#i love you moritz. my sweet boy.

[hansrilowz]

he is just a sweet sweet boy… and i love him so much….

[robinsnest2111]

🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them? cause i don't know a lot about your ocs

uhhhh for All of them? �� Well I'll see what I can cobble together lol

under a readmore because I have a lot of OCs and A Lot to say!

to start at the very beginning: my first group of proper OCs (Felix + Moritz + Emily) where mostly created as a coping mechanism for me to deal with bullying, trauma and extreme social isolation as a teen.

Felix is very obviously a self insert, embodying all the traits about teen me that I perceived as negative and unlovable.

Moritz is the pinnacle of Seemingly Intimidating Goth/Metal Guy with A Heart Of Gold and was designed to love Felix, flaws and all. Because I really needed that back then.

Emily is the small bubbly confident childhood friend with sweet supportive parents and a good home life, fully submerged in the world of goth (which was one of my main obsessions as a teen) and not afraid to kick someone's ass with her stompy platform boots to protect her bestie Felix!

The first thing I decided on was probably Felix' name. I did start to seriously question my gender back at 12/13 and Felix was one of the names that were somehow dear to me (probably because I had a brown plush mouse as a little kid which I named Felix lol). Similar story with Emily tbh. Had a doll as a kid which was named Emily and I just really liked the name.

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Next up: Scene-chan, Emo Girl and Harstyle Girl, not much to say about them tbh. obviously based on the popular music/fashion based subcultures of the day (mid to late 2000s, early 2010s). another bunch of my teenage years obsessions lol

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then: my emo boys Alex and Joël! it's kinda cringe and embarrassing to admit, but they're based on a classmate and I way back in 6th grade. They started out as random emo boys but a few years ago I decided to give them names and a basic backstory.

Once again Joël is kind of an alternate universe self insert (based on if I had taken up my emo classmate on the offer of giving me an emo haircut and taking me to an emo meet up, still regret not being brave and accepting to this day lmao), and basically another coping mechanism of Self insert is loved by other OC despite his perceived flaws that make him "unlovable" :')

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on to some of my most fleshed out OCs of the bunch: my absolutely beloved metal boys Lukas, Simon, and Raphael! I actually came up with them for one of my last pre-college assignments! I chose the topic character design and since I was starting to really dive into the wonderful world of metal, I promptly created my boys!!!

They all have some of my traits but are pretty solid characters in their own right. Their story has changed quite a bit, mostly because of storytelling classes in college and the teacher for that course demanding some realism in the form of depressing realistic shit (drug addiction, abuse, Struggling in general, etc.) and less of whatever low stakes, non-dramatic supernatural demon contract stuff I had going on beforehand lol I didn't like it at first but it somehow stuck, oops.

The first thing I decided on was probably Lukas' haircut! I did accidentally mirror it at some point tho (brain like Swiss cheese and the bad habit of keeping most of my oc info haphazardly lying around inside my head)

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And finally, my Metalocalypse ocs: Rapunzel and Martin! They're both klokateers working for Dethklok, nothing too special about them tbh. Rapunzel has more of a backstory than Martin at this point, I really need to do more with them tho!!!

The first thing I decided about Rapunzel (when he went from a random background Klokateer in my dethentines entries to a proper OC) was him being a laundry klokateer! I'm not well-versed in assassin/bodyguard work and all the Die For Dethklok backgrounds of most other klokateers and thought. Hey. Mordhaus is fucking huge and there are so many employees keeping the whole thing going. So there must be an entire laundry squad somewhere. And I know how to do laundry. So that's where I put Rapunzel hehe

Martin is still pretty much a blank slate. All I have for him so far is that he's from Germany and Drepressed/Suicidal As Fuck (literally the first thing i decided about him. like, what if i made an OC that's So Fucking Depressed), hence why he signed up to become a klokateer.

He wants to die anyway, might as well die protecting a band he likes. But surprise surprise, while working he runs into Rapunzel, the eternal ball of sunshine, ends up saving his life from intruders who were on a mission to kill Dethklok (a normal tuesday tbh), and with the help of him and all his coworkers he learns that life is somehow worth living after all. So basically his plan backfired and now he has so many things to fight and live for!

So. Martin lowkey is Rapunzel's "I Could Fix Him" project 😂👌 Oh! and Rapunzel calls him Tintin 🥺💕

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If you have made it this far I hereby award you a medal because this sure was a wall of text!

[montybagel]

it's been a very long time since i've felt like writing here but i'm back!

emma met a boy with eyes like a man, turns out her heart fits right in the palm of his hand

i'm not so much in love as being utterly and completely delusional. i met a boy with kind eyes and who was so quietly caring, gentle and sweet. and i love that so much! i've forgotten there are other men who have these traits and i love it so much.

i love a reserved, sweet calm boy who looks out for me quietly. and it drives me crazy when the boy is slightly shy and keeps his cards to himself too.

i'll probably never see him again, and also i'm quite certain he wasn't interested in the slightest, so to get it all out and to remember this feeling i'm going to write a list of the things i liked:

him communicating with the waiters for me. he didn't let me have to speak to them directly, instead he asked me what i wanted and told them and got me things from them on my behalf. i fucking LOVED that. but also note that could have been because i don't speak the language and he was right next to me.

"it's hot" "i'm sorry"

him putting his arm across the back of the sofa behind me

him being attentive and talking to me at dinner + teasing a little

he walked me to my hotel room door

he said he couldnt sleep last night – made me wonder if he was thinking about me (delulu)

he traced my heart on the back of my parents' rental

him doing that reversing the car + holding my passenger seat thing, i was screaming inside

he chucked a snowball at me in front of my parents, so adorable

he drove me through the mountains in his lil manual car

he accompanied me on a walk through st. moritz on xmas day, so magical even though i barely know him

he bought me a glüwein when i had no money

our short little chat in front of a school, perched on top of the busy street, sipping hot wine

"how big do you like your baubles"

that being said, there were also tonnes of moments where he seemed totally uninterested, like when i asked him questions and he gave me short answers, and when i tried to flirt and he just let it fall flat. the moral of the story is, i'm in a fucking dumb bitch era, the dumbest i've ever been.

– dumb girl catching feels in <24h on vacation story

[showbiziz]

Spring Awakening Fandom Tag (answered by a diehard Wedekind 'Spring Awakening' fangirl)

(By @winter-asleepening )

1. how were you introduced to the show?

I read the Wikipedia synopsis back when I was sixteen, and was shocked - steered clear of it, but was curious about the source material. I read the original play when I was twenty-four, and fell madly in love with it. After that, I listened to some of the songs, just to compare the adaptation to the original - the music's definitely catchy. :) And I have some friends who've been in it, and other friends who like it a lot - I can appreciate the tunes (musically - not so much the lyrics, which sometimes are kind of cringe or don't make much sense, IMO).

2. Seen a production live?

No (I wouldn't feel comfy doing so), but I've seen a lot of 'slime tutorials,' especially of a production a few of my friends were in last spring (March 2022).

3. Dream role/character you relate to most

Wendla (in the OG play) - I love her optimism, thoughtfulness, and sweetness. She's the kind of girl I'd love to have as a friend (and she reminds me of my middle-school self).

4. Favorite male character

Hänschen (again, in the play) - he's a cynic with a heart of gold, such a cinnamon roll. I love the moment in Moritz's funeral scene when he calls out the other boys for bullying him. Second fave is OG Melchior; he's very cocky, clever, and rather charming - high-key reminds me of the boy I had a crush on in middle school, lol.

5. Favorite female character

Again, Wendla - if I have to pick a second fave, I'd say Ilse (in the play - she's a little loopy, but her heart's definitely in the right place).

6. Deaf West Revival or Original Broadway Cast?

Neither, actually - I'm partial to the cast my friends were in (it was a wonderfully talented group).

7. Favorite song

"My Junk" - singing it casually while doing housework this year has really improved my belt range. :)

8. Least favorite song

Like I've said, I'm not a fan of the musical (though I appreciate the songs' tunefulness), so I can't make a definitive call on this, but off the top of my head I guess it'd be "And Then There Were None."

9. Favorite quote/line

Ok - backstory: my friendship with my guy friend who played Hänschen in the 2022 production grew out of our discussion of the Desdemonalogue in the musical versus the play (I explained that he doesn't pleasure himself in the play), so because of that memory, I'm gonna say it's "Have you prayed tonight, Desdemona?"

10. Favorite TV performance

"Bitch of Living" on Letterman is pretty good.

11. Favorite cast member(s)

None - although Lea Michele's voice is lovely (and she herself is beautiful - a cast mate in a show I was in back in 2010 told me I looked like her - I had no idea who she was then, but now I realize it was a compliment & I appreciate it). :)

12. Favorite cast member moment

I'm not versed in the cast lore.

13. Do you write fan fiction?

Nope.

14. Do you make fan art?

No.

15. Do you cosplay?

No.

16. Don’t do Sadness or Blue Wind?

I enjoy singing "Blue Wind," so I'll go with that.

17. Word of your body or the Reprise?

The Reprise - specifically as performed by my friend and his Ernst (another friend of mine). Yes, I'm a biased girlie. ;)

18. Touch Me or My Junk?

"My Junk" - because of how singing it's improved my voice and because of that discussion of it with my friend who played Hänschen.

19. Explain the song of purple summer

In Spring Awakening: Those You've Known, Steven Sater talks about how the purple is the "bruise of love" the (living) characters will be carrying with them for the rest of their lives.

20. Explain the song of purple summer (wrong answers only)

Sater was higher than a kite when writing it.

[livvybabyrocks]

Playing With Life - A Sims 4 Series - By Livinity Part 2- It’s A Party

The following morning Clinton McShae handled the remaining preparation for the party.

Harper: “And remember to say thank you when you receive a present.”

