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28 May 1998 - zooming through the Alsace and what Stuttgart Hbf was like before Stuttgart21

Thursday 28 May 1998

Bonjour a tout le monde!  Guten Morgen!

Today would be the day that I rode to Munich from Paris Gare de l'Est.  I already had my ticket in first class ready for the long journey on the "Mozart" Eurocity, which also went to Vienna via Salzburg.  My apartment room in Englschalking would not be available until 5 PM Friday afternoon, so I stayed a night in a hotel along Schillerstraße.

It was about 5:30 AM and the sun was about to rise in Paris' 11ème district.  Breakfast would not be ready until at least 6:45 AM.  I took a shower in a room in the hallway.  THen I went down the spiral steps of the hostel, and went for a walk along Rue Faubourg.  I made sure to take a photo of a 1970s Citroen DS hatchback.  Those DS series have a low hatch which makes their design interesting.

I returned to the hostel, ate breakfast, which was just a couple of breadrolls, butter, jam and coffee, went up to fetch my luggage, checked out and walked along Rue Trousseau to the Ledru Rollin metro station.  I had to take the westbound M8 train to République and change to the M5 for Gare de l'Est.  I went upstairs to the Grandes Lignes platforms and found the train for Munich and Salzburg.  I was in the rear car, that would be good in the long run, as the train would change direction in Stuttgart Hbf.  Note, in 1998, it was not common knowledge, that in the 2020's, an underground through station in Stuttgart Hbf would be built and replace the long distance platforms.  I had a little time to buy the latest "Canard enchaîné" humor newspaper, full of political cartoons.  Its contemporary publication competition is Charlie Hebdo, which has edgier cartoons.  

The train left about 7:50 AM.  I had my trusty Aiwa HS-JS 475 loaded with an audiocassette and two fresh AA batteries.  I tuned into NRJ 100.3 FM, and listened to it as long as I could retain the signal.  While the train passed Pantin/Ella Fitzgerald station heading to Noisy le-Sec, the Festival Roblès show played a parody of Nomads "Yakalélo", called "Yak de Lolo", a comedy song about going to a beach resort on Africa.  The train went along to pass by Meaux.  By that time, the radio was playing "La tribu de Dana" by Manau, a rap group from somewhere near St. Brieuc in Brittany.  I lost the NRJ signal somewhere about 20 km east of Meaux, but I managed to tune in another song.  There was an English-language song playing but I could not quite get the song title or artist.  The following song "tout n'est qu'un rêve" by Alias Lj, was in French.  The train sped up and maintained its speed until it arrived in Nancy.  The following stop was Strasbourg.  The train stopped to change locomotives, from the SNCF to DB.  It soon crossed the Rhine and crossed into Germany through Kehl Hbf.  There was no passport control between France and Germany, but there was a ticket check, which was not bad.  The staff had changed at Strasbourg.

The train did not go to Oldenburg, but went north through Baden Baden and stopped at Karlsruhe.  While I was recording some radio, I did not realize until days later, that I had accidentally recorded footage from the 29th of May 1998 on top of the footage I recorded on 28th May, effectively erasing it altogether.  I recorded part of a 29th May 1998 Voice of America AM broadcast, when Barry Goldwater, and actor Phil Hartman had both died the same day, imagine that.  I managed to stop, before arriving in Karlsruhe, when an original version of "Dreams" by The Corrs was playing, and later "Küssen Verboten" by Die Prinzen, a band from Leipzig in the former East Germany, with Sebastian Krumbiegel as lead singer.  Prior to 1991, they were called the "Herzbuben" or "Knaves of Hearts".    

