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jeannepompadour · 11 months ago

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Reliquary bust of St. Mary Magdalene by Michel Erhart, c. 1475-80

#michel erhart #german style #germany #15th c. Germany #15th century #bust #religious art #mdpsculpture #sculpture #15th c. sculpture #1470s #medieval #gothic #headdress

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crownedstoat · 1 year ago

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Zeppelin machine gun position

#1910's #WWI #Zeppelin #German style #Machine gun position #air war

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crownedstoat · 4 months ago

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Auto Union D Type

#auto union #race car #V12 #Supercharged #sports car #1930's #German style

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cosmogyros · 2 months ago

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Getting a little tired of people who move to Germany from abroad and then complain about the "rude customer service"... when it's literally just neutral customer service.

Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of rude customer service here too - but I'm talking about someone in a café who doesn't smile at you, or answers only the question you asked without volunteering more information. That's just... normal, my dudes. That's neutrality.

And the fact that people working in customer service in this country can be neutral - can be real human beings who don't necessarily feel like beaming and fawning all day every day - without having to fear losing their job for it... I think that's pretty great. And that's a big part of the reason I moved here, and the reason I feel more comfortable in this society than in the US.

I studied Germany for years before making the big decision to move here (I literally majored in German Studies in the US), and I visited this country multiple times, for increasing amounts of time, before making the big move. I knew (to a degree) what I was getting myself into, and therefore I've never regretted it.

But I meet multiple people every year - newcomers to Berlin whom I already know won't last - who decided to move here spontaneously, based on very little knowledge of the country or culture (let alone the language). And then they get so shocked and disappointed by Germany being... German... that they soon leave again. WHYYYYYYY

#german stuff #germany #schland o schland #you're not really that hard to love... or. well. at least like.#don't get me wrong: there's plenty to complain about #and complaining IS the german national sport #but there's a difference between german-style complaining #(which i myself do on a regular basis lol)#and complaining about a country for being exactly what you should have known it was before you moved here #(refugees exempted obvs. they have the right to be as grumpy as they want)#cosmo gyres #personal #o hear my sad complaint

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empirearchives · 2 years ago

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Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.

Source: Hamburger Kunsthalle

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zivazivc · 2 months ago

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Meta & Flint, the freaks who named their daughter Oblivion.

Don't let their looks fool you, they are actually good parents. (Maybe "okay" parents, they did let Liv run away with her boyfriend they never met and his band at 15. (But she was responsible and called them to explain her decision and that she already talked with the school and will be taking special exams at the end of every semester, so it's all good lmao.))

In my AU the Techno/Rock Trolls are the largest population of mixed trolls. They live concentrated along the shore between the Rock and Techno Kingdoms and also extending north into the no-man's-land on the map. This whole area is simply referred to as "the Shallows". They have their own communities and villages there which are located partially on land or exposed reefs/rocks and partially in the water.

Liv grew up in one of those villages. Her parents own a small apartment carved into a cliff side above the ocean. Personally they prefer walking over floating/swimming, and they can't stay in the sun for too long either (they all inherited sun sensitive skin from their Techno sides) so this way they're mostly on land and also aren't in direct sunlight after noon.

It's a modest home but I imagine they must have the prettiest sunrises.

Despite the Shallows having their own communities they still belong under the Rock Kingdom which doesn't really care about them or their different needs much, so a lot of the trolls living there are very anti authority.