Harry: “Yes mommy!”

Harper: “Are you excited to see your aunt and cousin again?”

Harry: “Yes! Yes! Khalid is my best friend!”

Soon after the first guest arrived.

Clinton: “Wow, Moritz. It feels like it was yesterday when I told you that I was going to be a father. I still can’t believe it. He is going to be a big boy by the end of this day. He’s growing up so fast.”

Moritz: “And I remember when you were his age. When I used to babysit you. You grew up fast too. But what I can tell you is, that you’re a great father and you’re raising a great kid.”

Harper: “Here comes the birthday boy! All gather around!”

Harper: “Go on, blow out the candles, Harry!”

Harper: “Great. Good work!”

                                           Everyone cheered as Harry grew up to become a child.

Moritz: “Wow, look at you! You come after your dad a lot but your nose…you definitely have your mother’s nose. Go on, have some cake, Happy Birthday Harry.”

Harry: “Thank you Moritz, haha. It’s a blessing to have you here at my party.”

Khalid: “Cut the cake already, kid. It sure smells delicious and we all know what a great chef your dad is.”

Harry: “Haha, okay, okay! Let’s enjoy some cake, folks!”

Harry: “So how am I supposed to greet the other kids at school? Should I perform a special handshake? I’ve been working on one for the last couple of weeks. Do you want to see?”

Khalid: “That sure looks impressive, but Harry. You don’t need an intermediate handshake to be cool. The other kids are going to love you and you will make friends in no time! I guarantee it.”

Will: “Or you could just use this handshake right here and tell everyone that Will Bailey taught you this!”

Michelle: “Will, don’t teach him that fame is everything!”

Will: “I’m not but it sure helps to get around.”

Moritz: “Or just bring your dad’s famous cakes to school from time to time. There is no such thing as bonding over good food.”

Khalid: “I agree. I feel much closer to you all of a sudden and it’s all due to homemade pudding.”

Harry: “Haha. That pudding isn’t homemade. My mom bought it at the store.”

Khalid: “Doesn’t matter. It’s sweet, it’s yummy – it’s going in my tummy.”

Moritz: “I will have some more cake if you don’t mind.”

Harry: “Oh yeah! Me too!”

Harry: “Thanks for that epic party mom!”

Harper: “You’re welcome honey.”

Clinton (to Khalid): “So how is school going, Khal?”

Khalid: “Oh, it’s going great. I’m sort of dating. Can you believe it? *chuckles* Awkward me. And I started a part-time job as gardener. It pays well.”

Clinton: “Oh those are great news! Congrats on both the occasions. You could come around some time and trim our roses and bluebells. Harper sure doesn’t shine with her green thumb.”

Harper: “Oh Clinton, don’t embarrass me. The bluebells grow just fine!”

Clinton: “They’re a bit sour. I tried some…”

Harper: “They aren’t ripe yet, sweetie.”

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Next Part: 

https://at.tumblr.com/livvybabyrocks/playing-with-life-a-sims-4-series-by-livinity/349au9kk1dkj

Beginning:

https://livvybabyrocks.tumblr.com/post/684472122316406784/playing-with-life-a-sims-4-series-by 

[wedekindstan]

L’ÉVEIL DU PRINTEMPS: SCENE 2 PART 4

THE FRENCH

   CHANSON: « UNE PUTAIN DE VIE »

MORITZ: Je fais toujours le rêve étrange Que derrière le mur [épais] Je puisse parler à un ange En latin ou en français

— Sortez-moi d’ici! J’en peux plus Je voudrais me réveiller — Approche-toi, petit, me dit elle, La sortie, [c’est ce côté] !

Elle dit, donne-moi ta main Et ta peine si tu le veux Dis-moi tout ce qui te dérange Et te rend tout malheureux

Et comme un fantôme [j’en évade] J’en [postpose vos] destins L‘amour rend aveugle, mon gamin Mais je n’ai pas trouvé mieux

C’est une putain d’une vie (Put ! Juste une put !) À l’enfer sur terre (Juste une put, oui !) C’est une putain d’une vie Tout ce [_____ pare]

GEORG: Je passe mes nuits à [___] les murmures Sans jamais trouver repos Quand je pense aux [douces mélodies] De ma prof au piano

Et ses seins qui m’envisage [_________] [Et ___mon enfant sage] [__ partager_______]

GARÇONS: C’est une putain d’une vie (Put ! Just une put !) À l’enfer sur terre (À l’enfer sur terre!) C’est une putain d’une vie C’est quoi, cette galère ?

Qu’est-ce qu’ils ont tous [____ nous] ? On s’en fout

ERNST: Moi, je m’attends les douches communes

HÄNSCHEN: Bobby Maler est trop beau J’arracherais bien son costume.

ERNST: Je [veux même si n’y-t-il était] de l’eau.

OTTO: Et cette Marianna Wheeler Elle ne me rappelle jamais

HÄNSCHEN: C’est comme si [j’ouvrais les vannes], mec [Tu as un moyen d’] y échapper

MELCHIOR: C’est une putain de vie !

GARÇONS: C’est une putain de vie !

MELCHIOR: Et ils sont partout

GARÇONS: Sont partout

MELCHIOR: C’est une putain de vie [En____] on s’en foule

GARÇONS: C’est une putain de vie

MELCHIOR: Regardez ! Regardez !

GARÇONS: On peux pas sortir

MELCHIOR: J’en appelle à ce ...

GARÇONS: C’est une putain de vie

MORITZ: Moi, j’ai jamais [vu vire]

MELCHIOR: … que je saurai

GARÇONS: C’est une putain de vie, vie, vie

MELCHIOR: … que je saurai

GARÇONS: Quelle est la sortie ? C’est une putain de vie

MELCHIOR: [Sans perdre l’esprit]

GARÇONS: Putain, ça y est ! Oh, c’est parfait ! Oh quelle putain d’vie !

    FIN DE LA CHANSON

BACK TO ENGLISH

    SONG: “BITCH OF LIFE”

MORITZ: I always have this weird dream That behind the [thick] walls I could talk to an angel In Latin or in French

“Get me out of here, I can’t take any more, I would like to wake up” “Come here, little one,” she says to me “The exit [is this way]”

She says “Give me your hand And your pain, if you want Tell me everything that upsets you And that makes you so unhappy”

“And like a ghost, I [escape] I [put aside your] fates Love makes you blind, kid But I haven’t found anything better”

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life (Bitch! Just a bitch!) In Hell on Earth (Just a bitch, yes!) It’s a bitch of a life All that [_____ puts on/adorns]

GEORG: I spend my nights [___] murmurs Without ever finding rest When I think of the [sweet melodies] Of my teacher at the piano

And her breasts that face me [_________] [And _____ my wise child] [__ share ____]

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life (Bitch! Just a bitch!) In Hell on Earth (Hell on Earth) It’s a bitch of a life What is this torture?

What do they all have [_____ us]? We don’t care

ERNST: I expect the communal showers

HÄNSCHEN: Bobby Maler is too handsome I would tear his suit right off

ERNST: I [’d want it even if there weren’t] water

OTTO: And that Marianna Wheeler She never calls me back

HÄNSCHEN: It’s like [I'm blowing off steam], man [You’ve got a way to] escape there

MELCHIOR: It’s a bitch of a life!

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life!

MELCHIOR: And they are everywhere

BOYS: Are everywhere

MELCHIOR: It’s a bitch of a life [In_______] we make an effort

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life

MELCHIOR: Watch! Watch!

BOYS: We can’t get out

MELCHIOR: I’m calling on...

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life

MORITZ: I’ve never [seen a path]

MELCHIOR: What I will know

BOYS: It’s a bitch of a life, life, life

MELCHIOR: What I will know

BOYS: Where’s the exit? It’s a bitch of a life

MELCHIOR: [Without losing your mind]

BOYS: Fuck, that’s it Oh, that’s perfect Oh, what a bitch of a life.

    END OF SONG

NOTES:

this song was exceptionally difficult to hear with all the stage noise and mumbling, so there are significant gaps in what I can parse out. i hope if anyone else speaks french they will offer their thoughts on those blank spots!

“putain de...” structured profanity in french is a vast catch all for many different types of cursing we would use in english: “bitch of a ...” / “fucking ...” / “bloody ...” etc. now personally, i do think “fucking life” is more correct, but the syntax of the sentences it is used in works better in english with “bitch of a life.” the “fuck, that’s it” at the end is the same word i previously translated as bitch, but it is not followed by the “de...” construction, and so is more easily translated directly as the interjection “fuck!”

moritz’ dialogue with the angel is put into quotation marks based on my best guess of what she says versus what he narrates. the delivery does not make it clear in inflection exactly what part is the angel, so some of the lines are questionable in speaker, such as “But I haven’t found anything better,” which could easily be spoken by the angel or by moritz.

“what is this torture?” galère literally means either chore/pain/hell as in “this homework is a real pain/is giving me hell” (also the galley of a ship though that’s clearly not the right option here) but the grammatical flow was strange when i tried to use those phrasings directly, so i substituted torture as a plausible american english equivalent expression.

ernst’s lines make very little sense, and i must be missing something here. really butchered whatever was supposed to be here, sorry for it. i think maybe the intent of that very awkward second line is something like “I even like it when without the water” implying that the shower is not about the cleaning up for him, but something else, namely his peers’ bodies in the showers.

“blowing off steam.” c’est comme si j’ouvrais les vannes is literally closer to “it’s like i’ve opened up the sluice gate” but that is nearly meaningless in english, so an equivalent expression of blowing off steam seemed like a good option to be just a touch suggestive (as the french reads to me like hänschen talking about the release of masturbation). it is also very much worth noting that this hänschen’s lines do not imply, like the original english can, that hänschen is at all sexually successful. he gives no advice on how to “screw them all,” just advises that masturbation is a source of escapism.

