was delicated, elegant and well-crafted She also compared it to the Grimms Snow-White, that she described as “wild” in comparison to the more “mythical” Belle. Lucie wrote that the French Sleeping Beauty was unique and elegant, the product of a refined civilization, and couldn’t be compared - she doesn’t sleep with “mountain gnomes”, but in the middle of a splendid court that stays dignified even in sleep, “as if the courtiers of Louis XIV had just fallen asleep while waiting for the return of their king” - she even declares that Basile should hide himself in shame, and she jokingly dares Snow White’s gnomes to put on the same rich and lavish clothes as the French fairytale characters. Lucie mentions that, indeed, Cinderella is a descendant of Rhodopis the seducer of old Egypt, but it does not matter because the French Cendrillon is a pure product of France, “student under Madame de Maintenon and brought before Louis XIV”. Lucie finally concludes the quote by claiming that Perrault’s fairies are “sincere, pure and pleasing, they are the Fairies of France, knowledgeable and cautious, sociable and moderate, not at all extravagant or excessive, almost cartesians.”

And to this lengthy quote, Dubois only has to reply that Perrault “buried the goddesses of the dawn” under a “mass of style”, that Cinderella wasn’t “adopted” by France but rather stuffed by a taxidermist of an author and beaten into submission without grace or happiness ; and finally that the sprit of the fairy tales died with Perrault, that the arrogant foolishness of the authors of the time made the Fairies detach themselves from the dawn, that these flowers withered away in front of the pompousness of the Marquise de Sévigné describing the countryside from her literary urban salon. 

To conclude that the “Beauty of May is again asleep under the stone, and waiting for the arrival of a new spring”. 

... Quite a read, isn’t it? 

[ Freely translated from Pierre Dubois’ La Grande Encyclopédie des Fées (The Great Encyclopedia of Fairies), illustrations by Claudine and Roland Sabatier]

[chaoticdesertdweller]

A brief list of why the Fourth of July could and should always be boycotted, by Jeff Smith:

-The US has engaged in genocidal policies against Indigenous people/nations on this continent since the founding of the US. White Settler Colonialism has been the primary driving force, which has included the outright slaughter of Indigenous people, the forced removal from their lands, the repeated violation of treaties, forcibly removing Indigenous children from their communities and putting them in so-called “Boarding Schools,” and the denial of Indigenous people to celebrate their own spiritual traditions for most of the past 250 years. For an excellent resource, see Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

-If people haven’t read it, they should read Frederick Doughlass’ famous 1852 speech, entitled, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” Douglass calls out the realities of slavery and denounces the blind celebration of July 4th, by saying, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

-While Chattel Slavery was outlawed by the end of the Civil War, the US legal and economic systems made sure that Black people were still denied freedom and independence. The 13th Amendment essentially made slavery legal again, a theme which is explored in Ava DuVernay’s 2016 award winning documentary, 13th. In addition, the history of lynching, red-lining, legal segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, gentrification and the ongoing efforts to dismantled legal gains made by the Black Freedom Struggle/Civil Rights Movement, ultimately demonstrates that Black people have never been afforded the same freedom as white people in this country.

-The history of US immigration policy has excluded millions of people from coming to and be accepted into US society. From the Chinese Exclusion Act in the late 19th Century, the refusal of the FDR Administration to welcome thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, to the brutal treatment of people fleeing poverty, political oppression and climate catastrophe from Latin America since the 1960s, the US has consistently excluded millions of immigrants seeking asylum and safety. See our popular education tool, History of US Immigration Policy.

-The US has a bloody history towards working class people, which has always been directed by the Capitalist Class, with assistance from the state and the state’s main enforcement mechanism, the police. From the earliest efforts to win labor struggles in the early part of the 19th Century, the harsh repression of radical union organizing in the late 19th Century through the 1930s, and the ongoing Capitalist Class’s war against working people, evidenced by the efforts against Amazon and Starbucks workers, most people living in this country have never experienced economic freedom or independence. See Kim Kelly’s book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.

-The US has consistently marginalized and repressed people who are part of the LGBTQ community, those who are gender non-conforming; religious minorities, especially Muslims, those in the disability community, anti-war dissidents, radical environmentalists and so many other communities that the systems of power in this country have never accepted and have often brutalized.

[yandere-sins]

Ok young-ish person here (I'm 20 soon)! From my experiences in the last years in school, drinking is very much common in the 10-13th classes....? Idk the english word anymore lol For reference, I don't drink cause alcohol is too bitter for my maybe too sweet tooth, I hate the smell of cigarettes, and my circle of friends are on the calmer side, so all my information is basically only from a I heard or seen nearby or coincidentally. I'm also slow on these things, so I'm pretty sure I missed a lot more juicy things.

While I suspect the party and drinking activities to be a weekend thing, I have seen at least one person bring vodka or so to school on a weekday (it was one of the fine arts course tho so there's that). Smoking seems to be acceptable rn? Nobody is ashamed or looked down upon, one time a teacher and student even smoked together during break times lol. The teachers in general seem to be quite chill or at least not too strictly against those activities as long as it's not working hours and in their presence (or at least it should be in secret). I have seen plenty of teenagers smoking in another school around afternoon, where the little ones are already gone and it's breaktime for the older ones.

