#i buddenbrook

[liesmyth]

Do you ever think about Pyrrha’s loneliness, when she would wake up surrounded by the empty bodies of her living friends being autopiloted by her dead friends’ souls? And she had to pretend to be dead too. Just standing there idly, reacting to danger only? Waiting for Gideon’s soul to return and to take the control back, not knowing what would happen if she was discovered? Oof

OH WOW this is horrifying (positive)

Running into Mercymorn with her old eyes and she looks like Mercymorn, but actually it's just the empty shell piloted by whatever is left of Cristabel. Playing living statue. Waiting to disappear again.

I think about this especially in the early days, like, before Pyrrha realised what was going on and was able to be more "present" even when G1deon piloted. I think it took her centuries, if not more, to reappear to the surface. What if early on she WAS just a defensive shield who gained awareness bit by bit, and every time she got shut off it was like dying again?

[connieshands]

The feeling of going to look up Buddenbrooks on here and the first post you see being about how Christian would be the most likely character to fall for a Crypto scam is so specific. Which is a shame because I screamed and cried and laughed and I want to share this with someone but who the fuck outside this godforsaken place would ever relate?

[lalalaugenbrot]

want to have your soul leave your body numerous times in only a couple of minutes? go read commentaries on "Klassiker deutscher Literatur" on lovelybooks.de

[allweknewisdead]

Buddenbrooks (1901) - Thomas Mann

Das Werk der Weckuhr schnappte ein und rasselte pflichttreu und grausam. Es war ein heiseres und geborstenes Geräusch, ein Klappern mehr als ein Klingeln, denn sie war altgedient und abgenutzt; aber es dauerte lange, hoffnungslos lange, denn sie war gründlich aufgezogen.

Hanno Buddenbrook erschrak zuinnerst. Wie jeden Morgen zogen sich bei dem jähen Einsetzen dieses zugleich boshaften und treuherzigen Lärmes, auf dem Nachttische, dicht neben seinem Ohre, vor Grimm, Klage und Verzweiflung seine Eingeweide zusammen.

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The alarm-clock went off with cruel alacrity. It was a hoarse rattling and clattering that it made, rather than a ringing, for it was old and worn out; but it kept on for a painfully long time, for it had been thoroughly wound up.

Hanno Buddenbrook was startled to his inmost depths. It was like this every morning. His very entrails rebelled, in rage, protest, and despair, at the onslaught of this at once cruel and faithful monitor standing on the bedside table close to his ear.

[justdonotaskmewhy]

I’m currently reading Buddenbrooks, and I hate Grünlich so much!

“Tony, if you don’t marry me, I will commit suicide”

Manipulative swine! It can’t end well, but I hope tony will kill him in his sleep if they get married

[samthetrekkie]

at this point my brain is just a mix of book/movie/tv show references. like lately one of my arms really hurt for no reason and my brain immediately went "my nerves are too short in my left arm" like christian buddenbrook.

[leninqrad]

I am completely enamoured with this book cover, admire it!

[larvae-pietatis]

THOMAS MANN *THE* MASTER OF WRITING NORMAL PEOPLE!!! Like i have no words for how normal they are! Neither good nor bad a little bit cool a bigger bit lame, but ultimately so fucking normal!!! yes this is my guy Joseph uhhh Normalsen and he is lazy sometimes and he's a fish merchant or something and he's a little bit of a romantic and he gets stomachaches from drinking milk.

[redrosecut]

Are there truly no gif sets of Buddenbrooks (2008) on here?

[rwpohl]

weichselkirschen, michael günther 1980

[iishmael]

ok confession time after thinking about it all day I think Book number 100 is going to be Czechia 🫣 I just rlly want it to be Special ✨and what could be more special than reading about home? 🥺 I selected a book about malá strana specifically 😭🫶

[liesmyth]

Feeling personally victimized by tumblr user @tony-buddenbrook​ this evening [x]. Congratulations for unlocking one extra layer of HURT that I hadn’t even considered after rereading that chapter like half a dozen times

[cahirsmommy]

i feel judged

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

12, 24, 42, 51?

12. Your favourite book

Hmm… what even ARE my favourite books? Here's a selection of books that come to my mind just now:

Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks

Zsuzsa Bánk – Der Schwimmer (The Swimmer)

Miranda July – No one belongs here more than you (I read the german translation, Zehn Wahrheiten)

Elke Heidenreich – Alles kein Zufall (not translated in english, I am afraid)

Patrick Süskind – Das Parfum (Perfume)

Christian Morgenstern – Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs)

24. Something that you’re proud of

That I am going my way and just keep trying and handling all situations as they come. I have started to have some sort of optimism for myself and it feels good. I manage. Never thought I could. But I do 😀

42. Do you like your handwriting?

51. Picture of yourself

[inkyquince]

Reading List (Because I need to start reading for real or ill die and this is to publicly shame me for not)

*rereading

Rosemary's Baby- Ira Levin (jesus christ)

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth- Andrew Joseph White. (I liked it way more than I thought I would. So good, I love the world building)

Monstrilio- Gerado Samano Cordova (oh my god. Oh my god. I love you M. Fuck Magos, I'm so sorry Lena, oh Joseph. I hope M is finally happy)

The Doll's Alphabet- Camilla Grudova (it's so strange and sad and weird and good and miserable and abstract)

Mort- Terry Pratchett (it's so silly, I love u Mort)

A Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams (still a fuckin funny ass read)

Shadow of the Serpent- David Ashton (I genuinly got halfway through and gave up. It's not a good read, the prose is annoying)

Hannibal- Thomas Harris (Geniunly such a horny book, and its way better than the movie)

The House of Spirits- Isabel Allende* (I still cry at this book and it hurts.)

Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris

The Sisters Brothers- Patrick DeWitt

The Exorcist- William Peter Blatty

Midnight Bites- Rachal Caine

Flowers In The Attic- Virginia Andrews

The Virgin Suicides- Jeffery Eugenides

Eyes Guts Throat Bones- Moira Fowley

The Briar Book of the Dead- A.G Slater

Diavola- Jennifer Thorne

Mexican Gothic- Silvia Morena-Garcia

Shiver- Junj Ito

Uzumaki- Junji Ito

The Final Girl Support Group- Grady Hendrix

We have always lived in the castle- Shirley Jackson

Masters of Death- Olivia Blake

No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy

Buddenbrooks- Thomas Mann

Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell

Lovecraft Country- Matt Ruff

Interview with the vampire- Anne Rice

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

True! That makes me wonder, though, how non-English fandom worked before that advent of the internet. The prominent older fandoms I know about are all English-speaking ones (probably I have my knowledge from the interne. But there were magazines about so many niche things, so there probably must have been some kind of special vocabulary? Are there any ... Weimar silent film enthusiasts here to help us out? (Ah, but that's tricky, because it was easy for silent film to circulate on an international market.) Any ... hard-core fans of Buddenbrooks? No?

Sometimes I type terms of endearments I habitually use for my blorbo, like "silly little detective", and then for a terrifying moment I become aware of how absolutely unhinged I sound to myself in my mother tongue (alberner kleiner Detektiv), and then I just go on because apparently, that's my life now.