[totallytrucked]

Hello everyone I am here to tell you about the Mexico production of spring awakening

Ok first of all it’s on YouTube! And it’s a proshot!here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFS4RmmGzxE

ok so they have a smaller set than a lot of sa productions but i think it's used really well. it kind of looks like the inside of a church? anyways mama who bore me is very pretty and the girl who plays wendla is melissa barrera, and she's really good. the adult women's dress in this is really good, it's very fun to look at. it's all stripey.

mama who bore me reprise is iconic incredible. the girls are wearing their victorian combination underwear things i love it. during the end part, ilse is just going off during the "mama who bore me" low parts it's amazing jdhjf hnngh.

anyways the boys are all wearing little green pants for their uniform. very cute. i love this moritz (pepe navarrete) he reminds me a lot of vienna moritz (wolfgang turks) like a very cute moritz. the lighting during all that's known? iconic. tbol slaps in this. so good. iker madrid is one of my fave hanschens and that might be due to his riff on "khakis" <3

then the adults come out and they actually hold picture frames whenever they're playing school people which i think is really cool.

the girls come out for my junk and they have such cute costumes and the my junk staging is really good and martha and anna dance together hhnnng gay rights! also martha has such a good voice in this production. ivonne garza your hand in marriage

next is touch me and it's so good in this version and it slaps. the lighting? incredible. the singing? amazing. ernst's solo? (this is a pun because they are saying 'solo' in the song) but anyways ernst's solo is amazing. (arturo valdemar iconic.) ugh it's so good. moritz sock excellence.

anyways i really love this wendla so much she's so great <3 and this melchior (mauricio romero) is also really good. but i mean it's word of your body. it sounds very pretty in spanish though.

anyways here comes moritz to tell them he passed it's very sweet they hug. when hanschen says "the middle terms" either otto or georg hits him with a book which is very funny. and the melchritz hug is so cute jdhgjhd like moritz jumps into melchior's arms like he's a koala and i do not envy melchior having to hold him the entire scene but.

the girls come on and they actually have the medicine ball and thea sits on it i love them. anyways during the dark i know well martha's mother holds a smaller picture frame when talking to her and then the other girls sleep on the medicine ball it's really cool and interesting. martha's voice is very unique in this production, it's very deep. ilse's voice is also really pretty it sounds so good.

and then there were none also slaps in this. moritz </3 :(

once again i come to appreciate the lighting its wonderful. and during the part where moritz goes "they're not my home, not anymore" and the boys start singing in the background, they move from further upstage to further downstage. and the blocking during the part where all the boys join in so good ikfghkjd and the energy? they're like jumping and headbanging hnng lighting!!

ugh it's good.

they use the swing in mirror blue night too it's really cool. and moritz wanders off the stage and it sounds so good ksdjghksj and the cello/bass really came in during this part it's good

the weird mirror blue night choreo is somewhat better because it's faster and melchior looks less confused when he's doing it. i believe also sounds really good. everything in this production sounds really good watch it!

ok act 2

the guilty ones, as customary in this production, slaps. and the choreography is really good.

moritz's hair is thankfully not bad in act 2 (phew) also he has more of metal voice (?) like there's more of a rasp on some notes, esp. the high notes in don't do sadness. it's very good. moritz sock excellence again. and he's headbanging and the energy! yes! dds is faster than it usually is but it's so good.

also ilse (roxana puente) is just so good. and i like her costume. she just sounds so sad and i want to give her a hug. :( and the flowers are really pretty.

and when the two songs overlap it's jisdhfus uhhghghhg watch it! i can't describe it ugh it's so good.

also the audience claps after every song where there's a break and they're so enthusiastic and it makes me really happy

moritz dies and it's sad. he's like crying i can't

also shoutout to whoever arranged the music it's really good there's a lot of strings going on.

left behind as well. and ilse just breaks down crying at moritz's grave and god. :'(

the high notes as well? impeccable. melchior is so good.

the adults come on with their picture frames. mauricio romero reminds me of aneurin barnard in totally fucked, he has similar energy. totally fucked is just so good in this production. the choreography, the lights, the energy, the singing, wonderful. during the second chorus they all do this choreography and it's really good. also hanschen does a riff during his solo and the energy is so good. sfkhjdfkj and stuff flashes on the walls watch it please! people are saying hey and i just dkfjghdjg and the guitar i'm going insane

anyways totally fucked ends. oh hey vineyard scene. ernst is shorter than hanschen in this production which is pretty cute and they're just relaxing on the stage it's really sweet. and the audience isn't laughing too much. which is nice. anyways iker madrid is a more andy mientus-esque hanschen and it works. and the lighting there are like little stars that spin around i just yes! they kiss and it's just very cute. this entire vineyard scene is just very sweet and cute and dkfhglkdjfg hanschen slowly leans in and like caresses ernst's face shhhhskrgjhsj gay rights dkfhdlk

the vineyard scene is very cute. then wendla is pregnant blah blah blah. whispering is super pretty in this one, and i have great respect for wendla because she's sitting down the entire song and it's very hard to sing sitting down. also there's this very pretty violin going along the melody line (or something) and it's *moritz voice* so haunting. and the acting from the adults when they discuss sending melchior to a reformatory is very sad. the boys look like newsies in the reformatory scene it's so funny. always wonderful to see melchy get his ass beat.

when wendla and frau bergmann go to see the abortionist they're wearing these sick cloaks and when wendla screams "mama" it's just heartbreaking :'(

and they pronounce ilse "il-say" which i love.

the fog machine comes out during those you've known which i feel like is a requirement for any sa production at this point. and moritz just comes onstage from the audience and he's sort of bent over it's good! also the lights look really good in this scene which is really cool. and moritz is facing away from the audience when he first comes on and wendla sings to moritz a bit and i just sdkjfghskjdfh!! the drums snap in those you've known it's good anyways

the emotion! moritz leans against melchior i'm going to cry jfkhdjfkh

ilse comes on for the song of purple summer and it's very pretty and i just emotions! hnnfgdk and the stage lights up and moritz and melchior and wendla are still holding on to each other and it's just aaaaahhhhh!!!! moritz and ilse like interact and i'm everyone is like talking to each other and it's so bitter sweet and the harmonies!!

*sobbing* and the last chorus kicks in and i. ok. that was a musical. the audience gives them a well deserved standing ovation that's iconic. everyone go watch spring awakening mexico now.

and they have a totally fucked encore during the bows i'm going crazy. i love this.

tl;dr: sa mexico uses lighting, a great set, and just impeccable performances to create a beautiful and moving experience. it may not be too polished, but you can see the heart in the production.

[arinewman7]

Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) Moritz von Schwind c. 1830

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Der Erlkönig (The Erf-King)

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1782

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Who’s riding so late where winds blow wild

It is the father grasping his child;

He holds the boy embraced in his arm,

He clasps him snugly, he keeps him warm.

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“My son, why cover your face in such fear?”

“You see the elf-king, father?

He’s near! The king of the elves with crown and train!”

“My son, the mist is on the plain.”

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‘Sweet lad, o come and join me, do!

Such pretty games I will play with you;

On the shore gay flowers their color unfold,

My mother has many garments of gold.’

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“My father, my father, and can you not hear

The promise the elf-king breathes in my ear?”

���Be calm, stay calm, my child, lie low:

In withered leaves the night-winds blow.”

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‘Will you, sweet lad, come along with me?

My daughters shall care for you tenderly;

In the night my daughters their revelry keep,

They’ll rock you and dance you and sing you to sleep.’

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“My father, my father, o can you not trace

The elf-king’s daughters in that gloomy place?”

“My son, my son, I see it clear

How grey the ancient willows appear.”

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‘I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy!

And if you’re not willing, my force I’ll employ.’

“Now father, now father, he’s seizing my arm.

Elf-king has done me a cruel harm.”

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The father shudders, his ride is wild,

In his arms he’s holding the groaning child,

Reaches the court with toil and dread. -

The child he held in his arms was dead.

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translation by Edwin Zeydel, 1955

[wo-wann-was-wer]

WHAT I WAS THINKING: DARK SEASON 3 EDITION

EPISODE 1:

Who are these dudes with the harelip and what do they want

Why did she just take him to a cave and leave that’s kinda rude

So everything in this universe is just gonna be backwards. Love it

Ugh I’ve said this a million times but this show has such Fringe energy and I can’t wait to get a tattoo for this too

This is super freaking me out, i dont like that everyone’s in everyone else’s house.

Ooooh Katharina with glasses yes girl you better work.

I like Michael and this hat he’s rocking

Super into the fact that magnus and fransizka are involved in this universe too

There’s nothing cuter than sex before school. Ahhh the nostalgia

Ten bucks says that Hannah gets out of this bed and is pregnant

Fucking YEP

I am loving Martha in this Jonas journey

I know that all they did was flip the lens of the camera but my brain is breaking at this flipped Winden

Who the fuck is this random dude Martha is with

You know what he kind of looks like Jonas. I wonder if that's relevant or if I'm just grasping at straws

Bartosz looks like he's going to his first grade violin recital

I straight up just did not recognize Charlotte with makeup. She looks hot

There's got to be another person in that picture other than Ulrich because that's a lot of space to rip out for one person

okay hold up Woller looks so good and then when I saw that he was missing an arm I almost lost my fucking mind

Oh shit okay Hannah is living in Katharina's house.

Oh my God are Ulrich and Charlotte having an affair

Is it normal in Germany for kids to just walk into classes that aren't there’s and just sit down

follow up he has a clear noose mark on his neck

Aleksander looks so hot with this beard. universe B is the fucking glow up universe

It's weirding me out that the whole school is black and gray instead of light brown

The look of satisfaction on katharina's face

Wow honestly Louis just broke my heart with his facial expression when he realized his mom didn't know who he was

he looks so scared

Yes yes do it afffffffffair

Oh no you done got found out!!!

