#ff hamburger

[miiints-repostiory]

Yuri day ended 4 hours ago but time is fake and the days only change when I go mirmir /silly

[tardis--dreams]

Why

[paulandjohn]

@pauls1967moustache I’m glad you wrote this lol because I absolutely agree.

also, i know it was probably bc of the post-hamburg tensions and paul getting a job, and john saying threats recreationally, but if i was paul, and john got his other best friend who i was jealous of to play bass in our band, and then stu never took it seriously enough to actually learn to play well, and then john and george made me replace stu on an instrument i didn't even want to play, and then john threatened to kick me out of the band for not knowing how to play it properly yet and george acted like this was justified, i would've gone maxwell's silver hammer on their asses. i would've done to them what paul did to those poor frogs.

[wandringaesthetic]

I keep on trying to make a post on FFXVI, but in order to write something that's worth the breath I have to start

"In order to talk about Final Fantasy XVI I have to talk about the Final Fantasy series as a whole"

I then I write like a paragraph and then I'm like "I cannot do this right now and am not sure if I should ever"

[janesurlife]

Carlos ffs just cook the guy a hamburger 😭

[thelastaerie]

Post-canon multi-chapter FF fics:

The Berlin Chapter - Takes place two years after Free Fall. A special work assignment sends Marc to Berlin, after he finds out Kay has been living there. Kay enjoys his new life in Berlin and is in a budding relationship with a prominent politician, while Marc is determined to convince Kay to give him a second chance, he still has his whole life back in Ludwigsburg.

A Spotless Mind - This takes place about a year after the original film. Separated from Bettina and feeling alienated in his unit, Marc asks for a transfer to Stuttgart, he is still battling the depression caused by Kay's departure and a drinking problem... one day, he finds Kay working in a bar near where he lives... Though this is another "Fix it" fanfic, it has a twist which some may find implausible, but I have this idea that wouldn't go away, so I thought I'll try to reunite Kay and Marc under different circumstances.

Parting Words - This is a post Canon fic set 10 years after the movie. Marc is now a Sergeant in Berlin’s criminal investigation police department (KriPo), balancing a promising career and a busy dating life. Even though the one regret in his life remains, Marc believes he has moved on - or so he thought until he sees Kay again by chance on the train one morning. Just like before, seeing Kay unravels Marc’s life. It doesn’t help that Kay seems to be doing a disappearing act. Their paths cross when a work-related opportunity presents itself, they soon find out how much has changed and how much has remained the same between them.

Winter Bird - A post-canon short story set between 2-3 years after the original movie ending. Marc tries to move on; he thinks Kay has moved on, so it shouldn’t matter when Frank tells him where Kay is, should it? But soon regrets and memories keep calling, Marc decides to go looking - a trip which could turn out to be a fateful one - for the road to redemption is paved with perils.

The Confessional - This is a post-canon short story.

Leaving Ludwigsburg, his police career and Marc Borgmann behind, Kay Engel decides to have a new career and a new life. His phone number isn’t new but at least he has the sense to block Marc’s number. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Except Marc doesn’t seem to care that Kay isn’t listening. He has made a habit of leaving one-sided messages, treating Kay’s phone like a confessional…

Alternate Universe (AU) multi-chapter FF fics:

Doppelpass - AU story based on Free Fall characters, set in the world of professional football/soccer league in Germany (Bundesliga).  Star attacking midfielder Marc Borgmann has two goals this year: winning the league title and Player of the Year award, until Kay Engel enters his life and makes him questioning everything in his life.  A rising star in League 2, Kay Engel has a secret he has to keep and falling in love with his new team captain is not his idea of a career move.

Doppelpass: How to Solve a Problem Like Mario - Marc and Kay are living their new life in Hamburg. Marc is the manager of St. Pauli football team who has just been promoted to Bundesliga top league. He begins to notice that one of his players, Mario Lüthi, seems to be harbouring a secret; and has taken an interest in meeting Kay.  Set in the “Doppelpass” serie universe, this is a slight crossover with the characters from the movie “Mario” (2018), although you do not need to watch “Mario” to follow this story.

Doppelpass: Christmas coda - Doppelgänger - This little Christmas chapter takes place after Doppelpass’s last Chapter but before the Epilogue.  This is soon after they have moved to Hamburg, when Marc is getting his football management pro licence and Kay is attending university.  In Kay’s POV - Marc and Kay discuss how to spend their Christmas.

