#stifts

[pepart]

Die besten Ermittler in dieser Epoche 🔎

[lu-inlondon]

Leo: Sie hat dir einen Zettel geschrieben? Mit der Hand???

Hase, wer rennt denn hier den ganzen Tag mit Notizbuch rum?

[mutantenfisch]

Eine Sache muss ich noch loswerden bevor ich hoffentlich endlich schlafen kann. Dass Lindner verantwortungslos ist ist ja nix neues. Aber der Rest der FDP??? Haben die nicht mal irgendwann nen Eid geschworen? Ein Gewissen gehabt?

[plottwistedstory]

•c o f f e e n o t e s•

In bed 🌅☕️🖌️📚

[friederikehensen]

Engel mit schwarzem Filzstift gezeichnet.

[windschiefe-worte]

Kommst du kurz allein klar?

Du, ich kann mich so absolut selbst beschäftigen ohne auch nur mit der Wimper zu zucken, daß du deine Existenz vergißt.

[alison321singer]

Team 1b

I am singing and Patrick Stift is playing the guitar for the song called "Team by Lorde" recorded through my microphone.

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." All rights go to their respective owners. No Copyright Infringements of rights intended. I make no money from my videos, which means none of my videos are monetize.

Yes, I have permission to use this music as backing a track. From Patrick Stift, "Hi Alison! Of course you can use it".

Guitar arrangement by Patrick Stift Link to original video: https://youtu.be/Zz7Ld9UJ8qA Song: Team Artist: Lorde Genres: Alternative/Indie, Pop

[theodoreangelos]

Seitenstetten Abbey church, Benedictine monastery, Lower Austria Abbatia B.M.V. Assumptae apud Seitenstetten Stiftskirche des Stifts Seitenstetten, Abtei der Benediktiner (OSB), Mostviertel, Niederösterreich L'église abbatiale de Seitenstetten, une abbaye bénédictine en Basse-Autriche Церковь Зайтенштеттенского аббатства, бенедиктинского монастыря в Нижней Австрии

[art-of-mathematics]

4-in-1 pen - 3 ballpoint pens and a mechanical pencil in one pen.

Yesterday I bought a "4-in1" pen for 12,99 Euro. Taking the features into account the prize is good.

I really enjoy using this pen.

This pen"s material is metal. The grip is good due to the weight of the metal. (I dislike most plastic pens. Plastic pens usually don"t have enough weight which makes the grip annoying for me.)

It"s color is rosegold. (which I enjoy as it is more visible than silver or black pens (Most usual colors) - This color helps me with finding my tools by "scanning" my workplace after most important characteristics of the tool in search. Rosegold is pastel-like and has a saturation (instead of black and silver).)

The mechanical pen works well.

The 3 ballpoint pen leads can be exchanged by other leads (with same size) - which means I can change the colors this pen offers. (Originally it had the setup black, blue and red - but I changed the blue to green.)

[The inside:]

This pen has an eraser at the end (good for quickly erasing unwanted lines) with a cap on top of the eraser (helps to let the eraser stay clean). The eraser can be refilled by ~ 0.35mm diameter eraser "rods".

[fesselblog]

Digitale Schönheit - Kunst und Kultur (Teil 7)

Kunst aus dem Computer? Warum eigentlich nicht? Zudem bietet die Technik ganz neue Möglichkeiten.

Das digitale Zeitalter hat Künstlern eine neue Plattform und neue Möglichkeiten eröffnet. Viele Zeichnungen werden heutzutage nicht mehr auf dem Papier, sondern direkt im Computer oder auf dem Tablet erstellt. Und bei manchen Kunstwerken kann künstliche Intelligenz unterstützen. (more…) “”

[fastweltweit]

Michael Girke - 30.3.2023 - Konzert und Gespräch „Unter der Empore" - Marienkirche Stift Berg Herford JETZT - Michael Girke - Günter Scheding Bild: Jakob Zimmermann

[coffeenuts]

Lynx drawing by Gret B. https://flic.kr/p/2o6jYZ5

[plottwistedstory]

📍 ein Ort, an dem eine gute Geschichte entstand

[friederikehensen]

[archduchessofnowhere]

Book review: The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift

And this thought led me on to the next hideous thought: just one more time. Like a poisonous vine, a complicated network of lies wound its way around this one phrase, the only purpose of which was to conceal the truth that of course it could never just be one more time.

TW: mentions of an eating disorder

I know, I know. I promised this for Halloween. I actually did finish it before the 31st, but then stuff happened and I just couldn’t get around making this review. But I wanted to have it done before December so I’m using the serotonin boost that Argentina’s win gave me to finally finish it, so here it is!

