#sprotte x frieda

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Drawing request: sprotte in fred's punk-lederjacke oder frieda und sprotte am händchenhalten? (Hab grad sprotte feels idk)

i did both :)

zu dem zweiten hab ich auch so ein bisschen hintergrundgeschichte.

sie sind auf einer party, es ist die zeit des jahres, wo der sommer zur neige geht und die abende kühler werden. im laufe des abends hat fred sprotte seine jacke gegeben, als sie zu schlottern anfing. frieda weiß nicht ganz, wie sie sich verhalten soll. sie und sprotte sind mehr oder weniger frisch zusammen, aber irgendwie ist das ganze auch deutlich komplizierter, mit fred und ihnen dreien und neuseeland und überhaupt. aber sprottes hand fühlt sich warm und vertraut an in ihrer, und die jacke ist ebenfalls vertraut, wenn auch auf andere art. frieda hat eigenhändig mitgeholfen, sie zu bemalen und mit flicken und nieten und stacheln und ketten zu versehen. sprotte jetzt in ebendieser jacke zu sehen, ist wie eine mischung von zwei welten. sprotte, die so lange so weit weg war, und fred, der in eben dieser zeit da war und mit dem sie in dieser zeit so viele neue dinge erlebt hat. frieda weiß nicht, wie sie sich fühlen soll.

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Bin auf Die Wilden Hühner gestoßen… tbh my favourite ship (Sprotte x Frieda)

die wilden hühner: sprotte x frieda (leben auf dem hof von mona) source: x x x x x x 

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Hab mir vorhin mit meinem eigenen pinterest board ausversehen sprotte/frieda feels gegeben und die musste ich irgendwie verarbeiten

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the sun, the moon and the stars: sprotte & frieda (die wilden hühner)

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Warum klingt in diesem dwh Hörspiel (und eigentlich überhaupt in jedem Band) jede Interaktion zwischen Sprotte und Melanie immer wie dieser Post "I once had a crush on a girl and I didn't know how to deal with it so I wrote a note that said 'get out of my school' and put it in her locker"??

Ich mein?? Sprotte zu Frieda like: "Mich regt es einfach auf, wie Trude Melanie anhimmelt, und jetzt fängst du auch noch damit an." Sprotte 💕 Beloved 💕 Hast du nen Crush auf Melanie? 😇

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Weil ich grade zu viel fühl Um zu wissen, was eigentlich los ist

Alex Lys | Bauchweh x Bauchkribbeln

Die Wilden Hühner | Sprotte x Frieda x Fred

für @transratsactivist

you can send me prompts for moodboards!

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Welcome to the Shame Shelf #1

Blurb: Amber, Maali, Sky and Rose may be very different, but they all have one thing in common: they’re fed up with being told how to look, what to think and how to act. 

They’re not like everyone else

and they don’t want to be.

Becoming friends gives them the courage to be themselves. 

Some Stats: First published in 2016, ISBN: 978-1-4063-6582-5, 347 pages in the Walker Books paperback edition. Thirty-nine chapters, third-person limited narrator, written in past tense. Style is standard to colloquial, syntax is rather simple. Took me about five hours to get through, I’d say ten to fifteen for the average to slow reader. 

Synopsis: The story follows four girls, Amber, who lives with her two dads and is obsessed with vintage and Oscar Wilde, Maali, a painfully shy Indian girl who just wants to be able to talk to boys, Sky, who writes poetry and used to live on a house boat with her father, and Rose, who’s mother is a famous model and dating Sky’s father. All four girls feel like outcasts because they are different from the average girl. Amber decides to found a sort of secret society, the Moonlight Dreamers (inspired by an Oscar Wilde quote), and hands out ‘invitation cards’ to Maali and Sky. Rose tags along to the first Moonlight Dreamers meeting and is reluctantly accepted into the group. The girls vow to help each other achieve their dreams, which range through talking to boys to getting more followers on tumblr. Meanwhile, many problems in the girls’ personal lives come up: Sky and Rose despise each other and don’t want their parents to move in together, Rose struggles with alcoholism and her boyfriend, Amber with the strained relationship to her father Gerald, who is a self-obsessed artist, and Maali’s crush has a girlfriend. The situation escalates when Rose’s boyfriend posts a nude she sent him on her Instagram because she wouldn’t sleep with him and paparazzi begin chasing her and her mother around. Sky offers her refuge on her house boat and the girls finally reconcile their differences. Rose’s mother sees the error in her ways and she and Sky’s father decide to move apart again. Amber interviews Rose and posts the interview on tumblr, boosting her follower count dramatically. The book ends with the girls supporting Sky at her first poetry slam and visiting Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris with Amber’s fathers, who she has also reconciled with. 

