#regina elk

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[tjenkehpala]

“Wanneer elk Moluks individu aan zichzelf zou werken en het helingsproces door zou gaan, dan pas kunnen we als Moluks volk in onze eigen kracht staat.” Deel 1.

Mijn geboortenaam is Maria Magdalena Latuheru. Mijn roepnaam is Mary. Ik ben 54 jaar en hoop dit jaar 55 jaar te mogen worden. Ik ben van de 3e generatie. Ik ben in Rotterdam geboren en vernoemd naar mijn oma, moeder van vaderskant. Zij heette Maria Magdalena Pattisina uit Suli. Mijn vader is Mattheus Latuheru uit Kilang kediamandi Naku. Mijn moeder is Regina Suitela uit Suli. In 1951 zijn mijn ouders, beiden toen tieners, met mijn beide grootouders aan boord van de Fairsea, naar Nederland gekomen. Vanuit Amersfoort vertrok mijn vader met zijn ouders, 2 broers en 1 zusje naar Eijsden, waarna het gezin Latuheru naar het kamp IJsseloord in Capelle is verhuist. Mijn moeder woonde eerst met haar ouders, 2 broers en 4 zusjes in kamp Vught. Daarna vertrok het gezin Suitela naar de wijk Moordrecht. Hier is de jongste broer van mijn moeder geboren. In 1963 trouwden mijn ouders en kwam mijn moeder in het kamp IJsseloord wonen. Ik kan mij weinig herinneren van het kampleven. Ik was bijna 2 jaar toen mijn ouders, mijn zus, mijn broer en ik in 1972 van het kamp naar de wijk in Capelle verhuisden. Ik kom uit een gezin bestaand uit mijn ouders, 2 zussen en 1 broer. Mijn oudste zus Aletta was reeds bij de geboorte overleden. Zij is vernoemd naar mijn oma van moederskant. Mijn oma heette Aletta Tapilaha, uit Waai kediaman in Suli. Ik ben opgevoed door 2 lieve ouders, die hun uiterste best hebben gedaan om ons alles te geven wat we nodig hadden. Het verleden van mijn ouders heeft hun wel getekend. Mijn vader heeft in de oorlog van zijn 5e tot 10e levensjaar in een jappenkamp gezeten. Samen met mijn oma en zijn 2 broers. Mijn moeder heeft, bij de aanval van Suli door de Japanners, voor haar leven moeten vluchten. Samen met mijn oma en haar jongere zusje zijn ze naar de bergen gevlucht, achterna gezeten door de kogels. Het zijn traumatische ervaringen geweest voor mijn ouders. Als kind merkte ik dat in de opvoeding, die werd meer aangestuurd vanuit angst en onzekerheid. Dat heeft mij gevormd. Ik vraag mij wel eens af hoe moeilijk het voor hen en mijn grootouders geweest moest zijn om in een vreemd land opnieuw te moeten beginnen. Het opnieuw beginnen is een thema in mijn eigen leven. Ik kan wel zeggen dat ik een bewogen leven heb. Ik heb een scheiding achter de rug , diep in de schulden gezeten en er weer uitgekomen. Het afgelopen 5 jaar te kampen gehad met diverse gezondheidsklachten waaronder longembolieën en twee keer overstijgen van kanker. Ik ben in mijn leven door donkere perioden heengegaan. Die donkere perioden hebben mij veel gebracht. Aan het eind van de tunnel is er altijd Licht. Gelukkig heb ik dat Licht ook mogen zien. Ik sta nog steeds overeind en ben nog sterker dan voorheen. Die donkere perioden hebben ervoor gezorgd dat ik anders in het leven ben gaan staan. Ik ben bewuster geworden van de aanwezigheid van God. Ik ontving de kracht om weer op te staan. Ik paste zelfreflectie toe en ging door een helingsproces. Ik noem het de ontdekkingsreis in mijn hart. Tijdens het helingsproces ben ik terug gaan blikken naar alle ervaringen die ik heb gehad van peuter tot kind en jong volwassene. Een vorm van zelfpsychologie. Ik trok mij het lot van ons volk erg aan, het onrecht dat ons was overkomen. Het vormde mij. Ik zie nog het beeld voor me van mijn huilende grootouders toen de tv beelden werden getoond van de ‘bestorming’. (Lees verder in deel 2.)