First of all, before properly starting the review, I feel the need to state something: this book should come with a gigantic trigger warning, in bright red, on the first page. The entire book is full of very explicit descriptions of bulimia. You can’t skip it: it’s the backbone of the story. There is also a lot of fatphobia (to be clear: the book doesn't condone it, it's just the characters, who struggle with eating disorders, make and think fatphobic remarks). So if this is something that upsets you or you can’t handle it, ignore this book altogether. Please take care of your mental health!

Now onto the review: The Empress and the Cake, originally titled Stierhunger, is a short novel written by Linda Stift, and translated to english by Jamie Bulloch. In this novel we follow a young woman, who remains unnamed throughout the entire story, after a mysterious woman that resembles Empress Elisabeth called Frau Hohenembs invites her to drink tea and eat cake. Our protagonist doesn’t know this woman, but she still feels drawn to her and follows her to her home, where they (accompanied by Ida, Frau Hohenembs’ companion) share the meal. After this, she reluctantly becomes acquainted with the pair, and before she realizes, she becomes part of their plot to steal objects that once belonged to Empress Elisabeth and the more they continue, the more she loses control, not only of the situation, but of herself.

Strange: that would be the best word to describe this novel. It’s a strange tale, deeply unsettling, and at times, even unpleasant to read. While it isn’t a horror story, it was a good choice for a Halloween read, because there is an uncanny feeling during the novel that becomes more and more disturbing as it goes on. What starts with our protagonist being annoyed for letting herself get dragged to a tea party with two women she has never met before ends up in a desperate attempt against all odds to retake control of her life and herself.

For us Sisi enthusiasts the book is full of references to the empress, who in a way haunts the story. Frau Hohenembs (which was a pseudonym that the real empress used when she wanted to travel incognita) talks and acts as if she was Elisabeth, somehow plumbed from the 19th century to 2007, she recalls events of the empress’ life as if they were her own and possesses things that could only have belonged to her. This uncanny resemblance is never explained, but it isn’t necessary either: it doesn’t matter if Frau Hohenembs is just a Sisi fanatic obsessed with her or if she actually, somehow, is Elisabeth brought back to life: she IS the Empress Elisabeth, or at least a version of her, the older Elisabeth, obsessed with her image, obsessed with controlling her image. Because that’s what she represents in the story: the toxic, destructive need to control how you look, and how other people look at you. Frau Hohenembs wants to steal Elisabeth’s belongings from museums, she wants to get rid of a statue of her, she wants our protagonist to win a Sisi-lookalike contest, because she wants to control how people look at the empress. And for our protagonist, helping Frau Hohenembs to control Sisi’s image, and even becoming her at one point, makes her lose herself, and fall back into the destructive eating disorders she had when she was younger.

In other words, the whole book is just a metaphor for the way an eating disorder can become an obsession and make you destroy yourself. But don’t let the word metaphor fool you, as I said, this book has very graphic descriptions of bulimia. It’s a metaphor, but everything that happens is also very real for our protagonist, which creates this uncanny feeling that I already mentioned.

The book inserts fragments of information about the real Elisabeth, narrated by someone whose identity is never clear (a lady-in-waiting?), in the middle of the story, as sorts of “chapter intermissions” (there aren’t proper chapters in the novel). I found these parts of the book a bit redundant, to be honest: a lot of the creepiness comes from the way things from Elisabeth’s life are present in Frau Hohenembs, on how 19th century facts somehow creep into our current days. So these parts just felt like the author was explaining the references to the people that know little to nothing about Elisabeth. Which isn’t my case. Also, as a lesser complaint, it lowkey annoyed me that the character Ida, who’s named after Ida Ferenczy, Elisabeth’s lady-in-waiting and also close friend, is clearly based on Maria Festetics, an entirely different lady-in-waiting.

By the end of the book I wasn’t entirely sure if I had liked the story. I thought it was original, interesting and grasping, but also just too creepy and outright weird to properly enjoy it. A month later, I remain indecisive. I wouldn’t read it again, but I don’t regret reading it in the first place. A very memorable novel, even if I wish there were parts that I couldn’t remember.

[alison321singer]

Team 1a

I am singing and Patrick Stift is playing the guitar for the song called "Team by Lorde" recorded through my camcorder.

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." All rights go to their respective owners. No Copyright Infringements of rights intended. I make no money from my videos, which means none of my videos are monetize.

Yes, I have permission to use this music as backing a track. From Patrick Stift, "Hi Alison! Of course you can use it".

Guitar arrangement by Patrick Stift Link to original video: https://youtu.be/Zz7Ld9UJ8qA Song: Team Artist: Lorde Genres: Alternative/Indie, Pop