Running on Empty - This is a AU story based on Freier Fall/Free Fall characters. Plus a few original characters.  For Marc Borgmann, life is good. He’s about to get married, the security company he co-owns finally hits the big league, landing a lucrative contract to protect prominent businessman, Wenzel Wolff. What he isn't expecting is Wenzel's aloof and ambitious executive assistant, Kay Klossner, who seems to be hiding a secret or two, of who he really is - someone from Marc’s past.  Kay Engel thinks he has the best-laid plans. He is so close to the truth now, all he needs is a bit more time. What he isn't expecting is his first crush, Marc Borgmann, reappearing in his life again, stirring up feelings Kay thought he has long given up.  Marc sees himself as a protector, but he has no idea who he might end up protecting.

Wanderlust - “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” - Marc meets Kay, a charming stranger, during a holiday in a Far East city. And allows himself to break a few rules along the way. It’s okay, Marc thinks. Because they will never see each other again. Right?  Until one day Kay turns up in Marc’s place of business... This is an AU story with Free Fall characters. A semi holiday romance with a closeted bisexual man who is good with his hands, a photographer who is often prettier than the subjects he photographs. And a chocolate Labrador with separation anxiety.

Take Me Home - An AU story based on Free Fall characters.

Sole heir of a large family business empire, Marc Borgmann is used to his jet-set high life. He has deals to make, plans to execute and goals to achieve. He also has a secret. But don’t worry, he already has a solution for it. It’s all under control - he has an agreement with his ambitious girlfriend. Marc likes rules and he follows them. Until he meets Kay Engel on a flight from Berlin to New York, who breaks rules for fun, leaves napkins with cute cartoons everywhere he goes and Marc can’t seem to get rid of him. Or does he really want to? This is more than opposite attracts, this is Kay turning Marc’s world upside down.

The Wayward Son - An AU story based on Freier Fall characters.

Marc has just joined the famous Berlin LKA, his police career is looking up. All he needs now is to meet the right woman, get married, have 2.3 children and a house of their own. The night he meets Bettina, he thinks he has hit the jackpot, she’s perfect. But Bettina isn’t the only one Marc meets that night. There is also this mysterious stranger named Kay Engel who says weird things to Marc and two hours later, he’s working with Marc and his colleagues on a big kidnapping case. Marc befriends Kay over the course of the investigation, soon he finds out the life he planned for himself might not be what his heart really wants…

Canon-Divergence multi-chapter FF fics:

Say Something - This is a canon-divergence fic that starts from and diverts from the original film after the scene when Marc hits Kay. With additional characters.  It is still a “fix-it” story. I’m just trying to explore some “what if” scenarios where the trajectory of the story changes, Kay and Marc make different decisions etc.

Day Zero - This is a canon-divergence story with the assumption that Bettina hasn’t found out about the fake night shifts - so Marc’s affair with Kay remains a secret, even though he has broken up with Kay.  The story starts from Marc returning home after giving the key back to Kay.

Nightswimmers - This is a canon-divergence story. It follows the original film version right up to the forest scene where Marc flees after his first sexual encounter with Kay.

What if Kay never got transferred to Marc’s unit? In this story, they meet five years later in another city. Marc is still with Bettina and their son is five years old. Kay has left the police force and now working as a paramedic.  Marc never forgets Kay and what happened between them has stirred up something in him, although he is still repressing his feelings, he finds ways to cope with it. But seeing Kay again changes everything again.

Once upon a time, chasing after Marc was Kay’s number one goal. But a shattering experience one night has changed his life forever. He thought the chance is lost before it can begin. But seeing Marc again… could this be his second chance?

Canon-Divergence one-shot FF fics:

Someplace New - A one-shot canon divergence. Part of the writing challenge on scenario: Marc returns to Kay’s apartment and Kay is still there.  This is written in both Frank and Marc’s POV

The Key on the Ledge - This is a one-shot Canon-Divergence. Marc goes back to Kay's apartment  as Kay is just leaving.  

Extended scene/missing scene one-shot FF fics:

Ambush - Extended scene and my take on the “Don’t you get it? I love you” scene from the original film.

The Day He Gave Me His Key - Just my musings on the scene when Kay gave the key to Marc. Marc’s POV

A One-off / Ein Ausrutscher - Mostly canon but with added missing scenes. It is the period soon after Marc’s son was born but before Kay got caught  during a police raid.

The Offer - My take on the scenes when Kay offers to go *jogging* with Marc and their encounter in the woods, with additional made up scenes.

