#but then i chose to do German

[mishkakagehishka]

I think "whatever a woman chooses to do is feminist on account of the fact that she's a woman" did awful things for the movement. I really do.

[sketchy--akechi]

that coffee date scene where akira was like "come here" and leaned in to mess up akechi's hair and disguise him? i want yall to know that for a split second i was convinced our man joker was gonna kiss him right there and then

[lichtecht]

thank you for tagging me in this post @rosetintedgreyspaces

share nine of your favourite books

i found it really hard to decide on 9 favourite books for some reason. they didn’t feel „special enough“. but these are books that are important to me and that i associate specific memories with :)

tagging (with no pressure); @is-this-taken-too-questionmark @padmedala @michameinmicha @desthelovely @cnka @chrisoels but obviously you can join if you feel like it

[mrs-gauche]

One year ago to the day, BioWare decided to casually drop the title of DA4 on a random thursday evening at exactly 7pm CET. With a single tweet.

How do I remember the date and time so precisely? Well, I had a very important appointment on June 2nd.. 7pm 2022... and I vividly remember the moment I looked at my phone that day, and everyone being super confused and going nuts over this random leak saying that, for some reason, the title would be revealed in exactly two hours... and I just looked up at the sky, yelling at the universe

“Out of all the times, why had it to be TODAY at 7PM, BIOWARE???”

[thasorns-moved]

make a list of songs starting with each letter of your username

was tagged by: vish @puppy-phum and with a similar game by bru @pondsphuwin and linnea @gawincaskey thank you so much lovelies. It was fun and interesting to hear your choices <3

t: the color violet - tory lanez

h: holding on - ali gatie

a: addicted - pixy

s: stay with me - sf9

o: obsessed - ayumu imazu

r: remember my name - mitski

n: nur ein wort - wir sind helden

s: slay - everglow

tagging: @loveisactivated @jimmysea @itsallaboutbl @yakdee

[joosts-girl]

Drawing Joost for college but not being able to share the drawings on Tumblr

[tariah23]

They’re calling my baby Gojo, Joseph Joestar now

[georgia-stanway]

Starting to think that going to London (without my wheelchair) in the middle of trying to do my coursework was maybe not the best idea I've ever had.

[chevvy-yates]

When I'm back home I have to look into lore books again about Benelux Union and the Netherlands. I think I've read parts of the Netherlands are under water. This is why I chose mainly Amsterdam for Thyjs' birthplace.

I'd like for him that he lived in Noordwijk during his childhood and/or teens. The place looks so nice.

But since he's also a soldier to the bone I've read the royal army has its headquarters in Utrecht. I know it is not necessary to stay this close to reality but I'd like it to be. So I may ponder about it for a while or keep in mind when I start Thyjs backstory.

I can see Thyjs lived in Amsterdam maybe for a bit or had to be there for some reasons for a time being but I do not see him as a big city guy. Amsterdam is nice but a very big city (somehow I did not remember that?) I picture him mostly as a young boy bicycling around in the fields and dunes like Noordwijk, spending time in the grass, Looking at flowers, watching ducks swimming in the small grachts everywhere or just spending time at the sand beaches feeling the wind blowing around him.

And then he gets to be a soldier, somewhere further inland. Fields, forests. Etc.

[respondedinkind]

So I do this on EVERY single one of my Khan blogs ever since having them: This is german speaking Khan and I want to show him to you because the german sync is actually VERY good and they gave Khan an amazing voice (one that beneflubber cumbernoddle also gets in D.r. Str.ange btw! it's his main voice actor now) and I just. I think it's beautiful and everyone should witness german speaking Khan.

Oh, and german speaking Kirk too for obvious reasons.

[samsalems]

I have once again fallen victim to Tiktok making a song seem so much more promising than it actually is

[the-cookie-of-doom]

So I've been watching Call Me By Fire and this show is batshit but it's also so fun and wholesome??

