#There are a lot of Germans here

[amerasdreams]

ja ich bin nicht Deutsch, ich bin Amerikanerin aber

My ancestry is German so. I feel a connection to it. Also dad learned German in school (a little) and i learned some when i was a kid. He told me how his dad felt some persecution during World War I for being German. Still they kept ties to German heritage to the point they wanted dad to learn German in school. Now i am learning it!

[skitskatdacat63]

This is a special genre of f1 picture(to ME.)

[moonchild-in-blue]

Okay guys. I know some of you do in fact go there so. Help a girl out 🥺

Who is König, like. What's his deal? The mask cloth thingy? Is he shy or smth 🥺 like Mimikyu? Or is it a "face severely scarred and disfigured from war and now I must conceal the horror" type of thing? Why is he built like a smart fridge?

I'm vaguely aware of CoD (played it like a million years ago with a friend), and I vaguely know about Soapy Boy and Ghost Normal Name. What I'm actually interested in is whoever the hell Beefcake Cutiepie König is.

Much appreciated~ xoxo 💋💋💋

[coach-ukai-keishin]

soooo uhmmm I just think more people should give The White Vault a try because 👉👈 well. some people would love Graham Casner merch okay. And there isn't any. NONE!!!!! please.

[c-lion]

I was tagged by @stabbyfoxandrew to make a poll of my favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which my followers like the most!

No pressure tags: @thefluffiestbird @rapselsstuff @ninyard @kweenkday @sillyunicorn

[ugartecoco]

the way im so happy while most of the german population doesnt give a shit is so funny

[tjerra14]

Joining the hunt

[the-sparkling-diamond-satine]

was tagged by @gingerpeachtea to post my july receiptify!! thank you!

tagging: @falsestardust @twelverriver @ven10 @satinechristian and anyone else who wants to play!!

[marshmallowgoop]

There's a lot of talk about Heiji's tendency to drop everything and go to Tokyo to help—or even just to see!—Shinichi, and rightfully so. It's something Heiji unabashedly admits to (Episode 278, Magic File 5)...

Heiji: If any other suspicious persons show up, just call me! I'll run right over!

Ran: Hattori-kun saw that incident on the news and rushed over because he was worried about you, Conan-kun. Heiji: Grabbed the first bullet train in the mornin'!

And I still can hardly believe that Heiji's canon, actual, real-deal reaction to a request to put his life on the line and impersonate Shinichi... is an immediate "OK" composed out of heart emojis (Episode 345).

Seriously. That happened. Heiji couldn't not help.

Heiji (internally): I had no choice. After all, Kudo e-mailed me asking me to do this.

But in Shinichi's first appearance since being poisoned (Episode 49), after seemingly refusing to show his face to Ran or Inspector Megure or anyone else in town for who knows how long, he unabashedly claims that he dropped everything to meet Heiji. He smiles about it!

And of course it's a lie, but there's a smidgen of truth to it, too. Conan did accompany Heiji, despite feeling terribly sick and harboring zero interest in the (apparently) non-murderous case, because he was intrigued. Because he was impressed with what Heiji had uncovered about him already and was nervous about what else his so-called "rival" could reveal.

Conan (internally): I don't wanna go, but there's no telling what this guy might say!

But even without that context, Shinichi's easy, immediate cover story gets to me. He really, truly, unhesitatingly asserts that meeting Heiji was important enough to jump right on a train to get there.

It reminds me of Shinichi's excitement when he first learns of Heiji (File 520), and his grin when he thinks of meeting Heiji for real one day (File 522):

Shinichi: Really? Then he's just like me!

Shinichi (internally): We'll meet each other again... on that mysterious stage...

I think I could totally buy that Shinichi actually would have done exactly what he claims in the clip. He is interested in other detectives like himself, and with the pain of the antidote wearing off in Episode 49, that smile's gotta be genuine.

Finally, while it's Not That Deep, there's maybe something to be said about how Heiji is symbolically the key to Shinichi's true self, since it's Heiji's alcohol that transforms Conan back into Shinichi. With this clip, Shinichi underlines the same idea. It's Heiji who brought him back after so long. It's because of Heiji Hattori that Shinichi Kudo makes his first appearance after vanishing.

And I love how forthright Shinichi is about it.