Karlsruhe is an interesting city, especially for the trains.  If you remember the y = x^2 graph from algebra, this is kind of the track map of the Basel to Frankfurt via Mannheim, conceptually speaking.  Karlsruhe would be at the origin and to get to Baden Baden, you would be going west and then south.  Only in February 2022 did I visit Karlsruhe for a couple of days, and by then, the track orientation made sense.  Prior to that, it was confusing.  After leaving Karlsruhe, the train went a bit east, then north, and east again stopping in Pforzheim, then east again through Vaihingen (Enz) and ending up in Stuttgart Hbf, somewhere in the middle of the long distance train platform area, long before the Bonatzbau would be gutted to dig the new underground platform area, as a result of Stuttgart21.  While I was waiting for the train to change direction in Stuttgart, I tuned into 102.3 FM, which was called Z FM, long before it was renamed "The Eagle 102.3".  There was the Morning Show going on, and they were interviewing comedian Mark Curry.  It was funny.  Also, the song "Love's taken over" by Chanté Moore.  I think before Stuttgart21 draws to a close and the old surface tracks are dismantled, I will always remember "Love's Taken Over" from the time that long distance platforms at Stuttgart Hbf still existed.  Also the year before, Saturday 2nd August 1997, I had visited Stuttgart and bought a new point and shoot camera.  My Vivitar camera broke on Friday 1st August and could not take flash photography but it could do everything else.  I had to make do with the point and shoot camera until I bought the Samsung Evoca 115, a quantum leap ahead of the Vivitar, which could make a timestamp on film.

Eventually the train left Stuttgart Hbf and went to Ulm through Bad Cannstatt, Esslingen(Neckar) and Plochingen.  It was a bit slow but the scenery was nice.  Already in 2023, the section from Wendlingen to Ulm is now high speed and when Stuttgart Flughafen is complete, trains will go underground from Stuttgart Hbf, come out in tunnel partway, stop in the Flughafen underground station, and then go high speed to Ulm.  At least you can experience from my story, what life was like before Stuttgart21.  

The train stopped in Ulm.  Ulm until 2022 was the place where trains to Friedrichshafen and Lindau were required to change from electric to diesel.  Also, trains for Sigmaringen have their eastern terminus at a head platform or "Stumpfengleis" on DMU's, diesel multiple units.  The train left Ulm for Günzburg, Augsburg and eventually arrived in München Hbf.  I had my reservation at Hotel Helvetia on Schillerstraße, not far from the station.  The strange thing about the Hotel Helvetia, is that the lift has to be called from upstairs.  Years later that was changed.  The second floor, or the first floor in Europe as opposed to the ground floor, was where the reception was located.  I had a single room with a shared bath, for about 60 D-Mark, breakfast included.  In Euro that would be 30.00 €.  

Already I had a bank account in Munich, so I did not need to reestablish one.  This would be essential, for receiving monthly wage payments.  I had my ATM card with me, so I could withdraw funds as needed.  I went into town and rode the U Bahn around.  I have some stories about the 28th May 2018 which will say more about what I did that evening.  I remember there was a major exposition of gymnastics going on that weekend.

The next day I would go to the offices of the HomeExchange (do not remember right now the real name of the company) in Munich.  I would receive my key to the apartment in Englschalking and move in.  Hope you will join me for that.

Bonne Nuit!  Gute Nacht!

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A little more from the previous day that I wrote in 2018, you can tell how much time has passed since I had written this.

