#Scharfrichter

[dave-ivanov]

In Gedenken an meinen Basser Markus Gertzen † 18.03.2024

Es ist kaum noch ertragbar. Erst Jörn von N8O und jetzt auch noch Markus, mit dem ich jahrelang bei der NDH-Band Scharfrichter gespielt habe. Ich erfuhr schon recht früh, dass er gesundheitliche Probleme hatte und wollte ihn eigentlich noch als DJ auf seiner Hochzeitsfeier bespaßen, als er mit Angela eine neue Liebe fand. Unvergessen sind etliche Auftritte auf seinem Geburtstag, wo wir oft in seinem Hobbykeller nächtigten und wild über das Leben diskutierten. Aber auch das Rocktoberfest in Rees bleibt im Schädel oder das THW-Fest, wo die Electric Callboys als Teenager in der ersten Reihe standen. Zuletzt haben wir sogar darüber nachgedacht, Scharfrichter-Songs zumindest nochmal für die Nachwelt aufzunehmen. Vielleicht wird das ja mit dem Original-Basser irgendwann noch passieren, bevor wir alle ins Gras beißen. Scheiße, dass die, die Leben wollen, sterben, und andere, die die Schnauze schon lange voll haben, zu diesem Leben verdammt werden. Euer sogenannter Gott ist ein perverser, sadistischer Wichser.

[plasticviolence]

Made two new nutcrackers, Llyn (left) and Beau (right)! Both are women :]

I think it's obvious which one I like more LOL

And featuring silly Arlo doodles (of course) and also Vera, his companion, who belongs to a friend!

[ilikereadingthisiswhatilike]

Hannibal

No Smut

Knives belong in the kitchen @madisonwritesstuff Summary: I'm so thirsty for this man Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Smut

Ft Will Gram (No Smut)

Scharfrichter @heladodecerezq Summary: After getting mixed up in the wrong group at school, you come home a bloody disgrace, hoping to high heaven that you will have time to clean up the mess you've gotten yourself into before your fathers find out. Warnings: Prenatal Abuse (?) Specials Tags: None

We won't let go again @hannibals-favourite-meal Summary: Moving to Baltimore was supposed to be a fresh start, to escape the ghosts of your past but a budding new friendship with an FBI profiler leads you back to the man who left you behind Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Miscarriaged @untitled-writer-013 Summary: You always wanted a child. To bad the world have others plans. Warnings: Miscarriage Grief Specials Tags: None

Pig Meat @untitled-writer-013 Summary: You always wanted a child. To bad the world have others plans. Warnings: Murder, Brake In Specials Tags: None

Their Little Girl @jokingmisfit Summary: Let me kiss it better Warnings: Kidnaping, Drugging Specials Tags: None

[shadowcatzone]

-via dodoco-phone, again-

Traveler: hey venti, how would you feel about coming to help in sumeru?

Venti: well, i'm kind of busy with wine- i mean work.

Traveler: well, i know, and i figured i could handle this myself, but the akademiya is kinda... sorta, borderline abusing kusanali, maybe just some advice?

Dodoco-phone: *click*

Traveler: ...venti??

Venti: *out of breath* hey! You said you needed help, so i thought i'd bring the adults with me!

Traveler: *turning around* who are the adults- oh-

-Cue Ei and Zhongli looking ready to end someone-

venti: ...anyways. what do they drink in sumeru, and where's the akademiya, these two would like to have a word with them.

_________

When you call a friend to maybe help about an injustice and he brings the judge and the scharfrichter.

Edit: there was a typo

[wordsandrobots]

Has it been two weeks already? It would seem so, because here's @trafalgarlog's next round of Urdr Hunt fansubs!

This time, Katya is thoroughly fed up with everything, Londo Bron's quest to restore the honour of the Issue Family takes a shocking turn, and Cyclase . . . ? Well, Cyclase has really done it now.

Hajiroboshi  (Part 1, Part 2)

Departure (Part 1, Part 2)

598 (Part 1, Part 2)

Corridor of Betrayal (Part 1, Part 2)

Holder of the Ring (Part 1, Part 2)  

Unexpected Encounter (Part 1, Part 2)

Venus’ Worth (Part 1, Part 2)

Brothers’ Ship (Part 1, Part 2)

Horn and Flower’s Shadow (Part 1, Part 2)

Family Bonds (Part 1, Part 2)

Beyond Outstretched Hands (Part 1, Part 2)

Flashing Sky (Part 1, Part 2)

With probably only three episodes left (in six parts), it's perhaps no wonder that we open on a rather apocalyptic scene: the giant microwave power transmission station, Ratatoskr, hanging in space surrounded by asteroids and lit by lightning. Aboard a launch moving through this extremely hazardous area, Londo Bron cheerfully informs Katya that there's something he wants to show her.