Oh the theme of the play here is red and set of gold

Fransizka looks so cute in this little outfit

Oh my God she's deaf!!!!

What the fuck. the fact that this actress can talk is blowing my mind

RIP to Regina a real queen

Peter's a fucking priest

All the fucking weird-ass freaky motherfucking trio is back

The dopplers have the same house That's cool

excuse me sir I think your child is broken

these guys are so creepy What the fuck

I definitely don't like the piano wire

oh this motherfucker is the one who gets lost

I feel like winden in this universe is just a little bit fancier

Well Charlotte and Ulrich just be fucking like crazy

Bartosz is the Jonas of this group and I love it

who was that??????

I cannot get over Aleksander in this beard

I like that things are opposite but they also have things that are different enough.

Like I'm so into the fact that they all went down into the bunker

who in the unholy fuck is that. who is that

Oh shit old Martha

What the fuck is this Tannhaus’ factory we're at

hold up Martha's in 1888

What the fuck. why is Jonas in 1888 and looking SO good

EPISODE 2:

casually sitting over your bed watching you sleep

he's look so good though

yo what the fuck everybody else is there too

Oh no things got really ugly at Mads’ wake

Not for nothing but Tronte is a dick

I kind of don't understand why Claudia would want Regina to live in such pain in this type of universe

Peter is such a good boy

lurking is the freaking national past time of this place

Oh shit we got some spin-off timeline stuff good

who is This is blind guy

I love Katharina so fucking much

I know what she's thinking and it's the same thing I'm thinking which is can I kill a child

why does this picture of Tronte make him look like Jimmy Smits

Katharina looks amazing in this jacket

Also I definitely did not just start yelling GO GET YOUR MAN KATHARINA

Regina just gets more and more badass as time goes on. Also all of the women of the tiedemann family are so fucking badass

I am so excited to watch this fucking relationship develop. they're both too cute

awwww he's using signs!

oh they're writing back and forth

DAMNIT PETER

I always feel like little Noah should do fuckboy sign offs when he leaves rooms because he's so smooth

yesterday Laurel said that this was back to the future but serious and just now Bartosz said it's not super easy to get nuclear fuel in 1888 and now I think that Laurel's right

I will never get over how good he looks JONAAAASSSSSSS

This guy feels like the OG inventor of sic mundus right

Katerina why are you even trying to check in at the front desk bitch Go and get your man

Is this Katarina's mom why does she just recognize that woman's name

everyone on the show is so talented.I spend the whole damn time being like oh my god the performances on the show and it's like yeah we know

Katerina get your man

I literally love them so much look at the look on her face She is a mama bear She is not going to let anybody take her man or her children and I love her

Not a huge fan of people who quote Shakespeare right before they kill other people or am I an enormous fan of people who use Shakespeare right before they kill other people

using a garotte to kill someone is ugly as fuck

I feel so bad for Jana

see this is one of the reasons why I'm like why would you bring Regina back to this world.

wowwwww TRONTE what's up dude

YO WHAT

Oh so how did Charlotte get back there but Elizabeth's still there too. didn't they switch places?

oh the head bump

Not excited for the mother daughter abuse stuff that's about to happen

I love these split sequences that they do at the end

anytime somebody stands and stairs for a lonely at a spot on the ground I assume to somebody died there

Oh shit that guy is a tannhausokkkk I see you

a religious images we love to see it.

This show is a whole series of pause that frame.

No I ruined something for myself!!!!

EPISODE 3

got to love those through and through Ariadne references

okay so Charlotte's great great grandfather has her watch?

who are these horrible traveler human beings

they look like less sexy Francis dolarhydes

I can't get over the fact that wollers missing an arm here I swear

we ARE the glitch BITCH

alternate universe Ulrich is a better person than standard Ulrich

what's this new like zoom-y thing they're doing

I was attracted to Magnus at this jump of the show but he looks better with dark hair

How did they not all die of fucking flu

eternally repeating deja vu

I looked at the production stills and I was like what the fuck is this hair do that Moritz has but he looks amazing

Also everyone on this show deserves an acting award

and Magnus is wearing a skeleton sweater

Hannah does that deep dive detective work any bitch knows the Nose doesn't lie

why doesn't anybody want to fuck wöller

omgggg eat the RICH

also he has that x tattoo on his hand that represents the no future thing

oh the light is rectangular and not circular ooooooh fancy

The show is also a lot of people catching each other's wrists as they walk away

I knew we couldn't trust this bitch

What did he give her

I love the parallels and characters behaviors between universe a and universe b

I want to know how Noah factored into all of this on this side

Martha has a type and her type is iconically Aryan

Oh Aleksander's back with that beard he's back

Hannah is such a snake

Omg that's her!!!!! I thought she was a trans actress.. hm. not super happy bout that :/

What is Helge talking about Ulrich did what??? omg

I would be like SIR DO WE NEED TO FIGHT STOP FOLLOWING ME

I stopped taking notes for the last half of that episode cuz I was really sucked in haha

EPISODE 4

FIRST OF ALL I'D LIKE TO GO ON RECORD THAT I DON'T CARE FOR THESE GENTLEMEN AT ALL

second of all why is this guy being like oh I took your name

why does he have Agnes's bracelet I don't like that

I don't like anything about this guy That's the end of the story

Also hold up a red hot second is Agnes dead cuz if so that's a hate crime

see what did I say

I knew that Hannah was going to get involved with Egon

from the second she walked in that office I was like that bitch has her eye on him and as she should he's handsome as fuck

Also he spoils her so much more than any other man she's ever been with AKA is Egon the only man she ever deserved

Is Hannah going to develop a heart cuz I'm not sure how I feel about that

Also what happens if Hannah gets pregnant

why is Ines a bitch I thought she was mad cool the beginning and now I feel fucking deceived

Also it's such a sweet gig that The kids who are playing kids can now play teenagers

poor Doris. Also he was shitty to her but he was far nicer than I would have been

Doris is so beautiful it's bullshit

older Magnus is so handsome

All I wanted was middle-aged Martha

bitch you have been having unprotected sex with him why do you think that pregnancy was not on the tabl

I'm like who's this guy in the church if it's not Noah I bet it's that little bitch

yeah I fucking knew it

Is this the dude that was married to Agnes I feel like this guy isn't real or something

I'm not surprised he let her go but I don't know why I'm not surprised. I feel like she's important to his timeline and I'm not sure why

look at these relationships forming between these sweet little bab

Hannah looks good in this red. Hannah looks good in all of these styles. 

who is this child

I like that already as a child Bernd had his eye on Claudia as someone who was smart and had a ton of potential

 I keep forgetting that I'm taking notes because I get so invested in episodes

Also I realize the zoomi thing which is going back and forth between the universes

Is Agnes Silja’s mom And if so with whom 

he gave her Agnes’ bracelet that dope All right Tronte

Wow Claudia needs to back off her man

Claudia force him into a relationship with her

I fucking hate Hannah but sometimes she speaks so much sense

ooh I don't need anyone Yes girl that's true You don't need anyone You needing people was what made you act fucking crazy You don't need anybody

This was always my big problem with Hannah was that I initially identified with her because she was such a survivor but then she did such horrible reprehensible things I just couldn't let it go and I absolutely couldn't identify with her anymore

Oh here's my daddy Noah looking so good

I mean okay so I have been in this position before where I was cheating and then my man cheated on me and I was like how dare you but also you cannot be mad if your partner cheats on you when you cheated too. You both fucked up

Is Hannah going to have a redemption arc cuz that's a lot

Oh my God she's not going to get rid of this child is she

Oh my great God I cannot believe that she gave Helene that necklace. 

I knew she was fucking connected to Katharina in the older generation I knew it

Louis and Lisa are a super cute couple and I know that they're not dating in real life but I think that they're very cute together

Oh everybody fucking

yeah they created the Apocalypse yeah

Oh no they have a child outside of worlds that's a mess How does that work so they had they gave birth to that ugly fuck

honestly I hate that he's their child for the most part just because he's ugly as fuck and neither of them are ugly as fuck so it makes me mad.

[wellntruly]

BABYLON BERLIN | Season 3, Episode 2 Recap

This was the last episode I watched earlier this month with my friends who’d come over for a Babylon Berlin party, though not the last episode I watched that particular evening---there would be one more, at maximum late night tipsiness.

But first, THIS venture:

Season 3, Episode Two

A grim beginning in the women’s prison. The platform they were building last episode turns out to be for executions by beheading, damn. We also learn that the communist doctor is serving time here, too. Her exact crime is not something that is specified, but I can’t say I’m surprised she wound up here given that her pre-jail lifestyle including such things as putting Gereon up against a wall to semi-formally execute him just right out there in the street. I mean sure organized crime kinda runs these streets, but in fact it was organized crime itself in this case who stepped up and went, no how about we don’t. We don’t do that. Not in Scamander’s river.

And so, Gereon Rath would live to see another grim morning of his own. Turns out he is not the only one who feels his partner in this relationship is slipping away: Helga feels the same way about him, and holds him up on his way out the door to try to get a proper goodbye kiss.

@memory-for-trifles​: Girl that is the kind of kiss I give my old Italian relatives. Try again. memory-for-trifles moments later, possibly regretting that admonition: GEREON. Damn put this poor woman out of her misery!

Hands up, so who else was basically WHITE-KNUCKLING IT through this awful hallway sex scene! All three of us at my little watch party, can confirm!! Oh this is simply not good. You Must Break Up!

After this just terrible hall humping that gets no one anywhere, Helga fetches a glass of water and quietly considers just how bad things have gotten. It’s only been three months but it feels like a year. The child Moritz has practically doubled in size, though admittedly that’s kinda just how tween boys are.