Hi everyone, Before I log off for the night, I wanted to give a quick overview of Wednesday 27th May 1998, exactly 20 years ago today.  It would be probably my shortest visit to Paris that I could remember, as on the 28th May I would be heading to Munich via Strasbourg and Stuttgart, and back then, it was an eight hour ride by train.   About 7:30 AM on the 27th, I arrived at CDG T1, rode the underground pedestrian link from the gate to passport control and baggage claim, took the bus to the RER station, took RER B to Gare du Lyon, took a  and line 8 metro to Ledru Rollin in the 11th arrondisement and left my luggage at the hostel.  I arrived there about 10:30 AM.  From there I went on to - metro ride to Nation, Gallieni to Porte des Lilas, Places des Fetes to Louis Blanc with the 7B as they use the MF88 stock - Centre Georges Pompidou and the Stravinski Fountain - Chatelet Les Halles - Notre Dame - took the RER C from Saint Michel to Champ de Mars / Bir Hakeim / Eiffel Tower - went farther on the RER C to Issy Val de Seine, transferred to the T2 - rode the T2 the entire route to Grande Arche de La Defense - took the RER A to Cergy Le Haut and found that was the only RER station that did not have fare gates at the time.  I took a photo of the view from Cergy Le Haut towards La Defense. - took the train back to CDG-Etoile, transferred to the Metro line 2 for Anvers, the southern end of Montmartre - Had a look at the Champs des Elysees, walked to the nearest line 8 train back to the hostel.  I was tired but felt I beat my jetlag or put a big dent in it.   I do not remember where I ate dinner that night.  But I had a good sleep and woke up early the next morning, made it to breakfast and caught my intended train to Munich from Paris Gare de l'Est without transferring. I have an album "Paris 27 May 1998" if you would like to see some of the photos I took.

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If Steve Harrington’s arc isn’t that he doesn’t need a romantic partner to depend on for happiness and a platonic soulmate like Robin can just absolutely be enough and he can still have that wife and kids eventually but he doesn’t need to hold onto it so hard and can just live in the present moment and focus on his friendships like Dustin and to my preference even platonically including Nancy and Jonathan but most prominently that his search for a soulmate has ended and it’s allowed to be Robin then I don’t know what I’ll do.

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File: 4.n0m4ly - The Cult of M’rohoj

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SCP: AIJ

Code Name: Bible of M’rohoj

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-AIJ is contained at Site-AR within the Level 3 archives within the Cognito-Hazard Section. It is locked within a standard Para-Hazard Book lock case to prevent SCP-AIJ from unleashing its anomalous effects and quite possibly infusing it into other anomalous books within the section. Any testing must be approved by at least one Level 4 Clearance Staff member or higher and be provided with standard Anti-Cognitohazard Goggles before handling SCP-AIJ. Anyone who takes SCP-AIJ while disregarding either of these requirements is to be executed, there will be no exceptions. In the event of a containment breach SCP-AIJ is to be guarded by Foundation security and AFA-2 units who regularly guard the Level 3 Archives.

All SCP-AIJ instances found in the wild are to be scanned and destroyed immediately. Afterwards the current SCP-AIJ within Foundation custody is to be updated or replaced entirely with a new book that has both the old and new information and scriptures.

Description: SCP-AIJ is a bible of the religion worshiping the chaos god of nightmares known as M’rohoj created by the Group of Interest of the same name. Though originally it was hard to say so as what is within SCP-AIJ is merely random pictures of mutant moths and insects. There are what appears to be descriptions in certain pages, but the words look no different to scribbles. However, all the images and words are visual based Cognito-Hazards, that brainwash the viewer upon contact. It varies between victims, as some only need to view the book for 5 minutes while others only become under its effect after 1 hour of viewing and thus can easily avoid brainwashing. Regardless, once the victim is under the effect, they will become slaves to the will of M’rohoj.

Those who become enslaved by SCP-AIJ’s influence will begin to construct churches, totems, and charms in honor of M’rohoj. These trinkets and totems normally never look similar to one another. This is meant to represent the nature of M’rohoj, who is supposed to resemble a giant moth, but aspects of his form are constantly changing. Normally these items crafted by victims are not anomalous at first but as time goes one they do have the potential to become anomalous items. However, this is merely a side effect and not the true end goal of SCP-AIJ’s scriptures. 

SCP-AIJ instructs its victims to kidnap victims and have them exposed to its Cognito Hazardous pages. Once there are enough victims they will start sacrificing each other in rituals that will allow them to be mutated by M’rohoj. This ritual normally requires the victim be wrapped around in any available material that can wrap around their body and allow them to suffocate in it. Plastic wraps seem to be the most preferred material, though there are various other ways this can be done such as locking them in a room and flooding it with toxic gas.