[celineszoges]

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[elkemusekuruguay]

ENTREVISTA con la Radio WNXP Nashville 22/2/2023

Invitada: Elke

Lanzó su álbum My Human Experience en 2022, con el sencillo Milk Dipped Cloud

Recientemente devuelta en Nashville luego de estar viviendo en LA.

Se presentará en el Blue Room de NS por primera vez.

Celia: Estuve pensando en tu EP y como comineza tan Punk-Rock y luego se vuelve un poco más pop, ¿qué has estado escuchando últimamente?

Elke: Escucho un poco de todo. Creo que quería convertirme en una especie de enciclopedia de música. Mis raíces están en Doo-Wop que escuchaba mucho mientras crecía, rock psicodélico, John Frusciante.

Para My Huamn Experience no escuché nada en específico, creo que quería empezar a jugar con génereos diferentes. Creo que es muy cool no quedarte en una caja de un solo género. He habladoo con músicos que han tenido este problema.

Si lanzas algo, y luego lanzas algo totalmente difernte, la gente se enoja.

Nuestros sentimientos, experiencias y pensamientos cambian.

No estaba pensando en hacer algo en específico.

Celia: ¿Siempre tuviste este tono de voz?

Siempre he cantando y he tenido este tono de voz, que me costó un poco econtrar. Intentaba sonar como Regina Spektor por ejemplo. Ponía cierto acento en mi voz.

He cantado Karaoke muchas veces con canciones donde no tengo ese vocal range así que no han sido muy buenas.

Cualquier cosa que tenga un registro bajo, puedo hacerlo.

Celia: Tienes que responder esto...¿Qué es una Milk Dipped Cloud? ¿Es un concepto o es algo en especial?

Volviendo a Nashville en el verano luego de estar viviendo en Los Angeles, las nubes son muy diferentes aquí, son fenomenales. Poder ver un atardecer o caminar por un parque y simplemente mirar al cielo, que siempre cambia de colores... He estado viendo las nubes y pensado, "es como si alguien hubiera tomado esa nube y la sumergió en un vaso de leche y la puso de vuelta en el cielo".

[neechees]

I gave Regina a halloween costume :0 

[red-valley-freedom-fighters]

Tag Dump: Interactions

🌳☮ a rural tail to tell ☮🌳☮ murdoch possum interacts ☮🌳 📖☮ bookworm techie ☮📖☮ regina the raccoon interacts ☮📖 🔧☮ the swaggering saboteur ☮🔧☮ rusty the cat interacts ☮🔧 🍜☮ shy cervine chef ☮🍜☮ leon the elk interacts ☮🍜 💪☮ firm as a mountain ☮💪☮ gwendolyn grison interacts ☮💪 🐯☮ spirited stripes ☮🐯☮ holly the tigress interacts ☮🐯

[rebrandtdebibls]

Ode

Die môre vroeg het die owerpriesters saam met die oudstes en skrifgeleerdes dadelik as volle raad 'n vergadering gehou. Hulle het Jesus geboei en Hom toe weggebring en aan Pilatus uitgelewer. Pilatus het vir Hom gevra:,,Is jy die koning van die Jode?" Jesus antwoord hom:,,Dit is soos u sê.”

Die owerpriesters het Hom van baie dinge beskuldig. "Pilatus het Hom toe verder ondervra. Verweer jy jou glad nie?" het hy gevra.,,Kyk waarvan beskuldig hulle jou alles."

Jesus het egter niks meer gesê nie, sodat Pilatus verbaas was.

Elke paasfees het Pilatus vir die mense een gevangene, die een wat hulle gevra het, losgelaat. 'Daar was 'n man met die naam Barabbas in die tronk saam met ander opstandelinge. Hulle het tydens die opstand moord ge pleeg. Daar het toe juis 'n klomp mense gekom en Pilatus gevra om vir hulle te doen wat hulle van hom gewoond was. "Pilatus vra hulle toe:,, Wil julle hê ek moet die koning van die Jode vir julle loslaat?"