“Gereon,” she asks, suddenly intent on this most immediate problem in front of her. “What’s going on? What is happening with you?”

Gereon:

o.o

“He’s coming between us again,” Helga realizes, which is in reality a pretty tame way to describe this present PSYCHOSEXUAL MINDFUCK, but yeah. Gereon just twitches once, and walks out the door.

You! Must! Break! Up!

The vibes are much more chill and like, cool, just Cool, over with Walter and Esther this morning. The gramophone is playing, Esther’s casually smoking at the breakfast table in her peach pajams...

Just with her knee up at the table yet still elegant, man I love her so readily!

So does Walter, clearly, and so does she toward him, but when they move close together, she warns with low worry: “He’s gotten worse since you’ve been gone.” Ooo I love this style of thing, whom?? Edgar, surely? Ah what is going on! And why doesn’t he want her to sing anymore…I’m so..intrigued.

“Kiss me” sounds virtually interchangeable between English and German, which is great news if I need to seduce some Germans.

But by the time Edgar walks in for breakfast, they are out of each other’s arms and sitting separately at his left and right hand. Before he takes his seat at the head of the table, Edgar quietly lifts the needle off the record.

!!! AH! Okay so definitely Esther singing on the record (smokey~), definitely Edgar who doesn’t want her performing, but yet she’s with Walter, but yet it’s morning...they all live together here in this house, and the exact relationships between the three of them I still….???!!

ME TOOO

Meanwhile, the trial of Greta Overbeck is getting underway. Aw, friends, Benda. Benda! I miss him so much. Benda and his sweet little daughter… A tragedy.

After he and Greta share a still, enigmatic look with one another in the courtroom that I found quite moving, Gereon departs with Benda’s widow, dressed in just a haunting amount of black lace and layers. Despite her rather harsh and definitive tone in the courtroom where she states Greta to be a literal emissary of the devil, in private we learn that she and Gereon both know that Greta was put up to this by two Nazi boys, whom Gereon has faithfully promised to Frau Benda that he will find.

memory-for-trifles: I hope Fr*tz fuckin gets his

F*cking…..

As Gereon continues to make his way in to work, we get a moment for perhaps my favorite Babylon Berlin sub-genre: Detective Rath offhandedly gets nearly run over by a car, no plot relevance. Just kills me. They take the time to block these little scenes of Vehicle v. Volker, for no reason other than their own enjoyment! And mine.

Unsquashed, for now, Gereon drops by the Central Archives to take a look at the transcripts of Greta’s interrogation. But he is met with a bad surprise: all of the documents related to the Benda case have been sealed, viewable only by permission. Can you guess who ordered this.

memory-for-trifles: Wendt.....fuck this guy completely

Councillor Wendt, whom we recall benefited handsomely from Benda’s murder due to taking his job as head of the Political Police, is now currently on a mission to oust Commissioner Zörgiebel as well. Wendt urges him to resign to save his department more legal cases about the First of May debacle, when the police shot those Communist protestors. Zörgiebel urges Wendt to get the fuck out of his office.

Wendt goes, passing a politely glowering Gereon at the door (Glowereon). Zörgiebel’s like well I could use a drink, and before Gereon can be like sir isn’t it the morning, Zörgiebel straight collapses on the floor, so that drink ends up being water instead. He has bad circulation, he says. I say: OH GOD DON’T DIE IN OFFICE, not with Wendt prowling around!

“I’ve weathered many a storm in this house,” Zörgiebel says to Gereon, gazing into the middle distance, “but this…”

“What do you mean?” Gereon asks.

Zörgiebel, sadly: “That I miss Councilor Benda.” 💔

Saaaaame, says me and Gereon’s jaw. He tells Zörgiebel this is why he’s here: he wants permission to look into the case of their murdered colleague & friend, because! : “I don’t trust Councilor Wendt any more than you do.” Thank god, I knew you were Benda’s Man, Gereon! You didn’t take Wendt’s offer at the end of last season! In fact, you've got this discount Diels in your sights. Get wreckt Wendt.

With this intra-Polizei intrigue starting to rattle forward, the music clicks along plottily at Gereon’s heels as he finally makes it into homicide. His team has been busy, procuring all sorts of folks related to the Betty Winter case, including the producer walking in with Charlotte now. Gereon hurriedly confers with Czerwinski all alright who am I going to be talking to again, and precious Czerwinski just goes: “Bellman. The great Jo Bellman.” This major fan.

Turns out this other fellow they brought in is not the missing electrician they’re after, but with Bellman’s help and this guy’s too actually, they’re getting closer. Hopeful, (desperate), Bellman asks for the insurance sign-off in the meantime, and Gereon’s just like ooo too soon.

As poor Bellman considers how he’s gonna break this news to the Armenian, Charlotte notices her older sister Ilse outside the office, come bearing the following pieces of plot information: 1) their Polish neighbor who was friends with their mom has something for her that she needs to come pick up, and 2) Isle has something wrong with her eye, quite obviously from being hit by her no-good scoundrel of a husband.

Someone else is waiting in the hallway as well: the actress Tilly Brooks, Miss Boston, whom the gang had called in after they noticed her noticing something in the film footage.

Tilly, full Americanly: “Detective.” Gereon, with a big nervous grin: “Yes. Of Coursze. [collapsing back into German] I need to ask you a question.” Oh I am having such a good time already.

But before he can get to his query, Tilly’s like hey didn’t we meet one night when you were really fucked up? and Gereon’s like well you’ll need to be more specific, and Tilly just sweeps her hat off her had and stage whispers dramatically:

Aaaaahhahahahaha. God, and I’ll be damned this show NEVER forgets a character!!! Beautiful, gorgeous.

Anyway Tilly just laughs companionably and goes “Don’t panic, [in German] I won’t tell,” with a big jokesy finger to her lips. She’s wearing a coat of green triangles and a necklace made of tiny wooden dice. I think I love her.

Gereon finds her a bit stressful, but that’s your problem, dude. Trying to focus on the task at hand, he asks her what it was she saw up in the rafters after the light fell. Fucking Tilly just lowers her chin and whispers from under her eyebrows: “Einen Geist.” A ghoooooost!! Hahahahaaaa

Gereon, FLOUNDERING at this, asks if she can give him like, a visual of, what…? And Tilly just goes, and I quote: “[German] He was wearing a cloak…[English] like, like a regular ghost you know?”

I’m bustin’ up.

At this point Gereon has maxed out on the amount of startling things he can handle in a five minute period, so gratefully grabs Charlotte as she walks by to take Tilly to a sketch artist to describe this suspect. Here let me preview this useful drawing: 👻

Leaving ghosts for monsters, Gereon heads off to try to find out what Wendt is up to. His way of doing this is apparently to just walk right up on the tea party Wendt’s having with his bros and be like [hatefully] hi.

Literally Wendt: “Work lunch in the sun. You could have had that too, if you’d said yes to the Internal Review Division.” This could be us but you playin. Actually that’s really just Wendt’s whole message of this conversation.

Back to the police headquarters!

Where we get to see THIS PNEUMATIC TUBE THING OH MY GOSH. For inter-departmental notes??? I want to see this in a plot!!

Tellingly, Tilly speaks only German with Charlotte, so she’s deliberately pinging between German and English with Gereon, that’s her move. I am dazzled by this flirting technique. Anyway, somehow not flirting with Lotte when given the opportunity, Tilly tells her that Betty Winter and Tristan Rot did not in fact have the happy lavender marriage Czerwinski believes in, but reports they used to argue quite violently about whether or not they were going to move to America.

Meanwhile, the police artist finishes up the sketch.

Ulrich, passing behind his shoulder: “Who’s this?” Sketch artist: “A suspect in the Betty Winter case.”

Have U Seen Him Around???

As Toni waits for Charlotte to join her for lunch at Aschinger, House Edgar is sitting down to dine with two new people to throw into the mix. But their presence is going to illuminate one key aspect of our trio: we learn this new man is a banker, who lent Edgar a neat million to finance this film project, out of familial affection the banker holds for his wife’s sister, Esther, Edgar’s wife. WHAT !

memory-for-trifles: Edgar....wife....those are his children?!?!?!?! wellntruly: It’s like you were here with us—we were *also* SO startled to realize Esther is Edgar’s wife!! I’m guessing because he just gives off such a solitary singleton vibe, contrasted to someone like Walter who creates the sort of impression where I would 100% expect him to have like, 2.5 romantic partners of various legal status, none of whom know about each other. memory-for-trifles: He does seem like a lone wolf rather!

But now Edgar is taking on more of the hue of a papa bear defending his family, as he stares at this banker brother-in-law, whose name I have not caught, with his accusatory implications that Edgar is somehow responsible for what happened to Betty Winter, as he assumes Edgar didn’t keep this film venture on the up-and-up. When in fact, it actually appears that he had really been trying to do this one legitimately, probably out of deference to Esther, whom we learn here had encouraged her husband to get into the movie business. However, Edgar is fully ready to go mobster on it all NOW, now that he’s being fucked with from all directions.

“If my word doesn’t bear any importance to you, I won’t say another word to you,” Edgar says. “You will find out about our other ways of communication, and then, any contact between my family and yours will end.”

“Any plans for the weekend?” Esther’s sister asks her after a moment of silence. Esther just languorously blows cigarette smoke toward her face. Lol Esther. Okay it is becoming powerfully obvious in every way why Edgar married you.

Honestly, what’s always been one of my favorite things about Edgar’s vibe is that he runs essentially a sex empire but he himself remains a kind of chaste figure in the midst of it. Like the Abbot of the Night Club or something. I’m so into it. Him being married is less interesting than if he were single and still like this, but being calmly monogamous is still so fun for the Lord of Gangland. I find I am also so into this. Edgar really is canon!Hades, it’s incredible.