On another note, I think the use of drugs is also common? I heard from another school that some where found in their school and there was a whole investigation going. In my school I'm pretty sure there are some who indulge in it but idk who or what. I was so close to accidentally consuming some cause apparently the brownies for the party in 10th class were "special brownies". Sad thing to put smth like that in brownies of all things 😭 I really wanted some. At least we had pizza. I think it's like an open secret to everyone. Like, alcohol, grugs and smoking is bad and you shouldn't do it! (Or in limits pls) But the teachers only warn us against it for protocol and whether we heed their advise or not is up to us. Until we cause a big incident, then not anymore.

Thanks for your insight!

Honestly, what you're saying makes sense considering how it was 10 years ago. But at the same time, for the drinking it still sounds about the same as it was back then. That someone went out of their way to sneak vodka into school, honestly that's an exception I'm pretty sure so I can't really take it seriously, that's just teenagers doing dumb stuff and testing their limits xD It's interesting though you mentioned the classes because the 10 year is about 16 and where people take their first exams, and 12-13 is already around age 18 where people get their higher education. I see a lot of stress-influence there.

But maybe there is more smoking and new drug habbits than in my time (which makes sense with the rise of consumers and lax parents). In my school time we did have like 3-4 older teens (17-18) who we knew consumed stuff (just blunts really) and it was incredible hard to get, so they wouldn't share anything. So yeah, I never actually had drugs. Would love to try it sometime, but knowing I have a habbit of addiction, I probably never will.

I still think kids are relatively reasonable in Germany, latest when they get older they start to grow out of it. And it's also more of an outgoing/cool kids thing still from your experience. Maybe they'd profit from more in-depth courses and explanation, but I can imagine it's hard enought to keep teenagers quiet in class, so it's probably not like they'd care about these type of lectures.

Still, thank you for sharing your experience!

[herstory5]

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“Bag Lady”

A song that is currently resonating in my mental space is by Erykah Badu, “Bag Lady”. There’s a section of the chorus that goes, “Bag lady, you gone hurt your back draggin’ all them bags like that.” Where oh where do I begin to unpack all of this mental and emotional baggage? Last week was the first week of my new African American studies course titled, “Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic.”

Films I've seen previously, like "Get Out," are being seen from a fresh perspective. The "rose-colored glasses" are no longer being worn. Professor Due gives us some insight on the origins of Black Horror, explaining that "it was a means to transfer real life traumas — fear and anger into a fictitious drama." I've always found it odd that I just cannot get enough of watching horror, even if it makes me cringe, squirm, increase my heartbeat, and stay awake at night with nightmares. Where does it come from? Professor Due made a statement claiming, "those who watch horror did better during the pandemic." As much as I'd want to, I just don't have time to fully unpack this statement. Yeah right, who am I am kidding, I can't wait to unpack this! 

My mother abandoned my sister and me when I was just 5-years old. She left me and my sister in the care of our abusive, emotionally unstable, and often absentee father. My paternal grandmother took majority care of me and my sister until her health began to decline. She had adopted my father and his siblings from Germany, but that's a subject for another day. My sister and I were heading to school one day when we heard our grandmother's voice from a distance; upon turning around, we saw our disoriented and undressed grandmother (Nana) making her way up the street. Nana was exhibiting symptoms of dementia; I would learn later.  When I was 11 years old, Nana passed. Those 6 years in-between the time of her death were very emotionally and mentally taxing on me and my sister.  That was the beginning of the end for us. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2019, less than a year before the pandemic. Fast forward to the pandemic, and my mother succumbs to cancer. I felt abandoned once again. I have endured much trauma in my life.

A major part of my childhood from a young age I recall watching horror and thrillers with my mother, father, paternal grandmother, cousins, siblings etc. Television shows and films like, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock’s – The Birds, Psycho (all of them) and Rear Window, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Shinning, Poltergeist, many…many Stephen King films; Carrie, The Shining, It (I’m still freaked out by clowns), Christine, Pet Cemetery, Misery, Cujo and soooooo many more. Every person in my family I listed above had experienced trauma. Due to the brain's inability to differentiate between fiction and reality, when I watch a horror movie, a component of my mind believes that "Freddy Krueger (for example)" is after me in real life. So, how exactly can watching horror help you decompress? Specifically, those of us with anxiety and trauma. It makes me think of my ancestors and how they were able to survive such inhumanity, such brutality. Once the mind has gone through several traumatic experiences, it strengthens and realizes that it is capable of surviving. Regardless how it may seem, horror films inform us that fear is not fatal. Therefore, those who watch horror and/or have endured traumatic events may have done much better during the pandemic. Without this course, I highly doubt I would have been able to conceptualize this.

When so much of life seems out our control, horror may help us recover and get control over our feelings. Black men are being executed unjustly, and no one is being held accountable, eerily similar to the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras. Women's rights to their bodies are being violated, with the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Black Horror is more than a cinematic feature; it is a daily lived reality for Blacks in AmeriKKKa.