Die owerpriesters het die mense er om gekruisig te word,

Die soldate vat Jesus toe in die binnehof van hulle hoofkwartier in en roep die hele afdeling bymekaar. Toe trek hulle Hom 'n pers mantel aan en vleg 'n doringkroon en sit dit vir Hom op. "Daarna het hulle Hom begin begroet en gesê:,,Ons groet u, Koning van die Jode!" "Hulle het Hom herhaaldelik met 'n stok oor die kop geslaan en op Hom gopoeg en hulle knieë gebuig asof hulle aan Hom eer wou bewys.

Lode Regina Elisabetta.

"Die soldate het iemand wat daar verbygekom het, gekommandeer om Jesus se kruis te dra. Dit was Simon van Sirene, wat van buite die stad af gekom het, die vader van Aleksander en Rufus.

"Hulle bring Jesus toe na 'n plek Golgota, wat Kopbeenplek beteken. "Hulle wou vir Hom wyn gee met mirre daarin, maar Hy wou dit nie he Tie. Toe kruisig hulle Hom en verdeel sy klere onder mekaar deur lootjies te trek oor wat elkeen moet kry.

"Dit was nege-uur die môre toe hulle Hom gekruisig het.

"Die mense wat daar verbygeloop het, het Jesus gelaster. Hulle het die kop geskud en gesê:,,Toe, jy wat die tempel afbreek en in drie dae weer opbou!

Lode Regina in sempiterno amore Deum grazia RaMa : RaBrand Debibls BaRasels

[spacesuitsforemergency]

Personally I’m gonna be up for quite a while so Samara stuff cause I’m definitely bringing her back

But like she’s a mix between the Evil Queen and Maleficent, like she looks like Maleficent and has the same intimidating voice and stare, and a fangy smile but she radiates the elegance of Regina Mills and I love it. Like she always wears wild outfits like Regina did in OUAT, but they’re all black and compliment her so well

But the idea of Bella being exiled and she’s kinda wandering around crying cause she doesn’t really know what to do atm, and she stumbles across Samara, who’s picking blackberries in her woods with little black faeries flying around her and a beautiful all black elk walks past and Samara’s black eyes just pierce her and it’s like walking in on a fairytale

[hvnnigram]

10 songs I’m loving at the moment

Thanks for the tag @slick-as-hell I’m always on the hunt for new songs to love, so this is super fun

I’ve been listening to these a fair bit in the past weeks

1. Girlie Bits - Ali Barter

2. Not to worry (feat Governors) - Elk Road

3. Wrote and the Writ - Johnny Flynn

4. Everybody’s Gotta Live - Love

5. Samson - Regina Spektor

6. I am not a Robot - MARINA

7. This is how we walk on the moon - Jose Gonzalez

8. Tell it to my Heart - Taylor Dayne

9. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash

10. Sunny - Boney M

If you’re interested in joining in pls do :) if you’ve been tagged recently feel free to ignore

@nietzscheantrout @life-but-make-it-gay-and-witchy @justapetitegaydragon @chesterfield-goose @emryspost @devour-the-rude

[ratsoh-writes]

Oooh that would help me aLOT

In underswap i have NO idea for the name of Asgore

And with Toriel and between Reine or Regina

Hmmm swap Asgore is more nurturing…

Elm, Rowan, nook, saint, preacher, august, Julius, knight, magnus, Aner, Maximus, Vince, helm, castiel, Motor, mortar, elk, bull, victor,

[parrishh]

tagged by: @danielsousa (thank you elke!!!) to answer the following questions about music, books, films, & tv, then tag nine people!

tagging: @ginnypcttcr @vivihollow @jamesbvck @parrished @brucegf @jostenminyrd if you want to. literally no pressure

(answers under the cut because this is looooong)