Personal Opinion: In an interview with The Guardian regarding Curham’s involvement in Zoe Sugg’s ‘Girl Online’ she states that she “love[s] writing books and [she] love[s] helping others write books. And [she] especially love[s] being involved in the creation of books that help others. Books that deal with real and serious issues such as cyber-bullying, homophobia and anxiety.” (x) to which I can only say ...really? The blurb sounds like it, but after reading this book I’m not so sure anymore. To clarify: The two major themes of this book are friendship and the relationship between a child and its parents. And I have an issue with this. Because they are not treated the way they should be. I’ll start with the parent issue: The book features two prominent examples of bad parenting bordering on emotional neglect, Rose’s mother and Amber’s father Gerald. And the thing is, emotional neglect is something that needs to be addressed, but in this book, I’d really rather the author didn’t because instead of showing a parent who unintentionally neglects a child and trying to show the reasons for that and how the issue is resolved, she uses harmful stereotypes about women and gay men as an ‘explanation’ and the issue is resolved when the characters become more ‘mainstream’. Rose’s mother is a model and shown as the stereotypical beauty-obsessed woman who’s only goal in life is to be prettier than the rest. Amber’s father is shown as the stereotypical flamboyant gay man. They are both characterised as self-obsessed because of this, leading to them neglecting their children. And this is extremely dangerous, especially in a novel aimed towards preteen to early teenage girls, because what you’re doing with something like that is saying that it’s only okay for people to be different if they still fit the mainstream mould. And, considering the target group, that implication that women are only worth being taken seriously if they don’t do typically girly stuff is downright fatal. What you’re doing with something like this is connecting explicitly negative stereotypes to femininity. You’re making thousands of little girls who like makeup or being pretty and thousands of boys who like pink and flower crowns feel like they aren’t worthy of respect, like they aren’t worthy of being seen as human beings. You’re distancing them from their peers, you’re allowing them to become easy targets for bullying, you’re isolating them from the group of ‘normal human beings’ and purposely pushing them towards ‘freak’. Same with the friendship thing. Instead of portraying a healthy relationship between four girls who all feel like outcasts for various different reasons, the author explicitly distances them from other girls, who are described as superficial and portrayed as monstrous caricatures of Instagram fashionistas. The one thing that ties this group of ‘friends’ together is not mutual (sisterly) love and respect, but an almost cult-like group philosophy based on a feeling of exclusiveness. The authors intention was obviously to assure girls that don’t identify with stereotypes attached to femininity that it’s ok to be ‘different’, but this is not the way to go about it. You’re not creating “books that help others”, to say it with Curham’s words, you’re telling a big part of your readers that they aren’t worthy of true friendship, and another big part of your readers that they are superior to other girls and shouldn’t take them seriously or associate with them. 

I’m a member of the Shame Shelf because...

...I use explicitly homophobic stereotypes in order to antagonise and ridicule a gay character instead of a realistic characterisation and actually focusing on the problem at hand, which is emotional neglect of a child by a parent.

...Instead of realistic character development leading to the four protagonists becoming friends, I distance them from the group of girls as a whole and heavily imply that, should a member of the group no longer fit the specific criteria for being ‘different’, they would no longer be allowed to be part of the group. 

...I explicitly shame girls and women for wanting to be pretty, wearing makeup, and following fashion trends.

...I characterise almost all women outside the group of outsiders as being shallow, disloyal and backstabbing. 

...I explicitly queer-code a character inside the group, showing her being repulsed by male attention, not seeing men as attractive, imply her falling in love with a woman, imply her to only be dating men because she wants to uphold an image, give her several opportunities to come out, and make all of this magically vanish when she resolves the issue with her boyfriend, implying that she only felt homoerotic attraction because they boy she was dating wasn’t the right one for her and/or a ‘real’ man. And yes, I know, she’s supposed to come out in the next book, but that still doesn’t excuse the aforementioned implication that the issue isn’t about her sexuality but her boyfriend. 

Books That Do It Better: Wild Chicks by Cornelia Funke (available in German and Polish, coming soon in English), a five-part series about a group of girls that decide to form a 'gang’, is, in my opinion, everything The Moonlight Dreamers could have been. Like Curham’s, Funke’s characters are all misfits in some way: Sprotte does badly in school, lives with her single mom and despises the new boyfriend. Wilma is an academic overachiever. Trude is bullied for being shy and fat. Melanie is hated by other girls for being pretty and liking boys and makeup. Frieda is a hippie. But instead of putting them in a group and distancing them even further from the ‘average girl’, giving them a sense of superiority over their female peers, and creating a feeling of exclusivity, they are just friends. They help each other, they stick together, they fight, they make up, they have a sometimes-playful-sometimes-not rivalry going on with the local gang of boys, they fall in love, they have their hearts broken. They’re just girls. Girls being friends. There are many parallels between the Wild Chicks and the Moonlight Dreamers, so many even, that one might think Curham has read the series. But while the Moonlight Dreamers seem to distance themselves from other girls further and further the more things happen in their lives, the Wild Chicks never claim to be better or even different in a fundamental way. There is never a need to set themselves apart from others, there is no secretiveness or group philosophy involved, no idol everyone is required to look up to. They became friends because Sprotte liked the idea of a tight-knit group of girl friends. They stayed friends because they genuinely like each other. Not because they convinced themselves that they are somehow better and different from anyone around them. 

T/W: attempted rape (graphic), invasion of privacy by the media (graphic), implied eating disorder, queerbating, homophobic stereotypes, implied parental neglect, sending nudes, posting nudes without consent

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tbh i didn’t think about punk fred and punk frieda in a romantic way in my post but you’re not wrong, that would be a good way for fred x frieda to work.

but tbh i see them as like. if a lesbian and a gay dude are best friends (only that they’re both bi)

WAIT 

THOUGHT

that post that’s like „a lesbian and a gay dude who are dating the same person but not each other but their mutual partner has a weird enough gender for it to work“

that’s fred/sprotte/frieda. that’s them. only that they’re bi

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Drawing prompt: sprotte und frieda fahren mit dem rad zu einem picknick

ein sommerliches picknick-date <3

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All i know is draw gays, think about pining, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie

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Nächte im Wohnwagen sind für PINING

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falling asleep on each other is love language

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die wilden hühner: sprotte x frieda (corona lockdown edition, partially inspired by this post) source: x x x x x x x 

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die wilden hühner: sprotte x frieda (spending the night together) source: x x x x x 

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die wilden hühner: sprotte x frieda x fred x maik (landleben) source: x x x x x x x 

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die wilden hühner: sprotte x frieda  source: x x x x x