Hey remember earlier when Helga made a call from a phone booth? You don’t because I didn’t mention it. We are now learning what that was about: she was evidently reaching out to ~someone~ about finding a place to stay. It’s Alfred Nyssen. They’re not gonna come out and say it yet, but we all know. We saw her go meet with him for dinner at the end of the last season after she confronted him for being an arms dealer in her war widows speech, we saw her in the flash-forward at the beginning of this season standing with him at a window on a high floor at the stock exchange as the rest of the world fell down, and honestly just who else has got the marks for this rich ass hotel she finds herself in now.

Every possible material in this room that could be William Morris is Williams Morris, a fact I have a familiar relationship to given that I personally have this wallpaper as a dress.

How’s YOUR Babylon Berlin fandom going, *I* can cosplay as HELGA'S HOTEL SUITE

Hahahaahhhh my god

Elsewhere, out in the bright autumn air, some Hitler Youth arrive upon Moritz’s Catholic volunteer group, announcing themselves by firing an arrow into a wheelbarrow a foot or so from his head. Tall Moritz is like what the fuck you could have hit me?, and it is a spectacularly strange moment for me as I realize I’m on Moritz’s side in a situation. [slight shudder] Weird.

Shooting bows & arrows obviously seems way cooler than raking leaves to the youth Moritz, and so as soon as they let him have a go with the bow, he just swaps his allegiance right then and there. We are all shocked™. Anyway if you need me it’s gonna take me several minutes more to get over that Pope in German sounds like “Pops”

Charlotte finally makes it to the restaurant after getting her drawing of a Ringwraith, but the kind elderly waiter informs her Toni is long gone. She goes to join Gereon instead, brooding in a corner unnoticing, until she just chirps “Herr Kommissar?” to raise his eyes. It kills me btw that a direct translation of ‘detective’ is just like, Mister Inspector.

Taking the proffered seat, Lotte rattles off her updates on the case while Gereon lights her a cigarette and distantly goes “hm” occasionally.

How you’re not paying closer attention to this Angel of Aschinger is beyond me, Rath.

Finally Lotte’s like oKay, what troubles you Mister Inspector. Wendt troubles him. Charlotte we have to get this asshole. He’s having evil luncheons just out in the sunshine and blaming every cloud on the Communists. We have to talk to Greta.

In fact, Wendt himself also needs to talk to Greta, as he has promised his horse racing buddy, a man he simply calls “Lieutenant,” that he’s going to get the NSDAP out of Greta’s testimony. NSDAP = Nazis, for anyone unfamiliar with the one million acronyms of Weimar Berlin politics. Lieutenant is part of the Party, and frustrated that Greta is still accusing his men. Oh incidentally, Fritz is here as a stable boy going by the name of Richard. Oh fuuck no. Fucking….F***z

Meanwhile in Babelsberg, Edgar and Walter are paying a visit to The Great Jo Bellman to make sure this production keeps rolling. As in rolling film. As in if we don’t finish this movie and make our money back we’re out a million we don’t have. The Not-Doing-So-GREAT-These-Days Bellman is like, but, the lead actress is dead..? As the inherent problem here does not seem to be having the desired impact on them, Bellman suggests maybe Edgar’s wife can explain how movies work?, and Edgar’s just like You Leave Her Out of Thisss!

Walter asks to see Bellman’s hand. Well that’s an immediate ruh-roh! What you would expect to happen happens. Knife through the palm, to drive home the point: restart the shoot tomorrow.

An interesting little juxtaposition now with Esther getting high at home and reminiscing about her performing days, while Lotte & Toni lie in bed and talk about how someday they’re gonna run the world—or at least end up better off than where they came from. There’s something kinda delicate here about dreams, past & future intertwined. I like how both have to do with like, purpose and personhood and your Work, for these three women in 1929. Maybe that she lacks this narrative independence and individuality is why I always struggle a bit connecting to Helga, as it seems that once again her story is inextricably tied to the men in her life. Embodying a sort of meta rage at this, if you want to see it that way, she hurls a glass against a wall alone in her kitchen.

Meanwhile, because he never sleeps, Gereon is hunting down the missing lighting tech. “Berlin PD,” he introduces himself as the electrician fits his key to his door, and is promptly shoved onto the stairs as the suspect runs off. See this is one of the problems of your chief detective being thisbig.

But while he may be small, he is undaunted! The chase is on. At least this time Gereon narrowly avoiding getting hit by a car is marginally more plot relevant. Running pell mell into a chicken cart is on him though. At last he just uses his size to his advantage and pops up onto the running board of a passing vehicle, and uses it to ferry him after his quarry, still running down the sidewalk.

me: “It’s gonna be really fun when he’s in front of you.” me: “It is!”

Gereon just starts interrogating the man in the car, because there are no rules I guess. The electrician is very agitated, and clearly in over his head. He confesses that he was hired to sabotage the shoot, but not to kill anybody! All he did was mess with equipment, he never would have tried to kill Betty Winter. Literally: “[sadly] It wasn’t supposed to be like that.” Aw, buddy.

“Who hired you?” Gereon demands, but it is at that moment that another car very deliberately pulls up right alongside his own, real close. The driver just frowns at them, between funny and disconcerting. And when Gereon turns back around, the electrician is shot through the head by someone on the sidewalk! And Gereon can’t get out because the other car is trapping his door!!! neat!, but outside the passenger window, he glimpses:

A regular GEIST! Ahh ha ha haha ha!

memory-for-trifles: Lol at this masked gentleman

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Season 3 Recaps - Episode 1

Seasons 1 & 2 MASTERPOST

All everything, past & future: #Babylon Berlin Blogging

[friendly-neighborhood-wizard]

folks i just wanted to do some spring awakening headcanons, so here are the gang’s favorite musicals

melchior: natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812. of course my boy is in love with a musical based on the classic novel war and peace. he loves the variety and the uniqueness of the music and is still salty about the travesty that was 2017 tony awards

moritz: dear gOD this was hard. i honestly think bandstand because it deals with struggling with mental health in a informed and empowered way. he listens to it when he needs to let his emotions out in a healthy way.

wendla: alice by heart! she’s a romantic and she loved alice in wonderland as a child so she loves the reimagining of it.

ilse: hadestown. have you seen her? the girl IS eurydice. 

martha: little women. she feels as if the characters in the show are the family she’s never had. (i’m going to go cry now don’t mind me)

anna: tuck everlasting!! anna is sweet and sassy and has an inner child. i personally think she really identifies with winnie. 

thea: wicked. i honestly wish i had an explanation for this one, but i don’t. she’s quite the romantic tho so idk it just seems to fit.

melitta: she loves me! a charming, lovely love story. 

hanchen: the producers. again, going by vibes alone. he’s a funny dude. 

ernst: everybody’s talking about jamie. a teenage boy coming to terms with and finding joy in his sexuality??? hell yes.

georg: hamilton! because what a horny basic child he is, but hey, at least he has good taste in music.

otto: not a musical, but i can’t help thinking that this kid likes peter and the starcatcher. it’s such a well done show, and i think he really enjoys it, especially because my boi loves some sailing

[musicalhqsgossip]

                                         BLAST001: PARTY RECAP EDITION

is london done painting the town already ? over the weekend, we had some townies singing the blues while some were playing fast and loose with each other ! i’m surprised no one’s been convinced to elope and all that jazz. want the latest scoop on KARYN’S PARTY to be completely comprehensible ? look no further chickies, we’ve got the NITTY GRITTY RECAP right here ! all you gotta do is keep reading...

jack was totally trying to make kat jealous, and i’m tempted to say it kinda WORKED ? wonder how anna b feels about being used though... poor thing didn’t seem to have the night of her life. sulked much, dear ? i hate to admit it, but she and jack were kinda cute. it’s all fun and games... r i g h t ?

maureen was the center of attention as usual, but i knew that “ LOVE TRIANGLE “ would be back to bite her in the ( amazing ) ASS. inviting both mark and joanne ? you know what they say -- one can take the girl out of hicksville...

that hottie made out with moritz on a total WHIM ! she barely had to a s k before he was launching at her face ! is that desperation i smell, or just maureen working her unexplainable magic ? 

looks like maureen and claude went home together to close out the night. who knew the dirty hippie was such a smooth talker ?

speaking of claude, what was he on ( this time ) ? it’s a good thing mark was there to help his friend out, that boy was sweating like a SINNER in church and we were a l l there for it ! seemed to bring up some bad memories for both of them, though... 

and what about our sweet favorite, mark ? he may have been too drunk to remember, but him going home ( blacked out ) with anna b is imprinted in our minds ! hopefully that pair won’t r e g r e t anything come morning... he was also spotted flirting up a storm with aliz -- turns out mark has a type, and it’s spelled Q-U-E-E-N. but there’s NO WAY our queens would ever fight over a B O Y... right ?

julia was spotted on the roof with hero, at the bar with joaquin and on the dancefloor with jamie ! she deserves a HOTTIE to snuggle up to, but i worry jamie’s still too h u n g u p on his ex-wife to make a move.

talking about her -- oof, jamie and cathy got awkward as h e l l... can we blame them, who doesn’t get nervous in front of a hot ex ? 

talking about exes... i spied with my little eye one emmett forrest and elle woods skipping the party T O G E T H E R. was that kiss a hint to them getting back together ? i would be lying if i said i’m not ROOTING for them... oops !

and the list of exes running into each other doesn’t end. have y’all seen melchior and davey ? at least these two get along just fine -- so wholesome, sweet, and totally NOT what people come to gossip about !

what people DO like to gossip about is davey making out with tough guy spot -- all but confirming this is a rebound from his little crush on jack. dare i say it... spot can do better ?