*Updated summary of my marc x kay fanfics ❤️

[lamia-lmiae]

....just...just don't localize names. Translation notes and pronunciation guides are a thing and people need to learn to use them. Fucks sake.

in general, I don't mind that the state of localising names from japanese seems to have stalled out somewhere around a forever-argument about honorifics, if only because it pushed the argument away from "should we localise names into more familiar ones?" which is currently where chinese translation finds itself

[trainsinanime]

The shapes of railway networks

A while ago @ariadsishereagain asked me about countries that have no railway networks, and what I think of them. That's a fascinating question that has been in my mind ever since, because the truth is you can tell a lot about a country and in particular it's history during the 19th and early 20th century by its railway network. So let's do that. And the best way to do that is by looking at the incredibly detailed open-source world railway map OpenRailwayMap, a part of the OpenStreetMap project. I really recommend it! And let's start with one of my favorite examples of how railway networks differ:

At this zoom level the site sadly only shows incomprehensible internal abbreviations rather than city names, so let me explain: What we have here are France and Germany, along with some of the UK and Italy, some of various neighbouring countries and all of Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.

France and Germany are the ones that I find the most interesting, because the shapes of their networks are so different. Not only is the german one much more dense, but you can see completely different patterns.

In France, the job of railroads is to bring people to Paris (PLY, short for Paris Gare de Lyon) The lines stretch out into every part of the country, but almost all of them converge onto mainlines going into Paris. You can see some lines along the coasts and the borders, and there is a medium distances circle around Paris (passing MZ, DN, TO, short for Metz, Dijon, Tours). This whole pattern is known as the Legrande Star, after Baptiste Alexis Victor Legrande, the french government official who designed it. His goal was to provide great access to Paris, the nation's undisputed political, cultural and economical centre. A couple of decades later, Charles de Freycinet added plans to connect all departments to the railway network, but he still followed the idea that the ultimate goal of almost every rail line was Paris. And so it was, and largely remained. Even the high speed lines, in red, follow this pattern to this day.

A result is that you will have to go to Paris whether you want to or not. Lille-Strasbourg? You're going through Paris. Bordeaux-Dijon?

You're going through Paris, and get to make your own way from Gare Montparnasse to Gare de Lyon on the Metro (and it isn't even a direct metro, you have to change trains). It's a massive detour but it's not like you have a choice.

Even if there is a direct TGV or a connection outside the main stations of Paris, you're still ending up very much near Paris; the difference is just that you're not going via the city centre, but rather via Disneyland. Legrande wanted to bring people to Paris; he was less concerned about connecting other places with each other.

Now compare Germany, and you will see a network that is more dense, but most importantly, utterly chaotic. You can see hints of a France-like star around Berlin (BSPD, short for Berlin Spandau, which isn't the most important station but what can you do), but it's really only dominating its immediate surroundings, the region of Brandenburg. You can see vague hints of a similar star around Hamburg (AH; don't ask) or Munich (MH), but also a massive tangle around the Rhine-Ruhr industrial area (around KD), or around the Frankfurt am Main area (FF). Red high speed lines are essentially random. Some of them do go to Berlin, sure. But many, like the one from Cologne to Frankfurt (KD to FF) or the one from Hanover (HH) south, do not.

And that really reflects the history. Germany wasn't a unified country when railroad construction began, and even though it did unify shortly thereafter, there's no hiding that its different parts developed separately, with no central planning, ever since the middle ages. Germany doesn't have a single central city like France. Berlin is the biggest and most important city, but not by far. Hamburg has huge cultural and industrial influence, Frankfurt is the most important financial centre and airport, Munich is huge, and there are agglomerations like the Rhine-Ruhr region that used to beat all of them in terms of industry. And the rail network, with no single central focus point, reflects that.

That doesn't mean Germany doesn't have its own blind spots. Due to being split in two, the east-west links aren't great. Getting e.g. from Cologne (near KD) to Dresden (DH) is pretty painful. Ironically, Berlin is one of the places that really suffers from this. There are plenty of trains to it from Cologne but they take forever, and you can see why: A lot of the route isn't high speed, it's just more or less upgraded normal lines. If you have a single destination, then it's easy to build all the lines there. If you want high-speed connections between everything, that's more difficult. (Also, our government isn't investing anywhere near enough into the rail network, both compared internationally and on its own terms, but that's a different issue)

Other countries in Europe tend to be somewhere between the extremes. Spain is fairly centralised around Madrid.

The UK is just as focused on London as France is on Paris, but it has strong regional networks around Leeds and Sheffield, and the weirdness in Scotland (four different lines between Glasgow and Edinburgh and counting!).