Further up the microwave beam, the Erda II is rocked by a lightning strike. Via a comm channel Mendou explains that Ratatoskr uses Ahab reactors as part of a power generation system, with Parstai noting that its still-active beam is electrifying the nearby dust and debris, hence the storm.

(I'm going to be quite grumpy later on so I want to say here that I really love this; it's exactly the kind of Calamity War leftover I like, hinting at a far more obviously 'advanced' society that once conquered the solar system. Presumably this was how a lot of space-based human settlements were powered, possibly via bouncing the beam between relay points. And now it's just . . . there, abandoned and not even turned off.)

Wistario spots lights up and ahead and Sinister zooms in to show Cyclase's Halfbeaks launching mobile suits. It's clear the gang has arrived in the very nick of time.

With Korunaru cautioning them to be careful, Wistario and Range head out to intercept their old nemesis.

Said nemesis is ostensibly here to take out Londo and retrieve Katya on Lord Okina's orders. He has a squad of standard Issue Grazes on hand, as well as Tagging's Scharfrichter -- inside which Batch has hitched a somewhat cramped ride (the Gundam Wiki still lists her as Bana but I'm switching to TrafalgarLog's version for now).

Batch is the first to spot the Afam Equipment forces approaching from the rear. Cyclase divides his forces, sending some of the Grazes to take care of Asmoday and Hajiroboshi while he continues to the station.

Range is not impressed with the mook welcoming committee and is all for cutting through them in one go, but this proves unnecessary. 598 leads Foundling's Monkey Rodis to take care of the Gjallarhorn mobile suits, freeing the other two to get a-heroing.

Aboard Ratatoskr, Londo leads Katya to a massive set of doors, explaining that with Carta's death, she is the only person who's allowed to open them. Even he has never seen inside. Mutely, Katya goes along with him and the doors slide aside to reveal. of course, Gundam Zagan -- the mobile suit used by Arzona Issue, founder of the Issue Family.

(I *think* this is the first explicit in-story statement to the effect that the Seven Star families began with the Gundam pilots. This has always been the heavy implication, but previously there was wiggle room to suppose they came out of pre-existing nobility. However, this more firmly indicates that the heraldry we've seen on the other Urdr Hunt waypoints dates from after the War was over.)

Anyway, yes, that's six of the Seven Star Gundams named and numbered, and apparently the Issues disdained to lock it away in the vault on Vingolf but rather left it stored up here. Londo asks Katya to give him permission to use Zagan to usher her into her rightful place as head of the family. She tells him to do whatever he wants, which is not really the full-throated blessing he takes it as.

His good mood is spoiled regardless as a soldier rushes up to inform him of Cyclase's unit's arrival. Moreover (the man adds, soto-voice), Wistario is right behind.

Overhearing, Katya silently implores Wistario to let her be. She's decided the blood of the Issues makes her too much trouble for her friends.

Batch informs Cyclase that Wistario and Range are approaching, while at the same time, Katya's launch is starting back for Londo's ship. He sends the remaining three Grazes to fetch Katya then heads in another direction, drawing a vengeful Range after him.

The Gjallarhorn mobile suits arrive at the exit from Ratatoskr right as the launch emerges, trapping it in the docking tunnel. Katya spots Hajiroboshi heading towards them but her craft is nearly grabbed by the lead Graze.

Just in time, however, Londo leaps into action, using Zagan to shield her and then unfolding the Gundam's wings into giant crab claws with which to utterly pulverise his unlucky enemies. It's a pretty thorough demonstration of the power of a Gundam frame, as he rapidly kills the entire squad, even spin-punching one of them clean through the wall of the tunnel before kicking it into space.

Wistario catches the disabled 'suit as it comes flying out and throws it aside. Zagan emerges from the smoke and it's a face-off, Londo offering him one last chance to withdraw, Wistario determined to rescue his would-be fiance. Naturally neither will back down. And the battle is on!

Things don't go great for our Wiz at first. But 598's mob quickly join in and their combined strength turns the tide. Plus, 598 has a cunning plan to use the environment against Londo . . .

Londo himself realises he cannot't control Zagan as well as Arzona did (because, of course, he doesn't have an Alaya-Vijnana system), but ploughs on, insisting it's Katya's will to stay with the Issues. Wistario retorts that people like him forced her to be somewhere she doesn't want to be.