les and crutchie broke up, then cried to their friends in the middle of it all, then made up. talking about a whirlwind in a glass of water... but hey -- LOVE that for them ! wholesome, sweet, NEXT !

and how could we forget how wholesome allie and alvin were ? that boy’s got A LOT on his mind and heavy weight on his shoulders, it’s good to see his best gal pal sticking by him no matter what ! i bet she gives the best hugs ( or would he be wanting more ? oh c’mon -- as if it’s a secret... ).

lets not forget about our HOSTESS -- karyn got it on too, chickies ! lest we forget it’s her party, we saw her getting some v e r y special attention from j.d. as they disappeared for a few hours... 

glad to see j.d. spent more time talking with cady than kissing her this time around. but i doubt that couple would work out if she found out about his one night stand with her PLASTIC friend.

talking about our little sleep-a-round -- did j.d. seriously think confessing his crime to spot was a good idea ? spot didn’t seem b o t h e r e d at all, which is totally not worrying at all. i wouldn’t trust either of those boys as far as i can THROW them !

also, pull out the wedding bells, folks ! phoenix and annabeth finally got together, officially. yet all i can think about is where was grover during all of this ? i would certainly want know if i were to be third wheeling the whole party. maybe he can be best man -- T W I C E, aha.

mimi was on her phone part of time, drunk texting roger ! if she can’t get him out of the house, i don’t know WHAT WILL !

and lets not end on a high note ( yes, you read that right ) -- what is going on with reese and wendy ? seems like our big bad jets leader has a serious case of the w e n d i e s. i wonder how pedro got back home without his little bird. perhaps he s t a y e d the night ELSEWHERE.

[mashkaromanova]

Alexandra Feodorovna with wounded officers, 1915

“My beloved Ernie dear,

I have just now received yr precious letter through Daisy. N[icholas]. is away & wont [sic] return before 4 days, so shall send this to your Gentleman & ask him not to wait. Alas, there is nothing to be done, & from this side one cannot begin. One can only pray that this heartrending bloodshed may soon end. Deary, you are mistaken, it is grossly exagerated [sic] 500,000 prisoners, why the losses of dead & prisoners only make that about. But we shall not go into any details - it all hurts too much for words. -

Yes, our love will never change, & we feel that & our prayers for each other continue. Tell Moritz (Riedesel, Oberstallmeister) I pray morning & evening for his boys - one poor dear alas has fallen. One’s heart bleeds - the whole world sorrows. Certainly all the best sides are brought to the front. Its [sic] difficult writing, the heart is too full - & there are things wh[ich]. hurt beyond words - & I thank God your dear men are on the other side - they would never be cruel, as the Pr[ussians]. are. - 

Beloved Boy, heart & soul think of you & yr precious family - [I] am sure sweet Onor [Ernie’s wife] is perfection & the real mother to your people - understand all you go through. - Only in prayer & work one can get on. 

Since the very beginning the two big girls [Olga and Tatiana] & I went through a course of Sisters passed our exams & nurse the wounded, clean, tend & bind their wounds & give the instruments at operations & amputations. I have been 6 weeks quite ill again now & miss my work, & twice before was long laid up with my heart - one forgets everything in looking after those heroes & their appalling wounds & then my health invariably breaks down - but the girlies work on.

We have masses to do - they [O & T] too have their committees at wh. they preside - visit hospitals daily & work every morning in our hospital. (Ella [Elisabeth Feodorovna] works hard with her committees, shall send her your letter - have not seen her since Dec: we are all too buisy [sic]). Sister Olga [Olga Alexandrovna] we have not seen since the beginning, she is away working hard with her hospital. - Marie [Marie Pavlovna the Younger] too. All are working in unison, big & small.-

This being cut off from each other is fearful, but its [sic] true one does not know what to write one does not wish to hurt each other involuntarily. But our hearts beat together. - As yours stand firm, so do ours. The Children keep well. - Yes, all seems like a horrible dream! Thank God Papa did not live to see all - all against each other, friends & relations on all sides. - Yes, one daily learns from those brave fellows - never a complaint, stoically resignedly hearing all - only longing to get quicker back again. I pittied [sic] one fellow once, he suffered so - he answered me - its [sic] nothing, Christ suffered, so we must to; always such answers - such deep, deep faith. I receive lovely letters fr. the soldiers of all different regiments out at the front, thanking for things, & they write so beautiful letters sometimes & so sure. - 

And the bravery, heroism of wives, widows, mothers who loose son after the other, - & never a complaint! Our dear ‘Monkey’ Бутаков [Alexander Butakov], fell before V. - Many a dear friend has gone - but their deaths are glorious & yonder they are all together, no strife, no difference, all fell for their countries & are heroes around God’s throne. All sides are sure of success - all sides think alike - some have luck at first, others at the end - so one can say nothing - all lies in God’s hands & He will decide aright. -

I am glad you say its [sic] rubbish about hunger - because alas our prisoners, in some places have scarcely any food they write. In some places well cared for, in others not - their families send money, they never get it. Of course all depends upon the individual at the head - who is more humane, who less. All sides have their faults. One could write on for days, - but no good - this is to be a letter of love and full understanding. How one’s heart is torn, you know - & to hear nothing from home is awful - but one puts ones trust in God.

- When he [Nicholas] returns I shall give him your dear letter to read. - To all at home my endless love. Thank Toots for her letter. Poor Toni Ehrhardt - Pollie (v. Ungern-Sternberg) - I live through all with them in prayer. - Shall send this letter through Daisy to your Gentleman - think its [sic] safest.

Goodbye my Ernie, my very own Brother, precious Treasure. I bless & kiss you four with my fervour & tenderness - my thoughts so constantly wonder to the Rosenhöhe, one lives in the past & present. - In his [Nicholas] name I kiss you, as I know he would. - May God on high hearken unto all prayers - we all suffer & trust unto His mercy. - Know, my Boy, that when you wander alone, Sunny is near you, sharing yr sorrow. - Her wee old home is never forgotten tho’ she is entirely one with her new one. -

Onor & I know more than ever now, what it is to be the Mother to all & to see, hear & daily feel it - the heart goes out in boundless love to those tender, trusting, grateful hearts - yes, we women have now so much to give & proove [sic]. Once more God bless & protect you now & ever. A long kiss, love fr. yr. old Sunny. [P.S.] The Children kiss you 4 tenderly. - V[ictoria]. & all are well - she lives at Kent House.”

- Alexandra to Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 17th/30th April 1915

[ernnst]

SWEAR i’m not starting shit although this sounds like an inherently shit stirring question: what is it you like about jbw’s hanschen? i’ve watched several boots with him in but his hanschen has never really emotionally resonated with me so i’m really interested to know why you like him so much (convert me!)

DFGHDFHG its okay i love talking about this! beware this won’t be, like, a very structured post by any means but. that’s life! this is going to be mostly focusing on the vineyard scene because. his desdemona monologue is very iconic in its own right but i dont know if its within my power to make you feel emotionally connected to it

BEFORE i get to the vineyard scene, and yes im writing this out of order after writing the rest of the post because i just remembered it and it’s important: in the classroom scene just before all that’s known, take note of the way that hanschen is just as scared stiff as the other boys when herr sonnenstich begins talking to melchior. i don’t want to turn this into a dwsa vs obc post because i love dwsa but i really don’t like in dwsa how hanschen snickers along when herr sonnenstich antagonizes moritz about his mistake dfhgf it really doesn’t convey the way hanschen doesn’t trust authority and is just as afraid of being called out and punished for fuck ups as anyone else in their class (hem hem… but you’re fucked if you speak your mind) (very late edit: everyone wants to focus on this part of the post when i considered it a very small detail aggfhdh you’re free to interpret this part of dwsa however you like, i can see the other interpretation, but personally i prefer the original direction regardless. again, this is just a post about why i like jbw’s hanschen, not a post to argue about dwsa)

i feel like the problem i have with a lot of other hanschens is that they play him like an adult man rather than a teenager, and jbw reallllllly captures that teenage arrogance without overdoing it imo. rather than hanschen delivering every line with an overly dramatic flair sort of as a wink wink nudge nudge to the audience that it is a ridiculous line, he delivers his whole “skim off the cream” speech with the complete sincerity of a teen boy who thinks he is saying just, the absolute most suave thing to ernst that he could say in the moment. it’s a less “theatrical” delivery for sure, but i think that’s what makes it more charming.

and i feel like i can’t make this post without mentioning gideon glick’s ernst, of course. while hanschen is usually played as an experienced character, typically with the sort of swagger of an adult man, ernst is usually played like an incredibly naive character who doesn’t understand hanschen’s advances, and as a result you usually end up with a really uncomfortable combination of a hanschen who comes across as though he’s more experienced, taking advantage of ernst’s naivete to get what he wants, and ernst doesn’t understand he’s doing it. i think gideon’s ernst walks a very fine line of being awkward, but not dumb in his responses to hanschen’s behavior. if you watch this clip, notice the way ernst repeats “just…skim off the cream?” that line is usually delivered as though ernst doesn’t realize hanschen’s meaning, and wants him to explain, whereas gideon’s delivery of it comes across more as ernst knowing that hanschen is being flirtatious, and asking for confirmation. he isn’t ignorant of hanschen’s advances, and as a result you don’t end up feeling like he’s being strung along by someone with more experience and awareness. 