After the victim has died they will either immediately or eventually turn into monsters that resemble giant moths. It should be noted these creatures typically have one or more characteristics that are unrecognizable to the species and even considered grotesque. However, the result is not always a moth, sometimes the victims will mutate into something that more greatly resembles a spider or horrific monstrosity with hundreds of legs. Granted for every 20 victims there is only 1 that actually completes the transformation while a majority of the other’s die. The creatures that survive birth are typically called SCP-AIJ-Moth and SCP-AIJ-Spider instances. 

SCP-AIJ-Moth instances are the moth creatures earlier described, they are giant monsters that fly around and typically eat livestock and sometimes the people they come across. They do not rely on stealth as they are not only strong but desire to be seen by as many people as possible. Their goal is to cause panic, paranoia, and confusion among the public, the resulting chaos to feed M’rohoj. 

SCP-AIJ-Spider instances are the soldiers of the cult and great protectors of churches that house SCP-AIJ as well as the SCP-AIJ-Moth instances. They will guard sacred areas typically pretending to be statues and totems until their victims get close. They will gladly sacrifice themselves to ensure SCP-AIJ and SCP-AIJ-Moth instances are protected from all threats. Though they are called Spiders the truth is that they possess far too many legs to be actual arachnids nor do they possess webbing organs or any other organs for that matter. They are merely blobs of tendrils and arachnid-like legs that sting and poison whoever they come across.

Once the church has created a steady supply of SCP-AIJ-Moth and SCP-AIJ-Spider instances to the point there are only a few members left, the next stage begins. The survivors will use their remaining time alive to disregard everything else to create more SCP-AIJ instances until they all die. These new copies of SCP-AIJ are then to be left within the church alongside the bodies in hopes that unsuspecting victims will find them and start a whole new cycle to further feed M’rohoj.

SCP-AIJ was discovered in 2002 when police of [data expunged] within Ontario, Canada found a church containing mutated dead bodies and copies of SCP-AIJ after looking for missing high school students. Once it reached the higher government, the Foundation took over the operation and had all other law enforcement stand aside. Unfortunately, several officers and investigators were reported acting weird and thus had to be turned into Foundation custody for studying. After SCP-AIJ was found it was revealed they were under its effects.

They were able to read the gibberish words within the books and tried to encourage Foundation researchers to let them work. It was thanks to them that the full nature of SCP-AIJ was exposed, though unfortunately all amnestic, memetic, and Cognito Hazard relief treatment wasn’t working so they had to be executed later. The cover story was that they encountered a psychotic cult and were killed along with the high school kids; all four still haven’t been found. The bodies were later destroyed and the church's dismantled with only a few trinkets and totems given to the police force to further sell the cover story, the rest remained with the Foundation. 

However, in 2004 within [data expunged], Thailand a similar scenario was found with more copies of SCP-AIJ. Shockingly these copies, the churches, and mummified corpses of failed experiments show they were much older to the point that they could be decades old. This unfortunately means that SCP-AIJ has already spread around the world and could be anywhere in the world, growing like an unseen cancer. It is for this reason SCP-AIJ is labeled Object Class Keter. Mobile Task Force Demeter-8 “Bug Zappers” is responsible for finding any clues to more SCP-AIJ instances to scan them and destroying them as soon as possible.

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Data reduction/calibration programs will be like is anyone gonna open ten thousand individual windows while running and not wait for an answer

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[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

july 2024 savanaclaw + 4koma manga updates

There's no Episode of Octavinelle chapter this month! It should also be noted that the next chapter for the Episode of Savanaclaw won't be out until DECEMBER. With that news out of the way, let's get into this month's updates ^^ (It's a lot of me screaming)

Aaaaaah, I'll never get over how pretty this mangaka draws Leona's eyes and hair 😳 LIKE LOOK AT THAT HEAD TURN BACK SHOT, DOES HE NOT LOOK LIKE HE'S A MODEL MAKING A TURN ON THE CATWALK???? ?? ? ????? ? ?? Vil... eat your heart out 🤡 (This probably is not what I should be focusing on in a chapter full of action and high stakes qwegkuvqwoevqwdsa)

The way the other characters are reacting to Leona's UM really lets us see how powerful King's Roar is! You can see how their bodies are being pushed back by the sandstorm, how they're physically bracing themselves against it (like Riddle, Ace, and Grim) or even having their vision obscured and struggling to breathe in the new dry environment (like Deuce).