MUSIC

favorite genres? uhhhh i'm really all over the place genre-wise but my stats say my top two genres are modern rock and pop punk

favorite artists? the maine, catfish and the bottlemen, beach weather, abba, rina sawayama, waterparks, coin, state champs

favorite songs? I HAVE SO MANY. naive by the kooks, (un)lost by the maine, tyrants by catfish and the bottlemen, if it means a lot to you by a day to remember, bubbletea by quebonafide, scene five by sleeping with sirens, fashion forward by the home team, alrighty aphrodite by peach pit, etc etc etc

most listened song recently? right now it's dirty, pretty, beautiful by the maine

song currently stuck in your head? nothing because i'm listening to music right now. currently playing covet by basement

favorite lyrics? i could give a million different answers but i have the lyric "how lucky you are to have yourself" from (un)lost by the maine tattooed on me. so we'll go with that

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

favorite book genre? fantasy

favorite writers? maggie stiefvater is amazing at what she does. love alice oseman. i don't often read multiple books by the same author but just based on the one book i've read by each of them i think morgan rogers, samantha shannon, madeline miller, m. l. rio, tasha suri and aiden thomas are fantastic, also

favorite book? ella enchanted by gail carson levine

favorite book series? the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater, of course

comfort book? ....also ella enchanted

perfect book to read on a rainy day? heartstopper by alice oseman. any of the volumes

favorite characters? adam parrish, jordan hennessy, julian diaz, jesper fahey, nina zenik, ead duryan, aled last, tara jones, alex claremont-diaz, oliver marks. sirius black, but we don't need to talk about that

hardcover or paperback | buy or library | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator  | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND FILMS

favorite tv/film genre? i guess drama for tv? and comedy for film, probably

favorite film? school of rock (2003)

comfort film? either the above or clueless (1995) or ever after (1998) or scooby-doo (2002)

film you watch every year? i watch mean girls (2004) like, once a month

favorite tv show? lost

comfort tv show? avatar: the last airbender

most rewatched tv show? i have only ever rewatched one show ever and it was julie and the phantoms

ultimate otp? from a tv show? OH GOD. uh. a few years ago i would have said captain swan. dani + jamie, the haunting of bly manor? nathan + haley, one tree hill? isak + even, skam?

five favorite characters? brooke davis, regina mills, spencer reid, sokka, willie jatp (why does he not have a last name?)

tv shows or films | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

[ichbleibenichtlange]

Klinik

A: Es tut weh zu wissen das ich bald in die Wohngruppe komme. Dann habe ich euch Betreuer nicht mehr..

C: Wir bleiben doch trotzdem irgendwie bei dir.

A: Aber ich kann nicht mehr immer mit euch reden.. (weine)

C. Nimmt mich in den Arm und drückt mich ganz doll an sich.

C: Weißt du, stell dir vor du hast einen Rucksack. Du hast jeden Betreuer darin verstaut und inzwischen weißt du ja auch in welcher Situation welcher Betreuer am meisten hilft..

A: Ich kann mir das nicht vorstellen, ihr seit doch mein Zuhause geworden, bei euch fühle ich mich sicher und geborgen..

C: Wir sind kein Ort für immer und das musst du leider akzeptieren.. aber kommen wir nochmal zum Rucksack, immer wenn es dir schlecht geht oder du Hilfe brauchst dann greifst du einmal ganz tief in den Rucksack nach einen von uns Betreuern und lässt dir sagen was du zu tun hast, denn du weißt ja wie wir dir immer geholfen haben. Und so hilft dir dann der Rucksack.

Und du kannst immer anrufen oder uns besuchen wenn du das mit uns besprochen hast. Wir sind ja nicht komplett weg. Wir bleiben ja hier.!

A: Ja ich versuche es.. Ich kann es mir nur noch nicht vorstellen. (A fällt C in die Arme und genießt es nochmal so in den Arm genommen zu werden..)