Italy, especially south of the Po valley, almost looks like a ladder: Lines are either on the one side of the Apennines or the other, with a few brave ones crossing through.

This works overseas as well. Describing the continental US as "like Germany" is certainly going to raise some eyebrows, but the map doesn't lie:

It's all on a completely different scale, but it's also a federal country with no one single clear centre. Yes, New York and Los Angeles are big and important, but neither is an all-powerful centre of the nation. What's fun about the US is that it's almost gradient-like: The more west you go, the fewer the railroads get. You can also nicely see the Alleghenies by the shadow they cast: Just a few brave rail lines managed to make their way through or around. Other characteristic items are the huge tangle that is Chicago, the closest thing the US has to a railroad capital; and the many places where lines are almost duplicated (just count how many different ways you can get from Chicago to Memphis, or Chicago to Cleveland), thanks to different competing railway companies that all hated (and sometimes still hate) each other's guts.

So that's what's mostly considered the "western world" or "industrialised world". I skipped Japan, China and India because the post is going to get too long no matter what, but they're all fascinating as well.

But if we go away from there look at countries where the colonialism was less settlers and more exploit mostly from afar, we see another very odd pattern emerge, like here in sub-saharan Africa:

The selection is somewhat arbitrary because you can find the same pattern everywhere south of the Sahara, and in one case (Mauretania) even in the Sahara: A railroad that goes straight to the coast. (The isolated sections inland are due to issues with the map software, they're all connected to one of the lines to the coast)

This kind of railroad is designed to extract a country's resources, and not much else. In Mauretania (not in this picture), that's iron ore. Elsewhere it might have been other ores, precious metals, gemstones, but also very often agricultural products, spices, dyes. The railway line exists to take these things, and bring them to a port. The line is not designed to actually help the nation grow economically. Think about it: All things being equal, you're probably just as likely to want to go parallel to the coast as perpendicular to it.

Also, each of these lines were built because there's something interesting at the end of it, or at least someone suspected there might be. If you wanted to develop the area, it would make sense to trade the interesting stuff in Togo with the interesting stuff in Benin. But the railway lines are not set up for that at all. The goal is to get the interesting stuff to a ship, and occasionally soldiers to the place where the interesting stuff comes from.

These days, the area that I screenshotted here is actually massive, full of people. The city of Abidjan has more than four million inhabitants (more than Berlin), Lomé has 1.7 million, Cotonou and Porto-Novo come close to a million if taken together, and nobody's quite sure about Lagos, but it's at least 14 million, and the metropolitan region might be 24 million. This is a band of cities that researchers think might, in the next few decodes, become on par with Washington-Philadelphia-New York-Boston in the US, or the Tokyo-Osaka in Japan.

And the rail connections in this region do not reflect this at all. A high speed passenger line and/or a heavy duty freight line could allow all these places to do business with each other, allow people to move to or visit each other, and just spur a lot of economic development. But the powers that built the lines, the colonial powers, were not interested. They had their harbour, and the region behind it, and they just wanted to extract whatever was there.

To be clear, that does not mean the railroads are evil now. Selling natural resources is still better than bringing no money into the country. And there are a lot of places where railroad junctions and depots became the point where cities were founded, so in some countries these lines do end up connecting the most important cities, more or less by accident. It's just that other lines or more lines are sorely missing.

A simple example for how this could look like is provided by Australia, where the colonists were settlers and did want to develop the land economically:

You have the lines from the coast inland, and sometimes quite a lot of them. But you can also see a line along the east coast, connecting the cities, and you can see that someone said "we need to build a railroad across the entire continent. No, two actually". That is not to say that Australia does everything right with railroads, they have a lot of weirdness there. But you can see that the railroads had more jobs than to just move resources to ships.

(The big exception is the Pilbara region, in the north west, with its odd tangle of lines. Those are all just resource extraction lines, where the world's heaviest freight trains haul iron ore from various mines to various ports. The mines and ports are owned by different mining companies that don't like each other, so everybody has their own line from their own harbour to their own mine, even if a different line would have been shorter. That's why you get the tangle there.)

So, that's basically it. The railroad map of a country shows you a lot about how a country works, and more specifically how it worked during the late 19th and early 20th century, when most railroads were built. Where they lead to and where they don't reflects what planners thought of as important, and in turn, it has shaped the way these countries developed. And personally, I always find this endlessly fascinating.

[artbyblastweave]

What do you mean, Reed Richards brainwashed a bunch of captured Skrulls into thinking they were cows? How? Why? What happened to them? Why?

