#undine 2020

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Ghosts (2005) Yella (2007) Jerichow (2008) Barbara (2012) Phoenix (2014) Transit (2018) Undine (2020) Afire (2023) Directed by Christian Petzold

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-Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020) -Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023)

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Undine Christian Petzold. 2020

City model Am Köllnischen Park 3, 10179 Berlin, Germany See in map

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Undine. Christian Petzold. 2020

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"If you leave me, I'll have to kill you."

Undine (2020)

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Every Film I Watch In 2023:

264. Undine (2020)

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Side by Side

Frantz (2016) François Ozon

Undine (2020) Christian Petzold

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Undine (2020) | dir. Christian Petzold

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Undine (2020) Christian Petzold

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Undine (2020)

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Author Ask Game

I was tagged by @sam-glade earlier in the month, you can find their post here. Thanks for the tag, Sam!

I'm going to tag @pleasestaywithmedarling and leave an Open Tag for anyone else interested!

I'll answer this for Shattered Dreams

What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it?

I don't know what the main lesson is. I didn't write it with a lesson in mind :')

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding (like real-life cultures, animals, famous media, websites, etc.)?

I used 30+ years of reading fantasy and playing fantasy games as inspiration lol. Like, really. I pickpocketed ideas from all over the place.

My little dragons? Inspired by the fire lizards in Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. Magic system is a combo of actual magic and mind/healing magic. Mind magic inspired by Anne McCaffrey's Talent Series and Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar. Brandon Sanderson's laws of magic + rpg magic and skill leveling played a huge role while establishing my magic system. There's more, I'm sure, but I'll leave it there.

As for my races, (fae, seraph, human, ifrit, jinn, undine, aicaya), I pulled the elemental ones from various mythologies, even if I don't follow the mythology in world. My fae are largely inspired by Sarah Maas, but I incorporated a bit of shapeshifting references along with a tad of traditional fairy mythology. Not much though. The humans are based off a european background, the fae a loosely hispanic background, and the seraph a very loose arabic/indian background.

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, help readers grow as a person?

My MC, Alaia, just wants to be accepted. Freedom from prejudice and unreasonable expectations would be nice too. Basically, she's an outcast and her (/my) goal is for her to find her place and her chosen family.

I am not here to teach a lesson or inspire or help someone grow. If those things happen along the way, I love that. But I just want to tell a story. Her story.

How many chapters is your story going to have?

I am in the middle of a major editing/revision pass. So far I've added 3 new chapters and consolidated one. The original draft has 49 chapters, though.

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

Shattered Dreams is original content that I hope to self-publish, if I can work up the nerve. (and finish editing XD)

When and why did you start writing?

I started writing in 2020, because if my friend could do it, so could I. It was a lot harder than I thought, and more satisfying than I thought, and just. I'm so glad I started writing at long last. It's very literally changed my life.

Do you have any words of engagement for fellow writers of Writeblr? What other writers of Tumblr do you follow?

Oh gosh, I have no idea. Everyone is so different... on that note--No advice is one size fits all. Cherry pick that shit. Or ignore it all and you do you!

Writeblrs, writeblrs... shout outs to: @i-can-even-burn-salad, @little-peril-stories, @clairelsonao3, sam tagged me but @sam-glade lol, @outpost51, @winterandwords, @kaiusvnoir, and there's more but i'm running out of nerve to tag people 😂😅

Blank questions below:

What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it?

What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding (like real-life cultures, animals, famous media, websites, etc.)?

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, help readers grow as a person?

How many chapters is your story going to have?

Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

When and why did you start writing?

Do you have any words of engagement for fellow writers of Writeblr? What other writers of Tumblr do you follow?

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Undine Christian Petzold. 2020

Station Lüdenscheid-Brügge, 58515 Lüdenscheid, Germany See in map

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Undine. Christian Petzold. 2020

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Undine, Christian Petzold (2020)

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Franz Rogowski attends the 'Undine' premiere during the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival on February 23, 2020 in Berlin

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Undine (Christian Petzold, 2020)

Petzold finally got me with this one. Maybe my sensibility is tuned to l'amour fou folk fantasy, whereas i've no doubt been too dull to properly receive what he's been offering prior. Inendurable mortal love across division and reunification, old and new, above and below, maps and tokens. Variation on the Undine/Ondine myth, the love we follow and hope and grieve for being maybe just a feint for the love fate and curse clings to. But a momentous love all the same.