[goalhofer]

2020-21 Minnesota State University, Mankato Mavericks Roster

Wingers

#5 Jake Jaremenko (Elk River, Minnesota)

#9 Tanner Edwards (Anchorage, Alaska)

#10 Shane McMahan (Irvine, California)

#11 Jared Spooner (Bismarck, North Dakota) A

#13 Brendan Furry (Toledo, Ohio)

#15 Julian Napravnik (Bad Nauheim, Germany)

#16 Reggie Lutz (Elk River, Minnesota)

#17 Walker Duehr (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

#19 Chris VanOs-Shaw (Regina, Saskatchewan)

#21 Lucas Sowder (New Port Richey, Florida)

#22 Dallas Gerads (Blaine, Minnesota) A

#28 Cade Borchardt (Burnsville, Minnesota)

Centers

#8 Nate Smith (New Port Richey, Florida)

#14 Ryan Sandelin (Hermantown, Minnesota)

#18 Ondřej Pavel (Prague, Czech Republic)

#20 Connor Gregga (Markham, Ontario)

#24 Todd Burgess (Phoenix, Arizona)

Defensemen

#2 Akito Hirose (Calgary, Alberta)

#3 Jack McNeely (Lakeville, Minnesota) A

#4 Andy Carroll (Northfield, Minnesota)

#6 Sam Morton (Lafayette, Colorado)

#7 Wyatt Aamodt (Hermantown, Minnesota)

#12 Colby Bukes (Littleton, Colorado)

#23 Jake Livingstone (Creston, British Columbia)

#25 Riese Zmolek (Rochester, Minnesota) C

#27 Tony Malinowski (Clarkston, Michigan)

Goalies

#29 Dryden McKay (Downers Grove, Illinois)

#33 Evan Foss (White Bear Lake, Minnesota)

#35 Ryan Edquist (Lakeville, Minnesota)

[emmaswcns]

ouat🥰

ohhhh elke you spoil me bc now i get to answer this question using gifs 🥰🥰🤗💫 @danielsousa​

1. emma swan (what a SHOCKER huh)

2. regina mills

3. ruby lucas

4. killian jones

5. david nolan

send me a show and i’ll tell you my top 5 favorite characters!

[dillydedalus]

october reading

i finished my masters thesis this month (yay!) so while i still read quite a lot for escapism i was also operating on no more than 2 braincells at any time, and one of those braincells was just. continuously screaming. so any incoherence or whatever here is. because of that.

i am sovereign, nicola barker a fantastically weird & enjoyable novella about a house-viewing gone wrong that eventually blows up the novella form. i don’t want to give away the meta aspect too much, even tho it’s not entirely unpredictable, but it is so very entertaining and delightful to read. had such a fun time with this. also has a great cover. 4/5

the lifted veil, george eliot i’ve only read middlemarch by eliot, so a 75-page novella about the supernatural sure was... different. it’s fine, but nothing special imo. i enjoyed the first chapter, which sets up latimer, a soft young man with the gift of foresight/telepathy and his fascination with his brother’s fiancee, whose mind remains opaque to him (....twilight???), but the second half is pretty meh. 2/5

the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke (read the german obvi) loved the beginning of this, where morbid, too-intense, death-obsessed author-insert malte laurids brigge walks around paris, seeing everyone carry their death with them, which then makes him think of the deaths he has witnessed in his childhood. the parts about his childhood in a danish noble family were also good, but it really lost me with the overtly poetic, weird historical/religious stuff?? feel like this might have been a victim of termin master’s thesis like maybe that’s not the time for poetic, fragmentary, modernist-ish novels. 3/5

wie der soldat das grammofon repariert, saša stanišić (read in german, english translation by anthea bell) i really enjoyed stanišić‘s memoir herkunft last year so i went back to his 2006 classic, about a kid called aleksandar growing up in yugoslavia and eventually fleeing to germany as a refugee during the war. it’s very similar to herkunft in story, although the presentation is very different. honestly overall i found it a bit Too Much, too long & too stylised in its structure. but like, i can see why it’s so popular. 2.5/5

i capture the castle, dodie smith i really liked this! cassandra mortmain is a very strong narrator, the atmosphere of the dilapidated castle and the dysfunctional family are great, & i was surprised by the crushing poverty of the family in the beginning - cassandra obviously attempts to cover this up both in her own head & in her journal, but for much of the first half or so i was genuinely really worried for the kids - and this makes rose so much more sympathetic in her resolution to escape poverty. i was less convinced by the whole love quadrangle this book got going on, but on the whole this was very charming, but often very melancholy in a far deeper way than i expected. 4/5 