Some more smack is talked and blows exchanged, and things do not look rosy for our good captain. With ye traditional 'there should not be that many electrical arcs in a cockpit' visuals, he rallies for one last effort, rushing Wistario headlong, breaking Hajiroboshi's crest with a well-aimed claw.

But Wiz has whatever operational weirdness is going on to give him A-V level moves and he drives his giant chain-sword-thingy in hard, smashing one of Zagan's wings off. Infuriated, Londo drags his Gundam directly along the blade, smashing Wistario off his feet.

As a panicked 598 rushes to help, Londo rips loose his remaining wing and prepares to impale Wistario with the claw, insisting that he'll protect Katya.

Unfortunately, that's when physics catches up to the situation and, um, you know that thing about holding up a long metal object in the middle of a thunderstorm? Yeah. Yeeeeeah.

598 is able to whisk Wistario out of danger at the last second but Zagan takes the full force of a lightning strike. While I wouldn't entirely rule out a well-timed revival later, it sure does look like Londo just got thoroughly toasted.

There's no time to dwell on his fate, however, as Katya still needs saving and, perhaps more pressingly, Cyclase is Up To Something.

Inside Ratatoskr, Batch slips out of Tagging's mobile suit to go do stuff while Cyclase turns to face the 'fly buzzing in his ear'. Range has caught up with them and is here to take revenge for Andy and Bito's deaths. Cue the soundtrack switching to 'In a Fury' and our resident would-be-godking meeting Range's anger with icy sarcasm.

As the fight ensures, Cyclase asks Range why he thinks this place was designated a sanctuary and people kept away? Range of course doesn't give a fuck, but that doesn't stop Cyclase elaborating that it is a cage. The lightning is not intended to repel intruders; rather it is meant to keep something inside.

(I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.)

Honestly, Cyclase is having a moment here and very little of what Range is shouting at him is getting through. It's like how Gaelio spends the back half of Season 2 yelling for attention only, unlike McGillis, Cyclase genuinely does not care, at all.

Just then the ground shakes. Batch, it seems, has done her work well (Tagging assures Cyclase they are very good at what they do). As Range looks on in disbelief, Cyclase declares that his freedom is about to begin.

Over on the Erda II, Dexter informs everyone that the microwave output from the station is increasing, bringing with it more violent lightning flashes. Nobody has any idea what's going on -- and to add to the confusion, the Urdr Hunt ring picks that moment to light up.

It appears to be reading data, as it has at every other waypoint. Parstai and Mendou report the same thing. This is the sixth point, despite no instructions having been received from 'N' to direct them there. Ratatoskr is the Issue's entry on this magical mystery tour and this proves the data wasn't put here by 'N' but rather, has lain there for 300 years.

If that's the case, Korunaru asks, why is the ring only responding now? Mendou's first thought is that it's because they've gotten closer -- but sadly it would seem it's nothing so mundane.

As Londo's forces hurry the launch over to their Halfbeak, ahead of Wistario and 598's pursuit, cracks start appearing in a nearby asteroid (one of those visibly tethered to Ratatoskr's core), closely followed by an absolutely gigantic blast of energy. The biggest beam weapon we've yet seen in IBO canon slams into the Halfbeak before deflecting off to slice a massive gash through the rock. Everyone scatters as something emerges from the rubble, loosing off dozens of the most adorable little guys imaginable.

Just look at them! I can only assume Dr Robotnik had a hand in designing this particular batch of plumas.

Because, oh yes, as Mendou realises to his utter horror, what's happening here is that a mobile armour has just reactivated and broken out of its prison within the Issue Family's sanctuary.

Oh, and it's the size of a battlecruiser.

OK, so first off, somebody has clearly been hitting the Gundam 79 juice. I see distinct traces of Elmeth in this thing, and in general it's aesthetics trend 'rockets and ray-guns' ala the Universal Century's Zeon stylings. Quite a departure from what we've seen before. I think I'll need to see it in action before I decide if I like it or not.

Secondly, Gundam Zagan makes quite the impression, albeit a surprisingly brief one. It's definitely in the 'freak' section of the number sequence (61) and showcases a lot of impressively brutal potential the leaves little doubt as to how the Issues ended up with the top seat at the table. Additionally, its proportions are distinctly broader compared to normal, hinting at the same adjustment of the frame that we see in Gusion's first in-series appearance. Nice to see that's not just a one-off.

Thirdly, everything has gone distinctly endgamey. Londo is off the board, Range is throwing himself bodily at his collection of death-flags, and Cyclase has begun his apotheosis (I do have a few notes regarding step #1). Even if this isn't quite the home stretch of the story, it's certainly got that 'exciting climax' feeling.