(another important thing to note in that video is the fact that ernst leans into the first kiss briefly, and then again meets hanschen in the middle for the second. i know this is a jbw hanschen defense post but i feel strongly about obc hernst and i rarely see that second kiss played as fully reciprocated on both sides from the get-go; it usually seems like hanschen pushing it a bit more vehemently until ernst eventually leans into it. also the way hanschen leans in slowly for the first kiss instead of him surprising ernst with it. i feel strongly about that)

BUT WAIT… THERES MORE……. in that same video, as well as right here in this bootleg, when ernst asks “and in the meantime?” hanschen cracks a smile at him and it just comes across as a very sweet moment of hanschen being completely smitten with ernst (i think all but 1 bootleg of jbw as hanschen is filmed from an angle where you cant see his face, which is probably why its a pretty underrated moment that i think shows the most like… tenderness from hanschen. getting just his deadpan delivery without the context of the rest of how he’s actually acting could definitely skew the perspective of his performance)

i know everyone rags on obc for playing that scene like a joke, but (as ive said before) i really don’t feel like it’s played as as big of a joke as other casts and productions have played it, but since it was 2006/2007 the audience responded to the gayness as an inherent source of humor so people who watch bootlegs now are kind of. tricked into thinking it was played less earnestly because of the uproarious laughter from straight audiences. the majority of the humor really just feels like it stems from the ridiculousness of what hanschen is saying, rather than the inherent humor of being gay.

of course this is a steven sater hate blog though and i won’t hesitate to complain about his absolutely dumpster garbage interpretation of hanschen, but i don’t necessarily think it has to come into play in my opinion of jbw’s choices in acting

also hes hot

tl;dr i love you jonathan b wright im free on thursday if you would like to hang out on thursday when i am free

[showbiziz]

I first encountered Wedekind’s play when I was in my first year of postgraduate studies (a.k.a. grad school); I read the Edward Bond translation on the site Drama Online, and fell madly in love. The poetic tone of the text entranced me; the characters were no less vivid. Shakespeare may have basically planted the teen angst genre with Romeo and Juliet, but Wedekind took it to a next-level realm of gritty reality, without resorting to extreme explicitness — even in the play’s harshest moments, the poetry remains. 

I want to highlight a few particular things that I especially love about the play, in no particular order (by the way, all excerpts are from the 2007 Jonathan Franzen translation, which in my opinion is THE BEST!!!):

The brilliant characterization, especially in this scene when the girls are talking about having kids when they're married (they all want boys), Wendla mentions how happy she is to be a girl, and that topic merges into a discussion of cute guys:

Hansy Rilow is a precious cinnamon roll and must be protected from the haters at all costs (this is besides the fact that he’s one of my fictional crushes). 

He genuinely congratulates Moritz in the scene where he finds out he’s passed his exams: 

HANSY RILOW: Congratulations, Moritz. - Just be glad you got away with it.

He doesn’t join in when the other boys make fun of him.

Later, he grieves at Moritz's funeral ("Rest in peace, old sport!"), and gives Otto a stinging retort when he makes a callous comment about the deceased:

OTTO: The thing is, he still owes me five marks. We had a bet. He swore he wouldn't flunk.

HANSY RILOW: It's your fault he's lying there. You called him a show-off.

Since Robert was the one to call him a show-off, Hansy’s response to Otto seems aimed at all the others who mocked Moritz — it’s meant as a collective condemnation.

He reminds me very much of another of my fictional crushes, Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (a must-read book if you’re into any of the academia aesthetics — it’s where all that started). The vineyard scene especially gives me major Brideshead vibes, especially the scene where Sebastian and Charles go on an afternoon drive.

Here’s a snippet of the vineyard scene (Act 3, Scene 6):

Wedekind and Waugh’s marvelous use of lush imagery to convey their respective characters’ inner lives is especially evident in these moments, and I LOVE it.

(Side-note: I enjoy imagining what the children will be like as adults; I speculate that Hansy will end up marrying Ilse (she’s a beautiful art model, he has an appreciation for all things aesthetically-pleasing and luxurious), and they’ll be the rich, glamorous couple who live in the only mansion in town, where they host fabulous parties. Meanwhile, Melchior (married to sweet, supportive Martha) will run the local newspaper, full of erudite commentary on current events, and Ernst will be the kind-hearted, beloved-by-all local preacher, with his “affectionate little housewife” Thea.)

And finally, the last exchange between Melchior and Moritz in the graveyard: 

*Blinks back tears* Whew. That packs an emotional gut-punch. 

I’ll conclude on a lighter note, with Hansy’s wonderful line in the vineyard scene.

HANSY RILOW: Let's not be sad! - Life's too short.

 So true. 

[feelssogoodinmyarms]

Hhhh can I get a hernst fic where Ernst makes dick jokes and hanschen is like “ I love this man.”??

At long last, it’s finished. A blessed concept, I hope I did it justice. 

WC: 951

TW: Implied smut, dick jokes obvi

The sunset was gorgeous in the distance. Yellow and orange rays danced across the boys’ faces as they sat by the river, the brook babbling softly in the distance. To Hanschen Rilow, none of the boys looked prettier than Ernst Robel. It was still crazy to say that Ernst, the adorable Ernst Robel with sleepy eyes and warm hands, was his boyfriend. None of their friends knew it yet; the boys had decided that it would be their secret for a little while. It’s not like Melchior wouldn’t write a five page essay with all the evidence that Hanschen and Ernst were together. Hanschen knew that any day his conspiracy blog would have a new post about them*.

Hanschen was far too content watching the evening sun dance across his boyfriend’s features to worry about Melchior Gabor. He was so adorable. Ernst, not Melchior.

“It’s so beautiful,” Moritz sighed, staring up at the sky. He was pretty cute too, his eyes sparkling as he looked around. Not that Hanschen would ever stray from his incredibly hot and wonderful boyfriend, Ernst Robel.

“It’s too bad you always have to leave after so short. Like your dick.”

Hanschen laughed. Most people thought Ernst was this innocent little Christian boy, but he made dick jokes constantly, yet another thing Hanschen liked about him. Maybe even loved about him.

“Like you would know!” Moritz laughed. No matter how immature they were, Ernst could always make Moritz laugh.

Hanschen caught Ernst’s eye and mouthed “You’re adorable,” which Ernst smiled at, that cute ‘Ernst Robel’ smile where his eyes crinkled at the edges. Hanschen could die, he was so in love.

“It sounds sappy, but I really do enjoy these evenings with you guys.” Melchior was still staring, hypnotized by the by the sunset. He was an idiot, but it was nice to see his softer side.

“Aww, Gabor’s gone soft,” Hanschen cooed. Melchior rolled his eyes; he couldn’t do shit around Hanschen.

“Like his dick,” Ernst added, making Moritz burst into giggles again. Hanschen couldn’t help but smile; those two would be the death of him.

Hanschen scooted closer to Ernst, just so their fingertips could touch. Just the feeling of their pinkies interlocked was enough for this beautiful moment, as the last of the pink sun slipped under the horizon.  

“I should head home. My parents will kill me if I’m out too long past sunset,” Moritz broke the moment of stillness, a hint of dread in his tone. Hanschen felt bad for him. His own home life wasn’t ideal, but at least his dad had left when he was in middle school. He hoped Moritz didn’t get smacked around too much.

“I should too, Doctor Who is on and I have to update my blog,” Melchior added.

“Ah yes, whatever would we do without your radical notions?” Moritz teased. Melchior’s blog was a long-running joke in their friend group. He discussed his politics enough, there was really no need for a blog to keep track of it. Even with all the hate comments his friends gave him, he still kept going.

“Good night, gentlemen,” Melchior sighed before leaving.

“See you guys!” Moritz called over his shoulders as he ran after Melchi.

Ernst and Hanschen watched them go and as soon as they were gone Ernst practically jumped on top of Hanschen.

“I thought they’d never leave.” Ernst captured Hanschen’s mouth in a sweet kiss and it felt like heaven.

“You’re a dream, Ernst Robel,” Hanschen mumbled between kisses. His hands on Ernst’s lower back and moving lower, Ernst’s hands tangled in his hair. Ernst’s hands ran down Hanschen’s chest, threatening to go lower. He couldn’t help but moan and buck his hips, desperate for Ernst’s touch.

“Never thought I’d see the day I would have you so helpless,” Ernst crooned, satisfied with his work on the blonde boy. 

“Shut up and touch me for God’s sake,” Hanschen moved Ernst’s hand to his crotch and Hanschen shuddered in delight. Ernst smiled wickedly as he went to work**.

“You know I love you, right?” Hanschen cooed into Ernst’s neck. They had come back to the Rilow house after their adventure in the woods. Now the lovers were cuddled close on the bed, wrapped in each other’s embrace.

Ernst chuckled, “Of course, you must have told me a hundred times this past week. I never get sick of hearing it.”

Hanschen smiled, is heart had never felt so full and he’d never been so happy as he had these past few weeks.

“Are you staying?” Hanschen asked.

“If you’d be okay with it I’d love to.” Ernst combed his fingers through Hanschen’s hair as the latter sighed in pleasure.

“My parents won’t be home till tomorrow evening; I think it would be a crime if you didn’t.”

Hanschen snuggled further into Ernst’s chest, mesmerized with how the moonlight shined on his and his boyfriend’s skin. It felt so natural to be pressed up against Ernst, legs intertwined under the covers and hearts beating in time with each other.

“You’re the only person who makes dick jokes that isn’t a total idiot,” Hanschen whispered after a while. Ernst laughed softly and Hanschen felt like he could melt.

“I’m not a total idiot, but I am an idiot to some degree.” Ernst paused to press a kiss to Hanschen’s cheek. “But I appreciate that.”

“It’s hard to hide the way you make me feel I guess.”

Ernst snorted. “Hard, unlike you dick.”

Hanschen smirked, a devilish glint in his dark eyes. “Would you like to change that?” 

Ernst smiled as Hanschen climbed on top of him, his heart already speeding up at the thought of the bliss to come. 

*I’m working on writing this blog entry and it’s hilarious. I’ll post it as soon as it’s done.

**I’m thinking of writing this smut? Idk let me know if you want that.