[snifsnoof]

again with gasoline in your heart but this time its that scene where we get to meet königs family :)) fanfic "gasoline in your heart" by @whisperwarm on ao3

translation under the cut! <33

"klaus, we're late, lets go yes?" (come on, move it!)

the translation for the 2nd pic is already provided on the bottom right!! :DD

[tcfactory]

Listen, don't get me started on my feelings about stereotyping and cultural appropriation or all of that, because it would be long and rambling and probably not really in line with any popular opinions on the topic, which is just how it is sometimes and that's fine.

This is a small country. We've been conquerors and conquered and rose up and been conquered again. Our religion and much of our culture was eradicated over the last thousand years because it didn't gel with Christianity or whatever power was lording over us at the time. Other small countries are much closer to us at any time than some of you could ever imagine and over the course of history we sometimes traded bits of our culture, but more often than not we made stereotypes, sometimes harmless oftentimes not, about the people on the other side of the invisible line so we could set ourselves apart. This is us and that is them and it's fine if we found them strange or didn't understand their habits all that well, because we are different people and anyway they probably think the same about us.

And if all the world cares to know of our culture are the embroidered flower patterns of what used to be just one small subset, used as tacky decals in the completely wrong context, well. At least they cared to know something. At least there is something that can remain alive while the tourists from those bigger, richer, much more important countries think it's pretty enough for a souvenir. And maybe that guy there raving about the goulash recipe he loves wouldn't even eat a proper gulyás dish if you served him one, but at least he knows the word, kinda, right? Right?

And yeah, maybe that stings if you think too hard about it, but we are small and not much can be done about it and there's not much left to preserve after all this time. We try out best quietly anyway, because speaking up about it too loudly will invite the far right nazi-adjacent crowd, thumping their chests about a mythical, glorious Hungary of conquerors rather than conquered that haven't existed in centuries if ever.

...yeah, best not talk about those guys. Leave them no place to stand. They don't deserve to be here.

I'm fascinated by and a little envious of foreign cultures that, despite facing adversity, are still living, breathing things, because so much of my own has already become empty window dressing. We assimilated into the culture that is a wider Europe in the hope that being more like those richer, bigger, more powerful countries would compel them to spare some scraps from their table and yeah it fucking sucks. And we are not big or interesting enough for others to care, so it's all up to us to hold onto what we can.

And we are not alone in this. This seems to be the lot of the small and there's plenty of that here. We are in fair company.

[bonafidehero]

Photos I took of my pets as a child in the 90s

[mauraeyk]

just finished maxton hall... guess who's ordering the books bc she can't wait to know how it continues

[schafpudel]

Things about early drafts of Fakir I’m haunted by:

was referred to for an unknown period of production as “the black prince” (to Mytho’s “white prince“), including during the development of the 2001 trailer. (source) (source) (source)

machine translation of the last source: “Since the character of Fakir was still in the process of being set up, the "black prince" image that director Kawamoto had in mind at the time can be glimpsed in the [promo]. The deep V-neck was also in line with the concept.”

is presented as not just a (less tsundere and more, uh, aggressive) romantic option for Duck, but implied to be a romantic rival on the same level as Rue and Duck for Mytho’s affections in the 2001 trailer

production sketch of Fakir dancing with Rue, as Kraehe, when they have never once been on good terms in the actual final show: (source)

[bluespring864]

Thanks for tagging me @valkoinenlintu! Here are the last 10 songs I listened to (from memory, because I don't use streaming services and can't just check):

1. Maxim - Ich erinner mich an alles

2. Maxim - Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben

3. Giirl - Bloodshed

4. Elton John - Empty Garden (and the rest of the B side of that vinyl)

5. Billy Joel - Vienna

6. KT Tunstall - Old Man Song

7. Herbert Grönemeyer - Doppelherz

8. Cynthia Nickschas - Tanz!

9. Die Ärzte - Lasse reden

10. Die Toten Hosen - Der letzte Kuss

Tagging: @fritzes (thanks for the KT Tunstall obsession :D i will be making my way through all of their songs), @advantage-sinner (thanks for the Giirl recommendation!), @alwayshappyhoursomewhere, @all-my-worlds-a-stage, @chrisoels, @badgermcghee, @faeryaesther, @cricrithings (no pressure obviously, do it if you feel like it <3)

[nichtimhandelerhaeltlich]

someone here drives a beautiful KTM and I am so so jealous