And here's the point where I grumble because bringing the Calamity War stuff this far to the forefront really doesn't do anything for me.

I feel bad for picking on this because I understand why you'd want it from a game mechanic point of view. The mobile armours are boss material, through and through, with very impressive visuals. However, this marks two activations in the months prior to Hashmal waking up on Mars (possibly two and a half, depending on how we count Mendou's encounter with plumas in the ice field), which seems excessive. Obviously this is going to be parcelled off from the main IBO plot such that nobody will look like a complete moron for being poleaxed when the world's most deadly Porygon tries to wipe Chryse off the map (except Iok who is, well, Iok). But it still feels like it should be a mite harder to trip over a mobile armour, even accounting for Gjallarhorn forgetting its original purpose.

It's also playing into my firm conviction that any hypothetical Calamity War prequel series would be 'standard Gundam fare' in ways Iron-Blooded Orphans largely eschews. Neither the show nor the Moon Steel manga deal with global wars or threats to the entirety of humanity. Hashmal is the outlier in that regard, deliberately out of context for the story. Mostly, the focus remains relatively small-scale and the mecha battles aren't solutions to the problems the story presents so much as messy, cruel consequences of an unjust system.

The mobile armours, by contrast, are robot monsters from the dawn of time that 100% need to die for the sake of the human race. I'm not opposed to that as a story hook in general, but it's less interesting compared to the things IBO has done before. Maybe it'll shake out into something engaging with Cyclase as a human component to the threat but I don't think I'll hold my breath on that: he's been a fairly straightforward sort of antagonist so far.

[houseofcatwic]

Thomas Theodor Heine - 'Die 11 Scharfrichter', 1901 .

[denk-weisen]

TRUMP UND HEIDEGGER

Es gibt eine Anekdote über den Philosophen Martin Heidegger (ich weiß nicht, ob sie wahr ist, oder ob ich sie richtig erinnere - Korrekturen mit Quelle sind willkommen) in der er den Philosophenkollegen Karl Jaspers besucht und von Hitler schwärmt. Auf die Frage hin, ob er wirklich glaube, dass ein so dummer Mensch wie Hitler Deutschland führen könne, antwortet Heidegger angeblich: “Ach was, dumm - schauen sie sich diese Hände an.”

Es geht mir bei dieser Anekdote nicht darum, Hitler und Trump zu vergleichen - sondern die Art und Weise, wie sehr viele Menschen auf ästhetische (oder müsste man sagen: anästhetische?) Wucht reagieren und jeden kritischen Verstand davon ausschalten lassen - sie himmeln lieber lechzend ihren bildgewaltig inszenierten lautsprechenden Scharfrichter an, der Leben zerstört, als dem leiseren Menschen zuzuhören, der konstruktive und kooperative Lösungen erarbeiten will.

Presse und soziale Medien sind heute voll der inhaltskritiklosen Lobhudelei für Trump, den Medienmanipulator - und das zeigt etwas, das nicht nur politisch ist:

Man bewundert die Leere der Macht mehr als die Fülle des Lebens

[korrektheiten]

Presseschau: Safari durch eine deutsche Tageszeitung

Ansage: »„Gericht fordert Stopp der Rafah-Offensive“, prangte auf der Titelseite “meiner” Tageszeitung, der “Badischen Zeitung“. Welches Gericht? Eines in Den Haag namens Internationaler Gerichtshof (IGH). Wer ist dieser „Scharfrichter“ über Israel? Ein Mann namens Nawaf Salam, der erst im Februar in den Sattel gehoben wurde und in diesem drei Jahre absitzen wird. Sein Name Salam lässt wortwörtlich […] The post Presseschau: Safari durch eine deutsche Tageszeitung first appeared on Ansage. http://dlvr.it/T7VjkT «

[archaeopath]

Humphrey Bogart war ein kompetenter Schachspieler. Er hielt in einer Simultanpartie gegen den Weltklassespieler Samuel Reshevsky remis. Zeitweise war er in der Leitung des Schachverbandes von Kalifornien tätig. ↑ https://www.chess.com/article/view/humphrey-bogart-and-chess ↑ https://www.chessgames.com/player/humphrey_bogart.html

[bizarrepotpourri]

The Red Widow of Katowice

In the Katowice prison at Mikołowska street, executions were performed by guillotine. The guillotine of Katowice spread fear not only among the people of Silesia, but also the executioners operating it. Headsman August Koestner committed suicide. It was the only one in occupied Poland and it constantly ran red with blood. Post-war history of this beheading machine is just as grim.

