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Ich habe 1.714 Mal im Jahr 2022 etwas gepostet

Das sind 486 more posts als 2021!

264 Einträge erstellt (15%)

1.450 Einträge gerebloggt (85%)

Blogs, die ich am häufigsten gerebloggt habe:

@tayilapologist

@eisbecherovka

@natalieironside

@unpretty

@ptactwo

Ich habe 757 meiner Einträge im Jahr 2022 getaggt

#everquest 2 – 89 Einträge

#the locked tomb – 50 Einträge

#my art – 40 Einträge

#eq inktober – 24 Einträge

#everquest – 22 Einträge

#lucan d'lere – 19 Einträge

#eq2 – 18 Einträge

#tlt – 17 Einträge

#tayil n'velex – 15 Einträge

#pentiment – 15 Einträge

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#a song with two first verses that are so fucking perfect for your fantasy bullshit story. a soldier with his big big sword. the poet who'll

Meine Top-Einträge im Jahr 2022:

#5

two young men were killed in a shooting in a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, last evening

another person was shot and is in the hospital, but their life isn't in danger

the perpetrator fled the scene but has since reportedly been found dead

an anonymous twitter profile that is believed to belong to the perpetrator posted a queerphobic and antisemitic manifesto hours before the attack, citing breivik and hitler as inspiration.

the german article i found has some more info than the first one, but is in german.

105 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 13. Oktober 2022

#4

harrow isn't FEMME harrow wears ROBES because she's a goddamn WIZARD

115 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 20. Mai 2022

#3

alright, so, on a personal note re:crab rave

earlier this year i was fact-checking a planner that had a page with "fun facts about canada" in it

one of the fun facts? queen Elizabeth ii is head of state

this was during the height of the "she's already dead" conspiracy theory

so i decided, quite reasonably, to suggest changing the sentence to "king or queen of england," juuust in case she dies before the new school year starts. i got shot down, of course, and at the end of the day, whatever. as always with my job, literally whatever. gets printed with lizzie's name in it

i forget about it

September 8th: crab day

September 13th: the new school year starts

i love being right

191 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 9. September 2022

#2

So where *is* Tassing, actually?

Obviously it’s nowhere. But actually, it’s also several specific places in a specific area.

As someone who lives and has lived in several parts of Oberbayern, I'm so tickled by placing Tassing on a map. While trying to find a region it would fit in with all the clues the game gives, I also found several monasteries that probably contributed to the way Kiersau was written and created.

Names

Tassing fits a common naming scheme in Oberbayern. Places with an -ing name in Austria and Altbayern (roughly congruent with the present-day administrative districts Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate) were founded in a specific time frame, the Baiuvarian Settling of the Alps. Up until the 7th century CE, the alpine landscape was inhabited by slavs, but from the 7th to 9th century, the Baiuvarii, a germanic group of people, moved into the area and ended up either displacing or integrating the slavic people into their own society. Examples of Baiuvarian -ing names in Upper Bavaria include Pasing (With the people of Paso/Paoso/Poso/Poaso), Menzing (With the people of Menzo) or Poing (With the people of Piuwo). Tassing might have been re-settled, founded or just be associated with a man named Tasso, and should be located somewhere in Altbayern.

Kiersau is a strange name to me and finding an etymologically-based interpretation, like for Tassing, is harder. (In general, trying to find etymologies for place names is often more educated guessing than anything else.) The Bavarian meaning of Au (or Aue) is a flat piece of land with meadows and forests located near a river (also: floodplain). The problematic part is Kiers. I'm choosing to put it down as Kirsche, cherry. Why? Well, cherry trees were brought across the Alps by Romans, and the Roman past of Kiersau and Tassing is important to the story. It might also just be a reference to Hirsau, a famous Benedictine monastery in the Black Forest.

None of the first or last names of the peasants, merchants or craftsmen in Tassing give any kind of hint as to where the place is located. Names like Bauer (farmer), Gertner (gardener) or Zimmermann (carpenter) are extremely common, and the more uncommon ones, like Alban, don't help narrowing it down either.

Area

We get one look at an Early Modern map of Europe, with a few mountain ranges, rivers, some of the most siginficant trade roads, and Tassing marked on it. We know that Tassing is part of the Prince-Bishopric of Freising in 1518 and borders directly on Tyrolia. We know it's in Bavaria, which I'm deciding to identify as the Bavarian territory of the Holy Roman Empire. I'm not getting into the true borders of Bavaria on my overly researched Pentiment post. We also learn that one of the Roman trade routes, possibly relateed to salt, was built to run past Tassing, and that Tassing is located somewhere in the province of Raetia. To identify and overlap all these areas, I have committed a horrible cartographic crime in Photoshop!

I have marked Raetia in yellow, the Roman roads in red, the Prince-Bishopric in brown and the Bavarian territory in blue. This first map shows these areas in a European context.

This one is a closer shot of the whole possible location of Tassing. Now, you might have noticed a little red dot in the lower right, outside of any of the possible areas, right there in Eastern Tyrolia?

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209 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 23. November 2022

Meine #1 des Jahres 2022

the popular German kid's science and knowledge program, die sendung mit der maus, aired a segment with and about trans people today!

670 Anmerkungen – Gepostet 27. März 2022

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