In the second issue of Fantastic Four, The skrulls, in their debut appearance, attempted to get the army to kill the FF by impersonating them and wrecking havok. When the runaround was over the captive skrulls agreed to turn into cows and be hypnotized into forgetting their previous identities in lieu of being executed. Now obviously this was, like, a silly throwaway resolution so they could get to the next adventure. Par for the course for the 60s. Unfortunately, under the pens of Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, said cows later got slaughtered and converted into hamburgers, and the people who ate those hamburgers contracted a mad-cow-analogous disease that gave them skrull-like shape-changing powers as well as the ability to detect, and the irrational impulse to murder, hidden skrulls. They formed a team called the Skrull Kill Krew and proceeded to travel around the country doing what their name implies that they do. When Secret Invasion happened, Reed Richards specifically was tortured pretty badly by the skrulls in retaliation for the whole affair.

[mraprilgf]

i think i once read a fic where they had chimney be like "im not korean im american. the food of my culture is hamburgers and fries 🙄" and it made me sad :/ you do know he's a first gen immigrant yes? he was 5 but that's not something you forget. and it's not even like after he got to the us he was suddenly raised by an "all-american" family. it was him and his mom at first and then him and the lees, who were also first gen immigrants. let him be korean-american ffs

[tacitusauxilium]

"...a sideways hamburger--no, Ryuji-kun. No."

"That is purely chaotic evil and you are far from that. Maybe chaotic good, but don't think like that. Please."

@tacitusauxilium sent - “Ryuji-kun, please humor me. Is a hot dog a taco or sandwich? Because I think it’s a taco, technically.”

"Well a taco does make a lot of sense, but I think there's something we haven't considered just yet,"

"What if...hot dogs are actually a sideways hamburger?!"

[miiints-repostiory]

What's better than this? Guys bein dudes.

[a-story-teller]

There are a lot of tumblr updates I dislike (live, putting likes in a dropdown, etc etc) but the one that has gotten me frothing at the mouth is the dashboard updates showing up as a notification on the hamburger menu.

Firstly, I'm used to that equalling a note or message, and my pavlovian response is "yay, attention!" and then all it's telling me is that there's 12 new posts. Like yeah, I figured that out, go fuck yourself.

Secondly, I am one of those people who hates unopened notifications AND I'm one of those people who likes to go all the way down my dash to where I last left off, so now I either have to suffer through my dashboard for 20 minutes while that dot sits there, or I have to refresh my dash, lose my place, quickly scroll back to where I was catching up, and repeat.

@staff PLEASE stop making this hellsite (affectionate) a hellsite (derogatory). Ffs.

[not-poignant]

When I found FFS last year I was in the middle of learning what foods I could tolerate while trying to address GI tract issues. It was a long and scary process. I lost a lot of weight, and it felt like any time I ate anything it would trigger symptoms. FFS was the first and only time I've seen that experience in a story, and it was such a comfort to have that while I was struggling.

Efnisien's condition is different than mine, but some things he went through were very close to my own experiences, like how eating coused symptoms and not eating just did the same thing. Him looking at a hamburger and not seeing food, but something that would hurt.

I'm doing so much better now. I can go days without being in pain. I can eat full meals without triggering symptoms, and when I do have symptoms I have a good guess as to why. I'm gaining weight back, and I'm in a position to help my Dad with his changing diet.

I ate a cupcake for the first time in over a year and it didn't hurt.

I love FFS for so many reasons and I just wanted to thank you for working so hard on it and for being so generous.

Hi hi hi anon,

Firstly, *sad high fives* and lots of solidarity for the GI issues. I have my own to deal with and they're a pain. (Literally!)

I think it's really frightening in the beginning because not only do you have the literal pain / agony to deal with, and the fatigue, and the disruption, you also have the added 'bonus' of not knowing exactly what's causing the issue/s. I remember I got screened for so much stuff, including cancer, and each time a test came back negative, eventually I was left with a diagnosis of 'idk just try not to be stressed I guess' (ironic, because I have literally a severe stress disorder - PTSD).

There's some relief in the days you can eat and it's less painful, or you have a meal, and there's no cramps. I wish more and more days like that for you anon, more days you get to look back and the pain becomes a memory, and not a constant threat.

This stuff is hard, there's very few things as foundational as eating, and disorders that mess with it are the worst. I'm both like... glad I could write someone like Efnisien for catharsis reasons, but also relieved that instead of folks telling me it's disgusting that I wrote about like, him having diarrhea, there's been people instead being like 'honestly same, this sucks, but it's good to know it's not just me.'