But first, the condemned from Upper Silesia, Cieszyn Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin were sent to Breslau. But there were so many convictions that it was more economic to erect a guillotine in the Katowice prison. It was placed in a one-floor red brick building adjacent to the main prison block. After the war, the chamber was demolished, but eyewitnesses relate that it was tiled with white ceramic tiles and the “Red Widow” was behind a black curtain. This name was not accidental - from October 9th, 1941 to January 22nd 1945, five hundred and twenty two people were beheaded in Katowice. It was still operating a mere few days before the Soviets reached the city. Only after that the Nazis tried to hide the guillotine - they burnt most of the documents, but lists of condemned, sometimes unclear, remained in the City Hall. The first victim was Józef Myrczek, 32-year-old bricklayer from Czechowice, but the second one was a woman - 31-year-old Rozalia Drewniak from Zywiec. After her, fifty three more women were beheaded. Not even the youth were spared - thirteen boys, at most 19 years old, were executed as well. Zygmunt Walter-Janke, the last commander of the Home Army in Silesia, knew well what the condemned felt. In his memoirs, he related the eyewitness accounts:

“The atmosphere of fear reached its peak every night between 10pm and 12am. At that time, the condemned were led to execution. Their clothes were taken away and they were given a paper shirt to wear. Before the execution, the condemned had their hair cut and their neck shaved. Handcuffed, they were led to the execution chamber.”

Konstanty Ostrowski, one of the authors of the 1983 joint publication “Nazi prisons in Silesia, Dąbrowa Basin and Częstochowa 1939-1945” wrote: “In the antechamber, a prosecutor and a doctor awaited the condemned. The prosecutor asked a formal question if the condemned had any last works. After the usual answer of “No” or “I’m innocent”, only the black curtain separated the condemned from the executioner. The prosecutor read the standard refusal of clemency, ending it with the words „Ich übergebe Sie dem Scharfrichter!” - you are now being handed over to the executioner. The black curtain parted, the headsman’s assistants quickly dragged the condemned to the bascule, placed his head in the lunette and tied him down to the bascule with ropes. Then, the headsman released the blade that dropped on the condemned’s neck from a height of seven feet.” Bodies of the people executed in Katowice were taken to KL Auschwitz for cremation.

The Nazis did not want to take the guillotine to the Reich nor leave it when they escaped the city in January 1945. They buried it at night where nobody was supposed to look - at the Bogucice cemetery - and destroyed the documents. The people of Katowice dug the guillotine up and secured it as a proof of the Nazi crimes. After that, it was kept for several years in the attic of the Katowice Headquarters of the People’s Militia (communist police). Nobody was interested in it, but finally it was found by a member of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crime in Poland after a prosecutor heard stories of the “Red Widow” in the attic. Authorities gave it to the Auschwitz museum where it was put in storage and almost forgotten.

[dave-ivanov]

Scharfrichter Live@FZW, Dortmund

[jwreinhold]

“My amma taught me many things,” Clementine said. “She had shelves of old dusty books and through the years I studied from almost every one of them. There were books about all sorts of things. Things that could be used to heal and things used for killing, and just about everything in between. Herbs. Plants. Animals.” “And there were other books, too,” Clementine continued. “Books that were strange to me then, but not so much now. They had stories about others, both creature and human-like, friendly and not so friendly. “Right. One of the books on others discussed some of the abilities I might come across as a Scharfrichter.” She smirked. “That’s a name my amma didn’t use for me then, but one that I am growing to like more and more. Ann Charles | Deadwood Undertaker #DeadwoodUndertakerSeries #NewDeadwoodUndertakerSeries #AnnCharlesandSamLuckyNewNovel #NewNovelDeadwoodUndertakerSeries #NEWNEWNEWNOVELDeadwoodUndertakerSeries #AnnCharles #SamLucky #AnnCharlesSamLucky #TheBacksideofHades #DeadwoodUndertakerbookfour #OldWest #Deadwood #HistoricDeadwood #BlackHillsSupernatural #EarlyGoldRushDaysSupernatural#GoldMiningCamp #SouthDakota #LawlessTownDeadwood #spookydeadwood https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6t6pvvImr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dilaneko]

Scharfrichter Mobius Final Fantasy 💚

Got this new EX job few days ago and I really need to draw him fast 😍

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Dark Eye Cover (Scharfrichter) by Luisa Preissler

[mikeorrmike]

Last official day of school! Scharfrichter! #scharfrichter#mobius#mobiusff#ff#finalfantasy#se#squareenix#mobiusfinalfantasy#mikeorrmike#tyorrty#exjob#wol#warrioroflight#wod#warriorofdespair https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXpkm2jq37/?igshid=1sh46djfeg2to