I didn't share them here, but we also see Leona blowing through many Savanaclaw mobs. The sheer magnitude of power on display is really amazing--and I can see why his UM sparks fear in others.

AYO RUGGIE YOU GO He leaps at Leona and attaches himself to his dorm leader in an attempt to try and get him to stop...

(Warning: lot of barking incoming)

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It's not like seeing Ruggie in this state is anything new; the dialogue hints at it in the game and the light novel also has an illustration of Ruggie with his skin cracking from Leona's UM. It's just... something about seeing it depicted across multiple frames + the sheer desperation in Ruggie's face (and the close-ups, MAN, the close-ups) really amplifies the emotions.

THIS IS LITERALLY THE SASUKE CHOKE MEME, ID ON'T TKNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR TO CRY OR TO BE WORRIED FOR TRUGIGIE

MAYBE ALL THREE 😭😭😭

DAHLBEFQBOUFQEYVIQEFYFQEBIPFOA But also there's a part of me screeching about L*ona gripping your neck like that while glaring at you like you're garbo 🤡

Here's the part where Riddle attempts to collar Leona and fails. Again, I MUST stress how well this mangaka draws Leona's hair and eyes, they are UNMATCHED.

OKAY FIRST IT WAS HUGGING RUGGIE'S NECK, NOW YOU'RE GRIPPING HIM BY THE HAIR????? Leona's handling the perceived traitor so callously 💦 The way Ruggie is looking back up at him, too... Caught up in Leona's shadow and glaring at him with such defiance... declaring that he will never EVER give up.., contrasted with how broken and empty Leona looks before he lets go of Ruggie... telling him to just give into despair… It's a lot of complicated feelings going on right now. As the Savanaclaw light novel elucidates, Leona was afraid of his own dorm members looking to him for leadership, afraid that they would make him hopeful again--because he expects to be let down like he has all those other times he tried to prove his merits. Now everything leading up to this point has proven him right, toppled that hope he had built up because he let himself be taken in by the starry eyed students under him, Ruggie included. AND NOW LOOKING AT RUGGIE, ON THE GROUND AND IN DESPAIR, IS A REFLECTION OF LEONA'S OWN FEELINGS... BUT HE WON'T LET HIMSELF CRY OR BE WEAK LIKE THAT 💀

WOW UH This feels really different from how the same "Leona tried to sand Ruggie" scenes played out in other interpretations of TWST. Here, we more clearly see that, despite the interruption of Riddle trying to collar Leona (which made Leona drop Ruggie for a second), LEONA JUST TURNS RIGHT BACK AROUND AND FULLY COMMITS TO SANDING RUGGIE????? That's so stone cold 😭 Look at the lack of care in Leona's eyes???? They're so blank, he has entirely given up :((

What a way to end a chapter...

Now for a complete tonal shift--

This month's 4koma (there's only one "segment") stars Sebek, who is receiving praise from Crewel for having the top exam score! Ace and Sebek proceed to work on Enigmics/Magic Analysis together. They are stated to share this class together in the game, so that's a consistent bit of lore for ya! In the end, Sebek's able to pull a transportation spell by visualizing where Malleus is. He earns an apple from Crewel for being a "good boy"!! Sebek is then asked to teleport the apple to Malleus and Lilia to demonstrate his mastery of the skill, but accidentally teleports a ton of them.

That's it for this month! A little less content than usual, but still quite substantive. We're getting down to the wire; soon we'll see both Leona and Azul's OBs!!

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