the death of vivek oji, akwaeke emezi my second emezi this year, altho sadly neither of them have lived up to the glory of freshwater. this one is about (gender) identity, grief, trauma, love, and solidarity/community based on otherness, which are similar thematically to freshwater, but in a novel that is, i would say, both more stylistically conventional and more hopeful/uplifting (altho it is still very depressing in parts). i enjoyed this on the whole, but it just doesn’t grab you by the throat the way freshwater does, and the reveal/central mystery just feels a bit lacking. 3/5

gott wohnt im wedding, regina scheer listen, this book is probably more competent & historically interesting than literarily great BUT it’s literally (literally) set around the corner from where i live, i know pretty much every single place & business mentioned in it & the house troubles are extremely relatable, if a lot worse than what i am currently experiencing. anyway. this novel is centered around a house in berlin-wedding & the people who live in it & it's about the holocaust & the porajmos, current discrimination against sinti&roma, the history of the wedding, gentrification, familial trauma & all that. it’s very interesting historically, slow but still very readable, and like.... i just really love the wedding! it’s kinda shitty & depressing but i love it!!! 4/5 the only good indians, stephen graham jones note: the elk in this book is not what you, a european, think of as an elk. that’s a moose. anyway, this is a horror novel about four native american men who hunt for elk when, where and how they shouldn’t have and ten years later find themselves pursued by a vengeful elk spirit. i enjoyed this! the scenes where shit goes down were certainly very horrible & gruesome & very sad as well. 3.5/5

solutions & other problems, allie brosh this book really is out there & exists. anyway hyperbole & a half was like, one of my formative internet things and i still love it a lot. this book is second only to the winds of winter in eternally getting pushed back and back and back, so this even getting published was def a pleasant surprise. it’s still really funny, and the weird ugly drawings are still amazingly effective, but this one is. very sad. some really bad shit happened to brosh inbetween and it’s kinda a downer (i mean the first one had the depression saga but this one... is darker). 3.5/5

a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do again, david foster wallace .....i might have to stan dfw, just a little bit. like, i read infinite jest when i was way too young to appreciate it (still traumatised by the uh. creative use of brooms tho) & i have NO intentions of ever rereading it BUT this essay collection was so good that i may just have to read a lot of his other stuff. particular highlights are the title essay, about a cruise journey, and an essay about the illinois state fair, two things that feel particularly fascinating and offputting in equal measure in this year of plague, where even the idea of being in enclosed spaces with many people freaks you out. but i also really appreciated his essays on david lynch & television & fiction, even if i don’t agree with all of his takes. he just has such a good voice! funny, smart, precisely observed but always with a strange spin. 4/5, minus points for too much tennis, but oh well

gruppenbild mit dame, heinrich böll (group portrait with lady) marcel reich-ranicki criticised this book for being, essentially, a sloppy mess and that’s kind of accurate - it’s definitely too long & a bit draggy & böll (and the narrator/“author”) go on tangents and into details with indulgence & abandon, but it’s also... kind of brilliant? the way the “author” collects material and testimony on leni (the lady), her family, coming-of-age and the love affair with a soviet forced labourer that made her an outcast, constructing a documented history of her while leni herself remains ever elusive, the focus on structure, architecture, construction, the endless loops of self-justification (pelzer’s insistance that he is not inhuman, the real estate tycoon’s insistence that they just want what’s best for leni & that her resistance to profit-logic is abnormal)... there’s so much in here, and a lot of it doesn’t need to be there, but a lot of it does. 3.5/5 

sweet fruit, sour land, rebecca ley very lyrical, quiet, feminist climate dystopia. it’s good, well-written, very evocative of hunger and loss, a dystopia but really more about grief and identity, and i read it during the last few days of my master’s thesis and thus have absolutely nothing to say about it. 3.5/5

i also & this will be a shock, dnf’d burning down the haus: punk rock, revolution & the fall of the berlin wall, a book about the east-berlin/german punk subculture. it just felt like a longform essay artificially extended into a 400-page book & the writing was pretty basic in a music bro tries to be deep and like, subversive and shit kinda way.