[spacebell]

im starting my yearly birthday existential crisis week early

[mishkakagehishka]

No matter how bad it gets i just gotta remember. Thank God i took Italian instead of German in middle school

[deadlydelicious]

God I did my whole first term masters theory on the Degenerate Art Exhibit so this is a special interest area of mine that gets me fired up.(and its why I am so aggressively pro ‘absolute art’ (aka the idea that anything is art) and so anti ‘modern art is bad’) because no fucking joke - ‘modern art is bad and useless’ is core fascist ideology. its literally one of their first building blocks facists lay down to route out ‘undesirables’ when taking over a culture.

So the Degenerate Art in Nazi Germany was both a label handed out by the Ministry of Propeganda against certain artists, and an actual exhibition staged by the Nazis. The exhibition toured over the years, but the first was held in 1937, and in the years leading up to it, the ministry of propeganda seized THOUSANDS of artworks. People talk about the Nazis burning books and stealing art, but they tend to think of the stolen art in terms of the Nazi plunder (aka hi-value art pieces being stolen from Jewish families or invaded countries and being distributed to party officals) but they forget that the Nazi's stole and destroyed thousands of artworks from living artists because they either saw the artists or the subject of the artwork itself as 'entartet' (degenerate). Officals from Goebbels Minstry of Propeganda oversaw the removal of hundreds of works of art from museums across the invaded territories throughout the war, and the raids of artists studios to steal and destroy art and arrest artists. Some of what wasn't destroyed was exhibited in the Degenerate Art Exhibit.

The exhbition was held in 1937 in Munich, and it was essentially the art equivalent of a 'freak show', as in ‘come look at these degenerate examples of art’, or ‘come look at the art made by degenerates’, to show Germans the stupid frivolous nature of art and build their case that modern artists were an economic drain and a danger to the pure ideal of Germany. The Nazis also hosted another exhibit across the street at the same time called the Great German art exhibition, which held all the neoclassical style art create by the Nazis offical artists, to show good Germans what proper art was.

Now why they showed the art is for a couple of reasons. You have to keep in mind that pre-nazi Weimar Germany was sort of a cultural hub for modern artists, so there were a lot of them, and it was also a country expiriencing MASSIVE economic issues, so the goal was to make these artists feel like the enemy - to say modern art was expensive and ridiculous. It was also importantly a move to try and silence a large portion of artists who were VERY traumatised by WW1 and were trying to depict that trauma through art, which the Nazi's hated because it ruined the image of the 'strong but wronged' German soldier they were trying to push in an effort to kick start their hostile takeover of Europe. Artists like Kathë Kollwitz creating memorials depicting grieving parents rather than matryed heros, or Ernst Balach depicting WW1 soldiers as emaciated terrified young boys huddling in the shroud of death didn't really back up Hitlers vision of the great German Ubermensch. Images and ideas that were seen to weaken the image and integrity of Germany and were therefore a threat to the powerful German state.

A lot of the artists who had their work seized spent the rest of the war being closely monitored by Goebbels men, with their ability to purchase art supplies or create art almost entirely denied, and some of them were arrested as political prisoners.

The V&A museum has a PDF of the full inventory of degenerate art avalibile online here

and I highly urge people to explore the work of the artists who had their work siezed, artists like Ernst Barlach, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Karl Schwesig, Otto Dix, Emil Nolde, and of course Kathë Kollwitz (who may or may not be my favourite artist of all time). They had their legacies destroyed by the actions of a fascist state, and they deserve for their art to be admired and remembered. As artists, legacy is often everything. Disrespect a Nazi today by honoring the legacy and voice of someone they wanted you to forget

Stop using the word degenerate to mean horny challenge

[schadenfreudich]

Wolfgang, while walking: Franz *points downwards* Franz *point further downward*

Me: I'm not that short!

Wolfgang: *now pointing at a drain* Franz

Me: Nicht in den Abguss! (not into the drain!)

Wolfgang: In den Gully mit dir! (in the drain with you!)