#German things

[smolfangirl]

Imagine sucking so much as a fellow politician that the guy known for having No Backbone™ snaps and develops one but specifically for roasting you on live television

[bayern-der-freistaat]

Scholz und Lindner breakup :(

65k enemies to rivals to coworkers to lovers to enemies again yaoi

[scarefox]

Theory: are there so many Germans on tumblr because most of us come from Animexx.de? tumblr does feel a bit like the old Animexx days. (except that we don't meet for events 😔). I only got here because other animexx friends brought me here.

let's make this a poll

edit: the question is just if you were on animexx before, if you had an account, not if animexx directly brought you here ;)

[theoniprince]

Finde es schön, wie die Kälte noch für das bisschen Glitzer sorgt:

[thefoolswords]

DB Ansage: Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.

Me, an intellectual: Then beg

[brsb4hls]

Peak German culture

This is an actual Kindergarten book about Pfandautomaten.

It's about Kindergartenkids learning how to use the Pfandautomat.

[quakielein]

Die Maus <3

Recht hat sie :)

[catboy-jaebeom]

the very important quietsch grillkäse poll

so, it has come to my attention that quiet a huge portion of ppl on the internet dislike that the grill cheese ( not grilled cheese ! ) or halloumi put on the grill squeaks ( quietscht in german ) when you eat it. this was news for me, however. so. now I need to know.

some answers are inspired by my friends and mutuals' responses to this dilemma, ilu ♥ under the cut are some picture of grillkäse but it's basically cheese that won't melt into the grill because of how it's made, and it is usually goat or sheep milk used tho not always.

[asongaboutpirates]

In Germany we don't say 'desire path', we say 'unbefugtes Betreten öffentlicher Grünflächen' and I think that's beautiful.

[hoffnungslos-abernicht-ernst]

Aus gegebenen Anlass (Spoiler für DEdN):

[smolfangirl]

Ich hatte vorhin Verständigungsprobleme in einer Bäckerei, von daher kläre ich das nun auf eine objektive und repräsentative Art (joking)

[chuuyxs]

There's always a sense of belonging when you run with multiple other people from one train to another due to the DB being incompetent

[mask131]

I just learned that if you mispell "witch" into "wicht" you get an entirely different type of supernatural entity from German folklore and/or gender-reversed insult for a poor and miserable person. Cool

[localbabygirl]

it's really kind of crazy that so many things happened in germany on november 9th that it's known as "the fateful day of the germans". turn on the news on november 9th and it'll be like. good evening ladies and gentlemen. today is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. today is also the anniversary of the night of broken glass in 1938. today is also the anniversary of the failed hitler coup in 1923. today is ALSO the anniversary of the abdication of the last german kaiser and the proclamation of the german republic in 1918.

[nebuvoid]

Someone tell me why this kid was buying Mr Beast sponsored chocolate here in my small town german Netto Markendiscount supermarket. Why is this wretched man selling chocolate to unsuspecting german children. Why am I forced to see his dead eyed smile on a cardboard standee on my way to buy some oatmilk

[cowboylikeyouu]

(tiktok by @ radnasty)

the video and the comments where mostly attacking british people for using british vocabulary, which is already pretty stupid bc like?? just read smth else or ignore it?? why are we downright insulting people and telling them they shouldn’t write fics set in america if they don’t have an american beta reader?? maybe tell the author gently in the comments if it bothers you so much, before hating under a random tiktok. just saying.

anyhow, i think many seem to forget/aren’t aware of the fact that international authors probably make up a big majority of the people this happens to? like, i‘m from germany, and they teach us british english in school, but as soon as you start consuming english media on your own, it’s obviously dominated by american stuff.

"british vs american english" takes up like 0.1% of what we do in english class, like we had maybe one or two lessons in our lives where we talked about the differences for a bit. otherwise it’s really just "here, british vocabulary, pls study it for the test tomorrow, but OH, we‘re also reading an american novel for class now, have fun", and it makes writing in english hard sometimes😭 especially when it comes to dialogue and slang bc like obviously we didn’t learn about american 40s slang so SORRY we can’t write a young bucky barnes very well 🙄

and then comments were all just like "well do your research🙄" and yeah ofc we could, but i kinda don’t want to?? this is fanfiction and while i love flawless stories, it’s thankfully not a requirement, so let us have some fun without doing a whole english lesson beforehand ^^ pretty sure most people wouldn’t mind you telling them that they used the wrong word here and there, i‘d probably be grateful, but after reading those really rude comments i kinda wanna make my american characters talk in full UK slang, just to trigger some americans :/