It's definitely not just you, anon, and it sucks that this stuff is often a lot more taboo to talk about than say, having the flu, or asthma. And that makes sense, but it still makes it isolating and lonely!

Anyway, I'm very glad you like FFS, and in the meantime, may you have more and more and more times where food is gentle to you! <3333

[goatpaste]

Ykno

Another thing that kinda gets me about anasuis character and how a lot of his fan base (on twitter especially) see him and jolynes relationship is that

Ppl are like, "anasui is a "monster" and thinks of himself as a monster because of the bad things he does and everyone judges him for it (which like, yeah he did kill 2 ppl. Yes they were cheaters and him being upset isn't a bad thing but uh, he super hamburger meat killed them there's reason to be a lil up in arms about him) but jolyne never was afraid of him or treated him different"

But like

Jolyne never got to know anasui?

Emporio, WR and FF are the only ones we see seem to fully know what his deal is while jolyne literally couldn't get a clue on what was up with him and barely could take time to figure it out

I just think if jolyne heard he killed his old girlfriend and then was trying to marry her, and her history have having a boyfriend she LOVED that betrayed her and left her to rot in jail, I think she might have treated him different! just maybe!!

I think she would have not seen him the same as she did before if she knew that

Also not to keep repeating this,but if she knew how he treated and talked to FF I think she's beat the shit out of him

[fabiansteinhauer]

Gasse

Vor der Gasse des Warburg Institutes sind im Moment, während der Baumaßnahmen, Tafeln angebracht, die etwas zur Geschichte des Institutes erzählen. Hier wird noch einmal der Mythos von dem legendären Deal zwischen Aby und Max erzählt (das ist fast schon ein Text, der lebenslänglich aufgehängt gehört, vor allem, soweit er als Ausweis des Dogmas großer Trennung auftaucht). Das berühmte Foto von der Kuratoriumssitzung des Sommers 1929, derjenigen, für die Warburg das amtliche Schreiben Vor dem Kuratorium entwirft und in dem er nicht einfach vom Pendeln, sondern vom Pendelgang (wie von einer bürokratischen Einrichtung, einem Corridor) spricht, das sieht man hier (also auch, wie Warburg hier seine Hände zu einer Waagschale formt).

Und man sieht das Schiff, das jeder deutsche Jurastudent und jede deutsche Jurastudentin im ersten Semester kennen lernt (wenn die denn das Urteil und die Akten studieren). Das ist sie SS Hermia, das Schiff, auf dem einmal Haakjöringsköd transportiert und dann im Hamburger Hafen beschlagnahmt wurde. Das Haakjöringsköd-Fall, den das Reichsgericht zu entscheiden hatte, ist ein Schulklassiker für Dogmatik der Anfechtbarkeit von Willenserklärungen geworden. Ist Haakjöringsköd Haiflischfleisch? Walfischfleisch? Lies RG 99, 147 ff.

Später transportiert das gleiche Schiff Aby Warburgs Sammlung nach London, also sieht man das Foto des unter juristischen Nerds berühmten Dampfers hier. Rudolf Wiethölter hatte mich im Mittwochsseminar auf diese historische Zufälligkeit hingewiesen (nach meinem ersten Referat über Marc Amstutz dort, weil ich Bilder angeschleppt und an die Bibliotheksregale gepinnt hatte). Er sagte, ihn hätte einmal ein Student in der Vorlesung darauf hingewiesen. Da muss bei ihm erstens ein Student gesessen haben, der an Einführung ins Zivilrecht so interessiert war, wie an Aby Warburg, und der zweitens Rudolf Wiethölter treffend einschätze, nämlich dass Wiethölter der Richtige sei, ihm so eine Geschichte anzuvertrauen, weil sie dort nicht vergessen wird, auch wenn sich angeblich ihr Sinn nicht erschließt. Im besten Fall ist Geschichte freie Assoziation, die muss kein (Plan-)Ziel erfüllen. Nichts ist von selbst mit nichts verbunden, nichts ist von selbst mit allem verbunden: Im besten Fall ist etwas mit etwas durch freie Assoziation verbunden.

Kein vertun: so etwas ist denen, die ihre Macht auf sogenannte Kompetenz stützen und behaupten, bestimme Verbindungen seien erstens etabliert (andere aber nicht) und zweitens ihnen sicher, ist freie Assoziation ein Albtraum, ich nenne jetzt keine Namen.